03-18-24 FULL SHOW - Ryan Schuiling Fills in for Mandy

Episode Transcript

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I'll be filling in today, tomorrowand Wednesday. You heard John Caldera in
for Ross Kaminski who is over inEgypt, and Erod had to fill in
on the morning portion. So we'rejust all over the place here today and
we're looking forward to your input,your text on the KOA Common Spirit Health
text line. As you know,if you're a regular listener, when I
fill in, really like to havethat ongoing conversation if you agree, if

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you disagree, if you just havea take that might be off the top
rope for a topic that I'm noteven talking about, but you want to
bring up. I want to includeyou in the conversation as well, and
you can join us at five sixsix nine zero, that's fifty six six
ninety and send those along. Andagain I equal opportunity here. Want to

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give everybody a chance to participate,and I look forward to hearing from you
over these next three days. Asyou may hear, my voice is a
little bit in the after effects ofa cold. I no longer ill,
I don't feel terrible, but asyou know, this time of year,
the weather change is the snowfall comes, the weather then gets warmer. Sometimes
you get kind of caught up inthe crosswinds of that, and that's where

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I am right now, So againgoing to lean into your text fifty six
six ninety, going to lean intosome sound some again. John went over
this as well during the nine totwelve hours. But there's some specific points
that I want to make about thiswhole bloodbath bloodbath, and it's annoying,
I understand that, but it's necessarybecause the media is just so dishonest,

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and where Donald Trump is wrong,where he can be called out, people
like John, certainly Ross, Mandyherself and me are going to point that
out. But if Donald Trump isso bad that you could just every day
take something that he says and useit against him to your advantage if you're
on the left, or if youdespise him, that's fine, But then

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why do you have to twist andturn and make things up and fabricate out
of whole claw things that he simplydidn't say, if you're being intellectually honest.
And I'm going to go over notonly that, but this whole We've
got to put this fire out onceand for all about the there were good
people on both sides. It isa red herring. It is a lie.

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It is a distortion. It didn'thappen, not the way that it
was being portrayed, and is stillbeing portrayed in the media. Very happy
to be joined in our second hourby a good friend of mine, Valdemar
Archelata. Now he is running forthe first Congressional District. And I did
a little bit of homework on this, and much to my amazement, I

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researched the first Congressional to find thatmyself, I'm forty nine years old.
Pre dating my birth, there havebeen two exactly two representatives over that whole
time, dating back to nineteen seventythree, of the year before my birth,
for the first Congressional district. Foryears it was Pat Schroeder. She
ran for president, and I rememberwhen she ran for president, and she

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occupied that office until nineteen ninety sevenand get took over, won several elections
ever since and has done better inthose elections for the most part over those
years. And that's it. Sheis the current House representative for Congressional District
one, and she took the batonfrom Pat Schroeder, and that goes back
over fifty years. It's incredible tome and Valdemar has got a uphill climate

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ahead of him, but he's atremendous person. He is the president of
the Colorado log Cabin Republicans and Ithink a very strong candidate. We'll look
forward to hearing from him, andthat'll be just after the top of the
hour, about one oh three.I have reached out to Representative Deguet's offices.
Would love to have a conversation withher as well, if you know
her or any of her staff andwould like to get her in touch with

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us. I would appreciate that expeditionof the process and we would love to
have her on as well. Alwayswant to make sure we provide equal time.
Cole Peterson, the Colorado morning newsproducer, who was all over this
grand opening of BUCkies that was justnorth of course here on I twenty five,
the first one ever in Colorado.And those of you from across the
country then a lot of touring ormaybe you moved here from elsewhere. You

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know what Bucky's is and what abig deal it has become. And I
looked at the traffic map just beforeI came on live here and the northbound
traffic from I twenty five just priorto that Exit is backed up. I
think people are still filing in tryingto check it out for the first time.
And he'll join us during the twoo'clock hour and then to close out
the program. Brian June Deaf ofAmerican Thinker. He's a local conservative writer

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and also has some opinions on politicsat large that we're dealing with right now
here in the state of Colorado,nationally as well, and what the presidential
election he feels is all about nowbe coming up at two thirty three in
five six, six nine zero,the number you can call. Let's start
with the actual comments from Donald Trumpin full context. You can hear them

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yourself. I'm not going to interrupthere. They were from Saturday in Ohio.
Exit go has taken over a periodof thirty years, thirty four percent
of the automobile manufacturing business in ourcountry. Think of it went to Mexico.
China now is building a couple ofmassive plants where they're going to build
the cars in Mexico. And thinkthey think that they're going to sell those

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cars into the United States with notax at the border. Let me tell
you something to China. If you'relistening presidency and you and I are friends,
but he understands the ideal. Thosebig monster car manufacturing plants that you're
building in Mexico right now, andyou think you're going to get that,
you're going to not hire Americans andyou're going to sell the cars. As

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now, we're going to put aone hundred percent twer for in every single
car that comes across the line,and you're not going to be able to
sell those cars if I get elected. Now, if I don't get elected,
it's going to be a blood bathfor the whole that's going to be
the least of it. It's goingto be a blood bath for the country.
That'll be the least of it.But they're not going to sell those

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cars. They're building massive factories.Okay, it's going to be a blood
bath for the country if he doesn'tget elected, and he's going to stop
it, as he just mentioned thereby instilling I think he said, like
a one hundred percent tariff on anycars manufactured in Mexico by Chinese interests that
would come across the border. SoI get that, and as a Michigan
native, that's important to me thatpeople continue to buy American cars and that

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we support our American auto workers.And that's a very good political play by
Trump in Ohio, in the stateof Michigan, throughout the Midwest where there
are many of our automaking facilities,and this push for evs by the Biden
administration in the name of climate changeis killing the American auto worker. And
this is why you're seeing states likeMichigan turn red, Like, how could

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Michigan vote for Trump? Well,they did in twenty sixteen in large part
because they didn't feel person like HillaryClinton cared about them. And those Reagan
Democrats that resided north of Detroit inMcCombe County Warren a lot of those autoworkers,
they voted for Trump. Now,they didn't turn out as enthusiastically for
Trump in twenty twenty. I thinkJoe Biden still had kind of a handle

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on the American working class and theblue collar voters out there. But Biden's
administration has taken a hard turn leftaway from those autoworkers. And that pertains
to the border as well. Whenyou bring in unqualified, undocumented workers who
are being paid under the table,either in cash or for much lower wages,
you're undercutting the American worker and whatthe value of the work of an

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American citizen is. And a lotof companies like that because it effects and
it benefits their bottom line. Sowhat you hear there, in its entirety
was taken so far out of context. The national media and especially the far
left media like MSNBC, they wererunning with it. Trump is calling for
a bloodbath that if he doesn't win, there's going to be violence. That

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is not at all what he said. It's not even close. Joe Scarborough
though, he's in the midst oflosing his mind, and so let's join
him midstream there. He's talking abouta blood bath for America. It's laid
out in the terms of it.And these idiots on Twitter, these idiots
on cable News, these idiots onSunday shows when our Presidence, you know,

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he was talking only about the autoindustry. And this is one more
just bullsh Let me say that atsix point fifteen am, just bullsh He
knew what he was doing. We'renot stupid, Americans aren't stupid. He
was talking about a blood bath.Sometimes a blood bath means a bloodbath.
And when he finished this boy sayingand that's just going to be the least

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of it. Seriously, these peoplemay be stupid and keep an eye in
an ear. I guess on theterms that are used here about idiots and
stupid, what he's inferring is thatanybody who would fall for the language of
Donald Trump is an idiot, Thatyou are stupid, that I am stupid,

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That we are not smart enough tofigure out that he's trying to trick
us, that when he uses languagelike this, we're too dumb to know
the difference between what he really meant, which was a bloodbath economically for the
auto industry. That we're just gonnayou know, we're toothless West Virginia banjo
players and deliverance. We live ina shack off the river, and we're

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just a total, detestable deplorables.This is that whole gimmick all over again.
And what he doesn't realize or doesn'twant to realize, I don't think
they want to face reality is itis a broad swath of people in the
United States, a fabric, ifyou will, a tapestry of voters that
are very different from one another.We are not a monolith those that support

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Donald Trump. There are many differentpeople from many different backgrounds, and that
doesn't fit in the Democrat silos thatthey put people in, and it really
confuses them. They're projecting their stupidityon to us. Donald Trump is currently
polling better with black voters and Hispanicvoters than any Republican candidate since Richard Nixon
in nineteen sixty back when Jackie Robinsonwas a Republican in supported him. That's

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a long time ago. But theDemocratic Party has abandoned the working class period.
They used to be about the workingclass. I have voted Democrat in
the past. Personally, I votedfor Bill Clinton. I did so in
nineteen ninety six. I felt hewas the best candidate. I thought Bill
Clinton did a good job when youjust factor in his presidency, his policies,
and those are the things that Ivote for. His personal peccadillos,

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Yeah, not a great guy,not at all. Barack Obama, I
wanted to give him a chance.I voted for Barack Obama in two thousand
and eight. We were coming outof the housing crisis. George W.
Bush's second term was a disaster.People did not want more of the same.
Fanny May and Freddie Mack, theloaning to people that were not qualified.
Everything kind of collapsing under the weightof itself. The gas price is

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over four dollars a gallon. Thatwas in two thousand and eight, two
thousand and nine, So I figuredat that point for America, it was
maybe in our best interest to trya different way. Even though I didn't
agree with a lot of Barack Obama'spolicies, his campaign against Hillary Clinton I
thought was effective. He was creatingdistance. He was a new voice.
It wasn't just the Clinton Bush era. It was somebody that had a different

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take on things. But unfortunately,in my view, Barack Obama was an
immense disappointment. So when you're talkingabout the typical Trump voter, you're not
talking about somebody that's a Neocon ora warmonger that's kind of the w Cheney
wing of the party. You're talkingmore about a hybrid voter who in the
past, I think in the nineteensixties may well have been Kennedy Democrats.

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In fact, some of the olderones might literally be Kennedy Democrats who become
Trump Republicans, and they don't likethis new version of the Republican Party because
it's dangerous, it's a threat totheir power supply for the Democrats, because
if Trump wins over the working class, the blue collar Americans, if he's
able to win in areas where Democratshave long taken for granted, the votes

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of those in the urban inner cities, those of minorities that they have put
in silos, not those of uson the right, but they have put
in silos as a monolith Black votersand Hispanics. The fact that an individual
Black American, be a male orfemale, or an individual Hispanic American male
or female, decides to vote onthe basis of what their values are,

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regardless of their race, that terrifiesDemocrats. Then Joe Scarborough got really stupid
and he said this, but again, I've never really heard people discuss macro
economics in terms of let's speck itout of that too, people discuss macro

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economics in terms of bloodbaths. Sohe's never really heard people discuss macroeconomics in
terms of bloodbaths. I present toyou now, just over the last two
years, two minutes of mainstream mediausing the term bloodbath in many different ways,
including macroeconomics. That's politico dot comreports tonight on the quote bloodbath at

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the RNC headline's calling it a quoteblood baths, blood bath. Not only
is it going to be a bloodbath, but after they leave New Hampshire,
it's a bloodbath on her home turf. That's really tough. Has left
a lot of corpses in his wake. I mean, we haven't count in
the body. As part of thequote, Maga drive to take over Maricopa
County and the headline refers to itas an impending blood bath. Columnist Charles

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blow As a new piece for TheNew York Times entitled a Biden blood bath
only eighteen midterms, you can betthat they one hundred percent of fearing a
slaughter. In fact, the wordblood bath and massacre come up frequently.
The Republican Party will be destroyed.It's going to be a bloodbath. There's
going to be a bloodbath one wayor the other. Bloodbath. For Bernie
Sanders, it's been a bloodbath.They're shaping up to be a bloodbath.

