Vice President Vance Visits Wisconsin

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Vice President JD. Vanson Wisconsin today demanding that Governor Evers
turnover snap data as well as information on Wisconsin's voter roles.

Speaker 2 (00:15):
We will get to that in just a second.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
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which apparently we didn't yesterday. So without any further ado,
let's get right into it. Vice President JD. Vance indeed
in Clover in western Wisconsin today, taking President and Trump's
message on the economy on the road, I want to talk.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
About the stakes coming up in November, because it feels
like this election in November is very far away. But
if anything, the state of the Union should have showed
us that we cannot give power back to Congressional Democrats.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Much more coming off in just a second than at
five oh six, Congressman Derek Van Orden joins us to
talk about touring the Point Precision Machining Facility with the
Vice President today now. Earlier today, Vance held a joint
press conference in Washington with CMS Administrator doctor Oz to
halt more than two hundred and fifty million dollars in
quarterly medicaid funding over fraud concerns, giving Governor Tim Walls

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sixty days to submit to a corrective action plan or
face even further cuts. Indirect talks between the US and
Iran concluding in Geneva today, Omani Mediators reports significant progress
made in those discussions. There'll be another round of them
continuing in Vienna next Weekmocrats in the Wisconsin legislature are

(03:02):
circulating an assisted suicide bill. We'll have the details coming
up in the four o'clock hour, and then we will
provide exclusive new details about the criminal charges filed against
a Wisconsin assembly woman. Are they even constitutional? We will
dive into it, coming up at about four fifteen. Right now,

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the big story is in Plover, Wisconsin. Congressman Van Orden
touting President Trump's tax cuts in a joint appearance with
the Vice president.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
You got the one big, beautiful bell gun.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
Eighty eight percent of seniors will pay zero income tax
on their Social.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Security eighty eight percent. Those are the people that built
this nation. They built the building we're standing in now.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
They built your home, they built your school. We must
honor our seniors. We have to the folks that are.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Working on the shop floor, which is absolutely a no
tax on overtime. Why should you pay the federal government
a cut of your overtime? You should not. That's in
the One Big Beautiful Bill. We are a pub culture
in the state of Wisconsin. When we go down to
the bar and we're watching the Packers game, to the brewers,
you know who's helping us, our servers, no tax on

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their tips.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Obviously, Congressman Van Orden very fired up. He faces a
fierce battle for reelection in the third congressional district, as
Democrats have listed him among their top targets to flip
the House of Representatives. He will again face very likely
Rebecca Cook, who he beat in twenty twenty four, less
than two years ago. But obviously this is a very

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different electorate and we will discuss that and much more
with the congressman coming up. At about five h six,
Vice President Vance gave a fiery speech, focusing of course
on the economy and sharing President Trump's economic message, but
also talking of all of the fraud that was uncovered
in Minnesota and why that directly impacts people in Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
You get poorer, your tax dollars go to Somali fraudsters.
And worst of all, you've got special needs kids in
American communities that we ought to be helping, and instead
of helping them, we're helping fraudsters who don't have the
problem to begin with. That is a scandal, and it's
something that Joe Biden in Congressional Democrats promoted with their

(05:28):
open border, encouraged it, and funded it. Now, I'm here
to tell you that the job of your government is
not to open your borders and allow fraudsters to come
in and take advantage of you. The job of your
government is to shut the border and shut off the
fraud and that's exactly what we're doing in the Trump administration.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Now, the Vice President did take questions from reporters, and
one of them, Matt Smith of Channel twelve as well
as the statewide political show Upfront, asked a very pointed one,
Wisconsin is actually suing the federal government because it does
not want to turn over its data on snap food

(06:08):
stamp recipients or voter role data. And Vice President Vance
had a remarkably pointed answer to that refusal.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
That is absurd. Ask yourself a question, why would the
government of Wisconsin not want to help us kick fraud
off of the welfare roles, and kick fraud off of
the voter rolls. And the only answer I can possibly
come up with is because they like to cheat. There's
no other real explanation. Now, the governor might say, In fact,

(06:38):
I'm sure the governor would say this, let me just
be charitable to those who disagree with us. The governor
would say, well, there isn't as much fraud as the
Trump administration believes there is. Well, even if that's true,
and it's not. But even if that's true, let's get
what fraud there is off the voter rolls and off
the welfare roles. You know the right number of people
who should be illegally voted in American elections zero? You

(07:02):
know the number of people who should be fraudiley collecting
food stamps zero. I want those benefits to exist for
the people who need them. The only way to promise
that is to get the fraud out of the system.
And that's what we're trying to do in the Trump administration.
No more fraud, no more corruption. It shouldn't be hard.

Speaker 1 (07:21):
Now, since Vice President Vance was going over the numbers
that should be illegally voting zero, the number of people
who should have incorrect information on voter rolls.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Zero.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Let's get into the numbers that actually do have incorrect
data on Wisconsin's voter roles. According to Dan Lennington of
the Great Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, there are
forty one thousand, seven hundred eighty four names on Wisconsin's
voter roles that have something significantly wrong with them. Twenty

(07:54):
four thousand, seven hundred thirty three people on the voter
rolls have a name mismatch, meaning that the name that
is given for the information corresponding to that name is
just incorrect. Eleven thousand, one hundred and seventy four people
have absolutely no driver's license record that can be cross

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checked with the Department of Motor Vehicles DMV, but they
still appear on Wisconsin's voter rolls. Three thousand, one hundred
ten people have a date of birth mismatch, meaning that
their date of birth that might be listed on a
driver's license is not the same date of birth that
is listed on the voter record for that person. There

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are two thousand, sixty nine people who simply have no
match whatsoever, no DMV record that can be matched with
someone who has a voting record, a name and a
date of birth mismatch six hundred eighty people just totally
in valid data. There are eighteen and nobody actually knows
Lennington ads just how many illegal aliens or other non

(09:03):
citizens are on Wisconsin's voter roles. This is a major,
major problem, not only that Wisconsin is absolutely in violation
of two different federal laws requiring them to oversee or
to turn over data that they oversee, data that they
control to the federal government. The first is the National

(09:26):
Voter Registration Act of nineteen ninety three, or NVORA, which
requires states to maintain accurate and current voter registration lists
for all federal elections, including making quote reasonable efforts to
remove ineligible voters. According to that statute, quote, each state

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shall maintain for at least two years, and shall make
available for public inspection and, where available, photocopying at a
reasonable cost. All records concerning the implementation of programs and
activities can abducted for the purpose of ensuring the accuracy
and currency of official lists of eligible voters. For thirty
three years, that has not been particularly controversial that those

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lists are to be made available not just to the
public but also to the federal government. The federal government
i e. The Congress actually does have final control over
how federal elections are conducted. Yes, time, place, and manner
in the Constitution is in fact given to the discretion

(10:34):
of state legislatures, but overseeing that is the Congress. The Congress,
save for changing how state legislatures pick senators. Back in
the day, back at the time of the framing of
the Constitution, there was no direct election of United States senators.
Senators were actually chosen by each state legislature.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
If you can believe that.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
The Congress, outside of the manner of choosing senators can
actually and this just makes sense, we do need to
have uniform elections for the Congress. We do need to
have uniform elections for the presidency of the United States.
Could you imagine if Wisconsin decided to hold its presidential
election in October, say Minnesota wanted to hold it's in July.

(11:23):
Obviously there needs to be uniformity, and there also needs
to be uniformity as it was envisioned under the NVA
in how voter lists are essentially regulated. Each state does
not have the right to cite its own privacy statutes,
which is what our esteemed Attorney General Josh Cole, is

(11:43):
attempting to do say, hey, look, we can't turn over
this data to you because we have state privacy laws. Nevertheless,
notwithstanding the fact that there are in fact privacy protections
built into not just the ENVR for the handling of
this data, but also the Civil Rights Act of nineteen sixty,
would you believe Governor Tony Evers, the liberal in good standing,

(12:08):
and his Attorney General Josh Cole, also a liberal and
good standing, are an open violation of the Civil Rights
Act of nineteen sixty.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Quote.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
Any record or paper required by Section two oh seven
oh one of this Title to be retained and preserved, shall,
upon demand in writing by the Attorney General or his representative,
directed to the person having custody, possession, or control of
such record or paper, be made available for inspection, reproduction,

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and copying at the principal office of such custodian by
the Attorney General or representative. This demand shall contain a
statement of the basis and the purpose. Therefore, what that
means in plain English is that the Attorney General, not
of Wisconsin, not of Minnesota, not of any state, but
of the United States of America can at any point

(13:03):
demand that voting records be turned over to the federal government. Now,
why would this be enshrined in the Civil Rights Act
of nineteen sixty. Well, the answer is pretty self explanatory,
because you had a whole lot of Democrat controlled states
in the South that didn't want black people voting because
those black people had a tendency to not vote for
these Southern Dixiecrat racist Democrats who wanted to ensure that

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Jim Crow laws continued unabated. So in the Civil Rights
Act of nineteen sixty, the federal government said, hey, wait
a second, we need to make sure that you're actually
in compliance with the fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
We actually need to make sure that you are allowing
all people to vote. And since we have pretty good

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reason to believe that a whole lot of these Democrat
controlled Southern states aren't doing that, we're going.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
To need compliance.

Speaker 1 (13:56):
And now, the Democrat controlled states aren't trying to keep
black people people from voting, They're trying to get as
many ineligible voters onto the roles as possible so that
they can be used for any nefarious purpose. It is
very easy when you have a name on the voter roles,
especially if there is some sort of address. It doesn't
even need to be a legitimate address. But if there

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is an address attached to that name with mail in balloting,
it is very easy to simply get someone listed as say, oh,
I don't know, indefinitely confined to their homes and a
ballot permanently sent to that address, whether or not a
ballot is requested for each individual election or not. The

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best part of all, you don't even need to show
a photo ID. The ballot just automatically keeps coming. Now,
the Evers administration is also refusing to turn over snap data.
Could that be part and parcel of widespread welfare fraud?
Bottom line is we don't know, because they're refusing to

(14:58):
allow an investigation into the data. Welcome back to the
Dan O'Donnell Show. It is a tour de force of truth,
the sort of truth that you used to get from
the rest of the media, but now sadly you only
really get here. Coming up in the four o'clock hour,

(15:19):
we are going to dive into an extremely controversial piece
of legislation that the Democrats are now circulating. It is
a proposed bill that as long as Republicans control the
legislature has absolutely no chance of passing. But it would
legalize assisted suicide in this state. Doctor assisted suicide is,

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of course a highly controversial topic. We are going to
dive into it. Essentially, what the bill would do is
to allow terminally ill people, people who have been given
about six months or less to live, to with a
doctor in their own lives. This is just bad legislation,

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quite frankly. We will dive into that coming up in
the four o'clock hour. Right now, Governor Tony Evers does
not want, under any circumstances to turnover voter role data
or any data from SNAP food Share Benefits lists, and
the state Assembly actually just passed legislation last week to

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try to force the governor to release Snap data to
the federal government. The federal government obviously has a vested
interest in making sure that money is not going to fraudsters.
In fact, a couple of weeks ago, in early February,
I believe there was a massive Snap fraud case involving
a guy from Milwaukee who is originally from Heaven knows where.

