Join John Rush as he tackles a range of topics—from Elon Musk’s controversial political moves to practical retirement strategies with Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial. As the discussion unfolds, John emphasizes the importance of understanding the political system and the challenges of enacting change within it. By highlighting local-level strategies over national breadth, the episode underscores the need for grassroots savvy in overcoming significant political hurdles.
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All right, hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 56. Again, no guests this hour. If there’s something that you want to talk about or we get onto a topic you want to add to, by all means, call in 303-477-5600. Text line 307-282-22. Both of those ways you can communicate with us, and I do my best to even get the text messages answered back and or talked about on air, and I appreciate that. Okay. Elon Musk, which supposedly there has been paperwork filed, but I have not gone out, looked, verified and so on. But he wants to start his own political party, which whatever. He’s a dodo head. I’m sorry. He’s one of the smartest guys in the world, except when it comes to politics. And that’s kind of true with a lot of people, by the way. They think they’ve got really great ideas, and maybe he does. The problem is you work inside of a two-party system, which we have in America, and anybody saying we need three is a complete moron. Show me any other place where that works. And the reason why it’s silent is because it doesn’t. So he can try to do his, you know, America first party or whatever he wants to call it. And reality is it’s not going to go anywhere. The American party is what he wants to call it, America party. And I know he’s mad. He doesn’t like the big, beautiful bill. I’ll talk about that here in a moment. I think that’s very unwise on his part. What Elon has to understand is, and he should, by the way, given his background in the business world and so on, he of all people should know that every ship is steered with a rudder. The bigger the ship, the longer it takes to turn around. Even though the rudder is doing its job, the bigger the ship, the longer it takes to turn around. If anybody out there should understand that, it should be him. And by the way, that’s outside of government. Move inside of government, and the ship gets enormous and even gets harder and longer to turn around. So to come along and just say that Elon’s like a lot of other hardcore conservatives, the bill doesn’t do enough. Well, they never do. Okay, yeah, by the way, I’m not going to disagree with that. It doesn’t cut enough. It doesn’t go far enough. I’m right there with everybody that says that. I agree. But you can’t get it all in one shot. Not going to happen. Not going to happen. And for those that would say, well, you do it all in one shot, and if you don’t win the next election, who cares? Well, that’s a really stupid approach. Just burn it all up at one time and then see what happens and maybe get reelected the next time around, maybe not. And for those that would say, well, it’ll all get straightened out by then, no, it won’t. These changes that we would make right now, people would immediately see the results of and they’ll vote for that the next time. No, they won’t. No, folks, they won’t. Because a lot of you, like I, would take even more benefits away from some of these low-life losers that are on the payroll of you and I. And yes, I meant everything I just said. There are some people that game the system. They know exactly what they can get out of the system, and they use it to their advantage, and I’m sick and tired of paying their way. I’m one of those taxpayers, yes. And I’m tired of it. But I also know this. Are you going to be able to cut them all off tomorrow? No, you can’t. As much as I would love to, you can’t. It’s not going to happen. It’s an unrealistic expectation. It’s not going to happen. So what you do is you have to work within the boundaries that you have and do the best job that you can and try to move the needle in that way, which is what this bill is doing. Now, did it get everything done and did it get everything in it that everybody wanted? No, no. Some wanted a lot more. Some wanted a lot less. Some wanted changes in some places, not others. Point being, you’re not ever going to get everything you want. And Elon has to understand that, but Elon doesn’t understand that is the problem. Again, smart guy. I’ll give him credit all day long. He has done wonderful when it comes to the things that he has done business-wise and even what he did in his attempt with Doge to come in and get all sorts of things straightened out in regards to us and our spending and so on. I get that. Cutting a lot of fraud and waste out. And I wish he could have stayed and just kept going. But even that is unrealistic. It’s not going to happen. It should, by the way, it should happen, but it’s not going to. And it’s an unrealistic expectation to think that it’s going to. So Elon, like a lot of other people, needs to understand that in Washington, even though you’re a guy that’s worth $400-plus billion, you can’t get these things done as quickly as he wants them done, and I wish you could. So, again, I appreciate Elon. I appreciate all of the work that he’s done. I appreciate what he did in getting Trump reelected this last time. Do I think his America Party is totally the wrong way to go? Yes, I do. And if he were in the studio with me today, I would tell him the same thing, and he would have to prove to me why he thinks it’s going to go anywhere. You’re not going to take a third party and do anything. All it’ll do is siphon away votes from, in