November 14, 2024 • 25 mins
Another surprising pick for Trump… Matt Gaetz. Republicans take the house. Teen who made nearly 400 swatting calls to schools and officials pleads guilty. Trader Joes is becoming a tourist hot spot.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listen Saints KFI AM six forty the bill Handle
Show on demand on the iHeartRadio f KFI AM six
forty Bill Handle and the Morning Crew. It's a Thursday morning,
November fourteenth. Oh boy, a lot going on. To say
the least, we found out Republicans are retaining control of
the House. We know there's retaining control of the Senate,
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and the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
If you want to call.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Donald Trump a Republican, which I don't think he is,
he's in a whole different category. Now have the White House,
so it's a trifecta. And we'll talk more about that
a little later. As a matter of fact, let me
talk a little bit about that now, and that is
some of the big picks are coming in for a
cabinet and major agency heads from Donald Trump. And we
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usually get this whenever there's a new president. We know
who's on the short list, we know and usually loyalists
are going to be there. Rarely does a new president
pick people that were enemies. Although I have to give
you a little bit of history here Abraham Lincoln when
he picked his cabinet, he picked people that hated him,
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that ran against him, that Edward Stanton, for example, Secretary
of War, actually thought Abraham Lincoln was a rube. Edward
Stanton was one of the premier lawyers in the United States.
Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer, and they were on a
couple of cases together, and Stanton thought this guy was
just a jerk, it was a rube and was going
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for the presidency, and made horrible fun of him. And
he chose Stanton to be his Secretary of War, and
he did that across the board Salmon Chase to be
his Treasury secretary. Family hated Lincoln. I mean he put
together a cabinet that half of that were against him.
Those days are gone. Those days are gone. So you
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now have in the case of Donald Trump specifically, loyalty
is everything, more important than credentials, more important than experience,
more important than.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Even the ability to do this.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Case in point, Matt Gates, crazy ass congressperson who is
backed up Donald Trump, and I mean would take a
bullet for the guy, probably his staunchest defender in Congress
and a congressman.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I mean, how many terms? Two terms? One term?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I have no idea forty two years old? Okay, fair enough,
we've had forty two year old presidents before we had
the attorney general who was John F. Kennedy's brother, Robert
Kennedy RF case Junior's dad was the attorney general, but
he had sat he was a counsel to committees. He
actually had experience as a governmental attorney. Gates when you
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look at his selection for attorney general, and this one
is just stunning, even Trump supporters. The guy is a
lawyer who spent three years practicing law at a nine
man law firm in Florida doing business litigation. Now, those
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of you who are lawyers know what I'm talking about.
Those of you who are not out of law school.
You work for a law firm and you're basically given
scut work until you know what you're doing. You don't
make junior partner after three years. And then he runs
for office. I think he runs for supervisor and Assembly
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in the state, and then he runs for Congress, wins
and becomes the biggest defender of Donald Trump. You can
imagine Attorney General of the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Okay, why not?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's stunning, and even Republican staunch defenders of the president
in the Republican Party in the Senator going, come on,
you know at some point, do I think he's going
to be confirmed. I do not, because it's sometimes it's
so ludicrous, and I don't have a problem with putting
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loyalists into positions.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Joe Biden did exactly this.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Joe Biden put Pete Footagge in the Department of Transportation.
Pete Bootage's entire experience in transportation was he has a
driver's license and he by the way, I think he
did a good job. But there's department and the reason
Biden selected him is Biden that Buddhagi is a complete loyalist,
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very early on, became a supporter of Joe Biden. And
so here I'm going to reward you with this position.
Attorney General is not in that category. Secretary of Defense
is not in that category.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And it's just, you know, you reach a point where.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You go you cross the line, and I believe the
line has been crossed, especially with this selection of Attorney general.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I mean, this is the Department of Justice. This is
no small matter.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean this guy or this woman whoever heads the
department has immense power influence on us and how we live.
It's do I think it's going to happen? I don't think.
I think that sanity is going to prevail. Maybe I'm wrong,
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but I think sanity is going to prevail on this one.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It'd be impossible if sanity does not prevail.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And there are plenty of Senators that say, if the
President wants him, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I'm willing to back up the president. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
If Charles Manson were live and Trump selected Charles Manson
as attorney general. There are senators that would say, if
the President wants him, then we're all for it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But across fifty two senators, you got me on that one.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Okay. Now, Republicans win the House. We thought that was
going to happen, and they did. And now we have
a trifectam. Because Republicans control the House of Representatives, they
now have the Senate, and of course they have the president.
