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More BS From Brad Schimel About Milwaukee (Hour 1)
The Todd Allbaugh Show · Wed Mar 19, 2025
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afternoon everybody I'm Tom along with our producer and engineer the fantastic Mr. Aaron Zommers on the board it is six past the hour of 12 noon on this Wednesday March 19th 2025 it is a great day to be Wisconsinite and it is pump day there you go we have reached the middle of the week mr. Zommers overcast skies precipitation coming down here in downtown Madison at the world headquarters and so far Zommers
Only in the form of snow.
There we are a little look outside.
The street came nicely done.
The the pavement is wet.
We see a couple of bikers there.
Get a little damp as well.
But use your umbrella today if you're going to be in downtown Madison or most of Wisconsin.
As a matter of fact, weather forecast in all seriousness, it's going to get a little dicey for particular people in the Chippewa Valley area down to the cross.
Those areas could see.
maybe six inches of snow before it's all said and done tomorrow morning.
And then also south of Madison towards kind of between Madison and say Waukesha area, those places could pick up maybe four to six inches of snow as well in between lesser amounts.
But there's going to be this transition about an hour ago or maybe two hours ago, thunderstorms moved through the Madison area here in south central Wisconsin.
As a matter of fact, reports that an apartment
on the far west side of Madison was struck by lightning.
Madison firefighters were there quickly and it appears by pictures I've seen online, maybe to the one unit where the lightning struck right above the roof, but otherwise firefighters were able to put it out quickly and no major damage to the entire structure there.
So we're gonna see thunderstorms today in parts of Wisconsin and then slush ice and then snow by tomorrow morning.
In other words, welcome to spring in Wisconsin on this March 19th.
But if you have travel plans for a later today into tomorrow, might want to rethink them or allow some extra time as as roads will get dicey across the state of Wisconsin.
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He joins us every Wednesday from our nation's capital, a former Republican like myself, a River Falls native, and now a senior advisor at the Lincoln Project.
Mr. Trigvie Olsen joins us on a Wednesday.
Trigvie, how the heck are you?
Where's Pat?
Well, I was getting to that.
He's had it with you, quite frankly.
After
all
the insults of his age, he has said, I'm out of here.
I'm gone.
No, no, he, so for people that regularly listen to this show,
Up North News Radio is a separate entity than Civic.
It airs on Civic, and we consider Pat a part of the Civic Media team, but it's actually produced by the Courier News Service.
And so now, apparently, the Courier News folks have decided on a weekly meeting at noon on Wednesdays.
So he's going to see how it goes, and he may be able to join us for the end of the show at 10 till every Wednesday.
And so that'd be a nice way to wrap it up with a Pat quite low happy ending.
So we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
But if it doesn't work out then, then he may have to change days.
don't know.
too.
Oh, see, Crite Low is going to mess up our
now.
No.
miss Pat.
He said it all fairness this morning.
He told me he said I would really miss the banter with Trigme every week.
Know so
All right
always welcome.
There's a how's the weather
I'm not always welcome everywhere.
It's nice to be welcomed somewhere.
You're always like this is like the cheers bar, and I'm norm That's pretty good.
That's pretty good.
Um, how's your week been drink me?
My week has been pretty good.
Yeah, it's allergies season.
Oh, you know, I never had to allergies until I moved to DC and and the cherry blossoms come out and trig V starts to
not and and that's happening earlier right it's happening earlier
earlier now with climate change and all that sort of thing so
coming on we always
to hear
to banter around today, Trig V. Well, do you do NCAA brackets?
Are you a bracket guy during this time of year?
I know absolutely nothing about it.
Really?
College basketball.
As much of a football fan as you are.
You and Zamas are alike in this.
I know.
He doesn't like the whole region
I have filled out my bracket here.
I will divulge later in the show.
Well, I'm already regretting some of my picks, but anyway, they're locked in now.
started playing.
Did they start
four though?
The first there was a couple of games for the first four last night and there are a couple more today and then tomorrow the entire tournament gets underway the Wisconsin Badgers speaking of play tomorrow in Denver in their first round game against the
Montana Grizzlies.
