October 23, 2025 • 32 mins
The Ninth Circuit revisits a challenge to Trump’s 2018 troop deployment at the southern border, NOAA warns of a dry La Niña winter for SoCal, and the federal shutdown drags on past 22 days with a November 1 showdown looming. Politics, weather, and Washington — all heating up.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Why don't you put it in a pickleball court. We
don't need the east wing anymore, right, let's throw in
a pickle ball court. Yeah. Did you know that the
White House actually has had two bowling alleys, two separate,
not just two lanes, two separate bowling alleys.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I was talking to our resident gaming expert, Tony, and
we were talking about the bowling alley. I said, oh, yeah,
Nixon had a bowling alley and Tony says it's still there,
and I said I didn't think it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Was, so I googled it. Yep, sure enough.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So Truman built one, then Eisenhower moved that across the street,
and then Nixon had another one built.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
So two that's.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Crazy, real side of the times too. So do you
think the ballroom stays a ballroom or do you think
that gets torn out or does it get converted into
like I don't know, do we have president who loves
volleyball or something? Ninety thousand square feet? This is the
size of a small Walmart. Massive, massive, whoo. All right,
(01:04):
all right, that'll be interesting. You heard. Oh I'm Chris
By the way, nice to see you. You heard Mark
talking about the federal agents going into San Francisco and
how the governor says this is straight out of an
authoritarian handbook.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I'm with you, Mark, though he should have called it
a playbook.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
And the playbook six to one, half a dozen of
the other get off my back, man.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah no, it's not you. It's what he said. Oh okay, yeah, no, no, no,
I think.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You've got it right. I think it should have been
a playbook. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So News Nation was actually talking about that.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
A lot of work has been done, but still more
work to be done here in San Francisco. While the
violent crime rate is actually lower than say Los Angeles
or New York.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
City, sh they're also going into New York.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
It is tracking higher than Chicago, which of course is
another city that we've seen President Trump cracking down on crime.
So when it comes to crime in major cities across
the United States, Memphis is tracking as number one. San
France Cisco currently ranks twenty six for violent crime, but
they are thirteenth in the United States when it comes
to property crime.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Okay, so wait, oh, we're not worried about the violent
criminals we're worried about people tagging things and.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Breaking into your car. Okay, cool sending the guard.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Several incidents of violent crime have been caught on camera
or reported out of San Francisco in recent days, One
where a thirty one year old woman was actually buying
food at a local fast food diner. She was beat
and kicked repeatedly by a stranger who demanded her keys.
The DA's office saying that the young woman was left
severely beaten, with blood pouring out of her eye and
(02:41):
a fractured orbital bone.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Horrible story, don't get me wrong, does not belong. But
if they're twenty sixth in violent crimes, you had to
kind of cherry pick that one, didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You, because you could go to other cities that.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Are much higher in violent crimes and you wouldn't have
to work so hard to find a victim that you go, oh,
here's our poster child for a violent crime. Now, this
seems very random and horrible. Terrible has to stop. Definitely,
not so sure sending in the National Guard is the
best way to do that, because that's escalating. It's going
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to escalate, or you're gonna have people that are dressed
up like my little pony that are going to go
stand in front of the National Guard and that's just
gonna be embarrassing for everybody.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Now, we did have the opportunity to sit down with
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who tells us she's
nervous about how the community might react to the federal
resources being responding here, saying she is worried protests will
escalate into violence. Now she is calling the planned deployment unnecessary.
She is asking the president to let state officials handle
(03:45):
their own issues.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Take okay, So let the states take care of themselves.
This is where the This is where they left and
the right. They keep swapping positions. So the left says,
wait a minute, if there's a disaster, we need to
have federal help. That's FEMA, right, And the Republicans say, no, no, Now,
(04:07):
states can take care of themselves. We don't need to
be taking money from Minnesota to help pay for wildfires
in California.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Right, that's the position.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
But then when it comes to the crime, you get
the left that says, hey, let us enforce our own laws,
and then you get the president that says, er strong man, Yeah, yeah,
we're just swapping spots. Meanwhile, forty billion dollars to Argentina
to make sure that their farmers are making beef jerkey,
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sweet good stuff all the way around. The Ninth Circuit
Courtfield recall, the Ninth Circuit Court are the ones that said,
it's probably okay to send troops.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Setting troops is pretty cool. That seems like a good idea.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
They're ruling really had more to do with how much
latitude the president had in determining whether or not.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
There was.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
This not invasion but to violent crime going on. So
how do you define those things? And because they're not
quickly and easily defined in the law books, the court said, look,
he's got wide latitude, wide discretion, which is really interesting.
According to one of the judges on the Ninth Circuit
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Court who's now touring La says, I guess the question
is why is a couple hundred people engaging in disorderly
conduct and throwing things at a building over the course
of two days comparable to comparable severity to a rebellion.
Now that's coming from Eric Miller, who was appointed by Trump.
(05:53):
He said violence is used to thwart law enforcement of
federal law all the time. This happens every day, So
is that rebellion? And what the Ninth Circuit Court found
in the past was rebellion is kind of whatever the
President says it is. So now the Ninth Circuit Court
is in LA and they're walking walking around taking a
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look at things, probably probably swinging down by Disneyland, because
when you know, when you're in southern California, you do
is we do?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And so now they're going, not so sure, that's a
that's a such a great idea.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So now the renewed use of federal agents and the
military adjacent tactics they're calling it like in San Francisco
also makes it sound like what they were what they
were weighing to begin with, about oh what is rebellion?
What is not rebellion? What are the limitations on calling
something a rebellion? That was more of an exercise of
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you know, because we had what people burning weaymos, But
it wasn't like we had you know, tear gas and
things like that.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
In the street.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh look what's going on in Chicago. Oh look what
people are concerned with might happen in San Francisco. So
now they go, oh, you know what, this was a
lot easier when we pretended like we were in a
classroom and not actually on the street.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
One of the issues that politicians.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Governments, judges, all of them have is that they operate
in a bubble, total bubble.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's it's like when I was in college.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's like a political science class, and like many political
science classes, and if you look at governmental systems on paper,
it's a whole lot different.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I've always said.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That communism is the ideal governmental system on paper. In practice,
it is the worst governmental system because we're humans and
we screw things up. We try to take advantage of
other people. We try to we try to game the system.
It's how people are. And so when you've got judges
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that are trying to look at, oh, should a president
have wide latitude and determining what is a rebellion in
order to send in troops to American cities, they go, oh, well,
that's a very interesting question.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's them sucking on their curvy pipes. Oh, very interesting.
