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k i AM six forty Bill Handle here. It is a Monday morning,
July eighth. So much is going on today. First of all, Hurricane
Barrel is barreling down. It has hit the Texas coast. Originally it was
going to go just in New Mexico and then it turned right right into Texas.
Lots of rain hit as a Category one hurricane and a lot of damage.
It's the storm surge that really is dangerous. And we're talking about seven
feet of storm surge which goes inland miles and so that's no fun at all.
All we had is temperatures that were hitting two hundred and twenty five degrees,
especially in northern California, which is burning up. So it's great weather.
It goes from more rain than ever to the heat spell where records are
being broken. Yeah. Yeah, welcome to the world of climate change.
Now, there has been a time analysis of the LAPD shooting people, shooting
people when they have a machete or a knife or some kind of an edged
weapon, and a lot of controversy there because you've got the opponents of this
or read anybody who hates the police is saying the cops shouldn't shoot those people.
By the way, it is policy to shoot someone going at you with
a knife, that's no problem. However, the argument is you could have
tase or a cop could have tased that person, or hit that person with
a bean bag round or some kind of foam rubber device. Now the l
eight and this is the question. The big question is if someone is having
a mental episode, that should be looked at separately. And I don't know
how a cop figures that out after the fact. Cops are the police department
say you should have known this person was having a psychotic episode. You should
have figured that out. I don't know how you do that. But the
argument is that everything should be done other than shoot that person. And that
lies a huge problem. Now, training the cops to engage in de escalation
tactics. Oh buy that. Having a social worker show up, and I
don't know how quickly social workers can show up. Someone is reported as having
some kind of weapon, the lights go on, the sirens go on,
and the cops show up as quickly as possible. Are social workers signed to
the police car? Are they called in separately? No? One's figured that
one out. Now, the de escalation part, you bet ninety three of
the cops LAPD have gone into and have attended de escalation classes. By the
way, that's now required for every LAPD recruit. However, the argument is
that somehow when a cop is being confronted by someone with a weapon, and
then there's something called a distance rule, and that is they have to look
at how fast the person with a knife is coming forward. What's the distance?
Does a cop have the duty to go behind a car? And the
answer is no, if you're stupid enough to go after a cop. Hey,
if you have a knife and you're moving forward, okay, you're gonna
get shot. You know, Bill, Back in the day when I studied
martial arts and fighting and all these things, people have no idea how quickly
you can cross a span of space with an edged weapon. And one of
the things they do. I was talking to somebody in the militaries as well
who studied this, that they will hold a sharpie, a sharpie marker,
and they will come at you and slash you on your face, on your
arms, and you can see how many times somebody could cut you clearing the
distance of what you might assume is too far for them to harden you,
and then you end up with all these marks on you, and you could
go that would have killed you. There, that would have killed you.
There, it killed you there. You know again, this is all part
of the defend the police, anti police philosophy. And here's what inevitably happens
when someone is killed by a police officer. One of two things happens.
Number one, you should have known that this was a psychotic event, mister
police officer. Or you should have aimed for the knees. You should have
taken out his knees so he couldn't move forward. And then, of course
what ends up happening is there really was no weapon. It was the victim
on his knees, putting his hands in the air and screaming, please don't
shoot me. Inevitably, witnesses will say that, family members will say that
even though they weren't there, and then the question is asked, how do
you know that happened? Well, we just know because they are witnesses who
saw that. I'm going to give family members a pass on that one,
because they just lost a loved one and they're a little pissed off. At
the police. I understand that, but hey, hey, how do the
police understand you should have known that he was having It is usually a he
having the psychotic event. They don't know, they're not supposed to know.
They shouldn't know. Isn't anyone anybody coming at you with a weapon when you're
law enforcement having some sort of mental event. Not necessarily he goes after someone.
Necessarily the spur load a cop in the spur of the moment is an
all crime basically a mental issue in some way, shape or form. So
it's like, why put that on the cops to decide? If I were
a social worker, And they do have teams, by the way, handle
they have LAPD has special units at partnerships with social workers and in LA where
yes, sometimes they do right around or sometimes they have a unit that goes
out. But by the way, there are plenty of people that commit crimes
that don't have a psychotic event. For example, I go into engineering and
I clean out half the sound equipment for my studio at home. Hey,
I mean that's a criminal event. Am I out of my mind? No?
