July 11, 2025 • 26 mins
(Friday 07/11/25)
Poll finds Californians believe American democracy is under attack. After Texas floods, cloud seeding becomes target of conspiracy theories. Trump administration hires scientists who doubt the consensus on global warming. Brazil vows retaliatory tariffs against U.S. if Trump follows through on 50% import taxes
Poll finds Californians believe American democracy is under attack. After Texas floods, cloud seeding becomes target of conspiracy theories. Trump administration hires scientists who doubt the consensus on global warming. Brazil vows retaliatory tariffs against U.S. if Trump follows through on 50% import taxes
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
six forty God Crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Saya Pie Handle here on Hey seven eleven, Friday, July eleventh.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It is Oh, how's our heat spell doing?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Heather? Oh, Heather's running around someplace in the hallway. Okay,
so all right, Heather is doing a terrific impression of
Helen Keller.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hey, how's our heat wave doing? Heather?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's good, it's good, it's good.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I came in too quickly. The joke didn't work, is it.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's cooled off about five to ten degrees today, so
it's not nearly as hot as yesterday, but it's gonna
still be a nice warm summer so cal day.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh that's lovely. All right. There's a new survey just.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Released by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, and
the poll it was based on. A poll found big
concerns about the United States and democracy.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Is democracy in trouble?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And big concerns across the entire partisan spectrum, regardless of income,
education level, race, ethnicity, whether big cities, rural countrysides, young
and old. Co director of the Berkeley Institute, a guy
named Eric Schickler, said, I do think it's a pretty
(01:27):
dangerous point right now.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And these concerns are justified.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Why our democracy is not healthy when you have a
president that's acting to unilaterally stop money from being spent
that's been appropriated by Congress, or going to war with
colleges and universities, or sending troops to la or any
of the various fun things that the president has done.
(01:55):
Now word about democracy in general. The United States, what
we are is the democratic Republic. And there's a real
weird history of the United States because we elect our
official sort.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Of kind of.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean, originally only white men who had property could vote,
and the Suffragette movement women couldn't vote until nineteen twenty, which,
by the way, that year is one of the worst
worst years in the history of United States allowing women
to vote. And what we do is it used to
(02:30):
be the state legislators. General public voted for the state legislators,
who would then vote for the Senate because the normal
people couldn't vote for the Senate.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The electorate.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And then of course we have the electoral College where
there really isn't just simply a majority or a plurality
where we vote for a president. So it's really pretty Yes,
it's a little complicated, but the bottom line is does
the the reason that democracy is in such trouble is
(03:03):
universally believe that this president is stretching the bounds of
presidential power, and no president should have this kind of
ability to unilaterally do what he is doing now.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Is that Trump's fault.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Money president would probably want to do that, but Congress
has voluntarily given him the power to do that. You
have a Republican Congress, and by the way, democratic Congress
with a democratic president. To a much lesser degree, Congress
has basically voted itself out and given all the power
(03:41):
to the president. As Speaker Mike Johnson said, his job
as Speaker is really.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Not to oversee Congress.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's to make sure that Donald Trump gets everything he wants.
That is the job of Congress. So the three branches
of government, the executive being the President, the legislative being Congress,
Senate and House, and the judicial. Well, Congress has already
(04:12):
given up its power to the president straight out. The
President has said the judiciary, it's right, it's left wing
radicals who are judges and we have to get rid
of them. And thank goodness, at this point it hasn't
gone so far.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
But I guarantee you if the thinking.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Behind Congress's move moves over the judiciary, then what President
Trump wants and what many members of the Republican Party
and certainly what MAGA wants the Mega supporters want, is
that the three branches of government disappear and we have
one branch of government, and that is the Executive Bill.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I see a lot of questions from people online who
want to know, where is the checks and balances that
we all grew up learning about in Civics class, Where
is the checks and balances here in the United States?
