August 27, 2025 • 26 mins
(August 27, 2025)
California Republican lawmaker proposes ‘two-state solution’ in response to redistricting fight. Some believe Trump wants to takeover the Fed. FBI investigates swatting hoaxes at roughly a dozen universities. Chronic absenteeism remains high... why students are missing more school.
California Republican lawmaker proposes ‘two-state solution’ in response to redistricting fight. Some believe Trump wants to takeover the Fed. FBI investigates swatting hoaxes at roughly a dozen universities. Chronic absenteeism remains high... why students are missing more school.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from kf I
AM six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
KFI AM six forty. Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Here. It is a Wednesday morning, August twenty seven, and
we've got a lot of things to look at today.
Oh we're not gonna have Jim Keeney today, there was
a meeting company up, So instead we're gonna do a
few more topics and it's it'll be fun stuff, some
AI stuff today that I'm gonna throw at you, some
(00:43):
a little bit different than you expect. Now, a story,
a position that has been brewing for years and years,
and that is splitting California into two states. And whenever
you think I always thought, whenever I heard of cal
California being split, I always envisioned northern California southern California.
(01:05):
You basically halfway up California line goes across. But that's
really not what makes sense and certainly what is not
being envisioned. So State Assembly Member James Gallagher is going
to hold a press conference today to present a plan.
And this is in response to California Governor Nwsoman's plan
(01:28):
to redraw the state's congressional maps.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
He's a Republican.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Matter of fact, he's a Republican leader of the Assembly,
and he is asking for the creation of a new
US state comprised of thirty five Inland California counties, including
most of northern California, Sierra Nevada, Central Valley, the Inland Empire,
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very Republican, very conservative, and the democratic part of the
state would be a law on the western side. Imagine
about a third of the state going all the way down.
That would be West California versus East California. And why
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is this, Well, if they really are two states, if
you look at it, you have the liberal part of California.
California is known as the most liberal state in the
United States, and that has to do with the fact
that our population base is just we're liberal. We have
more Democrats than Republicans. We are the state of Tofu Turkey.
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We are at the forefront of a lot of social changes,
a lot of them. Of course, very proud of the fact.
We're number one in many ways. Number one in taxation,
for example, number one in housing prices if you look
at the entire state, number one in gas tax, income tax.
(02:59):
It's all really good in many ways. So what he
proposes something makes a lot of sense because there really
are too almost two different countries here.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
If you go along the coast.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You have the Bay Area of La Area, La Orange County,
going down to San Diego. It is a state, if
you will, let's say it's Western California. There is industry.
There's the entertainment business, there's the aerospace business, there's the
(03:29):
financial centers, all of it in Western California. Eastern California
is a different country. First of all, it is agriculture.
There are what are the major industries in the Inland
Empire And I don't even know. I would think that
(03:50):
it would be the agriculture, very low paying jobs. Fulfillment
centers which are huge. Amazon Walmart have these massive, massive
warehouses that they ship goods out. If I'm talking about
the millions of square feed those are not good paying jobs.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It's going to be a poor, poor state.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
But it doesn't matter politically because what it's going to
do is make California basically a well a lot more Republican.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Based because this is what he wants.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
What he wants is in the two state solution, the
eastern part.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Will have many more districts.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Now, the problem is is that districts are decided on population.
That's the issue. And so I don't know how many
counties they are going to be, but there'll be new
ones that are drawn, and they will will and they
will be Republican. And so all of a sudden, California
(04:54):
may go in two different directions. Well it may go
in two different states actually, and of all the states
out there, this one makes the more sense. No, New
York maybe also where you have the city of New
York and that could be separated out because I think
the city is ninety percent of the population of the
entire state. And then you have the upper State yet
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part of New York that is much more conservative. So
politics are breaking down. Will this ever happen? I don't
think so. I mean, it's possible that two states could
be established here, but that would take.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Congress allowing that to happen.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
That would take a vote of all of California. And
do you think that Western United States or the population
and I'm giving quotes now Western United States would allow
the split up of California. No, No, because politically, the
liberal the Democrats don't want any less powers.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Better of fact, they're going the other way.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And this plan is to contradict, is to fight the
very political issue that's going on in which Newsom is
trying to get five new Democratic seats out of read restructing.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Okay, do you think phil if they do this, because
all the rich and famous singers and stuff will be
in that little area, they'll call it the Gaga Strip,
the Gagat Strip.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Damn almost got that one. Almost got it right. No,
I don't think so, but close.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The other industry I forgot to mention, huge industry out
in sam Barano particularly is the meth industry, which hires
a fair number of people.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Of course, a lot of them get blown up. Cono.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You live out in the out there in the Inland Empire. Okay,
how many meth labs do you?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
We do have quite a few minor league baseball teams.
