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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Dragon guest host and Gooper's Welcome to day
one of four days of vacation from Michael Danger Brown.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Vacation vacation rehab is now vacation. Is that what we're
calling on? Yes, let's go with bab. I think that's
just what HR has to call it now. I do
the I do the recovery joke all the time. We
got to come up with a better, better thing so
(00:32):
that when Michael comes back people ask him, were you
really getting estrogen treatments? We can come up with something. Hey,
I'm John Caldera. Six minutes after give me a call
three oh three seven one three eight two five five.
You know the text line as well, fair bit of warning.
(00:54):
So I think I told you. I've told you many
times about my son who has Down syndrome. Who's Who's
the reincarnation of John Belushi? He is? He's a fraternity
brother I have never had. I want to get him.
I want to get him a sweatshirt that just says college.
(01:14):
I haven't found one in his size, but it'd be great.
Now he's he's technically an adult. Puts then again, so
am I? Yep, he's mentally six years old or so,
and he's just a he's just he's he's a bud,
worst roommate I've ever had, but still my best friend.
(01:34):
And and we got him a phone oh year or
two ago, and I programmed like four numbers into it
so that he can call He can call me, he
can call his mom, he can call his grandma, he
call his sister, and for some reason, as of late,
(01:57):
he he has to call me all the time. Now,
Mom and I live in different places where best friends.
We get along really well. But but when he's with Mom,
he calls me incessantly. I am talking at three o'clock
(02:19):
in the morning, when he wakes up to go to
the bathroom, at five o'clock in the morning, at seven
o'clock in the morning, at seven oh two in the morning,
go seven oh five, and he facetimes me. Which is
it's so wonderful. It's great to be for for those
parents whose kids never call. Yeah, I don't have that problem.
(02:42):
But he won't stop. Now, what's what's nice is I
can tell him, you gotta stop calling and go stop
calling okay John, because now I'm John, Oh okay John.
Then he'll call. Yeah, it's I'm not too certain of
(03:04):
what to do about this. Uh, it's and it's not
like I can shoe him off the phone quickly, because
whenever I go, I can't talk on the phone. Dude,
He's like, oh, okay, wait wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait wait wait wait wait, there's never one wait
it's wait wait wait wait wait wait? So not call? Yeah,
(03:25):
not call? Okay, not call, I gotta go bye no
no wait wait wait wait wait wait sorry for calling.
It's okay, it's okay okay wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait? So not call? Oh my god, get off
the phone. And which point he just laughs and laughs
and laughs, and it only encourages up to call again.
(03:48):
All of this to say, uh, if if if I
go dark for five seconds, it's because I'm trying to
shoe him off the phone. Last time, I was at
a at a dinner and he wasn't there, but he
kept calling, so I had to turn off my phone.
I actually, you know how.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Heartbreaking it is, and turn off your phone so to
your kid, get contact you. When I turned on the
phone again, I saw he called fourteen times. So this
is and it's not it's not like I got a
call because I'm locked out of the house.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, no, no, no, he's just calling to mess with me.
Oh to be that obnoxious. He could be a talk
show host. I mean, it's just it's just incredible. So
I don't know what to do. Mind you. He calls
me from the other room when we're together, so and
(04:50):
he thinks it's a riot. Now I could be cruel
and take away his phone, but you know, man, it's
twenty one years old and it makes him feel like
an adult. So I've I've just turned to beatings. So
I have a big stick and I just keep whacking him.
(05:14):
No I don't, I don't do that. Please don't call
Social Services again anyway. The number here three O three
seven one three eight two five five. You have been warned.
Where should we jump in. Let's jump into Chicago first?
Shall we Chicago? That Totland town. I love how people
(05:38):
react to Trump because whenever he says something, they go batty.
