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Well, Mike Johnson's up to some skull-duggery.
I've always been very uneasy about this guy being the speaker and I'm exceptionally uneasy
because when it comes time to the counting of the electoral votes next January, if he's
still the speaker, because remember there'll be elections in November and if we get the
majority, Hakeem Jeffries will be the speaker, but if we don't get the majority, this guy
will be.
And that's a separate issue, but what he's doing right now is he has come out with the
most extreme statement on the border issue, the most extreme statement that looks like
he's trying to tank that bill in AD Ukraine.
Let me give you the background.
James Langford, the Oklahoma Republican, very conservative guy, negotiated a deal with
Schumer and obviously Biden had to sign off on it that makes absolutely ethical changes
to border policy on our southern border.
Makes it a lot more difficult to ask for asylum to stay here while it's pending.
It really eliminates a lot of the catch and release type stuff, there'll be more deportations
and we won't have a recurrence of the surge at the border we've seen in the last couple
of months.
And Biden himself said, when this passes, I will shut the border down.
Now, when you say shut the border down, there's no president including Trump who shuts
anything down.
You have to let some trucks in and you search him and all that.
But in terms of the swarm of people coming in, well, here's what, here's what Mike Johnson
said just now.
And he is doing it because he's essentially being blackmailed by the mega caucus.
In other words, the freedom caucus, the right wing nuts, because any one of them could
declare the chair vacant.
The attack Biden, not Langford, not Schumer, Biden, for supporting the bill, which Langford
and the Democrats, and not just Langford, but John Thune himself, the code of the number
two guy in the Senate, Mitch McConnell signed off on it.
And then obviously Schumer and Chris Murphy and the rest of them signed off on it.
And he attacks Biden, he attacks Biden.
And he said, this is dead on arrival, quote, any authority that allows even one in capital
ONE1 illegal is a nonstarter must be zero.
Now, let's stop there for a minute.
There is no border in the history of the worlds that had zero people coming in or out, including
North Korean China.
If you, if that is your standard, what you're saying is you don't want legislation at all.
And what you want is Donald Trump to beat this issue for the next six, eight months.
And hope that everybody forgets that there was legislation that would have addressed it.
And that Trump and the Republican stop.
That's number one.
That's what they're hoping.
But what it means to me, and this is a contrast with something else I'm about to describe
to you that he's doing, that's more constructive.
The tax bill, the trial credit, $78 billion, trial tax credit, that also would have given
some deduction rights, which I think are good, to small business.
And there he's putting a coalition together, he's not doing it for this one.
And Ukraine ultimately will suffer.
This has got to be resolved.
We're going to the lines.
Bill of a condom walk, my friend.
Thanks for calling.
Bill, what's in your mind today?
Great show as always, Matt.
Say Trump was trying to put his two cents in on the border.
Do we really need two cents from a sexual, a convicted sexual predator, a convicted
tax evader, a convicted domestic terrorist about to be, not completely, but that's
happening two time and peach president.
Why do we need his two cents?
Why don't you ask?
I mean, you'd have to go to somebody like Charlie Manson to get that kind of credibility.
If you want to call it credibility, I don't, I call it something else.
But the bottom line is, how do people even give him the dignity of being recognized?
He has none.
Zero, not a.
And they worry about the border and they don't worry about a sexual predator as commander
and chief.
You've got to be kidding me.
Who's, you know, I haven't paid, well, how do they say that?
I forget something else, Wizard of Oz, they surely are whatever is the same Kansas.
You know, we get away, we get to wake up and say, enough of addressing this buffoon,
that buffoon criminal is felon.
He's a felon.
We don't deal with felons.
He has a lot more respectability and integrity and accountability to have a sexual predator
as commander and chief, you've got to be kidding me.
My dad would rule over and his grave.
He was an officer during the World War II.
Nobody, but nobody other than these flat out crazy people, believe in that.
I'm listening to Republicans lately that are falling off the wagon quickly because they've
just had enough of him.
The Buck and Clay show at noon, which replaced Rush Limbaugh, they're trying to defend the
sexual predator.
They actually try and defend it by saying Americans told me against them.
They're right on that.
America is against Trump because he's against America.
Thanks for the time, Matt, and have a wonderful evening.
Yeah, that's right.