this case, our side. You’re not going to make inroads at all. So while he thinks he may, you know, in his mind, I guess he thinks he’ll have enough momentum and so on to really get this thing taken off. And maybe I’m not giving enough credit. Maybe he will, but I just don’t see that happening. And time will tell, but I don’t see him taking this thing and having it amount to anything when it’s all said and done. And I think part of that for me is because others have tried. Other rich people, not as rich as him, of course, but other rich people have tried and failed. From the Green Party to who was Ross Perot’s party back in the day when he went off on his own? Charlie, do you remember? Some of you that are listening and know Ross better than I can remember those days better than I. Tell me what his was. But again, Ross at that time was a very rich individual. Maybe not to the same level that Elon Musk is, but he was pretty rich. and had a lot of clout, and tried to do third party, and all it did was screw things up at the end of the day. It did not help us. It didn’t help the conservative movement out at all. In fact, it put the conservative movement back in time, in my opinion. That’s all those types of movements do is take us off track and actually gives the other side an edge that they can now use. And no, it does not work out at the end of the day. So let’s do this. Golden Eagle Financial up next. Al did an interview here of late. Listen in. 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This is TJ with KLZ Radio, and I’ve got Al Smith from Golden Eagle Financial here in the studio with me. Al and I were just talking about how in retirement he helps his clients to stretch the time in their retirement. Al, what do you mean by that? Tell us a little bit more about how time works in retirement.
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Well, when you think about leaving the working world, you think about, well, it’s still going to take money to live on once I’m retired. And that nest egg, whatever that is, that’s going to permit you to do what you want to do with the time that you have sort of earned for yourself. So the nest egg is not only in dollars, but it’s also in the time that you have to do the things that you believe will be fulfilling in retirement. And when I have a conversation with people, I think it’s equally important to think about how they’re going to be spending their time as it is to accumulate a nest egg.
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You’ve got to have some pretty good examples of things that people do in retirement. So open the door for us. What sort of things can we expect?
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Well, sure. I have one gentleman who is very much into aviation. He owns his own small plane. He actually works on that small plane. He’s within a few years of retirement. He’s retirement age. But right now, while he’s working, he takes his small aircraft, flies to locations where he investigates air disasters. I also have some people who spend a lot of time with their grandkids, some of whom live nearby and some are a little farther away. I have some who are incredibly involved with their churches and go on missionary trips and so forth.
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How do people get in touch with you if they want to stretch that time out in their retirement?
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They can reach me at 303-744-1128. And if they’re driving when they hear this, you can contact KLZ and they’ll put them in touch with me.
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Of course, as always, you can find Golden Eagle Financial on klzradio.com slash advertisers and get right in touch with Al if you’re driving and can’t write that number down. Al, thank you so much for joining us today.
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You’re welcome.
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This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560. All right, really quick. Somebody asked me a question. If Elon had Trump as a VP to back him up, would he have a chance? Trump seems to have accumulated a smart cabinet. No, I don’t think so. I don’t know. That’s a great question. If Elon had Trump as VP to back him up, would he have a chance? Well, number one, I don’t think Elon would ever do that. Just not in his wheelhouse. He’s not going to go full-time on government in any way, shape, or form. And, yes, Trump did assemble a very smart cabinet at the end of the day. Johnny, go ahead, sir.
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Yeah, and you think, like, you’ve got these two alpha men.
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Yes.
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That just doesn’t mix that well. Because you’ve got to have a leader and you’ve got to have a follower.
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That’s right.
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And right now— And neither one will do that. Yeah. But I was just thinking, like, Elon Musk, you know, he came to the United States at a certain time, and then we remember, like, what happened with Ross Perot, tried to, you know, another party. And then even back when the Democrats and the Uyghurs and the Republicans, that third—it seems like that third person in the wheel just doesn’t seem to— Get enough momentum to push it over the top.
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Nope. Nope. Johnny, you are spot on. I had a couple of texts in as well. Johnny saying the exact same thing that you’re saying, that if, in fact, this gets off the ground and gets any momentum, it’s a guaranteed Democrat win.