(16:53):
I was not able to verify his citizenship status. Naturally,
he owned a corner store and he was running a
one point six million dollar food share fraud. It was
it was a snap benefit fraud. He was essentially selling
people food stamp. He was buying people's food stamps for

(17:15):
much less than they were worth, and then he was
billing the federal government for the full value. He was
then taking the money that he got from this scam
and going to the Gucci store and Nordstrom to buy
things for himself. It was just your classic case of fraud. Now,
would you not want to know just how many little

(17:36):
corner stores are doing this? Would you not want to know,
as a taxpayer, just how your money is being misspent
or actually being stolen from you through fraud. You would
probably want to know that, which would raise a very
interesting question. Why is it that Governor Evers is intent
on violating federal law in refusing to turn over this data,

(18:00):
and yes, like his refusal to turnover voter roll data,
this two violates federal law. Food stamps are under the
auspices of the Department of Agriculture, so the Secretary of
Agriculture has an immense amount of power over how this
SNAP program is implemented and the Food and Nutrition Act

(18:23):
of two thousand and eight, codified at seven USC. Section
twenty twenty, could not possibly be clearer. All records and
the entire information systems in which records are contained shall
be made available for inspection and audit by the Secretary,

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subject to data and security protocols agreed to by the
state agency and the Secretary. Not only that, if a
state refuses to turn over that data, as Wisconsin has
repeatedly refused to do, then the Secretary is actually authorized
to turn the matter over to the United States Attorney General,

(19:06):
who can then sue to demand compliance and continued non
compliance even after a lawsuit is filed, notice is given,
and so forth. They can then withhold funds. They can
then even kick a state out of the SNAP program
entirely and say, Okay, you want to not allow us
to examine your data, you have control of the data.

(19:29):
It's now your data, and it's also totally your food
staff program. Good luck paying for it all. Obviously, what
we saw in Minnesota was the extreme example of a
state not only refusing to turn over data, which it
is and oh, by the way, the federal government has

(19:50):
already begun withholding funds. Just wait, there's going to of course,
there is going to be a federal court injunction stopping
the federal government from withholding the t two hundred fifty
million dollars that it just started to withhold from Minnesota
because reasons. Obviously, the injunction will get lifted and the
federal courts will obviously side with the Trump administration. It's

(20:12):
a well worn legal strategic pattern for Democrats and the
second Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
They simply sue.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
They go to friendly left wing federal judges who then
issue nonsensical injunctions that, of course are not based on
any sort of constitutional precept or any sort of federal law,
but it's just designed to slow the Trump administration down
so they can't do in the short term what it
is that they want to do. In other words, Wisconsin

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is directly violating two different, actually three different the Civil
Rights Act, the National Voter Registration Act of nineteen ninety three,
as well as the two thousand and eight Statute the
Food and Nutrition Act, which essentially modernized the food stamp program.
In their refusal, their steadfast refusal to comply with federal

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demands to simply turn over the lists, and as Vice
President Vance said, what possible reason could you have to
not want to turn over the voter role list? What
possible reason could you have to not want to turn
over food stamp lists? When there are and I should
be perfectly clear about this, because the argument that the
EBS administration has been making as it joined multi state

(21:28):
lawsuits to try to stop the federal government from getting
access to its voter role and SNAP benefit data, they're
saying that, well, this violates state privacy laws. Okay, Well,
first of all, state privacy laws do not trump federal law.
This is the Constitution's supremacy clause. Federal law always trumps
state law. There is a conflict between state law and

(21:50):
federal law. Federal law wins. Constitution says, so nothing you
can do about that. Not only that, there are protections
for voter role data as well as SNAP food Stamp
assistance information people who are on SNAP.

Speaker 2 (22:05):
It's actually in the statute.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
It is in the Food Assistance Act of two thousand
and eight that there are procedural safeguards for people's data.
Data isn't just your Your personal information isn't just out there.
It's not as though you're going to have your Social
Security number and your driver's license number just out there.
This is the same sort of paranoid fear mongering that
Democrats had, remember when Elon Musk and Doge during the

(22:30):
earliest days of the Trump administration last year. We're going
in and attempting to find all of this fraud that
we're still sort of uncovering. Democrats will saying, oh my gosh,
Elon Musk has access to my social Security data. Yes, yes,
please terrify the boomer libs that Elon Musk, the richest

(22:52):
man in the world, who's probably going to be a
trillionaire by the end of twenty twenty six, he definitely
wants your Social Security check for two thousand dollars. Vice
President Vance in Plover today also waded into significant controversy
here in Wisconsin over data centers. We'll dive into that

(23:13):
when the Dan O'Donnell show returns. All right, for those
who are watching via the dan ocam, We're gonna have
to end the stream a little early today just because
just way too many technical glitches here today.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
We'll try again tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (23:30):
Basically, we had pretty much everything that could possibly go
wrong go wrong, and quite frankly, it's way more trouble
than it's worth, so please do listen to us on
iHeartRadio or the good old fashioned radio. Vice President JD.
Vance in Wisconsin today. He was touring a machining facility

(23:51):
in Plover with Wisconsin Congressman Derek Van Orden, And easily,
I think the most controversial poly see issue in Wisconsin
right now, I don't even think it's particularly close is
data centers. There was actually an effort to recall the
mayor of Port, Washington over a proposal to put data

(24:15):
centers in that community. And there has been just out
and out war over data centers here in Wisconsin. Wherever
there is a new data center proposed, there is going
to be vehement opposition from people in the com community.
There is a certain amount of nimbiism in all this.

(24:37):
Not in my backyard, to be sure, but there are
legitimate gripes about massive facilities going up on what might
have otherwise been pristine farmland or forest land or well
usually these are going up in industrial parks, but there
are legitimate concerns. And Vice President Vance was asked about

(24:59):
data s in Wisconsin. Wisconsin is seen as a perfect
location for data centers because we have a whole lot
of flat land. We have easy access to a massive
supply of fresh water, and we have a relatively cool climate,
meaning that you don't need to spend as much, especially
in the winter months, on cooling. It takes a tremendous

(25:22):
amount of energy not just to power the data centers,
but to also keep them cool. I want you to
think about your laptop. When you use a laptop and
you have a whole lot of tabs open. In my case,
if you're using it to stream a radio slash video broadcast, you.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
Will use a whole lot of energy.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
It heats up, and there's a fan inside your laptop
that keeps the process or cool so the whole thing
doesn't overheat. Now, I want you to imagine that on
a massive, massive scale, and that's what a data center
essentially is. This is why you really can't put data
centers up in Florida, because it just is way too hot.

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It would cost way too much to constantly run fans,
to constantly be putting essentially water on the cooling mechanisms.
To cool down the processor is to cool down the
just insanely hot machinery that is inside these things. Vance today,

(26:24):
did I think an excellent job in sort of threading
the needle between the people who are vehemently opposed to
data centers here while also understanding helping them to understand
that data center technology is an absolute need in the
economy of the future, and frankly of the President.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
Look, there's a good news and a bad news with
data centers.

Speaker 5 (26:47):
Now.

Speaker 3 (26:47):
The good news is, you know, first of all, they're
big facilities. You create a lot of construction jobs, and
this next generation of the technological revolution, you need those
data centers to make that run. Those data centers are
like the gasoline of the technology revolution that we're going
to see over the next seventy five years. And I
don't know about you all, but I want America to
win that technology revolution. I don't want China or some

(27:09):
other country to win it. And so that's why we
got to have these things. Now, here's the downside. If
those centers are built and the local governments aren't ensuring
that there's enough power for those data centers, and it's
going to break. It's going to increase electricity costs for
everybody else. And so what we think the data centers
have got to do is they've got to work with
the local governments, with the state governments and in the

(27:32):
federal government. We are trying to do everything that we
can so that if you build a data center, for example,
you can just build a power plant right next door.
What I think we ought to be working towards is
you build those data centers, and electricity costs come down
for American citizens instead of going up for American citizens.
The data centers can afford it. We got to make
sure that they're good neighbors so that when they come

(27:54):
in and build these great buildings, the people in their neighborhood,
the people in their community benefit to and that's through
lower power. That's the best way they can be good neighbors.

Speaker 5 (28:03):
Now.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
Of course, what Vance is talking about is small scale
nuclear reactors that essentially provide all the power that a
data center would need, so said center does not need
to purchase electricity off of a nearby power grid. That
is a whole another can of worms. It is particularly
the Boomer Libs folks.

Speaker 2 (28:24):
I was not of age.

Speaker 1 (28:26):
I was not old enough to remember a three mile
island I believe happened before I was born. Sure, Nobel
terrified the Boomer Libs so much so that the cleanest
and statistically safest form of generating power. Nuclear has been
demonized like nothing I have ever seen. I can remember

(28:47):
being a kid growing up watching The Simpsons and wondering
why it was after learning just a little bit about
how nuclear energy actually worked, about why everyone was so
scared of mister burn. I mean, just look at that.
You had the boomer libs making the owner of the
nuclear power plant the ultimate bad guy in this show.

(29:08):
So share noble clearly for an entire generation of policy
makers made nuclear power all but impossible to harness. Well,
now it is not so much a luxury but almost
a necessity. Again for the economy of the future. We

(29:29):
don't just need to power AI. Imagine powering Amazon, powering Meta,
Facebook x, all of the biggest sites on planet Earth.
They can easily afford to put up small scale nuclear
power plants that will serve them. And here's the kicker.
Oftentimes they will serve the surrounding community. And in exchange

(29:51):
for allowing a data center or multiple data centers to
be built in a given community, what can be exchanged
in in offering a piece treaty to the upset neighbors is, hey,
we will essentially pay for all of your utility bills.
We will pay for your power bills because of all

(30:12):
of the surplus power that we're generating with our private
power plant that is located right next to our center.
That is something that clearly the Trump administration in visions
and I do believe is actually the wave of the future,
this idea that there should just be one monopoly on

(30:33):
providing power to a given location when we can theoretically
do small scale nuclear very safely and very efficiently. That,
of course, is a different conversation, but this is fundamentally
what solves the biggest concern that people have typically about
data centers, and that is that they just use so

(30:54):
much power and that they're sucking off of the power
grid that residents and existing commercial and industrial clients are using,
thereby leading to massive strains on the grid as well
as increase in power rates for everybody.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Would you believe.

