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And we are back. Our number two Rush To Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, Klz560. Richard Battle joining us now.
Richard, welcome. How are you, sir?
Good afternoon, John. We’re great. Thank you so much for having us again.
Always a joy to have you. The rights of the individual should be the primary object of all governments. And yes, it should.
Doesn’t that sound good? And that was written by Mercy Otis Warren, who celebrates her 296th birthday Saturday. So I thought it’d be a good time to talk about her and her influence and our ability to learn from her even though she’s long gone.
Absolutely. So get after it. Give us some lessons here.
Well, as I’ve always said, smart people learn from their experience and brilliant people learn from the experience of others.
Good point.
Mercy Otis Warren was born in 1728. She had parents that came over on the Mayflower. What’s interesting to me is they tutored her and gave her a complete education versus the government or state schools under the British because they were kind of anti-British long before the Revolution.
And I thought that was kind of interesting. And she began writing anonymously after friends encouraged her to share her views in 1772. So that was four years before the declaration and three years before the hot war began.
Very interesting. And I wish in… I’m sure, Richard, you would say the same.
I wish we could take what we have today and go back in time. I know we progress, you know, time marches on and all of that. But there’s times where I just wish that we had the same fervor in America that they had back then.
Well, that’s true. And see, the thing that’s amazing to me, the Constitution and Declaration both worked. And when we abided by them, the country worked.
And where we’ve gotten into trouble is getting off track of following them. And part of that is this perception that human nature evolves. And if human nature evolves, then the old documents and what happened in the past don’t pertain to us anymore.
But as we’ve talked about before, human nature doesn’t evolve. And since it doesn’t, we can learn from everything in our past.
Yeah, in fact, that’s, you know, the old saying, if we don’t learn history, it’s bound to repeat itself. Because to your point, we really… People think we change and progress, and, you know, progressives think we do.
But really, Richard, at the end of the day, there’s… What does Scripture say? There’s nothing new under the sun?
Well, there’s nothing new under the sun, and imagine going to heaven with all kinds of people of all natures, and how we would be unable to relate. But since we have a human nature that never change, and then we’re given a heavenly nature, we’ll be able to relate to everybody there.
Now, and along those lines, not to get off track, but do you think some of that mentality is because of the Industrial Revolution, technology, we’ve got AI today, I mean, let’s face it, we have a lot more going on in the world today in regards to that than we’ve ever had. Yet, to your point, at the same time, Richard, we don’t change. The world around us may, but human nature doesn’t.
Well, exactly, and those are just tools or instruments for us to use. And I think what she wrote about in the quote you read earlier was individual liberty, which we don’t see many politicians discussing today. They talk about the collective or groups.
And when we do that, that divides people by the collectives or groups. Whereas if we’re individual and we have a liberty, which is better than freedom, individual liberty, then we can legislate things that are good for everyone. And we don’t try to pick winners and losers based on specific groupings.
Exactly. All right, give us some other quotes that she had, by the way.
Well, I love her quotes, and I’ve got comments on all of them. One, the origin of all powers in the people. They have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.
And that’s basically what the declaration said. At a time when the government failed to work, it’s the right of the people to change the government. And we’re getting close to that particular time, in my opinion.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. She goes on to say, no republic ever stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people. So by the way, again, are we not right there again?
Well, exactly. And so just sit back and think about it and think about it from both sides. So if you make a law that’s good for white people over black people, that’s divisive.
If you make a law that’s good for black people over white people, that’s divisive. If you make a law for men over women, it’s the same thing, or women over men. And that’s why it’s so important for the government not to pick those winners and losers, but to try to do things that apply to everyone.
And that unites us because, as you know, in a business, you don’t take a business and divide all of your team members into different groups working against each other.
That’s why I had such a struggle during COVID with this whole essential versus non-essential businesses, because Richard, all business is essential if you want them and their employees to thrive. It bothered me so much during that time. I did my best to not even use that words, you know, those words I should say, because I hate that terminology.