They cannot help themselves, they just go crazy, and so
(05:59):
they they have to react. So there's these wonderful protests
against Trump bringing troops into Chicago. Is he bringing troops
into Chicago? Not that we know of. He just says something,
bringing the National Guard into d C is different than
(06:23):
bringing him bringing them into some other place. Why because
d C is under his control. DC is its own
little world. It was created through the Constitution, and it's
where the center of government is and it's his job
(06:46):
to look after it. Yeah, there's a city council and
this and then a blankety blankety blank. But it's not
like Denver. It is a federal protective it is it
is a place that only the federal government is responsible
for ultimately, so it's different than having the the National
(07:10):
Guard descend upon Denver. Likewise, Trump has the responsibility to
protect federal buildings, federal parks, federal lands. That's that's his
(07:31):
job because he's the head of the federal government. That's
his gig. That's his job. So when he does that,
he's doing what he's supposed to be doing. Does he
overplay it, Yes, of course he overplays it. Can he
(07:51):
send troops into La to keep an eye on federal courtrooms? Yes,
and he has to. That's his job. I supposed he
doesn't have to, but he has to protect them. Was
a Truman who had the thing on his desk the
(08:11):
buck stops here. Well, when it comes to protecting federal
employees and federal property and federal services. Yeah, he's got
the right to do it, but he does not have
the right to put troops in your town to do
law enforcement. Now he has the right to do it
(08:34):
for federal laws. I'm going to go and arrest people
who commit federal crimes. And this is this is the
crazy part of it. Remember ever since oh, I don't know,
the seventies, politicians have been on this kick of federalizing
(08:56):
crimes and it feels really Goodie murder crimes, they federalized
female abuse crimes, they drug crimes, and they made them
federal crimes. Don't make a federal crime out of it. Yes,
there are local crimes, there are state crimes, and the
(09:21):
Feds can create their own laws that the FBI and
others have to enforce. That's why we have US attorneys
in the states who helped prosecute US law violations. Okay,
there you have it. So the left opens the door
(09:45):
for someone like Trump to abuse presidential power because now
he's got more of it. This is the lesson of Trump.
Hey left, and sadly many people on the right. Congress
keeps growing the size and scope of the federal government
(10:06):
when you do that, it means the executive branch held
by one person, the executive branch grows in power and
power and power. So, after one hundred years of creating
more and more federal government bureaucracies, more federal laws that
(10:29):
the FBI can enforce, what do we have? We have
this federal police state. And so to see people protesting,
I can't help but think, hey, idiots, you supported the
growth of the federal government, of turning everything into a
(10:51):
federal crime and having regulatory agencies up our rear ends
on every issue. Now this is what you get. Sooner
or later, are you gonna get somebody who really uses
that authority. Maybe it's time to take away some power
(11:13):
from the presidency so that whether it's Biden, Obama or Trump,
they can't do this. What do you think three or
three seven, one three eight, two five five seven one
three talk the The beauty of Trump also is that
he's more bluster than he is action. He really can't
(11:40):
put troops in Chicago to police shoplifting. I don't know
if shoplifting is a federal crime. And he must be
loving these protests. He must be loving it. Why chit
(12:01):
Congo's not going to vote for him. Illinois is not
going to vote for him. So all he has to
do is say, yeah, I'm thinking about sending troops there,
and thousands of people come out to protest.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I I can't believe he has that much power to
destroy people's labor day, that there are those people who
are who have trumped arrangement that gets so excised by
this that what are we gonna do.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
We're gonna go out to the streets and start yelling
yelling hey hey, ho ho, which by the way, is
the most clever chant ever. I don't know how how
how we never thought of it before? Hey hey, hey,
ho ho blankety blank has got to go. Oh, that's
that's It's like watching reruns of Gilligan's Islands. I've seen
(13:03):
this joke before. So all he has to do. All
he has to do is whisper this, have his press
secretary say something and they go crazy, and Pritzkirt can
bang his chest and say there's no crime here, there's
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no crime here. All that happens then is people go, well, yeah,
of course there's crazy crime here. Well, our crime has
gone down twenty eight percent. Really do you feel crime
in Denver has gone down. Do you the police have
(13:49):
to report what they do, but whoever makes the report
gets to play with the statistics. How many cops go, oh,
this is not an aggravated assault, This one's just an assault. Yeah,
we'll click, we'll check that box so that next quarter. Look,
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the crime's going down. Do you feel safe in Denver?
Technically the crime is down. I still don't feel safe
in Denver. See car theft is down, it's still ridiculously high.
(14:36):
Not only do people want to be safe, more importantly,
people want to feel safe, and they don't feel safe
in Chicago. They don't feel safe in DC. They do
not feel safe in Denver. Am I wrong on this?
I don't think so. Yeah, oh, just looking up looking
(15:07):
at some of these tweets coming back. At least one
of your psycho ex girlfriends keeps calling you John, at
least it's some psycho ex girlfriends. I keep calling you nice.
How soon will we see the pro Maduro signs? Someone texts, yeah, good,
(15:29):
good call, good call. I would also want to talk
real briefly if I can, about not just the protesters,
but the the ice immigration. Ice immigration is is scary,
(15:53):
It's it's wonderfully photogenic. To have guys all all wearing
their their full cop outfits, you know, the helmets, the masks,
the bulletproof vests, and they're running around getting the immigrants. Well,
(16:14):
it's having an impact. According to the AP, one point
two million migrants are gone from the labor force. Now
they haven't They haven't gotten rid of one point two
million people. We haven't exiled these people. We haven't kicked
(16:38):
them out of the country. A lot of this is
self deportation. That's why this show works. The show works
because it's staring illegals out of the country. I don't
know if that's a bad thing. Here's what they write.
