July 8, 2024 • 27 mins
Despite new policies, LAPD still shoots people holding an ‘edged weapon’ in a crisis… what do you expect them to do? President Biden tried to make the race about Trump… now that’s not working. What if? How the process works IF Democrats want to replace Biden. The Jurupa Oak, right here in California, is older than almost any other plant on Earth. Now, a new development plan may finally kill it.
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demandfrom KFI AM six forty. This is
k i AM six forty Bill Handlehere. It is a Monday morning,
July eighth. So much is goingon today. First of all, Hurricane
Barrel is barreling down. It hashit the Texas coast. Originally it was
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going to go just in New Mexicoand then it turned right right into Texas.
Lots of rain hit as a Categoryone hurricane and a lot of damage.
It's the storm surge that really isdangerous. And we're talking about seven
feet of storm surge which goes inlandmiles and so that's no fun at all.
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All we had is temperatures that werehitting two hundred and twenty five degrees,
especially in northern California, which isburning up. So it's great weather.
It goes from more rain than everto the heat spell where records are
being broken. Yeah. Yeah,welcome to the world of climate change.
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Now, there has been a timeanalysis of the LAPD shooting people, shooting
people when they have a machete ora knife or some kind of an edged
weapon, and a lot of controversythere because you've got the opponents of this
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or read anybody who hates the policeis saying the cops shouldn't shoot those people.
By the way, it is policyto shoot someone going at you with
a knife, that's no problem.However, the argument is you could have
tase or a cop could have tasedthat person, or hit that person with
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a bean bag round or some kindof foam rubber device. Now the l
eight and this is the question.The big question is if someone is having
a mental episode, that should belooked at separately. And I don't know
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how a cop figures that out afterthe fact. Cops are the police department
say you should have known this personwas having a psychotic episode. You should
have figured that out. I don'tknow how you do that. But the
argument is that everything should be doneother than shoot that person. And that
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lies a huge problem. Now,training the cops to engage in de escalation
tactics. Oh buy that. Havinga social worker show up, and I
don't know how quickly social workers canshow up. Someone is reported as having
some kind of weapon, the lightsgo on, the sirens go on,
and the cops show up as quicklyas possible. Are social workers signed to
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the police car? Are they calledin separately? No? One's figured that
one out. Now, the deescalation part, you bet ninety three of
the cops LAPD have gone into andhave attended de escalation classes. By the
way, that's now required for everyLAPD recruit. However, the argument is
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that somehow when a cop is beingconfronted by someone with a weapon, and
then there's something called a distance rule, and that is they have to look
at how fast the person with aknife is coming forward. What's the distance?
Does a cop have the duty togo behind a car? And the
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answer is no, if you're stupidenough to go after a cop. Hey,
if you have a knife and you'removing forward, okay, you're gonna
get shot. You know, Bill, Back in the day when I studied
martial arts and fighting and all thesethings, people have no idea how quickly
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you can cross a span of spacewith an edged weapon. And one of
the things they do. I wastalking to somebody in the militaries as well
who studied this, that they willhold a sharpie, a sharpie marker,
and they will come at you andslash you on your face, on your
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arms, and you can see howmany times somebody could cut you clearing the
distance of what you might assume istoo far for them to harden you,
and then you end up with allthese marks on you, and you could
go that would have killed you.There, that would have killed you.
There, it killed you there.You know again, this is all part
of the defend the police, antipolice philosophy. And here's what inevitably happens
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when someone is killed by a policeofficer. One of two things happens.
Number one, you should have knownthat this was a psychotic event, mister
police officer. Or you should haveaimed for the knees. You should have
taken out his knees so he couldn'tmove forward. And then, of course
what ends up happening is there reallywas no weapon. It was the victim
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on his knees, putting his handsin the air and screaming, please don't
shoot me. Inevitably, witnesses willsay that, family members will say that
even though they weren't there, andthen the question is asked, how do
you know that happened? Well,we just know because they are witnesses who
saw that. I'm going to givefamily members a pass on that one,
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because they just lost a loved oneand they're a little pissed off. At
the police. I understand that,but hey, hey, how do the
police understand you should have known thathe was having It is usually a he
having the psychotic event. They don'tknow, they're not supposed to know.
They shouldn't know. Isn't anyone anybodycoming at you with a weapon when you're
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law enforcement having some sort of mentalevent. Not necessarily he goes after someone.
