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your support. The Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended Dougan doing a
Dugan up there like Sheriff Gary, not my fault McFadden
does here that one judge that helped one person get
out of ICE's custody or try to Ice caught him.
They've suspended her. I'll give you details in a minute. First,
let me jump over and get Jerry on the phone
because he's been holding on for a bit. Hello Jerry,
welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey, I'm okay.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm living large because I'm sad.
Speaker 1: Oh all right, anyway, you can I I mean, if
you're looking to do something about that, you can do
what I did, PhD a lot.
Speaker 2: Anyway. I haven't married to my wife for she's from Bogata, Colombia.
Twenty six and a half years ago. We spent about
ten thousand dollars going through immigration correctly and when when
we got everything going her legal status as she was
an alien. So it there's a difference between an immigrant.
An immigrant is somebody that completes the process legally. Everybody
else is considered an alien illegal alien.
Speaker 1: Well, alien is a descriptor that is used in the law,
and it goes back, Yeah, it goes back, you know,
two hundred and fifty years and yeah, somebody who is
from another place, and there are different statuses of aliens.
You've got resident alien, right that somebody who is like
they're living here maybe for work or something, but they
don't intend to become a citizen. So but then alien became,
you know, a bad word. You can't use the word alien,
you can't use the word illegal. And so that's why
they've changed the way that we talk about this in
order to soften these terms, because the terms actually conjured
up an idea in people's minds, because we knew what
these terms meant, and so the left wanted to they
wanted to shatter that the imagery of what we conjure
up in our minds, and so they change the language
so they can control the debate.
Speaker 2: Don't you think it's time to change it back?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I say illegal alien. I mean look,
I can also say unauthorized immigrant as well, or an
unauthorized alien. Either way, it doesn't matter to me because
we all know what we're talking about, and all of
these efforts to try to use different words to describe
the exact same thing. It's just a it's just a
it's a it's a psyop, and it's propaganda. That's all
it is.
Speaker 2: It is, and I'm tired of it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I agree. And like I said in the
last hour, people who go about doing this the right
way usually have the harshest attitudes towards the illegal immigrants
or aliens that are trying to abuse the system and
take advantage of it and try to get an amnesty
down the road because they didn't have to go through
all of the hoops that the people who did it
correctly had to go through. And and yeah, it's insulting. Yeah, yep, Jerry,
I appreciate the call, buddy.
Speaker 2: And my wife and I are part of that very
insulted group.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I don't blame you one bit. I don't
blame you or her one bit. So I appreciate the
call Jerry good to hear from you. Thank you. I
got a message here from Stanley who says, since it
seems that undocumented people living here actually have constitutional rights,
maybe we've been looking at this all wrong. The problem
just might be that we are documented. Maybe we all
ought to become undocumented and then actually live free in
our own country. How about that. See, right, when you
start dismantling the language in service to a political agenda,
it creates all of these types of conflicts in law,
in practice, in our just general understanding of an issue.
And again it's intentional. It's why they change these words.
They and they come up and they come up with
some you know, feel good reason. Oh, we don't want
people to to feel bad it's mean or something like that.
Or they try to justify like, actually they haven't been
adjudicated as here illegally and so blah blah blah blah blah.
But we all know what class of people we are
talking about. And that does not mean like the word
the word is not offensive because of the word, right,
it's the condition and people then make assumptions, they draw conclusions,
or they have direct knowledge of the conditions, and that's
what then makes the word insulting or offensive or whatever.
It's not the word. It's not the term illegal alien.
It's a legal term. It's from the founding of the country, right.
I mean, look the the the law that Trump cited,
the alien the Enemy Aliens Act, right, whatever that was,
it says it right there in the name, and that
thing is from the founding of the country. It's from
John Adams's term. So it's not the term. And I
don't care to play the word games about it any longer,
like I am done. There was a time. See, this
is what the left does is they weaponize your politeness,
your your desire not to offend, to get along right, basically,
your your kindness, and they use that against you. They
make you feel bad if you use a word to
describe the thing that has been or they will they
try to make you feel bad if you use a
word that we have always used to describe a thing.
