June 2, 2025 • 27 mins
(June 02, 2025)
Democrats vow to stick to values while regaining working-class voters. How the Supreme Court made legal immigrants vulnerable to deportation.
Democrats vow to stick to values while regaining working-class voters. How the Supreme Court made legal immigrants vulnerable to deportation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listenings KF I am six forty the Bill Handles
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
It is a Monday morning, June two, and.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I officially I think summer starts for me.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And I'm doing a lot of grilling.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Matter of fact, Neil and I put it together a
grilling show at my house, which you're not going to
be invited to. That's just I'm just doing it for fun,
so Neil can.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Teach me how to do. Anybody wants to be invited
to your home.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
There will be plenty of people because the food is free,
and I know our listeners they will go a very
long way even deal with us for free food.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Free food.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yes, we're going to broadcast the Folk Report from your
backyard so I can show you had a grill on
your big green egg. Yeah, so we're gonna do that.
We don't have a date yet, but it's gonna be
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Over the weekend there was the Democratic Annual Convention in
Anaheim at the Convention Center, and the Democrat were struggling
because of course they got plastered in the last election
with Donald Trump, who in reality, when he first started
running for president, presidency.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It was a joke. Do you remember when it was
a joke?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And he is President of the United States for the
second time going, And so the Democrats are trying to
figure out what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Our base was the working person.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That is traditionally the Democrats base, and how did we
lose that?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I mean, it was real simple.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Democrats had the middle class working base, and Republicans had
the people who were wealthy, had the upper class financially,
and that has turned around. The Democrats have completely lost it.
And how is that possible? Well, there are some reasons,
(01:58):
and I think they primary reason is that Democratic values
are such and I think they're still for the working person,
if you have still for social programs, still for education
and housing programs, etc. It's just that the Democratic Party
(02:20):
has become an elitist party. You've often heard the phrase
the United States really is the East coast and the
West coast and in between. It's just this vast wasteland
that really doesn't matter. You'd fly from one coast to
the other, and the only two cities if you're flying
from New York to.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
La was or were La in New York.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
So the Democrats lost track of well, connecting even though
the values did not change. This is where perception is reality.
And who are the Democrats? Who are the liberals? Well,
they are the college educated and college educated looks down
(03:09):
at those who are not college educated. There is an
elitism there that frankly people resent. And the Republicans, Donald
Trump and others who have come into power, I think
they pretend, and I believe this to be in favor
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of the working person, not the rich. Oh no, no,
we are the party of the middle class, of the
working class. Look at the big beautiful Bill who gets
the tax breaks, corporations, wealthy people, And to the extent
that people who are working class get tax breaks, it's
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nothing compared to the breaks that are being given to
the people.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Who have money, the corporations who have money. It's tough.
It's tough.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Tim Waaltz, who ran as the vice presidential candidate under
Kamala Harris, said, we've got to be honest in what happened,
because losing elections has consequences. We're in this mess because
it's some of our doing. Actually, i'm gonna say it's
all of your doing. None of us can afford to
shy away from having hard conversations about what it's going
(04:33):
to take to win elections.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's real simple.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The Republicans have done a much better job of connecting.
Donald Trump is brilliant. He has come off as the populist.
I am on your side. I'm your guy, and I'm
there to make sure that you get your job back
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because illegal mic have taken your job and I'm going
to spend my time my administration getting rid of them.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And there's some horror stories about that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
As a matter of fact, I'm going to talk about
if I'm probably going to do this at eight thirty,
how the Supreme Court has made legal immigrants vulnerable to
deportation much less illegal immigrants. It's a hell of a story.
But Donald Trump has convinced us, convinced you who voted
for him. I didn't, then I didn't vote for Kamala
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Harris either, convinced us that our life because of illegal immigration,
America is far worse for it. They're destroying our lives,
the illegal migrants. It is an invasion. It is worse
than Pearl Harbor. It is worse at our economic turmoil.
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Wait a minute, I mean I'm not.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
A fan of illegal migration.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I get that but do you really compare this to
Pearl Harbor and our life being totally destroyed to where
he declares a national emergency and deportations under the Enemy's
Alien Act, which he has invoked.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The Enemy's Alien Act has to.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Do with a physical invasion by a foreign foreign country.
It's been used twice in the history of the United States,
or three times during the War of eighteen twelve when
we were invaded by the British, and during War One
and World War Two where we were genuinely at war.
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And now look at the comparison that's being made. It's
as bad or worse. But I want that I'm digressing
on that one. What I want to do is spend
a few minutes talking about what's going on with the
Democrats and why the Democrats are in so much trouble.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Are they going to be a will turn it around midterms? Yeah? Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I think so, And I'll explain why when we come back.