Necessarily the spur load a cop inthe spur of the moment is an
all crime basically a mental issue insome way, shape or form. So
it's like, why put that onthe cops to decide? If I were
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a social worker, And they dohave teams, by the way, handle
they have LAPD has special units atpartnerships with social workers and in LA where
yes, sometimes they do right aroundor sometimes they have a unit that goes
out. But by the way,there are plenty of people that commit crimes
that don't have a psychotic event.For example, I go into engineering and
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I clean out half the sound equipmentfor my studio at home. Hey,
I mean that's a criminal event.Am I out of my mind? No?
You just try to justify criminals notbeing mentally inept by saying you are
a criminal. I'm not a criminal. It's just a long term borrowing.
I view it as a long termloan. Don't okay yourself as the basis
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of sanity, sir. All Right, the Joe Biden fiasco, as everybody
knows by now, it was adebacle the debate, and Joe Biden basically
melted down, and he looked veryold. He lost his train of thought.
He stuttered, although he has astuttering problem. So a lot of
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people don't know that, and it'sbeing held against him. And the other
thing that people really don't understand is, so what if he's slow in responding.
Presidents don't respond instantly to anything.They shouldn't. They should talk to
their advisors. They should be methodical. They should respond to whatever happens the
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United States, whatever crisis. Theyshould do it with a lot of thinking.
However, you have to have cognitiveabilities, and he came off as
an old guy who loses his trainof thought. And that is a problem.
So Biden is melting down, meltingdown in the sense that now you
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have Democrats that are saying he shouldjust step aside. I thought that from
the very beginning that he is simplytoo old but the way Democrats and Republicans
work, it is a hierarchy whereyou have heirs. Hillary Clinton, by
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very nurtured nature of how long she'sbeen around, gets the nomination disaster.
Joe Biden simply because he's a sittingpresident and he's a Democrat, gets the
nomination even if he's dead, nomatter. There are two things that the
Biden campaign the strategy. Neither oneof them is working. One is to
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turn around the perception that he istoo old and doesn't have enough cognitive abilities
and that he loses his train ofthought. And we really don't want a
president to do that. And eventhough you know, if it were someone
who was a lot younger than DonaldTrump, the argument would be he is
too old. Trump is seventy sevenyears old, but a vibrant young seventy
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seven. That you can't argue Trumpis a young seventy seven and Joe Biden
is an old eighty one and thatdoes not bode well. So right now
Biden is stuck in a political tailspin. The abysmal debate performance highlighting his
inability to do what Two issues,as I said, one his age,
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How does he undo his age?And not necessarily his age per se,
There eighty one year olds that areout spry and run marathons, although he
certainly doesn't do that, so hehas to undo that if he can,
which I don't think is gonna happen. The other thing is, from the
beginning, it was not about JoeBiden. The campaign was about Donald Trump,
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and effectively the campaign the Democratic campaignsaying do you want a lunatic again
in the White House? Do youwant someone that takes us out of NATO?
Do you want someone that likes Putinand likes Kim Jong un and hates
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democracies, loves strongmen and doesn't particularlylike our allies, wants out? That
was that is the message that isbeing forwarded by Biden Democratic Party. Neither
one of those is working. Theage as you is not working for Biden.
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The Donald Trump is an a hole, and he's crazy, and he's
a lunatic, and he shoots fromthe hip, all of which is absolutely
true. By the way, hesaid he will be a dictator day one.
He has said he will pardon allthe January sixth insurgents, But in
his mind and the way he describesit, they are all not only hostages,
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they are patriots. Anybody who ispro Trump is a patriot and is
upholding the constitution. If you areagainst Trump, you are a traitor to
the United States. Trump is asked, will you accept the outcome of the
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next election, and he said yes, if it is a fair election,
that's code for or you bet.If I win, that's fair. If
I lose, it's rigged and advanced. And that's what the Democrats are trying
to push, saying, look atthis guy, do you really want this
guy as president? Well, thatargument is not working, And the argument
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that Joe Biden is fit to bepresident notwithstanding his age is not working.
