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Lots to get to one of your reaction on the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
But briefly, let's throw the closing bell report out there.
It wasn't great on the markets today.
US markets slid to their steepest declines since 2020.
Major industries dropped as much as 6%.
Damn.
The Dow down 1679 almost 1700 points.
4%, the tech heavy NASDAQ down 6%.
And the S&P 500 fell four and a half percent.
That was just today.
We'll get into perhaps some of those numbers.
As we go on, we have some sound of Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson, you know, talking about these tariffs, but we'll get to that Earl.
I was, I was super happy and proud of the state of Wisconsin yesterday, man.
When we found out and we heard the election and we know that justice now Susan Crawford was victorious in this
expensive, nasty Wisconsin Supreme Court race.
Earl, how you feeling about it?
And what do you think it says about the state of politics in this country right now?
Well, well, you know, you could look at it from two different perspectives.
People think it's poetic justice because of the outcome of the presidential election.
And I would say to people who look at it from that perspective is
It's not equal.
I mean, we've got Susan Crawford.
That's great.
But what we got on the other side of it, you know, there's no comparison.
But, you know, people turned out man.
And I think, you know, there are a lot of different reasons why to really kind of send a message, you know, it's Elon Musk.
And they say, well, they did it because Elon Musk and my response always is, I don't think so.
You're not sending the message to Elon Musk.
He's not the president.
The message should be sent to the man who put Elon Musk in power, but also say what he did was kind of, you know, reaffirmed that on my show the other day, I kind of did a little civics lesson and I read,
what the responsibilities of a Supreme State Supreme Court justice is.
And Dominic, this may surprise you, but it doesn't have anything to do with whether somebody molested a five-year-old kid.
I mean, you know what I mean?
That's all they did, man.
That's all that they showed.
And they led people to believe that that's the role of a Supreme State Supreme Court justice law and order.
Nothing could be further from the truth, man.
And so I think, you know, all things being equal, the only thing that I'm concerned about is the other guy, Brad Shimmer was talking clearly about, you know, I've got to support, this will support Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
And that's what I'll do in this position.
And so I'm going to make it out, you know,
I'm on, it's on this side of the ledger.
And unfortunately, um, justice, uh, uh, what's her last name?
but the new, yeah, Susan Crawford.
Yeah.
Justice Susan Crawford.
Um, she made it clear I'm not going to do that.
I'm going to do this the right way.
Why is it that we always have to do it the right way, man?
Somebody hits you upside down with a sledgehammer, and then you say, well, I'm not going to do that.
Yeah, we got the right to self-defense, Earl, right?
Give them what they gave us, and a double
maybe dissuade them from doing that.
And I guess, Earl, and I get that, man, but at the end of the day, you know, right is right.
And I want I want folks to be right.
You know, I want them to look at an issue that comes before them and be honest and objective about that and put it in terms of what the law is.
I think that's what we that that's the whole point.
And it is it is certainly gotten political.
And we've heard sour grapes from the
bad Bradley, Justice Rebecca Bradley,
She's, oh, she's terrible.
She ran a
I'm not looking forward to it.
Oh my God.
What, what did dysfunctional workplace?
And Rebecca Bradley has been very political and very nasty about some of the things that she's said and written over the years.
Uh, but what about the money, man?
You know, we're talking about these, these terrible ads and it was funny watching.
trying to get away from it all, watching some sports over the weekend.
You know, we got the NCAA tournament, man, the bucks, the brewers are starting up and all it was, man, in the commercials, these constant.
And if you had the volume down, you don't know which one was ripping on who.
And it was all, you know, dark and nasty and dirty and slow motion-y and everybody's getting raped and murdered and everyone's getting away with it.
You
know,
This is what it is.
But that would not be possible if it weren't for the.
filthy amount of money that was spent in this race, a hundred million dollars.
I think Elon Musk put 25 million of his own and I don't know if that counts.
The payoffs to the voters, which I also want to get to as well, Earl.
But what about the money in general?
Do you think that it's palpable on all sides that this is something that needs to be addressed and addressed in short order?
We got another election.
Rebecca Bradley is going to be up her seats up on the Wisconsin Supreme Court next year.
Let me let me contrast it like this feeding America and Another organization like that that that gives food out to the poor many people in this country realized solely on that and Donald Trump and his policies have cut man the resources
That will distribute the food man Okay, so there's no money to do that.