We're gonna have the biggest minor league sports complex in
the Western Hemisphere. We have cal Baptist, one of the
best universities of Low Melinda University Medical Center, one of
the best hospitals.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
In the world, hired by them.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Blue Zone, which is one of four in the world
to have the eldest oldest people so they live healthier
in long lives. We have a lot of great things.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So, and what's the name of the new baseball team,
the meth Heads. Well, no, they haven't a name to yet.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Actually, it's a Dodger affiliate and they'll be naming it
coming in September in Ontario.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Okay, this is all right, part time job promoting the
England Empire. That's Cono well said. Yeah, pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's a great place.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Calsa Semerdino Cajon High School, you know, produced one of
the best football players ever, Jane Daniels.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
No, we go right, and let's not forget the weather.
It's so comfortable during the summer. All right, so much
for that now. I have said this before and I
will continue saying this. The Trump presidency is far different
than any other president's presidency we've had in the history
(08:12):
of the United States. One of the aspects of the
Trump presidency is real simple, and that is to take
over the government, to ignore the fact that we have
a balance of power the judiciary, the executive, and the legislative.
He has already taken over the legislative. The House and
(08:33):
the Senate will do anything he asks. Matter of fact,
this whole issue of the old issue of the new
five districts that are going to be created in Texas.
That was done at the direction of Donald Trump. The
legislature wouldn't have done that because that's done every ten years.
(08:54):
Well we're right in the middle of every ten years,
and Trump ordered that this be done. That simple, okay.
So Governor Knews him goes the other way, and now
we have a fight between the legislature, which throws everything
up in the air in terms of the way districts
are drawn up redistricting. So now the issue is with
(09:15):
a federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is an independent body,
period done. And what the President has done is now
moving to fire Lisa Cook, who is one of the governors.
There are seven governors and you have the head of
the Fed in this case Jr. Own Powell, and they
decide inflation rates and they decide monetary policy.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's what they do. It's not supposed to be political.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
President Trump is claiming it is political, and he wants
his person put in to unpoliticize because the argument here
is that this is political and I'm going to make
it fair. And even he's doing this with the justice system.
Remember the weaponization of the Department of Justice. Well, it's
(10:02):
now being straightened out, going after people who are against
Trump because that's what's fair and equitable. Okay, I mean,
it depends on how you look at it. But in
this case, you have Lisa Cook and he wants to
can her because she has not been voting in his way.
What does his way mean? He wants the lowering of
(10:24):
tact of the inflation. He wants monetary policy where the
inflation rate is well, interest rates are cut because inflation,
I guess is our union is too high. So he
wants to cut interest rates And the problem is is
that And tell me if this is not true. Do
(10:44):
you honestly believe that President Trump is not making any
decisions based on politics.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
It just doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Politics has nothing to do with this as of right now.
Matter of fact, the only political aspect of this flight
is the Fed itself. They are dealing with politics. They
are going anti Trump. They don't believe, particularly as their
own Powell doesn't believe that interest rates should be cut
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because it's because Donald Trump wants them to be cut.
And this is the first time, by the way, a
president has ever attempted to fire a governor of the
FED first time ever. An economists are saying, you know,
you got to watch out. First of all, the independence matter,
the independence issue is really important. Second of all, the
economy is fragile right now. We have the tariffs coming
(11:35):
in and inflation is at it's too high, but it
is not unreasonable. You know, let's not make any changes
here right now. Well, the President says we want changes,
we want big changes right now. Why, as the White
House said, because he understands the economy far more than
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the FED does, because he is not political goal. He
is there for the benefit of the people of the
United States, where the Fed now not is particularly Jerome Powell.
And it looks like Powell is caving on this. He
said he was open to an interest rate.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Cut next month.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
The White House immediate came out and said, you see,
Trump was right, Powell was wrong. Now did it have
to do do with the fact that President Trump, after
Powell wouldn't reduce interest rate, called him a numbskull, called
him a moron.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But this is what this president does.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
If you don't agree with him, your third rate talent,
your numbskull, your career is basically over. If you're in
the entertainment field. What's going to happen. Is he going
to get his interest rate cut?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah? Maybe. But here's the why you.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Cut interest rates is because the economy is too hot,
it's growing at too fast a rate, and you want
to slow it down.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
That's when you raise interest rates.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You cut interest rates when the economy is slow and
sluggish to get it moving. The problem is, our economy
is not slow and sluggish right now. I mean, hiring
is down, no question about it. Prices are going up,
no question about it. But it's nowhere near to the
(13:25):
point where a lot of commost economists are saying now
is not the time. You want to keep things the same.
