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- 0:01Speaker 1: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
- 0:05Speaker 1: six forty.
- 0:06Speaker 2: You Handle here on a Thursday morning, April two. The
- 0:11Speaker 2: astronauts are well on the waiter in the moon right now.
- 0:14Speaker 2: They're scheduled to sleep, although I don't know how they
- 0:16Speaker 2: can sleep. I mean, the excitement level has to be
- 0:19Speaker 2: so high. The President last night in his speech about Iran,
- 0:23Speaker 2: didn't move the needle, and I wasn't expecting you to.
- 0:26Speaker 2: And then the court yesterday Supreme Court listen to arguments
- 0:31Speaker 2: about the birthright citizenship. There is a fear amongst many
- 0:36Speaker 2: people that democracy, democracy itself is under attack. And if
- 0:42Speaker 2: you look here in California, this is a story about California.
- 0:45Speaker 2: Strong majority of the California voters believe that democracy is
- 0:49Speaker 2: under attack. And I'm talking about strong majorities. In the
- 0:55Speaker 2: case of Democrats, eighty four percent say it's under attack,
- 1:02Speaker 2: over the average of all of California, and sixty seven
- 1:07Speaker 2: percent believe it's under attack. Forty percent of Republicans and
- 1:12Speaker 2: sixty four percent of a no party president preference believe
- 1:17Speaker 2: is bottom line, it's only the MAGA supporters who believe
- 1:21Speaker 2: that it's not under attack. Because the President says it's
- 1:25Speaker 2: under attack. Remember, whatever the president says goes. And the
- 1:30Speaker 2: fear is, and I've talked to people about this, the
- 1:33Speaker 2: fear is that there is going to be a coup
- 1:36Speaker 2: at the end of Donald Trump's term. There will be
- 1:39Speaker 2: a coup to enable him to effectively stay president for life.
- 1:43Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to happen, Clearly, I don't
- 1:46Speaker 2: think the American people would allow that to happen.
- 1:49Speaker 1: The only way you can.
- 1:49Speaker 2: Do it is to have the services, the armed services
- 1:53Speaker 2: on your side.
- 1:54Speaker 1: Otherwise it's impossible. That's not going to happen.
- 1:57Speaker 2: Although let me give you a little bit of history,
- 2:00Speaker 2: because has the president tried to undo democracy? Well, first
- 2:08Speaker 2: of all, to deny, of course, that the election was
- 2:14Speaker 2: lost back in twenty twenty. I mean he with no evidence,
- 2:18Speaker 2: by the way, and he started it.
- 2:20Speaker 1: I mean it didn't.
- 2:21Speaker 2: He started the ball rolling on that one, and it
- 2:24Speaker 2: was if I lose, it's a rigged election, which started
- 2:28Speaker 2: a whole movement, stopped the steal, etc. And then the
- 2:32Speaker 2: one that I enjoyed, my favorite attack on democracy, and
- 2:36Speaker 2: that's in quotes, was when the president did lose and
- 2:42Speaker 2: Mike Pence, pursuant to the Constitution has to count the votes,
- 2:47Speaker 2: has to certify the electoral votes, and certify the president
- 2:51Speaker 2: has been elected. It's a technical issue in which the
- 2:55Speaker 2: vice president reads the Electoral College votes for California in
- 3:02Speaker 2: favor of X twenty two from Ohio. I'm just throwing
- 3:07Speaker 2: numbers out in favor of Bush.
- 3:12Speaker 1: It's has to read it and what the president did.
- 3:16Speaker 2: And you know, it's almost funny if it weren't so dangerous,
- 3:22Speaker 2: because you had a sitting president who was uttering this
- 3:29Speaker 2: saying that if the vice president does not certify the votes,
- 3:35Speaker 2: then the sitting president remains the president.
- 3:41Speaker 1: If Mike Pennce did what's right as he as a president.
- 3:48Speaker 2: Trump at that point said and his followers the peaceful
- 3:52Speaker 2: demonstration on the Capitol, Remember the peaceful demonstration that everybody
- 3:59Speaker 2: was there to. He sent them there to right the wrong,
- 4:03Speaker 2: and that means count the votes in his favor or
- 4:06Speaker 2: fail to certify. Here's the analogy, and I've said this before,
- 4:11Speaker 2: the analogy he made, or the analogy that applies. And
- 4:15Speaker 2: this was John Eastman, this crazy ass lawyer who actually
- 4:19Speaker 2: was a constitutional lawyer out of Chapman here in southern
- 4:22Speaker 2: Californian Redlands. He actually had some creds and his crazy ass.
