This episode of Rush to Reason takes listeners on an in-depth exploration of the value of disruption and growth within society, as well as the individual. John Rush shares a compelling narrative on why learning each day is crucial and how Richard Battle sees service as a fulfilling mission. Together, they tackle societal pressures towards conformity and stress the importance of staying true to oneself. Stay tuned as they discuss topics ranging from education to Trump’s Executive Order on Voter ID requirements.
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All right, Hour 2, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Richard Battle joining us now. Richard, how are you, sir?
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Good afternoon, John. We’re doing great. Thanks for having us back again.
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Temperature warming up in Texas. Are you guys still okay?
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Well, what time is it?
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It is, well, your time, it’s five.
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Yeah, I know, it’s plenty warm today, and I think winter’s over down here.
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Okay, all right, well, we’re not bad today. Here’s 76. It’s actually a really nice day today, so I’ll make you a little jealous there. To succeed, we must continue to learn, grow, and serve, and yeah, those are fundamentals.
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Well, and this is just a different way to look at things like we’ve looked at before, and if we want to be more, we have to do more, and doing more means continuing to learn, grow, and serve others. And if we look at it that way, I think it makes it much easier to realize what we need to do to be able to accomplish that, despite all the discouragement that we hear in the media and from politicians wanting us to be servants to them.
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Well, and I think on top of that, and you tell me your thoughts on this, but we have now an entire education system that essentially, yeah, I mean, they’ll be there to tell you to learn, although when everybody gets a prize and everybody’s a winner, which, no offense, Richard, they aren’t, the yearning, I guess you could say, to do better, be stronger, get faster, grow, and so on, and even the serving aspect of it, well, if you’re always a winner, why serve?
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Well, and I think you’re right. And our country was founded on the freedoms, economic and political freedoms of individual liberty, that everyone could try to be the best they could be. People didn’t compare themselves to others. They just strove every day to be better. And for the last several years, and the education system contributes to this, there’s been a push toward collectivism, and they want us to compare ourselves to others. They want us to limit what we can do so everyone can have equity and things of this type nature. I’m proud to say that I was educated before the Department of Education was established, and I feel very blessed to have them.
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yeah and the whole you know i’m glad you said that it’s interesting i was given a a little um pep talk i guess you could say to one of my clients earlier this morning and we were talking about these very things and the one thing that i said is you know especially as a business owner is you know don’t get in the trap of you know while it’s great to look at others and their accomplishments and what they’ve done and yes we need to strive again to learn grow serve all of those things on the same token Richard, and not to get super spiritual here, but I think the Lord put thou shalt not covet into a commandment for a reason because really what he’s saying there is, and I know what we were taught in Sunday school and so on, but my feeling on the correct interpretation of covet is stop comparing yourself to What they have and what they’ve done and what they’ve been able to accomplish in life might be completely different than you because guess what? I made each of you equal but yet totally different to accomplish different things in life. So just because they’ve done something that you can’t do doesn’t make them any better than you, so stop comparing yourself to them.
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Well, absolutely. And I think the commandments were put in there because God knew the human nature of the fallen world, and he knew that that would be our natural thing to do. And again, our culture, the media, the politicians, they all promote that. And when we focus on ourselves and on other people being better than us in something, we don’t think about the things we’re better than them. Our human nature is to think about the things they’re better than we are. And that promotes this depression and the thoughts, the negative type thoughts that are detrimental to us individually and as a society.
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You know, and as you say that, again, not to get too in-depth here, although it all dovetails together, and that’s what the commandments do. Even the commandment, thou shalt not kill, you know, I know it’s murder, not kill, because if we’re defending our own lives or at war or whatever, that’s not what that commandment means. But, you know, thou shalt not kill. And where I’m going with this Richard, is if we do that comparison enough to the point to where we get so depressed that we now even want to take our own life, they dovetail together even in that matter because God says, A, don’t compare, don’t covet, and then, of course, don’t kill, meaning even yourself.
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Yes, and I think we shouldn’t be listening to that, and that is happening because, again, it’s being reinforced about equity and everybody being alike, and I don’t care who’s running the government. No one can make us alike, and all we have to do is look at families with multiple children who are brought up the same, and all the kids are different regardless of that.
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That’s right.
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And so we each need to celebrate our individual gifts.
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Yep.
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and collaborate to make each other successfully and each of us successfully, and everything we do contributes to the good of the whole.
