Join host John Rush and a panel of insightful guests as they dive into the heart of America’s political scene. This engaging episode opens with a powerful statement by Ted Cruz regarding nationwide injunctions and the influence of radical judges, setting the stage for a robust discussion. Special guest Tony Delgado, CEO of Latino Wall Street, shares compelling reasons behind the growing support for Donald Trump among Latino voters, touching on themes of peace, prosperity, and family values. The conversation expands to address broader issues faced by the Hispanic community in the United States. Tune in as Tony details
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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Myself, Andy Pate, Charlie Grimes, trying to get our next guest joining us. But Charlie’s working on that, and as we always say, hey, things happen. People get on other interviews, go along, things like that happen, and we are fully understanding of that.
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Other interviews? Are there other shows? Yeah, there are, actually. I didn’t know other shows existed. There are a few. I’m hurt, John.
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There are a few, actually. We’re the best, but there’s, no, I’m just kidding. There’s a few out there, yes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, I don’t know if we’ll have time. If he comes on, we’ll jump to him. Go for it. Well, as you know, political activism, the courts have been basically governing our country with Donald Trump. And it’s insane. And they had a hearing in Washington on this. Ted Cruz had a brilliant statement. I’d like to play it.
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Ready?
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Go for it. We’re ready. Yes, go for it. Here we go.
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It is interesting, as our Democrat colleagues defend these nationwide injunctions, that neither of them made any reference to the fact that the number of nationwide injunctions issued in the first four months is greater than the entire 20th century and is greater than all of the nationwide injunctions issued against Bush, Obama, and Biden combined, nor did they address the disturbing fact that of the 40 universal injunctions that have been issued in the last four months, 35 of them came from the same five judicial districts. There is a reason for this. Blue state attorneys general and radical leftist groups are seeking out affirmatively radical judges who they know will impose their own policy preferences. If it were simply, as our Democrat colleagues said, judges following the law, then you wouldn’t have to keep going to the same radical judges over and over and over again because judges across the board should do that. But the litigants know exactly who the zealots are that are on the bench, and that’s who they are seeking out. I will also point out that the discussion about the urgency of protecting the safety of judges Listen, I agree. We should protect the safety of every federal judge. But it is interesting because my Democrat colleagues were utterly silent during four years of the Biden administration when you had violent mobs outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, unhappy with the Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs, and the Biden Justice Department refused to enforce federal law and protect the justices.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, and I’m going to stop it there because we now have Tony.
SPEAKER 19 :
Okay, yeah, we can go to Tony. Tony, welcome. How are you, sir?
SPEAKER 10 :
Hey, guys. Thanks for having me on.
SPEAKER 19 :
Very welcome. Glad you’re here. We were talking before you came on, kind of promoing last hour into this hour that Trump’s approval rating among Hispanics is exploding, and you are a Latino Wall Street CEO, so talk to us about that if you would.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, so, I mean, President Trump came into office with a very clear message of peace and prosperity, right? Right. Peace through strength, law and order, and fixing our economy. And, you know, Latinos, there’s 55 million Latino Americans in the United States who came here legally, who pay their taxes, who go to work every day, and they came here for the American dream, right? Not the San Francisco nightmare.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right.
SPEAKER 10 :
And that’s why Hispanics are… overwhelmingly supporting president Trump in this last election cycle. And we’re happy. We’re happy that the adults are back in charge. We’re happy to see these violent gang members and cartels being removed from the country. And we’re happy for a restoration of common sense.
SPEAKER 07 :
Tony, when you have a country like America with people who have come from all over the world, you’re naturally going to have subcultures. You’re going to have various racial communities. That’s not bad. That’s good. It’s fun. And I think it makes us better. One thing I’ve really noticed about two racial subcultures, communities, the Hispanic and the Asian communities, is this. They love capitalism. And because of that, when somebody comes along and unapologetically preaches it and says, oh, man, don’t settle for what you’re given. Don’t just sit back and wait for a government check. You can rise as high as you want. Someone like Donald Trump, I think it sells.
