No BS Newshour Episode #399
It’s Tuesday – They’re Going Down
(5:41) Traci Kornak, former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party, HAULED into probate court this week suspected of embezzling from a brain-damaged elderly woman.
She’s the 1st to go. AG Dana Nessel is NEXT.
(0:28) Gov. Whitmer and Nessel knew about the allegations.
AND they allowed her to continue as treasurer of the STATE Democratic Party.
(22:32) MI Gubernatorial candidate, State Sen. Aric Nesbitt, commits to END Michigan’s Rotten Nursing Home System.
(26:48) He also vows to audit the state childcare systems and unemployment insurance, citing billions of dollars in alleged fraud.
(45:43) PLUS- Why the United States needs to control Venezuela’s oil. It’s all about China
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Transcript:
Are we on? It’s Tuesday, biatch. This is a story so bizarre and so grotesque that Netflix would never make it into a movie because it’s so unbelievable. It is a story of the neglect and abuse of a nursing home resident that reaches to the highest levels of power, politics, and the press.
Y’all know Tracy Cornack, the former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party. She was hauled into probate court this week, suspected of embezzling from her ward a brain-damaged elderly woman. I caught Cornack feasting on the woman’s finances nearly four years ago and have written many stories about it since.
I’ve made TV appearances. I even lost my newspaper job over it. After my first story was published, Attorney General Dana Nessel, a close friend of Cornack, opened a superficial investigation that was really no investigation at all.
Her detectives made a few cursory phone calls before Nessel prodded them into shutting down the criminal case. Just like that. And Cornack, it is alleged, continued to suck the old woman dry.
At least that’s what a special fiduciary attorney, Morgan Maul, believes. Using phrases like significant discrepancies and missing assets and concerns about charges, Maul asked Jolene Clearwater, God bless her, the chief probate judge of Allegan County, my brother, for a six-month extension into the investigation, into Cornack’s decades-long conservatorship over the woman’s finances. The old woman died last April and now the judge wants to know what happened to her money, her condominium, her insurance settlement from the car accident, her trust, her estate plan, who made debit card purchases on the day of her death.
Not only did Clearwater agree to Maul’s request, she also ruled that Cornack, a slip-and-fall attorney by trade, must pay for Maul’s time. Cornack, for her part, said nothing, nothing, in defense of herself. What began as a story about a simple insurance scam perpetrated by Cornack in the name of the old woman has morphed into a scandal implicating Governor Gretchen Whitmer and threatens the impeachment of Dana Nessel.
Cornack was a respected embezzler and Whitmer and Nessel knew about those allegations. Nevertheless, they allowed her to continue in her political position as treasurer of the state Democratic Party. In fact, Whitmer was planning to appoint Cornack to a judgeship as soon as the criminal investigation went away, but Cornack was never given a judicial robe because I would not let this story die.
After Nessel complained about a column I published in the Detroit News chronicling her unethical interference into the Cornack investigation, I replied to Nessel on social media with the phrase see you next Tuesday. Yes, it’s a euphemism for female genitalia. My pearl-clutching colleagues at the Detroit News feigned outrage, tarred me as a misogynist, and I was forced to resign.
Professional jealousy is an ugly thing. Not another word was written in that rotten newspaper about this rotten scandal. I’ve canceled my subscription, but I kept publishing, first online and now with the Michigan Enjoyer, and so here we are.
Tuesday has arrived. The Kent County Sheriff’s Office has completed its own two-year investigation into Cornack’s stewardship of the old woman’s financial affairs. Among its recommendations are charges of felony embezzlement, which carries a 20-year prison term.
That report now sits on the desk of Chris Becker, come on Chris, the Kent County prosecutor, come on Chris, who is considering charges, come on Chris. Most nauseating about this whole affair, beyond the alleged abuse of an elder who could not fend for herself, is that those in power knew all along. I called them, I shouted questions at them, I mocked them online, in print, and on TV.
So who are they? They are those who were in a position to protect the old woman, the governor, the attorney general, the Democratic Party brass, the attorney grievance commission, I’m coming for you, the probate court, and the media. They proved themselves to be what they accused me of being, misogynists, abusers of women. You let her get sucked dry, resign.
Worse, they all proved themselves to be cowards. There is a light in this dark story. The Enjoyer and the No Bullshit News Hour, and now you have learned that the FBI has begun making inquiries into the sordid affair.
If justice can’t prevail, then things might be better for the next little old lady who comes around. We got some video, Mark, from that day. Hey Kent, did you send Mark the video? I did.
You guys want to see the day in court? Yes. Where do you think this ranks in terms of skullduggery, pedophiles, puppy abusers, and people who steal old people’s money? Tracy Kornack, the former treasurer of the Michigan Democratic Party, was hauled into court this week, suspected of embezzling from her ward a brain-damaged old lady. Well, now the old woman is dead, and the probate judge has ordered a full-blown forensic investigation, going back a decade.
And here comes the suspect. Ms. Kornack, sounds to me like the judge thinks you embezzled from a brain-damaged old lady. Do you have any comment on that? Can you tell me what happened? Stop touching me.
