In this compelling episode of Rush to Reason, host John Rush dives deep into the discrepancies between expertise and reality. Joined by J.T. Young from the American Spectator, the discussion centers around the continuous misjudgments made by so-called experts on pressing global issues from inflation to international politics. With a critical lens, this episode exposes how media, establishment influence, and political agendas consistently overshadow genuine analysis.
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And we are back. Hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. J.T. Young joining us now, American Spectator. J.T., welcome. How are you?
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I am fine. It’s a pleasure to be with you tonight, John.
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Always a joy. Welcome back. We appreciate it. The experts have a worse track record than broken clocks. And they do, by the way. Let’s talk about it.
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Well, I think, as we all know, a broken clock is right twice a day.
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Correct.
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And the blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut. So far, the experts are running behind both the blind squirrel and the broken clock.
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It’s funny you say that because – I mean, it’s not funny because it’s very true, but we talk about it on this program quite a bit, and it just – it cracks me up. It’s like, okay, is it just because, JT, that experts don’t look at things the same way that folks like you and I do? Because I live on Main Street, not any other place, by the way, but – and I don’t consider myself to be any kind of a – I mean, I don’t have a crystal ball. I don’t see things any differently than I feel anybody else would see them, but – Why do these guys get it wrong so often?
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Well, I think we’re starting to realize that, at least with the establishment media, that the biggest credential for becoming an expert, and put the quotation marks around that, is that you’re going to blame Donald Trump for whatever crisis is that you’re supposedly an expert about. And so as long as you do that, You’re continued to be labeled as an expert, and they keep coming back to you, even though over and over and over again, from Iran to immigration, that you are wrong.
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I mean, they’re wrong on that. They’re wrong on the economy. They’re wrong on tariffs. I mean, JT, I just keep going down the list. I mean, we’ve got a Fed even right now that’s not going to do anything interest rate wise because they’re waiting for the day that tariffs have something to do with inflation, when in fact they’ve literally done nothing along those lines. Inflation is definitely in check. If anything, we’re seeing in some areas prices come down. And yet we’ve got, quote unquote, the experts just waiting for something bad to happen.
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Right, and John, to your point, remember who got us into the inflation concern in the first place? Yeah, they did. Yeah, thank you. It was the Fed. Yeah, thank you. For four consecutive years, and I don’t fault the Fed for rushing in during the pandemic, but they didn’t take their foot off the gas. They kept pumping money into the economy, liquidity into the economy, at the same time that the Biden administration was spending at crisis levels.
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That’s right.
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And again, They did it for four straight years. And inflation peaked at a 40-year high early in that period of time. That’s right. So the Fed was right there. Everybody saw it. Everybody remembers it. And they couldn’t back off then. And yet now… they make a mistake on the other direction. So again, you go back to the broken clock.
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No, you are spot on. You’re literally echoing the things that I’ve talked about here for the past couple of years. I mean… And not to just get off on the Fed. I mean, we could talk about everything from that to Iran to what was going to happen with oil prices if we did such and such with Iran. I watched so many even on social media, JT, experts claiming we’re going to see $100 and $110 a barrel oil. It never reached any higher than $78. And that was only for a very, very short few hour period of time. And then it dropped right back down into the 60s. Again, the experts were wrong.
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And, you know, taking the Iran example, remember, oh, if Israel does this, if Israel lifts a finger to defend itself against Iran, which has been a global sponsor of terrorism, that, oh, Russia is going to come rushing in, you’re going to have World War III, China will join with Iran, and China is so dependent on oil from Iran. None of that happened. And then… Remember, oh, it’s the U.S., but if the U.S. comes in, it’ll be a different story. No, same story. Nothing happened.
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And the way I look at that, JT, again, I’m not an educated man. I never went to college, never did anything along those lines. I mean, I am so far less educated than the quote-unquote experts are, but you use common sense in some of these situations and say, okay, let’s talk about China for a moment, even in regards to tariffs. We’re the world’s biggest consumer, the world’s biggest customer of all goods, as you know, JT, across the board. We buy more than any other country does, in most cases outside of China, tenfold over. I mean, the reality is we are the biggest customer. The reality is, you know, countries like China, Russia even, they need us. Without us, the rest of the world means nothing, economically speaking, JT. And let’s face it, JT, money talks.
