Internal Democratic Party Shifts

The Mark Billing podcast is presented by ULIN. For quality shipping and industrial supplies, ULIN has everything in stock , visit youline. com . The Mark Belling podcast is a production of IHR radio podcasts. Let me tell you about two things that go hand in hand when you're in politics or government flexing your muscles and compromising . Let's deal with this from the perspective of the Republican Party. It seems to me that there are two giant wings of the party . The first is the wing that just can't stand flexing its muscles . Runs for office gets elected but simply can't bring itself to do what most of its constituents want . For decades in the late twentieth century , that's what the Republicans in Congress were. You had leaders like old Bob Michael, who I knew in the minority . They sat there . He pretty much rolled over to Tip O'Neill, gave a few speeches , voted no one a few things , but never really tried to use any leverage at all . And that's a lot of Republicans that we have in Wisconsin, too . Now the other side , there are some who simply can't bring themselves to compromise on anything . Meaning they never get anything done either . Because in order to get something done in life often you have to give up some of the things that you don't want in order to get the things you do want . A perfect example of this would be Marjorie Taylor Green, who's now quit the Republican Party . President Trump enabled her to have incredible influence in the government . But she wanted to run for the United States Senate in Georgia and Trump said he wasn't going to support her . She couldn't accept not getting that thing . So she burned the house down . She starts firing away at Trump on everything else, runs around to the view, courting Lefties, now quits the party . There are others like that that we've had in Wisconsin as well . Bullheads who demand their way on every single thing , and then we end up getting nothing . What you need to be able to do is both . You need to be able to flex your damn muscles and use the power and leverage you have . But you use that not to simply steamroll , but to get what you want . And getting what you want then means after flexing your muscles . You will'ingre to concede on some other things to get most of what you want . There's an example of this going on right now with Trump . I've marveled at how he's been able to engage on so many issues. You know, he's got the war with Iran going on and the on again, off again negotiations. He isn't he doesn't seem to be missing a beat on any of the other domestic issues that are out there despite what some of his critics say, but I'm glad we've got him engaged again on the issue that we're going to talk about here as I open the program , because it's a perfect example, I think of utilizing both flexing your muscles for the purpose of compromising . 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Trump wanted it because he realizes that for the middle class the affordability of housing has become a legitimate issue . It's a complicated issue, but it's legitimate . But the bill they passed is like almost all government solutions . Whatever it does to make housing more affordable comes at the expense of getting government all glop ped into the whole damn thing . Nonetheless, Trump supported it passed , and Trump was poised to sign it. They called the news conference that he was going to sign the bill. He didn't sign the bill . Instead, he put out the following statement . I'll quote it. Today's housing news conference in signing is hereby canceled until such time as we pass the desperately needed Save America Act, which I consider to be a national emergency . The Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren Centric Housing Bill, which is of minor import ance compared to lower interest rates and even FIFA , pales in comparison to passing the Save America Act . This is what Americans, both Democrats, Republicans, and everyone else care about . Get the bad Republicans to approve it or better yet , terminate the filibuster and approve it , and everything else Republicans have ever dreamed of. The Democrats will do it in one hour, one hundred percent . Republicans will feel very stupid if they don't do it . I've been watching this with tears in my eyes So what Trump is doing is he's saying, look, I'm not going to sign this housing bill , which prior to him saying this, he supported until you pass the SAVE Act ? The Save Act is the legislation that many of us on the right consider to be absolutely critical if we're to save our country . Everyone knows that the lefties depend on massive voter currentout, much of it of dubious legality , and are now trying to get as many illegals into the United States to become voters as possible The Save America Act puts in place requirements that almost every American, including a vast majority of Democrats support. The big one is nationaliz ing voter ID . We have voter ID in Wisconsin . Remember before we had voter ID in Wisconsin, all of the lefties said, Oh, it's going to disenfranchise all these people. The Republicans are going to win every well, we have voter ID in Wisconsin . We had a massive turnout in the last election . It hasn't disenfranchised anyone, but there are a number of states that don't have it . I agree with Trump in completely distrusting the results of the Los Angeles mayoral election. They don't have photo ID. Anybody can walk in, say their name and get a ballot . And remember , California has lots of United States House Districts. And believe it or not, some of them are swing districts even after they did their redrawing . Other states as well , blue states that have become closer to purple as Republicans have made gains . They don't have voter ID either. The other big requirement of the bill is to require proof of citizenship in order to be a registered voter. The left really hates that one . We know that there are many non citizens here legally, but non citizens who are voting because they get caught all the time . But it's really hard to catch because we don't have a database in which there's a big list of these are the people in the United States who aren't citizens. There's no such list and there's obviously not a list of those here illegally that aren't any list . So when you go in to vote without having to prove citizenship, you know that lots of non citizens are voting and the L iseft counting on this. They've come right out and said they want non citizens to be able to vote . Well, requiring proof of citizenship, therefore, is a massive threat to the left . This bill is stalled , even though the Republicans still control the House barely and the Senate , there are a handful of Republican senators who don't support it . One of them just out of fossilized spite , Mitch McConnell . You also have a guy Cassidy from Louisiana . Trump opposed him in the Senate primary down there. He lost his seat I'm not going to vote for this . Beyond that , even if you get the Republicans to support it, it is vulnerable to a Democrat filibuster. Remember in the Senate, in order to end debate, you need sixty votes. Well, they don't have sixty votes . So Trump is saying that this act is so important , it's an emergency to restore integrity to our elections by putting in the simple kind of safeguards that are more minimal than you're required to get to board an airplane . And he's saying, I'm not going to sign the housing bill until you do it . This is both things . It's flexing your muscle for the purpose of what ? Compromising . The Democrats say they want this housing bill. So do a fair number of Republicans . Trump doesn't give a crap about that bill , saying, look, I'll give you this . But you got to work with me on this other thing . This is how you get things done . And if we do it, and as I say, there's some things in this housing bill that I could go on forever about whether or not institutional institutions ought to be able to buy individual private housing. They've been doing it because institutions have thought that housing has been unbelievably low priced for the long est time . A number of homesteals in Milwaukee