But when interest rates drop, that means money is cheaper.
It's great for it's great for business. It's great for
us too. Interest rates on credit cards, for example, go
from thirty percent a year down to twenty eight percent
a year, because that's going to help you so much
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business is borrowing and the billions and billions of dollars
will do better. And when interest rates go down, the
United States as an economy does better because the United
States pays interest on its debt and short term interest
rates are affected. Is he going to win.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
By the way, in this with Lisa Cook.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, she can only be fired for cause, and the
President is saying that when she applied for two mortgages,
she put her primary residence both at the same time,
and therefore that's fraud. M I can't be argued. But
she hasn't been charged for one thing. So he's firing
her in anticipation of her being charged. We'll see if
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she has charged and if she isn't. He's done this
on an allegation, and frankly, no one knows, and the
courts are going to decide. Does this firing for cause?
Does it mean that it can only happen during the
course of her tenure or across the board. In other words,
if she committed mortgage fraud at worse, let's say she
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is guilty of that, the fact that she did it
before she became a Fed governor, does that enable the
president to fire her for cause. That's up in the
air and the courts have not yet determined that. So
she's fighting it. She says, you can go screw yourself.
I'm not leaving, and he already has in mind. Now
(15:15):
he already put in because one of the Fed governors left.
You already put in someone in his stead person retired.
I think it was a woman who retired in her stead.
And there's a big problem with that. Why because the
FED being independent. A member of the FED also in
this case, happens to be a member of the White
House staff. How's that for independence?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Now I want to talk about something that's going on,
and this is a rough one. And over the last
few days, Lisa dozen universities have received these hoax swatting
calls of an active shooter on campus.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's what swatting is.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Someone calls in and says an active shooter, and of
course the.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Police respond immediately.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
The order to shut down, shelter in place for students
across campus happens. Everything is shut down and students are
wondering if it's true or not. Alarms go out, texts
go out. Now, keep in mind that most incoming college
freshmen likely to have started school in twenty twelve, that
(16:26):
was the year of Sandy Hook Elementary School, the shooting,
and since then, what does every kid go through all
through school active shooter drills. That's what they do. And
so when all of a sudden there's an active shooter hoax.
A swat that comes down puts everybody in a turmoil
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and the police have to take it seriously.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
They just have to.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
They have no choice, which means it screws up.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I mean everything.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
One person can stop a university of thirty thousand and
people instantly. As a matter of fact, what is the
Villanueva School University in Pennsylvania had a swatting call that
they found out came from the library of the school.
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Never found out who did it. And the sound effects
that were put in you could hear gunshots in the
background of that call. To add more realism, and so
this is crazy. It's happening more and more, and it's easier.
I mean it used to be with landlines at least
(17:39):
you could the authorities could trace it down. We're talking
about the FBI, We're talking about every agency, state police,
county police, local police. Today, with the anonymity of the Internet,
VPNs programs being able to make these phone calls overseas
and jumping jurisdictions, what can they do?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Not much? Now? Is there an answer?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I think there is, and that is to make it
so prohibitively punitive that anybody who gets caught does twenty
five years in prison. We have laws, for example, with
crack cocaine. If you bring in more than five grams
or ten grams and you're caught with it, its a mandatory
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ten year federal sentence, mandatory. The judge can say nothing
about it. There was a gal who was caught at
an airport and really didn't know what she was bringing in,
sort of knew that it was crack cocaine, but didn't
think it was that serious of such a small amount.
