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In this episode of Rush to Reason, host John Rush welcomes Ammon Blair, Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, to discuss pressing issues involving the Mexican cartels and their deep-rooted influence within the country. Blair, drawing from his extensive experience with the U.S. Border Patrol, highlights the alarming extent to which cartels control both illegal and legitimate businesses. They delve into America’s dependency on trade and how it complicates efforts to combat these powerful organizations.
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All right, we are back. Hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Okay, Ammon Blair joining us now. Ammon, welcome. How are you, sir? Good. How are you, sir? I’m good. Always a joy having you, Senior Fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. You’re a 20-plus year veteran at the U.S. Border Patrol. And we were actually going to talk about Australia, the shootings and things there. But since I had booked you and we had all of the activity going on in Venezuela and all of that, I thought we’d switch gears and talk about that because that’s a lot more pertinent today.
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Oh, 100% probably.
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So, again, shifting gears, and you know all of what’s gone on there, and there’s still a lot of, I think, unanswered questions as to how deep does the corruption run in Venezuela. There was a post that somebody had sent me on our text line a little bit ago that somebody inside of the regime is posting politicians in the U.S. that have been on the take from that particular regime and so on. Ammon, I’m not sure we understand how deep the corruption really is.
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Yeah, you know, if you look back, it really started, this creeping of communism really started in Cuba on the Western Hemisphere. And then it shifted to Hugo Chavez and then to Maduro. And so, unfortunately, the people that you can see today, whether that’s on social media, elected officials, anyone else that’s countering the actions taken by the Trump administration and the and a successful operation done by our special operators, you can really tell who is, I guess you could say, on the take or who benefits from our failures in conducting security in the Western Hemisphere. I did also see that list, but I was actually looking into that list as well. They were naming a lot of people to include our senator here in Texas. But it was actually… And so right now, there is an indictment, and we’re going to probably learn more. If you read the 19-page indictment, you’ll see that really who was really named. And actually, the largest name was actually Mexico and the Mexican cartels that Venezuela and Maduro was actually working with.
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And that doesn’t surprise me. I think that’s why I said this earlier in the first hour. And I I don’t think I’m wrong in this. And I know enough people in Mexico and have some folk there that I know that that watch, you know, the politics and what’s going on with, you know, leadership and cartels and so on. And the Mexican president, of course, has come out and attacking Trump, you know, for what happened there. And I’ll just say it straight up. Yeah, because she is in she’s on the take from the cartels. It’s pretty well known in Mexico that that’s the case. So, yes, she’s going to be upset because her paycheck just got affected.
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Yeah, 100%. If you noticed right before this, Mexico really saw what was going to happen. And so that’s why they started, if you noticed about a month ago, Venezuela was the one that was trading with Cuba in terms of barrels of oil. And that shifted to Mexico. And also within the indictment, you’ll see that particularly two Mexican cartels were heavily involved in Venezuela. And that was Sinaloa cartel and the Zetas cartel. Now the cartel of Noreste. And so you’ll see that for the most part, the reason why Scheinbaum and the Mexican government and her party is going against the actions is it’s because they’re probably next. And now President Trump has come out and said that she’s a good person, but the cartel is actually controlled. Unfortunately, we kind of saw that same type of rhetoric yesterday. in the first Trump administration, after the Mormons were killed, if you remember, by La Linea Cartel in Northern Mexico in 2019. Later, President Trump stated that AMLO was good, and then if you notice, nothing actually happened to the cartels, and AMLO got away scot-free. And so what we’re worried about at Texas Public Policy Foundation, as well as American First Policy Institute, is that this very same thing may happen, that history may repeat itself. And if it does so, unfortunately, the next place that China, Russia, Iran, and all of our adversaries are going to use as opposed to Venezuela is going to be Mexico.
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Yeah, and in a way, China has already kind of started to try to infiltrate there. I know Mexico has been big on not allowing, for example, BYD cars and other things to actually infiltrate Mexico because they’re worried about their own manufacturing and so on. So it’s funny. It’s kind of like, in a way, a love-hate relationship. And I’m not disagreeing with you. I think you’re right. I think what will happen is there’ll just be more pressure put on Mexico through the likes of Russia and China. And it’ll be interesting to see how that plays out. One question I’ve always had, and I’ve asked this numerous times, because to me, knowing the power that we as a U.S. have… I’ve never understood why we allow the cartels to actually run a country like Mexico. That’s exactly what happens. The cartels literally, all the different factions of, you know this as well as I am, and I go to Mexico quite often, just got back from going on a vacation over the holidays down there, and the reality is, yes, the cartels run the country. It’s plain and simple. Everybody there knows that. And I’ve never figured out why we allow that to happen.
