December 8, 2025 • 24 mins
(December 08, 2025)
The Trump administration’s new national security strategy brings new U.S-Europe hurdles. Mystery deepens as to why it took FBI over 5 years to finally bust the suspected J6 pipe bomber. 1 in 4 users say they have stolen from self-checkout. Kids poured $70MIL into the market in 2025… what are they buying?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Monday morning,
December eighth. There is a document produced by the US
government every year, runs about thirty pages this year, in
which it lays out our strategic strategies throughout the world.
It basically puts America in its place relative to the
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rest of the world and for the first time, and
it's put in writing what President Trump has been saying,
and that is our enemies are really Europe. Now does
he say China and Russia are friends?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He does not. Matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The argument is that people go, oh, he's he loves Russia. No,
the sanctions are still in there, and the negotiations with
China are still there. You have the terraf for wars
that are still there. But this issue is Europe. Europe
and the United States have been stead fast allies since
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World War Two. There has been no daylight between Europe
and the United States. And Trump is pushing the fact
and reveling in the fact that there are hardcore European
governments going to the right, hardcore rightists that are taking
control of various governments.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's certainly part of NATO.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It happened in Sweden, certainly happened in Italy, it has
happened in.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Hungary to a great extent. And he likes that.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
He likes it. He admires dictators. It's not that complicated.
I mean, he has said that over and over again.
He just likes those guys. They're strong, they're bright, they
know how to run countries. He's sure as hell doesn't
say that about governments that are even moderate.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And so.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
This document that was released, and it's released by the
Trump administration says that Europe is no longer really an
ally of the United States. It's moving away, and Europe
is basically being destroyed by the left wing, even the
moderates destroyed by it, to the point where it really
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isn't a friend or ally. And it's time for us
to stop supporting NATO to the extent we have. But way,
he did say that in his first administration, and he
was successful because the United States was supporting NATO far
more than it should have, because the agreement was that
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every country should put two or three percent of its GDP,
and you had many countries that weren't doing that, and
Trump said, okay, you don't do that. We're pulling out.
And they came to the table. Well, now there's no
coming to the table unless you swing, unless the country
swings to the right. And Trump is telling Europe this
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is what I want you to do. I want your
governments to move more right wing. Europeans are not very
happy with any of this, the European Union. So now
let me give you another side of the European Union.
Are still our allies one percent? Well they won't be
for long. Trump is making that clear. But he talks
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about the power of.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The European Union.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And here I wanted to get into an area that
people a lot of people don't think about. The European
Union has twenty eight countries in it, I think twenty
eight twenty nine countries, and it overrides national laws. The
European Union, European Parliament has more power than any government
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within the EU. And I have friends in Italy, as
you know, I have friends basically all over Europe who
spun and friends certainly in a lot of friends in
England who were screaming for Brexit because this was one
of the issues that the European Union basically decides which
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way governments are going to go.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
The power they have is astronomical. For example, if you're
a farmer in.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Belgium, it's the EU that tells you how much grain
that you can buy, sell, plant, distribute.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's not Belgium.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's not the country itself that tells you, or it
tells its farmers. And so there has been a lot
of complaints. There have been many complaints about the power
they have. But needless to say, what Trump is saying
is that the European Union is basically destroying you, the countries,
and we can no longer regard you as friends of ours,
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and you have to be on your own, and it's
time for the United States. Is America first to simply
bail out? And Europe is just spinning. I mean, they
just don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You've got.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland, dear American friends, Europe
is your closest ally, not your problem. We have common enemies.
At least that's how it's been for the last eighty years.
We need to stick to this and it's the only
reasonable strategy of our common security. Unless something has changed.
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Well something has changed, but not to that extent. And
one of the things about Trump that I have said.
