In this episode of ‘Rush to Reason’, we unravel the complex layers of election funding fraud involving massive, seemingly continuous donations through platforms like Act Blue. Our hosts engage in a light-hearted yet serious discussion on America’s transportation woes, focusing on the massive fare evasion problem in New York City’s subway system. The episode is peppered with anecdotes and an insightful dive into the controversies surrounding the reintroduction of wild species like grizzly bears.
SPEAKER 06 :
This is Rush to Reason. You are going to shut your damn yapper and listen for a change because I got you pegged, sweetheart. You want to take the easy way out because you’re scared. And you’re scared because if you try and fail, there’s only you to blame. Let me break this down for you. Life is scary. Get used to it. There are no magical fixes. With your host, John Rush.
SPEAKER 17 :
My advice to you is to do what your parents did. Get a job, sir. You haven’t made everybody equal. You’ve made them the same and there’s a big difference.
SPEAKER 18 :
Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life. That there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there. It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
SPEAKER 06 :
Are you crazy? Am I? Or am I so sane that you just blew your mind?
SPEAKER 11 :
It’s Rush to Reason with your host, John Rush. Presented by Cub Creek Heating and Air Conditioning.
SPEAKER 12 :
Filling in is Andy Pate, party of choice. And welcome to hour number three here on Rush to Reason. I am Andy Pate, filling in for John Rush. And on the line right now, we’ve got the man, the legend, Jersey. Joe, Joe, how are you, sir?
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m fantastic. I’m surprised you had me back on two nights in a row. The protest outside the studio didn’t get you to change your mind?
SPEAKER 12 :
No, not at all. I’m tough, man.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m tough.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’m like Trump.
SPEAKER 07 :
Your thick skin, all the hate. By the way, talk about thick skin. We’re going to play a clip of Tom Holman, our border czar. Love him. Talk about thick skin.
SPEAKER 12 :
But before we get into deportation. Before you even dive in, I need you to answer the questions that I’ve been asking in the show today. Okay? Okay. Number one, first 100 days, give a grade for Donald Trump. I’m going to give him a B+. Okay, sounds good.
SPEAKER 07 :
He shot himself in the foot a couple times, including, I know you talked about how he helped the Liberals win Canada. He did. And some of the other things that he’s handled, I think he could have handled smoother. But overall, a B+. You know, a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give him an 8.
SPEAKER 12 :
That’s really good. Okay, and can you mention three things that you like most that he’s done?
SPEAKER 07 :
I think… Clearly, immigration, illegal immigration is down, what, better than 94%. Right. Which he did with no money. Remember, Biden said, well, we would need Congress to act.
SPEAKER 12 :
Comprehensive immigration reform. That’s what we need.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. Biden basically said, I’m powerless without comprehensive immigration reform from Congress. He lied. Well, Trump proved that was a lie.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
So immigration is one. I think… streamline getting rid of dei and preferences and and stop funding that you know i think what he’s done with doge doge was brilliant you know i think we played a clip a couple of weeks ago about obama announcing his own doge effort right headed up by joe biden zero nothing came with that absolutely nothing in fact things continue to get progressively work So I think bringing in an outside team that had no vested interest in maintaining the status quo was brilliant. That’s a great idea.
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s basically an outside audit.
SPEAKER 07 :
Like an outside audit. And Doge does have a website. For instance, they were paying $18 million a month for a vacant facility in Texas. Vacant. $18 million a month for a vacant facility. They were paying $27 million a month in rent on an office building in New York. city, a 600,000 square. Now let me put 600,000, your typical Walmart is about 60,000 square feet, 50 to 60. So can you imagine a multi-story office building? Imagine if you had 10 Walmarts stacked on one on top of each other. Incredible. And there were only 360 people coming to work in that building every day. Oh my. And 27 million a month is 350,000 million a year for an office building that only was holding 350 people.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, so you’ve given us two, obviously immigration and Doge. What next?
SPEAKER 07 :
One more. Tariff equality. Again, the rest of the world has been taking advantage from the U.S. in terms of tariffs. There are countries where you can’t economically or viably sell American cars because they had ridiculous tariffs on that. China was one of the worst offenders. And yes, this is like two women pulling each other’s hair, but we can pull harder. China’s going to give.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I was going to ask, what’s your prediction there, Joe? I mean, how long do you think it’s going to… I think China’s going to hold out for quite a while. And it’s killing them.
SPEAKER 07 :
It’s killing them. I’m going to give it no more than 90 days. Now, by the way, Trump says we’re talking to China, and China says there’s been no… What China said in response is very telling. There’s been no discussions between President Xi. And Donald Trump, what they didn’t say is that the people under them weren’t talking.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. Yeah. In other words, I didn’t believe a word they said that came off a spin to me. I believe their people are already talking behind the scenes. I believe China is desperate. And by the way, Trump kind of is, too. OK, he needs some wins and you need to start racking them up.
