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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next let's see here fifty
four minutes because baseball eats the show.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
At one pm.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I am joined today by Shannon Scott as a Rod
continues his vacation this week. But we will get you
through the next fifty four minutes. Shannon, do you think
we can do it? Do you think we can? Do
you think we can make it through the whole fifty
four I don't know. I stretched before the show.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I got a good stretch in just to make sure
I was ready. Let's jump to the blog, shall we,
because we don't have that much time. Mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot co. Oh wait, wait a little you
went a little a little fast there, Shannon, Hang on
one a second. I'll pause dramatically when it's time to
hit that. Okay, so wait, here we go. Go to
mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says three
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four twenty five. Blog Tina Peters gets a second look,
plus Trump pauses, Ukraine aid.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Click on that. There we go, and here are the
headlines you will find with it. Press flash high scream
today on.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The blog Baseball at one. But I'll make this show
count anyway. Tina Peters case gets a look by the
Justice Department. Trump pauses military aid to Ukraine. Scrolling, scrolling.
Trump is speaking tonight. Let the protests outside DPS start now.
I bet they didn't buy the guns legally, but the
legislature is going after legal gun owners again. Mayor Johnston
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feels good about his testimony. A great explainer on the
tip wage credit. Why can't Colorado's Department of Revenue get
its work done? Democrats hate local control. Polar screen dreams
will cost us a fortune. The bad government snitch line
is open. Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Deane died. Dems are
ready with prepared scripts, but Representative to get won't be
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there tonight. Oh look, Egypt has a plan for Gaza.
Remember when Biden blamed border crossings on a failed border bill,
no cease fire, no aid in Israel? How Europe has
regulated itself today? And Southern women don't play the challenge
of being woke and being a crime victim. Those are
the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. There
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you go, it is Tuesday, and we are barreling Texter.
Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We'll barrel right up until the top of the hour.
Got a few blo.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I don't have the normal selection of videos because a
Rod usually sends those to me and he's on vacation,
so I have a few. I have a very funny
video about what happens when a woke person is the
victim of a crime, which made me laugh. There is
some potty mouth in that. Then there's how southern women
will shut you down very easily in John stossel fantastic
video on what European regulation and high taxation has done
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to its economy, only he makes it more interesting than
I just made it sound. John stoss always makes interesting videos.
So those are the three at the bottom of the blog.
But I have something on the blog. Oh no, it
didn't save the right one, and oh man, dang it,
I got to go back and fix it because I
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embed at a blog and this is just really really funny. Now,
we've talked on the show before about how off kilter
the Democratic Party is right now because they were completely
unprepared and in their defense, like, how do you prepare
for what we've seen from the Trump administration, right, I mean,
how do you even prepare for that? So they've really
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been off off their center trying to figure out how
to respond. And I guess, I guess they're trying to
get their act together so they can get a van
and take it on the road. But they decided they
were all gonna record a video for I guess in
ahead of Donald Trump's speech tonight, Trump is addressing both
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houses of Congress. It's not a State of the Union address,
but it is very much sort of a here's what
we're going to do address because normally a president and
it doesn't have unaddressed to Congress.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
This early in their term.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But let's just say, Trump two point oh much different
than Trump one point oh. And there's no grass growing
under the feet of Trump two point oh. And I
believe from what I've seen in the news media coverage
that tonight we're going to hear from the President exactly
what he is doing in terms of the Grand vision
for America.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I mean, that's what I've been told. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
What would make me laugh hysterically is if he just
walked up, picked up a copy of Project twenty twenty
five and said, here you go read it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I am kidding.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Though a lot of the stuff in Project twenty twenty
five is stuff that has been done by Donald Trump.
It's also stuff that has been on the conservative wish
list for decades, so nothing's shocking there. So all these
Democrats got together and they decided they were going to
record this video and I can't play it on the
air because they curse in it. They curse, they use
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the S word heard in the video, and I was.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Like, what what?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But everybody recorded the exact same script. This as a
radio personality annoys me to no end because ultimately, like
Ross and I have the same clients. We both represent
ed Prather and Ross and I try very carefully to
make sure that our messages are not exactly the same.
(05:27):
Because first of all, you guys, I need you to
listen to the commercials. I'm gonna be perfectly honest, real
talk here. I need you to not only listen to
the commercials. I need you to go to the people
that I ask you to shop with and buy from
them and then tell them you heard about it from
Mandy Connell. That's that's the purpose of this entire commercial
radio endeavor. Without you doing that, this doesn't matter. So
(05:48):
if you ever wanted to know what you could do
to support the show, go to my advertisers and let
them know you heard it here before you buy something.
But that's neither here nor there. There's no no. I mean,
do they not know the internet is a thing. That's
the part that gets me. But I'm not going to
spend a lot of time on that, and I'll fix it.
I'll go find the other video because one that I
have is just Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren and Hakeem
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Jeffries saying the same script. But now I guess a
bunch of other Democrats have done it, and they've gathered
them all up, so they're like a giant Brady Bunch
style grid of all the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Saying the same thing. I think. I mean, we just
had the oscars.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think it would be fun if some of you
watched all of them and then decided who gave the
best reading of the script, Like we'll give our own
little Oscar performance for this little thing here.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But that's not what I want to talk about today.
That's just on the blog. Today. We got to talk
about this.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Tina Peters story. Tina Peters is filing multiple appeals. She's
appealing to everyone to be able to get out of
prison as her appeal is pending, Which does happen, you guys.
That's not unheard of, it's not crazy. But the Department
of Justice has now all filed a brief this week,
and I'm just going to read a little part of it.
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It says the Department of Justice is reviewing cases across
the nation for abuses of the criminal justice process. See
Attorney General Memorandum Restoring the Integrity and Credibility of the
Department of Justice. This review will include an evaluation of
the State of Colorado's prosecution of Miss Peters, and in particular,
whether the case was oriented more toward inflicting political pain
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than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives. So
the state, the Department of Justice has now said, hey, we're.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Going to look into Tina's case.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Now, I went back and I looked at the charges
that she was eventually convicted.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Of, and I hate.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
To say it, she pretty clearly broke the law. I
don't hate to say it. She clearly broke the law.
