November 15, 2024 • 25 mins
Trump picks RFK Jr. to be his Department of Health and Human Services Secretary. The Onion bought Alex Jones’ site InfoWars out of bankruptcy. The LAPD’s new chief wants residents to start calling the police again. How the republican and democratic parties got their animal symbols.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM six.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
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Speaker 3 (00:08):
Bill Handle here on a Foody Friday, November fifteenth, and
of course Foody Friday is all about foody Friday. And
Neil comes aboard at eight o'clock when we do Foody Friday.
And now I am there it is. There's the paperwork. Okay,
welcome to handle in the Handle show because I know
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what I'm doing here so much. And if you think
this will stick, by the way, it's not anybody that
works around me. You know my office, and I'm not
kidding you. When I was practicing running my business, surrogency center,
staff would come up to me for my signature for something,
and my partner said, this is true. Hold on to
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the document that Bill is going to sign. Hold the
corner of that document because he will lose it. You
hand him something to sign and it will disappear right
to that. It is a scary notion, all right. Now,
moving to what is happening in the world of our
government politics, Donald Trump outded himself after choosing Matt Gates.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Going to nominate Matt.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Gates as the Attorney General of the United States, and
the vast knowledge that he has having been a lawyer
for a couple of three years as the lowest level
lawyer in a law firm of nine people. He goes
from that to the Attorney General in terms of legal background.
And then of course Pete haig Seth, who is a
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Defense secretary, vast experience as a captain in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I mean, I mean a hero. I mean he got
Bronzed Star twice. Don't misunderstand, well, well respected, but no policy,
no management, none of that. So now the one that
I didn't think was going to happen, and that is
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Robert Fity, Junior Health in Human Services. Health and Human
Services may be and I think it is the largest
department in the United States, over a trillion dollars a
year at the budget and has one hundred thousand employees
or something and maybe even more. And this is vaccines keptic, right,
he is going to be in charge of vaccines. He
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is in charge of or will be if he is confirmed,
in charge of the FDA National Institute of Health, having
everything to do with the health policy as well as
an issue of actual practice that the federal government does
in terms of health and people were spinning on this one.
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I mean even Republicans were gob smacked, smacked, gobbed gobbles smacked. Okay,
in any case, they were stunned. And you just wonder,
how does a guy who is that now? A couple
of things about him. He is an attorney, not particularly
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as any medical background, but he made a name as
an environmental attorney and a seriously good one. Took on
large corporations du Pont, mont Santo, etc. And the problem
is you go forward a few years and for the
past twenty years he's been devoting a lot of energy
to promoting claims about vaccines, contradicting across the board what
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real science says. He believes in junk science. Well, he
doesn't believe in junk science. He believes in what science says.
He had an organization called Children's Health Defense, and during
a pandemic, it was huge, and it had to do
with being anti vaccine.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But he goes way beyond that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
COVID is actually a Chinese plot to attack and kill Americans.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean, come on, fluoride. Some reason.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Fluoride is dangerous to kids and people, and he has
committed to removing fluoride from the water supply. By the
way fluoride is put in the water supply, that is
the way.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It is distributed to people. It's right there in tapwater.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And the fluoride helps strengthen teeth, and it's just healthy
for you. And how fluoride in big quantities is toxic,
but so are strawberries, so is chocolate, caffeine.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You can die from an overdose.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Don't they They're saying, is toxicity is in the dose
always and anything.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, but fluoride is universally by scientists considered one not
only one of the same things out there, but one
of the most healthful things out there.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And this reminds me exactly I was talking earlier.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
When I was a kid in the city of Los Angeles,
there was the issue about the starting of fluoride in
the in the water supply, and I mean it was
a huge fight communists were doing. It was a communist plot. Wow, okay,
communist plot. COVID is a Chinese plot. It's a little
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bit scary. And this and Trump has said, this guy
is going to determine the health of this country. We're
going to make America healthy again. Now, a couple of
things he does make sense. I mean he's not particularly
big pharma, which is great. So I mean, no one
is all bad, but he is all not the kind
of guy we want. So, as I said earlier, I
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have a theory as to why Trump is naming these
people the cabinet posts who are clearly unqualified, clearly political
in nature. And the reason is is Donald Trump views
loyalty above everything, everything above.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The good of the country.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I truly believe that above experience, above expertise, a background,
above knowledge of.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
The topic or subject.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Why would he do that because there are plenty of
people who are loyal to him, who in fact are qualified.