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Yeah, and somehow that part of history doesn’t click with him because he has a great mind. But sometimes the alpha and the ego and all that kind of stuff sometimes gets in the way.
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Ross Perl, really quick, I looked it up because I couldn’t remember, Johnny. The Reform Party of the United States of America, he formed his own party, called it the Reform Party. So I think what Elon is not looking at is history, Johnny, because none of these have ever worked.
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Yeah, and everybody will say, well, this time it worked, just like communists. They say, well, they didn’t do it right, but this time it worked.
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Nice. I mean, Johnny, I mean, I love these people and I love their heart and I love Elon. And I and I know he’s he wants what like you and I and others. He does want what’s best for America. And I get that. And he keeps talking about how, you know, he wants to make sure the Second Amendment stays in full force and on and on we go. And and I get all of that. And I know he’s got the right heart for it. But the problem is heart doesn’t change. at the end of the day how politics works, and you’ve got to work inside of the system that we have, because I’m afraid to say, Johnny, we don’t have enough time. The country now has gotten too big to come out and try to revamp everything.
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And when he lost in 2020, I mean, I was sad about that, but after looking back on it, I said that was good because he had a time to say, Trump is a winner. So he said, if I’m going to do this again, I’m going to win. And he had that time, that four year span to build what he has now. And if he would have went back to back, I don’t think We would have been as far as we are now.
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I agree. You know what? You made a great point. And I’ve had others that have called in and talked about that as well. And I agree with that, Johnny. I think the four years off have given or did give Donald Trump the ability to really do some regrouping and looking at things in a much different light than what he would have done any other way.
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All right. So that’s all I got.
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Johnny, you’re always great. I appreciate the input and spot on. And a lot of you are texting, and thank you, by the way. I appreciate that. Nobody has yet texted and said, nope, great idea. He has a chance of making this thing work, and he’ll drive that party forward, and he’ll have great success. Not one texter has said that. And the reason for that is because he won’t. It won’t happen. And keep in mind, as I said earlier, Charlie reminded me of this. The left has had some of their own dismal failures along these lines as well to where they’ve come up. We know they’re there. What was it, Charlie? No, no, no labels and so on. Yeah, those those parties have done nothing. Zilch. In fact, what I will tell you they do is they just suck money that could be spent in other ways. And Elon is going to realize this. You’re better off taking the money. What Elon would be best off doing, by the way, is forget the national stage. If Elon really wanted to make change, he would do what George Soros has done. And that is go into a lot of local communities and support a lot of local causes and a lot of local politicians that have the ability to change things from the ground up versus the other way around. If Elon was really smart and if I had the ability to sit here and consult with him for a moment, I would tell him that the way he’s looking at it is completely backwards. He’s looking at it from top down, and he needs to look at it from bottom up. He needs to do the exact same thing with his money that a George Soros has done and go in and help DAs get elected and help AGs get elected and help mayors get elected in certain areas. in certain cities and towns, townships and county commissioners, and, and, and we go. Because the reality is the more change you get to happen there, that will work its way out into the populace, and you’ll make bigger changes on the national stage. He’s going about it the wrong way. And I’m not going to say that George Soros is smarter than Elon Musk by any means, because I don’t think he is. Not that George Soros is dumb, by the way, because he wouldn’t make billions of dollars either if he was dumb, just like Donald Trump wouldn’t make billions of dollars if he were dumb. None of the three of them are dumb. But I can tell you on an IQ scale, Elon Musk probably has the other two beats substantially. And what Elon should be looking at is what George Soros did, which is what I’m saying, and he did that approach. And you’ve got to give credit where credit’s due. Did George Soros make huge inroads when it came to moving his party forward on a local level? Absolutely. Absolutely he did. He is the biggest reason why we in Colorado struggle with moving our needle back over to the red side because of George Soros and the likes of him. There’s been others in this state that have been influential as well. Pat Stryker and others and, you know, the gang and so on. But let’s let’s face it. George, in a lot of ways, gave them the recipe