The pregame show will start around 11 30 with the tip off around 12 30 the afternoon.
Glad you're on today, Trigby, because I imagine our listenership will be very, very low tomorrow.
In fact, I'm not sure if I'll be listening.
But
over
Well, I mean, that was the argument, I think, before everything started.
But they played last night and won these first four games against San Diego State.
And I watched the first half of it before I passed out.
My chair went to bed.
But San Diego State lost to North Carolina by almost 30 points last night.
So North Carolina, North Carolina pounded him.
It wasn't it wasn't even close.
So.
I'm not sure.
Maybe North Carolina does deserve to get in.
But yeah, that's true.
West Virginia, very salty about not getting in.
I did not know that.
All right.
Phone lines are already lighting up for Trigme.
We always appreciate that.
855-752-4842.
Go to the Northwoods and Ollie in the Northwoods.
Ollie, first of all, before you get to your question, do you have snow up there in the Northwoods yet?
Oh, not yet.
It's pretty gloomy looking, but so far no snow and I've got my fingers and toes crossed there won't be.
All right.
Very good.
Very good.
What would you have for us to say, Ollie?
Well, mine's kind of a
little lengthy because your slogan is pursuing the truth wherever it may lead I would like to suggest a new segment for your program called is it the truth where people could call in and find out if things that they've heard over the radio and here and there is actually the truth and my question today is is it the truth is for trig B
I heard that Elon Musk was installing Starlink in the White House, and I'd like to know if this is the truth, because then he will have link to all the information coming and going from the White House.
That's a great suggestion for a segment.
I really appreciate that, Ollie.
We'll take a look at that.
B, I do not know the answer to that trick.
B, do you know a real answer to that?
All right.
Well, there you go.
According to the New York Times, Ali, that is the truth.
So Starlink is apparently according to New York Times, now linked up to the White House, which a tragedy goes to, we saw this in Trump first term, where he refused to give up his personal cell phone.
and take a secret service phone.
You've had more experience at this at higher levels than I ever have.
But to protect national security, to protect the president, him or herself, in Pamela's George W. Bush or Barack Obama, they have given up their personal cell phone and used a government-issued cell phone through the secret service simply to protect national security.
Is that not the truth?
Yes, I believe that's the case.
So it's interesting here what I just read in that New York Times piece is that this is not something that went through the normal process, though, at all.
Right.
Basically, some guy who works for Doge who also works for Elon Musk, Starling company, went up on the roof of the Eisenhower office building and started installing stuff.
We
That's nuts.
Okay, yep.
It is true, but there is circumstance.
It's always about circumstance.
I would guess this raises all kinds of national security questions.
There's a lot of national security questions these days.
Probably.
part of it.
Yeah, there's good reason why there's typically a process for this stuff.
Yeah.
And like I said, we saw this in the first term where Trump was just talking on everyday cell phone that any of us would get from Verizon or anyplace else with no kind of security blocks in it.
And now we have Starlink that is linked up apparently directly to the old White House with no security.
Yeah, I mean it gets I mean the bigger thing for people who are listening as you know Todd I've spent a lot of time around the world working in various places There are I think most people get that there are people that are nefarious and want to do harm to the United States of America or take what we have and
The reality is that a lot of these processes, some of them might seem ridiculous, but most of them, and sometimes when you're inside, they seem really ridiculous.
But the truth of the matter is, is that they're set up for good reasons, which is ultimately to protect the people in the United States.
And so these guys sort of, they're either really naive or they're just playing dumb.
Speaking of dumb ideas, we'll talk about Brad
Schimmel and the U.S.
of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court race.
New news via the Milwaukee Journal of Sentinel.
We'll discuss that more with Trig Vilsen.
The link can project your phone calls as well.
This is the Todd Allball Show and you're listening to the Civic Media, Ready Network.
