September 5, 2023 • 30 mins
Jon Coupal comes on the show to talk about Prop 13 and ACA 1. Mitch McConnell's health episodes show no signs of a stroke or seizure according to a Capitol Hill doctor. Welcome to Bidenville.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, the legislature is going to go out of session
in just a couple of weeks, so this is where
they sweep up all the bills. We told you last
week they went through the suspense file, which is nonsense.
But anyway, the one thing they did do that we
covered last week with a lot of coverage was the
fact that they move forward to bill that will punish
those who sex traffic miners with the more harsh penalties.
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Another one though, that they move forward, which is not
particularly good, is Assembly Constitutional Amendment Number one, and it's
a big attack on good old Prop thirteen passed in
the late seventies. Let's bring on John Coopaul from the
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. He's the president to talk of
out the dangers of ACA one. Welcome, How are you, John?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Good? I wish it was just ACA one. ACA one
would lower the two thirds vote down to fifty five
percent for anything identified as infrastructure. Now what is infrastructure?
I guess the question is what is not infrastructure? So
that is a real threat, however, as bad as that is,
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and by the way, that is a direct assault on
Proposition thirteen. But perhaps the greater assault and threat to Prop.
Thirteen is this kind of sideways attack that they've come
up with a new Assembly constitutional Amendment number thirteen. If
you think the selection of the number thirteen is a mistake,
it's not that. I think they just want to rub
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salt in our wounds here. It would effectively invalidate an
initiative measure that we've already qualified for the twenty twenty
four ballot. As you guys know, the courts have weakened
Prop thirteen substantially. We have worked very hard to qualify
an initiative called the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act.
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We got millions of signatures. That's on the ballot in
twenty twenty four. They have proposed this constitutional amendment that
would make it virtually impossible for the Taxpayer Protection Act
to pass by requiring that that initiative, and that initiative
alone itself, secure a two thirds vote of the statewide electorate,
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getting a two thirds vote of the state wide electorate
is virtually possible. Even Prop thirteen came close sixty four percent.
But even the original Constitution of eighteen seventy nine didn't
pass by two thirds vote. So this is a poison pill,
very sneaky. They're jamming it. And here's the danger. The
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danger is the new Speaker of the Assembly, Robert Reeves himself,
is backing this and he's jamming it. And fortunately we
have lit up the phone lines and the business community
is on our side, the realtors, everybody on our side.
A Ledger is in a full court press to get
people to call their legislators against ACA thirteen. Yes, ACA
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one is a threat, but at least at least as
bad as it is. ACA one is intellectually honest in
that it is a direct attack, and I think we
could beat that in a straight up fight. I'm less
confident that, because it's so oblaque and obscure, this ACA
thirteen would have the same effect. Now the proponents are
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saying it doesn't have anything to do with Prop thirteen.
Fortunately nobody buys that. We don't buy it. We've been
defending Prop thirteen for forty five years. ACA thirteen is
a direct attack on Prop thirteen. Everybody needs to know
that they're going to try to jam it this week,
and people could go to a website.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, I do, John, We got to be honest with you.
We have You're really confusing the listeners with the two acas.
And I don't think I even know the difference. I
know what, all right, I know if you say ACA
thirteen is more important, let's focus on that so we
don't lose the path here because I'm confused. I had
to go look it up here while you were talking,
and I found an opinion piece by you just a
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couple of weeks ago on it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm confused to Let let's do an ACA means Assembly
constitutional amendment, Okay, And that's something that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Would go before the voters. So this is not something
that they passed and Sacramento, on its law would go
before the voters.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Okay, correct, okay, And this would lower the voter approval
to borrow money for bonds and tax increases from two
thirds to fifty five percent, as long as they slap
the phrase public infrastructure on it or public housing.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Correct. That is ACA Assembly Constitutional Amendment number one.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's number one, John, Right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You got you know, and if you think the confusion
is unintentional, it's not. This is the This is why
they're doing this. This is why they're doing that. If
you if you look at if you look at the
digest for ACA thirteen, you guys know that we've qualified
this very pro taxpayer initiative for November of twenty twenty
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four that would restore the two thirds vote for local
special taxes. That's been the law under Prop thirteen for
forty five years.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, so they don't like it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
They don't like it. Oh that ula case, that is
one of that tax, that real estate transfer tax. That
is what precipitated this whole thing. And what we're trying
to do is simply restore the two thirds vote for
local special taxes. And what they've said is you can't
do that unless the initiative that you're supporting a statewide
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electtion itself, has to get a two thirds vote of
the state wide electorate. That's never happened. It is, you
see what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, I understand, I understand. It's just as you were saying.
And I wasn't familiar with the Second Amendment, and so
I was trying to understand as you were explaining it,
what is it going to do? And this is going
to be really hard for people to follow, but it's
extremely important I understand why we have to discuss this.
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I'm on the fly trying to figure out how to
explain this to people in a way that everybody's going
to understand it because I was hitting a wall on it,
and I guess Ken was too.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So, well, are they both going to appear in next
year's ballot?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Is that what you're saying, Well, we're trying to kill
them both, and I do believe we stand a better chance,
quite frankly, of defeating ACA one, which is a straight
up loring of the two thirds vote.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
That is a proposed change in the constitution that we
have defeated six times, five or six times before. It
is one of these perennial measures that come up every
year they try to move something through the Assembly to
lower the two thirds vote for special taxes, and we're
able to defeat it. This is where ACA thirteen is
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this unusual thing to try to prevent us ever going
on offense again, because that is what the Taxpayer Protection
Act does. It restores Proposition thirteen to its original intent,
and they are trying this kind of weird way to
prevent that from happening.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Wow. They just fights you constantly, don't they. So I
guess to protect.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
To protect our money, we'd have to say no on
Constitutional Moendment one and on Constitutional Midment thirteen No one,
both correct, okay, and yes.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
On TPA Taxpayer Protection Act in November twenty twenty four.