SPEAKER 07 :
But China’s economy is in the toilet. It’s literally in the toilet. And if, you know, we’re China’s biggest customer, and if they start laying off… Oh, it’s much worse for them, Joe.
SPEAKER 12 :
I mean, it’s not close. Okay. Anyway, I just wanted to ask you this, John. Before you go into your stuff, how can people read your stuff?
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. If they want to see some things we’re going to talk about tonight, they may not be on there tomorrow morning, but I post my podcast on Wednesday mornings, and everything we talk about, which we talked about last night, and you’ll find them On the Jersey Joe website at jerseyjoe.com, you just have to remember to spell Jersey J-E-R, as in Robert, Z as in zebra, E-E, J-E-R-Z-E-E, jerseyjoe.com. And you’ll find all the story links that we talked about last night and tonight. And you’ll find the video clips. You’ll find links to the stories, like about the Wisconsin judge. I never post or talk about anything I haven’t fact-checked and verified.
SPEAKER 12 :
Really quick, you’re on the Wisconsin judge. What do you think should happen to her?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, I think she should serve a year and a day in jail. What I think will happen is that she’ll get a year’s probation and be disbarred.
SPEAKER 12 :
Good enough. I agree with you. I want more, but good enough.
SPEAKER 07 :
By the way, the importance of a year and a day… A misdemeanor is less than a year. A felony is a year or more. So I want her to be sentenced to a year and a day in jail.
SPEAKER 12 :
You want a felony on her rap sheet?
SPEAKER 07 :
I want a felony on her record, and I want it disbarred.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, she should have it. Okay, go ahead. What do you got for us?
SPEAKER 07 :
All right, before we get into heavy stuff, just a couple light things. You know, by the way, I’ve got a sister-in-law who’s in her 70s. And, you know, I was starting to worry about her, that she was starting to believe things that weren’t true. And initially I thought it might have been she was coming down with Alzheimer’s. And then I found out that she simply switched and had begun watching CNN. Well, that would do it. Yeah. So, you know, my fears. So it’s not Alzheimer’s. It’s just, you know, and I’m trying to convince her to switch back to Fox News or, but not CNN. The other thing, you know, by the way, Grizzly is one of the larger, you know, Grizzly bears go, can go 1500 pounds. They’re immense. They’re eight, nine feet tall. And they’re only, and with the reintroduction of wolves in the, Colorado, other states are considering reintroducing wild species. And wildlife researchers have determined that the state of California could support up to 1,700 grizzly bears in the state of California. Now, if you ask me, I think that’s a really bold solution to their homeless problem.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, that’s terrible. Joe! Come on! But you’re right. Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
All right. So…
SPEAKER 12 :
What do you think really quick for you around? What do you think about this whole reintroducing grizzly bears and wolves and other predators into various areas? I’ve never really given it much thought either way. What are your thoughts?
SPEAKER 07 :
You know, I think if it leads to a, any sort of ecological imbalance, you should do it. But the fact that there’s been no wolves in Colorado for 50 years. So what, you know, how is that harm? You know, there’s plenty of wolves in this country. Why do we need them in Colorado? Um, You know, the fact that we want more ranchers, cattle and sheep killed. You know, what does it add to the to the environment?
SPEAKER 12 :
I got no idea. I really I have no idea why. I have no idea what the need was and why people thought they had to do that. But anyway, go to your next topic. Sorry, I just wanted to ask that.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, let’s talk about election fraud. In this case, it’s election funding fraud. Oh, now you’re now under the federal election laws. The most you or anybody can donate to any… individuals, any politicians campaign fund is $5,000. And by the way, they call it Rosie O’Donnell, uh, in the last May, not this, but back in 2020, um, she donated under, she changed like, you know, R O’Donnell, RJ O’Donnell, you know, she had like five different names and using five, one was her office. One was her house. One was her place in, uh, uh, out on long Island. So she donated five different times using five different variations of her name, uh, to get around this $5,000 limit. Well, there’s an organization called Act Blue, which is a big funnel and collection point.
SPEAKER 12 :
They’re the biggest.
SPEAKER 07 :
The biggest. Anyway, James O’Keefe, who does all these expose videos. Right. He did them on the abortion, abortion on Planned Parenthood. Anyway, he started looking to Act Blue’s record and he found these names kept popping up over and like he found this one woman, an older elderly woman. And according to ActBlue’s records, she made more than 1,000 donations in a single year. And these were all $3,500, $3,600, you know, all under the $5,000 limit. But 1,000, how many days in a year, Andy? I know it’s a tough question. How many days in a year?