have been corporations buying out houses that then turn around and rent 'em . Is it a good thing or a bad thing? What's a great thing if you're a homeowner who lives in these neighborhoods because it's driving up your property values, your asset, your net worth. It's a bad thing if you're somebody who's looking to buy houses change . Well, without regard to whether it's a good thing or a bad thing, it's in in that housing affordability bill. I don't know if I like it or not , but there are certain things that I'm willing to swallow if we can get photo ID for voting See, the people who disdain Trump keeps oh he's a dictator, no kings . Trump's entire life has been compromised . He simply tries when there is a compromise to get more of what he wants than the other side wants. He wrote a book about it. I've said this now for I think ever since Trump emerged on the scene in twenty fifteen. If you want to understand Trump, read the art of the deal. He wrote that long before he was a politician. He wrote it when he was a celebrity who had succeeded in a number of real estate deals that he talks about his beliefs in negotiation . It's right there with like those warrior books that Sun Shi or whatever the hell his name is wrote in terms of people understanding power and strategy and how you negotiate . Trump is a compromise her . He's willing to cut a deal but on his terms. And in this instance, he's sizing up something that the other side wants and saying, I'll give it to you . But you got to give me this . Now the problem here isn't the Republicans in the Senate because almost all of them are forward . The problem is a few Republicans in the Senate I mean, one of the things ironic about this is Susan Collins is one of those that's been kind of holding out on it. She's in a difficult situation . She's up got a tough reelection fight running against a glorified Nazi this year in Platin um. But it's a Democrat state and she's a Republican. And the only way she's been able to be reelected is she's a very liberal Republican. You're still better off with her than a Democrat because if you don't have control of the Senate, you can't pass anything . But on this bill , this is a popular bill even among Democrats, it's the winning side of the issue to be on. Now, in the end, you might have to end the filibuster on and to the point that Trump was making this statement is look , when the Democrats get the Senate back, you know damn well they're going to end the filibuster. They've radicalized themselves on everything . They're going to get rid of it . See, you better be willing to use this power here on this . The window on this thing is closing . It is very likely the Democrats take the House in this walls elections. The only pundit that I know that keeps saying that that's not going to happen is Newt Gingridge and Newt's a really smart guy. Maybe he's right. They might lose the Senate, but they probably lose the House. In which case, you can't pass anything . If you don't have control of both chambers, you can't pass anything. The Democrats will not pass any bill Trump wants to the House . Trump's going to have to govern by executive order and administrative rule and use his veto pen to stop any stupid bills they pass . So in order to get this thing that is critical to having election integrity . We need to get the SAVE Act passed, and Trump's now going to the mat on it . With limited time . And as I say, part of the problem is you have some Republican senators who are there's nothing voters can do with Cassidy. They've already thrown him out on the Republican primary . You're now going to face perhaps a problem with Cornyn , the Republican incumbent senator in Texas who thrown out a primary. The voters can do anything about him. He's already a lame duck . And then you have Mitch McConnell, the ultimate lame duck, not running for reelection, half dead and can't stand Trump because Mitch McConnell's from yesterday's Republican Party. So you got to do everything you possibly can to say, okay , you guys want all these other things. I'm not giving you that until you give me this, which by the way, all my voters want, all Republicans want, including the moderate Republicans, and most Democrats want . This is a good case study in my I've been lecturing Republicans on this forever. There are some that are just so woosy r,hinos . They can't they're not willing to do anything , but there are also some who call themselves conservatives who are just as big a problem. Nothing gets done with them either because they can't bend on anything . You gotta bend to get the stuff that you want, even if it means giving up a few things that you don't end up. Your entire service in government was a waste of time because not one damn thing got done . They held a hearing in Milwaukee yesterday . I've done a segment on this already, but this has to be talked about . This is I think the most insane idea in the history of Milwaukee. Do you understand the territory that takes in there There are some socialists now who have gotten a foothold in Milwaukee and God forbid that they take over. I think there's a good chance in the twenty eighth Mayor election they're going to try to knock off Mayor Chevy and get a socialist. Mayor Chevy is not very effective , but he's not a socialist. He's a regular old Democrat . But they're pushing now for their things. And one and the things that socialists believe in is they believe government control of most things that the private sector runs . They want to take over electrical service in the city of Milwaukee . The city of Milwaukee is in the Wi Energy Service Area . They want Milwaukee to run its own utility. Do you understand how terri bly stupid this is Milwaukee can't run a free trolley . We ripped up all the city streets to put in this trolle y that they initially claimed they were going to charge a buck a ride. They never even put in fare boxes because they knew that anybody who had to pay a buck wouldn't ride it . So it runs around summerfest is going on this weekend. The only time I ever see it packed during summerfest because they have the one line that stops close to the far north end of the summer fest grounds over by the Cotour . Other than that , there's a couple in here and a couple and it's free . It loses a fortune. It busts down all the time . It moves about four miles an hour . It costs a fortune. The city's hemorrhaging money on it . But in the end, it's relatively harmless. It screws up the streets that it's on other you know, costs us money. Can you imagine if the city of Milwaukee is in charge of your electricity? This would have been a bad ide a fifteen years ago, but it's a terrible idea now. Anybody who's paying attention to anything is aware that we are in desperate need in America of way more power . Even if only twenty percent of the data centers are built , we are way short of the amount of power already . You're seeing a number of the data centers hiring private companies to build their own power plants at the centers . Just saying we can't wait for the utilities . How's Milwaukee going to generate power . They could, I suppose, take over the one small power plant to Silhom ene Valley. That can't power the city . We energy zones the power plants . What? Is Milwaukee going to say we're going to buy a power plant that's not in the city ? How much is that going to cost ? Let me give you the next thing . This thing will go dead bust . I mentioned the last time I brought this up in the entire We Energy Service area , which is much of southeastern Wisconsin. WPS comes into a portion of it in the northern end of Wisconsin , the one up in Green Bay, then there's the one in Madison, Wisconsin Power Allied, Alliant . But most of Southeastern Wisconsin is We Energies . More than half of the uncollectible bills that We Energies has are city of Milwauke e, which they can swallow because they're absorbed by the entire region service area . How does Milwaukee swallow half of its people not payed ? As it is, Milwaukee can't get anybody to pay parking fines. Everybody's running around pronoun driving without a license. They get ninety seven tickets for this. They don't pay