Now her intentions, we can make argument about because, as
we know from James Comy when talking about Hillary Clinton,
if you don't intend to break the law, then you
didn't break the law. Remember that's what he said about
the homegrown server in her closet in her kitchen from
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which she did all of her State Department business so
it wouldn't be subject to open records requests. She didn't
intend to break the law when she had her staff
destroy the hard drive on that computer. She never, according
to James Comy, never intended to break the law. And
Tina surely didn't intend to break the law because she
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was trying to prove that dominion voting systems were actually
changing votes, something that has still not been proven in
an election thus far. So we'll see what happens. Although
this is a state case. So I see a lot
of conservatives getting really excited online talking about, Oh, they're
going to overturn the conviction.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
They can't do that, now.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Could they put pressure on Governor Jared Pulis to pardon
Tina Peters?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
They could, but I.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Don't know if he's unless the political calculus on that
works for his run for president. I don't see that
happening by Governor Jared polis So this is a very
tentative thing. I would not go planning the get out
of jail party for Tina Peters just yet.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We shall see.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
We shall see, Mandy, and I keep trying to figure
out how to fast forward through the commercials.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
That is not helping me.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
If you love your local talk show host and you
want me to be on the air, then fast forward
through the commercials.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I'm just saying, Hey, Mandy, I'm looking at the Rocky
schedule and it looks like they're gonna eat a whole
lot of your shows. Could you please address this? Well,
there are two schedules that you have to look at.
One is spring training. One is regular season. We do
not run every spring training game because that's not in
our contract, and most spring training games are during the day,
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so we don't. I have a few more shows during
spring training. And then I actually sat down and did this.
I think I'm only preempted like twelve more times in
the regular season, and last year was seventeen. So I'll
go back and count it again because I already put
it in my calendar. Soon, I'll schedule guests like I
do every year, so you know, It is what it is, guys,
It really is. There are some days when I may
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go do a Facebook live I don't know, and everybody says, oh,
you get the day off. A lot of the times,
I'm just working on stuff for clients now, trying to
you know, get some stuff going behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
So it's not like I'm just no.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Some days I'm totally sitting here twiddling my thumbs completely
like not even you know. Yeah, yeah, Anyway, the other
big story that I want to get to that I
normally would spend more time on the teen and Peters thing,
but I got an hour long show, so work with
me here. Trump paused military aid to Ukraine. This happened
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yesterday during my show, but I had a chance to
read a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Trump has been very open said, look, when Zelensky is
ready to talk about peace, we would be more than
happy to restart our support. But we're not going to
sit here and dither around with somebody who is not
interested in working towards peace. Now, something that is really
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pushed Trump over the edge, according to reports that I've
seen today. The thing that really pushed him to say, no,
we're not going to give you any more military hardware
for the next foreseeable future was that over the weekend,
Zelensky said after meeting with European leaders that they were
a long, long, long way from the end of the war.
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So a long, long long way from the end of
the war indicates we don't believe that we should negotiate
an ending. And here's the other thing that I've seen
online that I want to address. A lot of people
are saying, why would you support Trump giving away Ukraine
to the Kremlin, to which I respond, what proposal are
you looking at? And of course they're not looking at
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a proposal, because no proposals have been made. At least
when we see Israel and Cutter and all of those
Middle Eastern nations negotiating, we get a framework of what
they're looking for and what it's going to look like.
Nothing has been proposed thus far. Not a single proposal
has been slid across a desk on a folded piece
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of paper so the other team could open it, you know,
and look at it dramatically and then say yes or no.
The notion that somehow anything has been negotiated is just
not factual, and we will not ever be able to
get to the end of this war without negotiation. So
I'm genuinely and I don't get me wrong. I get
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Zelensky's point that Russia has not really felt the need
to be bound by any prior ceasefires.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But when you have the Trump administration, when you have
the United States in the middle of these negotiations, especially
if the rare Earth minerals deal does get done, and
that is not dead in the water, because I have
an update from Zelensky today that I'm going to get
to in just a second.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
But when you have.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
A vested economic relationship, it changes the dynamic. But Zelensky
wanted full throated support of Ukraine. He wanted Trump to
call Vladimir Putin every name in the book, and that's
not going to get Putin.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
To the table.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But I do want to share with you what Zelensky
tweeted out this morning eight fifty four am our time.
Because all good diplomacy is now happening on x. Okay,
there's no diplomacy in.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
The back room.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It's just it's all happening on what used to be Twitter. Okay,
this is what his post says. I would like to
reiterate Ukraine's commitment to peace. None of us wants an
endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating
table as soon as possible to bring lasting piece closer.
Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I
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stay and ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership
to get a piece that lasts. We are ready to
work fast to end the war, and the first stages
could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky,
ban on missiles, long range drones, bombs on energy and
other civilian infrastructure, and truce in the sea immediately. If
Russia will do the same, then we want to move
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very fast through all the next stages and to work
with the US to agree to a strong final deal.
We do really value how much America has done to
help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence, and we remember
the moment when things changed when President Trump provided Ukraine
with javelins. We are grateful for this. Our meeting in
Washington at the White House on Friday did not go
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the way it was supposed to be. It is regrettable
that it happened this way. It is time to make
things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to
be constructive regarding the agreement on minerals and security. Ukraine
is ready to sign it anytime and in any convenient format.
We see this agreement as a step toward greater security
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and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will
work effectively. Now if you think, and we went over
this yesterday, we talked about the fact that Trump viewed
and we played the audio from Marco Rubio, Secretary of
State Marco Rubio explaining this very point. That meeting on
Friday was simply supposed to be about the minerals deal,
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which the Trump administration views as the first step into
a series of steps that would create an environment where
the US has a vested interest in helping Ukraine fight
other than they're fighting our enemy. So it's been a
fascinating evolution for Zelensky in that he actually uses the
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phrase steps. I mean the first stages, he says could
be the release of prisoner, and then he I mean,
we see this agreement as a step toward greater security
and solid security guarantees. I gotta tell you, if I'm
the Trump administration, I send him over the minerals deal
as an e doc like oh E sign here, create
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your signature. I rob him of another opportunity to grandstand
in front of TV cameras, which he was not there
to do on Friday. Friday was the first step and
he blew it.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hey, Mandy, if you.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Don't think Trump's rhetoric supports Russia, you're not paying attention.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I gotta tell you, I am holding fire on this.
I find it vile that Trump sucks up to Putin,
but I do believe it's not because he thinks Putin
is like this wonderful human being. To think that Trump
is Putin's ally requires that you believe that Trump is stupid.
And I know a lot of people think Trump is stupid.
A lot of people are Now the new line is
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Elon Musk is stupid, which is hoo, there he is.
So if you don't believe Trump is stupid, if you
believe Trump, it's been a deal maker's entire life that
I need you anti trumpers to help me out with something.