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Let’s talk about the learn, grow, and serve, you know, breaking those down, because yes, we need to learn. We need to keep learning, I should say. We need to grow. We need to continue to serve, and if you never have, you need to learn how. So walk us through that.
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Well, first thing is I think we need to learn daily, be lifelong learners. And whether the education system is good or not, it’s imperative for parents and grandparents to make sure young people learn and are inspired to continue lifelong learning afterwards. And Einstein said, learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop learning. questioning. Well, if you notice, our government and the society now is promoting not to question some of these things that have transpired the last few decades.
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That’s right. No, in fact, it’s the old look the other way, nothing to see here.
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Yes, and so reading books, listening to podcasts and radio programs, watching programs, develop additional skills, all these things we need to do and inspire young people to do because that thought that once you get out of school, the learning’s over, if that’s the case, you will never grow beyond where you are at that point, and you’ll be left in the dust.
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I know this sounds a little weird, and it might sound this way to some, but you probably would understand this. I was talking to somebody the other day, and I try to take several vacations a year, A, because I keep a really heavy schedule, six days a week, and I try to take time off. And it seems like, Richard, as I get a little older, I need a little bit more of that mental break than I did even five years ago. But what I was telling somebody the other day is some of the – Greatest learning experiences I’ve had on a lot of levels, even business-wise, have literally come from people that I have met and encountered on vacation. Because when you’re there, you’re able to even talk and discuss things that you wouldn’t normally do while you’re here. And some of the greatest learning episodes I’ve ever had has been on vacation.
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Well, you’re able to do it because you’re not under the daily pressure that you normally are, and you’re able to relax and take something for what it is and process it and take advantage of that situation. And I think we all need to have time like that where we can listen, learn, listen for the Holy Spirit to speak to us. And that’s part of the growing that comes from the daily living. And the other thing that I think is so interesting right now is we’re going through a disruption in Washington that’s never been seen, certainly not in our lifetimes. But I got to thinking about it, and our whole country’s success is based on constant disruption since the founding. The whole industrial revolution was disruption. And so for us to succeed more, we have to have more disruption, but it can’t be theoretical disruptions. It has to be proven things that work. And for the last two or three decades, we’ve fallen for a lot of things that have failed before and or are not proven to work.
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Well, and this coincides with what we’re going to talk about even in regards to serving, Richard. When a family, a country, a church, a business gets comfortable, things are rolling along fairly well. You know, the income in the business is coming along well. Family unit is doing well. There’s no disruptions. The country’s doing well. The economy’s doing well and so on. I hate to say this, Richard, but those are some of the worst times that probably will be coming because those disruptions in life, to your point a moment ago, is what make us grow. The easy times don’t make us grow.
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That’s exactly right. And the tendency of our human nature is when things are going well, to relax and enjoy the ride. And a great example I love to talk about, and I think we’ve mentioned it here, is look at Sears and Roebuck. They were the biggest retailer there were. They had everything to where they could have become the Amazon, if you will, but they didn’t see it because they were resting on their success. And we’ve seen that in other businesses as well as individual lives as well. And as soon as we stop the discomfort of growing, we are sentencing ourselves to no better life than where we are at the moment.
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You are 100% correct. All right, what do you want to do to close this out?
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Well, service to humanity is the best work of life. And whenever I’ve been most depressed going through any adversity, I find it’s because I’m thinking about myself. And the best thing I can do is if I think about how can I help others, it makes me forget about whatever negativity is going on in my life, and it helps me to think something positive to help others in their lives. And so to me, that’s the most important thing we can do is besides our personal growth is help serve others.
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Yeah, because as you know, what that does is, once again, it takes the focus off of us, what we either, in most cases, don’t have, because that’s typically when we get down on ourselves, is we’re comparing ourselves to others, back to what I was opening up with. We compare ourselves to others. Oh, they’re doing this so much better. Their family unit is so much better. Their business is so much better. The car they drive is so much better. And pretty soon we get down on the press because our focus now comes back to us, Rather than saying, okay, you know what, what can I do to help others, serve others, and take the focus off of me?
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Yes, exactly. And I can remember as a kid, I had some of my cousins who they always had the Tonka trucks. I never had one. They had the brand name bicycles. I got hand-me-down clothes from them. But we never talked about any kind of jealousy or envy or anything about them. It was just the way it was. And, of course, we were reminded that we had more than a lot of other people. But today, the culture focuses on the things we don’t have and creates that envy and jealousy of others that we shouldn’t have.
