The Rod and Greg Show: Reactions to the Riots in Los Angeles

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
How are you everybody hope you had a fantastic weekend,
and what a weekend it turned out to be protest
in La. And I tell you what, Greg, You know
you have stated in city officials who allowed the law
to be broken, and sooner or later it is going
to catch up to them, and it has caught up
to them now and they don't like it.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, you know, And this playbook works for Democrats, the
Tesla take down. We can talk about it, we can
point it out, we even have receipts nowadays. But at
the end of the day, if they can raise the
misery index, America seems to recoil from moments like this
that it creates fear. And even if the left wants
to accuse Donald Trump his administration, ice, you name it,
of being the purveyors of it, which we don't believe,

(00:39):
at the end of the day, people just want to stop,
and so they It usually politically means that the people
that are in the right, the people trying to preserve
a lot order, do back away. And you saw that
in May of twenty twenty and Salt Lake City when
Mayor men in Hall did not allow the Salt Lake
City Police to prevent the riots, the destruction of personal property,
and the police car and jurisdictions from around Utah had

(01:02):
to be called in, including our Utah National Guard, to
stop the violence. And so it looks that was like
a microcosm of the madness you saw this weekend.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Yeah, well, there's something different about it, and I think
that that difference is Donald Trump. Donald Trump is not
going to allow this to happen on the streets of America,
and he's moving quickly. Late word coming in tonight is
that seven hundred Marines are headed to Los Angeles, infuriating,
gruesome newsome Donald Trump doesn't care. He wants safe streets,

(01:32):
He wants to protect federal buildings, protect federal employees, and
if he has to send in the National Guard and
the Marines to do so, Donald Trump is going to
do it.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
And while the Democrats, a leftists, the regime media will
tell you that this is some dictatorial, you unprecedented move
by the president.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Know this.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
George Herbert Walker Bush in nineteen ninety two, in the
face of the La riots, brought in the armed US
Army and the US Marines, coordinated the federalized, the National Guard,
and coordinated them under General Colon Pale at the time.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
You have Eisenhower that's done that.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
You've had other presidents that have acted when violence and
public safety was at risk and they had to restore
the peace. It's happened before, it's not new to Trump.
But Trump's not going to be politically bashed into or
coward into backing down. He's going to protect people. He's
going to let law enforcement do their job as they should.
And what we should learn from this is understand that

(02:26):
the left never wanted a single day for the Biden
open border and the madness and the invasion that took
place to ever be reversed. They could have said, oh, yeah,
that was bad that They never wanted you to deport
a single soul. They don't care how criminally minded they are,
they don't care how violent they are.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
They want them to stay.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, and ICE is going after thugs. They're going after
child rapists, They're going after murderers who have been in
this country. They're here illegally, and ICE is going after
them to get rid of them. And that's what the
President promised the American people he would do. And the
American people, I.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
Think so, And thank goodness again, we have freedom of
speech when we have X as a platform where you
can see the images coming from what Los Angeles that
the media would have never showed you. We certainly didn't see.
I don't believe in the same detail during the George
Floyd riots in twenty twenty, that summer of twenty twenty.
The imagery we're seeing this weekend, it is. It is
a stark contrast. In fact, it exposes the lie that

(03:23):
you're hearing from democrats, leftists or regime media that's saying
it's mostly peaceful. It's mostly peaceful. It is that has
become a punchline to a bad, bad joke, because we
can see with our eyes, we can hear the violence
taking place that you cannot call in any way, shape
or form, mostly peaceful. It's a lie, and they're being exposed.

(03:45):
And for some reason they keep trying to repeat it
as if we're going to forget what we see.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
But there you go.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
It is.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
It remind you of one thing they told us, Joe
Biden was in great shape and height. They kept on
telling us that over and over again, and we could
see it with our own eyes. No, he's not so.
Now they're telling us that these are mostly peaceful protests
when we've got people standing by and cheering watching a
car burn and apparently that is entertaining to people.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
How much you want to bet Jake Tappers are he
got the outline for his book on how the next thay, yes,
the next one, on how how we were all lied
to about this mostly post peaceful protest. It was actually
very very violent. It was very violent. But he'll he'll
put the outline together now and then he'll come and
he'll he'll do whatever the regime media wants, and then
after the fact, after piece is restored and they're on
the wrong side of history, he'll write a book about

(04:32):
how badly they were misled.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
Well, we've got a lot to get to. We're really
going to explore this today. We've got some great guest
line up and of course we want your calls and
comments or talk back. We'll explain that coming up a
little bit later on. We'll talk about a quarter of
the enrollment in public schools today are anchor babies. Wow,
that's a lot to consider as well. The Supreme courts
and big rulings cuping coming up this month and we'll

(04:54):
get into that as well, and a lot of great
audio soundbites for you to be with today. Plus on
top of it everything else. We have tickets to Keith
Urban to give away and rock Star tickets to give away.
So we've got all kinds of things for you today.

Speaker 3 (05:08):
Yeah. Lot's to give away, a lot of trees.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Yeah, yeah, all right, let's dig into this. Donald Trump,
always quick to turn a phrase, did so to describe
his new slogan when it comes to this rioting. Here's
what he said today on the front lawn of the
White House.

Speaker 5 (05:22):
We're gonna be.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
Watching it very closely.

Speaker 7 (05:24):
And when they spit at people, you know, they spit,
that's the new thing.

Speaker 1 (05:29):
They spit and worse, you know what they throw at them.

Speaker 8 (05:32):
Right, And when that happens, I have a little statement.
They say, they spin.

Speaker 9 (05:38):
We hit, And I told them.

Speaker 3 (05:41):
Nobody's gonna spit on our police offices.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Nobody's gonna spit on our military, which.

Speaker 8 (05:46):
They do is a common thing.

Speaker 7 (05:48):
They get up to him, it's far away, and then
they start spitting in their face.

Speaker 8 (05:52):
That happens, they.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Get hit very hard.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
I love it. They spit, we hit. Absolutely No, there's
not an end of on the fates of this planet.
Greg who can have any recourse. But if someone spits
in your face, you're going to hit them back, in
my opinion, and that's exactly what the president is saying.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Well, it's against the law to impede and to obstruct
law enforcement, be it local law enforcement, federal law enforcement.
You cannot behave you cannot do what's being done and
not be breaking the law. Where are all these Democrats
after January sixth? All I could all I ever heard
about was rule of law.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Rule of law.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Oh we're you know, this worst thing since the Civil War.
I'm seeing people walking through the Capitol. I'm not justifying
any of it. I've always been on the side of
I'm not for political violence. It's the easiest place to
be and I'm not picking sides when it's okay. Democrats
only pick sides when it's okay. And all the people
that wanted to make it the biggest deal in the
world on January sixth, if you look at it compared

(06:49):
to the madness of Los Angeles, those same people that
upset about January sixth have not a single word to
say about. In fact, if you hear anything, it's if
you do it more, It just gives them more AMMO
against us. It's not even that it's wrong. They're not
even they don't even have the moral clarity to know
that what is happening in Los Angeles is just morally wrong. Yeah,
just morally wrong.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
Why why is Donald Trump doing this? Harryenton explains, He's
got the American people behind him.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
You know, if we just take a look at the
baseline numbers here, this is Trump's net approval rating on immigration.
It's gone up like a rocket compared now versus eight
years ago. During Trump's first term, look at this, and
his first term, Trump was way way way under water
at minus.

Speaker 10 (07:27):
Twenty one points. But look at this, He's up over.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Twenty points now in the aggregate, he is in positive
territory if plus one point on his net approval rating.
Some other polls even have it a little bit higher
than that. There is no issue on which Trump is
doing so much better than he was in his first
term more than the issue of immigration. No wonder The
Times has written up the way that he is. Trump

(07:49):
is begging for a fight on this because he knows
what he's doing so far is working with the American electorate.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
I don't know if he's begging for a fight on this.
But he's willing to fight if he has to. And
I think and I think he's willing to do so.
And I think the American the American people, gregor as
seeing this. There are several pictures that you and I
were looking at today, these iconic photos that it's coming
out that coming out of Los Angeles with this rioting,
that one that I recall, this guy on like a
dirt bike America or a Mexican flag behind him, and

(08:18):
behind that buildings and cars on fire. I tell you what,
the American people look at them, say, that's not America.
We do not want that on our streets.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
And you know a lot of people want to gauge
President Trump's election a reelection or not having one into
the president's calculus. I don't believe. I don't believe it's
in his calculus at all. I think this is the difference.
In his first term. He didn't have Cash Betel running
the FB guy. He didn't have Pete Hegsath running the
military being the Secretary of Defense. He didn't have Christy

(08:46):
Nome ahead of Homeland Security. He did not have a cabinet,
didn't have Tom Holman, didn't have Tom Mahomet. He did
not have the people necessary to carry out his agenda
the things he knew to be right. He was fighting
within his own administration as much as he was fighting
the Democrats and Russia Gate and everything else. He doesn't
have that now. He learned volumes from that first term

(09:08):
and is able to now implement exactly what he saw
what he wanted to do. Then you're not getting a Floyd.
You know, the George Floyd riots of twenty twenty, the
about Black Lives matter, the Antifa madness. We have a
very different administration, capable administration to protect people, to protect
public safety, to restore public law and order. That simply

(09:30):
the president didn't have the first.

Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, he didn't, and he will use it this time.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Oh will.

Speaker 1 (09:34):
It is going to be a different summer. If this
wants to continue, we'll talk more about it. We've got
a lot to get to today, and as always, we
invite you to be a part of the program. Eight
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we'll get to all of that, plus some great guests

(09:55):
coming up. It is the Monday afternoon edition of the
Roding Greg Show right here on you Talk Radio one
five nine KNRS. Let's talk more about the LA rights.
There's no doubt, Greg, that you have very progressive states
like California who apparently do not want to enforce or
care about laws, and now they're suffering the consequences. And

(10:15):
we're wondering what's going on here? What did they expect?

Speaker 10 (10:18):
Right?

Speaker 3 (10:21):
So joining us to kind of suss that out.

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Sorry partner is joining us as executive director of the
Center for Immigration Studies, Mark Grekorian. Mark, thank you for
joining us on the program again. A very interesting article
about these progressive states sanctuary states. Tell us what is
the ripple effect? What's the consequence? Maybe not a ripple,
we're seeing LA on fire over the weekend. What is

(10:45):
going on out there? And how are these states just
undermining this whole country.