I was trying to think, what was there a deal
in the first Trump administration, I mean a completed deal
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that turned out to be a bad deal for the
United States Because I was trying to remember, I mean
You've got the Abraham Accords, You've got the reworking of NAFTA.
What other deals were done during the Trump administration and
how have they turned out? So right now, I'm holding
my fire on this because I think that we're not
seeing the endgame, perhaps tonight in this speech. Tonight, this
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starts at seven pm. We're going to air it here
on KOWA. I think I'm gonna live tweet during it.
I think so, cause it's going to be at seven yell.
I have to be in bed by nine thirty. I
went out on Saturday night to see Rick Lewis's band,
the Rick Lewis Project and the Freddie Jones. Man Lewis's band,
You guys, holy crap emole like the best band ever,
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best cover band I've seen in two decades by far.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
But by the.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Time that the Freddie Jones Project came on, I was like,
it's past my bedtime.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I got to go home, So I did.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
In any case, I got a bunch of other stuff
on the blog and I got one last half of
the show to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
When we get back.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Oh, look, guess who has a plan for the Gaza
strip And it's not Donald Trump. I'll explain when we
get back right after this on Kowa. All right, friends,
we are back for the last half of our very
short show because of baseball. I do want to respond
to several of you who have essentially taken to the
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text line about the deal or the deal points or
you know what Rush is going to give up. I
don't have any of those answers. I really don't, but
I promise you this, if a deal, when something gets developed,
really sucks, I'm gonna say it really sucks. But I'm
not going to speculate on what is in there or
what isn't in there, or what could be there what's
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not in there. So I mean, don't calm your just
slow your role as the kids say. Do the kids
still say that now?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I've never really been up to speed on what the
kids say, even when I was a kid. Never been
good at it. Anyway, I got a couple of things
that I want to talk about. So we talked about
Trump pausing the military aid. Oh here, we're going to
talk about Gaza for a second. And I have so
much stuff on the blog today that we're not going
to get to. But because we have baseball, you'll have
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plenty of time to go to mandy'sblog dot com and
fill your head full of knowledge and starky commentary. You
can do that every day, but on a baseball day
you have plenty of time. So we all know that
Donald Trump sent the world into a tizzy when he
decided that he was going to go with Gaza Lago
or trump Agaza, or whatever you want to call it.
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And I said at the time, all he's doing is
trying to get the Middle Eastern nations to step up
and do something with Gaza now that it needs to
be rebuilt and it needs to be run by someone
other than Hamas. Will surprise, surprise y'all. As they say
from CNN, a plan for Gaza formulated by Egypt would
exclude Hamas from governance of the enclave once the war ends.
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A draft of the plan obtained by CNN shows the
plan is being discussed by Arab leaders meeting in Cairo
in an emergency summit on Tuesday, with Egypt's president proposing
a Palestinian committee to temporarily govern Gaza, taking over from
Hamas and eventually handing power to the Palestinian authority with
the help of its Palestinian Brothers.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Egypt has worked to.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Create a Palestinian Administrative Committee of independent professionals and technocrats
who will be tasked with governing Gaza with the expertise
of its members. Now, as a point of order, I
don't have a lot of faith in Egypt, just generally, Okay.
I've told the story before that when my son graduated
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from his officers training at Fort Benning, we went to
see his graduation and there were some Egyptian soldiers that
were also in this group of soldiers that were completing
this program. So they all walk across the stage and
get whatever they get, their medals or not their medals,
their bars and stuff like that. And the Egyptian soldiers
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walked across the stage like they were comedians entering like
a crowded arena.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
They were like, hey, man, what's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It was. It did not inspire confidence at all at all.
And I'm hoping that Saudi Arabia is going to be
a part of this, Jordan is going to be a
part of this, all of these Middle Eastern nations, because
if you look at the history of the United States
of America, every time white people have subdivided and tried
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to rule and take over anybody that's not also white.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It doesn't go well long term.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So I am more than happy to turn this over
to people in the Middle East to have a commonality.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
With the people in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Now what's fun is that Egypt surez Hell doesn't want
the Palestinians in Egypt, and Jordan Shurezeck doesn't want the
Palestinians in Jordan. I mean, they don't want the Palestinians.
So they have a vested interest in making Gaza work.
But a couple things I'd like to see happen in Gaza.
First of all, completely getting rid of the UN Refugee Agency.
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It's time to go, because by naming an agency to
help refugees, you have a zero percent chance of people
actually becoming assimilated or helping them create their own country
that is stable and not a source of terror for
the people who live in their direct vicinity. Right, that
would be nice. So, by the way, Hamas is not
happy about this oh crime in River Hamas senior HAMAS
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officials saw me. Abu Zuri told Reuters the group rejects
any attempt to impose projects of any form of non
Palestinian administration or the presence of any foreign forces on
Gaza Strip territory. He went on to this is a
tough talk. We are keen for the success of the summit,
and we hope there will be a call to reject
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the displacement and to protect the right of our people
in resisting the occupation and govern itself away from the
custodianship and intervention. You mean like Hamastid since two thousand
and six, where they have received billions of dollars in
aid but still couldn't manage to build a desalinization plant
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or a power plant, and they use their big concrete
plant that they built to just build terror tunnels so
they can invade and murder Israelis sorry, jimas, I don't
care how you feel about it. I really don't do
not care, do not care. I hope that Egypt can
get this together, open that Egypt lead on it. I
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don't know that they'll be able to pull it off.
We shall see. Somebody just hit the Common Spirit Health
text line and said, apparently Trump's gonna announce the deal tonight. Well,
if you could do that e sign that I was
talking about, just like send it over Ukraine sign this,
we'll announce it tonight. That would be fantastic, But I
would not be surprised if Trump's lets Zelensky twist for
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a couple of days. Maybe, I don't know, Mandy. Those
exchange officers are always the relatives of rulers, but the
countries pay us a pretty penny for their attendance. From
what I understand, we just learned to put up with them. Yeah,
the exchange officers. I well, here, wait a minute, to
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be clear, there were exchange officers from Saudi Arabia who
walked across in a very respectful military like fashion and
received their their stripes and then saluted and did all
of the normal military things. And there was also exchange
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officers from one other country that I cannot remember. And
it was only Egypt that acted the fool Only Egypt
that just did not impress at all, not even a
little bit. Okay, that's all on the blog today, just
laid out. Trump is speaking tonight at seven pm. You'll
hear it here live on KOA. Also on the blog today,
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I have a whole bunch of stuff, including a deeper
dive into a Christa Kaifer column about Jared Police is
directing as governor, this big push to move us to
renewables and to electrify our economy. Meaning they don't want
you using natural gas in your home. They don't want
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natural gas and to go into new buildings. They don't
want natural gas a part of your life. They don't
want to do it. They want to force you to
have an electric stove. They want to force you to
have an electric fireplace. They want to force you to
have everything electric. That's where they want to go. But
the reality is is that countries that have already gone
down this path before us, some of which are suffering mightily, mightily,
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even the one that's supposed to be the best, Spain.