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Yep, you are exactly right. I also know in our measuring results, we say the world measures success in material things that we can see today. You and I both know that that is not the measure of success.
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No, absolutely. And we sow seeds that will bear fruit beyond our lifetime, hopefully. And in the movie Broken Trail, there was a great line when Robert Duvall’s character was talking to his nephew who was tired of this trail drive they were on. And the nephew said, this drive is getting less profitable every day. And Robert Duvall’s character said, son, you never measure wealth using money. Right. And I think that’s a great piece of advice because our greatest impacts on other people and on time beyond our life will be non-monetary.
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Amen. Talk about your books, how folks can get them. We’ve got graduation not that far down the road. How do they get a hold of things that you’ve got, Richard?
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, thank you, John. Americans Who Made America, 18th Century Birth of the Republic would be a terrific graduation gift. The 19th century volume will be out in June to complement it. RichardBattle.com, all books are signed. If you email me after an order at Richard at RichardBattle.com, we’re happy to inscribe them. If you go to Amazon, you can get Kindle and audio versions as well.
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Nice. Richard, as always, I always appreciate it. Have a great rest of your day.
SPEAKER 09 :
My pleasure. God bless America.
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All right, we are back. Trump issued an executive order on federal elections, essentially requiring ID, something that has been discussed all across this country. And no surprise, all of the liberals, and I’ll even tell you what our own Jenna Griswold says in a moment. But Mother Jones, which, yeah, I just had to go there, Charlie. Those of you that don’t know what Mother Jones is, go look it up. It’s probably one of the most left-leaning rags of a website and publication that’s out there. And this was their headline. Trump’s new executive order is an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression effort. Now, what’s interesting is anytime you go to some of the men on the streets and they go into areas whereby this particular headline would read loudest, you know, you go into some of the inner cities and so on and you ask these people, you know, do you have an I.D.? ? And they look at these and I’m not you can look at a lot of these. There’s more than one of these out there. We can go to YouTube and and search for some of these particular videos that I’m referring to. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that literally the people that they’re interviewing will look at the person with the microphone with this bewilderment of, yeah, why? Literally, they’ll look at them like, yeah, I’ve got an ID. I need an ID so I can not only drive but buy cigarettes and liquor and go here and go there. And, you know, you get my drift. In other words, yes, they have IDs. In fact— The interviewers will even go on to say, well, how did you get an I.D.? Because the other side will tell you that it’s voter suppression to require somebody to have an I.D. because they can’t get them. For some odd reason, they don’t have the ability to get their hands on a government-issued I.D., It’s absurd, by the way. But that’s what the left will tell you. That’s what Mother Jones is basically telling you in this particular article. On Tuesday afternoon, President Donald Trump signed a far-reaching executive order that Eliza Swearen Becker, a senior counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice Voting Rights and Election Programs, described it as an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression effort. It would upend how Americans register to vote, how they cast their ballots, and how their votes are counted. By the way, hogwash. None of that statement, none of that statement is true. I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re coming from. None of that is true. Zero. We are at an astonishing moment where the President of the United States is issuing policy directives with the unmistakable intent of stopping Americans from participating in our democracy. Well, first of all, let me correct you there. We don’t have one. So you’re incorrect in what you’re stating anyways. But even if I was going to add in and take out democracy and put in our constitutional republic, you’re still wrong. You’re still wrong. Once again, going back to some of the videos that are out there that literally go into some of these areas that people think this would make life really difficult for these individuals, and they’re looking at you like, no, I have all of that. This wouldn’t change anything on my end whatsoever. If I have to show an ID to match to my name that’s on the voter rolls, what’s the big deal? So any of you, anybody out there listening, either side of the aisle, and some of you on the left who are really out and have utter disdain for President Trump, how can you have utter disdain for voter registration and ID in that process? Do you not want the person that says that they’re voting to be that person? I do. I do. I do. Now, what I will tell you is what Jenna Griswold said is, Trump, this is our Secretary of State here in Colorado. Trump’s executive order is unlawful. It would prevent eligible Americans from exercising their sacred right to vote. The Trump administration is weaponizing the federal government and trying to make it harder for voters to fight back at the ballot box. The United States has always led the world in conducting free and fair elections. We cannot let Donald Trump end that legacy. Which, again, Jenna, I’m sorry to say, you again are flat wrong. He’s not doing anything along those lines. And I also find it ironic that the same people that are mad at Doge and Donald Trump for wanting to shrink government down and have less of it are the same people telling you that he’s now weaponizing it somehow. So how can you do both? How can you be shrinking government and the role of while at the same time weaponizing it? Jenna and those of you that are on the left that believe in this utter nonsense, I feel sorry for you because you have a screw loose. Literally, there’s a screw loose somewhere. You cannot think in this manner and not have a screw loose. You cannot say in the same breath, which a lot of you will, that he’s a bad guy and so is Elon Musk for shrinking government down, all the while saying that they’re weaponizing it. You can’t have both, folks. You can’t have it both ways. You cannot say in the same sentence both of those things. And yet you guys do. Jenna Griswold, you are. You’re saying exactly that. So, again, all of you that are on the left, number one, this whole having to have ID to vote and why you’re against that, you’re the same moron that’s against shrinking government. You’re the same moron that has a problem with waste, fraud, and abuse and getting rid of it. And when I say moron, I’m not using that loosely. That is exactly what you are, because you’ve got to screw loose. You’re not thinking correctly at all. So… I’ll leave it at that. We’ll come back. Geno’s Auto Service is up next. 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All right, we are back. We’ll get to Sonny Kutcher here in just one moment. A couple of calls prior. Go ahead, Dave.