Okay, so I’m right here. Don’t you think you shouldn’t have touched the woman’s money? Did you collude with the attorney general to make this case go away? Do you think she should be impeached? Stop touching me. What happened to the woman’s money? Stop touching me.
Stop touching me. Excellent. Stop touching me.
So where do you think this ranks in terms of skullduggery, pedophiles, puppy abusers, and people who steal old people’s money? The sheriff of Kent County has investigated you and is recommending 20 years in prison for identity theft and embezzlement. Any comment on that? Who was using the old woman’s debit card the day after she died? Was that you? Do you regret this? Are you a misogynist? Ma’am, do you think you can do the time? You think she can do the time? Going down? Live from downtown Detroit, it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man, Charlie LaDoc. And Jared Nubes.
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Where’s my notes? Who’s this guy again? That’s Senator Eric Nesbitt, the Republican leader of the Michigan Senate chamber, running for governor. Thanks for coming, bro. Hey, thanks for having me.
Where’s the notes? I made some notes. I prepared for this. You didn’t share with me any of these notes.
I don’t know if you want them. Look where they’ve been. Hold on a second.
Let’s get this right. Let’s get your name out there. I’ve been warned about you, Charlie.
N-E-S-I-B-I-T-T. Close. Is that correct? Yeah.
Eric with an A. Well, I didn’t say it was with an E. Yeah. Eric with an A. Middle of five kids, all started with A’s. What’s up with that? It’s like Arctic.
Born in an igloo? What’s going on? Middle of five kids, all started with A’s. And by the time mom got to me, it was either going to be Eric or Erica with an A. That’s the same in my family. That’s why they call me asshole.
I’m sure glad she went with Erica. I probably would have grown up a little tougher if it was Erica. And we got political hitman Jason Rose sitting in as well.
Guys, first of all, what would you make of that opening? You’re a leader in this state. You’re from Allegan County. This is what was going on.
Where are we in this process of Nestle? She’s already been referred for contempt charges, which Richard Nixon was referred for contempt charges in his impeachment proceedings. Where are we at with this? What’s the scuttlebutt up there? I mean, it’s tough to make it in Michigan right now. We see this day after day with working families, with small business owners, and with our kids not being able to read.
But you look at the challenges that are out there. And here’s somebody that’s stealing from an old lady, the treasurer of the Gettysburg. And it’s taken how many years to at least just get a court appearance? This is corruption at the worst level.
This is wrong. And it needs to be solved and needs to be taken care of. And unfortunately, over the last seven years, what we’ve seen has been tougher and tougher for families and for our small business owners and our kids to actually make it here in the state.
I mean, we’re bottom 10 state in per capita income. The average family nationally makes $9,000 more than the average family here in Michigan. In Detroit, it’s even worse, right? Small business owners are trying to invest and grow here in the state.
And what do they get? Just bureaucratic red tape out of Lansing. And I had a restaurant owner down the road over in Taylor that was trying to build a new restaurant. And Whitmer’s bureaucrats came down and was like, no, there’s a mud puddle in the back.
That’s a wetland. Can’t build. $6 million investment can’t happen.
Manufacturer, boat manufacturer over in Holland trying to replace their docks. They’re five years in a million and a half dollars of legal and engineering costs to replace freaking docks. Yeah.
700 employees at that, that firm, right? All while it costs more to live in Michigan with the highest energy costs, highest electricity costs, highest insurance costs, reliable energy grid. But this is the point. And yet you have people that are fleecing old people.
Who are the party leaders and covering it up, bro covering. Where are the priorities when three out of five fourth graders can’t read a grade level? I want my mom. Let’s start with this.
I want action. Like Cornak was on Nestle’s transition committee. They won’t tell me what you did.
I got a feeling it’s got something to do with elder abuse. This elder abuse task force that goes nowhere. No action on the nursing homes.
No action on probate. They’re feasting on old people and we can’t get anything to move. Are there going to be impeachment hearings? You’re not in the house, but do you hear anything? I know there’s been conversations and I think it’s going to be things like this that come to light and it’s going to be about real reporters doing real investigative reporting.
And I’m covering this stuff of what’s what’s out there. Fortunately, in the house right now, there’s a larger oversight committee. Yeah.
And my hope is that is they peel back this case and other cases that folks are held accountable. There is people in Lansing need to be held accountable for what’s going on. This is a great paragraph.
And it’s all politics because it’s going to go like this. If the house and they have the votes, if they move to impeach her, actually impeach her, boom, it goes to the Senate. And it’s got to be a two thirds majority to remove her from office.
That’ll never happen. But at least being tarred as the first public official in the history of Michigan to be impeached would be a nice little Wikipedia site for Dana Nestle. But the problem is the Republican leadership in the house is like, if we impeach Nestle, then she’ll be able to raise unlimited amounts.
All the caps on the campaign finance are removed by law so you can fight your impeachment. They’re worried that you’ll take that money and give it to the Democrats. And I say, so fucking what? What we endured, all the people that died in those nursing homes, all the old people getting raped, our kids got ruined.
We’re not going to do that. Should we do that? You’re the Republican guy. We should absolutely do it.
