On this hard-hitting episode of Rush to Reason, John Rush welcomes author Richard Battle for a Memorial Week conversation on the enduring lessons of D-Day and Midway, the collapse of financial discipline since the gold standard, and what it means to build a strong America today. They tackle AI warfare, the coming battle for space, and Trump’s proposed redirection of funding from elite institutions like Harvard to trade schools. Later, John and guest Sunny Kutcher from Young Americans Against Socialism dive into the Boulder firebomb incident, activist judges, and the dangerous rise of radical Islam in America—calling out cowardice,
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All right. Hour number two, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Appreciate y’all joining us today. Richard Battle joining us now. Richard, welcome. How are you today, sir?
SPEAKER 08 :
Good afternoon, John. We’re doing great. Thanks for having us. And Bill Federer just stole a little of our thunder here a minute ago.
SPEAKER 17 :
He has a tendency to do that, too, on occasion, I should say, from time to time, Richard.
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, well, that’s all right. We’ve got plenty of things left. That’s right.
SPEAKER 17 :
A strong America and strong Americans make America and the world safer. That is our topic for today.
SPEAKER 08 :
Absolutely, and there’s two big events that we’re, I shouldn’t say celebrating, commemorating this week that our parents, grandparents, and Americans before us sacrifice to help preserve our freedom. And Bill Federer mentioned Midway, and there’s one other point I want to make, and then we want to hit D-Day as well. But if you’ll remember, World War II was the last mortal threat to our country, and it forced everybody to come together because no one wanted to speak Japanese or German, and we wanted to retain the freedom that our founders had given us.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah, and you know, I’ve talked about that in the past, that had we not done some of the things that we did throughout the world wars, quote unquote, more than one, by the way, where would we be today?
SPEAKER 08 :
Yes, and there are several things that are just amazing when you think back how different the country was then. Bond drives. Everybody contributed out of their paychecks. Every time there was a movie at the movie theater, the last image was buy war bonds, and you wonder why they pushed it so hard. But we have to remember that back then we had real money that was gold-backed. And the country almost went bankrupt fighting the war. So they needed individuals to sacrifice their personal money to buy bonds because we couldn’t just print money. And, of course, we went off the gold standard with Richard Nixon in the 71. And from that point forward, it’s been a different calculation on things like that.
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Well, and as you know, and I don’t want to get off track, get into the big, beautiful bill and all of that. But the reality is, do I care the direction that we’re headed in the increased spending and so on? No, I do not. Although I will say this. I’ve talked about this earlier in the week that I also don’t feel like some of the calculations, the The budget office does at times is always correct either because they don’t take into account, you know, solid growth that would come from lower taxes and so on. So they always kind of take the worst case scenario, Richard, on the same token. We have got to quit spending so much money because you’re right. We are in a time now to where it isn’t backed by gold. We have come off that standard. We can go into debt. And probably one of the worst things we ever did as a country as far as that goes.
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Yes, and at that time in World War II, we were able to manufacture things for us as well as the other countries as the arsenal of democracy. And Franklin Roosevelt had his dollar-a-year men, which were the CEOs of the major corporations who sacrificed and helped the country manufacture what we need and keep costs down, much similar to this Doge effort, but we’ve not seen anything like that in many, many years. And that was because, again, everyone knew the mortal threat to the country in each individual.
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Yeah, and here’s the question, too. Are we better off being indebted to certain individuals? Are we better off being indebted to many, including, you know, even foreign countries and so on, Richard? And that really is the ultimate question. And honestly, I don’t know which is better at the end of the day. Neither is good.
SPEAKER 08 :
Neither is good, and I hope some of the efforts that President Trump is doing can get us back where we can control our manufacturing. If we can get our financial house in order, then we can be prepared to defend ourselves against any threat much better than we can today. And I don’t think most people will recognize that right now because nobody talks about that portion of the benefits that he’s trying to deliver to us. And we look at another piece was the Battle of Midway, which Bill Federer mentioned. That changed war from mostly naval operations from ship to ship. That was the first time there had been a naval engagement where the ships never saw each other. And from that point forward, air superiority has ruled warfare. And I believe that the next phase of that will be dominating the space situation. And people need to recognize whoever dominates space will dominate the world because they can look down on everybody from there. And that’s not mentioned very often when we talk about our space program.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yeah. And then the other thing I was going to add on to what you just talked about as well is AI will also play a part in all of this. And then you got to start asking on top of what you just said in regards to space, will the AI drone, quote unquote, warfare, by the way, like we just saw between Russia and Ukraine, have a big impact? And I believe it will.