I couldn't put it better, but you know, your predicate question, which was, how does anybody
pay an attention to him?
It's fear.
It's fear.
What they're doing is he has caused death threats to go to people that made one congressman have
to have his middle school daughter go to school with security, his middle school daughter.
And others that were ready to impeach him said, I don't want to risk my wife and my daughter
getting attacked.
It is fear.
This is very, very similar to Germany in the 30s, very, very similar to that.
The people who aren't afraid of being personally attacked, the fear of primary, because look
what happened to Voss here in this state, Voss is the speaker.
I don't agree with Voss, but he's the speaker in a gerrymandered legislature.
And they come up with a guy in his district.
Trump does.
He doesn't like Voss.
And the guy gets, I think, 49% of the vote is 29 years old.
He never done anything.
That made people scared because they want to hold onto their jobs.
This was going on.
There are very few list chanies, very few Adam Kinzenger's, very few Mitt Romney's
for that matter, who will stand up, go back to the lines, Genevile Claire, thanks for
calling.
Gene, what's in your mind today?
Thank you, Matt.
Great show as usual.
You know, as a do the key asked in confusion at the border and all of the representatives
that are Republican from the state of Wisconsin continues to rally around this guy as we
face on our side of the state, a catastrophic health emergency.
And in our side of the state, two major hospitals, one in Chippewa and one in O'Clair, are
closing.
And they will be closing by March 22nd and at Sacred Heart and St. Joseph's Hospital,
along with that is a supportive clinic that worked with it.
And that clinic had opened several clinics like in Montolvie, in up north and in O'Clair
and in Chippewa, are all closing due to funding, due to COVID, due to these things that
our legislators are so busy playing games with everybody's lives, calling out fires where
there are fires and don't attend to the business that impact the people.
Now a lot of these people now, the people that worked there didn't even know this was
closing.
It was told us last week that these places were closing.
Well usually when you close down, you have quite a few months to change doctors or find
another medical facility.
Well this thing came out and the people found out the same day and we found out and we
did not give any letters or anything to people that were receiving services.
And then our remaining medical people are now letting their patients know that you better
get your appointments in because we're not going to have any room for quite a while.
So everybody in our area who are receiving care, maybe chemo, maybe different types of
health issues have to find a doctor within a couple of months or even less than that.
So this was a shock and nobody knew why.
None of our represented tips were contacted.
Nobody was contacted on this and I thought this is weird.
So anyway, I want to bring that up because this is something that you would never think
could happen and it did on our side of the state so wake up folks.
Thank you.
Gene, that's a great call.
That's a cutting edge, one of the most important issues and I think back going back to Scott
Walker when he refused to take the billion dollars in Medicaid money.
And now Trump has said he's going to get rid of the Affordable Care Act and replace
it with something better and he's never defined what that is.
In other words, he's basically going to voucherize Medicare and he's going to privatize
so security.
There is an attack on medical funding in the country on the side of the Republican Party.
The specifics of what you're describing is terrible.
I have read about it.
I don't have the same degree of knowledge of it that you do.
But when you have two very fine institutions like that can't make it financially and I'll
say Joe Biden has been wonderful stepping up for medical funding wherever he can.
But ultimately that comes from the Congress and when you have basically, I think serial
criminals and I call them that the Republican legislators, when they're in the majority,
they shut everything down and then when the deadline is 11.59 pm at night, about 5 o'clock
that day, they grudgingly say, we'll limp it along for a couple of weeks or months.
You can't plan that way.
That's not a way to fund a government and I'm very, very sad to hear what you said.
I hope that Tony Evers, I'm sure, will be supportive of you and Joe Biden will be.
That takes two to tango and when you have the Republicans in charge of jury-mendered
legislatures, it's a consistent fight.
Thank you so much, Jean.
We're going to step away for a minute and come back.
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Mary of Madness to my friend.
Thanks for calling.
Mary, what's in your mind today?
Hi, Matt.
Thank you.
I recently saw, like, a slew of Trump supporters being interviewed outside one of his rallies.
I don't know if people see that on YouTube or whatever.
And the question they were asked is would you rather have four years of Trump as a dictator
or four years of Biden as your president?
And all of them said four years of Trump as a dictator.
We need a dictator.
Americans need to get their ass picked, et cetera, et cetera.
