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a KFI bill handle here. It is a Wednesday Hot Wednesday, July twenty
four. Tonight, Joe Biden is going to speak to the nation from the
Oval Office talk about why he is bailing out. Can't wait to hear that
as to what his reasoning is. And it ain't going to be because I'm
too old, and I'm decrepit and to have very few cognitive skills. And
I think this is the Oval Office, isn't it. There's just going to
be a really interesting conversation tonight with the President. And Delta Airlines is a
little bit of trouble. The Department of Transportation is now investigating Delta because it
seems to be the only airline that has not yet recovered from that crowd strike
attack or the implosion of CrowdStrike. Now we do a little bit of politics,
and this has to do with former La Mayor Antonio Viiragosa making another run
for California Governor. Gavin Newsom is turned out, he is done, and
he is now trying to figure out where he's going to go. My guess
is that he's going to go for a cabinet position. If Kamala Harris wins
the presidency, I don't know where else he's going to go on this one.
Interestingly enough, he became governor out of his position as lieutenant governor of
the state of California. Now nobody knows who the lieutenant governor is. Nobody
does anybody know who the lieutenant governor is right now? And cono amy without
reading it, only because I've been reading it the last couple of days.
Yeah, And I think, right, I didn't know that, you know
where whenever I think of some way with a Greek name, I'm thinking that
they run a a Greek deli. That's the first thing I thought was that,
I thought when I'm at Petros. Okay, So here's what you have.
Let me tell you the other Democrats who are in the running. And
the reason I'm comparing him to Gavin Newsom is Gavin Newsom, who is our
current governor. For some reason, he was able to get a very high
profile in the state as a lieutenant governor and former mayor of San Francisco.
He was able to pull it off to become a state wide figure. So
he had a huge advantage also massive amounts of money from the Democratic Party and
fundraisers. So other Democrats in the race this time around, Lieutenant Governor Ellenie
Kunalakis. She was the first to declare her candidacy, State Senator Tony Atkins.
Does anybody know who that is? Who she is? No? State
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tony Thurman. I have a question only am I
asking do you know who Tony Thurman is? But did you know that there
is a state Superintendent of Public Instruction? Probably not former Controller Betty Yee?
Okay, now who is Betty E? And I thought the controller was just
any Jewish wife and doesn't seem to be the case. Attorney General Rob Bonta,
Yeah, you know what, he has some he's got some name recognition
and he was appointed. And then you have a couple of Republicans that no
one has any idea who they are. So he's got a shot this time.
Last time he came in a distant third after Gavin Newsom picked it up.
So he is a traditional a traditional Democrat. And I don't even talk
about Republicans because there was about zero chance that a Republican today is going to
win the governorship in California. Although we've had some, We've had some Republicans,
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican mainly name only pretty moderate. Then you had oh
god, what his name? My mind, just another Greek for some reason.
We have a lot of Greeks. What was his name, I don't
remember. But we had Pete Wilson who also was a Republican, but again
all moderate. Nobody was a far right or today Republicans. Well, look
at the Republican Party today. And so he ran for the governor in twenty
eighteen as business friendly, not so much anymore. One of the things he
got a little bit in trouble with is he derided single payer health care.
This is one where I am almost fanatic about it. He called it snake
oil. And so I don't know what he has in mind as an alternative
to what we're going on right now. And so he comes about it as
well. A couple of things that he is pitching for himself. He was
a former teachers union organizer. So there's the liberal world president of the Southern
California chapter of the ACLU. Boy, those are liberal credentials. Stints in
the state Assembly, including two years as Assembly speaker and even though he's very
well known in southern California, is that enough for statewide office. We don't
know. He was also on the La City Council. In the Assembly,
he was in favor of gun control, including helping pass the assault weapons ban
here in California and expanding LGBTQ rights. And he is one of his main
claims that he is going to be involved with during the campaign and as governor
is anti trump Ism. He is running against Trump. How many politicians are
running on a platform of anti Trump far more than their own policy. You're
going to see Kamala Harris. I believe she's going to be attacking Trump far
more than she's going to be talking about her own policies. I think people
pretty well know. If you know who Kamala Harris is, you know she's
fairly liberal. Reproductive rights are very big for her assault weapons, I mean,
the traditional liberal Democrat. And so there's going to be a lot of
anti trump Ism and we're going to talk a lot more than that as she
moves forward with her campaign for the presidency. It's going to be very very
interesting. And the attacks have already come. Have we heard Donald Trump mentioned
Crooked Kamala yet have we heard that? Is that already started? Because everybody
is crooked on the other side. No, she's lying. Oh, she's
just lying. She's not crooked yet. Yeah, okay, okay, fair
enough. I can't wait for that. The attacks are going to be fantastic.
They are. And then there was one Republican who was crazy enough to
say she's a DEI higher. Okay, let's get right into race. Of
the four senators who are black, they went, I don't think so.