I mean, whether it’s Nestle, whether it is Benson as secretary of state or Whitmer as governor for the last seven years, all of them have gotten away with overt corruption that isn’t getting any law enforcement investigations until now. And the other thing it’s not getting is any media attention. Anything that the Republicans highlight in the fraud and corruption with those three elected leaders, the media ignores because it comes from Republicans.
They’ve done no due diligence, nothing whatsoever. You’ll see sometimes the inside Lansing publications will cover it a little bit, but you don’t see the mainstream media in this state focused on what’s going on in our capital. Charlie, Charlie, this is the seven years, right? Yeah.
And we’re in 2026 where the governor is gone. Lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general. If we do our job this year in this election, and this is the point is that if Jocelyn Benson becomes governor of Michigan, things are just going to get worse.
You think things are bad now? She’s less competent and more liberal than Whitmer is. Well, look, you’re a farmer, right? I grew up on a sixth generation dairy and grape farm. I know the guy.
Yeah. Value of hard work. We didn’t have air conditioning.
I had to sleep on the main floor when we’re bailing hay. I still don’t have it. The log cabin bolted.
Sleep in the bathtub. Did you ever do that? It got so hot. No, I did that because the porcelain is nice.
Sometimes in the basement was even better, you know, but it’s just that much cooler down there. But yes, you know, if we’re going to take the car to school, we have to get up at five 30 in the morning to do morning chores, to, you know, scrape the holding area, run the feed bunk, actually shower before going to school. Uh, you know, because that was hard work.
You had a car. My oldest brother, dude, we were, but the only way we were so poor that when I broke my leg, my dad taught me how to limp. And you still are.
You still are hard. Just like Tracy Kordak. Do you see her? Oh, she all but she walking around like that.
Can you believe it? This woman shows up in a, how much was that coat? Thousand bucks. Fuchsia. That’s very fancy.
You’re like, you’re accused of fucking bleeding an old woman to death and you’re wearing a fuchsia mohair. Was that mohair you think? What was that? No wool. Damn the nerve.
Okay. But anyway, but my point is this is Michigan. So naturally by birth old school, you know, we’re working people.
So I lean Democrat, you know what I mean? Uh, in, in my, in my spirit. Maybe that was my grandpa’s democratic party, but today they’re, they’re the, a party of the elites, the coastal elites, New York city, San Francisco, the, the, these guys don’t represent McComb down river, the working class, a fair wage, and you don’t fucking hurt people that can’t defend themselves. Amen.
What the fuck is this greatness of America? And so I, so a little, a little about, you know, I went to Hillsdale college to my degree in economics, beautiful school in the middle of south central Michigan. Have you ever been there? Uh, yeah. I used to live there.
In Hillsdale until the sheriff told me to move my van. Well, he endorsed me. So probably was three young kids, beautiful wife, a six year old daughter, three year old son.
He’s, uh, in a nine month old daughter and boy, girls are girls and boys are boys. That three year old boy is a terror. Uh, but anybody who says that there’s a difference, not a difference between boys and girls are wrong.
Like this is part of the reason why I’m running is to make sure that my daughter, when she gets into high school, if she happens to play sports, that there’s no men playing with her, there’s no men actually in the shower, just common sense like that. But it starts, remember six years ago during COVID the lockdowns, the pandemic, six years ago now. And so it was five and a half years ago.
Second shutdowns. We’re expecting our second born. I go to, we’re going to the OB’s office with my wife.
We’re joking. We’re having fun. Right.
Get to the parking lot. I can’t go in because of Whitmer and the Democrat lockdowns. Right.
I have to stay in the car. Yep. A little while later I get a text from my wife saying we lost our second born during this carriage.
I’m sitting out in the freaking car. My wife and us are going through the worst thing that can imaginable losing a child. Right.
And it’s your next governor that’ll never happen again. This is on Whitmer and the Democrats that I couldn’t be holding her, her hand. Oh my God, man.
But that story is not just there. It’s the thousands of deaths in nursing homes. It’s the thousands of stories of lockdowns, of kids that can’t get an education.
The average child in Michigan right now is nearly a year behind in grade level just because of the lockdowns. That doesn’t include any of the, taking away the accountability measures. And then you add it up in the state that we’re bottom 10 in per capita income.
We’re bottom 10 in terms of unemployment. Bottom 10 in terms of, of economic growth in three out of five fourth graders can’t read a grade level. You got me shook by that, man.
That’s really sad. I’m sorry for you. Five and a half years later.
I remember my brother dying during COVID and you could only stare through a window. Couldn’t hug him. I’m sorry for you.
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Uh, yeah. Okay. So you’ve just steeled me.
I’m reinforced. That’s it. That’s that hurt to hear any of us that are fathers or mothers.
That’s I’m going to keep going. And here’s what I know now. We never got an accounting of, of the old people that we love, not just the unborn, but the old people.
End of life care has not been fixed. In fact, Whitmer’s chief of nursing home response during COVID, his series of nursing homes just went bankrupt. There’s some of the worst in the country.