their fines, so they take away their license longer. The jail doesn't accept people on traffic warrants, so they don't pay anything. It's tens of of millions dollars that Milwaukee's ordered fine. Now, imagine there's an electricity , which means that the rates are going to have to be so high to cover all of the non payers . You could say you can cut off the electricity as it is. We have laws that say you can't cut off electricity in the winter, even if people don't pay . But the bigger thing is we all know the trend for the future. It's going to require far more electricity in order to have an electrical service that is reliable and there . And that means the construction of new power plants, if Milwaukee's own utility , it either has to A build its power plants or B uy the power on the open market in which they're going to have no leverage and they're going to be overcharged . Why in the world would you want to take this over? Now the reason the leftis want to take it over lots of patronage, jobs and all these contracts , but it will mean that the city will be have a future of constant blackouts and brownouts . Just guaranteeing . Secondly , it will kill attempts to attract businesses that are any type of electric users at all , any tech company? Look at Northwest Air Mutual just building all these buildings in Milwaukee has this huge foothold here . It can't afford to be in a city in which the electric service is unreliable . This idea, as I said, is insane . I thought the idea of ripped on i seven hundred ninety four, which they still want to do was the most insane thing out there . This is way worse . As I've said in the past, you can have cities run their own utility . City I grew up in Kakona has municipal utility . It has its own power plant . It's on the Fox River . And way back in the old days, some visionaries said , We're going to build a hydro electric plant on the river. Fox River can have a pretty good current . So you use that current, it's called a hydroelectric plant, that's what it is. Ankakon is a small enough city that that plant is able to pretty much serve the city. If they need more, they buy it on the open market. Sometimes they have access and they sell . But if you don't this is a model that can work in a smaller type city that has its own power plant and has had one for some time . If you don't have your own power plant, the startup cost, it costs hundreds of millions to build these plants . And I'll tell you, I'm going up a corner. We have a mill and a couple of other factories. There aren't any giant use of electricities. It's mostly a bunch of houses that people turning the AC on. This idea is insanity . Here's why it comes up though . See, Milwaukee has a ton of problems as we know. The schools stink , crime is out of control , reckless driving's terrible , street takeovers are going on . We all know the problems . See, Lefties don't know how to solve those problems. In fact, Lefties created those problems because they don't know how to solve those problems. What they do is they go on something else over here. They don't want to, well, I don't, you know, what we try to do on crime doesn't work, not jail anybody . Spend a fortune on anti crime programs that don't work . So let's just go and do something else , fantasize about taking over this thing, thus creating another crisis . What needs to happen is the lefties who aren't nuts whackle like the non Ryan Clancy Lefties. He's a Marxist in the legislature. I think he's going to run for mayor in twenty eight. Nobody agrees with me on that, but the other thing that needs to happen is the African American community needs to wake up . There's nothing in this for them . And they're the ones that could be most vulnerable when the power goes out . They don't have generators and other things to keep themselves warm and keep their food from spoiling or their little children to be able to go to sleep . They better understand that a lot of these white Marxists pushing this crap couldn't care less about them . Now this I find an interesting story here in the Ep ic Times . There are many people in life who can only think linear . Linearly isn't a word . Can only think in a linear fashion . I understand that every single thing you do causes other things to happen. Look at your own course of life . I think for example, when I got out of high school Going to a private university was off the cards because they had another money . Thank God, they didn't have the kind of student loans then that they didn't now because maybe I would have dumb been enough to go to a place like Marquette, which is a school I really would have liked . And then I would not have been able to stay and radio those first fifteen years and pay off the student loans for private college and so I had never done my choices on the advice of my guidance counselor. It was either going to be Madison or Lacrosse . I decided to go to Lacrosse . I look back at how almost else in my life first of all, I met certain people which led me to get my first jobs . If I go out to Madison, would I have been bigger in media? Maybe I would have become a huge deal there or would I have been lost in the shuffle ? I would have met an entirely different circle of friends of my life would have gone in any number of different directions. It's just one decision that you make. You can come up with this on almost anything . Somebody suggests that you go out tonight with friends and you don't really want to go, you go along. You end up meeting somebody and you end up getting married . You didn't go out that particular night, you never would have met that imagine . Many people, however, particularly when they make decisions, do not understand that they have to consider all the fallout They have a total inability to think things through. This is something again that is chronic to people on the left because people on the left don't know how anything works . Which brings me to this story . Here's something we all know even though the media doesn't like to report it. Trump has shut down the border . The number of border crossings is at its lowest level in decades . And that's because the borders being enforced. Not only are fewer people successfully getting across , though we're catching more of them that are trying to do so because A there's more enforcement and B, because so few are trying to do it, it's easier to find the ones that are and C, they've stopped crying . But that story doesn't end there Because the border patrol and customs enforcement has been able to shut down the border as effectively as it has. It's able to turn its attention to other areas. And this is where the story comes in There has been a massive decrease in drugs being smuggled across the border. The first part is logical. The fewer people that come in, well, some of those people that are coming with the illegal drugs, so you've cut it that way. But secondly , they have been able to put in place operations that require lots of personnel, personnel in the path that initially were simply required to stop the crossings of the border of everyone to try to stop the very sophisticated smuggling operations that are going on. Let me read a few paragraphs in the story. As the flood of illegal immigrants at America's southern border slowed to a trickle, agents shifted gears . Now they are focused on security, and that has led to record drug seizures with the most secure border in America . US customs and border patrol took the Epoch Times behind the scenes and this reporter went down on the border and reported on this. The border between San Diego and Mexico home of the San Jacidro Port of Entry , the busiest land border crossing in the western hemisphere . The San Diego sector patrolled by thousands of federal officers encompasses more than fifty six thousand square miles . That includes sixty linear miles of international boundary between the United States and Mexico , and an additional nine hundred and thirty one miles of coastal border stretching from the California Mexico line to north of Oregon . So in other words, that sector covers essentially the Pacific . For those of you who don't know anything about