SPEAKER 1 :
365.
SPEAKER 07 :
So if you’re going to make more than 1,000 donations in one calendar year, roughly how many times a day do you have to make a donation? Three. Three times a day. And he found this over and over. So I think we’ve got a clip of James O’Keefe going to the home of this one elderly woman asking her, Did you make over a thousand donations to Democrat candidates? Can we play that?
SPEAKER 09 :
Here it goes. FEC data shows that some senior citizens across the US have been donating thousands of times per year. Some of these individuals’ names and addresses are attached to over $200,000 in contributions. We went and knocked on a few of their doors to corroborate the data that we received. We’re wondering if these donors are victims. of what appears to be a money laundering scheme. Cindy Ngo of Annapolis, Maryland, who in the year 2022 allegedly contributed over 1,000 times to Act Blue, totaling $18,849.77. That means Cindy would have had to donate three times a day, every day for the whole year. My name’s James O’Keefe, and we’re doing a story on the number of people that have donated. You did donate to Act Blue, right?
SPEAKER 13 :
Once in a while.
SPEAKER 09 :
What about $18,850?
SPEAKER 13 :
No, I don’t think so.
SPEAKER 09 :
You know, people are using your address.
SPEAKER 21 :
I don’t think so.
SPEAKER 12 :
Wow. Now, okay. So what comes of this? I’m sorry. Oh, keep going. I was just asking what comes of this?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, that remains to be seen. But by the way, so multiply this one woman by several 1000. And you’re talking millions and millions of dollars of laundered donations to their chosen candidates. And that’s just the way the Democrats operate. It’s just. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER 12 :
But if it’s exposed, shouldn’t people be going to prison? I mean, well, it actually happened, Joe. Will people actually go to prison for this? Because they need to.
SPEAKER 07 :
They need to. Now, it all depends how much Pam Bondi has on her plate. But obviously, well, by the way, it should actually go to the federal election, FEC, Federal Elections Commission. So I’m going to be following this. But I agree with you. This is clearly a violation of federal election laws. and somebody needs to go to jail. Um, so we’ll, the time will tell this only came out last week. So we’ll have to literally have to see what, what, uh, what comes of it.
SPEAKER 10 :
Okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Uh, let’s see, I want to maybe kind of group, you know, I want to listen before we get into, I want to kind of group all of our immigration and deportation stuff together. So I’m going to do some of these odds and ends here. Um, I mentioned briefly yesterday about how New York City fare evasion, they were losing $700 million per year in fare evasion to the subway system, and they got the videos of people jumping over and going under. Well, I started to figure out how many individual fares that is, so I looked up what the average fare is. Now, you can get a discount if you buy a one-month pass, whatever, but it averages out to about $3 a fare. Well, at $3 a fare, that’s 233 million evaded fares. which works out to 640,000 per day, which is 27,000 evasions per hour, which is 450 fair evasions per minute. That’s how many people… That’s not possible. Is it? Sure it is.
SPEAKER 12 :
When you look at all the different lines and subways… I know there are a lot of them, but my gosh, that’s an incredible speed.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, when you watch the videos, because they have got surveillance videos of all the turnstiles. Now, the turnstiles have… Your typical bank of turnstiles is anywhere from four to seven, you know, side by side. Right. Yeah, I’ve seen them. And they’re showing these people, like, you get a group of people, like, you know, young adults. They just come along, and the whole entire group, you know, just… In 15 seconds, eight or nine people just go over under the turnstiles. And you’ve got a subway system that has, I think, close to 200 different stops. So it does, you know, at 450 per minute, it only means one or two per minute at each stop. Now, how do you cure it? I think if you randomly picked 10 different stops a day, and had some plainclothes officers watching live those surveillance cameras, and as soon as these people came through, put the handcuffs on them, you’re going to spend the night in jail. I think if you did that, and you publicized that, and you showed their pictures, you know how they used to do it with the Johns on Colfax? Yeah, the Johns on Colfax, where not only did they show the prostitutes, but they showed the people who were soliciting the prostitutes? Right. I think if you made it known that, hey, on any given day, on any given station… we might be there waiting for you to do this, I think it would drop like a rock. That’s just me. But I think it’s given the – how much would it cost? If you’re losing $700 million a year in fares, how much would it cost to put, let’s say, 100 cops a day, plainclothes cops a day, you know, at various – Well, it would cost a lot less.
SPEAKER 12 :
Aren’t there any other surveillance techniques or – I don’t know something better than a turnstile.
SPEAKER 07 :
That’s how they arrived at the number. Cause what they did is they, no, they didn’t look at every, but they did a, they did a rough count. They figured they did a, one of the extrapolations. Okay.
