As the holiday season approaches, the podcast shifts focus to an important topic—drinking and driving. Andy and Joe advocate for responsibility during festive times and recount a tragic tale that underscores the importance of taking precautions. They emphasize the need for community awareness and proactive measures to prevent DUIs. The episode also touches on economic news, highlighting significant GDP growth and shifts in employment trends due to policy changes under the Trump administration. Through data and dialogues, they forecast a brighter economic future with new investments poised to drive job creation and a stronger market.
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Filling in is Andy Pate, party of choice.
SPEAKER 07 :
And welcome to our number three here on Rush to Reason. I’m Andy Pate filling in for John Rush, who’s going to take a little time off here. Much deserved on the line right now. We got Jersey Jojo. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 04 :
John, Andy, I’m just doing fantastic. How about yourself?
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m doing well. This is two days in a row you’ve called me John. I am honored. I am honored to be called John, to be called the master. I love it. I know. I’m so used to talking to John every week. Again, I have to say these, the incredibly intolerant, hateful, hate-filled two words to you. Merry Christmas.
SPEAKER 04 :
Merry Christmas to you too, Andy, and to your lovely wife, Corrie. By the way, I just sent her a suggested… a gift for you to buy for her. And so she and I have been, uh, uh, communicating behind her, behind your back.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, I’m going to be broke. Don’t talk to my wife, man. Don’t talk to my wife. Okay, sir. Uh, before we go any further Jersey, Joe, how can people listen to you?
SPEAKER 04 :
Uh, if you want to listen to my podcast, you can find it on all the major, uh, podcast platforms, Spotify, whichever one you like, uh, Apple, just go to Jersey, Joe, J E R as in Robert Z as in zebra E E J E R Z E E Joe.com. No space. Jersey Joe. Or you can go to the website if you want to watch the video. If you just want to listen to it, just go to – actually, I’m sorry. If you go to Spotify, it’s Jersey Space Joe. Just Jersey – two words, Jersey Joe. And you’ll find it on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, whatever. If you want to watch the podcast, go to JerseyJoe.com with no space, J-E-R-Z-E-E. And if you’d like me to put you on, every week we do one podcast a week, 30 minutes, and I have a distribution list. If you want to get on it, as soon as we publish it, I can actually email you the link. And if you want to get on that distribution list, just send me an email to joe at jerseyjoe.com. Just remember to spell Jersey with an R as in two E’s. And if you want to suggest a show topic, you want to have me send you some of the links. Every story we typically have a link to with more detail because we We do a lot of stuff in a short time, so I typically have links where you can read more about the story. If you’d like me to send you a link, just send me an email at joe at jerseyjoe.com, and I’ll be happy to accommodate you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, Joe, now I know you’ve got a lot of topics, but first I just want to ask you something. I know that Trump came out today, or was it yesterday? I think it was yesterday, and he said that we are going to be building some new aircraft carriers, some new ships, battleships. Trump class, Trump class. Trump class battleships. He is so funny. He drives people nuts. But, you know, do we really need to? I mean, we’re getting all these new Venezuelan tankers. Couldn’t we just retrofit these things?
SPEAKER 04 :
Retrofit those big, bulky, slow moving tankers.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think it’d be funny. Let’s retrofit some tankers. What should we do with them? I mean, you know, or we can make them into like the love boat.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, no. Take the oil off them and then sell them or scrap them for the steel, scrap metal or. sell them to somebody else who wants to use them for the lawful transport of oil.
SPEAKER 07 :
But I want a boat. I want a new boat. Or we could sell them on eBay. I’m not quite sure. Sarah Palin would probably do that. What we could do, though, is retrofit these boats and do some wonderful things with them. What do you think? What would you do with these ships? that we’re getting. I know we’re keeping the oil. He said we might put them in the National Reserve. I don’t think the National Oil Reserve is the same kind of oil offhand, but whatever. And for those who don’t understand, we are claiming, well, you know what, Joe, I’m going to let you explain. Why are we grabbing these oil tankers?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, we’re trying to put pressure on the Maduro regime. Clearly, he’s an illegitimate president. He lost the election. The winner of the election has been hiding. I think she’s in Europe right now. So he’s an illegitimate president. He’s in bed with the cartels, with the drug cartels, as are all of his generals. He emptied his prisons and sent all of his prisoners to the United States. So he’s a bad dude. And Trump is trying to aid in his dethroning. And again, Venezuela is already in a world of hurt. And for those who are not familiar, Their currency is the Bolivar. And as little as six or seven years ago, the Bolivar was about equal to the U.S. dollar. One Bolivar, one dollar, about the same. Their inflation about three years ago started to hit 1,000% per year.
SPEAKER 07 :
Wow.