Speaker 11 (10:50):
Well, I mean the.

Speaker 6 (10:53):
Idea that immigration law, you know, is sort of bad,
and that the federal government doesn't have the responsibility to
enforce it in their states really is kind of a
I mean, I hate to well, no, I don't hate
to say it. This is a neo Confederate way of
looking at the law. This is like South Carolina saying, no, no,

(11:14):
we get to decide what's the law. Federal government doesn't
get the Trump what we decide we want to do.
And that's the same kind of thing California has been
saying for years and years. We don't what immigration law
does not apply here in California, and so when the
Trump administration doesn't, it's not that they're going overboard. They're

(11:34):
just saying, Okay, well, we're going to enforce the immigration laws. Essentially,
the leadership class of LA and of the state of
California have kind of given permission to Antifa and the
rest of those kind of folks to respond violently to
attempts simply to enforce longstanding federal immigration law. And it

(12:00):
can't be allowed. I mean, it's just, you know, the
Washington shouldn't overreact. You don't want to, you know, start
opening fire on crowds or whatever. That they're not doing
that They're handling this, i think, very sensibly and showing
that the people they are arresting really are some of
the earth. These are not, you know, the salt of

(12:23):
the earth. Or there's some of the earth, you know
what I mean.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Yeah, they are in quire boys, that's for sure, Mark, Mark.
Last week we heard congressmen like Raskin, we heard Jeffries
calling attacking Ice for wearing masks to protect themselves. Where
are these guys now, Mark, I mean, what are they
saying about the the rioting that is taking place in
Los Angeles. I don't hear a peep out of either
one of them or anyone along those lines as well.

(12:47):
Where are they, Mark?

Speaker 6 (12:49):
Yeah, good question. I'm not sure. I think they're kind
of hoping this goes away because they realize that what
they're essentially, let's face that, their allies in the street,
because that's what these rioters are. What they're doing, essentially
is creating campaign ads for Republicans for the midterm elections
in the presidential election next time. Because the look, it's

(13:11):
like anybody can just see it.

Speaker 10 (13:13):
This is the.

Speaker 6 (13:14):
Consequence of trying to enforce immigration laws. These guys, the
Democrats really mean, let's face it, the antipap people and
the rioters say, no, we hate the Democrats too, But
quite honestly, they're the ones. They're sort of the street
thugs that are unofficially sort of the what do they
call it, the provisional arm of the Democratic Party, And

(13:37):
so people are going to draw their conclusion that you
want more of this about Democrat you.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Know, exactly as you're describing today. I believe the state
of California is suing the Trump administration over the deployment
of two thousand California National Guardsmen where they're coordinating federally.
They can add to that lawsuit now that we believe
what seven hundred marines US Marines are being deployed into
that area. The Attorney General of California says, let me
be clear in their lawsuit, there is no invasion, there

(14:05):
is no rebellion. The president is trying to manufacture chaos
and crisis on the ground for his own political ends. Mark,
we can see we have If you have eyes, you
can see what's going on there. If you have ears,
you can hear it. I don't think there's any manufacturing
of chaos whatsoever. Will this lawsuit, as much as the
judiciary has interrupted this president up till now, are they

(14:25):
going to be able to shop a judge and actually
get a judge to stop the president from being able
to do what other presidents have done.

Speaker 6 (14:33):
I have no idea how they could. I mean, you
never know. Again, you go to San Francisco, you can
find the judge to say anything. You know, I'm not
you know, the president has the statutory authority very clearly
to nationalize the National guardsmen.

Speaker 12 (14:48):
In there in the wrong way and turn.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
What go ahead?

Speaker 6 (14:52):
And the thing is, yeah, sorry about that. And and
you know what happened in nineteen fifty seven in Arkansas
with the Nation Guard being nationalized by the Eisenhower administration
to enforce federal law. In that case it was desegregation. Well,
federal law is federal law. You like it, don't like it.
The federal government has the responsibility to enforce the laws

(15:14):
that Congress has passed. Congress doesn't like it, let them
change it. In the meantime, the president's job is to
enforce it, and if local jurisdictions are obstructing it, they
have every right to nationalize the National Guard if that's
what's necessary to make sure that the law is enforced.
So again, they shouldn't be overreacting. But so far they've

(15:36):
been dealing with this in a strong, but you know,
sensible manner.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
Well, we're talking with Mark Gregorian right now, executive director
of the Center for Immigration Studies.

Speaker 6 (15:45):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (15:45):
The people who are telling us that these are mostly
peaceful protests, aren't these the same people that were telling
us Joe Biden is just fine? Aren't they in the same.

Speaker 6 (15:56):
Yeah, And they're the same people who are telling us
that the BLM riots five years ago were you know,
or fiery, but mostly peaceful was what one person said.
It it's become a joke. I mean, you know they
could pull that off once. Does anybody really believe that
nonsense anymore?

Speaker 10 (16:13):
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (16:14):
I mean, how many you know the picture of that guy,
the protester waving the Mexican flag standing on the burning car. Yeah, like, well,
that's the symbol for what's going on. If you were
if you wanted to engage in peaceful, patriotic protests, you
would have a bunch of people with American flags, not
Mexican or other foreign flags, you know, singing America the

(16:37):
Beautiful or whatever it is. That's patriotic protests. And you know,
you could make an argument that the laws should be changed,
I don't know, go ahead, but that's not what this is.
And you know this is lawlessness, but it's not regular lawlessness.
It's lawlessness that the leadership class in the left in
California but nationwide has given permission if they have basically

(17:01):
winked at their supporters and said, you know, you guys
really are the good guys and ice of the bad guys.
So if things happen as a consequence of that, oh well,
such as life.

Speaker 1 (17:13):
Yeah, Mark is always great chatting with you. Thank you.
Enjoyed the rest of the day, Mark, thank you, thank you.
On our newsmaker line, Mark Gregriyan he's with the Center
for Immigration Studies right here on the Rotten Greg Show. Remember, Oh,
it was several year or two ago, Greg, and I
think you bought a case of these little stickers that
people would put on gas station pumps with Don with
Joe Biden pointing at the price, saying I did this something.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
Like that, put those on a gas you know. Yeah,
I don't know what kind of you know, lawlessness would
do something like that, but yeah I might have. I
might have been in possession of some of those stickers.
I can't confirm such a such a thing.

Speaker 1 (17:53):
Well, maybe a new one should be with Donald Trump going,
you voted for this, and I think he spot on
on this, the American people wanted something done about immigration.
He certainly has changed what's going on in the border,
and now he's going after the cities that have provided
sanctuary cities for illegal aliens in.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
This country to a t is if we voted for
this guy, these are the issues that we voted for
him to confront, and we knew he'd have the courage
of his condition to see it through. Yeah, and again,
like you said, we voted for this.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Joining us on our newsmaker line to talk more about
this is our good friend, Kevin McCullough. Kevin is a
nationally syndicated host and podcaster. Kevin, always great to have
you on the show. Let's talk about Los Angeles. Are
Karen Bass and Gruesome newsome two of the biggest clowns
in America today? In your opinion, Kevin.

Speaker 9 (18:39):
I'm not sure that they are clowns so much as
they are completely negligent and irresponsible for sure, and there
are times when you have to wonder if their motivations
don't borderline on something even more treacherous. And people can
hang me out to drive for that. Couldn't care less.

(19:01):
This is a governor who watched most of southern California
burn when he knew that he had not allocated water
supply is where they needed to be less than a
year ago.

Speaker 10 (19:10):
And now in the.

Speaker 9 (19:12):
Aftermath of George Floyd riots and other things where we've
seen massive violence take place in America's inner cities, he's
acting like what's going on with the ICE detention centers
and the ICE agents is just another day at work.
And he gets mad when the President says, well, we're
not going to allow that to happen. We're not going
to let our federal agents be attacked, and he starts

(19:34):
begging the President to remove the federal authorities and so forth.
If they don't want the President to take control of
the situation, then step up and take control of it yourself.

Speaker 10 (19:45):
No one's preventing you from doing that except you.

Speaker 3 (19:48):
I really appreciated this article.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I think the contrast between law and order and mob rule,
and where the Democrats and Governor Newsom and this Maribas
where they stand where there's kits at best, and sometimes
they're just you know, praising these these mobs, you know,
the rioters as activists, meanwhile disparaging our ice ICE officers

(20:11):
as terrorizing communities. I thought you really painted a strong
and important contrast.

Speaker 3 (20:17):
I'm with you.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
I think that this isn't incompetence. I think it's something
worse than that. So that leads me to this question.
There's a lot of talk to the same organizers and
participants that helped successfully deploy this riot this weekend in
la are looking at June fourteenth and looking to see
more riots throughout the America in large cities this summer.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Do you think that's going to happen?

Speaker 2 (20:38):
Do you think these images that we're seeing are going
to sour America on this on these antics or are
we just going to get more.

Speaker 9 (20:45):
Use mostly you mean these mostly peaceful images for the
last four hours, the mostly peaceful teslas that are burning
on car lots, and the mostly peaceful bricks that are
being thrown at ice agents heads.

Speaker 10 (21:00):
Guys, there's there's little.

Speaker 9 (21:02):
That I feel more strongly about than what I'm about
to say. But when I say that the American people
are not going to tolerate this, this, this is all
you have to have to to really understand why the
Democrats lost so badly in November of last year. There's
not one person I know when when Harry Sisson or

(21:25):
David what's his name, hog Hogman? What it's Uh, yeah,
hoglet that is uh that's putting his stuff out on
Twitter when they're when they're talking about you know, like, oh,
we should be more understanding and oh we should be
you know, men of different character and nature and stripe.
Donald Trump is not a sissy man, and he doesn't
respond to criminals and murderers and rapists and destructionists the

(21:49):
way sissy men do. He actually stands up and says,
we're not going to let you do that anymore. And
the difference in this term and what he had in
the first administration is he's got cash Ptel, Greg, mister
Hegseth and also mister Bongino that are all ready to
stand there on the line and put their foot down
as well. We're not gonna We're not gonna sit back

(22:09):
and take this. We're not gonna let the George Floyd
sweeping you know, BLM burning down of America and calling
it progress. We're not gonna let that happen again. And
so I would really strongly suggest that there are people
that want to go out and burn and destroy and
kill and do all the stuff that they did after
George Floyd because they think they're just as justified now

(22:29):
and allow murders and rapists and criminal aliens to just
continue to do what they want to do. I would
strongly encourage them not to do that, because we're gonna
lock you up, We're going to take you home. You're
not going to stay here, and you're not going to
torture Americans anymore.

