1 00:00:06,120 --> 00:00:09,039 Speaker 1: Power two, Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty and 2 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:11,879 Speaker 1: one oh three five FM from the six five to 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: one carpet, Next Day Install Studios. John Justice with you 4 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,319 Speaker 1: on your Wednesday morning. Hank Long from Alpha News later 5 00:00:18,400 --> 00:00:21,520 Speaker 1: on in the show. Crash and Burn is taking place 6 00:00:21,560 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: at ACME Comedy Company. Always a fantastic almost week long 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 1: event to Crash and Burn where multiple comedians go and 8 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:33,480 Speaker 1: try out new material over the course of a few nights. 9 00:00:33,479 --> 00:00:36,040 Speaker 1: I believe it starts this evening. Tim Slagel will be 10 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: joining us in studio tomorrow to talk about Crash and 11 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,520 Speaker 1: Burn and ACME. He'll be in in the eight o'clock 12 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 1: hour on tomorrow morning, but head on over to ACNE 13 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 1: Comedy Company dot com to get your tickets to Crash 14 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:53,760 Speaker 1: and Burn. Welcome, We welcome everybody into this movement. Conrad Zubowski, 15 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: he's a DFL activist's longtime DFL activist, writing about the 16 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:03,160 Speaker 1: No Kings rally from over the weekend the protests on Saturday. 17 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: The first paragraph, he talks about Minnesotans by the tens 18 00:01:06,560 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: of thousands and then lists off all the different places 19 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,759 Speaker 1: from which people here in Minnesota gathered to protest authoritarianism, 20 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 1: talks about Minneapolis Representative Ellison Smith and whatnot. 21 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 2: It's the whole first paragraph. 22 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 1: While the President was posting AI videos of himself wearing 23 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,640 Speaker 1: a crown and attacking protesters, I was reflecting on the 24 00:01:28,680 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: precarious moment we are in and the importance protesting in 25 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: mass We welcome everybody into this movement, right Conrad, even 26 00:01:38,319 --> 00:01:41,000 Speaker 1: more moderate folks who may not be up for every 27 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: chant or every type of First Amendment actions. So what 28 00:01:45,959 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 1: type of people is he welcoming his moderates the examples 29 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 1: that he gives, He says, in Minneapolis, we had anarchists. Yes, 30 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:01,040 Speaker 1: I saw at least one sign and shardon sipping, liberals 31 00:02:01,080 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: marching together. 32 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:06,720 Speaker 2: That's that's the moderate folks. Those are still you guys. 33 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,399 Speaker 1: Then Conrad talks about Indivisible organizing the rallies. You're familiar 34 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:17,000 Speaker 1: with Indivisible. Of course, he says, they're grounded in nonviolence 35 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,120 Speaker 1: and no civil disobedience. Okay, those are the ones that 36 00:02:21,160 --> 00:02:26,520 Speaker 1: go in protest in front of politicians' homes, right yeah. 37 00:02:26,600 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: The organizer's argument is that lowering barriers helps bring new 38 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 1: people into the greater project. If your grandmother in a 39 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:39,560 Speaker 1: mobility Scooter is going to her first to protest and 40 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: skipped out on the protest movements of sixty years ago. 41 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: That shows there are still a larger majority of Americans 42 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:47,400 Speaker 1: who are ready to make their voices heard. 43 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 2: What voices aren't being heard? 44 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: I just I don't understand that that logic. 45 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 2: Who is not being heard on the left? 46 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: In all this, Trump won the election by a majority 47 00:03:05,919 --> 00:03:10,000 Speaker 1: electoral college and the national popular vote. That's how we 48 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:14,000 Speaker 1: put people in positions of power. It's not a monarchy. 49 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: We don't have kings. And yet the people protesting and 50 00:03:17,639 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: I know this because they were asked and many of 51 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:24,200 Speaker 1: them said so. If they had their way, they would 52 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:28,080 Speaker 1: overthrow a duly elected president. So you tell me who 53 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 1: is more aligned with a monarchy and an attitude of 54 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:38,000 Speaker 1: a monarch than individuals who believe that a duly elected 55 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: person be thrown out of office just because the non 56 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:50,000 Speaker 1: majority of individuals don't want them there. Conrad goes on 57 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: to write in the same vein, I was relieved and 58 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:58,240 Speaker 1: proud that Saturday's protests remained entirely peaceful, despite the administration's 59 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,800 Speaker 1: best efforts to paint you know, kings demonstrators is anti 60 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:06,280 Speaker 1: American terrorists. That's not what happened. Two things can be 61 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 1: true at once. It's the same argument relating to they 62 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: weren't all paid. Well, of course they weren't all paid, 63 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:13,400 Speaker 1: but some of them were, but the majority of them weren't. 64 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 1: If you align with al Qaeda, I'm a member of 65 00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:20,000 Speaker 1: al Qaeda, but you have yet to go and strap 66 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,120 Speaker 1: see forward to your body and blow yourself up, you're 67 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: still a terrorist by aligning with terrorists. And the same 68 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: thing rings true for Antifa. Let's go back to the 69 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,039 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. We got a couple of comments responding to 70 00:04:34,600 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: foe of the show Eric. We'll get to those in 71 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:39,719 Speaker 1: a second, but first, speaking of Antifa. 72 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:42,280 Speaker 3: The funny part is they think they distanced themselves from 73 00:04:42,320 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 3: those Antifa activists. But the thing is when you literally 74 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 3: list the Communist Party as a sponsor, you kind of 75 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,120 Speaker 3: shoot that down. I mean, you didn't have overt violence, 76 00:04:54,200 --> 00:04:58,200 Speaker 3: but you did expose your Communist backers. That's right there 77 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:00,720 Speaker 3: in the literature they put out themselves. 78 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, this is typical Cambridge. In response to Eric for BRAINERD, 79 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 4: we had a protest last November and O god, I 80 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,520 Speaker 4: can't even I can't even try to do the voice. 81 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 4: We had a protest that whatever I guess what we 82 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 4: did win, So maybe it is effective. 83 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,000 Speaker 2: Bunckle up for what Eric's brainerd like one of the. 84 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:29,279 Speaker 5: Democrats have to run on no case. 85 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:33,640 Speaker 6: Okay, we don't have any case, so what else They've. 86 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:34,919 Speaker 7: Got nothing to run on. 87 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:38,839 Speaker 2: It's gonna be a RD wave. 88 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:42,160 Speaker 6: More than likely because the Democrats simply have nothing to 89 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 6: run on and people are turning to the Republican Party. 90 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:48,480 Speaker 2: It and this speaks to. 91 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: What I believe Republicans need to do and put aside 92 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,920 Speaker 1: the purity contests. Support the candidates you want to support, 93 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: but make sure you support the nominee. Don't disparage others 94 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: within the GOP for supporting somebody different than you. Don't 95 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,760 Speaker 1: get hung up on voter fraud and discourage individuals from 96 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: voting because you're convinced that Republicans can't win. If you 97 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 1: do that, then it's a self fulfilling prophecy. 98 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 8: Good morning, John Rich here. So if you look at 99 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 8: the actual numbers of No King's rally compared to number 100 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,200 Speaker 8: of Democrats that voted in the last election, it's less 101 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:28,120 Speaker 8: than three percent. 