SPEAKER 10 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
I’m going to make up a number. Okay. It looks like 9% of our ridership is evading the toll. So they just took 9% times the total number of paid riderships. Got it. And, you know, and that’s how they came up with a number. But the problem is when you have somebody with no, you know, they’re in a hoodie or whatever. And you can’t see their face because the surveillance cameras are looking at their back as they go over the turnstile because the cameras are all backed by the ticket booth. You can’t really tell who these people are. No, you can’t. But if you’re a plainclothes officer on the other side and you see, okay, it’s the guy in the blue hoodie with the white stripe on the sleeves. you know who to grab 30 seconds later.
SPEAKER 12 :
I think you’re right, Joe. I think this is what they’re going to have to do because there’s no other way that they can stop it. And New York is such a fiscal mess anyway. They can’t be giving away free rides like this. They can’t do it.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, well, but they’ve been doing it for… Yeah, but they’ve been doing it.
SPEAKER 12 :
This is before they chased off all the billionaires who were footing the bill around there.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right.
SPEAKER 12 :
Who were paying the lion’s share of the taxes.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah, that’s why New York State and New York City in particular is among the top three states with a net loss of population. All right.
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SPEAKER 12 :
Putting reason into your afternoon drive, this is John Rush. And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush on the line. We’ve got Jersey Joe. Joe, what do you have for us next?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, let’s stick with New York City for just another couple of minutes longer. Must we? Sure.
SPEAKER 12 :
Just kidding.
SPEAKER 07 :
Go ahead. No, no. So the answer to the question is how easy to get and carry a gun in New York City. Well, the answer to that question depends on whether or not you’re a law-abiding citizen or not. Now, just to legally buy but not even carry a gun in New York City is a process that will take you at least 60 days and cost you more than $200 in fees and expenses, which, by the way, prices a lot of people in the lower income brackets out of the market. Right. Now, if you also want to get prepared to legally carry that gun as a concealed weapon, it’s going to take you at least an additional six months and 20 hours of your time for mandatory training and at least another $600 in costs in addition to the cost of the gun, which clearly places low-income households out of the market. But what if you’re not a law-abiding citizen, and how long and expensive is the process? Well, apparently… The time is less than one day and sometimes less than one hour, and there’s no additional cost other than the cost of the gun. So you might say, Joe, well, how frequently do those illegal gun purchases take place? Well, what if I told you it was more than once an hour? And then you would ask me, well, Joe, how did you come up with that figure? Well, there’s a news story which I have in the notes to my podcast. Since Mayor Eric Adams was sworn in as mayor on January 1 of 22… The city has seized, you want to take a guess at how many guns the city, that was 1,165 days ago. You want to guess how many guns they’ve seized in 1,165 days? No idea, 10,000. Double it, 20,700. My goodness. That was as of March 10th. Now, if you naively believe that that 20,700 guns, represents every single illegal gun in the city, that would work out to 18 per day, or roughly one gun every 75 minutes. Now, if you generally assume that that figure represented only half of the illegal guns in the city, that figure would drop to one gun every 38 minutes. And if you cynically believe, like many do, that the figure represents less than 20% of the illegal guns being purchased and carried in New York City, The frequency of illegal gun purchase skyrockets to one every 15 minutes or four per hour.
SPEAKER 12 :
Who brings them in, Joe? I mean, obviously I’ve never been on the streets buying a gun from a guy. You know what I mean? But who brings these guns in and distributes them and sells them on the streets?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, first I’m going to tell you why. Okay, go ahead. Remember back in 1913 we passed a law that said you can’t make or sell alcohol in this country? Yep. Now, what did that law do? What industry did it create?
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, I mean, booze running, obviously.
SPEAKER 07 :
Booze running, right. You had Al Capone. We made many, many criminal millionaires. Well, I see the news story where they do these raids. So two things. One, by the way, there’s one household burglary in this country. Well, there’s three an hour, which is one every 20 minutes. And one out of three of those homes is going to have one or more guns in them. And the people that commit the bulk of these burglaries are people with drug addiction problems. So if they’re committing five or six burglaries a day, and let’s say they’re netting half a dozen guns a day, by the end of the week, they’ve got 50 to 70 guns. Now, they don’t need 50 to 70 guns. So what do they do with the 50 to 70 guns they’ve taken from the homes they’ve burglarized?
SPEAKER 12 :
I don’t know. What do they do with them? They sell them for quick cash.