And then they change this and they say, oh no, no,
the new word now is undocumented immigrant. It's different. And
then it changed. Then it went to undocumented migrant. Right,
they got of immigrant and now just a migrant, as
if that word didn't have a specific meaning before either.
And now what last week I was reading the article
that I'm trying to remember what publication it was out of,
but I forget. But it was a lefty I think
it was Wired dot com or something, and they started
calling it irregular immigration. That's what they're calling it now,
irregular immigration. Right to soften it, so it's to see,
it's not the same. It's see, it's not so bad, no,
but it is. It is. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has
suspended Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge Hannah Dugan for pulling
a Dugan for doing a Dugan. She was arrested by
the FBI charged last week for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant.
There you go, this is ABC news. An undocumented immigrant
evade arrest. The state Supreme Court did this. She's facing
ueeing two federal criminal offenses, one of which is a
felony and one is a misdemeanor. The Supreme Court said, quote,
this court is charged in the Wisconsin Constitution with exercising
superintending and administrative authority over the courts of this State
in the exercise of that constitutional authority, and in order
to uphold the public's confidence in the courts of this
State during the pendency of the criminal proceeding against Judge Dugan,
we conclude on our own motion that it is in
the public interest that she be temporarily relieved of her
official duties. She was charged with two counts of obstructing
and impeding a proceeding before a department or agency of
the United States, and concealing an individual to prevent his
discovery and arrest. That's according to the criminal complaint. Her attorney,
former US Attorney Stephen Biskupich, said that the judge will
quote defend herself vigorously and looks forward to being exonerated.
I'm not so sure about that. Judge Hannah Dugan has
committed herself to the rule of law and the principles
of due process for her entire career as a lawyer
and a judge. But that's the thing. The victims were
there in the courtroom for this proceeding that was then
short circuited because the judge obstructed it. That's not due process.
Those victims didn't get due process. They got they got
their butts kicked by some guy that you then helped
to escort out the back door. They didn't get due process.
If convicted on these charges, Judge Dugan could face up
to six years in prison. All right, if you're listening
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welcome to the program.
Speaker 3: How you doing, sir?
Speaker 1: Right, what's up?
Speaker 4: I'm going to tell you about the legal aliens, like
the phrase like I knew a guy that came from
Jamaica to.
Speaker 3: Charlotte and he would run around buildings and and he'll
say I'm an alien. It's called me an alien. But
now he's a prominent picture is Charlotte, like on the
council and everything. But I think it should be another
word for it.
Speaker 1: Man, Wait, there's a wait, hang on, there's a Jamaican
preacher who is Now.
Speaker 3: I didn't say a preacher. Oh I didn't say a preacher.
Oh I did not say a preacher.
Speaker 1: What did you say?
Speaker 3: I say he came from Jamaica. Yeah, and now he's
a prominent person that's on the Congress and he's running
for Congress.
Speaker 1: And he's running for Congress, yes, sir, yes, sir. Well,
if he's not a citizen, he would not be he
would not be able to exactly.
Speaker 2: He would not be able to do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but now he's a citizen. Who is I first
got here?
Speaker 1: Oh he is a citizen.
Speaker 3: Now he had to be, he'd be running for Congress.
Speaker 1: And I don't know, We've had some pretty crazy people
run for office that that had no business.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: I get yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, I mean I
don't under and look, I do not understand there are
people that run for these offices that have no chance
of winning whatsoever, but are willing to spend the money
the filing fees and to run for Congress. It's like
thousands of dollars. But people do it. I don't understand
why they do it. But there are people that do
it and they have no shot to win.
Speaker 3: Because they love they love this country.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think my dad. Now I think I think
for some of them, it's an ego thing.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, I get it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now maybe some people, you know, there could be some
that are really motivated they want to serve the country.