And at the bottom of the hour, I'm going to
talk about the Supreme Court and illegal immigrants and manned
with the Supreme Court has just handed the Trump administration
one of their biggest wins.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And I'll explain that all.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Right, coming back more with how Democrats lost and how
they may win the midterms. Some of the big stories
were looking at another attack in Gaza. As theoretical peace
talks are going on. It's not going to happen anytime soon,
and Palestinians are dying by the truckload. It's horrific it's
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going over there with the attacks that are happening.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It's rough. It really is very very rough. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Over the weekend there was the Democratic Annual Convention, California
Annual Convention, and who was not there was Kamala Harris
and Gavin Newsom. Interesting, well, they had nothing to gain
by being there, and because they're already have one name recognition,
everybody knows who they are, and it wouldn't do any
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good for them to stand up and talk in front
of the convention because everybody at the convention, the delegates,
already know them. So all they can do is lose
and make some kind of gaff or be attacked by
some of the Democrats there.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Kamala Harris particularly, how dare you lose the election? Look
what you did to us?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Because Kamala Harre is getting a lot of blame on here,
but the Democrats are looking at and Tim Watz brought
this up, the former nominee for Vice president or Kamala Harris.
We've got to be honest in what happened. We're in
this mess because some of it's our own doing. I
think all of it's our own doing. Democrats don't need
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to retreat from their ideals. Are ideals, he says, such
as protecting the most vulnerable in society, voting transgender children.
But they need to show voters they are capable of
bold policy that will improve voters' lives rather than incremental progress.
Here is the problem with the Democrats and why the Republicans,
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particularly Donald Trump, was so successful. Somehow it has become
so important in our country transgender rights, and for the
Democrats and the Republicans are so offended by transgender LGBLDLTGBQ
issues and which I don't understand. What is the top
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story today. I'm looking at Fox, CNN, MSNBC, BBC up
on the screen. The number one story is that transathlete
that won the long jump who used to be a
guy and now is a woman. And that is the
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top story because that affects you so deeply, doesn't it
we've got tariffs that are upending the world economy that
may push us into a total recession.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
May I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
This is more important the transgender issue and gay rights.
The problem is is the Democrats missed it completely. It
is important to a lot of people. Now I don't
understand why it's important. You know, if two guys get
married next to you or next to me, what do
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I care? Does it really affect me? And unless my
kid is in sports and is a girl who's competing
against a girl who used to be a guy, than
I care. But how many of us have that where
all of us are going to be affected by the economy.
And then the issue of illegal aliens again they tied in.
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The Republicans were able to tie into to that issue.
Why it's so important? How many have you been affected
by illegal migration? Seriously, as you're being told you lost
your job because of illegal migrants having taken your job.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
How many people? How many people have actually lost their job?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
There you were picking strawberries and an illegal migrant came
in and grabbed your job.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I don't know if any I don't know if a
person I don't know if a person who has called in.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
In all the years that I've been doing this show,
or written an email saying I lost my job because
an illegal migrant or an illegal alien took my job.
It's I don't know why that's such a huge issue.
I don't get it yet at the point, same point,
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it is critically important?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Now?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is it important because they were told because of the
Trump followers told you that it was important, and therefore
it is or did they just rush? Limba had every
interesting take once because he was accused of leading the charge,
this Republican charge that people would follow him no matter
(12:10):
what he said, and what he said.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Was, uh, people don't follow me.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'm just the first one on the wave, that's all,
and they're gonna go that way anyway.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I just happen to catch the bayonet end of it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And that was interesting. I thought, have we really turned
that way? Maybe we got a lot of big problems.
And let me tell you it isn't you know some
gal who used to be a guy winning the long jump?
I don't think that's the case. Or Pride Month at
Target where you have the Pride kiosk with the shirts
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and the rainbow flags, does that really affect you?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Is that important to you. I guess it is.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And so what we have here are social programs being
completely gutted.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I mean, do you care.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It doesn't affect me because I don't. I'm not part
of Medicare or medical or Medicaid.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm not. But there's a moral issue there.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And missing the economy, the inflation. The Democrats were horrible
about it, dealing with inflation.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
They just missed it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And then Joe Biden, of course running for president and
is hubris, and they let him get away with it
because you didn't have the insiders and the Democratic Party,
the Haunchos who could have told him, no, you're not
running stop them cold. Oh no, no, no, you don't
do a sitting president no matter what, doesn't matter of
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he or she is dead. And it's a weekend at
Bernie's running for president. So the Democrats are in deep trouble.