And then they get that weird like yellowing on their
gray mustaches and beards. One day, one day, I hope
to have that. Anyway, Then all of a sudden they go, oh,
you know what, in practice, our ruling is kind of crap.
(08:37):
And so now the Ninth Circuit Court is going, ooh,
maybe this is not such a great idea. So what
can they do about it? I mean, they put the
ruling in right, what can they do about it? They
could strike down the deployment. They could rule that the
deployment that we had in twenty eighteen along the border
violated the Posse Comatatis Act, which is basically, you can't
deploy military forces in US cities inside the US borders.
(09:01):
And yet lo and behold, it's what we saw happen
here with the marine showing up. They could come back
and go, oh, you know what, we have reviewed it
and we are going to uphold our original ruling.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Or they could come back and they could go, oh,
you know what, we.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Were gonna We're gonna reconsider our decision on one aspect,
but not on the other aspect because we don't like
the politics of it, we don't like the way it looks.
But also the law is written to give wide latitude,
so they can have a very narrow ruling. That's what
the Ninth Circuit Court could end up doing in the meantime,
(09:41):
I guess grab your my little pony costumes and go
find yourself a guardsman. Still to come this hour, big program,
the shutdown and when that shutdown might end. There is
there is talk that the politicians are starting to get
(10:04):
a little sweaty. And how sweaty are they're gonna have
to get before they reopen the government. We'll talk about
that here at about seven thirty. But forget sweat. Things
are gonna get extra dry this winter. You'll find out
why that is next time, Chris Merril.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The government maybe opening soon or not. How's that for
a tease? Hell of a tees right after mark seven thirty,
news that is coming up. Remember you can listen to
anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. Lanina Lanina, I
love you, Lanina Lanina. You're so dry it's hard to believe.
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But I just made that song up on the fly.
It is going to be dery this winter. Oh, which
means oh more fires, grat I'm so excited about that.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I'm not I'm not at all. That's that's dry humor.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
ABC seven had the story about what the National Weather
Service saying.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh, are we funding the National Weather Service? What do
they even know?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
It's no secret that your trip to the supermarket is
costing more.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
No, that's the wrong one. Play the right, play the
right cut. Who's in charge of this crap? Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's hard to get a good help around here.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
It was on me after last winter's historic wildfires. La
Nina and dry weather are not the words we want
to hear, no, but it's what we can expect heading
into this winter.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I don't like her attitude.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
We don't want a really strong La Nina, especially for
you all going into this season. That combo of factors
would not be great. But that is what everybody is
looking at for the ENSO projection from December through February
twenty twenty six. We anticipate La Nina conditions which would
again put you on the drier side, even though California's
kind of the battleground.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But I have good news when it comes to La Nina.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Okay, I have good news though, because three I Atlas
the alien invasion. They figure they're gonna probably wipe us
out right around the new year, so we won't even
worry about this stuff. I mean, you gotta look on
the bright side of the news stories.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Our Pacific ocean temperatures are colder during La Nina, and
the jet stream is pushed northward, meanings stormier and colder
weather for the north Yeah, and warmer and drier weather
for the south.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And I think with with global warming and warmer warming
ocean temperatures, that means the jet stream pushes even further north.
So what used to be wet weather in the Pacific
Northwest actually becomes wet weather in Canada even further.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
And for southern California, a typical La Nina is drier
the El Nino's. Can you know, bring the lows a
little bit farther south and bring a little bit more rain,
But the law Ninias tend to keep that rain parked
up in the Pacific Northwest or right along the state
line of Oregon. In California.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Hey, didn't we wasn't it Linina last year? Hey on,
calif I'm going to bang this for you La mina history.
Didn't we have like La Nina's when we got a
whole bunch of a bunch of nasty weather. At some
point I thought we had wet weather one year with
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the with La Nina, which was atypical. They were saying,
let me see now, hmmm, who put this in order?
I'm looking at climate dot got Oh my gosh, can
we reopen the government? Good lord, they go nineteen seventy three,
nineteen eighty eight, nineteen seventy five, two thousand and seven,
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nineteen forty nine. This is not in order, this is terrible,
good lord. Actually, there have been a number of years
that it's been wetter with Linina. Now they say typically
it's heavier, but there have been a number of years
that it's actually been wetter. So basically they don't know.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Squad that that's who gets the most moisture at La Nina,
and then the southwest gets abnormally dry.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
And while we just had a rare storm with a
lot of rain last week, we won't expect to see
many more of those in the coming months.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I know the state of California since the beginning of
the year has more than doubled your severe drought. So
kind of that third level of drought, which is big,
and you never forecast more rain in drought, especially with
Ala Nina in place.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Oh so basically she's just hedging. Oh you never It's
like listening to a gambler, isn't it. You listen to
a gambler and you go, well, you know, you never
bet on the Chargers when they're traveling to the East
coast after a loss.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Okay, what are you saying?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Well, if you take a look historically their record is
I have a more difficult time winning the next game,
especially if they're traveling to the east. Oh okay, but
do they sometimes yes? So really it's a crapshoot. Yes,
they're just playing the odds. So the odds are it's
going to be dryer. But as I just pointed out,
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a simple being search will show you that not every
Linina makes it drier. In California, we absolutely could have
wetter weather. And if that happens, get ready for people
in media myself included, to complain about mudflides. Well, when
it comes to weather, it's just we just love to complain.
(15:42):
All of us turn into our grandfathers whenever we talk
about weather. Wow, it's going to be measurable. Help me
in I'm just like that. So government's been shut down
for three weeks. We've got the National Weather Service making
crap up because they're not getting paid and what do
they care? Paychecks are starting to vanish, national parks are closed.
Congress is a little slap fight over healthcare. But there
(16:05):
is a date that is coming up that could break
the stalemate. You're gonna find out what that is next time,
Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
We will talk about the eggflation is a number of
your favorite restaurants are probably gonna close here very shortly
because you can't afford him anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
That is coming up after marks eight o'clock news.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
First, the government shutdown is starting to catch more attention.