One fellow who was obviously a senior said, we need to get rid of everything related to the new deal.
And it's like, all right.
But they have kosher Medicare, Social Security, Medicaid.
I mean, on and on.
And it's like in the supporters handing outside these rallies.
It appears to be, you know, intelligent.
But I just don't understand their logic of, oh, I'd rather have a dictator.
We need America needs a dictator.
I didn't see that, Mary.
Thank you very much for mentioning it.
But a dictator.
Well, good luck.
Go to Russia.
Go to North Korea.
Go to China.
See how well you like it.
Go to Venezuela.
Everybody's trying to get out of those places and come here.
And for an old fellow to say, get rid of the new deal.
Is he out of his mind?
Is he like Social Security?
Or is he independently wealthy?
Is he out of his mind?
Thanks a lot for calling, Mary.
We're going to go on.
Do not hang up.
We'll get you an order.
Mark from the sack.
My friend, you're next.
What's in your mind today, Mark?
Thanks so much for taking my call.
First of all, this is going back to you when you're
issues that you're talking about.
I wonder if any of the information that
around me have gotten this hand on, hands on, for information
secret, the way it mirrolaugle that come to go to the
White House.
If any of that information on our intelligence against
Iran made it, made it way into, you know, Iran's hands or
Iran's allies that got passed on to them and that, you know,
it's revealing some of our security secrets that we have.
If there really any military secrets at all, any more.
But I just have to wonder about that.
You know, Trump just kind of gave away the, gave away the
store on some of that information.
That's a terrific insight.
Yeah.
That's a terrific insight because he had unguarded like a
store room and a bathroom stuff lying around.
And he did talk to somebody, a fundraiser,
and said, look at this, this is our plans for invading
Iran.
Remember that?
And he talked to an Australian billionaire and told
them about how close we can get to a Chinese sub with our
technology, without they're knowing it.
And now China knows about that.
I don't have any doubt that Iran and Saudi Arabia and China
and Russia had bus boys, waitresses, guests at, you know,
roaming around that place, getting this stuff.
And if he gets back in, he'll turn over information.
He burned an Israeli undercover agent who penetrated al-Qaeda.
He told the Russians some information that could only have
come from somebody in that inner circle.
And Israel had to pull out its spy or the guy would have been
killed.
Trump is a Russian asset.
He's a Russian agent.
He's a traitor to the United States.
Good call, Mark.
Thank you.
Wiscoe Paul, my friend.
You're next.
What's your mind?
A miscoe Paul.
Thanks for taking my call, Matt.
That's several awesome calls that are older.
It's hard to follow that.
But that's a mixture of shows so great.
You have intelligent callers bringing up really things we
should know.
As far as gene goes, I think part of the problem might be up
there.
And in the north, what's a part of the state, they didn't take
the Medicaid money.
And that was just totally stupid.
But I'll just tie these two things into it.
Number one, Evers, Governor Evers, vetoed the Republican
gearing-manjored maps because that's the thing to do.
And also the GOP congressional fellow, they're trying to get
Judge Janet to recuse herself from the congressional district
gearing-manjoring mess that is too.
So that's part of the problem.
You don't have paramounts.
You don't have paramounts.
These guys just go off on whatever they want to do.
So I just thought I'd bring those two things up.
Thanks for your show, Matt.
Have a good day.
Yeah.
Paul, thanks a lot.
Those are great comments.
And not so coincidentally, those are the topics of our upcoming
segments in this show.
So thank you very much.
And I will be getting to them.
Karina Milwaukee, my friend.
Thanks for calling Karina.
What's in your mind today?
Hi, Matt.
You know what?
I completely review.
People don't know what they're asking for.
They don't know what the Karina is.
They don't know when they're not able to do what they are
granted to do here and born with that born rights.
And it's a silly, to even think about that there's something
remotely close to Karina.
It should be even established or talked about in this country
because this country was established to be free, not under
the tyranny.
That, and another thing is, was the bathroom and the Mar-a-Lago.
It feels like that wasn't a bathroom.
It was a public library for everyone who willing to be a
membership.
Those are great comments.
And for those of you who don't know Karina, she shared
with me in a previous call.
She's from Moscow, Moscow, Russia.
Unfortunately, she's with us here in the United States.