That's possible too, but I think it's a I think
it's an ego thing. But all right, so who he say?
This guy he is from Jamaica and he used to
run around claiming he was he was an alien.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like, yeah, he was an alien.
Speaker 2: But he's on.
Speaker 3: I mean, he's very prominent inha. I'm not going to
say his name, but he's very prominent.
Speaker 1: Why won't you tell me his name? Give me his initials.
I'm going to look into it.
Speaker 3: No, you need to talk to me personally.
Speaker 1: What I am talking to you personally? Or is it
you you talking?
Speaker 3: Just five found found me? Is a watch a lot
of wats going around the radio?
Speaker 1: Fifty thousand of them?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's a thousand, yes, sir?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, Brett, do me a favor and send
me an email you send me or yeah, send me
an email, or hit me up on Twitter if you
got a if you have a Twitter time.
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not on any social media black boys,
because I don't.
Speaker 2: Believe in it.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I mean it doesn't exist. It does exist,
it does exist.
Speaker 3: I don't believe in it.
Speaker 1: What do you mean you don't believe in it?
Speaker 2: It tells lies?
Speaker 1: Oh well that's true, but that's true.
Speaker 3: It's fake news, Like like our president says, it's fake news.
Every I believe what he's Something you say is fake news.
Speaker 2: On the internet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot that's true. There's a lot
of b s the internet that is true. So all right,
so I got to look for all right, so you
send me an email? Do you know what my email addresses?
Speaker 2: No, sir?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 1: I would say it's very easy, but it's got my
last name in it. That's not easy to spell.
Speaker 3: You calendar, K and K. Okay, I'm not I'm not
a lyric man.
Speaker 1: I didn't say, all right, how do you think how
do you think my last name is spelled?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You're breaking up, Brett, you're breaking up? What how do
you think my last calendar?
Speaker 3: Calendar? Calendar? Right, no calendar, No, it's first calendar.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Pete calender. There's no d in there.
Speaker 3: Calender.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, right, so it's Pete at the Pete Calendar
show dot com. K A l I any r? Yes,
I mean I'd be curious. I want to take a
look at this guy, see see what his story is,
because like I want to know. I would want to know,
like if he's running running around saying he's an alien,
does he mean an ill before?
Speaker 4: That's before, that's when he came to America, Right, he
didn't know anything about it.
Speaker 3: So he was like, I'm an illegal alien.
Speaker 4: But now he's on the congress, I mean not Congress,
but like city council.
Speaker 3: He's running for kids city.
Speaker 4: Council, probably running for mayor. But he's very prominent. He
has a lot of things out here, running and shaking
the movie in Charlotte, North Carolina. But when I met him,
he was running behind builders saying he's an alien.
Speaker 1: All right. It says that you well, look, there have
been There was a guy who ran for mayor back
in the early two thousands who said that Charlotte was cursed.
And I think his name was like Ramsey. It was
like some traveling art exhibit that came through, like the
tomb of Ramsey's the second or something like that, and
he said that.
Speaker 3: Man want to raise here. Man, I've never heard that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, this guy, I forget his name, but
he was he was crazy and he was like, we're
a curse, and so the only way to break the
curse is to do some ceremony at the trade and
try on and stuff like. And that's what he would
do if he was made Charlotte.
Speaker 3: Hey, Charlotte is not cursed.
Speaker 4: Man, we have we have we have the best people
from from white black Puerto Rican anybody.
Speaker 1: No, I agree, we have good people here, man, I agree. Look,
there's a reason I've been here for thirty years. Like
I love Charlotte and that's why. But that was what
he was trying. He ran when Pat McCrory was mayor.
He ran against McCrory. Yeah, he ran as like an
independent or something like that, so he didn't.
Speaker 3: Have to get and I can and I can tell
you a story about Pat McCrory. No, like like the
dude he says, like the dow he say.
