Join Andy Pate as he steps in for John Rush on Rush to Reason, delivering an immersive discussion about the first century days of Donald Trump’s administration. With a critical yet fair analysis, Andy and his guest Todd Watkins unpack the strides made in immigration enforcement and energy policies. They navigate through the complex landscapes of international politics and domestic reforms, inviting listeners to reflect on Trump’s legacy thus far and the lessons looming on the horizon. Don’t miss out on this thought-provoking analysis of a transformative era in American politics.
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It’s Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. Presented by Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning.
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Filling in is Andy Pate, party of choice. And I’m your host, Andy Pate, filling in for John Rush once again. John’s going to be back soon. And we are all very excited. But in the meantime, I am joined by Mr. Todd Watkins. Todd, how are you?
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I am well, Andy. Thanks for having me.
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I’m happy to have you here. This is kind of an exciting day. It’s 100 days in office for Mr. Donald Trump, Mr. President, El Presidente, Donald Trump.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
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It has been fun.
SPEAKER 07 :
It has been, especially after this weekend.
SPEAKER 03 :
Why?
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Florida and Colorado Springs. But I think we’re going to get into that a little later, right?
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Oh, we’re definitely going to get into that. Because here’s what I’m going to be asking folks today. If you call in, that’s okay. I don’t care if you are a far left, far right, whatever you are. But if you call in today at 303-477-5600, I want you to give a grade. for Donald Trump for his first 100 days. I’m going to give mine this hour. Todd’s going to give his. I’m looking forward to this. By the way, if you’re from Europe and you want to give that grade in the metric system, go ahead. We are very open. Europe’s messed up. I don’t like Europe. Okay. Let’s do the impossible questions first, and then we will get into the first 100 days. Sound fair?
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Fair.
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Okay, here we go. Yesterday’s impossible question. Maybe you would get this. I did not. Which Japanese term refers to continuous improvement in manufacturing processes?
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I would just go gung-ho, but I know that’s not it.
SPEAKER 03 :
That is not it. It’s kaizen.
SPEAKER 07 :
That was my next question.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, definitely. I know it was right on the tip of the tongue. Kaizen is a Japanese term that means continuous improvement. See, I was going to say Kaiju. Like, you know, the big monsters that come out of the sea. Godzilla. Charlie, why are you messing with me? Okay, I’d say Kaiju, like those big monsters that come out of the sea. Why do they always go after Japan? What is it about Japan that all these big monsters always want to get Japan?
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Victimhood syndrome?
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I guess so. I mean, they need to lay off Japan and go after, I don’t know, Africa or America or Canada. Go after Canada after yesterday. Please go after Canada. Greenland. Yes, Greenland. Can you imagine a bunch of angry, for those who don’t know what a kaiju is, that’s like Godzilla, that kind of thing. I can imagine an angry herd of kaiju overrunning Greenland. That’d be pretty fun.
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And like all 12 people who live there?
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Yeah, they’d be really afraid. Okay, today’s impossible question, and I will not give the answer. Get this one. I got to say it slowly. Which rare autoimmune disease attacks acetylcholine receptors at the neuromuscular junction? Can I buy a vol? I mean. Lupus? No, that’s not the answer. I will not give the answer, folks, if you want to weigh in on that. That’s way above my grade, just so you know. If you want to weigh in on that, go to RushReason.com. We’ll talk about it. Sound good? Okay, let’s get into Donald Trump because it has been 100 days for the ages. I think we can agree it’s been the most historic 100 days we’ve seen in, my goodness, in a presidency for at least over a century.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, with obviously within the last couple of generations, the most momentous 100 days.
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Incredible. Absolutely incredible. So another thing I’m going to ask you and I’m going to ask me and I’m going to ask others if they want to call in. I would like you to say, what are your three favorite things he’s done? And what is one thing that you think he could improve on? All right. Now, we’re going to go into the list here in just a moment. But first, I’m going to give my three right out of the gate. All right. All right. My three favorite things that Donald Trump has done. Number one, secure the border. I think that’s going to be pretty universal. All right. Number two. And this is huge for me. Doge.
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Yeah.
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If only because of the way it’s awakened everybody to just how much money was being wasted and how. I understand the cuts they’re going to make are much smaller than we had hoped for. I get that, folks, but it’s still cuts. And we weren’t making any before. I think it’s been brilliant. I’ve loved every moment of it. And number three, energy. Drill, baby, drill. Unleashing American energy. We’ll get to that in a moment. All right. What do you have for three?