SPEAKER 08 :
You’re correct, and that is why we have to maintain technological superiority in every field, and we have to be ahead of everyone to protect ourselves. And if we look back, Midway, obviously, we won that battle. Several, I mean, many, many people sacrificed to help bring that victory, which kind of turned the tide in Pacific warfare. But if we look Coming Friday is the anniversary of D-Day, the 81st anniversary. And again, one of the things people don’t recognize very much is that Germany’s technology, they were on the cusp. They had rockets, they had jet airplanes, and they were oh so close to nuclear weapons, which they would have used, and any of those could have turned the tide of the war. And that’s why they were so fiercely trying to get into Europe before Germany could get those weapons out.
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Yeah, and one thing, too, and you know this, and this is, again, part of the blessings that the United States of America has. I guess that would be the best way to say it, Richard, because one of the things that, as you know, Germany was also struggling with was how to fuel, quote-unquote, a lot of their equipment, airplanes, and so on. And the reality is they started running out while we had plenty.
SPEAKER 08 :
That is true, and the same thing with Japan. Fuel is a big difference. One of the things from our standpoint at being a free country that was different than Germany, and we’ve mentioned it before, one of the reasons D-Day was lost for the Germans were Hitler was sleeping and none of the generals, even the top generals, dared to wake him up to get his okay to bring reinforcements from the north down toward Normandy. And so they waited and waited and waited. And then on the other side, the Americans, the individual initiative of individual American soldiers, the technical sergeant, when they had the problem with the hedgerows in Normandy and there were so many Americans getting killed going hedgerow to hedgerow. came up with the idea to put a plow-like device on the front of a tank. They call it a rhino tank. And once they started plowing through those hedgerows, they reduced casualties and gained more ground and turned the tide of that campaign.
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Amazing.
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Individual initiative.
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So many things, Richard. I, again, not trying to be negative because I hate being negative. I want to think positive when it comes to us as a country and so on. But I wonder in today’s world, because of the way we’ve educated our several generations now, would they, could they think of the same thing today if we had the same set of circumstances?
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Well, I think some could. I’m afraid we don’t have the large numbers that we had before, and I’m hoping that some of this change in how we’re going to pursue education and going back to meritocracy versus entitlement will help turn that tide because entitlement breeds weakness. Meritocracy breeds strength. And while entitlement’s easier on the front end, it’s harder on the back end. And meritocracy’s harder on the front end and easier on the back end. And it’s the same thing with our kids. Do you want them to have it hard early and easy later, or do you want to make it easy for them early and they have to suffer hard early?
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That’s always been my mantra. Richard is hard early, makes it easier on the backside. And really quick, going back to you’re talking about this administration, Trump and so on, and don’t know if this is going to be completed, but there’s rumors and I’m sure you’ve seen it whereby. Donald Trump was talking about taking $3 billion away from a school like Harvard and applying that same money back into trade colleges and the like. Richard, I look at that and applaud it, thinking, why aren’t we doing that anyways? Reality is Harvard doesn’t need it. They’ve got enough endowment money. They’ve got like $55 billion in endowment. Do they need another $3 billion? No. What could we do with $3 billion in the trades, Richard?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, that’s exactly right. And a point I made out talking about the war for independence, it took everyone contributing to win then. It took everyone contributing to win in World War II. It takes all of us today to make the country better. Everyone doing what we do individually contributes to the betterment of the country in the future.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely. All right. Talk to us about you’ve got a new book coming out. It’s going to launch here soon. People can preorder now. How do they do all of that?
SPEAKER 08 :
Well, thank you, and you’ve got to check the mailbox Monday, and we’ll be talking more specifically next week. But the second book in the Americans Who Made America series will come out next week. It has 40 profiles from the 19th century, including Sam Houston’s mother and the first black woman millionaire and so many other great stories that are inspirational. It and all my books can be found at richardbattle.com, signed. If you want them inscribed, email me, richard at richardbattle.com. After the order, we’re happy to do that. Everything’s at Amazon, including audio and Kindle versions as well. And it’s great gift ideas for Father’s Day, graduation, birthdays, et cetera.
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Richard, always a joy having you. I appreciate it greatly. We look forward to it.
SPEAKER 08 :
My pleasure. Look forward to speaking next week, and God bless America.
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God bless you, Richard. Have a great rest of your day. Gold and Eagle Financial coming up next. Al Smith did an interview of late. Hang tight, listen in. We’ll be right back right after this interview.