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Head off a blood bath, andnext year's midterm off fier elections are often
a blood bath. This week's bloodbathfor Democrats, a blood bath at the
ballot box. There could be aRepublican bloodbath. They'll talk about a blood
bath. Is a bloodbath? Ihave to talk about you and at It's
going to be a blood bath allday long? Is in for a bloodbath?
Has it been a blood bath onthe way down with Donald Trump?

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Blood bath? Be a blood bath. Predicted to be a blood bath.
May not be the blood bath.It would be a blood bath more of
a blood bath. It's going tobe a blood bath in November. Well
Biden blood bath this November, ablood bath on Wall Street. There's gonna
be a blood bath in Alabama intoa bloodpath. Obviously there was a blood
bath. It was a blood bath. We're down eight hundred points. This

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blood bath at Department of Homeland Securityand it's a bloodpath today. There was
going to be this blood bath electionblood bath. It could be a blood
path for that blood bath. Possiblybloodbath that went through with the Attorney general
blood bath nine to nine days out. The blood bath is going to look
like presided over a bloodbath in thediplomatic core flue. In my opinion,
blood blood bath. The Democra callingit a ticket sales turned into a blood

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bath. Ticket sales. The singerTaylor Swift's latest tool. It's safe to
say the fans had a blood bathfor the company after the casket. So
you did hear the term bloodbath usedby Joe Scarborough in that clip. You
may have heard his voice in there, used about economics, a bad Dan
wall Street used about a crazy dayof ticket sales for Taylor Swift and people

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flocking toward the internet. Remember thatall crashed and people were really upset.
It was a bloodbath, they said. This term has been used freely and
loosely and widely, and nobody reactedto it until Donald Trump used it and
they seized upon this. They alwaysclaim that Republican sees and pounds. Well,
I see a lot of seizing andpouncing from the left. Jen Saki,

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Well, like Tom Petty, shewon't back down. We all know
by now that Trump's allusions to politicalviolence are not merely rhetorical. His supporters
take them literally. That's part ofthe big problem here and he knows that
too. So no, we didnot miss the full context. This is
not some neandering off message comments.This is his message. As the Biden

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campaign put it, this is whoDonald Trump is a loser who gets beat
by over seven million votes and theninstead of appealing to a wider mainstream audience
doubles down on his threat's political violence. It's funny to me that people that
are basically mouthpieces for administrations Jensaki,George Stephanopolis are then rewarded with jobs as

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supposedly legitimate members of the media.They are not. They are propagandists.
That's what they were hired to doin the first place, and they're pretty
good at it. Jensaki, maybea little bit less, so she says,
circle back and um a lot.This is an insulting take, a
cartoonish take, not on Trump buton the people who would support him.

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Again, they keep coming back tothis theme, in this notion that we
are too stupid to realize we're beingplayed. And maybe some of you right
now or yeah, that's true,it's not true. I am voting for
policies. I don't want a dictatorany more than the next person does.
My grandparents fled a dictatorship in Yugoslavia. They knew what one looked like.

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So explain to me why those whofled communist countries in large portion today in
modern America twenty twenty four are staunchRepublicans. Cuban Americans in Florida have turned
that state red in large part dueto their participation in the political process.
Ted Cruz is a first generation Americandescendant of Cuban Americans. Marco Rubio the

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same. I am a first generationdescendant of Serbian Americans who fled communist oppression
in Yugoslavia. Why am I rightof center? Why is that important to
me? Why do I fear socialisticpolicies with more government control? These are
the reasons I'm voting for Donald Trump. Not because I'm some hay seed,
redneck hillbilly who just got in fromthe forest and I don't know which way

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is north. This is again,it's so insulting and demeaning, but it
comes from these coastal liberal elites,many of whom never dared to step foot
in a rural setting in an upperMidwest state. They wouldn't be caught dead
there. The same ones that likePeter Struck and Lisa Page, who,
when text messages, referred to Trump'ssupporters as smelly Walmart people. Is this

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their sales pitch? Is this theway they're going to win over the voters
of Middle America. I'm just gettingstarted here because Mika Brazinski also lost her
mind. But before we do that, there's also some audio I want to
get into to clear up the wholegood people, very fine people on both
sides. Here's Michael Tyler for theBiden Harris twenty twenty four communications team.

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What I heard was a continuation ofthe same rhetoric, the same endorsement of
political violence that we've seen from DonaldTrump four years. As you pointed out,
it goes even farther back, right. This is the same guy who,
after Nazis marched on Charlottesville and killeda woman, said there were very
fine people on both sides. See, they just reduced themselves, They beclowned

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themselves to the simplistic, shallow endof the thinking. Pool takes that they
either never have heard the comments thatTrump made going back to twenty seventeen.
I believe when that incident happened,the exchange that he had with the media,
the details of that. And it'snot like Donald Trump is some great

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thinker, like he's William F.Buckley. He's not. But by the
same token, he had a pointthat he was making about the original protests
in Charlottesville. There were those thatI've lived there, I've lived in Richmond,
Virginia. They have pride in theConfederacy. I do not. I
have no affiliation with the Confederacy,but that is part of their history.

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The capitol of the Confederacy was inRichmond, and they had statues in Monument
Row built for Robert E. Leeand Jeb Stewart and Stonewall Jackson and Arthur
Ash by the way, which wasan interesting addition. And those have all
since been born down. And theSoutherners feel that they have a right to
celebrate their heritage. Now you candisagree with that and say the Confederate flag,

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for instance, has no place inmodern America, and I would agree
with that. I would. Ithink it's just kind of ridiculous that you
would fly a Confederate flag. That'sthe flag of the side that lost.
You lost, well, you knowmore details of this, though, I
think it's important that we pick uphere on this day in the wake of
the Trump blood bath remarks from overthe weekend and the overreaction to it.

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When we come back, Ryan Schulingfilling in your thoughts on the KOA Common
Spirit Health text line fifty six sixninety. This is the Mandy Connell Show
on KOA. Okay, so JoeBiden, who you heard there in much
better cognitive condition. I might addbefore the twenty twenty campaign, Ryan Schuling
filling in for Mandy Connell, bythe way, and you can submit your
text on the KOA Common Spirit Healthtext line fifty six six ninety. Joe

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Biden then ran his premise for president. He ran based on a lie,
on a complete dis dis misinterpretation ofwhat Donald Trump said. Now, you
may have heard the distortion from themedia, and I'm sure you have many
times like those. There are veryfine people on both sides, and they
leave it at that, and youtake it at face value, and your

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liberal friends in their circle say,what do you called both sides a very
fine people, including the neo Nazis. That's simply patently false. And you
may have heard people on the right, like myself push back on that say
that's patently false. But what youmay not have heard is the exact audio,
which I took the trouble to goback and get in the wake of

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these bloodbath comments from over the weekend, because this is what the media does.
They distort, they cloud, theymake things look like a Salvador Dolly
painting. It's not the straight truth, and why are they lying to you?
Ask yourself that the one thing Idon't ever want to do when I'm
filling in on these programs is lieto you. Now, you might disagree

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with me, but you could say, well, Ryan's at least telling us
things the way he sees it.I could disagree with him, and I
might think he's wrong, and Imight be wrong. I'm never going to
say that I'm never wrong. Ilearned things, and I try to progress
my views, not progressively, butto propel myself forward down a path of
knowledge so that I arrive at takesthat are well informed. And I do

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push back against blatant lies that Ihear, specifically from the mainstream media,
because they do it so often.It's like a Howitzer figuratively speaking, because
apparently we're taking things literally. Nowwith the Blood Beasts stuff, I'm going
to play for you in order fourcuts. I'm not going to interrupt them.
I did not edit them in termsof content. I just cut them

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up in terms of times, soit wasn't the whole one long clip.
I will comment in between, butI want you to hear these four yourselves,
and then make your own conclusions,draw your own conclusions from that.
This is from the press conference immediatelyfollowing the riots and Charlotte sil Worth.
Yes, a young woman died,and yes there were neo Nazis who should

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be totally condemned. And guess whosays that in these cliffs here's Donald Trump.
No, puddy, what you're callingthe old left and white supremacists on
the same moral plane. I'm notputting anybody on a moral plane. What
I'm saying is this. You hada group on one side, and you
had a group on the other,and they came at each other with clubs,
and it was vicious and it washorrible, and it was a horrible

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thing to watch. But there isanother side. There was a group on
this side. You can call themthe left. You've just called them the
left that came violently attacking the othergroup. So you can say what you
want, but that's the way itis on both sides. So you said
there was hatred, there was violence, mostyshn Do you think there's blame?
Yes, I think there's blame onboth sides. You look at you look

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at both sides. I think there'sblame on both sides. And I have
no doubt about it, and youdon't have any doubt about it. And
if you reported it accurately, youwould say, Okay, So what Trump
is trying to say here? AndI will be the first to acknowledge he
is in artful and not precise inhis language. That's just the way he

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talks. And believe me, itfrustrates the hell out of me too.
I hate having to run cover forhim. If this were a president Ron
DeSantis, I would have a lotless trepidation about how he would handle things
and how he would speak to things. But what he's trying to say here,
and you'll continue to go on.There was an original group and I
went to a Confederate cemetery once outsideof Richmond, out of respect for the

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fact that the war happened. Ido not have any Confederate sympathies Oncesoever,
my great great grandfather fought for theUnion in the in the Michigan Battalion,
one of several. So my ancestrygo ahead and check it. I even
submit to my DNA at ancestry dotcom is completely Union. I have no

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Confederate ancestry or but these toward them, but a lot of Confederate soldiers died,
and I wanted to show some respectfor the fact that this war happened.
It was terrible. It's the worstwar in the history of our country.
And I was there visiting, youknow, in a somber fashion,
and a woman approached me and shewas part of the Daughters of the Confederacy.