SPEAKER 07 :
For the ones I like?
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What are three you really like?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, so there’s the shutting off the immigration flow. And, of course, like all mine are going to be immigration-based because of my past, right? Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
And really quick, for those who don’t know, what’s your past?
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24 years U.S. Border Patrol. Thank you. Go ahead, Tom. So his first day is after he took the oath, the flow at the border just shut down. And it was all policy. And that was the easiest stroke of a pen that anybody could have had for that. That fixed that immediately.
SPEAKER 03 :
Next is whatever happened to the Democrats saying we have a broken immigration system. No, we have an immigration system that they were not applying.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
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They abandoned immigration laws that they were ignoring.
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100 percent. Absolutely. So anything that the resumption of building the border wall. And so there’s so much more to the wall than just the physical structure of the wall. But empowering, you know, my former agency, my alma mater to go back and do their jobs. He took the leash off of ICE. the interior enforcement, which I’ve never seen, not even during the Bush administration, was ICE this unfettered to go do their job.
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Now, I want to ask you something, and this may be logistically impossible, I don’t know, but could Mount Rushmore be broadened to six people, six heads, put Trump at one end and Tom Homan at the other? What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
With some kaiju, maybe. Exactly.
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Gesundheit. Okay, I love these guys. I love what they do.
SPEAKER 07 :
Go ahead. That’s got to be close to three or thereabouts three. I lost track.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, basically three elements of what he’s doing on immigration.
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Yeah, the hunter, he gets A++ everything there. The one thing that I would like to have seen gone a lot faster, and it’s probably unrealistic, you know, is to put the screws to sanctuary cities in states. I would like to have seen that heavy hand come down on that like right away.
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I would like to see it faster. I don’t know how much he’s simply being held back by the courts. I don’t know. I know Pam Bondi is all in.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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She’s going after him. OK, let me give mine. And I talked about this yesterday on the show. One thing where I I give Trump a very poor grade is how he’s handled Canada. OK, really, a couple of months ago, the conservatives were ahead of the liberals by like 25, 30 points. Yeah, it was going to be an absolute slaughter in the Canadian elections. Then Trump comes out talking about Canada being the 51st state and launching the terror. Yeah, but it doesn’t matter. You’ve got to think about the repercussions of what you do. And I said at the time, please don’t do this. Don’t do this. OK, we don’t need they’re not going to like this. Don’t help the liberals surge in Canada. Well, guess what happened? They went from being 25, 30 points down to four points ahead. They had their elections yesterday. The liberals actually won. It is the biggest come from behind over a couple of months I have ever seen in my entire life anywhere. OK, it was unbelievable. And it was all Donald Trump. So I’m going to come down. And by the way, folks, you’re going to be hearing the rest of the hour. Everything he’s done well. And let me tell you something. He’s the greatest president of my lifetime. Yes. But as I said yesterday, this is MAGA is a political movement. It is not a religion. He’s not my God. He’s the great leader of our movement, and I love him. But that was a mistake. The people in Canada were furious being said, oh, you could be our 51st state. That was incredibly condescending and demeaning. The liberals up there, and I predicted it, they jumped on that, they took advantage of it, and they won back the middle and actually won elections in a year when they were supposed to get obliterated. And they won, and it was Donald Trump. Donald Trump won the the election in canada for the left and now everybody’s acknowledging that but you know you can kind of see it coming i didn’t know if they would move that far they actually moved further than i thought but that was a mistake when you make these comments when you make these statements on the world stage yeah a lot of these tough tough statements are great right because you’re negotiating you’re working with tariffs we’ll get into that in a bit which i actually like But you have to keep in mind, how am I affecting the mindset, the mood in this country? Had he not done what he did with Canada, I guarantee right now, today, we would have a conservative government in Canada that would be our complete ally for Donald Trump. Guaranteed. 100% guaranteed. The polls were absolutely off the charts in favor of the conservatives. That is… Quite possibly my only criticism of Donald Trump. What do you think?
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I think Canada needs a sense of humor.
SPEAKER 03 :
I do too, but I totally agree. But their touchiness, you have to take into account when you’re talking.
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Go ahead. We’ll belay the tariffs for a day so that we can export a sense of humor to Canada and maybe set it back.
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No extra fee.