And how is this being allowed to happen these.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Okay, checks and balances are in the Constitution that if
a president goes ahead and passes a bill or gets
a bill, and Congress doesn't believe they can veto the bill,
the president who has the power to institute whatever action
he wants. The reason we don't have checks and balances
(05:35):
is one of the branches of government has voluntarily given
up their check and balance. They have said, we have
no business getting in the way of the president what
he wants.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
We will do.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So this idea of checks and balances disappears, disappears, and
Congress is part.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And parcel of making it disappear.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
We've never had that in the history of the United States,
and we've never had a president.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
To go in as far as saying.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That that's why checks and balances. And by the way,
the majority of Americans think, wait a minute, hold on
a minute. But the president has the power to tell
congressmen and women, more so than senators, to say, if
you vote against me, if you don't vote for everything
(06:28):
I want, I will primary you out. You are going
to run for office, and you have to run as
a primary, and I will make sure that whoever I
will choose who runs against you, or I will support
who runs against you, and you're gone from Congress. Liz
Cheney did that a bunch of years ago. Eric Candor
happened to him where he was. Matter of fact, Eric Candor,
(06:51):
and I forgot what state he came from. He was
the only congressman in the history of United States who
have actually read the entire budget of the United States. Okay,
so you have the Texas flood and the conspiracy theorists
of course have exploded.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Why not, because this is what we do.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
There's a guy named Augustus the Rico who founded a
cloud seeding startup in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And he knew as soon as.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
The floods hit that he would be blamed for it.
Cloud seating is taking silver iodide crystals and putting them
into clouds over parched areas to create some rain. Does
it work in fairy limited amounts of rain drizzles that
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come down. So there was a cloud seating attempt by
him one hundred miles away from the floods, and it
turned out the amount of the silver iodide dust particles
were literally seven grams of crystals.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Seven grams.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I would snort more than seven grams of cocaine in
one afternoon to give you an idea of how.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Much that is.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well, okay, cloud seating right near it.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So guess what.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's the cloud seating that caused the rains. That's what happens,
not natural. This is man made. It's like the pandemic,
the virus. It's man made and we have to blame someone.
And so the search for escapegoat has started and it
(08:40):
is going on the cloud seating. Cloud seating is a theory. Actually,
it's conspiracy is what it is. Where people are trying
to cause this kind of disaster for political purposes. Usually, Oh,
I don't know, Democrats. Same thing with contrary. You see
(09:00):
those coming out of jet engines way up in the
sky and has to do.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
With water vapor.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Those are created by people who want to poison the atmosphere.
Floor eye put in the water system. When I was
a kid, there was a huge argument that it was
the communists that wanted to put floor eye into the
water to poison our community. And who is ahead of
(09:29):
all this or who is saying this happens, well, Marjorie
Taylor Green what a shocker. By the way, she's the
one that said a hurricane that hit a red state,
I remember which one specifically was manufactured by the Democrats.
They were responsible for the hurricane. And here is the
(09:51):
problem that just nails me. The Environmental Protection Agency has
weighed in because the administrator, the new administrator, LEEZ Elden,
says that the agency shares the significant reservations that many
Americans have when it comes to geo engineering activities, much
(10:17):
like cloud seating.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yep, there's something there.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We have to look at this and questions must be answered.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Have we really gone that far? Yeah? We have did
Hillary Clinton?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Was she part of this cabal of Democrats that met
under a pizza parlor in Chicago and molested.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Little boys or little children? You bet she was. You
bet that's Hillary Clinton. I mean it. And by the way,
only Democrats molested the children.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Now? Is cloud seating real? It is? Is it successful?
Very limited?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Limited?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Did it have anything to do with this? Yeah? Sure
it did.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
One hundred miles away, seven grams of crystals produced fifteen
inches of rain.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
And caused the floods.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
And by the way, who do you think did the
cloud seeding? The conspiracy theorists will tell you in two seconds.
We've gone into crazy. We have gone into genuine, genuine crazy.
All right, another chapter of crazy out of this administration.
