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Seems like a bad deal, but it is for my entertainment in the USA two hundred fifty K. I keep thinking USA U FC two hundred and fifty what a great kickoff to America's birthday on Flag Day, june fourteenth. We have had an incredible ongoing celebration with the World Cup. Yes for the last couple of days last Thursday and Friday I took the kids. It was my son's graduation present and I had promised them that if the World Cup ever comes back to the United States that we would be going wouldn't you know it? It just happened to coincide with his high school graduation year. So I took the three children to go see the United States in a truly inexplicable heartbreaking loss to Turkey that ultimately didn't mean anything . The US is still moving on to the round of thirty two. They're going to play Bosnia and Herzegovina coming up on Wednesday night. An exciting match today as the World Cups round of thirty two continues with Brazil and Japan . As always, no spoilers whatsoever on this show . I can't promise that you aren't going to get spoiled if you are recording any of today's matches to playback later. I can't promise that during the commercial breaks, the IH edAiaT M World Cup updates aren't going to spoil you, but you will not hear a single spoiler on this program. Spoiler alert , ballot fraud is apparently the order of the day. The United States Supreme Court today ruling five four in Watson v. Republican National Committee that upheld Mississippi's law. It's a grace period, if you will , that allows mail in and absentee ballots that are postmarked by election day , but received up to five days later to still be counted in federal elections. Now if I gave you a list of all of the conservative justices and you had to pick two that would have gone incided with the court's three liberals, which two would you have picked ? You're saying John Roberts and Amy Comey Barrett, that would be entirely correct. Roberts and Barrett, who actually wrote the opinion of the court , joined the court's three liberals in comple tely tossing out semblance of constitutional governance or adherence to the rule of law. In fact , election day is set by federal law . Two US codes section seven . It provided for the date of federal elections for the House of Representatives back in eighteen seventy five. Remember, under what's known as the elections clause of the Constitution, the Congress has the power to set the times, manner, and places of elections in conjunction with the states. The states ultimately administer the elections , but Congress is responsible for determining the process by which all federal elections are held . And federal elections are held not on election month, not on election week, but on election day two US code section seven. The Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in every even numbered year is established as the day for the election in each of the states and territories of the United States of representatives and delegates to the Congress commencing on the third day of january next thereafter. What that means in plain English, every federal election in an even numbered year where we elect every single member of the House of Representatives is to take place the Tuesday after the first Monday in November . Election day very clearly means a day. When election day is over, the election is over. Two US codes section. One essentially ties Senate elections. Remember, we didn't initially directly elect senators in this country, state legislatures which were elected by the people would appoint U. S. Senators . But once we had the direct election of senators, federal law basically made Senate elections tied directly to House elections three US code section one it was called, the President ial Election Act that determines the day of the presidential election same Tuesday, first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Now those statutes don't just set a day for voting to begin . They establish the day for the election itself. Now that is the point under federal law at which the choice of federal officers is made and finalized . If you allow ballots to be received and count ed days or even weeks later , it effectively extends election day for some voters but not for others . This creates an untenable situation in which you have a rolling or multiday federal election which clearly violates the statute's plain text and plain purpose . And the Supreme Cour t repeatedly upheld this idea that election day means election day and that states looking at you, California , can't simply say we're going to do our own thing. We're going to accept ballots whenever they come in. In nineteen ninety seven, there was a very big case called Foster V Love, and it was a unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court. It was a decision on an open primary system in Louis iana . What this determined was Louisiana's system, which could theoretically declare the winner of an election in October , say if a candidate who came out of the primary got fifty percent of the vote plus one , you could actually be named the winner of a congressional election in October . That is, of course, about a month before federal election day , the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. The Supreme Court was unanimous back in nineteen ninety seven in Foster and held that Louisiana's open primary system violated those same statutes that I just listed . Justice David Sutter in his majority opinion, writing again for a unanimous court, the court's liberals , even Ruth Bader Ginsburg , held that quote, Federal law requires the combined actions of voters and officials meant to make a final selection of an office holder must occur on the federally prescribed day . This doesn't just mean that voters cast their ballots on election day. This also means that the mechanism of counting the votes, the mechanism of determining which candidate won. Now yes, obvious, ly there are reviews of the elections. The elections get certified a couple of weeks later , but that's essentially a procedural issue. We know barring something totally unforeseen . If there is a recount, if there is enough fraud, fraud that is what's known as outcome determinative , meaning that if there's so much fraud it actually did impact the outcome of the election, then something can change . But in Foster, the court was very clear , quote , When the federal statutes speak of the election of a senator or representative , they plainly refer to the combined actions of voters and officials meant to make a final selection of an office holder . Furthermore, quote, the federal statutes plainly require the election of federal officers to occur on a federally prescribed election day . This doesn't mean that if the ballots are postmarked by election day and the voters filled them out by election day we think we hope that they actually filled them out by election day . We hope that the people who are accepting these ballots well after election day are going to be trustworthy enough to say, oh yes, yes, yes, they were postmarked by election day . That ultimately doesn't matter because under federal law , under the foster love precedent that was set nearly thirty years ago and remember, the same leftists who are cheering this decision today were the same ones saying how dare you overturn settled precedent, fifty years settled precedent in Rowe v Wade in the Dobbs V Jackson Women's Health Decision of twenty twenty two that overturned Roe . Well, essentially what just happened today is that foster v Love was overturned and the Supreme Court, a deeply divided Supreme Court, in a very surprising ruling, overturned Foster by saying, yes, well as long as the ballots are post marked by election day, they can be received five days after the election or say California could determine that a ballot can come in two weeks after the election. Yes, yes, yes, obviously , we're not you can totally trust us, bro. This ballot definitely was postmarked by election day . It doesn't matter because the voter voted by election day just so long as that happened , it doesn't matter whether or not the ballot was actually counted, whether or not the election was actually finalized by election day. As you can imagine, Samuel Alito had something to say about this in his dissent . If ballots received after election day, he writes, are added to the set of ballots that dictate the election's outcome , the electorate ch'osice does not occur on election day and the federal election day statutes are violated . He emphasized the federal statutes that I just cited that would seem to be pretty self evident that Tuesday after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November is the day by which we have to determine who's going to Congress next january third. We have to determine who's going to the United States Senate. We have to determine who the electoral college is going to meet in a couple of weeks to vote for and select as president. Alito emphasized those statutes and said, L,ook the final author itative choice of the electorate needs to be made on the uniform federal election day. Quote, The collection of individual ballots is the equivalent of a single document declaring the winner of each race. This expression of the electorate's choices is conveyed to the responsible election officials when the collection of individual ballots is completed. At that point, the electorate authoritatively expresses its choices . If that doesn't happen on the prescribed election day , if instead that happens sometime in the distant future . C Andalifor inn ia, as we saw just a couple of weeks ago in the Los Angeles mayoral election, that could happen several weeks after election day, but even more egregiously and even more relevant for the purposes of this decision in twenty twenty four in the thirteenth Congressional District election . It was almost a month after the federal election day november fifth that the race was called. Would it surprise you that a Republican incumbent by the name of John Duarte went from a comfortable lead on election night to losing very, very narrowly to a Democrat challenger by the name of Adam Gray almost entirely on the strength of ballots that arrived long after november fifth . There were several races in California , another one where there was a Republican loss. It was decided on november twenty seventh. Again, federal elections that are decided