So now what happens, Well, you've got a Senate that's
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probably going to be a little bit more independent because
you have a new majority leader Thun who is not
a crazy ass supporter of the President elect. On the
House side, you have a crazy ass supporter of the
President of the United States, the president elect, and that's
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Mike Johnson, who made it absolutely clear. His job is
to do whatever Trump wants, not represent its constituency, not
have the House do the business to the people. That's
the way I interpreted. But whatever Trump wants, he is
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going to get. And it doesn't matter what this is
the agenda of the House, and so how much power
is the president have.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
We don't know what the House gop agenda is. It
hasn't been released.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
We know there's a prioritization of the border security that's
going to happen, what's being discussed or what's being bandied about.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And the word mandate.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Johnson said it, Trump has said it is. He now
has been handed a mandate. Now, usually the word mandate
connects to overwhelming win where a huge number of people
have voted someone into office, they have a mandate someone
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sweeps into office to change everything. Well, certainly Trump swept
into office, no question about it. But with such overwhelming
members numbers, and it's almost like nobody voted for Harris.
It's as if everybody voted for Trump in astounding numbers.
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You know, ask anybody who is of age that voted
in the Nixon Kennedy and there's not too many out
there because that's kind of old because they had to
be what twenty one in nineteen sixty, so that would
be oh, it's not too bad that would be born
in nineteen forty. And there are plenty of people running
around that were born in nineteen forty, but they will
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tell you they all voted for John Kennedy. John Kennedy
won by one hundred thousand votes. And by the way,
it was probably rigged. That is legitimate that he was.
Richard Daley, who was mayor of Chicago, actually fixed Cook
County and everybody in the Cook County Cemetery voted for
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John Kennedy because Daily was connected to JFK's dad, And
we can go through that at another point that was rigged.
What ended up happening is Kennedy won by almost nothing.
And if you ask today, everybody voted for him. Well,
that is the position, and that's just historical position. Today
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is Republican Party. Everybody voted for the Republican Party even
though they have a majority of what four seats five seats,
and the mandate is here and we'll see how much power.
Now here's the issue and I brought it up the
last segment is we will actually see how much power
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this president has. Is he going to be putting in
Matt Gates who is completely one hundred percent unqualified to
be the attorney general?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I mean across the board.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And even the defenders of the president are saying, yes,
we're going to vote for him. And it's not on qualifications.
It's just it's stunning. I mean, I was God. No,
I was God's back.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I'm not surprised why, Because loyalty is everything. Loyalty is
more important than credentials and more important than any experience,
more important than ability. Doesn't matter whatever it is. Secretary
of Defense. We got that one yesterday, right. We have
a Secretary of Defense who has a history of basically
being a captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that is
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his deep experience. Lloyd Austin, whether you believe him, I
have a problem with him at all, and I don't
care you do. This is a guy who moved up
through the ranks, had literally moved all the way up
to the chief Joint chiefs of Staffs. Then he was
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in government in the national security area. Then he moved
over to being the Secretary of Defense. See that there's
depth there, There really is and in the case of
the Attorney General, it's there has to be depth there.
I mean, there has to be and we're not going
to get that. Now we get to see the Republicans
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that have taken have retained their majority by this little
bit of a fraction, and the Senate which has now
gone over the Republicans. I think the parlor game is
going to be how far is it's going to go?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And I don't know the answer to that. I really
don't only throw a scenario at you. There.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You are at home or maybe your place of worship
or in some community building, and all of a sudden,
it since to say, in the evening, and all of
a sudden, the helicopter overhead with their three trillion loomin
lamp that they have.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know, this big you know what do they call
those lamps? Night? Sun night? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Just I mean they're astounding. I means it is bright,
bright sunlight when they come around. And so that's circling
overhead and right on top of you. And then the
swat team comes out and they surround the building and
then the bullhorns come out screaming, get out of the building,
hands up in the air, walk backwards, and the lights
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are flashing, and the ambulances are ambulances are there, and
it's all a hoax. That's a fun time had by all,
isn't it. Well, that's called swatting, and it's become more
and more prevalent. So there's one swatter that's been taken
off the h that kind of swat team, and that's
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an eighteen year old I guess an eighteen year old kid.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's legally he's a man.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
His name is Alan Fillion, lives in Lancaster, and he
just pleaded guilty in US District Court in Florida to
four counts of interstate transmission of threats to injure. I
didn't know that was the actual charge, but I guess so.