- 4:30Speaker 2: His argument was, if Pence does not sign or does
- 4:34Speaker 2: not certify, then Biden is not elected and Trump stays president.
- 4:42Speaker 2: Now the analogy I'm going to make the Academy Awards.
- 4:46Speaker 1: Best picture is voted.
- 4:50Speaker 2: And when a come time, it comes time for the
- 4:52Speaker 2: presenter at the Academy Awards to open up the envelope
- 4:57Speaker 2: and refuse to say what the name of the of
- 5:01Speaker 2: the best Picture was or is just for you refuses.
- 5:05Speaker 1: He will not say the name of the picture. Therefore,
- 5:09Speaker 1: that film did not win.
- 5:12Speaker 2: It is no longer a win because the presenter failed
- 5:16Speaker 2: to say it was a win. That is the analogy.
- 5:20Speaker 2: That's how crazy this argument was. And that was the
- 5:25Speaker 2: argument that President Trump made to keep himself president. And
- 5:31Speaker 2: so let me tell you what's going on here in California.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Here's another one. Oh, by the way, yesterday was birthrights citizenship,
- 5:38Speaker 2: because you know it's the fourteenth Amendment, but it doesn't
- 5:41Speaker 2: apply just because it says A, it really means b.
- 5:45Speaker 1: Just because it.
- 5:46Speaker 2: Says that anybody born in United States is a citizen,
- 5:49Speaker 2: it really doesn't mean that. And now we have another one,
- 5:54Speaker 2: and this has to do with the President's push in
- 5:58Speaker 2: terms of elections. What he wants is to limit the
- 6:02Speaker 2: mail in ballots. What he wants is to have you,
- 6:07Speaker 2: the voter, prove that you are a citizen, and he
- 6:12Speaker 2: wants to make sure that the ballots are counted on
- 6:16Speaker 2: the same day that the election is.
- 6:20Speaker 1: And a lot of restrictions here.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Now there's another one that the President is arguing.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Again, it's sort of in.
- 6:32Speaker 2: Not violation, but in arguing that the constitution doesn't apply.
- 6:37Speaker 2: I mean specific language of the Constitution doesn't apply. And
- 6:40Speaker 2: this has to do with what we know that there
- 6:48Speaker 2: is no widespread fraud, even though the president has argued
- 6:51Speaker 2: there is widespread fraud, that there have been hundreds of thousands,
- 6:56Speaker 2: maybe millions of illegal votes that were counted in favor
- 7:02Speaker 2: of Biden. Interestingly, all the illegal voting, all the fraud
- 7:06Speaker 2: took place only on Biden's votes, which was kind of neat. Okay,
- 7:11Speaker 2: So what the president wants is birthright or you have
- 7:17Speaker 2: to prove citizenship when voting. I mean, you have to
- 7:20Speaker 2: have physical proof that you're a citizen, you have to
- 7:23Speaker 2: have ID and limiting mail in ballots, among other things.
- 7:28Speaker 2: And the way he is going to do it in violation.
- 7:34Speaker 2: If you will of the Constitution is because you mail
- 7:37Speaker 2: in or those ballots have to do with the postal service.
- 7:44Speaker 2: He controls the postal service. That is a federal purview.
- 7:49Speaker 2: And what he is saying is that the proof of
- 7:53Speaker 2: citizenship if ballots are mailed in, and how many people
- 7:56Speaker 2: do mail in ballots the majority. Now, therefore he can
- 8:01Speaker 2: control the terms when the vote is coming in. Prove
- 8:06Speaker 2: your citizenship, prove your ID where you live, which is
- 8:11Speaker 2: not happening right now, even though a lot of us think, well,
- 8:15Speaker 2: it should happen. It makes sense because only citizens are
- 8:19Speaker 2: allowed to vote. And the problem again, and I believe that,
- 8:22Speaker 2: by the way, here's the problem. There is no widespread
- 8:25Speaker 2: vote fraud. It just doesn't exist. Now. The administration and
- 8:30Speaker 2: supporters say that there are millions of these votes that
- 8:35Speaker 2: are fraudulent across the country, and where's the proof.
- 8:39Speaker 1: There isn't any.
- 8:40Speaker 2: You know, the last time around, when the administration tried
- 8:45Speaker 2: to prove it and try to file lawsuits that there
- 8:48Speaker 2: was widespread fraud and therefore certain votes shouldn't be counted.