SPEAKER 04 :
And the Bolivar had fallen to the point where a Bolivar that used to be worth a dollar had dropped in value to one-tenth of one U.S. penny. One-tenth of one penny. And it was literally cheaper… if you, to use Bolivars to wipe your butt, then to try to use them to buy toilet paper with. That’s how far their currency had fallen. But were they squeezably soft? No, they weren’t. But that’s what happens when the government just prints and prints and prints money. Eventually it becomes worthless. And that’s why, you know, the U.S. has, I think over Biden, four years of Biden, we saw the U.S. dollar devalued by 27% in four years. That’s amazing. In other words, what you could have bought for a dollar in 2020 cost you $1.27 by the time Biden lost office. It’s just incredible.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, well, tell you what, really quick here. I want, because I’m getting back to the boats, I’m just having too much fun seizing tankers. And by the way, the reason we’re doing it, this is sanctioned oil. It’s going to places where it’s not supposed to go. They’ve been told this, and this didn’t start under Trump. It started under Biden in 2020. Right. Or actually, it’s… You started under Trump, but Biden continued it, and Trump has now escalated it. This oil is actually being used to fund things like terrorism. It is being used to help bad regimes, and they were warned not to, and that’s why we’re seizing it. They even tried to put a false flag apparently on the latest one, the third tanker, to try to avoid us. Here’s the thing. I think we should retrofit these tankers, make them into new battleships. And and also make some of these, you know, several of these Trump battleships. And that way we can put them all off the coastlines of enemy countries like California. And so what we could do is put what we could do is use all of these then to surround California and do an embargo and just not let any voters leave there. What do you think?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and I would put a huge picture of Trump. I mean, I’m talking a 30 foot tall picture of Trump on the side of. Actually, I would put I would I would along the side of the battleship, I would have a picture of smiling Trump’s face. So when these ships were anchored off the coast of California, you’d look out and you would just see this wall of the smiling Trump face looking back at you.
SPEAKER 07 :
Do you think they can make the top of the battleship look like his hair? I think that would be kind of funny, you know, just see that coming at you in battle.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, actually have like a synthetic fiber waving in the breeze.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, now you get it. Anyway, I’m sorry. I’ve gone too long. I’ve gone too long with the boats and the ships. I’m just having too much fun with it. Okay, what do you have for me today?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I’ve only got 14 items, so I don’t know what we’re going to do for the second half hour.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I got it. Understood.
SPEAKER 04 :
Hey, a serious and sad topic. I just heard the news today about the back early November faith winners. One of the state representatives killed in a car crash.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 04 :
And I just heard the report on her death. Was that reported locally on the news?
SPEAKER 07 :
It was. And she was over twice the legal limit for DUI.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah. And she had, you know, she had self admittedly admitted her problem. She had been in,
SPEAKER 07 :
rehab and but apparently she had lapsed again she was a well-known uh democrat in the state senate here right and um it is a tragedy you see we don’t celebrate tragedies we don’t laugh at them we don’t celebrate them all i can say is this joe we’re going in and you’re going to talk on it too let me just say this we’re going into the holiday season folks i know there’s going to be a lot of drinking Obviously, especially New Year’s Eve, but also Christmas, Christmas Eve. There’s going to be a lot of parties. That’s fine. Enjoy. But if you have too much, please call Uber. Get somebody who can drive. Do something. Please don’t take a chance. Please. We want to see you in 2026. Go ahead, Joe.
SPEAKER 04 :
And if you have friends and relatives that have had too much to drink, do everything in your power you can to prevent them. And if you can’t, I’m going to make this sound harsh. If you can’t prevent them from getting behind the wheel, I urge you to call the police and So the police can pull them over. Would you rather have them spend the night in jail or spend eternity six feet under a headstone?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I just wish this lady was still alive. I feel terrible that this happened. I mean, it is such an absolute tragedy. And she had had much too much to drink, apparently. And did she drive right into a truck that was parked?
SPEAKER 04 :
Yes, she ran into the back end of a flatbed. And you know what that means. Oh, it goes right through your windshield. Right through the windshield. And the flatbed was stopped. She drove at a high speed right into the back end of a stopped flatbed.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, man.
SPEAKER 04 :
So, folks, you know, again, try to stop friends and relatives. But if you can’t, trust me, you’ll be doing them a favor by calling the police and have the police pulling them over before they kill themselves or, God forbid, killing somebody else. So I know it’s harsh, but what would you rather have, spend the night in jail at the DUI? or have them attend their funeral a week later.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, yeah. I mean, it’s not even close. Hey, tell you what, Joe, let’s take a quick break. We’ll come back because I know you’ve got a lot of stuff queued up, and we will be ready with more from Jersey Joe. Up next is Flesh Law. Kevin Flesh, that’s F-L-E-S-H. He’s the lawyer your opponent doesn’t want to face. Call Flesh Law at 303-806-8886 or go to FleshLawFirm.com.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive. This is John Rush.
