110624 Steve Laffey

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Have you one of the postmortems. I wonder what happened
is the choice of Tim Wall So what things have
been differently with Josh Shapiro. That'll be a book that
will be written. However, when you win Wisconsin, you didn't
need Pennsylvania, So I don't know. Well, we'll find out.
There a lot of a lot of a lot of
moving parts. Walking with the show, Jimmy Lakey News Talk

(00:22):
six hundred K col Let me bring into the conversation
mister Steve Laffey. He predicted a Trump Trump victory and
he proves himself as I proved myself to be right. Steve, Laughy,
good morning. How are you, sir?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Jimmy, I'm great. I have to laugh because this Iowa
poll over the weekend helped people make a lot of money.
And the last poll in Iowa, and I saw last
night when I was watching TV people referring to it
in gulping on Fox News, whoever did this Iowa poll
saying that Trump was going to lose Iowa a wide

(01:00):
margin as seniors flipped. Dude, I mean these poles, as
we've talked about for years, years, you and I have
talked about it. Anybody reading them is a numbskull, But
you just have to be caustic, and you have to
be able to remove yourself from what you want in
many cases to see what's actually happening. And most people
on TV last night, it is so god awful excuse

(01:21):
my language, to watch this stuff last night. I did
it all last night, Jimmy. It's unbelievable to watch. If
I hear the word interesting one more time, I'm going
to throw up.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
What network were you watching? I was flipping between about
four of them last night, and it is amazing that
these poles get covered so much, even on talk radio,
and yet you keep hearing the races. They have internal
polling that they pay attention to, and I'm like, well,
why don't these pole companies just do the same thing,
the internal polls, and that way we get in accurate.

(01:55):
Because evidently Kamala's internal polls showed I should go to
bed because this is not going to be pretty, and
Donald J. Trump's internal polls show this is going to
be great. I'm going to stay up late. Why doesn't
everybody just do the internal pole thing and forget all
this other crap.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Because nobody wants to stick their neck out, not for America,
not the people running for president, not the vice president candidates,
not the people on TV. Nobody will stick their neck
out and tell people the truth. In other words, this
is everywhere. So I sent you of an article yesterday.
It was like four pm. And on comes Karl Rove,
the man who defeated me for the United States. Semmis

(02:33):
on the cover of my book from Penguin Books, right,
and who spent all this money to try to elect
Lincoln Champions, who was never going to win a Senate race.
The man who cried when Romney was loosely just right,
the man who cried on TV. His bulbous head is
staring at you ever since. And these people never get replaced.

(02:53):
And at about five pm Eastern time, he said it
was going to be the closest election of all time.
You know why. He says that he doesn't want to
go out in a limb like I did over a
month ago on your show. Right, by the way, I
was on Australian TV last night twice they called me
back because early in the evening I'm like, everybody can
go to bed. The race is over. As I said

(03:16):
a month ago, right, two months ago in your show.
The race is over. The people all know it, and
that these younger people all over the world doing this
broadcast are like staring at like even now they have
other people that I'm saying, it proves to be interesting, right,
I mean mister Hemmel who's on Fox News running around
who I did my first national TV show with about

(03:37):
crossing guards, believe it or not. Right, great guy, totally
great guy. But he has to keep saying this, Lord,
this is interesting. This is interesting, So it's not interesting,
like you know what's going on. By the time I
turned on the TV, I knew what was going on.
I knew it a month ago. Remember, I said, when
Liz Cheney is campaigning door to door with you and
you're a far left either farthest left of any US senator,

(03:59):
even Ernie Sanders, you're losing and you know you're losing
and you're trying to protect yourself, but no one will
say that I said it on your show. This is
why it's so boring. But the answer, like what did
I watch? The greatest interview last night was turning over
to watch Sam Donaldson.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Oh I saw that, Oh my god, I thought he
was dead. He looked dead. On the television. I mean,
they should at least trimmed his eyebrows before he got
on television. It was a rough one, but.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
What he said was true. He used to trust Walter
Krcuk used to basically, I'm parafid. You used to trust me.
These people anybody says anything anywhere, and they do. And
the people that were the background. This is not to
make fun of Sean Hennity or a Joe. These people
just carry the water. They don't have any any background
and knowing like or any vested interest in telling you,

