In this packed episode of Rush to Reason, John Rush welcomes Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute to expose how Antifa and radical Marxist groups are being bankrolled through major NGOs, foreign billionaires, and homelessness advocacy networks. Seamus details the money trails leading to George Soros, Neville Roy Singham, and other elite funders driving unrest in American cities.
John then pivots to critique Senator Josh Hawley’s recent comments comparing Amazon CEO pay to average worker wages. He argues that Hawley’s rhetoric echoes leftist talking points and distracts from the real issue: foreign money influencing domestic unrest. Rush breaks down
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And welcome back. Hour number three, Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. As I said a moment ago, our next guest, Seamus Bruner, joining us now. And Seamus, first of all, welcome. Thanks for joining us.
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Hey, John. It’s great to be with you.
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And you are from the Government Accountability Institute. Talk about the Antifa roundtable you just had.
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Yeah, it was a very exciting event. I was very encouraged by the focus the administration is putting on tackling violence coming from the left, specifically Antifa. And my purpose for being there was to emphasize that in order to unmask these radical groups that are committing crimes and perpetrating violence, you have to, as always, Follow the money. So at the Government Accountability Institute, we follow the money and we followed it to the top, to the large NGOs that are funding the various groups that enable these foot soldiers to perpetrate these crimes, property crimes, doxing of law enforcement officers, physically assaulting law enforcement officers, arson. And so we’ve got dozens of entities involved in this.
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And I remind people of this on a pretty routine basis, and I have to even remind myself of this at times, that a lot of these activities that we see where you see a number of individuals, which some of the faces start to look familiar, and there’s a reason for that, Seamus, because in a lot of cases, these are jobs. These are paid protesters. These folks are literally making a living doing the things you just mentioned. Am I right in what I’m saying?
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One hundred percent. And the other individuals, the journalists at the roundtable, people like Andy Ngo from Portland and, you know, Cam Higby and Julio Rosa, Savannah Hernandez, Katie Daviscourt, they have all experienced this firsthand. And every single one of them, Nick Sartor, they have been on the ground in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, and said that they have talked to these protesters, rioters, and they have traveled. It’s expensive, by the way, to fly all the way out to Seattle and then back to Chicago and to New York. They are getting their airfare covered. Obviously, their time is covered. And another thing that was really interesting that was brought up, Jonathan Cho of Turning Point USA and the Discovery Institute, he says, and they have a big report in collaboration with the Capital Research Center, which is a great group, a new report shows that Antifa has infiltrated the homelessness movement. industrial complex all of these groups that are purporting to claim to be solving homelessness they’ve actually been infiltrated by radicals go figure and they get all kinds of government subsidies government funding grants and then they turn around and take advantage of the homeless in many cases mentally ill individuals and use them for their pernicious schemes
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Wow. OK, so that one I hadn’t heard yet. So I just learned something new. I’m not shocked, by the way. I mean, maybe a little surprised, although not. I mean, it just makes sense if we’ve got all these people running around that we’ve basically in a lot of ways set in these cities or have allowed to be there. Why not weaponize them?
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Yeah, that’s exactly right. And so the title of the report, if you want to read more about it, is called Infiltrated, the Ideological Capture of Homelessness Advocacy. It just dropped. It’s got a foreword by Christopher Rufo. But that’s just one part of it is the homelessness side of it. We’ve actually calculated, and we’re still crunching the numbers, but we’ve got over $100 million that is coming from the elite NGO funding networks. That would be things like, yes, George Soros and the Open Society Institutes, but there’s other ones that a lot of people have not heard of, such as the Arabella Funding Network, the Tides Funding Network. the Ford Foundation and its network, and in addition to these domestic billionaire-backed funding apparatus, you’ve got foreign money pouring into this. So we’ve done a lot of work exposing Neville Roy Singham. This is a Shanghai, China-based, almost billionaire. He’s got about $800 million at last count. that he has been funneling into all kinds of radical Marxist groups that explicitly state their goal is to overturn the United States. So really, really shocking stuff. I presented it to President Trump and his top cabinet officials, and they have all followed up with me, and we’re getting them the receipts.