Speaker 1 (22:45):
Kevin, as you well, as you wrote very very well,
there were seventy seven million Americans who voted for this.
And when I say voted for this, they want to
crack down on the criminal activity that is taking place
not only in Los Angeles but really around the country.
Manch of it attributed to illegal immigrants in this country.
This is what we voted for, isn't it, Kevin? A crackdown.
We aren't putting up with this anymore.

Speaker 9 (23:07):
Number one on the on the Richter scale and climbing.
I mean, there's no there's no comparison to this and
what you really had to know to understand the last elections.
Kamala Harris came out yesterday and said that this was
all caused by Trump. Well, okay, you still think that
you're reusing the autopen to convince people that something is
other than what it is. We see what's happening. We

(23:31):
are plugged in. We have been very very tuned in
since the since the campaign started in you know, early
last year, and we're.

Speaker 10 (23:39):
Not we're not fooled by any of this.

Speaker 9 (23:41):
And in fact, yes, when those sissy boys say on Twitter,
oh did you vote for this, yes we did. We
voted to put your ass in jail, and to say
you're not doing this to anybody else if you if
you keep, if you think you can keep doing it
to us, we have had enough and we're not going backwards.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
So let me ask you this. I have seen Democrats
when they get on the wrong side of the people,
they pivot. Even if it's a lie, they will dress
it up and sale PV not.

Speaker 1 (24:04):
This groove doesn't meaning of the word pivot exactly.

Speaker 9 (24:06):
They have the dumbest box of rocks out there being
elected to office.

Speaker 13 (24:10):
Like you could seriously say, I'll give you a million
dollars if you just changed your mind on this, and
it's tax free and you won't have to report it
and you can take it home and nobody will ever know,
and they, out of spite, would say Nope, I'm sticking
with what I've done.

Speaker 10 (24:24):
There is no I've never seen a.

Speaker 9 (24:26):
Group of people be as stupid and it's corrupt at
the same time.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
Well, that was my answer. I mean, I was gonna
ask you, why are they pivoting? I think you articulated
that exactly exactly right.

Speaker 9 (24:39):
And it doesn't make sense because they're setting themselves up
to lose the next twelve elections.

Speaker 10 (24:43):
It's because if if.

Speaker 9 (24:45):
We let them, what we're learned, what the voters knew
during the bite years was this that what they thought
they were sold was actually fraudulent, and they had buyer's
remorse said, oh man, that was really bad. What they
are seeing in terms of the response to the aftermath
of this is saying, wow, we really made the right decision,

(25:06):
and we can't ever trust those people to be in
charge of anything ever again, especially not things like national
security or the economy or even common you know, police
department matters. You're going to be amazed when all of
this dies down in a few days how many Latino
and black neighborhoods come together to oppose what these people
are doing. Because it's not just wealthy white suburbanites that

(25:28):
are being put upon by the illegal immigrant crisis. In fact,
most of the violent crime that was carried out by
the illegals came across the border, the twenty million or
so of them over the last four years.

Speaker 10 (25:39):
Most of the people that.

Speaker 9 (25:40):
They hurt, raped, killed, and murdered was was people that
looked like them because they could blend into communities where
they said, oh, well, I can just hang out here
and then rob people and rape people and kill people. Well,
guess what, those neighborhoods don't like it any better than
the wealthy white suburbanites like Nancy Pelosi living behind the gate.

Speaker 10 (26:00):
At the end of the.

Speaker 9 (26:00):
Day, it's not going to be like, oh, it's just
white people against all people of color. This is going
to be like, no, we're American, we work hard for
what we do. Donald Trump's trying to take care of us,
and if you don't stop, this will take matters into
our own hands, which is really where Lusom is gonna
He's gonna lose control of it if it boils over
into some sort of silk conflict. That's when everything goes

(26:22):
off the rails, and you will see the Marines and
you will see the National Guard, and they're not going
to step down because the president's primary responsibility is to
protect the people of the United States, and right now,
no one in California.

Speaker 10 (26:35):
Is fighting for the residents of the United States.

Speaker 9 (26:38):
They're only fighting for the people who shouldn't here and
who are now violently destroying things in a protest of
having to.

Speaker 1 (26:45):
Go home from town hall. Kevin mcaullaugh a little fired up,
I think, joining us on the Rod and Greg show
here on Utah's Talk radio one oh five nine, Cannis,
I wish this would I wish this would have happened
in twenty twenty and the George Floyd riots to not
let this country go up in flames, shut it down
with strength and order and power. And I say that's

(27:07):
what you need to be able to do.

Speaker 10 (27:08):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
We have an ABC reporter over the weekend that said, WHOA,
don't bring in anything. Don't bring anyone in because it's
just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn,
cars burn. Sure, I mean don't bring in the troops.
I mean they're just having fun.

Speaker 10 (27:20):
Kids.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
I know this almost dates you, but do you know
what this summer is here in a few weeks. It's
kind of crazy if you believe it. What fiftieth anniversary
of Jaws.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
I remember Jaws?

Speaker 1 (27:31):
Do you remember Jaws? That music that? What was that?
I think consisted of two notes day? Oh yeah, yeah,
fifty years ago this month, and.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
You right, if you remember the premise, they said, we
got to shut down the beach because there's a big
China shark out there. And the Marrors like, no, it
is our big arturism time. We've made tons of money.
Right now, everybody's coming here for the holiday weekend. We
can't shut it down and do That's that's why I
think that that contaminated Tijuana rivers still can.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
How many Jaws movies are there?

Speaker 2 (28:03):
There's a lot, I think, but Jaws was the epic.
On the first one, I remember that he's a kid
on TV and the woman swimming and you can see
that the jaw, the shark coming up underneath her.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Was That's what I mean fifty fifty years ago this time.

Speaker 14 (28:15):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (28:16):
All right, your calls, your comments coming up. We want
to talk to you about what do you think about
what's going on in LA and how the President of
the United States is handling it? Your calls, your talkback
comments coming up on the Rotten Greg Show. I think
you kind of what eight to ten Mexican flags, one
American flag that has turned upside down. Yeah, yeah, that's
what's taking place in Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
It is.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
And I'm going to tell you that anyone who thinks
that this is organic, this was just spontaneous. It's it's
highly funded, it's organized, it is. It is not Americans
that have had it. This is These are people that
that don't have their waven Mexican flags. For Heaven's sake,
they they want this country to be their country. It's

(29:00):
it's it's like these land acknowledgment nonsense that they go
through where they say this land that we're all enjoying,
and we're going to rub your nose in it and
tell you that it really belonged to you other people,
indigenous people, not us, but we took it. And then
they don't want to give it back. They just want
to acknowledge it like it. But that's what these the
people that are doing this. The reason they don't feel
like they broke the law is because we are the

(29:23):
ones that are trespassing, not them, And that is why
they And and look, there are plenty of leftists who
who push this narrative not not because they think they're
they're doing it. It's because it breaks down our foundational
institutions of this country is and that's kind of their point.
That's what they want to do. They want to they
want to break it all down so they can build

(29:43):
it up in a different way.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
Yeah. Well, you know who's done a lot of work
over the weekend on this was our friend Data Republican.
On her ex pages, she posted that our tax dollars great,
the American taxpayer, Yeah, it's funding some of these organizations
were putting this together and that's disgusting. I mean, this
one group called what is it Turla I think, and

(30:05):
they've been getting hundreds of thousands, if not millions of
dollars through an NGO to fight for their causes. And
that organization is the one driving these demonstrations in Los Angeles,
or i should say one of the organizations that is doing.

Speaker 2 (30:19):
They're printing the signs, they're shipping the bricks. They had
a little logistics problem. They brought in cinder blocks instead
of the smaller bricks. They make it very hard to
throw in. They're cinder ball that's kind of hard to throw.
So the palettes of cinder blocks came in and it
was a mess up, you know, with the organizers. But
now this is and by the way, they're not done.
They think this June fourteenth, you know, parade that the

(30:41):
President wants to have honoring our military, they want to
interrupt that parade. And now on that day, they want
to see these types of organized riots through every major
metropolitan city in America. And the same players that are
part of this La riot this weekend are gearing up
this summer to do more of this. And so it's
important you know it so that when you spot it,

(31:02):
you're not confused by the regime media telling you that
it's a either mostly peaceful protests, which it's not, or
b that this is just the people themselves uprising because
they can't believe the authoritarianism of the Trump administration. Now
that's that is all performative lies, that's what that is.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Yeah, well, none of us, greg are stupid enough to
think that what the president promised, and he promised during
the campaign that he would round up and deport millions
of legal immigrants in this country. None of us thought
this was going to go down easy. This was not
going to be easy to do it. All you know,
and we've had ICE agents going to round the country

(31:41):
rating businesses that are hiring these the illegals. Some have
criminal records, and we knew there were going to be protests.
We knew this would not go down easy for a
segment of the American public. But a large majority of
the American people want to see this happen because they believe,
first of all, ten million people came into this country

(32:02):
illegally in a matter of four years, you know, the
border was wide open, and they saw the impact it
was having down this country. Donald Trump said I'll fix
that and I'll get these characters out of the country.
We knew it wasn't going to be easy, but he's
doing him and he's following what the American people asked
him to do. Seventy seven million of us said we

(32:22):
support you, mister Trump and doing this, and they still do.
The polls show that they still do.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Harry Entons is given the bad news on CNN. I
don't know how he still has a job on that network,
telling him that the American people on three separate different
polls show that the American people support what the president's doing.
Here's the sad part on his best day in everything.
If he's able to finish the big beautiful bill, finishes
the wall. It provides for the technology of the wall,
provides for more ICE agents and border patrol. We're still

(32:49):
not getting rid of everyone that Biden let in. Mathematically,
you just can't what you're seeing from Democrats pushing back
on the worst of criminals, the cartel members and the
ones that have criminal records. For the Democrats and these
organized activists to be pushing back on this means there
isn't a single circumstance where they want anyone who's illegally

(33:12):
cross that border, no matter how evil, no matter how
their ill will, no matter what bad intentions they had.
The Democrats do not want a soul deported, not one,
no one. There's nobody who Because if you can't get
behind the people they're identifying to get out of this country,
the wolves that are preying upon people, the criminals. If

(33:33):
you can't get behind that, who would you get behind
who would you want to see deported? They are Their
position is ten million in, none out. These are the
people that will have the anchor babies that will vote
for us. These are the people that we hopefully give
voting rights to here soon. These are the people that
will help us win elections, and those that voted against us,
we're not even after your vote anymore. We don't even

(33:54):
care about you, America, you fly or states. We're bringing
in through NGOs enough people to erase your votes because
we don't care about you. That's why they don't pivot.