SPEAKER 19 :
I want to add one more thing, Tony, to what Andy just said, because I know some of these people individually on both sides of that demographic that Andy just talked about. Tony, a really good friend of mine. In fact, I coach him on the business side of things. And the other thing that they really appreciate is Trump’s stance on family, family values as well.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. I mean, listen, 75% of Hispanic Americans are Christian. Over 50% are Catholic, right? We have these Christian conservative values. that are rooted deeply in our culture. And you know what? We’ve seen the writing on the walls with communism. We’ve seen this play out in our home countries. I have a lot of friends who are very wealthy, were very wealthy in places like Venezuela, Cuba, Argentina, and then they saw socialist and communist policies come and take over and tank their economy and take their freedoms and seize their property and all sorts of very dystopian things that happen when you allow communism to run your country. So when you have people like AOC getting on their soapbox, it’s really easy to preach socialism when you live in a capitalist utopia. Right. But real Latinos, first generation Latinos know firsthand the dangers of communism and socialism.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and they’re also, like you said, the social issues very much skew toward the Republican. I would just sum it up with two things. Hispanic Americans largely want to own their own business and not have men in their daughter’s locker room.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. Absolutely. And not have men from the government come in and seize their property, right? And that’s what happens, right? The Bacardi family is a very famous family, very big company in Puerto Rico, and people think that Bacardi is actually a Puerto Rican company. when in fact it was a Cuban company, and the Bacardi family had to move and migrate and go from Cuba to Puerto Rico to escape communism in Cuba when Castro took over, right? So we’ve seen this play out all throughout Latin America. We don’t want men wearing dresses in the women’s locker room. We do not believe in wealth distribution and all these crazy concepts that the radical left is pushing. We want peace, we want prosperity, and we want conservative values in our nation.
SPEAKER 19 :
One question I have for you, because when you look at Mexico not being communist, and I even question on the socialist sides of things, Tony, because really, and you probably know as much about this as anybody, it’s really more the cartel movement and what’s going on there. The reality is the cartel runs Mexico in many, many ways. I don’t want to get off track and get into all the details as to why, but the question I have for you is those folks that do come from Mexico, and I, again, know some of them, they come here, they look at all the things that you just said, how do they, see if I use my words right here, how do they, you know, compare that to what’s been going on? It’s not socialism they’ve come out of, but it’s a very corrupt system they’ve come out of in Mexico. Am I saying that right?
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, absolutely. It’s extreme corruption. There’s no law and order. There’s no justice. Right. You can be murdered in the street by the cartel and the police are scared to investigate it because they’re either being threatened themselves or on the dole or they’re on the tape. That’s right. That’s right. Yeah, absolutely. And recently, some of the family members of El Chapo have been in the United States. And it is rumored that they may be cutting a deal with the Trump administration currently to rat out government officials, high-level government officials who have allowed this to go on for decades.
SPEAKER 19 :
I hadn’t heard that. That’s interesting. That would be fun. Yeah, that’s really interesting, Tony. I had not heard that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Tony, can I… Yeah, because… Oh, go ahead. To have corruption, you need people at the top… That’s right. …that enable it. Oh, absolutely.
SPEAKER 1 :
100%.
SPEAKER 10 :
And the criminal justice system in Mexico has been completely neutered… Yep, absolutely. …by this corrupt cartel money.
SPEAKER 19 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
Tony, another issue, I think, is the gender issue. And I’m not just talking about men and women’s locker rooms. Let’s look beyond that. There are three groups, and I would say Hispanic Americans… Well, and I’ll throw in Asian Americans, but also black Americans and more rural white Americans all have something in common. They want men to be men. They like watching MMA, mixed martial arts. They love watching these kinds of things. They listen to Joe Rogan. These people, they like a guy to be a guy. And Donald Trump just appeals to that. And I think the Democrat Party has completely abandoned that. In fact, the Democrat Party has been saying that toxic masculinity, real men are the problem in America. And Trump comes along and says, no one’s the problem in America. Men are fine. Women are fine. Be yourself and enjoy it. I think that that is selling in the Hispanic population.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, the Trump campaign said it best when they said that the Democrats are for they them and President Donald Trump is for you.
SPEAKER 19 :
Good point.
SPEAKER 10 :
I love that. He’s fighting for normal, everyday Americans. You know, these fringe topics. These transgender and LGBT, LMNOP, that is a very small minority of people in this country. Most Americans, whether they’re Hispanic, black, Latino, white, Asian, Chinese, they want the same things. They want a strong family. They want their kids to do a little bit better than them. And all these radical issues, I don’t think any consenting adult is going to want their children in kindergarten to have a drag queen reading to them. These are absurd. I don’t know what percentage of the population… Whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican or independent, I don’t know what percentage of the population thinks that this is okay, right? We had a word for those people, right? Cross-dressers that would want to go into a school. They were called pedophiles. And you would go to jail and you would end up on a list. That’s right. And so the fact that these things are being normalized is completely, completely ridiculous. And, you know, another thing just on, you know, masculinity, right? Hispanic Americans, they work really, really hard. Like you said, they watch sports, a lot of them work in construction, they work in the trade, and they don’t agree with this radical left agenda.