after the federal election day. The Supreme Court's decision today was unconscionable because it takes the plain meaning of federal statute, election day and perverts it to allow for a practice that is ripe for fraud, that is ripe for abuse . That we know at the very least seeding the seeds of doubt in people's minds that they can't trust federal elections, that they can't trust any elections because no matter how big a lead is and it should go without saying that those leads are never safe for one political party that there is one political party that always seems to come back and always seems to make up nearly impossible ground by virtue of mail and ballots that come in long after election day. It's never as though Democrats are losing these races, Republicans are coming back . It's Democrats always are winning races based on the strength of votes that come in after election day . Then we have a situation in which those same Democrats say, well, you're just an election denier. If you suggest that there's anything untoward or anything suspicious about ballots that are allowed to be counted five, six, seven days, two weeks after election day so long as they're quote unquote postmarked by election day, something that people might or might not even be checking for . Well, then you're a conspiracy theorist. You just have to trust the process like we're some brain dead Philadelphia seventy sixers fan trying to tank our way to an NBA championship. There is no trust ing this process and frankly, there is no trusting Chief Justice John Roberts or the incredibly disappointing Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett to actually get the Constitution right . These are people who fancy themselves strict constructionists. These are people who fancy themselves the opponents of judicial activism. Well, this is the worst sort of judicial activism. Statute could not be clearer. Federal law says election day is when all election activities need to end. Cony Barrett and Roberts said nah , not really The elections end when the states say they do and really when we say the states can say they do. Why is this such a big problem? Well , coincidentally enough, we just found out with another bit of election craziness coming out of where else the city of Green Bay. We'll get to that next here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. Welcome back. It is the Dan O'Donnell Show heading into America's two hundred fiftieth birthday . We are going to have specialty programming coming up in the five o'clock hour objective proof that America is the greatest country on earth . Well, the same day that the United States Supreme Court rules that yeah, you can just kind of keep collecting and counting absentee ballots until you darn well please in federal elections. There is no federal election day. This is a horrific ruling today. The city of Green Bay proves why we do need uniformity both at the federal level and at the state level for the second time this year , the City of Green Bay has admitted to potentially sending out duplicate absentee ballots . In a social media post yesterday , the city said it finished sending out a total of five thousand eighty four absentee ballots for the upcoming August primary election this past Thursday . According to Wisconsin Public Radio, over the weekend, city staff became aware that some voters in seven wards and part of an eighth may have received a duplicate ballot. Green Maya is about fifty voting wards. The city sends plans to send letters to voters who received two ballots with instructions to only return one . Stop me if you 've heard this before . This comes just a couple of months after more than one hundred and fifty people in Green Bay received two absentee ballots ahead of this year's April State Supreme Court election, prompting Republicans to file a complaint against the city with the state agency overseeing elections . In a statement regarding the most recent error, city clerk Celestine Jeffrey's said her office tries to ensure Green Bay voters receive clear, accurate and reliable election administration. She said I regret the printing error occurred. I assure our voters that only one ballot per eligible voter will be tabulated. I encourage any voter with questions to contact our office directly. A spokesperson for the City of Green Bay said officials are investigating the cause of the error and will provide updates as they become available , the spokesperson declined to provide an interview. The city didn't provide an estimate for just how many duplicate ballots may have gone out . The Republican Party has now, of course, called for an election, or an investigation into this election error. The city made the exact same mistake in April. Now, this morning, state representative Shay Sortwell, a Republican from Two Rivers, questioned Jeffrey's job security . Just wondering when the complete incompetence of Green Bay Municipal Clerk to be able to properly run an election will result in the mayor doing his job by asking the city council to fire his appointee . Now of course, this being Wisconsin Public Radio, the story then goes on to say, well Republicans have tied this into their conspiracy theory that somehow the City of Green Bay was violating state election law in the way it ran the twenty twenty presidential election . The city of Green Bay actually violated several state statutes . I outline this extensively six years ago and don't really feel the need to do so again. Suffice it to say they turned over the administration of the election to one of those people who was working with the Zuckerbucks organization. This was Michael Spitzer Rubenstein who was with the National Vote at Home Institute. He was basically running the city of Green Bay's election. This is a huge violation of state law. Only the municipal clerk, only the city clerk who was not Celestine Jeffries at the time. It was a clerk who actually resigned just a couple of weeks before the election because she was furious that she was not she was distraught, that she was not being allowed to run anything and instead this was being outsourced to those private groups. Well now for a second straight election and I, don't believe , at least I like to hope that there's nothing nefarious going on here that this isn't an intentional way of getting multiple ballots out to the people who are much more likely to vote absentee Democrats, I think this is just pure bureaucratic incompetence. I'm going to join Shay Sortwell in not just wondering whether the municipal court or when the municipal clerk is going to be fired , but to demand this woman who was essentially the mayor of Green Bay, Eric Genrich's second in command during the twenty twenty presidential election, this woman has been screwing up elections either intentionally by her sheer pure, unfiltered, unadulterated idiocy for six years now . Does she have like naked p ictures of the man was he doing one of those crazy nude bike rides that the LGBTQ plus minus ampersand community can't stop taking part in in major cities? It's just not a nude bike ride unless you're riding your bike nude in front of a bunch of kids. Was he taking part in one of these and Celestine Jeffrey's has got the pictures? What is going on here? This woman absolutely needs to be fired yes terday. Just every election. We're going to say, oops, we send out a couple of absentee ballots that shouldn't have gone out. Oh, well, there's one hundred fifty, there's two hundred fifty spare ballots that are going out in the wild. This is precisely what Democrats have or Republicans have been saying for decades now that mail in ballots are the easiest way to defraud elections because there is no chain of custody with them . When you have ballots that are just sort of sent out to everybody and anybody and remember in California, that's that's the law. They just send out ballots to everybody, every address. You could be living at an address, you'll get a ballot for somebody who hasn't lived there in twenty five years. It's a relatively common thing that goes on in California. And now it's apparently a common thing if you live in Green Bay and you sign up for absentee ballots. If you get mail in ballots, you're just going to get two or three per election . Now this doesn't per se provide evidence that there's vote fraud going on, but let's see, is it easier to commit vote fraud or more difficult to commit vote fraud when you, have got a whole lot more ballots out there in the wild than there are people who are eligible to vote using those ballots This needs to be punished. And this is precisely why the U. S. Supreme Court made such a grave, grievous error by allowing these mail in ballots to come in well after the election because if these are ballots that are not properly filled out, if these are ballots that aren't supposed to be filled out, well it just gives a whole lot more time for those ballots to keep coming in and the people who are counting them, whether they're counting them properly or not , to add votes to the total, to keep the election going and to keep counting ballots until they get the result people want. Look, if you don't want people like me to constantly quest ion what big democrat cities are doing and whether or not the people who are in charge of counting the ballots and sending the ballots out are doing so on the up and up or are too incompetent to continue to have jobs , stop doing things that cause any reasonable person to question whether or not you are actually on the up and up . One time this happens okay, it's a printing error. Two straight elections where more ballots are being sent out than there are people to cast them . That starts to become a pattern and that starts to become incredibly suspicious. Coming up next here on the Dan O'Donnell show in about twenty five minutes or so Francesca Hong finds someone to stream with who's even more nuts than her. It's the Franny and Hassan Piker show. We'll get into that next . Forget whatever plans you have this weekend because you're staying at home and playing on spin quest. 