I know if you are a news junkie, then you've
been following the government shutdown very closely. However, most of
America is going to wait until they notice something.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
That's the reality of it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
A lot of people don't pay close attention to the
ins and outs of what happens in Washington. I have
a test for this because I have a friend of
mine that's he's deep into the news world, and so
he says, oh, he says, he loves to ask me
what percentage of people question? He said, what percentage of
people do you think know about the government shutdown? And
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I said, I think it's a pretty substantial number of
people have heard that the government is shutting down, but
they don't know what that means. And he said, he said,
I'm sorry, I distracted. Got a note here, he said,
he said, oh, no, nobody knows.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
I go.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
No, they know, they know, But I always I have
this mother in law test.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
My mother in law is somebody turns the TV on
and casually pays attention to things. She's not super into
the news, but she likes to keep up on what's happening.
She wants to be she wants to be connected. She
just doesn't want to be inundated, all right. And I
think a lot of people are that way when it
comes to the government shut down. I think a number
of people know that the government is shut down, or
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they've heard rumblings that that the TSA workers are maybe
not being paid, or they're they're calling in sick, or
they hear about the delays of the airport something of
that sort, or are they here that national parks are closed,
but they're not really closed because basically the park rangers
open the gates and drive away, right, so they're not
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really closed. Just nobody's picking up the trash. Does that
stop people from throwing trash all over the place? No,
of course not, because why would we clean up after ourselves.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Still, I think more and more people are gonna start
paying attention because it's gonna start having it's gonna start
having a ripple effect, whether it's people who are flying
and I got a flight coming up on Saturday, I
hope to god it goes off without a hitch.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
In fact, didn't we take a survey here? Mark? Was
it it I was talking to you?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Wasn't I that we were talking about the how long
we were predicting how long it was gonna last?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I'm not sure what you're.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The government shutdown? Didn't Didn't we have like a prediction
of how long it was gonna last?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh? I don't think we ever came around to a number.
I think we were all taking making predictions anyway. I
thought it was to be like nineteen days. I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I think it's gonna last until we're all living in
like a road warrior future and fighting over cans of
dog food.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Total dystopia. Then, yeah, oh that sounds fun.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, Well, look, as long as the politicians maintain their
power and keep getting donations from those of us who
are fighting over dog food that all's fine in their world.
I think we're gonna start seeing the ripple effect. I
think what's gonna start happening is neighbors are going to
start being affected. Our friends are gonna start being affected.
They're gonna start talking to us, and I think that
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is going to have an impact. For instance, CBSLA was
doing a story about this very kindly little old lady
in Orange County.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
And this is from the food delivery place.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
The mayor of Laguna Woods, like many of her neighbors
who live on fixed incomes, has a new worry as
the federal government shutdown drives on. Officials say tens of
thousands of low income people in Orange County, like Sherry Horn,
may not be getting their next cowfresh nutritional food benefit.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
I'm very concerned. There's a lot of people here that
depend on that.
Speaker 9 (20:08):
Horn, who cares for her husband with disabilities, receives two
hundred and twenty dollars on her EBT card the first
week of each month to buy groceries.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
She's the mayor.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
I get vegetables, rice, fresh fruit, fresh lettuce, soy, neat.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Can't afford that anymore, especially you're soy. What any hibbi
now can't afford those fresh vegetables Prices are going through
the roof.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Orange County leaders say if the government isn't funded by Thursday,
there will be a delay in colfresh money distributed from
the Feds to the states and eventually individual counties.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Oh wait a minute, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, hold on, let
me get my phone. That's tomorrow. So if we don't
reopen by tomorrow, then if you are expecting snap benefits,
cal fresh benefits, I hope you save some can goods
or in marks caase dog food for the apocalypse.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Sixty two million dollars a month is what is distributed
into the Orange County economy through these EBT cards that
people can use to go buy food.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking sixteen million
dollars a month. That's that's government money. We shouldn't be
wasting that. Why are we redistributing the wealth? Okay, imagine
if you run a little market. Imagine if you're a
mom at pop store, you get a little bodega. You're
not taking any money from the government. You're not asking
for any benefits. You're just trying to run your business,
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but your customers, customers are having their appetites supplemented by
these programs. All right, So sixteen million dollars, what does
that mean then to the mom and pops who are
running little markets in bodegas.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
At local growth. Make sure that sixty two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Oh I think I said sixty sixty two.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
Million, This actually equates to more than one hundred million
dollars a month into our local economy.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
So this is where you see capitalism working. But it's
not just straight laws a fair capitalism. It's not just
mine yours and everybody gets what they can. This is
how the system multiplies the moneies. Some people believe that
our economic system is a zero sum game.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
If I give you a.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Dollar, I have one less dollar, you have one more dollar,
and that's it. But you may take that dollar and
you may reinvest it. You can turn that dollar into
three dollars. Your three dollars then means that you can
hire more people and you can give them a dollar
and then they take their money and then they invested.
This is how we multiply. This is why our economy
has been very strong. That it's built on a pyramid
scheme where the declining birth rate is devastating. But other
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than that, this is how the economy continues to grow.
This is why we switched to a fiat system rather than.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
A gold standard.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
But if you start pulling that money back now, the
one dollar that you needed in order to turn it
into three disappears. So you're not out one dollar, you're
out three dollars. In this case, in Orange County, you're
not out sixty eight million dollars, you're out one hundred
million dollars.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Ninety five percent of all the small businesses in Orange
County are family owned. There's a residence of the right here,
so they're not getting that revenue.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
But Sherry Horn was caught off guard and wonders if
other seniors in Laguna Woods know that their cow fresh
payments are in jeopardy.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You're about to find out.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
It's very challenging. I hadn't thought about what we would
do because I didn't know that this was going to happen.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
The director of Orange.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
County again, how much are you paying attention to the
slab fights in Washington? She knows that the government shut down,
She just doesn't know that it's actually going to affect
some of these other things.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Well, the snap benefits, they come from.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
The state, right, So I think as as more and
more people are affected, there's more and more awareness, and
more and more frustration, and more and more demand on DC.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
Anny's Social services says. If the government shut down stretches
into mid November, it's quite possible that cal Fresh recipients
could lose the entire monthly payment as Thanksgiving approaches.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well, just like COVID, I'm sure that Grandma would be
willing to sacrifice herself if it meant to saving the
economy a few dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Absolutely, thank you for your sacrifice, Grandma. We appreciate that. Chris.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
We don't have any money to pay for your funeral,
so we'll get you a pauper's grave. But there are
some pressure points coming, some real pressure points the very
near horizon. Don't expect the government to reopen tomorrow, but
maybe not much longer after that. I will tell you
about the super secret date that are an awful lot
(25:01):
of people are eyeballing very very closely.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
That is next. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Mark and Iron the same boat on that one. He's
all excited about running into Shirley's there in the dystopian hell.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Sure, the world loves an optimist. Yeah, Tom Hardy would
beat you up for though you think. Yeah, yeah, Mad
Max rolls. He's been doing the judo. He might be
able to You're right, Yeah, you're right, You're right. I'm
Chris Merril. This is KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
You can listen anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
There's a question about the government shutdown. How long is
it going to be open? What are some of the
what are some of the dates that could add pressure points?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I have some brilliant thoughts.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I wouldn't bring them to you if they weren't absolutely
well thought out, super brilliant thoughts. I think that's fair
to say. Also, note my arrogance knows no bounds. First
of all, you have both sides blaming the If you
go to White House dot gov right now, it says, sorry,
Democrats are ruined America. Not exaggerating. It's pretty much like that.
