November 7, 2024 • 23 mins
Harris’s loss triggers soul-searching, recriminations within Democratic party. Inflation pain helped secure Trump win but does his policies mean higher prices? California regulators are pressed to come clean on gasoline prices.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty. I am six forty Bill Handle here. Oh yes,
it is a Thursday morning. Oh what a day. Two
days after the election of Donald Trump, and we're just
starting to understand a little bit of what is going
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on in terms of what the president elect is going
to do. I mean, that is a big issue. Now.
On the other side of the coin, you've got the
Democrats who have lost the election. They've lost the election
well twice to Donald Trump, and they're sitting and saying,
(00:44):
what did we do wrong? And I actually have an answer,
and I think I'm not alone here. Harris's defeat generated
right now condemnation and wheelsoil searching among Democrats. They see
the handling of this election as deeply flawed because, well,
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the party failed to connect with voters. We were preoccupied
about inflation and we were preoccupied about illegal immigration. Those
were the two big issues that Trump had as far
as the reproductive freedom for a lot of women and
a lot of us who believe in reproductive freedom, it
was a big, big deal, but not big enough. And
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the loss absolutely stunned the Democrats because the swing states
basically all swung to Donald Trump, and we have an
electoral college process where those states have enormous amount of power.
And for those of us that think the electoral college
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is just a pilot crap, he also won the popular vote,
and in my life, my view, whoever wins the popular
vote for president should become the president. And he did both,
so there's not no arguing under any circumstances that he
should not be the president of the United States. So
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the immediate reaction from the Democrats. Party leaders was despondency.
Asked who was to blame for all this, one senior
Democrat simply said, everyone, Well, it's everyone and no one,
and I'll explain why. I'll give you my take on that.
In just a moment, the party lost grounds with a
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bunch of voters who used to be the core of
the Democratic coalition, working class voters, minorities, rural areas. Those
Democrats who were in rural areas. Now rural areas are
genuinely conservative Republican. But there are swatches, there are pockets lost.
Those pockets. This is a historic disaster of biblical proportions.
(02:57):
The Democratic Party is dead dead, a historical realignment. There
used to be Reagan Democrats. Now there are Trump Democrats.
According to a strategist who is a former chief of
staff to Senator Joe Manchin, the elites of this country
alienated voters everywhere because they didn't want to hear what
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working class and middle class voters were screaming for four years.
Focusing on us are problems, not your agenda to destroy Trump.
The agenda really is anti Trump. Now. Part of Trump's agenda,
of course, was to destroy Harris in terms that were
a lot more vicious than anything Harris said about Trump.
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But Trump gets away with it. See that is the problem.
Trump gets away with it. And the Democratic Party, well,
I'll tell you a minute what they did wrong and
what they did right and what they completely missed, and
they can't help it. They couldn't help it. Even if
they did everything right, they couldn't help it. Trump made
(04:08):
significant gains among black Latino voters. This is after he's
talked about immigration and what rapists they are in their criminals,
and he is going to deport eleven million people on
January twentieth, which, as I said, I want the bus
franchise for that one.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That's a lot of people going down to the southern border.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Now a lot of American citizens are Latino where a
lot of Latinos are American citizens. But I know Latinos
who have family members that don't have papers, and he
is going to deport them, deport them, or say he
is going to deport them, and still they voted for Trump.
So what are the reasons that the Democrats are saying?
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The first thing I do is point the finger at
President Biden. Why well, he and for re election, and
he's eighty years old, and he is a doddering eighty.
