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mean, this
kit.
After that song.
Maybe that killed it, right?
That pretty much killed the instrumental as a thing.
WMDX.
could muster the troops.
Yeah, buddy's good morning, and it sounds like by the end of the weekend in the north woods They could have temperatures in the upper 50s when they wake up.
fun
be be careful what you wish for because my the long term weather forecast for Wisconsin is that like starting next week temperatures are going to drop and we're going to dry out.
So all of a sudden what in what has been the dog days days of August and remember my farmers still need that heat to finish off this crop.
we still need the sunshine to finish off soybeans so you know this is a pretty steep about face and it's what the 22nd of August so we still got a good week to go before we would even expect this to enter in but I'm with you guys I'm ready for a break from the humidity and
And I can walk outside and breathe in this.
I'm wrong.
Let's put it off for another week or two.
I want the farmers to get their crops in.
Yeah, they got to do that.
All right, let's talk about something that we're kind of warned about, that rural community hospitals and clinics are going out of business because they can't afford to be out there to not get the federal funding anymore.
But we've got a different situation happen in Lafayette County.
Yeah, and it's kind of cool because like you say, it really goes in the face of what everybody's been talking about yesterday was kind of the public grand opening for the Lafayette Hospital and clinic in Darlington.
Now let's recognize that Lafayette County is one of the most rural counties in Wisconsin.
The building they replaced was built back in 1952 and had relatively little upgrades in that time because
of lack of funding.
You just don't know what's going to be happening with staffing.
So Jack Sauer, who is the chairman of the county board and also chairman of the hospital committee, said it was probably one of the proudest moments in his 24 years in public service to be able to get this project done.
And it took a lot of collaboration.
Compure Financial, which is an ag lender, stepped in and started working to secure funds through the U.S.
Department of Agriculture and kind of convert them into construction
construction loans, about $51 million was needed just for construction.
And then stop and think about everything that goes into a hospital, including technology and staffing.
Stowers said they also were very astute to make sure that they were going to have the people in place.
So to attract doctors to rural areas, you always have to put a carrot on the stick.
Well, for Lafayette Hospital, it was offering them a $50,000, basically scholarship.
to help against their education costs if they committed to coming to Lafayette and staying there.
They're turning into the regional source as a trauma for hospital, which means they can basically handle some trauma, get everybody prepped and set before they're moving on to a little bit more of an elaborate hospital.
But it's turned into a regional resource.
And like I said, I just can't say enough about how they worked.
hard collaborating with everybody, you know, when it comes to politicians, everybody's ready to put their hand out, but it took a lot of them to collaborate to get the funding in place.
So well done.
Ben Jarbo, one of my assistants was down there for all the fun yesterday.
It's an example of how it can happen if you put the right people at the table.
Wisconsin?
The radius that it would reach would be Darlington, Fenimore, Mineral Point, also as far as into Western Green County.
They're also pulling, obviously, from Grant County.
I mean, really, if you look at it on a map, folks, you're going to realize there ain't much here.
And now it will be the draw.
Now, will that put a strangle on some of the other hospitals in the area?
Perhaps.
Do I expect other communities in that area to try to match them?
Probably not.
but to be able to have one go-to facility that's well staffed, has the technology and the facilities, that is a wonderful story for rural Wisconsin
southwest Wisconsin.
Well, you know, just stop and think about it, fellas.
We talk about ambulance services not being
to find volunteers for your departments.
Now, if you're in southwest Wisconsin and you make a call 9-1-1,
You may wait, I've talked to you about this before, 45 minutes to an hour before they can respond.
When you put a facility like Lafayette Hospital in Darlington, now all of a sudden instead of that ambulance having to make a run from...
you know, rural Southwest Wisconsin all the way into Madison, or even
a closer facility in Iowa County.
I mean, that's a life and death situation for people.
That they do.
And that's part of the goal.
I'll tell you what, we'll tease them today and talk more about it on Monday, but the corn mazes are coming together very, very well.
Monday, we will talk exactly about the forethought that has to go into creating these corn mazes.
They don't just pop up.
when somebody comes up with an idea.
