Dan Gilbert—one of the world’s richest men—and General Motors—one of the world’s largest companies —have teamed up to strong-arm Michigan taxpayers out of $350 million for a remodel of the Detroit Renaissance Center.
$250 million of the ask is from the state.
The other $100 million will come from Detroit, the poorest big city in America.
Incoming House Speaker Matt Hall says drop dead.
Plus- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is trying to kill us with terrorists.
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Dear Santa,
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Dan Gilbert,
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the richest man in Michigan,
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wants the poorest people in America to chip in $350
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million to spruce up the old Renaissance Center in
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The thing is,
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Santa, we’ve given him probably a billion dollars
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in taxpayer money already,
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but enough is never enough for Dan.
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Who’s already the biggest property owner in downtown
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Look at what the people have gotten for all that money,
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This is the Book Tower.
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Gilbert was given a quarter billion dollars to fix
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this one.
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Dan’s elves claim it’s 90%
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Maybe, but the rent must be really high because no
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one seems to be able to afford to turn their lights
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on, Santa,
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and the building’s not even finished.
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This majestic Art Deco marble is called the Stott Building
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They should rename it the Not Building,
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as in not occupied.
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Now this is what an occupied building looks like in
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Manhattan,
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Notice the lights.
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With lights you can find your way around.
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And here’s the former Detroit Free Press building.
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Luxury living with shops and offices.
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Stop the presses,
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There are no ceilings on the first three floors.
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But please,
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Santa, send Dan another third of a billion dollars
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to fix up and then not occupy the Renaissance Center.
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The little guy will be waiting with milk and cookies,
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and you can get the money by stealing from the people
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of Detroit who you visit on Christmas Eve.
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But don’t worry,
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No one will call the cops because they know the cops
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won’t come.
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Till New Year’s Eve.
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Ohh Live from downtown Detroit,
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it’s the No Bullshit News Hour with my main man,
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Charlie and Karen Dumas.
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Who’s just in breaking his double or bullshit?
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No more bullshit.
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A lot of good,
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hardworking people out there.
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I remind you to give Luke Nowacki a call.
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He’ll tailor a financial plan specifically for you.
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Let Luke Nowacki work so you don’t have to 248-663-4748.
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try Archangel Senior Management,
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golden years.
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please call Archangel at 989-614-0416.
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And as always,
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it’s the holiday season,
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americanconeyisland.com.
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Get the dogs,
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the fixings,
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the onions.
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The chili,
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the buns,
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the hat delivered to your door.
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Go to americanconeisland.com and that’s what it looks
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And come on down to the flagship store in downtown
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Detroit at Michigan and Lafayette and get yourself
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a first edition Detroit Monopoly game.
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All right,
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now we have with us after my little monologue,
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Karen, the.
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Speaker-elect of the Michigan House of Representatives,
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Matt Hall.
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They are in lame duck session now,
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which basically means the last couple weeks of the
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year where they sneak in a bunch of bullshit that
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ends up fucking us all over.
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You get stuff like hockey arenas,
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real bogus deals when everybody slips off the vacation
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and then in March or April we realize.
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Our pants are down on our ankles and something happened
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last night,
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That’s what happened.
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So let me tell you about a deal so rancid that you
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can smell the stink all the way to Kalamazoo.
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Dan Gilbert,
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one of the world’s richest men,
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and General Motors,
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one of the world’s largest corporations,
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have teamed up to strong-arm Michigan taxpayers out
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of $350 million for a remodel of the Detroit Renaissance
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Center, as you just saw.
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250 million of that ask is from the state.
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The other 100 million will come from Detroit,
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the poorest big city in America.
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GM, which over the years has shown itself to be Michigan’s
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top welfare mooch,
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threatens to tear down the architectural icon if it
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doesn’t get its loot.
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In the words of convicted crackpot and former Detroit
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City Councilwoman Monica Conyers.
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Do it, baby.
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Because almost nobody knows any specifics of the deal
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outside of Whitmer’s closeted circle.
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Where’s the paperwork?
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Who owns the building?
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Gilbert GM?
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Who will be the tenants?
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Why hasn’t the property been put up for sale to see
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what the market would bear?
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If you want an idea of just how putrid this deal seems
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to me, just take a look at the resumes of the waterboys
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carrying the slop pails first.
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Is GM’s point man Dave Masseron,
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who exactly one year ago was named its chief real
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estate officer.
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Now, who is Masseron?
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You might wonder.
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He’s the Ding Dong dirtbag lawyer who put the deadly
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Flint water deal together.
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I kid you not.
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He was the subject of a sprawling racketeering investigation
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over the Flint disaster until our famously incompetent
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Attorney General Dana Nessel botched the case.
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After Flint,
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Massaron was hired by Mayor Mike Duggan as Detroit’s
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chief operating officer.
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Massaron quickly found himself ensnared in a federal
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grand jury investigation looking into bid rigging,
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fraud, and the use of contaminated dirt in Detroit’s
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demolition program.
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That case withered when Biden’s Justice Department
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declined to prosecute after seven years.
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The boy genius then went on to have a quick cup of
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coffee as Whitmer’s budget director and then Chief
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Financial Officer at Wayne State University before
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landing at GM as the locker room attendant.
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Then there’s Gilbert’s guy,
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Jared Fleischer.
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His official title is Vice President of Government
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Affairs and Economic Development for Rocket Companies.
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In plain English,
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a lobbyist Fleischer.
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An out-of-town Harvard trained lawyer worked on Gilbert’s
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failed Q Line streetcar project in Detroit.
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That financial boondoggle was eventually foisted on
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the homeowners of Metro Detroit.
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Fleischer was a force behind the notorious auto insurance
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reform that led to the abandonment of 18,000 catastrophically
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injured and an explosion in auto insurance rates that
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are now the highest in America.
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Fleischer also lobbied hard for the legislation that
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landed Gilbert $600 million in taxpayer cash and prizes
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for a handful of developments.
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Anyone who looks in the windows of those Gilbert projects,
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as you just saw,
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might be reminded of a back lot facade from an old
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Hollywood Western.
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There’s the unfinished Hudson skyscraper that broke
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ground way back in 2017.
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Any developer not dining in the public trough would
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have gone bankrupt by now.
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General Motors announced it will move its corporate
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headquarters into the Hudson whenever that gets finished,
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even though GM already has a headquarters called the
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Renaissance Center.
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Then there’s the Book Tower,
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once the tallest building in Detroit.
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Hundreds of millions report into that.
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The book opened last summer after a complete renovation,
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according to the literature.
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Not really.
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As you saw from the street,
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anyone can see the 1st and 2nd floors are still construction
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zones littered with boxes,
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drywalls,
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exposed pipes and wiring,
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etcetera.
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Talk to anyone who works around there.
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The valet,
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the parking lot attendant,
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the gas station clerk,
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the cop, the lady checking her lottery tickets.
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Something stinks.
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Even the fine people of Kalamazoo can smell it.
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That’s why the Detroit Business Mafia is pushing the
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rensen deal and pressuring our elected representatives
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in Lansing to shut their eyes,
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plug their noses,
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hold out their palms,
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and take the campaign contributions.
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Now let’s welcome in Speaker of the Michigan House
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of Representatives Elect.
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Matt Hall,
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a Republican from Richland Township,
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which is,
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you know,
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a suburb of Kalamazoo.
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Speaker, how are you?
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Hey, good.
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I’m doing great.
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Thanks for having me.
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And I enjoyed your video.
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It was very creative.
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And your monologue,
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it was great.
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What are you,
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Siskel and Ebert?
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Come on, man.
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Thanks for that.
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Where do you stand on this,
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Again, this is a democratically controlled House.
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On its last breaths,
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the Republicans will take over in January.
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What the hell’s going up on in Lansing and where are
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you on this deal?
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Yeah, well,
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I’d say the traditional Lansing thing for the incoming
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speaker to do would be they tell you look the other
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way, you know,
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on these bad ideas that they try to ram through.
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Look the other way and let the Democrats take the heat
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And then you look around and say,
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oh, I wouldn’t have done that,
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but you’re complacent in the deal because you’re you’re
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being quiet as they do it.
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So, you know,
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I I don’t want to be that kind of leader.
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So, you know,
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I I want everyone in my Republican caucus.
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There’s 56 Democrats right now and 54 Republicans.
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And we have 8 days left before next year when the Republicans
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will take control and we can kill these deals.
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So rather than look the other way and let the Democrats
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do it, I want everyone,
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every Republican to know this is a bad deal and by
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speaking out against this deal.
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I’m hopeful the Democrats will get a backbone too.
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And so we’ll have 54 no votes from Republicans and
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then some Democrats will speak out against it,
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which has started to happen and and we’ll stop the
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And then next year when I’m the Speaker of the House,
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I’m not going to bring it up.
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Well, Lansing’s notorious for weasels.
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You know what I mean?
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That’s Lansing is an old Ojibwe word which means weasel
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hole, right?
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Can you hold the whole caucus together?
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Cause I know at least two Democrats are a no.
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So these deep pocketed guys come around.
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Can they can they pick off three of your caucus?
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Well, I’m hopeful that they can’t.
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I mean you you noted that some of these big corporations
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like GM and you know Rocket and others,
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I mean they,
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you know they throw their weight around in Lansing
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But we can just look at the record of of the the deals
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and we’re not seeing the deals of up to the promises.
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There was a story that came out today,
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I think in the Detroit News that listed out all of
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these deals.
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I think since we created something called the SOAR
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Fund, which was a fund designed to give checks to
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big corporations to locate facilities in Michigan.
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We created that in 2022.
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Since then it’s given out $2.1 billion and when you
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start matching that up against the promises of.