102 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:30,839 Speaker 2: So Eric buck club. 103 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 8: Because ninety eight to ninety seven percent of your party 104 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 8: didn't shible up? 105 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:38,559 Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, John. 106 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 6: You just read that piece. The author said that this 107 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,040 Speaker 6: is given the Democrat base the go ahead to fight. 108 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 9: Now, what do you think they've been doing? 109 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:51,440 Speaker 2: What do you think the. 110 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,080 Speaker 6: Job description of the professionally offended are? 111 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:55,640 Speaker 2: They fight everything. 112 00:06:55,920 --> 00:07:01,039 Speaker 6: They fight tradition, they fight reality, they fight definition, they 113 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:01,799 Speaker 6: fight everything. 114 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 2: They don't know how to do anything else. 115 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:04,880 Speaker 6: It's time for them to sit down. 116 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 2: It just shut up for a little bit, John. 117 00:07:09,560 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 3: Those protesters were very, very successful. Just watch on October thirty. 118 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 3: First they're going to be out in force again. 119 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:18,920 Speaker 2: Took me a minute when I say, yeah, I got. 120 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,160 Speaker 10: You parton John, Friend of the show, Rod call it in. Oh, 121 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 10: the Democrats are claiming success the kings no more King's 122 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:32,280 Speaker 10: bull blah blah. You gotta remember the Democrats consider when 123 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 10: talking about something that is a success, their definition of 124 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:42,960 Speaker 10: success does not improude Actually to wigged to some claim. 125 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: I love when these protests take place by Democrats because 126 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:50,040 Speaker 1: we actually end up solving a lot of different problems. 127 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 1: So I mentioned last hour the capitalist angle of the 128 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 1: protests and just how much money was spent by leftists 129 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 1: to private organizations and to cities as well, and to 130 00:08:02,640 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: law enforcement in order to make this happy, but also 131 00:08:06,120 --> 00:08:11,480 Speaker 1: the people that go and put their heinous beliefs on 132 00:08:11,520 --> 00:08:16,200 Speaker 1: full display. That Lucy Martinez from the Nathan Hale Elementary 133 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: School teacher who was shown on video mocking the death 134 00:08:20,640 --> 00:08:24,040 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, the assassination of Charlie Kirk. She's got her 135 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,080 Speaker 1: free speech, she can do what she wants in public, 136 00:08:26,120 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: but it doesn't mean that she's immune from the consequences, 137 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:30,120 Speaker 1: and it looks like she may have lost her job. 138 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:31,920 Speaker 1: But the angle of that that I don't hear a 139 00:08:31,920 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: lot of people talking about is the fact that can 140 00:08:34,280 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: you imagine, just for a second, just how biased that 141 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: woman is in her classroom. If you're an individual that 142 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:46,679 Speaker 1: believes that it's appropriate to go and mock an individual 143 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:50,840 Speaker 1: who was assassinated, and especially given I mean that alone 144 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 1: just anybody being assassinated, but a figure like Charlie Kirk 145 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 1: in what he was doing, a father, family man, a 146 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:01,160 Speaker 1: godly man who was trying to reach out to the 147 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,960 Speaker 1: youth of America and was willing to do what so 148 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:06,760 Speaker 1: many other individuals weren't. If you're willing to go and 149 00:09:06,960 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 1: mock the assassination of an individual like that, like so 150 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 1: many democrats have. How are you conducting yourself in the 151 00:09:12,920 --> 00:09:16,680 Speaker 1: classroom and are you even capable of being fair to 152 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: the children around you when you're dealing with various issues 153 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,800 Speaker 1: that are involved with teaching elementary school students. So when 154 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:25,720 Speaker 1: these protests takes place, it's great because a lot of 155 00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:27,599 Speaker 1: people get you know, end up losing their gigs and 156 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: probably shouldn't had him in the first place. Been getting 157 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:37,520 Speaker 1: back to a Conrad Zebowski from the Minnesota Reformer. We 158 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 1: welcome everybody into this movement, you know, like anarchists and 159 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 1: Chardonnays sipping liberals marching together. 160 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 2: Okay, He goes on. 161 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:48,080 Speaker 1: To say, in addition to the demonstration of popular discontent, 162 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:50,199 Speaker 1: no Kings is the call to action. Now, I was 163 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:52,400 Speaker 1: definitely interested in this because the whole topic is were 164 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:57,600 Speaker 1: they successful? This is where bringing new people in to 165 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 1: the fold helps grow people people power for what's needed next. Okay, already, 166 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:07,360 Speaker 1: the next mass action is scheduled for March. 167 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,640 Speaker 2: Twenty ninth to twenty twenty six. And you can help me. 168 00:10:11,160 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 1: And wish me a happy birthday on my thirty third 169 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:16,439 Speaker 1: birthday by joining me on March twenty ninth at your 170 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 1: local rally. Across Minnesota in country. Okay, So it's a 171 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: call to action for people to go out and get 172 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:27,480 Speaker 1: dressed up again in March of next year. Spirit Halloween, 173 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: take note, be ready to go put up shop in 174 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:35,200 Speaker 1: those abandoned storefronts once again for costumes wire need to 175 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 1: be rented. And that actually makes an appearance in this piece. 176 00:10:38,920 --> 00:10:40,960 Speaker 1: The other call to action is a little harder. 177 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:41,600 Speaker 2: Okay. 178 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: We all have seen the news that the federal agencies 179 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: have mobilized in liberal cities to terrorize residents. If you 180 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 1: participated in Saturday's rallies in marches, you may have heard 181 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: a call to action to be ready to mobilize to 182 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,720 Speaker 1: protest the federal overreach this winter. It's not a petition, 183 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,560 Speaker 1: signature or ten dollars donation to Act Blue. 184 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:05,440 Speaker 2: So listen. 185 00:11:05,520 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: Conrad doesn't even want donations being made. He's actually discouraging 186 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: people to go and make donations. This is the type 187 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,160 Speaker 1: of thing that I don't want Republicans doing. But showing up, 188 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:18,439 Speaker 1: especially in our silly costumes and dance music, can illustrate 189 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: how we are not afraid to stand with our neighbors 190 00:11:20,840 --> 00:11:26,280 Speaker 1: and fellow Americans. Now he talks about the costume aspect 191 00:11:26,280 --> 00:11:30,439 Speaker 1: of it, uses an example of an individual in Chile 192 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 1: who wore an inflatable costume of a Japanese character to protest, 193 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 1: who ended up winning an election in twenty twenty one 194 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,160 Speaker 1: as justification for wearing costumes. He goes on to write 195 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: from Portland to Chicago to Minneapolis, demonstrators took the same approach, 196 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:49,360 Speaker 1: even in the face of pepper balls and tear gas, 197 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 1: right to the inflatable fan. 198 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,360 Speaker 2: But there was no violence and that didn't happen. Okay. 199 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 1: At Saturday's rally in Minneapolis, I got a lot of love, 200 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:03,160 Speaker 1: writes Conrad for my inflatable purple unicorn costume with a 201 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:04,079 Speaker 1: turquoise horn. 202 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 2: It almost got exhausting, Huh. 203 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:14,480 Speaker 1: Showing that we can unite with unbridled joy in the 204 00:12:14,480 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: face of fear and retribution is the best antidote to 205 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: tyranny and oppression. Yeah, if you don't want anybody to 206 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,960 Speaker 1: take it seriously, it actually made me happy. 