(17:00):
More than one point two million immigrants disappeared from the
labor force from January through the end of July. So
you're telling me, in six months, one point two million
migrants left. Get this. Immigrants make up almost twenty percent
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of the US workforce, and that data shows forty five
percent of workers in farming, fishing, and forestry are immigrants.
This is according to the Pew Senior researcher hmm. About
thirty percent of all construction workers are immigrants, twenty four
(17:45):
percent service workers. She added, I question those numbers, but
let's go with them for the sake of argument. So
they're gone. What is that mean? It means prices go up.
It means we don't have enough workers. We'll figure that
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part out. But can anyone give the man some credit
and say that immigration is that the illegal immigration is
no longer a problem. He has stopped the flow of immigration.
That's incredible. I'll give him a couple points for this.
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Will you back after this?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I believe freedom, personal responsibility, and virtue. Therefore I cannot
be a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
You cannot have.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Group rights because there's no such thing as group responsibility. Again,
I could not be a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'm not asking you to. Hey, I'm John Caldera in
for the vacationing Michael Brown. Give me a call three
or three, seven to one, three eight two five, five
seven to one three talk. Will will Trump go into Chicago?
My guess is he will in some sort of way
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just to hack people off. It'll be how to do it.
He's going to protect some sort of federal courts there,
or he will go in and do more ice raids
there and people will freak out. Everybody panic. Hey, I
(19:46):
do admit I am uncomfortable with certain aspects of this,
I think we should be. The idea of the military
is to protect our border, that is, to go off
and fight wars. They're not police officers. It's a real
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different thing. We train our troops, as Limbo used to say,
to kill people and break things. That is a very
different mindset, very different mindset than policing. Policing is working
(20:28):
with the community to stop criminals. The idea of a
cop is not to kill people and not to break
things while enforcing the law. Really different things. The military
blows stuff up. The military might starve a city and
(20:53):
put it under siege. That's in order to win a war.
Out what a cop does, and when it gets blurred,
I do get concerned. Do you let me give you
a few things I don't like. I don't like ice
agents wearing masks. I think it's a bad call. I
(21:18):
think it's a dangerous call. Here's why that government needs
to be in the open. Government needs needs to be transparent.
When somebody, when somebody just puts on a mask, it
(21:41):
frees them from a lot of personal responsibility. There's a
reason why criminals wear masks, and it's why when you
go to rob a bank, you put on a mask,
so we don't know who you are. I don't want
our government employees where masks. Let's just take the slippery
(22:04):
slope for a minute. And I understand the slippery slope
doesn't always go down the way. It's scares to god,
that's terrible English. Here we go. If if police wear
masks because well, they fear retribution from bad guys or
(22:27):
angry constituents, then who else should wear masks? Should people
who work at the DMV wear masks, because let me
tell you, these are not popular. People should should meter readers,
the people who put the citations on illegally parked cars.
(22:52):
People don't like them. People could have retribution against them.
Away your car? Should they wear masks? Who should wear
the masks? So there was a graphic novel and then
a movie, and then I think a series called The Watchmen.
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This is really old. And the idea was that the
superheroes in the movie, slash, comic book whatever were cops
and they wore masks. And then before you know it,
those masks, which were there to protect their identity, started
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turning into a personality. So the cops would wear certain masks,
certain costumes to become well enforcers, superheroes to some vigilantes
to others. We should be concerned with our government starts
(24:02):
hiding itself from us. And when I see ICE agents
wearing masks, that's exactly what I think. Listen. I'm glad
you're there. I'm glad you're doing your job, but you
don't work in a vacuum. You work in a bigger picture.
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And I expect our government officials and our government workers
not to be masked law enforcement. Can I get an amen?
Or if I'm wrong on that, tell me why three
three seven one three eight two five five seven one
(24:45):
three talk? Why in the world should our police, our
federal agents be masked? Who else should be masked? This
can slip down a rather dystopian hole. I mean, lots
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of people you have interactions with, you don't want them
to know who you are. How do you identify that
this guy is really a cop? Who do you know
is under there? If you have a problem, how do
you identify them? This is this is where we all
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should be concerned. I think this is where we all
should be concerned. My second concern, I'm thrilled that Trump
is using using National Guard to help police DC. I
think it's a I think it's a fine thing, but
let's not be blind to some of the doors that
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it opens. I don't want the military policing Americas. This
has always been a hard line in America. With the
exception of the Civil War. We don't have military. We
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don't have the military deciding to police us. Now there's
martial law, and when martial law happens, it's a crisis.
It's not a good thing. There needs to be, in
my mind, a huge difference between soldiers who go off
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and kill people, blow stuff up, intimidate people, and police
police who are among us, police who are our friends,
our neighbors, our family, who work with us to stop crime.
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There's a big difference there. There's a simple test in this.