That was the chief in bridge magazine. We read, they got blessed in these young people over there at bridge magazine. Go look at that, but go to the enjoy.com. Um, they just did an expose.
I don’t know in what timeframe it was, maybe the last year, three dozen elders died from neglect or an abuse in the nursing homes. So nothing’s been fixed in, in this governor doesn’t want to sign legislation to allow family members to put her video. She’s gone.
What are you going to do? That’s the, I have a commitment from you, my brother, that you’re going to take a look at probate nursing homes and actually try to fix this rotten system where people suffer at the end of their lives. Do I have that commitment from you? Somebody, it’s a yes or no. Yeah, absolutely.
With a 78 year old mother that I know if she didn’t have those are the five kids close by that are still ahead in the state that I know the challenges she has going through separating fact from fiction from folks calling her folks stopping by, right? People pray on them because they want to believe the best in people, right? And this is in, in older, you get more forgetful. You can be the whole goal is how do you protect Michigan families? How do you protect Michigan seniors? How do you make sure that everybody can actually make it here in Michigan and that these fraudsters scram, scammers, criminals are actually put away in prison. That’s what we’ve done.
Everything takes money. And so I look at it. I look at it five, five years ago.
No, six years ago. Now my dad passed away. It was about a month before COVID.
He served three tours in Vietnam. He was a farmer, long haired, full beard, old school hippie in the eighties. I had to say he was part of ZZ Top.
My guy. Yeah. Recently I had to say he was, he was from duck dynasty.
You know, it’s, it’s, but you know, he always said he dodged the draft. He joined served three tours in Vietnam, came in as a private, made Sergeant three times came out as a private. And it was the beginning of January of 2020.
And he was having trouble breathing. I mean, tough guy, right? Finally took him to the doctor. The doctor’s like, you got to go to the emergency room.
He’s a fibbing. Long story short, took three liters of liquid off his lungs. It was cancer.
Three weeks later, he was gone. And before he passed away, he a few things we had, you know, that last week it was hard to talk to, but, but the week before, before he passed away, there was a few things that he really told me. And one of them, when, when Trump came on the scene, he wasn’t really the biggest fan, but he was ready to vote for him in 2020.
You know why? Because he says anybody who went on in the, the big government, big unions, big corporation hate as much as they do all covered by big media. And he never started a land war in Asia. That was always his starting, you know, starting point.
He has to be doing something for the little guy. And I think it’s good to remember that. What he told me is that, what is it about that common person on the street that you’re doing? Do you have them in your front and center, or do you have the lobbyists up in Lansing front and center? And let’s not forget, nobody’s little.
There’s nobody worth anything more than anybody else. Amen. That’s the collective.
Oh, Jesus, is that hippie? The collective dicey, the collective did I. But that’s, but that free be yourself, but look out for each other. I don’t like this again. So where do we get the money to fix nursing homes? How do we hold them accountable? We need a bureaucracy.
Here’s what I do know. You’re calling very rightly for an audit of our daycare, the majority of fraud, and this is the government’s number and it’s much higher. The majority of fraud is in Medicaid, Medicare.
I don’t know why people on government assistance need daycare. You ain’t going to work. So are you launching that? We need our Tim Harry balls walls.
Well, you, you look at the history with governor Whitmer, her administration, eight and a half billion dollars of unemployment insurance fraud. I remember. God, right.
No accountability. Tens of millions of dollars. Well, Kim Kardashian got paid tens of millions of dollars to buddies of Whitmer for economic development.
Yeah. Right. Poof.
You’re these, uh, food stamp benefits. The snap. Yeah.
Fraud wasted. Well, you know what they did all over. Here’s what they did.
We Biden administration and it all funnels through the state. So even the federal money is applied to the state. They raise after inflation.
They increased snap benefits by 20% for the emergency. Well, COVID is gone. So we’re not cutting anything.
That was an emergency. You can’t go to work. Okay.
Now go to work and bring it down so we can take that money and make sure old people and unborn children and school kids learn that’s, you know, that’s, we got the money. And so now with Tim or no, sir, that’s a question. Oh, there’s plenty of money.
It’s about accountability. And so you see what Tim waltz in Minnesota, the scams that have happened under their child care system, and he, now he’s not running for reelection because it’s broken out so much, right. That I asked the man, the auditor general to do a full investigation of our child care here in the state, because I don’t think this is one off.
And I don’t think it’s just all of a sudden, Minnesota is special, right? No, no, no. California everywhere. I’ve been everywhere.
And this governor’s increased spending by 45% over the last seven years. Let’s say that again, the budget. And I’m going to, I’m going to take inflation.
Your income’s increased by 45%, right? I’m going to adjust for inflation. The governor has increased the budget of Michigan after Biden’s inflation by 25%. Do you feel better in life in Michigan? Are your energy bills going down? Watch this.
It’s the green new scam by 2040. We have to now have 100% renewable energy source. DTE and consumers have been moving to natural gas to right.
To power everything. Price of natural gas is plummeting. Why is my insurance, my, my utility bill going up 10%? Why sir? The Democrats pass green new scam where they say we’re going to power the economy with pixie dust and rainbows.
