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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand
from KFI AM six forty. This is

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k i AM six forty Bill Handle
here. It is a Monday morning,

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July eighth. So much is going
on today. First of all, Hurricane

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Barrel is barreling down. It has
hit the Texas coast. Originally it was

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going to go just in New Mexico
and then it turned right right into Texas.

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Lots of rain hit as a Category
one hurricane and a lot of damage.

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It's the storm surge that really is
dangerous. And we're talking about seven

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feet of storm surge which goes inland
miles and so that's no fun at all.

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All we had is temperatures that were
hitting two hundred and twenty five degrees,

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especially in northern California, which is
burning up. So it's great weather.

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It goes from more rain than ever
to the heat spell where records are

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being broken. Yeah. Yeah,
welcome to the world of climate change.

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Now, there has been a time
analysis of the LAPD shooting people, shooting

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people when they have a machete or
a knife or some kind of an edged

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weapon, and a lot of controversy
there because you've got the opponents of this

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or read anybody who hates the police
is saying the cops shouldn't shoot those people.

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By the way, it is policy
to shoot someone going at you with

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a knife, that's no problem.
However, the argument is you could have

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tase or a cop could have tased
that person, or hit that person with

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a bean bag round or some kind
of foam rubber device. Now the l

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eight and this is the question.
The big question is if someone is having

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a mental episode, that should be
looked at separately. And I don't know

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how a cop figures that out after
the fact. Cops are the police department

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say you should have known this person
was having a psychotic episode. You should

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have figured that out. I don't
know how you do that. But the

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argument is that everything should be done
other than shoot that person. And that

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lies a huge problem. Now,
training the cops to engage in de escalation

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tactics. Oh buy that. Having
a social worker show up, and I

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don't know how quickly social workers can
show up. Someone is reported as having

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some kind of weapon, the lights
go on, the sirens go on,

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and the cops show up as quickly
as possible. Are social workers signed to

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the police car? Are they called
in separately? No? One's figured that

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one out. Now, the de
escalation part, you bet ninety three of

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the cops LAPD have gone into and
have attended de escalation classes. By the

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way, that's now required for every
LAPD recruit. However, the argument is

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that somehow when a cop is being
confronted by someone with a weapon, and

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then there's something called a distance rule, and that is they have to look

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at how fast the person with a
knife is coming forward. What's the distance?

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Does a cop have the duty to
go behind a car? And the

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answer is no, if you're stupid
enough to go after a cop. Hey,

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if you have a knife and you're
moving forward, okay, you're gonna

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get shot. You know, Bill, Back in the day when I studied

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martial arts and fighting and all these
things, people have no idea how quickly

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you can cross a span of space
with an edged weapon. And one of

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the things they do. I was
talking to somebody in the militaries as well

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who studied this, that they will
hold a sharpie, a sharpie marker,

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and they will come at you and
slash you on your face, on your

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arms, and you can see how
many times somebody could cut you clearing the

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distance of what you might assume is
too far for them to harden you,

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and then you end up with all
these marks on you, and you could

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go that would have killed you.
There, that would have killed you.

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There, it killed you there.
You know again, this is all part

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of the defend the police, anti
police philosophy. And here's what inevitably happens

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when someone is killed by a police
officer. One of two things happens.

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Number one, you should have known
that this was a psychotic event, mister

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police officer. Or you should have
aimed for the knees. You should have

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taken out his knees so he couldn't
move forward. And then, of course

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what ends up happening is there really
was no weapon. It was the victim

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on his knees, putting his hands
in the air and screaming, please don't

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shoot me. Inevitably, witnesses will
say that, family members will say that

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even though they weren't there, and
then the question is asked, how do

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you know that happened? Well,
we just know because they are witnesses who

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saw that. I'm going to give
family members a pass on that one,

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because they just lost a loved one
and they're a little pissed off. At

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the police. I understand that,
but hey, hey, how do the

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police understand you should have known that
he was having It is usually a he

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having the psychotic event. They don't
know, they're not supposed to know.

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They shouldn't know. Isn't anyone anybody
coming at you with a weapon when you're

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law enforcement having some sort of mental
event. Not necessarily he goes after someone.