Well we've got to defeat.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But these two are on the right. In March. The
Amendment one, Amendment thirteen on the ballot in March.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Right, they could do it. They could do it. I
think they're going to try to get ACA thirteen on
in March.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Okay, all right, Well, about to fight one thing at
a time, because otherwise it becomes just just a mess,
it does.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I appreciate your patience because it is I mean, these
sneak attacks and they are so creative in the way
they come after us that it's incumbent on all your
all your listeners to try try to understand that. And
I know it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I think I think most.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
People listening understand that these propositions are are loaded and
the purpose is to snow the average voter. I think
after the prop forty seven experience, which has caused so
much mayhem in our lives, and after the high speed
rail experience, which has been an ungodly waste of money.
I think people who pay attention are on to the game.
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They might not know the specifics that we're trying to
wade through here, but they know that when these ideas
come out of Sacramento, they're bad, and the Sacramento crowd
is lying about it, and and they're trying to confuse
us and manipulate us and all that.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So I think that that that's right, that's right, and
I hope people's antennae and cynicism are up all the
way for this one.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, believe if we have trouble explaining all this, trust me.
If you're at home right now, you want to vote
no on this stuff because this this smells bad. Absolutely absolutely,
All right, John, thanks for coming on again with us,
all right.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Down we have till March. To the people voting in
the primary, thanks for coming on. We appreciate it. John Capaola,
Howard Jarvis, take care of you guys. All right again,
it's a couple of attacks on Prop thirteen, that's what
you have to remember. But you know, we'll have a
voter guide. We'll go over it again. It was just
a a little tough to follow there with the two
coming at us at the same time, somewhat close in nature.
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on that book. Excerpts are coming out, a book about
Joe Biden's first three years as president, to some interesting chapters.
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And we move over though to the other side of
the aisle, the Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. They're calling
them his health episodes. Well, the news today is that
the Capitol physician Brian P. Monahan put out a second letter,
and in this letter he's saying that McConnell's health problems
show John no evidence of a stroke or any kind
(11:02):
of a seizure, including what you mentioned, which is the
mini stroke, the skeemic that says that is it. Then, Well,
happened right back in March. McConnell was leaving a dinner
at a restaurant and he fell and hit his head
and suffered a concussion that left him visibly slower in
his speech and stride. And they think this might be
(11:24):
a lingering effect of the concussion. Doctor didn't say that,
that's where the speculation is going, and that at eighty
one it's harder to recover from those kinds of falls
than younger people. So they're saying that could explain part
of his his frozen episodes, if you want to call
him that. I don't know what that is. Right, So
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his brain just locks and he can't speak or do
anything but stare.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So instead of his brain being damaged by Alzheimer's or
blocked by a stroke, it got dented because of this fall.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
That's right, and it's still healing it well, I mean,
a concussion is like your brain kind of floats around
inside your skull or something. Right again, results and yeah,
what happens to NFL players?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I read something the other day about an athlete who
has had uh, it's been out for months. He took
I think he took a pitch to the face and
he's been he was laid up for months, and it's
called cascading concussion syndrome. And there was a complicated article
trying to explain what goes on because they've done a
(12:34):
lot of research now and testing and there's so many
biological events that go on inside a brain when it's
suffered a concussion, and there's no way to explain it
on the arts. It's it's it's too complicated. You need
an advanced degree to understand it. But it's clear that
you know it's it. People used to not take take
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concussion seriously. You used to think it was just a
headache and it would go the way they did. But
if if you get a really bad knock on your head,
that could change your personality for good.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, we'll have to see whether or not, you know,
in months from now, he's still like this.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
He's up.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
He's not up for re election till twenty twenty six anyways,
So I don't think there's any plans to go anywhere.
Like Nyan Feinstein, the doctor wrote there is no evidence
you had a seizure or you experience a stroke TIA,
that's what John's referred to, transient ischemic attack or some
movement disorders such as Parkinson's. But you know, there was
no elaboration on what actually did cause the episodes. That's
(13:36):
why people are speculating about the concussions. Well, yeah, I know.
That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It's like, we're supposed to believe what they say, except
they don't want to give us the real answer.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, they gave him a brain MRI and that's what
you can tell of damage from a stroke.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well, but it's also lying it didn't show up. It's
different roads to the same conclusion. Though his brain doesn't
work that well, there's something malfunction there. The why of
it is not as important really as to it's happening.
And this could be a permanent state.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, he told Democratic Senator Dick Durbin McConnell, did all
I take it every test they thrown at me. The
concussion can take its call. So I'm going through recovering
from a concussion. That's apparently his story, and he's sticking
to it. All right, when we come back, we're going
to be in Bidenville. H there was an attempt today
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and of course it's a reporter from Fox News to
ask the White House Press spokeshole about some details coming
out in the book about Joe Biden's first three years
as president, including one episode where he was complained complaining
about being treated like a toddler. Wait do you hear
the response from the White House Press spokes Hoole and
more on the book. Johnny kenkf I AM six forty
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Speaker 6 (14:59):
We'd like to really welcome you to the rest home
of old Joe. Welcome to Bidenville. Everyone.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Oh man, when we're created by go, you know that
you know the thing there's a man on the moon,
or you know something, or you know whether those aliens
are here or not. I commuted for thirty six years
as president vice President of United States.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Appy birthday, Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
There wasn't a television on television. I was on the telephone.
Every time I hear Hale the chief lender. Where the
hell is he turned around them?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Where?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Where's where's the president?
