February 13, 2025 • 22 mins
Mobile homes are some of California’s last ‘affordable’ housing… can they rebuild after the fires? In schools, Trump’s DEI orders are open to interpretation. Attorney General Pam Bondi sues NY over immigration… and makes it clear, other states are next.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Thursday
morning tomorrow at eight thirty, we do ask handle anything.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
This came as a result.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This was Ann's idea because so many people ask They
ask me, what's Neil like? What's Cobalt like? And they
ask you what's Handle like? In real life? Is he
as big a dick as he appears to be? And
the answer is probably yes.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I'm sorry, Michelle, I said yes, I was the answer. Okay,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And Michelle has known me for thirty years in the meantime,
So you get to ask the question.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I answer it. On Friday, ask Handle Anything.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You go to the iHeart app on during the show
and click on KFI at the upright hand corner. You
will see a microphone. Click on that and you have
fifteen seconds. You can ask me anything. And it's totally humility,
humiliating and embarrassing for me because I answer most questions.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Okay, Pali states fire. Another story I want to share
with you.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
There happens to be a couple of mobile home parks
up on the bluff of Malibu overlooking the Pacific Ocean
some of the best views literally on the planet. Now,
homes in that area will cost in the millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The mobile home.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Park, which has views just as good. There are some
people that have been there because it's all rent controlled,
paying six hundred dollars a month for the land. The
way these mobile home parks work is you buy the
vehicle manufactured housing and you pay land rent and.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's they've a couple of them.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
They've lost, of course everything and you have the residence
now wondering what the hell do we do And they're
worried that they're going to be treated like second clas citizens,
that money is not going to be made available to
them because to them, because how far do you stretch
the money for rebuilding repairing. Now, one of the good
(02:12):
things or bad things, is the various organizations that are
going to pay for rebuilding.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Read the government.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
They have nine thousand people to deal with their own homes,
every one of them different.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
With the mobile home parks, it's one owner that rents
the land.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And now the issue is do I rebuild?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Do I allow rebuilding?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Because you can't kick them out if they want to rebuild,
they're there at the same price. Now they are allowed
to pass on the cost of rebuilding. I'm talking about
the owner, but rebuilding a mobile home park because it's
mainly land, you're talking about the club area, you're talking
about a swimming pool. Maybe you're not talking by a
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huge amount of money. The issue is are they going
to go forward or not?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Because the debris has to be moved out and people
who have who own those homes effectively have no money.
This is middle class. These are not people that own
Malibu property and they have millions and millions of dollars
and as everything else. And there's a coalition of organizations
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that's asking the state to give priority to people who
are never.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Going to be able to rebuild, will never be able
to afford a loan.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
There's almost no insurance, very difficult to get insurance for
two reasons. Number one, it's a mobile home, very difficult
to get insurance. Or it's a manufactured home, and they're
in fire areas. That area is a fire area, So
everybody's under insured or not insured, and so what do
they do well, we don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
The only thing we do know is the argument is
that there's inequality there. The rich people get better rates,
get priority. And the argument is that the poor people,
people who are middle class who lived up there with
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the best view in the world. I mean, it's really
spectacular up there, very very lucky people who live up
there and have for.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Generations, should they get priority.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, here's the bottom line, poor people, middle class people.
There is inequality there is. That's the way life works.
People who have money drive better cars. People who have
money have savings. People who have money have nicer homes,
although in this case pretty spectacular homes. If you have
(04:51):
a really nice trailer. And I've always said there's an
answer to being poor in this country, get rich.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, doesn't that work? Neil or die trying, baby or
die trying. That's right? Okay, Yeah, it's you know, everybody's
gotten screwed on this fire.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Everybody there isn't the business owner that hasn't been nailed
up and down pch there are what if someone do
they rebuild along the coast. I mean, these are twelve
fifteen million dollar homes gone, and a lot of them
there's no insurance none.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
The insurance companies.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Just say no, thank you, or under insurance or they
have the fare plan, right, they have the fair Plan,
which is the California Fire Insurance of Last Resort Plan.