He looks like he is an old eighty. And of
course that complete disastrous performance at the debate, I mean
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that put him over the top. And he still fought
to keep the nomination, and he finally caved. And by
the way, he could have kept the nomination legally he
got the nomination, he received enough delegates at the convention,
or received enough delegates that were pledged to him that
he would have stayed. Matter of fact, the Trump team
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were screaming, it's unconstitutional for him to bail out, which
of course it isn't. He should have run and Harris
should not have run. And Harris actually gave Trump a
run for her money where Biden would have been just
slaughtered and the Republicans knew that. So one of the
things that is happening the Democratic Party reeling from this loss,
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and they have lost to Trump twice. And now what
Democratic party has to reinvent itself and normally does that
after a defeat. Both parties do that, arguing, Okay, we
have to do something about our message and what are
we messaging? So Trump is a complete outlier and that
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is the problem the Democratic Party has right now. They're
second guessing the anxiety. Has the party become too elite?
That's one of the things one of the accusations. Has
the party loss its ability to appeal to the working
class voters who have traditionally backed Democratic candidates. Now, what's
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really weird is there's been a complete reversal working class
equal Democrat, Democrat equal working class. It has reversed. And
now is this the fault of the Democratic Party. Well,
I've often said that it really is an elitist party
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in many many ways. You look at a map of
highly democratic states, it's California, the West coast, Oregon, Washington,
and then you go to the east coast and you've
got New York, you have Connecticut, that's it, basically, Maine, Vermont,
all the way up in between. It's all red for
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the most part, certainly the south, but the Midwest is
all red. And so one of the arguments is that
the Democratic Party, if I were a Democrat, which I
am not.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I am an affiliated and have been, you know, most
of my life.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, all my life.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I've never been a registered anything.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We if I were a Democrat, you know, our elitist
where until the elitist Slavs? What do we look at
hardcore Republicans as a NASCAR attending bearded, especially the women
maga hat wearing, tattooed crackers. Basically, that's how a lot
(08:08):
of the Democratic Party views hardcore Republicans. Hey, when was
the last built?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
When was the last time you voted for a Republican?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It was.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I'm trying to think Ronald Reagan, I voted for him.
Who did I vote for?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I didn't vote for George W. Bush. But then again,
I didn't vote for al Gore either, because I got
really I would have voted for Bush had it been
had he not done the stem cell business, because that
really pissed me off when he shut down that one.
So I have voted far more Democrat or not voted
at all, because frankly, I'm to the left of what
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the right is. I consider myself a moderate, and so
I just will say that and then they end up
voting one way or the other. I truly vote for both, depending, Yeah,
and I have voted for both, more Democrat then the
other way I voted for. I voted for Obama and
a lot of it simply because of race, which is
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a stupid way of doing. And I was so excited
that a black guy was running for president, who, by
the way, I admired. I mean, the guy Obama is wicked,
wicked smart, and that I appreciate, smarter than anybody maybe
Bill Clinton, and other than that, boom, not even close. Okay, So,
as the Democrats are just spinning and figuring out what's
(09:39):
going on, two things are happening. The super progressive I
love progressive, the word it's liberal, the super liberal AOC
and others. Bernie Sanders saying, Okay, the answer is instead
of you major Democratic Party folks moving towards the right
and trying to pick up what we lost, let's move
(10:00):
far left. Yeah, that's gonna happen, isn't it. But here
is what the Democrats couldn't beat. They couldn't beat Donald Trump,
not politically individually. Donald Trump is such an outlier. He
has such a following. Some people call him a demigod demagogue,
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other people call him god. That he took it out
of politics. He threw his arms out and said follow me.
I mean he lied, which we know he did. He
was vicious, he's a womanizer. I mean, we have that
on tape. He paid off porn stars. We know because
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that's on tape. He was convicted, He's been indicted. Any
other politician would have died on any one of those points.
And Donald Trump comes through that and none of that sticks.
He is truly the Teflon individual, Teflon candidate, Teflon president.
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And you can't fight that. They couldn't fight him politically,
They can't fight him individually. It's Donald Trump. That's who
they ran against. And you know what, it didn't matter
who they threw up there, It didn't matter what issue
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was thrown up there. The Republicans weren't even pissed off
that they finally had.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
For example, Congress had a bipartisan.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Bill that Trump sought to kill, called up Mike Johnson
and said, kill this bill because I wanted as a
platform I wanted as an issue for my campaign. Everybody
knew it. It didn't matter, it didn't matter. The country was
not angry with him for doing that, not at all.