For example, the Supreme Court. He chose three justices for
the Supreme Court super conservative. I mean, liberals went berserk
in this country. But they all three had a depth
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of knowledge of the law. They were credential, they had
the chops to be Supreme Court justices. You may not
agree with what their decision is, but you can't argue
with their credentials. This stuff you go out of your mind.
So why is he doing this? And I will tell
you it's simply testing the loyalty of the Senate. He
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just wants to know who's loyal to him. He wants
to know who the good guys and who are the
bad guys, who's naughty and who's nice. And he is
going to know as soon as that vote happens, the
confirmation vote, who's on my side and who's my enemy.
Because there's no one neutral in the world of Donald Trump.
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It doesn't exist. Either you're for me or you are
against me, nothing in between. And as the Senate is
going to vote to confirm, he's going to see and
then God help you if you are an elected official
and you're on the wrong side of Trump. Now, does
he win all the time to primary you out, No,
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not all the time, but he has enough of a
win to where a Republican going up in a primary
and Donald Trump says, don't elect that person is sweating bullets.
He's done that to a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's just a worm sandwich. He wants to see who eats.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, that's exactly what I believe this is.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And he's gonna you think they're gonna have any autonomy.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
He's gonna let them, you know, uh, dictate their position
or is he gonna Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
He doesn't care. He doesn't care. He cares about he
cares about the border big time.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
He cares about the economy to an extent, Yeah he
does that.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
He cares about foreign relations big time.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Doesn't he have a rats ass about Department of Health
and Human Services or the Department of Transportation.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He didn't care.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It's are you loyal to me? That's what he cares
about more than anything. Now, Uh, these picks are in
many ways so nuts that there are Republicans that are
gonna go. Please, it is our duty as the Senate
to advise and confirm. I mean, we have to actually
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look at the qualifications of this guy. Most of the
Senators will not. Yesterday I saw a couple of interviews
senators says, I completely have confidence in anybody that Donald
Trump chooses.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Anybody. He could literally, I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He could choose a felon who is in prison for
the rest of his life and would run the Department
of Justice out of prison, and he would have the
majority of Republicans saying I trust the President. Now we
have to see a couple of Republicans. All the Democrats
are going to go, Yes, there's no question about that. Remember,
the Republicans have fifty two senators. Democrats have forty eight.
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And we also you already have Lisa mckirskey and Susan
Collins that are probably not going to go for him.
So it's going to be fifty to fifty at this point.
We'll see how many Republicans go the other way. I
believe there's going to be all they need is one.
All they need is one more Republican and Hegseeth's gone
and Kennedy is gone and Gates is gone one, and
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we'll see what happens. It's so it's going to be
a test of loyalty or as Neil I think, puts
it much better than I have, who's going to eat
the worm sandwich? Because I say, eat the worm sandwich? Okay, Now.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
The Onion. The Onion is that satirical paper which I love.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And it's what it does is it satirizes and it
will start a hoax. I mean, just say something crazy
and all of a sudden goes on the Internet and
it becomes reality and they make fun of everything. Well,
the Onion just bought Alex Jones Info Wars. Now that's
a little counterintuitive, isn't it. Alex Jones was sued. I mean,
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this is a conspiracy theorist to the level I mean
he's not just a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
He is cruel.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I mean cruel because what he did is one of
his theories is that the Sandy Hook shooting Sandy Kilm
Elementary School was staged. The kids didn't die, they were
all actors. The kids weren't buried, the parents didn't lose
their kids. They were part of this conspiracy.
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Speaker 3 (12:10):
I mean, can you imagine you have a parent who
loses his child and all of a sudden the internet
people were stopped. I mean, parents were stopped in the
grocery store being screened at you faker, you liar, Your
kids didn't die, you don't have kids.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And so they suit him.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
What was his reasoning?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Was it that they were trying to they were using
it to take away guns? Yes, yes, that it was fear. Yeah,
a tool of fear.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, yep, exactly, that's exactly it. So they sued him for.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Libel and emotional damage big time, and they got one
point four billion dollars. And of course how does he
pay that? I mean, he was a successful guy by
the way. He Info wars made a fortune. He had
millions of followers, and he sold all this supplement stuff
and made buckets of money with that survival kits and
all that. So he had to go bankrupt, and part
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of his bankruptcy is at infowar Wars, the website, his
business selling this crap, his production studio, his assets all
went into bankruptcy and people bid.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The judge had it to be sold for creditors. The
Onion came in and bid. They had the highest bid.