Speaker 1 (31:13):
Data centers use about four percent of all electricity in
the United States?

Speaker 2 (31:20):
Four percent?

Speaker 1 (31:21):
Now that sounds like a ton, right, That's actually less
than the amount of electricity that's used by home air
conditioning units. Efficiency has dramatically improved. In fact, data center
electrical consumption has just gotten in the last couple of

(31:46):
years much much better. And the other thing the cooling
mechanism that we talked about that AI uses hundreds of
thousands of gallons of water to cool the data centers
that power it, you know, evaporative cooling, that sort of thing.

Speaker 2 (32:05):
A lot of them don't anymore.

Speaker 1 (32:09):
Most facilities are now adopting what's known as liquid immersion
cooling or direct to chip liquid cooling. This dramatically slashes
the need for water consumption. Often times, in dry climates
where we have data centers, there is no water that's

(32:31):
actually used. So a lot of the concerns about the
data centers are overblown. The one that I will say
is rather obviously one that you're not going to get
away from. These are massive facilities. These are not particularly
the best looking facilities. So if you've got a company

(32:52):
like say Microsoft, that just wants to put one up
in a random spot in a small town, yes, I
absolutely can and see where the people in said small
town are very upset. But that too sort of ignores
the reality that most of these places, most of these
centers are actually going up in existing industrial parks that

(33:14):
they're going up. The most famous one that's going up
is on the old fox Con facility. It's basically been
repurposed as a data center hub. Not only that, there
is a tremendous opportunity for an entire economic ecosystem to
go in. You do have employees who work at a

(33:36):
data center. Now, don't you think just from a logistical
point of view, a company like Amazon would want to
have its data centers. It's maybe massive warehouse, maybe a
tremendous amount of office space. They it would want to
be in one place, right, it would want to be

(33:58):
in one centrally located place. You actually can generate a
tremendous amount of revenue for your local tax base, not
to mention economic activity, not to mention things like hotels,
like restaurants, like other things that go into your community.

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When more people tend to move, their property values tend
to rise. As people are moving into the community, they
need a house. They would gladly buy your house that's
valued at five hundred thousand dollars for seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. In other words, we can have a
brand new economy and in Wisconsin be a national leader

(34:40):
in this brand new economy. But we just have to
make sure we are being honest about all of the
data that concerns data centers.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Let's get to.

Speaker 1 (34:51):
The unhinged liberal of the day coming up when the
Dan O'Donnell Show returns in just a.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Couple of minutes.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Team USA is hockey players made their triumphant returns to
their NHL teams last night. Jack Hughes got a massive
ovation back home in New Jersey. He is an alternate
captain for the New Jersey Devils, and he actually brought
up one of his Team USA teammates as he was
given a big ovation by the home crowd, teammate who

(35:23):
played on the opposing team to come out and bask
into some of that glory. Obviously, these guys are the
biggest sports heroes in the world, but not to everybody,
which brings us to our unhinged liberal of the day

(35:44):
in pre Nazi.

Speaker 2 (35:45):
Germany is dangerous because he's evil.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
America.

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Today's unhinged liberal of the day is Peter Rosenberg, who
is an ESPN radio host, and he was live streaming
his reaction. Who knows why an ESPN radio host is
live streaming the State of the Union address, Well, actually
I do know. It's because every single one of these

(36:20):
people wants to do what it is I do here
on the Dan o'donnald Show. Comment about politics. Let me
tell you, as somebody who's been a sports talk radio host.
At a political radio host, sports talk radio, you get
a whole lot less hate. Sure, you get your random
drunken callers after a Brewer's game, but you don't get
regular death threats from the unhinged lips. Well, Peter Rosenberg

(36:44):
was live streaming the State of the Union address and
when Team USA was introduced, he had this to say
about that.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
You pawns, You sad little pawns. What are you doing?

Speaker 1 (36:59):
He then went on to of course critique President Trump
and Team USA for daring to associate with him. Really,
this is all this is about. Do these people actually
hate Team USA and it's hockey players.

Speaker 2 (37:14):
No, they don't.

Speaker 1 (37:14):
They just hate the fact that President Trump is buddy
buddy with them, and the vast majority of the Team
USA players and the vast majority of hockey players more generally,
are conservative Republicans who support President Trump. Peter Rosenberg is
your unhinged liberal of the day. Coming up right after

(37:36):
the top of the hour news the Daily Trump Date,
and then we dive into Democrats proposing an assisted suicide bill. No, no,
we'll just delay the start of the show because we're
having yet more technical difficulties. You're going to have to
wait while I do my two factor authentication.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
I mean, just keep this going. Here we go. Let's see.

Speaker 1 (38:00):
Here's my pin. Okay, Oh, nope, I've entered my pin incorrectly.

Speaker 2 (38:11):
There we go.

Speaker 1 (38:12):
Now I have to enter my iHeart password. Now I
have to go to my Microsoft authenticator to enter my number.
It's seventy three, by the way. Okay, Oh wait, no,
I wasn't looking directly at my phone, so it's not going.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Hold on, let's do this again. Okay.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
Now I can actually get to the screen where I
can play sound bites. But now we're waiting for the
SoundBite thing to load. Okay, now we've got it going.
Welcome to the second hour of the Dan O'Donnell's Show.
I suppose I should be glad we have had Let's see,

(39:05):
just in the last couple of just yesterday, I mean,
we weren't even on the air for like five minutes.

Speaker 2 (39:10):
That's sort of a basic thing.

Speaker 1 (39:12):
We always talk about, how we're the number one, Oh
where the most listened to radio station in Wiscon. That's
actually kind of a miracle given the amount of times
we're just not on the air, or we have transmitter
issues or something is going wrong. And do you know
who hears about it? It's me because obviously I'm the easiest.

(39:32):
Do you know who's even more frustrated, ladies and gentlemen
than you people are about all of the myriad technical
issues that always seem to come to a head during
this show. Do you realize I had to beg people
not to be doing transmitter maintenance at exactly three o'clock PM,
Like we can't do this at like I don't know,

(39:54):
two in the morning, when people are at least we
actually had. Okay, we're going to power down at three
when the Dan o'donald show starts. Been one of those days, folks,
All right, jd Vance in Wisconsin. Let's get to the
daily Trump day.

Speaker 4 (40:10):
We're gonna win so much you may even get tired
of winning.

Speaker 2 (40:13):
Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration.

Speaker 3 (40:17):
It's also a big win for the United States. We
have to keep winning. We have to win Bard.

Speaker 2 (40:23):
We're gonna win board.

Speaker 1 (40:25):
The Vice president in a Plover touring a machining facility
Precision Point, along with third District Congressman Derek Van Orden, who,
by the way, we'll join the Dan o'donald show at about.

Speaker 2 (40:36):
Five oh six.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
If, by the way, he actually calls, because we have
no ability as a radio station to dial out, would
you believe that we have to have all of our
guests call us? We cannot actually so, like if we
were to lose, like yesterday, for example, we had Congressman
Scott Fitzgerald call up and his cell phone dropped. It happens,

(41:00):
especially in the US Capitol, a notoriously bad cell service
in there. We had no ability to call him back,
Like I can't even get my producer to call that.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
Oh well, it was an issue with AT and T.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
I was told like a year and a half ago,
and it still hasn't been fixed. I mean, my god,
I long for the days when the only technical issue
we had in this time slot was Belling's chair didn't work.
My goodness. Yeah, we said, well, we power down at sunset.
That's something that we have to do. I get that,

(41:35):
it's just this other stuff that it's just like, come on, guys, guys,
we need to actually like broadcast the show. That's sort
of like bare minimum right before Chris, do you realize
I had to miss my daughter's last Christmas concert because
we couldn't go off, Like we literally couldn't do anything

(41:57):
else right during the middle of what's supposed to be
flagship show.

Speaker 2 (42:02):
Boy, oh boy, oh boy.

Speaker 1 (42:03):
All right, hopefully, hopefully the machinting facility in Plover didn't
have the My god, if we had the technical issues
at the Precision Point facility in Plover that we have
at Wis and the Vice president, like half the crowd
would be dead right.

Speaker 2 (42:22):
Now, all right? Vice President jd Vance in Plover?

Speaker 1 (42:29):
I mean, should we call van Orton now and keep
him on hold just to make sure that he actually
is there in an hour? Oh, that's right, We can't
call him. He's got to call in now. We just
keep him on hold just to make sure everything's good.
Vice President jd. Vance continuing President Trump's economic message from
the State of the Union address, taking it on the
road to a critical swing state, and also continued the

(42:51):
President's message of Democrats being crazy.

Speaker 3 (42:55):
I am fundamentally an optimist about this country. I believe
most people, most human beings, most American citizens, whether they
got a D next to their name or an R
next to the name, or they have no political affiliation,
they're good people. They love our country. They want our
country to thrive and prosper. But I gotta tell you,
after the State of the Union, I'm not so sure

(43:15):
that is true of the Congressional Democrats that we saw
at the State of the Union address. As the President
of the United States said, very well, you watch their
reaction to some of what he was saying, and all
I could think was, these people are kind of crazy.

Speaker 1 (43:30):
The crux of the President Vice President's address, though, just
as the President's State of the Union address today in Plover,
was about affordability, and the Vice President did note the
irony of the exact same people voting for the policies
of former President Joe Biden that led to the destruction

(43:51):
of the American economy through hyperinflation are the ones who
want to now campaign on affordability.

Speaker 3 (43:56):
So it's funny to me when the Democrats talk about
you heard the President talk about this in the State
of you need to address. Hearing the Democrats talk about
affordability is like hearing an arsonist complain about fire. It's
your fault. You guys left us a country with sky
high inflation. You all left us a country where we

(44:18):
were going everywhere but America for energy. You left us
a United States of America where the average family was
three thousand dollars poor. So our attitude is, you know what,
when you talk about affordability, you're exactly right. You caused
an affordability problem, Congressional Democrats, and we are here to
fix it now.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
The Vice President actually did provide some stats to back
up what it was he was saying. Wages are up
under the Trump administration in its first year after steadily
declining when adjusted for inflation under Biden, and people, hardworking
folks like those at the machining facility and Clover are
doing a lot better right now.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
When Joe Biden and the Democrats left us the government
of this country, we had the highest inflation that we
had ever had in forty years. Thanks to Donald Trump
and aggressional Republicans, we now have inflation at two point
four percent, the lowest in five years, and it's coming
even lower ladies and gentlemen. Under Joe Biden and the Democrats,

(45:26):
the average American lost three thousand dollars in take home pay,
and under Donald Trump and Republicans, in just one year,
the average American has seen seventeen hundred dollars increase in
take home pay. That is more money in your pocket.
And that's what we're here to do, is make you,
guys more prosperous.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
The Vice President was in Wisconsin. The President was at
the White House today meeting with of all people, New
York City Mayor jorn Mom Donnie. Now, Mom Donnie has
been be set by massive blizzards that have dumped twenty
four inches plus of snow on New York City in

(46:09):
recent days. Now, this was an unannounced visit that was
not listed on public schedules, and it did not focus
primarily on blizzard cleanup.