If Trump does these things and you're supporting of them,
will you be supportive when the next Joe Biden or
Obama uses the same powers to enforce the things he
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wants When the next president Kamala Harris uses police forces
to come in and make sure that you're not using
plastic straws, or you're not saying nasty words, or you're
not misgendering people, or you are not polluting the way
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in a way that is now illegal. You know this
stuff can happen. Let me give you a case in point.
The tariffs. Trump took a huge hit, a huge hit
recently from the courts. A seven to four majority in
(28:04):
one of the appellate courts in Court of Appeals held
that Trump does not have the authority to change tariff levels.
Willy nilly, I agree with this. I agree with the
courts on this. So Trump uses something called the nineteen
seventy seven International Emergency Economic Powers Act. He's uses to
(28:29):
slap imports from Mexico and Canada and China. And he
later he did it. What was the emergency He said
it was fentanyl. Later he declared the US trade deficit
an emergency to justify tariffs on on everybody else. Now,
(28:52):
this Act, International Emergency Economics Power Act gives the president
authority to regulate the importation of goods to protect national
security if there's an emergency, clump, train clump. Trump claims
it lets him impose tariffs as well. The judges said, no,
(29:14):
not so fast. This act doesn't even use the word
tariff or duties or any other similar terms like customs
or taxes or any of those things. Tariffs are a tax.
(29:34):
The Constitution gives Congress explicit control on taxation. Congress has
to pass laws on taxation, including tariffs. I agree with him,
Now work with me on this. You might love the tariffs,
(29:57):
you might think the tariffs are a great idea. But
what happens when Kamala becomes president or someone like her.
What happens when they say, you know what the real
emergency is. It's not the trade deficit. It's the climate.
It's the climate, and therefore we are going to put
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on massive tariffs on anything that consumes energy or anything
that we think adds to the climate problems, anything with plastic.
You can understand how how this opens the door for
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people who we do not like to do all sorts
of things, all sorts of things that we wouldn't want.
That's why the founders put in this check and balance system.
That's why the executive runs the government. But Congress makes
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the laws. If we're gonna let one guy make the laws,
if you support this, you're gonna have to support when
the next guy does tariffs because he wants to save
the world from carbon and you and I would go crazy,
(31:21):
all right? Three O three seven one three eight two
five five let me know how you feel about that,
or of course use the text line I'm John Caldera
in for the Big Man. Keep it right here, you're
on six thirty kW.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Robert Mueller was given a subpoena to testify before the
House of a Psyche committee regarding Jeffrey Epstein. His family
claims he cannot testify due to Parkinson's very interesting story.
Also that supposedly Bob Woodward knew that he had Parkinson
(31:55):
for years and did not report it in his books
or elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Hmm. Paul, a House committee investigating the Justice Department's handling
of the Epstein case, has withdrawn a subpoena for Robert
Mueller hmm, that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's and
therefore can't do it. Parkinson's, by the way, is a
(32:25):
neurodegenerative disease. It's really cure, really cruel, really really cool.
It's cool, No, not cool at all, cruel. It doesn't, however,
affect your mental acuity. It's not. You don't become developmentally delayed,
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you don't lose your intellect, you lose control of your body.
And I don't know why that doesn't mean he cannot
be subpoenaed. It might mean that there has to be
some accommodations made for them, or we can just do
a good old fashioned deposition. Yeah, I wonder why anyway.
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Let me get back to some of these texts that
I had. I put out this supposition. I don't like
law enforcement covering their faces. I don't like federal agents
covering their faces. I wouldn't want cops covering their face.
I wouldn't want any of our civil servants covering their face.
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I don't like this part. I think it's a mistake.
I think it opens up a dangerous future. No, I'm
not saying it's gonna happen. But if ice agents get
to cover their faces because they don't want to be identified,
who else, who else should wear masks so that don't
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know who they are? Hmm, couple of texts. Why are
you kidding me? This is a different situation. They're doing
a dangerous job and are being attacked for enforcing their law.
The law. It's for their protection. That's why. Good grief,
All right, well, good grief. That's what all cops do.
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All cops put their life on the line. All cops
get attacked for being law enforcement? Does that mean you
want police walking around giving you traffic tickets while wearing
a mask. I don't. Also, I don't like the idea
(34:47):
how it separates those who enforce the law from those
of us who supposedly make the law. You know, we
the people. I think bad guys wear masks, not good guys. Yeah.
(35:08):
I get the safety aspect, but are you kidding me?
We're gonna have hundreds of thousands of agents running around
with masks on. This becomes a science fiction movie, not
law enforcement.