We don't know how much money they bid.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
They won't tell us, and so that part is, I
don't know if they did it for a business, if
it makes sense, but it doesn't matter. The Onion is
such a weird, wonderful publication, and the CEO of the
parent company said, we thought this would be hilarious, a
hilarious joke. It's going to be our answer to the
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no guardrails world where there are no gatekeepers and everything's
kind of insane. And so they're going to come out
and it's going to be info war info Wars the
way we know it, but it's going to be clear
that they're making fun of what these conspiracy theorists are doing.
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And Alex Jones sort of as the Grand Puba, the
great vizier of the conspiracy theorists out there, and the
Onion is going to make absolutely sure that the fun
is made out of it. It's obvious. However, here's the
problem is conspiracy theorists believe all this stuff, and so
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I don't know how the onion is going to come
out and advocate these hoaxes and doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
How crazy it is. How do you how do you.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Make fun of anything where you have theorists believe that
there is a pedophile ring under a pizza parlor in Chicago,
that Democratic congressmen are dorking little.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Children, and people believe that. What do you do?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You say it's not true, you make fun of it,
and you have millions of people believing it.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
You know, you know that I did slight a hand
in magic for many years, but one of the forms
that I really studied and loved was mentalism, where you
basically fake having the abilities.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Well, I would do these shows and stuff in front
of people, and I would have people come up to
me and I would tell them this was fake. Everything
I did was fake to look like I had these abilities,
and they'd tell me, because they believe in psychics, you
just don't know that you have the ability, that you
truly have it. I'm like, no, it's a trick, but
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they believe so much in psychics. They that they were
trying to make me believe that it wasn't a trick
and that I had abilities that I didn't know about.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You haven't believed what they want.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
We get We used to not anymore, but we used
to get so many pr people calling on behalf of
psychics saying, would you put the psychic? That was a
big radio things huge, And I would always say, why
would you even call whenn't your psychic know what?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
My answer is going to be, what do you think? Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Bad Jamaican accent? What was her name? You remember? The
late night TV one?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I don't even remember. There were so many of them.
It's just so funny.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
We're going to tell your fortune man.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, yeah, the Caribbean lady. Yeah, who actually came from
South Dakota and made up that all of it was
fake to all of it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Gazillionaire because we're stupid.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah all right. Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
New police chief in town Jim McDonnell. Interesting guy.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
He was a former sheriff of La County police chief
of Long Beach LAPD for decades and decades he worked
his way started as a street cop, and so he
was sworn in yesterday good guy. He's been on the
show before. It was a big grilled, guilled trying again.
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Robert Luna replaced.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Him, and it was anyway.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I tried to get him back big time when he
had lost the race, and he wouldn't do it. And
here is a really interesting situation with you McDonald, and
that is he has actually asked for the crime rate
to go up. And you go, what is all that about.
First of all, LA is now an official sanctuary city.
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Sanctuary city means enough of the people that pay tax,
that's correct, but sanctuary city basically means you don't cooperate
with the Feds in finding illegal migrants. And McDonald said,
not so much, sanctuary city. It's not our job. Our
job is local policing. It's not helping the Feds find
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illegal migrants. Okay, I mean, you know you can do
both sides of that. But more to the point, there's
a reason why he said that, And there is a
reason why he said I want the crime rate to
go up, because he said the crime rate that is
trending down doesn't take into account the actual crime rate
because crime is not being reported enough. Because you have
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people that are frightened of going the police, and he said,
we have to get these people moving forward and reporting
to us. The crime rate, it is much higher than
what the numbers show. That's why I wanted to go up,
because if it goes up, you know what that means,
more people are reporting, more people are connecting with the
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local police, as opposed to being frightened of let's say,
gang bangers or in bigger numbers, being frightened of the Feds.
Because you know how many illealiens we have in the
city of la or let's start counting them.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
His position, he is not into immigration. His position, he's
a police chief. It's all about the community and safety.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's his job, that's what he concentrates on. That's what
he said. And he said, I want that crime rate
to go up. And then he is sort of changing
everything that was counter in two of it when I
said that, And then he talked about what he wants
to do. He wants more connection with the community, of course, transparency, accountability, homelessness.
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He wants to address as a police force, emergency readiness,
responsible adoption and use of technology. He has to figure
that one out, drone technology, etc. And he wants to
bring up the number of police officers. When he was
on the force forty years ago, there were ten thousand
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cops on the street.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Today there's eighty eight hundred cops.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
And believe me, the population of LA is a hell
of a lot more than it was forty years ago.