Well, I agree 100 percent. We see it with government shutdowns, occasionally essential workers and non-essential. And if it affects you, like they said in the old saying, a recession affects you, depression may affect somebody else unless it’s you, but if it’s you, it’s a depression and not a recession.
So to me, that’s a similar type thing. And one of the things that she said next, which I think is so important, the bulk of mankind have indeed in all countries, in their turn, been made the prey of ambition. And the reason that we see the divisiveness in all these problems are because of the ambition of people.
And when they find out they can manipulate public policy to their own benefit, then that ambition hurts we, the general public.
Yeah, and I want to make sure that we’re clear on this. I don’t think she was talking about people being ambitious and working hard and being successful and all that. She’s talking about those politicians that put ambition over principle, right?
Ambition over principle and public servants who put themselves and their ambition over the people they serve. And we talk about servant leadership puts the people first. And we see the president right now putting us at risk because he is so desperate to try to make a peace deal before he leaves office.
There’s no telling what he’ll give away so he can say that he made a deal. And as you well know in negotiation, whoever wants the deal most loses. And so a desperate person like we have in office now, I’m concerned about what he may do to have something on his resume.
Which, I saw a video on this last night. This is a little bit old because this happened earlier in the year. But there is a mayor, her name is Tiffany Henniard.
And she is accused of not your typical type of corruption, Richard, but she has spent literally hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions of dollars on herself out of the city coffers, buying herself trips and cars and all sorts of things. She’s now, I think, being investigated. But the reality is she used her city’s coffers as her own personal piggy bank.
Yes, and she ought to be thrown out of office and thrown in the prison as far as I’m concerned. I saw a superintendent of schools in Dallas several years ago, and the first thing she said when she came in office was, it’s our turn now. And she believed ethically she had the right to money from the coffers as well, and she ended up in prison.
Yeah, it’s not your money. It’s the money that taxpayers worked hard to pay in, and you need to be a good steward of, and no, it’s not your money.
Well, yes, and as I always talk to employees that work for me, you always treat the company’s money like your money. Don’t spend it unless you would spend your own money. And you develop a reputation within a business or in your public service, how you handle other people’s money, and that will end up affecting your conduct and what opportunities you get in the future.
Give us the last quote that’s in my notes here.
Well, she said, the waves have rolled upon me. The billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down. And remember, she had to publish in 1772 anonymously, one, because she was a woman, they may not value her writing, and two, she would put a death warrant on her head, and she did not come out and acknowledge her writing until 1790.
And so she had things that she had to overcome during that period as well, which I think is important. But to me, she’s such a great example of that persistence, honorable writing, inspiring people during that period, because that period was tough for so many people, and so many of them wanted to quit. And Washington’s persistence, articles like this, and Thomas Paine, and others, they’re the ones that galvanized people’s blood to stand up and persevere until independence was won.
These are all things, by the way, taken out of Americans who made America 18th century birth of the Republic. And Richard, how do folks get that?
Well, they can get signed copies at my website, richardbattle.com, if they’d like them inscribed for gifts. If they will send me an email, richard at richardbattle.com, it’s available there. All 11 books are on Amazon, and we just released the Kindle and audio versions of this particular volume.
Very cool. Richard, as always, I appreciate you very much. Have a great rest of your day.
Always my pleasure. God bless America.
All right, sir. God bless you as well. That is Richard Battle, richardbattle.com.
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Alright, slip this in between our guest Richard Battle. We have another guest coming up here in just a few minutes. A nearly $200 million contract has now been approved to build Denver’s first bus rapid transit line.
Did you see any of this, Charlie, in the news today? This will be a project that adds a center bus lane connecting downtown Denver and Aurora through Colfax Avenue. And if you look at any of the designs on this, which I did, I didn’t get into all of the little details of this, I’m pausing because I like to shake my head.