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She didn't know what my heritage was, and she wanted to ask me
if I wanted to sign up forthe Sons of the Confederacy. And that
is when I told her point blank, I don't have any ancestry to the
Confederacy, and she took that forwhat it was worth and moved on.
But there was a group there insimilar fashion. Okay, it's the woman
that approached me and wanted to preventa Robert E. Lee statue from being

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torn down because of history, becauseof heritage, because that's the South,
and if you've ever been the South, it's the old South. You know
what that's about. And they're veryprovincial about that. They're very proud of
that history and heritage. We defeatedthem, the North did. The Union
did. But I don't want tobelittle them or what they find value in
and they're Americans too, and thatConfederacy tried to secede, but we reunited.

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There was reconstruction in downtown Denver.There are consecutive streets named after Sherman
and Grant, and there should be. But we should never forget our history.
We should not erase our history.And if there's a statue to Roberty
Lee, who finished in second placein the Civil War, and they want
to do that, it doesn't botherme that much. We shouldn't want to

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just tear everything down because it startswith Lee and it will eventually progress to
Jefferson to Washington, as Trump predictsin this exchange correctly. But what he
said was there was that original group. They had a permit to demonstrate a
peaceful protest, you might say,and wasn't just mostly peaceful. They were

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entirely peaceful, but there were elementsthat came in from both sides, Antifa,
far left rats that were there toattack them. And then this other
neo nazi, far right, whitenationalists, white supremacist, whatever element that
also co opted and commandeered the protest, and they took things to a violent

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level, and they're terrible. Sothat's just to give you the outline of
what was going on there. Thatwas the first part of what he had
to say. Now he gets intoit with Jim Acosta, And you had
some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were
very fine people on both sides.You had people in that group. Excuse
me, excuse me, I sawthe same pictures as you did. You

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had people in that group that werethere to protest the taking down to them
a very very important statue and therenaming of a park from Robert E.
Lee To another end, George Washingtonwas a slave owner? Was George Washington
a slave owner? So will GeorgeWashington now lose his status? Are we
going to take down? Are wegoing to take down? Are we going

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to take down statues to joege Why? How about Thomas Jefferson? What do
you think of Thomas Jefferson? Youlike him? Okay? Good? Are
we going to take down the statuebecause he was a major slave owner?
Now are we going to take downhis statue? Trump was right, Trump
was prescient. Trump predicted what wouldhappen. And yes, now we are
seeing statues of George Washington and ThomasJefferson and even Abraham Lincoln. I'm still

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trying to figure that one out.Are being taken down. Jim Acosta there
from CNN, remember this is twentyseventeen, said I love Thomas Jefferson.
Jim Acosta of the left, whereis he now that the statues of Jefferson
are being taken down? And thewhole both sides comment there there's context to

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add to that again what he wasstressing, there's basically four squares here,
four portions of the same square.You had a peaceful demonstration originally permitted to
those who wanted to keep the RobertElise statue up in the park intact with
that name. You had a neoNazi fascist right portion of that that tried
to commandeer that protest and they tookthings to a violent level. You had

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probably some leftists who opposed keeping thename intact, and they were there to
have a philosophical civil debate and discussionand counter protests to what the original Robert
E. Lee pro Confederate statue protesterswere there to save, to salvage.
That's the third element. The fourthelement was the violent far left antifa clad

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in black and masks and weapons andstuff, and they were present there too.
So you had good people on bothsides. You had bad people on
both sides. That's the point thatTrump was making. And here's the key
money quote that you never hear anywhere. And you had people and I'm not
talking about the neo Nazis and thewhite nationalists because they should be condemned totally,

(29:56):
but you had many people in thatgroup other than neo Nazis and white
nationalists, okay, and the presshas treated them absolutely unfairly. Now in
the other group also, you hadsome fine people, but you also had
troublemakers. And you see them comewith the black outfits and with the helmets

(30:18):
and with the baseball bats. Youhad a lot of bad You had a
lot of bad people in the othergroup too. He's exactly right, And
now that played out, But whydo you never hear this portion of it.
I'm gonna play it again. Andyou had people and I'm not talking
about the neo Nazis and the whitenationalists because they should be condemned totally,
but you had many people in thatgroup other than neo Nazis and white nationalists.

(30:41):
Okay. So he said it twice, not just once, but he
made an attempt there to differentiate betweenthat faction that I stated and the original
group that was there to protest,that had a permit and were doing so
peacefully. A reporter takes them onon that particular detail right here, I'm
right, just interesting what you weresaying. You were saying, the press
is treated white nationalists unfairly. Wewere saying there were people in that rally,

(31:03):
and I looked the night before.If you look, they were people
protesting very quietly the taking down ofthe statue of Roberty Lee. I'm sure
in that group there was some bedones. The following day, it looked
like they had some rough, badpeople, Neo Nazis, white nationalists,

(31:26):
whatever you want to call them.But you had a lot of people in
that group that were there to instantlyprotest and very legally protest because you know,
I don't know if you know,they had a permit. The other
group didn't have a permit. SoI only tell you this, there are
two sides to a story. Ithought what took place was a horrible moment

(31:47):
for our country, a horrible moment, But there are two sides of the
country. So I ask yourself,what you just heard, How different is
that from how it's been portrayed andpresented to you by the mainstream media that
said there were very fine people onboth sides. Now that you've heard the
entire exchange in context, is itnot markedly different than what he's accused of

(32:13):
saying? In other words, playthis for any of your liberal friends and
ask them what was wrong about whatDonald Trump said? What was so horrible
about what Donald Trump said in thatexchange in its full context? And Joe
Biden says, that's why he ranfor president because Donald Trump said there were
very fine people on both sides.That's moronic and it's wrong. It's just

(32:36):
factually incorrect. So I felt thiswas an appropriate day to go back in
the archives and explore that sound withyou so you could hear it for yourself.
The media, it's not good enoughjust to take Trump at face value
and what he says. It's notcontroversial enough, I guess, to gin
upratings. They've got to twist it. They got to say he wants a

(32:57):
blood bath for the whole country ifhe loses. Not what he said,
your text reactions will close out ournumber one with those on the KOA Common
Spirit Held text line fifty six six' ninety, Your thoughts on what you
just heard, Your thoughts on theoverreaction, the pearl clutching about the bloodbath
comments in Ohio. I'll play thatsound if you're just tuning in when we
come back from that break, andthen get into those texts when we come

(33:17):
back. Ryan Shuleing filling in.This is the Mandy Connell Show on KOA.
And he's right. If Biden winsfrom a financial, business and industry
standpoint, it will be he willfurther throttle oil and natural gas exploration,
including here in Colorado. He willfurther push electric vehicle mandates, though he's
trying to walk that back a littlebit because it crushes American auto workers.

(33:43):
He is going to continue to taxand regulate businesses at a much higher rate
than Donald Trump would. Who's goingto be tougher on China? Donald Trump
or Joe Biden, who was essentiallycompromised to China based on his son's dealings
with the Communists. Can trolled energycompany there. You can ask yourself all
these questions outside of the bloodbath wassuch a throwaway term there about the bigger

(34:09):
picture of the policies that he described, which were good, which will work,
which I want back as an American, as a supporter of the American
auto industry, as somebody who grewup with that. My grandmother was on
the assembly line for Detroit Diesel,for General Motors. This is personal for

(34:29):
me. I've only driven American carsin my life. I'm forty nine.
I've never owned or driven a foreignmade automobile. Again, for Detroit,
Ter's for Michiganers, it's a differentdeal. You go there, you're going
to see a lot more American carsbecause it's part of our fabric, it's
part of our history, and that'sthe theme of this pole hour. I'm

(34:51):
trying to get across to you thelisteners, and you probably relate to a
lot of them. There's things thatare important to you from a heritage standpoint
that might not be important to somebodyelse. And for those that were trying
to defend the Roberty Lee statue,I don't agree with that sentiment at all.
I'm glad the Union won. Obviously, I think the Confederate the cause
was a loser, but there arepeople who value it, who are Americans

(35:15):
who we did invite back to thefabric of our nation to reconstruction of the
eighteen seventies and beyond. And again, I spent part of my life a
few years of it in Richmond,Virginia, and I didn't feel like I
was looked down upon for being aNorthern and they make jokes about it on
your Yankee and you know, butthat's how things used to be. We

(35:37):
used to have friendly conversations with peoplethat we disagreed with and then everything would
be okay after. But we're notthere anymore. And a lot of this
comes from this media distortion of whatDonald Trump says and what he means,
what he actually does, more importantly, his actions. If he was going
to be a tyrant, as atalitarian, a dictator, why then, for

(36:00):
three to four years was he notthat? Why didn't he take advantage of
that? If he had the bullypulpit, we were a freer country.
As an individual, I felt muchfreer under the presidency of Donald Trump than
I do now. I feel kindof boxed in right now that the Biden
administration takes liberties. They decide thata Supreme Court decision is not good enough

(36:25):
on student loan forgiveness when they've beenoverruled, and he goes ahead and does
it anyway, Which is the individualthat doesn't have respect for institutions? I
would argue it would be Joe Bidenwho has weaponized the Department of Justice to
prosecute his political enemies. When arethey coming from Mount Rushmore? This texter

(36:45):
says, good one. I agree. I mean, look at Mount Rushmore.
Okay, Washington, Jefferson, they'recanceled. They were slave owners.
Okay, I don't know. TheodoreRoosevelt. He was a little bit racisty.
He tried to push the envelope.He had a what was it Booker
t Washington game over for a luncheon, and the whole place almost tore itself

(37:07):
apart. And I guess we won'tdo that again. You know. Founding
Fathers. Abraham Lincoln another one.Now he's being criticized. They took down
the name of a school I believeit was in San Francisco honoring Abraham Lincoln.
Because he didn't originally run on orconduct the Civil War to free the

(37:29):
slaves, he didn't do it soonenough. No, granted it was eighteen
sixty one, but we have tolook through everything through a twenty twenty four
lens. We have to judge ourhistory. Do you understand how insane that
is. Of course you do,you do, you're listening to this show.
But do you understand how many peopleare doing that now with no grace
for the past. That we change, we evolve as a people, as

(37:51):
a country, we have different values. We amend our constitution, we address
our flaws. We're one of theonly nations that does that on this planet.
America is a force for good inthe world, no matter what the
Democrats tell you otherwise. Much moreof this. Valdemar Archiletta will join me
in the next hour. I thinkyou'll find him very interesting. Log Cabin,

(38:15):
Republican president running for the GOP sideagainst Diana Degett in the first congressional
district. We'll get his thoughts onall of this, on his race in
particular. Much more your text whenwe come back. Fifty six six ninety
on the koa common Spirit held textline, Ryan Shuling filling in for Mandy
Connell. Ryan Shuling filling in forMandy Connell for those of you that are
a little bit concerned. She's juston vacation and she'll be back on Thursday.

(38:37):
But joining me now in studio.He is a candidate for the first
congressional district on the Republican side.You can follow him on Twitter now x
at Archiletta for COEO. That's thenumber four ar c h U l e
TA number four COO and you canfind out more about his campaign on his
website Archiletta for Colorado dot com.Valdemar arch A Lotta joins us here.