And the authorities linked him to more than three hundred
and seventy five of these false reports or threats of
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acts of terror.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Now, he was.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Arrested in California and he was extradited to Florida because
most of the swatting that he did in California he
did as a juvenile before he was eighteen, and in
Florida he did it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Florida he did it after he was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So they're going to try him, obviously as an adult
in federal court, and he's looking at twenty years in
prison in a fine of a million dollars. The million dollars,
obviously he's never going to pay, but the twenty years
in prison, I hope he gets at all, because that
is beyond just going in and brigalizing a person. This
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is society breaking down hoax threats. And these swatting calls
are on an increase, like crazy, and they cause no
surprise here the way the FBI or the US Attorney General.
Deputy US Attorney General Lisa Monaco said, they cause profound
fear and chaos. Of course they do. I mean those
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poor folks who are victim of it. Victims of it. Now,
how are we all victims?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Well? Can you imagine the law enforcement resources that it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Takes, because dozens and dozens of police show up, and
you've got bad guys out there and they are not
being accosted, they're not being dealt with, and so endangers
the public, prevents emergency medical personnel from responding as well
as police personnel to real emergencies.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
During some of this.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And these are the charges that have been laid out
in May of twenty twenty three, Phillyan calls the Sanford
Police Department in Florida, actually plays an audio of gunfire
in the background. He played a recording of gunfire as
he was making the thread and saying he was going
to enter the Masid al Haya Mosque in Sandford with
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a fully automatic rifle to carry out a mass shooting.
And as you can imagine, dozens of law enforcement officers
respond to the mosque and fully armed bringing out the
automatic weapons.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And can you imagine those or people in the.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Mosque and they were praying, And you're talking about Muslims
in a society which in many cases doesn't particularly like Muslims.
Muslims have it pretty tough in America because of the
history of terrorism everything going on August January twenty twenty four,
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when he was under eighteen, he reported that explosives have
been left in particular locations violent crimes. That's when they
send out the bomb squad too. Let's not forget that.
And he said that people were going to be killed.
And once there was a call, he called a high
school in Washington State and promised to commit a school
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shooting the next day, and he got very specific. He
leaves a voicemail message, I will kill as many kids
as I can, and then I will shoot myself. And
he described in detail how he was going to use
what guns in what way He's going to enter the school,
bringing bombs to collapse the roof of the school to
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kill everybody in the school. And then and this is
where it really gets delicious, doesn't it. He also offered
a swat for fee service that he advertised on social media.
Not only am I doing this, but if you'd like
to do it, this is how you do it, and
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all you do is pay me. And this is on
social media. What quite the entrepreneur, Isn't he quite the guy?
And the problem is this is going up and up.
The FBI is reporting that more and more of these
are happening. Earlier this year, for example, there was a
Romanian citizen and a Serbian citizen in charge with reporting
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threats against the US capital, US officials, religious buildings, schools,
members of Congress, judges, and high profile trials business executives.
The FBI is saying that traditionally these swatters directed their
actions against specific individuals, specific houses of individuals. Now the
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swats are going way more public, way bigger. The FBI
are seeing swatters targeting public places, airports, schools, and businesses.
And what ends up swatting? For example, in an airport
they shut down the terminal.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
How is that for.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
A traveler who is harried? I remember once I was
stuck for and this was not swatting or anything. It's
just getting in my way, you know, Leave me alone.
I've got a life to live. I was on a
train to San Diego and some guy decided he needed
to send out a cry for help. So he got
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in front of the train, and of course the train
hit him at full speed, and so there wasn't much
left of him. They stopped the train. I'm on the
train four hours. They're stopping the train. Oh no, we
have to have the corner's office out there. What do
you mean, the coroner's office out there? There's nothing left.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Get a garden hose and hose his place off. Four
hours on that train. Come on, that's rude. I'm so
sorry for your loss. Bill. It was horror time. It
was a time four. I mean, come on, I don't
know how you got through it, buddy.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Are you It was tough, and the coroner takes an
hour to show up. They were at lunch or something.
They found him at Starbucks. I have no idea. They
took their time.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Man, you've been through so much. Okay, let's move on.
There are certain restaurants, for example, that have become cult.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
What comes to mind, Pink's hot Dogs in on Librea,
certainly in and out Burger. Not too many stores have
cult followings. An Tiffany's, maybe that's a little pricey. Trader
Joe's has hit that, matter of fact, to the point
where a great story about Seoul incheone airport there's a
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sign in Korean and English, and it warns specifically about
Trader Joe's everything but the bagels seasoning, and they say,
do not bring this in.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Throw this in the trash right now.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Because it tests positive for a drug test because it
has poppies in it. That's in the airport in a
sign in English and Korean. One product, one store, Trader Joe's.