SPEAKER 07 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Dangerous afternoon rush. KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush on the line. We got Jersey JoJo. What do you have for me?
SPEAKER 04 :
I want to talk about two pieces of economic news that came out today. First was the stunning GDP report. Beautiful. Beautiful. Go. And let me put some context. The economists have predicted 3.1. And when they miss it, you know, it’s typically a tenth. 3.1 came in 3.2 or maybe two tenths, 3.3. They had predicted 3.1. It came in at 4.3% year-over-year GDP growth. And I’m looking back. Only once in the past 20 years has GDP increased. ever exceeded 4%. And that year was 2021. Remember, GDP is the difference between the prior year. Well, the year prior to 2021 was 2020, the pandemic year, when GDP went in the toilet. GDP that year actually went negative. Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
2021 didn’t count at all because we were coming out of a depression caused by COVID. So the growth was obviously going to go past that amount. It meant nothing.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right, because the baseline was a negative. But with the exception of 2021, which is the recovery from the pandemic, not once in 20 years has the GDP hit 4.3%, just a stunning, stunning growth in GDP. Now, then people say, yeah, but look at what happened to unemployment. It shot up to 4.6%. Well, guess what? I’m looking at the statistics on GDP, and if you drill down into those GDP numbers, Here’s what you’re going to find. The growth in the private sector was 630-some thousand, but that was offset by a decline of… By the way, the actual growth was 687,000 new jobs so far this year, private sector. But that was offset by a drop of 271,000 federal employees. Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Incredible. And by the way, all those jobs we picked up, remember, under Biden, any jobs you created went to who? On balance, they all went to foreign-born workers. Under Trump this year, they have all gone on balance to American-born workers. Right.
SPEAKER 04 :
So the 4.6, basically, if it wasn’t for that decline in federal workers, which we all wanted, we wanted smaller government, the unemployment rate would have stayed at 4.3%. Right. it would have been right where it had been all through the Biden presidency. So the only reason it hit 4.6 is that Trump has been successful in shrinking, not as successful as he would like to have been, but he has been successful in shrinking the number of government employees by a quarter of a million workers.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, Joe, before you go on any further, though, how many people, I wish we could ask people out there, how many of you have been suffering in your day-to-day life because of fewer government workers? I mean, how many of your services have really suffered? Oh, John, my life’s been hell. How can I get by? I mean, I don’t have a government worker to park my car, another one to open the door, another one to fill this paperwork out, another one to… Look, the fact is it’s had virtually no impact on our lives, Joe, and we’re saving billions.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, because each one of those with benefits, including pension and medical… Every one of those was at least $100,000 a year total cost. Now, I’m not saying they made $100,000, but when you add in the total cost and their office space and their phones, you know, $100,000 minimum apiece times a quarter of a million, 271,000 government workers. So don’t be concerned that the unemployment rate has shot up a couple of tenths of a percent. It’s something we should be happy about because of why it happened.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that just means there’s more people out in looking. There’s more people out in the market looking. And that’s going to go down too, by the way, because I think we’re going to see tremendous economic growth in 26. Am I wrong?
SPEAKER 04 :
No, you’re correct. I mean, last time I checked, we had had commitments from both internal and foreign businesses to invest $20 trillion in in the construction of new facilities, AI centers, battery factories in this country. In a typical year, it’s been two to five.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, Joe, don’t run away from that. It’s too important. Let’s talk about what happens because you know you’ve run a lot of businesses, okay? Somebody comes in from out of the country. They plop down a billion, okay, that they’re going to invest in, say, an AI factory or whatever, into a factory, a business, whatever. What is happening on site? Where are the jobs coming from? What’s happening?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, first, you initially have a tremendous amount of construction labor. You’re moving earth. You’re pouring concrete. By the way, and then when you’re pouring concrete, there’s rebar. Well, guess what? Rebar isn’t made there on site. Rebar is made somewhere else. And Rebar, so you’re creating jobs off-site for Rebar. You’re creating jobs at the places where they mix cement.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, okay. Well, really quick here. All those people, are they making good money doing those jobs? Oh, absolutely. Oh, okay. And those people who are making good money doing those jobs, do they ever go to these places called restaurants? They sure do. Oh, and what do they do at the end of their meal at a restaurant? They leave tips, which are now tax exempt. Yes. Okay, folks, I’m telling you what. I hate the idea of, I said this last night, it’s not trickle down economics. It’s avalanche down economics. This money is going to be pouring in. We’re going to be creating so many jobs here in America. And by the way, we’ve already got two and a half million fewer people who we have deported or who have self-deported and it’s going to rise. Okay, it’s going to go over three shortly. Those people are out of the workforce. You have more jobs for better money, for huge investment coming in, your lives are going to be good. Go ahead, Joe.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And I was going to say short term. So while each factory, and you’re going to have multiple ones under construction at the same time, but given $20 trillion of investment, that construction boom, that’s going to go on forever. five years, if not a decade. So it’s not like they’re going to build a factory and then get laid off.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, no, no, no. Every one of these companies, construction companies are going to be going site to site. Oh yeah.