Good morning, Dragon guest host and Gooper's Welcome to day
one of four days of vacation from Michael Danger Brown.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Vacation vacation rehab is now vacation. Is that what we're
calling on? Yes, let's go with bab. I think that's
just what HR has to call it now. I do
the I do the recovery joke all the time. We
got to come up with a better, better thing so
(00:32):
that when Michael comes back people ask him, were you
really getting estrogen treatments? We can come up with something. Hey,
I'm John Caldera. Six minutes after give me a call
three oh three seven one three eight two five five.
You know the text line as well, fair bit of warning.
(00:54):
So I think I told you. I've told you many
times about my son who has Down syndrome. Who's Who's
the reincarnation of John Belushi? He is? He's a fraternity
brother I have never had. I want to get him.
I want to get him a sweatshirt that just says college.
(01:14):
I haven't found one in his size, but it'd be great.
Now he's he's technically an adult. Puts then again, so
am I? Yep, he's mentally six years old or so,
and he's just a he's just he's he's a bud,
worst roommate I've ever had, but still my best friend.
(01:34):
And and we got him a phone oh year or
two ago, and I programmed like four numbers into it
so that he can call He can call me, he
can call his mom, he can call his grandma, he
call his sister, and for some reason, as of late,
(01:57):
he he has to call me all the time. Now,
Mom and I live in different places where best friends.
We get along really well. But but when he's with Mom,
he calls me incessantly. I am talking at three o'clock
(02:19):
in the morning, when he wakes up to go to
the bathroom, at five o'clock in the morning, at seven
o'clock in the morning, at seven oh two in the morning,
go seven oh five, and he facetimes me. Which is
it's so wonderful. It's great to be for for those
parents whose kids never call. Yeah, I don't have that problem.
(02:42):
But he won't stop. Now, what's what's nice is I
can tell him, you gotta stop calling and go stop
calling okay John, because now I'm John, Oh okay John.
Then he'll call. Yeah, it's I'm not too certain of
(03:04):
what to do about this. Uh, it's and it's not
like I can shoe him off the phone quickly, because
whenever I go, I can't talk on the phone. Dude,
He's like, oh, okay, wait wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait wait wait wait wait, there's never one wait
it's wait wait wait wait wait wait? So not call? Yeah,
(03:25):
not call? Okay, not call, I gotta go bye no
no wait wait wait wait wait wait sorry for calling.
It's okay, it's okay okay wait wait wait wait wait
wait wait? So not call? Oh my god, get off
the phone. And which point he just laughs and laughs
and laughs, and it only encourages up to call again.
(03:48):
All of this to say, uh, if if if I
go dark for five seconds, it's because I'm trying to
shoe him off the phone. Last time, I was at
a at a dinner and he wasn't there, but he
kept calling, so I had to turn off my phone.
I actually, you know how.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Heartbreaking it is, and turn off your phone so to
your kid, get contact you. When I turned on the
phone again, I saw he called fourteen times. So this
is and it's not it's not like I got a
call because I'm locked out of the house.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, no, no, no, he's just calling to mess with me.
Oh to be that obnoxious. He could be a talk
show host. I mean, it's just it's just incredible. So
I don't know what to do. Mind you. He calls
me from the other room when we're together, so and
(04:50):
he thinks it's a riot. Now I could be cruel
and take away his phone, but you know, man, it's
twenty one years old and it makes him feel like
an adult. So I've I've just turned to beatings. So
I have a big stick and I just keep whacking him.
(05:14):
No I don't, I don't do that. Please don't call
Social Services again anyway. The number here three O three
seven one three eight two five five. You have been warned.
Where should we jump in. Let's jump into Chicago first?
Shall we Chicago? That Totland town. I love how people
(05:38):
react to Trump because whenever he says something, they go batty.
They cannot help themselves, they just go crazy, and so
(05:59):
they they have to react. So there's these wonderful protests
against Trump bringing troops into Chicago. Is he bringing troops
into Chicago? Not that we know of. He just says something,
bringing the National Guard into d C is different than
(06:23):
bringing him bringing them into some other place. Why because
d C is under his control. DC is its own
little world. It was created through the Constitution, and it's
where the center of government is and it's his job
(06:46):
to look after it. Yeah, there's a city council and
this and then a blankety blankety blank. But it's not
like Denver. It is a federal protective it is it
is a place that only the federal government is responsible
for ultimately, so it's different than having the the National
(07:10):
Guard descend upon Denver. Likewise, Trump has the responsibility to
protect federal buildings, federal parks, federal lands. That's that's his
(07:31):
job because he's the head of the federal government. That's
his gig. That's his job. So when he does that,
he's doing what he's supposed to be doing. Does he
overplay it, Yes, of course he overplays it. Can he
(07:51):
send troops into La to keep an eye on federal courtrooms? Yes,
and he has to. That's his job. I supposed he
doesn't have to, but he has to protect them. Was
a Truman who had the thing on his desk the
(08:11):
buck stops here. Well, when it comes to protecting federal
employees and federal property and federal services. Yeah, he's got
the right to do it, but he does not have
the right to put troops in your town to do
law enforcement. Now he has the right to do it
(08:34):
for federal laws. I'm going to go and arrest people
who commit federal crimes. And this is this is the
crazy part of it. Remember ever since oh, I don't know,
the seventies, politicians have been on this kick of federalizing
(08:56):
crimes and it feels really Goodie murder crimes, they federalized
female abuse crimes, they drug crimes, and they made them
federal crimes. Don't make a federal crime out of it. Yes,
there are local crimes, there are state crimes, and the
(09:21):
Feds can create their own laws that the FBI and
others have to enforce. That's why we have US attorneys
in the states who helped prosecute US law violations. Okay,
there you have it. So the left opens the door
(09:45):
for someone like Trump to abuse presidential power because now
he's got more of it. This is the lesson of Trump.
