Our Brand Is Chaos (Hour 1)

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There was a meeting

in Richland Center

in

Richland County, which is Richland Center is Todd's hometown, talking about concerns going forward.

And I think there are a lot of things that a lot of us can relate to as we map out the next several hundred days.

Today is the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.

Next hour, we will start off with talking about that.

And we would like to hear from you what sticks out the most to you.

Yeah.

And if there are victories, you think there are victories?

Share it.

Tell us less.

Yeah.

And give us details and tell us where we can show your work.

It feels like a thousand days, Gene.

Doesn't it though?

It's only been a hundred days.

A thousand, a hundred thousand days.

Yeah.

At 1033, that's our audio sorbet segment where we try to lighten things up a little bit so people, we can all, I should say, take a breath.

And we talked about this.

I think it was last month or the month before we talked about chickens.

Good chicken.

And backyard chinkens.

And now you can rent a chicken.

I did not know this was a thing, but it is.

America, we have

to stop.

We'll talk about it later, but come on, America.

We're going to

talk about rented chickens.

And again, if you are raising chickens, and I know Angie from Monroe, because she called in the last time we talked about this.

I feel like 60 of them.

But there are things you need to keep in mind if you choose to do this, including predators.

So that's all coming up.

Next hour and then we're gonna wrap up the show with this might be the best one that Calvin has found yet We'll wrap it up as we always do with this shouldn't be a thing today It is the great Schmeckles of history

great Schmeckles of history Yes,

the great Schmeckles of history is coming up at the very end of the show around 1051 so I hope you can stick around for that as always if you find a thing you think should not be

outside of politics.

Otherwise, that's what it would be every day.

Fun and funny.

Fun and funny and light.

Send it to Jane says.

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Fun, funny, or Florida.

Oh, that too, that works too.

We could have a whole just segment of Tisbets, just Florida dedicated.

Maybe we'll get around to that eventually.

I wanted to start off with this though.

I guess this is a good thing today.

This is from the Milwaukee Journal, Sentinel Sophie Carson, rather with the byline.

International students at UW Madison and other Wisconsin schools see their legal status restored.

Yeah.

More than two dozen students at Wisconsin schools saw their legal status as restored after the Trump administration originally terminated their records from a government database.

This means that the affected students and graduates can keep studying and working here for now.

The status of all 27 UW Madison students and alumni whose records were terminated in the database have been restored to active Marquette.

Madison College and MATC also said the statuses of their affected students have been restored.

This was part of a nationwide reversal in policy.

There seem to have been several of those in the first 100 days.

And Jane, I'm noticing something.

Are

you?

I'm noticing a pattern with this administration with regard to how they operate.

First of all, I want to reiterate something we said when we talked about when it was originally happening, which was the universities that were literally shrugging their shoulders saying,

We don't know.

And we have no advice to give these students because it just on Sunday, they were, it was fine.

On Monday, it was gone.

So, but, and this is, this is in reference to something that Will Westmoreland said yesterday in her show.

If you want to listen to that conversation, go to civicmedia.us and look him up in the second hour.

It seems like when the Trump administration does something that is wildly unpopular,

Either one person or a group of people will complain, protest, be worried enough, garner enough attention where they will then take care of that group of people.

If there's enough noise.

Exactly.

Will Westmoreland, this whole thing, us coming to him was from one farmer in Missouri, who was a Trump supporter, who was having problems.

And we found out yesterday, he's been taken care of.

And he got it.

And what Will said was, he got his payment right quick.

It seems like everything that gets a little attention, the Trump administration is quick to say, let's fix this thing right here.

Well, it's the squeaky wheels.

Oh, absolutely.

It's the squeaky wheels.

You got to make a big enough stink,

though.

And I don't know that that's standard across the board.

Yeah.

As far as people protesting things and the Trump administration reversing on it.

But it seems to be that when something's going wrong that we've heard about, it's being fixed.

It's never this underground thing we haven't heard about.

Oh, they're taking care of air traffic controllers, you know, that kind of thing.

We saw this in the news.

They got, they got flack for it.

They're going to fix it.

And they say, we took care of it, everybody.

Well, and I think at least for me, my big takeaway from this first 100 days is chaos.

Yes.

Yes.

Chaos and incompetence.

And so many of these cuts by Doge coming in and firing all these people who oversee our nuclear agencies.

I don't know the ones who actually know how this works and know where the stockpiles are and all of those things and have the codes and kind of important things.

Yeah, the lack of thought and the lack of due diligence into what should be cut.

And again, they've just come in with this chainsaw attitude.

It's, that has a word in it.

I don't like, we'll cut that program.

This has another, we don't like that state.

Let's cut that program.

This

group doesn't seem important.

We'll cut that thing.

The state can take care of it.

We'll cut that program.

Unfortunately, most of those programs are state and federal working and concert.

I mean, when you talk about chaos, Jane, I'm looking right now at the Dow Jones index from January the 21st of this year, where it was 44,025 points.