The values don't change, it's just what And I'm telling
you maybe it.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Is this country.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Us as give a rats about poor people or kids
who are not eating, and if that's where we're going,
I have a problem with this country. I love this
country in many ways. I truly believe that it's the
best country in the world. I'm a little tired of
the shootings that take place, right, mass shootings. Do we
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know how many mass shootings are this year? A mass
shooting is four more people getting wounded or killed. How
many hundreds and hundreds have we had so far this year?
I mean we're way ahead of last year, which was
way ahead of the year before.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So we'll see what happens during the midterms.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We'll see if the Democrats wake up and start thinking about,
or at least telling us about why it is.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So important for people to be insured. Why gutting.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Why gutting NOAH or gutting FEMA or gutting Department of Education,
I mean totally destroying it. Why that isn't a big issue,
Why that shouldn't be an issue. Why you can't convince
me that's a bad idea USAID I kind of like
feeding kids.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
All over the world. Why that's waste? All right? Coming out?
You know where I sit on that, obviously, How are
we doing this? Coming up?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Let's do this the Supreme Court making legal immigrants legal
immigrants vulnerable to deportation under certain circumstances. And I'll explain
another big win for the Trump administration with the court.
I'll explain they'll handle here. Good morning, everybody move Monday,
June second. Oh, by the way, it's Lindsay's birthday today,
(15:46):
and I just want to wish you're a happy nineteenth.
She's nineteen years old today. I'm very excited about that.
We would be going to a bar tonight to celebrate.
But you know there are some some issues there. Will
you're giving me the look, Well that's my joke. Because
(16:07):
she's younger than I am. Yeah, substantially younger than I am.
We had to wait until she graduated high school because
I didn't want to go to prison.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Okay, now moving substantially younger than you are, by the way,
pardon we're all substantially younger than you are, by the way. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, Uh it's tough. This is when Lindsay's asking my
daughters for advice. Uh, it's anyway, Uh, moving on, moving on,
And we've been talking a lot about immigration a lot,
and the issue when I just finished a couple of
segments on for for some reason, illegal immigration has become
(16:52):
this insane issue for the Republicans and Donald Trump one
I think one or two of his mate your major
platforms that he won on was the issue of illegal immigration,
which I don't understand because you know, it's important.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I don't like illegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
My parents, my dad came to the United States legally
and it took him eleven years because he followed the rules,
and he came in the mid fifties, and he applied
right after World War Two to come to the United States.
And so I'm a big fan of following the rules.
But at the same time, is illegal immigration that critical?
(17:34):
You know, is it as important as the economy? Is
this important to the world economy? What's going on in
terms of, for example, the schools shootings. We don't even
talk about controlling arms anymore, don't even bother. We just
sit back and it's the news. For people have been killed.
Eight people have been killed. It's news. Okay, onwards and upwards.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
We've got some.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Big, big issues, and it's not immigration. But still not
only the Trump administry. Donald Trump run on the dangers
of illegal migration. He has called it an invasion. It
is actually worse than Pearl Harbor, the illegal migrants coming.
And so he has kept up with his philosophy. This
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was not just a campaign promise. One of the things
about Donald Trump there's no hidden agenda here. He is
who he is, He walks the talk, he does what
he says, and he says what he does. And so
it's no surprise that the administration is going balls to
the wall in trying to and succeeding in deporting people,
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not as much as they want, because what is it
they want? Eleven people want eleven million people who are
here illegally, and that's conservative figure. This administration wants out.
We want out, or they we want them out. And
there have been lawsuit after lawsuit that has been filed
to stop the administration and from going forward and deporting
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people who are here, for example, legally. Now, there have
been some mistakes made where they picked up collaterally people
who have been shipped in a couple of cases of Venezuela,
this horrific Venezuelan in prison, and the government said, we
made a mistake, and the courts have come down and
said then you have to return them to the US.
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And this is one where it's going to be really
interesting because the Trump administration is saying, I don't care
what the court says, not going to pay attention if
a disre court says you must bring back someone, or
an appeals court says you made a mistake, you have
to bring someone back. They go, no, can't wait for
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a Supreme Court decision. That's going to be ignored by
the administration. By the way, the last time that came
close was when Richard Nixon with the Watergate tapes that
he did turn over.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
He said, and I went to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
He said, specifically, if it was a split decision five
to four, for example, he would not turn over the tapes,
no matter what the Supreme Court said.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And they're already screaming, I remember screaming.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
About the constitutional crisis, that that would would happen if
that were if that were to happen. So we're looking
at the possibility of that. But let me tell you
a little bit about what is happening now and the
win that the Trump administration, and a lot of it
has to do with what the Biden administration did. And
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this is another one in which the Biden the Biden
campaign completely blew it and did not realize the way
this country was thinking and did not realize the way
this country wanted to go. And we're talking about enough
people to put Donald Trump into the White House So
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I'm going to tell you about this court win and
what is going on because there are half a million people,
half a million people who are here legally as I speak,
and all of a sudden they're not so legal, and
all of a sudden they could be deported, and all
of a sudden they're frightened that they will be deported.