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Welcome back to it about twenty minutes or so from now , leading Gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong here in Wisconsin is going to join leading socialist whack job Hassan Piker on his incredibly popular radical left socialist li vestream. Now this comes as the Wisconsin Democratic Gubernatorial Primary just might be the single most watched in America . That is not hyperbole, that is a fact after the stunning sweep of socialists in New York's Congressional and State Legislative Democrat primaries last week , that had a lot of people on both the left and right incredibly concerned about the direction of the Democratic Party nationally and also the potential for socialists to actually start winning in places other than what's affectionately known as the comm i corridor in New York City. Yes, New York is a very, very liberal place . But if an outright communist can win in a place like say Wisconsin , the ultimate swing st ate , then communists can win anywhere. Now this says Ben, this appearance, which is set to begin Hong posted originally today that it was going to take place sometime just before two PM shocker a socialist is late for something Hassan apparently was well behind schedule and now Franny is not going to appear until about four PM so about seventeen minutes from now, yes, we are monitoring this at the Heartland Post and here at the Dan O'Donnell Show and we will bring you all relevant craziness as it comes in. Just how nuts is Hassan Piker . This is the sort of stuff he says semi regularly. Kill those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the street. Let the streets let the streets soak in their fucking red capit alist bloods, dude . So first of all, it's red capitalist blood . The plural of blood is blood , but apparently you don't need to be particularly bright to be the single biggest left wing streaming star in the world. At the same time , left wing talk radio is proving again and again and again that it simply can't succeed . Civic media, you might remember, launched to great fanfare. They are going to take over . They are going to stop all of us evil capitalist right wing radio hosts here in Wisconsin. Well, civic media just announced Friday afternoon news dump. They're shutting down a number of their signals because they can't afford to keep the lights on Womp, Womp, Womp. I will never take joy in somebody else losing their job, especially not in radio. It's a very difficult business. As I think everybody knows, our company, IHAT Media, is engaged in a massive round of layoffs. It's just it's a very tough business . But at the same time, left wing talk radio is failing . This guy is about as popular as it gets primarily because you can't just go on an FCC regulated radio signal and start screaming, I want to kill all the capitalists , let all of the streets run red with their blood . He also said if you want get rid of Medicare and Medicaid fraud , you don't need to go along with Rick Scott, the Senator from Florida's proposal. You need to kill Rick Scott. If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott . Okay , you wouldn't make Rick Scott former Governor of Florida, Rick Scott. You wouldn't make him the current what is his current office? What is he? He's the Richard Lynn Scott is an American attorney business and politician, Navy veteran serving as the senior United State Senator from Florida seat he has held Okay is this what this guy's live stream is? He just kind of goes on Wikipedia to fill in the gaps of his own ignorance since twenty nineteen. And also, I believe this past election cycle, he was literally the head of the what was it like the Senate committee or something ? Okay , do people actually like find this entertaining? He was just kind of going through Wikipedia because he wasn't quite sure what Rick Scott got like why do we want to kill Rick Scott? Let me look up. What capitalist position does he have? Oh, okay, he's the senior United States . Yeah, it's okay. We should probably kill him . He then goes in on Dan Crenshaw , you might know him. He is the Texas Republican congressman. He lost an eye in combat . He rips on him and said he lost his eye because a brave Mujah ideen fighter shall we say, did incredibly inappropriate things with it. And then he just drops in a yeah, you know what? America deserved nine hundred and eleven. This guy has the understanding of foreign policy of like a twelve year old. What the what the fuck is wrong with this dude? Did he go to war and like literally lose his eye because of Mujahideen? A brave freakin soldier fucked his eye hole with their dick? Isn't that how he lost his fucking dumbass eye? Because he got a fucking eye hole fucked. America deserved nine hundred and eleven, dude. I'm saying I'm sorry. Did a whole bunch of people not want to fire me making a tame joke a couple of months back. Am I hallucinating that that happened in the same universe that this is the most popular left wing streamer on planet Earth folks, see, I notice things like this. I also notice that the Democratic Party of Wisconsin was trying to make Tom Tiffany's connection to me politically toxic. You got Francesca Hoan going on this guy's stream that do you realize there is a twenty minute compilation? I contemplated playing a significant portion of this just to let you people know how dangerously radical Hassan Piker is and how dangerous it is that we have got people who are sympathico with him in Francesco H awn that are dangerous ly close to winning incredible power here in our state. Unless you think, well, Dan, this is just hyperbole. He's not actually a bad guy. Here is him using a shock collar to repeatedly shock his dog while live on a street. All of America's much more consequential violence . Okay . It's the same reason as to why America , Kaia, please just fucking go back just stop. You hear that ? Cause I'm shocking his dog . Jesus Christ, what are you doing? You're being such a baby . Yeah, because you just shocked the life out of her and he did so repeatedly , by the way . All of you lefties who actually went to the Ridgeland Beagle Farm to protest so that the Ridgeland Beagles would be, how many of you people are tuning into Franny Hong Hassan Piker dog sh ock kill capitalist fun time hour that starts in about ten minutes in another life, this guy would be so toxic that there would be no chance that Francesca Han could ever appear on his program, ever appear in public, but because we're apparently just fine with murderous psychopaths like Hassan Piker and apparently the women who love him like Franny Hong getting seats at the table of power in this country if you are an avowed crazy leftist , those rules are just completely gone . Pardon me if I don't take what is that hair lipped moron who is in charge of the state Democratic Party now? Seriously, it say it's Timu Ben Whickler. I don't even remember his name Devin Devin Devin Remaker. Devin Remaker for an entire week , an entire week using his impotent little delusion of power to try to get me fired. That did a whole hell of a lot of good Dev maybe work on shaving yourself properly . While we have his leading candidate appearing on this guy show , on this guy show It's hilarious to me . Jay Weber makes a joke about Tim Walls' kid. Oh, he needs to be fired . Dan O'Donnell, he needs to be fired. This is Hassan Piker's whole thing. Kill all the capitalists, let the streets run red with their blood. He might as well rename his show to that and Democrats are clamoring to appear with him . Who is it Philip Philip Fullman Schulman ? Pullman their spokesman. He's the modern day Graham Zelensky half of the cocaine abuse twice of the crazy . That's basically what it is. Oh my God , Tom Tiffany announced his candidacy on Dan O'Donnell's show we're gonna we're going to and then they get they get , then they get the single dopiest reporter in the history of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel guy by the name of Drake Bentley who has now, gone to something much more his intellectual speed , a civic media owned rag , and they try to run this constant, constant thing. Oh, Daniel Donald Der Any story about Franny Hong going on with the murderous socialist? Of course not. Of course not . We could get Molly Beck to email Franny Hong to see if she agrees with the dog shocking violent fantasies anybody who dares to participate in America's capitalist system. No, of course not. So spare me your outrage about Donald Trump or Dan O'Donnell or any Derek Van Orden or anybody else. You people have forfeited any right to say anything about anything that we say so long as you're totally cool with Franny Hong going on with this literal piker . We name the unhinged liberal of the day when the Dan O'Donnell show returns . Welcome back. It is the Dan O'Donnell Show. I think we've got time for a phone call before we get to the unhinged liberal of the day we go to John Is It in Mundaline, Illinois. Welcome to the Dan O'Donnell show Happy two hundred fiftieth, sir . Thank you. Thank you for taking my call and maybe you'll decide I'm the unhinged liberal for the day . Oh , probably you'd have to think you'd have to go real south real quick, John That's all right. Go ahead . I know you guys are really upset about Amy Coney Barrett's vote in the Supreme Court on the date that mail in votes can be postmarked. And I know that the president, even at this hour is saying that he's far more interested in getting the SAVE Act passed than in affordable housing legislation . I was going to ask you though, I just it's a real simple question . I'm wondering if you can tell me the name of any of the fifty states , any state where the people with the legitimate authority to assess the security of voting ever concluded that the outcome of any election in their state was altered by people lying about their identity at the polls or by non citizens voting. I'll actually the name of a state. I'll actually do one better. I'll give you a president of the United States, not name Donald Trump and not even a Republican who determin ed that mail in balloting was actually the single biggest force form of potential vote fraud in the country. We are really running close to the top of the hour. I'll try to get to this after the top of the hour. Jimmy Carter in two thousand five, bipartisan commission. John, hope that helps. We'll get to this after the top of the hour news. Got to step aside for the news. We'll get right back What's going on everyone? 