People from all over the world now go to Trader
joe started in Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
By the way, it's a local thing.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
There was a Joe. I think it's owned by a
bunch of Germans. Now, if I'm not mistaken, Neil, you
know about this.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Really, I didn't know that. Okay, well, there you go.
Just ask me a question. I may have made that
up for all I know. But the point is always
the Germans with you it is. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
But let's talk a little bit about Trader Joe's. I'm
a fan of Trader Joe's for starters, and there's a
couple of story.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, let's talk about why why.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Well, you know, Trader Joe's is great because everything is
sort of proprietary, and I say sort of because items
are made specifically for them. However, you can find similar
items because they're usually made by a supplier locally. But
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it's kind of a magical place. It feels like you're
getting stuff that's unique to them. They do have a
lot of fun, playful types of combinations, whether it is
their cheeseburger burrito or obviously this time of the year,
all the fall options and the pumpkin spice options they have.
There is something special about the store, but they've ended
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up becoming like the Disneyland is what they're called, the
Disneyland of American grocery stores. You know, you and I
have traveled together, our families have traveled together. We always
go into these groceries, store rocks or wherever we've been
and you kind of look through these things. Well, this
has kind of become the quintessential American store to go into,
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and people are trying to bring things back. At this point,
they don't exist out of the US that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
They have some five hundred stories here.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, they're big store continental to you in the United States,
but so people want to bring this stuff home.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I find it.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I love Trader Joe's, and I apologize to Costco because
I'm starting to sound like a Benedicte Arnold here. Love
Trader Joe's because number one, the food is incredible quality.
It is cheap or inexpensive for what you get. That's
what I find is how inexpensive it is. The politics
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of Trader Joe's I was a politics.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Well how about this.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You go and get Mexican items, salsa and tortillos and tortillas,
that's Trader Jose. That's their brand. It's not Trader Joe's.
Is Trader Jose. Or you get Chinese items and that's
Trader Mings. And they were accused of racism and how
dare you do that? And Trader Joe said, too bad.
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There were petitions out there asking him to remove those
racist labels and Trader Joe's God bless him. We want
to be clear, we disagree any of these labels or racist.
We do not make decisions based on petitions.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Wow, well, good for them, Good for them. I love it.
And the food is tremendous.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
If you like Indian food, which I do, Their frozen
Indian food is astoundingly good.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And they don't have crap in their frozen products.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
If you look at it, there aren't those chemicals which
I happen to love because I love toxic chemicals.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I think it keep you alive longer. But the quality
of this stuff is so good. Ooh.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Their Trader moistes lots of ball soup is one of
my favorites.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Uh do they I don't think they have those. I
don't think so, oh, which they would. And they have
weird stuff that they bring in. And then that that
flyer that they do every month, which is sort of there,
the Fearless Flyer where they yeah, the specials or the
new products are being in or seasonal items. The way
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they're written is absolutely brilliant. That have not changed. Also,
the people the Trader Joe's. Uh, the staff, they all
wear Hawaiian shirts from Costco I would think for And
they're all fun. They are friendly, and there is never
a long line ever that I have seen. There's if
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the line starts to build up, they'll call.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You know, hey, someone to line four or five.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
We need some people there, six people, six lanes open up.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
They all smell like but truly oil. I love it.
I love them. I love Trader Joe's.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And the reason we picked up this story is because
the Soul's Incheon Airport.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You walk in and the sign is an English and Korean.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
The Trader Joe's everything but the bagels seasoning is not
allowed in. That's how many Koreans bring in stuff from
Trader Joe's. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I think it's a fun store. And if I were traveling,
I would look. I would look for them abroad if
there was a store like that, I would want to
go there and try their stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I don't know that they're smuggling aldi stuff anywhere exactly
exactly Trader Joe's.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, all right, you can leave now.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Or not. Nine.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Hey, I just wanted to bring in on that so I.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Should get that from everyone else, because they're the ones
that are going to suffer when I'm gone.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's true.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
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forty Bill Handle and the Morning Crew. It's a Thursday morning,
November fourteenth. Oh boy, a lot going on. To say
the least, we found out Republicans are retaining control of
the House. We know there's retaining control of the Senate,
(00:21):
and the Republicans.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
If you want to call.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Donald Trump a Republican, which I don't think he is,
he's in a whole different category. Now have the White House,
so it's a trifecta. And we'll talk more about that
a little later. As a matter of fact, let me
talk a little bit about that now, and that is
some of the big picks are coming in for a
cabinet and major agency heads from Donald Trump. And we
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usually get this whenever there's a new president. We know
who's on the short list, we know and usually loyalists
are going to be there. Rarely does a new president
pick people that were enemies. Although I have to give
you a little bit of history here Abraham Lincoln when
he picked his cabinet, he picked people that hated him,
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that ran against him, that Edward Stanton, for example, Secretary
of War, actually thought Abraham Lincoln was a rube. Edward
Stanton was one of the premier lawyers in the United States.
Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer, and they were on a
couple of cases together, and Stanton thought this guy was
just a jerk, it was a rube and was going
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for the presidency, and made horrible fun of him. And
he chose Stanton to be his Secretary of War, and
he did that across the board Salmon Chase to be
his Treasury secretary. Family hated Lincoln. I mean he put
together a cabinet that half of that were against him.
Those days are gone. Those days are gone. So you
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now have in the case of Donald Trump specifically, loyalty
is everything, more important than credentials, more important than experience,
more important than.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Even the ability to do this.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Case in point, Matt Gates, crazy ass congressperson who is
backed up Donald Trump, and I mean would take a
bullet for the guy, probably his staunchest defender in Congress
and a congressman.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
I mean, how many terms? Two terms? One term?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
I have no idea forty two years old? Okay, fair enough,
we've had forty two year old presidents before we had
the attorney general who was John F. Kennedy's brother, Robert
Kennedy RF case Junior's dad was the attorney general, but
he had sat he was a counsel to committees. He
actually had experience as a governmental attorney. Gates when you
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look at his selection for attorney general, and this one
is just stunning, even Trump supporters. The guy is a
lawyer who spent three years practicing law at a nine
man law firm in Florida doing business litigation. Now, those
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of you who are lawyers know what I'm talking about.
Those of you who are not out of law school.
You work for a law firm and you're basically given
scut work until you know what you're doing. You don't
make junior partner after three years. And then he runs
for office. I think he runs for supervisor and Assembly
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in the state, and then he runs for Congress, wins
and becomes the biggest defender of Donald Trump. You can
imagine Attorney General of the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Okay, why not?
Speaker 1 (03:51):
It's stunning, and even Republican staunch defenders of the president
in the Republican Party in the Senator going, come on,
you know at some point, do I think he's going
to be confirmed. I do not, because it's sometimes it's
so ludicrous, and I don't have a problem with putting
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loyalists into positions.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Joe Biden did exactly this.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Joe Biden put Pete Footagge in the Department of Transportation.
Pete Bootage's entire experience in transportation was he has a
driver's license and he by the way, I think he
did a good job. But there's department and the reason
Biden selected him is Biden that Buddhagi is a complete loyalist,
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very early on, became a supporter of Joe Biden. And
so here I'm going to reward you with this position.
Attorney General is not in that category. Secretary of Defense
is not in that category.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
And it's just, you know, you reach a point where.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
You go you cross the line, and I believe the
line has been crossed, especially with this selection of Attorney general.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
I mean, this is the Department of Justice. This is
no small matter.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I mean this guy or this woman whoever heads the
department has immense power influence on us and how we live.
It's do I think it's going to happen? I don't think.
I think that sanity is going to prevail. Maybe I'm wrong,
(05:28):
but I think sanity is going to prevail on this one.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
It'd be impossible if sanity does not prevail.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
And there are plenty of Senators that say, if the
President wants him, I don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
I'm willing to back up the president. I don't care.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
If Charles Manson were live and Trump selected Charles Manson
as attorney general. There are senators that would say, if
the President wants him, then we're all for it.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
But across fifty two senators, you got me on that one.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Okay. Now, Republicans win the House. We thought that was
going to happen, and they did. And now we have
a trifectam. Because Republicans control the House of Representatives, they
now have the Senate, and of course they have the president.