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And by the way, that's realistic because the Trump administration,
as I said.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Is going balls to the wall to deport these people.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And I'm going to give you the irony. I'm going
to give you the irony because this is when you
follow the rules and you're nailed for it.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Nailed. So we'll come back and finish up the show
with that.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So we end the show on a Monday morning and
continuing on to well, it's following up on the story
of how number one of the Democrats were wiped out
were wiped out, and this past weekend the Democratic California Convention,
a lot of time was spent on how the Democrats
just miss the boat completely, especially in terms of the
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immigration right now. One of the lead stories is or
one of the secondary stories, the first one being of course,
that transgender athletes who want an athlete who won the
long jump at some event. That's the big story here
is that Ices in the middle of their biggest deportations
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swing yet.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And let me tell you where.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Trump and ilk just caught exactly what was going on
in this country. The accusation of the against the Biden administration.
The Biden administration thought that immigration, migration, illegal migration.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Was so important to this country. Wanted to make it
as easy as possible.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
There were two programs that were in place. One was
humanitarian parole and the other one was temporary protected status.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
These were two.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Programs that allowed people in where the prosecution if they
went back, they would be prosecuted and persecuted in their country.
And that was a temporary group of people. I think
the Haitians were allowed in because of politics or because
of they had the natural disasters anyway, so that was
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really important to the Democrats. Well, what the Biden administration says,
we want them out, five hundred thousand people here temporarily.
We want to take away their temporary status. Trump is
doing that under and has done that under national emergency
powers because remember he called illegal immigration and invasion and
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introduced the Enemies Alien Act or relied on it to
declare all of this illegal.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So he took away their status.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Five hundred thousand people no longer protected under the law. Well,
of course lawsuit. After the lawsuit was filed, Supreme Court said,
you know what, to the Trump administration, go.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Ahead, you can still do it, pending a full hearing.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And here's what happened to those five hundred thousand people
and why they're particularly vulnerable. Let's start with, let's go
the other way. If someone's an illegal alien, it comes
into this country, they're going to use a different name.
They're not going to be found, they're gonna be under
the radar. They're going to work for cash.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
How does the government find them?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Now, those five hundred thousand people were registered with the
government because they fell under this legal program, which means
the government has their address, has any sponsor they have,
knows where they work because they're allowed to work, but
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still have to register with the government.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
And they're the easiest to pick up.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And all of a sudden, they are spinning and I
think now I'm projecting here. I'm thinking most of them
would say, we should have just come.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Over the border illegally.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
We should have just asked for asylum and then be
let loose in the country pending a hearing that's going
to happen three years from now, a deportation hearing, and
just disappear. Those are the hard ones to get. So
the five hundred thousand is low hanging fruit. Now has
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the Trump administration gone after these five hundred thousand, No,
not yet. They're going after people who are illegal migrants,
who have committed crimes or we're on deportation orders and
didn't show up. But at the same time you've got
incidences of people being caught up American citizens. I have
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story after story here. Now are there huge stories? Is
this why the thousands?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It is not? Is a huge deal being made of it? Yes?
Does it really affect me or you? It does?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Now, it's important, But what affects me is inflation. What
affects me is looking at the world economy. Illegal migration
does not affect me. While it's important, it should not be.
First and foremost, you look at our budget and the
cutting that's going in because of so much waste. Do
you have any idea how much money is in this
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budget that Trump has proposed or what Congress has proposed
for the wall?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Billions?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And billions of dollars to finish the wall. That is
far more important than any education program in this country
which has been cut, or any social program which has
been cut, or vaccination program which has been cut, or
National Weather Service which has been cut.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
See that affects me.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'd like to know if I'm in a hurricane area.
I'd like to know a hurricane's coming. I really would.
And I don't want that department decimated. But you know, again,
it's importance. It depends on what's important. So I've done
this before and I'll do it again because we'll see
what happens up to the midterm. It's gonna be. It's
fascinating stuff. Boy, are we in a different America than
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we were a year ago?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
For sure?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
All Right, that's it, guys, coming up. It's Gary and Shannon.
We're here tomorrow once again, five am, Amy and Will
with wake up call. Neil and I are here until
nine o'clock right about now, and also Kono and and
of course are here to make the show go. This
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Speaker 2 (00:07):
It is a Monday morning, June two, and.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
I officially I think summer starts for me.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And I'm doing a lot of grilling.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Matter of fact, Neil and I put it together a
grilling show at my house, which you're not going to
be invited to. That's just I'm just doing it for fun,
so Neil can.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Teach me how to do. Anybody wants to be invited
to your home.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
There will be plenty of people because the food is free,
and I know our listeners they will go a very
long way even deal with us for free food.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Free food.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Yes, we're going to broadcast the Folk Report from your
backyard so I can show you had a grill on
your big green egg. Yeah, so we're gonna do that.