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Just goosebumps hearing all of those great American speeches, all of those great moments in American history ahead of our two hundred fiftieth birthday this coming Saturday , july fourth, twenty twenty six , coming up on tomorrow's show , the single greatest most American piece of writing ever come from a president, it didn't come from a great celebrated American author like Mark Twain . It came from an everyday American . A lawyer, actually , but not writing in a court, writing home to his wife while he was on a civil war battlefield . It tells everything about what it is to be an American, what it means to sacrifice for this country what it means to truly put a love of who we are as a people above everything , above every joy in life, including life itself. The single greatest piece of American writing coming up tomorrow here on the Dan O'Donnell Show, special programming today. America is the single best country on Earth and I can objectively prove it. Please understand , ladies and gentlemen, that I can prove literally say . We had a caller, John from Mundaline, Illinois, right? Is that yeah, that's that's what I thought. John Mnundalyine, Illinois , very polite , very good question, actually. And he said, name a state where an election was actually overturned because of mail in ballot fraud. Well, first of all, I said I can do one better . Completely lost track of time . We are running up against the top of the hour. Have no fear. We are still going to do the unhinged liberal of the day because it is just so incredibly good. It's so perfect for this fourth of July, America's two hundred fiftieth birthday week . First of all, I said I would do one better. How about Jimmy Carter ? The so called Carter Baker Commission was called the Commission on Federal Election Reform . It was organized by American University's Center for Democracy and Election Management funded by a group of philanthropic organizations. And they published a report quote, building confidence in U . S. elections. Now this was a bipartisan report co chaired by James Baker and former president Jimmy Carter back in two thousand five. One of the key findings, quote, absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud , and quote, voting by mail is likely to increase the risks of fraud and of contested elections in certain states. Well , Mark or John or whoever our caller was actually went on the Facebook feed to say, remember, Dan, I'm not talking about some theoretical conclusion by Jimmy Carter. I want actual fraud. Again, please always, ladies and gentlemen, always, always, always understand this . I can always back up what I say. My knowledge of this stuff is much greater than you liberals give me credit for. And it is much greater you liberals knowledge in the first place . It was, in fact, the very first time a congressional election had ever been overturned on fraud grounds. It happened in North Carolina in twenty eighteen . Republican candidate Mark Harris after the ballots were counted, led a Democrat by the name of Dan McCrady by nine hundred five votes. But the North Carolina Board of Elections would not certify the results because of a whole lot of irregularities with guessed it, mail in ballots primarily in one of the key counties in that congressional district, Bladen County, there was also a number of problems in nearby Robeson County , a Republican operative by the name of McCray Dallas, full name Leslie McCray Dallas, he went by McCraid Dowless. He was hired by Harris's campaign and apparently or, at least he claim ed it was without his knowledge , he orchestrated an illegal ballot harvesting scheme in which he and people who he hired paid workers to simply go and collect absentee ballots from voters' homes . It was unclear who was actually filling out those ballots, whether they were the people who the ballots were addressed to or whether it was Dallas and his crew because they were forging signature . They were absolutely caught filling in blank votes , sometimes with matching pens in a scheme to try to avoid detection . They were falsely claiming to have witnessed ballot sign atures and actual voting . They mailed the ballots apparently in ways that were designed to conceal the fact that they had tampered with the votes. And Doulas was apparently well known for doing this exact sort of thing. There were allegations that dogged him in twenty sixteen and also in twenty fourteen before that . So the board of elections held hearings and unanimously voted just a couple of months later, february twenty nineteen, that there needed to be a new election. The election was actually vacated because of all of the mail in ballot fraud. This was the first time in American history that a federal election was actually overturned due to fraud . Now there's debate about whether it had happened before. Suffice it to say it was the first time in a long time, first time in American history that it was mail in ballots that were the source of this fraud . Now, even though Harris determined, it was actually his son, weirdly enough, who blew the whistle on all of the shady stuff that McCraid doubtless was doing , but Harris actually withdrew . A new election was held and a Republican still won because it was a reasonably safe ub Replican district. Guy by the name of Dan Bishop won in this do over . Number of people were criminally charged, including Doulas. He actually died in twenty twenty two before his federal trial could begin. A number of people pleaded guilty to misdemeanors , and Harris was never directly implicated, but of course , his political career was all but over. So I believe that that was the question, right? When has mail in ballot fraud actually , when has any actual decision maker in any state overturned an election because of mail and ballot fraud . I believe that was the specific question that was asked it has happened . It's happened recently. Weirdly enough , when it was actually investigated, it was determined that a Republican cheated or at least had cheating benefit him thus proving Jimmy Carter and James Baker from thirteen years earlier twenty one, years ago now cor,rect that mail and balloting absolutely is the single easiest way to cheat an election. We are in pre Nazi Germany All white people are racist . Trump is dangerous because he's evil. America is over. Didn't get to it at the end of the last hour. I want to get to it right now. It is time now to name the unhinged liberal of the day and it is indeed state representative Lee Snodgrass . She would rather see a whole bunch of pride parades instead of patriotic fourth of July parades in a twenty eighteen Facebook post that our staff over at the Heartland Post found in a group called Pride Parade in the Fox Cities make it happen twenty nineteen, Snodgrass, who's listed as one of the group's administrators wrote, Appleton has so many damn parades. I'm tired of parades with patriotic pride and am itching for one with L GB pride . Who's with me? She then instructs members to research municipalities and what it costs to host a parade, decide how to fund it, decide the city, route and date, partner with area organizations, and start the fun stuff. She is so , so tired of all of these patriotic parades. She just wants to see a pride parade . Lee Snodgrass, your unhinged liberal of the day. We will get to the Daily Trump date coming up in just a couple of minutes right now . We help you know the difference between financial advisers . A financial advisor you can always have pride in because he is working with and for you as a fee only fiduciary. You like that transition there. Dave Spano who is Dave Spano, the CEO of Annex Wealth Management. I'm a pro. I am a pro at these transitions here . Yeah, I know. I'd rather talk about the two hundred fiftieth anniversary and what a great time it is for this country and all the positive things that are happening and the positive things Dan that are happening in the economy. See, I love this rubbed. I've rubbed off on him transitioning from the positives of America's two hundred and fifty to the positives in the economy. That see, that is a you don't even need a pro spin. You you could be the CEO of the Dan O'Donnell show. That's how that's how professional that broadcasting just sounded. You're right though. I mean my goodness , the market completely brushing aside the fact that the ceasefire isn't exactly ceasing any fire over in Iran, although they agreed not to shoot at each other while there are more meetings taking place this week . Strong day on Wall Street, insanely strong earnings. What up thirty percent on the S and P five hundred this past earnings season? I mean, GDP number is expected to be through the roof Q two. I mean there is just a tremendous amount to feel good about . And it really is. And that's what that's where I was going. It was a nice spin. Thank you very much. But yeah, I mean, thirty percent earnings growth on the S and P. I mean, if you look on a list, I mean that is near the top of expectations. And that's the other thing. The expectations for next quarter are strong again. So it's not wasn't just a one quarter thing . So earnings growth will be good. Number two, we've got a Fed chair in place and all that consternation is behind us. Really good stuff. Now with that, you're going to have some volatility. There's no doubt about it , but inflation expectations are coming down, rates are coming down. And you think, why are people so crabby all the time? Well, you know, it's part of it is they get fed so much negativity . When you look at your portfolio right now, you have to think that you are on track. And if you aren't on track, there's things that you can do about it. But yes, earnings growth is good . You know, crude oil crude oil now Dan is under where it was when this conflict began under seventy dollars a barrel. Isn't that amazing? That I'm shocked by that. I'm equally shocked by the fact that we're not paying like two dollars and fifteen cents at the pump it's making me question could there be something else at play than maybe global market dynamics here ? Do you remember back in the day when they actually put the gas prices up and they'd have to get the l adder out and right and change the numbers. Now oil prices used to go up. They were there first thing six AM in the morning, but as they went down the ladder that ladder kind of hung back for a little bit. But yeah, so when oil prices are coming down, you're not seeing the gas prices come down as much. You can probably argue that's because we're in the middle of the driving season especially over this weekend, Dan, a lot of people will be moving around. So there's a demand happening . But again, thirty