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No extra fee. Okay.
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We’ll tell you what, when we come back, Todd, when we come back, you and I, we have a list and we’re going to go back and forth. And Hannity was talking about this on a show last night. So credit to Sean Hannity. Way to go. I could have come up with my own list, but I liked his. It was pretty much mine. And we’re going to go back and forth and really remind people of the greatness of Donald Trump and what he has done over this hundred days. It is miraculous. So I look forward to that. So stay tuned, folks. We’re going to have a lot of fun. Up next is Dr. Scott Faulkner. Get a doctor who listens only to you, not big pharma, not big insurance, just you. For a total approach to your total health, call Dr. Scott at 303-663-6990.
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God. Country. Reason. Now back to John Rush.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver’s Afternoon Rush. KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush along with Todd Watkins. Todd. Yes, sir. Let’s jump into some Trump accomplishments. Once again, folks, 100 days. Incredible. You lead off. We’ll alternate.
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Number one, the Lincoln-Riley Act.
SPEAKER 03 :
I mean, that was great, by the way.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I mean, it’s Congress passed it, but that never would have happened without a Trump presidency. Oh, yeah. I mean, he set the scene for that. And this requires ICE, DHS to take custody or detain. There’s a couple ways that can be affected. Illegal aliens committed, accused of certain crimes like theft or anything more egregious than that.
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Yeah, it’s outstanding. Okay, number two, the most secure border of our lifetime. I know that’s an overall one, but my goodness, numbers are down. It varies between 95%, 99%, whatever. They have locked down the border. So much for we need new immigration systems.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, it was a policy. He said no more, no catch and release, and that shut it down, like turning a faucet off.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s fantastic. You know, before we go on, since that’s your, you know, neck of the woods, what more can we do? I mean, what about and I know this is going to take more time because this is legislative action. But, you know, denying all kinds of money, benefits, payments, welfare, you know, food stamps, everything. What else can we do to make that be not worthwhile to come here? The pull.
SPEAKER 07 :
So you start to diminish, take away the pull factor.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right. How can we kill the pull?
SPEAKER 07 :
So, well, federally, I mean, you’ve got one of, I think one of these here kind of goes in that direction, but you don’t need legislation. To stop the federal aspect of the poll. The problem is the states. The states. The states. And that goes back to my, I wish he would have acted, I wish he was faster with the sanctuary states.
SPEAKER 03 :
What about cutting federal funding to states that do that?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think he should. The courts always tend to jump in, but I don’t think it requires legislation to do that. You just stop sending them money.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, you do the next one, which is right in line with what we just did. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, 100,000 deportations.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s understating it, isn’t it?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I could swear I heard Tom Holman, you know, over the weekend mention something like 130,000 or 150,000 deportations.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s really frustrating, though, because, folks, it takes an awful lot more time to catch someone and remove them than it does to simply wave them in. Oh, yeah. like biden was doing there’s no way in four years trump can remove even 20 of what biden let in no he can’t do it because of the process he has to go through and this brings up the question how is that fair okay they totally ignore due process coming in that’s a good why do we need to give them a long due process going out
SPEAKER 07 :
guess what? They got their due process. Yeah. That’s complete BS. They’re saying, well, it’s called port of entry. That’s called legal immigration. So using the Maryland dad, right. As the, as the example, He didn’t get due process. The hell he didn’t get due process. He saw like a dozen different judges, mostly immigration judges, who ordered him out of the country. He got a temporary relief from removal. And that removal, that temporary relief was to not be removed to, I believe it was Venezuela.
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Yeah. Oh, because, you know, he could be targeted if he goes back there. Uh, okay. Then if that’s really, look, if he’s some kind of a Siley, right. And he, and he’s running from that. Why didn’t he go through? I know he isn’t, but I’m devil’s advocate. So if that’s the case, why didn’t he go to a regular port of entry and say, Hey, I’m running from being killed down there. He didn’t do that. It came here illegally. So I don’t really don’t care what you’re running from. You went through, we had legal ports of entry. He could have gone through those. He didn’t. I don’t care.
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Well, and it has to do with the way the asylum laws are written, that anybody who is in the United States can make a defensive claim for asylum. Defensive means defense from being removed. Right. But here’s the next thing. If you’re afraid, and I saw this time and again, and the further east on the globe you go, the more points of interest you get in this. If somebody say – we had people coming from Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, all the places where they want to kill us, right? And they get to the United States. It took them six to nine, some 12 months to get to the United States and they claim asylum. And the courts, we had a saying, no immigration case is finished until the alien wins. Why is this not a problem? This person went through no fewer than 27 different countries to get here.