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The judge said, you don't deserve ten years in prison
for this, but I have no choice.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I've got to give it to you.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And a lot of judges when they had those mandatory
sentences where the judges had no discretion, just resigned a
lot of federal judges. They say, I can't do this,
there's no room for a judge anymore. Well, that one
is I think problematic, problematic that scenario. What I don't
think is problematic is a swatting call at a university
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or a college or a high school. That doesn't matter,
elementary school. That should be a mandatory twenty five years
in prison. If someone is caught and all of a sudden,
no do you think, I don't know, maybe I shouldn't
do this. I think the same thing should be for
graffiti mandatory ten years. Okayhut, that'll stop them.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I think at some point you you draw the line.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yesterday I talked about Saudi Arabia and how lack of
criminality goes on in Saudi Arabia. You can walk around,
readd Saudi Arabia and never never worry about being pickpocketed.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Because once someone is caught pickpocketing, there goes the hand.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's gone.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And I don't think there has ever been someone who
has been convicted of pickpocketing twice. Okay, so much for that. Also, Amy,
you reported on another school shooting, and I know you're
going to be covering that as we get information. And
then my question, I always asked this question, why do
we even cover them anymore?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Why? Bother?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
How many are there a day? One a day, two
a day, three a day. I don't know the answer
to that. You know, as I told you many times before,
during the height of the Vietnam War and CBS News
which I used to watch, all that Walter Cronkite will
say is this week three hundred Americans were killed, and
(20:51):
I don't know why we don't do that. On Friday
this week, fifteen students were killed in various shootings across
the country and schools. I mean, that's how stating it is.
Amy has been covering this. What's the latest on this one.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Just that as many as twenty people may have been shot.
Neighbors are saying the kids would have been in mass
at the time. It's a pre K through eighth grade
Annunciation Catholic school, and they're saying that the shooter. A
local Fox station is reporting that the shooter is dead.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
And of course, if you want to get as many
kids as possible at a Catholic school, you don't do
it classroom by classroom. You do it in an auditorium
setting in the chapel where you have many many children
that are there at the same time.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Dad, that's just horrific.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I mean, this is you know, you go overseas or
I go overseas, and we talk about and a lot
of people love America. I mean, there's no question America
is beloved internationally. But one of the questions that always
remain what they can understand is why so many guns
and why so many shootings, Why so many people die.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Why so many.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
School shootings where kids are involved like this one? All right,
moving over to a story that broke. The LA Times
did an article on this and at school absenteeism, and man,
it has exploded fifty percent higher than before the pandemic. Now,
during the pandemic, of course, no one was in school,
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but it's gone through the roof. And you would think
those who skip school will be the lower income. This
is across the board, high income students, high achievers, as
well as low income students low achievers. Everybody is apped,
is missing school moderate absenteeism. Okay, that was good absenteeism,
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which is considered about four percent.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Well, twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Three, only a third of the students were still going
to school regularly, not missing days unless they were sick. Well,
today two thirds of the students are missing school for
reasons other than being sick, and the researcher is trying
to figure out what the hell it's about. Well, the
(23:21):
pandemic made it easy. You didn't go to school during
the pandemic, so maybe that's baked in now where school
is not that important. Also, they're so much available on
the internet, and teachers give so much work that can
be answered on the internet can be answered with research.
Of course you have AI now it's a different mindset completely.
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Also on a practical level, why do people miss school that.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I think is legitimate?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
School is boring as hell, especially if you're in public school.
The students that are being taught to the lowest common denominator,
not the highest.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Don't teach to the most gifted kids.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
They teach to either the lowest or the middle of it,
and low kids drop out or don't do as well,
and then the upper kids the upper level because they're
just bored to death, which is why we're I don't
think I did that story, which.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Is why AI.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Is helping students at home in a big, big way,
and that may be the future. So showing up to
school has become optional. The other thing researchers looking at
is mental health issues connected to absenteeism. Looking at mental
health has become very important and very front burner relative
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to where it was decades or years ago, and.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
What's the connection there?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And researchers are finding out that there is connection day now,
not only is absenteeism hurting students, but what research are
concerned about that's an individual kid being hurt. Okay, you're
in school or not in school a lot, Okay, that's
(25:12):
your issue. But long term for the labor force, if
there are enough kids, and there seems to be enough kids,
that is problematic because guess what employers don't want you
to do. Not show up. You don't show up, You're done.
Welcome to the real world. School, especially public school, even
(25:34):
private school, you get all kinds of passes. Okay, makeup,
you can do your homework later. Try doing that when
you're at your job. You're giving a project and I
didn't get in on time. Can I do it tomorrow?
Can I do it next week? How long do you
think you're gonna last?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
In school? You do that all day long.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
So absenteeism yep, which is why I think homeschooling. As
much as I don't like homeschooling, while in a religious context,
I don't like it, But if you're just talking about
general homeschooling, it's certainly the way to go. But it's
a lot of work for the parents. It's an insane
amount of work for the parents. I mean, a parent
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has to give up a career basically to homeschool A kid.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
KFI AM six forty. Bill Handle.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Here. It is a Wednesday morning, August twenty seven, and
we've got a lot of things to look at today.