(12:02):
So I think what's going to happen after Trump wins,
after Trump's election, or after his term is over. I
think there's going to be a move to change the
constitution to allow him to have a third term. I
think there's going to be a move, not that it's
ever going to happen. He will still be the kingmaker.
There's no question about that. He is going to control
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the Democratic Party for a couple of cycles and then
it'll fade. And I think after his term we go
back to regular politics. He just took it in a
way that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
We've never seen in the history of this country.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And that's how that's how unique, and that's how he
is an outlier. And I'm surprised there hasn't been a
huge move to sell the sell the tan that he
buys in little bottles. You think you make a fortune
out of that? The Donald Trump tanning solution, Okay, we're
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I think it's Cheeto's It could be. It could be.
I mean, he's I gotta tell you he is. I
sit back and I just admire his ability. I'm not
a fan. You know that I didn't support him. I
also didn't well, yeah, I voted for Kamala only because
it was a vote against Trump. So it was more
of a statement because that's how much I dislike Trump.
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But at the same time, I look at him, and
we're looking at history. We're looking at a president that
never has existed before and never will. Okay, Now, one
of the things I want to go back to politics
for just the moment is the inflation issue. And Donald
Trump won one of the biggest biggest issues. I think
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it's the biggest issue is the economy read inflation. That
is well, it's I think it was the strongest point
because you can't argue it's not policy.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You can't argue what's going to happen. It has happened.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And even if inflation, I said, goes down to zero,
the prices have still gone up. They're not going to
go down, and we are reeling across the country. And
inflation happened during the Biden years. Now, as I said,
does a president have that much influence. Not really, although
you know, the buck stops here. So the president has
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given all the credit or all the blame for anything
that happens on a grand scale with the country. But
let me tell you what he wants to do, and
that is to throw tariffs, particularly on Chinese goods. Right
now it's about twenty percent. He wants sixty percent. He
wants tariffs on other countries goods coming into the country. Well,
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what that means it's going to be higher prices for
us because that Chinese product that we're buying for ten
dollars and you add sixty percent, now it becomes sixteen
dollars or or you know whatever figure it is. Because
I'm not a manufacturing and distribution et cetera. You have
put in the mix there, Well, things just get more expensive.
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Inflation goes up, So be prepared for inflation to go up.
It's not as if we're going to see inflation go down.
We aren't. We aren't now because of my last segment
I talked about Donald Trump was elected not as a Republican,
not as a politician, but as Donald Trump, and a
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lot of America will believe him no matter what and
a lot of America doesn't believe him no matter what.
So you are going to see inflation hit us are
the dollar has got gotten stronger simply because of what's
being anticipated. One of the things business is going to score.
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I mean, I've said this over and over again. And
one thing Donald Trump never never argued is that business
is going to do better than the working guy. It
was always middle class tax cuts, It's always better for you. Well,
let me ask you. When a president is elected and
the stock market goes up fifteen hundred points the next day,
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does that tell you how business is excited about what's
going to happen. Also, we're looking at, of course, environmental
issues that's being wiped out of climate change doesn't help
at all, matter of fact, or isn't helped by the
Trump administration. Things are going to change, but on a
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financial scale, economic scale, borrowing costs are going to go up,
our deficits are going to go up. It will be
a hugely deficit laden economy and budget year and it's
going to come home to roost. And it doesn't matter
because President elect Trump will say it's okay, and therefore
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it's okay. I mean, it's so bizarre. Historians will be
talking about this forever. Okay, what are we doing? Are
we doing? Blake? Now? Nope, We'll go ahead with the
California regulations on gasoline prices. Yeah, we'll do that because
we're sort of changing everything around because we're expecting President
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Biden soon to be former President Biden up at eight o'clock.