Welcome back to the Taliban show on the civic media radio network on this Wednesday March 19th 2025 21 now past the hour of 12 noon Trigby Olson senior advisor Lincoln project joins us today to Discuss issues statewide nationwide and worldwide as always on a Wednesday always appreciate him stopping by Trigby I want to get to this story in part.
We are now less than two weeks away
from the general election here in Wisconsin, the spring general election happening on April 1st.
That's right, folks, no fooling.
April 1st, polls open that day at 7 a.m., open until 8 p.m., but remember early voting, in-person early voting is on now.
And so if you'd like to be an early voter, you can contact your local clerk or go into your local clerk's office and cast a ballot in person.
You can check out where your polling place is, or where you're registered, or if you're registered by going to myvotewi.org, myvote.
No, myvote.wi.gov.
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Sorry.
Thank you.
Thank you, Zomers.
Myvote.wi.gov is a gov, or government.
Thank you, Zomers.
My vote.
You can check your registration there.
As we say, be a voter, have a plan to vote in this very important spring election.
So the Milwaukee drill said no this morning, Trig V, story by Allison Durr, headline two weeks before Wisconsin Supreme Court election, Schimmel raises Milwaukee vote counting trope.
I'm gonna read you a couple of paragraphs that we're gonna get trivia's take.
It says, two weeks before election day, Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimmel on a conservative radio show raised the specter of quote, bags of ballots, unquote, and the potential of fraud, his word, in Milwaukee elections.
Despite the well-documented reason, the city's absentee ballots are routinely reported late into the night after polls close.
Schimel said, quote, that's what we need to do.
Get our votes banked.
Make this too big to rig so we don't have to worry about that in 1130 in Milwaukee.
We're going to find bags of ballots that they forgot to put into the machines like they did in 2018 or in 2024 when U.S.
Senate candidate Eric Hovde was ahead all night and then all of a sudden Milwaukee County changed that.
unquote, Schimel said on another station in Milwaukee.
He said, I don't know what happened.
I don't know if there was fraud there.
There is no way for me to know all that.
All I know is we need to turn our votes out.
That's the best insulation we have against any potential fraud is to just get our people to the polls, unquote, according to Schimel.
Just after midnight on 2018, more than 47,000 absentee ballots from Milwaukee were added to the statewide total.
giving Democrat Tony Evers his first solid lead in the race for governor against the incumbent Scott Walker.
Evers eventually won, though the time this day reported his absentee ballots prompted criticism from the Republicans, including Walker.
In the same race, Schibble lost his bid for a second term in the Republican attorney general's race.
And it goes on from there.
But Trigvie, I want to get to the facts in this.
And the facts is in Wisconsin, unlike other states, and there's been legislation to try to change this,
My former boss, Scott Kluge, on this program has called for the Republican legislature to change this, which is in Wisconsin, local clerks are not allowed to open up absentee ballots and count them prior to the polls closing at 8pm.
And so it takes a long time.
Milwaukee happens to be the largest city in a municipality in the state.
They have to do all this after it, after it happens.
And then they report it as soon as it happens.
So there was also an audit here recently of the last election.
We've gone through the 2020 election audit.
There has been no evidence whatsoever that there was any major voting fraud in Wisconsin that would have changed the outcome of any election.
No, I mean it's really disingenuous for him to be saying that he knows all of that it it's it's I mean as you were as you were reading what he was saying I was thinking this is a little bit like when there was the bipartisan immigration compromise and it got whacked because they wanted to have the issue right like they know full well why The ballots the absentee ballots come in late in Milwaukee County
They all know that.
But they want to be able to go on and with this narrative that if they win, you hear him talking about Eric Hubdy.
Eric Hubdy lost because he had an undervote from Donald Trump's.
But you don't hear him saying, well, Donald Trump, we're not sure.
He knows that.
He knows that.
And the reality is he's using that.
because he wants to have an issue to rile people up.
And if he loses, it's not because his ideas were worse.
It's because the other side cheated.
But if he wins, oh, by the way, it's because our ideas are great.
It's really disingenuous.
It's shameful, really, because it goes at the heart of undermining what our democracy is really about.