SPEAKER 03 :
Why does asylum have to be here in the United States? Why couldn’t it have been in Brazil? Isn’t it supposed to be the first country they hit going out of their country?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. And that’s that’s that’s another thing I’d like to see that heavily redacted is our asylum policies to.
SPEAKER 03 :
We’ll get there. We’ll get there. OK. Pam Bondi is on it. She’s a rock star. OK. Number four. And this. is huge. We resumed the border wall construction. Guys, you can just say, hey, let’s just do it with more agents. Let’s just do it with more enforcement. Yeah, what does that do once you get a Democrat in office? I want a full wall, and I understand there is terrain where that isn’t feasible. When I say wall, there’s multiple portions of that that are different. I get it. But I basically want a wall across the entire southern border. Why wouldn’t I? It’s great, and it’s so much easier. I like to ask people who say, well, I don’t think it’s effective, really. Let me ask you something. You protect your home, right? Some of you are armed, some of you aren’t, but let me ask you something, folks, if you’re listening out there, especially if you’re liberal. Is it easier to protect your home with walls and doors or without them?
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean, the wall is to slow them down so we can get there.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That’s what it is. Yes. If you have the wall, obviously that’s not going to solve the entire problem. Nobody on earth ever said it was. Trump never said it was. Right. Okay. But it makes it much harder. They have to go through a lot of other steps to get in. It slows them down. They can’t just fly across a field. Okay. The wall makes it so much easier for our agents to do their job because there’s a barrier now that they’re patrolling and not just a field. Right. And by the way, these fields are immense. They are hundreds of miles in width and length. Okay.
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Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
I think resuming the border wall, build the wall, build the wall is spectacular. Yes, it is. And overdue. Go ahead. Number five.
SPEAKER 07 :
Offshore drilling.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. Yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
So the Gulf of one of my favorites, the Gulf of America, Gulf of America.
SPEAKER 03 :
I honestly don’t care what we call it, but drill there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes. Yeah. Energy independence. Yeah. Yeah. It’s strategically a bad move to rely on other nations for your sustainment.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. And, you know, I’m going to add to this because it’s not in the list, but also opening up coal mines again. Huge. Huge. And you know who this is best for? Is it the rich or the poor? The poor.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. It’s cheap energy. The rich can afford expensive energy. The poor can’t. Trump is for the poor. Okay, number six. He imposed steel and aluminum tariffs. Okay, I’m going to plead a little bit of ignorance on this. I don’t know as much about it, but I’m sure it’s a good thing.
SPEAKER 07 :
I believe that makes it more lucrative to use steel and aluminum that’s produced in the United States.
SPEAKER 03 :
Right, I understand that, but I don’t know any of the numbers of how much we import versus export. I don’t know any of the hard numbers.
SPEAKER 07 :
A lot of it was supposedly coming from China or something like that.
SPEAKER 03 :
Fair enough. Cool.
SPEAKER 07 :
Number seven. Secured several trillion in new investments.
SPEAKER 03 :
Huge. Huge. We’ve got all these trillions that are going to be. And you can say, well, it’s going to take years for those companies to be made. You know what? Along the way, you’re going to have a lot of great jobs building those factories. It’s going to be great. And then you’re going to have the factory.
SPEAKER 07 :
And shouldn’t we be looking several years down the road, not just in four-year increments?
SPEAKER 03 :
Absolutely. That’s what it’s called. Okay. Number eight, he rescued Americans who were held abroad. And by the way, also up in the sky, Elon. Okay. Well, yeah, but Biden wasn’t doing anything. He was sitting at his hands. I know Biden was lost. I’m talking about his people, not him. But they weren’t doing anything. They weren’t getting these people back. Trump did. Go. Number nine.
SPEAKER 07 :
Uh, brought back service members fired for re using the backs, the vaccine, the COVID Vax with back pay. So, right.
SPEAKER 03 :
And I don’t care what you think about the vaccine. I’m not a fan of it. I didn’t like this. I like vaccines. I didn’t like this kind of vaccine.
SPEAKER 07 :
I didn’t think it would being forced on you like that.