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Money does talk, and it speaks with a loud voice, and that’s what you’re hearing again and again, that the experts were wrong. You’ve already mentioned inflation, and it was attributed to how many different things? Oh, just as you were saying, it will be attributed to a strike on Iran. That will be terrible. Nope, it didn’t happen. Oh, the Trump tariffs, that was going to trigger it. No, the president is approaching… His six-month anniversary and inflation is the lowest it’s been in the last four years. So, yeah, money is talking.
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And really quick, JT, if you could get the Fed to even move – and I get it. The Fed moves short-term rates. I know that doesn’t have an exact correlation with mortgage rates, but as time goes by – It does. We all know that. And the reality, JT, is if we had even a little bit of a downtick on the mortgage side, Trump’s numbers would even look way better because you’d see a big, huge bump in housing. It’s almost like and maybe I’m wrong in saying this. The Fed is supposed to be, you know, nonpolitical, although I think they’re very political because the reality is it seems to me that they’re trying to do everything possible to make sure Trump doesn’t have bump in numbers.
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Well, it does look embarrassingly like that, and I would think the Fed should start to think that it doesn’t want to appear like that, because that really does blemish what their reputation is supposed to be, which is you’re supposed to be the umpire of the economy.
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That’s right.
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But if you keep hitting – if they keep throwing strikes on the economy – At some point, you need to call one of these a strike and move on.
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And I’m glad you brought that analogy in because I’m going to throw something else at you because here in Denver, we’re not the biggest fans of the Kansas City Chiefs. And you know this last year, the refs were called out numerous times when it came to either non or bad calls on the Kansas City Chiefs. And here’s my point. Whether or not… they had any effect on the outcome of the game. It’s the simple fact that people were talking in that way and blaming the officials for the outcome of certain games. And that’s what I’m talking about in regards to the Fed. When it starts to look like, whether you are or not, but when it starts to look like that and people start chattering, you better fix it.
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Right. Your reputation follows. I mean, do you know the… It used to be the worst thing in pro sports, and it goes all the way back to the Black Sox scandal in baseball, which was the idea that the fix is in. And that’s the death of your reputation.
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That’s right.
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And I think the Fed should be very concerned about it.
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Well, as you know, on Friday, there were some rumors rolling around that, you know, the Fed chair, Jerome Powell, may be thinking about resigning. And I think J.T., he’s got to do. Tell me if I’m wrong, but he’s got to do one or two things. Either he needs to resign or he needs to do something with interest rates here this month in July, or he’s going to go down with what you just said a moment ago. It’s going to go down dramatically. as he being very political, and that’s not a good mark on his reputation. He’ll live with that for the rest of his life.
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Or the feds, and he should be concerned about the institution first and foremost. And I think it is time that he took a real look. And, of course, now he has painted himself into a corner because he’s going to look like he’s caved to political pressure, which was the last thing he wanted to do. I think we have seen he waited too long. to raise rates when inflation was rampant under Biden, and now he’s waited too long to cut them under Trump. And it just gives the appearance that you’re not playing by the numbers.
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You’re right. Your recent book, Unprecedented Assault, talk about that for a moment as well and how folks can get a hold of it.
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I appreciate you bringing it up. It’s called Unprecedented Assault. How Big Government Unleashed America’s Socialist Left. You can get it off of Amazon, and I have a website for the book, jt-young.com, and I’ll give you all the reviews on the book, which have been very favorable, and I’m blessed to be able to say that. And the whole idea behind the book was to take a look and explain what is unique in American history, which is America has long been known among Western democracies for not having a socialist party, and now clearly we do, and it is gaining strength. And so the book is really meant not as a series of examples, but an explanation for the first time as to why we’re seeing this when we’ve never seen this before in a meaningful way in America’s history.
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JT, as always, I appreciate it. It’s always a joy talking to you. And I guess one last thing I want to ask you before we close out. Given the experts are always wrong, how do we get people to quit listening to them?
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Well, I think the first thing is you need to quit listening to the establishment media mouthpieces that are broadcasting them. Because as you already said, and so correctly so, money talks. And people, when they start losing the viewership, when people start turning away, they’ll stop going back to the same tired voices that are saying the same tired things.