He's now going to be up at ten o'clock. So
we're juggling some topics around. Okay, now here's there's gonna
be a vote tomorrow from the California Air Resources Board
known as CARB.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Interestingly enough, they only serve pasta ad lunches.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Be you didn't know that they're making Well, they're actually
not predicting how much gas prices are gonna go up
because they're the ones that are passed seeing new regulations,
and they said, originally gas prices are going to go
up forty seven cents a gallon on top of what
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we are paying, and that's outside of inflation. WHOA. Well,
you got some lawmakers in including a Republicans, saying, hang
on a minute, you're not voting tomorrow because now you're
saying you don't even know what the prices are going
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to be you have no idea, that's what you said.
You've gone from knowing to not knowing, and now you
can't predict and you're still going to have the vote. No,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
California Air Resources Board CARB at.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
A lunch where it was fusili and vegetables, simply said
absolutely no estimate. And States enteror Melissa Hurtado has called
for a legal analyst, the Legislative Analyst Office, which is bipartisan,
to review the policy and come up with some estimate
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as to how much gas is going to cost.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I mean, this has to do with carbon reduction.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Well, let me tell you the reasons they want to
And this is the fellow who actually runs CARB. Why
do we want an increase? Why is this vote going
to happen? And we don't know what the cost are
but we'll figure it out later. And here is the quote.
Here is the statement. Every day Californians benefit greatly from
this program that is to eliminate it's going to programs
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in terms of cleaning up the environment. It's a whole
series of the efforts they're taking. So everyday Californians will
benefit greatly for a couple of reasons. One is helping
to fund infrastructure. The new vote and the money going
in taxes will lower the cost of fueling for vehicles,
especially those using alternati fuels.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Overall, it reduces the cost of driving.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
How does that do that with a forty seven cent
increase in taxes? Explain that to me.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Now, there is a legitimate position here.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It does help with greenhouse gas emission because if it's
insanely expensive, you drive less. You get a car that
is more cost efficient, more gas efficient, public health benefits.
That's true. We're not breathing as much crap as we
breathe when we talk about emissions. We reduce the cost
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for public health. We reduce health costs specifically, which, by
the way, makes sense. Now let me ask you a question.
You're filling up at the pump, and you're looking at
the price of gas on that little meter on the
gas pump, and it's rolling along, rolling, rolling, rolling, and
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you can't believe how expensive it is. And I go
up to you and say, hey, you gotta be happy
about this. Why, Because we're going to be healthier in
the future. We're going to have less fewer taxes in
or fewer health issues in the future. Your kids are
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going to be breathing better air in the future. Well,
what does that mean in the future. Oh, I don't know,
fifteen years from now, twenty years from now. So here's
what you do. Ignore the fact that a tank of
gas is going to cost you five fifty six six
fifty a gallon. Before my BMWEV, I had a BMW,
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I had a big BMW, and I would fill up
my gas tank and it was at twenty one gallons
to fill it up, and it was north and sometimes
way north of one hundred dollars to fill up my tank.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Do you think I gave a rats about your kid's.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Breathing ten years from now or twenty years from now.
I don't think there's going to be a vote. I
really don't, because it could even be more than that.
No one knows. No one knows, So go ahead and
vote for those programs. Now, will there be federal money
coming in, which is now federal money is coming down
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for alternative fuels alternative programs. No, that's stopping. President Trump
will make sure that federal money stops, Which means if
we're doing if we're going along the same program at
the same rate, and we're relying on federal money. We're
not going to have it anymore, and what do we do.
We have to make up for it. So my one
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hundred and ten dollars gas bill to fill up my
car will be one hundred and twenty or one hundred
and thirty. Now I have an EV which helps enormously.
Last time I had pulled into a gas station forgetting
that I had an EV, a gas pump just wouldn't work.
I was very confused, very very confused. Okay, KF I
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six forty. I am six forty Bill Handle here. Oh yes,
it is a Thursday morning. Oh what a day. Two
days after the election of Donald Trump, and we're just
starting to understand a little bit of what is going
(00:23):
on in terms of what the president elect is going
to do. I mean, that is a big issue. Now.