They spent a hundred million dollars on a campaign Dominic Two million dollars to make sure that that food goes out To people who need it the most you would think there'd be no problem getting two million dollars people just gave a hundred million Dominic so so
Where are the people who gave 100 million?
Can we get them to give 2 million to make sure that the food at feeding America Dominic goes to the people who needed the most men?
Am I am I what's wrong with me am I nuts?
I think that's a wonderful idea But you know, we don't hear is the Elon Musk wing of the of the hospital here in Milwaukee We don't have the Elon Musk wing of the museum or the library.
They're cutting all those things and I mean it would and to your points CBS 58 reporting exactly what you're saying continued cuts to federal spending will now cost Wisconsin food bakes more than two million dollars Feeding America of eastern Wisconsin as you mentioned Earl also the hunger
task force.
They received notification from Wisconsin DHS informing them that the USDA is making cuts to its commodity credit corporation.
The program connects farmers with food banks supplying them with surplus meats, dairy, and produce.
For example, USDA's cuts will cancel the planned shipments of more than one million pounds of food between June and September.
The value of those deliveries estimated at $2.2 million.
Matt King, the CEO of the Hunger Task Force says they're going to lose more than 300,000 pounds of food they were expecting.
with an estimated value of $615,000.
It's disruptive, he said.
It definitely undermines our ability to provide variety.
Yeah, I mean, and this is a program Earl that pays local farmers for local food to be distributed, you know, locally to feed people that are hungry and needed.
Dominic, they spent $100 million on the campaign.
Can we find somebody who will step up and 2 million?
Dominic, come on, man.
You know, $100 million thrown away.
That's what they did.
They threw it away.
Now, you know, I wasn't involved in that.
Okay.
So I, you know, just so you know, it wasn't in your mind.
But for people who did, you know, and especially these major donors, man,
Can we just get them to just, you know what I mean, man?
That's all I'm asking, Dominic.
Wouldn't you think that, well, but you know what?
They don't get anything out of that.
They were looking to get something for their donations on the other side of the equation.
Is it safe to say that?
you're if you're giving that kind of big money if you're Elon Musk Certainly you're wanting something you're given 25 million dollars.
You want something like I don't know like four dealerships in the state of Wisconsin for example, but Wisconsin and proudly so rejected that love the memes I'm seeing of the
Tesla truck being crushed by a cheese wedge, you know these things are coming all over the place We've been we as a state have rejected that Earl, but
Ultimately the question is yes, certainly hopefully those folks that are given that kind of money are very philanthropic I mean if I were a billionaire man, I wouldn't be a bill there because I'd be giving it all away That's the point you know get to that point unless you're hoarding some things and that's fine Everyone
can
you know live their life and do their thing But if you're gonna go down this road and spend money like that hundred million dollars number one We need to as a society regulate that we the people need to take control of this This is outrageous and number two if those folks aren't going to give to the needy if we're not going to do it through our our tax system for
the people for the general welfare of the people, the people will rise up.
You know what I'm saying?
You either got to give it one way or the other, or people are going to take it eventually.
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A glorious victory for mankind.
I mean, if you listen to Elon Musk, man, everything was on the line.
And then, you know, the next day, while I didn't really expect to win, but we got the voter ID in the constitution.
But what about the money stuff, man?
I thought this was kind of, kind of, kind of hairy.
Paying people to quote unquote sign a petition.
Paying people randomly a million bucks.
One of the ladies, a lady who won a million bucks says she won the million bucks for...
because you voted and then they had to take that video down because apparently that's illegal.
So, ah, but, but they took it down.
I mean, I'm saying they did it.
You see it, you know, it doesn't undo itself just because you delete the video.
Um, what was your sense on, on the way Elon Musk was just passing that money around, man?
Well, you know, Dominic, when a guy is
You know worth more money than the city of Milwaukee You know it doesn't surprise you he he has he has no no understanding at all of ever needing anything money money to him Basically doesn't have any worth man.
I mean you got what 280 billion dollars.
I mean he lost
Half of us, you know, wealthy was up to 460 billion.
He lost half of that.
But, you know, money has no value to him.
So it doesn't really matter.
And so he thinks that he'd buy anything and anybody, the instances he can.