207 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:26,600 Speaker 2: Says Conrad. 208 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,199 Speaker 1: That Trump posted the AI video of himself dumping on protesters, 209 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: he was desperate to change the subject, even if it 210 00:12:33,120 --> 00:12:37,640 Speaker 1: meant humiliating himself with his undignified behavior. Yes, but taking 211 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,160 Speaker 1: to the streets of America in a purple, inflatable unicorn 212 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 1: costume with a turquoise horn is completely dignified behavior, apparently, 213 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: if you're really that concern with federal agencies terrorizing residence, 214 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: tyranny and oppression, and you're donning an inflatable unicorn costume, Okay, you're. 215 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 2: Not doing that. You're not donning ridiculous. 216 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:05,400 Speaker 1: Costumes if you're going out to protest, if you really 217 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:09,240 Speaker 1: think that you are under tyrannical rule, or that federal 218 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: agencies are terrorizing residents, if you have fear of authoritarian 219 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 1: persecution and retribution, yet you're not going out with this 220 00:13:19,880 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: joyous look on your face wearing colorful costumes. The good 221 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,079 Speaker 1: news is a Portland costume shop is seeing a boost 222 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:31,160 Speaker 1: in business, and they have been for a while. From 223 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,800 Speaker 1: the ice protesters dressing as inflatable animals. That's actually where 224 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:36,679 Speaker 1: this all started. I'm going to get back to the 225 00:13:36,760 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: impetus of the costume here. We'll spend just a few 226 00:13:38,840 --> 00:13:41,760 Speaker 1: more minutes on this before we turn our attention to 227 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:44,960 Speaker 1: the ballroom freak out and Governor Tim Walls and his 228 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:47,839 Speaker 1: latest campaign ad. We'll get to your talkbacks from the 229 00:13:47,880 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: iHeartRadio app. Those are brought to you by Lindahl Realty. 230 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,959 Speaker 1: We'll play some of those next here on Twin City's 231 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: News Talk AM eleven thirty and one h three five FM. 232 00:13:55,600 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 11: Three point five. 233 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,199 Speaker 1: There's an issue that doesn't get talked about enough, and 234 00:14:07,320 --> 00:14:12,520 Speaker 1: it's I don't know if you would describe it as absolutism, 235 00:14:12,880 --> 00:14:19,520 Speaker 1: not listening, or just being narrow minded and too singularly 236 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:25,240 Speaker 1: focused to look beyond one track of a particular issue 237 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:28,800 Speaker 1: and just not listen to what people are saying. And 238 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,880 Speaker 1: I think it really comes out to that last one. 239 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,520 Speaker 1: People just aren't listening to what is actually being said. 240 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:42,320 Speaker 1: They're only hearing what they want to hear. If people 241 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:45,240 Speaker 1: stop doing that, we would immediately be in a better place. 242 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:48,160 Speaker 1: I'm not sure how quickly things would change, but we 243 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 1: would have a better opportunity for change. I'll give you 244 00:14:50,240 --> 00:14:52,200 Speaker 1: an example here in just a moment on Twin City's 245 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:54,400 Speaker 1: News Talk, John Justin is broadcasting from the six to 246 00:14:54,440 --> 00:14:58,880 Speaker 1: five to one Carpet Next Day Install Studios. I'm not 247 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: going to play the comment itself, just because I'm trying 248 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: to keep to the one comment per friend of the 249 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,040 Speaker 1: show rule, and I know many of you have let 250 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:11,760 Speaker 1: multiple comments and sometimes they sneak in where I play two. 251 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: But I just want to read the transcript here from 252 00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:15,480 Speaker 1: this talkback that rolled in. 253 00:15:15,520 --> 00:15:17,280 Speaker 2: It's from Eric again and again. I'm not gonna play it. 254 00:15:17,280 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna read it. 255 00:15:18,560 --> 00:15:21,000 Speaker 1: To say the No Kings protests weren't effective because they 256 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: weren't door knocking they're going to organize is completely insane. 257 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,480 Speaker 1: Let me stop. Nobody said that. Nobody was saying they 258 00:15:30,480 --> 00:15:32,800 Speaker 1: should have been door knocking and not protesting. 259 00:15:33,080 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 2: The point that I've made. 260 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: All along is that a lot of people when they 261 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: go out and protest, they feel like they've gone and 262 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 1: accomplished something. 263 00:15:45,080 --> 00:15:47,080 Speaker 2: I've done my part. I was a part of the 264 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:48,120 Speaker 2: No Kings protests. 265 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: Because ere It goes on to say these people were 266 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: in the streets the highest record turnout for protests in 267 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:55,280 Speaker 1: American history. 268 00:15:55,760 --> 00:15:57,160 Speaker 2: I don't believe that's true. 269 00:15:57,200 --> 00:15:59,680 Speaker 1: The numbers have been downsized from seven million to two 270 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:03,280 Speaker 1: to three million. Let's take it seriously, guys. I don't 271 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: know what that means. Because he goes on to say, 272 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,640 Speaker 1: maybe we shouldn't have ignored the protests. When we lose 273 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: the election, we're gonna have to look in the mirror 274 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: and say, maybe we shouldn't have ignored the protest or 275 00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,040 Speaker 1: mocked them and said, oh, well, Trump's not a king, 276 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: so therefore it doesn't count and it doesn't make sense. 277 00:16:23,960 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 1: So we're not supposed to mock. We're just supposed to go. 278 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 1: That was a protest. It was super serious. Guy boy, 279 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,160 Speaker 1: let me go. Okay, okay, let me go this route 280 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,000 Speaker 1: on it. I'm wiping out here a bit, but I 281 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:35,360 Speaker 1: just want to entertain this idea. So let's just entertain 282 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:37,400 Speaker 1: this idea. Because Eric's not the only one that feels 283 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:40,680 Speaker 1: this way, this idea that we should be taking them seriously. 284 00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: We shouldn't be mocking them, that we should recognize how 285 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: many people came out and protested on Saturday. So, as 286 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: a conservative and Republican that wants to see Republicans get elected, 287 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,120 Speaker 1: if I take this attitude and I come on the 288 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: air and I say, man, guys, we. 289 00:16:55,720 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 2: Need to wake up. 290 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,040 Speaker 1: Look at all those people that went out there and 291 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,320 Speaker 1: protested and how they are at President Donald Trump. We 292 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: better go and wake up. What are we going to do? 293 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: Is that encouraging? Is that gonna win elections? 294 00:17:13,119 --> 00:17:14,240 Speaker 2: It's also not truthful. 295 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:19,360 Speaker 1: And I try to be as genuine in as authentic 296 00:17:19,359 --> 00:17:22,159 Speaker 1: as I possibly can be sometimes to my detriment on 297 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:22,880 Speaker 1: this show. 298 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 2: So listen, better. 