- 8:52Speaker 2: Joe Biden vote shouldn't be counted, all the judges said, Okay,
- 8:57Speaker 2: show me the proof. We don't have any But these
- 8:59Speaker 2: are just allegations. Over sixty judges, every one of them
- 9:04Speaker 2: saying no, that argument did not win one judge State
- 9:10Speaker 2: Federal appeals. So here is his argument, because I control
- 9:18Speaker 2: the postal service or because it's federal, then the Feds
- 9:22Speaker 2: have the ability to determine how those votes and what
- 9:26Speaker 2: the requirement is for those votes votes to be cast. Well, geeze,
- 9:31Speaker 2: there we go again with that constitution. The constitution s
- 9:34Speaker 2: gets in the way of this administration.
- 9:38Speaker 1: How about this.
- 9:39Speaker 2: The Constitution is clear the states determine voting. They determine
- 9:46Speaker 2: the time, the place, the requirements, how they do it.
- 9:51Speaker 2: And if the states don't want to do what the
- 9:54Speaker 2: president wants to do, that's the state's issue. The states
- 9:58Speaker 2: control all of it under the constitution, not the Feds. Specifically,
- 10:02Speaker 2: the Feds are excluded. So what California is going to
- 10:06Speaker 2: do is the legislatures in going to introduce legislation that
- 10:13Speaker 2: exactly protects the voters pursuant to the argument that you
- 10:21Speaker 2: don't need ID you don't need proof of citizenship. And
- 10:25Speaker 2: that argument holds water because let's say someone is very poor,
- 10:28Speaker 2: how do you prove citizenship? Who is a but how
- 10:31Speaker 2: many people know that you can pull a birth certificate
- 10:35Speaker 2: just by going to the county recorder's office. Is it
- 10:40Speaker 2: the county recorder that has it? I'm trying to think
- 10:43Speaker 2: of which agency actually has it, but that's easy to find.
- 10:48Speaker 2: Or how many people have passports? You're homeless, you have
- 10:51Speaker 2: the right to vote, you can't have a passport or
- 10:54Speaker 2: you don't have the wherewithal because a lot of people
- 10:56Speaker 2: don't have passports, a lot of people don't have access
- 10:58Speaker 2: to their birth certificates. A lot of people don't know
- 11:01Speaker 2: where they're born. What if you have someone who is
- 11:03Speaker 2: an orphan and has no information. So the argument is
- 11:11Speaker 2: that it is onerous for people to show the ID
- 11:15Speaker 2: to show their citizenship.
- 11:18Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, it can be.
- 11:19Speaker 2: But I think it's more important to establish that only
- 11:23Speaker 2: citizens have the right to vote.
- 11:25Speaker 1: But how do you argue against there is no wide
- 11:30Speaker 1: spread fraud. I don't think you can.
- 11:35Speaker 2: If there was widespread fraud, I don't think there'd be
- 11:38Speaker 2: any issue whatsoever. None, And so this is just another
- 11:42Speaker 2: argument that democracy is under attack. Constitution says specifically the
- 11:47Speaker 2: states control the voting. There it is, and the administration
- 11:52Speaker 2: is saying no, no, let me tell you why the
- 11:54Speaker 2: Constitution doesn't apply. Same thing with birthright citizenship. Someone born
- 12:00Speaker 2: in the United States is an American citizen fourteenth Amendment
- 12:04Speaker 2: upheld by the nineteen fifty two law. Oh no, no,
- 12:06Speaker 2: that doesn't apply. The Constitution does not apply in this argument.
- 12:12Speaker 2: See that's the position where democracy is under attack. And
- 12:18Speaker 2: then the next question I have do you think there
- 12:21Speaker 2: is going to be a move to keep President Trump
- 12:27Speaker 2: as president? I mean, there'll certainly be legislation introduced, I mean,
- 12:31Speaker 2: there's no question about that. The question is it going
- 12:34Speaker 2: to be one or two crazy ass legislators or is
- 12:38Speaker 2: it going to be Not that it's ever going to pass,
- 12:41Speaker 2: because that's impossible, but do you think there's going to
- 12:44Speaker 2: be enough there that there's a story as opposed to
- 12:50Speaker 2: you have one crazy ass legislator, you know, like the
- 12:53Speaker 2: one legislator that wants Donald Trump's face on Mount Rushmore.
- 12:58Speaker 1: Okay, boy, there's a story.