SPEAKER 19 :
That’s where, Tony, and I think you’re solidifying some things I’ve been saying for a while, and I’ve actually been kind of called down on this. I’ve even had some fellow folks in my world that say, no, John, you’re completely wrong. And let me explain. Give me a minute here. The movement by the left to open the borders and allow as much illegal immigration to happen, they think in the end is really – benefiting them tony and i have come out and i’ve said this now for years because i know a lot of these individuals to your point whereby yeah they may be here illegally they may have come because they’re looking for a better life and by the way i’ve said this myself if i were them i wouldn’t look at any differently because i’d want to come and better my life as well but i think in the end tony and you tell me if i’m wrong a lot of what the democrats think they’re doing to win over voters down the road as these people actually come here legally or illegally They think they’re all going to be Democrat voters when it’s all said and done. And I’m saying, Tony, that it’s the opposite of that. I think a lot of this is going to backfire on the Democrat Party.
SPEAKER 10 :
You’re absolutely right. And just look at a market like Miami that just flipped for Trump in the last election cycle. Right. All of these markets where you have heavy Cuban influence, heavy Venezuelan, a lot of immigration. Right. A lot of people here on asylum and kind of questionable legal statuses into this country. They don’t like the woke nonsense. Immigration issues are one issue. And, you know, anywhere else in Latin America, you can’t go and overstay a visa. That’s right. You get deported.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, so I want to ask you one more thing along those lines, because this is another thing that I think would bode well for us. And I don’t hear anybody talking about it. And I think folks like you who have some influence might be able to help push some of this through. And here’s my thought. I feel like this administration right now needs to fast-track those that are here, even illegally. And there’s going to be some folks out there listening to me that are probably going to disagree with me, but I’m going to say this anyways. I think it would bode well for this administration, Tony, that those people that have come here that are hardworking. that want to make a better life for themselves, that love America. By the way, they came here because of that. They’re not here to disrupt. They’re not here on behalf of the cartel. They’re not here as a part of the sex trade and all of that, but they really have come here to better themselves and their family. We, as an administration, need to figure out a way to fast-track their citizenship, and in doing so, we will end up with more voters than the other side.
SPEAKER 10 :
absolutely and you know democrats have completely uh… lost their messaging i don’t know who the messaging to uh… and i think they’re finally finally are waking up to this you have you have the democrats looking to invest $20 million into speaking, connecting back with young men. And honestly, what they need to be doing.
SPEAKER 19 :
And by the way, their poster child for that’s not real. I don’t think it’s going to be. How should I say this, Tony? It’s not a great poster child that they chose to actually reach out to young men. Let’s just say that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, that’s definitely an understatement. And yes, I mean, I do think to your earlier point, like immigration in the United States. We do need to take a look at who’s here, right? If people are paying their taxes, they have a job, they’re productive members of society, then yeah, 100% there should be a pathway.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, it shouldn’t take, Tony, I know people, I’m helping some folks along these lines as we speak. It shouldn’t take thousands upon thousands of dollars and attorneys in 10 years to become a citizen of this great United States of America. That’s what I’m saying.
SPEAKER 10 :
Well, yeah, and we need some form of immigration. I mean, we’ve had this. Oh, sure.
SPEAKER 19 :
We don’t have enough births of babies right now, Tony. We have no choice.
SPEAKER 10 :
Yeah, no, absolutely. And I mean, look at the Italians and the Irish in the early 1900s. where they came, they built the Lincoln Tunnel, and they built a lot of the big buildings in New York City. That was immigration. It was immigration from Europe. But it was also, you know, a lot of Christian conservative men, heavily Catholic, heavily Christian, believe in Jesus, want a better life for their family. And they helped make America great again 100 years ago. So we do need immigration in this country. And it’s just about bringing the best and the brightest and making sure that there’s a process.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, yeah. And the bottom line is this. With all the deals Donald Trump is cutting right now, we’re going to need the workforce. He is creating so many jobs and we’re just going to need more people to do those jobs. One last question, Tony. Do you see the reverse of what happened in the 60s and 70s with the black population? And what I mean is this. The black population was actually Republican leading into the 60s. And by the late 70s, they had switched and they had shifted and gone all Democrat. I’m seeing with the Hispanic population, largely due to Trump and MAGA, a switch happening right now that is very similar. Are you seeing this?