What an absolute utter waste of money. Yeah, Charlie’s explaining to me, this is one of these where you’re going to get on the bus in the median in the middle of the street. They are going to redo things.
Yeah, right now, there’s no median, so they will add one. By the way, just to make sure everybody understands, this is going to cut traffic down to one lane each way. The buses will then take up the middle lanes with the median where there will be stops in the middle of the road where people will use a crosswalk to walk out onto the bus stop to then get on the bus.
Again, folks, I’m no traffic engineer. Maybe I should be, because a lot of the knuckleheads that I see draw this stuff up are exactly that, utter complete knuckleheads. This has got to be one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever seen.
And before any of you go off on me about how, you know, I’m a conservative and I don’t want any kind of, you know, projects in regards to, you know, mass transit, this, that and the other, you know, I’m all for things that make sense. And if something actually makes sense at the end of the day and it works, you know what, I’m for it. I don’t have any problem with that.
For example, Elon Musk, he has another company most people don’t know about. It’s a boring company where he is putting tunnels all through Las Vegas. Currently, you can take a tunnel from several, couple of hotels, not several, because they’re adding more as we speak, but you can basically take tunnels from hotels to the convention center and avoid walking long distances and having to take the stupid tram that Vegas has, which, by the way, is absolutely a disaster in and of itself.
And if you’ve ever been to Vegas, you know what I mean by that. The reality is he’s building these underground tunnels, and of course, he’s doing it because Tesla, the electric car, is what they use to shuttle people to and from, but they have now been approved to put these tunnels all over Vegas. Eventually, you’ll be able to get on the tunnel system from the airport and pretty much go anywhere in town you want.
Am I for that? I’ve used it. Absolutely.
It works great. It’s a fun thing to actually use. It’s fairly fast.
It’s efficient. You don’t wait in a lot of lines to make the things work. You know, they run.
I’ve been there during heavy convention times. I mean, keep in mind, I usually go to the SEMA show, which is the aftermarket association, automobile association, whereby it’s the second largest trade show in Vegas. It’s a big deal.
Literally take up the entire town with something automotive related. And I’ve been there during those times, just using that tunnel project of Elon Musk. And it works fabulous.
So I’m not against these types of projects at all. At all. If they make sense.
This one, and I haven’t delved into it, because really I don’t have to. I can just look at some of the overview of this. Absolute utter waste of $200 million.
And here’s the other caveat, by the way. If any of you out there think this will come in at $200 million, think again. It won’t.
Very, very, very few of these projects come in at that. Now, this is a project, by the way, that they have slated all the way back in 2013. They’ve now got it approved.
It’ll connect ultimately the 15 and 15L bus lines. It will connect I-225 train station and union station using the quickest way possible. Now, also remember that these buses will still have to stop at stoplights and do other things because there’s still cross traffic along Colfax.
And so, you’re still going to have turn lanes and interference and slowdowns and so on when it comes to the traffic end of things. I mean, Charlie, just looking through this, I don’t see how this is all that much more efficient than what’s there currently right now. Other than you’re going to take cars off of the road because you’re going to eliminate two lanes of traffic each way down to one lane of traffic each way on Colfax.
That’s thereby discouraging people to probably drive it, which ultimately in my opinion is what they’re trying to do. They don’t want you driving. I talk about that a lot on this program.
And the reality is they try to do things along these lines and get us to ride the bus. I will just predict, I will just predict that this becomes another failed project through RTD. In this case, I don’t know who’s funding this, Charlie.
I didn’t look up to see where all the money’s coming from, but this will be an RTD project. At the end of the day, though, I predict that it failure as in, will it have near the ridership? It should.
No. Now, the other side of this story, which is very interesting, is they’re sending some money aside to try to help all the businesses that will be impacted by the construction that will go on while this is happening. There’s even going to be some, quote unquote, go fund me type of fundraisers to help some of these businesses.