And so for some clown on YouTube to say,
he wishes we had a dictatorship.
Karina knows what that is.
And that was very eloquent, Karina.
Exactly how you said that.
That people apparently are taking for granted.
Don't know what they have here.
And don't lightly just say you want a dictatorship.
Thank you so much.
Northwood's Terry, my friend.
Your next was reminded Northwood's Terry.
Northwood's Terry, my friend.
Yeah, Northwood's Terry.
What's in your mind today, Terry?
Oh, sorry, Matt.
I looked away for a second.
Yeah.
I want to follow up on that hospital closings.
It's right.
Yeah, tell me.
Yeah.
I'm in the mail system.
So I'm not affected by it as of yet.
But anyway, Matt, a friend of mine who's pretty good Democrat.
Normally they'd come up to me the other day about what's Medicare
reimbursement.
I would beg to differ with them, but I didn't challenge him.
But it's got to be what you were talking about earlier.
Gene was talking about earlier.
Medicaid reimbursement.
Got to be different because they didn't take the Medicaid money.
Expand, Medicaid up to a higher income.
Right.
Terry, that's an excellent comment.
And remember, Walker turned it down a billion dollars because he was running
for president.
And he wanted to look like he didn't want welfare.
Medicaid is not welfare.
It's from the federal government.
Wouldn't have cost us anything.
And he turns it down and other Republican governors turned it down.
But he then tried to substitute our tax dollars for it.
Now, there's we got tax twice.
Our federal taxes, which he are the returned to us.
He rejected.
They went to California and they taxed us again.
Terry, the Republicans can't be trusted with money.
And what they did on that was reprehensible, reprehensible.
Coming up, Evers vetoes.
As Wisco Paul said, the legislative maps.
What happens next?
Coming up.
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Adrian of Addison, my friend.
Thanks for calling.
Adrian, what's in your mind today?
Hey, Matt.
I'm a little perplexed that the people saying they want to live under a dictatorship.
I can't have a 100 degree.
I know what happens in a dictatorship.
Take a guess of Punishade, for example.
When you took over with help, it was helped to say it over through the democratically elected government of
1973.
Punishade's secret police killed murdered thousands of people.
Anyone who they thought opposed the Punishade dictatorship got murdered.
As a matter of fact, Punishade was so extreme in his drug retribution.
He sent hit squads of his secret police all around Europe and even the United States to kill
people who were advocating against the Punishade regime in those places.
And, of course, you'll recall Orlando Letta-Yea that was speaking out against the Punishade regime.
And Punishade sent a team of his secret police to the United States to plant a bomb in Letta-Yea's car and blew it up.
I mean, the examples of Hitler and Stalin are the most famous ones.
Hitler's 6 million murdered.
Stalin's 20 million murdered.
It goes on on poll, pop 3 million murdered.
The military dictatorship of Argentina in the 1970s, countless thousands.
Just a rampant murder of anyone who opposes the regime.
Is that really what we want to have?
Right.
That's an excellent point.
And, you know, Karina Milwaukee speaking from having been from Moscow.
You know, and that was the result of, I think, Mario Madison saying she'd seen a YouTube where these
these interviewees after a Trump rally said they wish he could be a dictator.
Anyone who says that is either shooting their mouth off, but if they really mean that,
they really are ignorant of history, ignorant.
And Hitler is the worst example in Stalin's a closed second.
But, beyond that, you mentioned Pinochet.
Well, Nicaragua right now, Cuba, if you live in a dictatorship, you have no privacy.
You have no rights.
You have no rule of law.
The police can knock on your door at midnight and drag you out.
They can beat you up.
They can rape you.
They can kill you.
There's no rule of law.
And so anyone who says that is ignorant.
They always say it when they think, well, this dictator will be on my side and he'll beat somebody else up.
It doesn't work out that way.
It doesn't work out that way.
Democracy is a very messy thing sometimes, but an essential thing.
And Churchill's the guy that said democracy is the worst possible kind of government,
except for all the alternatives.
And a dictatorship, an authoritarian look around.
Do you want to live in North Korea?
Do you want to live in China?
Do you want to live in Russia?
Do you want to live in Venezuela or Nicaragua or Cuba?
Do you want to live in these places?
Do you want to live in Saudi Arabia?