I did a little deep dive. Okay, Christa's column, I'm
getting ahead of myself. I'm getting ahead of my skis here.
Christa's column is about the real cost of unreliable green
energy here in Colorado, and this is a little snippet
of it. Thanks to so called green energy mandate set
by Governor Jared Polis in the General Assembly, it's only going.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
To get worse.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
A new report by the nonpartisan Common Sense Institute projects
that within five years under the new law, the average
household will spend as much as five hundred dollars more
a year on your power bill. Now Germany has gone
all in on renewable energy. Do you not much a
kilowatt hour costs in Germany right now?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I do because I looked it up today to give
you just a little bit of they're paying thirty eight
cents per kilo what hour in Germany? Thirty eight cents
per kil one hour? Do you know what we pay
in December of twenty twenty four, we paid fifteen cents
a killo what hour for our power? They pay thirty
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eight cents. We pay fifteen cents.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Spain also went in on the green economy. But Spain
has much better weather. They have a massive coastline with
lots of wind, They have sunshine for most of the year,
so their green energy story is considered to be a success.
And do you know what Spain pays per.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Kilo one hour? Now?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Remember we paid fifteen cents per kill one hour. By
the way, that was almost seven percent more than the
previous year.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
We pay fifteen cents.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Spain, with all of the green energy that you could
possibly imagine that works great, is paying twenty four cents
a killo what hour. The notion that green energy is
going to be cheaper, ever, is a lie. It's a lie.
It is not sustainable, it is not reliable, and you
need to read all this stuff if you want to
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know more. We're gonna come back for a very short segment.
The snitch line is open when it comes to ratting
out governmental agencies doing bad stuff. I'll explain my first
story about that from Dylan when we get back after this.
All right, my friends, we are making our way through
a very short show, and I've got so much stuff
(28:31):
on the blog it's not even funny. Although yesterday when
I had Jen Schumann on talking about the latest bit
of idiocy and shenanigans from the Douglas Board of Commissions
Douglas County, I was like, you know what I know
about the shenanigans happening in Douglas County because I live here,
But I don't know about the shenanigans everywhere. So I
want to create like a little snitch line where you
(28:53):
guys can email me and tell me when your town council,
your city council, your county commititioners, whatever, when they're doing
bad stuff. And I already got two leads, one of
them straight out of Dylan. And this is something that
I think is a story that every single community in
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Colorado is dealing with on some level, maybe not the
exact details, but it has to do with development, and
development is like the boogeyman here. And I'm gonna be
perfectly honest. I moved to Douglas County. I moved quote
out in the country when I moved here thirteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Twelve years ago.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Now out in the country is now being consumed by
other houses. So Chuck and I grumble about this all
the time, like what do you do when you move
out in the country and then the city comes out
to you. And I think there's a lot of people,
especially Native Colorado's people who have been here for decades,
that are looking at the kind of growth and the
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development that is happening now and are like, wait a minute,
slow down, because it's getting out of control. And you've
got elected officials that they may run on a platform
of being tough on you know.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We're not going to give those developers what they want.
You know, they don't want to do that, They're not
going to do that.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But the reality is is that they have to find
the tax dollars to make sure that their communities can survive.
And ultimately, if a community doesn't grow, it will die.
And all you have to do is look at some
of the smaller communities on the planes or you know,
on the way past the western slope as you're getting
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towards Utah.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
A lot of those little towns are struggling. Not all
of them.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Some of them are doing very well, but a lot
of those little towns are struggling because they don't have
a good tax base, and they don't have opportunity, and
they don't have jobs for young people when they graduate, right,
So it's a very delicate balance. I'm not pretending I
have the answer, by the way, So if you're waiting
for me to drop the answer on you to this,
I don't know it.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Do not have the answer. But Dylan is.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Now trying to recall three town council members because they
green lit a metro district plan presented by developers that
would allow for the development of an area near the
reservoir where everything happens. And if you've never been to Dylan,
so cute, so cute, and they have this great Dylan
(31:22):
amphitheater that's right by the reservoir. It is just like
a little gorgeous little postcard. But they don't have a
lot of tax money. And a developer came in and said, look,
we want to build a parking garage, which would be
amazing for those of us who come in to Dylan
for concerts and whatnot. They want to build a parking garage,
a supermarket and restaurants, but they want a percentage of
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sales and lodging taxes and public funding and a half
acre of land. Now that, my friends, is a sweet deal.
A little too sweet for me. I'm never inclined to
give away future benefits for short term gain. Maybe that
can be discussed, but the town is not happy. Now
they're talking about recalling them. But y'all, this is a
matter of hundreds of people voting total. I also got
(32:09):
a tip about the Lakewood informer, a rabbel rouser in
Lakewood who tries to hold government there accountable. So I'm
hoping to focus and feature more of these people and
more of you guys. If you see something that looks shady,
let me know. I'll reach out and try and get
the players on the show. We shall see if that
(32:30):
has any real effect. Also on the blog today, I've
got a lot of other stuff, including I fixed the video.
So now when you click on the video, let me
make sure this volumes off because the Democrats curs in
it right away.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
It's really funny.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's all of the Democrats reading from the same prepared
script in advance of tonight's State of the Union address.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
So all right, guys, we are almost done.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And if you follow me on Twitter at Mandy Connell,
I will be live tweeting there tonight. I think I'll
sit upstairs so I don't make a torture truck with it,
but I'll be back tomorrow with a full recap for
those of you who go to bed early. But in
the meantime, everybody make room because Rocky Spring Training baseball
is coming up next and yours truly will be back
(33:15):
tomorrow with a full show, so stick around for that,
then keep it on KOA
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to a Tuesday edition of the show.
I'm your host for the next let's see here fifty
four minutes because baseball eats the show.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
At one pm.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
I am joined today by Shannon Scott as a Rod
continues his vacation this week. But we will get you
through the next fifty four minutes. Shannon, do you think
we can do it? Do you think we can? Do
you think we can make it through the whole fifty
four I don't know. I stretched before the show.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Well you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
I got a good stretch in just to make sure
I was ready. Let's jump to the blog, shall we,
because we don't have that much time. Mandy'sblog dot com.
