is on the grass the lunatic is on the grass remembering games and daisy chains and laughs got to keep the lunatics on the path the lunatic is in the
Is
he saying the lunatic?
Yeah, the lunatic.
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Well, we're dealing with that right now.
You know, David is...
is, you know, look, Mexico and Canada tears to begin next week.
Trump announces these 25 percent tear of Sandy.
We have mentioned something about inflation and that people are now starting to worry about inflation.
Dave responded right away with, you know, well, you know, Joe Biden and the Democrats had all the inflation and Sandy had brought inflation back down.
to a reasonable number and as a matter of fact the last time as I recall the Federal Reserve accepted that and believed that inflation had been curbed and Started bringing down the interest rates.
Maybe maybe I didn't see that Sandy.
Maybe I was asleep But but they saw it and things started heading in the right direction.
Well, not yet able to now turn around
and rev it back up.
How was that okay?
the pent-up demand during the period of the pandemic.
And so the world experienced inflation.
And the United States did a better job than the rest of the world of curbing that inflation.
But the inflation that we're now going to experience is going to be a self-inflicted wound.
And, you know, if you talk about eggs being expensive, where do you see how expensive avocados get?
I mean, you know, people don't eat as many avocados as they do eggs, but it's an example.
And furthermore, the American farmers who...
produce soy and and who produce corn who know who are used to exporting it to places like Mexico and places like China are gonna find out that You know the same thing they found out five years ago, which is that they're gonna be hurting badly and
The fact is that there's a lot of pain that's experienced as a result of tariffs, and most economists who look at and prognosticate about what the result of these tariffs will be are that the pain is going to far exceed the benefits.
And this is unnecessary, right?
Well,
like I said,
It's it's a policy Made by someone who thinks tariff is the most beautiful word in the English language And and he thinks that big Lee And you know
The fact is that we're jumping into, we're experimenting with our economy.
We're jumping into a whole bunch of things without any sort of real deliberation associated with it, without any real public input.
We've got someone asserting that they have a mandate to do whatever comes into their head, not the things that were talked about during the election.
It's a sorry it's a sorry thing to experience because you know, we're gonna break what wasn't broken
Well, you know Sandy these 25% Tariffs that are gonna go into effect and it's gonna happen I don't think people thought it was gonna happen because he suspended it for 30 days They thought common sense would come into play But it clearly did not
I'll see.
I mean, there's going to be a lot of screaming.
The squeal that will come from those who are being hurt by these tariffs will be loud and audible.
And we'll see whether there's a response to it that mitigates the extent to which these tariffs are implemented.
But if it doesn't.
then the pain is going to be significant.
And the fact is that the prospect of having the tariffs has already introduced inflation because inflation is a psychology.
If people believe that prices are going up, they will behave that way.
And people currently today believe that prices will be going up.
And one of the main reasons for that are all these declarations of the implementation of tariffs.
All right, let's go to...
Let's go to CJ CJ you're up
Well, thanks for taking my collar and Sandy as you guys I guess fact check Republicans when they call in you talk over us You turn off our mics and we're used to that but you couldn't dispute Dave That the now all of a sudden you and your party care about inflation
That's a ridiculous statement.
22% over four years.
Now you care.
Well, the mere fact is this president, we've seen what he's done to the border.
We see what he's doing around the world for security.
Well, what is he doing?
What is he doing around the world?
Hey, what is he doing around the world for security, CJ?
No,
no, no, no, no, what is he doing?
Did you see him with Macron?
I saw what I saw with Macron.
So what is he doing for security around the world?
There you
go
No, what is that?
What did he do?
What can I finish my answer?
Yeah, yeah, go ahead and finish the answer He's brought countries.
He now has the EU.
He now has France.
He now has Europe and NATO paying their fair share
and taking care of their own security.
He didn't want out of NATO.
He wanted to solve the wars.
He wants peace.
And what did Biden do?
He caused this war.
Well, CJ, the
reason I cut you off is you talk nonsensically.
What you're talking about, it doesn't make any sense.
Let's go to Vincent.
Good morning to you, Vincent.
Thank you very much for the call.
You say what?
Good morning.
It's ridiculous.
You know, it's absolutely ridiculous.
The fact is, he's made the world more dangerous with the issues that he's dealing with, especially that vote that the United States took in the UN, especially with Russia and North Korea, basically trying to support a lie that Ukraine somehow started this war with Russia.
The fact is, he's making the world more dangerous when he's trying to perform this isolation bit that he's trying to perform.
The fact is, Macron yesterday basically wiped the floor with him because he tried to tell a lie about how Europe is loaning the Ukraine money.