Speaker 4: That beat up his car was a stick?
Speaker 3: Yeah, was that you on the Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, no it's not me.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, oh I don't know. You were going to
tell me a story.
Speaker 6: I know you.
Speaker 4: No, you can't. You can't really judge. You can't judge people.
Because he was a person that was real, real smart.
He was smarter than you probably anybody on.
Speaker 2: This radio station.
Speaker 1: Well that's not saying much.
Speaker 3: It's not saying much to you, but no, I know definitely.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Well, well, it's interesting that you know so many interesting people. Bret.
Send me an email. I would like to know who
this candidate is that either is or is not on
a committee or council or something right now, but is
looking to run for something. I'd be curious to know
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Speaker 6: Hello Danny, Hey, how you doing today? I appreciate you
taking my call.
Speaker 1: Sure, what's up?
Speaker 6: Well? You know, on that trade on the tear thing,
the thing that trips me out about the whole thing
is that, uh, we never talk about to terrors that
all these countries are putting on us. For example, Europe
is about four to one, you know, trying to thank
China is about five to one in trading partners.
Speaker 1: What does that mean four to one? Five to one?
What does that mean.
Speaker 6: About how much money they get compared to what we
get in trading?
Speaker 1: So you're okay, so you're saying you're talking about a
trade deficit.
Speaker 6: Yes, no trade deficit.
Speaker 1: So but you realize, like on a trade deficit. I
mean like when you go to the grocery store, you
run a trade deficit with the grocery store. You're giving
them money and they don't give you money.
Speaker 2: Listen to this.
Speaker 6: I grew up. I grew up in a town. I
retired from the Marine Corps, so I served this country
for twenty six years. And the thing is, I'll tell
you exactly the town cliff Side, North Carolina. All those meals,
and people say, well, you don't want to work for
those places. All those jobs are gone. Every one of
those jobs are gone, all the wooden and everybody says, well,
you know you'll get better jobs. What better jobs if
you didn't have a college degree? What better jobs? Walmart?
Is that what you're saying? And stuff? So I mean, no,
that's not it and stuff. What I'm saying as far
as the deficit and stuff. What about Europe? They have
no cars in Europe, Germany and places like that that's
made from America. How's that power? And I understand that
some of those companies came to America, like Japan. Japan's
done pretty good as far as like a Nisan and Toyota,
because there's not Chevrolet and poured, not even fifty percent
of the course. It's only one vehicle, the American vehicle.
It's Jeep that's made into top ten. The only other
ones what's his name? Everybody hates and stuff, the electric
cards and stuff. That is the only one there. It
makes me wonder what Americans are thinking. Does it matter,
pat your next generation? Are you going to be like
you're gonna owe other countries like China? I mean, for example,
when there's the next thing that happens, we can't take
care of our own country. We got the number one
economy in the world. Why don't we set around and
ask other countries to take care of us? For saying
another example, you know what, you know what Canada pays
on their military one four percent? What about what about
all the Europeans other than the Eastern Europeans? Like holy,
how's well?
Speaker 5: Okay?
Speaker 6: Why does America have to take care of the world?
Why do we have to say that? And especially says
i's in the Marines we risk our lives while they're
saying on basis is that okay?
Speaker 1: So okay, Danny, you've asked. I feel like you're you're
asking questions in the form of an argument. But you're
not actually making an argument with evidence for me. I
understand you've got these questions that you're asking, but you've
asked so many of them, I can't address all of them.
So would you like to pick one particular question and
we can we can examine that, like one specific thing.
Speaker 6: Why is why does the world not protect him sales?
Okaycause America I have to protect them, Okay.
Speaker 1: So I think this is the leftover from the post
World War two order that was set up that guarantee,
I mean, and the other countries were in no condition
or position to be able to do that at the time,
and America filled that void, right, And then of course
you've got the Cold War, and so we built up
and it was a bipolar arrangement where you have the
Soviets and you have America, and you know, we had
our friends, they had their friends kind of a deal
when the.