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The Energy Department has hired well a new team at
least three scientists who are known for their rejection of
the scientific consensus.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
On climate change.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Climate change doesn't exist, or if it does, it's not
caused by fossil fuels, even though the vast majority of
scientists climologists whether people say it certainly is great. Stephen Coonan,
a physicist and author of a best selling book, calls.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Climate science unsettled.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
John Christy, a scientist, doubts the extent which human.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Activity has caused global warming. No, not humans.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Roy Spencer, a mediologists, says that clouds have a far
greater influence on global warming or global change climate change
than do humans. Now keep in mind, the Trump administration
dismissed hundreds of scientists and experts who have been compiling
the federal government's report and how climate change is affecting
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our country. By the way, the Trump administration also removed
any mention of climate change from any government website and
SLA research on global warming warming. Trump officials have been
recruiting sciencests help them repeal the two thousand and nine
(13:10):
Endangerment Finding federal finding, which determined that greenhouse gases pose
a threat to public health and welfare. Greenhouse gases do
not cause or exacerbate global warming, not at all.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
By the way, I don't even know if GLO global
warming even exists.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Think about that.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And if you talk about the increased frequency and intensity
of heat waves, droughts, these colossal bursts of rain like
just happened, it really that is not really climate change.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
These scientists are nuts. And the administration is nuts. Man.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I hate when reality is fight in front of our faces.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I mean, I just I mean, what do you do
with that? What do you do?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Do you have scientists to come in and say that
gravity isn't real, even though the overwhelming scientists believe that
gravity is real. And by the way, just to let
you know, when you get out of bed, your feet
usually hit the ground and not the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I mean, I have a tough time with this, I
really do.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
And because and you know, while you have the fossil
fuel industry, of course, big business, who are proponents and
supporters of the president, and of all the people that
would be against any mention or any position that fossil
fuels create global warming.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I can see their position. I disagree.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But there's a story I want to do on Monday
in which another crazy one in which the big tobacco
and for years said tobacco is not addictive and it
is good for you.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Cigarettes are good for you.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I'm gonna do that on Monday, big pharma saying a
reduction of prices in drugs are good for you. And
along the same lines of reality, humans and the burning
of fossil fuels are not the cause of climate change.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I don't even know what you do with that, I
really don't.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So here is what God, I love this story, and
this is a story about I think. Oh doctor Coonan,
who I talked about when he came aboard. He proposed
that the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, conduct a red
team Blue team exercise to challenge climate science. A red
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team of skeptics would critique major scientific reports on global
warm Here is a body of scientific reports on what
causes global warming, fossil fuels, and then there would be
a blue team of climate scientists who would rebut those claims.
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In other words, the argument is they were going to
have an argument, a debate as to whether climate change
actually exists. And at the time that this was proposed,
mainstream climate scientists said that that would make a mockery
(16:36):
of scientific research and create a platform for these marginal views,
which is exactly what's happening.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Crazy. And then on Monday, crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Now, what I want to do is get into a
tariff story.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And this is not your normal tariff story at all.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
This one is unique and it has to do with
Brazil and the Trump administration has threatened a fifty percent
import attax or tariff on Brazilian goods.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Because well, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
This is not an economic move from Donald Trump. This
is a political move and I'm telling you you can
prove it.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
So let me explain at a little backstory.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
The president of Brazil right now is the Lula da Silva. Lula,
very interesting guy, a little bit of corruption. He was
thrown out of office, he was tried and went to
prison for corruption, got out of prison, ran again for
president and won. He's now president now. Between that was
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a very right wing politician, politician called how do eder?