And Macron said, no, we're not.
This is not a loan.
This is something we're supporting Ukraine fully.
So no, Macron did not, the fact is he is not making this world more safe.
The fact is that we're going down this fascist road when we decide to side with individuals.
who are at death spots in this world, as far as in Russia and the North Korea.
I don't understand where we're going.
I don't understand where we're going.
So I don't see what this caller says somehow that Donald Trump is making this world more safe.
Well, clearly he's watching Fox News.
And so they watch Fox News and they think it's the gospel.
and they come and they tout it on these airways and when you push back on them and you ask them to explain what they're saying, they can't explain it because they've got nothing to back it up.
Sandy?
Well, it's interesting the nor the form of peace that that Donald Trump is pursuing is the imperial the the process of dividing the world up into some several Empires of the American Empire being one of them the you the Russian Empire being another the Chinese Empire being a third and the European Empire being the fourth and and and it appears that he prefers dealing with
autocrats, because you can sit down at a table with somebody who rules their country with an iron fist and cut deals.
He wants to be that guy for America, and he's got that guy in Russia, it's Putin, and he's got that guy in China, and he's got that guy in North Korea.
And for that matter, Netanyahu has behaved a great deal like that in Israel, a long-term leader, long-term strongman leader.
If that's peace in the world, if that's what we as America think is the proper form of peace in the world, we could have had that peace in 1941 as well.
I just think it's concerning that America is shifting its gears in the direction of believing in the Imperial America.
And we don't seem to be restive about the notion of taking over Greenland and taking over the Panama Canal and belittling and talking about taking over Canada.
This is all a process that is not in the long run going to lead to world peace.
The empires will clash with one another at some point, and instead of having territorial wars in smaller parts of the world, we'll have major ones.
All right, let's go to Brendan.
Good morning to you, Brendan.
Thank you for the call.
You say what?
Yeah.
Yeah, CJ, thanks for the bunch of BS you just put out over the air.
Um, you know, 22% was what inflation was before when Biden went into office.
It was at 3% when he left, but be that as it may, I'm a little more worried about the undertow.
What's going on is we're looking at Trump on his orange face on TV every day, um, about the FCC going back and reopening cases and Trump while we're all talking about all this stuff that he puts out on the air every day.
And it's, you know, his little conferences are behind his desk.
The FCC is trying to build state TV.
Joy Reed loses her job at MSNBC.
Why?
Gee, I don't know.
Maybe because she's black.
How long will Rachel Maddow have before she loses her job because she talks against Trump?
Okay, we are losing the freedom of speech while we're talking and looking at dollar signs.
So everybody needs to wake up onto that too, because that's happening.
It's happening and there's other stuff happening.
And the other thing I don't hear any of these madam morons talking about when they call is Elon.
Guess why?
Because they know what he's doing is messed up.
And everybody knows somebody that's been affected by this.
And that's
it.
Hey, Brendan, thank you very much for the call.
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Tuesday, that means Tuesday is my co-host, Sandy Williams, and Sandy, before we go back to the phone lines, what's frightening to me is that in the face of all of these things that we see happening with Donald Trump and Elon Musk and Republicans, even with the budget and all those things, you see these things happening.
and yet there are still people who still support that.
The Americans who still think that this is a good thing, that there's nothing unusual about this, Sandy, and it needs to just go forth and just let it run its course.
But what gets me about it is it's almost as if they can't even envision running its course.
destroys the world, Sandy.
It doesn't just destroy this nation.
What these people are doing is destroying the world.
Well, we're certainly we're certainly setting the world up to be far different than it currently is we're Turning our back on civil liberties and and deciding that strong a strong arm government Autocratic super right-wing governments are the thing we're we're trying to export it to Europe.
We have our vice president JD Vance Taking a position essentially in the German election
We've got people who are looking at this as a worldwide ideological movement, and the movement isn't one that's designed to support civil liberties.
It talks about civil liberties, but it talks about them on one side of the mouth and the other side of the mouth that talks about repression.
And here we have the beginning of repression, serious repression here in the United States.
We have a U.S.
Attorney
in the District of Columbia, who's talking about prosecuting people in the media for essentially being critical of the incumbent government.
We have the clear politicization of the FBI with the appointments that have been made to both the head of the FBI and the deputy.
These are political operatives.
These aren't professional police.
And then we have the notion of politicizing the U.S.
Attorney's offices around the country.
We just had today the dropping of a prosecution, a federal prosecution against a congressman in D.C., or at least a federal prosecution because it's a district of Columbia, which appears to have been called off by the...
US Justice Department as part of this political process.