299 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,600 Speaker 1: People who take to the streets in ridiculous costumes with 300 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:35,679 Speaker 1: arguments that don't make any sense, now they should be 301 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:39,320 Speaker 1: mocked and it should be a continued example of how you, 302 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: unless you're a foe of the show, are on the 303 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: right side of history right now because protesting and taking 304 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:47,920 Speaker 1: to the streets and masses all the Democrats have right now, 305 00:17:48,320 --> 00:17:52,359 Speaker 1: because as the talkback came in and said earlier in 306 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 1: the show, Democrats have nothing to run on. The only 307 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: thing they have to run on is no go to 308 00:18:00,240 --> 00:18:04,199 Speaker 1: Donald Trump and everything that Trump does in Republicans, regardless 309 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: of how irrational hypocritical they are, which is why I 310 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:09,800 Speaker 1: don't care when they go out and protest in mass 311 00:18:11,200 --> 00:18:13,879 Speaker 1: because again they feel like they're going and accomplishing something. 312 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: And many of those individuals, to again drive the point 313 00:18:18,720 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: home when it actually comes time to do the work 314 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:26,000 Speaker 1: necessary at the grassroots ground level, they're not going to 315 00:18:27,320 --> 00:18:29,520 Speaker 1: you think they're going to put on their chicken outfit, 316 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:34,320 Speaker 1: their pinky unicorn outfit and go door knocking. They're going 317 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: to go to their local district and make cold phone 318 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:41,720 Speaker 1: calls to potential voters think they're going to donate more 319 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,720 Speaker 1: money after spending all the money that they did to 320 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 1: spend a day out in the streets in a costume 321 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:49,600 Speaker 1: traveling to particular locations. 322 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:50,920 Speaker 2: No, the majority of them aren't. 323 00:18:51,560 --> 00:18:54,960 Speaker 12: This is constant messaging about people's voices being heard, but 324 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 12: when they have an opportunity to speak about what they 325 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 12: believe and they can't articulate what their point is. An 326 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:04,080 Speaker 12: activism is supposed to be about getting people to see 327 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,640 Speaker 12: your side of the argument and get them to see 328 00:19:07,119 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 12: where the change needs to be made. But instead these 329 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:13,439 Speaker 12: people are just going out and stomping their feet about 330 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,320 Speaker 12: something that they were told on the media is happening, 331 00:19:16,520 --> 00:19:18,960 Speaker 12: without figuring out the reality behind. 332 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,640 Speaker 1: It, the whole idea behind the costumes. It came out 333 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 1: of the protests that were being done in front of 334 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,960 Speaker 1: the ice detention centers. I'm looking at an article here 335 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 1: from ww News a Portland costume shop seeing a boost 336 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:38,639 Speaker 1: in business from ice protesters dressing as inflatable animals a 337 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,959 Speaker 1: blow up frog, a chicken, a dinosaur became regulars at 338 00:19:43,040 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 1: nightly gatherings thanks to two diehard Trump haters. One dresses 339 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,320 Speaker 1: a frog in the other as a chicken. One of 340 00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,399 Speaker 1: the individuals set a couple bout of Garfield and a 341 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,720 Speaker 1: banana the other day, and I saw them on the news. 342 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,520 Speaker 1: The rule of thumb seems to be the sillier the 343 00:20:00,520 --> 00:20:03,320 Speaker 1: The suit's range in price from sixty to seventy dollars, 344 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:11,240 Speaker 1: a little more than you'll pay on Amazon. We're in 345 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: the silliest timeline, so I thought, why not be silly 346 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: about it, said a man in a banana costume to 347 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 1: Reuter's news service over the weekend. This was about a 348 00:20:20,760 --> 00:20:24,159 Speaker 1: weekend to go ahead of the No Kings protests. He 349 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:28,160 Speaker 1: was tressed as SpongeBob SquarePants. Also there was a Pikachu, 350 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:31,400 Speaker 1: a shark, and a mushroom dancing around him. This is bananas. 351 00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 1: A sign read, the costumes provide a pure Portland encounterpoint 352 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:40,200 Speaker 1: to federal officers dressed in riot gear, masks and guns, 353 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 1: they recalled the Flower Power. The title of the nineteen 354 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,520 Speaker 1: sixty seven black and white photo of a protester George 355 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: Harris putting a carnation into the barrel of an M 356 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: fourteen held by a military policeman during the March of 357 00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:55,359 Speaker 1: the Pentagon named it. Ending the Vietnam War. That's where 358 00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,280 Speaker 1: all of this stemmed from. It was the individuals that 359 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:02,159 Speaker 1: were out there protesting at the ICE facilities, trying to 360 00:21:02,200 --> 00:21:07,359 Speaker 1: draw contrast as the article mentioned, So it wasn't even 361 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,320 Speaker 1: like authentic in the No Kings protesters going and doing 362 00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: the outfits. They just saw that the individuals at the 363 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:16,119 Speaker 1: ICE protests were gaining a lot of attention, so they 364 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 1: decided to go and do the same thing. It makes 365 00:21:19,240 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: about as much sense as the title of No Kings Dots. 366 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:30,280 Speaker 9: Regarding the costumes of the No Kings protesters, the only 367 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:34,199 Speaker 9: costume they should be wearing are clown costumes. 368 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:40,200 Speaker 5: Morning John, a guy in the unicorn costume with the horn, 369 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 5: and then a question for the listeners. Am I the 370 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,359 Speaker 5: only one who's feeling like we should go out there 371 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 5: with balls full of candy and give each one apiece 372 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 5: and say that's a great trick or treat costume because 373 00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:56,800 Speaker 5: it just feels like they're that nuts. 374 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 2: Actually, I kind of liked that idea of going out next. 375 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: Time and handing out candy to those that are out 376 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:02,280 Speaker 1: there protesting and costumes. 377 00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 2: I think that's funny. 378 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: All right, we'll get back to more of your comments 379 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 1: from the iHeartRadio app work begins on Trump's new big, 380 00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:13,480 Speaker 1: beautiful white house ballroom. I'll give you the roundup of 381 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:16,439 Speaker 1: negative articles attached to that and why what Trump is 382 00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:17,960 Speaker 1: doing is not out of the norm. 383 00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:23,159 Speaker 2: II it's smart from you Brighton. It's it's the ballroom blitz. 384 00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 2: It's it's the ballroom blitz. 385 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 4: It's it's the ballroom blitz. 386 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,280 Speaker 2: Yes, it's the ballroom Blitz. 387 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,480 Speaker 1: Which foe of the show, Phil talkback to? I want 388 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: to play? 389 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 2: There's so many options. 390 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,360 Speaker 1: Twin Cities News Talk Am eleven thirty one oh three 391 00:22:43,440 --> 00:22:46,280 Speaker 1: five FM. John Justice from the six five one Carpet, 392 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 1: Next Day Install Studios. 393 00:22:48,359 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 2: Let's play this one. 394 00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,160 Speaker 9: Yeah, it's the stuff from eating quirt. 395 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:58,040 Speaker 13: So you guys actually counted seven million people that had 396 00:22:58,080 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 13: on constumes. 397 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:06,440 Speaker 1: Huh stop again? People listened better. I'm kind of over it. 398 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,800 Speaker 1: Nobody said that seven million people were wearing costumes. 399 00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:14,640 Speaker 2: It wasn't sad, nobody. I didn't say it. Nobody else. 400 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 2: I'm sorry. 401 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:16,320 Speaker 5: I just. 402 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 2: For people that listen to the show, you got to 403 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:24,160 Speaker 2: listen with better years. Jealous the other thing. 404 00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: So we're jealous, and that's the other argument. That's the 405 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:28,719 Speaker 1: other argument that I've seen a lot coming from individuals 406 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,000 Speaker 1: that took part in the protests. 