Some of it is just entertaining, you know, changing holidays
with his name, setting up bank national bank accounts as
Trump accounts, you know, naming everything after himself, the statues,
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turning the White House intomorrow Lago looking like a looking
like an Iranian whorehouse with you know, red carpeting and
flocked and what is it wallpaper, and it just looks spectacular,
just the way you want.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
To gilded tables.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's just kind of fun, all right, that's just entertaining.
This stuff is more serious. This is taking the US
in a direction that it has not gone. And that's
one of many many cases. For example, right now, the
Supreme Court has agreed to hear number one birthright citizenship
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attacking the Fourteenth Amendment right on, and the Court is
hearing that with the Trump administration. There's another case that
has just been accepted by the Court in which the
nineteen thirty five decision said that certain members of certain
administrative bodies are exempt from being fired until their term
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is over.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Well, the Trump administration is fighting that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So it's both kind of a ridiculous come on, guy, really.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You know, I mean, that just sounds so stupid.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean, you know, the gold coin, right, the passport
that you buy into this country has Trump's picture on it.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I mean, yeah, okay, but this is on a different
level for sure. Oh I'm you know.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know, I watch Fox and CNN and I watch
BBC News on the screen because I have the monitors
up on the screen and most radio stations do exactly
that we have in the studio. I have it at
home and I was looking at Fox and it was
one of the headlines that was fascinating.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Maybe fifteen months ago.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Is Kevin Hastid, who is or Hasset, who is going
to be the next head of the FED, has said
prices are down. Prices, the myth that prices.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Have gone up is a hoax.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Prices of actual declined and Americans are buying more with
their dollars than ever. Now.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I bring that up only to say it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Has gotten to the point where either the sun is
out or the sun has set.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And depending on which political side you are on, the
Democrats say, well, it's dark and the sun has set,
and the Republicans are saying, no, the sun is out there,
and there.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Is no question. I look and it's that bad. It
is that bad.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
What's up is down, what's down is up, what's left
is right? I mean they can't even agree on they
can't agree on virtually anything. And it's just you just
shake your head. We're not even a year into this administration. Okay,
there's something else going into this administration.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And the question is.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Why did it take five years to pick up the
suspect in the bombing attempt of the National the Republican
National Committee headquarters as well as a Democrat National Democrat
Committee headquarters the night before the January sixth attack January fifth,
and the guy was picked up is Brian Cole, a
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thirty year old loaner lives in his mom's basement in Virginia.
His grandmother said, he's very naive, almost autistic like, because
he doesn't understand a lot of stuff. He's slow, maybe thirty,
but he's got the mind of a sixteen year old.
And yet this is a criminal mastermind that has evaded
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the FBI for almost five years.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And how or why?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, Cash Battel gave us an idea, and he questions
the investigation having started when before the president took off,
and all through the investigation that they've had.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It has been well.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
The investigation started a long time ago because he has
all kinds of issues going on.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
There were cell.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Phone numbers of interest, one hundred and thirty devices of
interest that they were able to find. The FBI never
told Congress what came of those leads. There is a
corrupted cell phone data. Story turned out that there was
no corruption at all. I mean, this is so complicated
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and so convoluted.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I don't want to get into that.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
But what I do get want to get into is
that once again, everything bad that happened in this country
prior to President Trump becoming president was the Biden administration.
Everything good was part of the Trump administration. Biden basically
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says the same thing. Everything good that is happening to
us was under his administration, and everything bad is during
the Trump administration. Now, politically speaking, that's sort of kind
of what administrations say. It's pretty easy to say, hey,
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this is what happened, and.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The truth be damned.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Look at how horrible it was when Obama took office,
and look what George Bush did well. The economy actually
was increasing dramatically, it was, and what happened to the
negative part is Obama inherited this same thing with inflation.
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It was horrible during Biden, but by the time Trump
took office it actually was down and not unreasonable.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Everything negative is negative, except for Kevin Hassett this morning
saying that ladies and gentlemen, your prices are down.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
You are not paying more than you did before.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You're going to the grocery store, and you are spending less. Okay,
why not? I love it all. I love it all. Okay,
moving on. I don't know how many of you were
cupped the maniacs, but there is a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Lending Tree just did a survey.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Twenty seven percent of self checkouts users say they've stolen intentionally,
man twice as likely. And what is going on? Well,
self checkout was the end all be all. It was
going to save the retailers piles of money. I always
do self checkout at the stores that I go to.