SPEAKER 07 :
They just sell them? For quick cash. Then the other big industry in New York City is the… manufacture of ghost guns where these people, you know, when the police had done raids, they, you know, they raid the apartment and here’s a guy with all the parts, the pieces, and he’s got 40 or 50 guns with no serial numbers. So they’ve created a cottage industry in ghost guns. Plus they’re importing them. So if you commit a burglary in New Jersey and you with some guns, New York city is the place to sell them because that’s where, that’s where the demand is highest. So they’re, they’re being imported and, But there’s the same thing in Chicago. All the illegal – very few of the illegal guns in the city of Chicago originate in Chicago because there are so few guns, so few legal guns in Chicago. So the criminals go over to the border to Indiana, which is – if you know the territory, you can go from Chicago to Indiana in 35 minutes on a good day, right? Right. Well, Indiana is more rural. The gun ownership is triple what it is in Chicago. So the people go to Indiana – They steal the guns from rural and suburban homes in Indiana. First place they do is they don’t try to resell them in Indiana because it’s too easy to get a gun. And they turn right around and bring them back to Chicago and open up the trunk of the car and the hood in Chicago. And that’s where the guns that get stolen in Indiana get resold in Chicago. And by the way, there’s a CBS special called The Guns of Chicago. And there was a female reporter interviewing these gang members, and they all had their bandana face masks on and every one of them had a gun in their waistband and the female reporter asked one of the gang guys and these are all 19 20 years right how how tough is it to get a gun in chicago and one of the gang members looks and it says 30 minutes and 30 dollars do you want one really yep that’s amazing and meanwhile they’re shooting each other up all every weekend oh every weekend and by the way those gang when two groups of gangbangers They start shooting each other on a Saturday night, and three or four get wounded and get taken to the local ER for a treatment of gunshot wounds and released. The Gun Violence Archive counts that as a, quote, mass shooting. Even though there was multiple shooters, nobody died, the victims weren’t random, they count that as a mass shooting. Wow. That’s how we get those ridiculous numbers.
SPEAKER 12 :
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SPEAKER 12 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason, Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560, Andy Paik filling in for John Rush. On the line once again, we have Jersey Joe. Joe, what do you got for me next?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, let’s go a little more into Doge and cost-cutting. Yes, I’m loving it. By the way, about a week ago, there was this guy that was the president of the U.S. Department, and I didn’t know this thing existed. It was called the U.S. Institute for Peace, and I don’t know. I didn’t even know it existed, and I have no clue what they’ve done for the past 10 years. But the guy that was fired by Trump got a lot of press claiming that he was forcibly removed from his office, suddenly and forcibly removed by Doge Goons. That was the story that the media ran with.
SPEAKER 12 :
Doge Goons, okay.
SPEAKER 07 :
Now, if you saw the story, that’s the only story you heard. Now, at a press conference late last week, a reporter, I think it was from Fox, asked Caroline Leavitt… This is the story I heard. Can you comment? Because she had a totally different take on the story than what the media reported. So can we play the clip of Caroline Levitz saying what happened, how what really transpired with the president of the U.S. Institute for Peace?
SPEAKER 22 :
So on the United States Institute of Peace, this is a little bit wild. I understand the old president refused to leave. After he was removed from his position, he barricaded himself in his offices, had to be escorted out by police, left the building without Wi-Fi, telephones, elevators, and more, and is now telling media that Doge broke in and illegally removed him. So can you comment on this sequence of events and specify, did Doge illegally enter?
SPEAKER 13 :
I’m really glad you brought this up, Mary. We were made aware of this story by individuals at DOGE, at Elon Musk’s team, and also at the State Department who were unable to access this building. And it became very clear that there was a concerted effort amongst the rogue bureaucrats at the United States Institute of Peace to actually physically barricade themselves essentially inside of the building to prevent political appointees of this administration who work at the direction of the President of the United States to get into the building. There was a piece in the Daily Caller, thank you for sharing the truth on this, about what happened. Staff contacted the MPD in an attempt to prevent Doge personnel from entering. They barricaded the doors. They also disabled telephone lines, internet connections, and other IT infrastructure within the building. They distributed flyers internally, encouraging each other to basically prevent these individuals from accessing the building. I use this to say this is what DOGE and this administration is facing. It’s a resistance from bureaucrats who don’t want to see change in this city. President Trump was elected on an overwhelming mandate to seek change and implement change, and this is unacceptable behavior.
SPEAKER 12 :
Unreal.
SPEAKER 07 :
Unreal, Joe. That is the rest of the story. Now, I call my podcast, by the way, I know you know it, I call it News in Perspective You Won’t Hear on TV. And I guarantee you, other than Fox, you will not hear that question and her answer on NBC. By the way, I checked. You can Google ABC, NBC, you can check their stories. That story did not appear on any network news station other than Fox. And you’ve got to ask yourself, why? They published the first one. They published his version, but they didn’t publish her. I don’t even want to call it a rebuttal because you don’t need to rebut something. But they published his wild, outlandish version of events and didn’t even think about publishing the Caroline Leavitt version.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. The only thing where I take solace is knowing that they have so few viewers now. I mean that. I’m not being sarcastic. I mean, their reach is not nearly what it once was. Here’s a fact that this happened a couple of months ago.