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Yeah, great question. I think a big reason is trade. You know, actually, Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch, after President Trump decided not to designate them as terrorist organizations in 2019, he came out against President Trump in an official statement and said, the Trump administration has continuously chosen trade over our security. And this has been the case. If you talk to former DEA agents, if you talk to anyone in that realm, you’ll notice that the State Department said, and the U.S. government has always chosen trade. Now, when you look at our current trade now, we are at a complete deficit with Mexico, whether that’s in regards to automobile parts and in our agriculture. If you look, when you’re down there in Mexico, you’ll see, like if you’re in Michoacan or Jalisco, you’ll see that the CGNG, Knights Templar, or La Familia Michoacana completely control all ads. And when you see that and you see how much we actually have to import in order for us to feed our families, We are completely dependent on foreign terrorist organizations to feed ourselves. And if we were to immediately cut that off, Mexico knows.
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So in other words, in a way, what you’re saying is they really, in a lot of ways, have us over a barrel. So then I guess the question would be, and by the way, I like you. I call Donald Trump out on things where I feel he needs called out on. I also understand, in this particular case, a predicament because— It’s a dicey situation. You have to be careful, you know, who you go after and what you – you know, you’ve got to be careful not to cut your nose off to spite your face because at the end of the day, then you’re noseless and we don’t want that. And I understand their predicament. On the same token, you know, there’s – we are a huge country. You know, we are the largest – country by GDP by a long shot over anybody else. We have resources most other countries do not have. I understand the climate and different things that happen along those lines when it comes to growing and agriculture and so on. But Ammon, there’s got to be a fix to some of the things you and I are talking about. And I just wonder at times, have we just never gone down the path of fixing it because the other is too easy?
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Yeah, we’ve never gone down that path at all. In fact, in terms of subject matter experts on the Mexican cartels, you still have people today, whether that’s Inside Crime or others, stating that the cartels are not even foreign terrorist organizations, that they should never have been designated. Yet they’ll sit there on social media and show them beheading people on a daily basis or bombing people with drones. and yet they still refuse to see or say what they’re seeing themselves.
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I know firsthand. I have friends whereby somewhere or another a family member got involved with a cartel either on purpose or by accident. Someone would say, well, how do you do that by accident? Trust me, it can happen. You can end up in their grip and not even know that’s what’s happening business-wise and so on. And I know for a fact, Ammon, that it is very, very, very difficult to get away from those folks once you’re involved with them.
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Yeah, and that’s the thing is, just like any insurgency, they walk amongst the population. That’s right. It’s not like you can sit there and see, oh, that’s a foreign enemy. They’re in a different uniform. No, that uniform is a civilian uniform, and in fact, it could be part of your family. And so when you see that and you see that cross-border and you see how many people inside the United States actually are culturally aligned to Mexican cartels, there was actually a really good documentary called Narco Cultura. And it talks about that narco culture that has crossed over into the U.S., whether that’s in diasporas of the Hispanic communities or whatnot. And it showed how we celebrate, like listening to narco corridos, listening to the songs put out by the Mexican cartels, or just… loving that lavish lifestyle where people worship, whether that is Chapo Guzman or whatnot. And so really, that invasion inside the United States that we are having to deal with in terms of rhetoric in the information space, is that they, once again, they walk among us, but also culturally and socioeconomically, we are so intertwined.
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Well, and I’ll add one more thing to this, and I can’t prove this, although I go to Mexico enough to where I think I can see enough with my own eyes to realize what happens. And the other thing that’s happened with the cartels, which most people don’t realize, is they run a lot of what I would call quote-unquote legitimate businesses because it’s how they launder a lot of their money through. In other words, they own… They own places like that. In other words, they’re legitimately running things. And by the way, run them fairly well because they know they need tourism and those folks coming in so they can launder their money. And partially why a lot of those places and resorts and stuff stay fairly safe, Ammon, is because they know if they’re not, they won’t have that ability to do what I just said. So most people don’t realize that the cartels are running a lot of the same places they’re going and enjoying.
