WEBVTT - #106: SPECIAL PODCAST!! 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.680 Hey, guess what. This is a new one, brand new 0:00:22.720 --> 0:00:25.880 Mark Belling podcast. Now if you're listening to it April 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:27.960 twenty seventh, I guess it's not brand new, but it's 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.440 brand new because I'm doing it right now. For frame 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:34.880 of reference, this is the afternoon of President Trump's State 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:38.360 of the Union address, So we're doing the program on 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.600 what day is it today? Tuesday the twenty fourth, So 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.240 that's the time frame for this podcast. My podcast season 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.199 runs May one to December thirty First, First things first, 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:51.640 there are a lot of people who don't know that. 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.760 I kind of thought that was covered. First of all, 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:56.560 when I was doing my old radio show. The last 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.000 two years of my radio show, I was working May 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:03.480 first through December thirty first, and this podcast in the 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:05.840 first year we started at May first and ran into 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:07.800 December thirty first, and I don't know, a couple of 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:10.000 times we mentioned in the podcast that and the last 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.720 one that we did on the year, we talked at 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.959 great length that this would be the last one. I'm 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:20.440 just telling you, I've been inundated with people who think 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.240 that I've retired, or where's the podcast? Are you going 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.920 to do another podcast? Have you been canceled no, this 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.520 is the plan. Break. My plan for from now until 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:31.520 the end of time is to have a podcast that's 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:34.800 going to run from May first to December thirty first. However, 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:40.680 we have a need for a special podcast. It's been 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.360 about what seven weeks. There's no way I can go 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.560 seven weeks without commenting and all of the things that 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.000 are going on in the world. So what we're going 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:51.120 to do today is have a special podcast that's going 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.440 to kind of be a bullet point podcast of covering 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:57.520 some recent events, offering perspective on a couple of things, 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.520 and moving on. I also have a couple of announcements 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.640 for those of you, and all of the podcasts are 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.120 still out there in order, and you can go back 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.560 and listen to the December thirty first podcast, because that's 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.400 when we did our farewell to my producer, Paul, who 0:02:13.400 --> 0:02:15.360 had been with me forever and ever and ever and 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:17.800 ever and ever, and we were done. So who do 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:21.560 you think is producing this special podcast? There? He is? 0:02:23.240 --> 0:02:26.639 He just there, he right is in there. Actually, we 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.520 do have a new producer in the second season of 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:33.880 the podcast, which officially begins May first. This transition little 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.240 podcast that we're doing here, I guess is in its 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.120 own category, although it will be This is podcast number 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.160 one oh six. Jason Gotch, who is the midday host 0:02:42.200 --> 0:02:45.920 on WISN Radio, where I work for thirty five years, 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:47.840 He is going to be the new producer of the 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.800 podcast and he's going to be taking over and in 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:53.160 the meantime, Paul is teaching him how to do it. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.080 He's going to share with him everything that he knows, 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:00.280 which should take what two minutes and fifteen seconds five 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.760 minutes at the most. So Jason's going to learn how 0:03:02.760 --> 0:03:05.600 to do the podcast and he'll take over on May first, 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:10.600 and Paul is providing his assistance in the transitions. That's 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:15.000 the first big change after like, yeah, it was about 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.720 thirty five years, my first year of radio. We went 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.160 through three or four producers, then Paul came in. I've 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.160 only had him plus obviously fill ins when Paul was 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:25.960 on vacation. So we'll have a new producer when the 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.800 podcast returns for its full season. But both Paul and 0:03:30.880 --> 0:03:40.040 Jason are in here today. I want to address given 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.160 that we're on the afternoon of the State of the 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.600 Union address, that's when I'm recording this. So I'm just 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:48.960 convinced there's going to be all sorts of fireworks and 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:52.920 crap at the State of the Union. So if you're 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:55.720 listening to it after it, I can't comment on all 0:03:55.760 --> 0:03:59.480 that it was, other than to just anticipate that that's 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.920 what's going on to happen, which is kind of the 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:08.040 point of today's podcast. I believe just about every issue 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:14.000 that's creating divisiveness in America right now it's all because 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:20.080 of feigned outrage from the left. I don't even think 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:24.760 they're actually outraged. They're outraged that Trump is the president. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.679 They're outraged that they're not in power, but I don't 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:34.120 think they are sincerely bothered by anything he's doing, none 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:41.040 of it, which is why the reaction is such an overreaction. 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.919 If you're gonna fake it, you may as well really 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.440 fake it. What's the point of faking it and just 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.960 putting on a few press releases in abject No, Let's 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.760 go to the streets. Let's riot, let's scream, Let's start 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.960 throwing the F bombs all over the place. Let's say 0:04:57.960 --> 0:05:01.799 that everything is the greatest threat to democracy of all time. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:07.840 Let's just say everything is terrible. Let's stage ludicrous events. 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:16.240 Let's act like children. There's no differentiation in the response 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.360 to everything. Everything is the same, over the top, terrible thing. 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.480 So if some Trump actually does something that truly is 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.040 outrageous or actually bothers them, it'll be the same reaction 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:31.360 because everything that they're responding to, they're giving one hundred percent. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.919 And I'm just telling you it's all fake, and I 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.560 know why it's fake, and I know why you're giving 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.320 why they're giving this type of reaction to Trump. Do 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.200 either of you know why? Do you want to volunteer 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.920 an answer? Jason's never given an answer yet, Paul, do 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:51.880 you want to volunteer an answer as to you're training? Jason? 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:54.360 In your word, you never paid attention when I actually 0:05:54.400 --> 0:06:00.200 did it, when I actually did the program. Jason, do 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.719 you have an opinion as to why there all of 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:11.520 these reactions are so hysterical and over the top. Jason says, 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:17.039 they're saying that, yeah, but that's not it. They don't 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:23.679 have anything to rally around, and they don't have anyone 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:28.279 to rally around. Look where we are right now, we're 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:33.080 early in twenty six. The campaign for president on the 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:35.880 Democratic side is going to be kicking in by late 0:06:35.960 --> 0:06:39.600 this year early next We now know that the year 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:43.280 before the primaries is actually when the candidates are chosen. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.880 We saw that on the Republican side last time around. 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:51.840 Trump didn't win the Republican nomination in twenty four. He 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:54.600 went it in twenty three. He got into the race, 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.560 The Santus was in the race, Nikki Healy was in 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.600 the race. But Trump took a commanding lead in the 0:06:59.640 --> 0:07:02.720 polls and then want to crush them all in the primaries. 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:08.160 It was over before anybody actually voted. The polling determines 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:12.680 whether or not you're gonna get any campaign fundraising. The 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:14.920 candidates that don't do well in the polls fall up. 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:18.840 Remember when Kamala Harris ran for president, you're the Joe 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.840 Biden one. She dropped out in November before there were 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.760 any primaries. That's the primary season. And so my point 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:26.920 is is that right now we're in the stage in 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.560 which most of the attention of the Democrats should be 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.720 around who their candidate is going to be. And various 0:07:33.720 --> 0:07:36.640 Democrats get all goosebumpy over this one and that one, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.160 and they starts signing up and saying that they don't 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:44.400 have anyone that they're excited about nothing. They have no 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:47.520 one to rally around. So therefore the only point of 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:56.080 emotion is to rage against Trump. They can't rage for anything. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:08:01.720 They can't get themselves wrapped up in any cause, any issue, 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:06.720 so all they can do is rage against Trump. Look 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.560 at what you have right now, and I'm just going 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.640 to deal with events in the last few days. Look 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:17.280 at the prime leaders in the Democratic Party. Biden, presumpted 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:19.880 would presumably still be the leader of the party who 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:26.160 was their last president. Totally see now useless Kamala Harris. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.920 You can't rally around her. Look what she did. She 0:08:30.240 --> 0:08:37.000 was incoherent, babbling, possibly drunk, lightweight in over her head. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.280 There is no desire on the part of any Democrats 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:45.680 anywhere to be led to anything by Kamala Harris. AOC 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:51.800 massive following great fundraiser. She decided this thing where she 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.240 went to that security conference of Greece. This was a 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:58.280 planned big deal. This was her coming out party as 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.679 a serious leader of the left, a serious leader of 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.520 the Democratic Party. She goes to a big shot, high 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.960 end thing in which we're dealing with foreign policy, an 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.800 issue that nobody ever associates with her. So she was prepped, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:18.679 primed to go there, and the bar was certainly low. 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.000 All she had to do is put together a few 0:09:22.040 --> 0:09:27.160 sentences that were understandable, and the media was going to say, Wow, AOC, shine, 0:09:27.200 --> 0:09:31.920 this is AOC emerging. She showed that she's leaderlike and 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.760 every line and every issue that was out there was 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:39.200 no doubt prep for her. She gets thrown a question 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:47.120 on China and Taiwan. I'm telling you, I thought we 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:50.840 saw the bottom with Kamala Harris in babbling and just 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:56.200 throwing words together. Kamala sounded eloquent. Kamala was a Shakespearean 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.040 character compared to AOC's answer, I didn't bring any and 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.640 he oughtit to play because I think everybody's heard that. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.000 I mean, I'm barely paying attention to anything. I'm down 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:09.840 there in Florida and non Florida right now, back to 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:13.120 Milwaukee for a few days to do things like well this, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.280 but at the level of attention that I'm paying to 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:20.560 I mean, this thing just resonated everywhere. It was so 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.920 terrible that even Democrats are ripping it, wondering, well, why 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.560 would she go to this. Well, it's obvious why she 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.680 went to it. If she's ever going to be taken 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:33.160 seriously as a leader. She has to start doing things 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.040 like this. The question has been a question that's been 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:39.280 on the front burner in America for twenty to twenty 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:43.000 five years. What are we going to do if China 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:48.880 invades Paiwan? What should we do? And every politician that's 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:52.000 out there, and by the way, it's obviously a difficult question, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:58.080 but every politician that's out there has an answer. She didn't. 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.160 Not only didn't have an answer, she could common will 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:05.120 at least throw in the random scattered word that relates 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:08.800 to the question. It was never linked. The first word 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.840 didn't have anything to do with the next. All I 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:20.040 got from AOC was um uh, well, um um um. 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:24.280 So you're a lefty? Really? Are you now enthused that 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:29.680 AOC is going to be your champion? They love to 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:32.320 claim that Trump is dumb. Trump has a command of 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.640 just about every issue that's out there. Jd Vance probably 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.320 even more so in terms of his eloquence on them. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:43.959 AOC could not talk her way out of a paper 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:49.200 bag on that issue. So where's their enthusiasm? So now 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.800 let's go to the flip side of this. The ANTIAOC 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:59.319 of the Democratic Party, the smoothest politician they have. You 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:04.280 can't come anymore blowed, ride and well spoken than Gavin Newssom. 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.559 You're never gonna hear Gavin Newsom with an um or 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:14.080 an uh or a like. He in fact loves the 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.280 give and take. He's going out there doing a podcast. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.840 He was jumping on some podcasts that were done by liberals. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.439 He's inviting liberals in there because Gavin Newsom has confidence 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.400 in one thing and that is boy, oh boy, oh boy, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.840 can I talk. I can sling the bs with the 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:35.560 best of them. What he has going against him is 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.000 the state that he runs is a total train wreck. 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:44.720 He's destroyed California. California is an absolute mess. Businesses are leaving, 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:47.480 taxes are high, the Great cities are a washing crime. 