already. on how to do this and why we aren’t doing this is beyond me. I’ve always wondered that. Why can’t we take somebody like an Elon Musk that has gobs of money and has the ability to go on a nationwide basis, go to especially blue states, hard blue states, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, California, even Arizona now to a certain degree, New Mexico. I can keep running down the list, folks. I’m just talking about the ones so far in the West. Start going east and there’s even more. But concentrate on those states that you know you could make some really good solid inroads into and start making significant changes in leadership in those states. And before you know it, you’ve changed things. And why Elon isn’t thinking along those lines, I don’t know. I don’t know who advises Elon, if anybody. As Johnny said a moment ago, you’ve got two alphas, Trump and Elon. If there’s credit anywhere, it’s that Donald Trump does have people around him that I do believe he listens to, and he does listen to the political end of things, and to his credit, he has, and that’s why he won the last election. Elon hasn’t figured that out yet. He’s too, quote-unquote, green in politics to understand some of what I just said. Again, smart guy, probably one of the smartest guys on planet Earth, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that, folks. I mean that. He’s a very, very, very smart individual, except when it comes to politics. He doesn’t understand the political machine, or maybe he does, and his ego is so big that he thinks with my money and my talent and what I can do, I can flip that around and turn it around, and I’m bigger than it, and I can turn it around. No, even though he’s worth $400 billion, he doesn’t come close to the behemoth in GDP and the wealth and the entirety of what the United States of America is and its government. And as much influence and power as Elon has, and he has a lot, he doesn’t even scratch the surface of what I just said a moment ago. You take all the politicians in Washington, and I don’t know if this has been done yet. I should ask AI this. Add up all of their wealth, every politician in Washington, all of the lobbyists that are there, all of the ancillary people that are there, all of the people that serve on boards of Big Pharma and the like. I mean, add all of them up, and it’s got to be in the trillions of dollars. It’s dwarfing anything close to what Elon has right now, even though he’s worth $400 billion. That’s the thing, what I said a moment ago, Elon’s not thinking through. He thinks it’s just him and, oh, yeah, I can go flip government around. I’ll start this new party and I’ll get it corrected. No, he won’t. No, he won’t. And by the way, everything I just said applies to what happens here in Colorado, which we have a party here in Colorado that hasn’t figured out what I’ve said. We’re going to now have infighting in Colorado as to who the next vice chair will be. And it’s just ridiculous the direction that we’re headed. I mean, it’s just utter stupidity. Sorry, I have no other way to say it. Utter stupidity. We’ve got people wanting to run for office in Colorado that will do nothing but get in and screw things up and make it worse than it already is. So we have people that, just like Elon, don’t understand how things work. They don’t understand what’s in front of them, and they really don’t have any solid plan on how to get things done other than their own rage, like Elon is doing right now. Other than his own madness in what’s going on, he’s upset. He doesn’t like the way things are going, so he’s going to fix it his way. We have the same thing going on in the state of Colorado. They’re doing the exact same thing. Because the ball’s not being played the way I want it to be played, I’ll get in there and change the game. No, you won’t. All you’re going to do is screw it up even worse, and that’s all Elon’s going to do in this particular case. He’ll just screw things up more so by having a third party than if he were to leave it alone and back what I was talking about earlier. And what he needs to do is just take his focus completely off the national stage and move locally. Governors. I mean, take Colorado, for example. The next governor of Colorado. Could Elon have a big impact upon the state of Colorado and put a red governor in place next time around if he really hustled and got after it and got behind some folks here in Colorado and they came up with some good strategy and we found a really great candidate and, and, and? Would that work? Yes, it would. I believe it would. Run enough ads, get in front of enough people, do enough things to where you could get that person out in front of enough people. Could you win in Colorado? Yes, you could. But we’re not doing that. we even on our side of the aisle struggle with even who we’re going to run. How are we going to even get that done? Everybody’s got their favorite candidate. Who’s going to rise to the top? And I hate to say this, but I’m going to. I don’t believe we have anybody right now that’s thrown their hat in the ring that will beat the Democrats. That person hasn’t shown up yet. And some of you are going to be mad at me for saying that, but that’s the truth of the matter right now. No one has thrown their hat in the ring right now that can do it. And there’s some great people that have put their hat in the ring. So this is not a personal attack