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It's just easier, even costco. Self checkout goes much much faster.
Problem for the stores are that they have lost a
lot of money. Any gain that they have has gone
seriously downhill. So with that being said, millennials forty one percent,
gen Z adults thirty seven percent most likely to admit
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stealing at checkout. Only two percent of baby boomers said
the same. Okay, here we go. Will Coleschreiber, if you're listening,
because I know he does the traffic stealing at checkout,
he's looking at traffic, all right, Neil stealing at checkout?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Okay, we believe that Amy stealing at checkout.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
No, okay, I believe that one too.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Kono stealing at checkout accidental, there you go.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That's the other issue. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And and stealing at checkout, Now.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Here's what will happen. You know, says how many bags
did you use? Yes, and I'll put three. But the
four four he didn't get everything in? Yeah, yeah, yes,
you stole ten cents. Well that's a felony.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
By the way, that's not eight senses is a misdemeanor.
Ten cents is a felony. Will stealing a checkout?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
In fact, I've accidentally left change when it when it
pops out cash.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Sometimes I forgot about it and oh, you know the
next person.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Right, you know the little boxes where you put spare
change in at the counter, you know, for the kids. Yes,
I always take money out of that not when the
checker is.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
When the clerk is looking screwed. And I'll tell you what.
And I'm a boomer.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And have I stolen?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Have I accidentally taken miscounted something?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yes? Do I keep on going? Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Do I come back and go, oops, I took too
much on the other side by the way I miscount
to the store? There's benefit. The other day, I was
buying my Snapple bottles. I drink two things in my life.
One dire coke. One is snap all the bottles and
and I'll buy bottles six eight at a time, and
I'll overcount the bottles and take one less. Do I
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go back and say, oh, I hand them the bottle? No,
I do not. I think that's the I think that's
the case. So there are two types of people, and
certainly here those who steal purposely at the checkout counter
and then there and then here universally here on the
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show are liars. And those are the kinds of people
who steal.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
One.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
No one here said that we never stole in our
lives as adults, right.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
That's true. Yeah, as a kid, I mean, who has
not as a kid.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
There's no way he's never stolen his life. Yeah, I
know you have to work in here.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You have to steal food just to eat, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So that's the bottom line.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Most of us who are fairly honest, not saying completely honest.
Most of us who are fairly honest, we will not
steal purposely. We will not return when we are inadvertently.
Is that stealing? No, and stealing is an intent crime.
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You have to intend to steal. Otherwise it simply becomes
the tort and the store can sue you for what
you have taken if there was no intent, for example
in your case, Amy, or an actually in your case,
and the store can sue you for those.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That ten cents that you took.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Although, on the other hand, how often have you been
handed extra bags for free where you don't how many
bags are you taking? If you go through the line
and they figure there are going to be five bags,
how many bags you want four and they just give
you one. I've had that happen before. Okay, we're done. Okay,
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now we know how many people tell the truth on
our show, and it's the big.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Zero that is not true.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yes it is kids, Okay, we're supposed to believe you Amy,
You never take anything.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Right, I from a checkout? No, from a self checkout.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Wow, it's getting specific now.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
From a self checkout. No way, that's what this checkout about.
This story is about self checkouts. That's what this story is.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
No.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Okay, yeah, all right, sure, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Now here is kind of a neat story and that
it's about kids that are investing into the market in
twenty twenty five, and kids normally don't do that. I
can think of two stories in which they do. One
is Warren Buffett, who as a kid was fascinated by
the market and was picking up the newspapers and just
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dealing with the market and started at a very young age.