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Yeah, what I’d like to point out is the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party when they bring out those memes about voter suppression. Do we not recall the motor voter laws that were passed specifically even here in Colorado? I mean, that was straight out so that it would make it easier for people to get registered to vote. Well, if you’re going to get registered to vote at the DMP, well, then why not carry around that same ID to vote? It’s just another endorsement that you would receive on your driver’s license, that you are registered and this is you and this is your party affiliation, whatever it is. So that shouldn’t be a problem. It’s a red herring that they’re throwing out there.
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That’s right. Well, ultimately, Dave, what this is doing, as you know, is this is going against them in the fact that, yes, we’d like to make sure that whoever votes is actually alive, they’re voting, they’re full well, they’re able to vote, and so on. The reality is this throws a monkey wrench in all of that, and that’s why they’re all mad.
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Well, exactly, and that’s the second point I was going to make. The president’s order is just cleaning out the voter rolls so that we don’t have as they do with the Social Security system, 120-year-olds collecting Social Security checks.
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That’s right.
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Which is obviously an impossibility. That’s right. You know, it was one of those things that even when I think it was George Bush Sr., when he died, his last statement was, I wonder if I’ll still be able to vote in Chicago. You know, those things. Right. You know, there’s nothing wrong with it. And there’s nothing wrong with verification as a fair playing field. It’s not saying that you’re going to register everyone as Republicans. It’s just saying that everyone’s going to be verified. That’s it.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s it. That’s right. Nothing wrong with that. Dave, I’ll let you go. I appreciate that. You are you are spot on. Dennis, you’re next. Go ahead.
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John, this doesn’t have to do with voter issues, but let me give you an example of how the state of Colorado thinks. So I was on the Great Colorado Payback website, found my dad’s name. He’s been gone for 29 years. So that means the estate’s been closed for 28. I was the PR, so I thought, hey it’s you know i’ll uh fill out a claim for well i called them they said fill out a claim form and provide a death certificate so i did that okay i get an email back they want all of my personal represent representative documentation they want a complete copy of the will including all of the errors and the percentages of uh what they were to be left All for $3.
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Oh, my word. Dennis. Yeah, thank you. Proving the point. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. That’s one where he’s just like, okay, where do I send the $3 to?
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Well, I’m just going to leave it on their server to burn up.
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Well, yeah, I just just take up more space. No, good. Dennis, thank you. Yeah, that is a great that’s a great reiteration of how government thinks. Sonny Kutcher joining us now, Young Americans Against Socialism. Sonny, and you could tell my last segment was talking about Trump’s executive order and the fact now that the left is just. You know, they’re blown up. Our own secretary of state here is all in an uproar. You know, this is going to go against people’s voting rights and this, that and the other. I mean, nothing could be farther from the truth. But that’s what the left’s narrative is.
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About voter ID?
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Yes.