percent earnings growth. That looks forward, that looks good going forward. Fed chair in place his expectations to try to get things under control. Inflation expectations are coming down. Oil is good, GDP report is good. All of this means as we get into the mid part of the year, are you positioned correctly? And that's what you got to think about, folks. You know, what is in your portfolio now as you and I talked about earli er today, Dan, this is not a set it and forget it. No, there are things that are happening in the portfolio that you can do this halfway mark of the year is probably the time to take an assessment and think about where we go from here. It absolutely is . Hey, Dave, always appreciate having you on. Have a wonderful fourth of July. Are you doing anything special with the family for the two hundred fiftieth or is it just gonna be a pretty typical fourth of July for you? It's going to be typical, but we all recognize where we are. And you know, some of the things that we are doing, Dan and I'm sure you're doing as well. Just think not about the last two hundred and fifty years, but the last fifty years of where we were, think about, you know, nineteen seventies when, you know, people were pushing their cars into the gas stations and the things that were different just in fifty years of time in this country. So people should be far more positive of what's going what's going to come than what has been. Happy Fourth of July to you and from everybody and to everybody at Annex Wealth Management. They are the fee only fiduciaries working with and for you to plan your family 's financial future. Get a free review of your portfolio at annex wealth . com ing up next the Daily Trump Day, we take a look at what is going on in Donald Trump's Washington , the Great American State Fair, and much, much more. Stay tuned. We'll be right back in just a second I am hearing from our staff which is monitoring the Hassan Piker Franny Hong live stream going on right now on the Hassan Piker on Twitch that Franny is, and I quote , fangirling for the murderous comi Hassan Piker. Folks, just to be clear , every single Democrat in this state was calling for me to be fired over a joke , but they are loving the fact that Francesco Hong their leading gubernatorial democrat candidate is on with a guy who sincerely calls for the homicide of capitalists , not just his political opponents, he wants the streets to run red with their capitalist blood sort of like the healthcare CEO who got murdered in the streets by a Hassan P iker follower , Luigi Mangoni , while all sorts of Hassan Piker followers cheered because Mang ioni struck a blow against the evil capitalists and because the healthcare CEO was committing violence against people by denying their healthcare claims , his murder was justified Just remember who these people are . Remember , you know, we laugh at people like Lee Snodgrass who are tired of all these patriotic parades and just want to celebrate a gay pride parade for once , but that sort of is the mantra of the left . They'll salute any flag but the American flag . They will support any parade save for a fourth of July parade . We are getting to the point where they despise this country and they are perfectly fine with violent revolution to take it down . Fortunately , we do have a whole lot of forces standing in their way, most notably one in the White House, ladies and gentlemen, it is time now for the Daily Trump day . We're going to win so much you may even get tired of winning. Trump just keeps winning. It is a win for the administration. It's also a big win for the United States. We have to keep winning. We have to win more . We're gonna win more President Trump post ing on truth social today in response to the United States Supreme Court's shocking shocking decision. It was a shocking decision allowing election day to just kind of stretch out as long as states determine elect ion day can stretch out for , writing quote in light of the tremendous loss in the Supreme Court today concerning voters' rights and the fact that people's votes are allowed to be counted long after an election is over, it is more important than ever to pass the Save America Act, which is one, all voters must show photo ID, all voters must show proof of citizenship , and three no mail in ballots except for illness, disability, military deployment, or travel . There is no excuse for a politician or otherwise to be against the above three requirements. There is only one reason to oppose cheating . The House of Representatives has approved this vital act three times. The United States Senate seems unable to do so . In a time when there is a powerful communist movement taking place in our country , one more dangerous than World War One, World War two, Pearl Harbor, or September eleventh, all Democrats and our five Republican Senate holdouts. Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Tom Tillis, Bill Cassidy, and Mitch McConnell must vote to save our country. There can be no more excuses. Thank you for your attention to this matter. President Donald J. Trump. The president is this week turning his attention to the Great American State Fair in America's two hundred fiftieth birthday interior secretary Doug Bergam on Fox News this morning saying that Washington DC is expecting record visitors this year we are celebrating this remarkable in some ways imp therobable two hundred fif andtieth anniversary, I mean, you think about how our country was started, those patriots taking on the greatest military power in the world at the time, Great Britain winning that battle . America, if we look down the mall at the other end of the Lincoln Memorial . eighty years after we signed the Declaration of Independence, the country almost didn't make it, almost fell apart during the Civil War, but thanks to the leadership of folks like President Lincoln , we made it through that. And here we are all the way up to our two fif hundred andty and what a remarkable country based on freedom and independence, based on fifty states . You'd like to think that every state would want to put their best foot forward when we have millions and millions of visitors coming to the National Mallpect. Ex a record number of visitors this year just on the fourth of July with the salute to America . You know, it's it's going to be an amazing celebration that unfortunately , ten states are not represented at the Great American State Fair . As you can imagine, all ten are Democrat states and all ten , well, just don't want to be associated with anything having to do with President Trump. It's remark this guy's ability get Democrats to get his political opponents to support the most asanine possible ideas . The idea that we're not going to take part as a state in America's celebration of its two hundred fiftieth birthday because we don't like the current president . Okay , well, I guess at least we can be thankful that some of those governors, most notably , Illinois, some of those governors like JB Pritzker, they're not actively out vandalizing the national reflecting pool outside of the Lincoln Memorial, but that is exactly what is going on . Multiple arrests including of a former Olympic canoeist , an Olympic athlete was arrested for trying to destroy the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool because they didn't want President Trump to be successful in recoding it and preventing the algae from growing. White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said it is absolutely sick that these trumped deranged whack jobs are vandalizing our beautiful national mall, our beautiful national monuments all because they hate President Trump. I mean, really there is nothing more to say other than it is sick. And President Trump has made his message known loud and clear that if you break the law, if you vandalize our monuments, you will be held accountable. And I just think it is really sad to see that there is this division amongst the left and our country. At a time when we should all be coming together to celebrate America's two hundred fiftieth birthday, something this administration is doing making DC safe and beautiful for everyone. Regardless of their political affiliation, there are sadly folks on the left who can't have that same unified spirit that President Trump is projecting ahead of our two hundred fift ieth birthday. We are in fact going to get into that coming up in the five o'clock hour as part of our special America two hundred fifty coverage. That ladies and gentlemen is your daily Trump day coming up next here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. The Milwaukee bucks find themselves smack dab in the middle of a massive sports betting scandal. Stay tuned, Dan O'Donnell Show is coming back before you know it . Hey everybody, Lady Luck here and we're celebrating America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. Now all summer long I'm going to be celebrating by plane on spinquest. com which is an American owned social casino. It obviously features over a thousand slot games and live blackjack, live craps, live bubble craps. Head on over to spinQuest dot com comma get yourself a thirty dollar coin pack for just ten bucks . SpinQuest is a free to play social casino. Who are prohibited? Visit SpinQuest. com for more details. If you run a business, you know how hard it is to get your customers' attention. 