And if you look at it, it stays pretty.

Steady for about a month for about one.

Yeah on the one month anniversary It starts to crater and crash and then we get to where we were last earlier this month on April the 7th where it was down nearly 7,000 points So it's about chaos complete chaos and also not to mention a total lack of Accountability absolutely.

Yeah, absolutely

We're gonna talk more next hour at this time.

Yeah, your big takeaways from the first 100 days of the

Trump

administration But that that is my takeaway anyway is the chaos.

Yeah, and the Dare I say incompetence because that's what it seems like and the fear that it breeds That's intentional The feet that the fear is intentional at least at least in my estimation.

Well, yeah

Going back to the student visas that have been reinstated, this is a nationwide reversal in policy by the Trump administration.

The Department of Homeland Security terminated more than 1,500 student records in the student and exchange visitor information systems in many cases for no reason or for minor violations like traffic tickets or cases that had already been dismissed.

And remember when these terminations went out, they were told what you have 10 days.

Yeah, you have 10 days and you have to get out of here.

Yep.

There's no, there's no month.

There's no two months, the end of the school year.

Cause you know that some of the, like my friend is here on a student visa teaching while getting their PhD program.

When she showed up, when I saw her after the announcement,

White is a ghost on constant tears because I don't know what's going on.

I have no and no one can answer questions for me

Yeah, because the government wasn't able to respond to it either no because nobody know that they don't seem like they know what they're doing.

I know that shocking Just the fact and again this goes to the lack of precision with which this administration has

dealt with things.

These students were not criminals.

These students, they were given no reason for this.

None whatsoever.

And now they're back with no explanation about why that was reversed either.

And they're almost kind of taking a victory lap too on it.

Like we've took care of this.

It's fine.

We're good.

The schools say it doesn't believe the visa terminations were related to any participation in free speech events or political activity.

The rationale unclear.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio in March had said the U.S.

State Department revoked at least 300 student visas claiming these students were lunatics.

And they wanted to cause a ruckus.

Oh, great.

My grandpa is in charge of things over there.

I just want to clear up a thing, too, is participating in free speech events, protests, things like that.

That's all protected in the Constitution.

Isn't that part of the First Amendment?

They shouldn't be held.

They shouldn't be held liable for those types of things.

If you think differently, then tell me your thoughts on the Constitution.

The records again have been restored for the time being for these students, but the administration says it's working on a new way to review and terminate those records.

Justice Department attorneys said in federal court last week that immigration and customs enforcement still has the right to terminate these records for other reasons.

Neither UW Madison nor the students were given an explanation for the terminations

or for those records being reinstated, it had previously said it didn't believe any of the determinations again were related to free speech or protests.

I don't like his last name.

Let's revoke his visa.

Exactly.

And what does, I mean, how many times we've been through this where it's action, harsh action taken, totally reversed.

Let's act like it never happened.

And also, the way he said it and the way you just, Secretary Rubio's words is, is review and terminate.

That's their goal.

They don't wanna just take a look and make sure they want them out.

That is the ultimate goal, terminate these visas so they leave.

Well, and the thing to keep in mind, at least from my understanding, these students pay more than US students.

Their tuition fees are higher if you're coming from out of the country.

Okay.

Just like not every state has reciprocity if you attend a university in different states.

And let's just throw a big old cherry on this pile of garbage.

They're doing it legally.

They're doing the process that you all who have a problem with anyone who doesn't look like you said, well, why can't they just do it legally?

Why can't they just do it by the way?

They've done everything.

They did it.

They fulfilled every wish of your brain.

But somehow,

But somehow not good enough.

And I guess we just don't want foreign students anymore.

No, because

what we don't

want their money.

We don't want, you know, we don't want them.

What do they even contribute?

Jane?

Sorry, I'm getting dramatic while I'm being angry, but it's just it's so infuriating to me.

The hypocrisy that goes into wrapped around a big old pile of xenophobia.

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There are concerns about tourism over the summer and what that's going to mean for the US as it seems like we are less of a desirable destination for some people.

This is from the Milwaukee Journal's Sentinel Ricardo Torres with the byline Port of Milwaukee, expecting fewer cruise ships this summer

Tariff impact on shipping also unclear.

This is a crucial time of year for the Port of Milwaukee.

That means cruise ships are coming to town with what the uncertainty of tariffs, international trade and foreign tourism, port officials balancing what they know will happen versus the unknown.

Now, the Port of Milwaukee has become increasingly popular, especially over the last five years.

I remember.

driving once and being shocked when I saw a cruise ship.

I'm like, why is a cruise ship?

Nothing against Milwaukee, it's just, we're not a big, big, big city.

And I think of cruise ships, I think of the Caribbean.

So yeah,

when I saw one, I was like, oh,

we're fancy.

Well, but a cruise along the Great Lakes had become increasingly popular.

So that's become a big deal.

And I think last year,

was the highest amount the Port of Milwaukee had seen.