against any of them. So nobody take it that way. That is not what I’m saying. Nothing against anybody that’s thrown their hat in the ring. But do anybody that has put their name in right now have the ability to beat a Democrat? No, they don’t. No, they don’t, folks. So maybe I guess I’ll say it before anybody else will. I’ve said it the first on air. We don’t have a candidate yet that will beat the Democrats. And there’s like a dozen that have thrown their hat in the ring. We don’t have one yet. And mark my words on that. Some of you are out there probably yelling at the radio and throwing things at me through the radio because of what I’m saying right now. But the reality is I’m right. I’m not wrong. That person hasn’t shown up yet. And where is that person? I don’t know. But I can tell you this, they’re not here yet. And until we find that person and we start getting behind them and we start grooming them and getting to the point where they will be that person, we don’t stand a chance. We don’t stand a chance. So Geno’s Auto Service coming up next. Great special right now that was running. 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All right, we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. And just so that I could familiarize myself with who’s thrown their hat into the ring for a Colorado governor, I went through the list again. I’m not going to go through each one of these and name off names and the reasons why I don’t think they have the ability to win, but I’m going to stand by what I said a moment ago. I don’t see a single person on this list on our side, and there’s some people on there that I love dearly, that I have a ton of respect for, And I’m just saying straight up, I don’t see them having a chance. I’m sorry to say. And I’m honestly saddened to say that. And there’s some again, there’s some fabulous people, great people, solid conservative people. I cannot you know, I can’t argue with any of their their stances on things, their beliefs and things and so on. But can they beat who could easily end up being it’s going to come down to on the Democrat side, by the way, it’ll come down to either Michael Bennett or Phil Weiser, one of those two. And they both will be heavily funded. They will have the complete political machine in this state on their side. They will have all of the press, well, not all, but a good portion of the press in Colorado on their side, you know, from the Kyle Clarks on down. There won’t be anybody else that will even come close to competing with them as far as all of that side is concerned. You’ll have most publications and websites that are operated in this town or around this town, by the way, on their side. I can go down the list. This is a huge machine that we are going up against. And while I don’t like either one of those individuals, I think they’re both beatable individuals, by the way, but not with the people we have. Michael Bennett, in my opinion, is probably one of the weakest Democrat candidates ever, but he is well-funded. He, of course, has been in the Senate for quite some time, stumbled into that position, by the way, but he’s nonetheless still a senator, and he did win the last time around because we, on our side of the aisle, couldn’t get things figured out, so we blew a huge chance. And, yes, I blame a lot of you on the right for that. You were the problem. Ron Hanks, I can blame all of it on you, by the way. A large portion of it on you, and I will. You’re the reason we still have Michael Bennett as a senator. You alone. You and your cronies. You’re it. Anybody wants to argue on that? Lines are open. Argue with me. Tell me I’m wrong. 303-477-5600. He is the largest person to blame for the reason we still have Michael Bennett as a senator. Now, he’s going to drop out of that, I guess, and run for governor here in Colorado. And he’ll primary against Phil Weiser, who Phil, by the way, is our attorney general, who I remind everybody all the time I don’t think has ever been to court. Prior to becoming AG of Colorado, he’s never tried a case in his whole life as an attorney, yet he’s our attorney general. And he’s big on suing the federal government and rolling his power around and acting like a big shot, when prior to him running for AG, no one even knew who he was. But because, once again, our side couldn’t get its head out of its you-know-what and figure out what we were doing and run the right people, we lost the AG side of it as well. We’re our own worst enemy in this state when it comes to Republicans. And by the way, I continue to see all the different social media posts and so on. I do my best to not follow some of that stuff because it’s all utter nonsense. But the reality is we haven’t fixed any of it. We’re no better now than we were six months ago. Other than we don’t have a chair trying to undermine the entire party. I mean, that’s the only good thing, I guess, is different now than it used to be. We’ve got a person running for co-chair or for vice chair that will undermine everything in the state, just like his predecessor did or his female predecessor did. So that I can tell you that it’ll be the vice chair to all. You’ll just go from from hope to a different knucklehead. So those of you that are on that side, man alive. You’re so passionate, you’re crazy. I don’t know how else to say it. You’re so passionate, and I love your passion, but you’re so passionate, you’re crazy. You