The other one is Charles Paine, who is on Fox.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
He's a very conservative talk show host when he is
or very conservative host, but he is a financial guy
who came out of the inner city and while all
of his buddies were playing basketball and doing what they do,
he was picking up old copies of the Wall Street
Journal because he was so fascinated. Now he's a hugely
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successful broker. So it looks like more and more kids
are in fact investing. Now these are not huge numbers,
but what they do so is where the trend is going.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Green Light is.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
A website that's known for following trends in the world
of commerce, and in twenty twenty five, kids up to
age seventeen invested more than seventy million dollars. Eh, big deal, right,
small numbers. That's up sixty five percent. That's not such
small numbers. And the average age among these investors is
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twelve years old. Now that is kind of neat, because
are we now raising an entire generation of kids who,
in fact realize that the way to success is for
the most part, is for the most part saving. You
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know that the vast majority of millionaires out there in
this country saved their way into wealth.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Okay, real quickly.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
The top ten reasons kids saved in twenty twenty five
survey says, what do you think, Amy, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I was preparing for the news and was okay.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
No problem, no problem, and knows the answer because she
prepared it. Yeah, Neil, what do you think Number one
reason our kids are saving?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
He saw the story?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Okay, kono, did you see the story?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Okay? Thank god we have somebody who didn't see the
on the show. The top yes. Top reason why it's
family feud.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Number one reason, the number one reason why they save
is for a car.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yes, that's absolutely correct. You got it. That's right, Yes,
he did absolutely. Number two reason.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Weed no nope, apartment nope, school, Nope.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You're wrong. Number two reason is hookers. It is not.
Oh I misread that. You're right, it's not. It's uh college.
Number two. Number three is hookers.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
But then comes computers and savings, a bike for the holidays, apparel,
a phone. Clothes are more important than a phone. People
kids save more for clothes than they do for phones
for emergencies. Who the hell saves for emergencies? That's the problem.
But can you imagine a twelve year old saving money
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for an emergency? That tells you that kid is going
to do just fine in life.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
But you don't need to save for phones like we
used to do, because.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
With one thousand dollars a phone, you don't know because
they have a month, Will we twelve twelve year olds
do that?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Right?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Twelve year olds have a lot of contract Yes, And
then you turn around and do the parents.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
For us to I don't pay to have a phone
before before twelve?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
You know that I didn't think this is a quick story.
My kids wanted a phone and I said no, they
may have been twelve twelve and ge, Dad, all the
kids at school have phones.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I go, yeah, yeah, you hear that all the time.
So I said, we'll find out.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So I called the T shirt a teacher in one
of the classes and I said, do you mind if
I come in and ask? And teacher said absolutely. So
I walked in and you know, I was introduced. This
is mister Handel a Barbara and Pamela's dad. And I said,
I have a question to ask you, how many of
you have phones? Every single kid raised their hand, everyone
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except my daughters.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
So what did I do?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Told him We're going to wait five years, just like
I said, thank you. And today it's real mixed messages
because you want kids to have phones for emergencies because
you hear of these nine one one calls as their
active shooters or mom, dad, there's just.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Run down there with their guns and get up.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
YEA, well not quite, but at least the parents know.
And I don't know what good comes of it. But
in the end, also schooling, it's very difficult because phones
do take away from attention, you know, what people are,
people playing games, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Have parents at Max's school, they all sign something. They
get together and they say, if you want to to
decrease peer pressure, will all agree not to get them
phones before a certain time so that the kids don't
do what you just said where they are all going, hey,
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I want this, So you sign a pledge that you
won't get your kid a phone before a certain time.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
And then everybody's on the same page.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I pledge allegiance to AT and T and everything that
it signifies.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
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Speaker 2 (24:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
AM six forty Bill Handle here on a Monday morning,
December eighth. There is a document produced by the US
government every year, runs about thirty pages this year, in
which it lays out our strategic strategies throughout the world.