geography, Mexico has this there's this little gap. They call it Bahja, California . The westernmost portion of Mexico is like a peninsula . So that whole stretch going all the way those casamel not Cazamel Accapulco . What's the other big city on that side on the west side over there? Puerto Rayana. And where's the place that Jimmy that not Jim my Buffett , Sammy Hagar created his first place. There's another one. Anyway, all of those cities all the way down there, all the way up, the entire Western Coasts, that's what the San Diegoice Off covers . They cover the area along the Pacific . That's the fifty six thousand miles, back to the story . Officers said the success they're experiencing not just in the drug seizures, but also in fewer illegal immigrants entering the country stems to the Trump administration's tough border policies without having four or five hundred people in our detention making an asylum claim . I'm going to take those off icers and say, I don't need you to process asylum . I need you out there looking for dope , looking for people smuggling, looking for those agriculture violations , Maritza Marl Meritz Marin, port director at the San Jedra Point of entry told the Epoch Times . Marin said she was able to move about one hundred and eighty officers from handling administrative work , processing illegal immigrants to enforcement and infection. Now the story goes on . One of the things that has driven the drug problem, particularly the fentanyl problem in the United States has been that it has been so cheap . We had an inverse relationship in drugs. Now back when I was younger and first exposed to the people who were using drug s , basic rule of thumb was the cheaper the drug , the less buzz you'd get by it . Makes sense . So pot was cheaper than cocaine and cocaine was cheaper than heroin and so on. What's happened with the opioid crisis and opioid is a specific type of opioid people who get into the opioids tend to be people who aren't looking to be whacked up out of their mind. Cole can crack users are looking to get buzzed. They're looking to be mellowed out . It started largely in the United States with the pain medication . People would pop the pills and get addicted . But the pain pills, which certainly can give you a high . One pill only does so much for you, and they ended up graduating to heroin when heroin is the pain pills on steroids . What happened was we cracked down on the pain pill abuse . I've told forever stories about Kentucky , in which you had all these fake pain clinics that would open in trailers in southern Kentucky . And people were buying hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these pills with some quack writing on a script. And they would turn around and resell those. And that's what started the addiction problem throughout the United States. Well, we cracked down on that. And the pills are now really hard to get. If you don't have a prescription, the street value to get, say, some of these oxy pills and so on is quite high . The heroine got cheaper than the pills . Well, we cracked down on heroin . We've ended up having drug dealers lace the heroin with fentanyl. Fentanyl is way more powerful than heroin, but fentanyl's unbelievably cheap because it's been flying into the southern border. The fentanyl is not being stolen by and large from hospitals . It's coming in often China via Mexico . China's massive exporter of fentanyl . But you can't just send it in the way that China sends in all the all the shoes and all the stuff that comes in. It's got to come in illegally. It's been coming into the southern border and it's been coming in so high that fentanyl got incredibly cheap so the drug dealers were selling the really potent stuff cheaper than the less potent stuff because they had so much fenanol. So we've ended up with people far more addicted and dying far more frequently because the fenanol is so addictive . The biggest way to stop that is if you limit the supply of fentanyl by stopping it from coming in, it starts to get more expensive . And suddenly it's not in the interest of the drug dealers to lace the drugs that they're selling with f etanyl . And it's not so cheap for people that are just messing around out there to get it . Thus , they either don't get as addicted or maybe never try it at all . Until you make the supply more limited, you will never stop this problem . And as Trump argued when he ran he argued this in sixteen, but frankly the Tentanol problem was worse when he ran in twenty four , that you're not going to solve the drug problem until you solve the border . One of the many nightmarishly awful things that Biden and Kamala did when they opened up the border is they killed all these people via addiction and made people so miserable because of it . Trump is fixing that and it's not just stopping the illegals from coming in . It's stopping the drugs from coming in. Another story for you . This story is being reported by McCyver, the Conservative news agency in Madison. And a couple of people have urged me to pick up on the story. Now, obviously I can't go into the depth that they have, but for those of you who want to go to their website, it's simply McCyver, and that's M A C I V E R McCyver . Institute com They have a lot of reporting on there. They've been focusing on this story about this contract that the Evers Administration handed out to a company , Vicki has been commenting a lot on this a lot in her show . And I don't know that you've been on this Jason, have you? It has to do with it's the Iris Medicaid Contre. No. So for those of you l whoisten to WISN Radio, Vicki's been on this to some extent . The company that we handed out the contract to the I RS program. Iris is part of Medicaid . Again, Medicaid is healthcare for low income people. Medicare is healthcare for seniors . Medicaid . We used to have numerous agencies administer the program, and under Evers they decided to give the whole contract no bid was simply proposals, and this is the one they accepted A company called PPL , PPL is tied into the Unions . I think that this was simply Evers a sloppy wet kiss to his allies . If Evers legacy is anything, it's how he rolled over and hoard himself out to the state employees and the teachers. We still have state employees who are on work at home meaning that I'm working. This company PPL is now under investigation by the Department of Justice . In addition to that, their contract has been suspended in Missouri . They're being investigated in New York . Not only corruption is being probed , but terrible inefficiency of services, the very low income people who need the care are often not getting it because PPL is so miserable. And because in Wisconsin we have one company doing the whole thing rather than the multiple before . People have no choice but if they're using the state of Wisconsin services through this to use PPL . Again, I can't get into this in any greater length than I just did here . But the mainstream media is simply not reporting this story . And again, this company has contracts in a number of other states. The Feds now have them under investigation . The fact that the contractor for a massive program vital to lower income people for their healthcare needs in Wisconsin is under federal investigation and in fact has been booted out of several other states is noteworthy . Now with the IRS program does is provide of all the things that Medicaid does , this is among the most important . It provides in home care for people with disabilities, sometimes elderly . In other words, people who want to stay at home but need assistance at home . Those aren't just seniors. Those are often people that have all sorts of physical problems but are at . There's one company in Wisconsin that runs that whole thing for the state of Wisconsin right now . The company was handed out on a patronage basis and that company is under investigation everywhere . Now you're not going to see Evers's administration do anything to yank this contract or provide any scrutiny because they were given the contract because of their tight ties . I'll tell you something else . You watch when Evers leaves . And remember, even if the Democrats win, a lot of the Evers people are going to be gone because some of the Democrats running for governor can't stand Evers, like the Lieutenant Governor Sarah Rodriguez who will clean house. She wins the governor's nom ination. She, you know, they're going to be out of there . God forbid who's going to come in if Francesco Hong takes over the state. Nonetheless , they're all going to be looking for jobs and don't be shocked when some of them go to work for some of these agencies that Ever's handed contracts out to . I think on that note, it's time for a break. I got a good topic next . It has to do with the local school district, but you're going to have to wait just a few seconds to find out who it is on the Mark Belling podcast. Charisma Customs and Delafield, their sponsor , they're also where I took my car. 