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Yeah, and that’s something that people tend to forget. They look at the fentanyl numbers going down. They look at the illegal aliens coming down. They don’t realize that the Mexican cartels are – in almost every single illicit and licit business.
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That’s right.
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Like you said, just to launder money, but also because they can subsidize. And they make money at it.
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They’re not only laundering, but they’re making money at the same time.
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Yep. Yeah, and so they can subsidize. Say if there’s a loss, they can subsidize it with their narcotics or other illicit activities.
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That’s right.
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So that means that they can come in, lower the price, depress the price. We’ll talk about agriculture here in the United States. They can depress the price of blueberries or avocados or anything else like that.
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Oh, the avocado thing, as you know, for those of you listening that don’t know, huge story a couple of years ago on avocados and what the cartels did to control avocado prices.
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Yeah, and so what they did to control those avocado prices, once again, they either extort the farmers there or they actually control the entire logistical supply chain. from the seed all the way into the United States. To include the transportation, we talk about the CDL issue. Well, that issue is also a big part of this, since the Mexican government issues out non-domicile CDLs, and Texas has actually showed that many of them have been just given to people who shouldn’t have been qualified. They’re either foreign nationals, Mexican nationals, or U.S. citizens even that can’t even qualify. So they’re utilizing that same type of that method to bring them into the United States, depress those prices, destroy our domestic supply chain, so that way their supply chain can actually increase. So not only are they increasing their illicit business, but it also helps them increase their illicit business.
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That’s right. Again, all of this, it’s a deep subject. I am sure that the Trump administration and folks there understand everything you and I are talking about, and I know it’s not an easy fix. I just wonder at times, Ammon, if we always take, as a country, the path of least resistance, meaning we just allow them to operate because it’s easier?
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I think so. I think we’ve realized that we’re dependent upon them. The hard road is, I mean, think about it. How hard is it going to be to bring back manufacturing or being able to feed ourselves? Now, there are a lot of organizations like RCAF USA for the cattle industry and others that are trying to rebuild that domestic supply chain. But it is very difficult when you have multinational corporations that profit off of those cheap goods.
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And everything you just said, by the way, is something we tend to forget, too. And I understand enough about how these things work on not only the ag side but some of the other. It’s not an overnight fix, Ammon, as you know. I mean, even if the Trump administration today decided we’re going to really work hard at going down that path of fixing this, this is a decade, Ammon. This doesn’t get fixed in a year.
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No, this is going to be past Trump. That’s right. But Trump can do certain things to… At least get us started. Yeah, to get started, he can actually start saying, you know what, guys? The Mexican cartels are not just in fentanyl. They’re not just in narcotics. They’re not just in smuggling human beings. They’re in every facet of our society. That’s right. And we must attack them, just like what we did to Venezuela, where we went to after every single facet to include oil… to go after Venezuela and that regime. We must do the exact same thing to Mexico and Mexican cartels.
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I can’t argue that. And in fact, on top of that, Ammon, I will tell you this. There are people that work inside of those cartels that honestly, if the cartel weren’t there and somebody else was running a legitimate company, they would produce the exact same things that we have right now just without the thumb of the cartel being on top of them. So the reality is you could get rid of the cartel and still produce what needs to be produced. In fact, might even produce it better with a lot less bloodshed And we’ve got to start someplace to do that.
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Yeah, 100%. We’ve got to start someplace. And that’s why we, like Texas Public Policy Foundation, we’re really at the front line of this in terms of discussing about Mexico-Mexican cartels. I know that the Venezuelan thing is hot right now in the press. But really, at the end of the day, Mexico is our key strategic center of gravity in in terms of security in the Western Hemisphere. And especially now that Venezuela has now gone under this operation, everything is now going to be focused on Mexico. And that’s why President Scheinbaum, the complete Moreno party, her governors, everyone is digging the trenches now and going against the Trump administration in this because they now realize that they are going to be the center of for all of our adversaries to operate within Mexico.
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You got it. Ammon, as always, I appreciate it. Thanks for switching gears with me today. That worked out perfectly. How do folks find you?