Speaker 1 (34:02):
Yeah. Well, and then you have the media, the legacy
media in this country, who are doing all they can
to sell us a line that these are mostly peaceful protests. Yes,
that these people, these these these children are being ripped
away from their mothers and being sent back to Mexico.
All these lines. I mean, even Dana Bash on CNN

(34:22):
yesterday had the audacity to say, this doesn't compare at
all to what happened in nineteen ninety two and the
Rodney King riot.

Speaker 15 (34:30):
What did happen in nineteen ninety two was so different
from what we're seeing now.

Speaker 16 (34:34):
That was.

Speaker 15 (34:37):
A real riot that went all across the city of
Los Angeles after a verdict in the Rodney King case.
This is a situation where the La County, La County Police,
it's not good, but they're saying that they have it
under control, and the president is sending national troops in

(34:57):
a way that.

Speaker 17 (34:58):
We can look at at all times see that that
is not under control. It's not under control. You and
I both see that it's not under control. And a
riot is a right. They're throwing, they're throwing all types
of objects at law enforcement, and the President is absolutely right.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
So see Greg nineteen ninety two, the Rodney King right now,
that Greg was a real riot. Yeah, what's going on now?
It's not really And we have.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
More with technology today and with social media, we can
see in real time the violence and the true destruction
that's going on and the attack of federal law enforcement,
local law enforcement, the highway patrol. You saw the image
of them trapped under an overpass. Well, yeah, they can't
get out because they got people dropping things down on
either side. They're trapped in there. No one's coming to

(35:43):
help them. And Dana Bash is trying to say that
the nineteen ninety two now that was a real We
didn't have the social media to show us as much
as we're seeing now that was a real. Right, This isn't. Well,
too bad for you that we can actually see what's
going on now. We do have a platform, at least
one with X. That will show us the truth. And
you can keep telling us the sky's red. We see

(36:05):
it's blue. You're not changing our opinion.

Speaker 16 (36:07):
No.

Speaker 1 (36:07):
Well, you now have in this country two parties. You
have the Law and Order Party, which is the party
being led by Donald Trump. He's not going to put
up with this anymore. As you indicated earlier, He's got
people supporting him, Christy Nome Cash, Betel Dan Bongino, Pete
Haigzeth Tom Homan. They're all doing what the President has
asked them to do. So you've got that party. Then

(36:27):
you've got the Chaos Party. That's the Democratic Party. We
don't care what happens. We don't care. We aren't going
to enforce the law. If people want to come into
this country, they can, if they want to take advantage
of everything the American people have to offer and are
paying for. That's okay, because that's what America is all about.

Speaker 14 (36:44):
You know.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
Rod Kevin McCullough, who is our guest on the last hour,
brought up an interesting point. He said, you know, this
isn't This isn't a luxury belief. All this chaos, and
do not assume that the Hispanic community in La is
all for the destruction happening here. It's their own neighborhoods
that are being torn apart. True, it is the people.
There are people. This is why you saw it borders

(37:04):
Hispanic majority counties along the border in Texas and I
think Arizona that went with Trump first time in maybe
American history where you saw some of these minority count
majority counties voting for President Trump because they don't support this.
There was an image of a Mexican restaurant where ICE
agents I think it was ICE agents that had been assaulted.
The people in that restaurant were so kind, they were

(37:26):
fanning them and trying to help them.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
I am.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
I'm convinced that the everyday small the small people, the
little people, they're not okay with this. They're not comfortable
with this, and they don't oppose Ice, and they don't
see them as the bad guys. They see these cartels
coming in and victimizing them in their communities as the
real bad guys. We just don't get to ever meet
them because the regime media will.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
Never introduce them.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, they're never going to show you the average person
that's being victimized by these characters that come into this country,
and then they're criminal, criminal enterprises impact in such terrible
way their lives, you're not getting to see them.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Well, here's what we want to do this hover. We
want to open up the phones to you eight eight
eight five seven oh eight zero one zero and hear
from you common sense, fair minded Americans, like a lot
of you out there. You see what's taking place in
Los Angeles. You see what the president has done, calling
up the National Guard. Apparently some Marines are on their
way as well, So we invit you to give us
a call. There are several ways in which you can

(38:24):
join the show today eight eight eight five seven o
eight zero one zero eight eight eight five seven oh
eight zero one zero. On your cell phone, you can
buy dial pound two fifty and say hey Rod. Or
a new way to adjoin the Rod and Greg Show
with our talkback feature that we have now. If you
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(38:47):
You click on that and you can leave us come in.
Here's an example. This was a listener who sent us
a talkback message just a short time ago.

Speaker 16 (38:55):
Two things the Democrats are encouraging people to uprise and
to go against ice and to cause all this violence.
Second January sixth has nothing compared to all the stuff
that's been going on, with all of the their riots
and everything that's been wrong. There's no comparison, So why

(39:15):
we keep comparing it to January sixth? There's no comparison.
That was mostly peaceful, stupid on a lot of people's part,
but mostly peaceful.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Yeah, and she's right, it was stupid. You and I
have said that we are not for political violence, but
it was peaceful, unlike what we're seeing in Los Angeles
right now.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Yeah, I think the contrast. She's right.

Speaker 2 (39:33):
The only time I ever bring it up is to
show the blatant hypocrisy the people that clutch their pearls
and cry about insurrections over what that was, which we
don't excuse, but we don't, but put it in put
it in perspective to the George Floyd riots of the
summer prior twenty twenty, and now the madness you see
here and the stuff that's planned coming the rest of
the summer, and you can't even hold a can, that

(39:56):
can't even hold a candle to what's here. But Where
are the Democrats that were screaming law and order back then?
There's nowhere to be found because their logic and their
outright rage is purely situational and all related to their
power or trying to gain more influence.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
All right, Greg, and I want to hear from you
tonight eight eight eight five seven O eight zero one
zero on your cell phone dial pound two fifty and
say hey Rod, or go to Canaris dot com and
click on the talkback microphone and jeer your opinion with
us as well. That's all coming up right here on
Utah's Talk Radio one O five nine knrs this weekend.

Speaker 3 (40:28):
What's happened with the riots? Is it mostly peaceful?

Speaker 15 (40:31):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (40:31):
Are we still on that? Are we still going to
let them get away with it? I mean they got
away with the mostly peace well, I think narrative in
twenty twenty during the Floyd George Floyd riots.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
But do they get away with it now?

Speaker 6 (40:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (40:42):
Continuing our coverage where we're looking at video right now
from Los Angeles, a very large group of people gathered
in front of the Federal Building in downtown LA. No
violence as of yet. You've got a strong police presence
and national Guard presidence there. The President announced today he
is sending in the mara We'll get your reaction to
that as well. But we're continuing the coverage and as

(41:04):
Greg said, love to hear your phone calls or your
comments eight eight eight five seven eight zero one zero
or on your iHeartRadio app just hit the talkbag button
and you'll be able to share a coming. Here are
a couple of comments that are coming in tonight so
far on our talk back line.

Speaker 18 (41:19):
When local authorities don't take responsibility and put a stop
to these riots, the president on a national level has
to step in. First of the National Guard. I do
disagree with sending in the Marines. They're not trained for
police force police functions. They need to be doing international work,

(41:40):
not not local work.

Speaker 1 (41:43):
And here's another one.

Speaker 7 (41:46):
Hello, Rod, this is Steve from Leyton, Utah.

Speaker 4 (41:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (41:50):
Hey, if these protesters want to act like Palestinians over
in Gaza, then I say to pourt them all to
Gaza and make them residents of Gaza and they cannot leave.

Speaker 2 (42:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:04):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (42:04):
Yeah, And you know what, Greg, if any of these
protesters out there who have been arrested and it is
determined they're in the country illegally by Yeah, you're at it.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
First, A lot of process. I'll tell you what the
process is, the processes. A they've ignored all processes, broke
the law, came in through it, came here and and
committed tried to It is an insurrection. It is an invasion.
It is not domestic terrorism. It is foreign terrorism that
we are seeing play out in front of our eyes,
and we should call it what it is.

Speaker 1 (42:35):
Yeah, all right, let's go to the phones.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Right, let's go. Okay, let's go to Jamison in Salt
Lake City. Jamison, thank you for calling in. Welcome to
Ron and Greg Show. What do you have to say
about this?

Speaker 19 (42:46):
I was just gonna say, you know, it's hilarious how
we can call it January sixth an insurrection?

Speaker 11 (42:51):
But this isn't.

Speaker 3 (42:52):
I mean really seriously.

Speaker 19 (42:54):
I mean, if you are, if you are of any
part of the left out there, please explain that for me.
Where are your brains?

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Well said? Well said? You know, and I'll tell you this.

Speaker 2 (43:07):
Governor Newsom gets on the television last night and just
dares the bun Trump administration to arrest him. Says calls
out Tom Holman says, arrest me. Come on, just playing
that way. So of course President Trump gets asked about
it today because that's you know, the governor of California
is telling Tom Holman to come and arrest him. What
does what does the governor Newsom do in response to that? Well,

(43:31):
he does what we should have expected. I mean, it's
the whole reason why he says things like this. He
says that he the president of the United States. He
posts this on social media. The President of the United
States just called for the arrest of a sitting governor.
This is a sad day I hoped would never we'd
never see in America. I don't care if you're a
Democrat or Republican. This is a line we cannot cross

(43:52):
as a nation. This is an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Let me tell you something. You called for your arrest.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
Governor knew some You went on a television show and
you called for your own arrest so that you could
do what send that that social media post with no
context there that they've called for my arrest. They know
I called for your arrest. You said, come arrest me.
You begged the question. The question was asked by the
media of the president that you mate you you offered yourself.