What does that mean? Well,I think the one person who is the
best, the best opponent of DonaldTrump is Joe Biden. And then if
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Biden loses, Kamala Harris. IfBiden gets out of the race, it's
Kamala Harris. Why well, becauseof course she inherited that mantle, not
that she deserves it, but sheis the vice presudent president presidential nominee,
which means she is absolutely fit tobe president by definition. Whoa wait a
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minute. She wasn't chosen for herability. She was chosen because she is
mixed race and she is a woman, and politics these days demand that why
because of political correctness. It's notwho is best, it's who fits who
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is which box can you check offto be politically correct, which, by
the way, the Democrats believe thatone percent. I'll tell you right now.
I believe the Democrats believe that itis more important to check the box
of political correctness than it is toforward the name of the most competent candidate
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that they can put forward. It'sgonna be an interesting race, to say
the least. If I had toguess right now, I don't know how
close it's going to be. Butas we sit right now, I don't
think it's going to be very close. I think Trump has it. I
think we're going to look at severalhundred insurgents as well. You know,
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the way they're painted as the foundingfathers who created our country by going against
the British government, they were heroes. These guys who support Trump and did
so January sixth, are heroes.I gotta tell you, it's completely crazy.
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I mean, you know, I'venever seen this happen. Okay,
moving on Joe Biden and well,the question is should he withdraw after that
horrific display of non cognitive ability duringthe debate. The big question is should
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he drop out. I don't thinkhe will. I do not think he
will, because that's who he is. It's his choice. He has the
nomination. And one of the bigproblems is, let's say he does drop
out. Well, we only havea couple of three months before the nomination
has to go through and someone hasto be selected, and everybody thinks,
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at least in the Democratic Party,the hierarchy, that it's going to be
Kamala Harris. I got news foryou. We in California know who Kamala
Harris is. She is no greatgenius, and I am convinced that the
more people know who she is,the less support she's going to get.
I'm not a fan, and Idon't think she has much support, although
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the poll show she has more supportagainst Trump than does Joe Biden. But
I think that has a lot todo with Joe Biden and his age.
I think it has all to dowith Joe Biden in his age. So
how does this work? Okay,come the convention, which is going to
happen on August nineteenth. You've gotthe delegates from the various states after the
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primaries and then they vote for thenominee. So we don't have a nominee.
We have two presumptive nominees. Wehave Donald Trump who is not yet
the official nominee. We have JoeBiden, who is not yet the official
nominee. So delegates are chosen andit depends on the rules of the state.
The Democratic Party has their own rules. The Republican Party had their own
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rules and they put forward the nominee. Now do they have to vote for
the nominee? No, depending onthe rules. Again with the states,
the states parties Republicans and Democrat somenominees or some of these votes. They
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don't have to be bound. Right, the people that are acted by the
rules of the various parties now gosome have to vote what the party is.
You're going as a Democratic, aDemocratic voter in the primary, and
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we're talking about nominating committee, youhave to vote for the candidate. Some
you're not bound. You can boltand go the other way. Does it
happen very very rarely? Has ithappened, Yeah, a few times it
has happened. By the way,if there is no nominee, if Joe
Biden bails out, then it's gonnabe wide open as to the nominee.
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It is going to be wide openas to the convention, and then they
get to start arguing. By theway, the last time that happened was
the Kennedy election. You know,until the last second, Kennedy was not
the nominee. It was bete betweenhim and Lyndon Johnson fighting for the nomination
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at the convention. And you knowwho is the one that put JFK on
top was his brother Bobby. Andpeople don't know what a political animal and
how brilliant Bobby Kennedy was, andhe was the one that put the votes
together and they were scrambling for thevotes and finally went to Lyndon Johnson and
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said, you gotta give it tothe president or the the person who should
be the nominee, and that isJFK. Do you know. And by
the way, now it's primary.Whoever wins the primary is the nomination.
So we know it used to bethe majority of the time they didn't know
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who the nominee was going to beuntil the convention. You've heard of the
back room, the cigars smoking inthe back room with the hierarchy of the
party. That's where they figured outwho the nomination, and they had ballots
and sometimes it went to dozens hundredsof ballots before someone was chosen, and
many, many times it was thecompromise candidate, the one that was least
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hated. And the most famous oneas a compromise candidate was eighteen sixty,
a relatively unknown politician by the nameof Abraham Lincoln became the nominee of a
brand new party called the Republican Party. He was the second candidate that was
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ever forwarded by this brand new party, the Republicans. And so I kind
of like that where you really don'tknow that makes it exciting. Now you
know, we know Joe Biden isgoing to be the Democratic nominee. That's
a given. It's going to behis choice to drop out or not,
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and he won't. Donald Trump,of course, is the Republican nominee.