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Yes, sir. They can find me either at the Texas Public Policy Foundation at TexasPolicy.com, or you can find me on Twitter at Ammon S. Blair. That’s my Twitter handle. And all my research and everything else can be found there.
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You’re awesome. Appreciate you, Ammon. Have a good night, sir.
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All right, thanks, sir, for having me.
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TJ here with KLZ Radio, and I’ve got Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial with us once again. Al, we are coming into a new year here now, and we’ve talked recently about getting a fresh look at our retirement accounts. So tell me what that means a little bit. What kind of stuff do you want folks to look at?
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You got it, Al. And as always, you can reach Al from the klzradio.com website. Just go to klzradio.com slash money. Al, thanks so much for joining us today.
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Well, you’re welcome. Thanks for having me, TJ.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thanks for joining us again. And all right, Kamala Harris. I don’t know why I’m even mentioning this because I guess because she ran for president of the United States. We all know the story there. She is blasting Trump and his administration for the capture of Maduro as unlawful and unwise. Now, this, by the way, is coming from somebody that has, in my opinion, absolutely zero common sense. On top of that, has zero sense when it comes to things that happen around the world, foreign policy and so on. And thank God she is not our president today, because if she were, you would not have seen what we just had happen happen. In fact, she would be more of one of those that not saying that she’s on the take or there’s anybody on the take. Again, we heard from Ammon a moment ago where some of that is clickbait and, you know, who knows. And what I’m going to say there is who knows. That’s what I was talking about in the first hour. Don’t share anything unless we know for sure that it’s actually real and true and everything has to be vetted and so on. Would it shock me that there are politicians, by the way, on both sides of the aisle on the take from an organization like that? No, it would not. Am I accusing anybody of that? No, because I don’t have any names in front of me. I haven’t even seen the clickbait that he was talking about. And it wouldn’t shock me. But I won’t share any of that, of course, because I don’t have any factual evidence to back that up. But on a lengthy post on X. Harris acknowledged that Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but said that Donald Trump’s actions in Venezuela do not make America safer, stronger, or more affordable. Again, this is a very unintelligent woman. I’m sorry, I don’t know how to say it. She’s dumb as a rock. I said that when she was running for president. Yes, it will make America safer. It’s already proven that we’re stronger. And lastly, will it make things more affordable? I looked at oil prices this morning, and they’re $57 a barrel. Now, just as a side note, they should be higher than that because our own oil companies need it to be about $65 or so a barrel to really make things work on their end. So $57 is a little low, but $57 means your gas prices will come down. It means that your daily needs and the things that you buy, groceries and so on, those prices will come down because all of those involve transportation costs. When you see diesel especially drop in price, you’re going to see the cost of goods come down. So will it make things more affordable in the actions that were just taken? It absolutely will. As you start getting in oil companies to invest in Venezuela, and we start extracting more oil from there, and we bring that into the refineries that we have that will actually refine that sour crude oil, which is what comes out of Venezuela. And the way that works, by the way, is if you look at a map of Venezuela – As you are further west on the map, it’s more sour, and it gets a little sweeter as you head the other direction, as you head east in Venezuela. That’s what I’ve learned by doing some research over the weekend. Regardless, we can refine their oil. And it’s similar oil to what we get out of Canada, which, again, strategically gives us more power over Canada. Immediately, Donald Trump got more trading power over Canada in one single four-hour action. So don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. And I’m sorry, Kamala, but you’re extremely inaccurate in what you’re saying. Not surprised because these are Democrat talking points. But it will make America stronger. It has made and will make America safer. And yes, in fact, it will make America more affordable because of the things that I just said a moment ago. So, again, these are talking points coming out of the left, and they’re all going to be in unison on this, and they’re all dumb as rocks. And even the people that are protesting this, they’re dumb as rocks. They have no idea what they’re protesting. I watched plenty of videos over the weekend of folks not only in Venezuela but are here that are from Venezuela praising the president and the United States of America for what it did. Opposite of what these protesters are doing because these protesters in most cases are paid. They’re either paid or very much they’ve