(26:08):
Hang on, uh, let me just pull this up real
quick here, because it's a it's pretty trippy. America is back.
It's got a picture of the president holding a baseball hat.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Uh, and then it basically says, uh, yeah, here.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You go, uh white House News top democrat cheers Americans
suffering as leverage in their sick political game.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Hm.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
The uh the White House website used to be a
resource for information. Now it's basically like uh, state propaganda.
And I don't know when it started. Honestly, I don't
even care. It's just frustrating to me, just just why
why are we doing that?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Just give me information on the White House. That's what
I want. Nope, Nope, propaganda. It's like, uh.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
It's like clicking on in oan Newsmax and uh Fox News,
which means that the next time you've got a Democrat
in there will be like clicking on the Hunting and
Post and whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
All the other ones are too right, just right, I
don't like it.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
So now you've got some state and I know this
is true because you've got state websites that are now
saying Trump did this.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Uh let me see. The GOP is.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Heavily pushed the idea that Democrats are responsible for the
shut down. Banner messages across the vereas federal websites, State
Department White House, Small Business Administration, Justice Department websites all
say Democrats did this. The radical left in Congress shut
down the government.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's the official word.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
So now you've got the flip side where you have
state governments that are saying, uh oh, if you starve
to death, it's Trump's fault. According to the Pennsylvania Department
of Human Services, website says because Republicans in Washington, d c.
Filed to pass a federal budget, causing the federal government
shutdown November twenty twenty five, snap benefits cannot be paid
federal officials.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
This is from Illinois.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Federal officials within the Trump administration have told all states
that if the Republican federal government shutdown continues, it won't
pay for SNAP benefits in November. And our own Health
and Human Services Agency.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
If you go to their website, says that.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The shutdowns impacts on Californians are to blame for the
failures of the.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
President and Congress. There you go.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
So now you've got a finger pointing contest, and ultimately
the shutdown may come to an end when the polling
gets too bad for one side or the other. Right now,
too many people are apathetic that could change. Specifically, there
are some dates. For instance, Friday, that's when we start
seeing full missed paychecks. Two weeks ago, federal employees got
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paid for most of the previous paycheck. The paycheck cycle ended,
I think on the third. They got paid on the seventh.
I think I'm doing my maths right, So they lost
about three days worth of pay, So they missed paychecks
the end of the month. That's military pay. Now, there's
(29:20):
questions about whether or not there's enough money to be
able to pay the military. But if all of a
sudden you stop paying your soldiers, whoa very unpopular. The
day after that is November first. That's the biggie watch
for November first. If this shutdown lasts beyond November first,
there's going to be a lot of pain because the
ACA subsidies expire on November first, and that means premiums
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go up right then. So if now all of a sudden,
you've got a from you've got a wide swath of
Americans who are seeing their health insurance premiums double overnight,
and they've got one side that says we're shutting down
the government to try keep the premiums down and you've
got the other side that says we're willing to talk
(30:04):
about that. After the government reopens, they're going to go,
I don't care what you do. My premium's just doubled
and you're not doing anything. So that's a pressure point.
Watch for November first as well, because that's also when
we see some preschool and head head start funding will
begin to run out, which means you've got kids in
rural areas where their schools are closed, which means parents
have to come up with daycare, which means parents are.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Going to be missing work sick days.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
They're not going to be just about TSA agents and
air traffic controllers. It's going to be about moms and
dads working in private businesses that are saying, I can't
come in because my kid doesn't have school because of
the government government shutdown. Military paid November first, watch for
that not going to be very popular. If all of
a sudden you've got the soldiers on basis not getting paid.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Now it could be.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
A little tricky because this weekend the president is taking off.
The president is leaving and on Saturday he'll be in Asia.
The conventional wisdom is there won't be a deal cut
until he gets back, which means nothing over the weekend,
nothing ready to go on Monday. As far as record setting,
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November fifth would break the record for the longest shutdown
in US history. The previous record was held by the
first Trump administration. Also to note, the shortest government shutdown
in history was the first Trump administration. So will these
things be enough of a pressure point, specifically November first,
enough of a pressure point for Congress to take action
(31:33):
for there to be a compromise, a conversation at the
very least, because right now it's oh, we'll have a
conversation with you after you pass our bill. I mean,
at some point the stillmate has to end, right, At
some point somebody says this is going to be bad
for us.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Question is who blinks?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Right now, You've got Trump who doesn't like to be
labeled as taco, and you've got Democrats who are terrified
of being labeled as week by their base, and they're
afraid of primary challengers who are gonna say I will
fight the Republicans and they don't want to back down either.
So at some point we're gonna have to have some
level heads. But I don't see any level heads right
(32:20):
now with all that finger pointing, and that's tragic, absolutely tragic.
In the meantime, if you are waiting on benefits to
show up, what you're about to be cut off. I
just want you to understand that even if you do
get your benefits, you won't be able to afford food anyway.