I want to say, Oh, God, did I get his
name wrong? I always here Bolsonado.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
God do you think I know that?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Bolsonaro who is very right wing, a Trump supporter, called
himself the South American Trump. When he lost the election
to DeSilva the first time he what he did is
he questioned the election. He said it was a rich
hunt and his election was stolen. Took a page right
(18:27):
out of the twenty twenty election right there. So what
is going on right now? Since he is still screaming
and by the way, he's on trial for corruption. Also,
Brazil has a real interesting story, a history of corruption
and what Trump is getting himself involved with is the
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internal politics of Brazil.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Nothing to do with economics, matter of fact, goes the
other way Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
As far as it goes with Brazil, the terrorst situation
hurts the United States because the balance of trade goes
the other way.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
The United States is actually.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Helped by Brazilian exports. So here is the issue. And
I'm going to say this and tell me if I'm
not wrong on this. The number one requirement for a
Donald Trump appointment is loyalty.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Not credentials, not experience, not a history of management, but
straight out loyalty to the president. Read Pete Hegsith, who
is now Defense Secretary. His sole experience in the military,
he was a combat soldier, a hero granted. Any experience
(19:56):
in management, absolutely none.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
How about.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Secretary of Health and Human Sciences Robert Kennedy, any experience
in management, absolutely not. Any experience and even being a
low level employee of the department, absolutely not. He is
now running Health and Human Services and of course going
crazy fired the scientists and his anti vaccines, bringing the
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anti vaxers. So the president, our president has said, we
are going to institute a fifty percent tariff under the
nineteen seventy seven International Emergency Economic Powers Why because Brazilian
exports to the United States are a national security crisis,
(20:51):
a national crisis to our economy. Even though Brazil sends
a drop in the bucket of exports the United States
just to drop in the bucket, But under the nineteen
seventy seven International Emergency Economic Powers Act, this is a
threat to our economy and therefore I Donald Trump have
(21:12):
the ability of issuing these tariffs. The US friends a
trade surplus with Brazil, not a negative a balance of trade. Now,
if you look at Brazil's institutional relations minister currently, Trump
was never worried about democracy anywhere, much less with Bolsonnaro's destiny.
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Glazi Hoffman said, it's all about internal politics. And what
is it about Blonsonnario? He is an ally, he is
an alcohote. He has called himself the Trump of Brazil
(21:58):
and has said that Trump is his hero. Hey, how
does Trump not love this guy? And because he's on
trial for corruption, because everybody's on trial for corruption in Brazil,
he is going to get involved and issue the tariffs.
You screw with bone Scenarow, We're gonna I am going
(22:20):
to punish you straight politics, internal politics with another country. Hey,
whatever happened to We want to stay away from any
involvement with anybody else. Well that changes a little bit,
just a bit not pleasant stuff. Now a word about
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Lula very interesting guy. He's functionally illiterate. He can barely
write his name. And how do you get to be
the president of Brazil twice and not be able to
and sign your name with an X. Well, he worked,
He went through the labor movement and worked his way
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up until he became head of the labor movement and
then ran for president and was successful until he was
tried for corruption and he went to prison and got
out and ran for president again.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
He just it's wild, totally wild.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And when he first was elected, I mean he came
in as basically a communist and he was elected president. Now,
my family in Brazil, they're in the construction business and
they're very high end. They build these massive projects, apartment complexes,
you know, thirty stories high with apartments in it's massive.
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They were scared to death of Lulah, just scared because
he was going to destroy the economy of Brazil. You
know what he did, He gets elected, and he becomes
as pro business as any president out there. He wanted
foreign investment in Brazil and he got it, because effectively
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Brazil became a pro business country, and my family went
from being scared to death they were going to be
put out of business to one of his biggest supporters.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's Brazil.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Brazil's the only country in the world that I know
of that when the military, which controlled Brazil for many years,
and they turned over voluntarily, they turned over the government
to democracy, saying it's now time for democracy, and so
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they brought in elected officials that the populace voted on,
and the people of Brazil wanted the military back in
because there was so much corruption. They go, We'd rather
have the military, because well, that's corruption. It's so insane
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that there is a it's almost like elliot ness with
this small group of people going against the mafia because
everybody else was bought off by the mafia, and you
couldn't trust judges, you couldn't trust anybody. So this small
group of people on themselves or by themselves, they have
that in Brazil, and the corrupt officials are scared to
(25:28):
death of these guys, and you know you're.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Gonna love this.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You know what they call their the operation that they're
doing going against the corrupt officials. It's called Operation car Wash.