407 00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:32,680 Speaker 2: Look at all the people that showed up. Aren't you jealous? 408 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,880 Speaker 2: Look at what we did? No, not really. We won 409 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,160 Speaker 2: the election last year. That's when going out and doing 410 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:39,400 Speaker 2: something actually matters. 411 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,520 Speaker 13: It wasn't broken most people that the protest and one day, 412 00:23:43,440 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 13: So get with the program. And yeah, Trump is destroying 413 00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:51,879 Speaker 13: the decor of the White House ninety thousand square foot ballroom, 414 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,719 Speaker 13: digging in the actual White House building. 415 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:55,440 Speaker 2: But do you think that's okay? 416 00:23:55,560 --> 00:23:57,880 Speaker 13: I do so when a Democrat do it, I don't 417 00:23:57,920 --> 00:23:59,080 Speaker 13: want you to come plain Hell a good. 418 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:01,880 Speaker 2: Day, okay? So which way is it? 419 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 1: So you just complained that Trump was destroying the decor 420 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,639 Speaker 1: of the White House, but then when a Democrat does it, 421 00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:10,959 Speaker 1: don't want us to complain. So you'll be fine with 422 00:24:11,000 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: it when a Democrat does it, but you're not fine 423 00:24:13,320 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: with it with Trump doing it. 424 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:15,560 Speaker 2: Okay. 425 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: I don't care if the No Kings protests broke any records. 426 00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:22,720 Speaker 1: It doesn't look like they did, though. I'm looking at 427 00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:24,960 Speaker 1: an article here from The Guardian. Those initial estimates of 428 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:28,439 Speaker 1: seven million might have been enough when you go and 429 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 1: compare it to the three point three to five point 430 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: six million that showed up in twenty seventeen for the 431 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:39,000 Speaker 1: Woman's March rally against Trump and his misogynistic rhetoric, according 432 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,480 Speaker 1: to this article from the Guardian, but even a majority 433 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:48,320 Speaker 1: of the No Kings organizers have downgraded those numbers to 434 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:49,080 Speaker 1: two to three million. 435 00:24:49,119 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 2: But I don't care. Whatever broke records, it broke records. 436 00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:52,000 Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. 437 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:55,520 Speaker 1: Break some records when it's time to go and vote 438 00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: and win the elections and then we can talk. But 439 00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,120 Speaker 1: taking to the streets as a bunch of people got angry. 440 00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:01,760 Speaker 2: Okay. 441 00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,680 Speaker 1: Trump is lending his lifetime of experience in real estate 442 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:10,200 Speaker 1: business to construct the ballroom. Construction began earlier this week 443 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,120 Speaker 1: on the two hundred and fifty million White House Ballroom 444 00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: passion project for Trump the future side of important state 445 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: functions such as parties and receptions for visiting foreign dignitaries. 446 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 1: The President announced the ground had been broken on a 447 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:27,840 Speaker 1: post with true social Construction on the ballroom is being 448 00:25:27,840 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: funded by the president and through private donations, no money 449 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:37,560 Speaker 1: from taxpayers. And Trump is not the only person who's 450 00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,919 Speaker 1: occupied the White House, president who's made changes before. But 451 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: of course it's Trump, so everybody's flipping out. Here's a 452 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,080 Speaker 1: few of the headlines. Fox News headline Hillary Clinton fires 453 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,840 Speaker 1: up voters against Trump's White House ballroom construction not his house. 454 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: New York Times couple of pieces, first one, as Trump 455 00:25:57,760 --> 00:26:02,480 Speaker 1: moves forward to White House ballroom project, architects raise concerns, 456 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 1: We're not sure it's structurally sound. Late night watches Trump 457 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:12,200 Speaker 1: go hulk smash on White House. 458 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 2: That is it. 459 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,960 Speaker 1: We're not giving him his security deposit. Back equipped to 460 00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:24,200 Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert about the president's building renovation, Fury grows over 461 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,520 Speaker 1: Trump's a White House demolition for the two hundred and 462 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: fifty million dollars ballroom. Chris Hayes out of NBC says 463 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,919 Speaker 1: Donald Trump wants to be a king. That is the 464 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:36,560 Speaker 1: best explanation for everything he's been doing in recent days. 465 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,439 Speaker 1: Just look at what he's doing to the White House. 466 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:45,160 Speaker 1: And again, Historic Preservation Group fears ballroom annex will overwhelm 467 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: the White House. National Historic Trust Preservation as a Trump 468 00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 1: administration to pause demolition of the White House East wing 469 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:58,200 Speaker 1: until further review. So the White House issued this press 470 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:06,240 Speaker 1: release regarding this. In the latest instance of a manufactured outrage, 471 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:10,880 Speaker 1: unhinged leftists and their fake news allies are clutching their 472 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:16,640 Speaker 1: pearls over Trump's visionary addition of a grand, privately funded 473 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:20,360 Speaker 1: ballroom to the White House, A bold and necessary addition 474 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 1: that echoes the storied history of improvements and additions from 475 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,439 Speaker 1: commanders in chief to keep the executive residents as a 476 00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:30,680 Speaker 1: beacon of American excellence. And I have the list here, 477 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:37,600 Speaker 1: we'll go through it in just a minute. For more 478 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: than a century, US presidents have been renovating, expanding, and 479 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,919 Speaker 1: modernizing the White House to meet to the demands of 480 00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:52,600 Speaker 1: present day. Before I dive into the historical precedent and 481 00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: Trump following the footsteps of other past presidents, get to 482 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:58,800 Speaker 1: a few of your thoughts from the iHeartRadio this morning. 483 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 14: See John. The reason Fill and all these other democratics 484 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,800 Speaker 14: are set that Trump is remodeling the White House and 485 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,880 Speaker 14: the ball room is he's using his own money. When 486 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:12,600 Speaker 14: a Democrat would do something like that, they would sneak 487 00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:15,280 Speaker 14: a bunch of their projects at their personal house in 488 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,400 Speaker 14: under the bills that they're paying at the White House 489 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:20,720 Speaker 14: or another government building. 490 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:22,600 Speaker 9: We're not the same pill. 491 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:28,520 Speaker 1: I've seen dflaers who've been trying to go and take 492 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,639 Speaker 1: Trump to task over this. And yet these are the 493 00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: same individuals that signed off on what the half a 494 00:28:33,080 --> 00:28:37,399 Speaker 1: billion dollars that they're using to renovate the legislative offices 495 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,640 Speaker 1: in Saint Paul That was signed over without any Republicans 496 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: signing on as far as I remember, during the DFL trifecta. Yeah, 497 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:47,480 Speaker 1: you don't have any room for argument whatsoever. 498 00:28:48,880 --> 00:28:50,880 Speaker 9: If you want to see the Democrats go out of 499 00:28:50,920 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 9: their mind and really freak out, the President should name 500 00:28:55,760 --> 00:29:00,600 Speaker 9: the new ballroom after himself, the Trump Ballroom. Nice ring 501 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 9: to it. 502 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 2: When George W. 503 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,560 Speaker 15: Bush occupied the White House, he had to make some 504 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 15: changes to it because they had to restock the china 505 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:15,560 Speaker 15: and the silverware after the Clintons took it. They took 506 00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 15: all of that and vandalized some things on their way 507 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,120 Speaker 15: out of the White House. 