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- 0:01Speaker 1: You're listening to bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
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- 0:12Speaker 2: Six forty bill handle.
- 0:13Speaker 3: Here it is Hey Taco, Tuesday, October fourteen, And the
- 0:21Speaker 3: big news recovering is the aftermath of the cease fire,
- 0:26Speaker 3: and the president has stepped back from a two state
- 0:30Speaker 3: solution and now the concentration.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Is on rebuilding Gaza.
- 0:35Speaker 3: And can you imagine the costs of rebuilding Gaza. The
- 0:40Speaker 3: entire enclave has effectively been decimated and destroyed. Eighty percent
- 0:46Speaker 3: of the buildings are either severely destroyed or just gone.
- 0:52Speaker 3: And so it's rebuilding. Can you imagine how many hundreds
- 0:56Speaker 3: of billions of dollars? And who's going to pay for it? Certainly,
- 1:01Speaker 3: I don't think you're going to see the Arab countries
- 1:06Speaker 3: that are in the region because Hamas is going to
- 1:10Speaker 3: be controlling Oza.
- 1:11Speaker 2: There's no question. We know they're already there.
- 1:13Speaker 3: They've taken over the areas with the Israelis have withdrawn
- 1:19Speaker 3: now moving closer to home. God, I love these conspiracy stories,
- 1:24Speaker 3: and there's a new one that is coming out that
- 1:27Speaker 3: is sweeping the internet. Secretary of State surely Weber has
- 1:32Speaker 3: to refute the claims that, of course going viral that
- 1:38Speaker 3: the holes in ballid envelopes that we have those allow
- 1:45Speaker 3: election officials to see how California is voted on Prop fifty.
- 1:49Speaker 3: Now the holes happen to be an accessibility feature for
- 1:52Speaker 3: site impaired voters, but really not. And what the Republican
- 1:58Speaker 3: leaders are sweating is that these conspiracy theories that are
- 2:03Speaker 3: spreading online could actually suppress voter turnout among Republicans.
- 2:08Speaker 2: Not good news.
- 2:09Speaker 3: Now, a couple of things about conspiracy theories. They ranged
- 2:14Speaker 3: all the way from completely plausible. I mean, whether they
- 2:18Speaker 3: happen or not. I mean they're plausible. For example, the
- 2:23Speaker 3: dominion voting machines which were reprogrammed to have Trump votes
- 2:30Speaker 3: move over to Biden votes can be done.
- 2:34Speaker 2: I mean it wasn't. There was certainly oversight, but it's plausible.
- 2:40Speaker 3: Then there are some that are barely plausible that I
- 2:46Speaker 3: don't know. That's a tough one, That's what this is.
- 2:50Speaker 3: And then the fun ones are the crazy ones. For example,
- 2:56Speaker 3: the cabal of Democrats led by Hillary Clinton underneath the
- 2:59Speaker 3: peat parlor in Chicago and a group of pedophile Democratic
- 3:04Speaker 3: pedophile congress people are in fact molesting little kids. Or
- 3:09Speaker 3: Marjorie Taylor Green telling us that the Rothschilds read the Jews,
- 3:16Speaker 3: have co opted satellite signals, have concentrated those signals, moved
- 3:21Speaker 3: him down to California and created the wildfires here in California.
- 3:27Speaker 2: That tracks.
- 3:29Speaker 3: Yeah, that is Marjorie Taylor Green, Thank you very much.
- 3:34Speaker 3: So that's kind of the ones that you go, no, no, no,
- 3:38Speaker 3: come on, guys, I mean, are you are you that
- 3:41Speaker 3: dumb that you're going to that direction? You know, stick
- 3:44Speaker 3: to the ones that aren't true, but at least are
- 3:47Speaker 3: plausible that you can actually Okay, it didn't happen, but yeah,
- 3:54Speaker 3: all right, it could be done. So this one, which
- 3:58Speaker 3: is just absolutely hilarious, the fact that the Secretary of
- 4:01Speaker 3: State Shirley Weber b ay ways, anybody know who Shirley
- 4:04Speaker 3: Webber is?