Don't you love those names? Okay? Kfi am six.
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Saya Pie Handle here on Hey seven eleven, Friday, July eleventh.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
It is Oh, how's our heat spell doing?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Heather? Oh, Heather's running around someplace in the hallway. Okay,
so all right, Heather is doing a terrific impression of
Helen Keller.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hey, how's our heat wave doing? Heather?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
It's good, it's good, it's good.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I came in too quickly. The joke didn't work, is it.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It's cooled off about five to ten degrees today, so
it's not nearly as hot as yesterday, but it's gonna
still be a nice warm summer so cal day.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Oh that's lovely. All right. There's a new survey just.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Released by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, and
the poll it was based on. A poll found big
concerns about the United States and democracy.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
Is democracy in trouble?
Speaker 2 (01:06):
And big concerns across the entire partisan spectrum, regardless of income,
education level, race, ethnicity, whether big cities, rural countrysides, young
and old. Co director of the Berkeley Institute, a guy
named Eric Schickler, said, I do think it's a pretty
(01:27):
dangerous point right now.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
And these concerns are justified.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Why our democracy is not healthy when you have a
president that's acting to unilaterally stop money from being spent
that's been appropriated by Congress, or going to war with
colleges and universities, or sending troops to la or any
of the various fun things that the president has done.
(01:55):
Now word about democracy in general. The United States, what
we are is the democratic Republic. And there's a real
weird history of the United States because we elect our
official sort.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Of kind of.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean, originally only white men who had property could vote,
and the Suffragette movement women couldn't vote until nineteen twenty, which,
by the way, that year is one of the worst
worst years in the history of United States allowing women
to vote. And what we do is it used to
(02:30):
be the state legislators. General public voted for the state legislators,
who would then vote for the Senate because the normal
people couldn't vote for the Senate.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
The electorate.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
And then of course we have the electoral College where
there really isn't just simply a majority or a plurality
where we vote for a president. So it's really pretty Yes,
it's a little complicated, but the bottom line is does
the the reason that democracy is in such trouble is
(03:03):
universally believe that this president is stretching the bounds of
presidential power, and no president should have this kind of
ability to unilaterally do what he is doing now.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Is that Trump's fault.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Money president would probably want to do that, but Congress
has voluntarily given him the power to do that. You
have a Republican Congress, and by the way, democratic Congress
with a democratic president. To a much lesser degree, Congress
has basically voted itself out and given all the power
(03:41):
to the president. As Speaker Mike Johnson said, his job
as Speaker is really.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Not to oversee Congress.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
It's to make sure that Donald Trump gets everything he wants.
That is the job of Congress. So the three branches
of government, the executive being the President, the legislative being Congress,
Senate and House, and the judicial. Well, Congress has already
(04:12):
given up its power to the president straight out. The
President has said the judiciary, it's right, it's left wing
radicals who are judges and we have to get rid
of them. And thank goodness, at this point it hasn't
gone so far.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
But I guarantee you if the thinking.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Behind Congress's move moves over the judiciary, then what President
Trump wants and what many members of the Republican Party
and certainly what MAGA wants the Mega supporters want, is
that the three branches of government disappear and we have
one branch of government, and that is the Executive Bill.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Let me ask you this.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
I see a lot of questions from people online who
want to know, where is the checks and balances that
we all grew up learning about in Civics class, Where
is the checks and balances here in the United States?