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There are a number of elementary districts that feed into Arrowhead. Arrowhead covers a huge portion of northern Waucashaw County . The school The school is located in Merton, which is right next to Heartland, but that entire north the area is kind of north of Ocan, the whole northern portion of what we call the Lake Country. That's the Arrowhead area. It's a big school . The school board's rather conservative and the voting block is rather conservative , but it's public school . At graduation and again , arrowheads huge. So the graduation is a huge graduation with zillions of kids. One of the things that they did and the graduation was june sixth, they said the story is a couple of weeks old, but I wanted to dive into it here . As the students, and I don't know if they did this as they walked up for the diplomas, but what they did is they posted on the big video screen one quote from each of the kids , you know, and it was supposed to be some quote about, you know, and how they're something that was served to them in school and inspired them and so on. One of the students is named Sirian Baranja, and I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. By the way, the reporting of the story that I'm using is coming from JS Online. Sirianne Baranja . The quote that she wanted to use was from Proverbs . In other words, it's a Bible verse. Proverbs, proverbs three, six . In all your ways, acknowledging him and he shall direct your path. Now, first of all , clearly it's religious , but it doesn't have any name in it. It says Him and Him clearly refers to God . Proverbs is from the Old Testament, so it isn't even precisely a Christian verse Jews and even some Muslims who accept portions of the Old Testament will be okay with that. And I would also argue it's rather benign . It isn't follow Christ you're going to go to hell . Arrowheads officials said she can't use it . They told her that she can't use that because it's religious in nature Sarianne's making a stink. Now , as you know, I have a special place in my heart for young people who make a stink on conservative issues . Charlie Kirk inspired that in a lot of people and it's one of the things that is so devastating about the fact that we've lost him. Siri Anne showed up at the school board to gripe about the fact that Conrad Farner and the other people who run Arrowhead said, She can't put that up there . I'll quote here from the story. My faith is the very core of my identity and is what gave me the strength to navigate high school as it is the foundation of what I plan to build my future . Now Christians are taught that you must center your life around God around Christ . That's the center of your life , and all of the other things are secondary to that. That's teaching. And Sarianne accepts that teaching. Furthermore, I'm sure it's true. This is what drives her life. It's the focus of her life. So that was her quote . They told her that she couldn't do it. Now in objective to this area and pointed out as recently as two years ago, a lot of religious quotes were posted in this thing , and this is where the administration is coming in and explaining itself. And in fairness to the Arrhead Administration, I'll read their quotes here . First of all, Sirien said a number of other students wanted to use verses like this and they were banned also, but Sirien is the one who went to the school board to complain about it. The administrator of the district The superintendent is Conrad Farner . And he says that this violates district policy . He says the district has every right to restrict students from making political or religious statements in this venue . And he said, We've got the law that are signed here . This is policy and we've enforced it, and the policy is in accordance with the law Now somebody may challenge them on this, but I think the policy is in accordance with the law. As far as that goes , I think they may be within their rights, but remember , just because they have the right to tell this kid doesn't mean that they have to tell that kid . I have a right to own a gun. That doesn't mean I have to own a gun . I have rights of free speech. Doesn't mean I have to exercise them . Now, the Supreme Court has clearly held that government cannot restrict individual speech or they cannot discriminate on the basis of religion. For example , if a religious group wants to use a school room for a private meeting, if they rent out that room to other groups, they can't say no to a religious group. The notion being that it isn't the government that's holding the meeting, it's the private group that's simply using the government facility from doing so . Likewise , Kidd wants to pray before a football game can pray . Can't stop the kid from praying . Now the school district is claiming that this was part of a school function , that this was the school's thing, that this makes it government sanctioned speech in the same way that a student can't quote religious statements in class or can't, you know, use class as a place for religious worship. Graduation can't be that either. The newspaper quotes Foreigner who sent it out an email and I'm going to quote it extensively here There was a time when most classical music the student draws attention to the fact that they just had a musical performance in which some religious music was performed. And Farner does have a legitimate response to that . If you're going to how do you allow kids to perform, say Bach ? By not allowing religious music? That's about all he wrote . There was a time when most classical music was written by or for church es or religions, so to exclude all of the music would limit our students' exposure to pieces that are excellent for their development. He also said that there is a difference between a school board member praying as a private individual before or after a meet ing and the district administration following laws, policies, and legal advice to oversee daily operation. The administration has no control or oversight of school board members' choices either in their duties as board members or private citizens. In a june eleventh email to a reporter, Farner said only six or seven students out of more than five hundred submitted comments with religious connotations . Rather than saying they were denied something, it is far more accurate to say they did not follow unambiguous directions and were simply told to do so. After being reminded of the district's expectations, the students submitted appropriate comments without any issues. In other words, you're saying, Look, we told them they can't put anything religious in there. And after we told them that they didn't put it in there . Now the kids say, well, yeah, I had to do the non religious statement because they wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do, which was a religious statement continuing . This is fine to the administrator. The truth to this matter is an extremely small number of students and parents do not understand the law around this issue . Now this is where my antenna come up. Whenever somebody starts saying, Well, you don't understand . I often find out that they're the ones that don't understand. And this has happened forever on this so called notion of separation of church and state language which does