(44:19):
You said, come and arrest me. It's it's that kind
of again theater, political theater, instead of trying to protect
the people of that state of which he is the governor,
which makes it so despicable. I'm just hoping enough people,
I know our audience is tracking this. I just hope
America at large sees the nonsense that's going on with
the left right now.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
The other clown down there, Karen Bath, the mayor of
Los Angelet's now think about this, Greg There's something to
think about. What happened in January in California, the fires,
the fires. Where was she abroad Africa? Yes, somewhere in Africa.
Good told her ahead of time it was coming. They
had these riots here. Where is she right on top
of it?

Speaker 10 (44:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (44:59):
Said something about or doesn't it does?

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Look again?

Speaker 6 (45:02):
You know?

Speaker 2 (45:02):
And I love all these protesters. Does it give you
kind of like a Mad Max feel? I feel like
a lot of these guys are posers. I think they
go out there and they just saw too many Mad
Max movies. They want to look like they're all tough
and putting on their masks and looking like it's like
they're out of a movie. I think every one of
them are soft as pillows. That's what I think. I
think every one of these people are going to turn
tail and run. As soon as you see any kind

(45:23):
of strength from if law, local law enforcements not allowed,
if the if the mayor won't let them, or the
governor won't, you'll certainly see it from President Trump, and
these these cowards will go.

Speaker 3 (45:34):
They're they're not going to stick around.

Speaker 1 (45:36):
More of the comments on our talk back line and
your phone calls eight eight eight five seven eight zero
one zero eight eight eight five seven eight zero one
zero more to come on a Monday afternoon edition of
The Rotten Gregg Show.

Speaker 2 (45:47):
So it's an ongoing story in Los Angeles. We saw
a lot over the weekend. It's still happening right now.
Marines are on their way, seven hundred of them. The
President Trump is sent We're looking to you are good listeners,
a smart listening audience, and all the land. What's say
you about all of this? Let's go to Phil and Nephi. Phil,
thank you for holding. What do you think of what's
going on in LA and what's happening in California?

Speaker 4 (46:08):
Well, I think it's a shame, but I think Gavin
Newsom wants to be arrested. He saw what it did
for Trump, dragging Trump through everything under the Thune. Newsom
thinks it's going to help him. He wants to be arrested,
he wants to run for president, just power hungry.

Speaker 14 (46:32):
I wondered what you guys thought it.

Speaker 3 (46:33):
But I love that point, Phil, I love the take.

Speaker 2 (46:36):
In fact, I was I had I had thought about
half of that, and I thought that he wanted to
have his h his his day in the sun, and
and and you know that's why he was threatening to
be arrested. And if he was, he would use that to,
you know, look like a sympathetic figure. But I hadn't
thought about what they tried to do to Trump and
how even though that wasn't their intention, they did make him,

(46:58):
uh not only just a sympathetic figure, but our courageous
one for going against them when they use lawfair against them. Man,
if Governor knew some things that that's some kind of
playbook for him, uh huh with what he's doing, it
won't work. I mean, they are worlds apart in terms
of Democrat law fair and him challenging and trying to

(47:19):
help go against Ice go against the lawful deportation of
criminals those are here that are here illegally, and him
being arrested for obstructing ICE agents and federal law enforcement.
Totally different world, Governor. I don't think it will end
the way you think it will.

Speaker 1 (47:34):
No, I don't either. All right, Let's go to our
talkback line. Get a few of our callers in some
of the comments as well. You can call us on
the talkback line or leave a comment at kanarrest dot com.
Look for the little microphone in the upper corner on
your mobile app. Here's one of the comments.

Speaker 20 (47:54):
Hey Rod and Greg, this is your friend. You know,
I'm already in a bad mood today, sitting in my
car with no air conditioners, stuck on the fifteen going south.
But one thing made me laugh was thinking about one
of these Mexican flagwaving turds hitting one of our seven
hundred marines with a brick, knowing that if they hit one,
they're gonna have six hundred and nine nine coming after him.

(48:14):
That's America, damn it.

Speaker 1 (48:17):
I guess they doesn't like those flag waving Mexicans.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
Let me just tell you something. I don't think this
is playing well with America. Generally, people are very put
off put by what's their sit They're very worried. I
think we're all worried. I think Democrats have used that
to go after Trump, to go after the so I
think that the Democrats are doing this to try and

(48:42):
create fear, trying to create like the Tesla takedown, get
the Republicans and Trump the back down because America doesn't
want to go through all the chaos. I don't think
this is going to have that kind of a impact.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
All right, let's go back. Let's get another comment on
our talk back line.

Speaker 8 (48:57):
Roden Greg, this is James and Orum. The Democrat Party
needs to change its uh little mascot from the donkey
to the mule. I think for obvious.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
Reasons, you guys. All right, yeah, all right, here's another one,
Rotten Greg. This is down.

Speaker 21 (49:21):
I'm in Farmington, Utah. I have a quick question that's
kind of more directed towards Greg. Do you think protesting
is really useful anymore as a movement tool or is
it more of a rioting tool, because you know, social
media is such a big thing now and I I
feel like it's not as useful anymore for passive movements.

Speaker 10 (49:40):
What do you think.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
I love the question, interesting question.

Speaker 2 (49:44):
I have never had that ask but I am glad
that he asked me because I do actually have an
opinion about this because I've worked I served as a
public servant as at the Capitol, and there are so
many peaceful protests or or.

Speaker 1 (49:56):
All the allies almost every day out there the time.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
I don't think that they have the same swat that
they've had before. I don't know that they have the
same message because they are so frequent in nature, and
really you get a select it's a natural selection of
those that come up there for the most part, but
there are some unique ones where you can feel, if
you're up there enough, you can feel there's kind of
an organic movement to it. And then there's others most

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that feel like they're very well organized and everyone was
kind of brought in and they hit the queue and
everybody did what they're supposed to do. So I think
that with so, I think Dollan his question is brilliant,
and I think his observation is spot on that with
social media, the ability to communicate broadly with many, many
people and organically is far greater now than it was

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when maybe organized or even unorganized protests or rallies or
statements we're done at the Capitol or anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (50:52):
But don't you think social media can be a very
important tool in organizing a protest? Sure?

Speaker 10 (50:57):
Yeah, I do.

Speaker 1 (50:58):
Really, you really can't.

Speaker 2 (50:59):
But they've ruined it because what they do now is
that they hire out, they go and they get you
got professional protesters, you know, they got the GEO tracking
now they see that they move from or from protest
to protest. Good point, and many of them are paid
to do so.

Speaker 6 (51:11):
You know.

Speaker 1 (51:12):
But you know you probably I know you have. I've
been asked either MC or speaking some of these protests
or these rallies. I love them. I think it's Americans
in action.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (51:22):
Again, I enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
There's some patriotic ones, the ones that that you right
of center, that you like to be a part of.
But I but I don't think that they I don't
think that if you. I don't think they have the
kind of swat they used to have, I guess I'll say,
and I and it's not the discourage that I think.
Our freedom of speech is absolutely essential, and we should
be able to speak, and we should be able to
reach out to whether it's in the halls of government,

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or if it's at wherever it may be.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
I never want to lose that.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
But if the question is do I think it has
the same impact as it once did, I don't.

Speaker 3 (51:53):
I don't think it does.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
You burn cars, you throw things at police, It does
have a negative impact. Well, I think what is going
on in LA right now. The American people are looking
at this, Go you're here, you're illegally. You shouldn't be.
You shouldn't you shouldn't even be in this country.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
Well, you know, if you think about how well, if
you think about how this started, and I know we're
going to break. There was never a peaceful purpose to
the Ice to begin with. They began obstructing their their way.
They were trying to physically stop them from doing their job.
From the moment this began, there was never a peaceful
element to what happened in Los Angeles. This was a

(52:28):
This was an effort to thwart Ice from doing its job.
From from the get go. They were blocking their way,
they were trying to stop them. They were trying to
interrupt them through bodily harm or whatever they were doing.
There was nothing, There was nothing, There was no sign
saying hey, please stop doing this. That is not what
this is about. This is about stopping them, obstructing them,

(52:49):
constructing job vice.

Speaker 1 (52:50):
More your comments on our talkback line or give us
a call eight eight eight five seven eight zero one
zero more coming up on the Rotten Gregg Show. Let's
go to back to the talkback line. Hear what you're
saying tonight.

Speaker 22 (53:02):
I just want to say, I think it's ridiculous all
these protests going on over there. It's not even a
protest anymore, especially destroying their own streets in Los Angeles, riotings.

Speaker 11 (53:14):
Feeling from T mobile stores.

Speaker 10 (53:15):
How's that even a protest?

Speaker 6 (53:17):
What is that even?

Speaker 22 (53:18):
What kind of message are they sending about immigration or
you know, sending people back to Mexico?

Speaker 10 (53:24):
And it's ridiculous. California is a joke, you.

Speaker 1 (53:30):
Know, Greg. He made a good point. And I've never
understood this. This happened. Boy. I remember, as how old
I am, the sixty five Watts riots, the Rodney King
riots and ninety two, and now these riots. They burn
their own businesses, they burn their own neighborhoods. Yeah, and
what good does that do to that community or any
of those communities involved in this? Does know many good whatsoever?

Speaker 6 (53:52):
Now?

Speaker 2 (53:53):
And is the talkback call or listener pointed out a
retail theft? How's that advancing any of causes? And retail theft?
Is that it's retail theft. You're just using it as
an opportunity.

Speaker 1 (54:04):
All right, let's go to the phones. Dennis is in
sunset tonight here on the rodden Greg show. Hi, Dennis,
thanks so much for joining us.

Speaker 14 (54:11):
Hi there, I lived in Portland the twenty twenty riots.
The National then they should have called it a national
guard there because the government's got that going along for
forty five days straight and it's tore it up. So
if the governor can't take care of it, police can't
take care of it, maybe the citizens ought to rise
up and take care of it, because why have our

(54:32):
homes tore it up?