SPEAKER 03 :
I didn’t think it should be forced on people. And I didn’t think this vaccine would adapt to a rapidly mutating virus. I didn’t think it would work. And by the way, it didn’t because of that, but whatever your feelings on that, forget that you fired people.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
They lost their jobs. They lost their careers. Now they can all come back. I love it. Okay. Number 10. He declared a national energy emergency. Now that is showing great foresight. Okay. When you do that, of course, that unlocks a lot of what you can do. And in other words, he didn’t wait until energy became a real problem two, three years into his term. He declared it now. Way to go, Trump. Amen. Go. Number 11.
SPEAKER 07 :
Ended the liquid natural gas export ban.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yes. That’s huge between us and Europe.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. Well, what was the pipeline that we blew up? Yeah. The Nord Stream or whatever. That’s funny.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, that one’s actually huge. The LNG experts. Okay, number 12. Here’s the one everybody agrees on. Almost everybody. He banned men from women’s sports. This is I think this one issue more than any other issue made us the normal party and made the Democrats the wackos. I mean, people look at the Democrats and say, wait a minute. I just watched the Olympics and there was a guy beating up a woman in the boxing ring.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s not cool. We don’t support that. My daughter is 14, and there is somebody with male parts undressing in front of her in a locker room. This is one where this is an 80-21 all the way, and he jumped on it. Explain this to me, and then we’ll go to break. We’ll come back and get some more of these that are just wonderful. Why were other Republican leaders slow to jump on this issue?
SPEAKER 07 :
Fear. I think fear of being castigated, ostracized, attacked by the left. I mean, didn’t we see that throughout the whole Biden time? There are a lot of conservative minded people kept quiet because of the fear of retribution.
SPEAKER 03 :
OK, and this is where I look at a lot of Republicans. This is where I look at a lot of Republicans and I say, guys, boldness sells. Yeah. OK, that doesn’t mean you got to be overly brash and say, I want Canada to be the 51st state. You can go too far. You can overshoot the runway. OK, you can do it.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
OK. But in general, boldness sells and lack of boldness bores. It bores people. They don’t care. They don’t want to hear it. And he came out and just said, no, we’re banning this period. End of story. I don’t want it. And 80 percent of Americans are looking and just applauding and saying, geez, that’s overdue. Right. What a great president. I can’t wait to get my grade at the end of this hour. OK, let’s take a break and we’ll come back with more of Trump’s doings in the first hundred days. Up next is Cub Creek heating and air. Hey, make sure your AC is getting max cooling on the best efficiency. Just talk to the experts of Cub Creek at 303-656-5467.
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The best export we have is common sense. You’re listening to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 03 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush, along with Todd Watkins. Todd.
SPEAKER 07 :
Andy.
SPEAKER 03 :
Before we move on with some more things that Trump has done, and they are wonderful, I want you to give your take on what Trump did in Colorado Springs over the weekend. Eli talked about this a little yesterday, but hey, this is your past. This is what you’ve done. So what went down?
SPEAKER 07 :
So this was a big deal. And although this is being cast in the media and in the popular mind as an immigration raid, it was a drug raid. This was an investigation that was begun and an operation led by the DEA, the Drug Enforcement Administration. on a underground illegal nightclub that had been operating in Colorado Springs for probably over a year. And it was frequented by illegal aliens, cartel members, transnational criminal gangs, even the Hells Angels apparently frequent or had been seen in this place. So there’s a lot of drugs trading hands. There’s a lot of weapons trading hands here. And there’s a lot of sex trafficking in here, too. It’s just a… Hellish snakes pit. Basically worst of the worst. Yeah, yeah. This is just not something you want in your community. So I’m from El Paso County, so it’s close to home, literally.
SPEAKER 03 :
You weren’t at this party, were you?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, no.
SPEAKER 03 :
Because I don’t know what you do after all. You’re kind of a wild guy.
SPEAKER 07 :
As a retired Border Patrol agent, I would have loved to have been called back for this one. So… This is an investigation, if my professional experience tells me that this started several months ago. this investigation and to gin up this operation. And I’ll bet you that it started during the Biden administration and they were waiting for a change of a leadership change of the guard so that they could actually pull the trigger on this.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay. Now they caught all these people, but 114 illegal aliens, 114 illegal aliens and 17 active duty soldiers. We’ll get to that in just a moment. But, um, How do you – this is a big building. It’s got a lot of exits and entries. How do you cover everything? You have to surround it. You’ve got to surround it. Yeah. But even surrounding it, I mean, it just seems like there’s an awful lot of space people could scatter to.