And businesses right now are trying to figure out how do they actually make it through this debacle that will be coming their way, because this will be a huge, huge, huge disruption. Now, the other thing I don’t think these businesses are thinking is, depending upon the business, having traffic go down to one lane each way cuts back on car count. Cutting back on car count means less eyeballs looking at their particular business, meaning that their business will be negatively impacted on down the road.
Now, I get it. There may be some businesses where people can ride the bus, get off the bus, buy something, get back on the bus and go. But I’m guessing, Charlie, most people won’t look at it that way.
They will be taking a bus from Union Station to 225 to catch the light rail or do something along those lines. And my gut feeling is they’re not going to be stopping off shopping. I could be wrong.
Charlie, you’ve ridden the bus in the past, and you know way more about this than I do. But I highly doubt somebody’s going to get on that bus and get off just because they see something at a business. So these businesses will not only be negatively impacted by the construction itself, they’re going to be negatively impacted on down the road because there’s one less lane of traffic now.
And for any of you that have ever been in business, and there’s a saying, there’s three keys to business. Location, location, location. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that.
Those are the three keys to business. And yeah, you kind of laugh at that tongue in cheek, but frankly, it’s pretty true. Having a good business on a major thoroughfare that has, in this case, four lanes of traffic going by each way is huge to a business.
It’s a huge location benefit to have that kind of eyeballs going past your store, your business, all day long. That’s going to get cut in half or more. In fact, Charlie, I would bet you that when it’s all said and done, it’ll be a third.
It won’t be even half as much because there’s one less lane of traffic each way, because it’ll be so cumbersome and people won’t want to drive it, it’ll be a third of the traffic it is today. That’s my anticipation. Yeah, Charlie just said, they’ll try to move to the side streets, making all of that worse, so in the end, this isn’t going to help anything when it’s all said and done.
And it will hurt the businesses that are out there right now that actually need the revenue to survive. This goes back to Richard Battles’ comment a few minutes ago about picking winners and losers. This is doing it.
It’s picking RTD as the winner and everybody else is a loser, including us as taxpayers. Again, guys, dumbest idea. I mean, I’ve seen some dumb ideas come down the pike from cities, counties and so on when it comes to transportation projects.
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All right, back to our last discussion before we move on to Jay Bieber. He’s going to join us here in a minute. He is an Executive Director of Policy at the National Motorist Association.
I’ve had Jay on before. But remember, too, that that Colfax Project, number one Colfax, is the longest thoroughfare city street in America. On top of that, Charlie reminded me that these will not be regular buses, so they will have to put different type of buses on this stretch as well.
And Charlie and I’s prediction of both is that this thing will be short-lived. It will eventually get turned out. It’ll end up being an utter disaster.
And it will be money wasted. $200 million of money wasted. And as I said in that last segment, it’s doubtful they’ll even get it done for $200 million.
These types of projects rarely are under budget. And most of them will be over budget, not counting what they have to do with the individual businesses to compensate them as well. But as I said a moment ago, Jay Bieber joining us now.
Jay, welcome. How are you?
I’m good. Good. Great to be back.
welcome back. I appreciate it very much. All right.
Talk to us about the US. Commerce Department. They want a national ban on Chinese and Russian made car parts so that our vehicles can’t sabotage us.
Well, I don’t know. This sounds more like an election than anything else. If they really cared about privacy and those sorts of things, they would fix the current problem with US made vehicles and US manufacturers with all of the things that spy on us and our cars as it is.
But I understand, I guess, the argument in terms of national security, but it sounds more like they want to have something they can talk about in the election than anything else.
By the way, Jay, you know my background. I’m a car guy, so no, I can’t disagree with you at all. We’ve got enough issues going on right now with cars that are already out there and different things that they do.
And to your point, the spying on and so on. And not that I’m against keeping things safe and making sure that China is not spying on us any more than they already are. Let’s just say that in my opinion, there’s bigger fish to fry.