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Almost none of these jobs have been created.
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So I think we can say that was a failure.
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You mentioned a number of the projects that Gilbert
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has been involved in and you know,
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they’ve they’ve got this other idea.
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But I just point out,
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I think the Hudson Building was predicated on bringing
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new jobs to Detroit and from what I can tell,
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all it’s done is shifted jobs from the Rensen to the
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Hudson Building.
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And now they want us to spend our tax dollars to tear
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down the rent sends so they can shift some more jobs
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And that that’s not what we should be spending hundreds
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of millions of taxpayer dollars on.
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You know, I hear from a lot of people in our communities
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that they need money for their roads.
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So what I’m telling Whitmer and the Democrats,
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let’s fix the roads first.
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That’s something Whitmer ran on.
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And then if there’s money left over to give to Gilbert
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or GM, you know,
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we can talk about it,
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but they want to do a deal.
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Oh, no, no,
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If there’s money left over to give,
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well, you can fix the schools or,
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you know,
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these are the richest.
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Look, I I like what you said.
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GM just announced in that that Delta Township plant,
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you know that the pinheads at the newspaper,
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man, they got smoked on that one.
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It’s good.
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The Trump came into town and he didn’t even see the
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electric battery plant at the Delta Township.
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He he’s so backwards.
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And then a month later,
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GM ducks,
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dives, sells out,
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gives it back to the Koreans and wants to keep the
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120 million that we already gave him,
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And and my point before is if we truly fund the roads,
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there won’t be money left over for the corporations.
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But my point is if they want to have that debate,
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they can have that debate after they fix the roads.
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But why wouldn’t the roads been fixed to this point?
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I mean, we’ve been talking about that.
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That’s what Whitmer ran on.
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She had a Democratic controlled House.
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I mean, what was the problem?
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What’s the hold up?
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If you have the money to do it next time,
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why wasn’t it done before?
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So what Whitmer did was Whitmer came in,
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she proposed a $0.45 a gallon gas tax increase,
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and then no legislative Democrat had the guts to actually
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introduce the plan and it died.
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Then she said,
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well, screw you,
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I’m just going to go borrow the money.
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So she borrowed $3.5 billion.
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That is running out.
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And so that money under the laws,
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when you borrow money like that,
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it has to go to state roads,
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so state,
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you know,
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big roads.
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But our local and county roads are not receiving any
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of that funding.
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And so we’re saying as we we face a Cliff where we’re
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going to lose billions of dollars in Rd.
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funding a year,
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we should dedicate that to our local and county roads
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and we should put the money there instead of giving
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it to GM or giving it to Dan Gilbert.
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Or anyone else.
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Just real quick on the other question.
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Yeah, I I just,
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I want to say that this whole fund got started of
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giving billions of dollars to these corporations based
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on the losing Ford.
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Ford said we’re building our new battery plants in
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Kentucky and Tennessee.
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And then it was around Thanksgiving in 20,
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I’ll say probably 2021.
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When GM came and said,
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if you don’t give us the money to build these two
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battery plants in in Lansing and in Lake Oregon,
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we’re abandoning your state.
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And so the politicians,
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myself included,
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we raised heaven or we,
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you know,
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we did everything we could and we got them the money
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for them to come out in 2024 and say,
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hey, we’re keeping the money.
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And it’s over 200 million for the Lansing plant.
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We’re keeping that money and we’re selling out to LG.
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And if LG doesn’t perform in 2031,
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you know,
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then you can come after us and we’ll give you some
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of the money back is is unbelievable because we never
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would have given money for LG.
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This was about keeping GM in Michigan and.
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You know, all of these things in a row,
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I’ll just say the Renaissance Center,
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give us 250 million or else we’re going to tear the
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building down and leave it vacant.
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The next week they lay off 1000 workers,
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most in Warren.
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And then the next week they say,
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hey, we’re keeping your money and we’re selling the
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the plant is is unbelievable.
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Oh Jesus, Matt,
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they they also laid off like a,
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you know,
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600 people in September.
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And if you go back,
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when they were bankrupt,
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they didn’t tell us about the ignition switches.
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And when the government took them into receivership
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and then sold the stock,
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they still owe us $12 billion.
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Then there’s the mega tax credits.
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They still got $3 billion that we have to pay them
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for the pleasure of them keeping jobs here.
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This, this corporation,
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what put meat on my childhood bones,
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has turned rancid.
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And and you’re getting and these pinheads in the newspaper,
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The dying newspaper.
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Nobody’s reading it.
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And now they got to go to Twitter and they’re getting
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shelled by everybody because they’re they’re they’re
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boobs, they’re they’re poodles at the table.
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These are the big boys eating steak,
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hoping, hoping for a crumb to fall down.
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And they think they got a seat at the table.
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And you’re getting criticized for criticizing what
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you should,
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which is avaristic multinational corporations that
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aren’t hometown anymore.
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Right or wrong?
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And just to,
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you know,
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kind of lay that out,
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you know,
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I I find it interesting.
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I mean, GM now is lying in their press statements and
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I’ll share these documents with you and maybe you
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can look more into it.
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But GM is saying in their that means I got to funnel
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it into Speaker of the House’s office.
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Oh, this is gonna be good.
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Go ahead, Speaker.
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So we we look in their documents when they requested
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the money with the,
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you know,
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Michigan Strategic Fund which is the slush fund and
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the MEDC that approves these.
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And I mean we have it very clear.
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General Motors Company on 1/25/2022 received $480 million
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both for the Orion plant and then the Lansing plant.
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But what GM is saying in their public statements is
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GM never received this money.
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This this Altium Sells LLC received it and and it’s
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true, they did receive 120 million,
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but the other 480 million went to GM.
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So our point is if they’re not GM jobs,
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then GM should return the money.
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And instead of admitting that,
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they just try to confuse the taxpayers and say,
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Oh no, the money didn’t go to us,
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which is why we pulled the documents.
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So I’ll share this with you.
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Maybe you can get better answers out of GM than the
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rest of the legacy press has that they don’t look
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into this.
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Well, let me let me give you another ask,
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which is when we’re looking at these.
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Tax breaks and you know basically what Gilbert does
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the new the brown you voted for it of course and now
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you’re against it cause you see what it is in order
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to pay him back in the 600 million like forget the
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the property tax abatements that the city gives 60
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million by the way.
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He gets to capture the income tax of the workers in
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his building,
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the construction workers,
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the sales tax,
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property tax.
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But we can’t as the public under Freedom of Information.
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Get that those documents,
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there’s a lawsuit going through.
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Now we can’t get the documents because the state is
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claiming that that’s proprietary tax information.
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So it’s public money and we’re not allowed to see it.
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Are you able to see it?
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I’ll have to look into that for you and see what we
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can find.
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I just, I just point out.
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So the original one in 2017,
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I wasn’t here.
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I came in in 2019 and and you’re correct that I voted
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for the SOAR fund,
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which gave some,
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you know which was really created to give the money
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But what’s interesting about the 2017 legislation you
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talked about,
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the transformational brownfield,
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they had people from all over the state pitching the
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creation of that to do development all over the state.
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What happened was when the politicians before me approved
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All the money went to Gilbert.
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And So what happened was a couple,
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you know,
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last year all these developers came back and said,
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hey, you know,
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we thought we were going to do things in Grand Rapids
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and Kalamazoo and Lansing and all over the state.
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All the money went to Detroit and now the Whitmer administration
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is asking me to come to you and refill the pot.
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So I’ll just say we refilled the pot,
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but we put a provision in there that made sure that
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since Gilbert got all the money the first time that.
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It would be spread out throughout the state because
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all these other places weren’t getting the benefit.
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And so the the the change in this allowed other communities,
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small communities,
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medium-sized communities to try to get this money.
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They’ve spent all that too.
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And now what you see from Gilbert and GM is.
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Hey, why don’t you renew this fund for what they call
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transformational brownfields and give it to us for
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the Renaissance Center?
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I’ll just say I do not support that.
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You know, I’m open to looking at how these developments
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But when you’re talking about refilling this pot twice
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in less than a year,
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you know,
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it’s too aggressive.
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So we come up with these ideas.
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We fund them,
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but let’s see how they’re working before we immediately
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rush back to fund them again.
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And so I think we need to do that.
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00:22:38,400 –> 00:22:40,560
But Dave, you see a pattern here.
518
00:22:40,560 –> 00:22:42,560
I mean, so you already know how it’s going to work.
519
00:22:42,640 –> 00:22:43,400
I mean, I don’t,
520
00:22:43,920 –> 00:22:46,200
I just at a certain point you say,
521
00:22:46,200 –> 00:22:48,320
I mean, what is the doing the same thing over and
522
00:22:48,320 –> 00:22:50,480
expecting different results is insanity.
523
00:22:50,480 –> 00:22:51,800
So they’ve shown you who they are.
524
00:22:51,800 –> 00:22:53,200
They’ve proven what they’re not going to do.
525
00:22:53,200 –> 00:22:54,560
But let’s another point.
526
00:22:55,040 –> 00:22:58,720
Didn’t Whitmer also run on transparency in terms of,
527
00:22:58,720 –> 00:22:58,960
you know,
528
00:22:58,960 –> 00:23:00,560
so you’re saying you got a four of these documents
529
00:23:00,560 –> 00:23:01,440
and these aren’t available.
530
00:23:01,680 –> 00:23:03,920
That was also another pillar of her campaign and that
531
00:23:03,920 –> 00:23:05,320
hasn’t been fulfilled.