- 4:06Speaker 2: No, I understand.
- 4:07Speaker 3: But prior to thank you very much, Amy, but does
- 4:10Speaker 3: anybody recognize the name Shirley Weber? No, nobody does, which
- 4:16Speaker 3: means positions like this, once you're in, you're in forever.
- 4:21Speaker 2: Because what do people do when they vote?
- 4:22Speaker 1: Oh?
- 4:23Speaker 3: Yeah, the existing one, the one that's already there, so
- 4:26Speaker 3: she's in for a while. But today the move for
- 4:32Speaker 3: the disabled, you know, those that are in wheelchairs, for example,
- 4:37Speaker 3: those that are site impaired.
- 4:40Speaker 2: Thoters are hearing impaired.
- 4:41Speaker 3: For example, there is no press conference that doesn't have
- 4:45Speaker 3: American sign language next to the speaker or in the corner.
- 4:50Speaker 3: And I love those because the facial expressions of those
- 4:54Speaker 3: folks are tremendous, adding drama to the whole thing. So
- 5:01Speaker 3: this is another way of dealing with the impaired community,
- 5:06Speaker 3: and that is the holes.
- 5:08Speaker 2: So people who.
- 5:09Speaker 3: Are blind can in fact reach through the holes and
- 5:15Speaker 3: they're able to read what's going on. And then they
- 5:19Speaker 3: turn the ballot around and send it in and so
- 5:26Speaker 3: it is a secure secret ballot, just like it's supposed
- 5:30Speaker 3: to be, and the holes are not meant so California
- 5:36Speaker 3: voters or California officials, for example, the Secretary of State,
- 5:41Speaker 3: who no doubt is a Democrats. She has to be,
- 5:45Speaker 3: there's no question about it, and so she has to
- 5:48Speaker 3: push back against this misinformation on social media.
- 5:51Speaker 2: You know, I've said.
- 5:52Speaker 3: Over and over again it used to be these conspiracy
- 5:59Speaker 3: wing nuts and crazy people. The only place you would
- 6:04Speaker 3: ever hear them is on the corner with a bullhorn,
- 6:07Speaker 3: where everybody would ignore them, just these crazy guys blabbering on.
- 6:14Speaker 3: And now they're on social media and now they have
- 6:17Speaker 3: traction and now people believe it. And the crazier the
- 6:22Speaker 3: conspiracy theory is the longer legs that it has. Where
- 6:31Speaker 3: have we gone? Where have we gone?
- 6:34Speaker 2: Okay?
- 6:35Speaker 3: Now, as I've said, this administration is pushing the envelope
- 6:41Speaker 3: beyond any administration ever has. And here is the new
- 6:46Speaker 3: one and the response, and it has to do with
- 6:48Speaker 3: news organizations. The response from the New York Times, I
- 6:52Speaker 3: mean all over the place, all kinds of news outlets
- 6:54Speaker 3: and New York Times associated Press, even Newsmacs television. Now
- 7:00Speaker 3: Newsmax is about as right wing as you can get,
- 7:04Speaker 3: and I mean insane Trumps supporters even they're coming out
- 7:09Speaker 3: and saying this is crazy and we're not going to
- 7:13Speaker 3: sign on.
- 7:14Speaker 2: What does that mean sign on?
- 7:17Speaker 3: Well, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wants these news outlets to
- 7:23Speaker 3: sign an affi David and basically signing a statement and
- 7:28Speaker 3: agreeing to the new rules that bar journalists access to
- 7:34Speaker 3: large swaths of the Pentagon without an escort and say
- 7:38Speaker 3: that Hegseth that can revoke press access to reporters who
- 7:42Speaker 3: ask anyone in the Defense Department for information either classified
- 7:46Speaker 3: or release or otherwise that he has not approved for release.
- 7:50Speaker 3: Now the point of the reporters going through the Pentagon
- 7:55Speaker 3: without an escort, I can see that it makes ends
- 8:00Speaker 3: to have an escort go through the Pentagon with reporters.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Okay, I can see that.