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OK, dumb question on my part. Maybe it’s not so dumb, but I’m a big believer in, you know, our First Amendment rights. I believe in the freedom of speech. Even if it’s speech I don’t agree with, I’ll always protect that right until it starts to become what I consider to be treasonous, which I think a lot of what you’re talking about very much borderlines or is in that context. In other words, if what you’re really trying to do with your free speech is undermine government and take over for your own benefit, Seamus, I don’t really see that at that point as free speech. But I know that this is sort of a soft, you know, a sore spot, I guess I should say, for a lot of different individuals that are out there on both sides of the aisle. Yeah. How do we curtail some of this? In other words, I’m one that says, wait a minute, I’m not so sure we shouldn’t have laws on the book that prevent people from being paid, quote-unquote, to protest. And I know that gets slippery because now you’ve got to go prove it, and maybe that’s not even a doable thing. But I think something has to be done whereby these folks are put on notice. You can’t just do this carte blanche like you’ve been doing. Am I right or wrong?
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Oh, 100%. We’re huge, huge First Amendment fans. Everybody deserves the right to protest and peacefully assemble. Of course, the key word in that is peacefully. And so, yeah, you know, as a liberty-minded individual, I am not a big fan of the term domestic terrorist for obvious reasons. It’s been weaponized in the past against conservative groups, including Catholics and teachers or parents who go to teachers. So not a fan of that. But of course, if you’re not being peaceful, if you are being violent, if you’re causing arson and assault on law enforcement and engaging in criminal activity, that’s what’s really going to come from this. I mean, you’re not going to see people getting charged with anything other than criminal activity. And that’s what we’re seeing is all of these people who are committing violent crimes, property crimes, and all the rest. Now, you’re right. When you get into the words like criminalizing speech, like incitement. I mean, that’s very tricky. One group we looked into, by the way, we’re huge fans of the Second Amendment, too. Everybody deserves the right to keep and bear arms.
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I agree.
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But there was this group that is called the John Brown Gun Club of Elm Fork. This is in Texas, but they’re all over. One of their members was involved in shooting an ICE officer, And after the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk, the John Brown Gun Club of Elm Fork was posting flyers around university campuses stating, hey, fascist, catch, in reference to the bullet that was engraved by the shooter of Charlie Kirk. And then on that flyer it says, we’re the only group that doesn’t shy away from celebrating when a Nazi is killed. And so when you’re labeling… Good people like Charlie Kirk, he was obviously not a Nazi. He was trying to debate people, the thing that everybody claims they want to do.
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That’s right.
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When you’re calling him a Nazi and you’re celebrating his death and you’re calling for more, quote-unquote, Nazis to be killed, well, then, yeah, you ought to be looked into. And whether you get him on a speech, you know, if it’s about speech, I would say probably not. But if they’re planning to do more violence and planning to do more attacks, then they absolutely need to be stopped.
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Yeah, and this is those gray areas I was mentioning a moment ago. I mean, it’s like, okay, again, I’m with you. Firm believer in the First Amendment. Firm believer in actually all of the amendments, Second Amendment especially. Second Amendment keeps everything else in check, by the way. I mean, I’m a big believer in all of that. Although, and this is where it gets tricky, because as you said, You could even take, and this is what happens with government, you could take something that, you know, a law that gets put on the books to actually curtail one area that could be flipped around and then used against even us at the end of the day, which, you know, you also don’t want. So this is where it gets really tricky because, you know, for all of you that are out there listening and saying, you know, we need to curtail this, we need to do this, we need to end that. Well, yeah, there’s an old saying, Seamus, be careful what you wish for, because if you end up with some of those things that could then be turned against you, you don’t want that either.
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Completely agree. It is a delicate balancing act. There is a fine line, and one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. So you don’t want to be reckless with this.
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Correct.
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But I do see the arrest that the Trump administration is making. These are truly violent criminals.
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And where I want to go with this, Seamus— What I want to kind of maybe finish off with to throw this at you is what I want is it’s very well known that a lot of these organizations that you’re talking about are very much Marxist, Marxist movements and so on. And yes, I do feel like we need to do whatever we can to curtail – and I get it. Free speech, all that. If you’re a Marxist, you’ve got the freedom of speech and so on. I understand all of that. But at what point, Seamus, do we continue to allow open Marxists that are trying to really take over and overthrow government, because that’s really their goal at the end of the day, basically take over the country, at what point do we put a defining line and say, you guys can’t do this anymore?