It basically puts America in its place relative to the
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rest of the world and for the first time, and
it's put in writing what President Trump has been saying,
and that is our enemies are really Europe. Now does
he say China and Russia are friends?
Speaker 3 (00:49):
He does not. Matter of fact.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
The argument is that people go, oh, he's he loves Russia. No,
the sanctions are still in there, and the negotiations with
China are still there. You have the terraf for wars
that are still there. But this issue is Europe. Europe
and the United States have been stead fast allies since
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World War Two. There has been no daylight between Europe
and the United States. And Trump is pushing the fact
and reveling in the fact that there are hardcore European
governments going to the right, hardcore rightists that are taking
control of various governments.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
It's certainly part of NATO.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It happened in Sweden, certainly happened in Italy, it has
happened in.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Hungary to a great extent. And he likes that.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
He likes it. He admires dictators. It's not that complicated.
I mean, he has said that over and over again.
He just likes those guys. They're strong, they're bright, they
know how to run countries. He's sure as hell doesn't
say that about governments that are even moderate.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And so.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
This document that was released, and it's released by the
Trump administration says that Europe is no longer really an
ally of the United States. It's moving away, and Europe
is basically being destroyed by the left wing, even the
moderates destroyed by it, to the point where it really
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isn't a friend or ally. And it's time for us
to stop supporting NATO to the extent we have. But way,
he did say that in his first administration, and he
was successful because the United States was supporting NATO far
more than it should have, because the agreement was that
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every country should put two or three percent of its GDP,
and you had many countries that weren't doing that, and
Trump said, okay, you don't do that. We're pulling out.
And they came to the table. Well, now there's no
coming to the table unless you swing, unless the country
swings to the right. And Trump is telling Europe this
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is what I want you to do. I want your
governments to move more right wing. Europeans are not very
happy with any of this, the European Union. So now
let me give you another side of the European Union.
Are still our allies one percent? Well they won't be
for long. Trump is making that clear. But he talks
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about the power of.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
The European Union.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
And here I wanted to get into an area that
people a lot of people don't think about. The European
Union has twenty eight countries in it, I think twenty
eight twenty nine countries, and it overrides national laws. The
European Union, European Parliament has more power than any government
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within the EU. And I have friends in Italy, as
you know, I have friends basically all over Europe who
spun and friends certainly in a lot of friends in
England who were screaming for Brexit because this was one
of the issues that the European Union basically decides which
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way governments are going to go.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
The power they have is astronomical. For example, if you're
a farmer in.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Belgium, it's the EU that tells you how much grain
that you can buy, sell, plant, distribute.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
It's not Belgium.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
It's not the country itself that tells you, or it
tells its farmers. And so there has been a lot
of complaints. There have been many complaints about the power
they have. But needless to say, what Trump is saying
is that the European Union is basically destroying you, the countries,
and we can no longer regard you as friends of ours,
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and you have to be on your own, and it's
time for the United States. Is America first to simply
bail out? And Europe is just spinning. I mean, they
just don't know what to do.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
You've got.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland, dear American friends, Europe
is your closest ally, not your problem. We have common enemies.
At least that's how it's been for the last eighty years.
We need to stick to this and it's the only
reasonable strategy of our common security. Unless something has changed.
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Well something has changed, but not to that extent. And
one of the things about Trump that I have said.
Some of it is just entertaining, you know, changing holidays
with his name, setting up bank national bank accounts as
Trump accounts, you know, naming everything after himself, the statues,
(05:54):
turning the White House intomorrow Lago looking like a looking
like an Iranian whorehouse with you know, red carpeting and
flocked and what is it wallpaper, and it just looks spectacular,
just the way you want.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
To gilded tables.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
That's just kind of fun, all right, that's just entertaining.