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Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial and the show you love, Retirement Unpacked, is here with me. How are you today, Al? I’m doing great. How are you, TJ? I’m doing great as well. I have a couple questions for you.
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As a financial advisor, do you also do taxes? No, I don’t prepare my clients’ taxes. I do, however, spend a lot of time talking to them about taxes. To use a sports analogy, tax preparation is like doing a recap of the game. What I do is more like creating a game plan and then following up over time to see how it’s working.
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And how much are taxes a part of that game plan that you create?
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Well, with so many different taxes we’re faced with, it becomes an important thing to take into consideration. It’s not how much income you have, but how much you get to keep. In addition to federal and state income taxes, there’s property taxes, state and local sales tax, and fees. And they all play a part in shrinking our income.
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What about people who already have really healthy balances in 401ks, IRAs? Won’t they be facing significant taxes as they draw income from those accounts?
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Well, it depends. Everybody’s situation’s a little bit different. There’s no one size that fits all when it comes to tax planning. But often when I work with people, we’ll create a strategy where we will convert traditional IRAs to Roth over time. And that not only reduces taxes in the future, but it will also lower the tax they’ll be paying on their Social Security.
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Is that kind of strategy really only for the wealthy?
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Not at all. Many of my clients who have modest IRAs have chosen to convert to Roth over time. They enjoy the freedom of having a tax-free nest egg that they can access on their own timeline rather than an RMD schedule.
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Well, that is excellent. And how can people reach you if they want to learn about their own taxation in retirement?
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You can reach me through KLZ or contact my office at 303-744-1128. And when you call, I’ll provide you with a summary of all the tax changes for 2025.
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Putting reason into your afternoon drive. This is John Rush.
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All right, we are back. Sonny Cutcher should be joining us here at 4.30. I’ve got a couple things to talk about in the meantime, though. This one is interesting because I’ve talked about this as a car person. We do this on Drive Radio from time to time. I’ve talked about it here on Rush to Reason as well. And that is… The reselling of, in this case, it’s going to be called scrap metal, but we all know it’s catalytic converters and things along those lines because all of your scrap metal places are typically who’s taking those items. And I probably should explain, because I haven’t done this in a while, you know, why, oh, and copper too. Yeah, copper metal, precious metals, things like that. and a lot of these scrap places will take those. It’s their business. I’m not faulting them, by the way. It’s what they do, and they’re needed. You need somebody that will take these items, recycle them, put them back into the marketplace, and so on. I’m not against them at all. But what’s happening is you can take a theft ring. It could be just an individual, but they’ll go around cutting off backflow devices for irrigation, for example. That’s full of copper. It’s expensive. They can turn that in, get cash out of that. The Tesla cords. Thank you, Charlie. EV cords. That’s probably what I should say. Not just Tesla, but EV cords. Again, high value. They’ll steal copper out of buildings that are getting built or things along those lines. And it happens a lot. And it happens, again, with the catalytic converter and things. Lots of precious metals. The reason why they steal your catalytic converter is because what’s inside – it’s not the casing – of the catalytic converter that’s so valuable. It’s what’s inside of it and what it’s doing to reduce emissions on the vehicle coming out the tailpipe that makes it so valuable. So what’s happened here in Denver, this is not metropolitan-wide, although it could expand. We’ll see how this goes. But Denver City Council has passed restrictions on scrap metal transactions to combat rising metal theft. Now, What they’re now requiring, and this is almost laughable, this just shows you, and I say this a lot, but politicians really aren’t very smart. And at times, I believe, don’t even bring the smart people into the room to determine how should we curb some of these things. Because all they’re going to do now is require individuals that are selling scrap metal to give a driver’s license and license plate. Now, I laugh at that because… Unless it’s maybe real ID. Do you know how easy it is to go fake a driver’s license and, by the way, just go steal a license plate off some other car that probably you just stole the catalytic converter off of at the same time and stick that on your car and then go turn the scrap metal in? This does nothing. I’m sorry. This is laughable. Sorry, Denver City Council. This is laughable. This isn’t going to do anything. And again, I’m not blaming the scrap metal guys because, you know, somebody brings something in, they pay whatever they need to pay for that based upon the poundage of and or the size of the catalytic converter, and off they go. So they voted on Monday night 11 to 2 in favor of this ordinance, which makes it more difficult, it claims, to make these quickly offload stolen metals such as copper, brass, and aluminum. And I’m saying, no, it doesn’t. No, it doesn’t. Folks, some of these theft rings, which, by the way, are very sophisticated. We’ve seen some of the reports back on these individuals and