Do you want to live anywhere in the Middle East?
Except for Israel?
A dictatorship is antithetical to Western civilization and Western culture.
And we're not going to put up with it in this country.
Come back to the lines.
Mike, I'm a nominee for all of my friends.
Thanks for going.
What's your mind?
How you doing, Matt?
Thanks as always for taking my call.
Hey, I want to go back to your opening monologue.
And I think it's important that your listeners understand that.
In your opening monologues you talk about,
we're going right to the front lines of history.
We are going right to the front lines of history, Matt,
in the worst invasion of a sovereign country that we've ever seen in our history.
I'll read to you what it says here in the Constitution,
and I would love to hear your feedback.
We'll check here in the Constitution that the United States shall guarantee
every state in the Union a Republican form of government
and shall protect each of them against an invasion.
I want you to tell me why you think that millions of undocumented illegal immigrants
pouring into this country from all over the world is not an invasion.
And why Secretary Mayorkas deserves to be impeached for his neglect of doing his job.
And I should make an argument that the president of the United States needs to be through,
because you should be defending the United States.
And instead he's allowing this invasion to happen.
Saw?
Yeah, no, I'm glad you called.
And I want to respond to that.
Mike is a principal conservative, and I'm delighted he calls everyone some while.
Here's the deal.
The part of the Constitution that Mike read is accurate.
By the way, when they say Republican form of government, when that was used in the 18th century,
that doesn't mean Republican party or Democratic party.
The anomaly is that we in the United States are a democracy with a Republican form of government.
Republic just means if you replay those Republic, even though that didn't describe an actual classical Republic,
but it means there's no king.
It means that we have, we elect our leaders.
It's a product of the Enlightenment in the 17th and the 18th century of Rousseau and Voltaire.
It's a product of the idea that there's no king and that the people are in control, not in aristocracy.
That's the Republic.
We are Republic.
We're also a democracy.
That doesn't mean we have to be ruled by Democrats because we're a democracy or Republicans because we're Republic.
We're both.
Now, what Mike is referring to is, and especially as it was drafted in the 18th century,
was that the United States will defend any state, and in those, you know, there were the 13 colonies,
and then there were some more.
Now, we defend the United States against any invasion.
Now, invasion is a term of art, obviously, that means an armed invasion coming in,
trying to take us over militarily and so on.
What Mike's referring to, though, is a significant problem.
We have many millions of people walking into the country, contrary to our laws.
In December, there was 300 and so many thousands.
You multiply that by 12.
That's three and a half million or more.
It's gone down in January.
It doesn't, it isn't just, the solution isn't just say the social man defense that they came in during Trump too,
that Obama and Biden deported more people than Trump.
I don't want to get into the name calling.
The question is, what do we do about it?
Now, let me tell you what they do about it in Saudi Arabia.
When refugees come from Yemen, they machine gun them and kill them and leave their bodies there.
And they pick out a few men, a few women, have them rape the women for their pleasure.
In China, if somebody comes in from North Korea, they return them to be tortured.
The North Koreans murder and torture anybody trying to get out of the country.
And the Chinese finger them.
Nobody ever says that.
Nobody ever says that.
People don't know those kinds of things.
The only countries that have humane immigration are the West, period, end of story.
Now, with our immigration, the deal is people in international law, if they say I seek asylum,
you got to temporarily talk to them and make sure they need asylum.
When 300,000 people a month coming in, you don't have time, then they get into the country and they never come back.
These are not asylum seekers in my opinion.
These are economic immigrants, and I don't blame them.
My great-great-grandparents were economic immigrants from Ireland.
They just walked into New York in the 1870s, 1860s, and there was no immigration problem.
But you can't let everybody in a country, our country, who simply wants to come here,
there are 8 billion people in the world.
5 billion of them are not doing well economically.
The solution is for us to keep our international presence and work with all these countries
to better conditions in their country.
But Mike, what I would pose back to you is, what is the solution?
Should we machine gun them?
No, that's Saudi Arabia.
Should we throw them back into despotic regimes so they can be killed?
Should we admit them and say what the hell and leave them here? No.
So what do we do?
There is a bill that is about to pass the Senate that's bipartisan.
When I say bipartisan, I mean it, some very, very conservative folks on the Republican side,
James Langford, John Thune, Mitch McConnell, all approve of it.