SPEAKER 07 :
So, well, I mean, you know where the exits are, all the different points of ingress and egress.
SPEAKER 03 :
But you’ve got to really be manned up. That’s what I’m saying.
SPEAKER 07 :
They had 300 boots on the ground. That’s a massive force. In the police world, that’s – That’s huge. That’s bigger than several departments.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, now think about this for a moment, though. Okay? How much manpower did it require for Joe Biden to let these people scurry right into the country?
SPEAKER 07 :
Quite a lot, actually, because we were holding their hands and serving as a concierge.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s the ones we even served as a concierge for, the ones we didn’t run across. It takes a lot more to catch them, is what I’m saying.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, well, because there’s a whole securing the… Yeah, I just want to mention this because there’s so many people who want Trump to get people out as quick as Biden let him in.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s like, that’s ludicrous, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. Oh, 100%. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, there’s a lot more machinery that goes into removing than letting them in. Right. So this is now a crime scene with over 200 suspects.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, now what about the military members? What were they doing there? Because were they just acting as security? Did they just get security jobs? In which case, if that’s all they were doing was acting as security, we’ll get to what they were really doing in a moment. If that’s all they were doing, how much do I hold them responsible for knowing or not knowing what kind of people were in there? Surely they had to know there was a criminal element.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah. So basically, these members, is it very possible they’re all going to be tossed?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah, yeah. I would not bet against that, that you’ll lose money on that. So the reports are saying, and this is the agent in charge of the DEA mentioned, I think he said 17 members, several most acting as security. Others were patrons of the place. So I got to think I have to my my son’s a soldier down at Fort Carson.
SPEAKER 03 :
I asked him patrons of a place that’s not even an official bar or whatever. Yep. That gets together for these parties that are flooded with illegal immigrants and all kinds of nefarious things going on. It is going until three, four in the morning.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
And this is what they choose to go to. What is going on with our… Look, I’m ex-Air Force. I actually did a bunch of my mobility training right there at the Academy. Okay?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
Down there in the Springs.
SPEAKER 07 :
What are they doing? They shouldn’t have been there. The military is absolutely held to a higher standard. You know this. There are consequences for these sorts of things that are far greater than just being a dumb civilian. You’re expected to, you know… Avoid situations like this. The ones that are serving as – that were acting as security, I even saw some images. A guy had a vest on that’s black, body armor type vest that said security. So those that were doing that, I guess I’d want to see the commander’s memo that authorized them to work off post, off duty. I’m going to bet they didn’t have one of those. Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
You know, maybe they did because they got to report it on their taxes. This is income. Unless they were getting cash.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, there’s no way.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, so this is just cash on the side.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, there’s no way there was anything legitimate about this place. I didn’t think so. Even the owner, the building owner, and you take his statement with a grain of salt. The next morning he was out there saying, I had no idea they were doing this. I’m very disappointed that this sort of activity was taking place in the building that I own. and their lease was up at the end of the month, so tomorrow.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
So whether or not he’s doing some damage control here, nothing about this was legitimate. There’s no way they had a liquor license for any of this, and there was nothing but just rampant criminality.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, but does this also, setting aside all the criminal illegals and all that, Does this also speak to the deeper amount of damage that we have in the armed forces today and what Pete Hegseth is facing? Because I guarantee you, Pete, Pistol Pete, he heard about this, what’s going on down there, and I’m sure he threw a fit. Because he’s a smart person. And what is he going to do about this? I mean, at some point, you have to look throughout the entire… You can’t get rid of all the Cancers. I get that. But at some point, you’ve got to look throughout the ranks and say, you know what? After years of letting in just about anyone, maybe we need to let some people out.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well… So having been a soldier myself, I can tell you that since George Washington took charge of the Continental Army outside of Boston in 1775, soldiers have made really bad life choices before. I don’t know that this speaks to the law.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yeah, and I saw them when I was in the Air Force. I saw some who made terrible life choices. I didn’t see anybody do this. But I’m not saying it didn’t happen. I’m sure it did. I was at Lowry at the time.