what they do and how extensive they can get. If you think or if you don’t think, I should say for one second, that they don’t have the means to fake an I.D., what planet are you from? They have every bit of means to fake an ID, and I just explained how you would handle the license plate end of things. Now, unless the council is giving the scrap metal places the ability to check registration on the license plate with the driver’s license and doing some sort of cross-check, which I could then see it having some teeth, but that’s not in here, and I highly doubt that’s the case because that type of software doesn’t exist today. to most businesses. You’ve got to be in some sort of law enforcement capacity to even have that ability to cross-check. Even your average repair shop doesn’t have the ability to cross-check those things. They can look at the license number and see if it’s registered to that particular car owner that comes in to get the vehicle fixed. But beyond that, there’s no checks and balances on any of that. And I highly doubt that even these scrap metal places will even do what I just said. They don’t have that kind of software. They won’t have that ability to do that. And last but not least… Again, I’m not trying to point fingers. I’m not saying this is what scrap metal places do, but do you really feel like if somebody brought in $1,000 worth of scrap and the scrap metal guy gives out the $1,000 in cash, there’s not even any record of that? So how is this ordinance going to curtail what I’m talking about? That’s my question. Again, this is where… seemingly smart people that are in politics, which they’re not, come up with rules to curb something that, frankly, they have no business being involved in and aren’t even setting the right ordinance in place to stop this. Again, this isn’t going to stop this at the end of the day. Now, it might keep an honest guy honest, but a true thief that understands their way around this, and again, this is for scrap metal places that are in Denver. Folks, there’s others out there. There’s other places to go besides Denver to offload what you stole. Will this populate out into other areas of the state? I have no idea. And, again, I’m not against it. I want to make sure I’m very clear on this. I’m not against the scrap metal folks, not by any stretch of the imagination. And I do believe that a lion’s share of them are above board. And I think they do things correctly, and they try to find out where does this stuff come from and so on. But I will also tell you that you take a business even, an automotive repair shop. I’ll just use that as an example. Whereby they’re collecting all sorts of scrap iron because in that business you do. I know I was in that business for 30-some years and to a large extent still have a business similar to that where you end up with scrap metal. It comes from all sorts of things. You do a brake job, there’s brake rotors that come off that scrap metal. The brake pads themselves can be scrap metal. I mean, I can go down the list of the different things you come up with as an automotive repair shop that are scrap. And in a lot of cases, you’ve either got a metal bin or some people use trailers, dump trailers, things like that. They just start piling things in. And once they get a full load, they run it down to the scrapyard. They get paid by the ton. They take the cash. And in a lot of cases, by the way, for that shop, that’s the pizza money they feed the guy’s pizza with on a regular basis. I mean, typically, that’s how that’s done. And I’m not exaggerating at all in what I’m saying. That’s usually how this works. They’re not getting rich off of it, is my point. But if you think for one second that that particular shop, and yes, typically that’s a shop and they’re legitimate and so on, they’re taking that in. But you could put all sorts of things inside of that metal bin. And do you think for one second the scrap iron guy is asking you where every single one of those items came from? No, and they don’t care and nor do I. They don’t care, nor should they. It’s scrap. It’s junk to them. Now, to the thieves that are out stealing all sorts of things that they shouldn’t be stealing, cutting things off and so on, you know, I think if it were me and I were a scrap metal yard and I was running things and I was looking at some of these things and how they were cut off and where are they coming from and are you a repair shop? I mean, if you’re just Joe Schmo bringing in a boatload of catalytic converters, yeah, I’d have a few questions. Where’d these come from? I can tell that you’ve sawzalled all these off and highly doubt you’re a repair shop, so where are these coming from? Now, in defense of some of those guys, the way that works as well, this is another layer that even the council’s not thinking about. In a lot of cases, guys can acquire catalytic converters from going around to shops and buying them. Because a lot of shops don’t have time to go down and sell their scrap and so on. So they’ll get a guy that’ll come around and say, you know what, you got a few Cadillac converters there. I’ll give you $500 for the whole stack. Okay, great, see ya. There’s the beer money for the shop or the pizza money for the shop or whatever. So now that guy has to go and figure out a way to offload those. And again, he’s legit. He’s not doing anything wrong. He’s not stealing anything. He’s legitimately acquiring them. And he’s most likely going to go in and turn those things into the scrap metal place and so on. But at the end of the day, he’s legit. There’s going to be a lot of guys that are not. You know, what is the correct way of tracking this? I could give lots of ideas and it’s not this. And it’s not this. And I’m not for over-regulation. I’m not for regulating things and so on. But at some point, when it comes to the scrap metal end of things, and even if you’re a shop selling to them, I think there needs to be other forms of not only ID, but forms you’re even filling out, more traceable things. Shops would have no problem filling this out, by the way, because they know exactly where things are coming from, so it wouldn’t be hard for them to do. But I think you need other forms of, hey, not only a license plate number and an ID, but we need to know more about what’s going on here. And by the way, there’s ways to do this in a non-obtrusive way that still gets to the bottom of what’s going on and protecting individuals from theft. And there’s ways to do this, and this isn’t it. And had City Council of Denver reached out to me, I could have sat down with them and probably within an hour figured out a better way to do this than what they did. So, again, I read through this, and I just thought to myself, okay, you guys are, as usual, you’re politicians, and you’re going to take a stab at something, but that’s really it, and this isn’t going to change anything. At the end of the day, not going to change anything. a single item. Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning, and by the way, another area where scrap comes out if you replace a furnace and things like that. There’s another area where you get scrap from. So scrap metal accumulates on an ongoing basis, and what I’m telling you is Cub Creek is there to help you, whether it’s replacement of an AC unit, your furnace, whatever it happens to be. Give them a call today. They specialize in giving second opinions as well. Find them at klzradio.com.
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Now back to Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
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And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Sonny Kutcher joining us now. Young Americans Against Socialism. Sonny, welcome.
SPEAKER 16 :
Thank you so much. Pleasure.
SPEAKER 17 :
Always a pleasure. I appreciate you being with us. And not to get off topic, but is your weather in California better than ours here now? Because we’ve had like this California June gloom nonsense going on. It’s cold, it’s rainy, and we’re not used to this.
SPEAKER 16 :
Really? I’ve never been on Colorado at this time of year, I suppose. But typically, we will get our June gloom during the day and then Right around 3 o’clock, just now, it starts to get nice and beautiful and sunny, and it’s pretty beautiful, actually.
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Well, we’re supposed to be that way as we head to the weekend, so we can’t wait for that. Okay, as you know, we had a lot going on here in Colorado over the weekend. Boulder, Colorado, which is actually my hometown where I… actually grew up. I had my family had business there. So I still own some property there. So very, very familiar with that entire area spent a lot of time there still do from time to time, even though I moved a little bit south of there, Sonny. So you heard some of that news almost immediately as it was coming out on x because it’s so close to what we have going on as far as you know, where we all live and all that I still have a business in Boulder County, not Boulder itself, but in the county. And as we were watching some of that unfold, just thinking to myself, what in the world? And the first thought I had, Sonny, is those news organizations and the left itself, they are as much to blame, in my opinion, as to what went on there as anyone, because they, whether they realize it or not, they are condoning what happened on Sunday.
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They condone it. They encourage it. They are bolstering these causes. I mean, in all sincerity, a lot of people still follow blindly, at least listen and kind of consume the mainstream media. And I’m of the belief that there is really maybe 10% of what we see on legacy media is what we can believe. I don’t even know how much of it is really accurate or truthful. And so I think it’s a major problem because they are, as we know, taking, you know, their marching orders from higher up, and we just simply don’t know who really is funding these companies and these organizations and the media and all of these different publications that have been pushing this narrative. And, of course, you know, from an objective standpoint on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it’s, you know, no violence, no war, none of this is really a… a means to a peaceful end. However, there is just so much propaganda. And so it’s really hard to know exactly what’s going on, to be honest.
SPEAKER 17 :
No, the propaganda thing, you’re 100% correct. I mean, I watch, even listen to, at times, people talk about what’s happening in Israel with Hamas and all of that, and I go back to one of my original statements, and I talked about this very early on in all of what had happened. The minute that Hamas did what they did, I immediately, on this program, came out and said, I, if I were in charge, This would be a really simple fix. I would drop leaflets saying if you are one of the innocents, quote unquote, and I even question that, Sonny. That’s a whole conversation in and of itself because you voted for these knuckleheads. I get it sometimes that you can be a casualty of an election and so on. But at the end of the day, you voted for these knuckleheads to run your strip, quote unquote. You’re as much to blame as anyone. You’re not innocent in this. Yes, I get it. There’s children that don’t vote and all of that. That’s another conversation, Sonny. But I would drop leaflets if I’d have been Israel, if I was in charge. I would have dropped leaflets that said, listen, you’ve got 72 hours to get out. If you don’t want to see the wrath of Israel. You need to get out because guess what? We are going to carpet bomb the crap out of the Gaza Strip to the point where we’re going to dose it once we’re done. We’re going to turn it into something else, and it will no longer be the Gaza Strip controlled by Hamas from that day forward. So get yourself ready. That’s what’s coming. That would have been my answer. So you know how sympathetic I am to Hamas, Sonny. I’m not.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right. Right. And I’ve seen so much going, you know, going on Twitter and mostly Twitter and, you know, independent journalists who will talk about just the horrors of what we’re seeing. And, of course, it’s awful to see, you know, innocent people be killed. And it’s awful to see children be killed.