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Well, I think you start with the foreign funding. I mean, when you’ve got people like Neville Roy Bingham, who is based in China, he’s right now, I will say, under multiple different federal investigations, both from the House Oversight Committee. James Comer has sent a letter to the Treasury Department seeking to freeze or seize his assets for funding these Marxist activities. You’ve got other foreign billionaires also pouring money. They should have… no ability to pour money into our political process. You know, I mentioned the Swiss billionaire Hans-Georg Wyss. There’s no way that you should have a foreign billionaire paying for unrest in our country. So start there. So that’s what Congress is doing. They’re trying to get the Treasury Department Act, and then also the U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., Judge Jeanine Pirro. She is also looking at the Foreign Agents Registration Act. So You get a lot of the foreign money out. I mean, I don’t think many people can disagree with the fact that there should not be foreigners pushing Marxism in our country.
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So that’d be a good first step. Well, and frankly, just to throw this out there, we haven’t changed some of the laws that we’ve got, even around how much your cash deposits from businesses and some of that should be. And frankly, Seamus, we’re concentrating at times in the wrong areas, and we should be doing what you’re talking about. That’s my thought.
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Yeah, well, if you follow the money and then you find criminal activity and you clean that up, and I think a huge chunk of it will stop and other people will, you know, there’s a term in banking called de-risking. And so you’ll get the banks to start doing the job where they don’t want to risk, you know, platforming people who have committed crimes.
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All right. How do folks find you at the Government Accountability Institute?
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Well, thank you so much, John. It’s at Seamus Bruner on all platforms. That’s S-E-A-M-U-S-B-R-U-N-E-R. I’m on mostly Twitter, but we’ve got a website, thedrilldown.com, and that’s thedrilldown.com.
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Okay. All right. I’ll put that in my notes as well. Seamus, it’s been a joy. You’re welcome anytime. I appreciate it. It’s been a good conversation. Thank you very much. Thank you, John. You bet. Have a great night. Again, Seamus Bruner. And again, he just talked to you about how you could actually find him and the Drill Down website as well. Golden Eagle Financial coming up next. And Al did a great interview of late. I talked about Al at 3 o’clock. Anything you need when it comes to your financial future, give Al a call today. Find him at klzradio.com.
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All right, and back to this story does, and I kind of picked this on purpose. This story ties back into, in a way, let me explain, dovetails into what we were just talking about. And while I like Josh Hawley, I do, I think Josh is a pretty solid individual, U.S. Senator from Missouri, and I think for the most part he gets it right. Although… There’s a ex-post here of late last week where I don’t agree with him at all. He talks about how Amazon CEO can make at least $40 million a year while the average Amazon worker makes $38,000 a year. How is this pro-worker or pro-American? First of all, Josh, that is none of your business. I’m just going to be straight up honest. That’s not the business of government, period. It is not the proper role. This is an area where Josh is overstepping his bounds. And I’ll call out our side just like I call out the other side on a routine basis. You all know me that that’s what I’ll do. This is an area that Josh is out of line in. None of his business. You know, if that particular company wants to pay that particular executive that kind of money, then they should be allowed to do whatever they want to. And I’ve said it before, and I’ll continue to say it, what a CEO brings to the table in regards to value, nothing against the workers that are working at Amazon, but it’s not one and the same. Now, are there some overpaid CEOs? There’s some overpaid everything. There’s some overpaid athletes. I mean, I can go down the list. But at the end of the day, it is what it is. It’s what the market bears. It’s what that particular person has earned. And off we go. Like it or not, that’s the way it works. That’s the system we’re in. I don’t believe in capping what a CEO should make or capping even. And I realize there’s caps in different sports and so on. But you get what I’m saying. I don’t believe there should be. Now, if you want to cap what teams can spend overall and they have to negotiate around certain players and so on. Well, that’s what the NFL does. And so be it. Frankly, other sports could benefit from doing the same thing. but this isn’t what this isn’t what josh hawley should be doing none of his business and i again i’m i did look up and i don’t know exactly it’s always tell exactly what somebody’s net worth is but it josh’s net worth is somewhere between two and a half and 20 million they don’t know exactly but he’s not doing too bad for himself So I guess I would throw the question out to him. OK, he makes X amount per year and his aides probably make less than he does. Is it fair for him to make more than the aides do? This is the same example that he’s calling out the CEO of Amazon on or any other CEO for that matter. And again, Josh, none of