091124 Steve Laffey

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All right, the debate last night, I thought for sure
it got weirder as it went on, but I thought
for sure the entry would be kind of a contestant.
I saw Kamala walked over to Donald and shook her
hand and said, Kamala Harris, and that was kind of interesting.
I guess they've never been in a room together. You
think all these Washington and powerful people have all hung

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out together, but I guess he's never met him. And
so she walked off over and said Kamala Harris. And
I read somebody said, there's Donald Trump trying to be
the power player making her come to him, and I
thought this was kind of awkward. She could tell her hesitating,
like are we shaking hands before this or we not?
I don't know that. Seems like that would have been
something their camps could have probably predicted or asked in advance,

(00:46):
so anyway we can discuss that. But I thought that
was i' Kamala Harris, Kamala Harris, and he said thanks
for being here, and I think that was why he said,
this is kind of weird. The weird moment they didn't
meet in the middle for a handshake, and she didn't
know where to go over non she did. Yeah, that's fine,
shake a hand, No harmon shaking a hand. Glad you
shook her hand. All right. Good to have you here

(01:07):
on the radio show. Jimmy is my name. We'll dive
into some more of the September eleventh commemoration from twenty
three years ago. Got more audio taking you back in
history right now. There's just powerful video that's been circulating
on the web. I know Fox plays it every year.
I know some of the networks refused to play, but
they showed the actual timeline of the planes crashing into

(01:28):
the building, and it's still kind of emotional. You watch
that and I go, gosh, I remember that, and again
it was just a different I think of all the
things in my life that have changed. You think of
people that have now had the kids that have gotten married,
their grandkids and they've never known one of the family members.
I mean, it's so much changed in my life just
since those that day of September the eleventh that I

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can still go back and remember the emotion of it
and the radio broadcast early days of news radio for me,
and I wasn't allowed to be on the radio because
they had gone to all recorded or satellite driven program
from New York. So anyway, we will dive into some
of that. I got a couple of sources, and there's
speculated I'm not surprised by a couple of sources say, yeah,
there's evidence out there that remember Hillary Clinton got the

(02:12):
answer the questions of the debate stuff early. She got
that from Donna Brazil. Donna Brazil finally apologized like a well,
I'm sorry I cheated. There's sources out there that are
confirming that Kamala had been practicing her answers, she'd gotten
those in advance. Not surprising that was on the internet
last night. But then now there's some actual sources that

(02:32):
people have and I have, that have said dahs that happened.
So anyway we can talk about all that. Let me
walk home into the conversation. Mister Steve Laffy. He's been
a guest of the program since the onset here on
this program, this radio station, almost since the beginning, and
he joins us every Wednesday, this time his website Steve
Laffey dot com, author, filmmaker, former candidate for president, and

(02:54):
here he is, Steve laffe How are you, Jumie.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
So great to be to This was a great chest
so far at nine to eleven. Also a very very
sad day, especially our response and what happened to those people.
But anyway, go what do if you want to debate
last night. I have a different take, I think than
what the papers are saying because I don't watch anything
before or anything after until maybe twenty minutes ago. I
watched a couple of things. But yeah, give me one

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to debate handily.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Yeah, give me your thoughts. I thought he missed a
couple of opportunities watching it. Just he could have answered
here responded. But I didn't think he lost it by
any means. But you think he outright want to go ahead?

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yes, and listen. I'm not in favor of Donald Trump,
except what happens with Missus Harris. But so you have
a debate, let's just backtrack one second. So if indeed
it's about claiming the future, miss Harris is trying to
do that, Vice President Harris is trying to do that.
I was talking about the future, but there's nothing about
the future with her. Her future is one of just
giving people money, right and so, But in Trump's case,

(03:57):
in a debate like this, it's about who has the
better line, So think about it. Who read the better lines?
First she tried calling it Trump's sales tax, and he
went after that. Of course, now on immigration, Trump was
right to continually go back to immigration because it's the
one thing that can win the election. We know, if

(04:17):
we know anything about Member, what do people and decide
to know about missus Harris. They really know she's the
immigrations are We do know she was put in charge
of the border back at the beginning of Biden's presidency,
and we do know people flooded in like never before,
so and we know she really didn't go to the border,
so we know these things. So he focused on that,
went back to it. But if you look at some
of the lines, you know the Trump's saying people are

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coming from insane asylum. It's funny, right, the level of
criminality has never been higher. She wants to tie him
to Project twenty twenty five. He has to say it's
not that. Now. One of the great lines is she's
a Marxist. Her father's a Marxist. And if you notice, folks,
she never said I'm not a Marxist, and she never

(05:01):
said my father is not a Marxist. So when people say.
For example, I heard one person I really do like,
Breg Hume at Fox News about twenty months I watched
a clip of him talking about this and he said that,
you know, they went off he Trump went off the
rails talking about what happened. When when Missus Harris talked

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about Trump rallies, I don't think that's true at all.
I think miss Harris went off the rails saying something
that we know isn't true, that nobody goes to the
rallies and that people leave the rallies early. We know
that's not really true, even though Democrats would like it
to be true. But when she comes back and says
something along the lines of people don't go to her rallies,