haven’t figured out any of what I’ve just said for the past 15 minutes. So anyways, we need to do some really hardcore work and searching for some good, solid candidates. And there’s already a ton that have thrown their hat in the ring on our side. And again, great people. Some of them I know on a personal basis. Some of them I have sat next to in this studio more than once. And I love them. They’re good people. But I’m sorry, they’re not going to have what it takes to win against either one of those individuals I just mentioned, because it’ll be one of those two. Most likely be Michael Bennett. Most likely will be him. I don’t think I’m wrong in saying that, because he is a well-oiled, well-funded machine and has won enough elections in the past that will know exactly what to do, exactly what to say, what babies to kiss, the whole nine yards. He will know exactly what to do, and he will do it. Charlie, I have no other, I don’t know what else to say. He knows the routine, and he will work it, and he’s got everybody else on his side press-wise to do so. Charlie’s in here nodding his head, agreeing with me, because that’s what we’re up against, folks. And the left knows this. Trust me, the left knows this. Now, did they handpick either one of them? I would venture to guess that especially with Michael Bennett, Somebody came along and said, you know, we need you to run for governor. Yeah, you could win the Senate seat again, most likely, but we can find somebody else that can run on the Senate seat, and you’ll win that one. You could win that one again no matter what, but you know what? You really need to be governor of Colorado. Let’s get that done instead. My gut feeling is somebody—I think Phil, personally, my guess is he did that one all on his own. I doubt seriously whether anybody at the DNC end of things gave the nod of approval for Phil to run. This is me talking, but I would be hard-pressed to believe that that’s the case. I think Phil did that one on his own. I think he threw his hat in the ring all on his own. I highly doubt he had any kind of orchestration from anybody on a national basis from the Democrat National Party. Michael, though, guarantee he’s got the nod of approval from the national guys. Yep, Michael, we will help do whatever we need to do to get you elected. Guaranteed, that’s what’s going on right here. Guaranteed. Meaning, if I’m right, Phil has no chance. Sorry, folks. I’m predicting that one already, right now. If what I just said is true, and I would venture to guess I’m right, Phil has no chance. And Michael will be their candidate on their side, and that’s who we’ll run against next November. So we’ll see how that all comes out, how it comes to light. But we’ve got a lot of work to do on our side because, no, folks, we don’t have anybody yet on our side that I feel is a big enough player to handle going up against those guys. So big, beautiful bill. Now, what I want to do is I’m going to take some highlights from the big, beautiful bill, which was signed. And again, I know, folks, it didn’t go far enough. A lot of people felt that way. I’m one of them. I wish we would have done more as far as cuts and so on. But on the positive note. The extension of the 2017 tax cuts took place. So they’re going to go ahead and continue those on, those lower taxes for a lot of people. And, again, I don’t like the way those were done the first time around either because I think people got tax cuts that shouldn’t have but did. But regardless, those are going to move forward. They were set to expire, by the way, this December, but they will stay. There are some cuts to Medicaid. Now, keep in mind, I’m reading from sources where I tried to get the best information I could as highlights to the big, beautiful bill. So most of these are coming from national organizations. In this case, they’re saying steep cuts to Medicaid. Actually, it’s not as steep as they’d want you to believe. The cuts are over 10 years, and they’re not near enough. We’ve talked about that with Dr. Kelly and Steve House on Thursdays. I’ll probably get into that a little bit more with them this coming Thursday, but no, it doesn’t do enough to cut. And you’re going to hear all sorts of political analysts inside of the leftist media talking about how, oh, you’re going to lose this benefit, you’re going to lose that benefit, all the old people won’t have insurance anymore. It’s all lies, 100% lies, not true. There are going to be some people that might have to go work 80 hours a month, by the way, which is 20 hours a week on average or less because there’s 4.33 weeks in a month, so it’s less than 20 hours a week. Figure 19 and some change probably. Reality is there won’t be that many that lose out. And my feeling is there’s people that should be working that shouldn’t be on Medicaid anyways that need to get off of Medicaid that my tax dollars are supporting. And, yes, there should have been steeper cuts. That’s, again, that’s a whole other conversation that we could get into that we could go down that rabbit hole for a while. But bottom line, you’re going to hear the left talk about how bad it is and how many people are actually going to lose their insurance. And, frankly, folks, it won’t be near enough. As I’ve said before, there are people in Colorado right now, families, making $75,000 a year that have an option of being insured by their company, but because Medicare is free, they