Speaker 1 (54:33):
You're right, you're right, Get him and get him in
there and get it taken care of.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
That's right, man.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
Yep, all right, let's go to another talk about caller.
Hear what he has to say tonight.

Speaker 23 (54:43):
Hey, this is Nate from Sandy, you know, speaking of
these protesters and how they're moving from protest to protest.
It sounds like the laziness of the unions when they
have to hire people to go stand out, to stand
on the union line for the actual union members.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
No, you pointed this out because you've seen a lot
of the protests when you were serving up the state capitol.
It seems to me the same people show up at
every protest out there.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Yeah, I can, I can can set my watch to it. Honestly.
I it's and what's happening is that there's the front stage.
It has a lot of it is pageantry, political pageantry,
whatever you want. You hope that the media comes and
covers it, whether it's the local news station or whatever.

Speaker 4 (55:25):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (55:26):
They stand on the steps there and then you get
I don't know, you get a few hundred people there.

Speaker 3 (55:29):
But it's it happens all the time. I mean, and
it's it.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
I don't think that it's I I don't know that
it's creating the dialogue, the discourse, the the arena, the
diversity of ideas. I think none of that is actually happening.
I think there's just people that want to cause their
create If it's not unrest, it's just trying to look
controversy or trying to look trying to get people's attention.

Speaker 3 (55:53):
But not really in a way that would be productive.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
It's just it's just and because they do it so
much now, it is it's the same people, same people,
all the time.

Speaker 1 (56:03):
Latest video we're seeing out of Los Angeles right now,
a large crowd of people gathered in front of the
federal building there a short time ago. Bill Malugin, who
reports for Fox News and does a really great job,
indicated earlier today that LA police officers have been told
do not go home tonight. They want extra extra law
enforcement and a stronger law enforcement presence on the streets

(56:24):
of Los Angeles tonight, so they've been told, you're staying
on duty, do not go home tonight. We don't know
what's going to happen tonight, but as we mentioned earlier,
the National Guard is there now protecting federal property, and
the President has called in about seven hundred Marines and
they're reportedly on their way to Los Angeles who as well.
So the White House, led by Donald Trump, showing a

(56:45):
very strong hand in this. He's not going to let
this get carried away.

Speaker 14 (56:49):
Now.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
If the mayor wants her city to burn, that's up
to her. But when it comes to federal property and
federal employees. They are going to be protected as they should.
Absolutely absolutely. Our number three coming up on the rod
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Speaker 2 (57:09):
Yeah, I mean this is what they'll do to the
ice agents. Could you imagine if they started storming your
neighborhoods and you had no way of protecting yourself.

Speaker 1 (57:15):
What you know, what's amazing is the legacy media approving
once again, why we don't believe a word they say
at all. Dana Bash earlier we played this audio sound
bite saying, well, this doesn't compare it all to the
nineteen ninety two riots. That was a real riot. I'm
not sure what this is. Apparently it's not a real riot.

Speaker 2 (57:33):
No, no, and now ABC a reporter there is just
opining about what he thinks ought to happen next, right
in the middle of it this weekend, let's have it.

Speaker 10 (57:43):
Listen, large group of people.

Speaker 12 (57:45):
It could turn very volatile if you move law enforcement
in there and the wrong way and turn what is
just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn
into a massive confrontation and altercation between officers and demonstrators.

Speaker 1 (58:01):
Having fun watching cars.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
If you bring in law enforcement. You're going to interrupt
a bunch of people just having fun watching cars burn.
You might just actually it makes make some trouble if
they can't sit and watch the cars burn. I mean,
that's just just I mean, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (58:16):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Some people go camping, they they cook the they do some'ores.
You like to go go see some cars burn? Okay, kids,
let's gather around. Let's go see these cars burn.

Speaker 1 (58:28):
We want to go to a Dodger game tonight, go
to the movies, or hey, let's go watch your car.

Speaker 9 (58:32):
I know.

Speaker 3 (58:35):
I can see the smoke over there. Let's just go watch.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Let's I'll see it.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Yes, I'll bet you. The smell smells like freedom. Remember
what's that? What's that Gale Walls that? Remember when she
said that during the George Floyd riots she could smell
the tires burning and she loved the smell of the riots.

Speaker 10 (58:53):
Excited.

Speaker 3 (58:54):
She's probably probably there sniffing away.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Well. In somewhat a related issue, we know the impact
that it immigration is having on our schools, on our hospitals,
on really our places of work and things we like
to do.

Speaker 6 (59:05):
Well.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
There's a story out today that one quarter a public
school enrollment could be anchor babies. Wow. Joining us on
our newsmaker line to talk about that as Joey Pullman,
she's the managing editor of The Federalist.

Speaker 6 (59:18):
Joy.

Speaker 1 (59:18):
Always great to have you on the show. Joy, All right,
where did you get these numbers and what's the impact?

Speaker 24 (59:22):
Well, it's actually a very simple amount of mass, which
is about the only math that I'm really capable of, Queen.
But as a reporter, you know, I have been an
education reporter for a long time. So when I saw
the statistic in the New York Times, but it's an
estimate from a leftist nonprofit called the Kaiser Family Foundation.
They said that seventeen percent or nine million of the

(59:45):
children in the United States, they claimed, had at least
one illegal immigrant parent. So they are well, only they
wouldn't be here without illegal immigration. If our border's laws
were enforced, we wouldn't have that seventeen percent or nine
million children in the United States. And so I knew
from being an education reporter that, of course the major
all children in the United States do not go to

(01:00:05):
public schools. But it's fair to reason that you know,
probably just about all of the children of this particular
population do so, since eighty percent of children in the
United States go to public schools, not one hundred percent,
So you know, you take seventeen percent of eighty and
that's the easy math. You get twenty two point five percent.
So nearly a quarter of children enrolled in public schools,

(01:00:27):
as an estimate, would be children who are our children
who would not be here if our border laws were enforced.

Speaker 14 (01:00:35):
You know.

Speaker 24 (01:00:35):
So again, as an education reporter, I know we're talking
about you know, so, then I know, added, you know,
the average, you just multiply that by the cost of
taxpayers pay every year to educate a student in public schools.
The latest data we have for that couple years old,
but that was more than sixteen thousand dollars of kids
and that so that works out to more than one
hundred and forty billion dollars a year, you know, paid

(01:00:58):
to again educate children and who if our border laws
were enforced, they would not be here in the United States.
And so you know, I'm you know, I'm also close
to the education be And there's just so many different
kind of aspects or angles to this because you know, people,
for example, one of the big stories in education right
now is property taxes, you know, with the inflation among
home prices of over the Biden inflation years, doubling tripling, well,

(01:01:22):
you have doubling tripling of income taxes or sorry, of
property taxes, you know, in many locations because although you know,
even if people don't move, their home values went up,
so they have to pay a lot more in taxes
to live in the same home. And the majority of
those are going to public schools. So very very large
amounts of money are going, you know, from people's lives,

(01:01:43):
from their livelihoods, taken away from their kids, from their
kitchen tables, from American taxpayers are going again, you know,
basically because we've had terrible, terrible border enforcement in the
United States since at least the nineteen eighties, because this
was already a major political problem in the Reagan era,
and it's been a political problem ever since because of
refusal to enforce the border like President Trump has done

(01:02:05):
since coming into office.

Speaker 2 (01:02:06):
Joy I appreciate the article. It's an eye opener when
you look at the magnitude of it, the way it impacts.
I see it impacting the state of Utah. I have
a family member that works in public education system and Utah.
Just the decisions made during the Biden administration and the
active NGOs that bring in refugees into your school districts.
Have you have a population explosion within some of these

(01:02:30):
schools who where their current budgets never contemplated this. You
have individual education plans, special education completely ignoring the children
and the students that they plan to work with because
of the volume of students that are arriving in real
time that they had. There's no budget, there was no
coordination for any of this. So the short term impact
has been felt in a terrible way in our public

(01:02:51):
schools here. But there is the long term that you're
pointing to as well. This long term impact. When when
do we when do these issues merge? When do we
talk about the border and we talk about our education
budget and the inability to be able to deliver education
K through twelve for children? Given the kind of circumstances
that you're reporting on UH with this large population, will

(01:03:11):
we get to a point where we get serious about
our immigration problem because it impacts the schools in such
a severe way.

Speaker 24 (01:03:21):
Well, you know that's kind of You're right. I talked
to a lot of teachers and I have taught. I've
heard from many of them the same story, you know
that you're telling me, you know, and depending on the
school district, you know, they may have, you know, dozens
of different languages you know that children are entering their
classroom with. And I'm just thinking, you know, as a
normal practical problem, that is just total chaos, right, How

(01:03:41):
are children learning? If you have kids even with two, three,
four different languages in one classroom, you know, how how
are those children truly productively learning? Let alone the children
who are already there, you know, who are American citizens
for whom the school system really should be designed, you know,
to serve. You know, that's just a practical problem, even
if you want to be taking good care of every

(01:04:03):
single one of those children, you know, which you know,
But and then and then, you know, I think, of course,
money actually is a moral issue, right because in order
for the government to get money, it has to take
away a portion of the lives of the people who
work to produce that money, you know, So really the
government needs to justify any time it's taking our money,

(01:04:24):
and it really cannot justify, you know, taking such a
larger proportion of our money to pay for people who
are criminals who are here really defrauding the American system,
defrauding the American tax payer, redodging our laws, you know,
not you know, not complying with our social compact, you know,
and and so. But but there's all you know, So
besides the money and the practical problems, we just really

(01:04:47):
have also a cultural issue, right, you know, it's impossible
to have any sort of assimilation. Well, first of all,
you know, people who do not obey America's laws as
their first act and entering this country are saying, I'm
not interested in this, because assimilation starts with obeying the
customs and the laws of the place that you were entering.
But you know, just again, if you think about the
practical difficulties of how are kids even going to learn

(01:05:09):
in that classroom at all, then you also think, if
they're not learning anything, how can they possibly be assimilating?
How can culture be transmitted to them if you don't
have one consistent culture that's being passed on And we
already have schools that have a difficulty passing on culture,
you know, even to people who are born here. American kids,
you know, on average, can't read at grade level. They

(01:05:29):
can't do mathic B great level. They can't tell you, you know,
the the rights given to us by our funding fathers
enumerated in our constitution on average, right, so we don't
even assimilate the kids born here. But then you add
all of these different cultures to the mix. Chaos does
not produce a great country. It does not produce a
great education system. And it's complete unfairness and really the

(01:05:50):
reversal of the education system turn on its head. And
the last thing I'll say about that, however, is I
think there's kind of a divided loyalty among publics school
systems because you know, for every single kid that comes in,
they're getting more taxpayer dollars. So they would be you know,
even though border enforcement would solve a lot of the
problems and the educational problems in their classrooms and make

(01:06:13):
their education improve it for the children who have a
legal right to that education. You know, they also, you know,
some school districts would be losing fifty percent of their funding,
even twenty five percent, ten percent, that's a lot of
money to cut when you're looking at a school district.
So you know, even though they ought to be putting
American kids interests first, their financial interests are sometimes opposed
to the moral right and lawful action.