But one thing that I know for certain, the last time I checked Dominic, those caskets don't have any pockets on
And so when, when Elon Musk's time comes, it doesn't matter how much money he has.
And you would think though, Dominic, after it's all said and done, we saw not just Elon Musk, but conservatives are the ones who opened the door for all of this chicanery.
They certainly have.
They opened the door and then for them to turn around and say, well, Democrats do it too.
Yeah.
Because you opened the door.
and you started doing it, you made it okay.
What are the Democrats supposed to do, Dominic, not follow
They're supposed to fight, fight with fire.
And so that money, I don't know how you go back, Dominic.
You keep hearing people say, well, we've got to undo it.
How you going to undo it, man?
Well,
Come on, man.
We just passed a constitutional referendum to add voter ID to the Constitution.
I mean, really?
I mean, that's, I mean, if that's important, we can do important things.
And folks thought that was important.
I think it's not, but here we are today.
If people are motivated enough, we can do that.
And the rights, man.
You know, as you mentioned with Rebecca Bradley and their decisions on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, certainly Citizens United, all these, McCutcheon, all these other ones that slowly broke down this thing.
Man, 100 years ago you couldn't do this.
Hell, 20 years ago you couldn't do this.
So I just think, ma'am, it is beyond the pale.
And I think it's something that does literally unite the folks that otherwise maybe not.
agree on other policies or issues as the money in the politics.
And I would say what the needs.
Yes, Elon Musk, he does have some needs.
I would suggest birth control 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 8 4 2 8 5 5 7 5 Civic.
Brian from Milwaukee will get you in here this segment.
Brian, welcome.
What do you got for us?
Yeah, hey guys.
Um, yeah, it was interesting.
There was an article I read online about a
guy who had millions of dollars.
I don't remember what city it was, but he saw the homelessness that was going on in the city and he built a community for the homeless with his own money, with about, I think he put a hundred little houses, you know, that he built in this community.
And it was just one of the most interesting articles to read.
And they have me thinking, you know, if the people that are in office right now, like, oh, Mr. T and, and.
and Musk, with their billions of dollars, really care about helping people, then that money that they have that means nothing to them, they should be handing fists over, you know, to those of us who need it, if they really care about the American people, which obviously they don't.
Right.
They don't.
And they give it all away for a little bit more.
And, you know, they have the right...
And thanks for the call, Brian.
They have the right to be greedy bastards.
Okay.
But we also have the right as citizens of this country to elect representatives who will encourage a tax code.
You know, that would maybe, maybe, maybe steer some of that, you know, direct some of that with our taxes.
We had it before, we had high tax rates before.
Sure, there were cutouts and deductions and things you could take in the past, but we can do that.
We've done it in the past, we can do it again.
When we just roll over, and just assume, well, they're billionaires, they're connected, and since they're billionaires, they must be smart enough, they know everything.
No, hell no, man.
Musk was wrong about Brad Schimmel.
certainly, and Musk is wrong about lots of things.
I mean, he's put out there and he needs to hold effort to doge defy the federal government.
Some of the data he put out there as, as, as proof of their winnings and their efficiencies were wrong over and over.
The guy says, well, we're going to make mistakes.
Yes, we get that.
They do make mistakes.
But I think Earl, it is, it is up to us and to Brian's point, if those folks and they want the.
They have the ability to really help people.
They don't want to do it.
They don't have to.
But we as a country, we as a citizen, we as we the people can make those determinations for them.
Well, you know, you know, Dominic, um, yeah, the people united can never be defeated is, is factual, but it's not like we have people united.
Hmm.
Yeah, not how do you unite the people, man?
Right in the face of what we're looking at with Donald Trump and Elon Musk and people still supporting that
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four, eight, four, two, eight, five, five, seven, five civic talking about the, uh, very successful election here in the state of Wisconsin.
Justice Susan Crawford beating judge BS.
Uh, so happy to see that.
I did hear though, Earl, uh, on the national circus and very important, you know, conspiracy theorists like Roger stone, Alex Jones and who's a pillow guy, Mike Lindell.
Oh, they're very concerned about the elections here in the state of Wisconsin.
Uh,
the numbers just don't add up.
And it's all this absentee belt.
And I did hear yesterday when we played a shimmel's concession speech to, to the crowd, you know, some of the crowds were booing when he said he had called justice Crawford and concede him.