SPEAKER 17 :
And don’t start it is my you know, and I’m not saying this to you. I’m starting. I’m saying this to them. My comeback to them is then don’t start what you can’t finish.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and it’s that, and it’s also that the people who are involved in Hamas are, you know, a part of the population because they are taught from such a young age to have these core beliefs, number one. That’s right. They utilize the facade or, you know, they use the children, hospitals, schools, all these things to conduct their beliefs.
SPEAKER 17 :
Their war.
SPEAKER 16 :
You know, their operations. Yeah, that’s right.
SPEAKER 17 :
You’re right, Sonny. They use all of those things. I’m glad you said that, because they use all of those things as a tool. Let’s just say as it is. They’re using it as a tool so they can further their terrorist agenda, and they don’t care. I mean, they want us. It’s so funny. They want us, you know, these journalists and the rest of the world want us to care about the innocents, but Hamas doesn’t care, Sonny.
SPEAKER 16 :
Right. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. And I mean, even when you go to other countries like Lebanon, for example, the Hezbollah have a seat in the parliament. So their own population. either A, accept, tolerate, condone is okay with it, or B, even goes further to show that they have zero control over what happens because these people are terrorists. So they’re not going to kill anybody who doesn’t agree with them anyways.
SPEAKER 17 :
And I want to make sure that we’re clear on this as well, Sunny, because it drives me crazy. when I see even conservatives, especially Christian conservatives, that somehow want to give Hamas a pass, and, oh, what the U.S. and Israel are doing, it’s just wrong, and the blockades, and this, that, and the other. And I’m thinking to myself, you people, number one, are as dumb as a rock. You have no idea what’s actually been going on over there. You’re not listening to the likes of you and I, Sunny, when we talk about the things that we talk about, because everything you just said is true. And it just drives me absolutely crazy when I hear Christians especially talk about how we and Israel are not doing right by Gaza and by Hamas. I’m thinking to myself, you people are absolute nutjobs.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and also, I mean, and I don’t say this in any way to be insensitive or to say that I don’t care. But it’s also like, why is it our responsibility to make sure that these people are safe when nobody has cared about their safety for decades and decades?
SPEAKER 17 :
And Sonny, I don’t want to sound coy either, but it’s not. That is the brass tacks. It’s not. It’s not our job. To your point, no one cared up to this point. And it’s not that I don’t care about women and children. I do. But on the same token, and I’ve said this openly on air numerous times. Not my problem. You could have left. If you had something in your heart that said, listen, I don’t like what’s going on here, I don’t like this regime that somebody else voted in that I didn’t, and I need to do something else in my life, then do so.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’s a devastating situation all around. And it just doesn’t seem to get any better because, you know, Israel doesn’t it doesn’t seem like they are stopping their agenda anytime soon. And I do believe that President Trump is committed to keeping us out of foreign wars, which I agree.
SPEAKER 17 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 16 :
very awful situation um but i agree and and to kind of before october 7th you know there are many arabs palestinians etc who travel to and from between borders of israel for jobs for us for all kinds of purposes and so Like you said, if you know, if you’re a person who’s like, OK, well, I don’t really like this reality that I’m living in. I don’t really like the fact that I can’t control my own destiny. I can’t control my own fate. And I have no idea like these terrorists are running are where we live. And, you know, by the grace of God, we don’t get to choose where we are born and raised. You know, so I understand that there is a plight there, that there is a. that there is a total, that there is compassion that we can have for these people. But at the same time, they do go around chanting death to America. That’s right.
SPEAKER 17 :
We just saw that Sunday, by the way, Sonny. We just experienced that this Sunday in my hometown, Boulder, Colorado, what you just said. That exact thing was said Sunday.