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Necessarily the spur load a cop in
the spur of the moment is an

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all crime basically a mental issue in
some way, shape or form. So

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it's like, why put that on
the cops to decide? If I were

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a social worker, And they do
have teams, by the way, handle

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they have LAPD has special units at
partnerships with social workers and in LA where

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yes, sometimes they do right around
or sometimes they have a unit that goes

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out. But by the way,
there are plenty of people that commit crimes

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that don't have a psychotic event.
For example, I go into engineering and

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I clean out half the sound equipment
for my studio at home. Hey,

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I mean that's a criminal event.
Am I out of my mind? No?

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You just try to justify criminals not
being mentally inept by saying you are

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a criminal. I'm not a criminal. It's just a long term borrowing.

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I view it as a long term
loan. Don't okay yourself as the basis

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of sanity, sir. All Right, the Joe Biden fiasco, as everybody

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knows by now, it was a
debacle the debate, and Joe Biden basically

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melted down, and he looked very
old. He lost his train of thought.

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He stuttered, although he has a
stuttering problem. So a lot of

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people don't know that, and it's
being held against him. And the other

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thing that people really don't understand is, so what if he's slow in responding.

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Presidents don't respond instantly to anything.
They shouldn't. They should talk to

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their advisors. They should be methodical. They should respond to whatever happens the

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United States, whatever crisis. They
should do it with a lot of thinking.

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However, you have to have cognitive
abilities, and he came off as

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an old guy who loses his train
of thought. And that is a problem.

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So Biden is melting down, melting
down in the sense that now you

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have Democrats that are saying he should
just step aside. I thought that from

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the very beginning that he is simply
too old but the way Democrats and Republicans

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work, it is a hierarchy where
you have heirs. Hillary Clinton, by

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very nurtured nature of how long she's
been around, gets the nomination disaster.

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Joe Biden simply because he's a sitting
president and he's a Democrat, gets the

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nomination even if he's dead, no
matter. There are two things that the

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Biden campaign the strategy. Neither one
of them is working. One is to

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turn around the perception that he is
too old and doesn't have enough cognitive abilities

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and that he loses his train of
thought. And we really don't want a

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president to do that. And even
though you know, if it were someone

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who was a lot younger than Donald
Trump, the argument would be he is

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too old. Trump is seventy seven
years old, but a vibrant young seventy

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seven. That you can't argue Trump
is a young seventy seven and Joe Biden

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is an old eighty one and that
does not bode well. So right now

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Biden is stuck in a political tail
spin. The abysmal debate performance highlighting his

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inability to do what Two issues,
as I said, one his age,

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How does he undo his age?
And not necessarily his age per se,

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There eighty one year olds that are
out spry and run marathons, although he

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certainly doesn't do that, so he
has to undo that if he can,

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which I don't think is gonna happen. The other thing is, from the

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beginning, it was not about Joe
Biden. The campaign was about Donald Trump,

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and effectively the campaign the Democratic campaign
saying do you want a lunatic again

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in the White House? Do you
want someone that takes us out of NATO?

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Do you want someone that likes Putin
and likes Kim Jong un and hates

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democracies, loves strongmen and doesn't particularly
like our allies, wants out? That

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was that is the message that is
being forwarded by Biden Democratic Party. Neither

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one of those is working. The
age as you is not working for Biden.

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The Donald Trump is an a hole, and he's crazy, and he's

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a lunatic, and he shoots from
the hip, all of which is absolutely

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true. By the way, he
said he will be a dictator day one.

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He has said he will pardon all
the January sixth insurgents, But in

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his mind and the way he describes
it, they are all not only hostages,

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they are patriots. Anybody who is
pro Trump is a patriot and is

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upholding the constitution. If you are
against Trump, you are a traitor to

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the United States. Trump is asked, will you accept the outcome of the

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next election, and he said yes, if it is a fair election,

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that's code for or you bet.
If I win, that's fair. If

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I lose, it's rigged and advanced. And that's what the Democrats are trying

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to push, saying, look at
this guy, do you really want this

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guy as president? Well, that
argument is not working, And the argument

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that Joe Biden is fit to be
president notwithstanding his age is not working.

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What does that mean? Well,
I think the one person who is the

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best, the best opponent of Donald
Trump is Joe Biden. And then if

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Biden loses, Kamala Harris. If
Biden gets out of the race, it's

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Kamala Harris. Why well, because
of course she inherited that mantle, not

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that she deserves it, but she
is the vice presudent president presidential nominee,

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which means she is absolutely fit to
be president by definition. Whoa wait a

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minute. She wasn't chosen for her
ability. She was chosen because she is

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mixed race and she is a woman, and politics these days demand that why

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because of political correctness. It's not
who is best, it's who fits who

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is which box can you check off
to be politically correct, which, by

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the way, the Democrats believe that
one percent. I'll tell you right now.