And now we're down to eighty eight hundred cops. And
he goes, that is not going to work. He said,
the most recent Police Academy graduating class had twenty three
cops in it. Said, we can do sixty per class,
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and they have several classes because you need hundreds of
cops coming in because there's a lot of attrition. There
are a lot of cops leaving for medical reasons, etcetera,
early early retirement, et cetera. And he said, we simply
need more cops. So that's one issue. His other issue
is a lot of transparency. He wants the police not
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to show up at various scenes when a mental health
practitioner should be there first if someone is in crisis,
and he wants people to report the police. He wants
more connection with the people of Los Angeles and the
police department. And if you accept the fact, forget about
the politics now, and you know where I sit on
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illegal immigration, I'm not the biggest fan. If you accept
the fact that we have a huge number of illegal
myragrants living in the city of Los Angeles and king
in the City of Los Angeles, which we do, how
do you get them to report real crime? Because those
numbers are huge. You do exactly what he wants to do,
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Sanctuary city, more involved. We're not going to nail you.
So let's get the crime rate up because that shows
us the reporting.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Now, actual crime is probably dropping. We think.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Maybe we don't know, but the number of crimes being reported,
that is simply a number that is unacceptable because, as
he said, I don't know how many crimes are actually
being committed in the city. I have no idea, and
the only way I'm going to know is everybody cooperates
with the police. Okay, that makes sense. Why not before
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I get to a little handled history, the Donkey and
the Elephant. We're doing something new and we're gonna roll
it out next week. But I need your help, and
it's called ask Handle Anything.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
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Speaker 3 (22:02):
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ask me questions that are way too personal, like Bill,
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Speaker 2 (23:13):
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Speaker 2 (23:29):
All right, real quickly, We've spent a lot of time
on this.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
How do the Democrats get the donkey and the Republicans
get the elephant?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well, actually the donkey is easy.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
That goes back to eighteen twenty eight, the presidential campaign
of Andrew Jackson. Opponents of Jackson called him a jackass,
and instead of getting upset, he used it as a
badge of honor. He included the jackass into his campaign posters.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That's how the jackass.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
The donkey became part of the Democratic Party, or became
the symbol of Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It expanded.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
It was originally only Andrew Jackson, he was the first
Democratic president.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And now it's become the donkey.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Fantastic, all right, good for him, he co opted it.
Then how did the elephant become the symbol of the
Republican Party? Now, Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president,
and that is a little bit more amorphous.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
During the run.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
For office, Abraham Lincoln's an image of an elephant was
featured as a Republican symbol in at least one political cartoon.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
No one knows why.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Also during the Civil War and even to this day,
seeing the elephant as an expression used by soldiers when
they go into combat and they get killed. Have you
seen the elephant? And that somehow was connected. Again, we
don't know that Andrew Jackson, we know specifically there it
is and Thomas Nast who is the father of the
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political cartoon.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
This was in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
He started using it in political cartoons starting in eighteen
seventy four in Harper's Weekly. He was the cartoonist for
Harper's Weekly, and this had to do and there was
a they think it goes back to a cartoon in
which Ulysses s Grant there was a rumor that he
was going to run for a third term, and various
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interest groups that were there were portrayed as animals, including
an elephant, and that elephant was labeled the Republican vote
and standing at the edge of a pit about to
fall in. And so that just sort of took hold
with Nast doing it, as by the way, is was
an incredible character. As I said, he absolutely invented the
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political cartoon. One of which the Tammany Tiger Tammany Hall,
and it was a tiger that represented Tammany Hall. And
this was Boss Tweed who was connected to Tammany Hall.
Also Nast credited with creating the modern image.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Of Santa Claus. A lot of history there.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
But there's the Republican elephant, there is the Democratic donkey,
the jackass.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
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Bill Handle here on a Foody Friday, November fifteenth, and
of course Foody Friday is all about foody Friday. And
Neil comes aboard at eight o'clock when we do Foody Friday.
And now I am there it is. There's the paperwork. Okay,
welcome to handle in the Handle show because I know
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what I'm doing here so much. And if you think
this will stick, by the way, it's not anybody that
works around me. You know my office, and I'm not
kidding you. When I was practicing running my business, surrogency center,
staff would come up to me for my signature for something,
and my partner said, this is true. Hold on to
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the document that Bill is going to sign. Hold the
corner of that document because he will lose it. You
hand him something to sign and it will disappear right
to that. It is a scary notion, all right. Now,
moving to what is happening in the world of our
government politics, Donald Trump outded himself after choosing Matt Gates.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Going to nominate Matt.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Gates as the Attorney General of the United States, and
the vast knowledge that he has having been a lawyer
for a couple of three years as the lowest level
lawyer in a law firm of nine people. He goes
from that to the Attorney General in terms of legal background.