(04:49):
the listener, the truth. Now, what does it get me
to be right about every election? Sense? Whatever? Right? Early
on I told people on this station in twenty fifteen
when Trump announced that he would win fifteen, and I
told them why, and I said, it's all about China.
And there's a man lying in bed in Pennsylvania, in Ohio,
in Michigan, whatever. And he's lost his job making eighty

(05:11):
grand with overtime, his kid's doing set and all whatever
I said back then, and he's looking at making sixty.
He has no idea how to feed his family. He's
voting for Trump because the first got to say China,
And I said on April sixth on your show twenty
that Trump would lose, and I said, and the thing was, why, Like,
you can't close down the economy. Plus there's a man
lying in bed who still didn't get his job back

(05:31):
because Trump didn't do anything about China with his trade nonsense. Right,
he didn't do anything. But now those people had to
come back. They had to come back because they're not
gonna put up with a man swimming with their daughter
in a swimming pool. Right. So, as we talked about
a couple of months ago, nobody in the in the
campaign of Harris was willing to understand what the truly

(05:56):
undecided voter wanted. They either wanted Jimmy Lakey and Steve
Last He's standing on a street corner for them, or
a highway saying I'll fix the roads. Vote for me
those six percent and be like, oh okay. Or they
wanted someone competent to be vice president, like an astronaut.
We've talked about this, or they wanted their job back, right,
or they simply didn't want to build electric vehicles. Now,

(06:19):
this whole thing in Michigan, which I said he would
win and no one believed me again, was like Michigan's
a lot like Rhode Island, where I'm from. In Rhode Island,
it's really hard to beat the status could because everybody,
like Uncle Henry works for the state. He'll get fired
if Laffy wins, right, Oh my gosh, like because everybody's
associated with the state government. That's what they do in
Rhode Island. Now in Michigan, it's about auto stuff. And

(06:41):
so two days ago Forward shut down the production of
electric vehicle trucks. These people are going to lay off
people because they've lost billions. And those people are like,
it's like my uncle Joe, he's still in that production line.
I got to vote for Trump because this person, Biden Harris.
They're shutting down everything to do with my ball bearing

(07:03):
factory that's associated or whatever's going on associated with cars,
and they change their vote on the margin. It's not
that hard, but it happens. And I guess nobody else
sees this stuff until after it's over where it's not interesting.
It's like then you get that work, like if you're
watching TV lesson, you get that worry thing going on
at CNN. It's not impossible, but it seems improbable. A

(07:24):
bunch of numb nuts. Right, So these people like they
literally hate the audience, and the audience sits there and
takes it from them. Every night because it's not interesting,
you bring back a bunch of retreads. I mean, Chris
Cromo does a great job. I watched him when I could,
and he had another Democratic guest, an older man. If
you watch this guy he was at I guess he

(07:45):
ran Clinton's second election. He's like these Democrats blah blah
blah these days. He didn't say, you know, words that
you couldn't say about what they're really supporting. But he says,
that's not a democratic union thing. That's not what we did.
That coalitions go on, and that's what happened on the margin.
But last night it's so hard to watch. I had
a bunch of kids home, so we did watch it,

(08:06):
but it's hard to watch and watch people say the
word interesting over and over again.

Speaker 1 (08:10):
It was hard to watch because there's so much of
just kind of as you're talking about, the lack of
wanting to naval gaze is what I call it, and
do some true reflection. I mean the fact that Kamala
Harris's first decision as a candidate was to choose Tim Walls,
who might be the dumbest guy to ever have been
a vice presidential nominee ever. I mean, he was a

(08:32):
horrible pick, but the media still won't say why did
she pick him rather than Joshapiro. It's because of her
party has become an anti submitting party and they couldn't
have the Jewish guy just say it, admit it, but
we can't say it, and said we have to say
that Tim Walls is some brilliant guy, like he's some
intellectual giant. But the guy's an idiot. I mean, the

(08:54):
horrible decision by Kamala. She would have fared much better
with a different.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
Pick, except for Eagleton in seventy two or whatever who
had electric shock treatment. Waltz was the worst vice presidential
pick of all time. But it goes back even a
month earlier than that, when I said on your show
that if they want to win, they need had this
convention of blood letting, yelling, screaming among seven, eight, twelve,

