073024 Steve Laffey

Episode Transcript

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Videntally, the sheep out there don'thave cell phone towers on their back West
Eve, do I have you?Now? It's so great out here and
western Western Ireland. Clifton is thearea we're in. Leaving an abbey and
got a back rope. I hadfive stars, so I waited and pulled
over and we called. But anyway, it's it's an amazing, amazing,
beautiful place. You have to comehere. It's the prettiest place in the

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world. It's where I'm from.And actually when I ran for president,
the man who wrote about me inthe Irish Times or whatever newspapers, he's
a genealogist. He actually found whereI'm from. And I'm having breakfast with
him tomorrow before we come back toBoston. Wow, so you're you're you're
tracing the laffy roots there? Yeah? How many? Yeah? So interesting?

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Are you getting your hero's welcome?I mean, the sun gone away
and now you ran for president onetime? Are they welcoming you with any
kind of a parade or anything?Is he at least going to buy the
breakfast? It's not as bad asJohn Wayne's initial reception when he showed up
here. We were actually stating nextto We were in kind where they made
the movie right with Borin O'Hara.But no, people very doesn't. There

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are some laughies. I showed himthe article. They like embrace me and
they're like I'm like, I'm I'mfrom right there, and they're like,
great, this is great. Watchyou buy a property of me. I
said, maybe I will. Itlooks it looks beautiful. I've never been
to Ireland. That was telling whatwe were trying to reconnect with you.
I have a what I travel.I'm always en route to Africa, and

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I don't spend enough time tooling aroundEurope. And I need to change that.
Yeah, because life is too shortto uh to not see this good
stuff beautiful. All right, let'sdive into some news of the day.
Steve Laffie Steve Laffey in from Irelandthis morning. He'll be back in America
one day. Maybe he may.He may be an expad the rest of
his life. He's gonna uh KinGriffin, talk to me about Ken Griffin.

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He is spending millions of dollars.He's a hedge fund billionaire, and
I guess he has chosen a candidatein the presidential race. It's an interesting
story you send me. Well,it just gets to what's really happened in
America. And it's why I mademy movie Fixing America. And it's gotten
worse. There are millions and millionsof disaffected Americans because they have fifty bucks

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or five hundred bucks to try tochange an election or help some candidate.
And they read that Ken Griffin's goingto put two hundred and forty eight million
into a race and he's not supportingDrump yet he's gonna put into like be
a conservative, whatever the hecks forhim. And then you've got the Tesla
guy, right, he's gonna putin forty eight dollars a month to help

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Trump. And so people may lookat this and people need to get angry
and say, what the hell isgoing on? We don't need elections controlled
by multi multi billionaires. We needeverybody to put in a grand at the
most or five grand so that theguy with fifty bucks feels like he can
make a difference. This is whypeople don't vote. And yet this is

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not a campaign topic. So forexample, when you see that in blue,
you don't see what I'm saying.Why because they advertise these people are
all advertised, they advertise Tesla carson TV. The billionaires win and the
regular folk keep losing. The regularvote never get what they want. It
does the regular folk want. Theywant no irs or flat tax. That's

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what people want. Not every singleperson, but seventy percent of the people
want something like that. We don'tget it. And the reason we don't
get it is that when you seethe Bloomberg gotticle or the Wall Street joinal
article about the multi billionaires and theleft and the right putting in the dough,
it never says, what the hell'sgoing on? Why is it okay
for you to do this? Whyare you controlling elections when the average person

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can't participate and then doesn't vote.That's what has to change. Gimmy,
And I know my conservative friends wantto go back to some Supreme Court case,
but I think they're wrong and itmakes me angry because I know when
I drive around America, not Ireland. I can tell you about Ireland,
but when I drive around a manErica, people are disaffected, and that's

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one of the major reasons. It'sit's terrible. Uh. The words is
Steve Laffey checking in from Ireland talkingabout the election election dollars. It is
fascinating. I hear a lot offolks have been talking about that money that
Elon Musk is going to put intoopposedly the Trump campaign, And now you
have this Robert Griffin story. That'swhere we have become though big money and

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you know, you hear this thing. Yes, well, federal campaigns are
limited and how much you can give. But yeah, but everybody has a
pack affiliated with the campaign. Thenyou have packs and are not affiliated with
the campaign, and those caps goway up. So anybody who says that
you're limited to a thousand or twothousand bucks and not really, you just
got to find the right pack togive your money to. And of course
they are affiliated someone at that pack. That's the four C three that doesn't

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that's unlimited donors and nobody knows theirnames, unlimited amount of money. Do
you think some of the pack doesn'tcall somebody who calls somebody and says,
here's what we're doing next week,and then that person ends up in the
right city at the right time forsome ads the play. Of course they
do. Oh, of course theydo. You would do it, I
would do We don't anybody everybody doesit. But they have two or three

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party distance relationships so no one getsin trouble. But the point is the
average person is totally disaffected and nowbecause of the left wing TV and whatever,
now they're divided. And one ofthe things people in Ireland have really
noticed coming back from America, thepeople I've talked to have been the business.
I just was the broke who cameback. He said, people over
there are so divided, like whatdo they care if they just can't they