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Well, we know that they will stop. They will stop at nothing to get to their vote. their the fulfillment of their agenda which is importing these migrants and having a one-party state that disguises itself as a democratic uh you know uh constitutional republic which we have and that is their plan all along because they understand that the american people are not stupid right they they like to treat us as such they treat us like we’re you know morons and food feed us headlines, garbage headlines that are completely fabricated. But what they want to do is, like I said, disguise their plan as a democratic thing, you know, to allow people to come into this country. But it’s really simple. If you’re not a citizen, you can vote. And if you want to vote, we should. If that is the rule, if you’re a citizen, you can vote. If you’re not, you can’t vote. And how is it racist, sexist, any of those things to require identification to prove that you are who you say you are when you go to vote as a citizen of this country?
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It’s not. Joe, a good friend of the show who calls in. on a regular basis. Here is our guide to identifications. And by the way, there’s a lot more, but just some of the highlights. You have to have identification to bank, go to the airport, of course, and fly, go to the doctor, go to the pharmacy, pick up your prescriptions, by the way, school in a lot of cases, go to the gun store, of course, fishing, hunting, daycare, hospital, drinking, of course, smoking, I could add, but voting, though, Sonny, no, you don’t need any ID to vote. But all those other things require one.
SPEAKER 22 :
Absolutely. And, you know, this is just one more tactic that the left will use to convince people that, you know, they are they are for, you know, the common man and that, you know, we’re trying to protect your rights by, you But, you know, where was that for, you know, young women who are vulnerable or all these different people who have been vulnerable because of the less destructive policies? That’s right.
SPEAKER 05 :
You want to talk about NPR for a moment since that’s what you sent me?
SPEAKER 22 :
Yeah, well, this was a pretty fiery exchange, I would say.
SPEAKER 05 :
Would you like me to, really quick, let me double check here. I think I’ve got enough time. I know we have enough time. Let me make sure I’ve got my settings correct here where we actually can play this, and I believe I can. So, Charlie, let me make sure that I’ve got things dialed in here, back this up a moment, and let’s go ahead and play this. Here we go.
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First of all, I do want to say that NPR acknowledges that we were mistaken in failing to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story more aggressively and sooner. Our current editorial leadership in Wuhan, we recognize that we were reporting at the time, but we acknowledge that the new CIA evidence is worthy of coverage and have covered it.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, so they’re admitting, Sonny, they’re admitting, and that’s why you sent it to me, that they failed to cover the Hunter Biden laptop story. They downplayed COVID and its origins, of course, and yet, for some odd reason, we need to keep funding them with our tax dollars? Why?
SPEAKER 22 :
Because it’s been a racket the entire time. NPR, government-funded news programs, are nothing more than an extension of the radical left. They are a propaganda arm, and that is what they’ve been used as for quite a long time. I’m honestly shocked that this is coming into the mainstream conversation, and I really do hope that what comes of it is at least slashing of their funding for them to be held accountable for using those funds in not an appropriate manner. And there are some longer clips of her testifying, the CEO, Catherine Maher, of NPR on Capitol Hill. And the exchanges is like you would imagine. She just says she doesn’t recall, that she doesn’t believe those things. And And, you know, the lies continue. But the truth stands and the proof is in the pudding. The results show that the programs and the information, the material that comes out of NPR, PBS, these government funded programs is is a bunch of baloney. It’s complete propaganda. And you can even see that they are promoting a drag queen shows for kids. I’m not sure who in their right mind would approve that. especially to be funded by the taxpayers. You know, if you’re a private, you want to do something that’s weird as it is. But this, you know, to have a drag queen teaching kids on PBS, I’m just not sure that that’s an appropriate use of taxpayer funding. In fact, I don’t believe it is an appropriate use of taxpayer funds. And she goes on to discuss, you know, Representative Gill confronts her about certain tweets that she posted back in 2020. I’m sure there were from earlier on as well, but talking about racism and how, you know, America is addicted to white supremacy. These are direct quotes. He says, you know, did you believe this is based on her tweets? Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy? And that was in reference to a book. She said she was reading about the case for reparations that she said, quote, she took a day off to fully read the case for reparations. And she says, I apologize. I don’t recall that I did. Yet again, just, the left getting away with, you know, or at least they assume that they will get away with these blatant lies that Americans are stupid, but we know the truth.
SPEAKER 05 :
Well, and this is where, you know, I know we talk about it a lot because, you know, Young Americans Against Socialism, you guys do all sorts of things to help people get help people. I say that. I mean, I know it’s kids related, but really anybody can learn from the material that you guys have out. And the only way really, Sonny, to combat this is to get people more educated on the things that are actually happening. And that’s where you guys come in.