We don't have a date yet, but it's gonna be
a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
Over the weekend there was the Democratic Annual Convention in
Anaheim at the Convention Center, and the Democrat were struggling
because of course they got plastered in the last election
with Donald Trump, who in reality, when he first started
running for president, presidency.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
It was a joke. Do you remember when it was
a joke?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
And he is President of the United States for the
second time going, And so the Democrats are trying to
figure out what happened.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Our base was the working person.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
That is traditionally the Democrats base, and how did we
lose that?
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I mean, it was real simple.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Democrats had the middle class working base, and Republicans had
the people who were wealthy, had the upper class financially,
and that has turned around. The Democrats have completely lost it.
And how is that possible? Well, there are some reasons,
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and I think they primary reason is that Democratic values
are such and I think they're still for the working person,
if you have still for social programs, still for education
and housing programs, etc. It's just that the Democratic Party
(02:20):
has become an elitist party. You've often heard the phrase
the United States really is the East coast and the
West coast and in between. It's just this vast wasteland
that really doesn't matter. You'd fly from one coast to
the other, and the only two cities if you're flying
from New York to.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
La was or were La in New York.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
So the Democrats lost track of well, connecting even though
the values did not change. This is where perception is reality.
And who are the Democrats? Who are the liberals? Well,
they are the college educated and college educated looks down
(03:09):
at those who are not college educated. There is an
elitism there that frankly people resent. And the Republicans, Donald
Trump and others who have come into power, I think
they pretend, and I believe this to be in favor
(03:32):
of the working person, not the rich. Oh no, no,
we are the party of the middle class, of the
working class. Look at the big beautiful Bill who gets
the tax breaks, corporations, wealthy people, And to the extent
that people who are working class get tax breaks, it's
(03:54):
nothing compared to the breaks that are being given to
the people.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
Who have money, the corporations who have money. It's tough.
It's tough.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
Tim Waaltz, who ran as the vice presidential candidate under
Kamala Harris, said, we've got to be honest in what happened,
because losing elections has consequences. We're in this mess because
it's some of our doing. Actually, i'm gonna say it's
all of your doing. None of us can afford to
shy away from having hard conversations about what it's going
(04:33):
to take to win elections.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It's real simple.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
The Republicans have done a much better job of connecting.
Donald Trump is brilliant. He has come off as the populist.
I am on your side. I'm your guy, and I'm
there to make sure that you get your job back
(04:58):
because illegal mic have taken your job and I'm going
to spend my time my administration getting rid of them.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
And there's some horror stories about that.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
As a matter of fact, I'm going to talk about
if I'm probably going to do this at eight thirty,
how the Supreme Court has made legal immigrants vulnerable to
deportation much less illegal immigrants. It's a hell of a story.
But Donald Trump has convinced us, convinced you who voted
for him. I didn't, then I didn't vote for Kamala
(05:33):
Harris either, convinced us that our life because of illegal immigration,
America is far worse for it. They're destroying our lives,
the illegal migrants. It is an invasion. It is worse
than Pearl Harbor. It is worse at our economic turmoil.
(05:54):
Wait a minute, I mean I'm not.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
A fan of illegal migration.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
I get that but do you really compare this to
Pearl Harbor and our life being totally destroyed to where
he declares a national emergency and deportations under the Enemy's
Alien Act, which he has invoked.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
The Enemy's Alien Act has to.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Do with a physical invasion by a foreign foreign country.
It's been used twice in the history of the United States,
or three times during the War of eighteen twelve when
we were invaded by the British, and during War One
and World War Two where we were genuinely at war.
(06:42):
And now look at the comparison that's being made. It's
as bad or worse. But I want that I'm digressing
on that one. What I want to do is spend
a few minutes talking about what's going on with the
Democrats and why the Democrats are in so much trouble.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Are they going to be a will turn it around midterms? Yeah? Yeah,
I think so.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
I think so, And I'll explain why when we come back.