So, you know, this stuff is, as I think Brendan was right, the real danger that I see in the long run is the change of process in the United States, the loss of our due processes, and the loss of our separation of government.
and the personalization of power in the hands of the President to the point where he becomes not a President, but a Don, much in the nature of the Godfather.
Let's go to Mike from Kenosha.
Good morning to you, Mike.
Thank you for the call.
You say what?
Thanks, guys.
To echo your comment a moment ago, this is totally unnecessary.
This is all
manufactured conflict.
We should all be doing regular American activity instead of, you know, basically being held hostage by a group of dogs and criminals.
There's no doubt that we have lots of work to do.
But keep in mind that in recent history, we've had no action or very limited action by Congress, both at the federal level.
And at the state level, we already know about Wisconsin's gavel in gavel out 10 seconds sessions that dominated during the Biden administration.
You know, that's the solution.
But for some reason, like you again, you mentioned a moment ago, these guys, the GOP, don't believe in co-equal branches of the government.
We have a game plan on how to resolve our problems.
We just have to use it, but when they don't want to fix it, when they want, again, to manufacture conflict, holy smokes, that's what happens.
The transfer of wealth has been significant, $50 trillion since 1980.
$50 trillion went from the lower and middle classes to the very top.
But yet that's not enough.
They're still talking about more.
So how in the world anybody could feel comfortable, given these bandits, all the power and basically trusting them with America in our future, you've lost your mind.
I mean, show me what you've done to earn our profound respect and admiration and trust.
I haven't seen it.
Finally, you know, this GLP machine of influencers, they're the ones that call job creators and trickle down.
They're the ones that put that on the mantle for all of us to hear and salute when it's been a complete and utter failure.
And it's about time that we take this page
the play system.
Stick it right back where it belongs.
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You know, part of what frustrates me about all of this is this cold, callous way of looking at other human beings and their pain and their suffering.
And the fact that, you know,
We don't have compassion.
Those people who are supporting this don't have any compassion whatsoever.
Sandy, it could be people anywhere in the world, but how can you not have any compassion for your fellow countrymen?
You know they're struggling.
You know that this is very difficult time, and yet the wealthiest amongst us,
continuing to get greedier and greedier, whether or not they get the tax cut or not, Sandy is not going to change the conditions of the wealthiest amongst us, right?
Whatever that tax cut is, it
The only hope that's being held out is the one that I think Dave from EC1 wanted to talk about, which is the notion that jobs will get created through the tariffs by causing manufacturing to return to the United States.
And that's kind of a wait-and-see proposition.
The fact was that Biden had this policy adopted to support the chip manufacturing process and to create factories and
of jobs in the United States, which the Republicans attacked has a bad idea.
And that was actually taking hold.
Those jobs in a vital industry were actually coming to fruition.
The problem is that tariffs
overall, are going to create more pain than they are gain.
And the pain is going to be in the name of profits for those who are manufacturers more so than it's going to be jobs.
And that's pretty much the prognosis given by the vast majority of economists who look at this and can predict the outcome.
And the outcome is not good for Tom, Dick, and Mary.
Let's go to Tom from LA.
Good morning to you, Tom.
You say what?
Tom All right, let's go to Susan from Kenosha
one second,
okay
We got Tom coming back up.
Here we
go.
All right Tom go ahead Tom you're up All right, let's go to Susan from Kenosha
Susan you're on
Are we having trouble with the phone lines, let's go to Ann
And are you there?
Okay, looks like Robert.
Oh, go ahead, Ann.
Okay, I want to say I need to comment to CJ.
If he doesn't think Democrats don't care about inflation, we do, but I'm not supporting a felon and a liar and say prices will go down on day one.
Why doesn't CJ talk about the economy?
That's the biggest reason people voted for Trump.
All he does is bring up what Biden didn't do.
Well, he's in for a rude awakening.
I feel sorry for his daughter.
He's protecting a Hitler.
Get off the Fox Entertainment, I say.
They want to control all our media.
And how is that democratic, Republicans?
Once CJ Social Security and Medicare is affected, then maybe he'll wake up.
And that's my message for
today.
Hey, thank you very much for the call.
You know, I would say.
That CJ is just one person.
And there are many other people who think just like him.
People ask me why I have him on.
And I have him on because there are a lot of people who think just like him, Sandy.
He's not alone.
And so, you know, we can we can act as if he's, you know, an individual player, but he's not.
And there's there's many people who have decided to buy into the Donald Trump.
notion that this guy should be given complete latitude regardless of what he talks about.
Like I said last show, there were people who said in the last presidential term of Donald Trump, don't take him literally, but take him seriously.