Speaker 2 (46:19):
Wouldn't you know it?

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Democrats have shut down the Department of Homeland Security, which
would typically assist cities like New York and things like this. No,
it is focused on housing development in NYC. Mamdanni is
pitching a major project that he says could secure significant
federal investment in affordable housing, one of the largest in decades.
Both Mamdani and the President described the visit as productive

(46:45):
that ladies and gentlemen is your daily Trump date. Sorry
for venting my frustrations about our infrastructure. Look, folks, I
am a conduit for you. Ultimately, my only allegiance is
to you, and all I have heard over the last
couple of days, weeks, and months is that we are
having I don't even pretend to know what sort of

(47:08):
issues this radio station is having with our infrastructure, with
our transmitter, if it's on its last legs, if we
need one, whatever it is, but there is some seriously
bad stuff going on, and I share your frustration. It
just it happens. It's one of those things. It is

(47:30):
what it is, all right, Before we get into you know,
maybe we need some assistant suicide for the transmitter.

Speaker 3 (47:37):
We need to We need.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
To just let it die a peaceful death, surrounded by
its loved ones, and get a new one.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
It is.

Speaker 1 (47:46):
It is a very difficult thing to broadcast, and that's
actually one of the reasons. You know, you talk about
technological change, and you talk about advancement, technological advancement. We
were discussing data center and a whole lot of the myths.
This is another one of my missions here on the
Dan O'Donnell Show. It is to get people to understand

(48:07):
the truth about data centers. Look, I'm not going to
lie and tell you that they're incredibly attractive. Although, how
about this, if you built a data center in the
style of like a giant medieval castle, like if you
built Castle Black next to the giant Wall from Game
of Thrones, I think you could turn people. You built

(48:29):
it like King's Landing, or you built it like the
Elvish fortress from Lord of the Rings. I think you
could get people on board with this. They're unsightly, and
I think that ultimately is the big thing, but it
is sort of a necessary. Look, we cannot have companies
with their data in China. We just cannot for rather

(48:51):
obvious reasons. And China is making a massive play for
data centers for its own companies as well as any
company on Earth who wants to go to China. China
is in a demographic peril right now. I don't know
if you noticed this. Years ago they got rid of
their one child policy, but the damage was already done.

(49:13):
China face is a significant problem with an aging population.
They also have a tremendous debt problem. So China, as
much as the lefties talk about them being able to
just destroy us any time they want. That is simply
not true. The United States has the possibility to own

(49:34):
the next two centuries by winning the battle over AI
and advanced robotics. And a big part of that is
generating the power and generating the computing capacity through data
storage and production that these advanced technologies require. But to

(49:57):
take it back to the radio business, you know, people
ask you, oh, Dan, is radio dying? Is radio dying?

Speaker 5 (50:01):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Actually it is.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Radio is dying from the moment radio was first invented.
Same thing with television, Same thing with the printing press,
Same thing with every single medium on which content is consumed,
on which other human beings thoughts are disseminated. Now, does

(50:24):
that mean there's all of a sudden going to be
less of an appetite for other human thoughts?

Speaker 5 (50:30):
Now?

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Is conservative talk radio always.

Speaker 1 (50:35):
Going to exist? Of course, it is is conservative content always.
Am I going to say that ten years from now
I'm going to be broadcasting to you over radio waves?
Can I tell you in ten minutes will I be
broadcasting to you for radio waves? In fact, a big
reason that we actually do the danocam and all this

(50:56):
other stuff is because you need to be on multiple channels.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
iHeart Media. That there's a reason.

Speaker 1 (51:01):
When I first got here we changed our name from
Clear Channel Communications to iHeartMedia. Over by far the most
successful product this company has ever put out, iHeart Radio.
I mean, it was genius. It was absolutely genius. The
iHeart Radio app is one of the I would say

(51:23):
five most essential entertainment apps information apps in the world. Yeah,
something like one hundred and eighteen million downloads just in
this country, I believe, Eric, I mean, it is absolutely essential. Right,
But as we're seeing with a lot of the technology,

(51:45):
and frankly it's a lot of the high tech technology
that I use that has just all failed today. But
what we're seeing with some of the aging technology, like
we have to power down at sunset on the radio,
we are on a mode of communication that is literally

(52:06):
a century old.

Speaker 2 (52:09):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Producer Eric says, daylight saving is coming up in nine days,
So what does that mean sunsetle actually after I go
off the air, so you won't have to hear the
power down. Right, There is none of that on digital.
If you're listening on the iHeart app, if you're listening
on our podcast, if you're watching on the Danocam you

(52:33):
are absolutely guaranteed to get this program, or get any
of our programs in as high fidelity as we broadcast them.
That's undeniably a good thing. The issue that I have
with all of this opposition to data centers is that

(52:55):
we are thumbing our noses at the advance of technology. Now,
I'd be an incredible hypocrite if I say yes, I
would love to stare at a data center. You know,
my wife and I we bought a house. We fell
in love with a lot because we sit on a
beautiful wetland.

Speaker 2 (53:13):
We've got trees in the back.

Speaker 1 (53:17):
The only bad thing about it is our dog will
just start randomly barking at stuff. And then my wife says,
she says, it's almost supernatural. The puppy will start barking
at like five am. He'll just yap, yap, yeap, yeap,
yeap yeap. Yeah, but he's not a yappy dog. In fact,
he barely barks, and she'll be like, what is going on?
She'll see just barely visible a deer in the backyard. Right,

(53:43):
Would I rather stare at Apple's data center?

Speaker 2 (53:47):
Of course not, of course not.

Speaker 1 (53:49):
Do I recognize, however, though, that Wisconsin absolutely look I
stare out what do we stare out in the in
the that we're looking at right giant radio towers? Do
you really want to look at that? There are deer there.
I think they they go by the towers because they're warmer.

Speaker 2 (54:10):
I think.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
We also have like the most aggressive turkeys in the
known world. Those turkeys are not They're not afraid of cars,
they're not afraid of trucks. They're certainly not afraid of humans.
They walk around like a Venezuelan streep gang. We have
like turqu de Arragua in our back parking lot.

Speaker 2 (54:32):
I mean, it's awesome, you know that. But they they'll
go right up to you. I always fight.

Speaker 1 (54:37):
They always seem to get their boldest in November, as
though they're gonna shank you for what you did to
their dead homies. Like, yeah, I dare you, mofo, you
try to thanksgiving me, I dare you. I get that
people don't want to sacrifice that The reality is there

(55:00):
is what was it? Aaron Burr famously said after shooting
Alexander Hamilton. I had forgotten that the world was wide
enough for both Hamilton and me. The world is that
we have so much space in this state. We have
so much space in this country. We have more room

(55:25):
than we could possibly know what to do with. And
I'm not saying every single centimeter should be covered in
data centers. It's not like you remember the old video
game SimCity where you just PLoP down a nuclear power
plant here, and oh, we're gonna put the zoo right
next to the power plant. No gonna, We're gonna put
fifteen data centers right next to each other.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
No, you don't want to do that.

Speaker 1 (55:44):
I still don't believe that you abandon all semblance of
smart urban or suburban planning. But I really, genuinely do
fear that we are we have the potential to be
a national leader. What are we a national leader in

(56:07):
right now? Ginseng and cranberry production and kind of dairy
we call ourselves the dairy State. We haven't been the
national leader in dairy in twenty years. And that's no disrespect.
Agriculture is all. Agriculture is in our veins, It is
in our soul as a state. But so too is manufacturing, right,

(56:27):
so too is making things? Well, what if the thing
that we make now is not like a physical thing,
but it is a digital series of ones? And zeros
binary code that creates the thing that everybody wants, everybody needs.
We have the potential to be the life force of

(56:50):
artificial intelligence in this country, and a whole lot of
communities are saying, again rightly for their community, not in
my backyard. But I feel like we've got an organized
movement from the left now to say not in my country,
and that is a massive mistake, not in my state,

(57:12):
massive mistake. I think we need to embrace new technology
there and there are people, and I think a lot
of what this stems from, honest to goodness, if I'm
being completely honest with you, I think a lot of
it stems from a fear of artificial intelligence. More generally,

(57:36):
this notion that it's going to take everyone's job, that
we're not going to have any need for human beings
at all, folks, What AI is actually going to do?
I think the smartest thing ever said about AI was
uttered by Jensen Wang, who is the CEO of Nvidia,

(57:57):
the maker of the microchips that powers pretty much every
AI system in the world. He said, You're not going
to lose your job to an AI. You're going to
lose your job to a person using an AI. What
he means is that if you are able to learn
how artificial intelligence works, if you're able to use it,
you can do incredible things that you could never do
on your own. Do you realize AI powered research has

(58:22):
absolutely revolutionized the way that they have. You noticed I'm
using a whole lot more stats and figures in each show.
That's because it used to take me hours. I mean
I would have to search twenty five different sites to
find exactly what I need. Now I tell one of
I've got now three AI products that I use for research,

(58:46):
for help in writing, for graphic design. For all, the
logo that you see when the danocam is actually working,
that was large. I mean I made it, but I
refined it through AI. I turned it into that. You
can see if you ever watched the show on the datacam,

(59:07):
there's a neon light behind me. That neon light doesn't exist.
I turned my logo into a neon light through AI.
I did that instantly. That would have taken a graphic
designer days hours okay, I'll be honest hours to do manually.
It's remarkable what this can do. The biggest thing is research.

(59:32):
It's putting together some of the manual things that you
do in this type of job, or any type of
job not manually. The the I don't want to say
busy work, necessary work, but busy work, I mean I
would spend I would literally sit down, I can remember doing.
I can remember doing, oh boy, any number of investigations

(59:53):
into things. And the type of data that I look
for is the type of data that is actively hidden
by democrats in the media and in government because it
contradicts their narrative.

Speaker 2 (01:00:04):
You can imagine how difficult my job was.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
Now I've got any number of AI tools that will
automatically search all.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Of these sites.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
I can double check the AI's work because it provides
me with all of the links. All I have to
do is just clink the link verify that it's not
spitting out nonsense. And by the way, if you have
not used an AI in the last three four months,
they don't spit out nonsense anymore. They do not hallucinate.

(01:00:33):
They have gotten insanely good and what they're able to do.