not appear in the Constitution . The First Amendment of the United States said that we have freedom of religion which means that the government cannot establish a religion The second clause in there or prohibit the free exercise thereof. The First Amendment doesn't provide separation of church and state. It merely says the government can't set up its own religion. And the reason that was in there is the country that we rebelled against and broke away from, England had the Church of England , which we call over here the Anglican Church. They call it that. We didn't want to have a state imposed religion , but we certainly did not say that you can restrict anybody's right to express their own religious beliefs. The question here is if it's a graduation and the statements are printed on the video board, is this the government speech or the student speech? And even if it is the student speech, does the school have the right to restrict it? I do think they have the right to restrict it, but they don't have a requirement to restrict it That's the distinction . I think they are within their legal rights to say you Christians can't say anything up there about the Bible against them about God. They have a right to do that . But they don't have to . That was their choice . Back to the statement . Instead of accepting our expectations and trying to learn and understand the legal explanation and teaching students the importance of following reasonable directions and the law, they chose to go to the media. Oh shut up . They don't like your decision and they ran then to the media. Lefties have been doing this forever . Good on this Christian kid for running to the media on this. Shut up. Oh, instead of following directions. For one thing, I think they've now graduated meaning they're not underneath their thumb anymore . It is remarkable. You know, you've got lefty kids walking out of school for every damn thing imaginable. And they always get praised for having the courage of their convictions . This kid's going to the meeting and going to the school board bitched about the fact she put into a Bible verse up there and Conrad Farner's nose is all bent out of joint . In an email to a reporter before the meeting, Farners had students were explicitly told the graduating ceremony graduation ceremony slide deck is not for expressing religious or political views. And I got now I can understand this. I don't want a bunch of kids up there saying I'd abolish I use all of this stuff. It's graduation say something about yourself . And I could further understand that they don't want over carrying out about religion. If you know some kid up there, you know , there's anti Semitism right and left, that the Jews are creating a genocide in Gaza and all that. I get all of that . Now, I would say that this student's comments were rather benign and almost generically religious It almost could have referred to anybody's version of God, although it was, undeniably, a biblical verse and a portion of the Bible from the portion of the Bible, the Old Testament that is accepted by Jews and Christians, but probably not by atheists and so on. But here's my larger takeaway . If this is what Arrowhead is saying , that you can't even hint Hint when talking about yourself in a one sentence statement about what defines you as you leave the damn school that you've been to , if you can't even hint about anything that might have a religious connotation, if you can't do that . Then you're just sending a loud scream and message . Then anybody's got any religious beliefs stop sending their kids to arrowhead because there are alternatives . Late Country Lutheran's not that far down the road . And I'm sure they don't have any problems with kids expressing their religious belief . A lot of kids in that area, Catholics send their kids to Catholic memorial, which is in Waukeshaw, which is the Hall, but that alternative is there . Trinity Academy, which is a fantastic private school , private Catholic school, unaffiliated with the Catholic Church, outstanding private school , you can send your kids there and numerous other places . If that's what you wanna have, then we're gonna run a school in which we're not going to let you even hint in the most vagus terms at a graduation , God, okay, fine. That is, as I said, they're right . But it's also the right of the rest of us to realize that one of the reasons we're all screwed up in this society is you have some people that are just hell bent literally , I'm not even allowing any hint to got it. As I said, I get where they're coming from. But I think they have the right to stop the kids from saying this, but I'm not an expert in their area. But I know this, they don't have to exercise that right . They could have allowed this, but they didn't They didn't . The one thing these schools are all obsessed with is enrollment because that's how they get their state aid and out of the late out of the suburbs they're constantly whining they don't get enough state aid. Okay f,ine . This is a message to all these kids out there . God's not allowed to arrowhead at all. Okay, and that's again, that's Arrowhead's privilege. If they want to run an existential ist atheistic school in which God can't be brought up ever. That's their right . So send your kids to one of the many outstanding private schools in that area where where they don't get the hebijeebs if the word him has a capital H. And by the way, that's the only thing in there that anybody would have known that it was really I don't know if she put in her thing proverbs three, six of the bottom if it was just a sentence . I wonder if she had declared proverb, first of all, I wonder this. If she just used that quote and didn't say proverbs, would this heelistic school administr ators have even known it was for the Bible ? What do you think? My guess is not, right? It's like when I was in high school. I was in high school in the seventies. That was an era in which the official language was sappiness . It's like when Chicago started doing Chicago was one of those bands. I talked earlier with Pink Floyd having great range in the material, some brilliant and some terrible. Chicago is the king of that. Chicago has done some of the greatest songs of all time and some of the absolute worst . One of the most unlistenable pieces of rotten dreck is Color My World. You know that song, don't you? You're not gonna claim you like it, are you? I mean, Color My World is three levels below Barry Manilo . I mean, that was the kind of stuff that passed off. It was that kind of spiritualistic sort of non god stuff that color , what does that even mean ? We have right now a society that has turned far more anti god but also younger people who are clearly turning more toward God . There's a divide . And if you're going to tell them you can't even accommodate him to the point of this little verse as I said , I just encourage the parents to get the kids the hell out of Arrow head. And as Arowhead's generally very good school, great sports programs, pretty good academics. They're nowhere near as loony left as many other public schools. They have an easy enough school bardo , but they're the ones that chose to pick this fight as they say, they clearly could have looked the other way and good on the students who have made the stink. They have a right to make their stink. Lefties show up at these schoolboard meetings all the time and bitch about every imagin able damn stupid thing . All the people that are yelling and screaming that they ought to be able to do their genders all of that . Let me move on All right, this is a good story . We've got this football player, this college football player , Brendan Soresby . There's so many brands that like twenty years ago they started naming the kids Brandon with an E rather than the A to different iate . Rendered Soresby, transfer quarterback, college quarterback, he was one of the probably the biggest fish in the transfer portal this year, Texas tech, which pays more than anybody to college football players got him to come in as their quarterback. The problem is he was caught gambling a lot and gambling on football and gambling on his