He's like, he was serious.
And I'll give a shimmel this.
He was much more gracious than Dan Kelly was when he lost a pro to say wits.
But what bothered me most about Brad shimmel,
And frankly, all these Republicans are all, they blame the city of Milwaukee.
Man, if so, if they lose an election and city Milwaukee, they count those absentee ballots, you know, basically last, they can, they can't start counting them early and that's by law.
And it could have been changed, but Republicans said no.
And then so you hear Brad Shim a lot on the stump talking about, well, I don't know if there was fraud in Milwaukee.
How could I possibly know they, they found these, you know, these late night ballot jobs, all this thing.
This is how it's done.
It's purposeful this way.
Republicans, they could have changed it.
They chose not to because they want to keep the
trope alive, Earl.
It is disrespectful.
I think it's absolutely racist.
That's the only reason they continually go there because it's all the black people in the city of Milwaukee, Earl.
You know, uh, Dominic, um, as one of the black people in Milwaukee, right?
Well, well, yes.
And I'd say this, you know, they talked about early voting with cardinal sin.
And so for how many, for a decade or more, and doing that time early until Republicans realized, hey, hey, hey, this is legal.
And guess what they started doing?
They started doing it early voting.
It doesn't mean that you're doing anything criminal if you decide to vote early.
because the opportunities exist.
And once Republicans found that out, hey, it makes no sense whatsoever for us to not participate in this, they started doing early voting.
And so when you look at people who look at you with a generous eye at every turn, for doing what you have a constitutional right to do,
Right.
And, you know, the conversation that continues even to this day, we've got to make sure that there's photo IDs.
And man, by God, we can't risk that they're going to somehow do away with the photo IDs because if we do down in Milwaukee, they cheat again.
Dominic, that's what, that's what was really behind.
you know, make sure that nobody can change the photo ideas that's directed at the city of Milwaukee and people of color.
And so when you when you've seen this over and over and over, man, you you just lose faith.
And I want to say that City of Milwaukee came out in great numbers, Dominic.
Really did, man.
Hey man, he got destroyed.
Yeah.
He lost like 230,000 votes, man.
He got the same thing that Kelly got.
Okay.
With all the money that was invested.
And then I say this, man, and then we can move on.
50 million for proto sandwich, a hundred million for Crawford's race.
There's another race coming up next year.
What is that going to be 150 million?
And then there's another one.
And then there's another one a year after that.
Hey, Dominic, we're not talking about U.S.
Senate seats.
We're talking about one seat on a state supreme court, man.
Man, we've lost our minds.
I mean, wouldn't you
Absolutely.
We're going to get to the point where it's going to be a quarter billion dollars in two or three election cycles, man.
We keep going in this trajectory.
That's what I'm saying, man.
It is out of hand.
It is out of hand.
And people, they recognize it.
They know it.
perhaps some of the folks like, uh, justice Bradley, the bad Bradley, uh, whose decision helped create this environment.
They're, they're, they're lamenting a little bit when it's used against them.
You're right now, money and politics is a problem.
And now they're all down for the early vote.
Well, if you go in early vote Republicans, when do you think the folks can start counting those ballots?
They can't start counting them
until election day.
And when you have a municipality the size of Milwaukee and lots of people early vote after like 675.
Thousand people I believe early voted this time you gotta you gotta process those ballots and for them to play these racial games and to feign ignorance Oh, I don't know come on either Brad Shim will knows how the vote is counted in the city of Milwaukee He either knows that and is lying or he's truly ignorant And and is just an idiot and either way that disqualifies him So thank you citizens of the state of Wisconsin for making sure that guy didn't get
on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Well, well, you know, Dominic, the other side of this is those, those Scott Walker, um, you know, all of the different things that Scott Walker ushered in, man, you know what I mean?
14, 14 years.
We think that everything Scott Walker touched.
He, he got through.
He did.
Man, the damage that he did.
You know, when, before Scott Walker went into office, a, a Dominic, Wisconsin had one of the cleanest, um, you know, governments.
And, and remember, they always talked about Wisconsin's got everybody, we were the envy.
We were.
Of the nation, clean government in Wisconsin.
Well, it was Scott Walker who did away with all that.
And you know what?
And he had the nerve to show his.
Face again Dominic and maybe that was poetic justice, right?