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I can't remember it. I was the foot him, excuse me,
the foothills of the Himalays with Shiji Pink for Secretary
of Health and Educations that I nominated. Hobbyer at Bakaria.
President Harris is a proud Howard alone. Joe Brandon, I agree,
I got the one point nine tillion dollars relief so far.
Cub Talker. Yeah, Cliptocracy clip the guys who were the
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Cliptocracy representative Jackie you here? Where's Jackie? I think she
will scumpy here.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
And now to give you a tour of Bidenville before
your extended stay, here's John and Ken.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
John and Kenshaw, John Cobelt and Ken Champeau k. I
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Speaker 1 (16:32):
Well, there is a book. It's called The Last Politician
Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future.
How come these popall always have this long titles.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I bought it today on Kindall. Yeah, and I only
read a few pages. Obviously, I didn't have time. The
prologue and I'm a little confused, and I want to
see where this book really goes. Because the prologue, this
guy is given Biden a tongue bath. Yeah, the writer
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is Franklin Foer was Atlantic. Yeah, he's a typical.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Weening liberal media guy.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Right. So the first few pages in the prologue is
like hero worship stuff that the secret to Biden's success
is everybody underestimates him and what he's capable of doing.
But all these excerpts that are coming out confirms, you know,
what everybody can see with their own eyes.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You're not going to sell a book if it's a
tongue bath. You know, until people read it, they'll find
that out. But you want to put out some excerpts
to get people interested in Yes, they would probably be
the critical ones. The one we're going to focus on
first is apparently a story in the book that back
in March of twenty twenty two, while addressing a crowd
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in Poland, Joe Biden said that Vladimir Putin cannot remain
in power. In short order, that was walked back by
White House staffers. Joe apparently complained that they're treating me
like a toddler. Was John Kennedy ever baby like that,
according to the fower in the book. So we bring
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you now to today. Peter Doucy from Fox News asked
Carreejong Pierre, the White House spokeshole, about that part of
the book.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
President Biden is the oldest president in US history. Why
does White House staff treat him like a baby?
Speaker 8 (18:32):
No one treats the President of the United States, the
commander in chief, like a baby.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
There's this book that says that's ridiculous. What sounded like
a call for regime change in rush to the president quote.
Rather than owning his failure, he fumed to friends about
how he was treated like a toddlers.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
John Kennedy ever baby like that.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Absolutely, I'll say this, but there's going to be a range,
always a range of books that are about every administration,
as you know, to have a variety of claims. That
is not unusual, that happens all the time, and we're
not going to litigate those here. That's something that we're
not going to speak to. There is one thing that
I do want to because I think I was asked
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this question last week by one of your colleagues about
this particular excerpt that they were referring to and.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
So I'll say this. You know, we did see the
excerpt the context of the excerpt, and it seemed to
be making the opposite overall point about how the value
of his experience and wisdom resulted in rallying the free
world against authoritarianism, which is important. We have seen this,
you all have seen this and passage of the most
historic agenda in recent history in his handling a foreign
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policy like rallying the world around Ukraine. Did you just
say from our national.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Advisor, this is like Tabila Harris's sister ya yay whoa
oh handheart's listening to that?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Stop it, boy, It took her a long time to
figure out.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
How to twist the conversation in another direction and start
talking about his experience in leadership.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well, you just want.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Understand what is the charade that they all play at
these news conferences? Why is everyone playing pretend he's senile?
He blurted out something which he believes. Of course, he
wishes Putin got removed, right, it would make life easier
if Putin got removed.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Of course he meant that you're him again, that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And so you know he's pissed off because he meant
what he said, and they are treating him like a toddler,
and they didn't treat John Kennedy like a baby. And
that's all correct. He's actually lucid in those observations. Well,
but nobody could admit that that. The reason he blurted
it out is because he's going senile, because you're not
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supposed to say those things out loud, because it sounds
like we're about to do an invasion to assassinate him.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
This is kind of what we're talking about. Here's a clip,
I guess from the weekend FEMA and Florida. Biden went
down there after the hurricane hit that state, and here's
a twelve second excerpting to.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Florida, I am going to I'm going to Florida on
Saturday morning.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
All right this way?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, that's what we mean. Where am I going? I'm
going to Florida. Todd Their mother takes them by the
hand and guides them to the next position. She does
this every time he's up at a podium on a stage.
He just stands there like, what do I do? Tell me?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It is frustrating because the opening part of the book
where I kind of understood like that scene we just played, right.
I understand the motivation he has. He waited to be
president all his life, and when he finally got there,
his brain failed. But this was his lifelong dream. He
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worked for it for decades. He ran in the nineteen
eighties for president, and now he gets there and he can't.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Remember where he is, where he's going, who he is.
He's very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
He gets frustrating, so it stop treating me like a toddler.
Why are you treating me like a baby? Where am
I going? Why do I have to go this way?