(39:00):
Thank you so much for being instudio of Baltimore. Yes, thank you
so much for having me here.Yeah. I always feel like the conversation
is a lot better when I haveyour quality MIC as a post to my
crappy phone. Let's see you faceto face. I feel like it's a
little more of a flow. That'sa little better. Yeah, I thought
today was an appropriate day to haveyou in as well. Beautiful outside today,

(39:21):
so it's not better. I'm goingto credit you with bringing the sunshine
to the studio because the last fewtimes I've filled in here it was gloomy
and it looked like armageddon out therewith the snowstorms over those last two days
Thursday and Friday. But happy you'rehere. I just want to get into
the details of your race as wellas your take on everything that we've been
talking about in the first hour.But let's start with that first Congressional I

(39:42):
was doing the research here, Valdemarand I was born in nineteen seventy four,
and dating back to nineteen seventy three, in the first congressional district,
there have been exactly two House representativepast sixty years, we've had two.
Yeah, Pat Schroeder and they're kindof similar and Diane had to get a
There any differences that you would say, policy wise between those two. I'm

(40:04):
not really familiar with the Schroeder days. I have heard people seem to like
her better. I don't know why. I can't give you an answer to
that. Really myself, I've onlyknown to get in my life because I
was a child during the Schroder years, not really into politics. I don't
know what was going on in theeighties, well even in the nineties,

(40:28):
Valdemartin, you and I are bothyoung bucks when Diana de Gett was first
elected succeeding Pat Schroeder in the ninetysixth election for the ninety seven Congress.
Yeah, I was in high school, so you remember that to Congress.
I don't remember that, but Iwas a when I was in high school.
I was not into politics at all. Well, good, for most
of my adult life, I've notbeen into politics. This just happened about

(40:52):
six or seven years ago. Istarted to pay attention to what was going
on. Yeah, what got youinvolved on at that point? And what
got you into this race? Iguess the two part question there for you.
Well, initially, I think whatgot me into politics was the twenty
sixteen election. It was just crazyenough that it peaked my interests. And

(41:12):
previous to that I had not reallyI knew nothing about politics. I grew
up at Jehovah's witness Jehovah's witnesses stayvery neutral in politics. They don't vote,
they don't even get involved. Andthat's a whole nother story though.
So I didn't know. I didn'tknow what right was. I didn't know
what left was, liberal, conservative, I didn't know when I started getting
involved. I guess in politics.It was a little earlier than that.

(41:36):
I got involved in the LGBT rightsmovement. I was a board member of
the Colorado Springs Pride organization. ButI was an ignorant person involved in politics,
and that I just went along withwhat I was told. These people
good, those people bad. Ididn't question it. I just was involved
in activism in that regard. It'sprobably more activism than politics, but it

(42:00):
was what it was. And thenI kind of got out of that move
back to Denver, because again thatwas in Colorado Springs. And I just
found the twenty sixteen election interesting becauseI was hearing all these things being said
about Donald Trump, and prior tothat, I was not a big fan
of his, like his TV showsand actuse. I thought he was just
this big, loud, brash person. But I was like, which he

(42:22):
is. Everyone else seems to lovehim, you know, and that's fine.
I had nothing against him either.But then in twenty sixteen, all
of a sudden, I was like, why is everyone suddenly hating on this
man who they all seemed to lovea year ago? And so I started
listening to what he said. Andthen I'd hear read articles like he said

(42:42):
this that, and I'm like,well, that's terrible, But he said
that thirty years ago. How canwe didn't care until now? So I'd
go read the full article or i'dwatched the full video, and I realized
the media was lying to me abouta lot of things, and so I
started looking into politics more to say, well, what does this I believe,
what does that side believe? Andcome to find out everything I believed

(43:04):
all along was following more in linewith right leaning politics than it was with
left leaning politics. And I don'tfeel like I changed at all. I
feel like I'm the same person Iwas back when I was fighting for LGBT
rights, back when I was aJehovah's witness, even though I was not
really involved in politics, but alwayshad that thought that, you know,
people should be independent and free andallowed to do their thing, believe what

(43:29):
they're gonna believe, preach what they'regonna believe. Because Jehovah's witnesses also were
really big into free speech obviously becausethey go knock on right your doors,
and so they were always fighting forthat right to be able to preach.
And so I, you know,it all turned out that you know,
who knew I was a Republican allalong, I just didn't know it,

(43:50):
And so now here I am today. I think the second question was how
did I get involved in this race? This race in particular right. I
was asked a while back to lookinto this race and a few years ago,
and I was like, yeah,heck no, I'm not going to
run in you know, congressional Districtone. I never thought about running for
any position. But what happened atthat point was just being asked kind of

(44:15):
brought this subject up, and Istarted talking about it to different community leaders,
different people in the party, aboutideas about how this can be a
useful campaign. And a big thingI feel is that, you know,
we have these urban communities. Igrew up in the city of Denver.
I've lived in New York City,i lived in Colorado Springs, so most

(44:37):
of my life has been in urbancommunities, and I just feel like these
communities have never haven't really been reachedout to by Republicans in a very long
time. They don't hear the otherside of the story. They don't hear
the other solutions to a lot ofthe problems facing our country and our communities.
And so I think it's only fairthat the people of Denver are reached

(45:00):
out to and are able to heardifferent ideas that maybe they've not heard before.
Because really, like living in Denver, I'm surrounded by more liberal Democrat
type people most of the time,which is fine. They have no problem
with that, and in our conversationsof the ninety five percent of the time,

(45:23):
people will agree with the issues andpolicies I bring up until you mentioned
like that our word of republic andsuddenly they're turned off by it. But
I think that there's a growing movementin the country and I hope this that
people just see like, all right, some of these things are getting a
little too crazy. And I've saidthis multiple times that both parties have a

(45:46):
huge opportunity right now to just benormal and win over the people in the
middle. And that's what I liketo do in Denver is just bring a
normal perspective on things, because mostpeople will believe that. Most people go
along with that, they agree thatthat's true. And so I want to
be able to speak to various communitiesand do that in our in our come

(46:09):
sorry, in our campaign we have. The very first day that I announced
was on Martin Luther King Day,and that was because we wanted to go
be part of the parade in Denverand it was zero degrees I remember this
knowing, and it was so cold. The Saint Patrick's Day prayde we just
did this weekend was much nicer,much more beautiful, day. But we've

(46:31):
done that. I've met with theColorado Black round Table. I've gone to
Jewish synagogues. I went to theDenver Northeast Islamic Center for a worship and
talked to the Black Muslims there.I was at the pow wow all this
past weekend. I just had aton of wonderful conversations with people in the

(46:52):
community. And again, you justtalk about issues and policy. We're all
facing the same things, and Ithink most people have that normal. Maybe
maybe normally shouldn't stop saying normal,but I feel it's normal. Just the
answer and solution to these problems.And you know, if someone's a you

(47:12):
know, fight crime, someone breaksthe law, their consequences. Don't let
people do anything, and even securingthe border, stopping the drug trafficking,
stopping human trafficking, helping people wholegitimately have needs for asylum, but also
not letting other people take advantage ofthat system because it hurts our community.

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I believe it was at the ColoradoBlack round Table we were having a discussion
where they were even talking about what'shappening in Denver with the community centers being
shut down, and especially our youngmen in the cities. These community centers
may be where they go so thatthey're not on the street involved in something
else. And if we're shutting thecommunity center down, we're just going to
create problem problems that are going tocome up later with kids not having places

(47:59):
to go. And so these problemsface us all as well as you know,
the high rise rise in cost ofliving. You know, Congress has
not passed a balance budget since thenineties, and so these years and years
and years of overspending are having anegative impact on the economy. And I

(48:20):
think that's also something that's very youknow, every single one of us out
there, your family, individual,whatever, you know, a certain amount
of money comes in. That's theamount of money you spend. You don't
go over that because then you havea problem like that should be economics one
oh one now even pre one ohone. That's just the most basic thing.
And so our government is not handlingthese issues, and the people see

(48:45):
that, and so when you stickto the issues, hopefully I'm able to
change some minds and hearts in ourcommunity here in Denver. I think it's
a critical time. You can findout more about his campaign Archiletta for Colorado
dot Com arcul Eta four fo rColorado dot com. Valdemar our guest here.

(49:05):
He is also the president of thelog Cabin Republicans in Colorado. Are
you still in that vote? Iam still the president the Cabin Republicans of
Colorado. There you go, Igot that right. This race, as
you mentioned, it's an uphill climb. I mean, Diana de Gett has
not lost I think less than morethan a third of the vote. She's
won at least two thirds of thevote for most of these races I'm looking

(49:27):
at from the late nineties, throughthe two thousands, through the twenty tens,
and now into the twenty twenties.But you make such an important point,
Valdemar, and that is I thinkpeople are ready at least to have
the conversation when you look at thecity of Chicago, the city of New
York, and are here in Denverwhen urban communities are being impacted by this
influx of illegals, and they're cominghere, like you said, not necessarily

(49:49):
under the level plane auspices of seekingasylum. Yet they're circumventing our system of
immigration. They're taking away jobs,they're undercut wages. I mean, this
is what I was saying in Hourone, which is the Democratic Party in
large part has turned its back onworking class Americans, which is I think
the opening that someone like yourself cancome in and, like you said,

(50:12):
you divorce Democrat or Republican from theconversation and you say, here's the issue,
here's my solution. And I thinka lot of people in urban centers
would be surprised how many Republican policiesthey actually agree with. Yeah, they
really would. And most of thetime, you know, we're having these
conversations, I don't like lead withI. I'm a Republican, and you
know, I start talking about thingsand a lot of like they'll find out

(50:35):
later, but that's kind of thepoint. I want them to kind of
say, oh, I like thisguy. He's saying things that make sense,
and then later they may find outor even sometimes in the conversation at
some point they'll ask. But itkind of makes them think, well,
maybe if what I was agreeing withwhat he was saying, maybe it's not
so bad. And I do hateidentity politics, However, I do acknowledge

(50:57):
that if me being a brown gayman is going to get people to listen
to me, then so be it. We have to fight fire with fire,
so to speak. But another thingI want to do is also kind
of bring some fire back to theRepublicans in Denver. They've become very apathetic
for obvious reasons. We had talkedabout back in the mayoral race there there

(51:23):
was one Republican candidate and seven Democrats. If all the Republicans in Denver alone
would have just voted for the oneRepublican, he would have been in the
runoff. But voter turnout was solow, and I think that the Republicans
in Denver have kind of just likeI said, they're apathetic, they've given
up. They need to see thatthere are people still in their community out

(51:46):
here fighting. You know, we'renot giving up because they do. They
have a powerful voice, especially whenit comes to state wide elections. If
there's forty thousand of them, thoseforty thousand votes may be enough to turn
a state wide election. We needthem to be invigorated, We need them
to be out there voting and notjust staying at home and realizing that they