And at the bottom of the hour, I'm going to
talk about the Supreme Court and illegal immigrants and manned
with the Supreme Court has just handed the Trump administration
one of their biggest wins.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And I'll explain that all.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Right, coming back more with how Democrats lost and how
they may win the midterms. Some of the big stories
were looking at another attack in Gaza. As theoretical peace
talks are going on. It's not going to happen anytime soon,
and Palestinians are dying by the truckload. It's horrific it's
(07:43):
going over there with the attacks that are happening.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
It's rough. It really is very very rough. Now.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
Over the weekend there was the Democratic Annual Convention, California
Annual Convention, and who was not there was Kamala Harris
and Gavin Newsom. Interesting, well, they had nothing to gain
by being there, and because they're already have one name recognition,
everybody knows who they are, and it wouldn't do any
(08:13):
good for them to stand up and talk in front
of the convention because everybody at the convention, the delegates,
already know them. So all they can do is lose
and make some kind of gaff or be attacked by
some of the Democrats there.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Kamala Harris particularly, how dare you lose the election? Look
what you did to us?
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Because Kamala Harre is getting a lot of blame on here,
but the Democrats are looking at and Tim Watz brought
this up, the former nominee for Vice president or Kamala Harris.
We've got to be honest in what happened. We're in
this mess because some of it's our own doing. I
think all of it's our own doing. Democrats don't need
(08:52):
to retreat from their ideals. Are ideals, he says, such
as protecting the most vulnerable in society, voting transgender children.
But they need to show voters they are capable of
bold policy that will improve voters' lives rather than incremental progress.
Here is the problem with the Democrats and why the Republicans,
(09:15):
particularly Donald Trump, was so successful. Somehow it has become
so important in our country transgender rights, and for the
Democrats and the Republicans are so offended by transgender LGBLDLTGBQ
issues and which I don't understand. What is the top
(09:37):
story today. I'm looking at Fox, CNN, MSNBC, BBC up
on the screen. The number one story is that transathlete
that won the long jump who used to be a
guy and now is a woman. And that is the
(09:57):
top story because that affects you so deeply, doesn't it
we've got tariffs that are upending the world economy that
may push us into a total recession.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
May I don't know.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
This is more important the transgender issue and gay rights.
The problem is is the Democrats missed it completely. It
is important to a lot of people. Now I don't
understand why it's important. You know, if two guys get
married next to you or next to me, what do
(10:34):
I care? Does it really affect me? And unless my
kid is in sports and is a girl who's competing
against a girl who used to be a guy, than
I care. But how many of us have that where
all of us are going to be affected by the economy.
And then the issue of illegal aliens again they tied in.
(10:57):
The Republicans were able to tie into to that issue.
Why it's so important? How many have you been affected
by illegal migration? Seriously, as you're being told you lost
your job because of illegal migrants having taken your job.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
How many people? How many people have actually lost their job?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
There you were picking strawberries and an illegal migrant came
in and grabbed your job.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
I don't know if any I don't know if a
person I don't know if a person who has called in.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
In all the years that I've been doing this show,
or written an email saying I lost my job because
an illegal migrant or an illegal alien took my job.
It's I don't know why that's such a huge issue.
I don't get it yet at the point, same point,
(11:48):
it is critically important?
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Now?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Is it important because they were told because of the
Trump followers told you that it was important, and therefore
it is or did they just rush? Limba had every
interesting take once because he was accused of leading the charge,
this Republican charge that people would follow him no matter
(12:10):
what he said, and what he said.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Was, uh, people don't follow me.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I'm just the first one on the wave, that's all,
and they're gonna go that way anyway.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I just happen to catch the bayonet end of it.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
And that was interesting. I thought, have we really turned
that way? Maybe we got a lot of big problems.
And let me tell you it isn't you know some
gal who used to be a guy winning the long jump?
I don't think that's the case. Or Pride Month at
Target where you have the Pride kiosk with the shirts
(12:46):
and the rainbow flags, does that really affect you?
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Is that important to you. I guess it is.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
And so what we have here are social programs being
completely gutted.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
I mean, do you care.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It doesn't affect me because I don't. I'm not part
of Medicare or medical or Medicaid.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
I'm not. But there's a moral issue there.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
And missing the economy, the inflation. The Democrats were horrible
about it, dealing with inflation.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
They just missed it.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
And then Joe Biden, of course running for president and
is hubris, and they let him get away with it
because you didn't have the insiders and the Democratic Party,
the Haunchos who could have told him, no, you're not
running stop them cold. Oh no, no, no, you don't
do a sitting president no matter what, doesn't matter of
(13:44):
he or she is dead. And it's a weekend at
Bernie's running for president. So the Democrats are in deep trouble.
The values don't change, it's just what And I'm telling
you maybe it.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Is this country.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
Us as give a rats about poor people or kids
who are not eating, and if that's where we're going,
I have a problem with this country. I love this
country in many ways. I truly believe that it's the
best country in the world. I'm a little tired of
the shootings that take place, right, mass shootings. Do we
(14:23):
know how many mass shootings are this year? A mass
shooting is four more people getting wounded or killed. How
many hundreds and hundreds have we had so far this year?