don’t. They don’t. They let you and I pay for it. And these aren’t poor people. Now, granted, I know it takes a lot more than that to live comfortably in Colorado, but you’re also not in the soup line. You’re making 75 grand as a household. And you have a job. You’ve even got a job where that company will offer you insurance of some kind, but you don’t take it because you have a better option with Medicare or Medicaid, I mean, where I’m paying the bill. That needs to end. That’s the kind of stuff that should end, shouldn’t be happening, should have never happened in the first place. I’m not going to talk much about the SALT deductions. We’ll get into that more tomorrow with Jordan Goodman. Cut to food benefits. They have added in, they’ve done some reforms to the supplemental nutritional assistance program, also known as SNAP. It’s used by 40 million low-income Americans. By the way, that number is way too high. Way too high. So there’s some changes coming into the government. We continue to fully fund the benefits for states that have an error payment rate below 6%, but states with a higher error rate would be on the hook for anywhere from 5% to 15% of the program cost. In other words, get your crap together, states. Figure this stuff out. That change, by the way, wouldn’t come along until 2028. We are going to boost our money spent on defense and the border itself, getting the fence built, the wall, all of those things done, which, by the way, I am all for. That alone is reason enough to boost that end of things. And then Trump wants to build the Golden Dome over the U.S., which, by the way, I think is long overdue. Should have done that a long time ago. Iron Dome. Iron Dome over the U.S. Should have done it a long time ago. You guys have all heard about this, and there’s lots of misinformation out there, by the way, from what certain people consider to be influencers from the left that are dead wrong. They’ll talk about how there’s no tax on overtime or tips, but that those are cash and those aren’t taxed anyways. They’re completely wrong. They’ll also tell you that, oh, well, if you get a credit card tip, that’s not a cash tip, so that doesn’t apply. Yes, it does, actually. The IRS considers even a credit card tip a cash tip. So still will not be any overtime on that, or there won’t be any taxes on that. So you’re going to have people, again, there’s all sorts of influencers, quote-unquote, people that are out there, even in media, that think they know about this stuff, but they don’t. They haven’t actually read what even the IRS considers a tip and how that works. These would actually, though, expire in 2028. That’s something else to remember is there’s a reprieve here for these workers. But it’s not permanent. This is basically a three-year reprieve. They have reduced the clean energy incentives, thank God. You don’t need to be spending money in those areas anyways. So they did reduce that. And there’s all sorts of legalities that run into if you’ve got a project and it’s gotten started, how much of it will continue to be funded, you know, and, and, and. These are all things that you can go read on your own. So Bill was signed into law at 5 o’clock on July 4th, Independence Day. I believe they did it at 5 o’clock Eastern Time. And these things will slowly take place according to how things were spelled out. And again, some of these things you will not see any effect of for years. 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All right, some of you texting in some things regarding how some of these things will actually work and be incorporated, how the IRS will actually handle the tipping side of things and so on. And I have not dug deep into all of that yet and figure there will be more information coming out on that. And what I’ve read is in some cases, there’s not even necessarily tax code to go along with some of these changes that are being made. And IRS might even have to come up with some new rules and so on when it comes to some of these things. So I am not going to talk about any of that until we get a little bit further along and know exactly how that’s going to work. So I don’t know, by the way. No idea. All right. One other thing that’s news today, and this one, I don’t know where this is going to head. And I don’t really have a solid opinion on this one way or the other. There are some people like Musk that are super upset at the DOJ coming out and talking about the Epstein end of things. And there’s no client list. There’s no real credible evidence. They’re claiming that, yes, in fact, he did commit suicide inside of the cell, etc., And there are some conservatives that, like Elon, that are just upset over this coming out. I guess I don’t have an opinion because I haven’t seen any of the documentation myself, so I can’t give you an opinion one way or the other. I don’t know. I really don’t. Now, I also will tell you this. I don’t know that I’ve ever really cared. We all know there were people that Epstein was involved with. Those people know who they are. Will the rest of the world ever find out? I have no idea. I highly doubt it, by the way. I think there are those on our side of the aisle that wish there would be some sort of a list published so that anybody that’s on the list that’s on the left, which, by the way, there’s probably some guys on the right that are there as well. But I think the hope is that there’s folks on the left that