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One step at a time with compassion and support. At Rogers Behavioral Health, one step can change everything. Visit Rogersb ot org or call eight hundred seven six seven four for a free screening. Welcome back to the Dan O'Donnell Show coming up at the top of the five o'clock hour we have, got some I'm sorry, I'm getting a little distracted . My staff over at the Heartland Post is watching the Frances co Hong Hassan Piker Live Stream and apparently now they're getting into the crazy socialist stuff. I would love to be able to dip in live ladies and gentlemen , but we will have, of course, as soon as we can, we'll have a complete roundup if they said anything nuts as I assume they're going to say a bunch of nuts stuff. We will, of course, bring it to you here first on the Dan O'onDald Show coming up next hour. America is objectively the greatest place on Earth. I can prove it and will do so live on the radio. Huge, huge NBA gambling scandal that direct ly involves the Milwaukee Bucks. Malik Beasley, a former guard for the bucks , has been charged with collaborating with former Minnesota Wolves teammate Ed Davis to point shave or to manipulate prop bets in the twenty twenty three twenty twenty four season while he was with the bucks. According to the charging documents, Beasley owed millions of dollars in gambling debts. Davis loaned him money to cover those debts, and then Beasley allegedly repaid by manipulating his on court performance to help a gambling group win prop bets . Several specific games were cited in that federal indictment all in the twenty three twenty four season all while Beasley was a member of the Milwaukee Bucks . January twenty sixth against the Cleveland Cavaliers in which Beasley scored only three points well below his average of eleven point three points per game that season, february twenty seventh against the Charlotte Hornets , march tenth against the LA Clippers and there was a whole lot of online activity better celebrated Beasley grabbing a key rebound in the final seconds to hit the over march twenty first against the Brooklyn Nets . This is where the Feds got on to this scheme. Now the group allegedly placed a whole lot of money, tens of thousands of dollars in bets using inside information coming from both Beasley and Davis texts in the indictment reference beating Vegas through sports betting. Now Beasley is, if he hasn't already expected to surrender voluntarily this week, his attorney Ste ephen Hany said in a statement out this morning, we will vigorously defend the charges. Beasley maintains his innocence . Beasley did sit out this entire NBA season amid the investig ation which became public about a year ago had signed or was expected to sign a major contract with the Detroit pistons but that didn't happen because he is obviously facing very, very serious charges. Now, what's very interesting about the timing of this , you might remember the twenty three twenty four season was a particularly tumultuous one for the bucks on january twenty third just not even a half of a season , the bucks fired their head coach . Three days later , they hired Doc Ri . Rivers, of course, a Hall of Fame coach a Milwaukee Legend because of his stardom with the Marquette Warriors back in the day , held a press conference on the morning of january twenty sixth in which he said what am I doing here ? I really don't want to be here and you're making a huge mistake. What are you all doing to me? According to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article from late last week, that was the moment that he lost the locker room in his introductory press conference . That night , january twenty sixth the bucks go out to play the Cleveland Cavaliers at home at Viser Forum and Malik Beasley, according to this federal indictment is shaving points . What an incredible week , by the way, his line that night, twenty six minutes , three points , four fouls and four turnovers . He absolutely did look like he was tanking in order to hit an under on his prop bets. Now , why this keeps happening this is part of a much bigger problem for not just the NBA but, college basketball has been hit very hard by prop bet shaving scandals and even Major League Baseball which just suspended a pitcher for in game prop bet shaving in which he was not throwing first pitch strikes and there was an unusual amount of money being bet on this pitcher throwing a first pitch ball. But in the NBA, we have seen players like Terry Rosier and John Tay Porter who pleaded guilty in a point shaving scheme and has since been banned for life from the NBA . Beasley has a long history of financial issues . He has faced a number of lawsuits over his debts and he is the perfect sort of mark that the mafia, that any sort of organized sports betting conglomerate or just group of people will be able to take advantage of and say, okay, well let's say you just fix it so that you don't grab seven rebounds in this game against the Portland Trailblazers . Easy enough, right? Sports betting, you might recall, was largely made illegal in nineteen ninety two by a f ederal law that grandfathered in Las Vegas and existing sports betting industries . But in twenty eighteen, that law was struck down by the United States Supreme Court in a decision called Murphy V in the CA , something like that . The Murphy decision had an immediate impact when sports betting was effectively legalized across the states . You saw total sports wages in just five years jump from about five billion dollars in twenty seventeen the year before sports betting was legalized by the court to one hundred twenty one billion dollars within five years by twenty twenty three Online apps handle roughly ninety four percent of all sports bets . Now because those bets are coming so quickly, there is such a tremendous volume of bets and because there is so much money being wagered on every single game and because prop bets are so ubiquitous because there are just so many that you're able to bet on , it's much more difficult to determine whether or not there's a shaving scandal or whether there's an unusual amount of action on some random prop bet for some random player like Malik Beasley . This is a big problem because roughly thirty percent of all US sports bets are now props . Are not, hey, I'll take the bucks to win by at least five and a half over the Brooklyn Nets No , thirty percent of all bets , roughly three and ten are I will bet Malik Beasley to have more than ten points . Now the apps themselves are aggressively promoting these as in game real time bets. Why would they do this? Pretty obvious, all right? You bet on a game, once the game starts, you can't bet more on that game . You can bet, okay , after half time, half time plus you know, second half over under of seventy five total points scored or something like that . But there are way more opportunities. Okay, second half points for Steph Curry plus minus fifteen . You can make a ton of bets in game. So the apps after you've already bet on a game, they can assume, hey, he's probably watching this game. Like for example, right now, no spoilers , Germany and Paraguay are playing in the World Cup round of thirty two . If my app, let's say I'm betting with draft kings , right ? If I've already put a bet on Germany to win, taking them minus two hundred and fifty on the money line and let's say we're now in the second half . The app is going to send me alerts. Hey, we think you're probably already watching this game. How about you put a little more action on it and bet with this prop? Well, the more prop bets and the more action that is placed on each prop bet makes it much more difficult to find malfeasons like in the Malik Beasley case . Not only that , what we are seeing is sporting events at a much greater level than ever before tainted by corruption . I mean, it was a major scandal, right? The Chicago Black Sox allegedly throwing the nineteen nineteen World series by what was it Arnold, Mr. Big Rothstein was apparently the mastermind of that, the big gangster, Mr. Big They were all banned from life. Shoeless Joe Jackson is still not in Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame like one hundred and seven years later because he was banned forever . I think it was the commissioner Kennesaugh Mountain Landis if I remember that this is like the basis of field of dreams, like trying to clear shoelist Joe's name. Well, okay, in actuality, Shoelist Joe almost certainly did through the nineteen nineteen World Series. Well, you got Malik Beasley in a very small way throwing Milwaukee Bucks games or at least attempting to if he's going to keep his scoring percentage under say ten . If he's going to ensure that so his betters will make money, he's not going to score ten points or maybe he's trying to ensure that the game hits the under , doesn't that necessarily make it less likely that the Milwaukee Bucks are going to win a game ? This is on a small scale. What we're seeing is the Terry Rogier scandal . We saw Chauncey Bills who was Charlie Hall of Fame player and he was the coach of I believe was it Portland at the time he was more into the fixed poker games where, you know, you would go and you'd play with celebrities like Chaucee Bills or sports stars like Chaucey Bills . But he was allegedly manipulating lineups so that he wouldn't play players to ensure that they were not going to hit their over on rebounds or points or assists or whatever counting stat that people could be betting on this is a massive, massive problem. And this comes at the exact same time that Wisconsin just voted to give a tremendous amount of power over these apps over, online sports betting to the Native American tribes to essentially give a government backed monopoly on sports betting to the potawatomy and to the Hochunk and to the ONIDA and to the tribes that already have sports books that already have the ability to take bets . We're in other words , expanding sports gaming, sports gambling by allowing those apps to come in. Now they're going to have to put their servers on the Potawatomy Sports book property and Potawatomy is going to take basically a sixty percent fee for all the profits of draft kings and fan duel and all of them operating here in Wisconsin for the privilege of doing so . To say nothing of the fact that a whole lot of young people are getting into a whole lot of trouble by betting way more money than they have the ability to cover . You're also seeing because of the insane rise of online sports betting because it is so ubiquitous , because you can do it from literally everywhere. You don't need to go to a casino and find a physical roulette wheel in order to place a bet on a sporting event, it is causing major corruption in professional and college sports that I just don't see going anywhere good. You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell Show , we name the unsung hero of the day coming up. Stay tuned We are just a couple of days away from America's two hundred fiftieth birthday. Really we've been celebrating all summer here on the Dan O'Donnell Show. This week a whole lot of special programming as we reflect on just how great this nation is and always has been that is coming up after the top of the hour news plus another chance for you to win five two hundred thousand dollars in our USA fifty K giveaway our company is giving away two hundred fifty thousand dollars in one hundred twenty five hundred dollars increments and your next chance to win is coming up about ten minutes from right now. Now though, time to name the unsung heroes of the Death Today's unsung heroes or as it were heroines of the day, Milwaukee's dancing grannies . They're going to march in two major national parades as one of five groups selected to represent Wisconsin for our nation's two hundred fiftieth birthday. 