SPEAKER 07 :
The Food Network is now outranking CNN in terms of ratings. The Food Network. has higher ratings than CNN.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’ve got to be honest. I’m going to be honest. I actually like the Food Network and HGTV. I like them both.
SPEAKER 07 :
I like them both.
SPEAKER 12 :
I’m a sick person. Go ahead. So let’s start getting into it.
SPEAKER 07 :
By the way, one thing I love about Caroline Leavitt, remember Kareem Jean-Pierre, every time she had to look down at her three-ring binder and flip pages? Right. I have yet to see Caroline Leavitt have to look down at any notes.
SPEAKER 12 :
I see her do it now and then when she’s doing an official statement and she’s reading off a statement word for word.
SPEAKER 07 :
A press release, yes. Yeah, a press release.
SPEAKER 12 :
But I’ll say that, no, she just engages.
SPEAKER 07 :
When somebody asks her a question, she doesn’t need to refer to notes. When she’s reading an official statement, she reads from there. But if somebody asks her a question, she looks them right in the eye and answers. She knows her stuff. Oh, yeah. She’s amazing.
SPEAKER 12 :
Between her and J.D. Vance, it is really incredible how well they handle the media. Throw Steve Miller in there, too.
SPEAKER 07 :
Steve Miller, too. All right, let’s wade into illegal immigration and deportation. And let’s talk about, at the beginning, we talked about thick skin. Let’s talk about Tom Holman, who was the head of Immigration and Customs. Tom Holman, we’ve got a clip of him starting off. with, yeah, people don’t like me, so what? So can we play that clip of Tom Holman?
SPEAKER 01 :
Border Patrol and the Biden administration, I met with hundreds of them. They felt like Uber drivers and tourist agents. These men and women joined the ranks of ICE and Border Patrol to enforce the law and make the community safer and protect national security. I hear it all the time. There’s a lot of people in this country who don’t like me. I don’t care. When I walk to an airport, I have Many people are walking up to me and thanking me for what I’m doing, and I’m not taking credit for anything. The success of the border and immigration enforcement is President Trump and the men and women wearing that uniform. God bless each and every one of them. But I take a pleasure in seeing it because in 40 years of doing this job, people always want to say, why are you so emotional when you testify? Why are you so emotional on the network? Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years, they’d understand why I’m emotional. I’ve talked to little girls as young as nine years old who were raped multiple times by the cartel members. And when you get to your knees and you talk to that little girl and everything innocent and pure has been ripped from her, when you listen to the Lakin Riley, 17 Minutes, that young lady fighting for her life, don’t just think, okay, a young woman died. Think of how she died, the terror that she went through. And these children are sexually assaulted. I stood in the back of a tractor trailer and 19 dead people at my feet that baked to death. Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. And so every sick person we take off the streets, especially child rapists, it makes this country much safer. Every illegal alien we arrest, public safety threat, one at a time makes this country safer. The morale of ICE and Border Patrol is at an all-time high because they’re getting to uphold the oath they took and they’re enforcing the law.
SPEAKER 12 :
You know, Joe, many countries were spending tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of money having to house, clothe, feed and guard these inmates who are very expensive for them. And then when Joe Biden basically opened up the entire border and said, invade us, why did he not? I mean, did it ever occur to him that they were going to empty their prisons? Yeah, you’re going to get a lot of normal people just coming in. They think, oh, wow, it’s that easy to get there. I want a new life. I’ll go to America. But, I mean, why is it a surprise to anyone that we have these monsters that have come in amongst us?
SPEAKER 07 :
One of the biggest was Venezuela, which is one of the biggest countries. And they’re, of course, you know, they’ve been in dire financial straits, you know, for a decade now. Yeah. And they were a huge, you know, huge prison population. They couldn’t afford to feed their own people. So basically, okay, we’ll let you out if you go to the United States. You know, we’ll buy you a plane ticket, a boat ticket, a train ticket. But if we catch you here again, you’re probably going to wind up dead.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, but here’s the worst thing about it, Joe. Everything that Tom Holman just said there, all of it, they knew. The Biden administration knew all of that. This is not new information to them. They knew that was being sent in here amongst the hordes, okay? They knew this. They knew the danger they were putting American citizens in. OK, and they didn’t care. Just come in. Go ahead. Wave them in. And they knew a percentage of those being waved in were going to be this bad. And once again, people say, well, yeah, but it’s a small percentage. Hey, that’s the problem. OK, the reason you can’t find a needle in a haystack is not the needle. It’s the haystack. OK, so Joe Biden allowed the haystack to come in and they sent the needles.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. And whatever happened to the old Democrat, we need to do this if it only saved one life. Yeah. If it only saved one life. We need to pass this. You pick it. Gun control law, vehicle law. If it would only save one life, it would be worth it. Well, whatever happened to that logic when you, by the way, Trendier Wagra is a Venezuelan gang. Right. MS-13 El Salvador gang. So, you know, we’ve got these people coming. And by the way, Venezuela, we were actually flying them in at taxpayer’s expense. You know that, right? The Biden administration was flying them in at taxpayer’s expense. Unbelievable.