- 8:07Speaker 3: Also allowing them to have classified information. Yeah, I mean,
- 8:13Speaker 3: who's going to allow classified information to be given to reporters?
- 8:18Speaker 2: Okay?
- 8:20Speaker 3: And hex Seth that can revoke press access to reporters,
- 8:23Speaker 3: here's the one that really this is where the line
- 8:27Speaker 3: has been crossed. That well, first of all, the Depitts
- 8:31Speaker 3: Department can revoke press credentials.
- 8:34Speaker 2: Any department can. The White House can?
- 8:37Speaker 3: I mean, how many times were lawsuits filed against the
- 8:41Speaker 3: White House for not letting access to CNN for a
- 8:44Speaker 3: period of time? To other organizations and just as a
- 8:49Speaker 3: side line side note, is that the President recognized as
- 8:53Speaker 3: legitimate reporters bloggers who blog about the president and how
- 9:01Speaker 3: great he is and call themselves journalists, Yep, they are journalists. Now,
- 9:07Speaker 3: the word journalists, it's not a legal concept, but generally
- 9:12Speaker 3: we know who a journalist is different from someone who
- 9:16Speaker 3: establishes a website and blogs, or does a chat room
- 9:20Speaker 3: or runs a chat room and so what heg says said,
- 9:26Speaker 3: and this is the one that I don't get at all,
- 9:31Speaker 3: and that is they have to sign on and if
- 9:36Speaker 3: they don't sign on, then they don't have access.
- 9:42Speaker 2: Now, come on, guys, really.
- 9:46Speaker 3: You can stop them from going into classified or areas
- 9:50Speaker 3: that they shouldn't go to. I get that completely. You
- 9:53Speaker 3: can certainly say that we're going to determine whether or
- 9:59Speaker 3: not you're legit and go to court and say you are,
- 10:01Speaker 3: and CNN did that was allowed in but basically saying
- 10:08Speaker 3: you have you have to print what we release or
- 10:14Speaker 3: you can't print what we haven't released.
- 10:18Speaker 2: That's a problem.
- 10:20Speaker 3: And this is where the news outlets are just melting down.
- 10:27Speaker 3: Journalists have said they long worn badges, they don't access
- 10:30Speaker 3: classified areas, they don't report information that risks putting any
- 10:36Speaker 3: Americans in harms way. And in terms of reporting, and
- 10:43Speaker 3: this is another sideline the administration is choking off funding
- 10:47Speaker 3: for government run sources like the Voice of America and
- 10:51Speaker 3: Radio Free Europe which has been on for decades and decades,
- 10:55Speaker 3: and Radio Free Liberty. And this goes on to country
- 11:00Speaker 3: is that well, the information is controlled by the government.
- 11:05Speaker 3: They don't get information through the Internet and so radio
- 11:09Speaker 3: free Europe's not so much Europe anymore, but certainly radio
- 11:13Speaker 3: liberty that goes throughout the world and gives the American,
- 11:16Speaker 3: the Western view, US description and what's going on in
- 11:22Speaker 3: the world, and to shut those down makes absolutely no sense.
- 11:25Speaker 3: It pushes America, that's what it's about. It pushes America.
- 11:32Speaker 3: So it's just another step in the government controlling, in
- 11:40Speaker 3: this case controlling the press and say you don't print
- 11:44Speaker 3: what we allow you to print. That's the difference. If
- 11:48Speaker 3: you don't print what we allow you to print or
- 11:51Speaker 3: tell you to print, then we're going to reduce or
- 11:56Speaker 3: we're going to yank your press credentials. And even Newsmax
- 12:00Speaker 3: as well as the Washington Post as well as the
- 12:02Speaker 3: New York Times as well as so many news outlets
- 12:07Speaker 3: throughout the country. All Right, so much for that. Yeah,
- 12:10Speaker 3: another pushing the envelope story. What a shocker, that is,
- 12:14Speaker 3: all right, Moving over to go Fundme. Go fund me
- 12:18Speaker 3: is a fascinating platform in which in general, crowdfunding in
- 12:26Speaker 3: general was kind of interesting. Now one of the more
- 12:28Speaker 3: fun stories in the go fundme world, Remember that Hispanic
- 12:34Speaker 3: man to the Latino that had the taco truck in Los
- 12:38Speaker 3: Angeles and someone stole it.