So we'll see where this goes. But Via Ragosa is pushing hard. He
came out immediately when she when Biden actually resigned, And when you come out
early and strong in favor of a presidential the chances of becoming part of the
cabinet. Look at Pete Boodage, one of the early early supporters of Joe
Biden. Department of Transportation. All right, now, Delta Airlines is in
a lot of trouble. The FEDS have launched transportation officials have launched an investigation
into Delta. Why is that? Well, because of the meltdown all over,
particularly the transportation industry, the airline industry, because of that crowd strike,
crowd strike outage, that struck businesses around the globe. As I said,
particularly the airlines got nailed. So Delta had canceled four hundred and seventy
five flights and that was yesterday, thirteen percent of its main schedule five thousand
flights since the outage began, was it five days ago? And here is
the difference between Delta and other airlines. The other airlines have basically rebounded,
they're sort of back on track. Delta is still in the middle of this.
If you've seen the news footage of people just camping out at the airport,
at the Delta gates and the counters, I mean they're there by the
hundreds and literally camping out. So what is it about Delta Airlines that uses
effectively the same systems as the other airlines and Delta hasn't been able to come
back. Well, that's what they're going to find out. Transportation Secretary Pete
Boodage said, the Department of Transportation is going to leverage the full extent of
our investigative and enforcement power. And here's what's going on with the airlines.
I mean, this one is just inconvenient, I mean to a massive degree.
I mean, can you imagine you're going on vacation, you're going on
a cruise, gone gone, You're not going to make it. I mean,
it can disrupt a lot of stuff, which is why I'm going to
suggest always always buy insurance whenever you travel. It's not just for people who
are going to get sick by insurance, by flight interruption, insurance for stuff
just like this. And it's getting worse and worse now. As I said,
this is just massively inconvenient. People aren't going to die. How many
stories have we heard the last few weeks of planes yesterday a Southwest plane coming
in one hundred feet above the water, the close calls over and over again,
United Flight losing its wheel, another plane a couple of days ago where
the tire blew out. Not the end of the world, but still big,
big problems. And of course you've got that door blowing off on Alaska
Airlines, on the Boeing aircraft, and big problems around this is it is
getting so close. We're just on top of a major disaster. We are
just on top of something very serious happening, as in, hundreds of people
are going to die. And for the first time in and I've been traveling,
you know, that's where my disposable income goes. As you know,
I've been traveling since my twenties that I don't well, I shop at Costco.
I buy my food at Costco. I wouldn't walk into a Yellson's or
any high end store. I don't shop at Nordstroms. With is a Nordstroms,
by the way, I don't even know what that is. I heard
that name being bandied about. I shop at Costco clothes and food, and
to be going out to dinner a very high end restaurant is the Cheesecake Factory.
So I spend all my money on travel, my disposable income, and
for the first time getting on an airplane, I'm genuine I'm genuinely frightened,
and I think, well, let me tell you what a pompous ass I
am. And that is, if I go down, how big a story
is it going to be? Publicly? Probably the La Times? Amy,
If I die, you know, in a car, in a crash or
some ungodly way of dying, is the reporting above the folder below the folding
the La Times. Did they even print the La Times anymore? You see?
There's the point, thank you? Yes they do, Yes, they
do. And I get it on Sundays. Well, I would say you'd
be a minor scroll page thirty four and they're only thirty two pages. It's
yeah. I mean the point is is, I'm genuinely frightened of flying today
and I've never ever done that's it is horrific. And then they're trying to
figure out what this what happened with Delta, and they're going to are they're
gonna be in trouble and try why is it that all the other airlines have
been able to rebound and Delta has not. And that's what the investigation is
about. The winter storm. Remember those horrific storms last year, I mean
horrific ice storm. Southwest had the worst record, It got nailed the worst.
Now they argued because they were more susceptible to the storms. Well,
Southwest said, pay one hundred and forty seven million dollars in fines because it
just didn't have the wherewithal. So this CrowdStrike business, We're going to hear
more and more about this because this point we don't know. There is no
answer as to the why of Delta not being able to recover and the other
airlines have And this has to do and Amy reported this. This has to
do with the programs that match pilots and aircrew with airplanes, and that has
to be computerized because there's sow thousands of flights out there and pilots have to
fly there and they have to pick up planes because you have a limitation as
to how many hours. I mean, it's really complicated stuff, really complicated
stuff. And when that goes out, the airplane stopped flying. However,
they shouldn't take five day, seven day air and Delta saying there's still more
days and they haven't gotten to the bottom of this. A new bill is
in the works SB two nine nine, which I think is going to pass,
and this has to do with voter registration. Right now, we have
a voter registration law that says when you get your driver's license, when you
go to DMV either get a driver's license or you get an identity card,
you are asked do you want to be registered? And all you have to
do is say yep, and then some questions are you in a citizen that
sort of thing, and you either if you say yes, you're registered or
you're well, you're basically registered. And there's a whole world there now this
new bill says you are registered unless you opt out. And why are they
pushing that, Well, because the people that have a harder time registering are
minorities. Poor people have a harder time going and registering. So therefore when
they do get their driver's license, because poor people still have to have a
driver's license or a identity card from the state, that's the law. That
is when they get registered or they will, and therefore then they get to
vote. And my question is, at what point, at what point does
our democracy say you've got to do something to be eligible to vote. Let's
say that you have to do something affirmative to engage in your franchise to vote.