drank the Kool-Aid for the left, and they really have no idea what they’re talking about or doing, which that’s possible because there’s a lot of those out there, a lot of clueless people out there. One thing I learned on vacation, Charlie always asks me, what do you learn on vacation? Well, what I learned on vacation is the more I travel, the more clueless I realize people are. I’m sorry, but they just are. I watch how they travel. I watch what they do. I watch what they pay attention to. I watch their body language and their actions and so on, and they’re clueless. I would go as far as to say, and I don’t think my numbers are too far off. In fact, I might be high in this number. Only 5% do. So 95% of the people that you’re around when you’re traveling and whatever you’re doing, they’re the clueless ones. Only 5% have a clue. And again, it might be 1%, but I’m going high. I’m going to say 5%. But 95% of people are clueless, have no idea what they’re doing. And literally, and it’s getting worse. I’m sorry to say, but it’s getting worse. The younger generation is even making it worse because they’re more clueless. And this is not an older generation picking on a younger generation. It’s just me being observant. They’re clueless. They have no idea what’s going on. If somebody’s not leading them, holding their hand, helping them go from one place to another, they don’t have any idea what to do. They honestly do not know. If I saw one person staring at a, you know, whatever, a board or whatever, like a monkey reading a roadmap, you know, I saw thousands of those. I mean, people literally are 1,000% clueless when they go someplace. They really have no idea what they’re doing. And am I being gracious? No, I’m being very honest in the way people behave. And it goes back to, you know, these talking points from Kamala and what the left does. They know they have a certain amount of lemmings out there that if they put something out, these people will agree to it and reiterate the same thing over and over again. They’ll regurgitate it. They’ll be a songbird for that because they’re clueless. They have no idea what they’re talking about. Again, you’re going to hear a lot from the left about how bad this is, how wrong this is, how it’s going to be bad for Venezuela, how this isn’t good for the people, this, that, and the other. Don’t believe any of it because it’s all a lie. It’s all one big fabricated lie by design to make Americans doubt what Donald Trump did. And it’s not just Donald Trump. Our administration and our servicemen and women, by the way, they’re the ones that did this and performed this, by the way, in a very fantastic, fabulous, quick way. I sound like Donald Trump saying all of that, but he’s right. They did a fabulous job in what they did in getting that taken care of. All right, we’ll be back here in a moment. Geno’s Auto Service coming up next. Now, making sure that your vehicle works and is in top working order. Yes, it takes a lot to make that happen. Geno’s can help you with all of that. Find them today at klzradio.com or genosautoservice.com. And Geno starts with a J.
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All right, we are back. One last thing, too, that I want to mention that Kamala Harris said was that the American public don’t want this. I’d really like to ask her face-to-face, how does she know? They definitely didn’t want her as president, and yet she thought they did. So how does she know what they want in regards to Venezuela? Again, folks, these are just talking points from the left. And not to get off on a tangent, but I need to remind everybody. I understand not everybody on the left is a Marxist communist, but the core is. Okay, the core is. And it’s like explaining that, you know, the core of any religion, of any faith-based, you know, system is X. Christianity, Judaism, Mormonism, I can go down the list. And I get it. At the core, and there are people that are really hard core believers in whatever that is, and they’re the core of that institution, okay? That’s the left as well. And I also understand that like any other organization, churches included, you can get people that are out on the fringes. They’re a part of it because they like this or they like that or they like this aspect of it or so on, and maybe they haven’t bought into all of what that organization believes in. And that happens. In every organization, those things happen. And it does, you know, now there probably are a few exceptions to that because in some cases you can’t be accepted and or involved in said organization unless you’ve really, you know, quote unquote, you know, bought in, you know, Freemasonry, things like that, for example. Yeah, you can’t be a fringe Freemason. It’s not allowed. They won’t let you do that. It’s kind of even hard to be a fringe Mormon, to be honest with you. You pretty much are either in or out. Now, when it comes to the left and the Marxist communist left, not everybody that’s a Democrat is a Marxist. I understand that. Although the folks that are and put a D next to their name at their core and what the Democrats believe in in their core is total Marxism. One hundred percent. And that’s where at times it’s hard to convince others of what I just said. And it’s really difficult and you have to approach it in the right manner and you have to really go through step by step as to what does a Democrat believe in and the control aspect of things and so on and really compare all of that to Marxism. And then through that, get them