Speaker 1 (01:06:37):
Joy Pullman joining us on our any hour news micro line.
She's the managing editor editor of the Federalists. Talking about
a quarter of the enrollment in public schools today is
anchor babies. And one thing she brought up Greg as well,
and thank you for joining us, Joy, earlier as we
talked to her, was the fertility rate in this country.
We aren't having as many children as we used to have,

(01:06:58):
except in the Hispanics segment of the population. Yeah, we're
going to have a long lasting impact as well.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
California has been losing people from the time of statehood
in the eighteen nine ers un till twenty twenty. They
were gaining population as a state until twenty twenty census,
where you saw people leaving in droves because of the
oppression and the way the government's ruined it. The only
population growth that they're actually seeing now is the immigration
and illegal immigration largely. But that's what that's what has

(01:07:29):
that state maintaining some population, so it's not emptying out
as fast. But people, I mean, you've got to be
pretty bad to get people to run away from California.
That's why that place grew for as long as it
did since statehood is because it is a paradise in
terms of its weather and just what.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
It has to offer and the beauty being next to
the ocean. It's just great.

Speaker 2 (01:07:49):
But they have so they have absolutely destroyed that state
to the point where people are fleeing. And it's not
a coincidence of states like Florida and Utah and Texas
and Republican led states are the ones that are growing.

Speaker 1 (01:08:01):
When we come back a thought or two about what's
going on with Simone Biles. That's coming up right here
on the n greg Show in Utah's Talk Radio one
oh five nine kN R at let's talk about what
happened over the weekend with Simone Biles. Does she have
Greg any shred of credibility in America today after what

(01:08:21):
she did over the weekend?

Speaker 3 (01:08:23):
What a fall from grace.

Speaker 2 (01:08:24):
I mean, she's someone that you know, I was disappointed
when she dropped out of the Olympics prior to this
one where she said she was, you know, having mental
health issues, and I thought she whiz, come on, Okay.
She came back last year in the Paris Olympics and
did well won golds. I thought she I thought she
cemented quite a legacy for herself. But over the weekend

(01:08:45):
she decided to attack Riley Gaines on of all things,
men getting to play women's sports, of which she's never
seen a day, she's never had a man and compete
against her in gymnastics and the things that she not
only initially said that were to attack Riley Gaines, but
what she followed it up with where she went after
her body and the way she looks and having a

(01:09:05):
man's way. By the way, she's five pot eight about
one hundred and twenty five hundred thirty pounds, she's not
built like a man. No, but for someone Biles to
go there, no one really understands what the motivation there was.

Speaker 1 (01:09:17):
Well, the motivation was that Riley Gaines spoke out against
this this guy who thinks he's a girl, who played
on a Minnesota girls softball team and helped them win
the national championship, and he was the picture and basically
shut the other team down. He's a guy, he's playing softball.
He hits the ball farther, he throws it faster than
the other girls on the team. And here is Riley

(01:09:40):
Gaines saying that's not right. So Simone Bile gets and
calls her a bully. Now, now the interesting thing about
this was back in twenty seventeen, guess what, Riley found
a tweet with Simone Bile saying men should not play
in women's sports. So what happened in those years between
she all of a sudden changed her mind. And I'm
with you Greg for her to attack her physically her body, well,

(01:10:04):
she has a body of a man. She's not normal.
Come on, Simon, give us a break.

Speaker 2 (01:10:09):
And wouldn't that actually make the case that if she
has a body like a man, what are you implying
there that she would have a natural advantage? Would that
would that not be the very problem that we're talking about,
that men have a physical advantage. When you call her
out and say, well, you're like a man, you got
a big body, I think she's actually showing the at
least articulating the difference. Here's what I she if twenty

(01:10:32):
twenty one called they want their issue back, if she
was if this was years a few years ago, you
might see how she could get wrapped up in the
you know, and all the virtue signaling and identity politics
that everybody seemed to be falling for to some degree.
But in twenty twenty five, for her to do this,
the cynic in me says, this is about her Netflix

(01:10:53):
show coming where she's or she's being paid by. You
see all these NGOs and how much they can pay
out to people. You know, they can launder the money
and get your money to be a big name and
take up their big cause.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
Yeah, well what it was interesting as well, And it
was Clay who pointed this out on his show today.
He had Riley gone as a guest. The disciplines in
women's gymnastics versus the disciplines in men's gymnastics totally different. Yeah,
and there is I don't know if you saw this video,
but there is this this hand move that guys do

(01:11:25):
where on their hands they're flipping around and stuff, and
this guy did it perfectly. Simone Biles tried it, she
couldn't do it. No, So, I mean, doesn't that point
out there is a difference. But I just you know,
we admired her. I mean, yeah, she you know, dropped
out of the earlier Olympics, but it was was that
last year in Paris that she put on an unbelievable performance.
And she you know, she was it was fantastic as

(01:11:48):
to what she did. But then she comes out like this,
I you know, I used to really admire I don't anymore.
I'm sorry she dropped the ball on this one.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
In my opinion, she's lost a massive criticality and I
and I don't think she'll get it back.

Speaker 3 (01:12:02):
I think it's it's one of those things.

Speaker 2 (01:12:04):
And you know what, And and I thought Riley Gaines
had an interesting point. She's like, how about you you
make these comments on your social media platform, because she
was coming into her social media platform to or page
to make these complaints.

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
It's it was bizarre.

Speaker 1 (01:12:18):
Yeah, all right, mare coming up on the Roden greg
Show in Utah's Talk Radio one oh five nine, kN
arrest hadn't like hockey games been a lot more interesting
than the basketball games.

Speaker 3 (01:12:28):
Yeah. I don't actually watched. I haven't been watching.

Speaker 1 (01:12:30):
Them watching them at all. All right, Yeah, that first
game was good because Indianapolis came back, Yes, the page
came back, but you know, the the Okase blew them
out yesterday. Yeah, I guess so that's it's all that scored.
Didn't look in All right, let's talk about what's going
on with us record. This is always a busy time
of year for the Court. After hearing all these cases,

(01:12:50):
researching all these cases, the decisions come down Greg on
a lot of very important cases, and we'll probably know
everything near the end of the month.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
It is that time, I and it's always I'm always
like my favorite golf course on a on an early
June morning, and then my phone will start.

Speaker 1 (01:13:06):
Buzzing the Supreme Court rules.

Speaker 3 (01:13:08):
It seems to happen every year.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
Usually happens well, joining us on our news make a
line to talk more about that, as David Manny. David
is a writer and a contributor at PJ Media. He's
been taking a look at some of the what he
calls the nine most important cases that the Supreme Court
will release opinions on. David, Thanks for joining us. So
like a couple of them, would you David and talk
about him?

Speaker 11 (01:13:29):
Well, there's actually three the Charleston's e American Federation government employees,
the second one being the GEO group, the medical or medicals,
and then the third one the City of Grant's past
the Johnson. So first one, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
I was just going to say, those are the names
of the suits, tell me what each one of them dresses.
Because I love that you've you've spotted nine areas of
policy that the Supreme Court is really going to you know,
make a huge impact. So what in those case is?
What do those areas? What do they involve? Specifically?

Speaker 11 (01:14:04):
Well, all three cases are related. They tie together because
the first one Trump the A A FBG is what
executive control versus bureaucratic sabotage. The second GEO versus medical
It's about law enforcement partners versus active lawsuits. The grants
past D. Johnson is about local leadership versus court imposed chaos.

(01:14:29):
I can start with the first one if you'd like
the American ahead. Okay, I'm sorry. This decides if executive
power can reshape the federal workforce. It centers on whether
the president has the constitutional authority to restructure the federal workforce.
You know, cut positions, reclassify roles, and remove ineffective staff

(01:14:51):
without waiting for congressional approval. The congressional approval I tend
to stutter at times. Trump's executive order. It's aim to
streamline blow agencies and eliminate the career bureaucrats use stall
reform efforts. It's important because it's a major test of
executive power when here confirms that the president not career
civil sergrance or Congress. Since the direction of the executive

(01:15:14):
branch a laws solidifies the I don't elect to bureaucracy's
ability to delay, water down, or just outright sabotage political agendas.
And it's really about draining the swamp, just what President
Trump promised. It's why the deep state in the federal
unions are panicking because if the court affirms Trump's authority, yere,
he can finally break through the entrenched resistance that undermines

(01:15:37):
elected leadership. But Congress does have oversight. I'm sorry, I
don't need to interrupt you.

Speaker 3 (01:15:44):
No, please continue.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
I want to hear this because I have a follow
up question, but I want to get the whole gist
of it.

Speaker 11 (01:15:50):
Okay, you know, people, Congress does have oversight on federal employment,
but only to a point. The Constitution grants executive power
to the president, not a federal union or legislative committee.
Truss legal argument is that he doesn't need permission to
manage the employee's new answer to him, what happens if

(01:16:11):
he loses? Well, it kind of ties his hands in
any future president's hands from quickly reforming the federal government.
It essentially makes Congress and Union had its employees coal
managers of the executive branch, which is exactly how the
swamp has been surviving.

Speaker 3 (01:16:28):
So, David, here's my question.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
And when we get to this part of the year
and we wait for these Supreme Court rulings to be
handed down, sometimes you hear if you feel like, Wow,
they've made a great ruling.