(52:08):
do have an impact in our stateand in our country. And so I'm
just hoping to bring a little fireto our city at Denver that may not
be there right now, and Imean that in a positive way, not
a violent way. So don't takethis out of context. You're not calling
for a bloodbath right now. I'mcalling for us to burn our city down
or anything like that. Oh goodness, gracious, Valdimar Archiletta joining us,

(52:29):
And he's referring to Andy Rougeau,who did very well in running as the
only Republican came in third. Hedid, And I remember I had conversations
with Kelly Bruff, who ended upfalling in the head to head election with
Mayor Mike Johnston, but she wantedto reach out to Rougeau voters. And
I think that's a key part ofthis too, Valdemar, is that you're

(52:49):
building a contingency of people whose voicesneed to be heard and need to be
valued. And like you said,with regarded turnout, Kelly Bruff took those
voters seriously. If Diana deget realizesshe's got a legitimate campaign on her hands
and she can't just mail it inso to speak, literally here and win
without you know, really thinking aboutworking for the people of Denver, I

(53:13):
think the way I look at this, you're the nineteen eighty Miracle team on
ice Team USA. And I don'tmean that she's a Soviet I like,
but I like me. I likethat reference. But for her being the
Red Army team, they haven't Shehasn't been challenged in so long that I
think she's lost what it means tohave to really go out there and campaign

(53:35):
and work to earn votes. Ifyou can even do that, Valdemar,
I think your campaign's success. Yeah, because I think you know, she
hasn't had the campaign. And Ikind of don't blame her for this,
because if the roles were reversed,I may do the same thing that her
best Her best strategy going forward isto completely ignore me, as well as
all of the politicians on her side, as well as all the media on

(53:55):
her side. If they can justignore me this entire time, she's gonna
win. So one thing that peopleask, how can they help me,
I'm like, follow my social media, share, like comment, even if
I say something you don't like,comment, because the more engagement I get,
the more it's going to spread.And I got some good advice for

(54:15):
someone once, So I just gotto, you know, every once in
a while, poke the bear,poke the bear, poke the bear until
eventually they react and have to acknowledgeyou. So that's part of the strategy.
So everyone out there go follow me. That is how you can help
me. So and on Twitter,on x that is at Archiletta number four

(54:37):
CEO. The website is Archiletta forColorado dot com. To his point,
I have reached out, I haveinvited representative to get to join this program.
I don't anticipate a response because,like you said, the best policy
for them, and they've won withit, is to just ignore, ignore,
ignore them. But you have madethe point that you were willing and

(54:57):
you should because you're the challenger toreach out and talk to liberal media or
mainstream media, et cetera. Takeus through that experience. Is there a
particular publication that might be like reallyleft of center that's reached out to you
or at least been willing to havethat conversation with you. I had an
interview for like an hour and ahalf with a French media outlet a few

(55:20):
weeks ago, which I thought wasvery weird that the French media outlet reached
out to me before a lot ofareol media outlet. Now, I don't
know if they were. From myconversation with the reporter, they seem like
they're probably a little left of centerat least. Well, we had a
really good conversation, you know.That was good. I haven't talked to
a lot of media on the leftsince then, but being the president of

(55:45):
the Log Cabin Republicans of Colorado,I've talked to them before. They've interviewed
me before regarding log Cabin and someLGBT issues in our stance over there,
so they know who I am.I did get a congratulatory email from Kyle
Clark, so I know he knowswho I am, but he hasn't interviewed

(56:09):
me yet. I told him I'mwilling, like bring me on the show.
I am. I want to comeon and talk to you. Are
you going to be on nine next? I would love to be on nine
next. I told him you canask me anything anything, I'm willing to
come on and talk about it.I think we were talking about this right
before we went on air, thatI don't understand why some people are afraid

(56:30):
to, like come on your showand talk to you because, oh you're
the scary conservative. You're gonna askme hard questions like I've talked to like
left leaning media and then they've askedme hard questions. But I feel like,
if you're true to your campaign andyour platform, you shouldn't be afraid
of just being honest and saying whatyou believe. Sure Like, I don't

(56:51):
understand why you're afraid. I thinka lot of them are just so used
to being coddled by left leaning mediaand serve softballs that they're not. You
to getting fastballs high and tight touse a baseball reference there, whereas you
are, you're a fastball hitter.You go into the box, you're looking
for it. And I think it'sbeneficial to you, Valdemar, in your
campaign to engage in those conversations,to have a maybe adversarial interview, which

(57:15):
is fine with somebody like Kyle Clark, and I would I would welcome that.
I think it would do tremendous kindof payoff for you in that setting
to elevate your brand, your name, to show that you're willing to have
that tough exchange, which you knowyou'll have with somebody like Kyle Clark.
And so we'll talk more about that. Are you willing to stay for another
segment? Yeah? I can sayof course he can because he's Valdemar and

(57:37):
that name just sounds like a superhero. It just does. It does as
the kid, I hated it,but now always great love it because I
don't know any other Valdemar No,and that's what makes it great. And
you can follow him on Facebook tohis page for his campaign, same thing.
You can type it in search forit Archie letta number four COEO,
same as his ex slash Twitter handle, and again that website you can find
out more Archiletta for Colorado dot com. He joined to be in studio we

(58:00):
continue, we'll get his thoughts onTrump, the media reaction to the bloodbath
comment, all of that when wecontinue next more than Mandy Connell Show,
Ryan Shuling filling in on KOA orRyan Shuling filling in for Mandy Connell halfway
Home on this Monday edition of TheMandy Connell Show. She's merely on vacation.
She'll be back on Thursday. Youcan look forward to that. I

(58:20):
question, and Valdemar Archiletta has beenkind enough to spend some more time with
us. He's the president of thelog Cabin Republicans here in Colorado and he
is a candidate in the first congressionaldistrict, really the first one I've noticed
in a long time that is takingthis challenge head on and digging in,
trying to make inroads against Diana Degett, who has basically been just not campaigning

(58:42):
for the last thirty years almost andkeeping a hold on a seat that once
belonged to Pat Schroeder, the twoof them dating back to nineteen seventy three.
But in this case, whether MikaBrazinski really believes everything she disputed,
she questions, of course, theintelligence of any of us who would support
Donald Trump. I am wondering ifshe thinks her audience is stupid, because

(59:06):
if you hear that, you knowit's ridiculous on its face. I played
with Christian Toto late last week,remarks from Robert de Niro to Bill Maher
in which he said that Donald Trumpwas going to take Bill Maher's show away
and come after him Robert de Niro, and you remember how the audience reacted.
They laughed at him. They didn'ttake that seriously because it's ridiculous foolishness.

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And to Valdemar's point that he madeearlier on this hour, we remember
Valdemar and I both grew up kidsin the eighties. Donald Trump was the
standard of success you aspired to.That he was kind of a cartoonish figure.
He was big, he was bloviating, but people. He was on
Lifestyles of the Rich and Fame,as he was interviewed by Barbara Walters.

(59:50):
He was constantly on Oprah. Hewas a mainstream figure. He was not
this outlandish kook. He's still thesame guy. He's still the same guy.
Oprah asked him several times when hewas in his forties and into his
fifties, Donald, are you goingto run for president? They were good
friends and they all like getting hismoney. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton,

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the Rainbow Push coalition, when DonaldTrump was writing checks for them, Oh,
he was their best friend. Mikaand Joe were laughing it up in
twenty fifteen twenty sixteen, when Valdemarstarted paying attention to politics a little bit
more closely. They thought he wasfunny because they thought he was a joke,

(01:00:30):
because they thought he was a clown, and they hoped if they helped
him by giving him all kinds ofearned free media, that he would win
the nomination he hat clabberd by Hillary. That was the plan, and that
kind of backfired, and now we'veevolved to this dribble that we just got
from Mika Brazinski Valdemar. I wantyou to kind of assess what you heard

(01:00:51):
there from her and just how doyou react to that. I do kind
of wonder what they they think peoplebelieve, And unfortunately, I think that
there's enough of the people in thecountry who are just they follow politics just
enough to hear something like that andthen they don't question it. They hear

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nothing else the rest of the day. They they that's where they get their
information and they believe it. Allright, Donald Trump is going to be
a dictator, a fascist. Ifeel like words like that, like the
word fascist has been so overused it'salmost meaningless now if someone's going to call
someone same thing with like racist,that's racist, that's racist, that's racist,

(01:01:37):
or hitler. Yeah, they keepdoing this, They keep playing this
Greatest Hits album of Trump is Hitler, Trump is racist, Trump is yea,
And I wonder, like, howlong is that going to work.
I just spent the past weekend atthe pow Wow and talking to indigenous people
from all over They were from allover the country really mainly the western United

(01:01:59):
States, but even up into Canada, and I had a big board,
right, I was having people writedown what is the issue facing the indigenous
population, and very few people werelike, Oh, it's just so racist
out there that we need that that'sour problem. Like they had real issues
like the water, on the internet, on the reservation, you know,
the missing and murdered Indigenous women,education, like they were there were real

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topics. I'm just broad thing,Oh it's just racist. I'm hoping that
people are kind of getting pasted.And the same thing with fascist, like
oh, that's fascist. A lotof times I think people don't really know
what the word fascist actually means becausethey misuse it. And the people who
actually are kind of and I don'twant to now be the one to use

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it, who are kind of fascisticor I'm authoritarian, those are the people
they support. So I'm like,I don't get this constant fear mongering works,
like eight years later or whatever,that's still what we're going to push.
We're like, this is the sameplaybook they're going to use in this

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election. I think they are,and I don't know how they can't run
on issues right now. They're losingalmost every single one of them, the
ones that if you ask to averagevoter out there, like you said at
the powwell, what are the issuesthat are most important to you? And
then you line up what the Republicanpolicy position is that versus Democrat. It's
Republican issues and their stance on thoseissues that's prevailing with the voters right now.

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Yeah, and it's unfortunate. Ithink sometimes Donald Trump does doesn't help
himself with some of the his ownworst enemy a lot of the time.
Yeah, although I do remember also, like I remember in twenty sixteen when
he won in twenty sixteen, Ivoted for him because I thought he was
a better option than same the otherI wasn't thrilled because I he had no

(01:03:49):
experience of that. I don't knowwhat's going to happen. And I kind
of was listening to some of thenegative things being said. Is is you
know, are these things going tofall upon as your preferred candidate in sixteen
at first when you were paying atime. Remember I do remember though,
like I took a survey on thiswas back on both sides, there were
like twenty something I don't know betweenthe Democrats and the Republicans, and I

(01:04:11):
wish I screenshot this and saved it. There was like, who's who lines
up with what you believe the most? And it was Donald Trump? And
I was like really And then butthen that also kind of helped me to
start like, well, listening tohim. And once I got past the
kind of rough outer shell and Ijust listened to the policy, I'm like,
well, I think I do kindof believe a lot of the actual

(01:04:32):
policy that he's saying. I do. He is the one who most lines
up with what with what I believeon But I didn't really have a favorite.
I listened to the debates and andlistened to them all, but I
wasn't like really rooting for anyone atthat point. I gotcha and joining us
Valdimore Archoletta. That's the voice you'rehearing. He's running for the first congressional

(01:04:54):
district against Diana. To get gotsome text here, good, bad,
and ugly? Are you read?Are are your feelings going to get hurt?
It's on the KLA Common Spirit Healthtext line five six six nine zero
is where you can start. I'llstart with a good one. Oh,
my gosh, this man just describedme and my experience with politics. He
is awesome. There you go.You got that, Well, thank you

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another one. He hasn't got achance in hell. Wasting people's money?
Is that what you're doing? You'rewasting people's money? Hither and Yon are
you doing vacations? I think thatthat's a valid comment. And I think
people have the same issue with NikkiHayley running as long as she did,
and was it a waste of people'smoney? If people believe in her message

(01:05:35):
and they're willing to give her money, then to them, obviously it's not.
And like I said, I feellike this campaign is going to be
useful regardless of the outcome. Iagree he can talk to people in our
communities now and I've had a lotof conversations with people who are like get
mad about like when we get tothe end, we have these two candidates.