Speaker 2 (01:00:37):
And this is the thing.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
We were reading an article from an AI developer by
the name of it I think was Matt Schumer, maybe
three four weeks ago something like that. He said what
AI does now, and I've experienced this as well.

Speaker 2 (01:00:53):
It's not sentient.

Speaker 1 (01:00:54):
It's not like we've reached the singularity where it's going
to rise up and kill us.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
All it intuits the.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
More I use, and folks, I should be totally honest
with I use more advanced paid for versions of the
AIS like chat GPT. I am paying a pretty decent
amount of money to use these things, and you get
a much better version than the free version.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
You just do.

Speaker 1 (01:01:19):
No real surprise is there. It's probably a year, maybe
six months more advanced than the free version. But what
I have learned on every Rock Claude, Chat, GPT, all
of them art List, they into it. They have gotten better,
I'm telling you in two months at just sort of
figuring out what it is I want. Okay, we have

(01:01:41):
got to That was a much longer rant than I
think I was planning on. See this is what you
get on this show. It starts out with me just
kind of whining about nothing working technologically, and we finish
with a look into the future where frankly, things just
are going to work automatically technologically. We are going to

(01:02:03):
get into Democrats introducing a very controversial piece of legislation
circulating co sponsorship on an assisted suicide bill. That's up
next on the Dan o'donald Show. Pretty Sir Eric says,
let's uh, let's cheer everybody up. First, you were talking
about AI just completely taking over the world.

Speaker 2 (01:02:23):
Now let's talk about assisted suicide.

Speaker 1 (01:02:26):
So hopefully, hopefully that last topic did not make you
want to take your own life. Welcome back to the
Dan o'donald Show. You know, sometimes the absolute best shows
that we produce are the ones where everything just kind

(01:02:47):
of goes wrong. And frankly, I would like to know
who screwed up my chair?

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
Can we get Paul in here to figure?

Speaker 5 (01:02:55):
Paul?

Speaker 2 (01:02:56):
Paul, why is my chair?

Speaker 1 (01:02:58):
I think I've said this many times. I totally the
one who broke Belling's chair.

Speaker 2 (01:03:04):
It wasn't my fault.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
I like lean back slightly and then the chair like
sort of like came back up and it locked. And
I said, oh, huh, well, I guess I can't lean
back on the chair anymore. Well, if people don't know,
and I'm sure he's gonna get mad at me for
saying this is Belling loves reclining when he does his show.
When he does his show. He's actually like sitting back.

(01:03:26):
It's almost like he's in a chase lounge. Obviously he
couldn't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:31):
When his chair. And I'll never forget.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
I had been on the air less than a year,
I think, doing doing a full time radio show, and
I'm listening in the afternoon as I always did, you know,
driving the kids home from school or whatever. And I
hear what happened on my chair. I'm like, uh oh,
I'm a oh boy. I hope he doesn't figure it.
So I just kept my mouth shut for like two years.

(01:03:55):
And then and then of course, like I say everything
on the air, okay, assisted suicide. Democrats in the Wisconsin
legislature are circulating a bill LRB fifty six forty three
that would, according to the co sponsorship memo, permit a
Wisconsin resident who is at least eighteen years of age,

(01:04:16):
mentally capable, and has a terminal disease with a prognosis
of less than six months to live to voluntarily request
medication from their attending healthcare provider for the purpose of
ending their life in a peaceful, humane, and dignified manner. Now,
two very powerful Democrat senators are the co sponsors of
this bill, Diane Hesselbeinne, who is the Senate Minority leader,

(01:04:39):
as well as Kelda Royce, who I guess in theory
is powerful. I don't know why I said powerful to
describe her. She's running for governor, so she's high profile.
I guess high profile would be better, as well as
a number of representatives, including Randy Udell and Mike Bair. Now,
this is not the first time Democrats have assisted have

(01:05:02):
introduced assisted suicide legislation. Do you know who was one
of the original authors in twenty nineteen of an assisted
suicide bill. I'll give you a hint. She's now running
for State Supreme Court. Basically, if there was a far
left bill for Chrissy Taylor to introduce and co sponsor,

(01:05:25):
she was the one who was going to be introducing
or co sponsoring it. Assisted suicide, as you can imagine,
is an incredibly controversial topic.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
I am incredibly.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
My heart goes out to those who face terminal diagnoses.
I have always been very active with the ALS Association
of Wisconsin. It is an organization that is near and
dear to my heart. ALS amiotrophic lateral sclerosis or lou
Garrig's disease, most notably just took the life of the

(01:06:04):
actor Eric Dane, doctor McSteamy from Grey's Anatomy. He died
at fifty three, about a year maybe a little bit
less than a year after he was diagnosed with ALS.
It's just it's an awful, awful disease. My aunt, my godmother.
I've talked about her before. At Margaret, we named our

(01:06:26):
daughter Grace Grace Margaret after at Margaret.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
She passed away.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
It will be this April twenty two years I believe
two thousand and four she died, and I honestly I
have never felt a pain like going into her room
to say goodbye and to know that her body was.

Speaker 2 (01:06:55):
Gone. She was paralyzed, she couldn't move, but her mind
was still there. And that's that.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
That's the awful thing about ALS, is that your brain
you know exactly what is happening to you. You just
little by little your body goes. First, you start tripping
and falling, Then you're confined to a wheelchair, then you
can Eventually what kills you is you basically can no
longer swallow, and you can no longer breathe, and.

Speaker 2 (01:07:21):
You just die. I mean, it's a nightmare. I am
sympathetic to those who wish to end their own lives,
I really am.

Speaker 1 (01:07:32):
We, however, have an absolute epidemic of suicide in people
who are not facing advanced cancer or als or other
diagnoses where they have a short time to live. And
when you normalize any form of or say it is

(01:07:53):
acceptable in these circumstances to take your own life. You are,
whether you realize it or not, on telling other people, Okay,
it is acceptable to take your own life in a
circumstance where you're not terminally ill, but rather you're just
so depressed you can't go on and what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:08:12):
And this is why, folks, I.

Speaker 1 (01:08:14):
Am so so vehemently against the trans agenda that we
have had. It has nothing to do with hating trans people.
My god, I love trans people. I want trans people
to be healthy. Okay, this isn't like. This isn't like.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Someone is gay.

Speaker 1 (01:08:32):
Right where it's very clear that this is something there
is probably some sort of arrested issue with sexual attraction
very very young. We still don't know whether it's innate,
whether you really are, as Lady Gaga said, born this way,
but clearly you can live a very healthy, very mentally

(01:08:55):
balanced life. You are just attracted to members of the
same sex. It's like, how dudes, you're you're either a
breast guy or you're a butt guy. Right, what about
leg You're a leg guy? You're a leg guy. Okay,
I'm not gonna tell you which. I think that's undignified
for a for a very popular radio host.

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
No, I'm into ear lobes. Can you imagine?

Speaker 1 (01:09:20):
I really like we were actually joking this weekend. My
wife apparently discovered that there are people who are really
into thumbs, Like people have OnlyFans account did Eric's given
a thumbs down? We called it only thumbs that people
like women have OnlyFans accounts where it's like just their

(01:09:40):
thumbs and they're like pressing buttons and and I'm like, okay,
that's a little weird. That's a little like feet is
a very common one, like the feet foot fetish is
very very calm.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Thumbs. I'll admit I did.

Speaker 1 (01:09:54):
Not hear about that until I don't want to know
what my wife is browsing at.

Speaker 5 (01:09:58):
What she got.

Speaker 1 (01:10:00):
It's like my weird sex thing or something, you know,
some reality show clip.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
That was shown up on our feed.

Speaker 1 (01:10:09):
Trans Ideology is not that trans ideology is rather obviously
closely linked to A autism okay, and B schizophrenia. And
what is going on is people are not getting the
treatment that they need and they start to see as
the only way out suicide. They start to see, Okay,

(01:10:31):
I am like a terminally ill patient. I am like
somebody who can't possibly get out of this and the
only thing I can do is kill myself. Do you
want to know why the gun violence rate has exploded
in recent years? Has nothing to do with the homicide rate. Sure,
that has gone up right up until President Trump cleaned
this nation streets up, and the homicide rate declined by

(01:10:54):
the single biggest year over year amount since nineteen hundred.
In one hundred and twenty five years, you highlighted that
State of the Union address.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
It's because of the suicide rate.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
Gun violence deaths are almost entirely driven by suicide. That's
insanely tragic. It's not just suicide. It is pills, it
is carbon monoxide poisoning, it is hanging. It is Hillary
Clinton sneaking into your jail cell and quietly smothering you
with a pillow. And then the New York prison guard

(01:11:27):
saying that you killed yourself. Okay, that last one was
a total joke, or was it? Bill and Hillary Clinton,
by the way, testifying before the House Oversight Committee earlier today.
We will try to get into that. Yes, producer Eric
is latter me. I do need to take a break.
We're gonna get right back into this in a second.
Why assisted suicide legislation always leads to more suicides? I've

(01:11:53):
got the data coming up next, Intelligent discourse. You're Reverend
fun here on the Dan o'donald Show. The topic we
are discussing now is not at all fun. Assisted suicide
is rather obviously a controversial issue. You know what, Before
we get back into that, are we able to go

(01:12:15):
to our partners at Fox News, Hillary Clinton is now speaking, No,
of course we can't. Why why would we be able
to go live? Hillary Clinton is talking about testifying before
the House Overside Committee about the Epstein files, and we
can't go to it. Yeah, yeah, that's true. All she's
saying is, I can't recall.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
We seriously have no ability to go to Hillary. Why
would we be able to.

Speaker 1 (01:12:45):
Again, they can't do this stuff during the three hours
where we don't have seriously, we don't have local programming
for three hours four hours if you count Vicky. Vicky's
piped in from Madison, so we have no need of

(01:13:05):
that cable box which we use to feed through our board.
But it's it's now at exactly four point fifty two
PM when the host, more than any other host, is
likely to go to live programming for newsworthy events that
are going on right now. We just decided we're going
to swap out. I maybe it's maybe it's appropriate that

(01:13:31):
we're talking about assisted suicide. Can Can I co sponsor
this bill? For God's sake, get me some pills. I'm kidding.
I know you should never even joke about that. And folks,
you will find no greater advocate for mental health in
broadcasting in this state than me. This is why I

(01:13:52):
say you need to be very careful. Canada very famously
allowed for medically assisted suicide is called medical assistance in dyeting.
That is what it is officially called MAID in Canada.
According to data just released last month, for twenty twenty four,

(01:14:13):
there were sixteen thousand, four hundred and ninety nine MAAID deaths.
That accounts for five point one percent of all deaths
in Canada. Assisted suicide now were all of those people
given six months to live?