That's mandy'sblog dot co. Oh wait, wait a little you
went a little a little fast there, Shannon, Hang on
one a second. I'll pause dramatically when it's time to
hit that. Okay, so wait, here we go. Go to
mandy'sblog dot com. Look for the headline that says three
(00:49):
four twenty five. Blog Tina Peters gets a second look,
plus Trump pauses, Ukraine aid.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Click on that. There we go, and here are the
headlines you will find with it. Press flash high scream
today on.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
The blog Baseball at one. But I'll make this show
count anyway. Tina Peters case gets a look by the
Justice Department. Trump pauses military aid to Ukraine. Scrolling, scrolling.
Trump is speaking tonight. Let the protests outside DPS start now.
I bet they didn't buy the guns legally, but the
legislature is going after legal gun owners again. Mayor Johnston
(01:25):
feels good about his testimony. A great explainer on the
tip wage credit. Why can't Colorado's Department of Revenue get
its work done? Democrats hate local control. Polar screen dreams
will cost us a fortune. The bad government snitch line
is open. Dolly Parton's husband, Carl Deane died. Dems are
ready with prepared scripts, but Representative to get won't be
(01:47):
there tonight. Oh look, Egypt has a plan for Gaza.
Remember when Biden blamed border crossings on a failed border bill,
no cease fire, no aid in Israel? How Europe has
regulated itself today? And Southern women don't play the challenge
of being woke and being a crime victim. Those are
the headlines on the blog at mandy'sblog dot com. There
(02:12):
you go, it is Tuesday, and we are barreling Texter.
Thank you for that.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
We'll barrel right up until the top of the hour.
Got a few blo.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I don't have the normal selection of videos because a
Rod usually sends those to me and he's on vacation,
so I have a few. I have a very funny
video about what happens when a woke person is the
victim of a crime, which made me laugh. There is
some potty mouth in that. Then there's how southern women
will shut you down very easily in John stossel fantastic
video on what European regulation and high taxation has done
(02:45):
to its economy, only he makes it more interesting than
I just made it sound. John stoss always makes interesting videos.
So those are the three at the bottom of the blog.
But I have something on the blog. Oh no, it
didn't save the right one, and oh man, dang it,
I got to go back and fix it because I
(03:05):
embed at a blog and this is just really really funny. Now,
we've talked on the show before about how off kilter
the Democratic Party is right now because they were completely
unprepared and in their defense, like, how do you prepare
for what we've seen from the Trump administration, right, I mean,
how do you even prepare for that? So they've really
(03:27):
been off off their center trying to figure out how
to respond. And I guess, I guess they're trying to
get their act together so they can get a van
and take it on the road. But they decided they
were all gonna record a video for I guess in
ahead of Donald Trump's speech tonight, Trump is addressing both
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houses of Congress. It's not a State of the Union address,
but it is very much sort of a here's what
we're going to do address because normally a president and
it doesn't have unaddressed to Congress.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
This early in their term.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
But let's just say, Trump two point oh much different
than Trump one point oh. And there's no grass growing
under the feet of Trump two point oh. And I
believe from what I've seen in the news media coverage
that tonight we're going to hear from the President exactly
what he is doing in terms of the Grand vision
for America.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I mean, that's what I've been told. Now.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
What would make me laugh hysterically is if he just
walked up, picked up a copy of Project twenty twenty
five and said, here you go read it.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I am kidding.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Though a lot of the stuff in Project twenty twenty
five is stuff that has been done by Donald Trump.
It's also stuff that has been on the conservative wish
list for decades, so nothing's shocking there. So all these
Democrats got together and they decided they were going to
record this video and I can't play it on the
air because they curse in it. They curse, they use
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the S word heard in the video, and I was.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Like, what what?
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But everybody recorded the exact same script. This as a
radio personality annoys me to no end because ultimately, like
Ross and I have the same clients. We both represent
ed Prather and Ross and I try very carefully to
make sure that our messages are not exactly the same.
(05:27):
Because first of all, you guys, I need you to
listen to the commercials. I'm gonna be perfectly honest, real
talk here. I need you to not only listen to
the commercials. I need you to go to the people
that I ask you to shop with and buy from
them and then tell them you heard about it from
Mandy Connell. That's that's the purpose of this entire commercial
radio endeavor. Without you doing that, this doesn't matter. So
(05:48):
if you ever wanted to know what you could do
to support the show, go to my advertisers and let
them know you heard it here before you buy something.
But that's neither here nor there. There's no no. I mean,
do they not know the internet is a thing. That's
the part that gets me. But I'm not going to
spend a lot of time on that, and I'll fix it.
I'll go find the other video because one that I
have is just Chuck Schumer and Elizabeth Warren and Hakeem
(06:10):
Jeffries saying the same script. But now I guess a
bunch of other Democrats have done it, and they've gathered
them all up, so they're like a giant Brady Bunch
style grid of all the Democrats.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Saying the same thing. I think. I mean, we just
had the oscars.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
I think it would be fun if some of you
watched all of them and then decided who gave the
best reading of the script, Like we'll give our own
little Oscar performance for this little thing here.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
But that's not what I want to talk about today.
That's just on the blog. Today. We got to talk
about this.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Tina Peters story. Tina Peters is filing multiple appeals. She's
appealing to everyone to be able to get out of
prison as her appeal is pending, Which does happen, you guys.
That's not unheard of, it's not crazy. But the Department
of Justice has now all filed a brief this week,
and I'm just going to read a little part of it.
(07:04):
It says the Department of Justice is reviewing cases across
the nation for abuses of the criminal justice process. See
Attorney General Memorandum Restoring the Integrity and Credibility of the
Department of Justice. This review will include an evaluation of
the State of Colorado's prosecution of Miss Peters, and in particular,
whether the case was oriented more toward inflicting political pain
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than toward pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives. So
the state, the Department of Justice has now said, hey, we're.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Going to look into Tina's case.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Now, I went back and I looked at the charges
that she was eventually convicted.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Of, and I hate.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
To say it, she pretty clearly broke the law. I
don't hate to say it. She clearly broke the law.
Now her intentions, we can make argument about because, as
we know from James Comy when talking about Hillary Clinton,
if you don't intend to break the law, then you
didn't break the law. Remember that's what he said about
the homegrown server in her closet in her kitchen from
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which she did all of her State Department business so
it wouldn't be subject to open records requests. She didn't
intend to break the law when she had her staff
destroy the hard drive on that computer. She never, according
to James Comy, never intended to break the law. And
Tina surely didn't intend to break the law because she
(08:34):
was trying to prove that dominion voting systems were actually
changing votes, something that has still not been proven in
an election thus far. So we'll see what happens. Although
this is a state case. So I see a lot
of conservatives getting really excited online talking about, Oh, they're
going to overturn the conviction.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
They can't do that, now.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
Could they put pressure on Governor Jared Pulis to pardon
Tina Peters?