to understand that they themselves may not be a Marxist, but they’re supporting a Marxist movement. I.e., just like if you were a fringe whatever Christian and you go to a church periodically and you give money and you support this and you support that, you may not call yourself a full-bore, dyed-in-the-wool Christian, but you’re supporting everything that it’s involved with. It’s no different with a fringe Democrat or even a Democrat that believes in all of Democrat policies, but they wouldn’t consider themselves to be a Marxist. But you’re supporting a Marxist movement. Because that’s what the I mean, if you don’t believe what I’m saying, look at the core of the Democrat Party and what they’re fighting for. Look at what’s happening in New York City with Mamdami and look at the likes of, you know, the Fetterman’s that are going against the grain and look at the heat he’s taking from his own party and tell me I’m not wrong or tell me that I’m wrong. Reality is I’m right because it’s staring at us. I mean, this isn’t hard to figure out. There is a huge, even split, if you would, inside of the Democrat Party itself. This is something that they’re battling as much as we are on our side, because there are those out there like the AOCs of the world, the Bernies of the world, that want total Marxism through and through. Somebody texted earlier and said, be careful. We’re going to have that same situation that’s happening in New York City and some of our towns around here, Boulder and so on. I’m not arguing that. In fact, we’ve had known communists on the – in fact, one of them just left the Denver City Council. Right, Charlie? So we’ve had that. Yes, you’re 100 percent correct. It’s coming. It’s not coming. It’s here. And they’re not hiding it anymore. Could we very much have the same thing happen in Denver that’s happened in New York? Sure we could. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. In fact, I hate to say this, but Mike Johnson, our mayor, isn’t far off. There’s a big article. I read through it this morning from the Denver Post. I don’t get the Denver Post, but there was an article I was able to read through their paywall talking about the fight that is going on between the city auditor and the mayor’s office. And I think it’s $500 million or something, Charlie, that they’re trying to get accounted for that they can’t get accounted for, that the auditors are fighting literally city council and the mayor’s office for that $500 million, trying to figure out where it’s at. And really, the auditor is accusing them of mismanaging funds with homelessness and all sorts of things. It’s a battle going on right now. Trust me. I didn’t throw that in my notes today because it didn’t really apply to what I was talking about earlier today. But if you want to go look that up, go look it up. It’s happening as we speak. So the same things that are happening in other parts of the country are happening here in regards to this whole Marxist movement. And our own mayor, Johnston, frankly, in my opinion, he’s just as much of a Marxist as the next. Look at his policies. Look at his actions. I mean, sometimes people say, well, how can you prove that? Well, you know, I can prove a car is red by looking at the color of the paint that is on the car. You know, it’s pretty easy to tell the car is red. I don’t have to know how the paint was manufactured and where the car came from to know the car is red. No more than I have, you know, I don’t have to know what somebody’s belief system actually is. I can tell you based on their actions what it is. It’s not difficult. So anytime I have a conversation, I don’t argue with people anymore because I do enough of that here that when I’m in public, I just have a conversation. But when you have these conversations and you start talking about where somebody stands, it’s not hard to tell. Look at their actions. They don’t tell you exactly what side of the aisle they’re on and what they believe in. Anytime you hear somebody say, you know, we should, you know, for example, we should limit the age of such and such. People that go to this resort shouldn’t be over such and such age. I’ll give you an example. Here’s another example. We’ve already seen this. The left gets mad when there’s adult-only resorts because they think kids should be able to go anywhere. So they get mad. In fact, there’s been lawsuits over certain adult-only resorts whereby they don’t let kids in. They’ve gotten lawsuits against them because the left doesn’t think that’s the way it should be. Why? Because the left wants to control everything. They don’t think there should be limits on that. And by the way, the opposite, I think, could be said – I think there’s some Democrats out there, some on the left that would say, well, yeah, I think this particular resort should limit itself to only young people or only this or only that. That’s total control, folks. That’s how they look at things. They want to control everything. Again, I can tell you pretty much where somebody stands based upon comments they make. We, for example, conservatives – I’m kind of one of those where you do you. I’m not going to tell you what to do. You do you. You’ll suffer the consequences, but you do you. I’m not going to tell you what to do. I’m not going to limit what you can or can’t do. Now, within reason, you can’t murder people. You can’t do this. You can’t do that. We have laws for that, but you want to be gay? Be gay. I don’t care. More power to you. You want to be a hardcore person on the