And how is this being allowed to happen these.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Okay, checks and balances are in the Constitution that if
a president goes ahead and passes a bill or gets
a bill, and Congress doesn't believe they can veto the bill,
the president who has the power to institute whatever action
he wants. The reason we don't have checks and balances
(05:35):
is one of the branches of government has voluntarily given
up their check and balance. They have said, we have
no business getting in the way of the president what
he wants.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
We will do.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So this idea of checks and balances disappears, disappears, and
Congress is part.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
And parcel of making it disappear.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
We've never had that in the history of the United States,
and we've never had a president.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
To go in as far as saying.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
That that's why checks and balances. And by the way,
the majority of Americans think, wait a minute, hold on
a minute. But the president has the power to tell
congressmen and women, more so than senators, to say, if
you vote against me, if you don't vote for everything
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I want, I will primary you out. You are going
to run for office, and you have to run as
a primary, and I will make sure that whoever I
will choose who runs against you, or I will support
who runs against you, and you're gone from Congress. Liz
Cheney did that a bunch of years ago. Eric Candor
happened to him where he was. Matter of fact, Eric Candor,
(06:51):
and I forgot what state he came from. He was
the only congressman in the history of United States who
have actually read the entire budget of the United States. Okay,
so you have the Texas flood and the conspiracy theorists
of course have exploded.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Why not, because this is what we do.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
There's a guy named Augustus the Rico who founded a
cloud seeding startup in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And he knew as soon as.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
The floods hit that he would be blamed for it.
Cloud seating is taking silver iodide crystals and putting them
into clouds over parched areas to create some rain. Does
it work in fairy limited amounts of rain drizzles that
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come down. So there was a cloud seating attempt by
him one hundred miles away from the floods, and it
turned out the amount of the silver iodide dust particles
were literally seven grams of crystals.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Seven grams.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
I would snort more than seven grams of cocaine in
one afternoon to give you an idea of how.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Much that is.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Well, okay, cloud seating right near it.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So guess what.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
It's the cloud seating that caused the rains. That's what happens,
not natural. This is man made. It's like the pandemic,
the virus. It's man made and we have to blame someone.
And so the search for escapegoat has started and it
(08:40):
is going on the cloud seating. Cloud seating is a theory. Actually,
it's conspiracy is what it is. Where people are trying
to cause this kind of disaster for political purposes. Usually, Oh,
I don't know, Democrats. Same thing with contrary. You see
(09:00):
those coming out of jet engines way up in the
sky and has to do.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
With water vapor.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Those are created by people who want to poison the atmosphere.
Floor eye put in the water system. When I was
a kid, there was a huge argument that it was
the communists that wanted to put floor eye into the
water to poison our community. And who is ahead of
(09:29):
all this or who is saying this happens, well, Marjorie
Taylor Green what a shocker. By the way, she's the
one that said a hurricane that hit a red state,
I remember which one specifically was manufactured by the Democrats.
They were responsible for the hurricane. And here is the
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problem that just nails me. The Environmental Protection Agency has
weighed in because the administrator, the new administrator, LEEZ Elden,
says that the agency shares the significant reservations that many
Americans have when it comes to geo engineering activities, much
(10:17):
like cloud seating.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Yep, there's something there.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
We have to look at this and questions must be answered.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Have we really gone that far? Yeah? We have did
Hillary Clinton?
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Was she part of this cabal of Democrats that met
under a pizza parlor in Chicago and molested.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Little boys or little children? You bet she was. You
bet that's Hillary Clinton. I mean it. And by the way,
only Democrats molested the children.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
You know that.
Speaker 1 (10:53):
Now? Is cloud seating real? It is? Is it successful?
Very limited?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Limited?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Did it have anything to do with this? Yeah? Sure
it did.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
One hundred miles away, seven grams of crystals produced fifteen
inches of rain.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
And caused the floods.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
And by the way, who do you think did the
cloud seeding? The conspiracy theorists will tell you in two seconds.
We've gone into crazy. We have gone into genuine, genuine crazy.
All right, another chapter of crazy out of this administration.
(11:39):
The Energy Department has hired well a new team at
least three scientists who are known for their rejection of
the scientific consensus.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
On climate change.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Climate change doesn't exist, or if it does, it's not
caused by fossil fuels, even though the vast majority of
scientists climologists whether people say it certainly is great. Stephen Coonan,
a physicist and author of a best selling book, calls.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Climate science unsettled.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
John Christy, a scientist, doubts the extent which human.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
Activity has caused global warming. No, not humans.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Roy Spencer, a mediologists, says that clouds have a far
greater influence on global warming or global change climate change
than do humans. Now keep in mind, the Trump administration
dismissed hundreds of scientists and experts who have been compiling
the federal government's report and how climate change is affecting
(12:47):
our country. By the way, the Trump administration also removed
any mention of climate change from any government website and
SLA research on global warming warming. Trump officials have been
recruiting sciencests help them repeal the two thousand and nine
(13:10):
Endangerment Finding federal finding, which determined that greenhouse gases pose
a threat to public health and welfare. Greenhouse gases do
not cause or exacerbate global warming, not at all.