- 12:40Speaker 2: Little taco truck on wheels.
- 12:42Speaker 3: Someone stole it, and they started to go fund me
- 12:45Speaker 3: campaign and needed ten thousand dollars for a new one.
- 12:48Speaker 2: They raised two hundred thousand dollars.
- 12:51Speaker 3: You never know where a Go fund Me campaign goes,
- 12:55Speaker 3: but let me tell you what's happening. And this is
- 12:57Speaker 3: according to the Go Fundme CEO, Tim Katagan, crowdfunding is
- 13:04Speaker 3: getting more and more crowded, with people asking for money
- 13:09Speaker 3: just to buy groceries.
- 13:12Speaker 2: That's it, just to keep alive.
- 13:15Speaker 3: A notable rise in campaign for essentials, a shift from
- 13:20Speaker 3: these one off emergencies towards simply every day of survival.
- 13:26Speaker 3: Basic things you need just to get through life have
- 13:28Speaker 3: just gone up significantly in the last three years in
- 13:33Speaker 3: practically all markets, according to Gadigan. And this underscores the
- 13:37Speaker 3: new economic reality persistent inflation, higher borrowing costs, really thin
- 13:43Speaker 3: financial cushions, if any, and it forces people to seek
- 13:48Speaker 3: help in new in different ways, and one of the
- 13:51Speaker 3: ways they're doing.
- 13:51Speaker 2: It is crowdfunding.
- 13:55Speaker 3: And the Go fund Me campaign is a poster child
- 13:58Speaker 3: because it was the first and big one, the biggest
- 14:01Speaker 3: one of all, and so historically it was a medical
- 14:07Speaker 3: bill for a surgery right that they couldn't afford. Were
- 14:10Speaker 3: a disaster relief. We lost our home. Our home was damaged.
- 14:15Speaker 3: We have a community project going on. But what ends
- 14:20Speaker 3: up happening is the cost of food stretches paychecks past
- 14:24Speaker 3: the breaking point, which has happened to so many people,
- 14:27Speaker 3: and all of a sudden, crowdfunding goes from altruism helping
- 14:31Speaker 3: people out to straight out a parallel safety net. This
- 14:38Speaker 3: is a real problem for people. Inflation that is a
- 14:44Speaker 3: problem obviously for all of us. Now, well, it's not
- 14:49Speaker 3: so much a problem for me because I make a
- 14:51Speaker 3: good living and most people that make a good living
- 14:53Speaker 3: are not happy about inflation. But there's a lot we
- 14:56Speaker 3: can do about it. Just cut down, don't go to
- 14:59Speaker 3: restaurant that you normally would go to. Don't buy those
- 15:02Speaker 3: incredible meats. You know, for example, when I go to
- 15:06Speaker 3: Costco and I have a special meal and people are
- 15:11Speaker 3: coming over, I would buy prime meat, which is ridiculously expensive.
- 15:14Speaker 2: Don't do that anymore.
- 15:16Speaker 3: It's uh, I know that sounds like I'm a Karen,
- 15:22Speaker 3: but Neil, it's it points out to where prices have
- 15:28Speaker 3: gone and even I'm affected, maybe not financially, but certainly
- 15:33Speaker 3: dealing with it in terms of my mental my mental
- 15:37Speaker 3: state and the way I approach this.
- 15:40Speaker 2: Some people are having a hard time buying food. They've
- 15:44Speaker 2: already gone through.
- 15:46Speaker 3: Forget meat, we're buying chicken, We're buying a lot more
- 15:49Speaker 3: store brands, We're buying less, we're buying staples, We're eating
- 15:53Speaker 3: rice a lot more. It is very tough for a
- 15:56Speaker 3: lot of people. Inflation it was nine percent under Biden.