your business. Guys, I’m being straight up honest. None of government’s business, period. If that’s what that company wants to do, and the shareholders and the board of directors, and this is a public company, by the way, if the shareholders, board of directors, and so on are okay with that, then so be it. Off you go. None of government’s business. And this is where I will differ with Josh. And again, I like Josh. I do. And I think he’s pretty much on board and toes the line and is right with me on most things, but not in this one. And I don’t believe that we should cap any kind of salaries on CEOs or anything along those lines, presidents, CEOs, et cetera. I mean, if that’s what the market bears and that’s what it takes to get that particular CEO to make a billion-dollar company operate who employs millions of workers when it’s all said and done, then it is what it is. No different than it would be if it were General Motors or Ford or Walmart or I can go down the list. even the companies I don’t like, the Disneys and so on. I mean, they can pay whatever they want to pay at the end of the day. And by the way, I’ll defend that right for them to do so, just like I’ll defend the right on the First Amendment. They can pay whatever they want to do. And I don’t think that Josh saying it’s time to put America workers first, he’s missing the boat here. In fact, he would be better off to focus on, this is where I’m dovetailing it into our last topic, he’d be better off to focus on what we just got done talking about as opposed to this. What foreign money is coming into the country to make protesters do what they do? That’s a bigger thing, Josh, than this. And I can keep going down the list of things that, you know, again, Josh could be focused on, government could focus on, Congress could focus on versus this. And I don’t know what you all think, but that’s what I think. And this is the free market doing what it does. And adjust. And, you know, for example, if all of a sudden Amazon started to tank and the stock started to go way down because they weren’t delivering the product that they are right now and things aren’t going well, then that CEO is probably not going to be there anymore. And it’ll be up to that particular company and board and so on to determine who comes in and replaces them and at what cost. So, again, at the end of the day, I’m fine with the Amazon CEO making $40 million and the average worker making $38,000 a year. If that’s what the market bears, that’s what – and this is not to put down the average worker at $38,000 a year, but I don’t know – if all they’re doing is sorting and putting packages on a belt or loading a truck, what’s the value there? How much should they make? And you’re always going to hear this comment of, well, you know, if this guy just lowered his salary, then all those workers would get a raise. No, not by much. I didn’t look this up. I can right now. I’ll look up the total workforce of Amazon, but I guarantee you it’s a large number. I was right when I said a million. It’s 1.55 million, actually. So take his 40 million and divide it up by 1.55 million. And what does the average worker get when it’s all said and done? In other words, let’s just say, you know, that guy has to get paid something. Now, what should he get paid? You know, that’s up for debate. But let’s just say his salary was lowered from $40 million to just a million. By the way, you’re not going to find a CEO to work for a million bucks a year, but whatever. Let’s just say he can do it for a million. So we’re going to take $39 million, and we’re going to divide that up by the 1.55 million workers that are there. So you’re going to give each one a $25 raise? Yes. That’s the math, Josh. Josh Hawley, that’s the math. So, again, you’ll hear a lot of – Josh sounds like a lefty, by the way. You’ll hear all sorts of lefties say, well, if he would just donate his salary back, then every worker could get a raise. Yeah, not by much. He’s much better off to figure out how can they cut some costs in other areas, how can they maximize profits, how can they do a lot of other things and bring that wage up. And by the way, that 38K probably doesn’t include benefits and the other things that they’re getting on top of the 38K. And I don’t, by the way, I don’t know if that number is even accurate. I’m using Josh’s number. I’m not using a number that I went and looked up. I’m just going off of what Josh was saying in a particular hearing. This is another, again, this is an area government should stay out of. This conversation on Capitol Hill shouldn’t even be happening, in my opinion. Period. This isn’t a matter of putting American workers first, Josh. This is you sticking your nose someplace that doesn’t belong. I’ll just say it like it is. 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All right, we are back. Somebody also texted me a moment ago, a texter, and then Andy sent something in as well. But one of you said that Hawley wasn’t that long ago. He was in favor of raising minimum wage as well. And yeah, Josh, you’re getting this all wrong. And Andy’s comment was, what’s with all the socialist crap from our side? Andy, I don’t know. I wish I could answer that. We have crazy people on our side at times. I don’t get it. These are areas that they should not be involved in or, frankly, even talking about from our side, unless it’s the other way around. Minimum wage shouldn’t exist. That’s my opinion. You don’t even want to get me started on that. Just let the market do what it does. And it’ll find its level. Government doesn’t need to mandate what minimum wage should be. It’ll get worked out. If people don’t want to work for that wage, they