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Great point. Great point. JT, I’ll leave it at that. Thank you very much. You’re welcome anytime, sir.
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I appreciate it, John. You have a great night.
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You do the same. Have a great evening. J.T. Young, again, he writes a lot for the American Spectator and his website. One more time to get the book. It’s JT-Young, JT-Young.com. Golden Eagle Financial is next. Al did a great interview of late. We’ll be back right after that. Again, Golden Eagle Financial.
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TJ here with KLZ Radio, and I’ve got Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial. How are you, Al? Oh, I’m doing great, TJ. How are you? I’m doing well. I was talking to my wife recently about IRAs, and it came to mind. I wanted to ask you, is that something you deal in? And if so, what’s it all about?
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Well, I would say probably 80%, 90% of the people who come into my office and we sit down and have a conversation about their resources and so forth, I would say a very high percentage of them either have an IRA or they may be in the process of maybe moving their 401k to an IRA because they’re severing their employment. So IRAs come up a lot.
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What kind of questions do you get around IRAs typically?
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Well, sometimes people ask me when do I have to start taking money out of my IRA, which are the required minimum distributions. Sometimes they ask questions about how much they can put into their IRA, which this year is $7,000 unless they’re over 50. then they can put in $8,000. I usually end up recommending a Roth IRA because if people are younger, then that can grow tax-free and ultimately pay tax-free income. And Roth IRAs, they don’t have required minimum distribution, so you can take the money out of a Roth IRA on your schedule rather than the Treasury Department’s schedule.
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And Al, where do people normally go wrong with their IRAs before getting your help?
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By not starting one. As soon as you have earned income, you can be working at Starbucks at a very young age. And if you want to, you can be putting money into an IRA.
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Don’t do the shoulda, coulda, woulda. Al, it’s been a pleasure. Thank you for coming in today. Go to klzradio.com slash advertisers to find Golden Eagle Financial.
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Very good. If you have a question about your IRA, give my office a call. 303-744-1128.
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Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Had a really nice text message, by the way, from one of you talking about the segments I do with my son Richard and how well he does and what AI tool do I use to clone my son. There is no AI tool, and I will just say this about all three of my boys, and I mean this sincerely. They are far better husbands, fathers. uh men in general than i could ever think of being and i mean that sincerely very proud of my boys so thank you by the way i i that means the world to me when you guys say things like that because as a dad um nothing speaks more volume than for you all to say the things that you do about them and i mean that sincerely so thank you thank you makes me cry but which i don’t do very often by the way so Thank you. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I really do. So thank you. Thank you. Thank you. EV vehicles. I want to jump back to that. My son and I were talking about that, and we didn’t have a ton of time to get into some depth on EV electric vehicles. For those of you that we hear that term a lot and. And I’m a car guy. Charlie was telling me earlier that I use a lot of terms in the car world that maybe only I and car people understand. So I will do a better job of making sure that I don’t speak like a car nut, which I am. But EV vehicles, electric vehicles. And as I was talking during the last segment or the last hour of that last segment with my son, those credits federally. Now, what happens on the state level? You know what? It’s anybody’s guess. Now, here’s my prediction when it comes to state credits and rebates. I think some states like Colorado, they’re still going to want to push their mandate. So they’re still going to offer some state credits for buying an EV. Now, how? How that all works, I don’t know, because the one thing that I have yet to research is how many of our state credits, and Charlie, maybe you know this answer, but how many of our state credits have been tied to federal money? And I don’t know that answer. I’m guessing there’s probably more than we think, meaning if the Fed money runs out, the state money probably will as well. Now, there’ll be some states that’ll just flat say, OK, the Fed money is going away. We’re going to do away with it as well. So you’re just you know, you live in whatever state. You’re not going to get anything, period. You want to go buy an EV, go buy an EV. And by the way, that’s in my opinion, that’s how it ought to be from the get go. If you want to buy an EV, great. Go buy one. I, as a taxpayer, should