I would say that’s probably true. I mean, I haven’t delved into this particular policy. But again, I read about it when the story came out and broke.
And it just, like I said, it really smacks much more of a political talking point for an election year than anything real. I mean, whatever you feel about global trade, anything that restricts that and puts tariffs or restrictions on things that come from other countries, which are less expensive, is going to drive up the cost of automobile ownership, which is part of their plan. So I guess they get a win all the way around.
It makes cars more expensive. They get a talking point for the election. So, you know, honestly, I don’t particularly trust them.
But the other part of this is, and this is just a more philosophical thing, having the Commerce Department do this, this is the kind of thing where we always kind of rail against, which is the deep state, the administrative state, just making willy-nilly laws and rules and whatnot. This really is something, although not that Congress isn’t the most dysfunctional thing ever, but ideally, this is the kind of thing that would be debated within Congress to make sure it’s a good policy as opposed to some unelected bureaucrat coming up with this or something that’s politically motivated.
Yeah, I hate, Jay, just the stroke of the pen. These things need to be discussed, not saying that, and I’ve said this many times over and will continue to say so, not that the average senator or congresswoman or man really understands what you and I are talking about right now because the majority have a hard time fixing their cell phone if it doesn’t work correctly, and I mean that sincerely. I mean, some of these people, Jay, have interviewed, and I’m going to be the first to tell you, they are not the highest IQ in the room in any given time, and I mean that in all sincerity.
So the reality is, while they will discuss some of these things, let’s face it, the reality is the lobbying groups are the ones that will either push this through or not.
That is absolutely true. I mean, look, most people, I don’t know if people think that deeply about it individually, but our experience is that the folks that actually vote on these things, they don’t know anything about it five minutes before they’re heading into a hearing.
They’ve got staffers, as you know, Jay, that are out looking at some of these things. They’re talking to some of the lobbyists. You know, they’re there to make sure that they look good and they can put either a yes or a no next to a particular vote.
And I’m not bad mouthing these individuals, Jay. It’s what they’ve done. They’ve gone through the effort to get elected and so on.
And I get all of that. My point, though, is that I think the American public is deceived in thinking that somehow, someway, all of these politicians, from their local city council all the way up to the president of the United States, has an understanding of each and every one of these nuances that comes across their desk that they vote on. And the reality is nothing could be farther from the truth.
That is not true. I mean, if anybody followed us around for a day or two, we could try to talk to people of different policies. It sounds good.
There’s a lobby that comes in and they lie to them. We have this all over the country that we’re dealing with. And this is the thing about elected officials, just in general, and again, this is more of a personal opinion than anything else, but I think we put stock in the people that get elected to quote-unquote run our lives, you know, and I often joke that, look, this is just an idiot neighbor that got elected to something.
Right. They somehow, they got, you know, they glad-handed, they got money for something. I’m not saying there aren’t smart people.
We deal with a lot of smart people. There are. Especially their staff more than anything else, and sometimes then staff gets elected.
Correct. But, but, really…
It’s fewer, it’s fewer and far between, though, Jay, and I know that because I interview a lot of these people either as they’re campaigning and try to get elected, and then they do get elected, and you still maybe stay in contact, you know, afterwards. But, and again, I’m not trying to beat anybody up. That’s not the point of the conversation.
My point is, is that the American public, for the most part, I think, is very deceived because they think that these are, quote unquote, the experts that know better than anyone else when it comes to making law. And I would argue that it’s actually the opposite.
It’s exactly the opposite. And it’s actually even deeper than that. Because what happens a lot of times, like, let’s say, it’s the federal government.
This just happened recently with a paper that came out about road safety. So what happens is the federal government or the agency wants to do something. They know what they want to do.
So they get some group out there through the National Academies or something like that. And they will put together a research study, right? And this research study is really designed to come out and tell them to do exactly what they wanted to do in the first place.