You just try to justify criminals not being mentally inept by saying you are
a criminal. I'm not a criminal. It's just a long term borrowing.
I view it as a long term loan. Don't okay yourself as the basis
of sanity, sir. All Right, the Joe Biden fiasco, as everybody
knows by now, it was a debacle the debate, and Joe Biden basically
melted down, and he looked very old. He lost his train of thought.
He stuttered, although he has a stuttering problem. So a lot of
people don't know that, and it's being held against him. And the other
thing that people really don't understand is, so what if he's slow in responding.
Presidents don't respond instantly to anything. They shouldn't. They should talk to
their advisors. They should be methodical. They should respond to whatever happens the
United States, whatever crisis. They should do it with a lot of thinking.
However, you have to have cognitive abilities, and he came off as
an old guy who loses his train of thought. And that is a problem.
So Biden is melting down, melting down in the sense that now you
have Democrats that are saying he should just step aside. I thought that from
the very beginning that he is simply too old but the way Democrats and Republicans
work, it is a hierarchy where you have heirs. Hillary Clinton, by
very nurtured nature of how long she's been around, gets the nomination disaster.
Joe Biden simply because he's a sitting president and he's a Democrat, gets the
nomination even if he's dead, no matter. There are two things that the
Biden campaign the strategy. Neither one of them is working. One is to
turn around the perception that he is too old and doesn't have enough cognitive abilities
and that he loses his train of thought. And we really don't want a
president to do that. And even though you know, if it were someone
who was a lot younger than Donald Trump, the argument would be he is
too old. Trump is seventy seven years old, but a vibrant young seventy
seven. That you can't argue Trump is a young seventy seven and Joe Biden
is an old eighty one and that does not bode well. So right now
Biden is stuck in a political tail spin. The abysmal debate performance highlighting his
inability to do what Two issues, as I said, one his age,
How does he undo his age? And not necessarily his age per se,
There eighty one year olds that are out spry and run marathons, although he
certainly doesn't do that, so he has to undo that if he can,
which I don't think is gonna happen. The other thing is, from the
beginning, it was not about Joe Biden. The campaign was about Donald Trump,
and effectively the campaign the Democratic campaign saying do you want a lunatic again
in the White House? Do you want someone that takes us out of NATO?
Do you want someone that likes Putin and likes Kim Jong un and hates
democracies, loves strongmen and doesn't particularly like our allies, wants out? That
was that is the message that is being forwarded by Biden Democratic Party. Neither
one of those is working. The age as you is not working for Biden.
The Donald Trump is an a hole, and he's crazy, and he's
a lunatic, and he shoots from the hip, all of which is absolutely
true. By the way, he said he will be a dictator day one.
He has said he will pardon all the January sixth insurgents, But in
his mind and the way he describes it, they are all not only hostages,
they are patriots. Anybody who is pro Trump is a patriot and is
upholding the constitution. If you are against Trump, you are a traitor to
the United States. Trump is asked, will you accept the outcome of the
next election, and he said yes, if it is a fair election,
that's code for or you bet. If I win, that's fair. If
I lose, it's rigged and advanced. And that's what the Democrats are trying
to push, saying, look at this guy, do you really want this
guy as president? Well, that argument is not working, And the argument
that Joe Biden is fit to be president notwithstanding his age is not working.
What does that mean? Well, I think the one person who is the
best, the best opponent of Donald Trump is Joe Biden. And then if
Biden loses, Kamala Harris. If Biden gets out of the race, it's
Kamala Harris. Why well, because of course she inherited that mantle, not
that she deserves it, but she is the vice presudent president presidential nominee,
which means she is absolutely fit to be president by definition. Whoa wait a
minute. She wasn't chosen for her ability. She was chosen because she is
mixed race and she is a woman, and politics these days demand that why
because of political correctness. It's not who is best, it's who fits who
is which box can you check off to be politically correct, which, by
the way, the Democrats believe that one percent. I'll tell you right now.