I think there were six or seven ships that came in over the course of the summer, which brings in some nice cash for restaurants and bars and shops that are close to downtown.

It's not a bad thing.

This is a concern for all over the country.

This is from the Guardian, U.S.

to miss out on billions of dollars as Trump's policies deter overseas tourists

The number of visitors in March down 11.6%.

I

mean, this is apt, but it's just two people.

I was speaking to a couple that I know over in England, and I said, hey, you guys haven't been here in nearly 20 years.

When you come back, not anytime soon.

I was like, oh, fair, fair, fair.

I asked, I didn't understand.

But the way they said not anytime soon, I'm like, oh, of course you're not.

Of course you're not.

In this Guardian article, they talk about a woman named Cheryl, who Cheryl says she travels to Iowa from her home in St.

Kitts every year.

She usually rents a three bedroom house for her and her kids, rents a car, they go out to dinner, they go to local attractions.

She typically spends 10,000 bucks.

Wait, she's from St.

Kitts and

she goes where?

She's from St.

Kitts and she goes to Iowa.

Must be home base.

I must know that story.

Must be old home base.

No, not this year.

No, not going to do it.

The Trump administration's high profile deportations and detentions at the border that mean that Cheryl originally Canadian isn't coming back to the U. S. She says, quote, I don't feel safe.

This isn't even actually her real name because she's afraid of reprisals.

I love my kids and my family more than anything.

It's only feeling unsafe that's stopping me.

I am too old and tired to sleep on concrete.

I'm,

wow.

I mean, the newly chosen Canadian prime minister put it best, I think, or put it in very blunt terms, I should say, last month when he said America is a country that we no longer can trust.

And if she spent $10,000, usually she probably could look forward to spending between 12 to $13,000 this year too, with everything going

up the way they are.

This was supposed to be a bumper year for US tourism after a steep drop off after the pandemic.

The number of international visitors was expected to finally get back to pre-2020 levels, but not anymore.

A tourism research group said that before Trump's inauguration, they predicted a 9% increase in international travel to the US this year.

Now they're expecting a 12% drop.

That's not good.

People in Spain and Germany have been particularly deterred with 25% and 28% fewer visitors.

Now I can already hear some folks saying, well, good, I don't want to be tripping over tourists in my town anyway.

OK.

They they they bring in lots of money.

They

they once again.

They contribute to the economy and then then you're fine.

They leave eventually.

They're only here for like a week or maybe a month if they're visiting.

Whatever it doesn't matter.

Like everything you.

Everything you want to make America great again.

Those individuals do because when tourism booms.

We boom.

And that's what also can make America great.

So this constant thing you're talking about, Jane, the hypocrisy and like, well, I don't like it.

Okay, fine.

Then let your, let your town die.

President Trump has said the decline in visitors isn't a big deal.

Quote, I could see a little bit of nationalism at work.

Asked, asked if people were scared to come to the US.

Donald Trump says, no, we treat our tourists great.

There's nobody, no place like this, just apparently not this year.

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Number of things we want to talk about with you this morning, Todd, but I found this article in the Wisconsin Examiner from last week, actually, Henry Redmond with the byline, Richland County community leaders discussed staggering ripple effect of Trump cuts.

Now you are from Richland Center.

I am proud, proud Richland Center native in the Driftless Southwest Wisconsin.

I guess the thing that jumped out at me, Todd, because they were talking in this article about some of the Head Start cuts and Head Start.

Right.

And I think it's one of those programs where people might have some misconceptions about who uses Head Start and who Head Start helps.

But there are Head Start programs in Richland County that a lot of folks depend upon.

And within this article, they talk about the poverty rate in Richland County, which is much higher than I would have expected.

Oh, yeah, it's rich.

I mean, grew up there, you know, spent roughly half of my life, various degrees there.

And it's a beautiful place.

Great place to be from, still a great place to deliver work, but it is one of the most impoverished parts of Wisconsin for a long time.

It was Lafayette County, which is down just south, two counties down south of the Wisconsin River along Illinois border, which was where the poorest, not the poorest county, of course, Menominee County, where the Menominee Reservation is, just to the north and west of Green Bay.

Adams and Juneau County at different times, but Richland County,

And part of that is that it's challenged by geography because it's in the beautiful drift

list.

It's gorgeous.

But

there is no four lane.

Yeah, there's no four lane.

You were there last year,

Jane.

And there's no four lane road that goes there.

They took out the rail transportation years ago for the rails to trails program.

There's no boat.

So getting getting goods in and out of Richland County is it can be a challenge is basically trucks.

And that's it.

So that is inhibited industry from.

from coming into that part of the state by a large, and also politically, with the exception of my former boss, Dale Schultz, when he represented the area, was Senate Majority Leader, and you had Steve Freese, who represented parts of Richland County when he was Speaker Pro Tem.

Other than those few years, there hasn't been a lot of political power for that area.

They don't get a lot of funds from the state that way.