You'll find out why next. I'm Chris Maryland's I AM
six forty. We are live everywhere in the iHeartRadio
Speaker 1 (32:39):
App, KFI AM sixty on demand
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Why don't you put it in a pickleball court. We
don't need the east wing anymore, right, let's throw in
a pickle ball court. Yeah. Did you know that the
White House actually has had two bowling alleys, two separate,
not just two lanes, two separate bowling alleys.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I was talking to our resident gaming expert, Tony, and
we were talking about the bowling alley. I said, oh, yeah,
Nixon had a bowling alley and Tony says it's still there,
and I said I didn't think it.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Was, so I googled it. Yep, sure enough.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
So Truman built one, then Eisenhower moved that across the street,
and then Nixon had another one built.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
So two that's.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Crazy, real side of the times too. So do you
think the ballroom stays a ballroom or do you think
that gets torn out or does it get converted into
like I don't know, do we have president who loves
volleyball or something? Ninety thousand square feet? This is the
size of a small Walmart. Massive, massive, whoo. All right,
(01:04):
all right, that'll be interesting. You heard. Oh I'm Chris
By the way, nice to see you. You heard Mark
talking about the federal agents going into San Francisco and
how the governor says this is straight out of an
authoritarian handbook.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
I'm with you, Mark, though he should have called it
a playbook.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
And the playbook six to one, half a dozen of
the other get off my back, man.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah no, it's not you. It's what he said. Oh okay, yeah, no, no, no,
I think.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
You've got it right. I think it should have been
a playbook. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
So News Nation was actually talking about that.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
A lot of work has been done, but still more
work to be done here in San Francisco. While the
violent crime rate is actually lower than say Los Angeles
or New York.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
City, sh they're also going into New York.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
It is tracking higher than Chicago, which of course is
another city that we've seen President Trump cracking down on crime.
So when it comes to crime in major cities across
the United States, Memphis is tracking as number one. San
France Cisco currently ranks twenty six for violent crime, but
they are thirteenth in the United States when it comes
to property crime.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Okay, so wait, oh, we're not worried about the violent
criminals we're worried about people tagging things and.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Breaking into your car. Okay, cool sending the guard.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Several incidents of violent crime have been caught on camera
or reported out of San Francisco in recent days, One
where a thirty one year old woman was actually buying
food at a local fast food diner. She was beat
and kicked repeatedly by a stranger who demanded her keys.
The DA's office saying that the young woman was left
severely beaten, with blood pouring out of her eye and
(02:41):
a fractured orbital bone.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Horrible story, don't get me wrong, does not belong. But
if they're twenty sixth in violent crimes, you had to
kind of cherry pick that one, didn't.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
You, because you could go to other cities that.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Are much higher in violent crimes and you wouldn't have
to work so hard to find a victim that you go, oh,
here's our poster child for a violent crime. Now, this
seems very random and horrible. Terrible has to stop. Definitely,
not so sure sending in the National Guard is the
best way to do that, because that's escalating. It's going
(03:15):
to escalate, or you're gonna have people that are dressed
up like my little pony that are going to go
stand in front of the National Guard and that's just
gonna be embarrassing for everybody.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Now, we did have the opportunity to sit down with
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who tells us she's
nervous about how the community might react to the federal
resources being responding here, saying she is worried protests will
escalate into violence. Now she is calling the planned deployment unnecessary.
She is asking the president to let state officials handle
(03:45):
their own issues.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Take okay, So let the states take care of themselves.
This is where the This is where they left and
the right. They keep swapping positions. So the left says,
wait a minute, if there's a disaster, we need to
have federal help. That's FEMA, right, And the Republicans say, no, no, Now,
(04:07):
states can take care of themselves. We don't need to
be taking money from Minnesota to help pay for wildfires
in California.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Right, that's the position.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
But then when it comes to the crime, you get
the left that says, hey, let us enforce our own laws,
and then you get the president that says, er strong man, Yeah, yeah,
we're just swapping spots. Meanwhile, forty billion dollars to Argentina
to make sure that their farmers are making beef jerkey,
(04:40):
sweet good stuff all the way around. The Ninth Circuit
Courtfield recall, the Ninth Circuit Court are the ones that said,
it's probably okay to send troops.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Setting troops is pretty cool. That seems like a good idea.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
They're ruling really had more to do with how much
latitude the president had in determining whether or not.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
There was.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
This not invasion but to violent crime going on. So
how do you define those things? And because they're not
quickly and easily defined in the law books, the court said, look,
he's got wide latitude, wide discretion, which is really interesting.
According to one of the judges on the Ninth Circuit
(05:30):
Court who's now touring La says, I guess the question
is why is a couple hundred people engaging in disorderly
conduct and throwing things at a building over the course
of two days comparable to comparable severity to a rebellion.
Now that's coming from Eric Miller, who was appointed by Trump.
(05:53):
He said violence is used to thwart law enforcement of
federal law all the time. This happens every day, So
is that rebellion? And what the Ninth Circuit Court found
in the past was rebellion is kind of whatever the
President says it is. So now the Ninth Circuit Court
is in LA and they're walking walking around taking a
(06:15):
look at things, probably probably swinging down by Disneyland, because
when you know, when you're in southern California, you do
is we do?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
And so now they're going, not so sure, that's a
that's a such a great idea.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So now the renewed use of federal agents and the
military adjacent tactics they're calling it like in San Francisco
also makes it sound like what they were what they
were weighing to begin with, about oh what is rebellion?
What is not rebellion? What are the limitations on calling
something a rebellion? That was more of an exercise of
(06:54):
you know, because we had what people burning weaymos, But
it wasn't like we had you know, tear gas and
things like that.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
In the street.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh look what's going on in Chicago. Oh look what
people are concerned with might happen in San Francisco. So
now they go, oh, you know what, this was a
lot easier when we pretended like we were in a
classroom and not actually on the street.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
One of the issues that politicians.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Governments, judges, all of them have is that they operate
in a bubble, total bubble.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
It's it's like when I was in college.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
It's like a political science class, and like many political
science classes, and if you look at governmental systems on paper,
it's a whole lot different.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
I've always said.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
That communism is the ideal governmental system on paper. In practice,
it is the worst governmental system because we're humans and
we screw things up. We try to take advantage of
other people. We try to we try to game the system.
It's how people are. And so when you've got judges
(08:00):
that are trying to look at, oh, should a president
have wide latitude and determining what is a rebellion in
order to send in troops to American cities, they go, oh, well,
that's a very interesting question.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
I'm glad you asked.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's them sucking on their curvy pipes. Oh, very interesting.
And then they get that weird like yellowing on their
gray mustaches and beards. One day, one day, I hope
to have that. Anyway, Then all of a sudden they go, oh,
you know what, in practice, our ruling is kind of crap.
(08:37):
And so now the Ninth Circuit Court is going, ooh,
maybe this is not such a great idea. So what
can they do about it? I mean, they put the
ruling in right, what can they do about it? They
could strike down the deployment. They could rule that the
deployment that we had in twenty eighteen along the border
violated the Posse Comatatis Act, which is basically, you can't
deploy military forces in US cities inside the US borders.