But to be honest, I don't think...
People like Brad Schimmel, as a person, he's just a guy who wants to be.
It's not about doing anything.
He just wants to be somebody.
And I bet wherever it was, where did he go to high school again?
It was like, we had that.
Wherever he went, if we had people who've been Schimmel his whole life who speak honestly, they'd say, he's the guy that you go to high school with who was campaigning to be most likely to succeed.
We wanted that in the yearbook.
I mean, he's the guy who went to Badger Boys State and was running for attorney general.
Oh, no, wait, that's Scott Walker.
He was running for the other guy.
The other guy.
They're pretty much the same guy, actually, if you want to know the truth at the end of the day.
Cut from the same cloth.
And to be honest, they're the guys who think that this, and here's the sad part, the people he's talking to on those talk radio shows, he actually thinks they're idiots.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
He thinks he's smarter than them.
He thinks he's more clever than they are because they're all buying his BS.
100%.
Oh, Brad Schimmel, right?
That's what
BS.
I think you nailed it there, Trigvie.
And we got about a minute here before the break in with Pam Yankee and the Ag report.
But when we come back, I want you to pick up on something that you said there, which is they're doing this to gin up and turn out their base in the Supreme Court election.
And a guy that you know very well, Joe Handrick, a former legislator, a Republican legislator, who's known as a numbers guy.
And he published something this week.
And I want you to talk about this because you had a lot of experience about this as well.
and it's a little contradictory to what people may think in that in past elections people have said well if there's a high turnout that helps democrats.
Joe Handrick is suggesting that a high turnout in this election for supreme court may in fact help republicans especially in western wisconsin where it could make the difference and on the other side will tell you why
and get Trigly's take.
Don't go anywhere.
Agricultural update right now with Pam Yankee, whether it's sports, we're back after this.
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Authoritarians in Eastern Europe, or our former party here in Wisconsin, or just that fellow hockey player that ticks him off.
Trigby Olson, never afraid to go it alone.
Always here with us on Wednesday afternoons.
Always appreciate that.
Senior advisor now at the Lincoln Project.
Trigby, thanks for being here before the break.
Talking about this Wisconsin Supreme Court race coming up on April 1st.
The conservative candidate, or at least that's what he calls himself, Brad Schimmel, raising this trope, as they say in the Milwaukee Journal sent out today, about elections in Wisconsin.
Say, where did all these ballots come from in Milwaukee after midnight?
Well, it's because the Republican legislature won't change the law to allow local clerks to begin
processing ballots, absentee ballots, before election closes, like in most other states.
And so local clerks have to wait to open up and start processing these ballots until the polls close at eight o'clock.
Milwaukee is the largest municipality and that's why it takes time to accurately count these ballots.
And in every audit that has been done,
If you remember last election in 2024, on election day, there was a report that one voting machine in Milwaukee County somewhere, a door wasn't quite what or a latched right.
And Ron Johnson himself, with his cadre of minions, went down to inspect it himself.
And even Ron Johnson came away and said, okay, it was a mistake.
They fixed it really quick and there's no problem here.
But yet Brad Schimmel continues to to put out these lies and the situations and Trigby made the point that part of this is to gin up the bass Trigby
Well, it's all about gin it up the bass, but the truth of the matter is is that as I said before He's playing him for idiots
Because that's the guy, I'm sure that's the guy he is.
I mean, if somebody went to high school with Brad Schimmel call up, was he the, I'm sure that's the guy he was.
We like to know.
We all know that guy.
What
are the guys?
Everybody knows that guy.
Everybody knows a guy like that in their community.
I want to go to another guy that we've known over the years, Joe Handrick, former Republican legislator from Northern Wisconsin.
Joe is not that guy.
No, no, I'm just saying another guy.
No, Joe's not that guy.
No, Joe's not that guy.
Joe's a great guy.
Yeah.
Thank you for
Joe's
Right.
There's a piece he wrote for DairylandCentral.com.
entitled how the spring electorate different differences impact conservative candidates voting vote targeting.