There's a lot of challenges there.

There's a lot of great people, a lot of great things going on.

I read the story.

I hadn't seen it.

I'm glad you sent it to me.

Wisconsin Examiner, a great publication.

I think there's a couple of important takeaways from that.

I did call our news director at WRCE, WRCO, joined crew lots before I came on the air.

She was at the meeting and she had a story on it.

She sent it to me.

And not only people mentioned the Wisconsin Examiner story, but there were more people there as well.

I think it's important to remember, A, my understanding is it

was organized by State Senator Brad Paff, who is a Democrat of La Crosse area, represents the district just to the west of Richland County.

And so the county board chair, Dave Turk, the mayor, Todd Copperdoll, were not in attendance.

I don't know whether they were

invited

or not.

And number two, Tony Kurtz, the state representative for that area who happens to be Republican, was not there.

I don't know whether he was invited or not.

And I think that's where the under, at least in this story, it went unreported.

I think it's really important for all of our statewide listeners to understand.

Tony Kurtz has represented that area in the state Senate as a Republican.

with former state senator, Howard Markline, both on the joint finance committee.

After redistricting, Kurt Keprichland County, the democratically elected senator, Sarah Kieski, now represents that area.

And Kieski and Kurt are working and attempting in a bipartisan way.

Our colleague, Phil Knee, has a local morning show there, said that they want to come on his show together

and talk

about bipartisanship.

So I think it is important to report that and let people know that

There is at least an attempt

by

new Democratic State Senator Kieske and current Republican Tony Kurtz to work together.

That said, the article of my understanding, the Wisconsin Examiner, all very accurate.

And to your point, yes.

And you guys have talked about this.

I know we have as well other programs on civic media that these Medicaid cuts, these cuts that are coming up soon here in Congress, people like Derek Van Orton, others are going to vote on, this is going to impact

our hometowns including Richland County and Southwest Wisconsin.

Head Start is a big part of that.

Yeah, I know my former boss, his wife, Rachel Schultz, was the district administrator of the Richland School District, the Morning Summer Breakfast Program.

over the summer in the Richland School District was one of the most highly attended because kids just don't have enough to eat.

Some parents don't.

It's not just homelessness.

It is under housed

people

who are living with relatives on couches and that sort of thing.

So there's a lot of challenges there.

And yes, it is accurate that these cuts by Trump and also by the Republican Congress potentially are going to have a real effect.

Well, and again, I think there is this misconception, Todd, that these cuts and these programs only help people in urban areas.

And that's why for some, it's like, yeah, fine, cut it, you know, whatever.

It's in Milwaukee.

They get all kinds of state money.

They don't need this.

Cut it.

These cuts affect all of us, all of us.

Yeah.

No, absolutely.

And the Kickapoo School Administrator, which Richland County has several great public schools that were kind of divided up out there, Richland County, but Kickapoo represents the northwest part of the county Viola area.

It's a great local school, public school.

They do what have a great theater program.

They have great sports programs, great friends.

programs, great music programs over the years.

But it's by and large people in agriculture and little villages that make up the Kickapoo School District.

And without those funds for public schools there, they are going to be hurt.

Like you say, the Head Start program.

And to your point, Jane, and we talked about this a little bit on our show yesterday, Congress already went in once and they passed

of the reconciliation bill.

And now the getaway was saying, well, I didn't really cut Medicaid.

which is technically true, because now they have to go back in and actually fund what they voted for.

And the only way you're going to get there is to either A, not give the big tax cuts to the corporations, or B, make drastic cuts to Medicaid.

So I mean, if you can't add your cake, political cake and eat it too, and that's going to have real effects on Richland County, Waukesha, Green Bay, Amory and everywhere in between.

Well, and we've talked about this many times because we will get accused of being fear mongers.

and all those things.

But the math does not add up when they talk about trillions and trillions and trillions of saving that doge is finding.

And then they're going to read in state this big tax cut.

And that money has to come from somewhere and two million here and two million there.

It takes a lot of those to add up to a trillion dollars or several trillion dollars.

And and that's why we say.

Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, those could be on the block because that cash has got us come from someplace.

Do you have a grandmother who worked all of her life?

Her fingers, the bones, saved up, worked hard like my grandmother did in Richland County in the last 10 years of her life.

She found herself in assisted living and ultimately in a nursing home.

She was fortunate that she was able to pay her way to the end, but she, on the last couple of three years of her life, she looked at my mom and she said, Linda,

Why did your dad and I do this?

We scraped and saved so we can leave you kids something.

I'm paying $9,000 a month to be here.

And the woman next door, her money ran out three months after she's here and Medicaid's taking care of her for the exact same.

service and so our programs Decentivize people from saving but the point is that my grandmother have to be lucky.