You can’t do that. If there is a rainbow, that means it was raining, which means it’s cloudy, which means solar energy is not being produced. You know what it’s going to mean? 300,000 acres of farm and forest land industrialized in the state of Michigan.
Farmland that will never go back to farming again.
And you’re going to turn San Francisco millionaires into San Francisco billionaires. All these solar panels are going to be built in communist China and placed here in Michigan. Needs to be repealed.
Day one. This is country folk. This is a dude that makes his living on the earth.
That’s a conservator, a steward of. If we’re going to turn the 6th, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on, Governor. From your lips to God’s ears, Governor Hopeful.
We’re from Michigan. This is the great Lake state, right? I have my shack on the water. Nobody more than us loves the environment, understands it and wants to protect it.
When I went to Michigan back when it wasn’t a, you know, communist cesspool. They taught you the difference between conservancy and preservation. Preservation is not touch.
Conservancy is humans are involved here. There’s a productive and right way to do things. I don’t understand trying to make us all be in a square box, eating out of a box, getting into a box and going to work in a box and turning on the box.
That’s not a life I resist with all my heart. I’m like your dad, man. I just, I would love to have met that guy.
I would love to have met your child. I would have to want to. So if elected governor, we’re going to repeal that green news scam because the rates go up.
The price of creating it for the power companies is going down. You know what I did? You know what I did? Well, I’ve been fighting DTEU rats. You’re guaranteed a dividend and they’re guaranteed a return, right? On their equity, on the number of shares out there.
I’m like, you get three, 4%. They’re going to go to the green new scam. It’s either going to, electricity is going to be plentiful, which it won’t.
And that means they’ll sell kilowatts and I’ll make money. Or more likely there’s going to be a shortage on energy, which is going to drive the price through the roof, which means it’s good for the investor. I couldn’t beat him.
So I bought shares. I’m a shareholder, but this is what the left wing, this is what the left wing wants. And it’s going to get worse if it’s Governor Benson.
They’ll never be repealed. They’re going to double down on this California crazy. Electric rates are going to continue to go through the roof.
Insurance rates are going to continue to go through the roof. Cost of living is going to go up all while incomes go down and our unemployment rates skyrockets. And yet we have in the Midwest, we have the best lakes, the best parks, the best trails, the best outdoor, the best chicks, the best kids, the best beer.
But we have all the recipes to be the greatest budge. We have the recipes to be the greatest state in the nation. And we have some of the best people that we used to be.
So what happens? It’s not like we changed. We went from a wealthy state to a welfare state. We got to become a wealthy state again.
Right. I just resist. And everybody’s walking around in fuchsia coats.
Instead, you get this quid pro quo economic development of handing corporate CEOs billion dollar checks instead of returning taxpayers to the taxpayers. See, I was talking to Jason the other day and it’s like, OK, it’s not like the Republican Party is anti-business. I mean, you can’t be anti-business if if you’re that anti-business.
Nobody eats. Somebody’s got to create the jobs. But it seems to me in that squirrely corporate welfare world of tax abatements and brownfields and bullshit that the Democrats are now the party of the golf club.
You know what I mean? And the Republicans, it’s a weird coalition of the golf club owner. I call it the small and the farmer. I call the small your small business owners, your farmers, your workers, podcasters, folks.
This is heavy work. I agree. Folks that show up and work all day.
That’s what the Republican Party is representing today are those that just want a fair chance, want to make sure their kids are educated, they have good roads to go to, you know, go to school or work on that, that they actually have the opportunity to invest and grow their business here, here in the state. There’s not this wokeism that’s going on in the schools. I was talking to a, it’s actually up in Grosse Pointe, I was talking to a family a few months ago and the parents were telling me that their son, who’s in, I think he was seventh grade, 12 years old, wouldn’t use the they, them pronoun for another boy in school.
Got sent to the principal’s office. And when he got down to the principal’s office, he goes, well, I thought with Donald Trump as president, we didn’t have to do all this nonsense anymore. The 12 year olds say that.
Yes. I told the parent, like, give me the address. I want to write a letter to tell them how proud I am of the, of the kid.
But this is the kind of nonsense that you’re seeing. While three out of five fourth graders aren’t able to read at grade level, you think it’s bad statewide, it’s even worse here in Detroit. Only 15% attainment here in Detroit.
Yeah. We have the worst school district in America. And we know that if you’re not able to read by grade level at fourth grade, you have a two out of three chance of doing one of two things in your life, being on social welfare or in jail.
And that’s a very bad picture for the state of Michigan in the future. To that effect, let me tell you something about the great people of the city of Detroit. Those data points are correct.
And when you’re behind the eight ball like that, and you’re still able to navigate modern society, it tells you how much cleverness is in the heart, the blood and the mind of the people of Detroit, right? They just get shit on and ripped off by their own leadership. That’s what happens. I think you probably know, uh, breaking news.
Give it to me. I got you. Breaking news.
The Feds are here. Mike Dirt. That’s Duggan’s new name.
Mike Dirt. Hey Dirt. The Feds just got off the bus.
They’re here. I think grand jury’s coming on this demolition shit. They took, you guys want to, they did 30,000 homes demolition filled, filled, uh, fill the holes in with rotten soil, right? Very toxic.