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Yes, we are for those wondering. We are going to use that special open all week long as we celebrate America's two hundred fiftieth birthday specialty programming marking just how great we are as a nation and of course your chance to win two thousand five hundred dollars and every five o'clock hour from now, until this Friday, Saturday, of course, the big day. America's two hundred fiftieth birthday july fourth , twenty twenty six. Welcome back to the Dano Donald Show. If you'd like to join us for one four seven nine nine, eleven thirty on the Carpetland USA Flooring Center talk and text line. You can always email me DOD at dihartmedia. com at Dan O'Donnell Show on Ex Facebook, Instagram. We are streaming live on YouTube, across social media pretty much everywhere . Watch this show via the Dano Cam, and please do like and subscribe to the Dan O'Donnell Show podcast on iHeart Radio or wherever you listen to podcasts. All right , two hundred and fifty k USA giveaway nationwide keyword this hour America . You got until five hundred fifty five to go to our website and enter the keyword America to enter the cont est for this hour if your entry is picked at random twenty five hundred dollars in your pocket AM E R I C A merica is your keyword this hour best, of luck and happy independence day. Jared Isaacman, who is the administrator of Nassau on Fox and Friends this morning, asked about his reflection on America's two hundred fiftieth birthday . I think this is about past, present and future. All that America accomplished during a time period that we knew absolutely nothing about this domain at all and yet set out to achieve grand Big bold endeavors that no one was impossible no one thought was possible. The present, President Trump kicked off the Artemis program during his first term. Now here we are in business sending the big rockets around the moon again and then the future. What's the future ? We're returning to the Moon to stay. We're building a base on the Moon where we are going to prepare for where we go next, which is right back to President Trump's inauguration speech where Americans will plant the flag on Mars se.venth So this and in fact, does anyone have any doubt that it will be America that plants its flag on Mars first? Of course not . We were the ones who planted our flag on the moon . In fact, we were the nation that dominated space and has dominated space ever since . Our satellites, our weaponization of the final frontier is unmatched. It's unparalleled . In fact, the domination of space , the domination of exploration more generally , is sort of a way that America has over the past half century asserted its global dominance, but it isn't the only way . Look, folks, last week , the country was reeling somewhat by the sudden and rather unexpected rise , the quick rise. I think people always assumed that socialism, open America hating communist socialism was on the inscendency. And you were going to see communists win significant victories in place . There is an area of New York City that is actually called the commi corridor for that exact reason, because you have got radical left socialists . So it's not really much of a surprise that you see radical left socialist candidates meet the demand of their radical left socialist voters. But the speed at which this happened was something that I think caught a lot of people off guard. Okay , yes, this is going to be something when the millennials get a little older or maybe when gener ation Z comes to its own politically . We're going to see the rise of the America hating left . The reality is, and we've been discussing this on the program for the better part of two weeks now . The American hating left has always been here . Now it's just far more radicalized and far more open about just how openly hostile to capitalism, the American ideal and America itself this movement really is . So we're seeing things like ten different states ref toused take part in the Great American State Fair, which was supposed to be a celebration of all the states, all the states coming together and showcasing their best on the national mall for hundreds of thousands of people to come. Well, the lefties , the America hating socialist crazies are so out there in terms of their hatred for President Trump that not only are they refusing to attend the Great American State Fair, they basically threatened and bullied every musical act out of it , that they're now celebrating the fact that at least according to them, it's sparsely attended. I think a lot of the pictures and videos coming out of this are sort of proving them wrong , but they're trying to make this so that it's a failure Pres ofident Trump. In fact, there was an article last week. I could not believe this. There was an article last week about how Democrats are struggling with how great the FIFA World Cup has been. Just how incredible this tournament has been. People are saying that this across the globe. They're saying this is the best World Cup they've ever attended. It is so smooth, it is so easy. Everybody who's coming to America is loving it. Big article in politico last week, Democrats are grappling with the success of the World Cup because they wanted it to be a massive failure that they could pin on President Trump. They really are rooting for America to fail . They really are rooting for America to be taken down a pegades, not even necessarily just because they don't like President Trump. It's because a whole lot of people on the political left really don't like this country. They don't think it's the greatest place on earth . They think it's one nation among many. What did Barack Obama famously say nearly a generation ago, yes, I believe in American exceptionalism just as I'm sure the Japanese believe in Japanese exceptionalism or the Brits believe in British exceptionalism . Well, no, they' s something a little different about American exceptionalism, and that is the reality that this country really is the single best place on Earth . And this isn't just boast ing of a proud American patriot, someone who is admittedly biased in his pro American sentiment . No , America really is the best country on Earth and I can objectively prove it . Think about it this way . Our economy easily and I mean easily world's largest . Do you do you believe that America accounts for roughly a quarter of the entire world 's total economic output a quarter . We have in this country the most big businesses in the world , but also the most small businesses . We have the most startups of anywhere on Earth . In fact, so many people are successful here . We have twenty three point eight million millionaires in the United States. To put that into some perspective , if our millionaires were their own separate country , that would be the forty seventh largest country on Earth just populated by Americ an millionaires . And Americans aren't selfish with our money are billionaires, are millionaires. They're not just hoarding it. America leads the world in charitable g iving by a huge margin . We lead in both total dollars given every single year and in donations per capita, meaning how many donations and how many dollars are given person . America is kind as well as intelligent . We have more of the top universities in the world than anyplace else. By a fact or of about ten . We also have more than four hundred Nobel Prizes far more than any other country . And most of those Nobel Priz es aren't in literature or aren't in peace, although we do lead the world in those as well. We lead the world in Nobel Prizes for chemistry. Nobel Prizes for medicine, total Nobel Prizes, America leads the way and it's not even close . We also lead the world in scientific research and development in terms of total dollars spent and among total technological breakthroughs because we also lead the world in technology patents . We also lead the world in major research publications . Basically if there's a major scientific breakthrough , you can pretty much just assume that it's been made in the United States. We are the world's top investor in space exploration . We're the top investor in satellite technology , we have the world's largest , strongest , and most technologically advanced military . And as the last six months have shown , it's not particularly close. Athletically , we have more Olympic gold medals and more total medals than any other nation . Summer Olympics, winter Olympics combined , we dominate. Our professional sports leagues are by far the best in the world . Our college sports are unmatched anywhere. Athletes from across the globe try desperately to come play here. Baseball, basketball, American football, even the world's game, soccer. The top player in the world, Lionel Messi , wanted to come to the United States . Culturally, American movies dominate global theaters. American music is played everywhere, American books are required reading in schools across the globe, and American television shows that American plays are reproduced and performed everywhere . Culturally , athletically , intellectually, militarily, economically , in every area on which countries can be compared, America leads the world. And in almost every category there really is no close second . And the rest of the world proves American greatness constantly because for the past century plus , there has been no country on earth that people have tried to move to more America . The rest of the world wants to be here. The rest of the world wants to be us . And really there's no greater testament to America's greatness than that . You're listening to the Dan O'Donnell Show. show We'll will be right back in just a second . Before you ask yes , that list is going to be written out with every single citation that I have I try to do a version of this pretty much every year just to remind people how great America is. Not was not theoretically can be , but is how much we dominate the nation or dominate the world . Objectively in every metric that you can rank the nations, we rank