That's a given. There will beno fight at the convention. Absolutely not.
Also, let's say he does dropout and Kamala Harris automatically becomes the
nominee. Why because she's vice president. It doesn't matter how smart or what
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an idiot she is. And I'mway up the top there thinking she's not
the smartest person in the world.Is there enough time for another candidate to
gather the support? I don't thinkso. I don't think so. It
takes months, a year, twoyears for people, the American voter to
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really understand who it is. Forexample, I'm a big fan of Pete
Bodhagic. I think he is thebest candidate among the Democrats. He's not
even in the running. He's noteven in the running. Does it matter
who's the most qualified? Absolutely not. That's where politics has gone. So
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we'll see. And we've got alot of months to go or a few
months ago before this thing plays out. Okay, I want to talk about
the Huadoopah oak. What is aquadoopa oak. Well, it's a tree
that looks like a shrub, butit's not a shrub. It's a tree,
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most of it underground and then yousee the shrub part. And what
makes it particularly I would say fascinating. It's thirteen to eighteen thousand years old.
It's among the oldest living organisms inthe world trees. Can you imagine
it went through the ice age,it went through climate change, climate warming,
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and I'm talking about ten thousand yearsago. And here's what's happening.
The Planning Commission of Wadoopa Valley,about one hundred thousand people an hour east
of la is maybe about to approveat one point four square square mile development
business park, seventeen hundred homes,elementary school, light industry buildings that are
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hundreds of feet from this oak tree, hundreds of feet from one of the
oldest living things on this planet.Now, there are plenty of planning,
there are plenty of light industry buildings, plenty of residences. There aren't plenty
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of trees that are thirteen to eighteenthousand years old. Now, the city
legitimately says that this project, hugeproject is going to boost the local economy.
Of course it will. The developersaid it plans to protect the tree.
I think it does plan to protectthe tree. The problem is what
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does that mean protecting the tree?Well, that means that there is a
two hundred yard circle around it thatnothing can be built. The environmentalists are
saying, come on, two hundredfeet. The environmentals are saying, come
on. You know you've got sewagegoing out of there, you've got pipes,
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you have the building with these massiveearth movers you've got a tree that's
eighteen thousand years old two hundred feetaway. How do you do that?
And therein lies the question, andthis is what the Planning Commission has to
do. Hasn't decided yet if thedevelopment can go forward. And if you
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can imagine, there was a meetingin late June and dozens of locals and
dozens of environmentalists showed up and said, no, we're not going to deal
with this now. People were infavor of development and legitimately so we're saying
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this is going to help our city. I mean, when you think about
a city of Quadoopah, world famouscity that everybody knows. I didn't know
how to pronounce the name until Neiland Michelle told me how to pronounce it,
Huadoopah, not ja rupah. Idon't know if you got a oh
rupah. It's not Hebrew, yes, what hoopah? No? And in
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Portuguese is jahdoopah. In any case, this tree may go down and it
is considered well probably the third oldestorganism on the planet. And the developer
is saying we're not going to getwithin two hundred feet of the tree.
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Construction equipment will be at least twohundred and fifty nine feet away from the
tree, although within that two hundredand fifty nine feet range that's donated to
an environmental nonprofit. And here's twohundred and fifty thousand dollars to protect the
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tree and environments environmentals. Environmentalists aresaying, Ah, that's not enough.
Now, there is a quaking aspenin Utah, estimated at eighty thousand years
old. It's so old it isquaking. It's a lot like Joe Biden,
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literally quaking. Can you imagine eightythousand years old? Much like Biden.
And there's a holly in Tasmania estimatedat forty three thousand years old.
Wow. And you know what Ithink about is the in Jerusalem, all
the ancient olive trees. Yeah they'rethousands of years old. They are well
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compared to this, they're nothing.But you've got the olive trees there at
what is considered the Garden of Gysnthemy. And yeah that too, mister pronouncing
correctly. And yeah, whether ornot there is this garden or not,
no one really knows. If thereis, no one knows where it is.