SPEAKER 07 :
I mean there have been – even when I was an agent in San Diego, there were instances of – what’s the Marine? Pendleton. Cam Pendleton up in Oceanside, right? Marines would get jammed up smuggling aliens. Marines would get jammed up bringing – selling their military gear, night vision predominantly, stealing it from the supply and taking it south. So it’s – I don’t know that this says anything specific to our time right now. Definitely Pete Hegseth is going to want to address this. But disciplinary and conduct issues have always been a problem with the military. Well, obviously.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s why you have the code. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m sure it will be enforced, and this will serve as an example.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, well, it’s going to be interesting. I think Pistol Pete is going to have some heads rolling. Probably. Right away, and I look forward to that because they deserve to, and hopefully that will send a message to the rest of the military. I never did any of this garbage when I was in. I obeyed the law. All I did is I did my job, okay?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and I think 99% of the servicemen do. I mean, there’s always going to be that, you know, Well, this was kind of dirty element.
SPEAKER 03 :
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s afternoon rush, KLZ 560. Okay, Todd, let’s start at number 13. We’re going to whip through these really quick, and we are going to give our final grades. to Mr. Donald J. Trump.
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Go. He ended federally funded DEI programs. That’s self-explanatory.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, yes. In other words, he, you know, illegalized racism with federal funding. What an idea. Great. My tax dollars don’t pay for racism now. I like that. Number 14. He ended federal funding for child sex changes. That’s another 80-20. Yeah. I mean, come on. Go ahead. Number… Yeah, well, really quick. I mean, folks, I’m not saying people can’t change their gender if they want to, or at least try to. You can do whatever you want with your body, but you’ve got to be an adult because these things are irreversible. And we don’t want irreversible things done to children. Children do not have the maturity level to make those kinds of decisions. Fair enough?
SPEAKER 07 :
And the federal government shouldn’t be funding them if they are.
SPEAKER 03 :
Oh, no.
SPEAKER 07 :
Number 15, go. Revoked visas for pro-Hamas students. Visas are really easy to revoke. And I hope this is a harbinger of other visa revocations to come in the near future.
SPEAKER 03 :
I agree. Wonderful. Okay, here comes a good one. Number 16, designated English as the official language of the United States. Now, folks, I don’t care if you speak another language. That’s great. But we have to have one in common. We’ve got to function.
SPEAKER 07 :
No comprendo.
SPEAKER 03 :
No comprendo. Honestly, I think Spanish is a beautiful language. The way it flows, I love it. But we’ve got to have something in common. You came here to an English-speaking nation. Well, I don’t know it yet. That’s fine. Learn it. It’s okay, but learn it so you can function, so you can read road signs, things like that. It’s very important. Go.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, to be an immigrant, not a non-immigrant on a temporary visa, but to be a legally admitted immigrant, to get legal residency here, it is still a requirement to speak English. It hasn’t been enforced for decades. Yeah, it needs to be. Number 17, go. I forced colleges to address anti-Semitism on campus. That goes back to the pro-Hamas.
SPEAKER 03 :
visa revocations yeah that’s so important number 18 launched the talks to end the russia ukraine war folks not only did biden what not only was biden the reason that war started he was never going to be the reason it ended yeah i mean my gosh the guy didn’t care he didn’t care he had so much leverage being america right and he used none of it Just go ahead and keep killing. We will keep sending tax dollars to prop up Ukraine and we will, and we will keep raising the price of oil to prop up Russia. And we’ll make sure because of America that they can have this war. It was ridiculous. We played a real role. Obviously Russia was the instigator. I get that. Yeah. But we played a real role in this way to go. Trump, uh, number 19 go established doge.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. The department of government efficiency.
SPEAKER 03 :
Have you ever seen such an expose done on the American waste of money? I mean, obviously Rand Paul does it every year. I get that. But have you ever seen anything like it?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, no, entire departments and agencies being shuttered because of fraud, waste, and abuse.
SPEAKER 03 :
Magnificent.
SPEAKER 07 :
And just to watch Nancy Pelosi scream and howl about this was worth it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, we only got three left, and they’re great. Number 20, declassified the JFK files. Now, I will be honest, I never cared about this one. I really didn’t. Nothing against JFK. You know, it’s a terrible thing. But, you know, this doesn’t affect me today. But, you know, I think it’s a good thing to declassify and get it out in the open.
SPEAKER 07 :
When something has reached its expiration, there’s usually a time limit that something is classified for. Yeah, we really should start declassifying those. This was just to protect people. I agree. You know, reputations. Nothing national security. It’s all good.