Can’t touch it. For some perspective, there are less than 30,000 domiciles in the city of Flint. So we demolished something bigger than Flint and just by data points, I’m guessing that minimum 20,000 holes are poison.
So there’s going to be a grand jury. The Feds are here now and this guy wants to run for governor. Now Detroit cannot ask its citizens again for another bond to clean up the poison because they just passed the bond called proposition end to clean up the poison, which was the demolition.
And then you used it to poison the people. So Detroiters aren’t going to go for that. They don’t have the money.
We can’t go to Lansing because the Democrats are, I mean, the Republicans aren’t going to do it. I don’t know. I’m going to get to this long winded way to ask you a question.
The only people that have money like that are the Feds. You have to ask Trump. This is a billion.
What’s a Bilski in a $6 trillion budget? What’s a Bilski? It’s a decimal point, right? But you got Shri Tanahar running around, uh, threatening to impeach Trump every two weeks. He got Rashida Tlaib crying outside the gates of the white house. You’ve got Alyssa Slotkin telling soldiers to disobey orders.
Uh, you got Jocelyn Benson who won’t clean up the, uh, uh, election rolls. So who, who, who do we have to ask Trump? So I guess we go back around, sir. If elected governor for the people of Detroit, and it seems to me like your heart was bleeding for him a little bit.
If it’s to this point, would we have your support to like Flint to clean up what the scumbags left here? My sister lives here. My sister lives in Detroit. My niece and nephew live here.
It’s important part. We got to get Detroit back to a thriving city to make sure that the neighborhoods, first of all, make sure we have, would you work to clean this environmental disaster up? Has to be cleaned up. Thank you.
It has to be. That’s good. Dude.
The, the point is, let me, let me, let me jump in. All of you politicals, the internet, you know, the real movers and shakers in this town. Oh yeah.
Mary Sheffield can’t go to Washington because she was sleeping with the guy that was poisoning it. So the people that call me and say, what do we do? You can call Eric Nesbitt. You can call him.
There’s a Republican willing to work to help all of us, all of us, right? I won’t be holding up a blue folder in front of my face in the oval office. Yeah. This is a serious problem, sir.
It’s, it’s changing going from, as I, as I put it on the campaign trail, going from the Biden Whitmer administration to the Trump Nesbitt administration and making sure that we have somebody that’s working with president Trump to take care of the people of Michigan. Okay. You know, it’s a big deal.
You do. I do. You know, it’s, it’s sprawling and it’s really starting to spit out of control, right? Trust the no bullshit news hour.
As sure as I told you, Nestle was covering shit up for her wife, for her friends, for the nursing home industry. It’s starting to roll. It’s the same with the demolition.
Nestle also fucked up that Flynn investigation. Nobody did a day in jail over that. It costs us all and nobody cared.
Don’t forget Benton Harbor, Benton Harbor, man. That’s down the road from me. I have a brother that lives there.
Oh, I kind of like you. I never met you. I mean, you’re, you’re calling out places that includes all of us.
That’s I think the zeitgeist we’re looking for somebody that cares about all of us. Not handouts, but if you’re willing to work for it, willing to help you. And if we are in trouble, we got a leader who’s there.
Are you that guy? There’s, are you that guy, sir? I’ll be that guy. I am that guy. You know, there’s a lot.
There’s a, but that’s the beauty of you, Charlie, is that you always do hold truth to power in whether you’re forgotten in an urban area or in a rural area or in other parts of the state that they need somebody that’s actually understands the challenges that it is to raise a family, to have kids, to be able to retire here, and the challenges to actually put food on the table and to raise children here in the state of Michigan. And it’s becoming tougher and tougher. This stinks and it doesn’t have to stink.
You can go to mando.com whole body deodorant for the pits, the package in the feet. Dude, this, this is bourbon leather. Give me your wrist.
Give me your wrist. No, no. I don’t want to get your pants.
You better smell man. Isn’t that nice? Now just think about that on your undercarriage. It goes everywhere.
I took the acidified body wash to Allegan County where you’re from, sir. I had to beat the women off in the courtroom. She was struggling to resist.
She sounded like an ex-wife. I didn’t touch you. Okay.
Um, stop buying your shitty deodorant from the drugstore or the grocery store and shop mando.com M-A-N-D-O dot com. Do we have to do the code? Uh, preferred to. Yeah.
Yeah. No BS. You know, I don’t like doing the code because if people don’t use the code, I look like a loser to the appetizer.
Yeah. But then if nobody don’t know about the code, it’s going to look even worse. You know, when you’re the second biggest podcast in Michigan after drew lane, you think drew will do my show? You think I get on drew show? You want to be on drew show? Drew doesn’t like doing politics though, does he? Not so much anymore.
I can do gardening, farming, fishing. That’s right up his alley. I can’t do anything outside.
Yeah. Maybe you can like mow the hay that’s growing all over his back. We could take, we could take them out.