(01:05:56):
I don't like either one of them. Why are we stuck with this?
And I'm like, what's because peopledon't get involved until the end.
And right now we're working in twentytwenty four, we're gonna have a governor's
race in twenty six and we're gonnahave new candidates on both sides because Polis
is gonna be termed limited out.If we want to have a chance in
twenty six, we need to starttalking to people now. We need to

(01:06:20):
start recruiting people now. And ifI can work by talking to people in
Denver and having honest conversations with themnow, maybe in twenty six they will
be willing to listen to another Republican. So I don't feel it's a waste
of people's time and money, andanyone who's willing to give me money to
help us do these things and goto these events because we want to be

(01:06:43):
involved in like Juneteenth and Cinco deMayo and a lot of these things in
Denver to get people to see thatthere's other options out there. I don't
think they're wasting their money, Butif you do think it's a waste of
money, then you don't have togive me anything. Beauty of America right
there. But if you do thinkhe's worth your time and investment, you
can find out more online Archiletta forColorado dot Com. I got one more

(01:07:03):
text I want to go over withyou. Do you have time for one
more second? Yes? All right, we're gonna take this break. I'm
gonna come back with that because Ithink it's important. Valdemar Archiletta joining us.
He is our guest for the hour. Ryan Shuling filling in The Mandy
Connell Show continues after this on KOWAin studio guests Valdimar Archiletta, and you
can find out more about his campaignfor the first congressional district head to head

(01:07:25):
mano Imano against Diana to get Archilettafour f O R Colorado dot Com.
This was the text I was talkingabout before the break. You went from
fighting for LGBT rights to being atypical cult forty five stooge. You sick,
although I think they might have gottenthe wrong vowel there. How do
you address those types of people?Vadam are the field You need to stay

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in your LGBT box and hate Trump. Well, here's the thing. I
was being for LGBT rights. Wewanted to be allowed to assimilate within the
culture and just live our lives.It was not like it is now.
The LGBT fight today is more wewant the world around us to modify everything

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they're doing to fit us, andso they're fighting today for special rights.
I was fighting back in the dayfor equal rights, and we were fighting
against you know, the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy and the Defense of
Marriage Act, and that once thosetwo issues were done, I kind of
felt like our rights are here.There are cultural things where like now,

(01:08:30):
I think the issue is winning mindsand hearts of people and having conversations.
But anyway, so today I believethe same thing. I just want to
be able to live my life.I want you to be able to live
your life. I probably have muchmore of a libertarian philosophy behind me.
I just want everyone to be freeto be who they are. If they
disagree with me, that's fine.If you're a hardcore left wing Democrat,

(01:08:56):
you know what, you have theright to believe that. I will fight
for your right to believe that.I disagree with you, but you should
have those conversations. I have myconversations, and hopefully people will see it
that you have to win people byhaving convincing arguments and conversations, not by
forcing them to do things through thecountry. So the reason I liked Trump
is I just felt I wouldn't callmyself a hardcore Trumper, first of all,

(01:09:20):
but I liked the fact that hewas fighting more for that let people
be he actually when it comes toand I think in twenty sixteen, the
reason I lined up more with himthan the other Publican candidates was because he
is actually much more liberal than mostRepublicans. And this issue in particular,

(01:09:40):
which is funny, is his basetends to be very very far right.
Well maybe very very but they're morefurther to the right than he is.
Yes, he is one of themost pro gay presidents we've ever had,
the first president to ever go intooffice that during his campaign he waved a

(01:10:01):
rainbow flag. He's the first personpresident to go into office supporting same sex
marriage. And so I don't feellike it's that big of a leap.
And in the world of the logCabin Republicans, under Donald Trump, we
went from like thirty chapters around thecountry to eighty something chapters around the country.

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So as much as they call himanti LGBT, he actually a draw.
Drew need to learn how to speakhere, drew a lot of people
to support him and into the RepublicanParty. So I don't see those things
as being a huge leap. Whenyou look at the LGBT movement of like
ten years ago, Ryan schuling,filling in third and final hour, taking

(01:10:51):
up to three o'clock and KOA Sports. I'll be in for many Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday. She is backon Thursday, just brief vacation for her.
I know I've got a lot oftexts on the KOA Common Spirit Health
text line. Ask him about thelay of the land, the schedule that's
ahead, and you can join usin that conversation as well. At fifty
six six ninety tomorrow, a slightlyabbreviated edition will be signing off at too

(01:11:16):
to join a Rockies baseball coverage,and we have a little bit of a
sports theme toward the end of thatsecond hour as well as Mark Johnson,
Voice of the Buffs. You'll hearhim joining me live from Dayton, where
both Colorado and Colorado State. Hasthat ever happen. It's so remarkable to
me that two schools same state endup in that play in round the first

(01:11:39):
four as they call it in Dayton. I've got thoughts on that too.
I thought Colorado got a raw dealbased on the metrics and how those seatings
are selected and what they did duringthe regular season. The Buffs didn't have
a single what they call bad lossaccording to the net rankings in Colorado State.
I've got even a more of aproblem with them in the whole Mountain
West conference and how they were andI've reached out to their play by a

(01:12:01):
play announcer as well. But MarkJohnson will join us Voice of the Buffs
coming up at about a one thirtythree pm tomorrow Tuesday, and then a
full show on Wednesday, heading backto Mandy Thursday and Friday. There's sound
coming out from some hearings at theSupreme Court today. I wanted to get
to this because I do have somewhatof a personal involvement in what went on

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during the twenty twenty campaign. Thisis Justice Samuel Alito on the White House
pressuring social media companies like Facebook andTwitter to do their bidding during the twenty
twenty election in terms of censoring quoteunquote misinformation exchanged between the White House and
other federal officials and Facebook in particular, but also some of the other platforms.

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And I see that the White Houseand federal officials are repeatedly saying that
Facebook and the federal government should bepartners. We are on the same team.
Officials are demanding answers. I wantan answer, I want it right
away. When they're unhappy, theycurse them out their regular meetings. There

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is constant pestering of Facebook and someof the other platforms, and they want
to have regular meetings, and theysuggest why don't you They suggest rules that
should be applied, and why don'tyou tell us everything that you're going to
do so we can help you andwe can look it over. And I
thought, wow, I cannot imaginefederal officials taking that approach to the print

(01:13:38):
media, our representatives over there.If you did that to them, what
do you think the reaction would be? And so I thought, you know,
the only reason why this is takingplace is because the federal government has
got Section two thirty and antitrust inits pocket, and it's to mix my
metaphors, and it's got these bigclubs available available to it, and so

(01:14:02):
it's treating Facebook and these other platformslike their subordinates. It would you do
that to the New York Times orthe Wall Street Journal or the Associated Press
or any other big newspaper or wireservice. And again it goes back to
the question. Justice Alito's absolutely righthere. Who are the true authoritarians here.

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This is an administration, or atleast a campaign at that time that
was leaning heavily on Mark Zuckerberg andhis subordinates at Facebook, on Jack Dorsey
at the time, his subordinates atTwitter, the FBI, elements of the
leadership within that organization trying to influenceand muscle these social media platforms into doing

(01:14:45):
their bidding. And you saw,you heard what Justice Alito was referring to
there, pressuring through emails, wantingto have regular meetings, wanting to discuss
what was posted on their platforms andwhat should be filtered out a me,
who's the fascist? What are youtalking about? Imagine if Donald Trump and
his administration had tried to do thison his behalf and what the reaction would

(01:15:10):
be, and justifiably so, therewould be a strong reaction against it.
But there's crickets from the media.This was a form of suppression of the
election. This was a form ofin its literal sense, rigging the election
because the Hunter Biden laptop story wasvirtually erased. It was discounted as Russian

(01:15:30):
disinformation, that's a lie. AndI was personally impacted by this on election
night because in our coverage here inmy home state of Michigan. I was
following along on the New York Timeswebsite and I looked to a county in
northwest Michigan, just east of TraverseCity, a very popular terror tourist destination,

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and it was Antrim County that wasblue. And that stood out to
me because that wasn't right. Thereis not a single blue county all of
lower northern Michigan, not one.Donald Trump had won Antrim County in Michigan
comfortably against Hillary Clinton in twenty sixteen. I looked at the numbers. They
were almost the exact opposite in favorof Biden. And I questioned that because

(01:16:16):
it didn't look right to me asa Michigan native who followed Michigan elections and
federal elections in Michigan. I foundout later, much later, through the
Twitter files by Matt Taibe that myhandle had been targeted, throttled, and
shadow band because of my comment onelection night, noticing correctly, I might

(01:16:42):
add that Antrim County's votes looked likethey had been flipped. They had been.
I didn't state a reason or amotivation, just that it was wrong.
I didn't know why it was wrong, but that I knew it was
wrong. Now that got into thewhole discussion about the dominion votings systems and
whether they worked or could they bemanipulated. Now, the explanation seemed innocent

(01:17:04):
enough, which is, somebody thatwas operating the machinery pushed the wrong button.
So the votes that should have gonefor Biden went for Trump, and
the votes that should have gone forTrump went for Biden. That's what transposed
them. They fixed the error inretrospect, but the point being one,
the error was made. Two Iwas correct in observing the error, but

(01:17:27):
three, because this was information inconvenientfor the Biden camp, I had my
account shadow band throttled, diminished interms of its reach. I was part.
I looked right. I had afollower of mine on Twitter now X
reach out to me and say,Ryan, did you see this? You're
in my Matt Tayebi's report. I'mlike what? And then I looked at

(01:17:50):
it. It was just like thelink the url of the tweet. I'm
like, well, what tweet wasthis? So I copied and pasted the
l and I put it in thesearch engine and it showed me what I
just described to you, which wasthat was me questioning the results in Antrim
County, and I can't stress thisenough. I was right. So my