This stuff is more serious. This is taking the US
in a direction that it has not gone. And that's
one of many many cases. For example, right now, the
Supreme Court has agreed to hear number one birthright citizenship
(06:30):
attacking the Fourteenth Amendment right on, and the Court is
hearing that with the Trump administration. There's another case that
has just been accepted by the Court in which the
nineteen thirty five decision said that certain members of certain
administrative bodies are exempt from being fired until their term
(06:52):
is over.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Well, the Trump administration is fighting that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
So it's both kind of a ridiculous come on, guy, really.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
You know, I mean, that just sounds so stupid.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I mean, you know, the gold coin, right, the passport
that you buy into this country has Trump's picture on it.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I mean, yeah, okay, but this is on a different
level for sure. Oh I'm you know.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
You know, I watch Fox and CNN and I watch
BBC News on the screen because I have the monitors
up on the screen and most radio stations do exactly
that we have in the studio. I have it at
home and I was looking at Fox and it was
one of the headlines that was fascinating.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Maybe fifteen months ago.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Is Kevin Hastid, who is or Hasset, who is going
to be the next head of the FED, has said
prices are down. Prices, the myth that prices.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Have gone up is a hoax.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Prices of actual declined and Americans are buying more with
their dollars than ever. Now.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I bring that up only to say it.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Has gotten to the point where either the sun is
out or the sun has set.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And depending on which political side you are on, the
Democrats say, well, it's dark and the sun has set,
and the Republicans are saying, no, the sun is out there,
and there.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Is no question. I look and it's that bad. It
is that bad.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
What's up is down, what's down is up, what's left
is right? I mean they can't even agree on they
can't agree on virtually anything. And it's just you just
shake your head. We're not even a year into this administration. Okay,
there's something else going into this administration.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And the question is.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Why did it take five years to pick up the
suspect in the bombing attempt of the National the Republican
National Committee headquarters as well as a Democrat National Democrat
Committee headquarters the night before the January sixth attack January fifth,
and the guy was picked up is Brian Cole, a
(09:19):
thirty year old loaner lives in his mom's basement in Virginia.
His grandmother said, he's very naive, almost autistic like, because
he doesn't understand a lot of stuff. He's slow, maybe thirty,
but he's got the mind of a sixteen year old.
And yet this is a criminal mastermind that has evaded
(09:41):
the FBI for almost five years.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
And how or why?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Well, Cash Battel gave us an idea, and he questions
the investigation having started when before the president took off,
and all through the investigation that they've had.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
It has been well.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
The investigation started a long time ago because he has
all kinds of issues going on.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
There were cell.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Phone numbers of interest, one hundred and thirty devices of
interest that they were able to find. The FBI never
told Congress what came of those leads. There is a
corrupted cell phone data. Story turned out that there was
no corruption at all. I mean, this is so complicated
(10:36):
and so convoluted.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
I don't want to get into that.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
But what I do get want to get into is
that once again, everything bad that happened in this country
prior to President Trump becoming president was the Biden administration.
Everything good was part of the Trump administration. Biden basically
(10:59):
says the same thing. Everything good that is happening to
us was under his administration, and everything bad is during
the Trump administration. Now, politically speaking, that's sort of kind
of what administrations say. It's pretty easy to say, hey,
(11:19):
this is what happened, and.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
The truth be damned.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Look at how horrible it was when Obama took office,
and look what George Bush did well. The economy actually
was increasing dramatically, it was, and what happened to the
negative part is Obama inherited this same thing with inflation.
(11:46):
It was horrible during Biden, but by the time Trump
took office it actually was down and not unreasonable.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
But it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Everything negative is negative, except for Kevin Hassett this morning
saying that ladies and gentlemen, your prices are down.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
You are not paying more than you did before.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
You're going to the grocery store, and you are spending less. Okay,
why not? I love it all. I love it all. Okay,
moving on. I don't know how many of you were
cupped the maniacs, but there is a lot.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Lending Tree just did a survey.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
Twenty seven percent of self checkouts users say they've stolen intentionally,
man twice as likely. And what is going on? Well,
self checkout was the end all be all. It was
going to save the retailers piles of money. I always
do self checkout at the stores that I go to.