SPEAKER 04 :
For at least the next five years, if not the next decade. And then of course, once the factories are finished, you have to staff them. You have to maintain them. Um, So there’s the initial construction job, and then there’s the operating staff and the maintenance staff.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, and now for all these construction jobs and the roofing and the pipes and the electrical and all these things, you know, doing the pavement, everything, is that going to be tons of illegal workers like it’s been in the past? Of course not. Oh, my goodness. You mean this is American jobs?
SPEAKER 04 :
Oh, and speaking of pipes, you know, the copper piping and the electric wires, the pipe fairies and the wire fairies make those, right? There’s no jobs involved when you’re making copper pipes.
SPEAKER 07 :
I actually make them through the power of prayer.
SPEAKER 04 :
Power of prayer, yeah. So when you need steel girders and rebar and copper pipes and miles and miles of copper cable, You just pray those and they just show up in the job site. There’s no jobs created outside the construction site.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, never, never. No, of course not. Look, Joe, the boom we’re going to have and the boom that has already begun. See, here’s the thing. This 4.3, that’s the beginning. That’s the beginning. It’s the first wave. We’re going to see it go over 5%. We’re going to see quarters that are over five. Now, I don’t think it will be for the first quarter. Those are usually lower. But I think the second and third quarter of next year are going to be absolutely through the roof.
SPEAKER 04 :
Andy, I couldn’t agree with you more. I think we’re looking at the next five to ten years, John, of just tremendous growth in this country. And, of course, by the way, that typically leads – when you convert unemployed net tax receivers into employed net taxpayers – you get a bump in tax revenues. And these construction companies that hopefully will be making some nice profit, they’ll be paying a lot of corporate income taxes, too. Down goes your deficit, baby. Down goes your deficit as tax revenues go up.
SPEAKER 16 :
Yep.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Hey, before, I don’t want to miss it. I’ve got a great clip. Talk about why the Democrat rating is so low. We’ve got a clip of Bill Maher, and this, I think, was either last December or January, because he’s talking, they’re lamenting, he and his two guests are lamenting why the Democrat approval rating is down to 27%. And the last time I checked, I think it was down to 18%. So I think this clip might be 11 or 12 months old, but can we play this clip of Bill Maher and his two guests talking about the problem the Democrats have?
SPEAKER 15 :
Also, I mean, we’re doing this in a in a world where the Democrats now have a 27 percent approval rating. So explain that to me. And by the way, 11 percent with independents, I think in the same NBC poll, 11 percent with independents. I mean, I said this at the end of last year, like you lost a crazy contest to a crazy person. What is the answer for the Democrats there? Because they seem to be having a civil war right now. Some of them are going over to, I think, the reality wing of the party. Gavin Newsom is here next week. I think he’s made a big change. I love to see that. Some of them are saying, get rid of Chuck Schumer, who kept the government running, which was the practical thing to do. And I think the Democrats would have looked worse if he didn’t. But they want to throw him out for AOC. What’s your view on that?
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, I don’t think they want to throw him out for AOC, but I agree they’re in a civil war. Oh, a lot of them do. Yeah, but not the ones in power. Look, they’re going to look bad for a while because they don’t have the power to do the thing their own people want them to do. People come up to me all the time and they say, the Democrats have no message. Why don’t they have a message? And I say to them, no, no, no, if you listen to them, and I do, it’s my job, they have a message. You’d like their message, fine, but they don’t have as any power. And so all their choices are bad. What you want from them is to make it stop. And they can’t make it stop in a way they think they’ll win.
SPEAKER 11 :
But they had a chance. They won. And they had a chance to prove to the American people for four years that they were moderate. They did want to build things. They were these old crazy lefties. And they failed. Are you plugging my book? Well, yeah, I’m happy to plug your book. I’m happy to plug your book. I love your book, and I love the idea that Democrats should get back into building things, into making things happen, into deregulating, into supercharging the economy. I just think that until the Democrats address some of the core issues, They seem not to want to control immigration. They have extremist views about race. They think that boys should compete with girls in sports and that children should have their sex reassigned. Until they grapple with that first and then have your argument, the two together will work. But you can’t do this to avoid that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, but Joe, Joe, one big problem here. The Democrats did find a message. It’s called affordability, and they found it. They’re totally lying. They are the cause of all the unaffordability. They’re the ones who made everything much more expensive. They’re the ones who brought wages down during the time when they were in charge. But setting that aside, they found that message, and over the last six weeks, they’ve been clobbering us in elections.