And then of course Pete haig Seth, who is a
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Defense secretary, vast experience as a captain in Iraq and Afghanistan.
I mean, I mean a hero. I mean he got
Bronzed Star twice. Don't misunderstand, well, well respected, but no policy,
no management, none of that. So now the one that
I didn't think was going to happen, and that is
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Robert Fity, Junior Health in Human Services. Health and Human
Services may be and I think it is the largest
department in the United States, over a trillion dollars a
year at the budget and has one hundred thousand employees
or something and maybe even more. And this is vaccines keptic, right,
he is going to be in charge of vaccines. He
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is in charge of or will be if he is confirmed,
in charge of the FDA National Institute of Health, having
everything to do with the health policy as well as
an issue of actual practice that the federal government does
in terms of health and people were spinning on this one.
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I mean even Republicans were gob smacked, smacked, gobbed gobbles smacked. Okay,
in any case, they were stunned. And you just wonder,
how does a guy who is that now? A couple
of things about him. He is an attorney, not particularly
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as any medical background, but he made a name as
an environmental attorney and a seriously good one. Took on
large corporations du Pont, mont Santo, etc. And the problem
is you go forward a few years and for the
past twenty years he's been devoting a lot of energy
to promoting claims about vaccines, contradicting across the board what
(03:36):
real science says. He believes in junk science. Well, he
doesn't believe in junk science. He believes in what science says.
He had an organization called Children's Health Defense, and during
a pandemic, it was huge, and it had to do
with being anti vaccine.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
But he goes way beyond that.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
COVID is actually a Chinese plot to attack and kill Americans.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
I mean, come on, fluoride. Some reason.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Fluoride is dangerous to kids and people, and he has
committed to removing fluoride from the water supply. By the
way fluoride is put in the water supply, that is
the way.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
It is distributed to people. It's right there in tapwater.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And the fluoride helps strengthen teeth, and it's just healthy
for you. And how fluoride in big quantities is toxic,
but so are strawberries, so is chocolate, caffeine.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
You can die from an overdose.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
Don't they They're saying, is toxicity is in the dose
always and anything.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, but fluoride is universally by scientists considered one not
only one of the same things out there, but one
of the most healthful things out there.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
And this reminds me exactly I was talking earlier.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
When I was a kid in the city of Los Angeles,
there was the issue about the starting of fluoride in
the in the water supply, and I mean it was
a huge fight communists were doing. It was a communist plot. Wow, okay,
communist plot. COVID is a Chinese plot. It's a little
(05:29):
bit scary. And this and Trump has said, this guy
is going to determine the health of this country. We're
going to make America healthy again. Now, a couple of
things he does make sense. I mean he's not particularly
big pharma, which is great. So I mean, no one
is all bad, but he is all not the kind
of guy we want. So, as I said earlier, I
(05:51):
have a theory as to why Trump is naming these
people the cabinet posts who are clearly unqualified, clearly political
in nature. And the reason is is Donald Trump views
loyalty above everything, everything above.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
The good of the country.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
I truly believe that above experience, above expertise, a background,
above knowledge of.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
The topic or subject.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Why would he do that because there are plenty of
people who are loyal to him, who in fact are qualified.
For example, the Supreme Court. He chose three justices for
the Supreme Court super conservative. I mean, liberals went berserk
in this country. But they all three had a depth
(06:44):
of knowledge of the law. They were credential, they had
the chops to be Supreme Court justices. You may not
agree with what their decision is, but you can't argue
with their credentials. This stuff you go out of your mind.
So why is he doing this? And I will tell
you it's simply testing the loyalty of the Senate. He
(07:07):
just wants to know who's loyal to him. He wants
to know who the good guys and who are the
bad guys, who's naughty and who's nice. And he is
going to know as soon as that vote happens, the
confirmation vote, who's on my side and who's my enemy.
Because there's no one neutral in the world of Donald Trump.
(07:29):
It doesn't exist. Either you're for me or you are
against me, nothing in between. And as the Senate is
going to vote to confirm, he's going to see and
then God help you if you are an elected official
and you're on the wrong side of Trump. Now, does
he win all the time to primary you out, No,
(07:51):
not all the time, but he has enough of a
win to where a Republican going up in a primary
and Donald Trump says, don't elect that person is sweating bullets.