(12:53):
It's just easier, even costco. Self checkout goes much much faster.
Problem for the stores are that they have lost a
lot of money. Any gain that they have has gone
seriously downhill. So with that being said, millennials forty one percent,
gen Z adults thirty seven percent most likely to admit
(13:15):
stealing at checkout. Only two percent of baby boomers said
the same. Okay, here we go. Will Coleschreiber, if you're listening,
because I know he does the traffic stealing at checkout,
he's looking at traffic, all right, Neil stealing at checkout?
Speaker 4 (13:35):
Nope, nope.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Okay, we believe that Amy stealing at checkout.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
No, okay, I believe that one too.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Kono stealing at checkout accidental, there you go.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
That's the other issue. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
And and stealing at checkout, Now.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Here's what will happen. You know, says how many bags
did you use? Yes, and I'll put three. But the
four four he didn't get everything in? Yeah, yeah, yes,
you stole ten cents. Well that's a felony.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
By the way, that's not eight senses is a misdemeanor.
Ten cents is a felony. Will stealing a checkout?
Speaker 3 (14:20):
No.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
In fact, I've accidentally left change when it when it
pops out cash.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Sometimes I forgot about it and oh, you know the
next person.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
Right, you know the little boxes where you put spare
change in at the counter, you know, for the kids. Yes,
I always take money out of that not when the
checker is.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
When the clerk is looking screwed. And I'll tell you what.
And I'm a boomer.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And have I stolen?
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:45):
No?
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Have I accidentally taken miscounted something?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yes? Do I keep on going? Yes?
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Do I come back and go, oops, I took too
much on the other side by the way I miscount
to the store? There's benefit. The other day, I was
buying my Snapple bottles. I drink two things in my life.
One dire coke. One is snap all the bottles and
and I'll buy bottles six eight at a time, and
I'll overcount the bottles and take one less. Do I
(15:18):
go back and say, oh, I hand them the bottle? No,
I do not. I think that's the I think that's
the case. So there are two types of people, and
certainly here those who steal purposely at the checkout counter
and then there and then here universally here on the
(15:42):
show are liars. And those are the kinds of people
who steal.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
One.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
No one here said that we never stole in our
lives as adults, right.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
That's true. Yeah, as a kid, I mean, who has
not as a kid.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
There's no way he's never stolen his life. Yeah, I
know you have to work in here.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
You have to steal food just to eat, all right.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
So that's the bottom line.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Most of us who are fairly honest, not saying completely honest.
Most of us who are fairly honest, we will not
steal purposely. We will not return when we are inadvertently.
Is that stealing? No, and stealing is an intent crime.
(16:34):
You have to intend to steal. Otherwise it simply becomes
the tort and the store can sue you for what
you have taken if there was no intent, for example
in your case, Amy, or an actually in your case,
and the store can sue you for those.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
That ten cents that you took.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Although, on the other hand, how often have you been
handed extra bags for free where you don't how many
bags are you taking? If you go through the line
and they figure there are going to be five bags,
how many bags you want four and they just give
you one. I've had that happen before. Okay, we're done. Okay,
(17:16):
now we know how many people tell the truth on
our show, and it's the big.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Zero that is not true.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yes it is kids, Okay, we're supposed to believe you Amy,
You never take anything.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Right, I from a checkout? No, from a self checkout.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Wow, it's getting specific now.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
From a self checkout. No way, that's what this checkout about.
This story is about self checkouts. That's what this story is.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
No.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Okay, yeah, all right, sure, all right.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Now here is kind of a neat story and that
it's about kids that are investing into the market in
twenty twenty five, and kids normally don't do that. I
can think of two stories in which they do. One
is Warren Buffett, who as a kid was fascinated by
the market and was picking up the newspapers and just
(18:10):
dealing with the market and started at a very young age.