532
00:23:05,720 –> 00:23:06,400
And listen,
533
00:23:06,400 –> 00:23:06,800
you know,
534
00:23:07,040 –> 00:23:07,840
no, no offense,
535
00:23:08,320 –> 00:23:08,760
And you know,
536
00:23:08,920 –> 00:23:10,640
I love the people over there in the West side.
537
00:23:10,640 –> 00:23:13,640
I’ve never been to Richland Township.
538
00:23:13,760 –> 00:23:16,200
You know, sounds a little Mayberry-esque.
539
00:23:16,200 –> 00:23:17,920
I mean, it’s how many stoplights you got.
540
00:23:20,960 –> 00:23:21,560
But you know,
541
00:23:21,560 –> 00:23:23,680
then the Democrats think what a great place for the
542
00:23:23,680 –> 00:23:25,440
Republican leader to come from,
543
00:23:25,640 –> 00:23:26,960
Richland, you know,
544
00:23:26,960 –> 00:23:28,000
that’s how they view it.
545
00:23:28,280 –> 00:23:30,240
But we don’t get nearly the,
546
00:23:30,320 –> 00:23:30,880
you know,
547
00:23:30,880 –> 00:23:34,320
the the state taxpayer money that that Detroit does.
548
00:23:34,640 –> 00:23:35,280
Let me, let me,
549
00:23:35,320 –> 00:23:37,280
let me give you a little something about Detroit here.
550
00:23:37,280 –> 00:23:42,240
Now it’s just breaking that Mayor Mike Duggan will
551
00:23:42,240 –> 00:23:43,520
not run as a Democrat.
552
00:23:43,520 –> 00:23:44,920
He will not run as a Republican.
553
00:23:44,920 –> 00:23:46,320
He will run as an independent.
554
00:23:46,520 –> 00:23:49,440
Because he can’t get through the Democratic primary.
555
00:23:49,440 –> 00:23:50,160
It’s obvious,
556
00:23:51,040 –> 00:23:53,600
But he’ll sell you the miracle of Detroit,
557
00:23:53,800 –> 00:23:55,040
And if you need anything,
558
00:23:55,440 –> 00:23:56,080
you know,
559
00:23:56,080 –> 00:23:57,120
you need to be shown around,
560
00:23:57,120 –> 00:23:57,840
you want a tour,
561
00:23:57,840 –> 00:23:59,720
you meet me here at the American Coney Island.
562
00:23:59,840 –> 00:24:00,800
I’d be happy to.
563
00:24:01,040 –> 00:24:04,480
Let me tell you what happened since the historic bankruptcy
564
00:24:04,640 –> 00:24:08,000
with all these buildings and this economic development,
565
00:24:08,160 –> 00:24:13,440
this miracle that’s Detroit since bankruptcy 2013.
566
00:24:14,160 –> 00:24:18,360
To 2023, I am adjusting for inflation because now everybody
567
00:24:18,360 –> 00:24:19,360
knows what inflation is,
568
00:24:21,040 –> 00:24:23,600
That the revenue,
569
00:24:23,600 –> 00:24:24,520
the tax collection,
570
00:24:24,520 –> 00:24:31,040
the revenue collection in Detroit has shrunk by 8%
571
00:24:31,040 –> 00:24:32,880
and the main culprit.
572
00:24:34,480 –> 00:24:35,600
Is real estate tax.
573
00:24:35,760 –> 00:24:38,320
It’s collapsed by 20%.
574
00:24:38,320 –> 00:24:41,840
So what you really have with this money of all of ours
575
00:24:41,840 –> 00:24:44,400
that you’re giving away is a little Cayman Islands
576
00:24:44,400 –> 00:24:44,960
down here.
577
00:24:45,440 –> 00:24:46,800
It’s not occupied.
578
00:24:46,960 –> 00:24:48,160
That’s what they tell you.
579
00:24:48,320 –> 00:24:49,520
Just walk around,
580
00:24:49,680 –> 00:24:51,920
look at, look at the development they did.
581
00:24:52,080 –> 00:24:52,880
It’s not here,
582
00:24:56,240 –> 00:24:56,880
Interesting.
583
00:24:57,972 –> 00:25:01,452
I know that the legislature has tried to do its part.
584
00:25:01,612 –> 00:25:04,132
I mean, you can list and you’ve listed many of them.
585
00:25:04,612 –> 00:25:05,572
I mean, you look at that,
586
00:25:06,292 –> 00:25:06,492
you know,
587
00:25:06,492 –> 00:25:08,532
that Stephen Ross building down there,
588
00:25:09,652 –> 00:25:09,852
you know,
589
00:25:09,852 –> 00:25:11,972
a lot of work on that.
590
00:25:12,612 –> 00:25:13,012
What is it,
591
00:25:13,012 –> 00:25:14,172
the Joe Lewis Parkway?
592
00:25:14,172 –> 00:25:17,212
I mean, so I think the the state of Michigan has been
593
00:25:17,212 –> 00:25:18,932
very generous to Detroit,
594
00:25:19,492 –> 00:25:20,372
but you know,
595
00:25:20,372 –> 00:25:21,372
we’re getting to where the Ross building,
596
00:25:21,372 –> 00:25:23,092
Sir, has not broken ground,
597
00:25:23,652 –> 00:25:24,212
hasn’t broken.
598
00:25:24,212 –> 00:25:25,092
It’s been delayed.
599
00:25:25,892 –> 00:25:26,292
Am I right?
600
00:25:26,372 –> 00:25:27,012
You’re absolutely right.
601
00:25:27,012 –> 00:25:29,252
But I I mean when you when you invest in these projects
602
00:25:29,252 –> 00:25:30,332
or you support these projects,
603
00:25:30,332 –> 00:25:33,412
does anybody come down to check on them or like have
604
00:25:33,412 –> 00:25:33,892
you been down?
605
00:25:33,892 –> 00:25:35,572
I need to do a drive by.
606
00:25:35,572 –> 00:25:37,772
No, no, I mean in regular English they don’t.
607
00:25:37,932 –> 00:25:38,732
Oh, you’re asking,
608
00:25:38,732 –> 00:25:40,172
you’re asking the speaker.
609
00:25:40,492 –> 00:25:41,132
And not just you,
610
00:25:41,132 –> 00:25:41,932
but your colleagues.
611
00:25:41,932 –> 00:25:42,732
I mean, does anybody,
612
00:25:42,732 –> 00:25:43,732
is there any follow through,
613
00:25:43,732 –> 00:25:45,412
follow up closing the loop?
614
00:25:46,452 –> 00:25:48,772
Well, and I think those are the questions that we need
615
00:25:48,772 –> 00:25:51,812
to start asking as we’re moving to Republican leadership.
616
00:25:51,812 –> 00:25:52,932
So, so my,
617
00:25:52,932 –> 00:25:55,412
my point is I think the state and you’re making this
618
00:25:55,412 –> 00:25:56,052
case too,
619
00:25:56,132 –> 00:25:57,932
has been very generous to Detroit.
620
00:25:58,852 –> 00:26:01,972
So now we need to start looking at what are the results
621
00:26:01,972 –> 00:26:03,172
of those investments.
622
00:26:03,652 –> 00:26:04,532
Because you know,
623
00:26:04,532 –> 00:26:08,052
this isn’t like it was two years ago where we had
624
00:26:08,132 –> 00:26:11,572
a $9 billion surplus and the Democrats spent all of
625
00:26:11,572 –> 00:26:14,532
it, many of which on the things we’re talking about.
626
00:26:15,092 –> 00:26:16,932
Now we don’t have a surplus anymore.
627
00:26:16,932 –> 00:26:19,092
We don’t have money to just hand out.
628
00:26:19,092 –> 00:26:22,572
And So what we’re calling for is we have to measure
629
00:26:22,572 –> 00:26:24,692
return on investment on all these projects.
630
00:26:24,732 –> 00:26:28,292
And that’s why we’re putting the brakes on these ideas.
631
00:26:28,292 –> 00:26:30,572
It’s gotten to the point where somebody like Gilbert
632
00:26:30,572 –> 00:26:32,452
or GM, they think it’s automatic.
633
00:26:32,452 –> 00:26:33,972
I asked for 250 million,
634
00:26:33,972 –> 00:26:34,932
it’s a done deal.
635
00:26:35,332 –> 00:26:37,092
Well, if you look at the last 10 years,
636
00:26:37,092 –> 00:26:38,932
that’s been the track record.
637
00:26:39,252 –> 00:26:41,652
So everyone’s shocked we’re putting the brakes on it
638
00:26:41,652 –> 00:26:42,372
now, but.
639
00:26:42,852 –> 00:26:46,132
Well, stick with it cause I I I must speak for the
640
00:26:46,132 –> 00:26:47,012
people of Detroit.
641
00:26:47,012 –> 00:26:50,772
I rarely do because they more than can speak for themselves.
642
00:26:50,852 –> 00:26:54,052
But you have not been generous to Detroit.
643
00:26:54,052 –> 00:26:55,652
You’ve been generous.
644
00:26:56,292 –> 00:26:57,412
To the oligarchs,
645
00:26:57,732 –> 00:26:59,692
Because what the people would like,
646
00:26:59,692 –> 00:27:01,172
and I think you’ve spoken on it,
647
00:27:01,172 –> 00:27:03,252
is I’ve spoken to you before,
648
00:27:03,492 –> 00:27:06,532
is you want to invest in the schools and you want
649
00:27:06,532 –> 00:27:09,412
the teachers pensions to be made whole and you want
650
00:27:09,412 –> 00:27:13,252
to invest in the roads and you want to get involved
651
00:27:13,412 –> 00:27:14,772
in oversight.