Oh we're not gonna have Jim Keeney today, there was
a meeting company up, So instead we're gonna do a
few more topics and it's it'll be fun stuff, some
AI stuff today that I'm gonna throw at you, some
(00:43):
a little bit different than you expect. Now, a story,
a position that has been brewing for years and years,
and that is splitting California into two states. And whenever
you think I always thought, whenever I heard of cal
California being split, I always envisioned northern California southern California.
(01:05):
You basically halfway up California line goes across. But that's
really not what makes sense and certainly what is not
being envisioned. So State Assembly Member James Gallagher is going
to hold a press conference today to present a plan.
And this is in response to California Governor Nwsoman's plan
(01:28):
to redraw the state's congressional maps.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
He's a Republican.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Matter of fact, he's a Republican leader of the Assembly,
and he is asking for the creation of a new
US state comprised of thirty five Inland California counties, including
most of northern California, Sierra Nevada, Central Valley, the Inland Empire,
(01:53):
very Republican, very conservative, and the democratic part of the
state would be a law on the western side. Imagine
about a third of the state going all the way down.
That would be West California versus East California. And why
(02:14):
is this, Well, if they really are two states, if
you look at it, you have the liberal part of California.
California is known as the most liberal state in the
United States, and that has to do with the fact
that our population base is just we're liberal. We have
more Democrats than Republicans. We are the state of Tofu Turkey.
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We are at the forefront of a lot of social changes,
a lot of them. Of course, very proud of the fact.
We're number one in many ways. Number one in taxation,
for example, number one in housing prices if you look
at the entire state, number one in gas tax, income tax.
(02:59):
It's all really good in many ways. So what he
proposes something makes a lot of sense because there really
are too almost two different countries here.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
If you go along the coast.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
You have the Bay Area of La Area, La Orange County,
going down to San Diego. It is a state, if
you will, let's say it's Western California. There is industry.
There's the entertainment business, there's the aerospace business, there's the
(03:29):
financial centers, all of it in Western California. Eastern California
is a different country. First of all, it is agriculture.
There are what are the major industries in the Inland
Empire And I don't even know. I would think that
(03:50):
it would be the agriculture, very low paying jobs. Fulfillment
centers which are huge. Amazon Walmart have these massive, massive
warehouses that they ship goods out. If I'm talking about
the millions of square feed those are not good paying jobs.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
It's going to be a poor, poor state.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
But it doesn't matter politically because what it's going to
do is make California basically a well a lot more Republican.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Based because this is what he wants.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
What he wants is in the two state solution, the
eastern part.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Will have many more districts.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Now, the problem is is that districts are decided on population.
That's the issue. And so I don't know how many
counties they are going to be, but there'll be new
ones that are drawn, and they will will and they
will be Republican. And so all of a sudden, California
(04:54):
may go in two different directions. Well it may go
in two different states actually, and of all the states
out there, this one makes the more sense. No, New
York maybe also where you have the city of New
York and that could be separated out because I think
the city is ninety percent of the population of the
entire state. And then you have the upper State yet
(05:18):
part of New York that is much more conservative. So
politics are breaking down. Will this ever happen? I don't
think so. I mean, it's possible that two states could
be established here, but that would take.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Congress allowing that to happen.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
That would take a vote of all of California. And
do you think that Western United States or the population
and I'm giving quotes now Western United States would allow
the split up of California. No, No, because politically, the
liberal the Democrats don't want any less powers.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Better of fact, they're going the other way.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
And this plan is to contradict, is to fight the
very political issue that's going on in which Newsom is
trying to get five new Democratic seats out of read restructing.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Okay, do you think phil if they do this, because
all the rich and famous singers and stuff will be
in that little area, they'll call it the Gaga Strip,
the Gagat Strip.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Damn almost got that one. Almost got it right. No,
I don't think so, but close.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
The other industry I forgot to mention, huge industry out
in sam Barano particularly is the meth industry, which hires
a fair number of people.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Of course, a lot of them get blown up. Cono.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
You live out in the out there in the Inland Empire. Okay,
how many meth labs do you?
Speaker 4 (06:57):
We do have quite a few minor league baseball teams.
We're gonna have the biggest minor league sports complex in
the Western Hemisphere. We have cal Baptist, one of the
best universities of Low Melinda University Medical Center, one of
the best hospitals.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
In the world, hired by them.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
Blue Zone, which is one of four in the world
to have the eldest oldest people so they live healthier
in long lives. We have a lot of great things.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
So, and what's the name of the new baseball team,
the meth Heads. Well, no, they haven't a name to yet.