So now what happens, Well, you've got a Senate that's
(06:25):
probably going to be a little bit more independent because
you have a new majority leader Thun who is not
a crazy ass supporter of the President elect. On the
House side, you have a crazy ass supporter of the
President of the United States, the president elect, and that's
(06:46):
Mike Johnson, who made it absolutely clear. His job is
to do whatever Trump wants, not represent its constituency, not
have the House do the business to the people. That's
the way I interpreted. But whatever Trump wants, he is
(07:06):
going to get. And it doesn't matter what this is
the agenda of the House, and so how much power
is the president have.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
We don't know what the House gop agenda is. It
hasn't been released.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
We know there's a prioritization of the border security that's
going to happen, what's being discussed or what's being bandied about.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
And the word mandate.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Johnson said it, Trump has said it is. He now
has been handed a mandate. Now, usually the word mandate
connects to overwhelming win where a huge number of people
have voted someone into office, they have a mandate someone
(07:56):
sweeps into office to change everything. Well, certainly Trump swept
into office, no question about it. But with such overwhelming
members numbers, and it's almost like nobody voted for Harris.
It's as if everybody voted for Trump in astounding numbers.
(08:17):
You know, ask anybody who is of age that voted
in the Nixon Kennedy and there's not too many out
there because that's kind of old because they had to
be what twenty one in nineteen sixty, so that would
be oh, it's not too bad that would be born
in nineteen forty. And there are plenty of people running
around that were born in nineteen forty, but they will
(08:38):
tell you they all voted for John Kennedy. John Kennedy
won by one hundred thousand votes. And by the way,
it was probably rigged. That is legitimate that he was.
Richard Daley, who was mayor of Chicago, actually fixed Cook
County and everybody in the Cook County Cemetery voted for
(09:00):
John Kennedy because Daily was connected to JFK's dad, And
we can go through that at another point that was rigged.
What ended up happening is Kennedy won by almost nothing.
And if you ask today, everybody voted for him. Well,
that is the position, and that's just historical position. Today
(09:22):
is Republican Party. Everybody voted for the Republican Party even
though they have a majority of what four seats five seats,
and the mandate is here and we'll see how much power.
Now here's the issue and I brought it up the
last segment is we will actually see how much power
(09:43):
this president has. Is he going to be putting in
Matt Gates who is completely one hundred percent unqualified to
be the attorney general?
Speaker 2 (09:52):
I mean across the board.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
And even the defenders of the president are saying, yes,
we're going to vote for him. And it's not on qualifications.
It's just it's stunning. I mean, I was God. No,
I was God's back.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
No, I'm not.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
I'm not surprised why, Because loyalty is everything. Loyalty is
more important than credentials and more important than any experience,
more important than ability. Doesn't matter whatever it is. Secretary
of Defense. We got that one yesterday, right. We have
a Secretary of Defense who has a history of basically
being a captain in Iraq and Afghanistan, and that is
(10:37):
his deep experience. Lloyd Austin, whether you believe him, I
have a problem with him at all, and I don't
care you do. This is a guy who moved up
through the ranks, had literally moved all the way up
to the chief Joint chiefs of Staffs. Then he was
(10:58):
in government in the national security area. Then he moved
over to being the Secretary of Defense. See that there's
depth there, There really is and in the case of
the Attorney General, it's there has to be depth there.
I mean, there has to be and we're not going
to get that. Now we get to see the Republicans
(11:21):
that have taken have retained their majority by this little
bit of a fraction, and the Senate which has now
gone over the Republicans. I think the parlor game is
going to be how far is it's going to go?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
And I don't know the answer to that. I really
don't only throw a scenario at you. There.
Speaker 1 (11:45):
You are at home or maybe your place of worship
or in some community building, and all of a sudden,
it since to say, in the evening, and all of
a sudden, the helicopter overhead with their three trillion loomin
lamp that they have.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
You know, this big you know what do they call
those lamps? Night? Sun night? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Just I mean they're astounding. I means it is bright,
bright sunlight when they come around. And so that's circling
overhead and right on top of you. And then the
swat team comes out and they surround the building and
then the bullhorns come out screaming, get out of the building,
hands up in the air, walk backwards, and the lights
(12:31):
are flashing, and the ambulances are ambulances are there, and
it's all a hoax. That's a fun time had by all,
isn't it. Well, that's called swatting, and it's become more
and more prevalent. So there's one swatter that's been taken
off the h that kind of swat team, and that's
(12:54):
an eighteen year old I guess an eighteen year old kid.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
It's legally he's a man.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
His name is Alan Fillion, lives in Lancaster, and he
just pleaded guilty in US District Court in Florida to
four counts of interstate transmission of threats to injure. I
didn't know that was the actual charge, but I guess so.