This is something that was constructed on paper last fall, was planted specifically this spring, and now is being literally carved out of cornfields as we speak.
One of them, Trinen Farms up in Lodi.
ready with a Wisconsin theme to greet you this year.
We'll talk more about that on Monday.
Yeah, you guys too.
Enjoy it.
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Do that.
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Yes.
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All right, so let's get to idiocracy.
How's that?
Let's get to it.
Let's do it.
Hit the idiocracy button.
Okay.
As the
21st century began, human evolution was at a turning point, a dumbing down.
with no natural predators to thin the herd.
It began to simply reward those who reproduced the most and left the intelligent to become an endangered species.
What an idiot!
Oh, what a loser!
Now listen, Grapehead.
I'll explain it so even you can understand it.
Idiocracy!
For the smartest guy in the world, you're pretty dumb sometimes.
Dangerously dumb.
And, you know, what I'm thinking here is the first story is just across the wire here.
Oh boy.
Yeah, the latest COVID variant, Dub Stratus, is dominating Ireland at this point.
It is very, very contagious, but it is not more dangerous than the virus itself that's out there and has been out there for some time.
But as you know,
RFK Jr.
has banned any kind of advancement in the mRNA vaccine, so we may not see a different vaccine for us to get in order to fight off this new variant, Stratus.
right?
That's the biggest problem we have.
Oh, that's just making us pay for everything.
Okay.
All right.
Um, that's depressing, but okay
There's more?
Yes, there is a lot more.
There's talk now that maybe somewhere along the way the Democrats should have their own Stephen Miller.
We really want that?
Yeah, apparently we should have somebody that ruthless and cold and dangerous on the Democratic side of the aisle.
I don't know.
I mean, it's just talk so far.
We
Who's like Stephen Miller on the Democratic side of the aisle?
Yeah.
Somebody, please.
Yeah, tell us.
Oh, God.
And now get this, you know, with the occupation of DC and businesses losing a lot of business, no one's going out because they, I guess, don't want to walk around Humvees and be challenged by
National Guard or police or, you know, Marines, whoever is showing up.
And by the way, the red states are sending their National Guard to DC, right?
I heard somebody mention this and I thought, wow, oh, that is it.
This is like the North and the South.
In this proposal, a Hispanic Texan has one-third the political value of a white Texan under this plan, and a black Texan one-fifth.
It would take three Hispanics to equal the representation of one white Texan and five black Texans to equal the value of one white Texan.
Under these lines, Texas Hispanics will be the most underrepresented population group in all 50 states.
The level of underrepresentation will far exceed what even conservative courts have struck down in Louisiana, Alabama, and just yesterday in
is
So that's obviously, I would assume, going to be challenged to the Supreme Court right away.
I guess so, yeah.
And we'll see.
Go right on.
Yeah, and of course, you know, California is approved, redistricting, now it goes to the voters to approve.
We're just getting, you know, a hint at some of the polling and whether, you know, Californians are all for this or want to go with it this time around.
Yeah, and they don't vote on this until early November.
Yeah, November.
So yikes.
So it'll be polling
well they want to stir it up and you know and then when we finally get around to the presidential election you know if all these states have you know some of them have redistricted some of them not it's it is going to be chaotic when they go to count the votes and then there will be
Court challenges again, like should they have redistricted, I mean you'll all go up to the Supreme Court again.
They're
doing everything they want and then of course going to court and challenging it all the way up to the Supreme Court and then getting their way.
Right.
Like this ruling that came out yesterday from the Supreme Court.
They rule that the Trump administration can move forward with slashing hundreds of millions of dollars in federal research funding as part of its efforts to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
What why is that illegal?
Why can't you do I don't understand how they can just say?
Oh, yeah, the Supreme Court Letting this go through right and they're gonna allow all these other cases of course in the lower courts You know work their way up to the Supreme Court again and ask this same question, but it was a 5-4 decision and And it's just a Robert sided with the Liberals this time around.
Okay.
Uh-huh.
So anyway, this
is
Institute of Health being cut dramatically.
The majority's unsigned order frees the administration to proceed with canceling grants already targeted for elimination while leaving in place restrictions on the administration's guidance for the future.