On the other side of the coin, you've got the
Democrats who have lost the election. They've lost the election
well twice to Donald Trump, and they're sitting and saying,
(00:44):
what did we do wrong? And I actually have an answer,
and I think I'm not alone here. Harris's defeat generated
right now condemnation and wheelsoil searching among Democrats. They see
the handling of this election as deeply flawed because, well,
(01:06):
the party failed to connect with voters. We were preoccupied
about inflation and we were preoccupied about illegal immigration. Those
were the two big issues that Trump had as far
as the reproductive freedom for a lot of women and
a lot of us who believe in reproductive freedom, it
was a big, big deal, but not big enough. And
(01:28):
the loss absolutely stunned the Democrats because the swing states
basically all swung to Donald Trump, and we have an
electoral college process where those states have enormous amount of power.
And for those of us that think the electoral college
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is just a pilot crap, he also won the popular vote,
and in my life, my view, whoever wins the popular
vote for president should become the president. And he did both,
so there's not no arguing under any circumstances that he
should not be the president of the United States. So
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the immediate reaction from the Democrats. Party leaders was despondency.
Asked who was to blame for all this, one senior
Democrat simply said, everyone, Well, it's everyone and no one,
and I'll explain why. I'll give you my take on that.
In just a moment, the party lost grounds with a
(02:31):
bunch of voters who used to be the core of
the Democratic coalition, working class voters, minorities, rural areas. Those
Democrats who were in rural areas. Now rural areas are
genuinely conservative Republican. But there are swatches, there are pockets lost.
Those pockets. This is a historic disaster of biblical proportions.
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The Democratic Party is dead dead, a historical realignment. There
used to be Reagan Democrats. Now there are Trump Democrats.
According to a strategist who is a former chief of
staff to Senator Joe Manchin, the elites of this country
alienated voters everywhere because they didn't want to hear what
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working class and middle class voters were screaming for four years.
Focusing on us are problems, not your agenda to destroy Trump.
The agenda really is anti Trump. Now. Part of Trump's agenda,
of course, was to destroy Harris in terms that were
a lot more vicious than anything Harris said about Trump.
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But Trump gets away with it. See that is the problem.
Trump gets away with it. And the Democratic Party, well,
I'll tell you a minute what they did wrong and
what they did right and what they completely missed, and
they can't help it. They couldn't help it. Even if
they did everything right, they couldn't help it. Trump made
(04:08):
significant gains among black Latino voters. This is after he's
talked about immigration and what rapists they are in their criminals,
and he is going to deport eleven million people on
January twentieth, which, as I said, I want the bus
franchise for that one.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
That's a lot of people going down to the southern border.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Now a lot of American citizens are Latino where a
lot of Latinos are American citizens. But I know Latinos
who have family members that don't have papers, and he
is going to deport them, deport them, or say he
is going to deport them, and still they voted for Trump.
So what are the reasons that the Democrats are saying?
(04:52):
The first thing I do is point the finger at
President Biden. Why well, he and for re election, and
he's eighty years old, and he is a doddering eighty.
He looks like he is an old eighty. And of
course that complete disastrous performance at the debate, I mean
(05:16):
that put him over the top. And he still fought
to keep the nomination, and he finally caved. And by
the way, he could have kept the nomination legally he
got the nomination, he received enough delegates at the convention,
or received enough delegates that were pledged to him that
he would have stayed. Matter of fact, the Trump team
(05:41):
were screaming, it's unconstitutional for him to bail out, which
of course it isn't. He should have run and Harris
should not have run. And Harris actually gave Trump a
run for her money where Biden would have been just
slaughtered and the Republicans knew that. So one of the
things that is happening the Democratic Party reeling from this loss,
(06:03):
and they have lost to Trump twice. And now what
Democratic party has to reinvent itself and normally does that
after a defeat. Both parties do that, arguing, Okay, we
have to do something about our message and what are
we messaging? So Trump is a complete outlier and that
(06:24):
is the problem the Democratic Party has right now. They're
second guessing the anxiety. Has the party become too elite?