652
00:27:15,012 –> 00:27:16,532
So if I might,
653
00:27:17,212 –> 00:27:19,652
this is a little news from this week.
654
00:27:20,532 –> 00:27:21,412
Andrew Cuomo,
655
00:27:21,412 –> 00:27:22,772
the former governor of New York,
656
00:27:22,772 –> 00:27:27,012
was directly involved and committed medical malpractice
657
00:27:27,332 –> 00:27:30,812
with his notorious order directing nursing homes to
658
00:27:30,812 –> 00:27:34,572
admit COVID-19 patients and then camouflaging the
659
00:27:34,572 –> 00:27:36,052
death toll of residents.
660
00:27:36,412 –> 00:27:41,652
A New York House panel found New York’s House of Representatives
661
00:27:41,812 –> 00:27:43,652
now controlled by the Republicans.
662
00:27:44,052 –> 00:27:45,772
Michigan demands equal justice,
663
00:27:46,212 –> 00:27:48,852
Will we be digging in to what happened here?
664
00:27:50,692 –> 00:27:51,052
Well, yeah.
665
00:27:51,172 –> 00:27:51,812
And I, you know,
666
00:27:51,812 –> 00:27:55,212
I chaired the oversight committee during the pandemic
667
00:27:55,212 –> 00:27:58,532
and that was when we started to look into and find
668
00:27:58,532 –> 00:28:03,412
some of the things related to the nursing home issue
669
00:28:03,412 –> 00:28:04,852
when Whitmer was governor.
670
00:28:05,812 –> 00:28:09,492
And then when the Democrats took the House for two
671
00:28:09,492 –> 00:28:12,772
years, we saw no oversight hearings.
672
00:28:12,772 –> 00:28:14,852
I don’t think the oversight committee met more than
673
00:28:16,052 –> 00:28:16,892
For two years.
674
00:28:16,892 –> 00:28:20,372
And so we need to bring accountability back to government.
675
00:28:21,092 –> 00:28:22,772
It’s not just the nursing homes.
676
00:28:22,772 –> 00:28:26,452
I mean, how was all that COVID money spent and who’s
677
00:28:26,452 –> 00:28:27,292
looking into that?
678
00:28:27,292 –> 00:28:29,892
I mean, there are billions of dollars that flew into
679
00:28:29,892 –> 00:28:32,452
Michigan and were just handed out and we’re talking
680
00:28:32,452 –> 00:28:33,092
about that.
681
00:28:33,092 –> 00:28:34,372
So you know,
682
00:28:34,372 –> 00:28:35,732
we need to be looking at.
683
00:28:37,412 –> 00:28:38,772
You know, those issues,
684
00:28:38,772 –> 00:28:39,812
I mean, you look at,
685
00:28:40,132 –> 00:28:40,372
you know,
686
00:28:40,372 –> 00:28:43,732
how many state workers are in the office place right
687
00:28:44,212 –> 00:28:46,932
I mean, and who’s doing anything about it versus how
688
00:28:47,092 –> 00:28:48,212
can I come up Monday?
689
00:28:49,492 –> 00:28:50,532
Is it empty Monday?
690
00:28:51,972 –> 00:28:53,252
Well, that’s a great question.
691
00:28:53,252 –> 00:28:54,612
No one’s talking about that.
692
00:28:54,612 –> 00:28:56,212
So there are a lot of questions.
693
00:28:57,252 –> 00:29:00,252
Yeah, there are a lot of questions that we need to
694
00:29:00,252 –> 00:29:01,492
get answers to.
695
00:29:01,972 –> 00:29:04,772
Including nursing homes and all those things,
696
00:29:05,492 –> 00:29:05,892
you know,
697
00:29:05,932 –> 00:29:08,932
all the welfare fraud and the unemployment fraud that
698
00:29:08,932 –> 00:29:12,612
just kind of went away during the after the pandemic
699
00:29:12,852 –> 00:29:15,212
You know, there were people working in the unemployment
700
00:29:15,212 –> 00:29:17,172
office committing unemployment fraud,
701
00:29:17,212 –> 00:29:18,612
but that’s lack of oversight.
702
00:29:18,772 –> 00:29:19,452
Oh yeah, that’s,
703
00:29:19,492 –> 00:29:20,692
I mean that’s lack of oversight.
704
00:29:20,692 –> 00:29:22,612
So just out of curiosity,
705
00:29:22,812 –> 00:29:24,532
what’s on your To Do List?
706
00:29:24,852 –> 00:29:27,892
Like just give me the top three things that that that
707
00:29:27,892 –> 00:29:29,252
that you want to tackle.
708
00:29:30,212 –> 00:29:31,092
Well, number one,
709
00:29:31,332 –> 00:29:33,092
we’re we’re going to fix the roads.
710
00:29:33,092 –> 00:29:37,092
So that’s our number one focus is making Gretchen Whitmer
711
00:29:37,092 –> 00:29:40,052
honor her campaign promise and putting the money we
712
00:29:40,052 –> 00:29:43,452
do have available into roads instead of giving it
713
00:29:43,452 –> 00:29:44,932
to the big corporations.
714
00:29:46,132 –> 00:29:48,852
We can do that with our existing budget without raising
715
00:29:48,852 –> 00:29:51,612
taxes, but we that means we have to stop giving it
716
00:29:51,612 –> 00:29:54,972
to the corporations and all these wild earmarks that
717
00:29:54,972 –> 00:29:56,132
have no accountability.
718
00:29:56,332 –> 00:29:57,172
Oh, that’s why the 2nd.
719
00:29:58,132 –> 00:30:00,692
The second is getting value for your dollars.
720
00:30:01,492 –> 00:30:04,772
We’re gonna have to go back and look at a lot of these
721
00:30:04,772 –> 00:30:07,572
new programs that Whitmer created and evaluate what’s
722
00:30:07,572 –> 00:30:09,652
the return on investment for taxpayers.
723
00:30:10,132 –> 00:30:12,292
And we’re gonna have to right size that again.
724
00:30:12,292 –> 00:30:13,012
Under Whitmer,
725
00:30:13,492 –> 00:30:15,812
the general fund has increased 40%.
726
00:30:15,812 –> 00:30:18,732
Total government spending has increased 43%.
727
00:30:18,732 –> 00:30:19,332
That’s a lot.
728
00:30:20,572 –> 00:30:22,612
And revenue has not kept track.
729
00:30:22,612 –> 00:30:25,172
So we’re headed for a fiscal Cliff is what you’re saying.
730
00:30:25,252 –> 00:30:26,292
OK, what’s the third?
731
00:30:27,412 –> 00:30:30,132
And that’s the third is I think we need to bring oversight
732
00:30:30,132 –> 00:30:32,332
and accountability back to government again.
733
00:30:32,332 –> 00:30:33,572
That’s nursing homes,
734
00:30:33,572 –> 00:30:34,692
unemployment.
735
00:30:35,172 –> 00:30:36,732
OK, now my question,
736
00:30:36,932 –> 00:30:37,972
last question.
737
00:30:38,452 –> 00:30:41,412
It’s lame duck and a lot of lame legislations coming
738
00:30:41,412 –> 00:30:41,892
through there,
739
00:30:42,212 –> 00:30:45,892
including tampons in the boys toilet.
740
00:30:45,892 –> 00:30:46,652
So I ask you,
741
00:30:46,652 –> 00:30:51,172
Sir, I I have the I’ve never used the tampon.
742
00:30:52,372 –> 00:30:53,732
How do I, how do I do it?
743
00:30:55,972 –> 00:30:57,172
Well, I think you’re right.
744
00:30:57,172 –> 00:30:59,972
There’s a lot of wild priorities that Democrats are
745
00:30:59,972 –> 00:31:00,532
trying to ram through.
746
00:31:00,532 –> 00:31:00,972
Don’t do it,
747
00:31:02,332 –> 00:31:02,892
OK, sorry.
748
00:31:03,092 –> 00:31:06,732
Just the concept that there’s a period of time after
749
00:31:06,812 –> 00:31:07,332
the election.
750
00:31:07,372 –> 00:31:09,452
Yeah, it’s funny,
751
00:31:09,452 –> 00:31:09,892
isn’t it?
752
00:31:10,052 –> 00:31:11,652
Man, you’re hilarious.
753
00:31:12,452 –> 00:31:13,332
You got me there,
754
00:31:14,132 –> 00:31:16,652
So there’s this period of time after the election where
755
00:31:16,652 –> 00:31:19,412
the politicians come through and ram through very
756
00:31:19,412 –> 00:31:21,252
unpopular ideas.
757
00:31:22,052 –> 00:31:23,572
That shouldn’t exist anymore.
758
00:31:23,572 –> 00:31:25,932
So we’re we’re going to have to try to get rid of that
759
00:31:25,932 –> 00:31:26,572
moving forward.
760
00:31:26,572 –> 00:31:28,052
But that’s what we’re bracing for.
761
00:31:28,372 –> 00:31:32,612
Everything from that to changing sex Ed requirements,
762
00:31:33,732 –> 00:31:33,972
you know,
763
00:31:33,972 –> 00:31:37,252
to teach kids about things that they have no business
764
00:31:37,492 –> 00:31:39,732
learning about at at young ages,
765
00:31:40,212 –> 00:31:41,332
to giving a legal,
766
00:31:41,652 –> 00:31:41,892
you know,
767
00:31:41,892 –> 00:31:42,452
in Michigan,
768
00:31:42,452 –> 00:31:45,892
we consider the things the current state of Michigan
769
00:31:45,892 –> 00:31:46,532
in education,
770
00:31:46,692 –> 00:31:49,572
the things that we think they should not learn are
771
00:31:49,732 –> 00:31:50,772
math and reading,
772
00:31:53,292 –> 00:31:56,212
Yeah, those those won’t be part of their agenda.