Speaker 5 (01:14:34):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
In fact, every single study that has been done on
assisted suicide in either Canada or Oregon or other jurisdictions
where assisted suicide is lawful, they have all found the
same thing that there isn't a strenuous review of whether
someone actually qualifies for the legal standard of assisted death,

(01:14:57):
and a lot of times it's just people who are depressed.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
That is a very very dangerous thing.

Speaker 1 (01:15:05):
How can I tell you that that this is not
people who fall under the strictest definition of needing to
die suicide maidea assisted suicide would be the fourth leading
cause of death in Canada. If assisted suicide or suicide
was considered a cause of death.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
It's not.

Speaker 1 (01:15:26):
It's considered a manner of death, not an underlying cause.
Twenty six point two percent of all deaths in Canada
are cancer seventeen point seven disease of the heart, accident
six point two percent, assisted suicide five point one percent.
Think about that. During this commercial break, final hour of

(01:15:48):
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the future of technology, including spoken word radio, slash podcasting,
slash streaming, as well as assisted suicide. Top stories we're
following right now. Vice President jd Vance in Clover today
touring a machining facility along with Wisconsin Congressman Derek Van Orden.

(01:16:51):
He the Vice President had a plea for Wisconsin's voters
this fall.

Speaker 3 (01:16:56):
I would really appreciate you not sending us a bunch
of crazy Democrats in November, so please don't do that.
God bless you all. A thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Rebecca Cook. Oh excuse me, excuse me, I was coughing there.

Speaker 1 (01:17:08):
Congressman Ventward and is standing by we will talk with
him in just a second. Hillary Clinton says she can't
recall ever meeting Jeffrey Epstein. She and her husband testifying
by video conference before the House Oversight Committee from her
house in Chappaqua, New York. She addressed the media a

(01:17:28):
short time ago and reiterated that she cannot recall ever
meeting Epstein, except of course, for that one time when
she's snuck inside his jail cell. And oh wait, she's
saying too much. I made that up. I've made that
up Coming up later this hour, the very latest on
the criminal charges filed against Democrat State assembly Woman Sylvia

(01:17:49):
or Tease Belez. Are they even lawful and constitutional? In
what appears to be a clear case of political payback
from the Democratic Minority Assembly leader Greta Neubauer. Those are
the top stories we are following. We are now very
honored to bring in Derek Van Ordon, Wisconsin Congressmany got

(01:18:10):
to fly back to Wisconsin from the State of the Union,
address a board Air Force two. That is very cool.
Got to speak and tour the Precision Point machining facility
in his home district along with the Vice President today.
That is even cooler. We'll win a couple of days
for you, my friend. How's it been going.

Speaker 5 (01:18:30):
It's been doing great. I mean, the State of the
Union speech was just fantastic. President Trump was banging out
all cylinders. He highlighted all the things that we've been
doing in Congress with him and with the Trump administration.
He highlighted some real, no kidding, American heroes. Really brought

(01:18:50):
a lot of people to their feet and brought about
half the chamber to their seats. It refused to stand
up to acknowledge the fact that we've got some awesome
American students, great things. And one of the things that
was very, very shameful amongst things that my Democratic colleague did,
is there's a five year old girl who was hit
by an rego alien. Yeah, and you know she was

(01:19:11):
in a coma for a long period of time. They
wouldn't even stand up to announce the fact that this
young lady who was fighting for a life, and that
was just that was just gross. And there were other
moments like that. But the State of Union is fantastic.
You know. We flew back on Air Force too today.
That's the first for me. And the snacks were good,
by the way, and then we got to speak with JD.

(01:19:33):
Vance at Point Precision, which is as a family business
that does very very high end, extreme precise manufacturing for
aerospace industry applications and also defense applications. And it's just
a hell of a good company, and it was wonderful
to be there with proud Americans.

Speaker 1 (01:19:49):
It certainly seems like it was an electric atmosphere during
the State of the Union. What was it like? It
seems like you had a pretty good you of Democrats.
You were right by the main aisle that President Trump
walked down. It seemed like you had a pretty good view.
What was What was the atmosphere like when say, the

(01:20:11):
Team USA hockey was introduced and you didn't even have
Democrats standing for that.

Speaker 5 (01:20:17):
Dude, let me tell you how I got there. Dan
Al Green, who like makes it a point to to
like protest during these things, and he shows no decorum
and it's just really it's absurd. He got thrown out
of that yeah, and I was I was back in
the nosebleeds and I'm like, hey, that dude just got
thrown out of that seat. I got up and moved
and took kid. See I sat raping Chuck Schumer in

(01:20:39):
a Democrat senator seat. I was like, this is so great.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
Oh, I didn't know that.

Speaker 5 (01:20:46):
It had like Mark Kelly see seats away from me,
and Chuck goes right in front of me eighty close shars.
I mean it was really funny. I'm like, this is perfect.
Thanks to alf and getting thrown up, I'm gonna send
up probably a Christmas curd this year. But you know,
sitting there in that chamber, it's a lot smaller than looks.
It looks like a huge thing, but it's really really intimate.
I mean even without microphones, so you can hear people speaking,

(01:21:06):
and it's just fun to sit there. And do you
think about that chief or Lobster flying the helicopter pile
to get Maduro, that drug kingpin out of Kara, because
that guy got shot multiple times in its leg. If
he hadn't held that bird there stable and he turned
the bird around so the gunner could shoot the guys
that were shooting him, and then he landed the bird
and turned it over. If you didn't have the werewolthal

(01:21:28):
to do that, that helicopter would have crashed and those
assaulters would have been killed. Presented the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The one hundred year old naval aviator that should have
gotten the Metal of Water back in the Vietnam War,
but he didn't because the mission was classified. He received
the Medal of Honor. The young postguardsman who rescued one
hundred and sixty five people, including the young girl standing

(01:21:50):
next to him, received the Legion of Merit. And those
are just awe inspiring American moments. But let's put this
into perspective. Dan, did you see it when they get
at least of America that young coast guards Yeah, yeah, okay,
guess what he's not getting paid. Yeah, he's working the
thought of paycheck because the Democrats have defunded DHS and

(01:22:11):
Coast Guard falls underna down. That young e five who
makes not a lot of money, is not getting paid
because every single Democrat wants to shut down DHS and
they say they're doing it to mess with ICE. ICE
is funded to twenty twenty nine. So I don't think
people understand that that young man there was there probably
borrowing money to pay his rent. Right, that's shameful, Yeah,

(01:22:35):
but it was just it was glorious.

Speaker 1 (01:22:38):
So you fly back on Air Force two and for
those of US. I would venture to guess most of
us have not been on either Air Force one or
Air Force two.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
What is that like?

Speaker 5 (01:22:52):
Which is really neat, you know, I mean, it's part
of our history. I did try to get the plaque
off the wall. I posted that apparently the GORLA glorious. Well,
you know, it is very very professional obviously, and the
charities are comfortable and they just have snacks like a
regular airplane ride, but you know it's not because you

(01:23:12):
really understand what you're doing. And uh, unfortunately, the VP
was on a national security call for the entire flight,
like like thirty sexts before we landed, so normally you'd
come back. This is because this is the first time
I've read down that, but normally he comes back. It's
US high. Like the president doesn't talk to everybody, but
you know, he is the vice President of the United States,
and he is working the whole time. That whole Trump

(01:23:35):
administration works the whole time, uh, Administrator Lawfler. They have
done transform transformational change for the Small Business Association for
the good, and they've done it with a half the
amount of people that Biden bumped it up to. Under COVID.
They've been resoundingly more successful with less people because they're
approaching it like an actual business. Imagine the Small Business

(01:23:56):
Association acting like a business. I know, it's out shocking, right, yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:24:02):
It is.

Speaker 1 (01:24:03):
It's amazing how much has changed just in one year.
And it seems as though, Yeah, Democrats are hill bent
on backsliding.

Speaker 2 (01:24:14):
I guess you heard that.

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
The SoundBite we played from the Vice president said, please
do not send us crazy people in Congress. You, sir,
are one of the top targets. In fact, I thought
I saw as the top target for said crazy people.
Wisconsin three third Congressional District, Derek Van Orden right up

(01:24:37):
there as the district that they think that they can flip.

Speaker 5 (01:24:43):
Why why Democrats? Oh, go ahead, These Democrats have spent
over three million dollars. Over three million dollars. They don't
want me in office because they know I'm going to
stand up to do what's right, regardless of what political
party I'm affiliated with. That's what interesting though. I get
things done, I work and vote for my constituents. I'm

(01:25:06):
a very strong supporter of the Trump administration because they're
doing what is right for Americans and we need more
of that. And I just don't take guff from these people,
like I'm not going to allow people that are telling
me a four year old can say that they need
to have their genitals mutilated because they're in the wrong body.
You know, that's just not right. It's not okay. I'm
not going to stand up and defend and get all
weepy eyed when a criminal illegal alien who rapes, murders,

(01:25:29):
and robs American citizens gets deported. I'm not going to
do that, and I'm not going to be shy about
it either. We have to get back to normalcy, and
that is American citizens taking care of American citizens. And
if you're not here lawfully, you're simply not here lawfully.
And we've got to stop that. The young lady from
Ukraine who's murdered on a bus by a guy who

(01:25:50):
had been arrested and released thirteen times, her mother was
there crying in the gallery and she was acknowledged by
the President of the United States state. The Democrats would
not stand up to acknowledge this mother's grief because it
didn't fit their narrative. And I'm going to call them
out every single day, and that I'm going to call

(01:26:10):
Rebecca Cook out on being a professional political fundraiser pretending
to be the small town girl. Look at her tax returns,
look at her financial disclosures. The money is coming from
George Soros. These organizations that are She's on a board
of directors for a George Soros organization, I think tank,
that money from Opportunity of Wisconsin, and these other organizations

(01:26:31):
those are funded by George Soros. So this is all
black and white FEC reports. You can look at everything.
So George Soros is trying to buy the election in
Wisconsin's third congressional district because I am a patriotic, godfaring America,
loven American, love and retirety seal. That's a grandpa, and

(01:26:51):
that's I just they don't want us here in government anymore.
People that will stand up for the Constitution, for our
American neighbors and make sure that we don't, you know,
backslid into this economic disaster that's a Biden administration created.
They just don't want that. And Rebecca Cook will do
anything for political power. She's proven that repeatedly, and I won't.

Speaker 1 (01:27:12):
Wisconsin Congressman Derek Van Orden joining me here on the
Dan O'Donnell show. This obviously is going to be I
think a relatively difficult year for Republicans at least. I mean,
as far as the cyclical nature of politics goes, it's
usually a bad year for the president's party the first

(01:27:32):
midterm after he's first elected. Yes, I know this is
President Trump's second term, but obviously the non consecutive terms,
the general thinking is that this is going to be
a good Democrat year. What do you make of that,
given the fact that your district is considered the closest
in Wisconsin.