She had the state retirement system She saved you know like a chipmunk and and could pay away But most people can't and so and so when we to your point Jane when some Republican politicians say oh, that's the you know the quote-unquote welfare folks the quote-unquote lazy people No, actually we all know that there's very few of those folks actually around number one But number two these are our parents our mom

and dads, our grandparents who've scraped and saved, and now in the retirement, our veterans for God's sake, who sacrificed for our country, and our kids, disabled kids, who are on Medicaid.

These are our friends and neighbors and family who are going to suffer because of the lack of a foresight by the Trump administration and Republicans like Derek Van Orten.

I was gonna say, I think your grandmother did what she did is the same reason my parents did and my grandparents did is because the government said, hey, you work hard, you save up, you save up for a rainy day.

And he sold this idea of this is how it was going to go.

And, you know, I'm thinking now to when Derek Van Orton was once again, yelling at an expert who was just trying to do her job, saying, we're not going to cut snap benefits by one nickel, his words by one nickel.

And as Jane said, if you're going to find these savings, guess what goes first?

It always seemed to be the benefits and the programs that help those who are less fortunate or need help.

Well, and then I saw this yesterday, and we're not going to spend a lot of time on this, but they want to give the defense departments another couple hundred million dollars.

This is an agency within the government that hasn't been able to pass an audit for 20 years, right?

It's been more than a decade since the Defense Department has actually been able to pass an audit.

And I think if you talk to people actually in the Defense Department, people are men and women in uniform.

They'll say, yeah, there's some areas we could stand to increase, but you know what?

There are other areas we could find deficiencies.

So again, I'm not sure those those calls for increases are coming from men and women in uniform, charging charge of those other programs.

It's from politicians who want to look good to people.

Exactly.

Oh, exactly.

And there is there is just a lot of that.

There is a lot of this positioning on important things.

just just because just just to make them look good just to make them look like they're like they're actually accomplishing something

yeah i i i really appreciate you bringing this story up because

places like richland county don't get a lot of love there's some great people there the tourism director was at this meeting uh the examiner's story was talking about and he talked about the lack of of people who are that it's hard to find workers uh a rockwell automation a big company there isn't expanding because they can't find workers uh immigration plays in this uh people work on dairy farms and orchards that sort of thing so so all of these challenges as you said jane uh rippled down i'm glad they're getting some love would have liked to see brad path show up when the richland county campus was closing and we couldn't get them to the camp

but we welcome him now.

And you're, that sticks.

Better late than never.

Well, it sticks in your craw and justifiably so.

It really, you're not wrong about that, Todd.

Tony Everson

come out.

We begged Tony Everson to come out there.

We bred Brad Path.

Nobody wanted to come out there.

And very quickly, you know, Everson Republicans gave Richland County $2 million and then it's going to cost a million and a half to replace one bridge to clean up the campus.

It's ridiculous.

We're going to continue our conversation with Todd Abba, host.

of the Todd Alba Show 2-4 here across the network.

Derek Van Orden, we're going to talk about him.

When we come back, stay close.

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As we always do with this shouldn't be a thing.

Today, this might be in the top 10 Hall of Fame.

Calvin found this one.

Today's this shouldn't be a thing is great Schmeckles in history.

Great Schmeckles of history.

Oh, yes.

You want to stick around for this one.

Yes.

Great lady, nervous anticipation.

Great Schmeckles in history coming up next hour around 1051.

Right now we're joined by our friend and colleague Todd Alba from the Todd Alba show now from two to four across the Civic Media radio network.

I did want to share this real quickly before we move on to Derek Van Ordenen is very important endorsement he just got.

But one of our textures on the text line we were talking about.

town halls and who shows up and who doesn't show up.

Sue from Franklin texted this in.

My friend got this yesterday afternoon with virtually no notice.

It was a notice about a town hall being held by Brian Stiles.

And here's what it read.

Hello, this is Congressman Brian Stiles.

Sorry I missed you.

I called to invite you to participate in my telephone town hall taking place right now.

If you get this message within 30 minutes, you can join.

Here's the number.

This is Congressman Brian Stile.

If you have any questions, contact me.

So yes, 10 to five people are heading home on a Monday.

Hey, I missed your call, but if you get this right now, you can join my telephone.

town hall because I don't really want to see in person.

Sounds like Congressman Stiles on the political version of Grindr looking for a hookup.

I was going to say, I thought these guys

hated remote work,

but you know, but super

from Franklin says her friend joined this and it was useless.

There was a survey done, but they could only push a button.

with their concerns.

So there was actually no way to offer any actual feedback because they don't want to hear from their constituents.

Wow.

Just it's just sad, right?

Yeah.

I mean, I just don't as someone who worked as a legislative aide for a majority of my life, that's just foreign to me.

Both my former boss, State Senator Dale Shultz and former US Congressman Scott Kluge.

Well, I think maybe I've told a part of this story before, but when I got hired by Klu, the interview was really brief, but he said, you know, I hire good people and, and I let you go do your job.

But if you, if you mess up, I bring in and I knock you upside the head and then let you go do your job.

You get three strikes and you're out.

Any questions?"