(09:01):
And yet lo and behold, it's what we saw happen
here with the marine showing up. They could come back
and go, oh, you know what, we have reviewed it
and we are going to uphold our original ruling.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Or they could come back and they could go, oh,
you know what, we.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Were gonna We're gonna reconsider our decision on one aspect,
but not on the other aspect because we don't like
the politics of it, we don't like the way it looks.
But also the law is written to give wide latitude,
so they can have a very narrow ruling. That's what
the Ninth Circuit Court could end up doing in the meantime,
(09:41):
I guess grab your my little pony costumes and go
find yourself a guardsman. Still to come this hour, big program,
the shutdown and when that shutdown might end. There is
there is talk that the politicians are starting to get
(10:04):
a little sweaty. And how sweaty are they're gonna have
to get before they reopen the government. We'll talk about
that here at about seven thirty. But forget sweat. Things
are gonna get extra dry this winter. You'll find out
why that is next time, Chris Merril.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
You're listening to KFI AM sixty on demand.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
The government maybe opening soon or not. How's that for
a tease? Hell of a tees right after mark seven thirty,
news that is coming up. Remember you can listen to
anytime on demand of the iHeartRadio app. Lanina Lanina, I
love you, Lanina Lanina. You're so dry it's hard to believe.
(10:49):
But I just made that song up on the fly.
It is going to be dery this winter. Oh, which
means oh more fires, grat I'm so excited about that.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
I'm not I'm not at all. That's that's dry humor.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
ABC seven had the story about what the National Weather
Service saying.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Oh, are we funding the National Weather Service? What do
they even know?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
It's no secret that your trip to the supermarket is
costing more.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
No, that's the wrong one. Play the right, play the
right cut. Who's in charge of this crap? Unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's hard to get a good help around here.
Speaker 6 (11:29):
It was on me after last winter's historic wildfires. La
Nina and dry weather are not the words we want
to hear, no, but it's what we can expect heading
into this winter.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I don't like her attitude.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
We don't want a really strong La Nina, especially for
you all going into this season. That combo of factors
would not be great. But that is what everybody is
looking at for the ENSO projection from December through February
twenty twenty six. We anticipate La Nina conditions which would
again put you on the drier side, even though California's
kind of the battleground.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
But I have good news when it comes to La Nina.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Okay, I have good news though, because three I Atlas
the alien invasion. They figure they're gonna probably wipe us
out right around the new year, so we won't even
worry about this stuff. I mean, you gotta look on
the bright side of the news stories.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Our Pacific ocean temperatures are colder during La Nina, and
the jet stream is pushed northward, meanings stormier and colder
weather for the north Yeah, and warmer and drier weather
for the south.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
And I think with with global warming and warmer warming
ocean temperatures, that means the jet stream pushes even further north.
So what used to be wet weather in the Pacific
Northwest actually becomes wet weather in Canada even further.
Speaker 7 (12:50):
And for southern California, a typical La Nina is drier
the El Nino's. Can you know, bring the lows a
little bit farther south and bring a little bit more rain,
But the law Ninias tend to keep that rain parked
up in the Pacific Northwest or right along the state
line of Oregon. In California.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Hey, didn't we wasn't it Linina last year? Hey on,
calif I'm going to bang this for you La mina history.
Didn't we have like La Nina's when we got a
whole bunch of a bunch of nasty weather. At some
point I thought we had wet weather one year with
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the with La Nina, which was atypical. They were saying,
let me see now, hmmm, who put this in order?
I'm looking at climate dot got Oh my gosh, can
we reopen the government? Good lord, they go nineteen seventy three,
nineteen eighty eight, nineteen seventy five, two thousand and seven,
(13:51):
nineteen forty nine. This is not in order, this is terrible,
good lord. Actually, there have been a number of years
that it's been wetter with Linina. Now they say typically
it's heavier, but there have been a number of years
that it's actually been wetter. So basically they don't know.
Speaker 7 (14:14):
Squad that that's who gets the most moisture at La Nina,
and then the southwest gets abnormally dry.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
And while we just had a rare storm with a
lot of rain last week, we won't expect to see
many more of those in the coming months.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
I know the state of California since the beginning of
the year has more than doubled your severe drought. So
kind of that third level of drought, which is big,
and you never forecast more rain in drought, especially with
Ala Nina in place.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Oh so basically she's just hedging. Oh you never It's
like listening to a gambler, isn't it. You listen to
a gambler and you go, well, you know, you never
bet on the Chargers when they're traveling to the East
coast after a loss.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Okay, what are you saying?
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Well, if you take a look historically their record is
I have a more difficult time winning the next game,
especially if they're traveling to the east. Oh okay, but
do they sometimes yes? So really it's a crapshoot. Yes,
they're just playing the odds. So the odds are it's
going to be dryer. But as I just pointed out,
(15:21):
a simple being search will show you that not every
Linina makes it drier. In California, we absolutely could have
wetter weather. And if that happens, get ready for people
in media myself included, to complain about mudflides. Well, when
it comes to weather, it's just we just love to complain.
(15:42):
All of us turn into our grandfathers whenever we talk
about weather. Wow, it's going to be measurable. Help me
in I'm just like that. So government's been shut down
for three weeks. We've got the National Weather Service making
crap up because they're not getting paid and what do
they care? Paychecks are starting to vanish, national parks are closed.
Congress is a little slap fight over healthcare. But there
(16:05):
is a date that is coming up that could break
the stalemate. You're gonna find out what that is next time,
Chris Meryl.
Speaker 1 (16:11):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
We will talk about the eggflation is a number of
your favorite restaurants are probably gonna close here very shortly
because you can't afford him anymore.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
That is coming up after marks eight o'clock news.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
First, the government shutdown is starting to catch more attention.
I know if you are a news junkie, then you've
been following the government shutdown very closely. However, most of
America is going to wait until they notice something.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
That's the reality of it.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
A lot of people don't pay close attention to the
ins and outs of what happens in Washington. I have
a test for this because I have a friend of
mine that's he's deep into the news world, and so
he says, oh, he says, he loves to ask me
what percentage of people question? He said, what percentage of
people do you think know about the government shutdown? And
(17:05):
I said, I think it's a pretty substantial number of
people have heard that the government is shutting down, but
they don't know what that means. And he said, he said,
I'm sorry, I distracted. Got a note here, he said,
he said, oh, no, nobody knows.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
I go.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
No, they know, they know, But I always I have
this mother in law test.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
My mother in law is somebody turns the TV on
and casually pays attention to things. She's not super into
the news, but she likes to keep up on what's happening.