Speaker 6: Soviet let me, can I ask you, okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah? For example, you crying, this is another topic.
Speaker 6: Now, no it's not.
Speaker 3: It's a fine.
Speaker 6: Let's take take care of our own people.
Speaker 1: Well you crying, well, but you asked why, okay, all right, go.
Speaker 6: Ahead, Germany, it's buying buying gas and all from Russia
and waited two for a while, and they're actually buying
more ole in gas from Russia, okay than they're actually
going to help you cry.
Speaker 1: Okay, So I.
Speaker 6: Mean, how does that work? How about India?
Speaker 1: How about you go to go to Indiana?
Speaker 6: All these other countries.
Speaker 1: Again, Danny, I'm trying to limit the conversation because we've
now gone through five and almost six minutes. You've thrown
out I think like probably about twenty percent of the
countries on the planet. I'm trying to I'm trying to
limit this down, and I don't have time to now
address really any of it because you've thrown so much
stuff out there. I thought it was about the economy
and about the trade and tariff stuff, but then we
pivoted over to national security and the global order. And look,
Douglas Murray said this, and I think he's exactly right.
America needs to determine whether or not, you know, it
wants to be the loan superpower or it wants to
just remove itself from all foreign entanglements, because you can't
do both. Can't do both. You can't say we want
to be the most powerful and be everywhere and do
all of this stuff. And then, by the way, if
you're going to say we want to step away and
we don't want to do that, then I would also
be curious who do you think fills that vacuum, because
somebody will And my bed is it's China. And I
bet China would love nothing more than to be the
world's policeman. I have no doubt about that whatsoever. But
you're not going to like the way that they enforce
their set of rules. But I don't know anybody else.
I don't trust anybody else any other country on the
planet to do what we do. I really don't. But
I appreciate the call. Thank you for your service too, Danny.
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note that the Ultimate Pool Championship has now made the
Women's Championship for women. So baby steps here people, But
I feel like this is a good thing. I'll give
you details here if I have time after I talk
with Walt.
Speaker 5: Hello Walt, Hey, I wanted to answer a question for dan.
Ford has been building cars in Germany for years, for decades.
You know, they have a contract to license with Ford
and then they built a type of car that meets
the European specifications in Germany.
Speaker 2: It's it's not as as.
Speaker 5: Well as what Tyota did. Tyota came here and they
set up huge factories and sold all their cars, you know,
under the Tyota name. But we actually do build cars
in Germany and sell them there. I owned one. It
was a Ford Taunus and I was stationed there for
three years from seventy nine to eighty two. And I
love my little Ford Taunis.
Speaker 3: It was awesome.
Speaker 1: So it's the same thing with BMW Right. I mean,
that's a quote German car, but it's made in South Carolina.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right up the road, the road from Gastonia.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So yeah, And that's the thing when talking about
international trade things, it is very very complicated based on
all sorts of factors, from you know, the raw material inputs,
to the manufacturing locations, to the type of industry. It
is the specifications and that, like tariffs, is one part
of this much more complex system.
Speaker 5: Yeah, licensing agreements, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, there's there there's a lot of stuff. Yeah,
and like yeah, and there's just there's a lot of stuff.
And I but I understand and what what Danny was
king on initially, which is where I thought we were
going to have the conversation. Where it was going to
go to was the you know, the the restoration of
industry manufacturing in America, because there are a lot of
these small towns that were set up around manufacturing facilities
that when those facilities went belly up or moved overseas,
the towns were decimated. And like, and I understand that
I've talked about that very topic a few times, particularly
after Trump's tariff announcements, so I thought that's where he
was going with it, and like, those scars are real.
But this idea that we're going to bring back paper
mills and people are going to go and take these
line jobs, these factory line jobs that for the most
part don't really exist any longer. I mean, and I
said this quote or this stat the other day, there
are right now, every single month in America half a
million manufacturing jobs that are unfilled. So like Americans, these
jobs do exist, but a lot of Americans don't want
the jobs.