number one . And in fact in quality of life, this is the one that I just laugh at where it's like, well , America's quality of life. It pales in comparison to Norway. Do you know how many people live in Norway? Just take a wild guess. Just take a wild guess. Do you think there are more people or fewer people in the state of Wisconsin than in Norway? There are more people in Wisconsin than who live in Norway. It's close, but I believe Wisconsin's about five point eight million. Norway's about five point six million . So yeah , Norway , which is a petro state, it is insanely wealthy with oil money , the quote unquote quality of life for all people . You have three hundred million Norwegians ? Take it a while guess they're not going to live nearly as well as three hundred million Americans . You take one reasonably sized state , you dump a bunch of oil money it. Yes, obviously, it's going to be but in terms of the ability of everyday Norwegians to purchase anything and everything , no comparison . Want me to prove it to you? Want me to prove that the average American lives better than the average Norwegian? And by the way, we were just in Norway last a wonderful country. I could not possibly recommend Norway highly enough. The people are insanely ly friend. The country is beautiful. It is a fantastic place . But to compare it in any meaningful way to the United States, I can prove America is a better country than Norway in two words. Two words, that's all it's going to say. Do it? Ready? Two words. Here we go . Air conditioning . No, I'm serious. Air conditioning Our poorest people in this country are far more likely to have air conditioning than your average Norwegian . Do you realize tens of thousands of people across Europe die every single year and Europe doesn't get anywhere near as hot as say Wisconsin is this week. We've got that extreme heat warning I believe pretty much through the rest of the week. Feels like temperature's going to be about one hundred, five, one hundred and ten degrees. I was out mowing the lawn this morning and this was before the heat really set in and it was a hot one. Let me tell you that . European summers don't get anywhere near as hot as ours, and tens of thousands of people die because they don't have access to central air . We do . But in a larger broader sense, the thing that absolutely gets me , and this is something that Leftists will undoubtedly say is not a testament to American greatness. A , we are by far the most billionaires on Earth. We have about nine hundred and eighty nine, I believe that last count, nine hundred eighty nine billionaires. We have one trillionaire. He's a South African, but he is one hundred percent American. He loves this country more than anyone and anything , it seems, Elon Musk. We lead the world in trillionaires and billionaires , but it's millionaires that really sets us apart . Yes, we obviously have the super rich . Having a million dollars, not a million dollars liquid, i. e. a million dollars in cash , but having a million dollars in assets is no longer because of inflation , the massive testament to unfathomable wealth . Being a millionaire does not mean nearly as much. Now the general consensus is you probably need about a million dollars in assets to comfortably retire because the retirement age has not really gone up all that much, but the average age has gone up significantly . There are twenty three nearly twenty four million millionaires in the United States . All of our millionaires, if they started their own country , would be the forty seventh largest country on Ethar . We would have more people Norway, Sweden, Ireland, and Denmark , I believe, combined . Total population of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Ireland , I believe it's combined , total people , we have more millionaires in the United States . These aren't people born with silver spoons in their mouth . These are people by and large who started , well , a heating and AC business that you actually can make money off of in the United States as opposed to somewhere in Europe where because of climate regulations , you can't have literally lifesaving technology . Intellectually , athletically , Olympic medals, my producer , Doug and I were arguing about, oh, that even the soccer leagues. Well, yes, okay, nobody's going to deny the top soccer league in the world is the Premier League in England. There's just, I mean, La Liga in Spain. That's basically that's Barcelona and Real Madrid. It's La Liga is two teams . The prem iere you've got the you got the big six usually eight to ten teams out of the twenty in the Premier League have a legitimate shot of winning . So okay, soccer what else here's the thing about soccer though . The only reason America isn't the dominant force in soccer is because all of our top athletes go to football, basketball, and baseball because the top leagues are here in the United States and they're such an redible financial reward , reward in terms of fame and fortune alike . You see in the person of Alex Freeman , what America would be like if our top athletes went to soccer instead of football. Alex Freeman is the son of Green Bay Packers great wide receiver Antonio Freeman . Could you imagine if top wide receivers in the NFL were all soccer players . Good luck keeping up with Tyrik Hill when he's got the ball at his feet random Roman ian defender do you really think anybody is going to be able to keep up with the size and speed of Justin Jefferson and Jamar Chase on the soccer pitch? Of course not . But the point is that in terms of the games that America plays , those are the games that get exported to the rest of the world. Soccer is the world's game to be sure , but is there a more uniquely American game than basketball? I mean, you actually can trace baseball, it's all right. Abner Doubleday probably did not invent baseball. But basketball really can be traced to Dr. James Naysmith and Springfield, Massachusetts putting up the old peach baskets in the gym , American football . Yes, it sort of evolved from earlier games, but it's a uniquely American game . And look at how people wherever the NFL goes, love it. The only reason American football hasn't taken over is because there's such a heavy bar. It costs so much for the equipment and it's sort of difficult to learn, but really it's it's the cost bar that the world isn't playing it. Basketball though, all you need is a hoop, all you need is a ball. The world loves it . In sphere America is the dominant nation . But wouldn't you know it? There are a whole lot of people here who really don't even like flying the flag NBC News dives into how many Americans say the stars and stripes is now a red flag . That's right , flying the red white and blue is a red flag to liberal Americans. We will dive that nonsense when the Dan O'Donnell show returns Discover top rated stays loved by guests rated highest by real guests through authentic reviews . Verbo Book of Vacation Rental loved by guests . 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To some its old glory, to others, it's a Maga hat on a stick . Can we talk about the extreme mental illness of people who tie everything in life back to Donald Trump . That's got to be some form of unhealthy obsession. Truly, truly . Like how are you unable to enjoy things because it might be quote unquote Trump coded ? Like I want you to I know there's a certain percentage of L whoib are lsistening to me right now . Just detach , just relax . Trump is not going to get you. You can go out. You can you can go to your local fourth of July parade and it is not going to be supporting Trump. I promise you it'll be okay . You can go to your neighbor's pool party and you can have fun and you can even wear an American flag swimsuit and nobody will think you suddenly support Trump primarily because you are so unhing ed and obsessed . You will say repeatedly, just because I'm wearing an American flag swimsuit, that doesn't mean that I like Trump. Here is the story from corky Simashko to fly or not to fly an American flag. That was never a question for Bruce Watson who has put up his national pride on display for years and, nudge his neighbors in his small New England town to do the same. I'm very proud of our flag, the writer said. It's the symbol of we the people . But as the polarized nation marks its two hundred fiftieth birthday, Wat son, seventy two worries his stars in stripes may now need an asterisk. If we do fly the flag, we will also put out signs to make it clear that we are not Maga, he said. Again, ladies and gentlemen, may I interject? Bruce Watson, seventy two years old , proving once again that the boomer libs are the single most cringe creatures that have ever walked the earth. I say more cringe than even like the dumbest dinosaur . These dinosaurs are absolutely the most cringe. He's going to put out a sign , says, Yes , I am flying the flag . But you know what he's actually saying? Please , unhinged Lefties , do not deface this house. Do not vandalize my home . The American flag is a symbol striped with many meanings, whether it's hung on front porches, waved in parades, protests, and World Cup matches, or stapped on lapel pins and boxing trunks. Like so much else in American life, it has also been tangled up in politics and the policies of President Donald Trump. No, actually it hasn't. It really hasn't . Folks, I don't even know what to say to a political movement that has abdicated the American flag to its opponents . Like Democrats, you're just fine with the idea that you are so anti American that the flag, the literal symbol of America is now associated with your opponent . NBC News asked readers to share their feelings and practices around the flag in a moment . Polls suggest when patriotism, national pride, and optimism for the country's future are all fray. Like Watson, some say the flag can be taken as an endorsement of the current administration . For others, it isn't tied to any one party but is a way of life . Rather than not fly the flag, several readers said they plan to show their patriotism and protest Trump by flying it upside down to sign that the country is in distress. Here we go, another boomer lib. Another book f,olks, I'm telling you it does not get more cringe. Just no, boomers, you're fine. Libs , you're nuts, but you're fine. If you're a boomer lib, you are the most cringe person on planet. You are more cringe than Francesca Hong