And I think that's what most of his supporters have decided, that they don't take him literally, but they think
they take him very seriously and they think that he can do no wrong.
And the fact is that I think John Bolton was right yesterday when he said basically that he's got mush for brains, you know, that it's all mush.
You know, it's it's not careful thought processes.
It's knee jerk reactions.
And I don't think the people of this country really want us to be led by ruled by an imperial person whose general modus operandi is knee jerk reactions.
You know, Sandy, John Bolton said he had mush for brains.
The most powerful man in the world has mush for brains.
How does that leave the rest of us?
Well, it's I mean that's the scary thing is that that we've got someone who has actual impulse control problems We've got someone who doesn't understand facts at all sitting next to Macron and giving spouting out numbers that had nothing to do with reality the notion that the United States has committed over 300 billion dollars to Ukraine and that Europe is much less than a half of that number when the fact is that we've committed less than half of 300 billion and
And Europe has committed 265 billion.
And then he turned to Macron and said, Europe is going to get its money back, really?
There's no means for that.
And meanwhile, Trump is trying to exact $500 billion from Ukraine and Zelensky.
Why?
They're in a position of weakness and I guess I guess the new US policy is That you pick at the you pick at the bones of the roadkill.
All right, let's go to Don from Milwaukee.
Good morning to you Don.
You say
what?
Uh, see, originally, uh, the must were in Canada, uh, when he was a little boy, I guess one of his parents, uh, belonged to the Canadian Nazi party.
I don't know if it was the mother or father.
And then they moved to, uh, uh, South Africa, uh, because I guess they were harassed a lot.
Uh, Canadians really weren't too, uh,
happy about Nazis living among them.
But hey, I just wanted to pass that
over.
Hey Don, thank you very
for the call.
But you know, the Donald Trump, I mean, Elon Musk is a Canadian citizen because his mother is Canadian.
and so he was able to get Canadian citizenship in that fashion.
He was born in South Africa.
Yeah, I'm not a fan of Elon Musk, but I think we ought to stick to his factual basis as possible with respect to him.
All right, let's go to Larry.
Larry, you're up next.
This is Gene from
Eau Claire.
Go ahead, Gene.
Okay, yeah.
This is like watching a really, really bad movie.
And the people in it just really and truly don't care about anybody but themselves.
And we've never been that way in our country.
This is our government, and I personally am getting sick to my stomach every time I see those people on.
Elon Musk, Mr. Fancy Pants, dancing around, using this chainsaw as he cuts very important services to the people in our country.
willy-nilly with our neighbors like god they don't count and it makes me sick to my stomach this is not my country and these people should be run out of office because they are criminals and they are hateful and they enjoy watching people suffer there are people with personality disorders who get a little thrill
out of hurting people and these people every day are dancing around and really getting excited as they put people down, they run them down, they hurt them and it's disgraceful and it's evil and it's hurting our country.
So those of you who are these great Christians better get to church and start evaluating on how we treat people and how godly we really are because this is just
Hey
Jean, thank you very much for the call.
Let's go to Susan you're up next Susan
Hi, I Obviously, you know, I live in Milwaukee all my life my dad actually worked for Nash if you remember what that was car company and you're right what happened was they The the manufacturers did not want to deal with the union
So they pulled all those jobs and they sent them down south.
When the south got to the point that they were making a fairly good wage, they sent them overseas.
So that's how we lost our manufacturing in this country.
And my self, as I'm looking at this and I'm looking at Elon Musk and Trump, it always brings me back.
to Animal Farm in 1984.
If people would read those books, they would actually see what's happening to the United States.
And I think it's about time that we get our head out of the sand and we do something before it's too late.
Hey Susan, thank you.
Thank you very much for the call.
I agree with you, but I think it is too late already.
Let's go to Cindy.
Good morning to you, Cindy.
You say what?
Well, I'm just gonna ask you Jay.
He keeps talking about how the convicted fellow convicted rapist is the greatest thing since place bed I'm just wondering who he's trying to convince me or himself
Well, thank you very much for the call, you know let's go Let's go to John from Milwaukee.
Good morning to you John.
You say what?
Good morning.
Good morning, sir
quick points.
But the first one is that I have an idea that I've written to our state people and not state national people.
I can't get any traction.
I just want to put it out to people see if they think it's good.
We have 75 million people vote for Kamala Harris in the last election.
If each of us got together and contributed $100 towards Ukraine, that's seven and a half billion dollars.
And that does not count the
Republicans that want to defend Ukraine.
Our current office holder is for Russia and we could have we the people supporting Ukraine.
I don't have the wherewithal and nor should an individual have it to set up anything for that kind of structure, that kind of money.