SPEAKER 16 :
And because they believe it, because this is what they’re taught from a very young age. They have children in Gaza and other Arab countries that are taught from a very young age to when you see a Jew or Israeli or an American, you have hate in your heart and want them to die. That’s right.
SPEAKER 17 :
That’s where – and you’re nicer than – Sonny, you’re nicer and kinder than I am because I’m one where at the end of the day, it’s like, you know what? I’m sympathetic. I don’t want to see any lives taken that don’t need to be, but on the same token – You know, this is sort of like the bully on the playground in the way I was taught. And I think some of our kids need to get back this way. My dad taught me, Sonny, was you’re never allowed to throw the first punch. I don’t care what goes on. You suck it up. You need to do what you need to do. You’re not going to throw the first punch no matter what. Now, on the same token, if you get punched, you are more than welcome to punch back and finish what somebody else started. That’s how I was raised. And that’s what Israel needs to do. They didn’t start it, but they sure need to finish it.
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, and I mean, self-defense and, you know, the old adage of, you know, if they put down their arms, there would be no Israel. But if the other put down their arms, there would be peace, because I think ultimately it’s about that core value of like what, you know, what a society, what each society truly wants. Is it peace or is it conflict? Is it death? You know, and unfortunately, the the culture of Islam, they do worship Islam. death. They do. They worship. They glorify it. They romanticize and glorify death for their religion, for their faith, for their culture. And, you know, it’s It’s not even based on opinion alone of what my opinion about that is. That’s what they believe. And there are they I mean, when we see the radicalization and the progress of the Islamification that we’re seeing in this country, in Texas, I’m sure you’ve talked about that or we have. I don’t know. I don’t recall. But in Texas and all these other places in Florida as well, it’s very scary. It’s very scary. And I think that people are really afraid to call it out what it is. There are very peaceful Muslims, and I’m sure there are peaceful Arabs. I mean, of course, I know them myself. But I do believe that a lot of these extreme Muslims, they do glorify their religion, and then they will go to any and all means to fulfill their agenda. And it’s really devastating. And that’s why, you know, I sent you the link I just broke a couple hours ago of that a radical, another radical judge, shocker, blocked the deportation of said terrorist from Boulder, Colorado, who just completed his, you know, that horrific incident. So wrong.
SPEAKER 17 :
So wrong, Sonny. I mean, these are individuals that are here.
SPEAKER 16 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 17 :
They’re illegally here. Send them out. And yet we’ve now got activist judges. That’s what this is. It’s a Colorado activist federal judge that is now saying you can’t do that. It’s absolutely a crime in and of itself, Sonny.
SPEAKER 16 :
It’s insane. I mean, we don’t have an executive branch. We don’t have a country anymore. There’s no autonomy. We are living in a free-for-all situation. And people like Soleimani, people like, you know, Luigi Mangioli, people who are criminals will just, they go around and they will continue to do this. And that’s why we’ve seen our society crumble into one that doesn’t really follow these laws anymore. Because let me tell you, when you go to other countries, they don’t have these laws. I was just in Mexico and you can just feel, you just feel like a target. You just feel the lack of safety. You feel the lack of orderliness because because it is so easy to sense the corruption because the laws are not followed. There is no country like America, and the fact that we are now suffering from these same banana republic-type issues where judges have no respect for their seat, the bench, the Constitution, or anything of the nature to follow the law goes to show that we really have fallen so far, and it is actually very scary.
SPEAKER 17 :
Yep, you are correct. Sunny, how do folks find you?
SPEAKER 16 :
Well, you can follow me on Twitter, SunnyRoseK.1, I believe it is. You can also, yes, of course, our organization, YasAmerica, Yas.org is our website. Definitely support us if you can, and we’re grateful to be part of this movement and to spread the message of freedom, reject socialism, reject authoritarianism, ideologies and embrace the values of freedom, because if we don’t, we are definitely are threatened to lose our country. So thank you for having us. And I always love it every week.
SPEAKER 17 :
I appreciate it very much. Thanks for all your insights, Sonny. We appreciate you as well.
SPEAKER 16 :
Have a great one.