SPEAKER 04 :
True. So, yeah, that clip is a little aged, but at the same time, It went from 27%, I am correct, it was down to 18% the last time I checked, right? Yeah. So they got a message.
SPEAKER 07 :
But here we are, Joe, we are losing in election after election after election, starting in November, to a team that has around 20% approval rating. This means Americans right now are blaming Republicans for affordability, which is insane!
SPEAKER 04 :
It is, and that’s why, you know, you’re right, they are controlling that part of the message. And it’s a shame on Republicans for letting them get away with it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, we weren’t ready. We didn’t understand how well affordability sold. I mean, this is how a communist. Got elected in New York. And by the way, Joe, what it really comes down to is this. They come out and say the big problem with your life is affordability. They are right, right? And then they say the answer is we are going to steal from other people and make you feel good about it. Tell you you deserve it. We will accuse them of stealing from you all this time. We will accuse them of getting away with things. We will accuse them of not paying their fair share in taxes. All lies. Doesn’t matter. We’re going to do that. But the bottom line is this. We are going to, you elect us and we will loot for you. And it worked. It has been working in election after election.
SPEAKER 04 :
And that was my quote of the week yesterday. Remember, Elon Musk said, you take $500 from one rich man and give $100 each to five lazy people and you lose one voter, but you gain five. And that’s exactly what they’re doing. We’re going to Mondami in New York City. You know, we’re going to tax the rich even more, you know, and give you free buses, free free childcare, free… We’re going to have government-run grocery stores. That’s the Mondami message. That’s why he ran… I mean, the guy is an admitted communist.
SPEAKER 07 :
And a lunatic. But let me ask you this. Do you think… that when they see these promises are not coming through, because they won’t. Okay, first of all, the governor won’t let him. And secondly, they can’t afford it. They can’t fund it. And thirdly, if they even try to, they’re going to lose the rich, and the rich are going to move out. A lot of them are. So it can’t happen. So here’s my question. How soon will the voters, at least to some degree, start turning on this lunatic in New York?
SPEAKER 04 :
I think by the end of next year, when none of the things that he promised materialize, I think by the end of next year, he’s going to be in a world of hurt. It’s going to take a year. You know, he can buy time. Oh, we’re working on it. We’re making progress. But you only sing that song so long. So I give until this time next year.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I mean, here’s my big question, of course, is what are we looking at for? You know, tell you what, let’s let’s take a break, because when we come back, I’m going to prep you right now. Here’s what I want you to answer, Joe. What is November of twenty six look like right now? We’re getting clobbered in every election. Their message is selling, but we’ve got an economic boom. about to happen pretty much March, I think March through August. Okay, what is it going to look like in 26 as a result? Answer that when we come back with Jersey Joe. Up next is Roof Savers. The clock is ticking, and your roof could start leaking any time. Don’t wait for another winter storm. Get it checked out now with Dave Hart at Roof Savers. Call Dave at 303-710-6916.
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SPEAKER 07 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Pate filling in for John Rush. And we’ve got Jersey Joe in the line. Joe, really quick here, I just got a post on Facebook that came to me. It says, I actually prefer tinnitus over Mariah Carey. You do tend to hear her a lot at the holidays. I can understand that. Although I got to be honest, I love her voice. I do. Okay, Joe, you’re up. Go, sir.
SPEAKER 04 :
All right. Well, actually, that’s a tease up another piece of economic data that we hadn’t talked about, which was about eight days ago. They came out with the inflation report year over year. It was down to 2.7. Now, economists, again, have predicted 3.1. Yeah. So in answer to your question, I’m going to flash back 30 years to James Carville. It’s the economy, stupid, right? Right. So so if in fact we can keep inflation going down. And one of the issues is that under Biden, wages were not under Biden, by the way, we were having six, seven percent inflation per year and wages were not keeping up with inflation. Now, when you get GDP north of four percent and you have and I both fully believe as these project construction projects start to come online. And again, it’s not just the work at the site. it’s all of the feeder industries, you know, copper pipe, wiring, bricks, rebar, you know, all the stuff that goes into it, the lighting fixtures, plumbing fixtures, that you’re going to have a boom. You’re going to see unemployment go down. When unemployment goes down close to 3%, employers start to compete for employees and wages go up and you’ll see wages for the first time in probably six years, wages increasing at a rate faster than inflation.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, they already are, Joe. They already are. The last quarter, and I think it’s now the last two quarters, one or two quarters, the wages are now rising substantially faster than inflation.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. And to the extent that you can keep wages growing and inflation coming down, that delta is going to get even bigger and bigger. So sooner or later, people, and by the way, gas is now in some places at or below two bucks a gallon. Right. which is half of what it was four years ago.