(01:18:14):
point being, at the time thedecision was made to throttle me, they
did not know, nor did theyhave any way of knowing whether I was
right or wrong, just that Iwas inconvenient. I was a fly in
the ointment and I needed to besilenced. That is dangerous for American democracy,
no matter which direction it's going.So I just wanted to share that
personal story. We'll take this break, come back. Cole Peterson on the

(01:18:38):
other side, he's going to giveus the lowdown on all the hubbub that's
going out for the first installation ofBucky's in the state of Colorado just north
of here and I twenty five.We'll get that when we come back with
more of the Mandy Connle Show.Ryan Shuling filling in on KOA. Ryan

(01:19:15):
Schuling filling in for Mandy Connall today, Tomorrow and Wednesday. She's back Thursday.
But we're trying to capture the mania, the craze, the fever that
is Bucky's now open north of Denverif you take Exit two point fifty two,
it's just west of that interchange.And our own. Cole Peterson was
on site producer of Colorado's morning News. He joins us now to update us

(01:19:36):
on the experience. Cole, thanksfor taking the time. Yeah, thank
you absolutely. Now take us throughwhat your preparation, your expectations were going
in versus your experience coming out?Okay, preparations. I can't say I
had much. I got there atfour am this morning when they started letting

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media get there, and you know, I have questions written. I knew
I was going to be able tointerview some general managers and stuff like that.
But when I got there, therewas actually a few people already in
line at the door, and Iwent up and spoke to them, and
the people at the very front ofthe line they had pulled a seat out
of their car, the bench seat, and they were sitting there and I

(01:20:18):
asked them, how long have youguys been here? They had been there
since nine last night, and theysaid they brought a tent and they were
camping out just to be the firstin line at BUCkies. And it's kind
of funny. They're like a groupof maybe high schoolers, maybe going into
college something like that. They saidthey were on spring break and they're like,
you know, we just want todo this kind of just just as
for fun and maybe as a joke. But they did it, and they

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were first in line, and askedthem, what do you guys want first?
And they said barbecue but as gooda reason as any. And it's
spelled buc hyphen ee apostrophe s BUCkies. Now, it's taken a long time
for it to get here, butCole, as best as you can describe
it, what is the BUCkies experience? What makes it unique? Well,

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I mean if you've never been toone, it's it is a giant gas
station, a giant convenience store,seventy four thousand square feet. There's one
hundred and sixteen gas pumps. Butyou go in and it's just exactly like
it sounds. It's the giant conveniencestore. But they have this you know,
great Texas barbecue brisket, and thenthey have famous fudge, and then

(01:21:27):
you know, all all the otherstuff, all the drinks and stuff.
But then they also have like amassive gift shop where you can purchase anything,
anything, anything, but also anythingwith like a Bucky's logo on it.
They have t shirts, swim andsuits, anything with a Bucky's logo,
and it kind of sounds like thegift shop that's adjacent to, say,
like a cracker barrel, So thatexperience, but much bigger, much

(01:21:48):
larger. I'm sure the other thingI heard you talking about that's all the
rage. I gotta have you describeand explain what beaver nuggets are. Beaver
nuggets so I didn't know these wereeither, but they are essentially like a
puffed corn thing. They're crunchy andthey're sweet, but it's puff's kind of

(01:22:09):
like a puffed cheeto, but it'snot salty. It's like sweet, like
cormiccorn. And that's what a beavernugget. Beaver nugget is, And yeah,
they're pretty good. The sweet Agood experience. Like col Peterson joining
us. He is the producer forColorado's morning news. He was there,
like he said, at four inthe morning, anticipating the opening of this
thing. I looked and there wasa traffic backup on the Google maps for

(01:22:32):
this destination today, and it seemslike that's been the case throughout the day.
It's the only one in Colorado.Final question, Cole, are their
plans perhaps to set up more BUCkiesin the state of Colorado. You know,
our host asked the regional director ofthat very question today, and I
mean in short, he said yeah, he said, you know, we

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plan these things out and if thisone looks good, and it looks like
it will do good, there's definitelyroom for more. Or so you know,
if you can't make it up tonorthern Colorado Wish area, Johnstown area,
maybe maybe be on the lookout.It might be one to come to
in your way. So there's theupdate. You heard it here first and
again you can find that a northboundI twenty five. You take that to

(01:23:15):
exit twoint fifty two just west ofJohnstown and just west of that interchange is
where you will find it. Bucky'sit's here, it's now, it's happening.
And if it's here now in happening, Cole Peterson's on it. Cole,
thank you so much for taking thetime. Hey, thanks very I
have a good one. All right, Cole Peterson right there, you want
to check it out again, it'sjust north of here between Denver and Fort
Collins, a stop, a pitstop. If you will off I twenty

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five, it is worth the wait. We'll take this time out. We'll
come back much more to get tohere on the final half hour the Mandy
Connell Show, Ryan Shuling filling inon KOA. Down the stretch we go,
final half hour of the Mandy ConnellShow. Here on KOA, inviting

(01:24:00):
your text on the KOA Common SpiritHealth text line fifty six six ninety.
I will be getting to a slewof those as we close out today's program,
and invite you to join me inthat conversation if you haven't already,
or even if you already have,he got something else to say. I
like having a running conversation with you, Mandy's audience, Ryan Schuling filling in
Michael Cooper on the other side ofthe glass. Appreciate his help today and

(01:24:24):
joining me now. You can findhim on Twitter at retinal doctor. That's
r E. T I n Al Doctor. He is a physician and
writer for American Thinker and Rasmussen Reports. And it's from Rasmusen Reports. So
we find his latest article, whichis entitled and you can find it there
Election twenty twenty four. It's theBorder Stupid. Brian jundef our guest the

(01:24:45):
Good Doctor, joins us. Brian, thank you so much for taking the
time Oh, you're very welcome.Good to be with you. Now.
I love the historical reference you makehere to start the article to Jim Carville,
because Clinton's think tank and his teamthey were spot on. I mean,
even those that might disagree with himpolitically. He had Carville, he
had Begala, he had Stephanopolis.Part of this kind of dream team of

(01:25:09):
younger thinkers, boomers, if youwill, and they were young at the
time, helping Bill Clinton and steerhis campaign toward more of a middling ground
and focusing on the kitchen table issuesthat affect Americans with regard to the economy,
it's the economy stupid, you derive, it's the border stupid. From
that, take us further into thearticle. What motivated you to write it?

(01:25:30):
Well, we're looking at what Ithink the most important election of our
lifetime is coming up. Everybody saysso pooh pooh that, because every election
they say that, But this istruly important. Another term of Biden that
I think a lot of American exceptionalismwill be permanently gone. And one of

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the big issues that voters are concernedabout is this unfettered immigration. In the
past decade, we've probably added fifteenpercent to the population. You look at
the statistics and it's horrible. Allthe new job creation is foreigners. It's
not Americans. Americans are being leftbehind and replaced. And that's a theory

(01:26:14):
called the replacement theory that was writtenabout in the New York Times. It's
not right wing conspiracy, but Americanworkers are being replaced in America, and
with unfettered immigration, we have crime. You've heard the stories of the nursing
student that was murdered and disabled fifteenyear old girl was recently raped by a

(01:26:34):
Haitian immigrant. The story's abound,and this is something that's going to affect
everybody. This is not a partisanissue. Unless you're living in an ultra
secure gated community, you're subject tothis end them street violence, car theft,
all the rising prices as a result. Look what's happening in Denver.

(01:26:56):
Denver's becoming unlivable between the homeless andthe legals. It's becoming an unsafe city,
and city services are being chopped away to pay for the legal immigrants.
They're cutting park services, DMV,other agencies, all the agencies that
have to cut the budgets by tenpercent. It's the people that live in

(01:27:17):
Denver and work and pay taxes thatare really getting screwed. So this is
an issue that can resonate with allvoters, regardless of age, regardless of
party, because it's affecting everybody.It's affecting parents with kids in school that
the schools are being overwhelmed with kidsfrom other countries that don't speak English,

(01:27:39):
the teachers can't teach. It's really, as I said, affecting everybody,
and it's an issue that Republicans shouldcapitalize on, just as twenty odd years
ago Carville said it's the economy stupid, because it was the economy at the
time. It's the economy now aswell. But all Republicans should be shouting

(01:27:59):
for from the rooftops about open bordersand what it means for America. I
think this is a winning issue andRepublicans are foolish to not be jumping all
over it, and instead Congress isworried about banning TikTok and Taylor Swift concert
ticket prices and nonsense like that.They should be all over this. They
should be on the talk shows,writing editorials commercials. To me, it's

(01:28:23):
a no brainer, right, That'swhat I think about it. Brian Jundaff
right there with a tremendous summary ofhis article Election twenty twenty four. It's
the border stupid, and that's onRasmusenreports dot com is where you can find
it. And I want to diga little bit deeper into the comparisons,
Brian, you and I going backto nineteen ninety two, and it's hard

(01:28:44):
to believe, but that's thirty twoyears ago now, and the sensibilities that
Bill Clinton had as a candidate andultimately as president, where he wanted to
appeal to the common man, tothose that were overlooked in the middle of
America, and he kind of marginalizedGeorge Herbert Walker Bush as an out of

(01:29:04):
touch elitist. Fast forward to twentytwenty four and we've got a Democratic Party
and a candidate in Joe Biden thatdoesn't seem to care about those people anymore,
and that they're going to go totheir hard left flank and make sure
that they're pursuing such policies is goingto benefit them the coastal liberal elite.
It's almost like they've switched places.The populist movement is on the Trump side,

(01:29:28):
it's within his campaign We'll get tocomment from him in just a moment,
but I want to get your takeon something I observed in the twenty
sixteen campaign where Bill Clinton came outand he saw these trent lines of what
was happening in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, in Ohio, and
he tried to make his voice heardin Hillary's campaign say hey, you guys

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got you gotta think about these hardwork in Middle America people. And Robbie
Mook and John Podesta both told him, patted him on the head and sent
Bill, you come from a anera. Go sit in the corner.
That's not today's Democratic party or politicsanymore. Why do you think they punted
all of those so called ideals andnotions of Clintonian democratic politics. Well,

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the Democrats are desperate for new voterstheir policies. Think nobody's voting for their
policies. There if you look atsurveys on most major issues, Trump leads
the way on virtually all of them. They need new voters. If there's
too big a margin, they can'tcheat in the election. They can't have
ballot boxes and reg elections and stopcounting and do all the other chicanery they

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need voters. And if they gettheir way with Biden winning somehow and or
Democrat Congress, they're just going togive amnesty to every illegal in this country
and give them voting rights, andthen that's it. It's lights out for
the Republican Party. They go throughan Act of Congress, they can stack
the Supreme Court and appoint six liberaljustices and that's it. There goes the

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First Amends, at the second Amendment. The country's over. It's not going
to resemble anything like we see evennow, and that's why they're desperate.
This is their last ditch effort.Their policies are not popular and they need
something. Unfortunately, the Republicans arenot pushing back the Chamber of commerce.