If it were to pass, it would severely restrict asylum.
Not let people stay here.
Biden could close the border right now because too many people are coming in
and they can stay in Mexico or send the word out to Guatemala and Honduras and El Salvador.
Don't come here.
That's the effect that it would have.
If, on the other hand, that bill does not pass because Donald Trump says he wants this as an issue.
He wants 300,000 people a month coming between now and November.
He doesn't care.
I care.
Biden cares.
Langford cares.
Mitch McConnell cares.
And John Thune cares.
So that to me is the best solution.
The alternative is to what machine gun them.
But send them to North Korea.
No, you can't do that.
You can't humanely do that.
But you can pass legislation that makes certain things unlawful so they don't just get a ticket
and get released in the population, the so-called catch and release.
So Mike, I would strongly encourage you as a principal conservative to sit down with conservative friends and say,
look, let's at least pass this bill right now.
And then if we don't think it's enough, fine, we build on it.
But when Mike Johnson today goes, if one illegal comes in, it's a torpedo deal.
That's ridiculous.
One, are you kidding me?
You can't do what I would call a pocket veto of this bill just to benefit one candidate.
Donald Trump has anything to say that's valuable.
It's going to survive this issue.
He can still make an issue of it.
But for Pete's sake, let's do two things.
Let's pass it and can join with it or aid to Ukraine to keep the Russians out.
The Russians are bad.
In case I have to remind everybody about this, the Russian government, not the people.
The Russian government are bad.
Putin is a dictator.
He's a Stalin wannabe.
That's bad.
Does that get across?
That's bad.
We can stop him by spending about 5% of our defense budget with no risk to our troops.
That's good.
America is good.
Putin is bad.
I mean, what do I got to put this in ducks and bunnies for everybody?
So this is what I have to say.
Tony Evers just vetoed today the redrawn legislative maps.
The Republicans were quite sneaky.
What did they do?
They said, okay, we'll use your maps, Tony.
Tony put his own maps in, by the way.
Just going to tweak them a little bit.
Don't bother your pretty little head about it.
Not that Tony has a pretty little head.
Don't even look at it.
Well, Tony looked at it and it was super sneaky.
What they did was they redrew the boundaries.
To keep their incumbents in and basically Jerry Manderer back with slightly different configurations.
So Tony goes, no, I'm vetoing it.
Now what happens?
What happens according to the Supreme Court opinion?
It goes to the two experts that were hired.
They'll look at this map.
They'll look at Tony's map.
They will look at the Democratic Party's map, the Republican Party's map,
a couple of other expert maps.
Then they will make a recommendation to the Supreme Court and wish are the maps.
And they can also redraw some of these maps.
They can do that very quickly.
Then what happens?
The Supreme Court is the one...
I'm gathering our people wherever you're on.
And I didn't admit that they were there.
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Well, if it's first, you don't succeed.
Try, try again.
And you ain't going to succeed this time either.
They're trying to get rid of Janet Proto-Sewitz.
The Republicans have put in a motion to make her recuse herself this time on the congressional maps.
Remember the maps that we've been talking about are the Assembly and State Senate maps.
Those are the maps.
Those are the maps that were at issue and that I've been talking about.
But there are congressional maps too.
And the congressional maps up till now haven't been put into play.
Well, Mark Elias, probably the greatest, one of the greatest...
Well, one of the greatest election lawyers in the country.
His firm has now filed a suit to get the Supreme Court.
To redo the congressional maps too.
And Voss and his buddies, the Voss gang, the Voss posse,
have gone to the Supreme Court to get her to recuse herself.
Now, you might say, what is he crazy?
You already try to get her to recuse herself from the Assembly and Senate maps that didn't work.
So why do it again?
The reason he's doing it again is to preserve an appeal issue.
They are going to all of this.
They're going to try to go to the US Supreme Court and get the six tarantulas to, you know,
slip some chocolate for the, some sugar for the Republican Party.
I personally don't think it's going to work because the redistricting in the Assembly and the State Senate
has been entirely based on the Wisconsin Constitution.
And by law, the US Supreme Court should not interfere with the Wisconsin Constitution,
unless it conflicts with the US Constitution, which it does not.
So are they going to take this congressional redistricting?