That's one of the things one of the accusations. Has
the party loss its ability to appeal to the working
class voters who have traditionally backed Democratic candidates. Now, what's
(06:45):
really weird is there's been a complete reversal working class
equal Democrat, Democrat equal working class. It has reversed. And
now is this the fault of the Democratic Party. Well,
I've often said that it really is an elitist party
(07:06):
in many many ways. You look at a map of
highly democratic states, it's California, the West coast, Oregon, Washington,
and then you go to the east coast and you've
got New York, you have Connecticut, that's it, basically, Maine, Vermont,
all the way up in between. It's all red for
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the most part, certainly the south, but the Midwest is
all red. And so one of the arguments is that
the Democratic Party, if I were a Democrat, which I
am not.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
I am an affiliated and have been, you know, most
of my life.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Yeah, all my life.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I've never been a registered anything.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
We if I were a Democrat, you know, our elitist
where until the elitist Slavs? What do we look at
hardcore Republicans as a NASCAR attending bearded, especially the women
maga hat wearing, tattooed crackers. Basically, that's how a lot
(08:08):
of the Democratic Party views hardcore Republicans. Hey, when was
the last built?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
When was the last time you voted for a Republican?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
It was.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
I'm trying to think Ronald Reagan, I voted for him.
Who did I vote for?
Speaker 1 (08:33):
I didn't vote for George W. Bush. But then again,
I didn't vote for al Gore either, because I got
really I would have voted for Bush had it been
had he not done the stem cell business, because that
really pissed me off when he shut down that one.
So I have voted far more Democrat or not voted
at all, because frankly, I'm to the left of what
(08:56):
the right is. I consider myself a moderate, and so
I just will say that and then they end up
voting one way or the other. I truly vote for both, depending, Yeah,
and I have voted for both, more Democrat then the
other way I voted for. I voted for Obama and
a lot of it simply because of race, which is
(09:17):
a stupid way of doing. And I was so excited
that a black guy was running for president, who, by
the way, I admired. I mean, the guy Obama is wicked,
wicked smart, and that I appreciate, smarter than anybody maybe
Bill Clinton, and other than that, boom, not even close. Okay, So,
as the Democrats are just spinning and figuring out what's
(09:39):
going on, two things are happening. The super progressive I
love progressive, the word it's liberal, the super liberal AOC
and others. Bernie Sanders saying, Okay, the answer is instead
of you major Democratic Party folks moving towards the right
and trying to pick up what we lost, let's move
(10:00):
far left. Yeah, that's gonna happen, isn't it. But here
is what the Democrats couldn't beat. They couldn't beat Donald Trump,
not politically individually. Donald Trump is such an outlier. He
has such a following. Some people call him a demigod demagogue,
(10:23):
other people call him god. That he took it out
of politics. He threw his arms out and said follow me.
I mean he lied, which we know he did. He
was vicious, he's a womanizer. I mean, we have that
on tape. He paid off porn stars. We know because
(10:46):
that's on tape. He was convicted, He's been indicted. Any
other politician would have died on any one of those points.
And Donald Trump comes through that and none of that sticks.
He is truly the Teflon individual, Teflon candidate, Teflon president.
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And you can't fight that. They couldn't fight him politically,
They can't fight him individually. It's Donald Trump. That's who
they ran against. And you know what, it didn't matter
who they threw up there, It didn't matter what issue
(11:32):
was thrown up there. The Republicans weren't even pissed off
that they finally had.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
For example, Congress had a bipartisan.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Bill that Trump sought to kill, called up Mike Johnson
and said, kill this bill because I wanted as a
platform I wanted as an issue for my campaign. Everybody
knew it. It didn't matter, it didn't matter. The country was
not angry with him for doing that, not at all.