508 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:24,640 Speaker 2: Hey John, good morning. 509 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:25,400 Speaker 4: Hey. 510 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 16: How long do you think it's going to be before 511 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 16: Judge Bowsburg jumps in and puts an end to construction 512 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:32,640 Speaker 16: with an injunction? 513 00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:35,200 Speaker 2: Right? About five more minutes? 514 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:36,920 Speaker 9: I believe, have a good one. 515 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,320 Speaker 2: So in nineteen oh two, let's just take a history lesson. 516 00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:42,400 Speaker 2: You got to go back that far. 517 00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing, replaced expansive greenhouses 518 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,640 Speaker 1: constructed during the Jefferson administration and established the modern day 519 00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:57,080 Speaker 1: Executive Office Wing with a classically leaning design, along with 520 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,280 Speaker 1: the Colonial Garden and the East Terrace, which eventually came 521 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:03,280 Speaker 1: the East Wing. As I was doing my notes and 522 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: reading this, I was just thinking to myself, could you 523 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,280 Speaker 1: even fathom like social media back in the day of 524 00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,320 Speaker 1: like nineteen oh two and all this stuff taking place, 525 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:14,640 Speaker 1: because it would be I mean, this is a large 526 00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,680 Speaker 1: part would drive so much of the of the controversies 527 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 1: and the criticism and the commentary. It's the ability that 528 00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,440 Speaker 1: people have to get into the group think and to 529 00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 1: share their views with the world because everybody's online because 530 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: of the black. 531 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:27,880 Speaker 2: Mirror that's in front of their faces. 532 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,840 Speaker 1: The outrage would be diminished greatly if it wasn't for 533 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,160 Speaker 1: social media and our smartphones. Nineteen oh nine, President Taft 534 00:30:39,240 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: remodel and expanded the West Wing, which included construction of 535 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: the first Levell Office. Nineteen thirteen, President Wilson demolished the 536 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: Colonial Garden, modernizing it with the Rose Garden. So again 537 00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:51,920 Speaker 1: you go back to nineteen thirteen, and it was nineteen 538 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:55,000 Speaker 1: oh two that Roosevelt had put the Colonial Garden in 539 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,520 Speaker 1: so as an example of the changes that ended up 540 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 1: getting made over a period of time. Nineteen twenty seven, 541 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 1: President Coolidge renovated the upper floors in the attic of 542 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:09,000 Speaker 1: the White House. Hoover and twenty nine remodeled the West Wing, 543 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,240 Speaker 1: including reconstruction work in the basement level and remodeling the 544 00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 1: first floor after the. 545 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,240 Speaker 2: Fire on Christmas Eve, Franklin D. 546 00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,680 Speaker 1: Roosevelt to president nineteen thirty four overhauled the West Wing 547 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 1: after it was remodeled by Hoover, then adding a second 548 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,760 Speaker 1: floor in a larger basement in a swimming pool, and 549 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,160 Speaker 1: relocating the Oval office to its current location. 550 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,080 Speaker 2: By example what Trump is doing. 551 00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,959 Speaker 1: I mean, that's a big building, but comparatively speaking to 552 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: the significance of the other changes that have been made 553 00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: throughout history of the White House. Nineteen forty two, Roosevelt 554 00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: constructed the East Wing. Nineteen forty eight, Truman undertook a 555 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: total reconstruction of the White House's interior, expanding its foundation 556 00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:01,720 Speaker 1: and footprint, preserving only the exterior your walls. Can you 557 00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: imagine if Trump had done that today? Trump just goes, 558 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:11,080 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna gut the whole thing. I'm 559 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:15,160 Speaker 1: gonna make it a hollow shell and completely redesign it. 560 00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:19,600 Speaker 17: Morn of John say, you know, watching all the news 561 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,640 Speaker 17: reports on how Trump has bulky browned on the White 562 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,240 Speaker 17: House taking a wrecking ball foot soldt of Corria boys, 563 00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,240 Speaker 17: Kja Keen says, and honestly, it looked to me like 564 00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,840 Speaker 17: there had been an Antifa for a bl I'm right 565 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:33,560 Speaker 17: outside there. 566 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:38,800 Speaker 1: Nineteen sixty two, Kennedy constructed the modern Rose Garden. Nineteen 567 00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,400 Speaker 1: seventy Nixon converted the swimming pool into a press briefing room, 568 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 1: and in seventy three he added a bowling alley to 569 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:51,440 Speaker 1: the basement. Gerald Ford in nineteen seventy five installed an 570 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:55,640 Speaker 1: outdoor swimming pool on the south grounds, financed entirely by 571 00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: private donations. Nineteen ninety three, Bill Clinton, when president undertook 572 00:32:59,880 --> 00:33:04,800 Speaker 1: a restoration and refurbishment of the Executive Mansion. Two thousand 573 00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:08,719 Speaker 1: and nine, Barack Obama resurfaced the south grounds a tennis 574 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 1: court into a basketball court and added the White House 575 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: Kitchen garden on the south lawn. In twenty twenty, Trump 576 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: and First late in the First Lady completed the new 577 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,480 Speaker 1: White House Tennis Pavilion, refurbishing the White House tennis court 578 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:26,080 Speaker 1: and grandchildren's garden, as well as constructing a new building. 579 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,160 Speaker 1: Now in nineteen twenty five, the President is carrying forward 580 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,600 Speaker 1: with that legacy and breaking ground on a grand ballroom, 581 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:36,120 Speaker 1: a transformative addition that will significantly increase the White House 582 00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:39,600 Speaker 1: and its capacity to host major functions honoring world leaders, 583 00:33:39,640 --> 00:33:42,360 Speaker 1: foreign nations, and other dignitaries. And once again, it just 584 00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,200 Speaker 1: proves that the Left has no argument beyond Trump is 585 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,440 Speaker 1: doing it, and therefore we absolutely hate it. 586 00:33:48,960 --> 00:33:51,080 Speaker 2: That's it. 587 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:53,480 Speaker 16: Is it me or the people who seem the most 588 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:58,040 Speaker 16: upset over Trump changing the architectural history of the White House, 589 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:03,240 Speaker 16: the very same people who only recently were tearing down statues, 590 00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:07,800 Speaker 16: who are still renaming high schools and institutions and self 591 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,560 Speaker 16: flagellating over four hundred year old national sins. 592 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:12,239 Speaker 5: I don't know. 593 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,240 Speaker 16: It seems to me you'd like to change a building 594 00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,160 Speaker 16: that's been inhabited by so many evil white males. 595 00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 2: But maybe that's just me. No, it's not just you. 596 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:26,000 Speaker 1: You're absolutely right hypocrisy of the highest order. But it 597 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:31,960 Speaker 1: does not matter. Doesn't matter. People see an image of 598 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:35,040 Speaker 1: a building being destroyed, it's on the White House grounds. 