I mean we're way ahead of last year, which was
way ahead of the year before.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
So we'll see what happens during the midterms.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
We'll see if the Democrats wake up and start thinking about,
or at least telling us about why it is.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So important for people to be insured. Why gutting.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Why gutting NOAH or gutting FEMA or gutting Department of Education,
I mean totally destroying it. Why that isn't a big issue,
Why that shouldn't be an issue. Why you can't convince
me that's a bad idea USAID I kind of like
feeding kids.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
All over the world. Why that's waste? All right? Coming out?
You know where I sit on that, obviously, How are
we doing this? Coming up?
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Let's do this the Supreme Court making legal immigrants legal
immigrants vulnerable to deportation under certain circumstances. And I'll explain
another big win for the Trump administration with the court.
I'll explain they'll handle here. Good morning, everybody move Monday,
June second. Oh, by the way, it's Lindsay's birthday today,
(15:46):
and I just want to wish you're a happy nineteenth.
She's nineteen years old today. I'm very excited about that.
We would be going to a bar tonight to celebrate.
But you know there are some some issues there. Will
you're giving me the look, Well that's my joke. Because
(16:07):
she's younger than I am. Yeah, substantially younger than I am.
We had to wait until she graduated high school because
I didn't want to go to prison.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Okay, now moving substantially younger than you are, by the way,
pardon we're all substantially younger than you are, by the way. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:30):
Yeah, Uh it's tough. This is when Lindsay's asking my
daughters for advice. Uh, it's anyway, Uh, moving on, moving on,
And we've been talking a lot about immigration a lot,
and the issue when I just finished a couple of
segments on for for some reason, illegal immigration has become
(16:52):
this insane issue for the Republicans and Donald Trump one
I think one or two of his mate your major
platforms that he won on was the issue of illegal immigration,
which I don't understand because you know, it's important.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
I don't like illegal immigration.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
My parents, my dad came to the United States legally
and it took him eleven years because he followed the rules,
and he came in the mid fifties, and he applied
right after World War Two to come to the United States.
And so I'm a big fan of following the rules.
But at the same time, is illegal immigration that critical?
(17:34):
You know, is it as important as the economy? Is
this important to the world economy? What's going on in
terms of, for example, the schools shootings. We don't even
talk about controlling arms anymore, don't even bother. We just
sit back and it's the news. For people have been killed.
Eight people have been killed. It's news. Okay, onwards and upwards.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
We've got some.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Big, big issues, and it's not immigration. But still not
only the Trump administry. Donald Trump run on the dangers
of illegal migration. He has called it an invasion. It
is actually worse than Pearl Harbor, the illegal migrants coming.
And so he has kept up with his philosophy. This
(18:14):
was not just a campaign promise. One of the things
about Donald Trump there's no hidden agenda here. He is
who he is, He walks the talk, he does what
he says, and he says what he does. And so
it's no surprise that the administration is going balls to
the wall in trying to and succeeding in deporting people,
(18:39):
not as much as they want, because what is it
they want? Eleven people want eleven million people who are
here illegally, and that's conservative figure. This administration wants out.
We want out, or they we want them out. And
there have been lawsuit after lawsuit that has been filed
to stop the administration and from going forward and deporting
(19:01):
people who are here, for example, legally. Now, there have
been some mistakes made where they picked up collaterally people
who have been shipped in a couple of cases of Venezuela,
this horrific Venezuelan in prison, and the government said, we
made a mistake, and the courts have come down and
said then you have to return them to the US.
(19:24):
And this is one where it's going to be really
interesting because the Trump administration is saying, I don't care
what the court says, not going to pay attention if
a disre court says you must bring back someone, or
an appeals court says you made a mistake, you have
to bring someone back. They go, no, can't wait for
(19:45):
a Supreme Court decision. That's going to be ignored by
the administration. By the way, the last time that came
close was when Richard Nixon with the Watergate tapes that
he did turn over.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
He said, and I went to the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
He said, specifically, if it was a split decision five
to four, for example, he would not turn over the tapes,
no matter what the Supreme Court said.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
And they're already screaming, I remember screaming.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
About the constitutional crisis, that that would would happen if
that were if that were to happen. So we're looking
at the possibility of that. But let me tell you
a little bit about what is happening now and the
win that the Trump administration, and a lot of it
has to do with what the Biden administration did. And
(20:31):
this is another one in which the Biden the Biden
campaign completely blew it and did not realize the way
this country was thinking and did not realize the way
this country wanted to go. And we're talking about enough
people to put Donald Trump into the White House So
(20:53):
I'm going to tell you about this court win and
what is going on because there are half a million people,
half a million people who are here legally as I speak,
and all of a sudden they're not so legal, and
all of a sudden they could be deported, and all
of a sudden they're frightened that they will be deported.