own teams at his prior school . The NCAA suspended him . He went to court and a judge in Texas said you can't suspend him. Essentially saying the NCAA can't govern individual college schools because it's not a franchise corporation, it's simply an association. And if Texas Tech wants to let the kid play, the NCAA can't stop Texas Tech, which freaked out all of the other schools because now it means they're essentially saying you can gamble on your own team and we can't stop it if the school's okay with it . Well some of the schools then retaliated and said well maybe we won't schedule Texas tag . You won't play them in non conference games and the pressure from the other athletic directors and the coaches who want to crack down on this, they've got to nip this thing in the bud. Gambling can now be done on your phone on anything . If you can't set the basic premise which has been held forever that you can't bet on your own team and on your own sport . Paul Horning got kicked out of the NFL. Did you know that? You did know that. Yeah, one year, you know, okay. See, see my producer who's an expert in sports Jason Gotchi. In fact, he was a producer in sports radio back in the day and all of that. Yeah, and a talk show host. Do you know who was there was another player ? I would argue almost as famous for off the field stuff that was suspended at the same time as horning for one year . The year was nineteen sixty three . You're thinking you know what? See, that was what my old producer Paul . He said, Well, I know this button. Well, no, you clearly don't know it. See, now what I have is , I know it, but it's fallen out of my brain either A because my brain is so big there's not enough room for everything and B enility is rapidly coming in It was Alex Curris. That's one of those things. If it occurs to you, it must be right. Why else would it have occurred to you? Alex Curse was a big lineman for he went on to be an actor. He was a Monday football color comment ator after Don Meredith, and then he acted, is it a sitcom for the longest time? Was it Webster? Yeah, and I think he married an actress. Anyway, they were kicked out of football for a year . And Pete Rose gambled at his own team when he was the manager of the Reds. He got a lifetime bad . We had a scandal, the black socks scandal, the white socks through the World Series . Arnold Rosstin, the gambler pa,id him off to throw the World Series because he bet and I forget who it was that beat the White Sox . You have to have this. If you don't make the penalty essentially the death penalty , everybody's going to do it. So these other team s want to crack down on Swordsby. So Swordsby eventually gave up and said, Okay, fine, I'm going to enter the NFL. The NFL draft has already occurred. There is this provisional thing in the NFL for players who want to join the league after they've already held the draft who are eligible and would not be the type of player that you want to have an auction, a free agent auctioned for. Otherwise players would just wait until after the draft and become free agents and set up bidding hars. It's called the supplemental draft. And he decided that he was going to end up the supplemental draft and simply go pro. The NFL is now banning him for a year. So he can't play for a year This is the correct decision . People say, well, you have to ruin the guy's life. Kicking him out for a year isn't going to ruin his life . But secondly, all these sports you can now bet on everything, you can bet on the next pitch and it's all legal, but you can't have the athletes doing it within their sport. If he wants to bet And say the World Cup. You had nothing to do with soccer . It's legal and most sports now allow that. If it's legal to do that in your own individual state it is, you can have them betting on the league that you're in and certainly not on the teams that you're involved. You can't . And the only way to deter it is for these athletes to know that if you're caught and it is really when they bet back when you were betting illegally with the bookies, the only way you'd be found out is if somebody talked . But now that they're betting legally online with all of these, you know, Wisconsin, we're very close to online sports betting, legally with the tribes now having that, they're still negotiating the compacts with the governor. It's pervasive and it's everywhere. And if you want to stop the athletes from doing it, they have to know that the sanction is career threatening . So I'm glad that Texas tech got some balls and told Sores but you better go prone and I'm glad that the NFL is saying and the NFL situation, you know, he didn't gamble anything in the NFL, so technically it's not a violation of their rules, but he did something that they know that they can't accommodate. He did bet on his own team while in college . So they're not going to let him enter the draft for a year, which for him isn't the end of the World, I want to do a follow up on a story . I mentioned two things on, I think it was the Wednesday podcast, might have been Monday. Yeah, it had to be Wednesday . And I didn't realize that there was actually a connection on the story independent of one another , I did a story on the fact that these Mamdani Marxists defeated Democratic incumbents for the United States Congress in New York . You have regular mainstream Democrats running for reelection for the Congressional seat. Mamdani endors ed Marxists to run against them and they all won . I also commented on Dan Goldman, who's this left wing lunatic who's made, you know, he's always screaming at the Republicans in the hearings. He was the guy that went into an independent coffee shop in New York and they wouldn't serve him because he's pro Israel and he's Jewish . And he made us think about how we need to have more civility in politics. What I was not aware of is Goldman was one of the Congress. Did you know that, Jason? Goldman was one of the congressmen that lost his primary this week. Yeah, I didn't know that at the time. He was one of the ones that lost the Modi Marxist. So think about, I want you to think about this for. a mom Hentere's a guy who 's raged against Republicans forever . An out of control , raving anti Trump leftist lunatic . Yet he's now out of a job , not because of anything any Republican could did, but because his own party threw him out . It's time that these loudmouthed Democrats who aren't Marxists realize realize that their threat isn't from Trump or even from me, it's from their own party . And maybe if people like Goldman would use the same loud rhetoric against the radicals who not only are trying to destroy our nation , but also destroy what traditionally was the Democratic Party. That is the threat to them. His district's like ninety percent Democrat. There was no way any Republican could win. The only way he can lose is if his fellow Democrats throw him out. So all his years above bitchin' about Trump and bitchin' about the Republicans didn't earn him any betties from the lefties. He simply wasn't a Marxist that he wasn't somebody who hates Israel, so therefore Madomi D, who hates Israel and is a Marx got him out of there . You're listening to the Mark Belling podcast . How much would it take for you to be wealthy and financially comfortable? 