not be subsidizing that purchase, period. And especially with EVs, because it isn’t even like a company and depreciation and that. No, it’s literally, it’s just straight money back to the person or money off right now. The way it works is you go to the dealership, and if you make under a certain amount of money, you walk into the dealership, and they just take that money right off the top. So if the car is $50,000 and in Colorado there’s an $11,500 credit, that comes right off the top of the $50,000. And you pay the difference. That’s it. The dealership is getting its money back through the various – entities that are out there making those credits happen and you just pay the difference and off you go you’re not you’re not having to apply for anything do anything on your taxes it’s strictly a credit right on the purchase contract itself and away you go that’s how it works right now that’s ending september 30th of this year not next year this year so As Richard and I were talking, I do believe, and if these companies aren’t working on it right now, they’re behind. I would venture to guess they probably are, and now that the big, beautiful bill has passed and they know exactly what’s in it, I guarantee you all of the marketing companies that work for the big auto manufacturers where they have got a substantial stake in EVs and want to keep selling them because they’ve made an investment in the technology, the building of the plants, and so on, If they’re not currently right now working on how to market those particular vehicles, they’re behind. And they will be behind. What I mean by that is, as we get further down the road, and you get to the end of September, by the way, there’s going to be a big push, I think. You might even see some ads between now and then on, hey, if you want to buy an EV and get your credit, you better get in and do it now. You’re going to see some dealerships and some manufacturers, I think, push that. It’ll be interesting, though, to see what happens after that, because as Richard and I were talking, these manufacturers are now going to have to start selling EVs for what an EV is. Not because you’re, quote-unquote, saving the earth and getting a big credit. No, you’re going to have to now sell that EV on what does it give the customer that they may not get in their ICE, the internal combustion engine counterpart. And they’re going to have to really work because they’re going to work through that. Because I’ll be honest, up to this point, they haven’t done that. They haven’t told you, you know, why should you buy an electric vehicle over a regular gas vehicle? And for a lot of folks that are out there, a lot of folks that are in the middle, that are even on the conservative side, that don’t believe in electric vehicles because of the way they were pushed on everybody and the fact that we as taxpayers subsidize them, a lot of people are anti-electric vehicle because of that. And by the way, wrongfully, I don’t think there’s – it’s not the vehicle’s fault, by the way. You guys have heard me talk for 25 years on Drive Radio. I’m a car advocate. I always look at the car itself, not the politics around it. And I did that all the way back when Priuses first came out, and they got a bad rap from the conservative side, mainly because of how they were touted and so on. And what I would say is you should look at every car with an open mind. Every vehicle with an open mind. And we get so, I think at times, especially as a car person, people get into their, even their brand affiliation. You know, I’m only ever going to buy a Ford. I’m only ever going to buy a Chevy or a GMC or a Dodge or a whatever. I mean, they get so brand oriented that I won’t even look at anything else. By the way, that’s a really bad thing in today’s world to do because so much great, so many great vehicles, I should say, that are produced So much of them, as I was going to say a moment ago, so much of them really having all very similar parts at the end of the day. I talk about this a lot on Drive Radio, whereby a lot of these manufacturers, and you see it when there’s big recalls, like the Takata airbags, that affected almost every vehicle on the road, including BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, Kia, and everything in between. Because a lot of vehicles that are made today, there are only X amount of manufacturers that even make those components. So you talk alternators or starters or wiring harnesses or fuel injectors or seats or bumpers and all of that. The reality is there’s only so many manufacturers to make those components that a lot of vehicles share similar components made from the very same manufacturer, whether you’re buying a Toyota or a Chevy or you’re buying a Nissan or a Kia. So any of you that are so brand-oriented, I’m sorry to say you’re wrong. You’re wrong. Because your brand, quite honestly, isn’t any better than anybody else’s brand. Every one of them. I get a report every Monday. I read through this today. NTHSA, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. They put out a bulletin that I get every Monday morning. on all of the recalls on vehicles that week. And as I read through that every single week, I mean, it may not be every week every manufacturer is on there, but if I roll through that four to six weeks, almost every single manufacturer of everything you can think of that those recalls cover from motorcycles to trailers to buses