I believe the Democrats believe that it is more important to check the box
of political correctness than it is to forward the name of the most competent candidate
that they can put forward. It's gonna be an interesting race, to say
the least. If I had to guess right now, I don't know how
close it's going to be. But as we sit right now, I don't
think it's going to be very close. I think Trump has it. I
think we're going to look at several hundred insurgents as well. You know,
the way they're painted as the founding fathers who created our country by going against
the British government, they were heroes. These guys who support Trump and did
so January sixth, are heroes. I gotta tell you, it's completely crazy.
I mean, you know, I've never seen this happen. Okay,
moving on Joe Biden and well, the question is should he withdraw after that
horrific display of non cognitive ability during the debate. The big question is should
he drop out. I don't think he will. I do not think he
will, because that's who he is. It's his choice. He has the
nomination. And one of the big problems is, let's say he does drop
out. Well, we only have a couple of three months before the nomination
has to go through and someone has to be selected, and everybody thinks,
at least in the Democratic Party, the hierarchy, that it's going to be
Kamala Harris. I got news for you. We in California know who Kamala
Harris is. She is no great genius, and I am convinced that the
more people know who she is, the less support she's going to get.
I'm not a fan, and I don't think she has much support, although
the poll show she has more support against Trump than does Joe Biden. But
I think that has a lot to do with Joe Biden and his age.
I think it has all to do with Joe Biden in his age. So
how does this work? Okay, come the convention, which is going to
happen on August nineteenth. You've got the delegates from the various states after the
primaries and then they vote for the nominee. So we don't have a nominee.
We have two presumptive nominees. We have Donald Trump who is not yet
the official nominee. We have Joe Biden, who is not yet the official
nominee. So delegates are chosen and it depends on the rules of the state.
The Democratic Party has their own rules. The Republican Party had their own
rules and they put forward the nominee. Now do they have to vote for
the nominee? No, depending on the rules. Again with the states,
the states parties Republicans and Democrat some nominees or some of these votes. They
don't have to be bound. Right, the people that are acted by the
rules of the various parties now go some have to vote what the party is.
You're going as a Democratic, a Democratic voter in the primary, and
we're talking about nominating committee, you have to vote for the candidate. Some
you're not bound. You can bolt and go the other way. Does it
happen very very rarely? Has it happened, Yeah, a few times it
has happened. By the way, if there is no nominee, if Joe
Biden bails out, then it's gonna be wide open as to the nominee.
It is going to be wide open as to the convention, and then they
get to start arguing. By the way, the last time that happened was
the Kennedy election. You know, until the last second, Kennedy was not
the nominee. It was bete between him and Lyndon Johnson fighting for the nomination
at the convention. And you know who is the one that put JFK on
top was his brother Bobby. And people don't know what a political animal and
how brilliant Bobby Kennedy was, and he was the one that put the votes
together and they were scrambling for the votes and finally went to Lyndon Johnson and
said, you gotta give it to the president or the the person who should
be the nominee, and that is JFK. Do you know. And by
the way, now it's primary. Whoever wins the primary is the nomination.
So we know it used to be the majority of the time they didn't know
who the nominee was going to be until the convention. You've heard of the
back room, the cigars smoking in the back room with the hierarchy of the
party. That's where they figured out who the nomination, and they had ballots
and sometimes it went to dozens hundreds of ballots before someone was chosen, and
many, many times it was the compromise candidate, the one that was least
hated. And the most famous one as a compromise candidate was eighteen sixty,
a relatively unknown politician by the name of Abraham Lincoln became the nominee of a
brand new party called the Republican Party. He was the second candidate that was
ever forwarded by this brand new party, the Republicans. And so I kind
of like that where you really don't know that makes it exciting. Now you
know, we know Joe Biden is going to be the Democratic nominee. That's
a given. It's going to be his choice to drop out or not,
and he won't. Donald Trump, of course, is the Republican nominee.
That's a given. There will be no fight at the convention. Absolutely not.