won’t. That simple. They’ll find something else. The market always has a way of adjusting. And the problem with raising minimum wage is every other wage increases and all you do is create inflation. By the way, the other thing the Fed forgot to factor into some of what has happened with inflation over the past couple of years especially is the increases when it comes to minimum wage. So at the end of the day, meddling things they shouldn’t be. By the way, typical for government. Typical for government. And to answer Andy’s question, I can’t answer that. I wish I knew why sometimes our side was so crazy. I don’t know why we are, but we shouldn’t be. Alright, moving along. And kind of got longer in the tooth there than what I planned to, but Conversion therapy. Now, this is something that’s come up here for Colorado because there’s been some, or there will be, and it has been some higher rulings when it comes to conversion therapy. Now, there is a Republican that actually voted on a bill and a law that we have in Colorado that essentially he joined with four other Republican lawmakers in voting yes on banning conversion therapy. So let me explain what conversion therapy actually is. And. Conversion therapy, by the way, and you’ve heard Bob Duke even talk about this in his commentary, it’s a bad name because it’s a matter of there is a, in most cases, a teenager. It could be younger than that, but typically it’s a teenager. And they’re questioning different things, which, by the way, teenagers do anyways. If you’ve never raised teenagers, which I’m wondering sometimes how many politicians and other folk actually have, but raising teenagers can be its own challenge because they go through lots of things, as you guys all know that have raised them. Their hormones are raging. There’s all sorts of things happening. They question a lot of things. They sometimes even question mom and dad and their authority and so on. And it’s just what teenagers do. Now, for me personally, I didn’t mind raising teenagers. In fact, for me, it was one of the funnest times of raising kids that we had. And I know that sounds odd, but I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it because they’re getting to adulthood, and they start to talk like adults, and you can have, you know, quote, unquote, better conversations. And I didn’t have any real issues raising teenagers. Really didn’t. Now, maybe it’s because of how, you know, I raised kids, but I didn’t have any real issues. No real problems there. But we talked about a lot of things. I mean, you guys know me. I’m a talker. I mean, I talk through lots of things. That’s just what I am. I’m a talker. And did the same thing with my kids. So when questions came up or different things came up, you sat down and had long conversations with them on all sorts of things. And that’s how you get through things as a parent. So the conversion therapy thing is really, it’s not really conversion therapy. It’s certain folk. So let’s say you’re a Christian couple and you’re raising your kids and all of a sudden they’ve got questions on their sex or they’ve got questions on are they gay or whatever the case may be. You know, I’m a girl, should I be a boy? I’m a boy, should I be a girl? In a lot of cases, Christian parents, but it could be any parent, they would take their kids in for maybe some counseling help or some psychological help. And they sit down with, in this case, a Christian counselor that would say, well, you know, let’s have a discussion about some of the things you’re going through, and let’s talk these things through, and let’s really figure out what’s the root cause of what’s happening here, and let’s try to figure out what we can do to help you find the right answer. Well, there’s been a law in Colorado that’s now been challenged that basically makes that illegal. You can’t sit down with a teen and have that conversation. It’s a bunch of crap, by the way. It’s a bunch of garbage. Parents should be allowed to take their kids and have them sit down and have a conversation with anybody they choose. They’re the parent. They’re the ones that they’re accountable to and that they need to be, you know, they’re accountable to God for the raising of their kids is where I’m going with this. So they should be able to do whatever they want to. Now, I’m not saying that they should be able to go take their kids and abuse them, but that’s not what this is. That’s what the left would tell you this is, but that’s not what this is. Having a conversation about your sexual identity and all of that, that’s not child abuse. That’s sitting down in a very nice, calm, controlled environment and talking through things that this particular teen or child might have questions on. Well, in this particular case, this Republican lawmaker voted against For the banning of what I just said. Felt like that was the right thing to do. By the way, this guy, I don’t know Don Corum, but he’s a knucklehead. I’ll just say it straight up, you’re a knucklehead. And you probably never raised teenagers. And if you did, I don’t know how you raised them, but that’s not how I would have raised them. And he’s mad now at the U.S. Supreme Court that’s weighing a challenge on our law here in Colorado. And I’m not sure exactly how that’s going to turn out, but It needs to be challenged. Because, by the way, his comment is teen suicide is something that we’ve always thought. We think about, you know, it’s a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Unfortunately, we are the adults, and sometimes we put roadblocks in the way of recovery. So I thought this bill would remove some of those roadblocks to saving lives. If you’re going to take