will be so damaging because their name is on the list that it’ll change the way the outcome of certain elections are so on. No, it won’t. No, it won’t. I’m sorry, folks. It won’t. So for those like Elon that want to see everybody’s, if in fact there is a list, and they want to see whose name is on the list because they think somehow it’s going to change things politically, no, it won’t. Some of you are saying, no, John, come on, you’re crazy. It’ll have a huge outcome. No, it won’t. And here’s why. The voters don’t care. Let me repeat that. The voters don’t care. We care. I care. You guys that are listening care. But the average person voting, they don’t care, nor will they even know about it. They don’t care. So let’s say that, you know, I don’t know. Let’s throw this out there, because I was talking about Michael Bennett earlier, and I have no idea if his name is on the list. So I’m going to preface this. I don’t know if his name is on the list. I don’t even know if there is a list. DOJ says there isn’t. But let’s just say, for example… Michael Bennett, who’s going to be running for governor of Colorado. Let’s say his name is on the list because of his background and what he’s done in Washington and so on, the fact that he’s been around for a while. But Phil Weiser, who’s our AG, who hasn’t been in politics as long and probably has no affiliation whatsoever with Epstein, let’s say his name’s not on the list. Do you really think at the end of the day it’s going to change the outcome of the election in Colorado? It will not have any bearing on it at all. Zilch. Phil could even run commercial after commercial through the primary season talking about the fact that Michael Bennett’s somehow tied to Epstein. Folks, at the end of the day, it’s not going to matter. I’m sorry to say that it won’t make any difference. Not a hill of beans. And some of you are right now yelling again at me. You’ve probably been yelling at me a lot today for some of the things that I have said, but you’re yelling at me right now thinking that, yep, that would have a huge issue. It would have a huge impact. No, it won’t. No, it won’t. Voters don’t care. We care. I care. Again, you guys care. And there are certain people even inside of the party, and I think there’s even certain voters that care, but not enough to make any difference. Not enough to overcome those that don’t care. And so you’re thinking, geez, John, how could nobody care? This guy was a known, you know, pedophile and, you know, he’s running young girls around and you had certain people, you know, certain politicians that were going to the island to have sex with young girls and blah, blah, blah. Again, folks, I’m sorry. I get it. And I don’t like it any more than you do. But the voter doesn’t care. The voter doesn’t care. At the end of the day, you know, here’s what the voter cares about. What are you going to do for me? See, that’s what our side hasn’t figured out yet. That’s all the voter cares about. The voter doesn’t care about his principles, her principles. They don’t care about that. They don’t care that they went to the island or didn’t go to the island. Doesn’t matter. Here’s what the voter cares about, especially those that are voting for governor here in Colorado. What are you going to do for me? How are you going to help me? What’s in this for me? I say it all the time, and most politicians I don’t think believe me, but every politician should have this written on their forehead, and they should remember it. What’s in it for me? Because that’s what the voter has written on their forehead. What’s in it for me? With them, we call it. What’s in it for me? If our side would start realizing that and understand that’s what the market is, we might start winning. But see, here’s what our side does. Here’s what the conservative movement in Colorado does especially. We want to write and force feed. what we think that person needs to be voting for. We want, we really, I hate to say it this way, but we really want to take their free thinking away and force feed into them what they should be voting for. Second Amendment, no abortion, you know, all rights for everyone. You know, your human life, I should say, you know, human life rights, whether that’s old or young. You know, freedom at all costs. The rule of law. I mean, I can go down the list of the things that our side believes in, which I believe in greatly. But our side, rather than leading somebody along those lines and trying to convince them these are the things that they should be thinking about, we want to force feed it. Doesn’t work that way. That’s why I’m telling you that it doesn’t make a hill of beans a bit of difference whether this list exists or not and whose name is on it or not. Won’t matter. Zilch. Zero. Has no issue. 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All right, in closing, somebody asked me if John Elway ran as a conservative, would he have a chance of winning in Colorado? I think he’s got a better chance than anybody else on the list, but no, that’s not a shoo-in because, unfortunately, you’ve got a whole other young class now of voters that know who he is but don’t know him like the rest of us do. So that’s a factor for an old guy like John that you’d have to consider in all of this. We’ll be back tomorrow. Same time, same place. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
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