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Republicans a Republican establishment. They lovethe cheap labor. But who's it hurting.
It's hurting blacks, it's hurting minorities. And that's why support among blacks
Hispanics is way up for Trump.Instead of being like ten percent, it's
twenty thirty, forty percent depending onthe polls. It's not the blacks and

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Hispanics are not monolithically voting Democrats.They're looking at their jobs and they're looking
at city services in near cities beingcut for them to give thousand dollars a
month to illegals and give them freemeals and housing. Black families are struggling
to get by, and they're strugglingto pay the grocery bill as well.

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Nobody's giving them a thousand dollars amonth debit card like the illegals are getting
when they cross the border. Sothis is something that will resonate amongst all
groups, and Republicans are absolutely foolishas they don't take advantage of this.
His article is Election twenty twenty four. It's the border stupid. Rasmusenreports dot

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Com. Brian jundef our guest.I think you can hit the nail on
the head, Brian, because itleads me to my final point that I
want to make with you, whichis the Democrats have abandoned trying to argue
or debate Trump on policy and resortedto their tried and true textbook of personal
demonization of the man himself. Butit defies logic to your point that black

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Americans, Hispanic Americans would vote forin support as supposedly racist and xenophobic candidate.
And we got more of this overthe weekend with this absolute fever dream
in response to Donald Trump and isused of the term bloodbath again. I
want to play it one more timefor our listeners just tuning in in its
full context from his beach in Ohioover the weekend. Mexico has taken over

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a period of thirty years, thirtyfour percent of the automobile manufacturing business in
our country. Think of it wentto Mexico. China now is building a
couple of massive plants where they're goingto build the cars in Mexico and think
they think that they're going to sellthose cars into the United States with no
tax at the border. Let metell you something to China. If you're

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listening, Presidency and you and Iare friends, but he understands the way
ideal those big monster car manufacturing plantsthat you're building in Mexico right now,
and you think you're going to getthat, you're going to not hire Americans
and you're going to sell the carsUS. Now, We're going to put
a one hundred percent TWERF on everysingle car that comes across the line,

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and you're not going to be ableto sell those goes. If I get
elected, now, if I don'tget elected, it's going to be a
blood bath for the whole that's goingto be the least of it. It's
going to be a blood bath forthe country. That'll be the least of
it. But they're not going tosell those cars. They're building massive factories.
So rather than focus on the pointsTrump was making, which were very
good ones, Brian, and infact, a lot of these voters are

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abandoning the Democratic Party, Joe Bidenhas gave kind of a very surface level
talking point speech when he went toMichigan to talk to the UAW, got
the endorsement of the UAW chief,who then acknowledged maybe a majority of his
workers, we're going to vote forTrump. In fact, Donald Trump is
meeting with the president of the Teamstersunion, Dave at least got an open

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door for him to have a conversation. Is this the last stand for the
Democratic Party with the working American Brian? What I mean by that is,
let's say the Teamsters were going toendorse Donald Trump. Let's say the UAW,
after all these years being lockstep withthe Democratic Party decides, you know
what, this isn't working for usanymore. What happens if organized labor votes

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for Donald Trump. That's a gamechanger. And if you recall seven eight
years ago, Trump made those commentsabout find people on both sides of the
issue in Charlottesville, and he wasreferring to people that have different issues,
different opinions on removing Confederate statues,not neo Nazis. And if you listen
to his whole comment and context,he says, I'm not referring to Nazis.

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I'm referring to the statue issue.But in those days, Twitter was
controlled by Jack Dorsey in the USIntel community, and you couldn't get community
notes, you couldn't fact check anything. And this weekend the bloodback comment.
If you look on Twitter, everycomment by the corporate media, there's community
notes and saying no, he didn'tsay that, and here's the reference,

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here's the speech. The blood bathis for the corporate media trying to pull
this crap on the American people,and people are not going for it.
It's a new world now Twitter.It's Elon Musk Twitter, not the Ska's
Twitter, and you can't pull thisnonsense anymore. So that's the biggest difference

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in seven eight years. And theDemocrats haven't figured that out. They look
worse when they pull this nonsense andtry to put words into Trump's mouth,
and I think that will just continue. But in terms of the unions,
they know what's going on and ifthey want their jobs and their benefits to
continue. Trump is for the workingguy. The Democrats are not. The

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Democrats are for the elites and theyou know, the oddballs in society of
the trans community and the illegal immigrantsand everything else that is not mainstream.
It's not America that the voters aregoing to go for and they're hopefully going
to learn that the hard way.Final question, Brian, and again this
is building off your article Election twentytwenty four. It's the border stupid for

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Erasmus and reports dot com as youkind of take a survey of the media
and we've done this over the weekendand their reaction to Trump and the bloodbath
comment. Is it a fact thatthe more they try to demonize and personally
attack Trump, the more it showsthat they're losing and the more likely they
are to lose. Yes, itdoes, and they're they're getting so much

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pushback. Joe Scarborough tweeted about thatand Eiland must call them out morning Joe
deleted his tweet. So they're gettingcalled out and they have egg on their
face and they're gonna look worse.It's not helping their cause to blatantly lie
like this, Yet they will continue. The only people that believe it are
the true believers and Leftism. They'regonna believe Orange Man bad regardless. But

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there's a heck of a lot ofunaffiliated voters, certainly in Colorado that's the
largest political party is unaffiliated. Andthey're watching this and they're looking at at
their grocery prices. They're looking atthe dangers of going going into downtown Denver,
the dangers that are creeping out,the hotels that are housing illegals,

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and those neighborhoods are becoming dangerous.They're looking at the money going to Ukraine
and other foreign wars while our roadsand bridges and airports are crumbling. They're
seeing that and they're saying, whatabout me? What about my family?
What about my food bill? Whatabout the house I want to buy that
I can't afford now, and Ican't afford a mortgage on its because interest

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rates are so high, because thegovernment is printing money by the trillions.
That's affecting everyday Americans and when itcomes time to pull the lever, who's
going to represent them? To me? It's an easy choice. We'll see
what happens. You can follow himon as formerly known as Twitter at retinal

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Doctor eyes on is the title there. Physician and writer for American Thinker and
Rasmus and Reports. The latter iswhere you can find his latest article Election
twenty two twenty four, It's theBorder Stupid. Brian June Deeff. Always
enjoy our conversations. Thank you somuch for your time. We'll talk again
soon, my pleasure. Thanks Ryan. All right, Brian June Deeff,

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right there, I think with someinteresting commentary and what ties this all together
for me my conversation with Brian,my conversation during the second hour, if
you missed that, catching on thepodcast with an individual that I'm very fond
of, Valdemar Archiletta. He isthe president of the log Cabin Republicans.
He is running as a Republican forDistrict one. The Democrats have resorted now

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they have to demonize and make cartoonsout of those with whom they disagree.
They have to put voters into silos, and they can't comprehend anything. But
it's not a very nuanced approach.They figure, we've got the gay vote,
we've got the Black vote, we'vegot the Hispanic vote. They take
all of those particular groups for granted. When I make this point repeatedly when

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I'm over working with Dan Kaplis onthe Dan Caplis Show six thirty k Now
what I'm filling in here, Noone particular demographic group is a monolith,
and they should not be treated asa monolith. To me, that's demeaning,
it's insulting because you figure every BlackAmerican things alike. That's not true.
Black Americans come from a variety ofdifferent backgrounds, socioeconomic standards, education

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levels, life experiences. And thatapplies to White Americans, that applies to
Asian Americans, that applies to HispanicAmericans. And what's the keyword I'm saying
there, Americans, we have lostour way when I look at the Democratic
Party in particular of remembering what bringsus together, what we have in common.

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We are all Americans first, anythingelse as secondary. What is best
for America, putting America first.That's Donald Trump as a candidate. What
he's said in that speech to Ohio. Everybody's focusing on the blood bath remarks,
focused on the first portion of that. He, unlike Joe Biden,
who's in bed with China and isdevoted to China on some level and indebted

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to China on some level, owesthem something. Donald Trump will stand up
to China. He will slap tariffson them so hard, so severe,
They're gonna think twice about messing withus. They are a socioeconomic, a
political adversary. We have surrendered alot of our labor market to China.

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Remember the tag made in the USAwhen that meant something when the eighties,
Bob Hope was doing the TV commercialsfor it. Now I'm a radical on
this issue. I'm more with RonDeSantis and maybe Donald Trump's there too.
I think we need to pursue tothe degree that we are able decoupling from
China, and if that takes onall trade war, I don't know if

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I'm willing to go to that extent. But they are not our friend right
now, they are not our ally. China's interests do not intersect with ours
except when it comes to the bottomline. And like he said, Brian
said, the Chamber of commerce andcheap labor and outsourcing it to China so
that they can pay basically slave wagesto weaker Muslims to make things for us.
If it meant having to pay alittle bit more for me personally for

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items that were made in America thatemployed American workers, that comes full circle
on the comment I made earlier aboutwhy I only drive American cars. I
want to support the American auto industry. I want to support the American auto
worker. That's my personal policy andthat's what I've adhered to my entire life.

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And that means a lot to me, coming from Detroit, Michigan,
coming from where my immigrant grandmother workedon the assembly line at Detroit Diesel.
She like polished these little parts withher tiny little hands, and I got
a GM discount. She got likeone per year and one year my other
cousin would use it. One yearI would use it. And that means

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something to me. Being an Americanmeans something to me, and that's why
I take it so seriously and whyI'm so insulted when somebody like Mika Brazinski
or Joe Scarborough or Michael besch Lossor any of these so called elite more
educated, more enlightened personalities on MSNBC. Tell me, tell me that I'm

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a racist, I'm a xenophobe,I'm supporting a fascist. You know,
they don't know and anything about me. They wouldn't bother or lower themselves to
even deign to have a conversation withme or with a lot of you.
They don't care about you. Theyonly care about how you vote. And
then it continues the power of JoeBiden his administration. They don't care what

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really affects you. They don't carethat Donald Trump might be more plugged into
the issues you care about, andhe might have better solutions than Joe Biden's
failed, horrible policies across the board, I don't have to defend myself as
to why I support Donald Trump inthe next election. To me, it's
a no brainer. It's what Brianwas talking about, It's what Valdemar was

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talking about. Donald Trump is notthis boogeyman that the Left is trying to
make him out to because that's allthey've got left in their arsenal. It's
the only arrow they have left intheir quiver. And I just don't think
it's going to work because they're notaddressing the needs of the American people.
They refuse to back down from policiesthat punish the American worker. And I'm

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telling you right now, those arethe people that are going to decide this
election. In the Upper Midwest,in the blue collar regions of Wisconsin,
Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania iswhere this election is going to be won.
And I firmly believe that Donald Trumphas the better message. That's all
the time I have, That's allthe voice I have left. As you
can hear, it's withering. Thanksto Michael Coover. I'm Ryan Shuling filling

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in for Mandy Connell. Back withyou again tomorrow. This has been the
Mandy Connell Show on Kowa assass