Glenn Grothman Lashes Out At Dissenting SCOTUS Judges For Opinion In LGBTQ+ Book Censorship Case

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00:00Well today, so we're going to make this speech short. I'm going to cover three short topics.

00:04The first topic, five years ago yesterday, there was a horrific incident that happened in Milwaukee,

00:12Wisconsin. Bernard Tranel, who was holding a Donald Trump sign, was assassinated.

00:22Somebody came out on a bicycle with a mask over his head. We don't even know if it was a black

00:27man or white man, but with a mask over his head. He saw a guy by the name of Bernard Tranel holding

00:33a sign for Trump, and that person came up and killed Bernard Tranel. Bernard Tranel was kind of

00:42an iconoclast. Bernard Tranel was a Rastafatharian. I'm not sure I pronounced that right. He was,

00:51for Black Lives Matter, he frequently endorsed Democrat politicians, but for whatever reason,

00:57Bernard Tranel was in the very liberal east side of Milwaukee, or the River West neighborhood

01:05of Milwaukee, very, very left-wing. Bernard Tranel swam upstream and decided to carry a Donald Trump

01:13sign. He was assassinated. This is the type of thing, as we see America decline, we ought to have

01:21been talking more about. It's the type of thing that happens in Mexico. It's the type of thing

01:25that happens in Honduras, where during elections you can expect somebody is assassinated. You wouldn't

01:33think it was happening in the United States. One of the things we have to take into account when we

01:39look at this situation is not only is it something you would expect to happen in a third world country,

01:45but I felt at the time the liberal established in Milwaukee didn't treat it different than any other

01:51murder. And when you begin to shoot people for carrying a yard sign that people don't like,

01:57we're in new territory. But, shot he was, I went down and saw his neighborhood,

02:06and we cannot allow this to go on. We cannot allow these people to do such a thing. I don't like

02:14talking or describing people as black or white, but in my opinion, at that time in 2020, the Democrat

02:23Party was afraid of some black people voting for Trump. And I wondered if that's one of the reasons

02:31why they decided to target Bernard Tranel. But target him they did. They shot him dead.

02:38And the establishment in Milwaukee at that time implied that perhaps the reason he was shot had

02:47nothing to do with politics. We don't know it was politics. I mean, just because he was carrying

02:51a Trump sign doesn't mean that he was shot for carrying a Trump sign. But of course he was shot

02:56for carrying a Trump sign. In this very liberal neighborhood, the guy came up, they have pictures

03:03of it. The guy came up on a bicycle. How often do you have somebody, you know, you hear about

03:08people being shot when somebody shoots out of a car. But here, he was shot by somebody

03:15on a bicycle. So it had to be somebody in the neighborhood. I will say this, there was a time

03:22where Republicans stepped up and put a given amount of people available if somebody could turn in the

03:36person who shot Bernard Tranel. I'll say right now, I intend to tomorrow and next Monday find some people

03:46to put together and put a $30,000 bonus to anybody who can do something that leads to the conviction

03:58of the person who shot Bernard Tranel. I'm going to contact the Milwaukee Police Department there.

04:04I'm told sometimes cold cases are a little bit, people begin to make more progress if $30,000 is thrown out

04:13there. I expect that hopefully will make some sort of difference. And like I said, this is

04:23a guy on a bicycle. It's not like somebody did a drive by out of a car and was gone right after that.

04:31Apparently somebody, apparently this guy lived within a few blocks of where Bernard Tranel was shot.

04:40Bernard Tranel, by the way, owned a print shop. So he had a commercial property there that people

04:46were aware of. Somebody has to know more. Somebody has to see where this bicyclist went. Presumably

04:57somebody told the bicyclist, we got to kill this guy. We can't have him elevating the number of people who

05:05are voting for Donald Trump in this radical liberal area to 15 or 20 percent. So in any event,

05:13let's not forget about it. The Republican Party should never forget about Bernard Tranel.

05:20The next thing I'm going to talk about here, it kind of bothers me when I think

05:25the conservative Republican movement, of which I consider myself one, aims so low below the target.

05:37A couple weeks ago we had a

05:42newspaper article dealing with the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court allowing children,

05:50or parents, to opt their children out of graphic LGBTQ books in Montgomery County, Alabama.

06:01All right, Montgomery County, Maryland. And this was supposed to be a great conservative victory

06:09that a second-grade child did not have to read books that were clearly designed to promote

06:23a lifestyle, a sexual lifestyle. And the Republicans considered this a great victory.

06:30It really bothers me that Republicans considered this a great victory. Was this a great victory?

06:36Because of the Supreme Court decision, we wind up having maybe, I don't know, maybe one out of 20 parents

06:50who are on the ball enough to say that we are not going to allow or not going to force parents to

06:58or parents are not going to create a situation in which their children have to read LGBTQ books.

07:10That's preposterous. It never should have happened in the first place. But instead,

07:15they're pretending like this is a great victory. Another thing about this so-called great victory,

07:20three of the ten judges on the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that this was no big deal. That, in fact,

07:32parents shouldn't be able to object to their children reading books of a sexual nature in first or second

07:40grade or up to fifth grade, apparently. I mean, that's almost beyond belief how far down we've come as a

07:46society. And the conservative news media, Fox News, that type of thing, they thought this was a victory.