a child that’s thinking about changing their sex or becoming gay or whatever, and you all of a sudden have conversations with them that they’re going to just go out and commit suicide instead. By the way, that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Dumbest thing. In a lot of cases, and this isn’t true in every single case, but in a lot of cases, teenagers, again, they’re going through all sorts of things in their life at that time. And in some cases, they just want to know there’s people around that will listen to them, care for them, and love them no matter what. And they need that reassurance. And kids will go through cycles, and they go through stages of their life. And if you let every kid follow through with every stage of their life, they’d be a wreck. And that’s what’s happening with a lot of kids today. I think I’m a girl. I’m a boy, but I think I’m a girl. Or I’m a girl and I think I’m a boy. Well, you know, let’s talk about that. Are you really? Let’s talk about some of these things that you have going on in your world. Number one, why do you think that? Who around you is influencing you to think this way? I always told my kids, you are who you hang out with. By the way, it’s true with us as adults. You are who you hang out with. And in this case, though, this particular Republican here in Colorado felt like it was okay to ban the conversations I just mentioned that I think kids should have and parents should have. And I’ll just be straight up honest. If I were still raising parents and I were to have some of these things coming up and I felt like I needed my child to go sit down and talk to somebody, we’re going no matter what the law says. I could really care less. I don’t care what the law says. I don’t care if it’s banned or not. I’m going to go do whatever I need to do. You know, phooey on the law. That’s a bunch of crap. This is another example of where lawmakers need to get out of the way. Stay out of it. None of your business. Not the proper role of government. Let parents be parents, and you stay out of it. It’s not the role of government to raise your kids. Ever. Ever. I’ll stand by that until I go to the grave. It is not the role of government to raise your kids. Period. Ever. Now, I understand social services and things like that to where, you know, there’s something that happens in the family and the kids need a better home and so on. But even then, there’s a lot of times where illegally, you know, social services will step in, shouldn’t be there in the first place, but they stick their nose in a place it shouldn’t be and they remove kids that shouldn’t be removed. That’s another conversation for another day. And, yes, those exist. I understand. There are times where that’s what needs to happen. I get that. Kids are abused, things like that. Okay, I understand there’s a place for those things to happen. But it ought to be fewer than the majority of the time. It shouldn’t happen that often is my point. The problem is it happens more often, and social services can be very subjective. And I’ve read all sorts of stories. I’ve even done interviews along these lines. They can be very subjective and get their nose stuck in places it shouldn’t be. And I’ll still go back to what I just said. It is not the proper role of government for them to raise your kids. It’s your job to raise your kids. So at the end of the day, no, I think this is a great example where these people are wrong. The Supreme Court does need to look at this. This is a law in Colorado that frankly shouldn’t be there. This particular person, when asked why this has become a partisan issue, really didn’t have an example as to why it is and was just frustrated over the political divide. Well, there’s a divide there because we, as conservatives, don’t feel like it’s government’s job to raise our kids, Don. That’s where the divide comes from. If you’re listening right now, you’re completely wrong in your process here, your thought process here. Completely wrong. That’s why there’s a divide, because we, the conservative side of the aisle, doesn’t think it’s government’s job to raise our kids. That’s our job. You, on the other hand, think it’s okay for government to step in and raise your kids. Now, I know this is a deep subject and one that I probably could talk about for the next hour. I won’t. But this just happens to be one of those areas to where, yes, the Supreme Court should get involved. And, yes, they need to look at this law because it should be challenged. And the reality is it’s a bad law in Colorado. So there’s people out there that are mad. They’re upset, especially those that are on the left, because they don’t want to see this get turned over, get overturned, I should say. They want to keep the status quo like it is right now. And frankly, it’s one of those things that does need turned over. All right, Cub Creek Keating and Air Conditioning coming up next. Don’t forget about their furnace tune-up special. 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SPEAKER 15 :