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But the olive trees that are inthat area. Jesus could have very
well walked among them. They werestill they're still there. They were probably
one thousand years old, Yeah,two thousand years ago. You can tell
because in the tree is carved JCwas here. Oh boy, you know
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what we all know what it's liketo with a heart. What we all
know what it's like on this showto work very close to something super old,
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k i AM six forty Bill Handlehere. It is a Monday morning,
July eighth. So much is goingon today. First of all, Hurricane
Barrel is barreling down. It hashit the Texas coast. Originally it was
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going to go just in New Mexicoand then it turned right right into Texas.
Lots of rain hit as a Categoryone hurricane and a lot of damage.
It's the storm surge that really isdangerous. And we're talking about seven
feet of storm surge which goes inlandmiles and so that's no fun at all.
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All we had is temperatures that werehitting two hundred and twenty five degrees,
especially in northern California, which isburning up. So it's great weather.
It goes from more rain than everto the heat spell where records are
being broken. Yeah. Yeah,welcome to the world of climate change.
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Now, there has been a timeanalysis of the LAPD shooting people, shooting
people when they have a machete ora knife or some kind of an edged
weapon, and a lot of controversythere because you've got the opponents of this
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or read anybody who hates the policeis saying the cops shouldn't shoot those people.
By the way, it is policyto shoot someone going at you with
a knife, that's no problem.However, the argument is you could have
tase or a cop could have tasedthat person, or hit that person with
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a bean bag round or some kindof foam rubber device. Now the l
eight and this is the question.The big question is if someone is having
a mental episode, that should belooked at separately. And I don't know
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how a cop figures that out afterthe fact. Cops are the police department
say you should have known this personwas having a psychotic episode. You should
have figured that out. I don'tknow how you do that. But the
argument is that everything should be doneother than shoot that person. And that
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lies a huge problem. Now,training the cops to engage in de escalation
tactics. Oh buy that. Havinga social worker show up, and I
don't know how quickly social workers canshow up. Someone is reported as having
some kind of weapon, the lightsgo on, the sirens go on,
and the cops show up as quicklyas possible. Are social workers signed to
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the police car? Are they calledin separately? No? One's figured that
one out. Now, the deescalation part, you bet ninety three of
the cops LAPD have gone into andhave attended de escalation classes. By the
way, that's now required for everyLAPD recruit. However, the argument is
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that somehow when a cop is beingconfronted by someone with a weapon, and
then there's something called a distance rule, and that is they have to look
at how fast the person with aknife is coming forward. What's the distance?
Does a cop have the duty togo behind a car? And the
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answer is no, if you're stupidenough to go after a cop. Hey,
if you have a knife and you'removing forward, okay, you're gonna
get shot. You know, Bill, Back in the day when I studied
martial arts and fighting and all thesethings, people have no idea how quickly
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you can cross a span of spacewith an edged weapon. And one of
the things they do. I wastalking to somebody in the militaries as well
who studied this, that they willhold a sharpie, a sharpie marker,
and they will come at you andslash you on your face, on your
(04:31):
arms, and you can see howmany times somebody could cut you clearing the
distance of what you might assume istoo far for them to harden you,
and then you end up with allthese marks on you, and you could
go that would have killed you.There, that would have killed you.
There, it killed you there.You know again, this is all part
of the defend the police, antipolice philosophy. And here's what inevitably happens
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when someone is killed by a policeofficer. One of two things happens.
Number one, you should have knownthat this was a psychotic event, mister
police officer. Or you should haveaimed for the knees. You should have
taken out his knees so he couldn'tmove forward. And then, of course
what ends up happening is there reallywas no weapon. It was the victim
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on his knees, putting his handsin the air and screaming, please don't
shoot me. Inevitably, witnesses willsay that, family members will say that
even though they weren't there, andthen the question is asked, how do
you know that happened? Well,we just know because they are witnesses who
saw that. I'm going to givefamily members a pass on that one,
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because they just lost a loved oneand they're a little pissed off. At
the police. I understand that,but hey, hey, how do the
police understand you should have known thathe was having It is usually a he
having the psychotic event. They don'tknow, they're not supposed to know.
They shouldn't know. Isn't anyone anybodycoming at you with a weapon when you're
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law enforcement having some sort of mentalevent. Not necessarily he goes after someone.