Speaker 5 (01:27:53):
I'm not buying it. Then, neither were the three hundred
people that were in that manufacturing facility. They're not you
know why because when they're working overtime, they're not getting
taxed on their overtime anymore. Why should they be sending
a cut of their overtime day to the United States government?
They should? You know, we are a pub culture in Wisconsin.
We go down to the bar, we watch a Packers game,

(01:28:14):
we watch the Burgers, we talk about what's going on
in town, all that stuff, talk about our farms. You know,
who should not be getting taxed on their tips. The
ladies that are actually and men they're working to serve
us as we're down there in our culture. There's no
tax on tips. Eighty eight percent of senior citizens who
are on Social Security will not pay single nickel in
federal tax on their Social Security eighty eight percent. They

(01:28:38):
built this country, They built our schools, they built our roads,
they built our houses. Why should they be paying taxes
on their social security? They should not be doing that.
We got a fifty billion dollar reuralth care fund, including
two hundred and three million dollars, so that's just the
first part of it, two and three million dollars from
the state of Wisconsin. So when these Democrats are saying, oh,
my gosh, you know, we care about real America and

(01:28:59):
real hot they don't. Because every single Democrat voted against
sending fifty billion dollars for rural health care infrastructure. Every
single Democrat voted against, uh, not taxing tips. Every single
Democrat voted against not taxing overtime. I got two very
interesting notes on us. They have really good internet on

(01:29:20):
the on air force two. Yeah, it's great, it's booming, you.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
Know, but that would make sense, it would make sense.

Speaker 5 (01:29:29):
But so I got two really neat messages. One was
one of my constituents that they just got a four
hundred and fifty dollars tax return. And why it was
so crazy was because last year they paid almost thirteen
hundred dollars in taxes, So that's a two thousand dollars
swing towards the positives for everyday Americans. That's a lot
of that's money, you know what I mean. Yeah, And

(01:29:50):
another one was from one of my cranberry growers. We
released the draft text for the farm bill that will
be marking up on Tuesday, and he said, thank you
so much. We're getting specialty crops included, and some really
good things for our specialty crops. You know what we
raised here. We're as ginsing and cranberries. So making sure

(01:30:11):
that our specialty crops are taking care of our farmers
is what we're doing. We're working in DC. So when
all of these things come to fruition, which they are
now because we made all those tax cuts and everything retroactive,
when people get their tax returns, they're going to be like,
holy bean bags, where just come from? It came from
the one big, beautiful bill. And you know what this

(01:30:34):
is all? It's the economy. Stupid gas prices are down.
Eggs were nine dollars a dozen gas was five dollars
a gallon. That's not happened anymore. Home prices are coming down,
Rents are coming down two point four percent inflation. That's
down from nine and a half percent under Biden. Interest
rates as soon as polit gets out of there, they're

(01:30:54):
going to come down. So we're working on the actual
things that Americans care about, and they're going to start
seeing it and they're going to go, oh my gosh,
you know all this is right. The border is secure.
Nine months in a row, there hasn't been a single
criminal illegal alien released into the United States. Yeah, you
know what that says. Ends of thousands of Americans are
not going to have to go to this funeral for

(01:31:14):
their child that was murdered by a criminal illegal alien.
They're not going to have to deal with the lifelong
devastation of sexual trauma for their kids that were committed
by elite criminal illegal aliens. And that's that's a real
tangible thing.

Speaker 1 (01:31:29):
Wisconsin Congressman Wisconsin Congressman Derek Van Orden always appreciate you
having a comment on the program, making some time for us.
I know it's been a busy day and I know
we are going to be talking to you plenty this
all important campaign season, this election year, and.

Speaker 2 (01:31:49):
Just real quick, actually I haven't gotten a chance to
ask you.

Speaker 1 (01:31:52):
I ask Congressman Style about this, but you're the one
that they're really targeting with the attempt to redraw the
congressional map. What's your thought on that? Do you think
they actually succeed? Before the twenty twenty sixth election, the last.

Speaker 5 (01:32:06):
Two radical leftist justices that were elected to the Wisconsin
Supreme Court campaigned and fundraised off of redistricting. I don't
think when Tony ebers is saying that the maps that
he drew were unconstitutional and now he has a really
left court, I'm putting nothing past these cats at all.

(01:32:30):
What we're trying to do is govern for governance sake.
What the left is trying to do is gain raw
political power to rule Americans. There's a very distinctly different
philosophical things where we're coming from. I don't want to
tell anybody what to do, and I think Americans should
be able to do things that are lawful, you know
what I mean. But I don't want to covid era,

(01:32:53):
you know, make Americans abide by the will of the
federal government. I just don't want to do that. And
the Democrat Party wants to tell you everything you can
and cannot do. Where you can go to school, if
you got to wear this mask, if you have to
pay half of your salary or forty percent. They're talking
about forty percent death tax in the state of Wisconsin.

(01:33:15):
We just got rid of that. We just damn this
is super important for our farmers. We've got fifteen million
dollars per person exclusion for federal taxes for the death tax,
so you can give your family farm to your kids.

Speaker 2 (01:33:27):
That's absolutely insane.

Speaker 5 (01:33:29):
Thirty million dollars that you're not gonna have to pay
with your family farm. The Democrats that are kicking around
a forty percent death tax. Of course you're in Wisconsin. Yeah,
so no, forget about it, all right. Yeah, we're not
going to do that, all right, man.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
Congressman Ben Orton always appreciate talking to you. You are
listening to the Dan o'donalds Show. A state assembly woman
faces criminal charges, but is this actually lawful? We'll get
into that coming up next. Classical Conservatism Contemporary Style. Welcome

(01:34:03):
back to the Dan O'Donnell Show. Our thanks once again,
to Congressman Derek Van Orton. He's always an entertaining guy
to talk to, always very insightful as well. We reported
exclusively here on the show yesterday that Sylvia Ortiz Villaz,
Democrat state assembly woman from Milwaukee, was being charged with

(01:34:26):
disorderly conduct for essentially threatening to talk to a reporter
about Priscilla Prato, another republic or excuse me, Democratic Assembly
rep and her personal life. Folks, there is literally nothing

(01:34:47):
in the Statute on Disorderly Conduct that would cover this
truly disorderly conduct in wiscon.

Speaker 4 (01:35:01):
Is.

Speaker 1 (01:35:04):
It is in statute codified as nine to forty seven
point oh one.

Speaker 2 (01:35:09):
With that section nine forty seven point.

Speaker 1 (01:35:11):
Oh one, whoever, in a public or private place engages
in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud, or otherwise
disorderly conduct under circumstances in which the conduct tends to

(01:35:35):
cause or provoke a disturbance is guilty of a Class
B misdemeanor.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
Okay, Sylvia Ortiz.

Speaker 1 (01:35:45):
Villaise is accused of texting saying, Hey, if you don't
do what I want, I'm going to go to the
media and talk bad about you. This is all very
sixth grade girl, and I have a sixth grade daughter.
I am well versed in how sixth grades. I coach

(01:36:07):
a team of sixth grade girls and they're all incredibly sweet.
But this is how if if you don't invite me
to the sleepover, I'm gonna tell Aubrey that you still
sleep with a blankie.

Speaker 2 (01:36:23):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
I think all six grade girls are like open about
the fact that they still have their blankies and their lovees.
The boys are a little more secretive. They're a little
more guarded about that sort of thing. Whoever, in a
public or private place engages in violent, abusive, indecent, profane, boisterous,
or unreasonably loud, or otherwise disorderly conduct under circumstances in

(01:36:46):
which the conduct tends to cause or provoke a disturbance,
is guilty of a class be Mister.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
Does any of this?

Speaker 1 (01:36:54):
Was it violent behavior that ortiz VILLEZ engaged in? Abusive behavior,
indecent behavior, profane, boisterous, unreasonably loud? No, the statute doesn't
apply here. I'm actually kind of shocked by this. Quite frankly,

(01:37:14):
for those who missed the story yesterday, pretty much everybody
else followed us on this in very short order after
we reported exclusively ortez Villas allegedly threatened fellow Democrats, and

(01:37:36):
we can now identify those fellow Democrats. There were three witnesses.
Witness one Priscilla Prado, Witness two in the criminal complaint,
I am led to believe is Greta Neubauer, who is
the Assembly Minority speaker, and Witness three is Democratic Spencer Haywood.

(01:38:03):
So you've got three Democrats who are all involved in this. Okay,
three Democrats, I'm sorry, not Spencer Kaylin Haywood, Kayln Heywood Junior.
I think he goes by Kayln Haywood. The second Spencer
Haywood's a basketball player. The heck did I get that one?

(01:38:26):
Spencer haywend So you've got three Democrats who are all
ticking off or teas Vallees. According to the criminal complaint,
or teas Valez was upset about the resolution. She stated
that because witness won, that's Priscilla Prado, who is the

(01:38:46):
chair of the Democrat Hispanic Caucus. Because she was moving
forward with the resolution, or tees Valez was going to
tell the press negative personal information about Witness one. The
complain further alleges that another Democrat assembly member Witness three,

(01:39:06):
who we believe to be Kaitlin Haywood. Witness three stated
that on October or excuse me, August twenty ninth, twenty
twenty five, or TEESVILLEZ called him and stated, they are
going to do what I want them to do or
I Am going to do X Y and Z. When
Witness three Heywood asked what X Y and Z were.

(01:39:28):
Or Teesville has made comments about Witness one Proto's personal life,
as well as comments about Prato and other legislators.

Speaker 2 (01:39:38):
How is any of this.

Speaker 1 (01:39:42):
Boisterous, unreasonably loud, indecent, profane, violent or abusive conduct. I
have read this criminal complaint backwards and forwards about three times.
It is remarkably short, primarily because there's really nothing to this.

(01:40:05):
I do not see how the elements of the crime are.

Speaker 5 (01:40:13):
Fit.

Speaker 1 (01:40:15):
Okay, here is what the complaining officer of the Capitol
Police says. This is at the end of the the.

Speaker 2 (01:40:28):
End of the criminal complaint.

Speaker 1 (01:40:31):
These were personal attacks regarding Witness I Prato that were
outside the bounds of political response. The statements were indecent
and tended to disrupt the good public order. How truly,
how criminal complaint in September twenty twenty five. Capitol Police

(01:40:58):
became aware of concerning statements made by ortiz Blez immediately
before Labor Day weekend on October twenty ninth, twenty twenty five.
Witness two, this is Newbauer. So we believe Neubauer was
the one who called the Capitol police, which makes sense
because Neubauer Capitol Police are the one suit basically protect

(01:41:20):
people inside the Capitol for from from threats, right, just
like I mean, everybody knows the Capitol Police from the
January sixth incident. Okay, everybody Capitol police, same basic thing
in Wisconsin. So Witness two, who we can now report
is almost certainly Greta Neubauer. And this makes sense because

(01:41:40):
she called the Capitol police to say that she was
going to take an AK forty seven to a knife fight.
That's heated language, to be sure.