right, Christian, whatever? Knock your socks off. You want to believe in whatever you want to believe in? You know, fine, go for it. Just don’t harm somebody else in the process. You can’t be an axe murderer. Yeah, we do have things we draw lines for. But, by the way, if you want to own an axe and you’re not a murderer, be my guest. You want to own a gun? Be my guest. You want to own a tennis racket? Be my guest. I don’t care. If you want to own a red car, a white car, a pink car, a blue car, I don’t care. You do you. We don’t care. The left gets mad anytime they can’t control something. That’s the Marxist way, by the way, because Marxism is all about control. You’ve heard the mayor of New York talk about this recently, whereby he has said, we’re finally going to have a government. I’m paraphrasing here, but basically what he said is, we’re finally going to have a government for the people. Government should never be for the people. We, the people, are government. It should never be the other way around. But that’s the Marxist way of thinking. It’s exactly what’s going on in New York City. And it’s going to, yes, as I had a texter say earlier, it’s going to transpire. It’s going to transform itself into other cities coast to coast. Yes, it will, unless we stop it. Unless we put a halt to it, that’s exactly what’s going to happen. You’re 100% correct. I’m not arguing with you in one iota because you are 100% correct. Yes, it will. Unless we stop it, that will continue on. So I encourage you guys, as you’re having these conversations, you’re talking to family, friends, others, whereby. In fact, they may be even trying to push your buttons at times, trying to figure out exactly where you stand. The whole force versus freedom conversation should come into play. Anytime somebody’s forcing something on someone else, that’s a problem, which, by the way. It’s some of the problem we on the right had. And I’ve said this before, and I’m going to come back and talk about it because, you know, history has a way of repeating itself. And we on our side, we have been guilty of some of what I’m talking about. And frankly, the left stole from our playbook, and I’ll explain why here, or I’ll explain how as soon as I come back. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning coming up next. Make sure your furnace is dialed in. There’s new rules, new laws, not rules, laws around furnaces here in Colorado. Talk to Cub Creek today. Find them at klzradio.com.
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All right, just got a text message that is a quote from Mamdani, I should say, this year, just a few days ago. We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism. Folks, that’s Marxism in and of itself. That, you know, government is the caretaker, is the ruler. You owe everything to them. Again, it’s a replacement. This is what’s so weird because, you know, he’s a, you know, Islamist and yet believes in Marxism, which is kind of interesting in and of itself because I don’t know how he I don’t know how that works. I’ll be honest with you, that one I have a hard time wrapping my head around because he’s got his own political ideology with Islam that in a way is similar to Marxism because it’s either their way or the highway, but they do believe in Allah. which Marxism doesn’t believe in anything as a higher power. Government is the higher power. So I don’t know how he blends those two together. I’ll be quite honest with you. That one is weird to me. If one of you have an idea on that and you want to text me your thoughts, I’m all ears, because that one, I’ll be on it. Charlie, I think you would agree, that one I have a hard time wrapping my head around, because as an Islamist, you do believe in a higher power. They believe in Allah. By the way, not the same God we believe in, and I know that’s been debated, but it’s not. They don’t believe in the same God I believe in or Charlie believes in or you believe in. It’s different. Trust me. It’s not the same. At any rate, I don’t want to go down that path. At the end of the day, though, he does believe in a quote-unquote higher power, which isn’t government because in Islam, even though it’s a political ideology system form of government, if you would, they still believe in a higher power. It’s not government being the higher power. So that one’s weird. I’ll just say straight up, that’s weird. But he’s a total Marxist. You can tell that by his quotes, what he’s doing, what he’s going to try to do in New York City. And I can guarantee you there’s going to be battles coming up, even when it comes to free buses and things like that, because he doesn’t have the power to actually offer the things that he’s going to offer or that he is offering. So it’ll be interesting to see how that all works out. But New York got what they asked for. New York City, I should say, got what it asked for. And is that coming to another city near you? Yeah, it very well could be. Unless we, again, fight back, choke that back. and not allow it to happen through education, by the way, and letting people really understand, no, government’s never the answer. In fact, government can screw everything up and does. But that’s not how Marxism works. They want government to be the answer. Okay, I think I can quickly get this particular story in. I did see this one while I was on vacation, and I wanted to mention this. Children’s Hospital Denver Health, they are ending their gender-affirming care to minors. They said that because of the HHS announced referral