Necessarily the spur load a cop inthe spur of the moment is an
all crime basically a mental issue insome way, shape or form. So
it's like, why put that onthe cops to decide? If I were
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a social worker, And they dohave teams, by the way, handle
they have LAPD has special units atpartnerships with social workers and in LA where
yes, sometimes they do right aroundor sometimes they have a unit that goes
out. But by the way,there are plenty of people that commit crimes
that don't have a psychotic event.For example, I go into engineering and
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I clean out half the sound equipmentfor my studio at home. Hey,
I mean that's a criminal event.Am I out of my mind? No?
You just try to justify criminals notbeing mentally inept by saying you are
a criminal. I'm not a criminal. It's just a long term borrowing.
I view it as a long termloan. Don't okay yourself as the basis
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of sanity, sir. All Right, the Joe Biden fiasco, as everybody
knows by now, it was adebacle the debate, and Joe Biden basically
melted down, and he looked veryold. He lost his train of thought.
He stuttered, although he has astuttering problem. So a lot of
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people don't know that, and it'sbeing held against him. And the other
thing that people really don't understand is, so what if he's slow in responding.
Presidents don't respond instantly to anything.They shouldn't. They should talk to
their advisors. They should be methodical. They should respond to whatever happens the
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United States, whatever crisis. Theyshould do it with a lot of thinking.
However, you have to have cognitiveabilities, and he came off as
an old guy who loses his trainof thought. And that is a problem.
So Biden is melting down, meltingdown in the sense that now you
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have Democrats that are saying he shouldjust step aside. I thought that from
the very beginning that he is simplytoo old but the way Democrats and Republicans
work, it is a hierarchy whereyou have heirs. Hillary Clinton, by
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very nurtured nature of how long she'sbeen around, gets the nomination disaster.
Joe Biden simply because he's a sittingpresident and he's a Democrat, gets the
nomination even if he's dead, nomatter. There are two things that the
Biden campaign the strategy. Neither oneof them is working. One is to
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turn around the perception that he istoo old and doesn't have enough cognitive abilities
and that he loses his train ofthought. And we really don't want a
president to do that. And eventhough you know, if it were someone
who was a lot younger than DonaldTrump, the argument would be he is
too old. Trump is seventy sevenyears old, but a vibrant young seventy
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seven. That you can't argue Trumpis a young seventy seven and Joe Biden
is an old eighty one and thatdoes not bode well. So right now
Biden is stuck in a political tailspin. The abysmal debate performance highlighting his
inability to do what Two issues,as I said, one his age,
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How does he undo his age?And not necessarily his age per se,
There eighty one year olds that areout spry and run marathons, although he
certainly doesn't do that, so hehas to undo that if he can,
which I don't think is gonna happen. The other thing is, from the
beginning, it was not about JoeBiden. The campaign was about Donald Trump,
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and effectively the campaign the Democratic campaignsaying do you want a lunatic again
in the White House? Do youwant someone that takes us out of NATO?
Do you want someone that likes Putinand likes Kim Jong un and hates
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democracies, loves strongmen and doesn't particularlylike our allies, wants out? That
was that is the message that isbeing forwarded by Biden Democratic Party. Neither
one of those is working. Theage as you is not working for Biden.
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The Donald Trump is an a hole, and he's crazy, and he's
a lunatic, and he shoots fromthe hip, all of which is absolutely
true. By the way, hesaid he will be a dictator day one.
He has said he will pardon allthe January sixth insurgents, But in
his mind and the way he describesit, they are all not only hostages,
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they are patriots. Anybody who ispro Trump is a patriot and is
upholding the constitution. If you areagainst Trump, you are a traitor to
the United States. Trump is asked, will you accept the outcome of the
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next election, and he said yes, if it is a fair election,
that's code for or you bet.If I win, that's fair. If
I lose, it's rigged and advanced. And that's what the Democrats are trying
to push, saying, look atthis guy, do you really want this
guy as president? Well, thatargument is not working, And the argument
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that Joe Biden is fit to bepresident notwithstanding his age is not working.
What does that mean? Well,I think the one person who is the
best, the best opponent of DonaldTrump is Joe Biden. And then if
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Biden loses, Kamala Harris. IfBiden gets out of the race, it's
Kamala Harris. Why well, becauseof course she inherited that mantle, not
that she deserves it, but sheis the vice presudent president presidential nominee,
which means she is absolutely fit tobe president by definition. Whoa wait a
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minute. She wasn't chosen for herability. She was chosen because she is
mixed race and she is a woman, and politics these days demand that why
because of political correctness. It's notwho is best, it's who fits who
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is which box can you check offto be politically correct, which, by
the way, the Democrats believe thatone percent. I'll tell you right now.