Speaker 3 (01:16:39):
I think it's a win.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
But then there are times where on a technicality they'll say, well,
this doesn't you didn't have a standing, or there's some
it's a loss, but it's a loss technically, it's not
on the policy itself. And then there's a third kind
of approach where they punt it and they leave it
as something that's undetermined because of some other judicial rationale.

(01:17:03):
Of these important rulings that you see coming, especially when
you just described is this going to be a yes
or no? Are we going to get clarity here or
is there a way that the Supreme Court could wiggle
out and give us ambiguity when we're looking for the opposite.

Speaker 11 (01:17:16):
Well, that's kind of the case of the Robert Supreme Court,
isn't it Yes? Sometimes he just wants to keep the
status quo. It would seem that this is a good
yes or no case because it does create president. But
you know Roberts doesn't like to work that way. He

(01:17:37):
says they're not political. But you know he got his
ears to the political grape vive.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
He sure does. I want to I want to address
the other issue, one of the three that you brought up,
this homeless case before the Supreme Court. I mean, homelessness
is a real issue in this country. Every community is
wrestling to it that. What's behind this story involving Grant's
past versus Johnson, What is that case all about.

Speaker 11 (01:18:01):
Well, it's about whether cities can enforce basic ordinances against
public camping or even sleeping in parks, even when they
don't have enough shelter beds to house every homeless person.
And it becomes the constitutional issue because the Ninth Circuit
ruled threaded Ninth Circuit so that finding or ticketing homeless
individuals for sleeping outside is quote unquote full and unusual

(01:18:25):
punishment under the Eighth Amendment if that city can't provide
an alternative. And Grant's pass is challenging that, arguing that
cities must keep the bility, keep the ability to enforce
public order. And if the court sides with the lower ruling,
cities across America could be barred from clearing encampments unless
they have unlimited shelter beds, which is, you know, an

(01:18:46):
impossible standard. It opens the door to ten cities taking
over parks, sidewalks, and public spaces. Public spaces both no recourse.
But it's not just organ From California to Wisconsin, cities
are already reacting. Look at Stephen's Point, Wisconsin, which just
announced plans to add porta potties and lockers downtown for
the homeless. Why because they're bracing for the legal fallout.

(01:19:10):
They know enforcement maybe soon off the table. But if
a trumpelind court ruled, if an originalist justice holds the line,
the court should say no, the Constitution does not guarantee
a right to sleep on public property. This is about
local control and public safety, not weaponizing the Eighth Amendment.
And you know, some people could make this an argument

(01:19:32):
for compassion, but compassion doesn't mean surrender their cities. If
courts ban local governments from enforcing the law, then they're
punishing responsible citizens while rewarding dysfunction. That's not compassion, it's abdication.
And if the court rules against grants pass, then we
can expect a flood of legal challenges in cities across

(01:19:53):
the country. Not like we hadn't seen that one before.
Almost this becomes legally protected behavior. Don't matter local consequences.
It's striped cities of any moonful authority to protect their
public spaces.

Speaker 1 (01:20:05):
David, thank you for joining us. That's David Manni. He
is a writer and contributor at PG Media talking about
the Supreme Court and the decisions that we'll be handed
down over the next several weeks. Be interesting to see
what happens.

Speaker 2 (01:20:17):
Greg will and they are always important and I just
but I hate when they punt or you know, or
they give you some ambiguous ruling. Gist and I'll tell
you what He's right about this Roberts Court. They have
got to get some stronger decisions because these I just
feel like the California suing to stop Trump from exercising
the you know, calling in the National Guard and the Marines.

(01:20:39):
They're going to get a judge to say he can't
do it until the Supreme Court stops the nonsense with
the judicial overreach.

Speaker 3 (01:20:47):
We're going to get more of it anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:20:49):
All right, more coming up, final thoughts on this Monday
and the Rod and Greg show right here on Utah's
Talk Radio one on five nine. Kayn r s.

Speaker 2 (01:20:56):
You know, folks, I went down memory lane this weekend
watching all these rights in LA. I saw these images
from nineteen ninety two LA riots, and I just saw
my fond, fond memories of the rooftop Koreans. Does anyone
remember them like I do? Man, these rooftop Koreans. I
didn't appreciate them as much back then, but I see
the pictures of them now. These rooftop Koreans. If you

(01:21:17):
didn't know, this is like Korea Town in LA. These
are immigrants from Korea and first generation Korean Americans. Well,
they have shops and the riots started. Well, these rooftop
Koreans are uniquely American because first off, they came to
this country and they embraced the liberty and freedom of
self determination. Okay, they took full advantage of the economic

(01:21:40):
opportunities that were in front of them. They saw that
there was upward mobility allowed in life, and they worked
hard to see it. And most of all, they understood
our Second Amendment rights. They understood how to protect property themselves,
and they stood on those They were up on those rooftops,
and no one was stealing their stuff. Everything's getting stolen,
everything's getting looted, not as the rooftop Koreans were holding

(01:22:04):
tight and exercising their liberty. And boy, I just longed
for the rooftop Koreans. I trade so many leftists in
this country, born in America for some more rooftop Koreans.
I want the rooftop Koreans to come here and be
and just live the American dream.

Speaker 1 (01:22:20):
They are going to protect themselves. They sure are all right.
How many of you remember this guy?

Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
Is this a new hip.

Speaker 14 (01:22:54):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:22:54):
For those of us that sounds like a brand new hip, No,
it is not.

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
For those of us who grew up in the late
sixties and early seventies. I raised my hand to that.
This guy was pretty powerful, sly in the family Stone,
a lot of big kids out there. And the first
band do you know what they recognized for a couple
of things, first band to integrate white and black musicians.
He had both in their in his band.

Speaker 3 (01:23:20):
Sty sliced alone with this.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
Sly Stone, sly in the family stone, not sl sliced alone.

Speaker 3 (01:23:25):
No, this is fall foreign to me. I don't even
know what you're talking to you you.

Speaker 1 (01:23:28):
Weren't even born during this. I was people my age
would remember sly.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
And why do you have to remember him now?

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
Because he died today. He is eighty two, he.

Speaker 2 (01:23:36):
Passed, Okay, not sliced alone. I would fall out of
my chair. I would be weeping.

Speaker 1 (01:23:42):
Sly sly Stone, sly Stone, psychedelic funk? Was there?

Speaker 2 (01:23:48):
You boomers and your psychedelic stuff? I mean yeah, you
know there's like a time bomb in all of your heads.
Like I thought the boomers were kind of had it there,
had it together. They're they're at the epicenter of all
the Tesla takedowns and all the all the pro test.

Speaker 3 (01:24:00):
What happened?

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Remember this little concert called Woodstock?

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
Yeah, you know you're supposed to, you know, get that
out of your system back now.

Speaker 1 (01:24:07):
Now, Woodstock was about five hours from my home in
upstate New York.

Speaker 3 (01:24:11):
Right, we're gonna hear something about.

Speaker 1 (01:24:12):
The I wanted to go. Mom said, not a chance.

Speaker 3 (01:24:16):
He got a good mom.

Speaker 1 (01:24:17):
Yeah, she's smart, she's really, really smart but slid stallone
his performance.

Speaker 3 (01:24:22):
If I'm salone now you're saying.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
Listone Sly in the Family Stone, Okay, all right, all right.
If you ever see the old documentary on Woodstock, he
lit that place on fire, I mean his performance on
stage fur figuratively, he lit that. It was absolutely amazing.
Now there is also when I stumbled across this just
a month or two ago. There's a documentary I think

(01:24:46):
it's on Netflix on Sly in the Family Stone and
how he changed music and how he was very big
in the sixties and seventies, but he kind of like
you know that song, I wanted to take you Higher.
He liked to go higher every day.

Speaker 3 (01:25:00):
So it was so self medication, self medication.

Speaker 1 (01:25:04):
It kind of kind of helped him out a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:25:06):
So as a matter of fact, I thought that was
a litmus test form rock stars.

Speaker 1 (01:25:09):
No No. In high school. When I was going to
high school, we had a cheer at basketball games. I
wanted to take you higher. I mean, you won't want
the score to be high. There was a kind of
a double meaning in that.

Speaker 3 (01:25:20):
But yeah, the faculty didn't get it. They didn't know
you got now.

Speaker 1 (01:25:24):
They're out of touch. Yeah, yeah, we understood that. That
that song, but he had a lot of other hits
as well. But he passed away today at the age
of eighty two.

Speaker 2 (01:25:31):
Eighty two is not bad, No, it's not bad. It
seems like a good life lived, and.

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
I'm getting closer to it every day.

Speaker 10 (01:25:39):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:25:40):
Well, my grandmother lived till she was seventy nine. She
smoked those unfiltered Raleigh cigarettes. Oh really, so she lived,
She lived a rough life and she left. She lasted
till seventy nine.

Speaker 1 (01:25:49):
I had a grandfather who did that, smoked the camels.

Speaker 2 (01:25:52):
Yeah, mine, My grandma was a Raley. She couldn't even
sit through a movie with me. She'd have to leave
the movie for a second break. Oh really, because she
had a cigarette, wasn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:26:00):
In World War Two, they would send these goodie packs
to all the soldiers and they always had two packs
of cigarettes.

Speaker 3 (01:26:06):
Well that's where she picked it up.

Speaker 1 (01:26:07):
Where she picked it on the day that generation came
out there smoking those unfiltered cigarettes.

Speaker 3 (01:26:12):
Gamda for free. How could you not use them?

Speaker 1 (01:26:14):
Yeah, that's true. Yeah, and I understand I've never been
part of the military. You certainly haven't. We would want you.
You know, there's a lot of standing around military. There's
a lot of standing around waiting time. What else are
you to do?

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
Smoke cigarette and she reached have to sit the top
of three Years stadium to watch the pirates because she
didn't want anyone to feel She's very courteous. She didn't
want people to smell her. She had she had that,
but she had to have the cigarettes and have signs.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
But slicest them dead today at the age of eighty.

Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
They rest in peace.

Speaker 1 (01:26:41):
Yes, Gray mutriiction fun songs. All right, that does it
for us tonight, head off, shoulders back, May God bless
you and your family. And that's great country of ours.

Speaker 3 (01:26:51):
Peece.

Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
Hopefully tonight in La we'll talk more about it tomorrow.
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