Speaker 2 (08:59):
They could, but I.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Don't know if he's unless the political calculus on that
works for his run for president. I don't see that
happening by Governor Jared polis So this is a very
tentative thing. I would not go planning the get out
of jail party for Tina Peters just yet.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
We shall see.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
We shall see, Mandy, and I keep trying to figure
out how to fast forward through the commercials.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
That is not helping me.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
If you love your local talk show host and you
want me to be on the air, then fast forward
through the commercials.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
I'm just saying.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I'm just saying, Hey, Mandy, I'm looking at the Rocky
schedule and it looks like they're gonna eat a whole
lot of your shows. Could you please address this? Well,
there are two schedules that you have to look at.
One is spring training. One is regular season. We do
not run every spring training game because that's not in
our contract, and most spring training games are during the day,
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so we don't. I have a few more shows during
spring training. And then I actually sat down and did this.
I think I'm only preempted like twelve more times in
the regular season, and last year was seventeen. So I'll
go back and count it again because I already put
it in my calendar. Soon, I'll schedule guests like I
do every year, so you know, It is what it is, guys,
It really is. There are some days when I may
(10:20):
go do a Facebook live I don't know, and everybody says, oh,
you get the day off. A lot of the times,
I'm just working on stuff for clients now, trying to
you know, get some stuff going behind the scenes.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
So it's not like I'm just no.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Some days I'm totally sitting here twiddling my thumbs completely
like not even you know. Yeah, yeah, Anyway, the other
big story that I want to get to that I
normally would spend more time on the teen and Peters thing,
but I got an hour long show, so work with
me here. Trump paused military aid to Ukraine. This happened
(10:54):
yesterday during my show, but I had a chance to
read a little bit.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Trump has been very open said, look, when Zelensky is
ready to talk about peace, we would be more than
happy to restart our support. But we're not going to
sit here and dither around with somebody who is not
interested in working towards peace. Now, something that is really
(11:19):
pushed Trump over the edge, according to reports that I've
seen today. The thing that really pushed him to say, no,
we're not going to give you any more military hardware
for the next foreseeable future was that over the weekend,
Zelensky said after meeting with European leaders that they were
a long, long, long way from the end of the war.
(11:40):
So a long, long long way from the end of
the war indicates we don't believe that we should negotiate
an ending. And here's the other thing that I've seen
online that I want to address. A lot of people
are saying, why would you support Trump giving away Ukraine
to the Kremlin, to which I respond, what proposal are
you looking at? And of course they're not looking at
(12:03):
a proposal, because no proposals have been made. At least
when we see Israel and Cutter and all of those
Middle Eastern nations negotiating, we get a framework of what
they're looking for and what it's going to look like.
Nothing has been proposed thus far. Not a single proposal
has been slid across a desk on a folded piece
(12:24):
of paper so the other team could open it, you know,
and look at it dramatically and then say yes or no.
The notion that somehow anything has been negotiated is just
not factual, and we will not ever be able to
get to the end of this war without negotiation. So
I'm genuinely and I don't get me wrong. I get
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Zelensky's point that Russia has not really felt the need
to be bound by any prior ceasefires.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But when you have the Trump administration, when you have
the United States in the middle of these negotiations, especially
if the rare Earth minerals deal does get done, and
that is not dead in the water, because I have
an update from Zelensky today that I'm going to get
to in just a second.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
But when you have.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
A vested economic relationship, it changes the dynamic. But Zelensky
wanted full throated support of Ukraine. He wanted Trump to
call Vladimir Putin every name in the book, and that's
not going to get Putin.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
To the table.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
But I do want to share with you what Zelensky
tweeted out this morning eight fifty four am our time.
Because all good diplomacy is now happening on x. Okay,
there's no diplomacy in.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
The back room.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It's just it's all happening on what used to be Twitter. Okay,
this is what his post says. I would like to
reiterate Ukraine's commitment to peace. None of us wants an
endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating
table as soon as possible to bring lasting piece closer.
Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I
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stay and ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership
to get a piece that lasts. We are ready to
work fast to end the war, and the first stages
could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky,
ban on missiles, long range drones, bombs on energy and
other civilian infrastructure, and truce in the sea immediately. If
Russia will do the same, then we want to move
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very fast through all the next stages and to work
with the US to agree to a strong final deal.
We do really value how much America has done to
help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence, and we remember
the moment when things changed when President Trump provided Ukraine
with javelins. We are grateful for this. Our meeting in
Washington at the White House on Friday did not go
(14:43):
the way it was supposed to be. It is regrettable
that it happened this way. It is time to make
things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to
be constructive regarding the agreement on minerals and security. Ukraine
is ready to sign it anytime and in any convenient format.
We see this agreement as a step toward greater security
(15:03):
and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will
work effectively. Now if you think, and we went over
this yesterday, we talked about the fact that Trump viewed
and we played the audio from Marco Rubio, Secretary of
State Marco Rubio explaining this very point. That meeting on
Friday was simply supposed to be about the minerals deal,
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which the Trump administration views as the first step into
a series of steps that would create an environment where
the US has a vested interest in helping Ukraine fight
other than they're fighting our enemy. So it's been a
fascinating evolution for Zelensky in that he actually uses the
(15:53):
phrase steps. I mean the first stages, he says could
be the release of prisoner, and then he I mean,
we see this agreement as a step toward greater security
and solid security guarantees. I gotta tell you, if I'm
the Trump administration, I send him over the minerals deal
as an e doc like oh E sign here, create
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your signature. I rob him of another opportunity to grandstand
in front of TV cameras, which he was not there
to do on Friday. Friday was the first step and
he blew it.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Hey, Mandy, if you.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Don't think Trump's rhetoric supports Russia, you're not paying attention.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Guys.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I gotta tell you, I am holding fire on this.
I find it vile that Trump sucks up to Putin,
but I do believe it's not because he thinks Putin
is like this wonderful human being. To think that Trump
is Putin's ally requires that you believe that Trump is stupid.
And I know a lot of people think Trump is stupid.
A lot of people are Now the new line is
(16:56):
Elon Musk is stupid, which is hoo, there he is.
So if you don't believe Trump is stupid, if you
believe Trump, it's been a deal maker's entire life that
I need you anti trumpers to help me out with something.