She wants to be she wants to be connected. She
just doesn't want to be inundated, all right. And I
think a lot of people are that way when it
comes to the government shut down. I think a number
of people know that the government is shut down, or
(17:49):
they've heard rumblings that that the TSA workers are maybe
not being paid, or they're they're calling in sick, or
they hear about the delays of the airport something of
that sort, or are they here that national parks are closed,
but they're not really closed because basically the park rangers
open the gates and drive away, right, so they're not
(18:10):
really closed. Just nobody's picking up the trash. Does that
stop people from throwing trash all over the place? No,
of course not, because why would we clean up after ourselves.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Still, I think more and more people are gonna start
paying attention because it's gonna start having it's gonna start
having a ripple effect, whether it's people who are flying
and I got a flight coming up on Saturday, I
hope to god it goes off without a hitch.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
In fact, didn't we take a survey here? Mark? Was
it it I was talking to you?
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Wasn't I that we were talking about the how long
we were predicting how long it was gonna last?
Speaker 3 (18:49):
I'm not sure what you're.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
The government shutdown? Didn't Didn't we have like a prediction
of how long it was gonna last?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Oh? I don't think we ever came around to a number.
I think we were all taking making predictions anyway. I
thought it was to be like nineteen days. I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
I think it's gonna last until we're all living in
like a road warrior future and fighting over cans of
dog food.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Total dystopia. Then, yeah, oh that sounds fun.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Yeah, Well, look, as long as the politicians maintain their
power and keep getting donations from those of us who
are fighting over dog food that all's fine in their world.
I think we're gonna start seeing the ripple effect. I
think what's gonna start happening is neighbors are going to
start being affected. Our friends are gonna start being affected.
They're gonna start talking to us, and I think that
(19:33):
is going to have an impact. For instance, CBSLA was
doing a story about this very kindly little old lady
in Orange County.
Speaker 8 (19:42):
And this is from the food delivery place.
Speaker 9 (19:45):
The mayor of Laguna Woods, like many of her neighbors
who live on fixed incomes, has a new worry as
the federal government shutdown drives on. Officials say tens of
thousands of low income people in Orange County, like Sherry Horn,
may not be getting their next cowfresh nutritional food benefit.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
I'm very concerned. There's a lot of people here that
depend on that.
Speaker 9 (20:08):
Horn, who cares for her husband with disabilities, receives two
hundred and twenty dollars on her EBT card the first
week of each month to buy groceries.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
She's the mayor.
Speaker 8 (20:18):
I get vegetables, rice, fresh fruit, fresh lettuce, soy, neat.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Can't afford that anymore, especially you're soy. What any hibbi
now can't afford those fresh vegetables Prices are going through
the roof.
Speaker 9 (20:36):
Orange County leaders say if the government isn't funded by Thursday,
there will be a delay in colfresh money distributed from
the Feds to the states and eventually individual counties.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Oh wait a minute, Thursday, Thursday, Thursday, hold on, let
me get my phone. That's tomorrow. So if we don't
reopen by tomorrow, then if you are expecting snap benefits,
cal fresh benefits, I hope you save some can goods
or in marks caase dog food for the apocalypse.
Speaker 10 (21:09):
Sixty two million dollars a month is what is distributed
into the Orange County economy through these EBT cards that
people can use to go buy food.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking sixteen million
dollars a month. That's that's government money. We shouldn't be
wasting that. Why are we redistributing the wealth? Okay, imagine
if you run a little market. Imagine if you're a
mom at pop store, you get a little bodega. You're
not taking any money from the government. You're not asking
for any benefits. You're just trying to run your business,
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but your customers, customers are having their appetites supplemented by
these programs. All right, So sixteen million dollars, what does
that mean then to the mom and pops who are
running little markets in bodegas.
Speaker 10 (21:59):
At local growth. Make sure that sixty two million dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
Oh I think I said sixty sixty two.
Speaker 10 (22:04):
Million, This actually equates to more than one hundred million
dollars a month into our local economy.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
So this is where you see capitalism working. But it's
not just straight laws a fair capitalism. It's not just
mine yours and everybody gets what they can. This is
how the system multiplies the moneies. Some people believe that
our economic system is a zero sum game.
Speaker 3 (22:34):
If I give you a.
Speaker 2 (22:34):
Dollar, I have one less dollar, you have one more dollar,
and that's it. But you may take that dollar and
you may reinvest it. You can turn that dollar into
three dollars. Your three dollars then means that you can
hire more people and you can give them a dollar
and then they take their money and then they invested.
This is how we multiply. This is why our economy
has been very strong. That it's built on a pyramid
scheme where the declining birth rate is devastating. But other
(22:56):
than that, this is how the economy continues to grow.
This is why we switched to a fiat system rather than.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
A gold standard.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
But if you start pulling that money back now, the
one dollar that you needed in order to turn it
into three disappears. So you're not out one dollar, you're
out three dollars. In this case, in Orange County, you're
not out sixty eight million dollars, you're out one hundred
million dollars.
Speaker 10 (23:22):
Ninety five percent of all the small businesses in Orange
County are family owned. There's a residence of the right here,
so they're not getting that revenue.
Speaker 9 (23:30):
But Sherry Horn was caught off guard and wonders if
other seniors in Laguna Woods know that their cow fresh
payments are in jeopardy.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
You're about to find out.
Speaker 8 (23:39):
It's very challenging. I hadn't thought about what we would
do because I didn't know that this was going to happen.
Speaker 9 (23:48):
The director of Orange.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
County again, how much are you paying attention to the
slab fights in Washington? She knows that the government shut down,
She just doesn't know that it's actually going to affect
some of these other things.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Well, the snap benefits, they come from.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
The state, right, So I think as as more and
more people are affected, there's more and more awareness, and
more and more frustration, and more and more demand on DC.
Speaker 9 (24:14):
Anny's Social services says. If the government shut down stretches
into mid November, it's quite possible that cal Fresh recipients
could lose the entire monthly payment as Thanksgiving approaches.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Well, just like COVID, I'm sure that Grandma would be
willing to sacrifice herself if it meant to saving the
economy a few dollars.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Absolutely, thank you for your sacrifice, Grandma. We appreciate that. Chris.