It's only it's only fire insurance, and it's a fund
set up by the state in which the insurance companies
put money into, which, by the way, is out of
money at this point.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And I think the maximum for building is three million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Now, a three million dollars is a ton of money,
except if you live in a seven eight thousand square
foot home and all of a sudden you realize that
you're on You get the insurance for three million, and
then you're on the hook yourself for another two million
dollars because it costs six seven hundred dollars a foot
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to rebuild a home.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Rich people are getting screwed pretty well too on this one.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well, you know what hits me is you remember, I
don't know if your parents were this way, but kind
of the lesson of being able to buy a car
is not the cost of a car. You have to
have money in the bank for repairs or for things
like that. Yeah, living beneath your means is the best
way to live, I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But you have to make you have to make Number
one enough money to live beneath your means, and you
have to get it what you would consider struggle for
the money you make. Let's say a couple makes eight
thousand dollars a year, one hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Let me let me cough for a moment.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, it just is. I get that that people. Not
everybody can do that. But yeah, there's some places I
can't live places because they're too expensive, all of it unless.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You're a zillionaire and you can afford twelve million dollars
for a home. But the point is, and you're right,
but living under your means, you make one hundred thousand
dollars a year, can you live at eighty thousand dollars
a year?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Very very difficult for people.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
We had someone who I'm not going to mention his name,
it's not important, but someone that worked with KFI for
many years, beloved, great guy and you know, struggled a
lot out here in California, moved to North Carolina and
does incredibly well. Yeah, and for the same cost, I
mean for the but you know it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay, the DEI orders, especially in schools, the government has
said you're done with DEI I don't know what DEI
actually means. I mean, we do know the term, right, diversity, equity,
equality and inclusion.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Is it equality or equity?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I always get too confused in any case, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
In equity equity? I knew that all right. Here's what's
happening around the country. Dozens of universities and colleges, well,
first of all, have begun to scrib their websites in
response to President Trump's wide the crusade against diversity and inclusion.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But they don't really know how far that goes.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Does for example, a study in Chicano studies?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Does that mean that's gone?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Does a university that celebrates Black History Month which doesn't
exist anymore? Right, as far as the government is concerned,
is that part of doing away with DEI? No one
knows how far that goes. No one knows exactly what
it means. And it's to the point where any mention,
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any illusion to it anything. And then they have the
athletics departments, well we do know they modified the transgender
athlete participation because that one's easy.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Okay, that one's easy.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
If you were born a man, you are a man,
And it doesn't matter that you've taken hormones. You now
have boobs, your hair grows longer, your body shape is different,
and you've had a schwont ectomy where you no longer
have a schwantz. It's all gone, but you're still a man.
(09:51):
By the way, I have talked to women who have
tried to pee at a urinol. All right, it is
is a god awful mess because they're women now and
they're not men, and they're not going to go into
a men's restroom. And so that seems to be a
(10:13):
little bit of problematic because under DEI, well, I guess
there's no such thing as a trans doesn't exist. Certainly,
no help for a trans, no definition for a trans.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And that belies the truth.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And there, for example, the University of North Carolina, they
have some courses that are defined as diversity intensive.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
What are those?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Appalachian literature, that's not a legitimate course.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
No, how about global business? They don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Developmental psychology, cultural anthropology where you're studying different cultures.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Is that do we do away with that? I don't know,
and I don't think they know.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I think someone is going to have to say, yep,
that is inclusive of dei because it is so broad.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That any mention any connection.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And by the way, they are all kinds of connections
that can be made that have nothing to.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Do with it.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
By the way, just a quick aside, the first major
program of Chicano studies was at cal State Northridge. And
I remember what you talk about racism. I remember that
there was a Chicano studies group. There was a Chicano group,
and there's a mural there or there was that said
Aslan a z t l a n Oslan belongs to us.
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It is not part of the United States. Let us
revolt and take it back. Huh. By the way, that's California,
New Mexico, Arizona. We have to take it back from us.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Because the white man stole it from the.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Mexicans, who actually stole it from the Spaniards, who actually
stole it from the indigenous people. So I don't know
how far that goes. Well, those are gone, it really
those really pissed me off. And I have some touristic
stories about what used to happen. Boy, those days are gone,
I mean they're going.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
No, they still exist, I think, And you know what
do I do that story?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
No, I'll save it for tomorrow. See it's a tease.