SPEAKER 07 :
And the places, and here’s the best part, the places where it isn’t are blue states, where they’re not going to vote for us anyway.
SPEAKER 04 :
Right. By the way, California could be looking with three refineries shutting down. California could be looking at $7 gas next year.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, well, here’s a question. Don’t run on from that. If they get $7 gas out there, let’s even say $6.50, whatever, right? Really expensive gas. If it gets like that, We have a few U.S. House seats in California that they barely won back from us this last time around. Could those be in play? Could the Republicans actually seize them again next November? I mean, if Californians are paying that much for gas and it’s all, look, they know it’s because of their people. They know that. There’s no question. They can’t pawn this off on Republicans no matter what they do.
SPEAKER 04 :
Could we get those seats back? When you can look at St. George, Utah, you know, when you can drive across the border to Arizona, and by the way, a lot of people from California drive to Las Vegas for the weekend. And when you leave, when you cross the border and the price of a gallon of gas drops by $4, $3, or $4, you know, you can’t not comprehend… you know, that it’s a state government issue.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, and then, Joe, they tell their friends. And they say to their friends, man, I just went over to Vegas for the weekend. Jeez, Louise, you wouldn’t believe what I paid for gas. Coming back, I wish I… You know, I’m just saying, I think it’s possible, if we don’t have a blue wave… If we don’t have a blue wave, and I’m telling you, the economy could turn it around if Trump, by the way, stops offending people like his post with Reiner. I’m sorry. I’m not saying most of it wasn’t true. It was true, but it just wasn’t well-timed, okay? Well, go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
No, no, you’re right. He’s his own worst enemy. He’s not helping the party.
SPEAKER 07 :
He didn’t there. I mean, let’s face it. He’s helped the party in a lot of big ways. He didn’t there. I mean, look what he’s done with the border. It’s incredible. So if… We pick up a couple seats in California. We’re looking really good in November, I think.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and again, I think it all comes down to what’s happening to the economy. Again, if all these, you know, this $20 trillion of investment starts to translate into facilities being built, I think we’re going to have low unemployment, increasing wages, increasing GDP. And again, unless something happens, I think it’s looking very, very good for the Republicans in the midterms next year. That’s my prediction. But time will tell.
SPEAKER 07 :
Time will tell. We’re going to have a better idea. I think come June, July, we’re going to have a very good idea. And my prediction is that… Okay, I’m going to predict this. that right now we are at our lowest point with the voters. The voters are killing us right now. All the swing voters are going blue at the moment. They’re killing us. And all these people say, oh, those were just elections in blue states in November. Folks, no. Lower level seats that were held by Republicans for a long time have been going to Democrats. Other seats, places like your state, New Jersey and Virginia that went to Democrats, they went to Democrats by eight to ten points above the projected limits. So, look, they’re killing us right now. Let’s just call it. Call a spade a spade. They’re killing us. OK, I think that I can guarantee one thing. Those numbers will be pretty drastically lowered going into November.
SPEAKER 04 :
From your lips to God’s ears, Andy, and I know you pray a lot, so.
SPEAKER 07 :
There you go. Okay, go, sir.
SPEAKER 04 :
What do you got next? I don’t want to dwell on these, but I just want to try to hit three or four things in the time we have left. Go. I want to talk about a couple of tragedies.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, we’ll have one more break, so go ahead and do one of them, then we’ll do a break. Go.
SPEAKER 04 :
Fairfax, Virginia. You know what a detainee request is, right? When one agency… finds out you’ve locked up a bad guy they’ve been looking for, they put a detainer request to say, hey, before you release him, call us. We want to come pick this guy up. Right. Because we want him. Yeah, of course. So I learned that Fairfax County, Virginia, had arrested a bad guy they were looking for. And not just because he was here illegally, but he was an illegal alien who had committed several crimes. He was a bad guy. Right. Well, Fairfax, Virginia, Fairfax County, Virginia, intentionally ignored their detainer request. set the guy free without telling ICE. Within 24 hours, this guy had murdered another individual with a gun, by the way. A guy with a gun, an illegal alien with a gun, shouldn’t be able to get a gun, right?