- 13:01Speaker 2: Now if you had fifteen Republicans or twenty in Congress
- 13:06Speaker 2: moving towards that, voting for that, then you go, wait
- 13:09Speaker 2: a minute, really, okay, enough of that. Moving over to
- 13:16Speaker 2: a real interesting story about a city that's a little
- 13:20Speaker 2: unusual in this world, and that's Dubai. There is something
- 13:24Speaker 2: called the Dubai Dream and if you go to Dubai,
- 13:28Speaker 2: they have these incredible malls, five star hotels and architecture
- 13:33Speaker 2: that is just insanely beautiful. Dubai is the capital of
- 13:39Speaker 2: the Emirate of Dubai is part of the Emirates, which
- 13:45Speaker 2: is seven countries, and they combine in their seven Grand
- 13:49Speaker 2: pubas of these countries even though they're really considered one
- 13:54Speaker 2: and a lot of people live in Dubai. A lot
- 13:58Speaker 2: of expats go to you buy and have for the
- 14:01Speaker 2: past few decades. And the stats of the people that
- 14:05Speaker 2: live there, ten percent of the people that live in
- 14:09Speaker 2: Dubai are Emorati. The rest are people that work there
- 14:15Speaker 2: and expats. And in the Emirates, you're not a citizen now,
- 14:21Speaker 2: they do not want you there. You can come to work,
- 14:24Speaker 2: you can come as a tourists, but no, thank you.
- 14:28Speaker 2: There's no way you're going to get citizenship. There's no
- 14:30Speaker 2: way that you're going to get immigrant status.
- 14:33Speaker 1: You just can't do it.
- 14:35Speaker 2: And so if you're Amoradi, if you're born there of Emiati, oh,
- 14:40Speaker 2: by the way, and they certainly don't have birthright citizenship.
- 14:44Speaker 2: If you come from an Emarati family. You get the
- 14:47Speaker 2: best jobs and you do almost nothing. It's a great
- 14:50Speaker 2: thing to do and you get paid a lot of
- 14:51Speaker 2: money for it because the oil is they have so
- 14:54Speaker 2: much oil. Okay, So with that being said, all of
- 14:58Speaker 2: that sort of explains where we are. Now. What is
- 15:01Speaker 2: the Dubai Dream, Well, it is this magnificent city sitting
- 15:07Speaker 2: in the middle of the desert that if you go there,
- 15:11Speaker 2: what do they have there? They have a lot of sand,
- 15:15Speaker 2: I mean a lot of sand. They have camel rides.
- 15:22Speaker 2: They have camel races, which are I don't even know
- 15:27Speaker 2: how you do that. When I was in Dubai, I
- 15:31Speaker 2: sort of asked about camel races and they don't remember
- 15:34Speaker 2: the answer, but they didn't go. And what they do
- 15:37Speaker 2: is have places to shop, the malls, and they have
- 15:42Speaker 2: probably the best mall in the world. They have a mall,
- 15:44Speaker 2: the Dubai Mall, that actually inside the mall has skiing.
- 15:50Speaker 2: They have slopes inside the mall one hundred and thirty
- 15:53Speaker 2: degrees outside in the middle of summer, you go inside
- 15:55Speaker 2: the mall and you can ski. I mean, it is
- 15:58Speaker 2: that crazy. And so a lot of people go there.
- 16:02Speaker 2: And the good reason it has become the financial center
- 16:05Speaker 2: of the entire Middle East.
- 16:06Speaker 1: That's what they built.
- 16:08Speaker 2: And the problem that's going on right now is they
- 16:12Speaker 2: have been hit with more than two thousand drone and
- 16:15Speaker 2: missile attacks the Emirates since the war began. They are
- 16:20Speaker 2: the Emirates are the target of the majority of attacks
- 16:25Speaker 2: that Iran has made in the Mideast to its neighboring
- 16:30Speaker 2: Dell States, while at the same time saying these are
- 16:34Speaker 2: our neighbors. We love our neighbors. As they are launching
- 16:39Speaker 2: the missiles and the drones and so at the Dubai Dream,
- 16:45Speaker 2: well it's disappearing pretty quickly.
- 16:48Speaker 1: And this is not good for the city.
- 16:53Speaker 2: I mean, they built it out of nothing. I mean,
- 16:54Speaker 2: granted they had more oil money they knew what to
- 16:56Speaker 2: do with. It's a small country, relatively few people that
- 17:03Speaker 2: actually are citizens. There are lots of workers. I mean
- 17:07Speaker 2: ninety percent of the people there are worker bees and
- 17:10Speaker 2: tourists and expats. Ten percent are Immirati. I mean, what
- 17:14Speaker 2: does that tell you about the place. But they're sweating bullets. Well,
- 17:18Speaker 2: actually they're sweating drones and they're sweating missiles, and things
- 17:21Speaker 2: are changing. And the reason I brought that up is
- 17:25Speaker 2: simply because these attacks. When they're over, when this war
- 17:30Speaker 2: is over, the aftermath of the war is going to
- 17:33Speaker 2: be deep, and it's going to be long, and we're
- 17:36Speaker 2: going to see some big issues. As the President said,
- 17:40Speaker 2: prices are going to gas, prices are going to drop dramatically.