- 16:04Speaker 3: It is now what is it amy? What's inflation now?
- 16:08Speaker 3: Three percent?
- 16:09Speaker 2: I believe it was two point seven at the last.
- 16:11Speaker 3: Few point seven, and the we have the government wanting
- 16:18Speaker 3: about two percent. It was nine percent during Biden's last
- 16:23Speaker 3: couple of years, astronomical, and then it dropped dramatically during
- 16:29Speaker 3: Biden's time, it dropped politically, it didn't politically. Donald Trump
- 16:35Speaker 3: successfully was able to argue inflation was Biden's fault. And frankly,
- 16:40Speaker 3: presidents don't have a whole lot of influence on inflation.
- 16:44Speaker 2: They really don't.
- 16:45Speaker 3: But the problem is now with inflation still going up
- 16:49Speaker 3: more so than what the Fed wants, more so than
- 16:54Speaker 3: the healthy two percent, and the nine percent already baked in,
- 17:00Speaker 3: now we have an issue where people are paying much
- 17:03Speaker 3: higher prices.
- 17:04Speaker 2: Credit card prices have gone up.
- 17:06Speaker 3: Student loans remember those a moratorium on student loans under
- 17:10Speaker 3: the Biden administration.
- 17:12Speaker 2: That's gone.
- 17:13Speaker 3: People have to pay their student loans now, which can
- 17:17Speaker 3: be debilitating. Now, there is one good side of this mess,
- 17:23Speaker 3: and Cardigan points this out, and that is baby boomers.
- 17:27Speaker 3: As we die, we are leaving money to charity. The
- 17:33Speaker 3: Bill Gates of this world, the Warren Buffets of this world,
- 17:37Speaker 3: that are leaving their entire fortunes to charity and leaving
- 17:41Speaker 3: their kids just a dribble of money that never happened before.
- 17:46Speaker 3: It happened with Rockefeller, It happened with Ford, Henry Ford,
- 17:51Speaker 3: where you have the Ford Foundation, where you have the
- 17:54Speaker 3: Rockefeller Foundation, very very rare.
- 17:56Speaker 2: Well, that's happening more and more so.
- 17:59Speaker 3: There is a sense of altruism that is coming in
- 18:01Speaker 3: that didn't happen now.
- 18:03Speaker 2: Is it enough? Of course not? Of course not.
- 18:07Speaker 3: So. Is there an answer, Well, it runs its course.
- 18:12Speaker 3: The GDP has gone up. People have gotten raises, healthy
- 18:15Speaker 3: raises in some cases, but for the most part the
- 18:19Speaker 3: raises don't keep up with inflation, and they're very uneven,
- 18:23Speaker 3: very uneven in terms of the raises. Okay, now let's
- 18:30Speaker 3: move to a story about Glaine Maxwell. And this is
- 18:34Speaker 3: such a weird one and I don't know, well, I
- 18:37Speaker 3: do know where this is gonna go.
- 18:38Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess. Okay.
- 18:41Speaker 3: Mid August, hundreds of inmates at a minimum security present
- 18:44Speaker 3: in Brian, Texas were locked down except one, Gallainne Maxwell,
- 18:53Speaker 3: convicted for her role in helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse
- 18:59Speaker 3: underage teams. So her fellow and inmates are confined to
- 19:04Speaker 3: their dormitories because these are dorms that they have at
- 19:08Speaker 3: this prison because of minimum security. And while the inmates
- 19:12Speaker 3: were confined to the dormitories, Maxwell meets with several visitors
- 19:18Speaker 3: in the camp's chapel. Now Less than three weeks earlier,
- 19:24Speaker 3: the JUST Department moved Maxwell to the Federal Prison Camp
- 19:28Speaker 3: Brian from a higher security I think it was a
- 19:32Speaker 3: medium security facili in Tallahassee. Under Federal Bureau of Prisons rules,
- 19:37Speaker 3: prisoners with sex crime convictions do not serve their time
- 19:43Speaker 3: in minimum security prisons except they have a special waiver,
- 19:49Speaker 3: and this was that transfer followed an interview with the
- 19:52Speaker 3: Deputy DOJ Attorney Todd Blanche and afterwards Maxwell said she
- 19:59Speaker 3: had never seen the president during his long association with
- 20:03Speaker 3: Epstein doing anything inappropriate, and current and former inmates said
- 20:10Speaker 3: their interview said Maxwell appeared to receive unusually favorable treatment
- 20:16Speaker 3: and other inmates were straight out resentful. By the way,
- 20:20Speaker 3: they don't even know who it was that she met
- 20:22Speaker 3: in the chapel. But after the meeting, the Justice Department
- 20:27Speaker 3: released a transcript of her interview and.