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely. I mean, uh, Morgan Friedman said it best. He said, America has yet to have their first black president, right? Obama was raised by a white woman and we, uh, have not had our first Latino president either. And I think that the Democrats have pandered to black and Latino voters for way too long. I think that the Latino community is waking up and we saw that in the last election cycle. And, uh, And I believe that Latinos have a very big seat at the table at this new MAGA movement that’s being built.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, again, I know you’ve got influence. Some of the people that you know have influence. I don’t have the same influence, Tony, that you do. And I would love to see this administration figure out a way to, again, for those individuals that are here that want to better themselves, that want to better this country, by the way, that are here for the long haul. I want to figure out a way where we can fast track citizenship in a way that it doesn’t take tens of thousands of dollars and and 10 years plus to do that, because, Tony, we need to do it quicker than that.
SPEAKER 10 :
Absolutely.
SPEAKER 19 :
I’m going to throw that back at you. So, Tony, I appreciate it. You can tell you’re in good company. You’re welcome here anytime, sir.
SPEAKER 10 :
Thank you again for having me on, gentlemen.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you, Tony. Appreciate it very much. That’s Tony Delgado, and he is a big guy on Wall Street, by the way. A lot of folks maybe that are in that world know his name. A lot of folks here may not, but he is a Puerto Rican-American. He has done very well as a software developer, investor, and so on. He actually co-founded Latino Wall Street as well. So you’re not talking to any kind of a schmuck there. That guy knows what’s going on. Let’s just say it that way. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So anyways, we’ll talk more when we come back. Don’t go anywhere. Jim, hang tight. Veteran Windows and Doors is next. And again, there are some things potentially changing in the Energy Star end of things when it comes to Windows and Doors. Talk to Veteran Windows today. Find out exactly how that would affect you. Find him at klzradio.com.
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SPEAKER 19 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Great interview, by the way, and I do think there’s a lot of things there that were discussed that, again, some of those things that we discussed, there are some of you out there listening, and some of that we talked about in the first hour, whereby you probably wouldn’t agree 100% with some of the statements that I made, but I’m here to tell you that those would be huge wins for our side if some of those things would get taken care of, Andy.
SPEAKER 07 :
What do you mean, like fast-tracking? Yes.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, well. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, absolutely. I’ve been saying that for quite a while now, that I believe we need to fast-track and streamline and merit-base our immigration system. Let’s get people in here more easily but fully vetted. That’s right. Absolutely. And we can do that.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, we can.
SPEAKER 07 :
And by the way, if we can’t fully vet you, you can’t come in.
SPEAKER 19 :
Boy, that’s easy. And we shouldn’t just let some guy stay that was here on a tourist visa and just automatically give him a green card like the knucklehead in Boulder. Yeah. Which is what happened there. That was the Biden administration.
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, and one other thing, John, I get so sick and tired of people saying, well, there are citizens who commit these kinds of crimes, too. There are citizens who do. And, you know, illegals commit crimes at a lower pace than, you know, than legal citizens and so forth. First of all, the stats on that are very, very untrustworthy to begin with. But we have to remember. Every crime committed by an illegal alien is an added crime that didn’t have to be here. OK, we already have all the crimes that are committed by citizens. We already have cops who we pay who have to deal with those criminals who are already citizens. Right. But the people who aren’t here legally, we shouldn’t have to deal with. Every time one of them rapes a woman, kills a kid, runs over somebody, or firebombs innocent Jews in Boulder, every time that happens, that didn’t even have to happen. Our cops shouldn’t be having to deal with that. Our cops shouldn’t be dispensed to have to go to deal with those. They should be gone.
SPEAKER 19 :
I agree. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s added. And that’s why I always use that word, added. These are all added crimes. We got enough crimes without them.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, and again, I don’t have all the stats in front of me, folks. I would have to look these things up. And this is one thing, too, that you have to look at when it comes to people talking about stats is you can pretty much make stats say whatever you want to without delving into the actual real data that’s being fed into that stat. What I mean by this, Andy, is what is the percentage of crimes like this heinous one that happened in Boulder on Sunday? I can’t think of the last time I ever heard of anyone outside of this guy making a bug sprayer into a flamethrower.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And one other thing that always slants those stats, we have to keep in mind most crimes are committed within a community. True. And most crimes by black people are committed within the black community and so forth.
SPEAKER 08 :
True.
SPEAKER 07 :
Most crimes by illegal aliens are going to be committed within a community that is heavy in illegal aliens, which means you’re going to have virtually no reporting.