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eat dinner together. And I've actuallyseen this happen with my relative. So
we're divided a lot when we shouldn'thave to really care that much. And
this is getting worse and worse inAmerica. And the people over here,
well, especially in the UK andIreland have noticed it. Not so much
in Austria and Liechtenstein they didn't reallynotice that that much, but that the
UK people. I spent four daysthere in London, and by the way,

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I'll never go to London again,so you can skip London, Jimmy
and just come to Ireland. I'llnever go. There were three hundred thousand
people around the corner where I waseating lunch, supporting Hamas, hating Jewish
people, three hundred thousand anti Semitesin London having a parade. Wow,

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that's not a good look for thecity. Steve Laffey's my guest. Sorry,
I had to have the cough buttonthere, Steve, what is people
are watching? You've been over therewhile there's been a transition of the Democrat
Party Kamala Harris takes over for JoeBiden as the candidate. Well, what's
the international perception that you're getting onthe streets? Do they obviously you were

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there doing him right around at anattempted assassination on a former president. What's
your perception of what's happening in Americaright now? Well, many people here
in the street, especially the UK, not so much in Ireland that I've
talked to, they really thought itwas a good move for Joe Biden to
get out. And most everybody Imeet really doesn't like Donald Trump. Just
it's very different than like, youknow, I ran against them. I

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like, you know, I sayTrump did a great job on you know,
Supreme Court justice right, and Isay that, you know, bad
things on this But they're just peoplehere literally hate them. Just I haven't
met I haven't met that you knowwhen I say I ran against Donald Trump,
I think I could run for officein Ireland, you know, I
mean, it doesn't matter what partyyou ran against. Donald Trompo. I
want you to run for office here. We love you me. They wouldn't

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love what I have to stand forbecause the most of them are pretty liberal
now right, and nobody here seemsto go to church, although I will
tell you in the western side we'vemet a lot of Christian Jimmy at the
restaurants and the people staying blessings.I mean, they really been really been
incredible in the western part, sothis has been really wonderful. I saw
also that you got you got ahaircut while you were in London, so

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you avoided the protesting. Got ahaircut. I saw that post I was
out in Cambridge, and you know, we didn't stay in London every day
because it's a madhouse. We stayedin central London, a nice apartment.
Great guy. But we went toOxford. Stephen Junior's with me. He
may go to graduate school there.Went to Cambridge, but they went to
Canterbury. And I got a haircutin Cambridge. Right around the corner.

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There's a guy outside. My wifelooks and says that guy wants you to
cut in here. I walked in. He's born again evangelical Christian. When
he was nineteen, he used tocause all kinds of problems. Gave me
a wonderful rather short haircut, andwe had a great time together. And
now we're buddies on Facebook. Soit's really wonderful to meet people like this.

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I just came out of a restaurantin Clifton where two Christian guys aroyed
the restaurant and we're praying and they'reloving it. So there is hope in
these godless places that they'll be ayou know, God will bring people back
someday. Yeah. Steve Laffey's checkingin from Europe. He's been on a
European tour. Steve International News.Venezuela had elections and we've heard that the

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military the police came in and shutdown their elections a little bit early because
the polling showed the Maduro was gettinghis hind end kicked. And I think
there's been rioting on the streets andmaybe some rebellion against that dictatorial government.
Give me your thoughts on that.I know you sent me a headline about
the Venezuela election. Yeah, here'sall the headlines, folks. So we

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know for a fact that venezuel andchiefs lies and between Yugoshevez and Maduro have
taken a country that has the mostoil in the world to total bankruptcy,
where twenty five percent of the peoplehave been forced either into prostitution or left
the country. I'm talking about peoplewho are doctors. They destroyed a country
that should be our ally And sothe headline in the Bloomberg goes like this,

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that is whereas oppositions here that hasenough crew for the election through it.
That's not the headline. We knowthat, we know that. How
about a headline like Maduro steals election, President Laffey intervenes. That's what it
would be. Maduro given twenty fourhours to leave country so we could reinstall
democracy in Venezuela. That should bethe headline. Maduro kills opposition and stays

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in power. These are some headlinesthat would be relevant, right, But
no, it's like, oh,the opposition thinks they have enough evidence.
Of course, they have no onevotes for Maduro without a gun to their
heads, right, yeah, Ithink come on, yeah, they have
the liver Press. That's the CrazyRiver Press. Yeah, it's south there,

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Steve Laffey, you're combating back toAmerica very soon. I had to
Boston to see my daughter, SarahGrace Laffey. My son Peter, my
thirty four y old, is inBoston, so Steven Junior and I will
have three kids together for a coupleof days. Saturday morning, I'll get
on I guess the new Southwest wherethey're going to give me a seat.
I guess. I hope they don'tdo that, but I'll be on Southwest.
I'll be back Saturday. I irrigatedthe property again and maybe cut the

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lawn. You've got a Steve Laffeytravels safe, my friend, and don't
know the assigned seating on Southwest doesn'tbegin until the first of the year.
So you're gonna get to board thatlike a you're gonna get You're gonna get
to board like a cow and acattle call there. So Steve laffe appreciate
you, my friend. Drive safeand a travel safe there in Western Ireland.
He'll be back in the United Stateschecking in next week. All right,

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