SPEAKER 22 :
Absolutely. And we’re all about education. You know, a lot of people will talk about authoritarian regimes that have transpired over the many years and that, you know, communism. Well, they just didn’t do it right. You know, Cuba just didn’t do it right. And the dictators had good intentions, but unfortunately just wasn’t followed through. And real communism or real socialism is when the power is lost. in the hands of the people and that the collective is more important, that when the working collective runs things, well, that’s when things will really be fair. And the problem with that is that it goes against every law of human nature, that naturally there will be leaders, there will be bad actors, that there is law and order, that there is right and wrong, and people will fall into those different categories. That’s why you need good leaders to promote good values. And that’s what we have in this country. That’s what we have to protect. with our constitution. And by that, I mean protect the constitution because it protects those rights and freedoms. And that’s what we do, is point out the rhetoric, the tactics, the propaganda, the Soviet style, the socialistic style policies and tactics that the radical left uses and has used for many years to hijack the left side of the spectrum and completely eradicate all debate and any chance for two people on different sides of the spectrum to come together and find common ground. All of that has gone out of the window because the polarizing spectrums have taken over. And unfortunately, the radical left will stop at nothing, including violence. You’ve seen the behavior of somebody like Representative Crockett and different people who refuse to condemn the violence. of the Tesla vandalism and things that we’ve seen and that we’ve talked about on this show.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right.
SPEAKER 22 :
And that’s really what we do.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, before you go, because I wanted to play this clip before, and I know we have enough time now that we’ve gotten all of this other out of the way. I’ve got time, and I wanted to play this while you’re with me because another reason why, everybody listening, please hear me out on this. These are going to be college students that are being interviewed on a beach. And I get it. Sometimes the man on the street, it can kind of throw some people off and maybe they’re sort of, you know, out of sorts, if you would. But I think I’m going to prove my point here, Sonny, as to not only why we don’t need the Department of Education anymore, but also why we need you guys so much and getting this information that you have into the hands of those that really need it. Because I’m going to play right now. Again, a man on the street. This is, oh, I don’t know, a couple of minutes long is all, but it’ll really give you an idea, folks, as to why we really need to educate not only our young people, but really everybody in America about the things that we talk about here on a routine basis. Let me just play this. Here we go.
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What are your majors? Business, biology. Elementary education. What shape is the U.S. Pentagon Building?
SPEAKER 06 :
The U.S. Isn’t it just a square?
SPEAKER 14 :
Who won the Civil War? Oh, it’s the Civil War, so it’s the civilians versus whoever was in power. How many justices are on the Supreme Court? Justices? So, like, when you say that, you mean, like, FBI? Name three states that border Canada. I didn’t know Canada had a border.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right, so Sunny, that was, again, man on the street, pretty easy questions when it’s all said and done, and the problem is these three particular young ladies with their particular majors that you heard couldn’t answer any of those questions correctly.
SPEAKER 22 :
It’s sad. What we know is that we need to speak more directly to our young people. We need to help them. We need to utilize… We need to utilize tools that are in our toolbox to reach young people. I know people are really afraid of AI, but there has to be a way forward because this is the next generation.
SPEAKER 05 :
I’m glad you mentioned that, Sunny, not to interrupt, but I’m glad you mentioned that because here’s the other thing about AI. Yes, AI is going to come. Yes, it’s going to grow. Yes, it’s going to get big. No, you’re not going to be able to stop it. It is what it is. The best way, Sunny, in my opinion, to work alongside of AI, because you’re not going to defeat AI, but the way to work alongside AI and understand is this correct or has this machine, that’s what AI is, has this machine been fed a bunch of things that aren’t correct? The only way to defeat that, Sunny, is for you yourself to be educated to spot a fake when you see one or hear one.