It's like, wait a second, why is everybody telling me
what to do? I'm supposed to be telling all you
what to do. But he can't get a hold of
his mind because it's all worn out.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Shot, I'm shah. Another chapter on Kamala Harris says that
she had rabbit ears when it came to criticism in
the White House. She was instantly aware when anybody in
the inner Biden circle said something negative about her. She
also insisted she did not want to work on women's
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issues or anything to do with race. She wanted her
office to be majority female and to have a black
woman as chief of staff. You know, what's really had
too many rules, they said for this to make it
work very well.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I just read that that all the political insiders, the
Democrats right that hover around Biden, they're frustrated because they
know one of the biggest issues the public is going
to have with reelecting Biden is he's not going to
make it. And Kamala Harris is sitting there and they
can't remove her and put in somebody else, like say,
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Gavin Newsom, because she's the first black female vice president
And that's the very that's the very thing that she
doesn't want to discuss. She doesn't want to discuss black issues,
female issues. She doesn't want that stuff. But that's the
whole reason she was selected. And it's the also, ironically
now the reason that that Biden is stuck with her
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because nobody wants to risk woke blowback by replacing her
on the ticket.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And we know she didn't want the border either. Remember
he gave her the border problem and she kind of
rejected that too, didn't even want to go there.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I don't know, what is it that she's supposed to
be good at that she should be in charge of.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It doesn't say from the excerpt, I'm reading what she
wanted in terms of assignments is what she didn't want.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Because you know what, just like everyone's afraid to say
Joe is senile, everybody is afraid to say, Kamala, you
don't have it. Whatever it is you need to be president,
you don't have it. You're not gonna get elected by yourself,
and you're gonna and you're gonna make people not vote
for Joe because they don't think Joe is gonna be
alive at the end of the second term.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
So but because nobody discusses this.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Out loud, we're trapped doing this this well, this theater
every day.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's weird. We got more coming up. Johnny Ken k
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Speaker 1 (24:53):
Well, if you think things are tough in this country,
we go once again for the harsh justice of Saudi Arabia,
which is sentenced de Man to death based on his
Twitter and YouTube activity. That would be pretty harsh. They're
kind of considering him a terrorist because they believe that
he is threatening. Of course, the royal family in that country.
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His name is Mohammad l Or al Gomdhi, fifty four
year old retired teacher and apparently he has been posting
on Twitter now known as x and YouTube about the
injustices of people that have been imprisoned in that country,
and they just consider that to be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't think he was threatening. He was questioning the government.
He was questioning the government right.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
According to a Saudi Arabian researcher, repression in Saudi Arabia
has reached a terrifying new stage when a court can
hand down the death sentence for nothing more than peaceful tweets.
Apparently they've taken him to a prison and he's been
held in solitary confinement for months. His family was unable
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to contact him during this period. He didn't have access
to a lawyer. Saudi interrogator's questions about tweets and political
opinions and asked his opinions about individuals in prison for
exercising their right to free expressions free expressions, So that's
basically what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I'm guessing he answered all their questions incorrectly.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Describing the king or the Crown Prince in a way
that undermines religion or justice were among the charges. He
was sentenced to death on July tenth. Is that still
hanging there? Right? Is that beheading or is that firing squad?
They seem to have been of different methods over the years. Yeah,
sometimes they do mass beheadings because that one.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, they executed eighty one men on March twelfth of
last year. It was one of the largest mass executions
in a long time.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I guess all kinds of crime.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Forty one belonged to the Shia Muslim minority, and that
minority has long been discriminated by the government, according to
this Human Rights Watch report.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Uh, yeah, they just they just kill whoever they want
to kill. Yeah, well, that keeps the peace right.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You know, you belong to some group, they don't like
you say stuff, you post stuff online.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
It's like, no, we don't have to we don't have
to listen to This keeps everybody quiet, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
You know, the Satdi royal family does not want to
wake up in the morning and go on social media
and read a bunch of pushback, right exactly. No, they
just don't want to do it. So they send their
men down and they pull the guy into the office
it's like, you know what, we're cutting off your head.
You should you should you should have stayed off Twitter
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or x or met at whatever the hell you call
these things and just don't do it.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
We don't want to have Tim Conway jo I'm deck here.
Speaker 11 (27:56):
Hey we got Alex Stone was at the burning Man Festival,
so we'll talk to him.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He didn't. He told us he didn't go. He went, uh, hey.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
Belly, just tell me he was there for the interview
he naked. Yeah, well we'll say he was there. Jimmy
Buffett passed away. That was a huge deal man. That's
a great guy. Great huge loss. Yeah, no, I loved
his music.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
He was the best.
Speaker 11 (28:18):
Rolling Stones are releasing a new album that's cool. And
a passenger with diary forces at Delta flight emergency landing.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
God, how do you get over that? They took out
all the carpets?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh my god? Say you're your right not to travel anywhere? Well, look,
you know you have to.
Speaker 11 (28:38):
You got to really examine your diet when a plane
has to be you know, landed around in a different
city because of your diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
What was the last thing he ate, dude? Spectator remodium?
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Right, Yeah, you know Ken knows. You know, everybody who
travels knows. You know, moment you bring that stuff with
emodium is your best friend, and you try to crank
them out of their silver cases, their little liners before
the trip that takes.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
That takes a long time, doesn't it. As John said,
he thought he could get down that island time.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
But I just God, yeah, well there's I want to
know something in that Atlanta airport because next time I
passing through that airport, I want to know where this
guy went.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, but is he on the Donot fly list? Gotta
be Oh that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
God.
Speaker 12 (29:28):
A terrorist attack, yeah, a wild story, man, you know
that that is that That should be the sign when
people come into the United States the first thing they
see is a painting of that guy, you know, crapping
down the aisle.
Speaker 11 (29:43):
That's that's what this country is all about. And then
Mark Thompson is here as well, so we'll knock it out.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
God, bring it on, buddy. Hey, you've been listening to
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Well, the legislature is going to go out of session
in just a couple of weeks, so this is where
they sweep up all the bills. We told you last
week they went through the suspense file, which is nonsense.
But anyway, the one thing they did do that we
covered last week with a lot of coverage was the
fact that they move forward to bill that will punish
those who sex traffic miners with the more harsh penalties.