Let me say that again and not screw it up.
How the vote electorate differences impact conservative candidates vote targeting.
I'm not going to go into all the nuances here into the weeds.
This is for guys like Trigby and I who, you know, really like to parse this out.
But what Joe did is he divided the state.
And in the western part in his analysis includes what Trigvie and I would call the old third district congressional district from St.
Croix County where Trigvie was born all the way down along the Mississippi River to the Wisconsin Illinois border in Grant County.
And then basically swings to the eastern side Richland center where I was born and then up through Monroe County and including Eau Claire.
And then the northern part of it is roughly highway eight east to west.
Then it goes over to another part of it in northeastern Wisconsin, which is the Green Bay Door County area, central Wisconsin, was on the surrounding areas, south central, which includes Madison down to the Illinois line, southeast Wisconsin, which is kind of not quite rock County, but includes a Kenosha and Racine.
Then you've got Milwaukee County proper and the Wow counties.
And the argument that Joe Hendrick makes, and he looked at Trump numbers, he looked at Brian Hagedore in a course, who is a conservative who is still on the Supreme Court, and he broke down all these numbers.
And I'm gonna skip down to kind of his bottom line analysis and trigger the, I want your take on this.
And again, this is not necessarily my take or my words, but a person who knows the numbers pretty well.
And Joe Hendrick writes this, quote,
For a victory on April 1st, I believe Schimel's numbers will need to be closer to Trump in the west than they are to Hegedorn.
If I'm Schimel, I'm asking how I can attract Trump voters who live in the western tier of counties, particularly those lower propensity Trump voters who voted in November, but typically will not vote in April.
The answer lies in understanding what the issues were that drove Western Wisconsin away from Democrats and toward Trump.
Immigration and boys playing in girl sports.
Painting Crawford is quote unquote soft on crime is a good issue and that he claims it certainly is true but it's that it's that the pardon me but is that the issue that will bring out Trump voters in Vernon County?
which is in far southwestern Wisconsin.
I'm not so sure it is, Hendrick writes, especially considering the Crawford is spending millions claiming Schimel coddles bad guys too.
Trivi Olsen, what's your analysis of that?
I mean, to a degree.
And here's the thing, like Joe, Joe is the best there is when it comes to Wisconsin numbers and always has been, even when we're kids back.
You know, long ago, Todd, you know that too.
So I'm not gonna argue with him on the numbers, because I'll lose.
And I'm pretty good with numbers.
You are in terms of votes too.
But I think he's right to a point as it relates to the... So if you look at everybody who votes in April elections, right, then you're looking at who else can you get into the fray, right?
And I think he is right that in Western Wisconsin, assuming it's a close race, that's where it's going to be decided.
And in a place like Vernon County, it's about those low propensity Trump voters getting to turn out.
They typically turn out as he's making the point around cultural issues.
I'm not sure Schimel is making that.
Directly of a case although he is trying to disqualify her on some of those
right
like he is playing a little bit of that And you have Elon Musk pack is trying to make this all about a referendum for Donald Trump So there they are trying like I think they get that they want to turn them out quite frankly.
I think his whole Brad Schimmel BS about and in fact that should be a thing Brad Schimmel more BS but
his BS about Milwaukee County,
same
Now, where I disagree with Joe, although he's right on this too, but I kind of disagree with him, the next most likely to turn out and vote, which is what her campaign is trying to do, is college students and younger women in sort of, it's the counties with the colleges.
So it's Eau Claire County, it's La Crosse County, it's Pierce County.
They're less likely, even less likely to show up and vote.
They voted for Proto-Savage in a big way because that was a referendum on reproductive choice.
I'm not sure that that issue resonates as much as it did either, which...
The bigger part of Joe's point might just be both of these campaigns are just a little bit off on messaging.
And he might
And one of the bigger picture points he makes in this article is that typically higher turnouts have been good news for Democrats, but he's making the argument that.
particularly in Dane County, the fastest growing county in Wisconsin, much more democratic leading that they're going to be there no matter what.