Hey left, and sadly many people on the right. Congress
keeps growing the size and scope of the federal government
(10:06):
when you do that, it means the executive branch held
by one person, the executive branch grows in power and
power and power. So, after one hundred years of creating
more and more federal government bureaucracies, more federal laws that
(10:29):
the FBI can enforce, what do we have? We have
this federal police state. And so to see people protesting,
I can't help but think, hey, idiots, you supported the
growth of the federal government, of turning everything into a
(10:51):
federal crime and having regulatory agencies up our rear ends
on every issue. Now this is what you get. Sooner
or later, are you gonna get somebody who really uses
that authority. Maybe it's time to take away some power
(11:13):
from the presidency so that whether it's Biden, Obama or Trump,
they can't do this. What do you think three or
three seven, one three eight, two five five seven one
three talk the The beauty of Trump also is that
he's more bluster than he is action. He really can't
(11:40):
put troops in Chicago to police shoplifting. I don't know
if shoplifting is a federal crime. And he must be
loving these protests. He must be loving it. Why chit
(12:01):
Congo's not going to vote for him. Illinois is not
going to vote for him. So all he has to
do is say, yeah, I'm thinking about sending troops there,
and thousands of people come out to protest.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
I I can't believe he has that much power to
destroy people's labor day, that there are those people who
are who have trumped arrangement that gets so excised by
this that what are we gonna do.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
We're gonna go out to the streets and start yelling
yelling hey hey, ho ho, which by the way, is
the most clever chant ever. I don't know how how
how we never thought of it before? Hey hey, hey,
ho ho blankety blank has got to go. Oh, that's
that's It's like watching reruns of Gilligan's Islands. I've seen
(13:03):
this joke before. So all he has to do. All
he has to do is whisper this, have his press
secretary say something and they go crazy, and Pritzkirt can
bang his chest and say there's no crime here, there's
(13:24):
no crime here. All that happens then is people go, well, yeah,
of course there's crazy crime here. Well, our crime has
gone down twenty eight percent. Really do you feel crime
in Denver has gone down. Do you the police have
(13:49):
to report what they do, but whoever makes the report
gets to play with the statistics. How many cops go, oh,
this is not an aggravated assault, This one's just an assault. Yeah,
we'll click, we'll check that box so that next quarter. Look,
(14:13):
the crime's going down. Do you feel safe in Denver?
Technically the crime is down. I still don't feel safe
in Denver. See car theft is down, it's still ridiculously high.
(14:36):
Not only do people want to be safe, more importantly,
people want to feel safe, and they don't feel safe
in Chicago. They don't feel safe in DC. They do
not feel safe in Denver. Am I wrong on this?
I don't think so. Yeah, oh, just looking up looking
(15:07):
at some of these tweets coming back. At least one
of your psycho ex girlfriends keeps calling you John, at
least it's some psycho ex girlfriends. I keep calling you nice.
How soon will we see the pro Maduro signs? Someone texts, yeah, good,
(15:29):
good call, good call. I would also want to talk
real briefly if I can, about not just the protesters,
but the the ice immigration. Ice immigration is is scary,
(15:53):
It's it's wonderfully photogenic. To have guys all all wearing
their their full cop outfits, you know, the helmets, the masks,
the bulletproof vests, and they're running around getting the immigrants. Well,
(16:14):
it's having an impact. According to the AP, one point
two million migrants are gone from the labor force. Now
they haven't They haven't gotten rid of one point two
million people. We haven't exiled these people. We haven't kicked
(16:38):
them out of the country. A lot of this is
self deportation. That's why this show works. The show works
because it's staring illegals out of the country. I don't
know if that's a bad thing. Here's what they write.
(17:00):
More than one point two million immigrants disappeared from the
labor force from January through the end of July. So
you're telling me, in six months, one point two million
migrants left. Get this. Immigrants make up almost twenty percent
(17:23):
of the US workforce, and that data shows forty five
percent of workers in farming, fishing, and forestry are immigrants.