He's done that to a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
It's just a worm sandwich. He wants to see who eats.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Yeah, that's exactly what I believe this is.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
And he's gonna you think they're gonna have any autonomy.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
He's gonna let them, you know, uh, dictate their position
or is he gonna Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
He doesn't care. He doesn't care. He cares about he
cares about the border big time.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
He cares about the economy to an extent, Yeah he
does that.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
He cares about foreign relations big time.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Doesn't he have a rats ass about Department of Health
and Human Services or the Department of Transportation.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
He didn't care.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It's are you loyal to me? That's what he cares
about more than anything. Now, Uh, these picks are in
many ways so nuts that there are Republicans that are
gonna go. Please, it is our duty as the Senate
to advise and confirm. I mean, we have to actually
(09:01):
look at the qualifications of this guy. Most of the
Senators will not. Yesterday I saw a couple of interviews
senators says, I completely have confidence in anybody that Donald
Trump chooses.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Anybody. He could literally, I'm not exaggerating.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
He could choose a felon who is in prison for
the rest of his life and would run the Department
of Justice out of prison, and he would have the
majority of Republicans saying I trust the President. Now we
have to see a couple of Republicans. All the Democrats
are going to go, Yes, there's no question about that. Remember,
the Republicans have fifty two senators. Democrats have forty eight.
(09:39):
And we also you already have Lisa mckirskey and Susan
Collins that are probably not going to go for him.
So it's going to be fifty to fifty at this point.
We'll see how many Republicans go the other way. I
believe there's going to be all they need is one.
All they need is one more Republican and Hegseeth's gone
and Kennedy is gone and Gates is gone one, and
(10:00):
we'll see what happens. It's so it's going to be
a test of loyalty or as Neil I think, puts
it much better than I have, who's going to eat
the worm sandwich? Because I say, eat the worm sandwich? Okay, Now.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
The Onion. The Onion is that satirical paper which I love.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
And it's what it does is it satirizes and it
will start a hoax. I mean, just say something crazy
and all of a sudden goes on the Internet and
it becomes reality and they make fun of everything. Well,
the Onion just bought Alex Jones Info Wars. Now that's
a little counterintuitive, isn't it. Alex Jones was sued. I mean,
(10:43):
this is a conspiracy theorist to the level I mean
he's not just a conspiracy theorist.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
He is cruel.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I mean cruel because what he did is one of
his theories is that the Sandy Hook shooting Sandy Kilm
Elementary School was staged. The kids didn't die, they were
all actors. The kids weren't buried, the parents didn't lose
their kids. They were part of this conspiracy.
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Speaker 3 (12:10):
I mean, can you imagine you have a parent who
loses his child and all of a sudden the internet
people were stopped. I mean, parents were stopped in the
grocery store being screened at you faker, you liar, Your
kids didn't die, you don't have kids.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
And so they suit him.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
What was his reasoning?
Speaker 4 (12:31):
Was it that they were trying to they were using
it to take away guns? Yes, yes, that it was fear. Yeah,
a tool of fear.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Yeah, yep, exactly, that's exactly it. So they sued him for.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
Libel and emotional damage big time, and they got one
point four billion dollars. And of course how does he
pay that? I mean, he was a successful guy by
the way. He Info wars made a fortune. He had
millions of followers, and he sold all this supplement stuff
and made buckets of money with that survival kits and
all that. So he had to go bankrupt, and part
(13:09):
of his bankruptcy is at infowar Wars, the website, his
business selling this crap, his production studio, his assets all
went into bankruptcy and people bid.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
The judge had it to be sold for creditors. The
Onion came in and bid. They had the highest bid.
We don't know how much money they bid.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
They won't tell us, and so that part is, I
don't know if they did it for a business, if
it makes sense, but it doesn't matter. The Onion is
such a weird, wonderful publication, and the CEO of the
parent company said, we thought this would be hilarious, a
hilarious joke. It's going to be our answer to the
(13:52):
no guardrails world where there are no gatekeepers and everything's
kind of insane. And so they're going to come out
and it's going to be info war info Wars the
way we know it, but it's going to be clear
that they're making fun of what these conspiracy theorists are doing.