(00:40):
Another one though, that they move forward, which is not
particularly good, is Assembly Constitutional Amendment Number one, and it's
a big attack on good old Prop thirteen passed in
the late seventies. Let's bring on John Coopaul from the
Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. He's the president to talk of
out the dangers of ACA one. Welcome, How are you, John?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Good? I wish it was just ACA one. ACA one
would lower the two thirds vote down to fifty five
percent for anything identified as infrastructure. Now what is infrastructure?
I guess the question is what is not infrastructure? So
that is a real threat, however, as bad as that is,
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and by the way, that is a direct assault on
Proposition thirteen. But perhaps the greater assault and threat to Prop.
Thirteen is this kind of sideways attack that they've come
up with a new Assembly constitutional Amendment number thirteen. If
you think the selection of the number thirteen is a mistake,
it's not that. I think they just want to rub
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salt in our wounds here. It would effectively invalidate an
initiative measure that we've already qualified for the twenty twenty
four ballot. As you guys know, the courts have weakened
Prop thirteen substantially. We have worked very hard to qualify
an initiative called the Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act.
(02:11):
We got millions of signatures. That's on the ballot in
twenty twenty four. They have proposed this constitutional amendment that
would make it virtually impossible for the Taxpayer Protection Act
to pass by requiring that that initiative, and that initiative
alone itself, secure a two thirds vote of the statewide electorate,
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getting a two thirds vote of the state wide electorate
is virtually possible. Even Prop thirteen came close sixty four percent.
But even the original Constitution of eighteen seventy nine didn't
pass by two thirds vote. So this is a poison pill,
very sneaky. They're jamming it. And here's the danger. The
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danger is the new Speaker of the Assembly, Robert Reeves himself,
is backing this and he's jamming it. And fortunately we
have lit up the phone lines and the business community
is on our side, the realtors, everybody on our side.
A Ledger is in a full court press to get
people to call their legislators against ACA thirteen. Yes, ACA
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one is a threat, but at least at least as
bad as it is. ACA one is intellectually honest in
that it is a direct attack, and I think we
could beat that in a straight up fight. I'm less
confident that, because it's so oblaque and obscure, this ACA
thirteen would have the same effect. Now the proponents are
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saying it doesn't have anything to do with Prop thirteen.
Fortunately nobody buys that. We don't buy it. We've been
defending Prop thirteen for forty five years. ACA thirteen is
a direct attack on Prop thirteen. Everybody needs to know
that they're going to try to jam it this week,
and people could go to a website.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, I do, John, We got to be honest with you.
We have You're really confusing the listeners with the two acas.
And I don't think I even know the difference. I
know what, all right, I know if you say ACA
thirteen is more important, let's focus on that so we
don't lose the path here because I'm confused. I had
to go look it up here while you were talking,
and I found an opinion piece by you just a
(04:22):
couple of weeks ago on it.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I'm confused to Let let's do an ACA means Assembly
constitutional amendment, Okay, And that's something that.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
Would go before the voters. So this is not something
that they passed and Sacramento, on its law would go
before the voters.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Okay, correct, okay, And this would lower the voter approval
to borrow money for bonds and tax increases from two
thirds to fifty five percent, as long as they slap
the phrase public infrastructure on it or public housing.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Correct. That is ACA Assembly Constitutional Amendment number one.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's number one, John, Right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
You got you know, and if you think the confusion
is unintentional, it's not. This is the This is why
they're doing this. This is why they're doing that. If
you if you look at if you look at the
digest for ACA thirteen, you guys know that we've qualified
this very pro taxpayer initiative for November of twenty twenty
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four that would restore the two thirds vote for local
special taxes. That's been the law under Prop thirteen for
forty five years.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Okay, so they don't like it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
They don't like it. Oh that ula case, that is
one of that tax, that real estate transfer tax. That
is what precipitated this whole thing. And what we're trying
to do is simply restore the two thirds vote for
local special taxes. And what they've said is you can't
do that unless the initiative that you're supporting a statewide
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electtion itself, has to get a two thirds vote of
the state wide electorate. That's never happened. It is, you
see what they're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Yeah, I understand, I understand. It's just as you were saying.
And I wasn't familiar with the Second Amendment, and so
I was trying to understand as you were explaining it,
what is it going to do? And this is going
to be really hard for people to follow, but it's
extremely important I understand why we have to discuss this.
(06:29):
I'm on the fly trying to figure out how to
explain this to people in a way that everybody's going
to understand it because I was hitting a wall on it,
and I guess Ken was too.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
So, well, are they both going to appear in next
year's ballot?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Is that what you're saying, Well, we're trying to kill
them both, and I do believe we stand a better chance,
quite frankly, of defeating ACA one, which is a straight
up loring of the two thirds vote.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
That is a proposed change in the constitution that we
have defeated six times, five or six times before. It
is one of these perennial measures that come up every
year they try to move something through the Assembly to
lower the two thirds vote for special taxes, and we're
able to defeat it. This is where ACA thirteen is
(07:17):
this unusual thing to try to prevent us ever going
on offense again, because that is what the Taxpayer Protection
Act does. It restores Proposition thirteen to its original intent,
and they are trying this kind of weird way to
prevent that from happening.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Wow. They just fights you constantly, don't they. So I
guess to protect.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
To protect our money, we'd have to say no on
Constitutional Moendment one and on Constitutional Midment thirteen No one,
both correct, okay, and yes.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
On TPA Taxpayer Protection Act in November twenty twenty four.
Well we've got to defeat.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But these two are on the right. In March. The
Amendment one, Amendment thirteen on the ballot in March.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Right, they could do it. They could do it. I
think they're going to try to get ACA thirteen on
in March.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Okay, all right, Well, about to fight one thing at
a time, because otherwise it becomes just just a mess,
it does.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
I appreciate your patience because it is I mean, these
sneak attacks and they are so creative in the way
they come after us that it's incumbent on all your
all your listeners to try try to understand that. And
I know it.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
I think I think most.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
People listening understand that these propositions are are loaded and
the purpose is to snow the average voter. I think
after the prop forty seven experience, which has caused so
much mayhem in our lives, and after the high speed
rail experience, which has been an ungodly waste of money.