This is according to the Pew Senior researcher hmm. About
thirty percent of all construction workers are immigrants, twenty four
(17:45):
percent service workers. She added, I question those numbers, but
let's go with them for the sake of argument. So
they're gone. What is that mean? It means prices go up.
It means we don't have enough workers. We'll figure that
(18:09):
part out. But can anyone give the man some credit
and say that immigration is that the illegal immigration is
no longer a problem. He has stopped the flow of immigration.
That's incredible. I'll give him a couple points for this.
(18:33):
Will you back after this?
Speaker 5 (18:37):
I believe freedom, personal responsibility, and virtue. Therefore I cannot
be a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
You cannot have.
Speaker 5 (18:48):
Group rights because there's no such thing as group responsibility. Again,
I could not be a Democrat.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
I'm not asking you to. Hey, I'm John Caldera in
for the vacationing Michael Brown. Give me a call three
or three, seven to one, three eight two five, five
seven to one three talk. Will will Trump go into Chicago?
My guess is he will in some sort of way
(19:22):
just to hack people off. It'll be how to do it.
He's going to protect some sort of federal courts there,
or he will go in and do more ice raids
there and people will freak out. Everybody panic. Hey, I
(19:46):
do admit I am uncomfortable with certain aspects of this,
I think we should be. The idea of the military
is to protect our border, that is, to go off
and fight wars. They're not police officers. It's a real
(20:08):
different thing. We train our troops, as Limbo used to say,
to kill people and break things. That is a very
different mindset, very different mindset than policing. Policing is working
(20:28):
with the community to stop criminals. The idea of a
cop is not to kill people and not to break
things while enforcing the law. Really different things. The military
blows stuff up. The military might starve a city and
(20:53):
put it under siege. That's in order to win a war.
Out what a cop does, and when it gets blurred,
I do get concerned. Do you let me give you
a few things I don't like. I don't like ice
agents wearing masks. I think it's a bad call. I
(21:18):
think it's a dangerous call. Here's why that government needs
to be in the open. Government needs needs to be transparent.
When somebody, when somebody just puts on a mask, it
(21:41):
frees them from a lot of personal responsibility. There's a
reason why criminals wear masks, and it's why when you
go to rob a bank, you put on a mask,
so we don't know who you are. I don't want
our government employees where masks. Let's just take the slippery
(22:04):
slope for a minute. And I understand the slippery slope
doesn't always go down the way. It's scares to god,
that's terrible English. Here we go. If if police wear
masks because well, they fear retribution from bad guys or
(22:27):
angry constituents, then who else should wear masks? Should people
who work at the DMV wear masks, because let me
tell you, these are not popular. People should should meter readers,
the people who put the citations on illegally parked cars.
(22:52):
People don't like them. People could have retribution against them.
Away your car? Should they wear masks? Who should wear
the masks? So there was a graphic novel and then
a movie, and then I think a series called The Watchmen.
(23:15):
This is really old. And the idea was that the
superheroes in the movie, slash, comic book whatever were cops
and they wore masks. And then before you know it,
those masks, which were there to protect their identity, started
(23:36):
turning into a personality. So the cops would wear certain masks,
certain costumes to become well enforcers, superheroes to some vigilantes
to others. We should be concerned with our government starts
(24:02):
hiding itself from us. And when I see ICE agents
wearing masks, that's exactly what I think. Listen. I'm glad
you're there. I'm glad you're doing your job, but you
don't work in a vacuum. You work in a bigger picture.
(24:24):
And I expect our government officials and our government workers
not to be masked law enforcement. Can I get an amen?
Or if I'm wrong on that, tell me why three
three seven one three eight two five five seven one
(24:45):
three talk? Why in the world should our police, our
federal agents be masked? Who else should be masked? This
can slip down a rather dystopian hole. I mean, lots
(25:06):
of people you have interactions with, you don't want them
to know who you are. How do you identify that
this guy is really a cop? Who do you know
is under there? If you have a problem, how do
you identify them? This is this is where we all
(25:29):
should be concerned. I think this is where we all
should be concerned. My second concern, I'm thrilled that Trump
is using using National Guard to help police DC. I
think it's a I think it's a fine thing, but
let's not be blind to some of the doors that
(25:52):
it opens. I don't want the military policing Americas. This
has always been a hard line in America. With the
exception of the Civil War. We don't have military. We
(26:12):
don't have the military deciding to police us. Now there's
martial law, and when martial law happens, it's a crisis.
It's not a good thing. There needs to be, in
my mind, a huge difference between soldiers who go off
(26:35):
and kill people, blow stuff up, intimidate people, and police
police who are among us, police who are our friends,
our neighbors, our family, who work with us to stop crime.