773
00:31:56,532 –> 00:31:57,292
And they, you know,
774
00:31:57,292 –> 00:31:59,612
there’s there’s a lot of talk about them ramming through
775
00:31:59,612 –> 00:32:02,132
a bill to give illegal aliens driver’s licenses.
776
00:32:02,132 –> 00:32:05,252
So we have to be on guard for these last eight session
777
00:32:05,252 –> 00:32:07,892
days to stop some of these unpopular ideas.
778
00:32:08,532 –> 00:32:09,372
OK, listen,
779
00:32:09,372 –> 00:32:10,132
we appreciate it.
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00:32:10,132 –> 00:32:14,452
We wish you all the luck in the world and I I’ll come
781
00:32:14,452 –> 00:32:15,092
see you Monday.
782
00:32:15,772 –> 00:32:17,532
Well, we’ll talk.
783
00:32:17,852 –> 00:32:18,172
Thank you,
784
00:32:18,772 –> 00:32:19,212
I love it.
785
00:32:19,252 –> 00:32:22,532
You’re excited about our our oversight and investigations
786
00:32:22,572 –> 00:32:25,212
and we’re grateful we have journalists like you that
787
00:32:25,212 –> 00:32:28,812
are independent and and and stand up to the corporate
788
00:32:29,412 –> 00:32:30,252
Well, if you want to hang,
789
00:32:30,252 –> 00:32:31,092
I know you’re really busy.
790
00:32:31,092 –> 00:32:33,892
If you want to see that’s I wanted to say this,
791
00:32:34,852 –> 00:32:37,572
they talk about the mainstream media is dead and it’s
792
00:32:37,572 –> 00:32:38,932
the the new media,
793
00:32:38,932 –> 00:32:41,172
right, like podcasts and etcetera.
794
00:32:41,412 –> 00:32:43,732
But that’s not really journalism,
795
00:32:45,092 –> 00:32:45,972
A talk show.
796
00:32:46,212 –> 00:32:47,172
So you know,
797
00:32:47,212 –> 00:32:50,372
what we’re trying to do here is let’s look at the
798
00:32:50,372 –> 00:32:51,372
Renaissance Center deal.
799
00:32:51,372 –> 00:32:54,132
Let’s look at the players behind it later in the program.
800
00:32:55,332 –> 00:32:57,572
You know, talking to the the new administration of
801
00:32:57,572 –> 00:32:59,012
what the the borders are as people.
802
00:32:59,332 –> 00:33:02,972
Why are is Trump pushing for a 25%
803
00:33:02,972 –> 00:33:04,692
tariff against Canada?
804
00:33:04,772 –> 00:33:07,252
We’ll let you know about what’s going on in the border.
805
00:33:07,252 –> 00:33:08,612
This is original stuff.
806
00:33:08,692 –> 00:33:11,172
So that’s what needs to be done.
807
00:33:11,892 –> 00:33:13,532
And what do we got coming up next here,
808
00:33:13,812 –> 00:33:16,372
Oh, and I know you got to go,
809
00:33:17,492 –> 00:33:20,052
but you might want to watch this,
810
00:33:20,132 –> 00:33:22,932
just this last little piece here because we’re going
811
00:33:22,932 –> 00:33:25,092
to go international and national now.
812
00:33:25,252 –> 00:33:26,692
So, hey, Jason,
813
00:33:27,172 –> 00:33:29,932
want to get in here and help me with this next segment
814
00:33:29,932 –> 00:33:31,652
and let the speaker see this?
815
00:33:31,732 –> 00:33:32,772
You can hang out if you want,
816
00:33:32,772 –> 00:33:33,812
Sir, but I know you’re busy.
817
00:33:34,852 –> 00:33:36,452
So, Mark, OK,
818
00:33:36,452 –> 00:33:38,852
we like to if you’re listening and not watching.
819
00:33:39,892 –> 00:33:40,692
We’re launching.
820
00:33:41,092 –> 00:33:44,932
We’re allowing the Ukrainians to launch American guided
821
00:33:44,932 –> 00:33:47,572
long-range missiles into Russia.
822
00:33:48,172 –> 00:33:49,012
I don’t get it.
823
00:33:49,252 –> 00:33:50,612
The world’s on edge.
824
00:33:51,092 –> 00:33:56,852
And this is a little homage to Uncle Joe before he
825
00:33:56,852 –> 00:33:57,892
slinks out of town.
826
00:34:10,412 –> 00:34:14,372
One, two, three,
827
00:34:15,652 –> 00:34:17,972
four, five,
828
00:34:18,932 –> 00:34:23,652
seven, six,
829
00:34:23,652 –> 00:34:25,252
six, eight,
830
00:34:29,172 –> 00:34:30,452
Ten, nine,
831
00:34:31,092 –> 00:34:32,292
eight, seven,
832
00:34:32,932 –> 00:34:35,132
six, five,
833
00:34:35,132 –> 00:34:36,372
four, three,
834
00:34:36,852 –> 00:34:38,212
two, one.
835
00:34:42,852 –> 00:34:44,532
These are the stakes,
836
00:34:45,692 –> 00:34:49,012
to make a world in which all of God’s children can
837
00:34:49,012 –> 00:34:51,652
live, or to go into the dark.
838
00:34:56,052 –> 00:34:58,532
And we’re busy in Angola eating ice cream.
839
00:34:59,452 –> 00:35:01,012
What in the world?
840
00:35:01,332 –> 00:35:02,212
Jason Rowe,
841
00:35:03,012 –> 00:35:03,412
you know,
842
00:35:03,652 –> 00:35:04,812
big campaign dude,
843
00:35:05,092 –> 00:35:05,652
political.
844
00:35:07,132 –> 00:35:09,252
I mean, you talk to everybody in Washington.
845
00:35:09,252 –> 00:35:10,532
What is the thought behind that?
846
00:35:10,932 –> 00:35:11,812
Well, first of all,
847
00:35:12,532 –> 00:35:15,732
given what happened with the hurricanes in North Carolina,
848
00:35:15,972 –> 00:35:19,692
he goes to Angola to announce $1 billion to help people
849
00:35:19,692 –> 00:35:21,732
in Angola that are recovering from,
850
00:35:23,012 –> 00:35:23,292
you know.
851
00:35:24,212 –> 00:35:26,132
Typhoons or whatever they have going on down there.
852
00:35:27,092 –> 00:35:32,532
The tone deafness of this administration and the manipulation
853
00:35:32,812 –> 00:35:33,692
of Congress,
854
00:35:33,692 –> 00:35:35,452
like how are these things happening?
855
00:35:35,732 –> 00:35:37,732
Like we are underwater,
856
00:35:37,732 –> 00:35:41,732
we are running $1.6 trillion deficits,
857
00:35:42,172 –> 00:35:43,652
$36 trillion debts,
858
00:35:43,732 –> 00:35:46,132
and we are sending money to all these other countries
859
00:35:46,132 –> 00:35:47,732
when we aren’t even addressing the problems that we
860
00:35:47,732 –> 00:35:48,372
have here at home.
861
00:35:49,092 –> 00:35:49,492
That’s true.
862
00:35:49,492 –> 00:35:50,852
And we’ve talked about that all the time,
863
00:35:50,852 –> 00:35:52,452
Jason, I mean at some point.
864
00:35:52,772 –> 00:35:53,732
Why doesn’t anybody?
865
00:35:53,732 –> 00:35:56,172
I mean, it doesn’t seem to ring any bells or create
866
00:35:56,172 –> 00:35:59,172
a level of awareness amongst our other elected officials.
867
00:35:59,412 –> 00:36:01,892
It’s always confined to a small conversation,
868
00:36:02,132 –> 00:36:03,932
but they continue to go ahead and do it anyway.
869
00:36:04,132 –> 00:36:05,292
I feel like there’s such a change,
870
00:36:05,292 –> 00:36:06,612
though, coming out of this election.
871
00:36:06,612 –> 00:36:09,012
And I think since Matt Hall became speaker-elect,
872
00:36:09,012 –> 00:36:12,012
you’ve seen it coming out as forcefully as he did
873
00:36:12,012 –> 00:36:16,332
about the bailout for GM and over the Renaissance
874
00:36:16,332 –> 00:36:16,932
Center thing.
875
00:36:17,412 –> 00:36:20,612
You know, usually that’s the thing that gets panned.
876
00:36:20,852 –> 00:36:22,532
But from people I hear from in Lansing,
877
00:36:22,532 –> 00:36:26,052
everybody is praising speaker-elect Hall for getting
878
00:36:26,052 –> 00:36:27,012
out front on that.
879
00:36:27,572 –> 00:36:28,532
He actually came out,
880
00:36:28,692 –> 00:36:28,892
you know,
881
00:36:29,252 –> 00:36:30,052
two weeks ago,
882
00:36:30,132 –> 00:36:31,332
maybe three weeks ago now,
883
00:36:31,332 –> 00:36:33,812
first thing out of the gate with a funded Rd.
884
00:36:33,812 –> 00:36:36,052
plan that even Speaker Tate said,
885
00:36:36,292 –> 00:36:36,572
you know,
886
00:36:36,572 –> 00:36:37,652
is worth taking a look at.
887
00:36:37,652 –> 00:36:38,612
Democrats are worth.
888
00:36:39,412 –> 00:36:42,052
In six years of of Whitmer being governor,
889
00:36:42,052 –> 00:36:44,612
other than proposing a 45 cent a gallon gas tax,
890
00:36:44,812 –> 00:36:47,372
when has she ever put forward a plan that Republicans
891
00:36:47,372 –> 00:36:48,932
even said was worth taking a look at?