SPEAKER 19 :
True. That’s a good point on that. John and Cheyenne, go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Hey, so I didn’t hear the first hour I was in a meeting. Did you guys talk about the fact that they picked up the Boulder terrorist’s whole family and are holding them for deport?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, and I just read a moment ago during the break, they should be on a flight back home tonight.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah. How did this whole family get here on a tourist visa?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, they overstayed their tourist visa. Anybody can come on a tourist visa as long as you pass some of the basic checks of getting here in the first place. They overstayed the tourist visa. I don’t know if the rest of the family ended up having a work visa like this particular gentleman did, but he had one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Through the Biden administration. John and Cheyenne, quick question. What do you think the odds are that this guy, he had, what was it, 20, 25 or whatever of these bombs that he had made? Right. Okay. What do you think the odds are, John, that no one in his family had any idea that he had put this together?
SPEAKER 09 :
Oh, they had no idea whatsoever, Andy, because they all lived in the dark.
SPEAKER 08 :
Sorry.
SPEAKER 09 :
So I’m a little disappointed at the Boulder cop. He drew the wrong weapon. He could have saved the city of Boulder, the state of Colorado, and the U.S. federal government a whole lot of money if he drew his other weapon.
SPEAKER 19 :
You mean one to the head, you mean?
SPEAKER 09 :
I was thinking three to the chest. Well, that too.
SPEAKER 19 :
Either one works.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, center mass, John. Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 09 :
Center mass. That’s the way. You know, you hit somebody three times center mass, they’re probably not getting back up.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, but the problem is, to do that, you have to… Well, I guess you could say the guy was presenting a mortal threat. I mean, he was to those he was trying to attack.
SPEAKER 09 :
He went people on…
SPEAKER 07 :
You’re right.
SPEAKER 09 :
How is it not a mortal threat to light people on fire?
SPEAKER 07 :
No, no, I mean, but I don’t know if at the moment if he had any more in his hands or what, or if he was just standing there or what was going on. But you’re right. You’re right. It would have been great if the cop had just dropped him.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, can we… After we give this guy a first-class trial, can we give him a proper hanging? I don’t think that’s legal anymore, but… No, I wish we did that, but we don’t. What I’d like to do, what would be true justice, is send him to that prison in El Salvador. Pay them to house him.
SPEAKER 19 :
Oh, there you go. Be the surrogate prison.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, the one that nobody gets out of, I guess.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 09 :
But…
SPEAKER 07 :
Why don’t we put him unarmed on the streets of Jerusalem?
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, or have fun. To stay on our good side, we’d take care of sentencing him.
SPEAKER 19 :
I’m with you, though, on the whole. I’m with you on the whole, the Boulder cop, and I appreciate our police force and so on, but yeah, we could have saved a lot of money in that one.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, because, you know, the thing is, I mentioned that to my wife when I was on the phone with her. And she said, well, the liberals in Boulder might want to bring him up on charges if he took him out.
SPEAKER 19 :
You could be right.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, first of all, that’s very true, John. They very well would. Look, the cops in places like Boulder or any other liberal jurisdiction are terrified to enforce the law to the fullest extent. They’re terrified to do it.
SPEAKER 09 :
And I feel, growing up in a cop family, my dad a cop, my nephew’s a cop now. I know what it was like in the 50s and 60s as opposed to now. My nephew tells me, you know, unless it’s life or limb, they’re afraid because, you know, and then everything’s on video. Well, remember those videos get and those videos get released and they’re. properly edited to make the cop look really bad.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, remember in the aftermath of George Floyd, you were looking in jurisdictions like Baltimore, and the cops flat out were not enforcing the law against any black person, period. Okay? They were just driving away. They were driving by. They were avoiding it at all costs. And that’s what you got in Boulder. Go ahead.
SPEAKER 09 :
Yeah, and what happened? The small percentage of the riffraff took over the cities and the good people that wanted the cops couldn’t get the help they needed so i don’t know it’s just getting crazier and crazier but i i called out a couple of different people yesterday when they said oh the guy i said the guy is evil he follows an evil cult and he believes in death is a proper thing and i got some dirty looks and i don’t know i’m According to the scripture I read, that’s evil.
SPEAKER 19 :
I would call him that. You can give me the dirty looks you want all day long. I’m still going to call it what it is.
SPEAKER 07 :
I think we should be applauded for, you know, acquainting him with his 72 virgins.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah. I wonder how that’s going to work out for him.