And this is outrageous because we've got, you know, studies, drugs, everything in midpoint, you know, three quarters of the way through almost finished research.
Yeah, you can't just
Wow.
And then we're leaving up all these drugs to other nations in order to have them research it, own the patents, and then we'll be paying for that as well.
This is a disaster.
And we can thank the Supreme Court for this.
But of course, the Trump administration, their goal, of course, is to challenge everything in court
and take
and get an answer that they
emergency.
Batman
Warning all of you to brace yourselves for big news.
him.
They're
intimidating.
The U.S.
government would become the largest shareholder of Intel.
This is actual socialism happening by a Republican administration.
This is a horrible precedent.
This is socialism.
All of you people were freaked out about Memdami in New York City wanting government run grocery stores and saying the people need to seize the means of production.
That's what Harold Lutnik is doing right now.
Saying that the government must seize the controlling interest in Intel, the means of production in order to get government money.
You can't just be against socialism when the left does it.
He was adamant at the end there.
Well, you know again, we've talked about this this is projection and it seems like that's all the right wing is about is projection Yeah, they're angry that the Democrats might be doing something before them Of course, it doesn't even occur the Democrats to have like FEMA camps We're not really thinking about that stuff, but they're angry and they make up this thing where you know Democrats are building FEMA camps to how is all the Republicans they don't like
like, which has not ever have been a thought in our head.
But, you know, they were angry about it.
Now they're able to at least start that project on their own.
So.
Wonderful.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
You know, there's really not much left, right?
We're just
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Here's the video of the moment.
This is Texas State Representative Nicole Collier.
She was caught in the bathroom and threatened with a felony for being in the bathroom.
This is before the vote where they approved redistricting.
Let's listen to cut 173 and by the way she was on a conference call with Cory Booker at the time and that's why they threatened her with a felony if she didn't come out and stop the conversation with fellow Democrats.
Let's listen to this.
All of our Democratic elected officials
are actively they said it's a felony for me to do this.
Apparently I can't be on the floor or in the bathroom.
Well, you told me I was only allowed to be here in the bathroom.
No, hang on.
Bye everybody.
I've got to go.
And first of all, let me tell you something.
Representative Collier in the bathroom has more dignity than Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
There you go.
That is outrageous.
What they're trying to do right there is silence an American leader, silence a black woman.
And that is outrageous.
And I hope everybody took note of that.
The fact that she can't even let her voice be heard is fricking outrageous.
It is.
And this is what we're fighting for here.
they have to be
They
But maybe, you know, maybe we'll lose a few states in the meantime, because Canadian politician Elizabeth May wants a few of our states to join Canada.
How's that, huh?
Let's listen to cut 171.
This is Elizabeth May suggesting that maybe three West Coast states should join them, including some East Coast states.
Listen.
So California, Governor Newsom and Washington State Jay Inslee and newly elected Governor of Oregon Tina Kotak, how about it?
Want to put a referendum to your citizens?
Because this is what you deal.
Have we got a deal for you?
This is what you get.
Free health care, universal free health care.
No more one year olds who suddenly fall off the Medicaid list and their parents are in the news because they're trying to do a go fund me so they can get their daughter to a doctor.
Universal, free healthcare.
And guess what?
Those gun laws that your Congress is too afraid to pass because of the national gun lobby, we already got our strict gun laws.
That's why we have the safest streets around the world.
Safer streets here, we already have good gun laws.
And women have a right to an abortion under our universal healthcare system.
But, you know, we don't have to stop there.
Donald, think about it.
You could get rid of all these states that always vote Democrat.
You know what else will take Bernie Sanders off your hands?
Proud new Canadian citizen of the great province of Vermont.
Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine.
love to see you.
got?
Something kind of fun.
Trump went on a rampage about Los Angeles, slash California,
what
a hellhole it is, everything.
Right.
Now, 15 years ago, L.A.
was a great town and the state was doing well.
Guess who was the mayor of L.A.
15 years ago?
correct guess who was the Attorney General
he actually was right for it.
Nobody wants to go out of their
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