I think people who pay attention are on to the game.
(09:03):
They might not know the specifics that we're trying to
wade through here, but they know that when these ideas
come out of Sacramento, they're bad, and the Sacramento crowd
is lying about it, and and they're trying to confuse
us and manipulate us and all that.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
So I think that that that's right, that's right, and
I hope people's antennae and cynicism are up all the
way for this one.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Yeah, believe if we have trouble explaining all this, trust me.
If you're at home right now, you want to vote
no on this stuff because this this smells bad. Absolutely absolutely,
All right, John, thanks for coming on again with us,
all right.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Down we have till March. To the people voting in
the primary, thanks for coming on. We appreciate it. John Capaola,
Howard Jarvis, take care of you guys. All right again,
it's a couple of attacks on Prop thirteen, that's what
you have to remember. But you know, we'll have a
voter guide. We'll go over it again. It was just
a a little tough to follow there with the two
coming at us at the same time, somewhat close in nature.
(10:05):
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Bidenville after the news at three point thirty for more
on that book. Excerpts are coming out, a book about
Joe Biden's first three years as president, to some interesting chapters.
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And we move over though to the other side of
the aisle, the Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell. They're calling
them his health episodes. Well, the news today is that
the Capitol physician Brian P. Monahan put out a second letter,
and in this letter he's saying that McConnell's health problems
show John no evidence of a stroke or any kind
(11:02):
of a seizure, including what you mentioned, which is the
mini stroke, the skeemic that says that is it. Then, Well,
happened right back in March. McConnell was leaving a dinner
at a restaurant and he fell and hit his head
and suffered a concussion that left him visibly slower in
his speech and stride. And they think this might be
(11:24):
a lingering effect of the concussion. Doctor didn't say that,
that's where the speculation is going, and that at eighty
one it's harder to recover from those kinds of falls
than younger people. So they're saying that could explain part
of his his frozen episodes, if you want to call
him that. I don't know what that is. Right, So
(11:45):
his brain just locks and he can't speak or do
anything but stare.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
So instead of his brain being damaged by Alzheimer's or
blocked by a stroke, it got dented because of this fall.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
That's right, and it's still healing it well, I mean,
a concussion is like your brain kind of floats around
inside your skull or something. Right again, results and yeah,
what happens to NFL players?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
I read something the other day about an athlete who
has had uh, it's been out for months. He took
I think he took a pitch to the face and
he's been he was laid up for months, and it's
called cascading concussion syndrome. And there was a complicated article
trying to explain what goes on because they've done a
(12:34):
lot of research now and testing and there's so many
biological events that go on inside a brain when it's
suffered a concussion, and there's no way to explain it
on the arts. It's it's it's too complicated. You need
an advanced degree to understand it. But it's clear that
you know it's it. People used to not take take
(12:56):
concussion seriously. You used to think it was just a
headache and it would go the way they did. But
if if you get a really bad knock on your head,
that could change your personality for good.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
Yeah, we'll have to see whether or not, you know,
in months from now, he's still like this.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
He's up.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
He's not up for re election till twenty twenty six anyways,
So I don't think there's any plans to go anywhere.
Like Nyan Feinstein, the doctor wrote there is no evidence
you had a seizure or you experience a stroke TIA,
that's what John's referred to, transient ischemic attack or some
movement disorders such as Parkinson's. But you know, there was
no elaboration on what actually did cause the episodes. That's
(13:36):
why people are speculating about the concussions. Well, yeah, I know.
That's the thing.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
It's like, we're supposed to believe what they say, except
they don't want to give us the real answer.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Well, they gave him a brain MRI and that's what
you can tell of damage from a stroke.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Well, but it's also lying it didn't show up. It's
different roads to the same conclusion. Though his brain doesn't
work that well, there's something malfunction there. The why of
it is not as important really as to it's happening.
And this could be a permanent state.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yeah, he told Democratic Senator Dick Durbin McConnell, did all
I take it every test they thrown at me. The
concussion can take its call. So I'm going through recovering
from a concussion. That's apparently his story, and he's sticking
to it. All right, when we come back, we're going
to be in Bidenville. H there was an attempt today
(14:27):
and of course it's a reporter from Fox News to
ask the White House Press spokeshole about some details coming
out in the book about Joe Biden's first three years
as president, including one episode where he was complained complaining
about being treated like a toddler. Wait do you hear
the response from the White House Press spokes Hoole and
more on the book. Johnny kenkf I AM six forty
(14:49):
live everywhere iHeartRadio app.
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Speaker 6 (14:59):
We'd like to really welcome you to the rest home
of old Joe. Welcome to Bidenville. Everyone.
Speaker 7 (15:06):
Oh man, when we're created by go, you know that
you know the thing there's a man on the moon,
or you know something, or you know whether those aliens
are here or not. I commuted for thirty six years
as president vice President of United States.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
Appy birthday, Happy birthday to you.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
There wasn't a television on television. I was on the telephone.
Every time I hear Hale the chief lender. Where the
hell is he turned around them?
Speaker 3 (15:36):
Where?
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Where's where's the president?
Speaker 7 (15:38):
I can't remember it. I was the foot him, excuse me,
the foothills of the Himalays with Shiji Pink for Secretary
of Health and Educations that I nominated. Hobbyer at Bakaria.
President Harris is a proud Howard alone. Joe Brandon, I agree,
I got the one point nine tillion dollars relief so far.