And we are back. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. By the way, somebody’s texting in that Obama said the same Marxist stuff. Some people make too much money. Funny, though, that these people who think others make too much money never include or exclude themselves. Yep. Well said, by the way. I cannot disagree with any of that at all. Somebody also was saying that did a quick… AI, brave question, and provided a link from Amazon and talking about the – hang on, let me see if I can read this. Average hourly pay, $22 an hour. Average wage can range from $18.50 to $30 an hour. Lowest approximate per year for entry level is that $35,000 a year. Highest up to $611,000 for senior management roles and so on. So, again, Josh Hawley was completely off in what he was talking about in regards to the – salary comparisons he was throwing out, and again, he sounds like a liberal. Sorry, Josh. You’re sounding like a liberal. I don’t know what aid, because for all of you that are listening, this is typically how this works. Josh probably said something about something, and so he had his aides do some different things and so on, and so they probably feed him this information, and this is one of those areas where he didn’t double-check it himself, and he should have. Because now he sounds like an idiot. Now he sounds like a Marxist lefty. And he shouldn’t. And he knows better. He’s a smart guy. This is, in my opinion, this is an area where he screwed up. He should have done more of his own due diligence and shouldn’t have relied on the aides, you know, handing him info. And he should have looked this stuff up better for himself because he was very passionate. I could have played you the speech. I didn’t, you know, the conversation. I didn’t play it for time reasons. But reality is very passionate. He always is, by the way. He’s a very passionate guy. But this is an area where he should have done more due diligence on his end. He messed up. Because that’s typically how that works. These guys will come out. They’ll talk about things. And, you know, they’ll… They’ll rattle off some numbers and different things. And, you know, notice when these guys are all talking, they’ve got these notes in front of them. It’s amazing to me, by the way, they have paper notes. We live in such an electronic age, but they all have paper notes in front of them. And a lot of times, the dumber ones, I’m sorry to say it this way, but the dumber ones, they’ll be fumbling for their notes, trying to figure out what they’re actually supposed to be talking about. And I’m not exaggerating. You can watch them. You know, watch some of the dumber lefties. kind of go through these conversations as they’re trying to flip through their notes and even know what to say, because they’re reading what some aid has given them. The problem is they didn’t rehearse it enough to even know what page they’re supposed to be on, and then they look stupid because they’re thumbing through all these pages and have no idea what they’re doing. By the way, that’s not an exaggeration, is it, Charlie? That’s pretty much the way they do it. He’s in there agreeing with me, so you guys, if you ever get a chance to actually not just listen, but watch them as they’re talking, they’re doing exactly what I’m saying. Now, the really smart ones like Kennedy… He’ll have all of his stuff all dialed in, and he sort of just lowers his glasses down a little bit so he can read better, and he’s just flipping through because he knows exactly where he’s at. He rehearses. He knows what he’s talking about. And in his case, I think he knows a lot of her memory. He’s an exception to the rule because even though he sounds like a good old boy redneck from Kentucky, is that where he’s from, I think, Charlie? He’s not. He’s actually probably one of the smarter guys on Capitol Hill, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that. He comes off as not being very smart, but he is. Now, Josh, on the other hand, he sounds very intellect when he talks. He’s a sharp guy. He talks very well, very eloquent, does really well on that. And by the way, I think has a really good future in our party, but he can’t be saying this kind of stuff because this is going to kill it for him. He’s sounding too much like Marjorie Taylor Greene now, who, by the way, needs to be primaried out and gone. Bye-bye. See you. Josh, if he’s not careful, he’s going to find himself in that same camp. So he again, he needs to do a little bit more research on what he’s talking about before he starts throwing numbers around, because he’s throwing numbers around that he can’t really back up at the end of the day. And again, as I said earlier, he’s in an area the government shouldn’t be in the first place. OK, I want to talk about this briefly. We’ve got about five minutes or so before we go to break. And as you guys all know, this is a huge pet peeve for me because it literally kills people. And frankly, this should be talked about as much as we talk about school shootings and other things because we continually hear about crashes that kill people from truckers. We just had three people. Eisenhower Tunnel was shut down yesterday because of a crash. Killed three. Luckily, it didn’t kill anybody else in any other vehicles, but the folks in the semi died. i don’t know exactly what happened but my gut feeling is these were this was probably driver that wasn’t used to our roads our mountains our inclines and most likely was driving too fast or could have had mechanical issues but probably was driving too fast Semi-truck went off the road, then back onto the road, hit the center concrete barrier, rolled across the road, caught fire, and the three people inside died. And one of them was a young boy. 37-year-old woman from Deming, New Mexico, 38-year-old man, or sorry, 39-year-old man from Deming, New Mexico, and a 9-year-old boy from Jacksonville, Florida. Now, why the 9-year-old was from Jacksonville, I have no idea. The names of these people haven’t been released yet. The other thing you don’t know is what was really going on here. Why was this 9-year-old with him? Bottom line, and this crash, by the way, caused hours of delays, as you can imagine. And this is, again, in my opinion, and I know I’ve got truckers out there that at times some of you will agree, some of you don’t because you don’t