Speaker 5: You know, last week you were lamenting on the same
thing you just said. And I work in a factory.
I work in a production facility. It's a half production
facility and a half storage facility. And we brought in
the big boys from corporate last week and they are
scrambling to try to figure out how to get around
the tariffs right now. Oh I bet it is a
huge corporation. And I'm not prounding myself on the back
because I'm just a part time guy. I'm retired, and
uh man, they are literally scrambling to try to figure
out how to because our company has got fingers in
all Canada, Mexico, Europe, all over the place. We get
a lot of our stuff from Poland and we bring
it here and assimilate and then send it back out
to other countries. And so now they're trying to figure
out how to get away from all.
Speaker 1: That stuff, right and yeah, I mean some of the stuff.
If you're importing raw material that is not mineable basically
in America, like then what do you do?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: And and what happens if you start trying to reorganize
your entire operation around what you think the tariff structure
is and then a week later you get an announcement
that says, Okay, the tariffs are now suspended or we're
going to do something different with that area or industry
or something. This uncertainty is just a killer for for
for business planning and future outlook and stuff. So it's
a it's a problem. It's a very big problem that
he has caused.
Speaker 5: But but let me make one point to you, and
I know this is going to contradict some of your
some of the way you're feeling about this and some
of your narratives, but we literally cannot keep enough people.
We have a we have an open door coming and
chill out, an application, go online, whatever, and we can't
keep people. We can't keep them. They don't want to
work like that anymore, right, And there's there's probably tens
of thousands of jobs like that out dur in this country.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 5: I agree, people have gotten spoiled and they don't want.
Speaker 2: To work for a living.
Speaker 1: I completely agree. Yeah, No, I completely agree. I don't
think that's why I said there are half a million
unfilled manufacturing jobs every month. Americans don't want to do
a lot of this kind of work. That people think
like there's this sort of nostalgia for the good old days.
And I don't even think it's about the actual jobs
or the factory work itself. I think it is a
concept that I can, you know, get out of high school,
no college, go to work at some place and then
make enough money to afford a house, a car, a family. Like.
I think that's the thing that people are are are
nostalgic for more so than the actual work of the
of the job. Does that make sense, yes, sir.
Speaker 5: And there's great jobs out there in the manufacturing fields.
You can make a living. You can, oh yeah, family,
but you've got to be willing to show up on time,
on target and right and produce something. It's not sitting
at a desk playing on your keyboard.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: You know when Obama said to the popeline workers, well
you need to learn how to code. How are you
going to take a pipeline welder or something like that
and telling him to learn how to code?
Speaker 1: Come on, man, Yeah, no, I agree, it doesn't work. Yeah,
well I appreciate the call. Man. Yeah, I appreciate your call.
I got to run. Yeah, thank you. No, it's great insight.
And thank you also for your service too to the country.
And I said, I laid this out two weeks ago.
I said, if this whole radio thing doesn't work out,
I've got two or three manufacturers within half a mile
of my house. That's where I would be going to go.
Get work, because contrary to popular belief, we don't get
paid millions of dollars to do this. I could probably
make more money going to work on the line. You know, Wait,
where are my producers going? Wait, come back, guys, come back. No,
I'm kidding, they're still here. Now. It's a matter of
do you have a work ethic to do it? And people,
I think a lot of people think that they are
quote too good to do certain kinds of work, and
as well just said they're spoiled. Yeah, it's a work
ethic thing, and they're like, I shouldn't have to do that.
And part of that is also based on what their
parents and grandparents told them, which was go to college,
get a degree, so you don't have to do this
work that I've been doing. I want better for you.
And they believe that this whole issue is way more
complex than just you know, we're running a trade deficit
with country X, so therefore we need to slap a
terif on them. It's way more complex. All right, that'll
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