I'm teasing like crazy. You have to come back tomorrow,
you have to come back later. All right, here's what
I like to do. And this has to do with
Pam Bondy, our new US Attorney General, and her first
press conference has to do with oh, I don't know,
(12:50):
immigration enforcement. Yeah, how about that. And she's at the
Department of Justice. And she announced that she has already
sued several state leaders and would sue a lot more
if you state leader states don't cooperate with our federal
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immigration efforts. She said, this is a new dog and
we're taking new steps to protect Americans.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
So she talked, this is about New York. Started with
New York.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Bondi announced that the DOJ has sued multiple officials in
New York over a state statute. The state statute is
known as the green Light Law, and it allows the
Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a driver's license to
undocumented immigrants illegal immigrants California the same thing, by the way,
illegal immigrant can get a driver's license. And what the
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law does the green Light Law it limits the state
from sharing data related to the licenses with federal immigration
authorities and requires state officials to note by the license
holder when requests for information are made.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Now that gets interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You have someone who is undocumented and the FEDS come
in and ask for information on that perceived putative undocumented individual,
because let's say there's an investigation going on, and what
the DMV has to do is notify that person the
FEDS are.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Looking for you.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, that's kind of stretching it to be literally to understand.
And so New York, of course, Governor Kathy Hokeel, who.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Is the New York Governor, and the New.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
York Attorney General, Letitia James, little controversy there said, and
this is Hochel said, this quote. Our state laws, including
the green light Law, protects the rights of all New
Yorkers and keeps our communities safe. Therein lies a very
interesting issue. On the one hand, it absolutely does. And
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I am in favor of issuing drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
And I'll tell you why, because legal illegal. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I want you to know how to drive, and to
get a driver's license, you must take a test, especially
the first time out, where an examiner sits next to
you and you drive, make a left turn here, make
a right turn there. Put on your blinkers. It used
to be parallel parking, which of course they've done away
(15:39):
with because no one could do a good job doing that.
By the way, I'm a great parallel parker. I just
want you to know that I want to follow up
on what I just did, or I just talked about
in the last segment.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And that is the first news conference US Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Pam Bondi had and no surprise, it was about immigration.
She lam bassed the bib administration for its immigration policies
and announced she assued several state leaders and would sue
a lot more if you the states don't cooperate with
the Feds.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
She said. This is a new DOJ.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So specifically, she sues New York over its statute, the
green Light Law. Two things, driver's license to undocumented immigrants
it issues and number two sharing data related to those
licenses with the FEDS.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Not to share data.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Okay, fair enough, Well it's not fair enough far she's concerned.
So what is the basis? Some of it is little strange,
some of it makes a lot of sense. Last week,
the Justice Department filed against the state of Illinois and
the City of Chicago, alleging that the multiple state and
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local laws are not to just help illegal immigration, but
are design and I'm quoting out designed to and in
fact interfere and discriminate against the federal government in its
enforcement abilities in the move to forward federal immigration law.
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The basis of this is, you're saying you're helping illegal immigration,
you give all the rules about you can't discriminate against them.
The realities, you're discriminating against us because we have federal
immigration statutes.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So she says, we sued Illinois, New York didn't listen.
You are next.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
She's looking at the camera and talking to the various
states and who was she for. You notice, whenever you
see a press conference, it's always people behind whoever is
giving the press conference, and those are total political photo ops,
and for some reason.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Everybody does that.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, this one had a bunch of law enforcement officials,
immigration officials, and a woman, a woman by the name
of Tammy Nobles or twenty year old daughter Kayla was
murdered by a teenager the authority said was in the
country illegally and was a member of the MS thirteen gang,
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and he had come over and therefore, look at the
number of illegal aliens who come and commit crimes. And
of course the fault is with the Biden administration. That's
sort of a given. And she points to the mom
and says she and they referring to all others who
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are victims of illegal immigrant crimes, they've suffered because of
what the Biden administration did.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It is over.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And said that had this illegal immigrant been stopped at
the border, this wouldn't have happened, which is probably true.
By the way, Homeland Security didn't do their jobs. If
they knew that he was a gangman, he never would
have come in. And as I said many times, immigration
is a cornerstone of Donald Trump's presidency.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
He really believes this. There's a lot of stuff he
doesn't believe in.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I don't think he gives the rats about First Amendment,
particularly or religious freedom or abortion. I don't think he cares.