(09:19):
can it whatever it is? And then go with yeah,
the astronaut you know, or someone that's competent and that
way that not associated and the second thing that never happened,
that I said had to happen. Tamila Halet Harris had
to go to Joe Biden, even if he did understand
in front of Joe Biden, who would understand and say,
for the next four months, I am throwing you under
the bus on these four issues, like I'm just gonna say,

(09:43):
you set me down to the border to fail, you
suck and it didn't work. And here's what I'm gonna
do about the border because I couldn't throw you under
the bus until I was a candidate. That's number one,
number two, and just make up three four issues and
then throw them under the bus because here her're saying,
I don't know any different three me and Joe Biden
means they're trying to elect someone with a thirty eight

(10:03):
percent approval rating, which doesn't happen in America, right, So
they didn't even do the basics. That would be the basics.
If anybody listen, if you're running for office and that
happens to you, you have to go to the guy
stilling open and say I love you, but I'm throwing
you under the bus on these four issues, and that's
the only way I can win. And they refuse to
do this stuff. So they wanted to lose. Remember we
talked about they're all campaign to lose in a way,

(10:25):
but Harris is campaign to lose it in the worst way.
They were campaigning to lose. Liz Cheney, you gotta be Kidney,
Tim Waltz making We're going to end the war for
the Muslims. Guts who took Dearborne, Michigan, Trump where the
Muslims live.

Speaker 1 (10:37):
Yeah, it's just fascinating, going to get it. It just
takes some honest reflection to kind of look at it,
and we take you and I take honest reflection at
the Orange guy and Trump and his administration. I mean,
in the grand scheme of things, Donald Trump's gonna have
two years. He's gonna really have one year. It looks
like he's going to a house in the Senate. Get
one year done, then everybody's gonna start gearing here for

(10:58):
the midterm, and then he's a duck after that because
everybody's running for the presidency. So anybody out there thinking
that Donald Trump's gonna come with some big magic wand
and change America forever, it's he's got eight twelve months
here and we'll see how it goes. But after that
we're onto another cycle. Just be realistic about the expectations.

(11:20):
Set your expectations. Unfortunately, people just don't do that. They say, oh,
I drink the red kol aid, I drink the blue
kool aid, and they're my messiah. And there's not a
lot of reality checking in politics. And the reality check
is that Kamala Harris when she said she would change
nothing about Donald about Joe Biden, and then she's campaigning

(11:40):
on the slogan I'm a new way forward and not
on a new way forward. This is a new generation
of leadership. I'm like, neither one of those are true,
and yet nobody wanted to check around that and say,
how are you a new way forward and a new
generation when you won't change anything about the old way
forward and the older Nobody checked her on that because

(12:02):
it was a great slogan and they drink blue kool.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Aid, and Jimmy just think about like in twenty twenty eight,
I just make some predictions there, right, no one will
ever talk about Hispanic voters again. And do we talk
about Irish voters? Do we talk about Italian voters? Of
course not the Hispanic people are now Americans, Like let
it alone. The Venezuelans who came in twenty years ago

(12:24):
don't want people get coming through the border illegally who
are criminals. They don't want it either, right, But the
Democrats didn't see this at all, and so also anybody
thinks it's a panacea. Now, interest rates are still going higher,
inflation is still coming back, and if and when Elon
Musk gets in charge of cutting out billions and trillions
out of the budget, we'll have a large recession. Now

(12:46):
if they're willing to do that, and Trump is never
willing to do that, he could have a successful second
two years of his presidency. But if he doesn't do that,
no matter who's president, interest rates are rising. When the
Fed cut rates, Trump thinks he can have a shadowhead
of the Fed. Right, then then the dollar will that

(13:06):
is very strong today because people are covering positions, the
dollar will get very weak, and inflation will be rising
above three or four percent. So he won't cure the problem.
But the one thing that I really hope happens that
the Democrats have never gotten hold of. I hope in
January that Clarence Thomas actually announces he's going to resign.
You know, he's going to retire, and they put in