of investigation against the hospital that would threaten Medicare and Medicaid funding. And frankly, good. They should have never been offering it in the first place. Isn’t it funny, too, how we call it gender affirming? Instead of calling it body mutilation, we call it gender affirming. See how the two different, you know, how those words mean different things? So instead of calling it what it is, which is literally human mutilation, you know, general mutilation, we’re going to call it gender affirming care. Sounds better. That’s what the left does, by the way. That’s what Marxism does. They dress something up, call it something else, get you to believe in it, brainwash you into believing that’s what it actually is when it’s not. It’s never been gender-affirming care. It’s human mutilation. It’s mutilation of kids, by the way, which, by the way, is child abuse in and of itself. And all of these doctors or anybody that would be involved in that, shame on you, by the way. You’ll answer someday. You’ll meet your maker and answer for that someday. That I do believe. So I don’t have to judge you or tell you what’s going to happen or whatever. You’ll figure that out someday on your own. And you cannot mutilate kids and not answer for that someday. And they will. And I know there’s some folks out there on the left listening to me that think that I’m just awful for the things that I say along those lines. But folks, trust me, a boy is a boy, a girl is a girl. And anybody that’s convincing those kids and offering them some sort of a way to change that is a child abuser. Period. Period. And the admins at these particular hospitals, shame on them as well. Now, I’ll tell you this. The reason why the admins are in on it, because it’s a cash cow. Huge dollars. Huge dollars. Because in most cases, insurance isn’t covering. Somebody’s writing big fat checks. These are $100,000 plus operations that somebody’s actually writing checks for and funding. And it’s a huge amount of money that these places make. So trust me, folks. This isn’t about the kids like these particular places will tell you. It’s about the dollar. It’s cashola. And I challenge anybody to come on air and fight me on that one. to prove to me that this is actually caring for kids and not about the cash. So throw that challenge out. Any of you that want to come on air and have a debate on what I just said, feel free. I’ll debate you all day long. Because there’s no way you’ll ever convince me or my audience that by cutting off body parts and changing things around for a young person, a minor, that that’s in their best interest when it’s all said and done. It’s child mutilation, it’s child abuse, and it should be stopped coast to coast. So frankly, fortunately, we at least have an administration right now that’s looking into this, and at least going after in this particular case, investigating some of the things that have been happening as far as what’s been funded, and threatening to cut all of that off to the point where they’re not going to offer it anymore. Good. Should have never offered it in the first place. So they’re fighting Children’s Hospital. Keep in mind, key word, Children’s Hospital is fighting a federal subpoena seeking medical and employment records related to gender-affirming care. But you’d have to ask yourself, why are they fighting this? Are they guilty? Yeah, they are guilty. That’s why they’re fighting it, folks. And remember the name, Children’s Hospital, which until now I had a lot of respect for. They did a lot of things, even for some family members of mine and so on, and they’ve done a lot of great things over the years to help kids. This is not one of them. This is child abuse. And I will say straight up that Children’s Hospital is guilty of child abuse in doing this. And most of you would agree with me. And I really, this is an area where I wish we had more penalties for these particular individuals that do these things because they are ruining kids’ lives. I’ve been down that path so many times on this program talking about the suicide rates and so on. I won’t do it here now. Not enough time. But you guys can go look that up for yourself. There’s no gender affirming anything. It’s literally child abuse when it’s all said and done. And these places are guilty for that. And that’s why they’re fighting it, by the way. That’s why they’re fighting it. All right, we’ll be back. One last little segment is all. Veteran Windows and Doors. Again, if you want to go right to the source, save money on Windows and Doors. There’s some great new products coming out. We talked to Dave Bancroft at 3 o’clock about some of those things. Talk to him today. 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All right, we are back. 30 seconds left. Somebody did say that guys like Mamdami, what they will do is they will use Marxism to end up creating the environment they need to further their Islamic faith along. So in other words, they’re using one thing to get to the end that they really want to achieve when it’s all said and done. You know what? I can’t disagree with that. I think you’re 100% correct on that. I really hadn’t thought about it that way, but they’re basically using Marxism as a tool to get what they want when it’s all said and done. Meaning… they’re even more of a user than what you thought they were in the first place. So with that, guys, thanks for having me back. Looking forward to 2026 with all of you. Enjoy the rest of your night. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