He cares about immigration. He cares about foreign policy. So
this one is really important to him. Now here's kind
of an interesting one, and that is there was a
program of eighty million dollars and congressionally approved funds that
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intended to help New York City House the undocumented immigrants
because they were inundated. New York was crazy, and so
it was an eighty million dollar program that has just
been revoked. You know who initiated that program, Donald Trump
in his first term put that program together. So the
basis of all of this, the legal basis of these
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lawsuits is that the state's green light law, as well
as others, are a frontal assault on federal immigration law
and was designed specifically to directly impair the work of
immigration officers and make their jobs not only more difficult,
but more dangerous. It's an argument that the Feds have
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that immigration, anything related to immigration in and of itself
only is dealt with by the Feds. You cannot touch
immigration laws. The states are saying, we're not touching immigration laws.
All we're doing is locally saying, hey, we're is showing
driver's license you the Feds have nothing to do with
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driver's licenses.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
None of your business.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Also, whether we cooperate or not with the Feds, that's
our business.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
We don't have to cooperate.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Now, the new laws that are being passed are saying
that you must cooperate, and that's federal lot. Then it
gets very interesting and we'll see what's happening. And in
the end, I'm gonna go back to what I said.
I am a big fan of illegal immigrants getting driver's
licenses because the guy who is driving over there, who
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doesn't have a driver's license, who is about to hit me,
who didn't even pass the test, I would have liked
him to have passed the test. By the way, there's
no insurance there either. I don't know someone has a
beat up car. And I know I am now painting
a very broad brush here. I get that, but I
think it's more true than not if someone is an
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illegal migrant who's driving a car that's twenty three years old, dilapidated,
does not have insurance. Just a guess, Just a guess.
All right, This is KFI A M six forty. You've
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(22:02):
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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
KFI AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Thursday
morning tomorrow at eight thirty, we do ask handle anything.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
This came as a result.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
This was Ann's idea because so many people ask They
ask me, what's Neil like? What's Cobalt like? And they
ask you what's Handle like? In real life? Is he
as big a dick as he appears to be? And
the answer is probably yes.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
I'm sorry, Michelle, I said yes, I was the answer. Okay,
thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
And Michelle has known me for thirty years in the meantime,
So you get to ask the question.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I answer it. On Friday, ask Handle Anything.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
You go to the iHeart app on during the show
and click on KFI at the upright hand corner. You
will see a microphone. Click on that and you have
fifteen seconds. You can ask me anything. And it's totally humility,
humiliating and embarrassing for me because I answer most questions.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Okay, Pali states fire. Another story I want to share
with you.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
There happens to be a couple of mobile home parks
up on the bluff of Malibu overlooking the Pacific Ocean
some of the best views literally on the planet. Now,
homes in that area will cost in the millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
The mobile home.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Park, which has views just as good. There are some
people that have been there because it's all rent controlled,
paying six hundred dollars a month for the land. The
way these mobile home parks work is you buy the
vehicle manufactured housing and you pay land rent and.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's they've a couple of them.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
They've lost, of course everything and you have the residence
now wondering what the hell do we do And they're
worried that they're going to be treated like second clas citizens,
that money is not going to be made available to
them because to them, because how far do you stretch
the money for rebuilding repairing. Now, one of the good
(02:12):
things or bad things, is the various organizations that are
going to pay for rebuilding.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Read the government.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
They have nine thousand people to deal with their own homes,
every one of them different.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
With the mobile home parks, it's one owner that rents
the land.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
And now the issue is do I rebuild?
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Do I allow rebuilding?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Because you can't kick them out if they want to rebuild,
they're there at the same price. Now they are allowed
to pass on the cost of rebuilding. I'm talking about
the owner, but rebuilding a mobile home park because it's
mainly land, you're talking about the club area, you're talking
about a swimming pool. Maybe you're not talking by a
(03:00):
huge amount of money. The issue is are they going
to go forward or not?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Why is that?
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Because the debris has to be moved out and people
who have who own those homes effectively have no money.