We could take them out to the farm, show them around, go on a little hunting trip and everything he doesn’t want to do. Exactly. Why don’t you just watch sports with them? I walked in drew once and I got in the door, doors open and he’s on the couch, he’s on the couch, the TV’s on, he’s sleeping and in his hand is his phone checking his ratings on iTunes.
It’s just sitting there like, I’m like, man, he’s a unique man. So we need to figure out a little different marketing then. Yeah.
That’s great dudes. Uh, uh, the drew lane show and also, uh, the soul of Detroit with ML Elric, uh, sort of an unofficial consortium, red shovel network, right? He’s been, uh, he’s been taken on some of the establishment. Yeah, man.
Like we support each other. Yeah. Okay.
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Jason, you want to try one of these? No, I’m okay. Did you mention the promo code? No, he still hasn’t mentioned it. No BS news hour.
I think it’s just no BS. No BS. It says acidified deodorant wipes, meaning it’s clean, but it doesn’t sting.
No, they’re good products. You want it? You want it to sting? No. That’s when you know it’s working.
Yeah. Mando.com. All right. So let’s, let’s, let’s do a little international news here.
If you don’t mind. As your folks know, we’re very plugged in here. And I’m looking at Venezuela and you know, I know some Titans of wall street, college friends, et cetera.
You know, they make trades for the Sultan of Brunei. What are you? Yale grad or something? Michigan and Berkeley. Oh, fancy.
Yeah. Public schools, but you got to have a good mind. Right? Mark.
Let’s go blue. Let’s go blue. Those are public.
We got a good coach now. Good, solid. Which, which school? Ann Arbor, man.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, you thought it was bad with Mel Tucker. And then U of M is like, hold my beer. Yeah.
Right. Fuck. I can’t.
I just, you’re reading that story. That’s going to be made in the movie sometime. Yeah.
It has to be made into a movie. It’s going to be a lifetime movie. What was consensual? Maybe we can do a dreamscape of like those two guys hanging out at Harbaugh’s house.
How to lose $80 million. Idiots. So, you know, like Venezuela, what’s, what’s going on? Now, look, here’s the deal with the Titans of wall street.
If you watch the show, you know, we have them on the administration must speak to the Titans because the Titans call each other, right? The administration must give them a direction because the last thing you want is the markets to be erratic. So the markets need to understand where this thing is going. This is just what’s happening.
They’re just doing conference calls all day. These guys, because they’re the ones that trade oil futures. So this guy’s a buddy of mine.
This is how I stay plugged in. We had a talk and then he wrote this to me. He just texted it.
I’m going to read it to you. Venezuela. Once again, it’s all about China.
For 20 years, China provides horrible loan terms to Venezuela. The Venezuelan oil is used as collateral for those loans that are at 8%. The terms of the loans are impossible to ever pay back.
China is the largest buyer of Venezuelan oil at below market prices. That was set back in 2009. So like they’re getting bled dry by China.
China is the new imperialist and they just recoup their money from the loan interest. So Venezuela in perpetuity will be paying China because the oil is just paying for the interest. China promises to upgrade the ports and telecom infrastructure of Venezuela, placing fourth generation technology into the ports, cranes and telephone and data centers, allowing for military to take over both when and if needed.
In 2008, you all Google this, but do it. Just do some reading. In 2008, Ecuador defaulted on their Western debt.
China swept in with all new loans and takes over Ecuador. Ecuador oil production takes over Ecuador’s ports on the Pacific Ocean. More than 80% of Ecuador and oil is purchased by China.
China rapes the virgin forest of Ecuador, cut down the trees, start drilling some more and pisses off the indigenous people who own the land. China shuts them up and overthrows Ecuador and government that happened and puts in place the people they paid off for the oil. Trump is waging a very direct threat to China.
He doesn’t give a shit about overthrowing Venezuela’s government. It’s all about shutting down China’s major control of the oil economies and ports of the world. And finally, Trump had his grandchildren learn Chinese and recite it in front of Xi.
You remember that? Google it. Make the photo op. Next, global tariffs.
Next, get rid of the new NAFTA deal to stop China exploiting Mexico and Canada with flooded goods, which we’ve covered ad nauseum on this show. Tariffs on European nations force renegotiations of trade deals from away from China. China pulls exports from the US and floods the European Union with every product China makes.
Trump forces China to attack the industrial complex of Germany and Europe. Massive layoffs in the EU. Remember Volkswagen? Never laid anybody off ever.
This sways the Europeans against the Chinese influence. Next, Trump turns to Yemen. Yemen is 100% controlled by China to influence Israel in the Middle East.
Trump bombs Yemen. Trump bombs Iran because China is its biggest buyer of oil. Now Venezuela is in our own hemisphere.
And we take out the leader, have the CIA take out the Chinese sympathizers, and we very craftily blame it all on drug dealers, cocaine, and fentanyl. Convenient argument for Trump to take action. Trump gets the liberal pests to focus on the drug dealer boats to focus on regime overthrow.
Trump wants that front and center, allowing Trump to fuck with the Chinese as much as possible. It’s our hemisphere. That’s right.
Now you know Panama. The Chinese, we built the ports on each side of the Panama Canal, and they were being run by a Hong Kong consortium. Not anymore.