I believe the Democrats believe that itis more important to check the box
of political correctness than it is toforward the name of the most competent candidate
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that they can put forward. It'sgonna be an interesting race, to say
the least. If I had toguess right now, I don't know how
close it's going to be. Butas we sit right now, I don't
think it's going to be very close. I think Trump has it. I
think we're going to look at severalhundred insurgents as well. You know,
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the way they're painted as the foundingfathers who created our country by going against
the British government, they were heroes. These guys who support Trump and did
so January sixth, are heroes.I gotta tell you, it's completely crazy.
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I mean, you know, I'venever seen this happen. Okay,
moving on Joe Biden and well,the question is should he withdraw after that
horrific display of non cognitive ability duringthe debate. The big question is should
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he drop out. I don't thinkhe will. I do not think he
will, because that's who he is. It's his choice. He has the
nomination. And one of the bigproblems is, let's say he does drop
out. Well, we only havea couple of three months before the nomination
has to go through and someone hasto be selected, and everybody thinks,
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at least in the Democratic Party,the hierarchy, that it's going to be
Kamala Harris. I got news foryou. We in California know who Kamala
Harris is. She is no greatgenius, and I am convinced that the
more people know who she is,the less support she's going to get.
I'm not a fan, and Idon't think she has much support, although
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the poll show she has more supportagainst Trump than does Joe Biden. But
I think that has a lot todo with Joe Biden and his age.
I think it has all to dowith Joe Biden in his age. So
how does this work? Okay,come the convention, which is going to
happen on August nineteenth. You've gotthe delegates from the various states after the
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primaries and then they vote for thenominee. So we don't have a nominee.
We have two presumptive nominees. Wehave Donald Trump who is not yet
the official nominee. We have JoeBiden, who is not yet the official
nominee. So delegates are chosen andit depends on the rules of the state.
The Democratic Party has their own rules. The Republican Party had their own
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rules and they put forward the nominee. Now do they have to vote for
the nominee? No, depending onthe rules. Again with the states,
the states parties Republicans and Democrat somenominees or some of these votes. They
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don't have to be bound. Right, the people that are acted by the
rules of the various parties now gosome have to vote what the party is.
You're going as a Democratic, aDemocratic voter in the primary, and
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we're talking about nominating committee, youhave to vote for the candidate. Some
you're not bound. You can boltand go the other way. Does it
happen very very rarely? Has ithappened, Yeah, a few times it
has happened. By the way,if there is no nominee, if Joe
Biden bails out, then it's gonnabe wide open as to the nominee.
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It is going to be wide openas to the convention, and then they
get to start arguing. By theway, the last time that happened was
the Kennedy election. You know,until the last second, Kennedy was not
the nominee. It was bete betweenhim and Lyndon Johnson fighting for the nomination
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at the convention. And you knowwho is the one that put JFK on
top was his brother Bobby. Andpeople don't know what a political animal and
how brilliant Bobby Kennedy was, andhe was the one that put the votes
together and they were scrambling for thevotes and finally went to Lyndon Johnson and
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said, you gotta give it tothe president or the the person who should
be the nominee, and that isJFK. Do you know. And by
the way, now it's primary.Whoever wins the primary is the nomination.
So we know it used to bethe majority of the time they didn't know
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who the nominee was going to beuntil the convention. You've heard of the
back room, the cigars smoking inthe back room with the hierarchy of the
party. That's where they figured outwho the nomination, and they had ballots
and sometimes it went to dozens hundredsof ballots before someone was chosen, and
many, many times it was thecompromise candidate, the one that was least
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hated. And the most famous oneas a compromise candidate was eighteen sixty,
a relatively unknown politician by the nameof Abraham Lincoln became the nominee of a
brand new party called the Republican Party. He was the second candidate that was
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ever forwarded by this brand new party, the Republicans. And so I kind
of like that where you really don'tknow that makes it exciting. Now you
know, we know Joe Biden isgoing to be the Democratic nominee. That's
a given. It's going to behis choice to drop out or not,
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and he won't. Donald Trump,of course, is the Republican nominee.