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she buses people in and pays them, that's pretty much true.
So he came back in all these things talking about
we're going to be venezuela and steroids if she becomes president. Also,
Missus Harris's laughter is really bad. And when she cites
Dick Cheney and Liz Jady has their supporters, that's not

(06:05):
helping you get any votes. That's making more rabid people
on the Trump side even more rabbit because they hate
those people. Right, they really hate Liz Cheney, so she
shouldn't go there now when she says things like people
that work for you or other people, one hundred people,
two hundred people think that you're a terrible president in
the disgrace. If he says I fired most of those people,

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that's a great lifeline. Now he did fire some of them,
not most of them. Right. And the one thing on abortion,
Trump is totally correct on abortion when he says that
he says every single legal person, everybody in every party,
wanted it to be left to the states. It's not true.
Obviously it's not true. But when he says he left
it to the states and the Supreme Court left it

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to the states, that is exactly the right Republican position
to not lose votes among the undecideds. Right, it's the
right position, is correct, and announcing that many of these Democrats,
including miss Harris are okay within fantaside, he's correct in that.
And so I'm not sure what the real problem was

(07:11):
with him saying this all the time right now, the
fact the laugh line about people are eating dogs and
cats in certain cities, and remember the announcers, as you said, correctly,
are totally against Trump. They never fact checked her with
her lies right, never once, And so I think Trump
won to the big Now, how did he really win?
He won because what people pay attention to mostly is

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the opening and the clothes in the last minute, when
the last three minutes, when she gave, you know, blah
blah blah what she's going to do, and Trump came
back at the end and said, you've had three and
a half years to actually do any of it, and
you've done none of it. Why don't you go back
to the White House tonight and do some of it.
I'm paraphrasing a little bit. That's a great clothes People

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are reminded that no matter what she says, she he's
done none of it. So in my opinion, that was
a great closing argument by Trump, and by the grace
of God, he went last. People will remember that. Now.
All the news are trying to say that she won
because they are sitting in a world where if someone's

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trying to grab the future, which Trump really isn't as
much as she is with her platitudes. I would say
it goes back to this. I'm not so sure that
works anymore, grabbing the future like we've talked about I've
talked about for many, many years. People are living in
the present, and it seems like they don't care about
their kids, they don't care about the future, they don't
care what happens tomorrow. They're just living today. And if

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that's the case, we are now an election where it's
like this are the platitudes of Miss Harris. The Democratic
platitudes are chicken in every pot, blah blah blah with
no specifics. Better than I'm going to put it to
these people on trade. I'm going to put it to
these people on this. This is Trump, right, He's going
to do X, Y and Z. Which is better. I

(09:01):
think Trump's is better because I don't think people are
trying to grab the future. Because again, it's the whole
list of things that we've talked about in the past.
On the next part, though, think about the announcers who
never once asked about critically important things that you and
I have talked about. The national debt is not an
issue for a debate, which may be the only debate

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between these two. The national debt is not an issue Jimmy.
Social Security the biggest line item and sixty five trillion
dollars in arrears and about to cut paychecks in seven
years by thirty three percent is not an issue. The
feather reserve creating inflation and all the spending, and the
inflation report that came out today shows that year over

(09:45):
year inflation is still rising at three percent. Experud energy
and so forth right, it's actually a little higha it's
not down to zero. None of this is an issue.
The public schools, which you and I've talked about, which
every parent is sitting there scratching their head or really
worried about their kids, is not an issue. It's just
not an issue. These are like why I ran for president,

(10:06):
and you can see why I didn't do well because
I guess they're not issues. But the people walking down
the street, they're the real issues. Like so, the real issue,
of course for people in the lower middle class is
that they got screwed. And Trump did fail to do this,
as we talked about. He did fail to say this
one thing, that's the critical thing. Everybody listening, who made

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one hundred grand four years ago when I left office,
You now make one hundred and six, but you need
one hundred and twenty thousand dollars to buy the goods
because of that lady over there, you're out fourteen thousand dollars.
He didn't do the specifics, but overall, these are things
that I can't believe we're not discussing. But we live
in a country where we're simply not going to discuss

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the really critical things. And ABC is letting down the
country with their announcers to not even bring it up
to me, not even to have there's not a question
about any of these things.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
How about like, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on,
Steve live me. Remind people you listen to Steve Laffy.
He's I just want to make sure people know that
they're tuned in to the Laky Show. Six hundred caseyo,
Steve Laffing, his website Steve Laughy dot com, Steve Laffy
dot com. So Steve, let's get back into the things
that were discussed. I think that is a great point

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that they didn't talk about the national debt, they didn't
talk about the national defense, They didn't really talk about
a lot of the stuff that's happening. They asked Kamala Harris,
so she hated Jews or something. But the kitchen table
issues out there that I think and I think you
bring up a good point that people say this is,
you know, you can talk about hope and change and joy,

(11:42):
but man, the groceries aren't coming easy right now, and
I do need a lot more money than want to
make right now. Cost of living has gone up and
my lifestyle has gone down. I think you're right. Grasping
in the future may not be the path right now.
But some of this just wasn't discussed. They would wanted
to talk about January the sixth, which most people aren't
that concerned. Abound that are still undecided. I mean, anybody