I was trying to think, what was there a deal
in the first Trump administration, I mean a completed deal
(17:17):
that turned out to be a bad deal for the
United States Because I was trying to remember, I mean
You've got the Abraham Accords, You've got the reworking of NAFTA.
What other deals were done during the Trump administration and
how have they turned out? So right now, I'm holding
my fire on this because I think that we're not
seeing the endgame, perhaps tonight in this speech. Tonight, this
(17:40):
starts at seven pm. We're going to air it here
on KOWA. I think I'm gonna live tweet during it.
I think so, cause it's going to be at seven yell.
I have to be in bed by nine thirty. I
went out on Saturday night to see Rick Lewis's band,
the Rick Lewis Project and the Freddie Jones. Man Lewis's band,
You guys, holy crap emole like the best band ever,
(18:04):
best cover band I've seen in two decades by far.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
But by the.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Time that the Freddie Jones Project came on, I was like,
it's past my bedtime.
Speaker 2 (18:14):
I got to go home, So I did.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
In any case, I got a bunch of other stuff
on the blog and I got one last half of
the show to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
When we get back.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Oh, look, guess who has a plan for the Gaza
strip And it's not Donald Trump. I'll explain when we
get back right after this on Kowa. All right, friends,
we are back for the last half of our very
short show because of baseball. I do want to respond
to several of you who have essentially taken to the
(18:47):
text line about the deal or the deal points or
you know what Rush is going to give up. I
don't have any of those answers. I really don't, but
I promise you this, if a deal, when something gets developed,
really sucks, I'm gonna say it really sucks. But I'm
not going to speculate on what is in there or
what isn't in there, or what could be there what's
(19:09):
not in there. So I mean, don't calm your just
slow your role as the kids say. Do the kids
still say that now?
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
I've never really been up to speed on what the
kids say, even when I was a kid. Never been
good at it. Anyway, I got a couple of things
that I want to talk about. So we talked about
Trump pausing the military aid. Oh here, we're going to
talk about Gaza for a second. And I have so
much stuff on the blog today that we're not going
to get to. But because we have baseball, you'll have
(19:37):
plenty of time to go to mandy'sblog dot com and
fill your head full of knowledge and starky commentary. You
can do that every day, but on a baseball day
you have plenty of time. So we all know that
Donald Trump sent the world into a tizzy when he
decided that he was going to go with Gaza Lago
or trump Agaza, or whatever you want to call it.
(19:59):
And I said at the time, all he's doing is
trying to get the Middle Eastern nations to step up
and do something with Gaza now that it needs to
be rebuilt and it needs to be run by someone
other than Hamas. Will surprise, surprise y'all. As they say
from CNN, a plan for Gaza formulated by Egypt would
exclude Hamas from governance of the enclave once the war ends.
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A draft of the plan obtained by CNN shows the
plan is being discussed by Arab leaders meeting in Cairo
in an emergency summit on Tuesday, with Egypt's president proposing
a Palestinian committee to temporarily govern Gaza, taking over from
Hamas and eventually handing power to the Palestinian authority with
the help of its Palestinian Brothers.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
Egypt has worked to.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
Create a Palestinian Administrative Committee of independent professionals and technocrats
who will be tasked with governing Gaza with the expertise
of its members. Now, as a point of order, I
don't have a lot of faith in Egypt, just generally, Okay.
I've told the story before that when my son graduated
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from his officers training at Fort Benning, we went to
see his graduation and there were some Egyptian soldiers that
were also in this group of soldiers that were completing
this program. So they all walk across the stage and
get whatever they get, their medals or not their medals,
their bars and stuff like that. And the Egyptian soldiers
(21:25):
walked across the stage like they were comedians entering like
a crowded arena.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
They were like, hey, man, what's going on.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
It was. It did not inspire confidence at all at all.
And I'm hoping that Saudi Arabia is going to be
a part of this, Jordan is going to be a
part of this, all of these Middle Eastern nations, because
if you look at the history of the United States
of America, every time white people have subdivided and tried
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to rule and take over anybody that's not also white.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
It doesn't go well long term.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
So I am more than happy to turn this over
to people in the Middle East to have a commonality.
Speaker 2 (22:09):
With the people in Gaza.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Now what's fun is that Egypt surez Hell doesn't want
the Palestinians in Egypt, and Jordan Shurezeck doesn't want the
Palestinians in Jordan. I mean, they don't want the Palestinians.
So they have a vested interest in making Gaza work.
But a couple things I'd like to see happen in Gaza.
First of all, completely getting rid of the UN Refugee Agency.
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It's time to go, because by naming an agency to
help refugees, you have a zero percent chance of people
actually becoming assimilated or helping them create their own country
that is stable and not a source of terror for
the people who live in their direct vicinity. Right, that
would be nice. So, by the way, Hamas is not
happy about this oh crime in River Hamas senior HAMAS
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officials saw me. Abu Zuri told Reuters the group rejects
any attempt to impose projects of any form of non
Palestinian administration or the presence of any foreign forces on
Gaza Strip territory. He went on to this is a
tough talk. We are keen for the success of the summit,
and we hope there will be a call to reject
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the displacement and to protect the right of our people
in resisting the occupation and govern itself away from the
custodianship and intervention. You mean like Hamastid since two thousand
and six, where they have received billions of dollars in
aid but still couldn't manage to build a desalinization plant
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or a power plant, and they use their big concrete
plant that they built to just build terror tunnels so
they can invade and murder Israelis sorry, jimas, I don't
care how you feel about it. I really don't do
not care, do not care. I hope that Egypt can
get this together, open that Egypt lead on it. I
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don't know that they'll be able to pull it off.
We shall see. Somebody just hit the Common Spirit Health
text line and said, apparently Trump's gonna announce the deal tonight. Well,
if you could do that e sign that I was
talking about, just like send it over Ukraine sign this,
we'll announce it tonight. That would be fantastic, But I
would not be surprised if Trump's lets Zelensky twist for
(24:26):
a couple of days. Maybe, I don't know, Mandy. Those
exchange officers are always the relatives of rulers, but the
countries pay us a pretty penny for their attendance. From
what I understand, we just learned to put up with them. Yeah,
the exchange officers. I well, here, wait a minute, to
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be clear, there were exchange officers from Saudi Arabia who
walked across in a very respectful military like fashion and
received their their stripes and then saluted and did all
of the normal military things. And there was also exchange
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officers from one other country that I cannot remember. And
it was only Egypt that acted the fool Only Egypt
that just did not impress at all, not even a
little bit. Okay, that's all on the blog today, just
laid out. Trump is speaking tonight at seven pm. You'll
hear it here live on KOA. Also on the blog today,
(25:28):
I have a whole bunch of stuff, including a deeper
dive into a Christa Kaifer column about Jared Police is
directing as governor, this big push to move us to
renewables and to electrify our economy. Meaning they don't want
you using natural gas in your home. They don't want
(25:50):
natural gas and to go into new buildings. They don't
want natural gas a part of your life. They don't
want to do it. They want to force you to
have an electric stove. They want to force you to
have an electric fireplace. They want to force you to
have everything electric. That's where they want to go. But
the reality is is that countries that have already gone
down this path before us, some of which are suffering mightily, mightily,
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even the one that's supposed to be the best, Spain.