Speaker 1 (13:26):
It has nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
By the way, I don't even know if GLO global
warming even exists.
Speaker 1 (13:33):
Think about that.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
And if you talk about the increased frequency and intensity
of heat waves, droughts, these colossal bursts of rain like
just happened, it really that is not really climate change.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
These scientists are nuts. And the administration is nuts. Man.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
I hate when reality is fight in front of our faces.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I mean, I just I mean, what do you do
with that? What do you do?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Do you have scientists to come in and say that
gravity isn't real, even though the overwhelming scientists believe that
gravity is real. And by the way, just to let
you know, when you get out of bed, your feet
usually hit the ground and not the ceiling.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
I mean, I have a tough time with this, I
really do.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
And because and you know, while you have the fossil
fuel industry, of course, big business, who are proponents and
supporters of the president, and of all the people that
would be against any mention or any position that fossil
fuels create global warming.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
I can see their position. I disagree.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
But there's a story I want to do on Monday
in which another crazy one in which the big tobacco
and for years said tobacco is not addictive and it
is good for you.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Cigarettes are good for you.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
I'm gonna do that on Monday, big pharma saying a
reduction of prices in drugs are good for you. And
along the same lines of reality, humans and the burning
of fossil fuels are not the cause of climate change.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
I don't even know what you do with that, I
really don't.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
So here is what God, I love this story, and
this is a story about I think. Oh doctor Coonan,
who I talked about when he came aboard. He proposed
that the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, conduct a red
team Blue team exercise to challenge climate science. A red
(15:54):
team of skeptics would critique major scientific reports on global
warm Here is a body of scientific reports on what
causes global warming, fossil fuels, and then there would be
a blue team of climate scientists who would rebut those claims.
(16:15):
In other words, the argument is they were going to
have an argument, a debate as to whether climate change
actually exists. And at the time that this was proposed,
mainstream climate scientists said that that would make a mockery
(16:36):
of scientific research and create a platform for these marginal views,
which is exactly what's happening.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Crazy. And then on Monday, crazy.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Now, what I want to do is get into a
tariff story.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
And this is not your normal tariff story at all.
Speaker 2 (16:55):
This one is unique and it has to do with
Brazil and the Trump administration has threatened a fifty percent
import attax or tariff on Brazilian goods.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Because well, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
This is not an economic move from Donald Trump. This
is a political move and I'm telling you you can
prove it.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
So let me explain at a little backstory.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
The president of Brazil right now is the Lula da Silva. Lula,
very interesting guy, a little bit of corruption. He was
thrown out of office, he was tried and went to
prison for corruption, got out of prison, ran again for
president and won. He's now president now. Between that was
(17:51):
a very right wing politician, politician called how do eder?
I want to say, Oh, God, did I get his
name wrong? I always here Bolsonado.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
God do you think I know that?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Bolsonaro who is very right wing, a Trump supporter, called
himself the South American Trump. When he lost the election
to DeSilva the first time he what he did is
he questioned the election. He said it was a rich
hunt and his election was stolen. Took a page right
(18:27):
out of the twenty twenty election right there. So what
is going on right now? Since he is still screaming
and by the way, he's on trial for corruption. Also,
Brazil has a real interesting story, a history of corruption
and what Trump is getting himself involved with is the
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internal politics of Brazil.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Nothing to do with economics, matter of fact, goes the
other way Trump.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
As far as it goes with Brazil, the terrorst situation
hurts the United States because the balance of trade goes
the other way.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
The United States is actually.