So they can look at it and say, hey, well, we’re doing this because this group of really smart people told us that this is the right thing to do, which is something they were intending to do anyway, and they’re just looking for backup on it. So it’s really this kind of very insidious thing, which is why these conversations are really important, because this is why people have to get involved. You can’t just sort of sit back and say, well, you know, this is what people take care of it or whatever.
No, no, no, Jamie, to your point, and these are the same individuals that will set law on parts per million on CO2, or sorry, carbon monoxide coming out of the tailpipe. These are the same individuals that will set safety standards, i.e. every car needs a backup camera or a device that keeps you from driving if you’re drunk, and on and on we go.
I mean, these are individuals that are making laws that are going to affect everybody’s pocketbook on down the road. And I’m just here to tell you that in most cases, without but just a few exceptions, these folks, I’ll be honest, Jay, in some cases haven’t driven in decades.
That’s also true. I mean, certainly most of the laws that the elected class pass really don’t affect them personally, because they’re somehow shielded from that, whether it’s in their, whether because they’re in an elite status, or they’re not driving, or they’re not dealing with the day-to-day minutiae that everybody else has to deal with in their lives. So again, it sounds good.
They’re not running a business, so they have no idea what it takes to run a business when they pass these laws. They don’t have any sense of how that’s actually affecting individual people. I heard you talking about this bus rapid transit thing earlier, and it’s like, oh, it sounds good, it’s aspirational.
It will take a bus, it will be faster. It feels good, but the poor schmuck that’s trying to get to keep their business afloat on that roadway that’s been put out of business, they don’t think so deeply about it. No, they don’t.
I’ll go as far as to say, Jay, that really at the end of the day, those individuals get no thought whatsoever. The politicians that make these things happen are worried about one thing and one thing only. How does this make them look, in some cases, even on a national basis?
Because they all, for the most part, without but a few exceptions, they have aspirations of moving up the political chain. These sorts of things look really good. Even if you’re just a regular city councilman, this is one of those feathers in your cap you can move forward with.
No offense, Jay, but the business be damned. Who cares?
Exactly. We had this thing exactly happen in Los Angeles. When I was living, there was a bus rapid transit thing going down a residential, basically a residential street in the San Fernando Valley.
And it was pretty much all residential. So it wasn’t even like a business district. And there was an elected official, I will not name him on the air, but he was pushing this thing through because he wanted it as a legacy project because he was running to move on to something else after he left the Senate.
And he was mad at me. I mean, he was mad because we were fighting this thing, because it was really going to harm the people who lived in that neighborhood, push all the traffic into the side streets. It was not a good project.
Again, you might be able to make this argument on a commercial corridor and that sort of thing. It’s still going to push the traffic. It’s not really a good project.
But then what amounts it to mostly a residential area, we eventually defeated this project, but it was like, I mean, this guy was so mad at me because I was taking away this thing that he was going to be able to go do a ribbon cutting.
You got it, and that is a lot of what happens when it comes to politics. Back to your point earlier. It’s why we have to be involved.
We have to know as much as the politicians do. In fact, more than the politicians do, Jay. You have to stay involved.
You’ve got to call, write, do the things necessary to stop some of the insane things that these guys keep talking about. Some of them have already been determined. It’s a matter of now writing the regulation against them in regards to the DOI device, for example.
Those things are already there. They were in the last infrastructure bill. They now have to be put in to quote unquote effect, and they don’t need help in how that even happens.
I get it. The manufacturers and so on will probably have some input into that. But at the end of the day, we lose.
No matter what, we lose.
Yeah, exactly. And that’s why shows like yours that bring these kinds of things to light are so important in terms of letting the average person who’s either driving home or whatever, listening to the show, understand what’s going on here. I hope everybody that’s listening understands that, okay, well, I heard about this.
That’s a nice thing. It’s an interesting story. No, this is really a call to action.