Speaker 2 (01:41:53):
Is it? Is it disorderly?

Speaker 5 (01:42:00):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
That never makes it to the criminal complaint. That would
be the one.

Speaker 1 (01:42:06):
Okay, if she is saying, and you could like reasonably interpret,
all right, she's threatening to shoot up the Capitol.

Speaker 2 (01:42:13):
Oh yeah, maybe that's just that's never actually alleged. Listen
to this.

Speaker 1 (01:42:22):
Witness two reported that she spoke on the phone with
ortiz Valz. Ortiz Vales told Witness two that she would
go to the press with negative things about Witness one
if Witness one did not rescind her resolution. Remember this
is it's not like a bill that is going to
change the course of Wisconsin. It's hottering Hispanic heritage month. Ultimately,

(01:42:43):
who gives a rip If ortiz Valez is on this,
it's not really a big thing. Okay, So orties Valez says,
I'm going to go talk bad about Priscilla Prado if
she goes forward with this. On September second, Witness I
again spoke with orties Valez on the phone. Orties Valez

(01:43:05):
was upset about the resolution. She stated that because Witness
one was moving forward with the resolution or tees Valez
was going to tell the press negative personal information about
Witness one Prada. Witness two, Nubauer reported, orties Valez said,
I'm going to call the press and tell them Witness
one is engaging in inappropriate personal actions. Now, okay, let's say,

(01:43:28):
and I'm just going to be totally clear about that.
I have no idea what it is that orties Valez
was gonna say, let's say Priscilla Prado is having an affair. Okay,
that's like the standard one that you blackmail. Okay, I'm
gonna tell everybody about your affair if it's not true.
Priscilla Prado absolutely has an actionable claim about defamation, that

(01:43:48):
she was defamed and even though she's a public figure,
that Ortiesvillez acted with reckless disregard for the truth, knowing
full well she's not having an affair. I frankly, I
don't think Riscilla Prado is having an affair. Okay, I'm
using this as an example. Please, Priscilla Prado, don't sue
me or Greta Neubauer, Please don't file criminal charges against me.

(01:44:10):
You know, damn well, Greta Nubauer is already on the
phone with her Capitol police officer looking for a way
to criminally charge Dan O'Donnell with saying mean things about her.
Oh that Dan O'Donnell. He almost single handedly derailed my
mom's candidacy for Supreme Court. Remember, we were the ones who,

(01:44:30):
in painstaking detail, outlined all of the corruption Lisa Neubauer
was undergoing with cases she was taking that directly impacted
her family's biz. Oh is that a corrupt judge? And yes,
I stand by that one hundred percent. But let's say
Greta Neubauer found out beforehand that I was going to

(01:44:52):
do this. She calls up the Capitol Police and says,
you know that Dan O'Donnell is threatening to go on
the radio alleging that my mom was engaged in shady rulings,
refusing to recuse herself from cases she should have and
then giving rulings that significantly enriched her husband, my dad,

(01:45:13):
and herself. Could I be charged with Could I be
charged with disorderly conduct?

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
Now?

Speaker 1 (01:45:24):
Rather obviously I am a member of the press, and
I am reporting something that happened to be factually completely accurate.
This is I had a couple of people saying yesterday, well,
why is Dan going off? What do I care about
democrats getting into a peepee match with each other?

Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
This is way beyond that.

Speaker 1 (01:45:48):
This is a law enforcement agency, the law enforcement agency
that we trust to provide security for and to investigate
threats at the Wisconsin Capital. Right they are being used
as like a secret police by the Assembly minority leader,

(01:46:08):
who is then getting the flimsiest possible case before the
what is this the Dane County District Attorney's office.

Speaker 2 (01:46:20):
Or where was this filed?

Speaker 1 (01:46:22):
Not Milwaukee Milwaukee DA's office. First of all, I'm not
necessarily sure that this was the proper venue. I guess
if all of this took place while she was physically well, yeah,
I guess she would have been physically in Milwaukee County.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
So okay, this is Milwaukee.

Speaker 5 (01:46:38):
Die.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
I apologize.

Speaker 1 (01:46:39):
I think yesterday I ripped on the Dane County District
Attorney's office it was Milwaukee County. I am, I am
actually shocked. The assistant District Attorney is Matthew Richard Westfall.

(01:46:59):
This might actually be the single most corrupt prosecution I
think I have ever seen. You have the District Attorney's
office in Milwaukee, no processing hundreds of crimes every single year.
When our good friends at Wisconsin right Now realized what

(01:47:22):
they were doing during the COVID era, do you know
what former DA John Chismodee stopped providing statistics on no
processing of crimes? Absolutely dirty, absolutely corrupt. I I am
actually kind of shocked about this. Now there is an
open question as to whether or not this is constitutional.

(01:47:48):
There is a section of the Wisconsin Constitution that says,
and I quote, members of the Legislature shall, in all
cases is accept treason, felony, and breach of the peace,
be privileged from arrest, nor shall they be subject to
any civil process during the session of the Legislature, nor

(01:48:12):
for fifteen days next before the commencement and after the
termination of each session. Assembly session just ended on Friday.
She was criminally charged on Wednesday. That's less than fifteen days.

Speaker 5 (01:48:37):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:48:38):
She has not been arrested. So I think this is
where it probably passes constitutional muster just by the skin
of its teeth. But I think ortiz valeise. First of all,
if a judge doesn't immediately throw this out, you'll know
the fixes in this is Honestly, this is I I'm

(01:49:00):
offended as someone who went to law school and is
a nonpractice sing I am actually a fact. You know
why people hate lawyers. It's because of I almost said
the S word. It's because of stuff like this. It
is an abuse of authority for political payback. This is

(01:49:21):
political payback, pure and simple. Seriously, you know what I'm
gonna do. I'm gonna post the entire criminal complaint and
I'm going to say any lawyer I defy any attorney
who reads this on social media. You find a criminal charge,
you find a disorderly conduct charge.

Speaker 5 (01:49:42):
Here.

Speaker 1 (01:49:44):
Look, I don't know Sylvia ortiz Villez. Good chance I
couldn't pick her out of a lineup, all right. To
my knowledge, I'd never really spoken to her. I might
have exchanged pleasantries at some event. And heaven knows, Dan
O'Donnell is not in the habit of defending democrats all

(01:50:04):
that much. But my god, if this isn't the most
obvious thing, this is flat out corruption. I'm sorry, this
is absolute, flat out corruption. Now that you know Witness
two just happens to be the most powerful Democrat in

(01:50:25):
the Wisconsin Assembly, does that change things? So Witness too
is very clearly talking to this little Ada Bretta Neubauer
and saying, hey, we really think you should file criminal charges?

Speaker 2 (01:50:40):
What about this? Whoever? In a but what about this
is disorderly?

Speaker 1 (01:50:45):
Was Sylvia ortiz Villez in telling Caylin Haywood and Greta Neubauer? Yeah,
I'm gonna say mean stuff about Priscilla Prado.

Speaker 2 (01:50:55):
Was she being violent? No? Was she being a abusive?
Not really?

Speaker 5 (01:51:02):
No?

Speaker 1 (01:51:03):
When you say abusive, it's like screaming in somebody's face.
Disorderly conduct is like when there's a fight at a
bar and you can't really everybody gets disorderly conduct charges.
That's sort of like the catchup. So under the intent
of the statue, was she being violent, no abusive, no indecent?
Was she sending naughty picks along with her threats? No profane,

(01:51:27):
no boisterous, no unreasonably loud or otherwise. No, there's no
basis for this charge whatsoever. All Right, we got to
step aside. I know we're running very very late for
a break. You're listening to the dan O judgeon. I
told you I was gonna get worked up over this.

Speaker 2 (01:51:44):
It is an abuse of the law. That's no other
way to put abuse of the law. Just a couple
of minutes left.

Speaker 1 (01:51:52):
Yeah, we're gonna actually have to end a little bit
before six o'clock.

Speaker 2 (01:51:56):
I went way long in that last segment. Folks.

Speaker 1 (01:52:00):
Yes, it's easy to say, what do I care about
some random state assembly woman catching a disorderly conduct charge?
It is easy to say that it is absolutely wrong
to say that every single Wisconsin I should care about this, because, frankly,
if they can manufacture criminal charges against one of their

(01:52:21):
own caucus members. What do you think they could do
to Republicans? What do you think they could do to you?
And yes, folks, this is not unnecessarily apocalyptic. These are bogus,
trumped up charges against Sylvia ortiz Valez and folks at
a massive, huge level. This is exactly what happened throughout

(01:52:43):
twenty twenty three and the early part of twenty twenty
four when Democrats were doing the exact same thing to
Donald Trump. They just sort of invented criminal charges against
him to try to politically stop him. And why are
they doing this to Sylvia ortiz Valez. Well, because, says
we reported on the Dan O'Donnell show exclusively on Friday,

(01:53:04):
she was the one who actually proved that Democrats were
forcing their own members from the floor of the Assembly.
They were not allowing them to show up for votes
when they were going to vote with Republicans. A representative
by the name of Nate Gustafson or a Republican. He

(01:53:25):
actually asked a Republican repchet sortwell, it's on the floor
of the Assembly, and he says, okay, I saw Joe Shean,
the Democrat from Sheboygan. He was walking the other way,
and when we were supposed to be voting, and I
said to him, Hey, what are you doing? He just
kind of laughed and walked back towards his office. And
then I realized, Hey, we were voting on a bill
that he supported. Clearly, Neubauer, the Assembly minority leader, did

(01:53:50):
not want this guy voting with Republicans, so she sent
him off the floor. And we know this has been
happening well after. Democrats just absolutely freaked out and dared
and said, oh, how dare you impune our honor? Gustafson
rises and asks, hey, Representative ORTIZVILLEZ. Have Democrats ever has

(01:54:10):
leadership ever barred you from the floor of the Assembly.

Speaker 2 (01:54:13):
She said yes.

Speaker 1 (01:54:15):
Literally days later, she's criminally charged over something that happened
last August. Come on, come on. The timing there is
just a little too coincidental. This just smacks a political payback.

(01:54:36):
And frankly, both the Capitol Police referring this for criminal
charges and the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office actually filing
criminal charges, this smacks of corruption in the extreme. You
better believe we're gonna be talking about this more tomorrow.
Have a great evening, Wisconsin. This has been The Dan
O'Donnell show.

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