But if we bubble that up and people started moving on that, we're saying that we in America do not stand for our
current office holder, siding with Russia.
We side with the Ukraine.
Hey, John, thank you very much for the call.
You know, Sandy, what I would say to John is I certainly feel pain for Ukraine.
But there's some stuff getting ready to happen inside of our nation.
We we we we get some stuff to deal with inside of our own nation, Sandy, that, um, you know, I think we got to take care of first.
And my, as I've said in earlier shows, I'm most concerned about the notion of the architecture of our democracy, the logistical parts of it, the three pillars of our government, the Supreme Court actually operating in a lawful manner to protect our democracy.
And that's who we're going to be relying on next because
Our executive has announced their intention to leap beyond the boundaries that have currently existed on executive power and what we have left to defend our system is the U.S.
Supreme
Court.
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Go right back to the phone lines, Tom, from LA, Tom, go ahead.
So basically, I just wanted to say that if anybody can write a letter or an email or text to the Ukrainian embassy,
and tell them that we stand behind them.
That would be a big help.
I know John had a great idea about the hundred dollars, but honestly, Ukraine just needed our weapons, which were the number one weapons manufacturer in the world.
And so really and truly, even though we gave money or gave them weapons, it was our weapons.
So it really did not cost us.
in terms of actual money.
So what we need to do is support the Ukrainians and say that, you know, we are not selling 47, does not speak for us is what we need to say.
My second point is that you ever notice Trump tries to make things very simple.
for people who don't have to think very hard.
You know, this whole thing with Vladimir Zelensky only having 4% on the whole idea of NATO being almost like a flab, like Mar-a-Lago where you pay dues to be in it.
He tries to go for the very, very simple thing.
Rather, it's a lot more complex than that.
And when you have people like...
CJ calling up and saying this stuff.
It's like first off CJ you would never be invited to Mar-a-Lago.
But second, that's where you pay dues.
You don't pay dues into NATO, just to let you know.
And no, the Europeans have not paid a lot, less money than the United States has.
So we need to stop those crazy lies and we need a media
that pushes back on Trump when he says this crazy stuff.
So we can actually get the truth out there.
That's what they need to start doing with him.
It's holding his feet to the fire.
And I hope that we have a media that can do that.
Hey, Tom, thank you very much for the call.
All right, let's go to Bill.
Bill, you're up next.
Okay,
And that is that, you know, now
Trump and Vance and others are demanding that the NATO nations each spend 5% of their GDP on defense, whereas the prior agreement had been 2%.
Acting as if the United States spends something like that.
The fact is the current percentage of GDP that the United States spends is 3.8%.
And so, once again, we're just in a world of made-up statistics.
But we do it on an official basis, which is pretty frightening.
Bill, you're up next.
Good morning,
Erlen.
Good
morning.
Keep CJ on, and don't get upset with CJ for this reason.
His mind can be swayed real simply, and we see it
has.
Swayed and what?
Oh, okay.
Go ahead.
Go
ahead.
His mind has been swayed.
He's one of the 77 million that can have their mind sway whichever way the wind blows as long as Trump is in there.
They'll believe anything if he said it.
But feel sorry for him that they're that much of a sheep that they just follow this shining star of whatever they think he is.
A couple other things to remember, CJ.
If you value the Constitution,
If you value American justice, stand up for it now or forever, you'll be lost.
Thanks.
Hey, thank you very much for the call.
You know, this feeling sorry for people who are supporting a man who's destroying our nation.
I can't feel sorry for people who are choosing to go along with a man who...
who openly, Sandy, as you stated, doesn't care at all about the Constitution or this nation.
Well, I think someone who's trying to seize control of every level of every lever of power, the U.S.
Attorney's offices, the FBI, the Department of Justice, all of the agencies and seizing power in the manner of Don Corleone.
You know, he's he's seizing power and then using it
just in the same manner that the mafia would use its power.
It's a protection racket.
Either see it my way, or we'll bring the powers of government down upon you.
And that is the furthest thing from what our founding fathers had in mind for the United States.
That is a return not just to monarchy, but to a malicious form of autocracy.
You know, Sandy, the fear is...
It's already too far gone to stop it
Well, it isn't too far gone yet, but it's definitely on the on the move towards being there You know having the FBI now set up the way it is to be a politically operated Police Department having the US Attorney's Office is operating in what is clear and openly a political processes
having the president bring down the power of the presidency against anyone who speaks up against him and play whack-a-mole in a totally vindictive kind of a way that's based on partisan, personal partisan politics is a long way towards exactly what you described.
Sandy, thank you very much as always.
I'll see you again on Friday.
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