like me being hard on truckers, but we’ve got folks with commercial driver’s licenses, CDLs, that frankly shouldn’t have them. Shouldn’t have them. There was another example over the weekend of a driver that I think was caught in New York that had been issued a driver’s license. I can’t remember from where, and it didn’t even have the guy’s name on it. No name given. That was the guy’s name. No name given. Did you see that one, Charlie? That literally was printed on the driver’s license. No name given. And they gave him a CDL, a commercial driver’s license. So I’m going to keep hammering on this until we get some sort of a fix. And the only way you’re going to fix this is legislatively speaking, and I hate to say it, but it needs to be on a federal level because a lot of what happens on the local level, state level, isn’t good enough. And I’m not – you guys know me. I’m not a big one for Fed overreach. I don’t like it. But when the states won’t manage commercial driver’s licenses properly, somebody else has to. And the reality is they’re not getting managed correctly. We’ve got far too many drivers who, in my opinion, aren’t good drivers that still have a license at the end of the day. And frankly, they can’t drive it any better than probably you guys listening can. Some of you listening are better than they are. I would be better at it than they are. And I don’t have a CDL. So, again, this is an area that I feel like this is what’s going to happen. If the states don’t start doing a better job of regulating and handling this, you will see the feds come in and do something because something has to change, especially on our roads here in Colorado. But even these guys, I saw another video of a guy today, semi-driver today, I don’t know who the driver was, making a U-turn on an interstate through one of the emergency crossovers. It shouldn’t be. Blocking traffic one way, trying to turn back into traffic the other way. It’s an accident waiting to happen. And again, I’ve talked about this in the past. I talked about it when that last accident happened where the minivan ran into the semi and they died. I talked about that whole accident a day or two after. And it shouldn’t be happening, but it does. And again, you guys know me. I’m not for more laws and for more regulation. But when people are dying because the lack of, that’s a problem. And it’s not any one state. It’s several of them, typically blue states, that allow individuals to have licenses that shouldn’t. That’s what needs cleaned up. And it’s not typically coming from the red states, folks. That’s not typically where our problem lies. It typically is the blue states when it comes to these licenses and putting people behind the wheel that shouldn’t be there in the first place because we’re soft on immigration, we’re soft on illegals, and so on. And that’s there in really lies. And now I don’t know that that’s the problem here. I can’t say because we don’t know everything, but we’ll learn more as we go further along. But I’m observant. And I watch a lot of these truckers and I look up in to see who’s actually driving some of these trucks, especially when they’re in the left lane and they’re they’re going, you know, 10 miles under the speed limit in the left lane. And I look over and it’s like I if I were to talk to this person, I doubt they could even understand what I’m telling him. And I’m not exaggerating when I say that. So, all right, we’ll take a break. I’ve got one minute left is all. Vector Windows and Doors is coming up next. And whatever you need when it comes to Windows and Doors, go straight to the source. That is Dave Bancroft at Vector Windows and Doors. Find him at klzradio.com.
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Suck it up, buttercup.
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Back to Rush to Reason. All right, Dale, I’ve got a little over a minute. Go ahead, sir.
SPEAKER 19 :
Yeah, on that credit card deal?
SPEAKER 15 :
Yes.
SPEAKER 19 :
Last month, I got two charges on two different cards for my company called Denver Parking. They were both on CITI cards. They weren’t much, but they were, I have no idea who they are.
SPEAKER 17 :
I disputed them and they were wiped out, but they were there.
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Yeah, and really quick for everybody else listening, what a lot of those guys will do is they’ll get you a $1, $5, very small charge. You don’t even notice it. You don’t think it’s that big of a deal. It’s not worth the hassle to even call a dispute, so you just let it ride. They then know that, hey, this card is decent. We’ve got a quote-unquote captured audience. Let’s move forward with a bigger transaction is what they’ll do.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah, one was $20, the other was $14. It was both on CITI cards.
SPEAKER 15 :
There you go. That’s a great example, Del, of what they’ll try to do to scam you.
SPEAKER 18 :
Yeah.
SPEAKER 15 :
Yep, absolutely, absolutely. No, great info, Del. Thank you for that. I appreciate that greatly. It goes back to my PSA earlier on, just credit cards and the scammers. And bottom line before we close today, just be careful. If something doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t. Don’t click. Click on it. Don’t open that email. Don’t answer that call. All of those things combined. If it doesn’t seem right, the number you don’t recognize, whatever the case, just don’t proceed. Stay completely away. Believe me, if it’s serious enough, they’ll find a way to get a hold of you, and you’ll be fine when it’s all said and done. All right, we’ll see you tomorrow. Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560.