(12:02):
So I think what's going to happen after Trump wins,
after Trump's election, or after his term is over. I
think there's going to be a move to change the
constitution to allow him to have a third term. I
think there's going to be a move, not that it's
ever going to happen. He will still be the kingmaker.
There's no question about that. He is going to control
(12:23):
the Democratic Party for a couple of cycles and then
it'll fade. And I think after his term we go
back to regular politics. He just took it in a
way that.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
We've never seen in the history of this country.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
And that's how that's how unique, and that's how he
is an outlier. And I'm surprised there hasn't been a
huge move to sell the sell the tan that he
buys in little bottles. You think you make a fortune
out of that? The Donald Trump tanning solution, Okay, we're
(13:00):
I think it's Cheeto's It could be. It could be.
I mean, he's I gotta tell you he is. I
sit back and I just admire his ability. I'm not
a fan. You know that I didn't support him. I
also didn't well, yeah, I voted for Kamala only because
it was a vote against Trump. So it was more
of a statement because that's how much I dislike Trump.
(13:23):
But at the same time, I look at him, and
we're looking at history. We're looking at a president that
never has existed before and never will. Okay, Now, one
of the things I want to go back to politics
for just the moment is the inflation issue. And Donald
Trump won one of the biggest biggest issues. I think
(13:45):
it's the biggest issue is the economy read inflation. That
is well, it's I think it was the strongest point
because you can't argue it's not policy.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You can't argue what's going to happen. It has happened.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
And even if inflation, I said, goes down to zero,
the prices have still gone up. They're not going to
go down, and we are reeling across the country. And
inflation happened during the Biden years. Now, as I said,
does a president have that much influence. Not really, although
you know, the buck stops here. So the president has
(14:21):
given all the credit or all the blame for anything
that happens on a grand scale with the country. But
let me tell you what he wants to do, and
that is to throw tariffs, particularly on Chinese goods. Right
now it's about twenty percent. He wants sixty percent. He
wants tariffs on other countries goods coming into the country. Well,
(14:46):
what that means it's going to be higher prices for
us because that Chinese product that we're buying for ten
dollars and you add sixty percent, now it becomes sixteen
dollars or or you know whatever figure it is. Because
I'm not a manufacturing and distribution et cetera. You have
put in the mix there, Well, things just get more expensive.
(15:10):
Inflation goes up, So be prepared for inflation to go up.
It's not as if we're going to see inflation go down.
We aren't. We aren't now because of my last segment
I talked about Donald Trump was elected not as a Republican,
not as a politician, but as Donald Trump, and a
(15:35):
lot of America will believe him no matter what and
a lot of America doesn't believe him no matter what.
So you are going to see inflation hit us are
the dollar has got gotten stronger simply because of what's
being anticipated. One of the things business is going to score.
(15:57):
I mean, I've said this over and over again. And
one thing Donald Trump never never argued is that business
is going to do better than the working guy. It
was always middle class tax cuts, It's always better for you. Well,
let me ask you. When a president is elected and
the stock market goes up fifteen hundred points the next day,
(16:18):
does that tell you how business is excited about what's
going to happen. Also, we're looking at, of course, environmental
issues that's being wiped out of climate change doesn't help
at all, matter of fact, or isn't helped by the
Trump administration. Things are going to change, but on a
(16:40):
financial scale, economic scale, borrowing costs are going to go up,
our deficits are going to go up. It will be
a hugely deficit laden economy and budget year and it's
going to come home to roost. And it doesn't matter
because President elect Trump will say it's okay, and therefore
(17:04):
it's okay. I mean, it's so bizarre. Historians will be
talking about this forever. Okay, what are we doing? Are
we doing? Blake? Now? Nope, We'll go ahead with the
California regulations on gasoline prices. Yeah, we'll do that because
we're sort of changing everything around because we're expecting President
(17:29):
Biden soon to be former President Biden up at eight o'clock.