He was right into the heart of it right in the middle of it trying to make sure that people didn't forget.
Hey, by the way
Don't forget
Don't forget about me.
I'm over here at the Reagan ranch getting my million dollars a year.
I mean, talk about a DEI hire.
Give me a break.
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So we're going to go to the phones next, but Earl, you know.
When you remind me, when you bring up Scott Walker in that regime and all these lackeys and Brad Schimel is one of them, man, we're still dealing with that effect, certainly, right?
Not just on the policies and the Wisconsin Supreme Court that turned conservative and the fact that we had these gerrymandered districts and, you know, I mean, a super majority for Republicans, even though they didn't really earn that, you know, packing and cracking, all the things we had to deal with.
It reminds me like man, it was just it was just a foreshadowing of the second Trump administration man.
What is Trump doing?
He's destroying everything and for what for tax cuts for tax cuts for billionaires man for millionaires He's gonna cut two million dollars of the local food banks so they can somehow cobble together four and a half trillion dollars So they can cut taxes for the rich.
That's why they're doing this
Earl
I don't know, man.
You're the guy who wears that numbers.
But if I'm a billionaire, and they're going to give me a tax break, so I'm a billionaire, what can I look to see?
Maybe a $20 million tax cut.
Maybe I'll wind up with nothing for you to even see, man.
I mean, you know what I mean?
I mean, it's not like they're going to get, if you're worth a billion, you're going to get a $200 million.
a million dollar cut that's not what it is what is it 20 million 40 million whatever it is it's insignificant to a person who's a billionaire so why are they continuing to push it
but i'm saying man they're only going to receive 20 million dollars why would they well cuz
Enough is never enough.
That's
a
you're not yourself out and and and they'll get away with it So long as they pay enough people to think like them so long as they influence enough people to think like them so long as they exercise that
financial and political power to make sure everybody thinks like them.
We're going to continue to deal with this, the money in the politics, them not paying their fair share.
You see Bernie Sanders and AOC out on the
Anti-billionaire tour basically saying we got a we got a break free from this and I'm down for that man I think that's very important and I appreciate Senator Cory Booker's I'm gonna get your sense on that man stand up there for 25 hours leaning into it 8 5 5 7 5 2 4 4 2 I'll just get some callers in here Jack from the Mac your next welcome what do you got for us?
Well, you guys already sort of stole my thunder because I was gonna mention that I talked to a
So-called conservatives, I've got a number of friends that I see on a fairly regular basis that would definitely identify themselves as conservatives.
I don't know if they're Trump voters, because Trump is so crazy, but I do know that I asked him this question.
How much is enough?
And I never get a direct answer.
The answer I get is, well, they've all earned it.
Excuse me.
First of all, most of many of them inherited wealth and not only that, but they're avoiding paying taxes on it for their whole life because they leave the investments in.
and don't ever take them out.
And so then they can pass this money on to their whoever their progeny is.
And they continue that they just, you know, take loans out their billions or millions that they have.
And it just goes on and on.
second thing is this.
And that is, I read a survey that said something like 14% of the people that voted for Trump and for these billionaires to be in office.
I think that they're going to end up in the top
let me down
Um,
But Jack makes a good point.
And, you know, so, and when, when we, the people make these efforts, and of course they, they, then they got, when they get carveouts, oh, I gotta get this LLC, I'm gonna do something overseas, or I'm gonna put the money here and I'll loan it to myself and get the, get the right off here and pay myself interest and stick it in it.
And there's all sorts of workarounds and games and, and.
It's designed that way.
It's made that way.
And even if it's not money, it's like water, man.
It's going to find a way.
It's going to float around until it finds a weakness and it's going to go.
And that's just the reality of the situation.
Which is fine.
I understand that.
We know that money is fluid.
We know that they're going to work to make those things happen to give themselves the best possible outcome.
Hell, don't we all?
Don't we all, man, we take the
right
and make sure that
Hey, Dominic, all I know is that by the 15th of April, if my taxes aren't in, you know, they're going to come after me.
And they're going to take what little I have, right?
The average American, he doesn't have that luxury cause he's got payroll taxes.
They take his taxes out.
forget if you're
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Jim from Brookfield.
You will be next.
Welcome, Jim.
What do you got for us?
Good afternoon, Dom and Earl.
And Earl, it's good to hear you in the afternoon.