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I believe the Democrats believe that it
is more important to check the box

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of political correctness than it is to
forward the name of the most competent candidate

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that they can put forward. It's
gonna be an interesting race, to say

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the least. If I had to
guess right now, I don't know how

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close it's going to be. But
as we sit right now, I don't

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think it's going to be very close. I think Trump has it. I

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think we're going to look at several
hundred insurgents as well. You know,

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the way they're painted as the founding
fathers who created our country by going against

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the British government, they were heroes. These guys who support Trump and did

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so January sixth, are heroes.
I gotta tell you, it's completely crazy.

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I mean, you know, I've
never seen this happen. Okay,

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moving on Joe Biden and well,
the question is should he withdraw after that

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horrific display of non cognitive ability during
the debate. The big question is should

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he drop out. I don't think
he will. I do not think he

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will, because that's who he is. It's his choice. He has the

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nomination. And one of the big
problems is, let's say he does drop

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out. Well, we only have
a couple of three months before the nomination

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has to go through and someone has
to be selected, and everybody thinks,

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at least in the Democratic Party,
the hierarchy, that it's going to be

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Kamala Harris. I got news for
you. We in California know who Kamala

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Harris is. She is no great
genius, and I am convinced that the

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more people know who she is,
the less support she's going to get.

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I'm not a fan, and I
don't think she has much support, although

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the poll show she has more support
against Trump than does Joe Biden. But

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I think that has a lot to
do with Joe Biden and his age.

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I think it has all to do
with Joe Biden in his age. So

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how does this work? Okay,
come the convention, which is going to

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happen on August nineteenth. You've got
the delegates from the various states after the

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primaries and then they vote for the
nominee. So we don't have a nominee.

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We have two presumptive nominees. We
have Donald Trump who is not yet

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the official nominee. We have Joe
Biden, who is not yet the official

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nominee. So delegates are chosen and
it depends on the rules of the state.

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The Democratic Party has their own rules. The Republican Party had their own

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rules and they put forward the nominee. Now do they have to vote for

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the nominee? No, depending on
the rules. Again with the states,

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the states parties Republicans and Democrat some
nominees or some of these votes. They

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don't have to be bound. Right, the people that are acted by the

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rules of the various parties now go
some have to vote what the party is.

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You're going as a Democratic, a
Democratic voter in the primary, and

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we're talking about nominating committee, you
have to vote for the candidate. Some

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you're not bound. You can bolt
and go the other way. Does it

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happen very very rarely? Has it
happened, Yeah, a few times it

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has happened. By the way,
if there is no nominee, if Joe

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Biden bails out, then it's gonna
be wide open as to the nominee.

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It is going to be wide open
as to the convention, and then they

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get to start arguing. By the
way, the last time that happened was

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the Kennedy election. You know,
until the last second, Kennedy was not

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the nominee. It was bete between
him and Lyndon Johnson fighting for the nomination

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at the convention. And you know
who is the one that put JFK on

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top was his brother Bobby. And
people don't know what a political animal and

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how brilliant Bobby Kennedy was, and
he was the one that put the votes

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together and they were scrambling for the
votes and finally went to Lyndon Johnson and

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said, you gotta give it to
the president or the the person who should

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be the nominee, and that is
JFK. Do you know. And by

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the way, now it's primary.
Whoever wins the primary is the nomination.

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So we know it used to be
the majority of the time they didn't know

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who the nominee was going to be
until the convention. You've heard of the

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back room, the cigars smoking in
the back room with the hierarchy of the

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party. That's where they figured out
who the nomination, and they had ballots

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and sometimes it went to dozens hundreds
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many, many times it was the
compromise candidate, the one that was least

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hated. And the most famous one
as a compromise candidate was eighteen sixty,

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a relatively unknown politician by the name
of Abraham Lincoln became the nominee of a

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brand new party called the Republican Party. He was the second candidate that was

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ever forwarded by this brand new party, the Republicans. And so I kind

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of like that where you really don't
know that makes it exciting. Now you

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know, we know Joe Biden is
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a given. It's going to be
his choice to drop out or not,

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and he won't. Donald Trump,
of course, is the Republican nominee.