892
00:36:48,972 –> 00:36:51,572
Well, any roads you see get built came from the federal
893
00:36:51,572 –> 00:36:52,052
government.
894
00:36:52,052 –> 00:36:54,212
So like you didn’t fix any damn roads.
895
00:36:54,212 –> 00:36:57,972
But going back to the international stage here,
896
00:36:58,132 –> 00:37:02,132
there is a a bell ringing and it’s the Ding Dong of
897
00:37:02,132 –> 00:37:07,332
doom when you’re you’re launching long range missiles
898
00:37:08,612 –> 00:37:13,252
Russia, the Russians unveil a doomsday device,
899
00:37:13,652 –> 00:37:15,212
which is the hypersonic rockets.
900
00:37:15,412 –> 00:37:17,852
This is what you’re doing on your way out.
901
00:37:17,852 –> 00:37:22,852
And now Zelinsky’s talking about he will have a freeze.
902
00:37:22,932 –> 00:37:25,972
He’ll seed some of occupied Ukraine.
903
00:37:26,612 –> 00:37:28,132
I don’t know how long that would be.
904
00:37:28,932 –> 00:37:32,772
In exchange for security assurances from NATO,
905
00:37:32,932 –> 00:37:38,612
I I think you see Putin see a crack and I don’t understand
906
00:37:38,612 –> 00:37:39,332
the missiles.
907
00:37:40,052 –> 00:37:42,052
Well, and it’s a pretty aggressive move for an outgoing
908
00:37:42,052 –> 00:37:44,452
administration just months from handing over power
909
00:37:44,852 –> 00:37:49,492
to expand this war in this way is and and this was
910
00:37:49,492 –> 00:37:51,252
right about the time that Trump went to the White
911
00:37:51,252 –> 00:37:52,372
House to meet with Biden.
912
00:37:52,692 –> 00:37:55,652
How did they come out of this mating and allow these
913
00:37:55,652 –> 00:37:56,452
things to happen?
914
00:37:56,452 –> 00:37:58,372
I mean, this is a pretty dramatic escalation.
915
00:37:58,572 –> 00:37:59,852
And then on the other side of the globe,
916
00:38:00,532 –> 00:38:00,732
you know,
917
00:38:00,772 –> 00:38:03,572
he got all these plaudits for the cease-fire in Syria.
918
00:38:04,292 –> 00:38:06,692
The Syrian conflict is a secondary one.
919
00:38:06,772 –> 00:38:09,092
It doesn’t come close to Lebanon or Lebanon.
920
00:38:09,092 –> 00:38:09,372
I’m sorry.
921
00:38:10,372 –> 00:38:13,412
In Gaza is where the actual problem is.
922
00:38:13,412 –> 00:38:16,132
That’s where the October 7th attacks originated.
923
00:38:16,372 –> 00:38:17,732
That’s where the hostages are.
924
00:38:18,052 –> 00:38:22,012
And the media has given him all this praise for negotiating
925
00:38:22,012 –> 00:38:24,132
a cease-fire in Lebanon that isn’t even holding.
926
00:38:25,172 –> 00:38:25,492
Yeah, well,
927
00:38:25,732 –> 00:38:27,012
OK, I’ll move on from that.
928
00:38:27,012 –> 00:38:32,972
What do you make about Biden pardoning his son for
929
00:38:32,972 –> 00:38:34,052
a 10 year window?
930
00:38:34,052 –> 00:38:37,252
He didn’t pardon him for the gun and the taxes.
931
00:38:37,332 –> 00:38:38,292
He pardoned him.
932
00:38:38,772 –> 00:38:41,972
For a decade of stuff seeming and unseen,
933
00:38:42,132 –> 00:38:43,892
how crass was that?
934
00:38:44,812 –> 00:38:45,652
It’s brazen,
935
00:38:45,972 –> 00:38:48,612
but it opens the door to does Biden pardon his brother
936
00:38:48,612 –> 00:38:50,212
because he’s now exposed him?
937
00:38:51,252 –> 00:38:54,612
Hunter now can’t plead the 5th Amendment in testifying
938
00:38:54,612 –> 00:38:57,092
before Congress for self incrimination.
939
00:38:57,132 –> 00:38:59,652
And so now it actually opens the door for us to find
940
00:38:59,652 –> 00:39:02,292
out what actually happened with Parisma.
941
00:39:03,252 –> 00:39:04,532
We know what could happen.
942
00:39:05,252 –> 00:39:06,452
But now we actually,
943
00:39:06,452 –> 00:39:09,732
they can’t hide behind any legal maneuvers.
944
00:39:09,812 –> 00:39:10,972
And the media can’t.
945
00:39:11,652 –> 00:39:12,692
There’s nothing there.
946
00:39:12,692 –> 00:39:14,892
They can’t hide anymore because they they can’t defend
947
00:39:14,892 –> 00:39:15,412
him anymore.
948
00:39:15,412 –> 00:39:16,492
They cannot defend him.
949
00:39:16,492 –> 00:39:17,092
We all know.
950
00:39:17,092 –> 00:39:19,092
I mean, this is just proof to me that they peddled
951
00:39:19,092 –> 00:39:19,732
influence.
952
00:39:19,972 –> 00:39:23,892
Why else is it going back to 2014,
953
00:39:23,892 –> 00:39:27,572
just when Hunter gets the gig with Parisma and and
954
00:39:27,572 –> 00:39:29,612
Biden gets the Ukraine portfolio?
955
00:39:29,612 –> 00:39:31,852
But shouldn’t all this be an insult to the American
956
00:39:33,052 –> 00:39:34,212
It looked very basic,
957
00:39:34,292 –> 00:39:35,492
general insult.
958
00:39:35,812 –> 00:39:36,612
I mean, it should be.
959
00:39:36,692 –> 00:39:39,132
But I think now the American people are actually getting
960
00:39:39,132 –> 00:39:39,652
insulted.
961
00:39:39,812 –> 00:39:41,732
I think in the past because they were getting,
962
00:39:42,932 –> 00:39:43,172
you know,
963
00:39:43,172 –> 00:39:45,932
manipulated by the media’s coverage and you know,
964
00:39:45,972 –> 00:39:47,732
all the gaslighting that’s been going on.
965
00:39:47,732 –> 00:39:49,812
I think we got through that election and I think everyone
966
00:39:49,812 –> 00:39:51,652
rolled their eyes because in addition to the.
967
00:39:52,212 –> 00:39:53,892
Hundreds of things over the campaign.
968
00:39:54,052 –> 00:39:56,612
We were all told that Kamala was going to just run
969
00:39:56,612 –> 00:39:59,652
over Donald Trump in this election and she got run
970
00:39:59,652 –> 00:40:01,732
over and everyone turns around and she did get run
971
00:40:01,732 –> 00:40:04,212
over because she got like 10 votes,
972
00:40:04,212 –> 00:40:04,692
10 votes.
973
00:40:05,212 –> 00:40:07,692
And all the other votes cast for her were against Trump.
974
00:40:08,052 –> 00:40:09,372
Well, and the mainstream media,
975
00:40:09,372 –> 00:40:10,692
when they say something now,
976
00:40:10,692 –> 00:40:13,572
I think everyone is just rolling their eyes because
977
00:40:13,612 –> 00:40:14,212
whatever,
978
00:40:14,212 –> 00:40:16,292
we don’t believe a thing you guys say anymore.
979
00:40:17,252 –> 00:40:19,332
So I do think we’ve reached this point where I don’t
980
00:40:19,332 –> 00:40:21,092
think people are going to get away with this stuff.
981
00:40:21,092 –> 00:40:23,732
I think that’s why Speaker Hall is getting some momentum
982
00:40:23,732 –> 00:40:25,972
already in Lansing with people wouldn’t normally be
983
00:40:25,972 –> 00:40:26,972
singing his praises.
984
00:40:26,972 –> 00:40:28,612
And I think there’s a lot of optimism.
985
00:40:28,612 –> 00:40:30,252
I mean, look at the transition polling.
986
00:40:30,252 –> 00:40:34,292
In spite of how clunky Trump has been with nominating
987
00:40:34,292 –> 00:40:37,092
Matt Gates and some of the other folks that are problematic
988
00:40:37,092 –> 00:40:40,372
and might not last today as we’re doing this podcast,
989
00:40:40,772 –> 00:40:41,652
he had 71%
990
00:40:41,692 –> 00:40:43,652
approval rating on.
991
00:40:45,652 –> 00:40:46,652
He’s got 59%
992
00:40:46,652 –> 00:40:49,332
approval rating on the transition so far.
993
00:40:49,492 –> 00:40:51,292
Trump’s never had numbers like that on anything.
994
00:40:51,572 –> 00:40:52,772
We don’t go for polls here.
995
00:40:53,012 –> 00:40:54,612
They’ve proven themselves to be useless.
996
00:40:54,692 –> 00:40:57,492
But it shows that the public actually is responding
997
00:40:57,492 –> 00:40:59,612
to something that they didn’t used to respond to.
998
00:40:59,612 –> 00:41:02,372
I think people just want to see something.
999
00:41:02,492 –> 00:41:04,892
I think people want something more than just promises
1000
00:41:04,892 –> 00:41:06,532
and and more than just process.
1001
00:41:06,532 –> 00:41:07,732
And that’s all we’ve ever gotten.
1002
00:41:07,732 –> 00:41:08,372
Something for them.
1003
00:41:08,372 –> 00:41:09,812
We’ve gotten so much process,
1004
00:41:10,772 –> 00:41:11,012
That’s it.