So if you’re America first, I went to, my dad was in Nam, I went to Iraq. I’m not for forever wars for no purpose. But if you’re America first, this is a purpose.
I don’t want my kids growing up under the yoke of the Chinese. And this is the point, is that here you have an administration, Governor Whitmer, has written nine-figure checks to companies affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party. The Nesbitt administration, I’m saying no company related to the Chinese Communist Party or the Chinese government can buy any farm or any land in the state of Michigan.
Period, paragraph. We have to make sure no Chinese company can buy land in Michigan. Have you introduced that legislation? The House passed it.
Is it yours? We can get it done. Was it yours? I’ll sign it when Governor. Absolutely.
But this is the point, is you have some folks that are actually, the current administration actually giving checks to these folks. We need to treat them as they are adversaries. We’re financing our adversaries.
And here you have folks, you went to U of M, Ann Arbor, right? And yet you had kids bringing in bioterrorist weapons, you know, to poison our food supply. You had kids in their 20s spying on our National Guard bases up in Northern Michigan that were arrested. I mean, these aren’t just one-off incidences.
Right. They pay. Ann Arbor is selling us out because they paid the premium, the whole freight, the $60,000 a year in tuition, in-state is 20 grand, plus housing and all that.
We’re being sold out. Like, why is it that the University of Michigan, only 50% of the student body is from Michigan? You know what it is at Berkeley? Berkeley, it’s 85% Californians. Texas, another grade school, it’s 95%.
What the fuck are they doing to us? Are you going to change that? That is the challenge. If you think it’s bad now, can you imagine what it’d be under Jocelyn Benson or Mike Duggan? It’s going to be a lot worse. The economy, education, cost of living, nobody’s going to shake up the status quo and take a blow towards the bureaucracy that’s up there in Lansing.
I’m going to do that as your next governor. This kid rocks, brother. Billy, I’m on the air here, bro.
What’s going on? No, anything, house burning down, everything cool? Oh, I love you, man. How’s your leg? Hey, did you go off with Trump this week? All right, man. That’s me when my wife calls.
He’s kind of my wife. That’s a really good dude. All right, so you’re running for governor.
When’s the primary? August. August. Do you vote in primaries? I do not.
You don’t? No. Well, there’ll be about a million Republican primary voters. See, back when the New York Times was cool, when they actually taught you things, how to conduct yourself as a reporter, you were not allowed to have campaign bumper stickers and stuff like that, which I thought could just maintain an air of disinterest.
So I never even voted in primaries. Boy, that’s not the case anymore for these mainstream media. No, they’re fucked up.
This year’s election, we can either continue the status quo and continue being a bottom ten state in education, economic growth, per capita income, job creation, or we can actually shake things up in Lansing. This is going to be the transition this year. And you either have a governor that’s willing to take on the status quo in Lansing, the lobbyists, the special interests, and actually take a blowtorch to state government, making sure state workers actually return to the office.
And this is something where I’m presenting, is saying that it’s going to be about families to lower the cost of living for them, on insurance, on energy, on the cost of government. It’s going to be about taking a blowtorch to the bureaucracy and the red tape in Lansing to make sure our small businesses and our farmers and job creators can actually invest and grow to increase wealth here in the state. And it’s about providing choice for our parents on schools.
It’s about making sure that every kid can read at grade level. And it’s about making sure that we end this BS of saying every kid has to go on to college. Right.
And nursing homes, don’t forget nursing homes. I think that every kid, no matter what their background or what they want to be, should be prepared for either the workforce or college when they’re done with high school. Well, that’s a newsflash.
Well, for every five people retiring from the trades right now, this is Mike Rowe, you know, the guy from Dirty Jobs. He was in Michigan a few months ago and he says, every five people retiring from the trades, there’s only three people replacing them. Yeah.
We’ve had two and a half decades, a generation of folks saying, don’t go into the trades, don’t go into these good blue collar jobs. And we’ve lost a half a generation of tradesmen here in Michigan. You know, I mean.
YouTube influences trade, isn’t it? Gen Z thinks so. All right. Listen, when everybody should be able to make it in Michigan, Charlie, even you.
Let me give you this, man. Yeah, boy. This.
This is a Made in Detroit. No bullshit news hour. Collectible t-shirt.
There’s only like 18 of them left. I need your signature. Yeah, you can have that.
Can you sign it? So there’s 18 of these left. Do me a favor. Go to MadeInDetroit.com. Get the last 18.
It reminded me, because like every dollar that gets raised on this, we quietly give it to a young person that we think has a really good shot at a future and just needs a little help. That’s what we’re doing with it. Right.
I wish you all the luck. Hey, God bless you. Thanks for being here.
So Eric Nesbitt, candidate for senator, Senate minority leader, Eric Nesbitt, who’s running for governor on the Republican ticket. I wish you luck. Just a farm boy fighting the liberals in Lansing.
Oh, golly. All right, we’ll see you next week. And remember, fight the power.
Hey, what’d you say we go downstairs and get a beer and a coney dog? What about a beer and a coney dog? Sounds good. See ya. Bye.
Bye. Bye.