That's a given. There will beno fight at the convention. Absolutely not.
Also, let's say he does dropout and Kamala Harris automatically becomes the
nominee. Why because she's vice president. It doesn't matter how smart or what
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an idiot she is. And I'mway up the top there thinking she's not
the smartest person in the world.Is there enough time for another candidate to
gather the support? I don't thinkso. I don't think so. It
takes months, a year, twoyears for people, the American voter to
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really understand who it is. Forexample, I'm a big fan of Pete
Bodhagic. I think he is thebest candidate among the Democrats. He's not
even in the running. He's noteven in the running. Does it matter
who's the most qualified? Absolutely not. That's where politics has gone. So
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we'll see. And we've got alot of months to go or a few
months ago before this thing plays out. Okay, I want to talk about
the Huadoopah oak. What is aquadoopa oak. Well, it's a tree
that looks like a shrub, butit's not a shrub. It's a tree,
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most of it underground and then yousee the shrub part. And what
makes it particularly I would say fascinating. It's thirteen to eighteen thousand years old.
It's among the oldest living organisms inthe world trees. Can you imagine
it went through the ice age,it went through climate change, climate warming,
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and I'm talking about ten thousand yearsago. And here's what's happening.
The Planning Commission of Wadoopa Valley,about one hundred thousand people an hour east
of la is maybe about to approveat one point four square square mile development
business park, seventeen hundred homes,elementary school, light industry buildings that are
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hundreds of feet from this oak tree, hundreds of feet from one of the
oldest living things on this planet.Now, there are plenty of planning,
there are plenty of light industry buildings, plenty of residences. There aren't plenty
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of trees that are thirteen to eighteenthousand years old. Now, the city
legitimately says that this project, hugeproject is going to boost the local economy.
Of course it will. The developersaid it plans to protect the tree.
I think it does plan to protectthe tree. The problem is what
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does that mean protecting the tree?Well, that means that there is a
two hundred yard circle around it thatnothing can be built. The environmentalists are
saying, come on, two hundredfeet. The environmentals are saying, come
on. You know you've got sewagegoing out of there, you've got pipes,
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you have the building with these massiveearth movers you've got a tree that's
eighteen thousand years old two hundred feetaway. How do you do that?
And therein lies the question, andthis is what the Planning Commission has to
do. Hasn't decided yet if thedevelopment can go forward. And if you
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can imagine, there was a meetingin late June and dozens of locals and
dozens of environmentalists showed up and said, no, we're not going to deal
with this now. People were infavor of development and legitimately so we're saying
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this is going to help our city. I mean, when you think about
a city of Quadoopah, world famouscity that everybody knows. I didn't know
how to pronounce the name until Neiland Michelle told me how to pronounce it,
Huadoopah, not ja rupah. Idon't know if you got a oh
rupah. It's not Hebrew, yes, what hoopah? No? And in
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Portuguese is jahdoopah. In any case, this tree may go down and it
is considered well probably the third oldestorganism on the planet. And the developer
is saying we're not going to getwithin two hundred feet of the tree.
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Construction equipment will be at least twohundred and fifty nine feet away from the
tree, although within that two hundredand fifty nine feet range that's donated to
an environmental nonprofit. And here's twohundred and fifty thousand dollars to protect the
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tree and environments environmentals. Environmentalists aresaying, Ah, that's not enough.
Now, there is a quaking aspenin Utah, estimated at eighty thousand years
old. It's so old it isquaking. It's a lot like Joe Biden,
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literally quaking. Can you imagine eightythousand years old? Much like Biden.
And there's a holly in Tasmania estimatedat forty three thousand years old.
Wow. And you know what Ithink about is the in Jerusalem, all
the ancient olive trees. Yeah they'rethousands of years old. They are well
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compared to this, they're nothing.But you've got the olive trees there at
what is considered the Garden of Gysnthemy. And yeah that too, mister pronouncing
correctly. And yeah, whether ornot there is this garden or not,
no one really knows. If thereis, no one knows where it is.
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But the olive trees that are inthat area. Jesus could have very
well walked among them. They werestill they're still there. They were probably
one thousand years old, Yeah,two thousand years ago. You can tell
because in the tree is carved JCwas here. Oh boy, you know
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what we all know what it's liketo with a heart. What we all
know what it's like on this showto work very close to something super old,
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