to motor coaches to regular cars and trucks and so on, everybody makes that list. There’s rarely anybody not on that list, meaning every single manufacturer is going to have some sort of a problem because of what I said a few minutes ago about where all the parts come from. So there is no perfect vehicle made. I don’t care how long you have been a Ford owner or a GM owner or a Toyota owner or a whatever owner. They all have problems. Now, I also am one, and I talk about this a lot on Drive Radio, the better you take care of your vehicle, no matter who makes it, the better it’s going to take care of you. And that’s pretty true across the board as well. That’s a whole other conversation. I get into that on Drive Radio on Saturdays continually. But going back to the whole electric vehicle end of things, there has been substantial, because of government push, yes, there has been substantial investment made in the production of EV vehicles. If these manufacturers are smart and they want to continue to sell them, which if they want to recoup their investment, which in most cases they have lost a lot of money on EV vehicles, if they’re going to continue to try to recoup that investment by selling more and more of them, they’re going to have to do a better job of marketing those to the different people that are out there looking to buy new vehicles. And to Richard’s point as well, something that right now none of them have done well that I’ve seen. None of them have done well. They have to train their people at dealerships on how to sell them. In most cases, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say this, you might find a few exceptions with some of the high volume EV, you know, electric vehicle type manufacturers or dealerships. You may actually find some folks at that dealer level that even understand, you know, that do understand electric vehicles and their pros and cons and so on. But I will tell you straight up, the majority of dealers that I have ever dealt with minus one or two have no clue the difference between an electric vehicle and a regular gas engine vehicle. Other than this one is here and that one is there and this one has this price and that one has that price. Other than that, I’ll be straight up honest. Most of the salespeople have no idea the features and benefits and what you get out of owning an electric vehicle over a gas engine vehicle and vice versa. So that’s something, by the way, that I think every manufacturer is going to have to do a better job, or at least the majority of manufacturers are going to have to do a better job of teaching their people how to actually sell an electric vehicle. Otherwise, my prediction, and I don’t have a crystal ball, but if the manufacturers don’t do what I’m saying, they’ll fail. As soon as these credits run out in September, the $7,500 federal credit, as soon as that runs out, they’ll fail. Because they’re priced higher already than what gas engine vehicles are. You know, their gas engine counterpart, they’re priced higher. And so when that credit goes away, those vehicles will be way higher in price than their gas engine counterpart, and they won’t sell because there won’t be any advantage to buying one at that point. So the manufacturers and the dealers are going to have to do a better job of teaching people these are the features and benefits and why you should buy this car over that car if, in fact, they want to keep selling them. So time will tell. We’ll see if the manufacturers actually jump on board and actually make this happen. Or my prediction is you’re going to see electric vehicle sales take a huge nosedive once we get into October, November, December, which normally keep this in mind as well. That is normally the high time of dealerships and manufacturers selling cars. Because the year-end, the closeouts and what they try to get done and what they try to get pushed, and companies are buying year-end stuff to help with taxes and so on and so forth. And so typically speaking, and that’s when new models come out, by the way. So 2026s will start rolling out end of August, early September. So that’s when the new models will start hitting showroom floors and so on, dealer lots. So the reality is typically… That time of the year is a high time for vehicle sales. So if EV sales don’t tick up, it’s over. They’re going to just keep going down and down and down. So we’ll see as we get into the last quarter of this year exactly what happens. My prediction is these manufacturers are not looking at it like I’m saying. They don’t have somebody like me there telling them, guys, if we don’t get on the stick and tell people why they should be buying electric vehicles, because they’ve really relied heavily upon these rebates, upon the incentives that have been coming from you and I as taxpayers. Once those incentives are gone, and I don’t think those manufacturers are looking at it the way I am right now, we’ll see who’s smart and who’s not as we get into October, November, December of this year, and we’ll see what the marketing is like. But my prediction is EV sales will take a nosedive the last quarter of this year. We’ll see what happens. Speaking of cars, Geno’s Auto Service, a great member of my radio group on Saturdays as well as here daily. But Geno’s Auto Service, if you want somebody to take care of your vehicle, do it in the right fashion, tell you what’s going on, be honest with you, and offer you a nice warranty as well. That’s Geno’s Auto Service. 