Speaker 4 (07:29):
Actually, it's a Dodger affiliate and they'll be naming it
coming in September in Ontario.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Okay, this is all right, part time job promoting the
England Empire. That's Cono well said. Yeah, pretty impressive.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
It's a great place.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
Calsa Semerdino Cajon High School, you know, produced one of
the best football players ever, Jane Daniels.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
No, we go right, and let's not forget the weather.
It's so comfortable during the summer. All right, so much
for that now. I have said this before and I
will continue saying this. The Trump presidency is far different
than any other president's presidency we've had in the history
(08:12):
of the United States. One of the aspects of the
Trump presidency is real simple, and that is to take
over the government, to ignore the fact that we have
a balance of power the judiciary, the executive, and the legislative.
He has already taken over the legislative. The House and
(08:33):
the Senate will do anything he asks. Matter of fact,
this whole issue of the old issue of the new
five districts that are going to be created in Texas.
That was done at the direction of Donald Trump. The
legislature wouldn't have done that because that's done every ten years.
(08:54):
Well we're right in the middle of every ten years,
and Trump ordered that this be done. That simple, okay.
So Governor Knews him goes the other way, and now
we have a fight between the legislature, which throws everything
up in the air in terms of the way districts
are drawn up redistricting. So now the issue is with
(09:15):
a federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is an independent body,
period done. And what the President has done is now
moving to fire Lisa Cook, who is one of the governors.
There are seven governors and you have the head of
the Fed in this case Jr. Own Powell, and they
decide inflation rates and they decide monetary policy.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
That's what they do. It's not supposed to be political.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
President Trump is claiming it is political, and he wants
his person put in to unpoliticize because the argument here
is that this is political and I'm going to make
it fair. And even he's doing this with the justice system.
Remember the weaponization of the Department of Justice. Well, it's
(10:02):
now being straightened out, going after people who are against
Trump because that's what's fair and equitable. Okay, I mean,
it depends on how you look at it. But in
this case, you have Lisa Cook and he wants to
can her because she has not been voting in his way.
What does his way mean? He wants the lowering of
(10:24):
tact of the inflation. He wants monetary policy where the
inflation rate is well, interest rates are cut because inflation,
I guess is our union is too high. So he
wants to cut interest rates And the problem is is
that And tell me if this is not true. Do
(10:44):
you honestly believe that President Trump is not making any
decisions based on politics.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
It just doesn't exist.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Politics has nothing to do with this as of right now.
Matter of fact, the only political aspect of this flight
is the Fed itself. They are dealing with politics. They
are going anti Trump. They don't believe, particularly as their
own Powell doesn't believe that interest rates should be cut
(11:14):
because it's because Donald Trump wants them to be cut.
And this is the first time, by the way, a
president has ever attempted to fire a governor of the
FED first time ever. An economists are saying, you know,
you got to watch out. First of all, the independence matter,
the independence issue is really important. Second of all, the
economy is fragile right now. We have the tariffs coming
(11:35):
in and inflation is at it's too high, but it
is not unreasonable. You know, let's not make any changes
here right now. Well, the President says we want changes,
we want big changes right now. Why, as the White
House said, because he understands the economy far more than
(11:56):
the FED does, because he is not political goal. He
is there for the benefit of the people of the
United States, where the Fed now not is particularly Jerome Powell.
And it looks like Powell is caving on this. He
said he was open to an interest rate.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Cut next month.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
The White House immediate came out and said, you see,
Trump was right, Powell was wrong. Now did it have
to do do with the fact that President Trump, after
Powell wouldn't reduce interest rate, called him a numbskull, called
him a moron.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
But this is what this president does.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
If you don't agree with him, your third rate talent,
your numbskull, your career is basically over. If you're in
the entertainment field. What's going to happen. Is he going
to get his interest rate cut?
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah? Maybe. But here's the why you.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Cut interest rates is because the economy is too hot,
it's growing at too fast a rate, and you want
to slow it down.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
That's when you raise interest rates.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
You cut interest rates when the economy is slow and
sluggish to get it moving. The problem is, our economy
is not slow and sluggish right now. I mean, hiring
is down, no question about it. Prices are going up,
no question about it. But it's nowhere near to the
(13:25):
point where a lot of commost economists are saying now
is not the time. You want to keep things the same.