And the authorities linked him to more than three hundred
and seventy five of these false reports or threats of
(13:25):
acts of terror.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
Now, he was.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Arrested in California and he was extradited to Florida because
most of the swatting that he did in California he
did as a juvenile before he was eighteen, and in
Florida he did it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
Florida he did it after he was eighteen.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
So they're going to try him, obviously as an adult
in federal court, and he's looking at twenty years in
prison in a fine of a million dollars. The million dollars,
obviously he's never going to pay, but the twenty years
in prison, I hope he gets at all, because that
is beyond just going in and brigalizing a person. This
(14:08):
is society breaking down hoax threats. And these swatting calls
are on an increase, like crazy, and they cause no
surprise here the way the FBI or the US Attorney General.
Deputy US Attorney General Lisa Monaco said, they cause profound
fear and chaos. Of course they do. I mean those
(14:30):
poor folks who are victim of it. Victims of it. Now,
how are we all victims?
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Well? Can you imagine the law enforcement resources that it.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
Takes, because dozens and dozens of police show up, and
you've got bad guys out there and they are not
being accosted, they're not being dealt with, and so endangers
the public, prevents emergency medical personnel from responding as well
as police personnel to real emergencies.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
During some of this.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
And these are the charges that have been laid out
in May of twenty twenty three, Phillyan calls the Sanford
Police Department in Florida, actually plays an audio of gunfire
in the background. He played a recording of gunfire as
he was making the thread and saying he was going
to enter the Masid al Haya Mosque in Sandford with
(15:25):
a fully automatic rifle to carry out a mass shooting.
And as you can imagine, dozens of law enforcement officers
respond to the mosque and fully armed bringing out the
automatic weapons.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
And can you imagine those or people in the.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Mosque and they were praying, And you're talking about Muslims
in a society which in many cases doesn't particularly like Muslims.
Muslims have it pretty tough in America because of the
history of terrorism everything going on August January twenty twenty four,
(16:01):
when he was under eighteen, he reported that explosives have
been left in particular locations violent crimes. That's when they
send out the bomb squad too. Let's not forget that.
And he said that people were going to be killed.
And once there was a call, he called a high
school in Washington State and promised to commit a school
(16:23):
shooting the next day, and he got very specific. He
leaves a voicemail message, I will kill as many kids
as I can, and then I will shoot myself. And
he described in detail how he was going to use
what guns in what way He's going to enter the school,
bringing bombs to collapse the roof of the school to
(16:44):
kill everybody in the school. And then and this is
where it really gets delicious, doesn't it. He also offered
a swat for fee service that he advertised on social media.
Not only am I doing this, but if you'd like
to do it, this is how you do it, and
(17:04):
all you do is pay me. And this is on
social media. What quite the entrepreneur, Isn't he quite the guy?
And the problem is this is going up and up.
The FBI is reporting that more and more of these
are happening. Earlier this year, for example, there was a
Romanian citizen and a Serbian citizen in charge with reporting
(17:27):
threats against the US capital, US officials, religious buildings, schools,
members of Congress, judges, and high profile trials business executives.
The FBI is saying that traditionally these swatters directed their
actions against specific individuals, specific houses of individuals. Now the
(17:52):
swats are going way more public, way bigger. The FBI
are seeing swatters targeting public places, airports, schools, and businesses.
And what ends up swatting? For example, in an airport
they shut down the terminal.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
How is that for.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
A traveler who is harried? I remember once I was
stuck for and this was not swatting or anything. It's
just getting in my way, you know, Leave me alone.
I've got a life to live. I was on a
train to San Diego and some guy decided he needed
to send out a cry for help. So he got
(18:32):
in front of the train, and of course the train
hit him at full speed, and so there wasn't much
left of him. They stopped the train. I'm on the
train four hours. They're stopping the train. Oh no, we
have to have the corner's office out there. What do
you mean, the coroner's office out there? There's nothing left.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Get a garden hose and hose his place off. Four
hours on that train. Come on, that's rude. I'm so
sorry for your loss. Bill. It was horror time. It
was a time four. I mean, come on, I don't
know how you got through it, buddy.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Are you It was tough, and the coroner takes an
hour to show up. They were at lunch or something.
They found him at Starbucks. I have no idea. They
took their time.
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Man, you've been through so much. Okay, let's move on.
There are certain restaurants, for example, that have become cult.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
What comes to mind, Pink's hot Dogs in on Librea,
certainly in and out Burger. Not too many stores have
cult followings. An Tiffany's, maybe that's a little pricey. Trader
Joe's has hit that, matter of fact, to the point
where a great story about Seoul incheone airport there's a
(19:49):
sign in Korean and English, and it warns specifically about
Trader Joe's everything but the bagels seasoning, and they say,
do not bring this in.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Throw this in the trash right now.