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That's a given. There will be
no fight at the convention. Absolutely not.

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Also, let's say he does drop
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nominee. Why because she's vice president. It doesn't matter how smart or what

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an idiot she is. And I'm
way up the top there thinking she's not

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the smartest person in the world.
Is there enough time for another candidate to

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gather the support? I don't think
so. I don't think so. It

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takes months, a year, two
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really understand who it is. For
example, I'm a big fan of Pete

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Bodhagic. I think he is the
best candidate among the Democrats. He's not

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even in the running. He's not
even in the running. Does it matter

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who's the most qualified? Absolutely not. That's where politics has gone. So

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we'll see. And we've got a
lot of months to go or a few

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months ago before this thing plays out. Okay, I want to talk about

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the Huadoopah oak. What is a
quadoopa oak. Well, it's a tree

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that looks like a shrub, but
it's not a shrub. It's a tree,

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most of it underground and then you
see the shrub part. And what

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makes it particularly I would say fascinating. It's thirteen to eighteen thousand years old.

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It's among the oldest living organisms in
the world trees. Can you imagine

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it went through the ice age,
it went through climate change, climate warming,

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and I'm talking about ten thousand years
ago. And here's what's happening.

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The Planning Commission of Wadoopa Valley,
about one hundred thousand people an hour east

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of la is maybe about to approve
at one point four square square mile development

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business park, seventeen hundred homes,
elementary school, light industry buildings that are

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hundreds of feet from this oak tree, hundreds of feet from one of the

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oldest living things on this planet.
Now, there are plenty of planning,

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there are plenty of light industry buildings, plenty of residences. There aren't plenty

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of trees that are thirteen to eighteen
thousand years old. Now, the city

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legitimately says that this project, huge
project is going to boost the local economy.

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Of course it will. The developer
said it plans to protect the tree.

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I think it does plan to protect
the tree. The problem is what

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does that mean protecting the tree?
Well, that means that there is a

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two hundred yard circle around it that
nothing can be built. The environmentalists are

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saying, come on, two hundred
feet. The environmentals are saying, come

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on. You know you've got sewage
going out of there, you've got pipes,

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you have the building with these massive
earth movers you've got a tree that's

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eighteen thousand years old two hundred feet
away. How do you do that?

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And therein lies the question, and
this is what the Planning Commission has to

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do. Hasn't decided yet if the
development can go forward. And if you

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can imagine, there was a meeting
in late June and dozens of locals and

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dozens of environmentalists showed up and said, no, we're not going to deal

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with this now. People were in
favor of development and legitimately so we're saying

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this is going to help our city. I mean, when you think about

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a city of Quadoopah, world famous
city that everybody knows. I didn't know

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how to pronounce the name until Neil
and Michelle told me how to pronounce it,

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Huadoopah, not ja rupah. I
don't know if you got a oh

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rupah. It's not Hebrew, yes, what hoopah? No? And in

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Portuguese is jahdoopah. In any case, this tree may go down and it

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is considered well probably the third oldest
organism on the planet. And the developer

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is saying we're not going to get
within two hundred feet of the tree.

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Construction equipment will be at least two
hundred and fifty nine feet away from the

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tree, although within that two hundred
and fifty nine feet range that's donated to

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an environmental nonprofit. And here's two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to protect the

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tree and environments environmentals. Environmentalists are
saying, Ah, that's not enough.

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Now, there is a quaking aspen
in Utah, estimated at eighty thousand years

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old. It's so old it is
quaking. It's a lot like Joe Biden,

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literally quaking. Can you imagine eighty
thousand years old? Much like Biden.

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And there's a holly in Tasmania estimated
at forty three thousand years old.

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Wow. And you know what I
think about is the in Jerusalem, all

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the ancient olive trees. Yeah they're
thousands of years old. They are well

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compared to this, they're nothing.
But you've got the olive trees there at

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what is considered the Garden of Gysnthemy. And yeah that too, mister pronouncing

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correctly. And yeah, whether or
not there is this garden or not,

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no one really knows. If there
is, no one knows where it is.

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But the olive trees that are in
that area. Jesus could have very

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well walked among them. They were
still they're still there. They were probably

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one thousand years old, Yeah,
two thousand years ago. You can tell

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because in the tree is carved JC
was here. Oh boy, you know

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what we all know what it's like
to with a heart. What we all

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know what it's like on this show
to work very close to something super old,

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