This is middle class. These are not people that own
Malibu property and they have millions and millions of dollars
and as everything else. And there's a coalition of organizations
(03:27):
that's asking the state to give priority to people who
are never.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Going to be able to rebuild, will never be able
to afford a loan.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
There's almost no insurance, very difficult to get insurance for
two reasons. Number one, it's a mobile home, very difficult
to get insurance. Or it's a manufactured home, and they're
in fire areas. That area is a fire area, So
everybody's under insured or not insured, and so what do
they do well, we don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
We don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
The only thing we do know is the argument is
that there's inequality there. The rich people get better rates,
get priority. And the argument is that the poor people,
people who are middle class who lived up there with
(04:20):
the best view in the world. I mean, it's really
spectacular up there, very very lucky people who live up
there and have for.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Generations, should they get priority.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Well, here's the bottom line, poor people, middle class people.
There is inequality there is. That's the way life works.
People who have money drive better cars. People who have
money have savings. People who have money have nicer homes,
although in this case pretty spectacular homes. If you have
(04:51):
a really nice trailer. And I've always said there's an
answer to being poor in this country, get rich.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, doesn't that work? Neil or die trying, baby or
die trying. That's right? Okay, Yeah, it's you know, everybody's
gotten screwed on this fire.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Everybody there isn't the business owner that hasn't been nailed
up and down pch there are what if someone do
they rebuild along the coast. I mean, these are twelve
fifteen million dollar homes gone, and a lot of them
there's no insurance none.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
The insurance companies.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Just say no, thank you, or under insurance or they
have the fare plan, right, they have the fair Plan,
which is the California Fire Insurance of Last Resort Plan.
It's only it's only fire insurance, and it's a fund
set up by the state in which the insurance companies
put money into, which, by the way, is out of
money at this point.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And I think the maximum for building is three million dollars.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Now, a three million dollars is a ton of money,
except if you live in a seven eight thousand square
foot home and all of a sudden you realize that
you're on You get the insurance for three million, and
then you're on the hook yourself for another two million
dollars because it costs six seven hundred dollars a foot
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to rebuild a home.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Rich people are getting screwed pretty well too on this one.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Well, you know what hits me is you remember, I
don't know if your parents were this way, but kind
of the lesson of being able to buy a car
is not the cost of a car. You have to
have money in the bank for repairs or for things
like that. Yeah, living beneath your means is the best
way to live, I mean.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But you have to make you have to make Number
one enough money to live beneath your means, and you
have to get it what you would consider struggle for
the money you make. Let's say a couple makes eight
thousand dollars a year, one hundred thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Let me let me cough for a moment.
Speaker 1 (07:02):
Yeah, it just is. I get that that people. Not
everybody can do that. But yeah, there's some places I
can't live places because they're too expensive, all of it unless.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
You're a zillionaire and you can afford twelve million dollars
for a home. But the point is, and you're right,
but living under your means, you make one hundred thousand
dollars a year, can you live at eighty thousand dollars
a year?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
Very very difficult for people.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
We had someone who I'm not going to mention his name,
it's not important, but someone that worked with KFI for
many years, beloved, great guy and you know, struggled a
lot out here in California, moved to North Carolina and
does incredibly well. Yeah, and for the same cost, I
mean for the but you know it's crazy.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Okay, the DEI orders, especially in schools, the government has
said you're done with DEI I don't know what DEI
actually means. I mean, we do know the term, right, diversity, equity,
equality and inclusion.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Is it equality or equity?
Speaker 2 (08:12):
I always get too confused in any case, what's happening?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I'm sorry?
Speaker 2 (08:18):
In equity equity? I knew that all right. Here's what's
happening around the country. Dozens of universities and colleges, well,
first of all, have begun to scrib their websites in
response to President Trump's wide the crusade against diversity and inclusion.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
But they don't really know how far that goes.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Does for example, a study in Chicano studies?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Does that mean that's gone?
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Does a university that celebrates Black History Month which doesn't
exist anymore? Right, as far as the government is concerned,
is that part of doing away with DEI? No one
knows how far that goes. No one knows exactly what
it means. And it's to the point where any mention,
(09:11):
any illusion to it anything. And then they have the
athletics departments, well we do know they modified the transgender
athlete participation because that one's easy.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Okay, that one's easy.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
If you were born a man, you are a man,
And it doesn't matter that you've taken hormones. You now
have boobs, your hair grows longer, your body shape is different,
and you've had a schwont ectomy where you no longer
have a schwantz. It's all gone, but you're still a man.