Speaker 1 (20:03):
Because it tests positive for a drug test because it
has poppies in it. That's in the airport in a
sign in English and Korean. One product, one store, Trader Joe's.
People from all over the world now go to Trader
joe started in Pasadena.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
By the way, it's a local thing.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
There was a Joe. I think it's owned by a
bunch of Germans. Now, if I'm not mistaken, Neil, you
know about this.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Really, I didn't know that. Okay, well, there you go.
Just ask me a question. I may have made that
up for all I know. But the point is always
the Germans with you it is. Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
But let's talk a little bit about Trader Joe's. I'm
a fan of Trader Joe's for starters, and there's a
couple of story.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Yeah, let's talk about why why.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Well, you know, Trader Joe's is great because everything is
sort of proprietary, and I say sort of because items
are made specifically for them. However, you can find similar
items because they're usually made by a supplier locally. But
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it's kind of a magical place. It feels like you're
getting stuff that's unique to them. They do have a
lot of fun, playful types of combinations, whether it is
their cheeseburger burrito or obviously this time of the year,
all the fall options and the pumpkin spice options they have.
There is something special about the store, but they've ended
(21:34):
up becoming like the Disneyland is what they're called, the
Disneyland of American grocery stores. You know, you and I
have traveled together, our families have traveled together. We always
go into these groceries, store rocks or wherever we've been
and you kind of look through these things. Well, this
has kind of become the quintessential American store to go into,
(21:59):
and people are trying to bring things back. At this point,
they don't exist out of the US that I'm aware of.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
They have some five hundred stories here.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
Yeah, they're big store continental to you in the United States,
but so people want to bring this stuff home.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
I find it.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I love Trader Joe's, and I apologize to Costco because
I'm starting to sound like a Benedicte Arnold here. Love
Trader Joe's because number one, the food is incredible quality.
It is cheap or inexpensive for what you get. That's
what I find is how inexpensive it is. The politics
(22:34):
of Trader Joe's I was a politics.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Well how about this.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
You go and get Mexican items, salsa and tortillos and tortillas,
that's Trader Jose. That's their brand. It's not Trader Joe's.
Is Trader Jose. Or you get Chinese items and that's
Trader Mings. And they were accused of racism and how
dare you do that? And Trader Joe said, too bad.
(23:00):
There were petitions out there asking him to remove those
racist labels and Trader Joe's God bless him. We want
to be clear, we disagree any of these labels or racist.
We do not make decisions based on petitions.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Wow, well, good for them, Good for them. I love it.
And the food is tremendous.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
If you like Indian food, which I do, Their frozen
Indian food is astoundingly good.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
And they don't have crap in their frozen products.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
If you look at it, there aren't those chemicals which
I happen to love because I love toxic chemicals.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I think it keep you alive longer. But the quality
of this stuff is so good. Ooh.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Their Trader moistes lots of ball soup is one of
my favorites.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Uh do they I don't think they have those. I
don't think so, oh, which they would. And they have
weird stuff that they bring in. And then that that
flyer that they do every month, which is sort of there,
the Fearless Flyer where they yeah, the specials or the
new products are being in or seasonal items. The way
(24:12):
they're written is absolutely brilliant. That have not changed. Also,
the people the Trader Joe's. Uh, the staff, they all
wear Hawaiian shirts from Costco I would think for And
they're all fun. They are friendly, and there is never
a long line ever that I have seen. There's if
(24:32):
the line starts to build up, they'll call.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
You know, hey, someone to line four or five.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
We need some people there, six people, six lanes open up.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
They all smell like but truly oil. I love it.
I love them. I love Trader Joe's.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
And the reason we picked up this story is because
the Soul's Incheon Airport.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
You walk in and the sign is an English and Korean.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
The Trader Joe's everything but the bagels seasoning is not
allowed in. That's how many Koreans bring in stuff from
Trader Joe's. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:07):
I think it's a fun store. And if I were traveling,
I would look. I would look for them abroad if
there was a store like that, I would want to
go there and try their stuff.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
I don't know that they're smuggling aldi stuff anywhere exactly
exactly Trader Joe's.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, all right, you can leave now.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Or not. Nine.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
Hey, I just wanted to bring in on that so I.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Should get that from everyone else, because they're the ones
that are going to suffer when I'm gone.
Speaker 2 (25:35):
That's true.
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