This is you really have to get involved. If this bus line or whatever else it is, is going to affect you, then you have to band together, whether it’s through the National Motors Association or some other local group or whatever, or find the people out there that are actually doing something, band together. You can make a difference.
Like I said, we stopped this in Los Angeles, not everywhere, but in the place where I was living. It was basically right a block from my house. And I said, I’m not going to let you stand.
Good for you. Again, Jay Bieber, Executive Director of Policy at the National Motors Association. What’s the website, Jay, where folks can find you?
motorist.org, motorist is plural, .org, or just Google National Motorist Association.
Great organization that I am glad to be a part of. Jay, thank you very much for all you do.
Thank you so much.
Awesome. Take care. Have a great night.
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We are back to Rush To Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, Klz560. Marty, what’s going on today, sir?
What’s up, John?
Great stuff, like always.
I’m sitting here, I can’t get the P-Diddy, the Puff Daddy stuff out of my mind as far as the impact.
Am I overthinking to think that this is a guy who ran deep in the Democrat political circle, ran deep in the Hollywood, super-powerful?
These are not Republicans.
I’m not ever going to dismiss a Republican’s conduct, but he was not running with the good old boys, okay? He was not running in the GOP. Are we going to get to see that baby come to all the way to, because the accusations are some of the most heinous we’ve ever.
They’re going to touch people like Obama, they’re going to touch people like our political elites, Oprah Winfrey, the celebrities that we look at, our ballerinas like Tupac Shakur that we were told, were these studs, but they’re actually these raging homosexuals. John, is this going to come out before the election and people are going to be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what did you trick me?
Am I crazy, John?
Well, first of all, it’s out. And my take on this, Marty, is I wish you were correct and I wish this would have a big effect upon the election and people would really look hard at this and see exactly what part of politics he was involved in. I hate to say this though, Marty, this won’t have a minor dent in things, nonetheless, anything outside of that.
I hate to say that. It just isn’t. And keep in mind right now, it’s already all over everything.
I mean, whether it be Forbes, Variety, TMZ, Fox, et cetera. I mean, this story is out. All the pictures are out.
I haven’t seen anybody talking about it politically whatsoever, nor do I think it’s affecting the polling at all.
OK, so then the next question is…
And by the way, Marty, I think it should be. I mean, I really think it should be because there’s a lot of elites that really, I think, contributed to some of what was going on with P. Diddy.
And Charlie and I were talking about P. Diddy during the break, by the way. He’s a guy that me personally, I’ve never thought much of.
I think the guy, and Charlie agrees, he’s a grifter. I don’t think he’s got a lot of talent. I think he did things that got him where he needed to be based upon some of the things that we’re learning now.
I don’t think he had a lot of talent. My feeling is he only got where he went because of the Epstein approach, if you would.
I totally agree. And that’s why we’re going to have the ultimatum. Is P.
Diddy just going to go away and do life in jail and not say a word? Or is he going to have to talk? And if he talks, aren’t they going to have to kill him?
Because you cannot let that hideous of information, and now we’re putting what? People in jail and stuff. I mean, this runs deep.
That’s why I’m saying, we don’t want to talk about it, John, because it’s so filthy and disgusting. And the biggest reason is it’s crippling to the system that Hollywood is going to tell us who to vote for. So I’m just going to say, we’re going to stay on it, John, because I don’t care if you’re Republican or Democrat, if you’re sexually abusing and using these kinds of tactics, I want you hanging from the end of the news.
I agree, man. I’m with you, Marty. I mean, yeah, the heinous things that he did and the fact that he literally put people into what I would call the sex slave end of things.
That’s essentially what he was doing, Marty. It’s disgusting. And the whole thousand bottles of baby oil, which, again, the lawyers, his lawyers are trying to downplay.
I mean, what an absolute pervert creep.
It just speaks to the untouchable. They’re never going to find out.
They’re never going to know.
And then, you know, we’re in an information era. We’re in a high-speed era where 50 years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, the guy could do something hideous with a woman, pay to make it go away. And we never found out.