(21:16):
And by the way, that's realistic because the Trump administration,
as I said.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Is going balls to the wall to deport these people.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
And I'm going to give you the irony. I'm going
to give you the irony because this is when you
follow the rules and you're nailed for it.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Nailed. So we'll come back and finish up the show
with that.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
So we end the show on a Monday morning and
continuing on to well, it's following up on the story
of how number one of the Democrats were wiped out
were wiped out, and this past weekend the Democratic California Convention,
a lot of time was spent on how the Democrats
just miss the boat completely, especially in terms of the
(21:58):
immigration right now. One of the lead stories is or
one of the secondary stories, the first one being of course,
that transgender athletes who want an athlete who won the
long jump at some event. That's the big story here
is that Ices in the middle of their biggest deportations
(22:19):
swing yet.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And let me tell you where.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Trump and ilk just caught exactly what was going on
in this country. The accusation of the against the Biden administration.
The Biden administration thought that immigration, migration, illegal migration.
Speaker 2 (22:42):
Was so important to this country. Wanted to make it
as easy as possible.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
There were two programs that were in place. One was
humanitarian parole and the other one was temporary protected status.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
These were two.
Speaker 1 (22:55):
Programs that allowed people in where the prosecution if they
went back, they would be prosecuted and persecuted in their country.
And that was a temporary group of people. I think
the Haitians were allowed in because of politics or because
of they had the natural disasters anyway, so that was
(23:16):
really important to the Democrats. Well, what the Biden administration says,
we want them out, five hundred thousand people here temporarily.
We want to take away their temporary status. Trump is
doing that under and has done that under national emergency
powers because remember he called illegal immigration and invasion and
(23:39):
introduced the Enemies Alien Act or relied on it to
declare all of this illegal.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
So he took away their status.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Five hundred thousand people no longer protected under the law. Well,
of course lawsuit. After the lawsuit was filed, Supreme Court said,
you know what, to the Trump administration, go.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
Ahead, you can still do it, pending a full hearing.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
And here's what happened to those five hundred thousand people
and why they're particularly vulnerable. Let's start with, let's go
the other way. If someone's an illegal alien, it comes
into this country, they're going to use a different name.
They're not going to be found, they're gonna be under
the radar. They're going to work for cash.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
How does the government find them?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Now, those five hundred thousand people were registered with the
government because they fell under this legal program, which means
the government has their address, has any sponsor they have,
knows where they work because they're allowed to work, but
(24:44):
still have to register with the government.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
And they're the easiest to pick up.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
And all of a sudden, they are spinning and I
think now I'm projecting here. I'm thinking most of them
would say, we should have just come.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
Over the border illegally.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
We should have just asked for asylum and then be
let loose in the country pending a hearing that's going
to happen three years from now, a deportation hearing, and
just disappear. Those are the hard ones to get. So
the five hundred thousand is low hanging fruit. Now has
(25:25):
the Trump administration gone after these five hundred thousand, No,
not yet. They're going after people who are illegal migrants,
who have committed crimes or we're on deportation orders and
didn't show up. But at the same time you've got
incidences of people being caught up American citizens. I have
(25:46):
story after story here. Now are there huge stories? Is
this why the thousands?
Speaker 2 (25:50):
It is not? Is a huge deal being made of it? Yes?
Does it really affect me or you? It does?
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Now, it's important, But what affects me is inflation. What
affects me is looking at the world economy. Illegal migration
does not affect me. While it's important, it should not be.
First and foremost, you look at our budget and the
cutting that's going in because of so much waste. Do
you have any idea how much money is in this
(26:22):
budget that Trump has proposed or what Congress has proposed
for the wall?
Speaker 2 (26:31):
Billions?
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And billions of dollars to finish the wall. That is
far more important than any education program in this country
which has been cut, or any social program which has
been cut, or vaccination program which has been cut, or
National Weather Service which has been cut.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
See that affects me.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
I'd like to know if I'm in a hurricane area.
I'd like to know a hurricane's coming. I really would.
And I don't want that department decimated. But you know, again,
it's importance. It depends on what's important. So I've done
this before and I'll do it again because we'll see
what happens up to the midterm. It's gonna be. It's
fascinating stuff. Boy, are we in a different America than
(27:15):
we were a year ago?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
For sure?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
All Right, that's it, guys, coming up. It's Gary and Shannon.
We're here tomorrow once again, five am, Amy and Will
with wake up call. Neil and I are here until
nine o'clock right about now, and also Kono and and
of course are here to make the show go. This
(27:39):
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