SPEAKER 12 :
You’re flying these dangerous people in at taxpayer expense so they can prey upon us.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. And we were giving them, what was it called, parole? They would fly them in and they would give them parole. And by the way, the New York City, of course, was housing, I think, 40,000 Illegal immigrants. And there’s the videos of them ganging up on cops and beating New York City cops in Times Square. Yeah. They were getting $350 a week in EBT cards to buy food and clothes with. Incredible. They were being sheltered.
SPEAKER 12 :
Now, has Trump successfully stopped those cards?
SPEAKER 07 :
Yeah. Well, he told New York City, you’re on your own. Because New York City was asking for $5 billion in federal aid, which FEMA was giving them under Biden. And Trump said, no more. If you want to keep feeding 40,000 illegal aliens, you figure out how to fund it, but we’re not going to do it anymore. And that’s why Eric Adams, by the way, has jumped ship. Eric Adams is no longer a Democrat. He’s re-registered as an independent because he’s running for re-election this fall, by the way. And by the way, you know one of his, the leading opponent against Eric Adams? Who? The former governor disgraced Governor Andrew Cuomo.
SPEAKER 12 :
Oh, right, right, right. I forgot about that.
SPEAKER 07 :
He’s running for mayor of New York City, and he’s the leading… Now, there’s like six different Democrats contending because Adams knows he doesn’t stand a chance as a Democrat because the entire Democrat machine has turned against them for siding with Trump.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah, I don’t think he’s going to win as an independent either.
SPEAKER 07 :
No, I don’t think, but that’s how they turned on him. And by the way, speaking of turning on him, During Trump’s, I don’t know if it was the State of the Union, but when he addressed the country back in February, remember when he talked about renaming the park in Houston for the 12-year-old girl that was raped?
SPEAKER 10 :
Right.
SPEAKER 07 :
And he went through, not a single Democrat stood up or applauded. How can you not applaud the naming of a national park? in honor of a 12-year-old girl who was murdered. Well, why would they, Joe?
SPEAKER 12 :
We’re talking about a party that knew they were allowing all these countries to empty their prisons and send them in amongst the hordes that Biden was letting in. Why would they care now?
SPEAKER 07 :
And when that young cancer survivor, that young black kid, the cancer, and they announced that he was being made an honorary Secret Service agent, nobody stood up and applauded. How can you not applaud that? for the kid who’s a cancer survivor.
SPEAKER 12 :
No, I agree. Okay, let’s take one more break. We’ll be right back with Jersey Joe. Up next is Ridgeline Auto Brokers. Most dealerships, they want max profit for the big score because they think you’ll only buy one car there. But Ridgeline, they hope to sell you several cars. So they want you thrilled with the deal you get. For more value and less hard sell, find Ridgeline Auto at klzradio.com.
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It’s time to leave your safe space. This is Rush to Reason on KLZ 560.
SPEAKER 12 :
And welcome back to Rush to Reason. Denver’s Afternoon Rush, KLZ 560. Andy Pate filling in for John Rush. On the line, Jersey Joe. Joe, what do you got?
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, as long as we’re on immigration and the cost in human lives, let’s play another clip. And here’s another story I guarantee you did not hear on the network news. And this is Caroline Levitt again. describing about an illegal immigrant that was captured in Georgia and what he was charged with. And I guarantee you did not hear this story on the network news. Can we play that clip of Caroline?
SPEAKER 13 :
Alien, who was released by the Biden administration into our country, was just arrested in Georgia and charged with the horrific killing of Camelia Williams, a mother of five and grandmother. The suspect has now been indicted on charges of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, rape, aggravated sexual battery, and necrophilia, which for those who don’t know, necrophilia is a sexual obsession with a corpse. This sub suspect was ordered to be removed in July 2023, but the Biden administration allowed him to stay. This case represents the ruthless murderers, rapists and pedophiles who Joe Biden and Democrats let into our country over the past four years through our southern border. They should have never been here in the first place.
SPEAKER 12 :
Joe, you can really tell she was struggling a little bit with that one because it was too emotional.