(12:02):
don't worry about January sixth is already probably not voting
for Trump anyway.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Yet. Yes, in January sixth, you never been brought up.
But Trump, of course can't let it governor. People said
he shouldn't have talked about it. I'm miss watching some
of these clips. But what's he's supposed to say. He
did offer ten thousand troops to Nancy Pelosi, who actually
says it is her fault. He did say be peaceful, right,
so these things actually happened. Why would he not remind
people that's what he did that day? Right? So I'm

(12:30):
not sure. I'm the state in this part. But when
Trump brought up like the war, and Harra says it
should the war has the rate Israeli pallaced, whatever you
want to call this war has to be ended immediately. Well,
she's in office, so it's a weak The society has
to be ended immediately, because it's not going to be
ended immediately. And when he said you wouldn't even meet

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with Netanyavu, the president of the Premier of Israel, and
you went to a sorority party, that's actually true, and
say I didn't do. I didn't go to a sorority party.
So if you're listening, you must be thinking, why would
she go to a sorority party. It is critical in
debates when people say things that are complete lives, like
the twenty twenty five project blah blah blah, that you
say this isn't true, even though the announcers will only

(13:14):
fact check you so. And then back to Ukraine. I
disagree with everybody on Ukraine in the whole debate. I
would have but Trump did say correctly about Afghanistan, so
he made it come up a number of times, which
is a real weak point because the most embarrassing withdrawal
in the United States history has to be Afghanistan, and

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Trump brought it up a number of times and let
people know. And I think it's true. I've said on
your show back when Trump was president, he's never getting
out of Afghanistan, and he wasn't. He just said he
wanted to see see. Trump is good at playing both
sides of that issue. I'm going to get out. I'm
going to get out. Here are the rules to get
out by the Hamas will I mean Hamas, the Taliban

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will never do it, which they never did, and so
he was never getting out. And on the flip side,
who never would have went into Ukraine if Trump was president,
if what happened in Afghanistan hadn't happened, he'd still be
waiting for weakness. And so now hundreds of thousands of people,
maybe a million people, I'm dead because of Trump, Harris,
I mean because of Biden Harris, and now it's Harris.

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So these are all true things, and that's why I
think he won a debate. But back to like real issues,
the average person who is that middle class or trying
to be middle class person doesn't get out of debate
what they want, and so I'm not sure it changes
any votes that might be playing in those six percent
of the people and seven states that they're trying to

(14:41):
appeal to. I'm sure the debate went after any of that,
but certainly, in my humble opinion, Trump did not lose
the debate. I thought he won.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
Yeah, I agree. I think I don't think he lost
it at all. Again, I can always critique of performance.
The fact that they're saying, well, COmON have overperformed a
overmat expectations shows that they had a very low bar.
He didn't lose it. I don't think it persuades anybody.
I think last night it's nobody's going, oh wow, I'm
going to rethink my love for Harris, or rethink my

(15:08):
love for Biden. Excuse me, Donald Trump. I don't think
in the grand scheme of things, anything shifts at all.
It was just kind of ninety minutes of fodder is
all it really was.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
And I think that I think that these announces, and
I'm just going to say this, I don't think they
know what the real problems are. Maybe ABC and I
was on Good Morning America and they are very nice people.
I said hi to Judge Stephanopolos, and I've been on
nationwide with him for half an hour in six Maybe
they just don't know any of this. For example, do
they not know the Federal Reserve is now losing, like

(15:43):
losing a hundred billion dollars a year because of their
failed policies of keeping rates too low? I mean one
hundred billions. Jimmy, if you lost one hundred billion in
the federal government level, wouldn't you resign? If this never
comes up? I don't think they know any of them
any of this. Yeah, with the announcements, they just people talk.

Speaker 1 (16:04):
Yeah, and the fact checking. If anybody thinks ABC has
any journalistic integrity, do remember that the View is considered
a news program at ABC, which is true. It's in
their news department, and George Stefanopos is considered a journalist
to so that on'll a lectionend about ABC. Hey, Steve,
we are out of time, my friend. I appreciate you,
how yeah, really quick? Your web I talk so much,

(16:26):
so much to get up your website. It's good therapy
webs your website, Steve Laffy dot com l A F
F E y Steve Laffy dot com. And I'll get
that posted up on my website as well, he was.
I know when Steve's fired up because his messages start
coming bright and early on the topics he wants to
hit today. And his started coming in a little bit
earlier than normal, I said, O, which is no problem.

(16:47):
I mean it's not like I'm behind a microphone. But
he's ready to go. And I'm always glad to have
Steve Laffey on Steve Laffy dot com l A F
F e Y. I think that's a very interesting part
is to think about the topics that just weren't really
brought up on the stage of conversation last night, and
they really I mean, did they get any feel for

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how they're going to help your economy and lower inflation.
We didn't talk about that, but we got to talk
about these other issues. Yeah, it's always the same issues too, right,
They got their pet issues in the media. They want
to hit social security. How Yeah, that wasn't talked about
the national debt and not nary a word about those things.

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