Cub Talker. Yeah, Cliptocracy clip the guys who were the
(16:05):
Cliptocracy representative Jackie you here? Where's Jackie? I think she
will scumpy here.
Speaker 6 (16:12):
And now to give you a tour of Bidenville before
your extended stay, here's John and Ken.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
John and Kenshaw, John Cobelt and Ken Champeau k. I
am six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app on
the radio one until four after four o'clock. Whatever you
missed the Johnny Kent on demand podcast on the iHeart app.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Well, there is a book. It's called The Last Politician
Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future.
How come these popall always have this long titles.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
I bought it today on Kindall. Yeah, and I only
read a few pages. Obviously, I didn't have time. The
prologue and I'm a little confused, and I want to
see where this book really goes. Because the prologue, this
guy is given Biden a tongue bath. Yeah, the writer
(17:03):
is Franklin Foer was Atlantic. Yeah, he's a typical.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Weening liberal media guy.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Right. So the first few pages in the prologue is
like hero worship stuff that the secret to Biden's success
is everybody underestimates him and what he's capable of doing.
But all these excerpts that are coming out confirms, you know,
what everybody can see with their own eyes.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
You're not going to sell a book if it's a
tongue bath. You know, until people read it, they'll find
that out. But you want to put out some excerpts
to get people interested in Yes, they would probably be
the critical ones. The one we're going to focus on
first is apparently a story in the book that back
in March of twenty twenty two, while addressing a crowd
(17:52):
in Poland, Joe Biden said that Vladimir Putin cannot remain
in power. In short order, that was walked back by
White House staffers. Joe apparently complained that they're treating me
like a toddler. Was John Kennedy ever baby like that,
according to the fower in the book. So we bring
(18:15):
you now to today. Peter Doucy from Fox News asked
Carreejong Pierre, the White House spokeshole, about that part of
the book.
Speaker 9 (18:26):
President Biden is the oldest president in US history. Why
does White House staff treat him like a baby?
Speaker 8 (18:32):
No one treats the President of the United States, the
commander in chief, like a baby.
Speaker 9 (18:36):
There's this book that says that's ridiculous. What sounded like
a call for regime change in rush to the president quote.
Rather than owning his failure, he fumed to friends about
how he was treated like a toddlers.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
John Kennedy ever baby like that.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
Absolutely, I'll say this, but there's going to be a range,
always a range of books that are about every administration,
as you know, to have a variety of claims. That
is not unusual, that happens all the time, and we're
not going to litigate those here. That's something that we're
not going to speak to. There is one thing that
I do want to because I think I was asked
(19:11):
this question last week by one of your colleagues about
this particular excerpt that they were referring to and.
Speaker 10 (19:18):
So I'll say this. You know, we did see the
excerpt the context of the excerpt, and it seemed to
be making the opposite overall point about how the value
of his experience and wisdom resulted in rallying the free
world against authoritarianism, which is important. We have seen this,
you all have seen this and passage of the most
historic agenda in recent history in his handling a foreign
(19:41):
policy like rallying the world around Ukraine. Did you just
say from our national.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Advisor, this is like Tabila Harris's sister ya yay whoa
oh handheart's listening to that?
Speaker 1 (19:57):
Stop it, boy, It took her a long time to
figure out.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
How to twist the conversation in another direction and start
talking about his experience in leadership.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Well, you just want.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Understand what is the charade that they all play at
these news conferences? Why is everyone playing pretend he's senile?
He blurted out something which he believes. Of course, he
wishes Putin got removed, right, it would make life easier
if Putin got removed.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Of course he meant that you're him again, that's right.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And so you know he's pissed off because he meant
what he said, and they are treating him like a toddler,
and they didn't treat John Kennedy like a baby. And
that's all correct. He's actually lucid in those observations. Well,
but nobody could admit that that. The reason he blurted
it out is because he's going senile, because you're not
(20:53):
supposed to say those things out loud, because it sounds
like we're about to do an invasion to assassinate him.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
This is kind of what we're talking about. Here's a clip,
I guess from the weekend FEMA and Florida. Biden went
down there after the hurricane hit that state, and here's
a twelve second excerpting to.
Speaker 7 (21:10):
Florida, I am going to I'm going to Florida on
Saturday morning.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
All right this way?
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, that's what we mean. Where am I going? I'm
going to Florida. Todd Their mother takes them by the
hand and guides them to the next position. She does
this every time he's up at a podium on a stage.
He just stands there like, what do I do? Tell me?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
It is frustrating because the opening part of the book
where I kind of understood like that scene we just played, right.
I understand the motivation he has. He waited to be
president all his life, and when he finally got there,
his brain failed. But this was his lifelong dream. He
(22:02):
worked for it for decades. He ran in the nineteen
eighties for president, and now he gets there and he can't.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Remember where he is, where he's going, who he is.
He's very frustrating.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
He gets frustrating, so it stop treating me like a toddler.
Why are you treating me like a baby? Where am
I going? Why do I have to go this way?
It's like, wait a second, why is everybody telling me
what to do? I'm supposed to be telling all you
what to do. But he can't get a hold of
his mind because it's all worn out.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
Shot, I'm shah. Another chapter on Kamala Harris says that
she had rabbit ears when it came to criticism in
the White House. She was instantly aware when anybody in
the inner Biden circle said something negative about her. She
also insisted she did not want to work on women's
(22:50):
issues or anything to do with race. She wanted her
office to be majority female and to have a black
woman as chief of staff. You know, what's really had
too many rules, they said for this to make it
work very well.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
I just read that that all the political insiders, the
Democrats right that hover around Biden, they're frustrated because they
know one of the biggest issues the public is going
to have with reelecting Biden is he's not going to
make it. And Kamala Harris is sitting there and they
can't remove her and put in somebody else, like say,
(23:27):
Gavin Newsom, because she's the first black female vice president
And that's the very that's the very thing that she
doesn't want to discuss. She doesn't want to discuss black issues,
female issues. She doesn't want that stuff. But that's the
whole reason she was selected. And it's the also, ironically
now the reason that that Biden is stuck with her
(23:47):
because nobody wants to risk woke blowback by replacing her
on the ticket.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
And we know she didn't want the border either. Remember
he gave her the border problem and she kind of
rejected that too, didn't even want to go there.