(13:27):
a thirty five year old arch conservative, pro life guy.
And then a month later, sam Alito says, I'm retiring too,
thanks so much. And then you have the total control
of the Supreme Court with nine people because the Democrats
never do this right. But I think you'll see this
actually happen next year with those two people retired, because
we'll have fifty two fifty three votes and we won't

(13:47):
need that silly senator at a Maine to you know,
placate her. We won't need that one goofy vote from
that lady in Maine who seems to want to be
a Democratic vote on the the for the next year
a Supreme Court justice anyway. But that's that's something that
should happen. Those are good things to protect, you know,
rights and so forth. And just see a stock contrast
in the Supreme Court that actually happens to put some

(14:07):
younger people on to protect it for I don't know,
twenty thirty years more. I hope it's the last bashing
of hope in a sense.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
Yeah, Steve Laughy, my guest, and those that don't remember
Steve laugh he er, don't listen every week, Steve laugh
he did not vote for Donald J. Trump. He left
the Republican Party after running for president. So his analysis
is not like Trump's his boy, because Trump's not his guy.
But he does have the ability to look beyond the

(14:34):
red kool aid and the blue kool aid, which very
few people have You sent me as a headline here
that says Trump. Campaign spokesperson says Trump has not received
a call from Harris or Biden. I don't know if
I can place odds on this in Vegas? Will he
get the call from somebody? Was he going to get
a call? I don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:52):
Well, it's so funny because when I won my first mayorship,
the guy wouldn't call me. You know, the richest man
in the city, Aaron Garabedien. So we actually had someone
call him and put me on the phone, and he
said something like, you have blah blah blah. You know
I won by fifty through percent of the voter race.
I wasn't supposed to win. I said, yes, he goes,
good luck, and he hung up. That was the call.
But Kamara, Harris should call. But these people are ungracious, right,

(15:16):
But the only problem for The New York Times in
the Washington Post is at the Senate. Now, there'd be
no more impeachments, right, So, I mean someone may propose it,
it's just not going through. But yeah, these people will
be extraordinary sore losers, and you'll see the headlines all
over these people that they can't believe what happened. If
they have any common sense in the Democratic Party, there'll
be a meeting to say, listen, this train, this five

(15:37):
issues we're just doing away with. We's sorry. If you're
a man wearing a dress, we don't want you. We
don't want you around. You know, if you think your
kids should be swimming in a pool boys with girls
and dominating sports, we're never doing that again. I don't
think they're going to do that. And they may be
subjecting themselves to a minority party because if indeed Trump

(15:57):
gets someone like me like me, it won't be me.
They hate me, but to be the budget director and
you start seeing massive cuts and federal workers and just
this big war over it like I had in a
minor way in Cramston. I just I did that.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
Right.

Speaker 2 (16:12):
Then you'll see physical conservatives say, okay, I can do
that again. I can put up with the nonsense. But
I can do that. And the other thing about Trump
is that you really don't know what he's going to do.
I doubt and I'm just going to say this, folks,
he never get out of Afghanistan. I doubt he's going
to throw Ukraine under the bus. There'll be something that'll happen,
something that will go on that this thing will be ending,

(16:35):
but it won't be throwing Ukraine under the bus. That's
not his style. His style is to be a great
marketing guy and then figure out how to get some
things done, like the Abraham accurts, which he did in
foreign policy. So credit where it's due. But this budget
blowout that's going to continue. The other thing, Jimmy, does
anybody think that in the state of a Unions Union
address he's going to have a speech where he doesn't

(16:57):
tax tips?

Speaker 1 (16:58):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:58):
No, well close to like that's that's forgotten by Trump already.
So the promises he made to waitresses is sort of
out the window. They won't be like a special lord
that we don't tax tip.

Speaker 1 (17:09):
Well, Steve Laffey, it's a pleasure, my friend. I've got
a couple of messages and said, uh, they called me
ambassador I don't know. I'm just throwing that out there,
my friends. Ambassador Laky, that's yeah. A couple of people
have said that. Everybody stands I'm taking Rwanda. That's the
one I've been wanting for a while. I'll be back

(17:30):
to Laky six hundred k co O l stand by, Ambassador.
That's got a great sound to me, isn't it really