You have a little bit different voices in the morning, but it's always great to hear you.
Well,
thank you, man.
I'm
on it.
Yeah, you got that right.
And we'll circle back to our beloved Governor, Mr. Walker, who not only has a legacy of gerrymandering, but remember, they got rid of the government accountability.
Did.
Yep.
You can't have any government, government accountability when the Republicans are in power.
But anyway, I want to go back to the federal level with Mr. Trump.
our beloved president.
I somewhat can see why Musk took the chainsaw, you know, to the state or the federal, rather, the federal agencies because he wants to have deregulation to help his companies, all the companies he does federal business with, and he wants to save some money, quote, save for tax breaks for him.
I somewhat see where the dots are connected on that.
But where the heck is Trump going with these tariffs?
Um, you know, is it strictly that he's so stubborn and power hungry that he's just gonna do whatever he wants?
Or is there some hidden billionaire objective here, some hidden motive for him to follow through with these tariffs that are gonna cause us all, you know, a little bit of pain for a little while?
You know, where do you think he's going with that domino?
I'll start out.
It's hard for me to think there's some grand master plan that, you know, Donald Trump's playing four dimensional chess.
I just don't buy that.
I think in some regards, he's just a, an old man stuck in his ways.
And he thinks somehow some way that this is going to quote unquote make, make America great again.
I don't know.
I mean, he's out there.
Reinventing history man.
I mean we talked about the Great Depression and he's like oh man This is you know terrorists are gonna get us out and we're not gonna come on man.
I mean it's like opposite world with this guy So I don't think there's I don't think there's a great strategy in that regard the other side of this is there a quick buck I mean maybe this is a guy with his efforts can move markets as we're seeing today man I mean announces this stuff yesterday markets tank today five six percent, but
You can bet against it.
You can, you know, you can make money all sorts of ways.
So what we don't know is what kind of action is he playing on the news that he himself is creating.
The volatility index, the VIX.
We talk about this a lot.
If man, that thing was up to 40% today.
So if you had a hundred bucks and you put it in the VIX, you got a hundred and forty today.
And when we see this, these kinds of movements on the S&P, you know, a good gauge of companies in this country down five or six percent.
Man, you gotta go, you get a government bond guaranteed low risk, right?
And it takes you an entire year to get that kind of return, maybe more.
And they're dropping like that in one day.
So people, you know, we got trillions of dollars of people's retirement funds wiped out today.
Let alone Earl, we've been on a downward trajectory for the last couple of months.
We'll get to this more in the next hour, but you got any comments on that, Earl?
Well, you know, you know, Dominic had to eat.
at the end of all this.
And I keep saying people keep acting as though Donald Trump concocted all of this.
Come on, man.
Donald Trump did not concoct this.
This has been, you know, the people who start planting this seed, man, the Bradley Foundation, the Heritage Foundation, long before they even got to this point.
And that's why it's so complete, right?
I mean, this playbook.
Project 2025 has been man concocted to take total control.
They're doing that.
And so Donald Trump at the end of it, Dominic, all he cares about is becoming a real billionaire.
It's what he's always wanted to be.
Oh, he can be that through, through the various mech mechanisms that he's using it to control it in his seat.
as the president, in which there was already something there that said you couldn't gain and couldn't
Yeah, thanks so much, Tom.
Yeah, I wonder if the chaos that Trump is going to make profit off of it and buy low in the market when the tank to market.
But notice today, Trump didn't stick around.
He ran off to go golfing.
He makes profit.
He makes profit when he goes golf because he charges the secret service fee for the rent in the carts.
At his golf course, when you or I go on vacation, we pay everything out of our own pocket.
And here we're paying Donald Trump to go on vacation.
Not only flying him like Elon Musk, but flew Air Force One to Green Bay.
I mean, it's just pretty disgusting that...
Thanks for the call mark.
Yes, I would know Donald Donald Trump after saying after doing all this action, Liberation Day, whatever the hell that means to him.
The Marcus tank today is going to be great.
Now I'm going golfing.
I mean, this does a guy even have a job.
Hey, come back with us.
We got a job going to come back.
Talk more about these tariffs.
We've got some sound sound of Senator Ron Johnson.
Oh, yeah, the great businessman senator from the state of Wisconsin.
He's got some comments on these tariffs and we'll take more of your calls.
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