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.440 It's a hell. That's what he is going against him. 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:53.080 But when he has going for him is boy oh boy, 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.240 can he talk. And he looks the party. I mean, 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:59.760 the hair is never out of place, and he's in 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.840 with himself and he has overwhelmed with self confidence and 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.280 he can talk. So there's him. So over the weekend 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:11.480 he goes to Atlanta, nowhere near California. This is part 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:15.280 of the Gavin Newsom presidential campaign. He's interviewed by the 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:19.120 mayor of Atlanta, who's African American. Initially the reports were 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:24.040 that the crowd was predominantly black. It was apparently lots 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.640 of people. So who it was he was referring to. 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.640 Was he referring to black people? Well, he said it 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:34.320 to a black mayor who was the interviewer. I'm just 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:40.440 like you. I'm just like you. I'm a nine to 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.559 sixty SAT guy. By the way, when I was in 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.280 high school, we took the ACT, not the SAT. I 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.199 had to look up for first. When I first heard 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.520 that answer, I was trying to I couldn't remember what 0:13:50.600 --> 0:13:53.439 the scale on the SAT was. Is he bragging about 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.080 how high he is or is this alone? Well, it's bad, 0:13:56.920 --> 0:14:01.439 it's very low. And then he says he can't read. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:09.760 He said, I can't read a speech. I'm just like you. 0:14:10.120 --> 0:14:13.800 Is he saying to black people, I'm not very smart. 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.760 I only got a nine to sixty SAT. I'm dumb 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:18.439 like you. Is that what he was saying. Is he 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.600 saying this to the mayor? Or? Is he saying this 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:26.840 to America, Hey, America, you're all dumb. I'm dumb too. 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.160 I mean serious, I'm trying to figure out what the 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.960 intent of His point was when he says I'm just 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.600 like you and then comes up with I can't read 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:40.680 and I have bad SAT scores. He's been fried for this. 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:47.800 He doesn't even know how to respond, so he's trying 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:49.680 to do. What do you do when you're backed into 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:52.760 a corner and you've done something terribly and defensively, You 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.720 change the subject, And the subject, of course, is just Trump. 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:01.120 He fired back at Sean Hannity in a post online, saying, yeah, well, 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:04.240 your guy put out this racist video in which you know, 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:08.520 he's got the ape video on the whole thing, which 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.760 has of course nothing to do with what it was 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:17.160 that he said, without regarding there are a lot of 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.160 takes on that whole video. It appeared to be a 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.440 run on video to the next one that they didn't snip. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:25.200 But whether Trump knew what he was posting or he 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.280 didn't know what he was posting is literally neither hearing 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.480 nor there, because my point here is that Democrats are 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.360 looking to their future, their candidate who it's going to be. 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:38.080 But that's all new Sin could come up with in 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.280 his response. He didn't want because he's so full of 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.640 himself and could never be self effacing, which actually is 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.280 a good political trade to be able to make fun 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.440 of yourself a little bit, which Trump always does. Trump 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:54.080 is so over the top that everybody knows that what 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:58.000 he's doing is with a wink and a nod. Newsom 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:01.080 can't do that. Newsom can't come back and say I 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:06.000 really butchered that. He can't do that. He can't come 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:08.360 back and say I wasn't referring to black people, because 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.800 then people would ask him, well, who then, who were 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:16.920 you referring to. So that's the Democrats. So if you're 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.800 like a rank and file Democrat that's out there right now, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.160 which one of those people excites you, then there's all 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.960 the moderates. The governor of Virginia is going to give 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:33.640 the response to the State of the Union. They're passing 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:35.720 or off as a moderate. But these you know, these 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.800 people that are out in the street, shove it around, 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.120 ice officers and so on, they're not interested in any moderate. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:45.240 You've got Shapiro of Pennsylvania, but sure of Kentucky that 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:47.680 I'm excited by them. The point that I'm making is 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:53.360 they're not excited or goosebumpy about any Democrat that's out there. None. 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:55.320 I go back to when I was younger, when you 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.800 know the party and power was in place and you're 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.280 looking for your own candidate. Every this would be about 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.120 the time that people would start rallying around, no matter 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:05.280 what the year was. Go back to the seventies, Jimmy 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.359 Carter mou'd all and all of that. Go back to 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:09.840 the eighties when you know Teddy Kennedy was running against 0:17:09.880 --> 0:17:13.680 Jimmy Carter. They got nothing, So all they have is 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:18.880 their outlet is to attack Trump. So to attack Trump, 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:20.920 they have to attack what it is that he's doing. 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.640 And I'm just telling you that it's all pretend. The 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:30.560 Ice thing is all fake. Barack Obama was called the 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.800 deporter in chief. There were ice raids all the time 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.719 on my account on x formerly Nimouswitter, which you all 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:38.960 should follow because it's the only way to hear from me. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.720 Right now, I've been posting much more there because I'm 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.840 on the hiatus. On the podcast, I posted this long 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:49.040 news story that CNN did during the Obama years in 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:51.359 which they did a ride along with ICE as they 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.920 were out there apprehending criminals, and it was all done 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.399 positively about what a great thing this was. It was 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.200 only ten years ago. So the very thing that Ice 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.680 is doing now was being done ten years ago and 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:07.760 no one was bothered by it at all. Because they're 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.480 not bothered by it. They are pretending to be bothered 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.520 by it because they need to have an outlet to 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:18.800 bash Trump. The tariffs without regard to your position on tariff's, 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.280 tariffs were more of a Democrat thing than a Republican 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:27.360 thing for the longest time. They're not outraged over this. 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.800 They are pretending to be outraged if Kamala won and 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.160 she slapped out a bunch of tariffs, or for that matter, 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.240 if AOC oh my god, I can't even say. If 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:40.119 AOC wins and becomes the president in twenty nine and 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.560 she does dips, they won't be bothered by it. They're 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:52.359 not against tariffs, it's pretend. And then Epstein. The Epstein 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:55.040 thing was covered up the entire eight years Obama was 0:18:55.080 --> 0:18:59.359 president and no one paid any attention to it. During 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:05.600 the four years Biden, no one paid any attention to Epstein. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:09.680 Now suddenly they decided that Trump is all tied into Epstein, 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:14.119 whether he is or is in. And I think the 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:16.359 only tie and you see between Trump and Epstein is 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.760 they were both hanging around Palm beat. Trump was never 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.680 at the island. Trump said bad things about Epstein. There 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:23.560 wasn't any of that. But they have to try to 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.919 pretend now that they are outraged over Epstein. When did 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:29.600 they become outraged over Epstein? When did they become out 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.240 Why aren't they outraged over Bill Clinton and the Clintons 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.120 and their connection Epstein. Why aren't they bothered by Reid 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:38.040 Hoff and they're big, huge super donor, the guy who 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:42.640 founded LinkedIn and his ties to Epstein. It's all fake. 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.200 They are looking for reasons to hate Trump, but they 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:51.440 don't have any actual reasons to hate Trump, and therefore 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.680 the reactions that they give you are these over the 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:58.240 top screaming When you look at all of these suburban women, 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.439 you know, ICE is now kind of and out of 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:05.679 Minneapolis with that operation. And let's be honest about this. 0:20:05.840 --> 0:20:07.960 If ICE isn't going to get support from the local 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:11.640 police agencies, it's very hard to come in and do deportations. 