I said, no, he goes, great, you're hired.

That was it.

That was the

entire

interview.

And so I only got one strike in my entire five years with him.

It was because I got behind on constituent case work, and he did not tolerate it.

And of course, he never yelled at me or anything.

He brought me in and gave me old dad, you know, Todd, I'm really disappointed in you.

That

is the worst thing.

And

I'm devastated.

I was mortified.

Yeah.

And so, you know, I had it cleaned up within a week and it never happened again.

But so I guess coming from that type of situation, I just the whole idea of not responding to constituents, not having office hours, not having true listening sessions is completely foreign.

And to me, unfortunately,

You know, the internet provides good things, but also bad things.

I think the fact that these folks can can live in their silos and in the whatever sphere and it makes it possible for them not and also the huge amounts of money now in politics.

They don't have to go out and listen to their constituents and and we've lost something in my opinion.

Yeah, most definitely.

We don't have a whole lot of time left.

I do want to get to this.

President Trump announcing yesterday.

is endorsement for Derek Van Orden for re-election.

Donald Trump says Congressman Derek Van Orden and America first warrior.

For Wisconsin third congressional district, Derek has my complete and total endorsement for re-election.

He will never let you down.

Derek, look north.

Is all I'm gonna say.

Just look to Canada.

And see how those endorsements are going in case you missed this yesterday.

Polliver, who was the conservative in Canada who was running against the liberal, Donald Trump had soundly endorsed him.

Yesterday, Pierre Polliver put this on Twitter, President Trump, stay out of our election.

The only people who will decide the future of Canada are Canadians at the ballot box.

He was leading by 20 points two months ago, and he just lost.

I just thought it was amazing that he came out on social media and said, would you butt out?

You are not helping me.

Yeah, I would say two things a on the Republican Party They have a riff right now with their convention coming up there is a more more even more super Trumpy sect of manga in Wisconsin GLP in Eau Claire Milwaukee in Brown County Scream Bay who are trying to out Brian shimmy as the party leader

right right I

think part of it is Trump trying to fend off the more if you call him moderate magas from challenging Derek Van Orton perhaps in a primary But also I think it also has a great fear that you know Van Orton only won what three four points last time

And especially in 2026, assuming that elections are going to go smoothly, we'll assume that for a minute, that Derek Van Orton could be in some real trouble.

Rebecca Cook is getting a lot of endorsements.

It appears that she's not going to have a major challenger on the Democratic side.

But I actually kind of hope she does.

I think it's healthy.

And I think it's too soon to say that.

But I think Derek Van Orton is in some real political trouble.

Yeah, I think that.

This is not going to go the way I I bet you he's waving his hand saying thank you president Trump up behind He's saying oh god no, and I think we I want it next time you come back to I need to talk to you more about this more extreme maga sector

Well, I'll quickly disagree.

I think that Derek Middler, not only does he drink the Kool-Aid, he makes the Kool-Aid.

But I think he's just blind.

I think he's loving every second of it.

Bring it on!

Yeah, you're right.

Join Todd this afternoon, two to four at his new time across the Civic Media Radio Network.

Thank you so very much, my friend.

We will see you in two weeks.

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I think it was last month or the month before when the price of eggs were super high.

Yeah.

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Today is the first 100 days, the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.

And what I would like to hear FCC compliant, of course.

Give me the one word description that you would use to describe the first 100 days of the second Trump administration.

855-752-4842.

You can text it in, you can call it in, keep it clean, please.

Just one word.

Just one word.

What is the one word that you would use to describe the first 100 days of the Trump administration?

Greg, what would be yours?

Chaos.

Chaos.

Chaos.

Mine would be incompetence.

There you go.

And when you mix those two together, it's never a good thing.

Chaotic incompetence.

And I even, I was thinking about a theme song for the first 100 days and I couldn't help but find a tune.

Calvin, can you play a tune for me real quick?

It would be funny if it wasn't real.

Yeah.

Definitely.

It's not funny.

No, it's not funny at all.

But what is your one word?

If you had one, one word to describe the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, 855-752-4842, Dave from New Berlin, Arson.

There.

She's you on the live stream.

I will allow it.

She wants two words.

Hot mess.

Hot mess is good.

That's a good one as well.

That works.

We will continue this.

Uh, during this segment, again, the one word that you would use to describe the Trump administration version number two.

I'm not sure if you're familiar with Daniel Dale from CNN, but he spends a lot of time going over Trump's speeches

and

calling out which, I'll just say it, their lies, which things he says in his speeches are lies.

He actually goes from false claims to exaggerations.

to doesn't mention or wildly exaggerates.

In his latest article, however, Daniel Dale bluntly said, Trump's recent claims about the prices of gas, groceries and eggs are lies.

Over the last week, President Trump has lied about the price of all of them, using this repeated deception to try to minimize widespread concerns that his tariffs will fuel inflation,

No, the price of eggs has not fallen 93% since Trump came back in.

What?

That came out of Trump's mouth.