Speaker 2 (23:59):
I don't know, what is it that she's supposed to
be good at that she should be in charge of.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
It doesn't say from the excerpt, I'm reading what she
wanted in terms of assignments is what she didn't want.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Because you know what, just like everyone's afraid to say
Joe is senile, everybody is afraid to say, Kamala, you
don't have it. Whatever it is you need to be president,
you don't have it. You're not gonna get elected by yourself,
and you're gonna and you're gonna make people not vote
for Joe because they don't think Joe is gonna be
alive at the end of the second term.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
So but because nobody discusses this.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Out loud, we're trapped doing this this well, this theater
every day.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
It's weird. We got more coming up. Johnny Ken k
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Speaker 1 (24:53):
Well, if you think things are tough in this country,
we go once again for the harsh justice of Saudi Arabia,
which is sentenced de Man to death based on his
Twitter and YouTube activity. That would be pretty harsh. They're
kind of considering him a terrorist because they believe that
he is threatening. Of course, the royal family in that country.
(25:17):
His name is Mohammad l Or al Gomdhi, fifty four
year old retired teacher and apparently he has been posting
on Twitter now known as x and YouTube about the
injustices of people that have been imprisoned in that country,
and they just consider that to be Yeah.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
I don't think he was threatening. He was questioning the government.
He was questioning the government right.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
According to a Saudi Arabian researcher, repression in Saudi Arabia
has reached a terrifying new stage when a court can
hand down the death sentence for nothing more than peaceful tweets.
Apparently they've taken him to a prison and he's been
held in solitary confinement for months. His family was unable
(26:07):
to contact him during this period. He didn't have access
to a lawyer. Saudi interrogator's questions about tweets and political
opinions and asked his opinions about individuals in prison for
exercising their right to free expressions free expressions, So that's
basically what he was doing.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
I'm guessing he answered all their questions incorrectly.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Describing the king or the Crown Prince in a way
that undermines religion or justice were among the charges. He
was sentenced to death on July tenth. Is that still
hanging there? Right? Is that beheading or is that firing squad?
They seem to have been of different methods over the years. Yeah,
sometimes they do mass beheadings because that one.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, they executed eighty one men on March twelfth of
last year. It was one of the largest mass executions
in a long time.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
Was it?
Speaker 1 (26:58):
I guess all kinds of crime.
Speaker 2 (27:00):
Forty one belonged to the Shia Muslim minority, and that
minority has long been discriminated by the government, according to
this Human Rights Watch report.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
Right.
Speaker 1 (27:13):
Uh, yeah, they just they just kill whoever they want
to kill. Yeah, well, that keeps the peace right.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
You know, you belong to some group, they don't like
you say stuff, you post stuff online.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
It's like, no, we don't have to we don't have
to listen to This keeps everybody quiet, that's right.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
You know, the Satdi royal family does not want to
wake up in the morning and go on social media
and read a bunch of pushback, right exactly. No, they
just don't want to do it. So they send their
men down and they pull the guy into the office
it's like, you know what, we're cutting off your head.
You should you should you should have stayed off Twitter
(27:47):
or x or met at whatever the hell you call
these things and just don't do it.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
We don't want to have Tim Conway jo I'm deck here.
Speaker 11 (27:56):
Hey we got Alex Stone was at the burning Man Festival,
so we'll talk to him.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
He didn't. He told us he didn't go. He went, uh, hey.
Speaker 11 (28:05):
Belly, just tell me he was there for the interview
he naked. Yeah, well we'll say he was there. Jimmy
Buffett passed away. That was a huge deal man. That's
a great guy. Great huge loss. Yeah, no, I loved
his music.
Speaker 1 (28:17):
He was the best.
Speaker 11 (28:18):
Rolling Stones are releasing a new album that's cool. And
a passenger with diary forces at Delta flight emergency landing.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
God, how do you get over that? They took out
all the carpets?
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Oh my god? Say you're your right not to travel anywhere? Well, look,
you know you have to.
Speaker 11 (28:38):
You got to really examine your diet when a plane
has to be you know, landed around in a different
city because of your diarrhea.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
What was the last thing he ate, dude? Spectator remodium?
Speaker 11 (28:54):
Right, Yeah, you know Ken knows. You know, everybody who
travels knows. You know, moment you bring that stuff with
emodium is your best friend, and you try to crank
them out of their silver cases, their little liners before
the trip that takes.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
That takes a long time, doesn't it. As John said,
he thought he could get down that island time.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
But I just God, yeah, well there's I want to
know something in that Atlanta airport because next time I
passing through that airport, I want to know where this
guy went.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
Yeah, but is he on the Donot fly list? Gotta
be Oh that's a good point.
Speaker 3 (29:28):
God.
Speaker 12 (29:28):
A terrorist attack, yeah, a wild story, man, you know
that that is that That should be the sign when
people come into the United States the first thing they
see is a painting of that guy, you know, crapping
down the aisle.
Speaker 11 (29:43):
That's that's what this country is all about. And then
Mark Thompson is here as well, so we'll knock it out.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
God, bring it on, buddy. Hey, you've been listening to
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