SPEAKER 22 :
That’s a really great point. And I think that there are actually really useful ways that you can use AI. In fact, I just saw a report from a school where they’ve utilized AI in terms of tutor, and actually their scores have gone up drastically. Now, I’m not saying that this is the way to go, but there has to be a common ground. Again, that’s like when the Internet came about and when the computer came about. I don’t really think that the educators that were teaching me when I was growing up, when I was in that generation where we suddenly had the computer introduced and the Internet introduced and all these things, They really, you know, OK, we had laptops in school. When I think about it, it’s like, could I have just been surfing the Internet? And God knows what we would have found. Of course, our school did restrict. you know, certain websites and whatnot. But it just seems that there’s a lack of engagement. In fact, there’s actually disengagement with educators and leaders because they’re afraid of how to approach these topics with kids. And we’ve seen the report card. We saw the national report card. Our scores have, you know, average scores of kids in this country have fallen drastically. It’s embarrassing. We are the number one superpower in the world. And our kids, we are failing our children. Our children cannot read and write. They don’t even teach script writing anymore. It’s pathetic. It’s disturbing. And 77% of eighth graders are not proficient in civics, according to that NAEP, the same one that comes out with the report card. That is a problem. We need to address it. And I really do think that, you know, people in my generation and that this millennial generation are taking it seriously. Homeschooling is on the rise. People are, you know, taking that civic responsibility to teach their kids. And that’s why we create the resources that we do. That’s why, you know, share as much as you can the information that we teach, because if you cannot recognize a socialist policies and why free trade is the best way to go, you see what’s happening with the President Trump’s ability to negotiate. and come up with a free and fair trade with people and with other countries and how that’s actually going to benefit us in the long run. You know, the world is changing very much than when we were coming up, myself and then, of course, you, when we were being taught about economics and whatnot. But we have to meet somewhere in the middle because our kids need it.
SPEAKER 05 :
That’s right. Absolutely. Young Americans Against Socialism. Sonny, as always, I appreciate it greatly. We’ll talk again next week.
SPEAKER 22 :
Thank you so much, and head to yaas.org to download our resources, support us if you can financially, and we’re really grateful. Share our content and talk to you next week.
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We don’t yell at you. We inform you. Now, back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 05 :
All right. A couple of minutes left of this particular hour. Another full hour coming your way. Representative Jasmine Crockett. If you don’t know who she is, I would recommend you go look her up. She’s somebody that’s in very much the news right now for her really stupid comments she makes at times. The last one, calling Governor Abbott hot wheels. Now, for those of you that maybe don’t know, Governor Abbott has been in a wheelchair. I don’t know his history, Charlie, but I mean, I’ve never known him to not be in a wheelchair. Oh, I didn’t know that. He was a runner that was hit by a falling tree. paralyzed from the neck down. Yeah, thank you, because he used his arms, so waist down, paralyzed from the waist down. I did not know his history. Thank you, Charlie, for that. I did not know that. Now, I did know that he was in a wheelchair. I mean, these are some of those dumb comments that Joe Biden made the one time where he said, you know, stand up, Chuck. Well, Chuck couldn’t stand up because he, again, was paralyzed from the waist down. This is even worse, though, because she knows that he’s in a wheelchair. In fact… She calls him Governor Hot Wheels. Not my words, hers. And, yeah, she’s from Houston. She’s from that area. She knows what’s going on. She’s not – which, again, anybody that is around politically at all and – and has run for office and is on the national spectrum, which she is, would know the different governors that are out there and their history and so on. And, yeah, she did that on purpose, by the way. She’s claiming that her Governor Hot Wheels comment was misinterpreted. No. I don’t think so. She’s had other comments about Governor Abbott, by the way, that would lead you to believe that, no, this wasn’t a mistake. This isn’t something that you did, you know, erroneously. No, this was a way to actually mock the Texas governor, your governor, by the way. It’s a way to mock that individual. And, you know, he is, again, a paraplegic in a wheelchair. And she called him Governor Hot Wheels. A.S.S. Mess. I didn’t say that. She did. She’s a very vile woman, by the way, and she needs her mouth washed out with soap, by the way. In fact, we don’t hear that much anymore, but I don’t know about all of you out there listening, but I tasted more than my share of a bar of soap when I was a young kid. Charlie just raised his hand as well. I guess we don’t do that anymore. I know what soap tastes like, and I can tell you right now that I haven’t tasted it in a while, other than when you accidentally maybe get it in your mouth or something. But yeah, Charlie says it stays with you because yes, I can still tell you what a bar of dial or ivory soap tastes like because when I was a young man, it’s probably why I don’t swear today. When I was a young man, I had my mouth washed out with soap more than once. And no, it wasn’t for swearing. It usually was talking back or doing something that I shouldn’t have been doing or calling my brother a name that he shouldn’t have been called or something along those lines. Yeah, I’ve had my share of bars of soap in my mouth, and I think we need to bring those back because there are vile individuals like her that actually literally need her mouth washed out with soap. I’ll leave it at that. We’ll be back. Hour number three is next. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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Thank you.
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I’m a rich guy.