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, I wonder what the new state DA, the racist, evil DA, who wished for death upon his opponent and his kids, I wonder what that DA has to say about this now.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, I don’t think he’s taken office yet. No, but he’s coming in.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’d like to hear. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 04 :
I hope some reporter asks him about what does he think about this. So now let’s move on to another. Again, do we need to take the break now or do we have time for the other? No, do one more. Go. All right. Now, this is not a legal alien, but you know the old saying, the road to hell is paved with good intentions? Yeah. There’s an organization called the Bail Project, and they’re a nonprofit. They raise money from donors. And their goal is to put up the bail for people in jail awaiting trial so these people don’t have to spend months in jail until their trial comes up before a judge and jury. Well, I can understand if you’re arrested for shoplifting, maybe even DUI, burglary, some nonviolent crime. But there was a guy convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. The judge set his bail at a million dollars. Million dollars. They put up 10%, $100,000 to bail out this violent felon. Within five days, he also got a gun. This is in Cleveland. Got on their equivalent of light rail. They call it RTA. Just walked up and shot this stranger to death five days later. If you were the head of the bail project, Would you be rethinking how you’re investing your money? Yeah.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, you know, and there’s two reasons. Obviously, you put a dangerous person back on the streets. But, Joe, if you had to put $100,000 up for that one, what about all these lower ones like you and I are talking about, the ones that are nonviolent? They’re not going to be nearly as large in numbers. You could have bailed out a bunch of people instead of him.
SPEAKER 04 :
You could have bailed out, you know, the typical shoplifter, you know, maybe a burglary, you know, it’s a $5,000 burglary. bond which is you know five hundred dollars for the you know the bail is five thousand you got to put a ten percent you you could have bailed out fifty to a hundred people of not for with non-violent crimes for what you paid and once you pay the bond money it’s not refundable you don’t get it back so they spent a hundred thousand to to bond out a violent felon and he murdered somebody within five days of being released on bond horrible Horrible. Horrible.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, we’ll take a break. Joe, I just don’t understand why anybody would vote for a Democrat. I know I always say that. I know people always hear it. But for crying out loud, folks, you hear these stories. Joe’s not making this stuff up. It’s actually happening. These are liberal DAs. Soros-backed, for the most part. And they’re putting these monsters back on the streets to threaten you. They need to not do that. It’s just terrible. Okay, let’s take a break. Ridgeline Auto Brokers. You don’t have to worry about this with them. They’re good people. Most dealerships, they want max profit for the big score because they think you’re only going to buy one car there. Well, Ridgeline, they hope to sell you several cars, so they want you thrilled with your deal. For more value and less hard sell, find Ridgeline Auto at klcradio.com.
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It’s time to leave your safe space. This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 07 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush for one more segment here. And I’m joined by Jersey Jojo. I just want to remind everybody, this Friday I’m going to be back. I’m going to have two blockbuster movie reviews, and the hour two topic is Best Comedies. So if you’ve got any ideas for your best comedies, get them to us, 303-477-5600. This Friday, we’re going to have fun. Joe, take us home.
SPEAKER 04 :
Are you up to speed on the fake letter they found, the fake letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar they found in the Epstein files?
SPEAKER 07 :
I saw something on that, yeah. Flesh that out for me because I only saw it briefly.
SPEAKER 04 :
Okay, so the Trump DOJ has been releasing the Epstein files recently, all of which were compiled during the Biden administration.
SPEAKER 07 :
And by the way, can I remind people, you remind people, how much of this did Biden release?
SPEAKER 04 :
Zero. Oh, thank you. None, nana, zip, zilch.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, but I thought Trump was hiding things. Okay, go ahead, Joe.
SPEAKER 04 :
Sorry. Anyway, I don’t know if the name Larry Nassar rings a bell. He was the guy that was the doctor for the U.S. Genetics team in Michigan State University. And at the time… Real piece of work. And he eventually got convicted in serving 40 to 175 years for his abuse of 160 women, sexually abusing them in his role as, you know, the sports team’s doctor. Anyway, there was this letter that was sent supposedly by Epstein to Nassar. And in the letter, it’s very damning because this letter, and this is a quote, it said, And this is from Epstein, supposedly from Epstein to Nasser, says, Good luck. We shared one thing, our love and caring of young ladies and the hope that they’d reach their full potential. It goes on. Our president also shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by, he loved to grab, boom, boom, whereas we ended up snatching, boom, and mess up. And it was signed J. Epstein. Now, very, very damning saying that our president, meaning Trump, love to do these, love young, nubile girls. And this letter, which was sent to Nassar, found its way into the Epstein files compiled by the Biden DOJ. Guess what? FBI came out and said letters are fake, wasn’t his handwriting. It was sent three days after he died. And oh, by the way, the return address on the envelope is fraudulent because it has the wrong address and it doesn’t include his
SPEAKER 07 :
inmate number which is required on all outgoing mail from the prison okay joe now this gets back to what i was talking about the reason i didn’t like the releasing of all the files was very simple the chain of custody has been broken the bad guys have held all this evidence for four years you don’t know how much they’ve doctored now maybe that was already doctored beforehand but i’m just saying how easy would it be for them to create all kinds of entries like this
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, and this in this particular while removing entries they don’t want in there. Go ahead. Let’s move on to one thing. Have you heard about the fundraising for the Biden library?