93%, which would mean, and again, I don't math, but aren't that eggs would be like a nickel.

So they were around $556, $5.50 cents.

Okay.

So we'll do that.

We'll do that.

$550 times .93.

So there we go.

All right, so we're gonna take 5.5 minus 5.11.

That means that they were 39 cents.

Eggs should be 39 cents.

39 cents, a dozen, not a piece, a dozen.

Yeah, that's not what they are.

Again, Daniel Dale from CNN, know the price of eggs not down 93% since Trump came back in office.

The overall price of groceries isn't down.

There was no state, let alone three states, where gas was a buck 98 last week.

The president has been lying about a bunch of prices.

He claimed that the dollar 98 gas, which Daniel Dale says, no, that's not a thing.

The lowest price in the US was found at a gas station in Texas at 219.

The average national gas price from AAA is about 317 a gallon.

There is no state average price of gas below 270 a gallon.

Yeah.

Right now, I think the cheapest, well, no, well.

On Friday, there's a gas station by the tap.

That's always the cheapest in Milwaukee.

It was 269 a gallon.

Oh, that's nothing.

The next day, it was 289.

Oops.

Yeah.

855-752-4842.

What one word would you use to describe the first 100 days of the Trump administration?

Jean from Eau Claire is on the line.

Good morning, Jean.

Good morning.

One word.

One word.

Bile.

Bile.

I think

Jane you said it perfectly when you referred to it as Trump administration number two

That's the perfect way of putting it.

That's one way to put it Terry listening on WA UK says destruction Roger from Stevens Point on the text line clown show Adam listening in Madison on WXCO.

It says despicable Dan from Wausau non empathetic.

Is that a real word?

I think it is.

It is now.

It is now.

Carol from Waukesha, her one word describing the first 100 days of the Trump administration disastrous.

Liz from Salkville says destructive.

855-752-4842.

Your one word, keep it clean.

To describe the first 100 days of Trump 2.0, Sharkey from Racine is on the line.

Good morning, Sharkey.

Thanks for joining us.

Thank you.

I'll be nice with this.

Please do but it'll be soft diarrhea

Is there enough

there you go?

Appreciate it sharky C compliant at work stew

Luke on the live stream says our Luke in the text he's telling us it's apathetic would be the would be the Empathetic, so I guess yeah, it'd be apathetic versus non empathetic exactly.

Yeah, I mean honestly Can you go further like?

It's not even, it's not empathetic.

They honestly don't, they want to, as you said, the fear is real.

It's intentional.

Therefore, the hurt is real and intentional.

They love, they love seeing people scrambling in fear because they don't know what's going on.

Because if they're scared, they don't know what America really is great about, you know what I mean?

Well, I just think that

I mean, we've talked about this with Andrew Watkins.

We've talked about this with other people.

Empathy to some MAGA is a sin.

Empathy is a sin.

Elon, our co-president, said that empathy is responsible for the destruction of Western civilization.

And

then the following week, after people were setting alight his

those dealerships and the cars.

He was saying, where is the empathy for me?

He literally was saying, where is the empathy for me?

I've done nothing wrong, Jane.

I'm just trying to help.

Jules and Mohseny says on WXCO is saying inhumane.

That is actually a perfect word.

Inhumane.

Inhumane.

Cruel.

Cruel.

I mean,

yes.

Cruelty.

855-752-4842, your one word to describe the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

Jude from East Troy, garbage.

Louise from Kiwani, criminal.

Jules inhumane.

Kurt from Eau Claire, bully.

Dan from Wausau, egoism.

The opposite of altruism.

Absolutely.

And again, Ronnie from Horicon, cruelty.

855-752-4842.

Your one word to describe the Trump administration that is FCC compliant.

Nora from Milwaukee is on the line.

Good morning, Nora.

Thanks for joining us.

Killing.

Say that again, Nora.

Killing.

Killing.

Yeah.

Appreciate

you calling in.

And I'll wait for callers and textures and live streamers to give us one word.

But I want backup on the environment.

We've talked enough about why we think it is what it is.

But I want once again to show your work.

If you think this is great and wonderful, why?

Why was it doing to help you, the country, anybody else?

And we've talked before too, Greg, that...

I do not dispute that we can find waste within the federal government.

I don't think anybody is disputing that and saying everything is working just hunky dory and it's all just perfect and it's all just great.

No, there is waste to be found.

It's the manner in which you go about it.

And that's why I say my word is incompetence.

Because this does not seem like a terribly competent administration, even though Donald Trump says he surrounds himself by all the best people.

Sean Duffy, our head of the Department of Transportation, was on Fox News this morning saying, yeah, we need more air traffic controllers.

Oh, glad you finally came to the party.

You just fired a whole bunch of people from the FAA.

And didn't you tell them that some of them are going to have to work until they die?

Well, now he's saying that I think we should, you know, how can we get them to work longer?

How can we get them to work longer?