599 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,400 Speaker 1: Trump is involved. Trump is destroying the White House, and 600 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 1: that's just the narrative and there's no turning back from that. 601 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:45,600 Speaker 9: Good morning, John. 602 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 14: How many of the presidents that made all those changes 603 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 14: put their own dime into it instead of hooking around 604 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:55,640 Speaker 14: the taxpayers net. 605 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:58,279 Speaker 1: I actually think a majority of these were paid for 606 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:02,040 Speaker 1: by taxpayers, because has the list that was put forward 607 00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:06,600 Speaker 1: by the White House here was specific to say which 608 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,600 Speaker 1: ones were funded privately and which ones well, they were 609 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:12,279 Speaker 1: specific to say which ones were funded privately, but they 610 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,359 Speaker 1: didn't say how the other ones would were funded, Dave, 611 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,680 Speaker 1: So that would lead me to believe that the majority 612 00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,960 Speaker 1: of them were funded by taxpayer dollars and not paid 613 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:22,200 Speaker 1: for privately. 614 00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,960 Speaker 9: Don't forget when Bill Clinton renamed. 615 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:31,080 Speaker 2: The We'll stop that one right there, sorry, or one 616 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:31,799 Speaker 2: more and then we're going to. 617 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:37,719 Speaker 18: Move on, John, Don't forget the Obamas also redecorated inside. 618 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,399 Speaker 18: I can't remember which room, but it was decorated red, white, 619 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,640 Speaker 18: and blue, and they completely changed all the colorings and 620 00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:46,560 Speaker 18: made it beige or some very neutral color. There's a 621 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:50,360 Speaker 18: whole lot of other things that every single first family 622 00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:50,719 Speaker 18: has done. 623 00:35:50,719 --> 00:35:53,680 Speaker 2: Any thanks, Trump had said. 624 00:35:53,480 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 1: He was going to do this originally, and this is 625 00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 1: everything that Trump is doing we voted for if you're 626 00:35:57,960 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 1: not a foe of the show and you voted for Trump. 627 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,799 Speaker 1: He also talked about doing this a long long time ago. 628 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:05,960 Speaker 1: If he suddenly came out and said, you know what, 629 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:07,719 Speaker 1: I'm not going to go ahead and do this renovation 630 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:10,240 Speaker 1: with the ballroom, the left would be out there. 631 00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:14,680 Speaker 2: Going, oh, Taco taco again. Trump always chickens out. 632 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,120 Speaker 1: This goes right back around to, yeah, you mock them 633 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:23,080 Speaker 1: when they deserve to be mocked, including Governor Tim Wallas. 634 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,359 Speaker 1: I'm going to play you the latest ad that popped up, 635 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:31,319 Speaker 1: Governor Tim Walls playing miniature golf while talking about the 636 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:35,480 Speaker 1: shutdown and his concerns about Medicaid. First off, though, speaking 637 00:36:35,480 --> 00:36:37,759 Speaker 1: of the shutdown, let's hear from President Donald Trump in 638 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,680 Speaker 1: the Rose Garden yesterday talking about Democrats and whether or 639 00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,200 Speaker 1: not they're going to end up caving over this issue. 640 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,640 Speaker 2: Here's what the President had to say. 641 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,600 Speaker 19: Because the whole country would be bankrupt and you're not 642 00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,400 Speaker 19: going to have any kind of medical insurance. So with us, 643 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:53,399 Speaker 19: it's the opposite, and it's a great bill. We don't 644 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 19: need anymore. And I want to just say from the beginning, 645 00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,400 Speaker 19: our message has been very simple. We will not be 646 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:03,359 Speaker 19: extorted on this crazy plot of this. They've never done 647 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:06,279 Speaker 19: this before, nobody has. You always vote for an extension. 648 00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:09,719 Speaker 19: Chuck Schumer and the Senate Democrats need to vote for 649 00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,719 Speaker 19: the clean bipartisan cr and reopen our Government's got to 650 00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:15,920 Speaker 19: be reopened right now. 651 00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,000 Speaker 2: We're not doing that. 652 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:22,560 Speaker 19: They are the obstructionists. And the reason they're doing it 653 00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,160 Speaker 19: is because we're doing so well. 654 00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:26,000 Speaker 2: We're doing well all over the world. 655 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,520 Speaker 19: We're doing well with the close to twenty trillion dollars 656 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,800 Speaker 19: that I just told you about. It will be that number, 657 00:37:31,840 --> 00:37:34,279 Speaker 19: but even if you take it down to over seventeen, 658 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:35,919 Speaker 19: that's a guarantee. 659 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:37,760 Speaker 2: We're doing well with everything. 660 00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,680 Speaker 19: Car plants are pouring back into our country. AI plants 661 00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,600 Speaker 19: we're leading. We're dominating China right now in AI. And 662 00:37:45,640 --> 00:37:48,440 Speaker 19: I did something that I think you'd like because we 663 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,160 Speaker 19: have an old grid. It's a tired grid. It doesn't 664 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,560 Speaker 19: have the juice that you need to fire up these plants. 665 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,920 Speaker 19: You know, these plants will need more than double the energy. 666 00:37:58,719 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 1: All right, let's talk a little bit more about this, 667 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:05,440 Speaker 1: and we'll start with Governor Tim Walls posted this video 668 00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:10,200 Speaker 1: yesterday on the video as posted from Tim Walls in 669 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:12,960 Speaker 1: his official account. This is not his governor account, it 670 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:18,680 Speaker 1: is his personal account. He wrote, or Hope wrote, call 671 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 1: your GOP representatives in Congress. They need to open the 672 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,680 Speaker 1: federal government in lower healthcare costs. 673 00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:28,080 Speaker 2: All right, So here is the audio. 674 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,359 Speaker 1: There's some breaks in this, but it's essentially Governor Tim 675 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,839 Speaker 1: Walls wearing a baseball cat, a T shirt, a baseball cap, 676 00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:38,200 Speaker 1: a T shirt, and jeans, playing miniature golf and talking 677 00:38:38,280 --> 00:38:41,840 Speaker 1: about how concerned he is about the Medicaid cuts. 678 00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,400 Speaker 7: You might receive notice that your healthcare costs are increasing 679 00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:46,280 Speaker 7: for next year. 680 00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,880 Speaker 2: Here in Minnesota, healthcare premiums. 681 00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 20: Will skyrocket fifty four percent for eighty nine thousand Minnesota 682 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,799 Speaker 20: and overseeing the two thousand Minnesotas you're expected to drop 683 00:38:57,920 --> 00:39:01,040 Speaker 20: coverage in addition to those losing reach over Medicaid. 684 00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:04,239 Speaker 1: Of course, he provides zero context and don't expect it 685 00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,160 Speaker 1: as to why those cuts are taking place and how 686 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:11,560 Speaker 1: if you can legitimately and are legitimately receiving this health 687 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:15,040 Speaker 1: insurance the money through Medicaid, you're not losing it. This 688 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:19,320 Speaker 1: is all about taking care of the waste, fraud, and abuse, 689 00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:26,160 Speaker 1: which he cares about when it comes to his chances 690 00:39:26,200 --> 00:39:28,600 Speaker 1: of reelection when you look at what's been happening with 691 00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:33,520 Speaker 1: DHS and specifically the state disenrolling some eight hundred Medicaid providers. 692 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:35,680 Speaker 1: Will get to this coming up with the story We've 693 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,279 Speaker 1: covered on the show, but I'm going to revisit it 694 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:41,920 Speaker 1: because it's relevant based off of the propaganda that Walls 695 00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:47,600 Speaker 1: is spewing while he plays miniature golf in this campaign. 