SPEAKER 07 :
Not too well, John. Just saying. You know what they don’t tell you is they’re all guys. I’m kidding.
SPEAKER 09 :
Well, did you ever see that old poster that It said, here are your 72 purges, and it showed these mean old-looking nuns. That’s good. Oh, John, by the way, that was a great guest you had before the last break. Oh, yeah. He was really interesting.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, very good.
SPEAKER 09 :
You guys have a great rest of your day.
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SPEAKER 11 :
Now, back to Rush to Reason.
SPEAKER 19 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. We’ll get roof savers here next time we’re up. Never fear. And, yeah, as I said earlier, don’t put off getting that roof inspected. Have Dave get out and get that done as soon as possible. So you want to finish up with your Ted Cruz audio from earlier?
SPEAKER 07 :
Let me just replay the first 30, 40 seconds. I just want you to hear these numbers again, okay? You ready? Okay. This is Ted Cruz, and he’s talking about the judicial activism that has come against Donald Trump and all these injunctions. Here we go.
SPEAKER 03 :
It is interesting as our Democrat colleagues defend these nationwide injunctions that neither of them made any reference to the fact that the number of nationwide injunctions issued in the first four months is greater than the entire 20th century. and is greater than all of the nationwide injunctions issued against Bush, Obama, and Biden combined, nor did they address the disturbing fact that of the 40 universal injunctions that have been issued in the last four months, 35 of them came from the same five judicial districts.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, in other words, they’re judge shopping, and they can do it in those districts. John, something has to be done. Okay, I mean, our president right now is having to run to the legal system. Look, these judges, our elected president is having to run to these elected judges and bow before them and beg them for the right to govern. Have you ever seen anything like this?
SPEAKER 19 :
No, because they don’t deal with anybody else.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I mean, even in his first term and his first term was bad. OK, they did a lot of it then. But now this is crazy. This is absolutely crazy. And this is why I’m so this is why I get so angry at the supposed conservatives on the Supreme Court who let us down now and then. Amy Coney Barrett, she’s a joke. Obviously, John Roberts is a leftist. He’s just a liberal. And then you’ve got the other two that Trump put on there, and they’re weak. And I look at these judges, and I just want to look at them, John, and say, guys, don’t you understand? All of the liberal judges are one mob against us. And you’re not united. You guys all want to be, well, I want to play it perfectly by the letter and all this kind of stuff. I never want to be an activist. Well, you know what? I’m glad about that. I don’t want activist judges. But Donald Trump is not violating the Constitution of the United States. He is following it. He is trying to protect America from a full invasion that we just had over the last four years. And our Supreme Court is looking at Donald Trump and saying, oh, even though they totally ignored due process coming in, over 10 million, 10 to 15 million people ignored due process coming in, and we want you to give them all due process going out. Do you realize how much time? And immigration judges, what I’m saying is this. Even the supposed conservatives on the court, except we have two good ones, even they want to make life so much harder on Donald Trump just to do his job. It makes no sense. Can’t they look at what the left is doing and everything that Ted Cruz just said? More injunctions than we had in the 20th century in four months against Donald Trump. Can’t they just look at that and realize, look, we have to act now. We have to say no longer can these lower courts issue any kind of a verdict that is applicable to the whole country. What do you think?
SPEAKER 19 :
I agree with you. I agree. And we always want to make sure that… You know, a president that, you know, even our President Trump isn’t, you know, violating or overstepping his executive order power and so on. Because if one can do it, the next one can, the next one can. Although, Andy, I can back up and look at the things Obama did. I can look at the things that… done that biden did and so on so the reality is you know yes i want to make sure that things are being done correctly albeit some of these things that these judges have come after trump on i just look at and shake my head and say um really they’re ludicrous really and they tie up the system they tie up the system yeah good point you know i mean look we have a five to four advantage on the supreme court we’re supposed to but acb i don’t know if we do maybe it’s four and a half to four and a half now
SPEAKER 07 :
Because Roberts leads the left.
SPEAKER 19 :
He does.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay. And, you know, basically we’ve got two good ones leading the right, Scalia and Thomas. And God help us. And I mean God help us when they step down. They need to do it quick so we can get in new replacements. But my worry is we can’t have replacements like the ones that Trump has already put in. They’re not strong enough. You know who needs to be in the next one? He was just talking.
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, I agree with you on that one. I’ve said that many times. Absolutely. We would have to figure out his Senate seat, but that’s doable. We can get that dialed in.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s Texas. We’ll win.