(26:55):
There's a big difference there. There's a simple test in this.
If Trump does these things and you're supporting of them,
will you be supportive when the next Joe Biden or
Obama uses the same powers to enforce the things he
(27:21):
wants When the next president Kamala Harris uses police forces
to come in and make sure that you're not using
plastic straws, or you're not saying nasty words, or you're
not misgendering people, or you are not polluting the way
(27:43):
in a way that is now illegal. You know this
stuff can happen. Let me give you a case in point.
The tariffs. Trump took a huge hit, a huge hit
recently from the courts. A seven to four majority in
(28:04):
one of the appellate courts in Court of Appeals held
that Trump does not have the authority to change tariff levels.
Willy nilly, I agree with this. I agree with the
courts on this. So Trump uses something called the nineteen
seventy seven International Emergency Economic Powers Act. He's uses to
(28:29):
slap imports from Mexico and Canada and China. And he
later he did it. What was the emergency He said
it was fentanyl. Later he declared the US trade deficit
an emergency to justify tariffs on on everybody else. Now,
(28:52):
this Act, International Emergency Economics Power Act gives the president
authority to regulate the importation of goods to protect national
security if there's an emergency, clump, train clump. Trump claims
it lets him impose tariffs as well. The judges said, no,
(29:14):
not so fast. This act doesn't even use the word
tariff or duties or any other similar terms like customs
or taxes or any of those things. Tariffs are a tax.
(29:34):
The Constitution gives Congress explicit control on taxation. Congress has
to pass laws on taxation, including tariffs. I agree with him,
Now work with me on this. You might love the tariffs,
(29:57):
you might think the tariffs are a great idea. But
what happens when Kamala becomes president or someone like her.
What happens when they say, you know what the real
emergency is. It's not the trade deficit. It's the climate.
It's the climate, and therefore we are going to put
(30:19):
on massive tariffs on anything that consumes energy or anything
that we think adds to the climate problems, anything with plastic.
You can understand how how this opens the door for
(30:40):
people who we do not like to do all sorts
of things, all sorts of things that we wouldn't want.
That's why the founders put in this check and balance system.
That's why the executive runs the government. But Congress makes
(31:01):
the laws. If we're gonna let one guy make the laws,
if you support this, you're gonna have to support when
the next guy does tariffs because he wants to save
the world from carbon and you and I would go crazy,
(31:21):
all right? Three O three seven one three eight two
five five let me know how you feel about that,
or of course use the text line I'm John Caldera
in for the Big Man. Keep it right here, you're
on six thirty kW.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Robert Mueller was given a subpoena to testify before the
House of a Psyche committee regarding Jeffrey Epstein. His family
claims he cannot testify due to Parkinson's very interesting story.
Also that supposedly Bob Woodward knew that he had Parkinson
(31:55):
for years and did not report it in his books
or elsewhere.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Hmm. Paul, a House committee investigating the Justice Department's handling
of the Epstein case, has withdrawn a subpoena for Robert
Mueller hmm, that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's and
therefore can't do it. Parkinson's, by the way, is a
(32:25):
neurodegenerative disease. It's really cure, really cruel, really really cool.
It's cool, No, not cool at all, cruel. It doesn't, however,
affect your mental acuity. It's not. You don't become developmentally delayed,
(32:48):
you don't lose your intellect, you lose control of your body.
And I don't know why that doesn't mean he cannot
be subpoenaed. It might mean that there has to be
some accommodations made for them, or we can just do
a good old fashioned deposition. Yeah, I wonder why anyway.
(33:12):
Let me get back to some of these texts that
I had. I put out this supposition. I don't like
law enforcement covering their faces. I don't like federal agents
covering their faces. I wouldn't want cops covering their face.
I wouldn't want any of our civil servants covering their face.
(33:36):
I don't like this part. I think it's a mistake.
I think it opens up a dangerous future. No, I'm
not saying it's gonna happen. But if ice agents get
to cover their faces because they don't want to be identified,
who else, who else should wear masks so that don't
(34:00):
know who they are? Hmm, couple of texts. Why are
you kidding me? This is a different situation. They're doing
a dangerous job and are being attacked for enforcing their law.
The law. It's for their protection. That's why. Good grief,
All right, well, good grief. That's what all cops do.
(34:24):
All cops put their life on the line. All cops
get attacked for being law enforcement? Does that mean you
want police walking around giving you traffic tickets while wearing
a mask. I don't. Also, I don't like the idea
(34:47):
how it separates those who enforce the law from those
of us who supposedly make the law. You know, we
the people. I think bad guys wear masks, not good guys. Yeah.
(35:08):
I get the safety aspect, but are you kidding me?
We're gonna have hundreds of thousands of agents running around
with masks on. This becomes a science fiction movie, not
law enforcement.
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