But when interest rates drop, that means money is cheaper.
It's great for it's great for business. It's great for
us too. Interest rates on credit cards, for example, go
from thirty percent a year down to twenty eight percent
a year, because that's going to help you so much
(13:47):
business is borrowing and the billions and billions of dollars
will do better. And when interest rates go down, the
United States as an economy does better because the United
States pays interest on its debt and short term interest
rates are affected. Is he going to win.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
By the way, in this with Lisa Cook.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Well, she can only be fired for cause, and the
President is saying that when she applied for two mortgages,
she put her primary residence both at the same time,
and therefore that's fraud. M I can't be argued. But
she hasn't been charged for one thing. So he's firing
her in anticipation of her being charged. We'll see if
(14:29):
she has charged and if she isn't. He's done this
on an allegation, and frankly, no one knows, and the
courts are going to decide. Does this firing for cause?
Does it mean that it can only happen during the
course of her tenure or across the board. In other words,
if she committed mortgage fraud at worse, let's say she
(14:54):
is guilty of that, the fact that she did it
before she became a Fed governor, does that enable the
president to fire her for cause. That's up in the
air and the courts have not yet determined that. So
she's fighting it. She says, you can go screw yourself.
I'm not leaving, and he already has in mind. Now
(15:15):
he already put in because one of the Fed governors left.
You already put in someone in his stead person retired.
I think it was a woman who retired in her stead.
And there's a big problem with that. Why because the
FED being independent. A member of the FED also in
this case, happens to be a member of the White
House staff. How's that for independence?
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Now I want to talk about something that's going on,
and this is a rough one. And over the last
few days, Lisa dozen universities have received these hoax swatting
calls of an active shooter on campus.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
That's what swatting is.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Someone calls in and says an active shooter, and of
course the.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Police respond immediately.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
The order to shut down, shelter in place for students
across campus happens. Everything is shut down and students are
wondering if it's true or not. Alarms go out, texts
go out. Now, keep in mind that most incoming college
freshmen likely to have started school in twenty twelve, that
(16:26):
was the year of Sandy Hook Elementary School, the shooting,
and since then, what does every kid go through all
through school active shooter drills. That's what they do. And
so when all of a sudden there's an active shooter hoax.
A swat that comes down puts everybody in a turmoil
(16:47):
and the police have to take it seriously.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
They just have to.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
They have no choice, which means it screws up.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
I mean everything.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
One person can stop a university of thirty thousand and
people instantly. As a matter of fact, what is the
Villanueva School University in Pennsylvania had a swatting call that
they found out came from the library of the school.
(17:19):
Never found out who did it. And the sound effects
that were put in you could hear gunshots in the
background of that call. To add more realism, and so
this is crazy. It's happening more and more, and it's easier.
I mean it used to be with landlines at least
(17:39):
you could the authorities could trace it down. We're talking
about the FBI, We're talking about every agency, state police,
county police, local police. Today, with the anonymity of the Internet,
VPNs programs being able to make these phone calls overseas
and jumping jurisdictions, what can they do?
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Not much? Now? Is there an answer?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
I think there is, and that is to make it
so prohibitively punitive that anybody who gets caught does twenty
five years in prison. We have laws, for example, with
crack cocaine. If you bring in more than five grams
or ten grams and you're caught with it, its a mandatory
(18:30):
ten year federal sentence, mandatory. The judge can say nothing
about it. There was a gal who was caught at
an airport and really didn't know what she was bringing in,
sort of knew that it was crack cocaine, but didn't
think it was that serious of such a small amount.
(18:52):
The judge said, you don't deserve ten years in prison
for this, but I have no choice.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I've got to give it to you.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
And a lot of judges when they had those mandatory
sentences where the judges had no discretion, just resigned a
lot of federal judges. They say, I can't do this,
there's no room for a judge anymore. Well, that one
is I think problematic, problematic that scenario. What I don't
think is problematic is a swatting call at a university
(19:20):
or a college or a high school. That doesn't matter,
elementary school. That should be a mandatory twenty five years
in prison. If someone is caught and all of a sudden,
no do you think, I don't know, maybe I shouldn't
do this. I think the same thing should be for
graffiti mandatory ten years. Okayhut, that'll stop them.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
I think at some point you you draw the line.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
Yesterday I talked about Saudi Arabia and how lack of
criminality goes on in Saudi Arabia. You can walk around,
readd Saudi Arabia and never never worry about being pickpocketed.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Why is that?