From what I have read, air traffic controllers are required to retire at 56 because it is such a high stress job.

Do we want people who are really, really highly stressed to stay on for another 10 years?

Does that sound like a good plan?

Not at all.

That's why I go with incompetence.

I like incompetence.

It's funny because they're all so connected, the incompetence breed.

Breeds inhumane action, which just seemed like I'm it's a word play, but it all it makes sense and they're all connected another word shizu puts on there is Ruthless that too Ruthless is a wonderful word to I personally I Whomever said inhumane it just

Everything feels purposeful and mean.

We'll keep this going.

855-752-4842.

Your one word to describe the first 100 days of Donald Trump 2.0.

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100 days of the Trump administration.

Today marks the 100th day.

What is your one word?

Keep it clean, FCC compliant.

Your one word to describe the first 100 days of the Trump administration.

Lots of texts coming in.

I love this one from Dan and Wausau.

I learn new words when I can't swear.

See, it's good for all of us, Dan.

It's good for all of us.

Vindictive.

Vindictive.

Jake from Madison gross Chuck from East Troy scammed That's that's an important one too because we talked about this with Will Westmoreland yesterday and before and you know the amount of people out there who are saying this is not what I voted for even though Really, he's doing exactly what he said he was going to but still there are people out there who say My business is being affected.

I'm a farmer.

I'm an immigrant.

I'm this I'm that people are being affected and they're dumbfounded the fact that a politician

actually did what they were going to do.

Well, and unfortunately too, it depends upon where you choose to get your information.

Because if you watch certain sources, you will never hear about Project 2025, which we talked about four months leading up to the presidential election.

And we had people saying, well, none of my friends know about that, so it must not be anything.

I love that that was the barometer of what is truth.

And now my friends don't talk about it, so it can't be real.

What is the one word you would use to describe the Trump administration 2.0, the first 100 days, 855-752-4842.

And from Chippewa Falls is on the line.

Good morning, Anne.

Thanks for joining us.

My word is heartless or disaster.

There you go.

Heartless disaster.

We could do that too.

That works too, unfortunately.

Thank you, Ann.

Appreciate it.

Laurie from Hayward Scary.

He also doesn't do math.

He said he was negotiating tariffs with over 200 countries.

There are only 195.

Details, details, Laurie, details.

Mary from Tosa, I'm betting my money on psychotic.

That's also brings up another you know this time.

Yeah, but this time last year We were getting really worried about where the mind of Joe Biden was the fact he was older this you know, there was undeniable Moments where you're like this man might not be able to handle another four years.

Yep Let's not forget Donald Trump's not much younger and is having these same moments night.

But as we said earlier, he claimed that

Eggs were down 93%.

He just picks numbers out of the air.

Yeah, it is absolutely crazy as Christine and slinger lives listening on WA UK says within all caps with exclamation points chaos.

Oh, yeah.

Brian from Milwaukee Tornado.

Yeah.

855-752-4842.

What is the one word FCC compliant?

you would use to describe the Trump administration.

2.0, first 100 days.

Tom from El Canto, thanks for joining us, Tom.

What's your word?

I would say trying.

Trying?

Not necessarily successful in everything, but he's trying to accomplish the things that he promised to the people that voted him into office.

Fair enough.

Do you think this is an

Do you think this is organized, Tom, the way that they're going about this?

Well, no, not necessarily, but I think that they're trying.

They're not sitting on their hands for four years already planning what they're going to do in the next administration.

They're trying.

They're trying to accomplish the things that they said to the voters that they were going to do.

To be fair, there's not really a playbook for that because I'm in my 60s and I haven't seen any other president try, you know, as they may.

They may make a lot, lots and lots of promises before they're elected, but then once they're elected, they're more worried about future elections and what they're going to see.

Yeah.

Thank you, Tom.

I appreciate it.

I really do appreciate you checking in.

Okay.

And there are certainly taking lots of actions.

I disagree with him on one point.

I think that Joseph Biden's last term, this past term, got a lot done.

He tried and succeeded and the economy and things showed for that.

So yes, politicians can say a lot and do nothing and they do worry about reelection, especially congressmen, but there is

proof to show that the previous president tried and succeeded a great deal.

Tom on the live stream, I think has one of the better ones as well says retribution.

Yes,

which he has talked about.

There is a gentleman who lives down the street from my mother-in-law who has a flag that says Trump 2024, the revenge to her.

Oh, how lovely.

That's exactly what we want in our commander in chief.

Yeah.

And we don't have a lot of time to talk about this, but

And this happened really quickly this morning.

Amazon came out and said they were going to, you know, when you look at your bill, and they were going to include how much the tariffs were raising the price.

Caroline Levitt said that this was, she didn't say treasonous, but it was close, a hostile and political act.

Hostile and political act by Amazon.

They're not going after them because Amazon has already capitulated.

They said it didn't even exist.

They were like, no.

Well, we were never going to

do that.

Never happened.

Never happened.

We were never going to do that.