1005
00:41:11,012 –> 00:41:11,812
That’s all we get.
1006
00:41:12,692 –> 00:41:13,212
I find it.
1007
00:41:14,332 –> 00:41:18,532
I’m very proud of what we do here because we don’t
1008
00:41:18,532 –> 00:41:22,452
move like this is what we find to be commonsensical,
1009
00:41:23,092 –> 00:41:24,812
Forget titles and part.
1010
00:41:24,812 –> 00:41:25,572
I don’t care.
1011
00:41:25,572 –> 00:41:26,132
You don’t care.
1012
00:41:26,532 –> 00:41:27,732
Look at the rest of them.
1013
00:41:28,052 –> 00:41:29,252
Look at Mike Duggan,
1014
00:41:30,132 –> 00:41:31,732
He used to be a Republican.
1015
00:41:31,732 –> 00:41:34,052
His daddy was a Republican and he’s a Democrat and
1016
00:41:34,052 –> 00:41:34,412
whatever.
1017
00:41:34,412 –> 00:41:36,452
Now he never said he was a Democrat.
1018
00:41:36,452 –> 00:41:37,332
Not this place.
1019
00:41:37,412 –> 00:41:37,972
Let’s say it.
1020
00:41:37,972 –> 00:41:39,092
No, he’s a Democrat.
1021
00:41:39,732 –> 00:41:40,452
No, he did.
1022
00:41:41,132 –> 00:41:42,532
Do not let him off the hook.
1023
00:41:43,492 –> 00:41:48,412
That’s why he announced he’s he’s no longer a Democrat.
1024
00:41:48,692 –> 00:41:52,012
Because I’ve seen that the people moved and then I’m
1025
00:41:52,012 –> 00:41:54,372
moving, but the people also didn’t move.
1026
00:41:55,132 –> 00:41:55,892
Yeah, I just,
1027
00:41:56,252 –> 00:41:58,812
I just translation suckers.
1028
00:41:58,812 –> 00:42:01,012
I mean, that’s what he’s telling everybody.
1029
00:42:01,372 –> 00:42:03,572
I mean, he’s he’s been showing who he is.
1030
00:42:03,812 –> 00:42:05,212
He’s been showing who he’s not.
1031
00:42:05,212 –> 00:42:06,732
And none of this should be a surprise.
1032
00:42:06,732 –> 00:42:08,852
I mean, he was president of the Young Republicans back
1033
00:42:08,852 –> 00:42:09,492
in Livonia.
1034
00:42:09,732 –> 00:42:11,812
I mean, this is a McNamara strategy.
1035
00:42:11,812 –> 00:42:12,932
I mean, none of this is new,
1036
00:42:12,932 –> 00:42:17,412
but people respond to things without historical context.
1037
00:42:17,732 –> 00:42:18,972
And that is a problem.
1038
00:42:18,972 –> 00:42:20,452
Here’s the historical context.
1039
00:42:20,852 –> 00:42:21,812
Livonia at the time,
1040
00:42:21,812 –> 00:42:22,412
the whitest.
1041
00:42:22,972 –> 00:42:23,772
City in America.
1042
00:42:23,772 –> 00:42:24,532
Detroit at the time,
1043
00:42:24,532 –> 00:42:25,972
the blackest city in America.
1044
00:42:26,612 –> 00:42:28,212
McNamara was a Republican.
1045
00:42:28,212 –> 00:42:30,012
He decides to become an independent because he wants
1046
00:42:30,012 –> 00:42:32,372
to run countywide because Livonia and Detroit are
1047
00:42:32,372 –> 00:42:33,252
in Wayne County.
1048
00:42:33,492 –> 00:42:37,092
So the CEO is Ed McNamara,
1049
00:42:38,252 –> 00:42:41,012
Deputy CEO is the young hatchet man,
1050
00:42:41,012 –> 00:42:41,812
Mike Duggan.
1051
00:42:42,052 –> 00:42:45,212
His chief of staff is Bernard Kilpatrick,
1052
00:42:45,492 –> 00:42:47,412
the father of Kwame Kilpatrick.
1053
00:42:47,652 –> 00:42:49,492
His corporation counsel,
1054
00:42:49,492 –> 00:42:50,132
his lawyer,
1055
00:42:50,212 –> 00:42:51,692
is Jennifer Granholm.
1056
00:42:54,172 –> 00:42:55,532
I think we call that machine politics.
1057
00:42:55,732 –> 00:42:57,812
No, I just it’s it’s cozy,
1058
00:42:57,812 –> 00:42:58,532
convenient,
1059
00:42:58,532 –> 00:43:01,972
divided up politics in the dark and then in public
1060
00:43:02,212 –> 00:43:03,492
divide each other,
1061
00:43:04,532 –> 00:43:05,572
White versus black,
1062
00:43:05,572 –> 00:43:06,932
suburb versus city.
1063
00:43:07,092 –> 00:43:10,212
Like it’s bullshit and it’s it’s over now.
1064
00:43:10,212 –> 00:43:11,932
We’ve already gone bankrupt.
1065
00:43:12,132 –> 00:43:13,292
And as I gave you the number,
1066
00:43:13,292 –> 00:43:15,332
this bozo wants to run for governor.
1067
00:43:15,412 –> 00:43:16,852
Well, he got all the contract,
1068
00:43:16,932 –> 00:43:18,212
he got all the money lined up,
1069
00:43:18,452 –> 00:43:20,052
but he doesn’t have any people lined up.
1070
00:43:20,412 –> 00:43:21,812
So you can try to split that middle.
1071
00:43:21,972 –> 00:43:22,652
But two things.
1072
00:43:22,692 –> 00:43:24,732
Don’t you think that this is a setup for Republican
1073
00:43:24,732 –> 00:43:26,532
win at for governor?
1074
00:43:26,852 –> 00:43:28,252
And two, it goes back,
1075
00:43:28,252 –> 00:43:29,812
Charlie, to what we’ve been saying already.
1076
00:43:29,812 –> 00:43:32,372
He is going to pick and pay for the next mayor in the
1077
00:43:32,372 –> 00:43:33,012
city of Detroit.
1078
00:43:33,012 –> 00:43:35,732
He’s not going to lose control over the city and the
1079
00:43:35,732 –> 00:43:38,452
business community is not going to risk disruption
1080
00:43:38,452 –> 00:43:41,092
of the flow of resources that they’ve enjoyed under
1081
00:43:41,252 –> 00:43:42,932
Well, he’s not going to publicly back him.
1082
00:43:42,932 –> 00:43:43,452
He’s not going to.
1083
00:43:43,452 –> 00:43:44,812
He don’t have to publicly back him.
1084
00:43:45,212 –> 00:43:45,532
But you know,
1085
00:43:45,572 –> 00:43:47,372
I mean, I want to get into this shit turd.
1086
00:43:47,372 –> 00:43:47,972
Yeah, they’re going to be,
1087
00:43:47,972 –> 00:43:49,412
they’re going to be a lot,
1088
00:43:52,052 –> 00:43:52,932
In the governor’s right,
1089
00:43:52,932 –> 00:43:54,692
the Republicans don’t have anybody.
1090
00:43:55,972 –> 00:43:56,372
They don’t.
1091
00:43:56,452 –> 00:43:57,252
They don’t got anybody,
1092
00:43:57,572 –> 00:43:58,132
Not right now.
1093
00:43:58,132 –> 00:43:59,172
No, I mean,
1094
00:43:59,652 –> 00:44:01,532
we’re only a month out from the last election.
1095
00:44:01,532 –> 00:44:02,052
But I think,
1096
00:44:02,132 –> 00:44:02,772
I think there’s a,
1097
00:44:03,172 –> 00:44:05,092
I think there’s a pretty good people.
1098
00:44:06,772 –> 00:44:08,852
You and the other political operative back there,
1099
00:44:08,852 –> 00:44:10,052
like, I gotta shut,
1100
00:44:10,132 –> 00:44:11,052
stop with your phones.
1101
00:44:11,292 –> 00:44:11,572
Oh my God.
1102
00:44:11,812 –> 00:44:12,132
Oh my God.
1103
00:44:12,292 –> 00:44:12,772
Oh my God.
1104
00:44:13,052 –> 00:44:13,332
Oh my God.
1105
00:44:13,732 –> 00:44:14,132
Well, listen,
1106
00:44:14,132 –> 00:44:16,012
you started this right when the dugout announcement
1107
00:44:16,012 –> 00:44:16,532
comes out.
1108
00:44:16,612 –> 00:44:17,412
I mean, we’ve got to know,
1109
00:44:17,412 –> 00:44:18,692
we’ve got to keep track of this.
1110
00:44:19,812 –> 00:44:22,132
Don’t drag the show down with a bunch of candidates.
1111
00:44:23,612 –> 00:44:25,572
It was a statement,
1112
00:44:27,812 –> 00:44:29,092
not a question.
1113
00:44:29,332 –> 00:44:30,372
Nobody cares.
1114
00:44:30,412 –> 00:44:35,372
What they do care about is Pinko Trudeau up there sitting
1115
00:44:35,372 –> 00:44:36,012
in Ottawa,
1116
00:44:37,652 –> 00:44:38,932
Fucking everything up,
1117
00:44:39,212 –> 00:44:41,012
His economies and tatters.
1118
00:44:41,132 –> 00:44:41,972
When are you guys,
1119
00:44:42,132 –> 00:44:43,292
my friends in Canada,
1120
00:44:43,292 –> 00:44:45,092
when are you going to take this dope out?
1121
00:44:45,252 –> 00:44:47,012
For God’s sakes,
1122
00:44:47,012 –> 00:44:48,372
Justin Trudeau.