07:55Can you believe that? We're handing out LGBTQ books in first and second graders. The Supreme Court,

08:04with three people dissenting, three judges, rules that we don't have to have children go here,

08:16and if 5% or 4% of the parents opt out, that's a great victory. Is that what America has come down to?

08:23I would hope the comatose clergy in this country wake up, demand that schools not do any of this stuff,

08:38and begin to put elementary schools back where they were when I was a child, talking about reading,

08:46writing, writing, not talking about LGBT, and not as saying it's a great victory if like one out of 20

08:53parents says you don't have to give this to your kids. So let's dial it up, America. Let's dial it up,

09:02conservative news media. This was a horrific sign that three Supreme Court judges

09:09would have the nerve to say that parents shouldn't even be able to object to this, much less the

09:20idea that it's even in the schools in the first place to be objected to or otherwise. So there's your

09:26second issue of the day. The conservatives should wake up, you comatose people. Wake up, you comatose

09:32clergy. We do not have to have LGBTQ books, and couldn't exactly tell here. I think it's fifth

09:41grade, fourth grade, third grade, and second grade. I know down to second grade. I mean, just unbelievable.

09:49Now, my third topic tonight, we passed the Great Big Beautiful Bill, and I voted for the Great Big

09:54Beautiful Bill. There were a lot of good things in the Great Big Beautiful Bill, but there were things

09:58that were highly questioned, and there's no question the number one defeat that I had in the

10:02Great Big Big Beautiful Bill was spending money on what they call low-income housing tax credits,

10:08in which a property developer, with some conditions, but was given tax credits equal to 70% of the cost of

10:20a building. In other words, he got to build the building, but the government would pay for 70% of the

10:27building. That's preposterous. Prior to us increasing the amount of credits, I felt I was in good shape.

10:40We had the Heritage Foundation editorialized against it, the Wall Street Journal editorialized against it,

10:49the Cato Institute editorialized against it. I thought all was just completely common sense,

10:55not to mention the average congressman should say it's not up to the government to pay for a private

11:01citizen's 70% of a private citizen's building. But that's what we have, and the Republicans, when the

11:09bill left the House, at that point about $12 billion a year was spent on this. The Republicans, and we were told

11:19and given pep talks about how we're going to cut spending, oh man, we're going to cut spending.

11:24Wow, this is historic. Actually, increased spending on low-income housing tax credits in the House.

11:33That's preposterous. Then we sent it over to the Senate, and I was hoping, because I had a couple

11:39of buddies over there around my side, that at least we'd go back to where we started in the Senate. But no!

11:45In the Senate, the free spending Republicans went up again!

11:51It's something we ought to spend a little bit more time looking at, how this was able to happen here.

11:58Why, with all the conservative think tanks types explaining it's a train wreck,

12:03why anybody with an ounce of common sense realizes it's a train wreck, the Republicans went ahead

12:12and upped spending on this program, first in the House and then in the Senate.

12:17So I hope the press corps is not going to forget about this program, and hope continues to follow it.

12:28The Washington Post of all newspapers pointed out, looking at about four or five different projects in

12:38the Washington, D.C. area. They found that the cost of some of these was over $1.2 million a unit.

12:45Is that possible? At the time we had this supposedly tight budget, we're going to spend over $1.2 million per unit?

12:58Just unbelievable.

13:01We're going to give you all, we're going to give the chair here a bonus

13:06on something I noticed when I was back home.

13:08My good friend from Ohio decided to talk a little bit about all the wonderful things we could do with

13:19gambling proceeds. When I was first involved in politics, gambling was considered a sin,

13:26and it was against the law, because we knew we were taking money from the poorest people.

13:31Now, at least in Wisconsin, we've gone from, I believe, one small casino to have to be 15 casinos,

13:42including some huge casinos. In Wisconsin, they have separate slot machines in many bars,

13:54and the helpful Wisconsin, they sell scratch-offs in gas stations throughout the district.

14:07The reason it was brought up to me, I noticed that in some of these convenience stores,

14:15they're now selling $50 scratch-offs. Can you believe the horrible state of Wisconsin

14:22Wisconsin is selling $50 scratch-offs? My goodness, they're just shameful the way they take advantage

14:29of the poor and the dumb. It's just horrible. I don't think we would have put up with that when

14:35I first got involved in politics, but apparently Tony Evers thinks it's a great way to get more state

14:43money in to take advantage of people who are buying $50 lottery tickets. In any event,

14:50it's maybe not the biggest problem in America, but the number of people who are losing money

14:55at these slot machines and scratch-offs is not a small number. It's not something we should be proud

15:04of. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the Democrat Party feels it's a great way to increase funding

15:10on schools, take advantage of people. But I don't think it's a good thing, and I wish my brothers and

15:17sisters in the state legislatures would get rid of some of these ridiculous machines and ridiculous

15:28scratch-offs and stop taking advantage of the most vulnerable people in our society.

15:36Thank you very much. There's four different topics for you to remember. We covered the increased gambling

15:42thing pushed by state governments as they want to have government play a bigger and bigger role in life.

15:49We covered the ridiculous Republicans who think it's a victory that three Supreme Court judges

15:55ruled that you have to allow LGBTQ books in second or third grade. We covered Bernard Tranel,

16:06the poor guy who was assassinated for carrying a Trump sign five years ago yesterday, and we covered the low-income

16:16housing tax credits. I think the most questionable program in our Internal Revenue Code and

16:25probably in federal law all together. Thank you very much.

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