The other one is Charles Paine, who is on Fox.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
All the time.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
He's a very conservative talk show host when he is
or very conservative host, but he is a financial guy
who came out of the inner city and while all
of his buddies were playing basketball and doing what they do,
he was picking up old copies of the Wall Street
Journal because he was so fascinated. Now he's a hugely
(18:38):
successful broker. So it looks like more and more kids
are in fact investing. Now these are not huge numbers,
but what they do so is where the trend is going.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Green Light is.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
A website that's known for following trends in the world
of commerce, and in twenty twenty five, kids up to
age seventeen invested more than seventy million dollars. Eh, big deal, right,
small numbers. That's up sixty five percent. That's not such
small numbers. And the average age among these investors is
(19:18):
twelve years old. Now that is kind of neat, because
are we now raising an entire generation of kids who,
in fact realize that the way to success is for
the most part, is for the most part saving. You
(19:41):
know that the vast majority of millionaires out there in
this country saved their way into wealth.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Okay, real quickly.
Speaker 2 (19:50):
The top ten reasons kids saved in twenty twenty five
survey says, what do you think, Amy, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (19:58):
I was preparing for the news and was okay.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
No problem, no problem, and knows the answer because she
prepared it. Yeah, Neil, what do you think Number one
reason our kids are saving?
Speaker 4 (20:12):
He saw the story?
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Okay, kono, did you see the story?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
No?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Okay? Thank god we have somebody who didn't see the
on the show. The top yes. Top reason why it's
family feud.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Number one reason, the number one reason why they save
is for a car.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yes, that's absolutely correct. You got it. That's right, Yes,
he did absolutely. Number two reason.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Weed no nope, apartment nope, school, Nope.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
You're wrong. Number two reason is hookers. It is not.
Oh I misread that. You're right, it's not. It's uh college.
Number two. Number three is hookers.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
But then comes computers and savings, a bike for the holidays, apparel,
a phone. Clothes are more important than a phone. People
kids save more for clothes than they do for phones
for emergencies. Who the hell saves for emergencies? That's the problem.
But can you imagine a twelve year old saving money
(21:25):
for an emergency? That tells you that kid is going
to do just fine in life.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
But you don't need to save for phones like we
used to do, because.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
With one thousand dollars a phone, you don't know because
they have a month, Will we twelve twelve year olds
do that?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Right?
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Twelve year olds have a lot of contract Yes, And
then you turn around and do the parents.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
For us to I don't pay to have a phone
before before twelve?
Speaker 2 (21:51):
You know that I didn't think this is a quick story.
My kids wanted a phone and I said no, they
may have been twelve twelve and ge, Dad, all the
kids at school have phones.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
I go, yeah, yeah, you hear that all the time.
So I said, we'll find out.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
So I called the T shirt a teacher in one
of the classes and I said, do you mind if
I come in and ask? And teacher said absolutely. So
I walked in and you know, I was introduced. This
is mister Handel a Barbara and Pamela's dad. And I said,
I have a question to ask you, how many of
you have phones? Every single kid raised their hand, everyone
(22:33):
except my daughters.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
So what did I do?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Told him We're going to wait five years, just like
I said, thank you. And today it's real mixed messages
because you want kids to have phones for emergencies because
you hear of these nine one one calls as their
active shooters or mom, dad, there's just.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
Run down there with their guns and get up.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
YEA, well not quite, but at least the parents know.
And I don't know what good comes of it. But
in the end, also schooling, it's very difficult because phones
do take away from attention, you know, what people are,
people playing games, et cetera.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Have parents at Max's school, they all sign something. They
get together and they say, if you want to to
decrease peer pressure, will all agree not to get them
phones before a certain time so that the kids don't
do what you just said where they are all going, hey,
(23:40):
I want this, So you sign a pledge that you
won't get your kid a phone before a certain time.
Speaker 4 (23:46):
And then everybody's on the same page.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
I pledge allegiance to AT and T and everything that
it signifies.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
We'll be back. This is KFI AM six. You've been
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Speaker 2 (24:00):
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