(14:13):
And Alex Jones sort of as the Grand Puba, the
great vizier of the conspiracy theorists out there, and the
Onion is going to make absolutely sure that the fun
is made out of it. It's obvious. However, here's the
problem is conspiracy theorists believe all this stuff, and so
(14:36):
I don't know how the onion is going to come
out and advocate these hoaxes and doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
How crazy it is. How do you how do you.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
Make fun of anything where you have theorists believe that
there is a pedophile ring under a pizza parlor in Chicago,
that Democratic congressmen are dorking little.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Children, and people believe that. What do you do?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
You say it's not true, you make fun of it,
and you have millions of people believing it.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
You know, you know that I did slight a hand
in magic for many years, but one of the forms
that I really studied and loved was mentalism, where you
basically fake having the abilities.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Well, I would do these shows and stuff in front
of people, and I would have people come up to
me and I would tell them this was fake. Everything
I did was fake to look like I had these abilities,
and they'd tell me, because they believe in psychics, you
just don't know that you have the ability, that you
truly have it. I'm like, no, it's a trick, but
(15:41):
they believe so much in psychics. They that they were
trying to make me believe that it wasn't a trick
and that I had abilities that I didn't know about.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
You haven't believed what they want.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's crazy.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
We get We used to not anymore, but we used
to get so many pr people calling on behalf of
psychics saying, would you put the psychic? That was a
big radio things huge, And I would always say, why
would you even call whenn't your psychic know what?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
My answer is going to be, what do you think? Oh?
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Bad Jamaican accent? What was her name? You remember? The
late night TV one?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
I don't even remember. There were so many of them.
It's just so funny.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
We're going to tell your fortune man.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, yeah, the Caribbean lady. Yeah, who actually came from
South Dakota and made up that all of it was
fake to all of it.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Gazillionaire because we're stupid.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Yeah all right. Uh.
Speaker 2 (16:32):
New police chief in town Jim McDonnell. Interesting guy.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
He was a former sheriff of La County police chief
of Long Beach LAPD for decades and decades he worked
his way started as a street cop, and so he
was sworn in yesterday good guy. He's been on the
show before. It was a big grilled, guilled trying again.
(16:58):
Robert Luna replaced.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Him, and it was anyway.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
I tried to get him back big time when he
had lost the race, and he wouldn't do it. And
here is a really interesting situation with you McDonald, and
that is he has actually asked for the crime rate
to go up. And you go, what is all that about.
First of all, LA is now an official sanctuary city.
(17:24):
Sanctuary city means enough of the people that pay tax,
that's correct, but sanctuary city basically means you don't cooperate
with the Feds in finding illegal migrants. And McDonald said,
not so much, sanctuary city. It's not our job. Our
job is local policing. It's not helping the Feds find
(17:46):
illegal migrants. Okay, I mean, you know you can do
both sides of that. But more to the point, there's
a reason why he said that, And there is a
reason why he said I want the crime rate to
go up, because he said the crime rate that is
trending down doesn't take into account the actual crime rate
because crime is not being reported enough. Because you have
(18:09):
people that are frightened of going the police, and he said,
we have to get these people moving forward and reporting
to us. The crime rate, it is much higher than
what the numbers show. That's why I wanted to go up,
because if it goes up, you know what that means,
more people are reporting, more people are connecting with the
(18:31):
local police, as opposed to being frightened of let's say,
gang bangers or in bigger numbers, being frightened of the Feds.
Because you know how many illealiens we have in the
city of la or let's start counting them.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:46):
His position, he is not into immigration. His position, he's
a police chief. It's all about the community and safety.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
That's his job, that's what he concentrates on. That's what
he said. And he said, I want that crime rate
to go up. And then he is sort of changing
everything that was counter in two of it when I
said that, And then he talked about what he wants
to do. He wants more connection with the community, of course, transparency, accountability, homelessness.
(19:19):
He wants to address as a police force, emergency readiness,
responsible adoption and use of technology. He has to figure
that one out, drone technology, etc. And he wants to
bring up the number of police officers. When he was
on the force forty years ago, there were ten thousand
(19:41):
cops on the street.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Today there's eighty eight hundred cops.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
And believe me, the population of LA is a hell
of a lot more than it was forty years ago.