SPEAKER 07 :
Is there any?
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, by the way, put in context, Obama’s raised 1.5 billion, build a billion, and he’s making a presidential center, not just the library, it’s going to have a theater and a concert hall, kind of like the Kennedy Center. He’s got 1.5 billion. Trump’s woman is way 950 million. Biden to date has only 4 million. He’s looking for at least 250 to build a modest facility. He has 4 million of which… That’s okay because… No, no, no, really quick.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s okay because he’s just building the closets for Trump’s place.
SPEAKER 04 :
Well, and let me tell you, and the 4 million, almost none of it is donations. It was leftover money from his presidential campaign. One of the things you can do… If you have money left over from your campaign fund, you can donate it to a nonprofit. So his campaign committee donated the vast majority of the $4 million to his presidential library fund. Now, the trustees of that fund have then advised the IRS, their projection, they hope by the end of 27, which is two years away, to have a total of $11.7 million, which means in the next 24 months, they intend to raise only another $7 million and they need 250, he’ll be the first president in the history of this country, instead of a library, to have a fleet of bookmobiles.
SPEAKER 07 :
I know. Think about this. That’s funny. Think about this, Joe. Where’s the money going to come from? Obviously not Republicans. They hate him. Obviously not independents. They left the Democrats for the Republicans in 24 because of him. And how’s it going to come from Democrats who blame him for their losses in 24?
SPEAKER 04 :
That’s the point. They view him, number one, Obama still has juice. Obama is not impotent. Even the Clinton is not impotent. Trump is certainly not impotent. I think they view Biden as a failure, as an impotent failure with no influence. And they’re angry at him. So, you know, I don’t if I was a Democrat, I’d be angry at Joe Biden. And I’d be damned if I gave Joe Biden a dollar if I blamed him for Trump being in the White House today.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, I agree. I agree. OK, so you got under three minutes.
SPEAKER 04 :
Go. We all heard about the nine billion worth of fraud up in Michigan from the I think 97 of the 99 defendants are Somalian. You mean Minneapolis? Minneapolis, right, Minneapolis. Okay, go ahead. Minneapolis, 97 of the 99 defendants are Somalian. But we have two. Up in Massachusetts, two people of Haitian descent have been indicted on $7 million of snap fraud. They claim they have sold $7 million. Whoa. They claim to have sold 7 million worth of food to SNAP recipients. And they claim to have done it out of two tiny, one was a 12 by 12 storefront. That’s the size of a bedroom. And the other was 500 square feet, 20 by 25. And what they were doing, they were buying SNAP cards for cash at a 50% discount. In other words, if you’re a drug addict and you got a SNAP card, you know, okay, you got $400 SNAP card, I’ll give you 200 bucks for it. And then they were claiming that they sold $400 worth of food. And the other thing they were doing, they were taking free meals from NGOs that were supposed to go to the homeless people, and they were selling those free meals, government-funded free meals for $8 a package.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and by the way, Joe, this is really sad, but a drug addict could go to them, do that, right, get $200 for drugs, and then go to a church and get fed.
SPEAKER 04 :
Mm-hmm. Yep. So, you know, so again, you’ve got illegal immigrants and Somalian nationals are gaming the system. And it was stunning that it’s now almost $10 billion worth of fraud up in Minneapolis. And now we’ve got it by Haitian immigrants in doing the same thing up in the Boston area.
SPEAKER 07 :
Terrible. Just terrible. By the way, did you see Babylon Bee came out with a post and said, just to be sure, all the people in Michigan are being arrested. Just to be sure. Okay. Well, got anything else, sir? You got 30 seconds.
SPEAKER 04 :
Yeah, real quick. Yeah, go. San Francisco, the lights went out, and they got all those Waymo driverless cars. Yeah. When they came to the intersections where the traffic lights are, they’re programmed to say, hey, there’s a traffic light here. Do not proceed until you see that the light’s green. Well, all the lights went dark, so every Waymo driverless car in the city of San Francisco stopped dead at the intersection. Okay. Massive. So it’s bad enough the power went out. You had massive traffic jams because these Waymo cars were stopped dead in the middle of the road waiting for the light to turn green.
SPEAKER 07 :
Oh, wow. Fantastic. Joe, really quick here. I just want to wish you once again a Merry Christmas. Thanks for doing this all year long. You are such a treat for all the listeners. It’s just wonderful. I hope to hear from you again on Friday. I’ll definitely hear from you again next week. And folks, for all of you, Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. And please, please, please stay safe. Drive safe. Don’t drink and drive. And just have a great time with your family. You all deserve it. Folks, that’s it for today. Hour 1 replays next. And until then, drive safe. God bless. And thanks for joining us at Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