And he's making the point that this race for Supreme Court is going to be water loss by high turnout of likely Trump voters across the state, but particularly in Western Wisconsin.
It's, I mean, the first rule of Wisconsin politics is Dane and Milwaukee County need to be balanced out, but for Democrats, their margins have to be, for a race to be close, Republican margins have to be equal to or slightly greater than in the Wild Counties and the Valley, Fox River Valley.
So, you know, and I don't know the case on that.
It's hard to say.
Tom, listening in Florida says, quote, there is no, he gives us a quote from David Foster Wallace, a novelist essayist and a short story writer.
Quote, there is no such thing as not voting.
You either vote by voting or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value for some diehard's vote.
Well said.
theirs.
up with the trivia.
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Let's go quickly to prayer to sack.
Mark, we're up against the clock.
Mark, if you can make it brief, what do you have?
Yeah, I think in Wisconsin the abortion issue might be big, or the reproductive rights issue might be big.
I heard Kate Cox speak yesterday at the rally in Madison, and she's the young woman whose pregnancy had to be terminated, and the delays on actually getting her, actually getting treatment.
that I won't go into detail that, but actually led her to be able to have children.
And this was a wanted pregnancy that she had.
And she gave a very passionate speech on that to the people there.
And I think, and for the whole bags of vote thing, let's remember back in the day when the Clapper and Prosser race, I think Kathy Nicholas took bags of votes home with her.
And the seals were broken, actually broken on those bags of ballots.
There wasn't the hue and cry back then.
There was a little bit of one, but there wasn't the insistence that none of those ballots be counted because who knows what happened when those seals were broken.
So I mean, this whole just ingenuous of Brad Schimmel.
Yes, Brad Schimmel.
Yes, he's just full of it.
Appreciate it, Mark.
Thank you so much.
Again, audits on Wisconsin elections.
We can have confidence in the results by all proper audits and there has been no.
Again, no valid claims or proof of any sort of major ballot fraud in Wisconsin.
855-755-248-42.
Jean, you know, Claire, let's see WCFW the tap.
Jean, what's the?
I got the receipts to support the series of Western Wisconsin and I'm in a rural area.
And I have received eight 11 by six hard cardboard
Americans for Prosperity, the AFP, you know, that's a non-profit organization, one a week.
First they start out with promoting their huge, colorful things, promoting black shimmels to the Supreme Court.
She protects her communities, supports and defends the Constitution, puts partisanship aside, and both sides are shimmels.
crossed his arms, looking in his nice suit, but what a great guy he looks like.
People don't know who he is around here.
Standing up for safer communities is a different one.
Rule of law, rights and freedoms, okay?
Then we got another one, totally branched him out.
Then they change, then they go to Schimel.
In an election day, early voting, promoting early voting,
Yeah, we're
up against the clock, Gene.
No, I don't want to cut you off the way.
I got the point.
You're getting a lot of stuff up there, right?
You're seeing it.
So
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I think it's just Gene's call there.
I mean, it shows people in these important areas are just getting pounded every day with direct mail.
Not to mention, I mean, you can't try the NCAA game right now, basketball game.
And basically every ad is either for or against Schimler Crawford.
you're
The point is everybody should be a voter I'll certainly be voting for Susan Crawford in this but you know regardless We want everybody to be a voter have a plan to vote voting begins at 7 a.m.. In person on election day proper until 8 p.m.
Early voting in person is going on right now go to my vote dot wi dot Gov my vote dot wi dot gov
and be a voter in the April 1st election here coming up.
Certainly important to the future of Wisconsin.
Of course, the DPI, Secretaries, Race, Department of Public Instruction is on that as well.
Referendums and local races as well.
Lots of people fought and died for our right to go to the polling place each time it comes up, and we owe it to them to honor their sacrifice by being a voter.
Gonna come back, talk about tariffs.
Trigme has some info on that, and...
Trigby, there's a Sea Perch tournament going on in Milwaukee.
I'll tell you about that.
We come back as well as the Town Hall Balls show on the Civic Media Radio Network.
