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Not everyone in Milwaukee is excited that the Republican Party will be rolling into town to hold their national convention where delegates will presumably anoint Donald Trump as their 2024 presidential candidate.

According to the owner of The Mothership, a local bar with a raucous reputation, he wants no part of the horde of conservative delegates who will be descending on his community between July 15 and the 18th, so he announced on Facebook this week he'd rather shut down for a few days until after the hubbub dies down.

In an interview with WISN, Ricky Ramirez bluntly stated, "Don't mix alcohol and politics."

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Building on his Facebook announcement where he wrote, "Sup idiots pretty funny that we’re open for s----y weather today but our snowflake a---s won’t open for the rnc lmao yo bar is open and a certain basketball team from a few miles away from bar are playing the Philadelphia basketball team jawns cheese steak Wawa rocky balboas and we will have it on our tvs and who knows maybe right after it we will have cool butts on the tv come to bar and get sloshed I’m losing my goddamned mind come on down to the mommy," he told WISN he also had no interest in renting out his place for private parties for Republicans.

"I'm not trying to get involved with or actively take money or rent the space out to that tomfoolery," Ramirez explained before confessing, "I think I would have done it if it was the DNC. Like, you know, there's a lot to be upset about right now, and they don't deserve a party, especially the fun party that we throw every single night here."

According to the owner, he is enjoying the attention his announcement has received nationally.

"It's really cool when, like, Rolling Stone reaches out to you, and they're like, this is worthwhile for us to talk to you about," Ramirez said. "I think everyone knows that this is kind of like a really crazy state right now."

He added he may hold private parties if they have nothing to do with the RNC invasion.

You can watch his interview with WISN below:

A decision by Donald Trump's campaign strategists to concentrate their efforts on reaching out to hardcore Republicans could turn out to be a fatal error according to election experts.

According to a recent report from Gallup which has been tracking party affiliations, both major parties are bleeding voters who strongly identify with their respective parties but Republicans are faring far worse.

That makes Trump's pool of voters who will actually turn out limited at a time when he and his campaign should be reaching out to the growing numbers who call themselves independents.

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As Newsweek reported, "As of February 2024, when the latest data is available, 28 percent say they are Republicans, while 30 percent say they are Democrats, showing Republican's base declining," political scientist Todd Landman at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham in the U.K. said Republicans have the larger problem of the two.

"The stakes are thus high for both parties in the runup to the November election, and both parties need to draw from the independents to assure victory. The Biden campaign has so far sought to reach out to these independents, while the Trump campaign appears to be retrenching to the solid base of supporters, which mathematically may be the wrong strategy to win the election," Landman explained.

Mark Shanahan of the University of Surrey in the U.K. agreed and blamed the problem on candidate Trump as the main sticking point for potential voters.

Appearing with MSNBC host Katie Phang on Saturday afternoon, former Donald Trump lawyer and "fixer" Michael Cohen claimed his former client is struggling to raise the cash he needs after losing a half-billion dollar judgment in Judge Arthur Engoron's courtroom.

Worse still, he stated, the former president doesn't want New York Attorney General Letitia James pouncing on him if he doesn't meet his bond deadline.

Asked, "Your thoughts about what Donald Trump is doing in order to secure that very large bond," he replied, "Donald Trump will do anything within which to ensure the bond gets obtained and the bond gets posted."

"This is a real problem for him," he elaborated. "He had a hard enough time getting the $91 million [for E. Jean Carroll], which again, I can't understand how a publicly traded company like Federated, which is Chubb Insurance, was able to justify making to a guy that does not pay his bills, that's something we all know for sure."

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"But rest assured of something else," he added, "The last person that Donald Trump right now wants to scrap with is our unsinkable Attorney General Tish James. She already knows what is going to happen come the day the bond is not filed. She will start seizing the assets, there is going to a major sale of these assets."

"One of the things that I talk about quite often is that people do not realize just because you sell the asset does not mean the full sale price goes to, let's say Donald Trump or Letitia James in order to offset the amount of the $500 plus million bond with $110,000 a day of accruing interest," he explained. "There are taxable consequences that take place on these assets as well because his basis is substantially low."

"On top of that, many of these assets are also encumbered with mortgages. It is not as if 100 cents on the dollar will go toward paying off that $500 million obligation," he stated.

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