I don't know.
Is it late in the game?
Not really, because the primary isn't till August.
General election isn't until November.
It's time to do with this one what they did with the state legislative maps.
There were five Wisconsin congressmen who signed on to this.
Remember, there are eight congressmen in Wisconsin.
When I ran, there were nine.
And just before I ran, there were ten.
Now they're eight.
We're down to eight.
We're lucky to hold on to the eighth one, quite frankly.
It's all based on population.
But there was one.
There's two Democrats, Pocan and more.
And there's six Republicans.
Five of them signed on.
One didn't.
Who do you think that was?
The Republican.
Sneaky Derek Warden.
Derek Warden knows he's in trouble in the third district.
Some very terrific candidates.
He knows he is in jeopardy.
He knows he tries to take a loaded gun through the metal detector in Iowa airport.
Doesn't care about the rules.
Knows he went to the insurrection.
Knows he hasn't done anything or the point.
He hasn't done a damn thing.
He doesn't know anything.
And not only that, suddenly hospitals are closing in his district.
And he's not doing anything about it.
And he strongly supported Walker.
Who got rid of a billion dollars in Medicaid money.
He doesn't care.
But enough of a light bulb went on his head to go.
You know, if I sign on with all the Republicans.
To try to get a Supreme Court justice to recuse himself.
And my district's involved, you know, that might not look good.
So he chickened out.
In fact, he did one of the things he did during one of the speaker races.
He was afraid to do that.
So he went over to Israel to try to show solidarity.
But no one knew when he was coming.
He was roaming around and not accomplishing anything or doing anything.
He's very weird.
You know, to my friends in the third district,
you can do a lot better than this guy.
You know, you had run kind.
You would outball this.
And you had some Republicans were pretty good.
You can do better than this guy.
So he didn't go along with it.
Now, what is Janet Prattisay was going to say?
And I'll tell you what she said.
She and I thought it was a good statement.
She said, if the law required me to,
I would the law doesn't require me to.
I do not have a conflict.
I'm not going to do it.
She said that before.
I think she'll say it again now.
They're doing it purely actually for two reasons.
One to preserve an appeal issue won't do them any good.
But the other one they're doing it for is to try to show off
to their base, which is very pathetic.
Their base wants them to impeach her.
That ain't going to happen.
She's not going to get impeached.
The court itself wouldn't permit that.
She's committed no crimes and no fraud in office.
She's a very, very law-biting, responsible ethical strictly
by the book.
They're crazy to try it.
So now they're doing this thing.
And the law is Jack Emmerimek, my friend.
Thanks a cool and Jack.
What's in your mind today?
Well, I wanted to get something going back to the hospital
closure is up in the northwestern part of the state.
First of all, I'm trying to connect a few dots here,
but this is my opinion for what it's worked.
There was no Medicaid expansion,
allowed by the Germanic Republican legislature.
And that meant that large number of people in the state
are going without medical insurance, essentially.
And a lot of those people are in rural areas.
So what happens?
Well, they need to go to the hospital, don't they?
But wait a minute, they can't afford to go to the hospital
because they don't have any medical insurance.
So now the hospitals have to close.
So no matter what happens, those people are going to be out of luck
in terms of finding a hospital.
This is the no Medicaid fund.
And the fact that they're not going to the hospital,
that's a de facto death panel in itself.
If you want to call it something like that,
that's what it is, because these are people
that are forgoing medical treatment,
because they can't afford it.
And now it's a problem because the hospitals are closing.
No, the problem is the legislature refusing
to accept those Medicaid funds to begin with.
Right.
You nailed it, Jack.
You really nailed it.
Excellent, excellent call.
And I'm glad that Gina will clear a call to set it all in motion.
Come to the end of the show, standby, for another great show
Devils having with Diamond Crute.
Great callers today.
Appreciate all the calls.
Matt Flynn directly back same time, same place tomorrow.
Signing off for today.
The line it is drawn.
The cursed is cast.
It's slow now.
We'll later be fast as the present now.
We'll later be fast.
The order is a gravity fading.
And the first one now will later be last.
For the times they are a change.
Great show, Matt.
Good work, Helen.
Yeah, I'll see you tomorrow.
Thank you.
Yep, have a good night.
Same to you.
Thank you.