I’m sorry. With social, with iPhones, this stuff, we cannot. And they killed Jeffrey Epstein.
We know that.
Well, and really quick back to Marty, what you were saying about P. Diddy, what will happen? Will he speak or will he end up dead?
He’s not going to speak. So either he keeps his mouth shut or he ends up dead. That’s my prediction.
Well, and that’s what it has to be is, how could he say, well, hold on a second. A lot of you people are just as guilty of me and I’m going to jail for the rest of my life. I don’t think so.
I’m talking in five, four, three, and then boom.
That’s when he has the heart attack all of a sudden. So great stuff, John.
I mean, we’re just heating up though.
Yep, that’s right. Thanks, Marty. Appreciate you, man.
And yeah, I haven’t talked much about the P. Diddy thing mainly because frankly, you know, there’s times with Charlie and I where I don’t talk about certain subjects because the reality is, I don’t have to. They speak for themselves.
I mean, this whole rapid transit thing on Colfax, yeah, I wanted to bring that to light to people because I don’t think a lot of people would, unless you’re reading some of the local news stations, you probably wouldn’t know that’s even coming. And you’ll actually see construction starting there in a couple of weeks. The P.
Diddy thing, it is everywhere. I mean, you have to literally live in a cave and not be paying a lick of attention to anything to not see the P. Diddy story.
So I didn’t really feel like there is a big urgent urgency, I guess I should say, on my part to talk about P. Diddy because the reality is everybody else out there is doing it for me. And I think also for me, and maybe this is the wrong approach on my part, everything I just said to Marty a moment ago, I just don’t feel like at the end of the day this is going to have any impact on the election at all.
I’m sorry, I wish it would have. I think it should have. I think there’s a lot of actors and actresses, you know, Hollywood, just like what Marty was talking about, that are deeply involved in this and either were a part of or looked the other way, meaning they’re still guilty when it’s all said and done.
I’m going to make sure I repeat that. I think there’s many Hollywood elites that were either involved in this or knew about it, looked the other way, meaning they’re still involved and they’re still guilty. So, where will this go?
I go back to what I told Marty a moment ago. Either P. Diddy keeps his mouth shut, or he ends up dead.
Charlie, am I wrong in my thought process there? I think it’s an Epstein thing when it’s all said and done. He either shuts up, does his time, doesn’t say anything about anything, doesn’t throw anybody else under the bus, or this guy ends up six foot under.
I don’t see that there’s any other option here. And I’m not calling for that on him, by the way. I’d love to see him report on all of the people that he was involved with that either were a part of it or looked the other way or whatever the case may be.
But I think reality says, we have yet to see anything else come out about Epstein. We know why he died. I think, again, I don’t even look at that as conspiracy.
The guy died with multiple people supposedly watching him, and a guy commits suicide? Yeah, no, he doesn’t. Sorry, no, he doesn’t.
If something happens to where P. Diddy ends up with quote unquote committing suicide, same situation. So I wish this, yeah, in jail, yeah, I wish, yeah, they’re in the same jail.
Yeah, thank you, Charlie. Yeah, they’re in the same jail. It’ll be interesting to see how that end of it comes out.
And I think Epstein was going to talk, and that’s why he ended up not living. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with P. Diddy.
But unfortunately, Marty, and good question, will this have any impact whatsoever on the election? I highly, highly, highly doubt it, and by the way, just proves once again why you should not take your advice on who to vote for from the likes of a Taylor Swift. And I don’t normally talk much about Taylor Swift, but Taylor, stay out of it.
You’re a dodo head anyways. You have a hard time keeping a boyfriend, nonetheless telling somebody who to elect. And I mean that sincerely.
Where she ends up with Kelsey, I have no idea. I don’t care, really, honestly. I don’t care.
I’m not her fan. I’m not against her, but I’m not her fan either. But her giving political advice is really, really stupid.
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