And now we're down to eighty eight hundred cops. And
he goes, that is not going to work. He said,
the most recent Police Academy graduating class had twenty three
cops in it. Said, we can do sixty per class,
(20:07):
and they have several classes because you need hundreds of
cops coming in because there's a lot of attrition. There
are a lot of cops leaving for medical reasons, etcetera,
early early retirement, et cetera. And he said, we simply
need more cops. So that's one issue. His other issue
is a lot of transparency. He wants the police not
(20:29):
to show up at various scenes when a mental health
practitioner should be there first if someone is in crisis,
and he wants people to report the police. He wants
more connection with the people of Los Angeles and the
police department. And if you accept the fact, forget about
the politics now, and you know where I sit on
(20:51):
illegal immigration, I'm not the biggest fan. If you accept
the fact that we have a huge number of illegal
myragrants living in the city of Los Angeles and king
in the City of Los Angeles, which we do, how
do you get them to report real crime? Because those
numbers are huge. You do exactly what he wants to do,
(21:11):
Sanctuary city, more involved. We're not going to nail you.
So let's get the crime rate up because that shows
us the reporting.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Now, actual crime is probably dropping. We think.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Maybe we don't know, but the number of crimes being reported,
that is simply a number that is unacceptable because, as
he said, I don't know how many crimes are actually
being committed in the city. I have no idea, and
the only way I'm going to know is everybody cooperates
with the police. Okay, that makes sense. Why not before
(21:48):
I get to a little handled history, the Donkey and
the Elephant. We're doing something new and we're gonna roll
it out next week. But I need your help, and
it's called ask Handle Anything.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
So here's what you do.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
You go to the iHeart app and it's free download
if you don't have it, and you go to the
KFI page, and you have to do this during the show.
At the top of the right hand corner on the
KFI page is a microphone. You hit the microphone and
then you record your question. And you're asking me a question,
and I don't care what you ask because I'm going
to answer spontaneously because I don't hear the questions, and
(22:24):
and Neil are the ones that choose the questions, and
you and I hear it first time on the air,
and then I get to answer the questions. I sort
of do this handle on the law where I have
no idea what people ask, and we're going to just
try to do this just for fun. I've never done
that before, no more than fifteen seconds. I don't want
(22:44):
to hear your legal opinions. I don't want to hear
your political opinions. I do not give a rat to
ask what you think. But the show is about going
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basically two limitations, and that is SCC regulations. Do I
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(23:07):
ask me questions that are way too personal, like Bill,
how many STDs have you had?
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'm not going to answer that three, So go to.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
The iHeart Radio, iHeart app and go ahead, KFI page
right hand corner, microphone, cap it and record, And next
week we'll put some of these together.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
All right, real quickly, We've spent a lot of time
on this.
Speaker 3 (23:33):
How do the Democrats get the donkey and the Republicans
get the elephant?
Speaker 2 (23:37):
Well, actually the donkey is easy.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
That goes back to eighteen twenty eight, the presidential campaign
of Andrew Jackson. Opponents of Jackson called him a jackass,
and instead of getting upset, he used it as a
badge of honor. He included the jackass into his campaign posters.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
That's how the jackass.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
The donkey became part of the Democratic Party, or became
the symbol of Democratic Party.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
It expanded.
Speaker 3 (24:09):
It was originally only Andrew Jackson, he was the first
Democratic president.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
And now it's become the donkey.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Fantastic, all right, good for him, he co opted it.
Then how did the elephant become the symbol of the
Republican Party? Now, Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president,
and that is a little bit more amorphous.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
During the run.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
For office, Abraham Lincoln's an image of an elephant was
featured as a Republican symbol in at least one political cartoon.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
No one knows why.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Also during the Civil War and even to this day,
seeing the elephant as an expression used by soldiers when
they go into combat and they get killed. Have you
seen the elephant? And that somehow was connected. Again, we
don't know that Andrew Jackson, we know specifically there it
is and Thomas Nast who is the father of the
(25:16):
political cartoon.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
This was in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
He started using it in political cartoons starting in eighteen
seventy four in Harper's Weekly. He was the cartoonist for
Harper's Weekly, and this had to do and there was
a they think it goes back to a cartoon in
which Ulysses s Grant there was a rumor that he
was going to run for a third term, and various
(25:43):
interest groups that were there were portrayed as animals, including
an elephant, and that elephant was labeled the Republican vote
and standing at the edge of a pit about to
fall in. And so that just sort of took hold
with Nast doing it, as by the way, is was
an incredible character. As I said, he absolutely invented the
(26:07):
political cartoon. One of which the Tammany Tiger Tammany Hall,
and it was a tiger that represented Tammany Hall. And
this was Boss Tweed who was connected to Tammany Hall.
Also Nast credited with creating the modern image.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Of Santa Claus. A lot of history there.
Speaker 3 (26:28):
But there's the Republican elephant, there is the Democratic donkey,
the jackass.
Speaker 2 (26:35):
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