Back to the Taliban show of the cynical media-ready network nine before the hour one o'clock.
Zomber is well done.
What do you dial up there, my friend?
rush.
Very good.
Very good.
Not voting is voting.
Choosing to stay home.
They're Canadians, too.
They are.
They are Canadians.
Yeah, the group rush.
Yeah, don't be a voter.
Nothing infuriates me more than people that complain about the results of an election.
I say, well, who'd you vote for?
Well, I didn't vote.
Well, then just be quiet and really I don't I don't respect people who don't vote as
as as George W. Bush's former communication director in Texas and DC Karen Hughes said in her in her great book called 10 minutes from normal It's a great read just about people that work on political campaigns and how to communicate with people if you ever get a chance She said every election comes down to a choice and perfect not on the ballot
And she's so right Human endeavor none of us are perfect as it turns out trivia You sent me something this week on tariffs and the Trump tariffs that are going on and how this really impacts people in America But also specifically in Wisconsin talk a little bit about this, please
it's
Say that one more time.
I
Say that again.
10% of the jobs in the state of Wisconsin will be negatively impacted by the tariffs.
Wow.
Go ahead.
And here's the thing, of the jobs that will be impacted in Wisconsin, 77% of those people voted for which candidate?
Donald Trump.
The one who's putting the tariffs on.
Wow.
77%.
Yeah.
10% of jobs.
And the reason for that is, think about how much egg products.
Forsting products, paper, all the kinds of things that are made in Wisconsin get exported to Canada.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
It's a killer.
The people who won Wisconsin, who gave Donald Trump the victory in Wisconsin, he's basically saying, I
don't care.
Screw you.
Yeah.
That's what he's saying.
It's astounding to me.
But not all that surprising
seven
Yeah
And I think we talked to someone this show, but
The more that and I'm not wishing any ill will on anybody.
I don't care who they voted for.
But I think the sad reality is as some of these things take effect over time, people will start feeling it.
It's just like that.
We talked about this.
We talked about this guy a couple of days ago on the show from Milwaukee, who married a woman from Peru and they just went for their honeymoon.
in Puerto Rico, and they tried to get back in the country last week, and she got taken away by ICE.
And the guy said he voted for Trump, the husband.
Well, suddenly now, and he's like, I didn't expect this to happen to me.
But as things start affecting people, suddenly people wake up.
But I'm not wishing that on people.
I just think that it's going to take more of that for this to impact them.
Think about this.
If 10% of the jobs in the state of Wisconsin are going to be negatively impacted by the tariffs that are going to go on, NAFTA, Mexico and Canada, 10% of those jobs, think about how that echoes throughout the economy of the state of Wisconsin.
And then think about this.
Elon Musk and Doge in eliminating USAID,
Three million three billion dollars in in excess dairy product.
Well, not excess egg products including a lot of dairy Gone.
Yeah And where's our where's our friends?
You know, where's where's Scott Manley at the Wisconsin manufacturers and commerce?
And I don't hear a lot.
I'm not I don't hear a lot.
We talked about that
I would
assume that they would be against tariffs, period, because it's not good when 10% of the jobs in the state of Wisconsin are going to be negatively impacted by the tariffs.
And WMC is staying quiet.
Why?
Why?
Then they're not a pro-business organization.
They're a political extension, or they're scared, or, you know, there's something else.
But then they shouldn't be manifesting themselves as we're the defenders and champions of business when we're only defenders and champions of business.
When it goes where's where's speaker Robin Voss?
Where is majority leader Devin Lummahue?
Where's a joint finance co-chair Howard Markline who all claimed to be pro business and pro Agriculture, but yet I haven't heard a thing about them on this
Tom Tiffany Tom.
He wants to be governor toxic Tom.
He's kind of forgettable
Not good if you're running for Gov.
Trippie's going to stick around and play what's worse with us involving sleeping.
We'll explain to the other side, maybe a little politics as well as the all-bowl show for a Wednesday on the Civic Media.
Ready now?