SPEAKER 17 :
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SPEAKER 17 :
All right, to dovetail into what Sonny was talking about, there was a statement put out, I believe, today or maybe it was last night from the Boulder County Commissioners. Now, this doesn’t surprise me. Again, those of you, you pretty much know my background. Maybe you’re new to listening to us. That’s where I was born and raised, Boulder, Colorado. Grandfather started a business in Boulder in about 19, I want to say 47. Don’t quote me on that. I may be off a couple of years, but in the 40s, he started a business and had a family business there. And I did business in that town until I sold the business I had in 2012. I still have a business in Boulder County. It’s not in Boulder itself, but it’s in the county. So, yes, I’m very familiar with that entire area. That’s where I was born and raised and grew up and so on and know it very, very well. Also know how nutty it actually is, because as time went by, it got nuttier and nuttier and nuttier. So there’s a statement from the Boulder County commissioners after what happened on Sunday. Which you would think the statement they put out would be far different from this, but here it is. The Department of Homeland Security website makes baseless claims without providing details. I’d like to know what baseless claims they’re referring to because I haven’t seen anything that’s baseless. Everything they’ve said is spot on. It uses inflammatory language likely designed to scare people and turn community members against one another. Again, I don’t see it that way at all. They basically have said exactly where this particular gentleman has been from. The fact that he came here on a tourist visa. He then had a work visa that has expired, meaning most of his family, I’m guessing, is probably in the same boat. I highly doubt they’re any different status-wise than he is. He’s the father, and I know enough about how those cultures work that most likely what he does, the rest of the family did. And I don’t think, Charlie, I don’t think I’m wrong in that, knowing that particular culture. So it uses inflammatory language likely designed to scare people and turn communities against one another. It describes human beings as illegal or criminal aliens, which robs people of their humanity. Well, you know, it is what it is. You’re either legal or you’re illegal. There’s nothing about that that’s robbing anyone of their humanity. This is just your nuttiness coming through. The Trump administration will not be successful in robbing the Boulder County commissioners or Boulder County residents of our empathy. And by the way, I don’t think anybody is less empathetic to those victims, especially because of what happened, regardless of who president is. So I’ll say that straight up. It doesn’t make any difference who the president is. Nobody wants to see what happened on Sunday happen, especially us as conservatives. In fact, we are the ones that are championing Jewish rights and the things that they need to be respected for and so on. We don’t want this to happen to them because they’re a people group any more than we want it to happen to anybody else. They go on. If being a sanctuary jurisdiction means that we support due process of law and human rights, then we are proud of that moniker. So I guess it’s OK for you to house and give sanctuary to individuals that go around trying to murder Jews like what happened on Sunday. I’m asking this to the county commissioners of Boulder. This is three of them that put this out. Are you really that much of a knucklehead? These three? It’s in fine print, so let me see if I can zoom in here and see their exact names. Claire Levy, Marta Lockman, and Ashley Stoltzman. Those are the three county commissioners that are attached to this particular statement. And it’s kind of all over social media. Now, I… Yeah, there’s more than three, so I don’t believe this is all of them. And keep in mind, these are county commissioners, not Boulder City Council. And there may only be three, Charlie. I may be off on that. I’d have to go back and look and see how many commissioners there are. And I apologize. That’s something I used to have off the top of my head when I lived there, but don’t pay much attention to it now because it’s not where I live. And they may only have three. I’ll have to double-check that, Charlie, and see exactly how many they have. But, again, this isn’t coming from the city of Boulder. This is coming from the Boulder County commissioners, these three ladies. And, again… A, let me just say this. This statement didn’t need to be put out. Period. In fact, I would have used the rule that Charlie always uses for me that when some of these tragedies happen, even if this is something you want to say, you let the dust settle before you say anything at all. And I would have at least used that had I been one of them. Even if they want to say this, too soon. Too soon. It’s the Tuesday after the Sunday this happened. Two days later. Too soon. Period. But, again, these are true Marxist liberals. Again, I know Boulder very well, as well as anybody does. And these are true Marxists that have a Marxist agenda. And they’re the type that, you know, they feel like they live in this utopia called Boulder, Colorado. It’s not. It has as many problems as any other city has. They try to mask those problems, by the way. And the reality is too little or too much too soon is what I should say. Too much too soon. If they wanted to say something along these lines, fine. Wait until the dust settles. But the dust hasn’t settled yet. 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SPEAKER 17 :
All right. And yes, there is only three commissioners in Boulder County. It happens to be these three ladies that I mentioned. There is District 1, District 2, District 3. So they’re in charge. Each one is in charge of their represent their particular district, I should say. And as Charlie said, it’s really unusual for somebody to come out with an quote-unquote official statement like this, given the situation. But, yeah, the way I’m seeing this is this is an official statement from the Boulder County commissioners because that’s exactly what they said. Shame on them, by the way, for doing so, but not surprised this is Boulder County after all. We’ll be back. Hour number three is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
I’m a rich guy