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We win the division more often than not. And when they have the series in Milwaukee, the brewers have won more than half the games and you've now seen a significant contingent of brewer fans that are there. I think Cubs fans are obnoxious, but they're not going to keep me from going to a game in my own ballpark and you know, if you lose, it's humiliating. If you win, it's a lot of fun. And I'm sure it is for them too. They scream and yell . Do you explain to me though why so many of them don't seem to understand that if they're hitting a routine flyball at a home run? Some cub hits a flyball and they start screaming and they think it's a hor.n My theory is that these are people that live in southern Wisconsin. They're too chicken to go to Riggly field. They can't figure out how to park there or they don't know how to drive down there. So the only time they go here so they don't really ever go to any baseball games and they care for don't have any depth perception and can't tell when a flyball is going to be a home run or not. You're saying that you're saying that it's just these are Cubs fans that are on a bandwagon kind of yeah, and I have no respect for those types of fans in any sport, you see it a lot in the NBA . You know, when Michael George, you know, the Michael Jordan the tons of Bull fanss would come up here when Michael Jordan and now they're a team like if some team is really good now, Oklahoma City, the Knicks, the next time that they come into town and play the books, there'll be a tons of those fans there but when those teams are no good, they're nowhere to be found. They're only they decide to become a fan of a team that's really good. A real fan is one that follows the team when they suck and when they're good and they're the ones that appreciate . You know, the bucks have won a grand total of two championships. The fact that they're so damn hard to do means you appreciate it more than just jump on this team and your team therefore wins a championship every other year. Anyway, cubs are in town . The series happens when both teams are actually hot. The brewers just swept the reds and the cubs went out and the New York Mets may be the most pathetic franchise in baseball right now . The angels are probably more so because it's just long term. When I say pathetic, it's just you have a payroll out the wazoo and you can't win to save your life . Anyway, the cubs clobbered amand how many RBIs did Danby Swanson had in that series? I think they're fifteen, right? fifteen RBIs in the series. So they're coming in hot. The brewers swept the series with the Reds. I do have this fear that that the you know in baseball it's the Cubs No, the Cubs have had two ten game winning streaks and one was it an eleven game losing streak or a ten game losing streak ten . So I mean that for the sea season the season's just now right at about halfway. To have two ten game winning streaks and one ten game in half a season is really bizarre. But teams get hot and they get cold. It's the way it works. I have this fear that the brewers are heading into a down period. And that fear is premised on the game they won last night. They should have lost . I mean, the bullpeng gave away a lead . The manager it turns out did the right thing. Abney Arebe has a one game suspension hang ing over his head . So since he pitched two of the last three games, they put it on him last night since he wasn't going to pitch anyway. But it meant that he had to use some other guys in the bullpen, Craig Yoho, who's this unbelievably good minor league pitchers. Yara is always at one. And every time they call him in the major leagues, he can't cut it. And I think this might have been the last draw. He gave up three runs in there and then they brought in the third string closer. Earlier this year, the brewers are very good at pitching up p icking up pitchers on the scrap heap and fixing them . The athletics who don't even have a city anymore, they cut their clothes earlier this year. There's, I think, DFAM release and Joel Kuno . And the brewers picked him up and they've used him in a couple of save opportunities where nobody was available and he comes in last night with a one run lead , loads the bases with one out . You know, and it was hot there, you see first, the guy weighs three hundred pounds or close. I mean, I actually think he's close to three hundred pounds. He's just an enormous beer of a man. And he's sweating like a pig and he's in a safe situation because Uribe's not available . It was on suspension, McGill wasn't available in the situation. So Murphy's just he's going to be him to win or lose the game. Tying runs on third, winning runs on second . He got into the trouble kind of on his own volition and the only way they got it out is Cincinnati laid down a bad bunt and Kuno made a worst play to third basis all letter one out. Time run on third winning runs on second . You believe that they hit into a double play? I mean, Cincinnati's in a bad strip there's really the I mean the Andrew Voon had a three run double that bounced around in the corner. Well, I just think the brewers had a lot of break doing for them also. They're coming off of two epic pitching performances in the first two games of that series. The good news, however, for Milwaukee is the manager backed up his rotation so he has the three starters going against the cubs that he wants. Mister Rowski pitches Friday and Harrison pitches Saturday. They haven't named Sunday yet. I know they want to be give Brandon Woodruff extra time in there. So it may or may not be him for the Sunday series. The problem with the Cubs have right now is they're starting pitching is not very good. In fact , they just traded for a terrible pitcher from the Mets, but the Cubs are hitting very, very well. I mean, they scored a ton of runs against the Metz. So in the end , I think this is going to be a brewer's or Cubs division. St. Louis to me , seems thinner than the Cubs. The Cubs have simply been erratic . I'm assuming at the trading deadlight at midseason the cubs are going to, you know, try to get some starting pitching to address that because the cubs hitting is undeniably. Brewers score a lot of runs but they don't have any power and the brewers have to address that. They need to get more power. It helps that Cheerio and Vaughn and Yellich are back when they weren't in the first port, but they need a couple of home runners in the lineup, but the brewer's pitching is really, really good. So I think that this series is going to be the beginning of a battle that's going to go for the rest of the season. In most recent years the Browers have won that battle, but we have the I mean, I know you grew up down there, but I mean , don't you understand how embarrassing you Cub fans are there's the old school who been there and I do know that from some I do know that. There are Cubs fans who suffered through all the rotten years who hate the trendy ones who just kind of got on there and don't know anybody's name and don't know any history of the team and they're just kind of there and they buy the ticket and they're there to pose and the whole thing. And then there are the others who follow the players in AA and AAA and all of that stuff. I mean, I grant them this as much of a dump as it is, Wrigley Field is still a beautiful stadium. I mean, the infrastructure is terrible. Do you still whiz whiz in the bathtubs in there or do they now have finally have uritals? They still have the trough. You call it a trough. I call it a bathtub. But and I make fun of the fact that they grow weeds on the side of the wall, but I mean it creates I like baseball stadiums. The one of the cool things about baseball is it's the one sport where there isn' t a regulation for the size of the playing field. You know, an NFL stadium's got to be, what is it? fifty three yards wide at a hundred yards long at the ten yard end zones and all of that. NBA courts are ninety four feet. I think hockey rinks are pretty much standardizedaseball. B can have its own little unique really back in the day. Some of those stadiums are just downright weird. I mean, I think the polo grounds in New York left field was like two hundred seventy feet and centerfield was five hundred or something . They don't have that much anymore, but there is a sense of character to all of that. And I'm willing to handle the whole rivalry and all of that in good fun. And you know, and when fans of it, it's just now it's now a thing across sports that now fans travel. It used to be that in any home team stadium, ninety nine percent of the fans every supporters of that team, now anything baseball. You know, you saw the Brewers series in Cincinnati. There are ton of Brewer fans there. And any of the series where teams are visiting, there are fans of the other team in there. It's just kind of a thing now to go and follow your team on the road. When the cubs play here, it can be fifty percent to sixty percent cubs fans and as long as people just civil with one another