I did a little deep dive. Okay, Christa's column, I'm
getting ahead of myself. I'm getting ahead of my skis here.
Christa's column is about the real cost of unreliable green
energy here in Colorado, and this is a little snippet
of it. Thanks to so called green energy mandate set
by Governor Jared Polis in the General Assembly, it's only going.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
To get worse.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
A new report by the nonpartisan Common Sense Institute projects
that within five years under the new law, the average
household will spend as much as five hundred dollars more
a year on your power bill. Now Germany has gone
all in on renewable energy. Do you not much a
kilowatt hour costs in Germany right now?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Well?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I do because I looked it up today to give
you just a little bit of they're paying thirty eight
cents per kilo what hour in Germany? Thirty eight cents
per kil one hour? Do you know what we pay
in December of twenty twenty four, we paid fifteen cents
a killo what hour for our power? They pay thirty
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eight cents. We pay fifteen cents.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
Now.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Spain also went in on the green economy. But Spain
has much better weather. They have a massive coastline with
lots of wind, They have sunshine for most of the year,
so their green energy story is considered to be a success.
And do you know what Spain pays per.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Kilo one hour? Now?
Speaker 1 (27:40):
Remember we paid fifteen cents per kill one hour. By
the way, that was almost seven percent more than the
previous year.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
We pay fifteen cents.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
Spain, with all of the green energy that you could
possibly imagine that works great, is paying twenty four cents
a killo what hour. The notion that green energy is
going to be cheaper, ever, is a lie. It's a lie.
It is not sustainable, it is not reliable, and you
need to read all this stuff if you want to
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know more. We're gonna come back for a very short segment.
The snitch line is open when it comes to ratting
out governmental agencies doing bad stuff. I'll explain my first
story about that from Dylan when we get back after this.
All right, my friends, we are making our way through
a very short show, and I've got so much stuff
(28:31):
on the blog it's not even funny. Although yesterday when
I had Jen Schumann on talking about the latest bit
of idiocy and shenanigans from the Douglas Board of Commissions
Douglas County, I was like, you know what I know
about the shenanigans happening in Douglas County because I live here,
But I don't know about the shenanigans everywhere. So I
want to create like a little snitch line where you
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guys can email me and tell me when your town council,
your city council, your county commititioners, whatever, when they're doing
bad stuff. And I already got two leads, one of
them straight out of Dylan. And this is something that
I think is a story that every single community in
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Colorado is dealing with on some level, maybe not the
exact details, but it has to do with development, and
development is like the boogeyman here. And I'm gonna be
perfectly honest. I moved to Douglas County. I moved quote
out in the country when I moved here thirteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
Twelve years ago.
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Now out in the country is now being consumed by
other houses. So Chuck and I grumble about this all
the time, like what do you do when you move
out in the country and then the city comes out
to you. And I think there's a lot of people,
especially Native Colorado's people who have been here for decades,
that are looking at the kind of growth and the
(29:54):
development that is happening now and are like, wait a minute,
slow down, because it's getting out of control. And you've
got elected officials that they may run on a platform
of being tough on you know.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
We're not going to give those developers what they want.
You know, they don't want to do that, They're not
going to do that.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
But the reality is is that they have to find
the tax dollars to make sure that their communities can survive.
And ultimately, if a community doesn't grow, it will die.
And all you have to do is look at some
of the smaller communities on the planes or you know,
on the way past the western slope as you're getting
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towards Utah.
Speaker 2 (30:38):
A lot of those little towns are struggling. Not all
of them.
Speaker 1 (30:40):
Some of them are doing very well, but a lot
of those little towns are struggling because they don't have
a good tax base, and they don't have opportunity, and
they don't have jobs for young people when they graduate, right,
So it's a very delicate balance. I'm not pretending I
have the answer, by the way, So if you're waiting
for me to drop the answer on you to this,
I don't know it.
Speaker 2 (30:58):
Do not have the answer. But Dylan is.
Speaker 1 (31:02):
Now trying to recall three town council members because they
green lit a metro district plan presented by developers that
would allow for the development of an area near the
reservoir where everything happens. And if you've never been to Dylan,
so cute, so cute, and they have this great Dylan
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amphitheater that's right by the reservoir. It is just like
a little gorgeous little postcard. But they don't have a
lot of tax money. And a developer came in and said, look,
we want to build a parking garage, which would be
amazing for those of us who come in to Dylan
for concerts and whatnot. They want to build a parking garage,
a supermarket and restaurants, but they want a percentage of
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sales and lodging taxes and public funding and a half
acre of land. Now that, my friends, is a sweet deal.
A little too sweet for me. I'm never inclined to
give away future benefits for short term gain. Maybe that
can be discussed, but the town is not happy. Now
they're talking about recalling them. But y'all, this is a
matter of hundreds of people voting total. I also got
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a tip about the Lakewood informer, a rabbel rouser in
Lakewood who tries to hold government there accountable. So I'm
hoping to focus and feature more of these people and
more of you guys. If you see something that looks shady,
let me know. I'll reach out and try and get
the players on the show. We shall see if that
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has any real effect. Also on the blog today, I've
got a lot of other stuff, including I fixed the video.
So now when you click on the video, let me
make sure this volumes off because the Democrats curs in
it right away.
Speaker 2 (32:44):
It's really funny.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
It's all of the Democrats reading from the same prepared
script in advance of tonight's State of the Union address.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
So all right, guys, we are almost done.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
And if you follow me on Twitter at Mandy Connell,
I will be live tweeting there tonight. I think I'll
sit upstairs so I don't make a torture truck with it,
but I'll be back tomorrow with a full recap for
those of you who go to bed early. But in
the meantime, everybody make room because Rocky Spring Training baseball
is coming up next and yours truly will be back
(33:15):
tomorrow with a full show, so stick around for that,
then keep it on KOA
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