And what you have these advocates are saying, and this basically read Democrats
because you've got poor folks, you've got minorities who are primarily Democrats, and
it's just a straight out political move. We want more of our party there,
and we don't have enough poor people, black people, Latinos like it,
don't right, but we want more who actually goes out and registers to
vote. Well, you've got people that have money on their homes, educated
in terms of have college degrees, they're more likely to vote read they are
more conservative, and so now we happen to want a system where the whole
world is automatically registered. Come on, everybody in California, really, I
mean, are we then going to have a system where you simply are automatically
registered to vote and maybe a party and then they vote for you. There
has to be some active part on people to vote. You can't just say
in this and here's where the Republicans, and I think they're legitimate in this,
there is a line you've got. They've made it easy or easier for
anybody to vote, Longer register periods, except you don't have to worry about
that anymore, Longer times to vote, different ways of voting, people picking
up your ballots because you can't get to the ballot box. And the Republicans
are saying, and that's for political purposes. That shouldn't happen because the people
that are affected by those laws, those bills happened to be Democrats because they're
poor, because they're minorities, and the Republicans Republicans saying, that's where you're
going to the Democrats, that's where you're going. At course, the Democrat
introduced this bill. That's what it's about, of course, that's what it's
about. And the question is how far do you go? For example,
last time I voted and all I do is give my name and give my
address. That's it. Walk into the polling place and then there they are
my name, I address. Okay, here's a ballot, and I said,
let me go to my car, and I happen to have I left
my wallet in the car. Let me go there and show you my drivese.
We don't want to see it. I want to prove that I'm William
Handel. No, we don't want that. Not interested in you proving your
identity. Wow, that's literally what we come to. And when you talk
about well, here's one for you, why is it that the ballot is
in fifty eight different languages, in languages you've never heard of, In languages
that there are two hundred people in the country that actually speak. And keep
in mind you want an electorate that is somehow educated, But how many people
that speak Zulu in California. When's the last time you saw an Ada saw
a video, television ad, radio ad in which it was fifty eight different
languages. I mean, the reality is is that not everybody should vote.
Oh, by the way, you know it's against this bill. Here's a
shocker. The ACLU who is against the automatic registration to vote. The ACLU,
how is that possible? I'll tell you how. Because the ACLU argues
you have the right to not register, and the government saying we're going to
register for you. Wait a minute, you don't have the right to do
that is my choice. Don't get me automatic. And I tell you we're
completely screwed up. We really are. I'll tell you what I really when
I really like to vote. When Krispy Kreme gave you half a dozen donuts
when you voted, did you know that actually happened? Yeah, at one
point. I don't know how many years ago you can. And this is
where you know the Republicans saying there's a fraud, fraud, fraud, fraud,
and people vote twice, people vote three times. I am so offended
by that, because I so believe in democracy. I would never vote twice
unless Krispy Kreme gives you six donuts to vote, then I'll go in six
times. You've got my vote six times. Hey, free donuts. How
do you say no to that? Huh? What's going on in Paris?
The Olympics. Well, it is a socially responsible Olympics, and part of
being socially responsible is clearing out the migrants. Now, we have problems,
lots of problems with migrants and the homeless. Our issue is people coming in
from south of the border. For the most part, theirs is from North
Africa and they have the same problem. I mean, you've got illegal aliens
in their world that are camping out that you have these pockets, and they
are well, I guess they're fairly liberal. In Paris, they're cleaning out
those areas anywhere near the Olympic villages, the venues, the transportation corridors,
and you've got the advocates for the homeless, for the immigrants screaming like they
do here and it is it's happening big, big time. And where are
they going, Well, they're being put in temporary areas and they're just going
to come back. And that's the world. I mean, we immigration around
the world. You have third world countries that anytime you have a first world
country allowing people in from third world countries, it's not only unlimited, but
the fervor of them coming in. Living in a third world country today is
really crappy, more so than it's ever been. And the specter, the
the idea of moving into a country where you work and you can eat where
you work, and you are not shot by the police or by gangs.
I tell you that's a lot of people want to go there, which is
why virtually every country in the world out there that is allows anybody in.
It's just the number of people is overwhelming. I mean, it truly is.
I mean, I don't want to say invasion much like Trump has said,
but certainly the numbers are unlimited, unlimited without border control. It's just
crazy. For those advocates that are saying we should open our borders, we
should open our arms. You're talking tens of millions of people coming in every
year. What do you do with those? What do you do with that
many people? Do you have a society that just collapses on itself. Yes,
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