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All right, Rush to Reason, Debra’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Thank you again for all of the text messages that you guys have been sending in today. I enjoy each and every one of them. And one of you giving me lots of details on just government workers and the percentage of and so on. And, yeah, that is a topic in and of itself of far too many, in my opinion. We could cut workforce locally. nationally, statewide, on and on we go. Yeah, we could do that very easily. Okay, before our next break, because I went a little bit long on that last segment, Mother Jones. Most of you probably know who Mother Jones is, but that’s a publication or a website, I guess I should say. Nobody does publications anymore like they once did, I guess, There are still some physical papers, I guess, Charlie, right? You can still get the New York Times or Denver Post or whatever. But by and large, most things are being run electronically. And really quick, speaking of the Denver Post, it is a website that I will never go to. And here is why. They rarely allow you to see anything they put on that website, even though it’s full of ads. Because unless you have a subscription, you can’t view it. So I just won’t go there. So if somebody sends me something on Denver Post, you better send me the whole article because I’m not reading it. I won’t go through all of their subscriptions and all the paywall nonsense and so on. I just won’t do it. I have an utter disdain for the Denver Post, and I won’t go there. I feel like if they can’t make money… off of all of the ads and what they’re doing on the site itself, then I don’t need to subscribe. So any of those types of sites I won’t go to. There’s only one site that I subscribe to. That’s the Wall Street Journal because I feel like there’s enough information that comes out on a daily basis, and they’ve always had sort of a subscriber – Model, I guess you could say, to even their paper when they did it, that that’s one that I will subscribe to because I pull enough information out of it on a monthly basis that I feel it’s worthwhile. I would never subscribe to the Denver Post, though. So those of you that send me Denver Post articles periodically just know I can’t read those because I won’t pay. Purposely, I will not pay the Denver Post. So Mother Jones. It’s editor, so maybe some of you have seen this, maybe you haven’t, but J.D. Vance just took a little vacation, which he gets the right to take vacations just like anybody else does, and he went to, was it Disneyland or Disney World, Charlie? I don’t remember. Yeah, I think it was California Disneyland. I don’t think it was World. So he took some time off, went to Disneyland. Oh, it was Disneyland because him and Newsom got into a battle on social media about that. Newsom said something, I don’t have it directly in front of me, but Newsom said something to J.D. Vance on public social media on X. It said something to the effect of, I hope you enjoy Disneyland when you’re stripping away the rights of so many others to enjoy the same thing. I’m paraphrasing, but that’s basically what Newsom said. J.D. Vance’s response back was, thank you, they’re having a great time. Just sort of this one liner of, you know, thank you. They’re having a great time. But Mother Jones, that editor of Mother Jones, I said, I should say, says that J.D. Vance’s kids, while out doing these things, should be booed. So this is the left. Again, this is the tolerant left. Remember, this is the party of tolerance and inclusion, and we want everybody to feel safe, and we’re going to wrap our arms around everybody. Yeah, no, not so much. No, we only do that if we like you. This is not really a tolerant left. This is an intolerant left, because if they don’t like you, it’s a totally different world. All bets are off. In fact, in this case, we can even boo. And the point of this particular editor was, you know, we should be booing the kids so they understand who their dad is, so they don’t grow up to be like him. Have you ever heard of any utter nonsense, you know, anything else that’s utter nonsense like this? I haven’t. Absolute utter nonsense. The children should be booed. This is a quote. They should be booed so they know what their father is about. That’s a direct quote from the editor, Clara Jeffrey. She’s the editor at Mother Jones. And it is Disneyland. Once again, this is the all-inclusive left, which those of you that are listening on the left, I know you listen because I get text messages and things from you. You’re not tolerant, folks. You’re not. You prove it on an ongoing basis. Because if you were tolerant, what you would be saying is, I hope J.D. Vance and his kids have a great time at Disneyland. While we may not agree with you and your politics, we agree with you being a great dad and a mom and taking your kids to Disneyland. Have a great time. That’s what they should have said. But it’s the intolerant left, and because they hate anything that stands in their way of their Marxist agenda, which J.D. Vance does, of course. So anything that stands in the way of their Marxist agenda, they’re going to come out, you know, fighting. Gloves are off. They have no scruples whatsoever. So, again, those of you that are on the left, I don’t know how you justify these sorts of things, but you do. And you’ll somehow give a