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Helped by Brazilian exports. So here is the issue. And
I'm going to say this and tell me if I'm
not wrong on this. The number one requirement for a
Donald Trump appointment is loyalty.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Not credentials, not experience, not a history of management, but
straight out loyalty to the president. Read Pete Hegsith, who
is now Defense Secretary. His sole experience in the military,
he was a combat soldier, a hero granted. Any experience
(19:56):
in management, absolutely none.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
How about.
Speaker 2 (20:02):
Secretary of Health and Human Sciences Robert Kennedy, any experience
in management, absolutely not. Any experience and even being a
low level employee of the department, absolutely not. He is
now running Health and Human Services and of course going
crazy fired the scientists and his anti vaccines, bringing the
(20:25):
anti vaxers. So the president, our president has said, we
are going to institute a fifty percent tariff under the
nineteen seventy seven International Emergency Economic Powers Why because Brazilian
exports to the United States are a national security crisis,
(20:51):
a national crisis to our economy. Even though Brazil sends
a drop in the bucket of exports the United States
just to drop in the bucket, But under the nineteen
seventy seven International Emergency Economic Powers Act, this is a
threat to our economy and therefore I Donald Trump have
(21:12):
the ability of issuing these tariffs. The US friends a
trade surplus with Brazil, not a negative a balance of trade. Now,
if you look at Brazil's institutional relations minister currently, Trump
was never worried about democracy anywhere, much less with Bolsonnaro's destiny.
(21:37):
Glazi Hoffman said, it's all about internal politics. And what
is it about Blonsonnario? He is an ally, he is
an alcohote. He has called himself the Trump of Brazil
(21:58):
and has said that Trump is his hero. Hey, how
does Trump not love this guy? And because he's on
trial for corruption, because everybody's on trial for corruption in Brazil,
he is going to get involved and issue the tariffs.
You screw with bone Scenarow, We're gonna I am going
(22:20):
to punish you straight politics, internal politics with another country. Hey,
whatever happened to We want to stay away from any
involvement with anybody else. Well that changes a little bit,
just a bit not pleasant stuff. Now a word about
(22:45):
Lula very interesting guy. He's functionally illiterate. He can barely
write his name. And how do you get to be
the president of Brazil twice and not be able to
and sign your name with an X. Well, he worked,
He went through the labor movement and worked his way
(23:06):
up until he became head of the labor movement and
then ran for president and was successful until he was
tried for corruption and he went to prison and got
out and ran for president again.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
He just it's wild, totally wild.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
And when he first was elected, I mean he came
in as basically a communist and he was elected president. Now,
my family in Brazil, they're in the construction business and
they're very high end. They build these massive projects, apartment complexes,
you know, thirty stories high with apartments in it's massive.
(23:47):
They were scared to death of Lulah, just scared because
he was going to destroy the economy of Brazil. You
know what he did, He gets elected, and he becomes
as pro business as any president out there. He wanted
foreign investment in Brazil and he got it, because effectively
(24:09):
Brazil became a pro business country, and my family went
from being scared to death they were going to be
put out of business to one of his biggest supporters.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
That's Brazil.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Brazil's the only country in the world that I know
of that when the military, which controlled Brazil for many years,
and they turned over voluntarily, they turned over the government
to democracy, saying it's now time for democracy, and so
(24:47):
they brought in elected officials that the populace voted on,
and the people of Brazil wanted the military back in
because there was so much corruption. They go, We'd rather
have the military, because well, that's corruption. It's so insane
(25:07):
that there is a it's almost like elliot ness with
this small group of people going against the mafia because
everybody else was bought off by the mafia, and you
couldn't trust judges, you couldn't trust anybody. So this small
group of people on themselves or by themselves, they have
that in Brazil, and the corrupt officials are scared to
(25:28):
death of these guys, and you know you're.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
Gonna love this.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You know what they call their the operation that they're
doing going against the corrupt officials. It's called Operation car Wash.
Don't you love those names? Okay? Kfi am six.
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