Speaker 2 (24:37):
We don't have any money to pay for your funeral,
so we'll get you a pauper's grave. But there are
some pressure points coming, some real pressure points the very
near horizon. Don't expect the government to reopen tomorrow, but
maybe not much longer after that. I will tell you
about the super secret date that are an awful lot
(25:01):
of people are eyeballing very very closely.
Speaker 3 (25:03):
That is next. I'm Chris Merrill.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Mark and Iron the same boat on that one. He's
all excited about running into Shirley's there in the dystopian hell.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Sure, the world loves an optimist. Yeah, Tom Hardy would
beat you up for though you think. Yeah, yeah, Mad
Max rolls. He's been doing the judo. He might be
able to You're right, Yeah, you're right, You're right. I'm
Chris Merril. This is KFI AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
You can listen anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.
There's a question about the government shutdown. How long is
it going to be open? What are some of the
what are some of the dates that could add pressure points?
Speaker 3 (25:42):
I have some brilliant thoughts.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
I wouldn't bring them to you if they weren't absolutely
well thought out, super brilliant thoughts. I think that's fair
to say. Also, note my arrogance knows no bounds. First
of all, you have both sides blaming the If you
go to White House dot gov right now, it says, sorry,
Democrats are ruined America. Not exaggerating. It's pretty much like that.
(26:08):
Hang on, uh, let me just pull this up real
quick here, because it's a it's pretty trippy. America is back.
It's got a picture of the president holding a baseball hat.
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Uh, and then it basically says, uh, yeah, here.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
You go, uh white House News top democrat cheers Americans
suffering as leverage in their sick political game.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Hm.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
The uh the White House website used to be a
resource for information. Now it's basically like uh, state propaganda.
And I don't know when it started. Honestly, I don't
even care. It's just frustrating to me, just just why
why are we doing that?
Speaker 3 (26:55):
Just give me information on the White House. That's what
I want. Nope, Nope, propaganda. It's like, uh.
Speaker 2 (27:03):
It's like clicking on in oan Newsmax and uh Fox News,
which means that the next time you've got a Democrat
in there will be like clicking on the Hunting and
Post and whatever.
Speaker 3 (27:15):
All the other ones are too right, just right, I
don't like it.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
So now you've got some state and I know this
is true because you've got state websites that are now
saying Trump did this.
Speaker 3 (27:30):
Uh let me see. The GOP is.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Heavily pushed the idea that Democrats are responsible for the
shut down. Banner messages across the vereas federal websites, State
Department White House, Small Business Administration, Justice Department websites all
say Democrats did this. The radical left in Congress shut
down the government.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
That's the official word.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
So now you've got the flip side where you have
state governments that are saying, uh oh, if you starve
to death, it's Trump's fault. According to the Pennsylvania Department
of Human Services, website says because Republicans in Washington, d c.
Filed to pass a federal budget, causing the federal government
shutdown November twenty twenty five, snap benefits cannot be paid
federal officials.
Speaker 3 (28:10):
This is from Illinois.
Speaker 2 (28:14):
Federal officials within the Trump administration have told all states
that if the Republican federal government shutdown continues, it won't
pay for SNAP benefits in November. And our own Health
and Human Services Agency.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
If you go to their website, says that.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
The shutdowns impacts on Californians are to blame for the
failures of the.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
President and Congress. There you go.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
So now you've got a finger pointing contest, and ultimately
the shutdown may come to an end when the polling
gets too bad for one side or the other. Right now,
too many people are apathetic that could change. Specifically, there
are some dates. For instance, Friday, that's when we start
seeing full missed paychecks. Two weeks ago, federal employees got
(28:59):
paid for most of the previous paycheck. The paycheck cycle ended,
I think on the third. They got paid on the seventh.
I think I'm doing my maths right, So they lost
about three days worth of pay, So they missed paychecks
the end of the month. That's military pay. Now, there's
(29:20):
questions about whether or not there's enough money to be
able to pay the military. But if all of a
sudden you stop paying your soldiers, whoa very unpopular. The
day after that is November first. That's the biggie watch
for November first. If this shutdown lasts beyond November first,
there's going to be a lot of pain because the
ACA subsidies expire on November first, and that means premiums
(29:41):
go up right then. So if now all of a sudden,
you've got a from you've got a wide swath of
Americans who are seeing their health insurance premiums double overnight,
and they've got one side that says we're shutting down
the government to try keep the premiums down and you've
got the other side that says we're willing to talk
(30:04):
about that. After the government reopens, they're going to go,
I don't care what you do. My premium's just doubled
and you're not doing anything. So that's a pressure point.
Watch for November first as well, because that's also when
we see some preschool and head head start funding will
begin to run out, which means you've got kids in
rural areas where their schools are closed, which means parents
have to come up with daycare, which means parents are.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
Going to be missing work sick days.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
They're not going to be just about TSA agents and
air traffic controllers. It's going to be about moms and
dads working in private businesses that are saying, I can't
come in because my kid doesn't have school because of
the government government shutdown. Military paid November first, watch for
that not going to be very popular. If all of
a sudden you've got the soldiers on basis not getting paid.
Speaker 3 (30:49):
Now it could be.
Speaker 2 (30:50):
A little tricky because this weekend the president is taking off.
The president is leaving and on Saturday he'll be in Asia.
The conventional wisdom is there won't be a deal cut
until he gets back, which means nothing over the weekend,
nothing ready to go on Monday. As far as record setting,
(31:10):
November fifth would break the record for the longest shutdown
in US history. The previous record was held by the
first Trump administration. Also to note, the shortest government shutdown
in history was the first Trump administration. So will these
things be enough of a pressure point, specifically November first,
enough of a pressure point for Congress to take action
(31:33):
for there to be a compromise, a conversation at the
very least, because right now it's oh, we'll have a
conversation with you after you pass our bill. I mean,
at some point the stillmate has to end, right, At
some point somebody says this is going to be bad
for us.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Question is who blinks?
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Right now, You've got Trump who doesn't like to be
labeled as taco, and you've got Democrats who are terrified
of being labeled as week by their base, and they're
afraid of primary challengers who are gonna say I will
fight the Republicans and they don't want to back down either.
So at some point we're gonna have to have some
level heads. But I don't see any level heads right
(32:20):
now with all that finger pointing, and that's tragic, absolutely tragic.
In the meantime, if you are waiting on benefits to
show up, what you're about to be cut off. I
just want you to understand that even if you do
get your benefits, you won't be able to afford food anyway.
You'll find out why next. I'm Chris Maryland's I AM
six forty. We are live everywhere in the iHeartRadio
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