SPEAKER 19 :
Put him on the bench.
SPEAKER 07 :
Put him on the Supreme Court. Ted Cruz.
SPEAKER 19 :
I’m with you on that one. All right. We’ve got an interview coming up with Al Smith, Golden Eagle Financial. Stay tuned. We’ll be back right after that.
SPEAKER 05 :
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. As a financial advisor, do you also do taxes?
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SPEAKER 05 :
And how much are taxes a part of that game plan that you create?
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SPEAKER 05 :
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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SPEAKER 05 :
Is that kind of strategy really only for the wealthy?
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SPEAKER 05 :
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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SPEAKER 19 :
All right, talking what Andy was referring to with the Supreme Court proving Andy’s point, the Supreme Court refuses to take cases or a case over a law banning assault-style weapons. Now, I don’t know what their theory behind this is. Mainly, they have said that these are still some cases that are being fought in the lower courts. Does that mean they’ll take it on later? I don’t know, but I really feel like this is another boondoggle on their part. You’ve got… Two of them that definitely said, yep, we should take this on. Of course, that has to be, I think they have to have, don’t quote me on this, Andy. I believe they have to have majority to be able to take a case on. Am I right in thinking that?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think so. I’m not totally sure.
SPEAKER 19 :
I’m sorry, folks, I don’t know that one.
SPEAKER 07 :
Who are the two? Thomas Scalia, as usual?
SPEAKER 19 :
Yes, of course, as you know. And so, again, that’s another one of those where it’s like, and again, I’m not an expert when it comes to Supreme Court and law and what they should or shouldn’t take on as cases and so on. It takes four justices, by the way, to agree to hear a case. Three agreed. Gorsuch, Alito, and Thomas, they needed a fourth, and they don’t have it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Okay, bottom line, getting back to how they… Came against Trump, though, on having to have due process to get rid of these people. What does it say when the Supreme Court of the United States allows Joe Biden, okay, to bring in, it wasn’t 10, let’s say 15 million people with no due process whatsoever. None of them raised a finger or said a word. It’s not like nothing was brought before them. It was. They didn’t care. Nothing. Absolutely nothing was done. But we’re going to make it like pulling teeth to get these people out.
SPEAKER 19 :
Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER 07 :
How is this fair?
SPEAKER 19 :
It’s not.
SPEAKER 07 :
How is this fair?
SPEAKER 19 :
And I think, again, I’m not an attorney. I don’t live in that world. I mean, my expertise is in other areas. But when you say they have to have due process, well… I thought they were getting due process when they’ve entered illegally. They’re now being told you can’t stay. Right. That’s due process. The process is now you’re going to leave. Yes. Is that not due process? That is due process. Thank you.
SPEAKER 07 :
That is due process. I don’t understand at all. John, let’s say you sneak into a place. I don’t know. A movie theater. Right. I know, John Rush. John Rush pays to go to movies. Let’s say you didn’t.
SPEAKER 19 :
I snuck in the back door.
SPEAKER 07 :
You didn’t. You snuck in. Right. Should they have to go through due process, a legal fight, to have you removed from the theater? No, they should not. I mean, this is ridiculous.
SPEAKER 19 :
No. Okay, let me give you another example.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, okay.
SPEAKER 19 :
You somehow walk into a hotel, and you figure out a way to kind of, if you would, steal a key card that allows you access to a room. where you haven’t entered in, you haven’t paid, you haven’t done anything. Yeah, I do this on every vacation. Yeah, so you just sort of figure out a way to swipe a key card. You’ve maybe overheard somebody say what room they were staying in, and somehow you maybe see it laying on the pool chair, which, by the way, people do stupid things, and, yes, they get laid there at times. And so you kind of hear where somebody’s staying, so you grab the key card. No, by the way, maybe they were checking out that morning. But you grab the key card anyways, and you quick run up before the 10 o’clock or 11 o’clock cutoff time where the key card no longer works. They’ve already checked out. You can tell by the fact the bags are all there. They’re ready to leave and so on. So you happen to snag that card. You head up, and you hang out in the room. Yeah. And you kind of act like you’re staying there. Take a shower. Yeah, and you just hang out, and you do your thing and so on. And before you know it, somebody comes along. It’s like, who are you? Well, I’m staying in the room. Well, no, you’re not. Well, yes, I am. Well, no, you’re not. Well, yes, I am. Well, Andy is due process saying, no, you’re not, and you’re leaving?
SPEAKER 07 :
Due process is we have a name.