Also, let's say he does drop out and Kamala Harris automatically becomes the
nominee. Why because she's vice president. It doesn't matter how smart or what
an idiot she is. And I'm way up the top there thinking she's not
the smartest person in the world. Is there enough time for another candidate to
gather the support? I don't think so. I don't think so. It
takes months, a year, two years for people, the American voter to
really understand who it is. For example, I'm a big fan of Pete
Bodhagic. I think he is the best candidate among the Democrats. He's not
even in the running. He's not even in the running. Does it matter
who's the most qualified? Absolutely not. That's where politics has gone. So
we'll see. And we've got a lot of months to go or a few
months ago before this thing plays out. Okay, I want to talk about
the Huadoopah oak. What is a quadoopa oak. Well, it's a tree
that looks like a shrub, but it's not a shrub. It's a tree,
most of it underground and then you see the shrub part. And what
makes it particularly I would say fascinating. It's thirteen to eighteen thousand years old.
It's among the oldest living organisms in the world trees. Can you imagine
it went through the ice age, it went through climate change, climate warming,
and I'm talking about ten thousand years ago. And here's what's happening.
The Planning Commission of Wadoopa Valley, about one hundred thousand people an hour east
of la is maybe about to approve at one point four square square mile development
business park, seventeen hundred homes, elementary school, light industry buildings that are
hundreds of feet from this oak tree, hundreds of feet from one of the
oldest living things on this planet. Now, there are plenty of planning,
there are plenty of light industry buildings, plenty of residences. There aren't plenty
of trees that are thirteen to eighteen thousand years old. Now, the city
legitimately says that this project, huge project is going to boost the local economy.
Of course it will. The developer said it plans to protect the tree.
I think it does plan to protect the tree. The problem is what
does that mean protecting the tree? Well, that means that there is a
two hundred yard circle around it that nothing can be built. The environmentalists are
saying, come on, two hundred feet. The environmentals are saying, come
on. You know you've got sewage going out of there, you've got pipes,
you have the building with these massive earth movers you've got a tree that's
eighteen thousand years old two hundred feet away. How do you do that?
And therein lies the question, and this is what the Planning Commission has to
do. Hasn't decided yet if the development can go forward. And if you
can imagine, there was a meeting in late June and dozens of locals and
dozens of environmentalists showed up and said, no, we're not going to deal
with this now. People were in favor of development and legitimately so we're saying
this is going to help our city. I mean, when you think about
a city of Quadoopah, world famous city that everybody knows. I didn't know
how to pronounce the name until Neil and Michelle told me how to pronounce it,
Huadoopah, not ja rupah. I don't know if you got a oh
rupah. It's not Hebrew, yes, what hoopah? No? And in
Portuguese is jahdoopah. In any case, this tree may go down and it
is considered well probably the third oldest organism on the planet. And the developer
is saying we're not going to get within two hundred feet of the tree.
Construction equipment will be at least two hundred and fifty nine feet away from the
tree, although within that two hundred and fifty nine feet range that's donated to
an environmental nonprofit. And here's two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to protect the
tree and environments environmentals. Environmentalists are saying, Ah, that's not enough.
Now, there is a quaking aspen in Utah, estimated at eighty thousand years
old. It's so old it is quaking. It's a lot like Joe Biden,
literally quaking. Can you imagine eighty thousand years old? Much like Biden.
And there's a holly in Tasmania estimated at forty three thousand years old.
Wow. And you know what I think about is the in Jerusalem, all
the ancient olive trees. Yeah they're thousands of years old. They are well
compared to this, they're nothing. But you've got the olive trees there at
what is considered the Garden of Gysnthemy. And yeah that too, mister pronouncing
correctly. And yeah, whether or not there is this garden or not,
no one really knows. If there is, no one knows where it is.
But the olive trees that are in that area. Jesus could have very
well walked among them. They were still they're still there. They were probably
one thousand years old, Yeah, two thousand years ago. You can tell
because in the tree is carved JC was here. Oh boy, you know
what we all know what it's like to with a heart. What we all
know what it's like on this show to work very close to something super old,
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