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:14.359 And we can talk all we want about deporting all 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:16.359 of the illegal immigrants in this country, but when you 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:19.400 have an ICE team of eight people having to confront 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.360 five thousand people that are trying to obstruct them from 0:20:22.400 --> 0:20:26.000 doing their duty, it becomes an impossibility. So if all 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.399 we do is remove all the illegal immigrants from the 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.280 Red states that are going to give local support to ICE, 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.080 let's accomplish that. The point that I make, though, is 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:39.119 when you see this hysterical reaction from so many of 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:43.800 these suburban women trying to stop the ICE, none of 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:48.040 that is real. These are people that are hateful, angry 0:20:48.160 --> 0:20:50.840 people looking for an outlet to spew the venom that 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:55.280 is just shrilling around in on their insides. Because if 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:59.320 it was real, that outrage would have manifested itself at 0:20:59.320 --> 0:21:03.480 some point when Barack Obama was throwing people out of 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:09.119 the country right and left. But it didn't. A couple 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:12.560 of other quick takes. Robin Boss is not running for reelection, 0:21:13.840 --> 0:21:16.280 leaving a speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly. I'm not 0:21:16.320 --> 0:21:18.879 even a newspaper column about that this week, which you 0:21:18.880 --> 0:21:21.920 can find at gmtoday dot com. Sometimes it's behind a paywall, 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.440 sometimes it's not. It's not out yet as I'm doing 0:21:24.440 --> 0:21:26.560 this podcast on a Tuesday, but it'll out after that. 0:21:28.680 --> 0:21:33.960 It's hard to assess Robin Boss because, as many of 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:36.159 you who listen to the old radio show no, I 0:21:36.200 --> 0:21:40.680 mean I occasionally battened Robin's head around like he was 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:44.600 a bobblehead doll. On the other hand, he's, without doubt, 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.320 along with Scott Walker, the most consequential Republican in the 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:51.560 state of Wisconsin in the last thirty years. The thing 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:55.840 about Robin is he was incredibly smart. I say it 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.040 was as if he's dead his tenure. He was very, 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.720 very smart. He was a master fundraiser. He had the 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:06.000 ability to get anything through the State Assembly he wanted passed, 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.840 and stop anything that he didn't want to get through 0:22:08.880 --> 0:22:11.320 the state Assembly. The problem with all of that is 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:15.760 is that I think that it occasionally meant that he 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.960 was out of touch with a lot of Republican rank 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:23.320 and filers. My greatest summary of Robin Boss is he 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:26.400 was probably the most despised Republican in the state by 0:22:26.400 --> 0:22:30.760 Democrats and by Republicans. And given the fact that speakers 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:34.440 tend to be unpopular among members of both parties legislative 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:37.520 leaders are, it's probably an indication on the overall he 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:41.200 did a very very good job the Olympics. I mean, 0:22:41.920 --> 0:22:48.359 could they have been any better? One brief comment on 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:54.560 the explosion of patriotism in the wake of the Americans 0:22:54.600 --> 0:23:01.680 winning the hockey gold medal, lefties are upset that President 0:23:01.760 --> 0:23:03.920 Trump put in a call to the hockey team in 0:23:03.960 --> 0:23:08.120 the locker room. This bothers them. Do you know how 0:23:08.160 --> 0:23:11.639 long I've been watching presidents of the United States call Champion? 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:13.680 I mean the President used to call the Super Bowl? 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:15.560 At all this has been going I mean it may 0:23:15.600 --> 0:23:17.639 have been. I think it's been going on since before Reagan. 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:22.200 I don't know that it has ever bothered anybody of 0:23:22.280 --> 0:23:24.760 either political party at all, which, again, this tells me 0:23:24.800 --> 0:23:27.719 that it's all fake. Now I think I'm doing this 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:30.800 the afternoon of the State of the Union. Is it true, 0:23:31.240 --> 0:23:33.600 Paul or Jason that that the hockey team is going 0:23:33.640 --> 0:23:37.240 to be at the State of the Union? The men's 0:23:37.280 --> 0:23:41.720 will be, and the women's team declined the opportunity to 0:23:41.760 --> 0:23:43.600 go there, and some people are criticizing them for that. 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:47.159 My whole point is if people want to go and 0:23:47.200 --> 0:23:50.320 support the president, they can, but if they don't, that's 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.240 their prerogative too, and we shouldn't be hating on people 0:23:53.560 --> 0:23:56.040 for either side. It's not like you have an obligation 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:58.480 to go. But it also doesn't mean that it isn't 0:23:58.480 --> 0:24:01.560 a great thing that if you want to go. If 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:04.399 I was a great athlete in Barack Obama invited me 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:06.760 after I won some championship, I wouldn't have gone, and 0:24:06.760 --> 0:24:09.919 I wouldn't have gone for Biden. And I recall some 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:12.960 people didn't go when those people were in place. That's 0:24:13.000 --> 0:24:14.880 their right and it's no reason to hate on them 0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:17.720 either way. But I'm telling you, I think far fewer 0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:20.199 conservatives are mad at the women's team for not going, 0:24:20.440 --> 0:24:23.040 then lefties are going to hate on the men's team 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:26.360 for going, which says a lot about them. 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