(09:51):
By the way, I have talked to women who have
tried to pee at a urinol. All right, it is
is a god awful mess because they're women now and
they're not men, and they're not going to go into
a men's restroom. And so that seems to be a
(10:13):
little bit of problematic because under DEI, well, I guess
there's no such thing as a trans doesn't exist. Certainly,
no help for a trans, no definition for a trans.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
And that belies the truth.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
And there, for example, the University of North Carolina, they
have some courses that are defined as diversity intensive.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
What are those?
Speaker 2 (10:42):
Appalachian literature, that's not a legitimate course.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
No, how about global business? They don't know.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
Developmental psychology, cultural anthropology where you're studying different cultures.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Is that do we do away with that? I don't know,
and I don't think they know.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
I think someone is going to have to say, yep,
that is inclusive of dei because it is so broad.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
That any mention any connection.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
And by the way, they are all kinds of connections
that can be made that have nothing to.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Do with it.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
By the way, just a quick aside, the first major
program of Chicano studies was at cal State Northridge. And
I remember what you talk about racism. I remember that
there was a Chicano studies group. There was a Chicano group,
and there's a mural there or there was that said
Aslan a z t l a n Oslan belongs to us.
(11:51):
It is not part of the United States. Let us
revolt and take it back. Huh. By the way, that's California,
New Mexico, Arizona. We have to take it back from us.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Because the white man stole it from the.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Mexicans, who actually stole it from the Spaniards, who actually
stole it from the indigenous people. So I don't know
how far that goes. Well, those are gone, it really
those really pissed me off. And I have some touristic
stories about what used to happen. Boy, those days are gone,
I mean they're going.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
No, they still exist, I think, And you know what
do I do that story?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
No, I'll save it for tomorrow. See it's a tease.
I'm teasing like crazy. You have to come back tomorrow,
you have to come back later. All right, here's what
I like to do. And this has to do with
Pam Bondy, our new US Attorney General, and her first
press conference has to do with oh, I don't know,
(12:50):
immigration enforcement. Yeah, how about that. And she's at the
Department of Justice. And she announced that she has already
sued several state leaders and would sue a lot more
if you state leader states don't cooperate with our federal
(13:11):
immigration efforts. She said, this is a new dog and
we're taking new steps to protect Americans.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
So she talked, this is about New York. Started with
New York.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Bondi announced that the DOJ has sued multiple officials in
New York over a state statute. The state statute is
known as the green Light Law, and it allows the
Department of Motor Vehicles to issue a driver's license to
undocumented immigrants illegal immigrants California the same thing, by the way,
illegal immigrant can get a driver's license. And what the
(13:48):
law does the green Light Law it limits the state
from sharing data related to the licenses with federal immigration
authorities and requires state officials to note by the license
holder when requests for information are made.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Now that gets interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
You have someone who is undocumented and the FEDS come
in and ask for information on that perceived putative undocumented individual,
because let's say there's an investigation going on, and what
the DMV has to do is notify that person the
FEDS are.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Looking for you.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yeah, that's kind of stretching it to be literally to understand.
And so New York, of course, Governor Kathy Hokeel, who.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Is the New York Governor, and the New.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
York Attorney General, Letitia James, little controversy there said, and
this is Hochel said, this quote. Our state laws, including
the green light Law, protects the rights of all New
Yorkers and keeps our communities safe. Therein lies a very
interesting issue. On the one hand, it absolutely does. And
(15:07):
I am in favor of issuing drivers' licenses to illegal immigrants.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
And I'll tell you why, because legal illegal. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
I want you to know how to drive, and to
get a driver's license, you must take a test, especially
the first time out, where an examiner sits next to
you and you drive, make a left turn here, make
a right turn there. Put on your blinkers. It used
to be parallel parking, which of course they've done away
(15:39):
with because no one could do a good job doing that.
By the way, I'm a great parallel parker. I just
want you to know that I want to follow up
on what I just did, or I just talked about
in the last segment.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
And that is the first news conference US Attorney General.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Pam Bondi had and no surprise, it was about immigration.