SPEAKER 19 :
You’re not a welcome guest. You’re leaving.
SPEAKER 07 :
We have a name that was applied to this room, and it isn’t yours.
SPEAKER 19 :
Right. You’re not a welcome. My point is you’re not a welcome guest. Right. It’s now time to leave. Right. Is that not what we’re doing with some of these individuals? Isn’t it the same situation? It is. You’re not a welcome guest. It’s time to leave.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, get out. Due process is you can’t show. Look, I have to show ID everywhere I go. Okay? Okay. Prove I am an American citizen and able to do this thing, this thing, this thing. I have to show ID, John. Well, guess what? If I can’t do that, I don’t belong here, do I?
SPEAKER 19 :
Well, and you can’t overstay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Or if I lost it, go get a new one.
SPEAKER 19 :
As our guest said at 4 o’clock-ish, roughly, you can’t go to other countries and overstay, so how is it any different?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. We’re the only country in the world that says, you know, go ahead, invade us by the millions, and then we’ll have to have a lengthy process, legal due process for you to leave.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, that one, again, I do not understand the ruling. I’m not in that world. It makes no sense to me. I just shake my head with some of these things because, to me, it’s pretty cut-and-dried common sense. Here’s what it says. Now let’s do it.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. If you’re not supposed to be here legally, buy it. Why do we have to go through any process?
SPEAKER 19 :
Especially those that have committed an additional crime besides being here illegally. That one’s easy to me. Yeah. Especially those. You were caught shoplifting. You were caught doing this. You were caught doing that. We know you’re a part of the cartel. We know you’re here running sex slaves. You name it. I mean, to me, those are easy, Andy. You’re out of here. You’re done. See you. Bye. I know. I don’t understand. I don’t get it either. Cub Creek heating and air conditioning up next, folks. And again, when it comes to your AC unit or your furnace, which some of you are thinking, furnace, John? Geez, it’s June. Yeah, well, for some of you, depending upon where you live, it’s a whopping 56 degrees out right now. You might actually be turning that on. And for some of you who live in the foothills that still hear us, you might be even colder than that. If you need them even for your furnace, give them a call today. KLZradio.com is where you find them.
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SPEAKER 19 :
All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 5C. It’s a couple minutes left of this particular hour. We’ve got another full hour coming your way. And, yeah, folks, I wish I had some better answers for you on the way we do some things legally speaking in this country. I don’t. I’m talking to a texter that’s talking about how even getting somebody here from out of country being married – uh trying to do it the legal way is one huge gigantic hassle and by the way it shouldn’t be it shouldn’t be that way if you’re trying to do things on the legal up and up it shouldn’t be that was my point earlier when we were talking to our last guest we should make things along those lines much easier than it is right now yeah john that’s how i want to finish up the hour really quick here john what would happen politically for donald trump if he sped up streamline the system
SPEAKER 07 :
For legal immigration.
SPEAKER 19 :
It would be night and day difference. And it needs to be. I’ve talked about this for years. I’ve been talking about this for decades because I’ve known individuals that have spent, people that have come from other countries, including Canada, where it takes 10 years to actually become a citizen of the United States of America. It should not take that long. They shouldn’t have to go through the legal expense, if you would, to actually make that happen. It should be a merit-based, easier system to make happen.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, and also he’s got an easy way to sell it. He can say, oh, yeah, now that we don’t have people cutting in front of you. Correct. We don’t have millions and millions cutting in front of you in line. Guess what? We can get you in quicker. The line moves quicker.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, now that we’ve got the line under control, we’ll make this a lot easier for those of you that actually want to come in here and do it the legal way. Absolutely.
SPEAKER 07 :
We would be creating Republican voters. So fast.
SPEAKER 19 :
And, folks, for those of you listening, I’m texting somebody now. It’s not just from Mexico. We’ve got countries all around the world that we could do this with and bring the best and the brightest, the smartest here to help us build the country in a way that we haven’t even looked at in the past 50 years even, Andy.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 19 :
And I’m exaggerating when I say that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Or maybe just they don’t even have to be, you know, an IT person. No, no, no. Maybe just somebody who wants to do a job, somebody who wants to build a business.
SPEAKER 19 :
And we could bring people here that could lay tile, for example. That’s awesome. That have expertise at that. And if that’s the case, and that’s what they’re bringing to the table, I’m in.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, right now, bosses who lay tile can’t get workers.
SPEAKER 19 :
Thank you. We’ll be back. Got another full hour coming your way. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 1 :
I’m a rich guy.