SPEAKER 07 :
It was. Now, I can understand if the networks didn’t want to play her particular response to that issue. But my question is, why didn’t the networks feel that the underlying story itself was worthwhile reporting? Because I watch no less than three news programs a day. I watch two in the morning and one in the evening. I watch a national, a local, and then another national evening. Why didn’t I hear? And I actually, again, I researched. I Googled ABC, CBS, NBC. Not one of them reported the underlying story that she was coming in. Andy, why do you think they didn’t feel that story was worth covering?
SPEAKER 12 :
It’s bad for Democrats. I mean, it’s that simple. You know, they want Americans to think this is just such a small problem. It’s out of the way over there. It’s not a big deal. But when they hear that and they hear the human element and they hear the gut-wrenching details, it moves people.
SPEAKER 07 :
Mm-hmm. And it’s not good for Democrats. No. Obviously, while you and I, I asked you the question, I knew the answer to it. But, yes, they don’t cover those stories because it’s bad. So they’re in the tank, you know, with the exception of Fox. They’re in the tank for the Democratic Party. Right. And that’s why I call, again, my podcast, News in Perspective. You won’t hear it on TV because you won’t hear that side of issues. Well, sometimes you don’t hear the issue at all. but you certainly won’t hear the other side of the issue.
SPEAKER 12 :
No. And both of these clips you’ve done of her, I’ve not heard.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, then I rest my case. Right. And you’re, you’re, you’re a pretty well-informed guy.
SPEAKER 12 :
Yeah. I watch Fox news all the time. I’m very up to speed, but I had not heard either of those.
SPEAKER 07 :
Yep. And so, and again, if you haven’t heard, I guarantee you that 99% of the listeners to the show tonight, haven’t heard either one of night, because if you don’t listen to my podcasts, or if you don’t listen to this show, you’ll never hear stuff like that.
SPEAKER 12 :
Okay, you got about two and a half minutes left. Go.
SPEAKER 07 :
Let’s talk about Spain, the power outage in Spain. Yes, this is massive. Massive, Spain and Portugal. The blip in their power grid was so significant that it actually caused an automatic, Europe has an interconnected grid, just like the United States I think we have five big interconnected regions. So in other words, like New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania. Do they know what caused it? Well, not yet. They’re saying now there was some sort of oscillation within the grid. But just a week ago, they were bragging about, well, today we had 100% of our power met by renewables. And Germany’s made a claim like that in France, and here’s how they do it. They pick a weekend day, a mild weekend day in the spring when there’s no demand for heating, there’s no demand for air conditioning, all the office buildings and all the manufacturing facilities shut down, and it’s a bright, sunny day with a nice breeze. Well, yes, you managed to handle that very light load, which was way less than 30% of your peak, and it was like a perfect storm. You had a breezy day. The sun was shining. Demand was at a yearly low. And on that particular day, for a couple of hours, you were able to meet it with your renewables. But never in the history of those countries have renewables ever come close. No. Never come close.
SPEAKER 12 :
They don’t come close and look at the expense. Their electricity costs three times ours.
SPEAKER 07 :
Right. By the way, Colorado, I think, has seen this ridiculous increase. I think they’re up to 14 cents a kilo. But nationwide… We average around 12 cents a kilowatt hour in the United States. In Europe, they’re now over 38 cents a kilowatt hour. 38 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity.
SPEAKER 12 :
What does that do to a family? It just crushes them.
SPEAKER 07 :
Well, there’s something now called fuel poverty in places like England where people have to decide between heating their homes and eating because they can’t afford to do both. And because they can’t heat their homes, they get sick. Um, so it’s called fuel poverty.
SPEAKER 12 :
Um, and the only reason that Americans even vote for this green new deal stuff is because they have, they don’t think that this could ever come here. That’ll never come here. We’ll never deal with that.
SPEAKER 07 :
By the way, our, by the way, one nice thing about, uh, you know, uh, nuclear is, you know, you know, we’ve already exploited a hundred percent of the hydro, all the dams and all the rivers worth damming had been dammed. Um, So the only real thing we have are nuclear and gas turbines. To handle the growth, that’s what we need. That’s why I think Microsoft wants to revive Three Mile Island.
SPEAKER 12 :
Well, Donald Trump is going to expand on all the good energies and make it cheaper for everybody. I love it. That’s why I give him an A for his first 100 days. Jersey Joe, thank you so much.
SPEAKER 07 :
My pleasure, Andy. I’ll talk to you next week, maybe. You take it.
SPEAKER 12 :
You take it easy. Okay, folks, that’s it for today. Hour One replays next. And John will be back, I believe, on Friday with me. So we’ll see you then. Until then, drive safe. God bless. And thanks for joining us at Rush to Reason, KLZ 560.