She lam bassed the bib administration for its immigration policies
and announced she assued several state leaders and would sue
a lot more if you the states don't cooperate with
the Feds.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
She said. This is a new DOJ.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
So specifically, she sues New York over its statute, the
green Light Law. Two things, driver's license to undocumented immigrants
it issues and number two sharing data related to those
licenses with the FEDS.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Not to share data.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Okay, fair enough, Well it's not fair enough far she's concerned.
So what is the basis? Some of it is little strange,
some of it makes a lot of sense. Last week,
the Justice Department filed against the state of Illinois and
the City of Chicago, alleging that the multiple state and
(16:52):
local laws are not to just help illegal immigration, but
are design and I'm quoting out designed to and in
fact interfere and discriminate against the federal government in its
enforcement abilities in the move to forward federal immigration law.
(17:16):
The basis of this is, you're saying you're helping illegal immigration,
you give all the rules about you can't discriminate against them.
The realities, you're discriminating against us because we have federal
immigration statutes.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
So she says, we sued Illinois, New York didn't listen.
You are next.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
She's looking at the camera and talking to the various
states and who was she for. You notice, whenever you
see a press conference, it's always people behind whoever is
giving the press conference, and those are total political photo ops,
and for some reason.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
Everybody does that.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
Well, this one had a bunch of law enforcement officials,
immigration officials, and a woman, a woman by the name
of Tammy Nobles or twenty year old daughter Kayla was
murdered by a teenager the authority said was in the
country illegally and was a member of the MS thirteen gang,
(18:18):
and he had come over and therefore, look at the
number of illegal aliens who come and commit crimes. And
of course the fault is with the Biden administration. That's
sort of a given. And she points to the mom
and says she and they referring to all others who
(18:40):
are victims of illegal immigrant crimes, they've suffered because of
what the Biden administration did.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It is over.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
And said that had this illegal immigrant been stopped at
the border, this wouldn't have happened, which is probably true.
By the way, Homeland Security didn't do their jobs. If
they knew that he was a gangman, he never would
have come in. And as I said many times, immigration
is a cornerstone of Donald Trump's presidency.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
He really believes this. There's a lot of stuff he
doesn't believe in.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
I don't think he gives the rats about First Amendment,
particularly or religious freedom or abortion. I don't think he cares.
He cares about immigration. He cares about foreign policy. So
this one is really important to him. Now here's kind
of an interesting one, and that is there was a
program of eighty million dollars and congressionally approved funds that
(19:38):
intended to help New York City House the undocumented immigrants
because they were inundated. New York was crazy, and so
it was an eighty million dollar program that has just
been revoked. You know who initiated that program, Donald Trump
in his first term put that program together. So the
basis of all of this, the legal basis of these
(20:00):
lawsuits is that the state's green light law, as well
as others, are a frontal assault on federal immigration law
and was designed specifically to directly impair the work of
immigration officers and make their jobs not only more difficult,
but more dangerous. It's an argument that the Feds have
(20:25):
that immigration, anything related to immigration in and of itself
only is dealt with by the Feds. You cannot touch
immigration laws. The states are saying, we're not touching immigration laws.
All we're doing is locally saying, hey, we're is showing
driver's license you the Feds have nothing to do with
(20:46):
driver's licenses.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
None of your business.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Also, whether we cooperate or not with the Feds, that's
our business.
Speaker 3 (20:57):
We don't have to cooperate.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Now, the new laws that are being passed are saying
that you must cooperate, and that's federal lot. Then it
gets very interesting and we'll see what's happening. And in
the end, I'm gonna go back to what I said.
I am a big fan of illegal immigrants getting driver's
licenses because the guy who is driving over there, who
(21:20):
doesn't have a driver's license, who is about to hit me,
who didn't even pass the test, I would have liked
him to have passed the test. By the way, there's
no insurance there either. I don't know someone has a
beat up car. And I know I am now painting
a very broad brush here. I get that, but I
think it's more true than not if someone is an
(21:42):
illegal migrant who's driving a car that's twenty three years old, dilapidated,
does not have insurance. Just a guess, Just a guess.
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