1123
00:44:49,252 –> 00:44:51,812
Did you notice how this guy crawled the Mar-a-lago
1124
00:44:52,052 –> 00:44:53,892
after Trump said I’m going to put a 25%
1125
00:44:53,972 –> 00:44:54,972
tariff on you?
1126
00:44:55,332 –> 00:44:58,172
Do you want to know why Trump did that talking to the
1127
00:44:58,172 –> 00:44:59,572
administration of Washington?
1128
00:45:00,212 –> 00:45:04,212
Because the vast majority,
1129
00:45:04,292 –> 00:45:04,852
I I don’t,
1130
00:45:04,932 –> 00:45:05,252
I don’t know,
1131
00:45:06,452 –> 00:45:10,372
10 times as many illegals come over the southern border
1132
00:45:10,772 –> 00:45:11,652
than the northern border,
1133
00:45:11,652 –> 00:45:12,852
and it might be 100 times.
1134
00:45:12,852 –> 00:45:16,292
I have to check whether it’s 100 times more.
1135
00:45:16,892 –> 00:45:18,372
20,000 from Canada.
1136
00:45:18,452 –> 00:45:20,292
No, wait, 200,200.
1137
00:45:21,012 –> 00:45:22,372
Don’t drag the show with your.
1138
00:45:23,732 –> 00:45:24,292
No, it’s two.
1139
00:45:24,452 –> 00:45:30,852
It’s 2 million in on the southern border and 20,000
1140
00:45:30,852 –> 00:45:31,652
in the northern border.
1141
00:45:31,652 –> 00:45:32,372
So what is that?
1142
00:45:34,212 –> 00:45:35,252
OK, you get it.
1143
00:45:37,812 –> 00:45:39,412
But 10% is it’s 10%.
1144
00:45:39,732 –> 00:45:40,412
So it’s 10 times,
1145
00:45:40,932 –> 00:45:43,972
10 * 10 times more illegals come through the southern
1146
00:45:43,972 –> 00:45:45,092
border, but.
1147
00:45:48,052 –> 00:45:50,932
In terms of people on the terror watch list,
1148
00:45:51,092 –> 00:45:52,052
terrorists,
1149
00:45:53,732 –> 00:45:57,372
twice as many come through Canada to the United States.
1150
00:45:57,372 –> 00:45:59,972
So in the last two years there have been,
1151
00:46:00,052 –> 00:46:04,212
I’m rounding off 1500 people apprehended on the terror
1152
00:46:04,212 –> 00:46:04,732
watch list.
1153
00:46:04,732 –> 00:46:06,132
1000 came from Canada.
1154
00:46:06,372 –> 00:46:09,972
He’s made it so easy to get into Canada and everybody’s
1155
00:46:09,972 –> 00:46:12,692
coming here and he’s also made it where.
1156
00:46:13,852 –> 00:46:14,852
If you’re Mexican,
1157
00:46:14,932 –> 00:46:16,612
you don’t need a visa to come to Canada.
1158
00:46:16,612 –> 00:46:19,732
So what the dummy’s done is created a pipeline for
1159
00:46:19,732 –> 00:46:20,532
the cartels.
1160
00:46:20,692 –> 00:46:22,452
This is what they’re talking about.
1161
00:46:22,932 –> 00:46:26,852
And if you notice on the on on X,
1162
00:46:27,252 –> 00:46:29,212
there’s Justin Trudeau saying we’re going to have
1163
00:46:29,212 –> 00:46:30,372
to limit immigration now,
1164
00:46:31,412 –> 00:46:35,492
Because he wildly fucked up and Shinebaum as well.
1165
00:46:36,332 –> 00:46:39,492
And she started out unwilling to recognize the president
1166
00:46:39,492 –> 00:46:40,012
of Mexico.
1167
00:46:40,012 –> 00:46:42,852
And then all of a sudden she’s gonna make sure there’s
1168
00:46:42,852 –> 00:46:45,332
no more migrant caravans coming across Mexico into
1169
00:46:45,332 –> 00:46:45,972
the United States.
1170
00:46:46,012 –> 00:46:49,132
And yeah, let me my my good people of of America,
1171
00:46:49,132 –> 00:46:50,772
which is if we do tariffs,
1172
00:46:50,772 –> 00:46:51,492
prices will go up.
1173
00:46:51,612 –> 00:46:52,932
What you mean inflation again,
1174
00:46:52,932 –> 00:46:56,692
I’ll take it if if you can get it only took 19 guys
1175
00:46:56,932 –> 00:46:59,572
to take down the World Trade Center and I got 1000
1176
00:46:59,572 –> 00:47:01,332
guys coming in that we know about.
1177
00:47:02,252 –> 00:47:02,932
And remember,
1178
00:47:03,052 –> 00:47:04,452
I’m the first one to write about it.
1179
00:47:04,932 –> 00:47:07,252
They knew there was a guy in the terror watch list
1180
00:47:07,492 –> 00:47:08,372
down in Texas,
1181
00:47:08,692 –> 00:47:11,572
and they gave him a free ride here to Dearborn.
1182
00:47:11,972 –> 00:47:13,092
Ask you what happened to him.
1183
00:47:13,092 –> 00:47:14,572
He’s still here and they’re.
1184
00:47:15,092 –> 00:47:17,692
Thumb in their nose and it’s that easy to get into
1185
00:47:18,092 –> 00:47:20,612
And you can’t go to Canada if you’ve got a DUI.
1186
00:47:20,812 –> 00:47:23,572
And if you’re an American citizen with a DUI conviction,
1187
00:47:23,572 –> 00:47:24,812
you can’t go to Canada.
1188
00:47:24,812 –> 00:47:27,012
But if you make terrorists,
1189
00:47:27,012 –> 00:47:27,572
I have friends.
1190
00:47:28,212 –> 00:47:30,452
But if you make a wrong turn at the bridge,
1191
00:47:30,692 –> 00:47:32,652
you get stuck and you will be detained.
1192
00:47:32,652 –> 00:47:33,692
It’s like 2 1/2 hours.
1193
00:47:33,732 –> 00:47:34,452
I mean, it’s yeah,
1194
00:47:34,612 –> 00:47:34,892
it’s like,
1195
00:47:35,092 –> 00:47:35,332
you know,
1196
00:47:35,332 –> 00:47:36,372
you just and there’s really,
1197
00:47:36,372 –> 00:47:37,252
you can’t go back.
1198
00:47:37,252 –> 00:47:38,212
There’s not another.
1199
00:47:38,212 –> 00:47:39,172
I’ve had several people say,
1200
00:47:39,252 –> 00:47:39,452
you know,
1201
00:47:39,452 –> 00:47:41,572
we made a wrong turn and we got stuck there.
1202
00:47:41,812 –> 00:47:43,732
So you know how it used to be like,
1203
00:47:43,812 –> 00:47:43,972
you know,
1204
00:47:43,972 –> 00:47:44,932
we’re like 18.
1205
00:47:45,052 –> 00:47:46,452
He could go to Canada and get drunk,
1206
00:47:46,772 –> 00:47:48,052
And it was the 80s.
1207
00:47:48,612 –> 00:47:49,332
You remember,
1208
00:47:49,332 –> 00:47:49,892
like, you know,
1209
00:47:50,132 –> 00:47:53,132
the Windsor was the overthrow of the Shaw and the
1210
00:47:53,172 –> 00:47:54,132
hostages and everything.
1211
00:47:54,292 –> 00:47:56,532
And we’re going to Windsor to get that five point beer,
1212
00:47:57,332 –> 00:48:00,092
And we’re driving and dude in the back,
1213
00:48:00,132 –> 00:48:01,332
they go nationality,
1214
00:48:01,572 –> 00:48:02,132
United States,
1215
00:48:02,132 –> 00:48:02,812
United States.
1216
00:48:02,812 –> 00:48:04,292
He yells Iranian.
1217
00:48:07,372 –> 00:48:11,492
Five hours strip search for everybody and you’re going
1218
00:48:12,132 –> 00:48:15,492
How the fuck did we arrive at this?
1219
00:48:15,732 –> 00:48:16,852
You Justin,
1220
00:48:17,572 –> 00:48:18,532
time to go.
1221
00:48:18,932 –> 00:48:20,772
Yeah, they used to check your bags.
1222
00:48:20,772 –> 00:48:23,572
I remember I had on a coat once and they had to take
1223
00:48:23,692 –> 00:48:24,452
You had to take it off.
1224
00:48:24,452 –> 00:48:25,652
It was crazy.
1225
00:48:25,652 –> 00:48:27,892
Like they would not just let you through on a on a
1226
00:48:28,772 –> 00:48:30,852
So Canadians are not happy about this.
1227
00:48:30,852 –> 00:48:32,092
You know, like the.
1228
00:48:35,292 –> 00:48:38,092
The the tide of populism is across the Western world.
1229
00:48:38,372 –> 00:48:39,292
It it really.
1230
00:48:39,292 –> 00:48:43,412
And I think we all now know that’s not fascism.
1231
00:48:43,652 –> 00:48:46,572
That’s just fashionable people saying that so they
1232
00:48:46,572 –> 00:48:48,292
can keep their place at the dinner table.
1233
00:48:49,212 –> 00:48:49,852
Pretty much.
1234
00:48:50,692 –> 00:48:51,252
That’s not bad,
1235
00:48:51,452 –> 00:48:52,692
No, not bad.
1236
00:48:52,692 –> 00:48:53,412
You’ll have to write that down.
1237
00:48:53,572 –> 00:48:53,972
All right.
1238
00:48:54,052 –> 00:48:58,132
So that’s all we got next week.