nod of approval for this by saying something to the effect of, you know, in this particular quote, by the way, you know, creeping Christian nationalist alert. These are the sorts of things that your side puts out. By the way, this was an alert against a flight attendant that said, we wish you have a blessed night. So this person is now being being touted as a creeping Christian nationalist because they said blessed. This is the left, folks. This is the left. This is what we’re up against. I keep talking about all the time. It’s good versus evil. You guys on the left, you keep proving my point. I don’t even have to say anything to prove my point. You do it for me. You guys are the party of evil, period. It shows every single day, minute by minute by minute, you keep proving my point. I don’t have to do anything. You do it yourself. These types of posts, these sorts of things show what you really stand for. Now, by the way, blessed, that doesn’t necessarily mean somebody is a Christian when they say blessed. Now, it typically does, but not always. Not always. A lot of people use that term. So, again, you guys on the left, you are so uptight about anything at all that would say anything along those lines. By the way, that same post was put out by Clara Jeffrey. She’s the one that put out that post about the flight attendant. Wow, Clara, you get triggered very easily. That’s all I’m going to say. Mother Jones, where did the name Mother Jones, Charlie, for that publication even come from? Do you know the history of that at all? There actually was a Mother Jones at one point. Oh, okay. I get it. That’s where the name came from. Got it. Okay. At any rate, this particular editor, she continues to keep outing herself as to how far left she actually is. Not that any of us have any doubt. It is Mother Jones, of course, which is about as… I don’t think, Charlie, we even have a publication on the right that is as far right as the left is for, or as the Mother Jones is, that publication is on the left, that website is on the left. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Charlie sent me this article earlier today. I thought I’d finish things up today on this, given the fact that I think Donald Trump takes a lot of heat for a lot of different things. There’s a ton of stuff going on right now regarding the whole Pam Bondi and Bongino and Patel and what’s going on with the FBI and the DOJ in regards to Epstein and all of that. But in light of all of that, Or in spite of all of that, maybe is a better way to say that. Trump gathers CEOs for an unprecedented faith and economy meeting to renew U.S. spirituality and financial, or and financially is what it says. This is a Fox headline. And Donald Trump is hosting more than 60 business leaders and CEOs at the White House who donate to faith-based charities. Now, I can tell you that is a headline you would have not read Under either Obama or Biden. Just wouldn’t have happened. So for those of you that are out there, especially those of you that are on the hardcore MAGA sides of things, which you guys all know where I lie with all of that. You guys right now are very quick to pounce on Donald Trump because you don’t feel like he’s delivering enough to you in regards to what’s going on with the whole Epstein end of things. I talked about that at three o’clock. I’m not going to rehash that right now, but I made myself pretty clear, I think, in the three o’clock mark, as well as a lot of you that were texting in who, by the way, were on my side. So. And yeah, that’ll repeat here in just a few minutes. So you’ll hear that again at six o’clock. And a lot of you that texted in and on my side, thank you, by the way. I appreciate that because I’m not the only one in that camp. I think a lot of folks out there think that, you know, I’m the crazy one and that, you know, we need to keep hammering, hammering, hammering the whole Epstein thing so we can bring justice. And I’ll say it again. I said it in three o’clock. To whom? To whom? I get it. We’re trying to bring justice to the victims. But again, who are they? Do we even do we know their names? Do we? And I know they exist. I know they’re out there. And yes, I want justice for anybody that is, you know, any kid that is that’s in that it’s ever put in that kind of a position that’s ever, you know, that’s ever abused is what I’m trying to say. Use the right words here. Although, as I said, in the 3 o’clock hour, it’s happening whether Epstein’s around or not. And I’m not giving anybody a pass, but we’ve got to fix that. Tom Holman, by the way, I said this again at 3, Tom Holman’s doing a great job of that. You hear him talk about it constantly, talking about the sex trafficking, closing the border, keeping things under, punishing those people that do those sorts of things and so on, finding them, seeking them out and so on. But Donald Trump, in this particular case, is recognizing CEOs and business leaders who donate their time to faith-based charity works and encourage them to continue investing with the White House Faith Office during a luncheon at the White House. That was today, by the way. And again, this is something that you’re not going to see out of the Biden administration, or you did not see out of the Biden administration. In fact, quite the opposite. Founder of Hobby Lobby, we all know about him. Chairman and CEO of Jockey International, Deborah Waller, Quest Events founder, Lee