696 00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,319 Speaker 7: At at a time when the cost of everything's going 697 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 7: up like a can of soup, Republicans in Washington are 698 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:55,400 Speaker 7: making it even. 699 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:56,320 Speaker 9: Harder for folks. 700 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:02,000 Speaker 2: I'm wondering why the Fed government shut down. Just bear 701 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:02,360 Speaker 2: with me. 702 00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,479 Speaker 7: To get the government funded and opened up, Republicans need 703 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,000 Speaker 7: to come to the table, set down with Democrats to 704 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:13,560 Speaker 7: protect America's healthcare. 705 00:40:13,760 --> 00:40:18,080 Speaker 1: Let's stop here. He did something very clever here. I'm 706 00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,239 Speaker 1: not going to give him credit for him, but he 707 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:22,240 Speaker 1: did do something very clever here. You see, the GOP 708 00:40:22,440 --> 00:40:31,920 Speaker 1: must capitulate. He doesn't lean into necessarily this being the 709 00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:36,400 Speaker 1: Republicans are shutting the government down, they're the ones that 710 00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,320 Speaker 1: can open it up. Instead, he kind of goes around 711 00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:43,319 Speaker 1: that and says the GOP must get together with us, 712 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,560 Speaker 1: because the argument relating to this being the GOP shutdown 713 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:49,560 Speaker 1: is gone. 714 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:50,759 Speaker 2: Here's a quick clip. 715 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:53,960 Speaker 1: We'll get back to Walls here in a second, but 716 00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:58,240 Speaker 1: here's Democrat Senator Chris Murphy and Democrat Senator Chris Murphy 717 00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,440 Speaker 1: in this clip admits we've all known from the beginning 718 00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,240 Speaker 1: what foes of the show have a hard time hearing 719 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:07,759 Speaker 1: when I keep expressing it on the air, and that 720 00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,440 Speaker 1: is the Democrats are the ones responsible for blocking the 721 00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:11,720 Speaker 1: funding of the government. 722 00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:14,680 Speaker 11: You need democratic votes to pass a budget. Everybody's known 723 00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,359 Speaker 11: that that's been the rule of the Senate for years, and. 724 00:41:17,280 --> 00:41:22,920 Speaker 1: So for those in the back, in case you missed it, Democrats, 725 00:41:22,920 --> 00:41:24,239 Speaker 1: Senator Chris Murphy, what. 726 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,400 Speaker 2: Do we need in order to pass this stuff? 727 00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:29,080 Speaker 11: You need democratic votes to pass a budget. Yeah, everybody's 728 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,680 Speaker 11: known that that's been the rule of the Senate for years, 729 00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:35,360 Speaker 11: and so it requires a negotiation. But Republicans aren't even 730 00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:38,719 Speaker 11: talking why because they are living in the shadow of 731 00:41:38,719 --> 00:41:41,000 Speaker 11: Donald Trump, who believes that he's a king, who believes 732 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,120 Speaker 11: that he doesn't have to obey any law or work 733 00:41:43,160 --> 00:41:46,080 Speaker 11: with anybody in order to run the country. 734 00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:49,759 Speaker 2: Murphy can stuff it. Walls can stuff it. 735 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:58,000 Speaker 1: When the DFL had the trifecta for those years in 736 00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,520 Speaker 1: the state. They completely shut out all Republicans from everything. 737 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:05,920 Speaker 1: Didn't you know, listen to their arguments, kept them out 738 00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:08,880 Speaker 1: of committees. They just passed whatever they wanted to pass. 739 00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:14,279 Speaker 1: The walls in the clip stating, you know, they're going 740 00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:15,840 Speaker 1: to have to come to the table. They're gonna have 741 00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:20,040 Speaker 1: to Basically, the GOP has to capitulate. They're the ones 742 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,399 Speaker 1: that are holding the country hostage right now through all 743 00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:22,560 Speaker 1: of this. 744 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,879 Speaker 2: Let's continue just like we did in Minnesota. We played 745 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:26,600 Speaker 2: a fair game. 746 00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:30,480 Speaker 7: We passed a responsible budget that for texts investments and 747 00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,600 Speaker 7: improving quality of life and put us in a position 748 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:35,400 Speaker 7: of financial security. 749 00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:35,719 Speaker 9: For years to come. 750 00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,959 Speaker 7: Republicans control the House Representatives, the Senate, and the White House. 751 00:42:41,280 --> 00:42:42,480 Speaker 2: They're playing politics. 752 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:46,080 Speaker 7: Why eighteen thousand of your Minnesota neighbors who are federal 753 00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:48,160 Speaker 7: employees face on employment. 754 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,000 Speaker 11: You need Democratic votes to pass a budget. Everybody's known that. 755 00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,640 Speaker 11: That's been the rule of the Senate for years. 756 00:42:56,840 --> 00:42:58,960 Speaker 7: When I was in Congress, I voted for the Affordable 757 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,440 Speaker 7: Care Act that put substi's in there to lower the 758 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,080 Speaker 7: cost of healthcare for Minnesotans. 759 00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,879 Speaker 2: Republicans are now taking. 760 00:43:04,560 --> 00:43:06,640 Speaker 7: Those out so they can give tax cuts to the wealth. 761 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:11,400 Speaker 7: Yet it's not right Minnesota. Republicans in the House of 762 00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,719 Speaker 7: Representatives need to get back to Washington and lower. 763 00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,480 Speaker 2: Health care costs for Minnesotans. Now's the time for action. 764 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,359 Speaker 1: I wasn't sure if he said anything else beyond the 765 00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:33,640 Speaker 1: goofy music there. Let's go back in time really quick, 766 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:35,160 Speaker 1: and then we're going to take a break and we'll 767 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,399 Speaker 1: get back to more of your talkbacks here on Twin 768 00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:41,359 Speaker 1: Cities and news talk and we'll get into when it's 769 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:45,319 Speaker 1: okay to go and cut medicaid from individuals, especially here 770 00:43:45,320 --> 00:43:48,200 Speaker 1: in Minnesota when it comes to making sure that he 771 00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:51,120 Speaker 1: can get re elected. But when it's Republicans wanting to 772 00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,040 Speaker 1: get rid of the rid of the waste, fraud, and 773 00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:56,200 Speaker 1: the abuse, it's a horrible awful thing, even though it's 774 00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,680 Speaker 1: Democrats keeping the government shut down. 775 00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:01,080 Speaker 2: Quick clip. 776 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,320 Speaker 1: I got to give credit where credit is due on 777 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:08,000 Speaker 1: on this particular clip. But this goes back in time. 778 00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:14,799 Speaker 1: This is Governor Tim Walls talking about the about Obamacare, 779 00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:16,880 Speaker 1: which he was touting in that clip. 780 00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:23,440 Speaker 2: So he was all for it in that clip right. 781 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,840 Speaker 1: Now because it's politically expedient to do so. But you 782 00:44:25,960 --> 00:44:28,680 Speaker 1: go back in time and while he voted for Obamacare. 783 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:30,400 Speaker 1: He was quick to go and throw it under the 784 00:44:30,400 --> 00:44:32,080 Speaker 1: bus when it was appropriate. 785 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:34,160 Speaker 2: That's why the. 786 00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:35,680 Speaker 20: Message and you were talking about the d NC. 787 00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,640 Speaker 2: The DNC wanted the message to me the ACA. 788 00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:40,160 Speaker 7: Is working fine, and don't talk about the words. 789 00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:41,799 Speaker 20: I said, I can't do that because it's failing my 790 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:43,360 Speaker 20: constituents in a lot of ways. 791 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:44,880 Speaker 14: So I hear you allowed the clear. 792 00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:49,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, I got to thank leftists, leftist of MN on 793 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:54,280 Speaker 1: X that was Wall stating publicly that Obamacare was failing 794 00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,120 Speaker 1: his constituents in a lot of ways, and healthcare costs 795 00:44:57,120 --> 00:45:02,400 Speaker 1: continuing to skyrocket even after he voted for Obamacare. Walls 796 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,239 Speaker 1: is the height of hypocrisy.