- 20:33Speaker 2: Nothing wrong with what the president did.
- 20:35Speaker 3: Interesting They immediately released that interview, but are still keeping
- 20:39Speaker 3: the Epstein files under wraps.
- 20:43Speaker 2: And what's going on is.
- 20:47Speaker 3: Yesterday the Supreme Court or last Monday, the Supreme Court
- 20:50Speaker 3: declined to hear an appeal by Maxwell, and so right
- 20:54Speaker 3: after the Supreme Court declined to appeal it and she's
- 20:57Speaker 3: going to serve out her twenty year sentence. Right the
- 21:01Speaker 3: President was asked, are you considering pardoning her? And the
- 21:06Speaker 3: President said, I'd have to take a look at that.
- 21:10Speaker 3: To tell you a little bit about Camp Brian, the
- 21:13Speaker 3: guards don't even carry weapons, and during the morning shift,
- 21:20Speaker 3: six guards oversee more than six hundred inmates. Because minimum
- 21:26Speaker 3: security prisons are places where inmates don't screw up, because
- 21:32Speaker 3: if they do, if they act out they go to
- 21:37Speaker 3: a higher security prison where it's not dormitories.
- 21:42Speaker 2: It isn't where the prisoners can.
- 21:44Speaker 3: Back and forth, walk from the dorms to common areas,
- 21:48Speaker 3: watch TV, none of that. So they tend not to
- 21:54Speaker 3: screw up. It's just really interesting that she got this
- 22:00Speaker 3: kind of treatment. She was transferred right after the Deputy
- 22:07Speaker 3: Attorney General interviewed her. Todd Blanche, Now, you know, does
- 22:15Speaker 3: this prove anything, No, it just does it pass the
- 22:20Speaker 3: smell test. Not particularly minimum security prisons all over the
- 22:28Speaker 3: country offer job training, vocational opportunities, cleaner facilities, higher level
- 22:34Speaker 3: of freedom, better food, as I said, the ability to
- 22:38Speaker 3: go back and forth, and just before the transfer to
- 22:44Speaker 3: the warden called a town meeting for the inmates, warned
- 22:47Speaker 3: that if inmates made threats to Maxwell at all, they're
- 22:51Speaker 3: going to be shipped to a higher facility, a harsher facility.
- 23:00Speaker 2: Se what pans out. Oh and here's my guess.
- 23:02Speaker 3: Here is my guess if the president does not pardon
- 23:06Speaker 3: her now, and let's calendar this one, because we have
- 23:11Speaker 3: three and a half years to go. Presidents virtually always
- 23:16Speaker 3: at the very last day or the last hours of
- 23:19Speaker 3: their presidency issue pardons. Joe Biden did for not only
- 23:25Speaker 3: marijuana violators who had been locked up for a period
- 23:28Speaker 3: of time or convicted, but also his son Hunter, who
- 23:33Speaker 3: Biden had said, I Am not going to pardon him.
- 23:37Speaker 3: Bill Clinton pardoned a whole bunch of people like Mark
- 23:41Speaker 3: Rich who had ripped off a couple one hundred million
- 23:43Speaker 3: dollars from investors. Boy, there was a pardon. So I
- 23:49Speaker 3: am guessing that Trump is going to pardon Maxwell. That's
- 23:54Speaker 3: my guess. That's what's going to happen, if not now,
- 23:58Speaker 3: during the last stages of his presidency.
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