He's now going to be up at ten o'clock. So
we're juggling some topics around. Okay, now here's there's gonna
be a vote tomorrow from the California Air Resources Board
known as CARB.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Interestingly enough, they only serve pasta ad lunches.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Be you didn't know that they're making Well, they're actually
not predicting how much gas prices are gonna go up
because they're the ones that are passed seeing new regulations,
and they said, originally gas prices are going to go
up forty seven cents a gallon on top of what
(18:10):
we are paying, and that's outside of inflation. WHOA. Well,
you got some lawmakers in including a Republicans, saying, hang
on a minute, you're not voting tomorrow because now you're
saying you don't even know what the prices are going
(18:31):
to be you have no idea, that's what you said.
You've gone from knowing to not knowing, and now you
can't predict and you're still going to have the vote. No,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
California Air Resources Board CARB at.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
A lunch where it was fusili and vegetables, simply said
absolutely no estimate. And States enteror Melissa Hurtado has called
for a legal analyst, the Legislative Analyst Office, which is bipartisan,
to review the policy and come up with some estimate
(19:10):
as to how much gas is going to cost.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
I mean, this has to do with carbon reduction.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Well, let me tell you the reasons they want to
And this is the fellow who actually runs CARB. Why
do we want an increase? Why is this vote going
to happen? And we don't know what the cost are
but we'll figure it out later. And here is the quote.
Here is the statement. Every day Californians benefit greatly from
this program that is to eliminate it's going to programs
(19:40):
in terms of cleaning up the environment. It's a whole
series of the efforts they're taking. So everyday Californians will
benefit greatly for a couple of reasons. One is helping
to fund infrastructure. The new vote and the money going
in taxes will lower the cost of fueling for vehicles,
especially those using alternati fuels.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Overall, it reduces the cost of driving.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
How does that do that with a forty seven cent
increase in taxes? Explain that to me.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Now, there is a legitimate position here.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
It does help with greenhouse gas emission because if it's
insanely expensive, you drive less. You get a car that
is more cost efficient, more gas efficient, public health benefits.
That's true. We're not breathing as much crap as we
breathe when we talk about emissions. We reduce the cost
(20:42):
for public health. We reduce health costs specifically, which, by
the way, makes sense. Now let me ask you a question.
You're filling up at the pump, and you're looking at
the price of gas on that little meter on the
gas pump, and it's rolling along, rolling, rolling, rolling, and
(21:06):
you can't believe how expensive it is. And I go
up to you and say, hey, you gotta be happy
about this. Why, Because we're going to be healthier in
the future. We're going to have less fewer taxes in
or fewer health issues in the future. Your kids are
(21:29):
going to be breathing better air in the future. Well,
what does that mean in the future. Oh, I don't know,
fifteen years from now, twenty years from now. So here's
what you do. Ignore the fact that a tank of
gas is going to cost you five fifty six six
fifty a gallon. Before my BMWEV, I had a BMW,
(21:55):
I had a big BMW, and I would fill up
my gas tank and it was at twenty one gallons
to fill it up, and it was north and sometimes
way north of one hundred dollars to fill up my tank.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Do you think I gave a rats about your kid's.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Breathing ten years from now or twenty years from now.
I don't think there's going to be a vote. I
really don't, because it could even be more than that.
No one knows. No one knows, So go ahead and
vote for those programs. Now, will there be federal money
coming in, which is now federal money is coming down
(22:36):
for alternative fuels alternative programs. No, that's stopping. President Trump
will make sure that federal money stops, Which means if
we're doing if we're going along the same program at
the same rate, and we're relying on federal money. We're
not going to have it anymore, and what do we do.
We have to make up for it. So my one
(22:57):
hundred and ten dollars gas bill to fill up my
car will be one hundred and twenty or one hundred
and thirty. Now I have an EV which helps enormously.
Last time I had pulled into a gas station forgetting
that I had an EV, a gas pump just wouldn't work.
I was very confused, very very confused. Okay, KF I
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