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Because once someone is caught pickpocketing, there goes the hand.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
It's gone.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
And I don't think there has ever been someone who
has been convicted of pickpocketing twice. Okay, so much for that. Also, Amy,
you reported on another school shooting, and I know you're
going to be covering that as we get information. And
then my question, I always asked this question, why do
we even cover them anymore?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Why? Bother?
Speaker 3 (20:30):
How many are there a day? One a day, two
a day, three a day. I don't know the answer
to that. You know, as I told you many times before,
during the height of the Vietnam War and CBS News
which I used to watch, all that Walter Cronkite will
say is this week three hundred Americans were killed, and
(20:51):
I don't know why we don't do that. On Friday
this week, fifteen students were killed in various shootings across
the country and schools. I mean, that's how stating it is.
Amy has been covering this. What's the latest on this one.
Speaker 5 (21:06):
Just that as many as twenty people may have been shot.
Neighbors are saying the kids would have been in mass
at the time. It's a pre K through eighth grade
Annunciation Catholic school, and they're saying that the shooter. A
local Fox station is reporting that the shooter is dead.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
And of course, if you want to get as many
kids as possible at a Catholic school, you don't do
it classroom by classroom. You do it in an auditorium
setting in the chapel where you have many many children
that are there at the same time.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Dad, that's just horrific.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
I mean, this is you know, you go overseas or
I go overseas, and we talk about and a lot
of people love America. I mean, there's no question America
is beloved internationally. But one of the questions that always
remain what they can understand is why so many guns
and why so many shootings, Why so many people die.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
Why so many.
Speaker 3 (22:07):
School shootings where kids are involved like this one? All right,
moving over to a story that broke. The LA Times
did an article on this and at school absenteeism, and man,
it has exploded fifty percent higher than before the pandemic. Now,
during the pandemic, of course, no one was in school,
(22:29):
but it's gone through the roof. And you would think
those who skip school will be the lower income. This
is across the board, high income students, high achievers, as
well as low income students low achievers. Everybody is apped,
is missing school moderate absenteeism. Okay, that was good absenteeism,
(22:56):
which is considered about four percent.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Well, twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Three, only a third of the students were still going
to school regularly, not missing days unless they were sick. Well,
today two thirds of the students are missing school for
reasons other than being sick, and the researcher is trying
to figure out what the hell it's about. Well, the
(23:21):
pandemic made it easy. You didn't go to school during
the pandemic, so maybe that's baked in now where school
is not that important. Also, they're so much available on
the internet, and teachers give so much work that can
be answered on the internet can be answered with research.
Of course you have AI now it's a different mindset completely.
(23:43):
Also on a practical level, why do people miss school that.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
I think is legitimate?
Speaker 3 (23:48):
School is boring as hell, especially if you're in public school.
The students that are being taught to the lowest common denominator,
not the highest.
Speaker 1 (24:00):
Don't teach to the most gifted kids.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
They teach to either the lowest or the middle of it,
and low kids drop out or don't do as well,
and then the upper kids the upper level because they're
just bored to death, which is why we're I don't
think I did that story, which.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Is why AI.
Speaker 3 (24:21):
Is helping students at home in a big, big way,
and that may be the future. So showing up to
school has become optional. The other thing researchers looking at
is mental health issues connected to absenteeism. Looking at mental
health has become very important and very front burner relative
(24:45):
to where it was decades or years ago, and.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
What's the connection there?
Speaker 3 (24:51):
And researchers are finding out that there is connection day now,
not only is absenteeism hurting students, but what research are
concerned about that's an individual kid being hurt. Okay, you're
in school or not in school a lot, Okay, that's
(25:12):
your issue. But long term for the labor force, if
there are enough kids, and there seems to be enough kids,
that is problematic because guess what employers don't want you
to do. Not show up. You don't show up, You're done.
Welcome to the real world. School, especially public school, even
(25:34):
private school, you get all kinds of passes. Okay, makeup,
you can do your homework later. Try doing that when
you're at your job. You're giving a project and I
didn't get in on time. Can I do it tomorrow?
Can I do it next week? How long do you
think you're gonna last?
Speaker 1 (25:53):
In school? You do that all day long.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
So absenteeism yep, which is why I think homeschooling. As
much as I don't like homeschooling, while in a religious context,
I don't like it, But if you're just talking about
general homeschooling, it's certainly the way to go. But it's
a lot of work for the parents. It's an insane
amount of work for the parents. I mean, a parent
(26:18):
has to give up a career basically to homeschool A kid.
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