SPEAKER 03 :
Number 21.
SPEAKER 07 :
Ended federal support for paper straws. That’s my favorite one, Andy.
SPEAKER 03 :
That’s a funny one. I know.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s my favorite one.
SPEAKER 03 :
Ended federal support for… I do hate paper straws. I hate them. I like plastic straws. A good oil product. I like that. I want more of them. I want whole landfills filled with them. I love plastic straws.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’ve never had a paper straw, but I can tell you that I hate them.
SPEAKER 03 :
OK, here we go. Number 22. Last one, folks. Negotiating new trade deals benefiting American workers. Guys, nobody has been doing this in the White House. Nobody until now. And, you know, we can say, gee, he moved too quickly or should have been more strategic or whatever with the with the whole, you know, trade war that he’s doing. OK, maybe, maybe not. I don’t know. I’m not an expert on that. But I do know this. The American consumer is the greatest leverage in the entire world for trade negotiations. And all the presidents recently up to Trump were not using it. So you got all this leverage. You’re using none of it. And we’re getting gypped as a result. OK, I think it’s great. What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, he’s clawing back American exceptionalism.
SPEAKER 03 :
Yeah, I think it’s fantastic.
SPEAKER 07 :
And that’s not a bad thing.
SPEAKER 03 :
Okay, I am going to go first. I’m going to give my grade for Donald J. Trump, A through F. I’m giving him an A. And not just because I’m some right-wing MAGA guy. I’m looking at everything he’s done. And notice I’m not giving him an A+. Why? Canada. What he did with Canada, that was a big mistake. It was a mistake. It was a tactical error. You have to factor in the petty emotions of people across that border and how they’re going to react to what you’re going to do. You have to factor that in. Had he not handled Canada in the way he did, right now Canada would have a very conservative MAGA-style government. That was coming. It was guaranteed. It was written in stone. It was going to happen. But that’s one thing out of a million. This guy has been knocking it out of the park. Every day has been Christmas. Greatest president in my lifetime. Love him. Giving him an A. What do you think?
SPEAKER 07 :
I blame Canada for Canada, and I blame half of Canada for its very lax immigration policies that it’s had for decades that have turned that place into just a liberal cesspool that has been for a long time. I’m not saying they’re not to blame. Yeah. But I go to Ralphie’s teacher from A Christmas Story, and there aren’t enough pluses after the A. I would be drawing across the studio here the number of pluses.
SPEAKER 03 :
It’s been magnificent, hasn’t it? I mean, it is just… It’s like waking up in paradise every single day. I love it. Yeah. It’s beautiful.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 03 :
And, you know, in the next hour, we’re going to be talking about the Colorado Republican Party because so many of those who support the last leadership, I’ll get back to Trump in a second. They want to say that the coup that you were part of was illegal. OK, and they’re putting that out there and they’re putting that out there. And yet here’s what gets me. You and I and they would all agree Trump gets an A or A+++, whatever. Trump has been fantastic. We’re all Trump supporters is what I’m getting to. Yes. What we have here in Colorado is not MAGA against non-MAGA. Okay? It is one faction of MAGA against another faction of MAGA. Pretty much. That’s what we’re looking at. Yeah. It’s so weird what we are seeing right now in Colorado, and it’s making it hard for Brita to take off.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Jordan Peterson – I watched an interview with – I think it was the Joe Rogan show. And he proposed – I guess he’s got a new theory or a hypothesis on the extremism of the right. It’s not a difference, a divergence of ideas, ideals or policy.
SPEAKER 01 :
Right, right. Not at all.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s strategy. We’re suffering the same kind of extremism that the left had. And this is psychopathy on the right is what he’s calling it.
SPEAKER 03 :
Psychopathy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 03 :
Well, I’ll tell you what, we can see that. Individuals. We’re going to talk about the Davidians in the next hour. And the reason we’re doing it, folks, is because I want people to understand. There are all these posts out there all over the place saying illegal coup, illegal coup. And we’re, Todd, you were on the inside. You’re going to walk through it step by step and show us exactly what happened and why. Indeed, I will. All right, folks, that’s it for our number one. In our two, Todd and I are going to look at the Colorado GOP coup. Was it illegal? What happens now? Until then, keep it right here on Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
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Average Guys. Average Guys.
SPEAKER 1 :
Average Guys.