- 17:44Speaker 2: They'll be we'll go back to where we were. No,
- 17:46Speaker 2: we won't, No, we won't. Okay, that's enough of that.
- 17:53Speaker 2: Now there's something going on in America. We've talked about this.
- 17:56Speaker 2: America is a tough place to grow old, and it
- 17:58Speaker 2: really is. Culturally, we're not really good with our old people.
- 18:02Speaker 2: You go to other cultures and grandparents are at home.
- 18:06Speaker 1: There's a lot of interaction.
- 18:07Speaker 2: There's a lot of social intercourse going on between family
- 18:12Speaker 2: members and friends and family.
- 18:14Speaker 1: And it used to be.
- 18:16Speaker 2: Where in your neighborhood there were front porches and libraries
- 18:20Speaker 2: and faith communities, shared civic institution, neighborhood rituals, block parties.
- 18:27Speaker 2: They don't exist anymore, they really don't, not like they
- 18:30Speaker 2: used to. Different world and so old people just get lonely,
- 18:37Speaker 2: and loneliness really does not help the health of people.
- 18:43Speaker 2: I mean, there are studies, and there are lots of
- 18:45Speaker 2: them that loneliness is you die earlier. There's all kinds
- 18:53Speaker 2: of problems with their heart, your general health, certainly your
- 18:59Speaker 2: mentals to your mental position. So here's what happened. There's
- 19:04Speaker 2: a company that came up with this idea. It's a
- 19:09Speaker 2: payphone in Boston, and someone picking up that receiver automatically
- 19:15Speaker 2: gets calls a payphone a similar phone on the other
- 19:20Speaker 2: side of the country's zoomer to boomer, and usually college
- 19:24Speaker 2: students in Boston are encouraged to pick up the phone
- 19:28Speaker 2: and they're connected to a senior living complex in Reno,
- 19:30Speaker 2: Nevada for just a chance conversation because those two age
- 19:36Speaker 2: groups are the loneliest in the United States, according to study.
- 19:40Speaker 2: According to studies, Matter Neuroscience, a company startup is working
- 19:45Speaker 2: to identify measurable biomarkers of happiness and developed tools to
- 19:49Speaker 2: create more joy to bridge the cross generational.
- 19:54Speaker 1: Divide, and it's working. Now.
- 19:57Speaker 2: Let me tell you my experience with old people. I
- 20:00Speaker 2: started cruising ship cruising when I was in my thirties,
- 20:05Speaker 2: and I used to go on small ships, not carnival
- 20:09Speaker 2: cruises where everybody gets drunk. I like small cruises where
- 20:13Speaker 2: a lot of retired people were on those, and I
- 20:16Speaker 2: love talking to people who were retired. I mean, you know,
- 20:21Speaker 2: people had great businesses, interesting backgrounds. I mean, old people
- 20:26Speaker 2: are neat and we don't connect, and this connects and
- 20:32Speaker 2: I can see I literally can see myself, you know,
- 20:36Speaker 2: getting a call from someone. Let's say I'm in my eighties. Boy,
- 20:42Speaker 2: I can see this right now in my mind's eye.
- 20:45Speaker 2: I get called by some college student. I hear the
- 20:48Speaker 2: phone ring, and I pick it up. I go, yeah,
- 20:50Speaker 2: what do you want? Conversation ends very quickly. But then again,
- 20:57Speaker 2: I don't think it was designed for me, because my loneliness,
- 21:01Speaker 2: my inability to connect with people. Just doing away with
- 21:09Speaker 2: any part of society, to me is a good thing.
- 21:12Speaker 1: I'm healthier because I don't talk to you.
- 21:15Speaker 2: I feel better that I don't have any connection with anybody.
- 21:19Speaker 2: So I'm an outlier. Okay, granted I'm an outlier, but
- 21:24Speaker 2: in reality, people who are lonely don't do well. They
- 21:28Speaker 2: really don't. They die a lot quicker because there's no incentive.
- 21:34Speaker 2: And so this is a great idea.
- 21:36Speaker 1: You call up.
- 21:37Speaker 2: You know, I've seen programs where kids, grade school, junior
- 21:41Speaker 2: high kids go to the old age facilities and everybody wins.
- 21:45Speaker 1: On that it's kind of neat. Okay, we're done, guys.
- 21:50Speaker 1: That's it for the show.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Tomorrow we come back again at five am or Amy
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