Dunlap, Atheon Energy founder, Albert Huddleston, Shoppa’s material handling founder, Jimmy Shoppa, and others are expected to attend. He will be joined by cabinet secretaries for the event, where he is expected to deliver remarks to thank the business leaders and encourage a continued partnership with the White House faith office. In other words, like me, Donald Trump believes enough in faith-based organizations and knows that they can do a lot more to meet the needs of individuals than any government organization ever will. In fact, I’ve said this over and over and over again, and I’ll keep saying it. The only reason why we have as much government involvement in those ends of things is because the church failed during the Depression. Probably before the Depression, but really during the Depression. And I know a lot of churches stepped up and did things during the Depression to help those individuals out, although over the weekend— I was listening to a lot of the old Paul Harvey clips. I love Paul Harvey. I think that was one of the few individuals in that realm, in my realm, I guess I should say, as somebody that was on radio that could say as much as he said in as little as time as he said it in and have as great an impact. I don’t think anybody will ever do what he did or will ever do it since he passed. No one ever did it as well as him and will ever do it as well as he did. That’s my opinion of Paul Harvey. One of the greatest radio voices and probably radio people of all time. Charlie, I don’t think there’s anybody that’s ever done what he’s done in that way, and no one will ever do it. So I listen to a lot of his old clips. If there’s anybody I listen to in radio, because you guys all know me, I don’t listen to people on radio, but he, yes, I listen to. Just because some of his stories are so great. So there was a story I listened to over the weekend. It was about a three or four minute clip I listened to. It was the rest of the story. And he talked about the Depression. And he talked about this particular individual who had done very well and had very diverse businesses and had made enough money and felt, and by the way, was diversified enough that the stock market crash did nothing to him. He was still very wealthy even after that. And the whole story goes that, you know, he had it in his heart that he wanted to help people. And so he did. And so he started a soup kitchen. And at one point in time, he was serving 3,000 people per day in this soup kitchen. It just grew and grew and grew. I think one Thanksgiving, don’t quote me on this, but I think they did over, it was either 5,000 or 7,000 turkeys one Thanksgiving. And he goes through how he does his rest of the story, and he just gives the whole spiel about how this thing grew and how it went and how many people he served and how well it became known around Chicago at this point in time is where this one was located, this particular soup kitchen. And he just kept talking about how many people he served and on and on he went. And he gets to the end. And the gentleman that was so benevolent and thought so much of the people of Chicago at the time that he did this soup kitchen was none other than Al Capone. That was the rest of the story. So my point is this. Al Capone was doing that. Where was the church? That’s where I was going with that story. We all know Al Capone, and we all know what he did, and you’ve all seen the movie The Untouchables, and everybody knows about Al Capone and what he was involved in and how he made his money and so on, but yet did that with the community. And again, the question I ask is, where was the church? And I’m not saying any one particular church, but the church in general, where was it during that time? Because my feeling is, and I’ll stand by this, We have far more government involvement in the whole social end of things today because the church failed during that time. Missed a grand opportunity to really seize the moment and really take hold and become that necessity that really it even is today, but really become the necessity to help those that are in need. The church missed its calling at that time. And again, I know the church did a lot of things during that time, but believe me, it didn’t do enough because if it had, We wouldn’t have government involvement in welfare like we have today. The church would be doing it. So I appreciate what Donald Trump is doing in this particular area because I feel like the church and faith-based organizations can do far more to help people out on their level than any government agency ever has done or ever will do in the future. Veteran Windows and Doors is up next. One person, by the way, that I think would believe everything I just said and give me a hooray would be Dave from Veteran Windows and Doors. He feels the same way that I do when it comes to these things. And if you want somebody to really help you out with your home and your windows, look no further than Veteran Windows and Doors. Find him today at klzradio.com.
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All right, that’s it for this fine Monday. Hope you guys all have a fabulous week. Stay safe, and again, watch for the storms and things that are going on still this time of the year in the afternoons and evenings. Otherwise, we’ll be back tomorrow, same time, same place. Andy will be with me tomorrow. Enjoy your night. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
