WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:03.200 Portions of the Bill Cunningham Show may be pre recorded. 2 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:33.799 Willie brought you by Choice Hotels, Econo Lodge and Roadway 3 00:00:33.799 --> 00:00:36.640 In Hotels are serving up double points for every qualifying 4 00:00:36.640 --> 00:00:37.640 stay book at. 5 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:39.520 Choice Hotels dot Com. 6 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:42.960 Now here's the man who's been recognized as radio's best, 7 00:00:43.280 --> 00:00:47.159 the recipient of not one, but two prestigious Marconi Awards 8 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:49.119 for his broadcast. 9 00:00:48.479 --> 00:00:52.840 Excellence, the one and only Bill Cunningham. 10 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.560 Not Billy Cunningham, the great American from the fridge at 11 00:00:54.560 --> 00:00:58.039 Midwest to the fiery coast of California, all Hell's break 12 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:01.960 and lose. I can't imagine a resident being handed a 13 00:01:02.119 --> 00:01:06.400 worse menu of problems this side of Abraham Lincoln than 14 00:01:06.439 --> 00:01:08.959 that given to Donald Trump in about what eight days? 15 00:01:09.400 --> 00:01:11.400 The trump'say is gonna take over the only hope I 16 00:01:11.439 --> 00:01:13.760 have when I talk to my friends like Wally and 17 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:17.400 Robin in Florida, I speak to my buddies like Chris 18 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:21.560 and Louisiana, or I speak with Paul and Idaho. Help 19 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:25.200 is on the way, I think. But the menu of 20 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:28.599 items given to Donald Trump right here is I can't 21 00:01:28.640 --> 00:01:32.560 imagine a worse circumstance here and around the world. What's happening, 22 00:01:33.519 --> 00:01:36.239 and I think it's gonna get worse before it gets 23 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.879 better over the next four or five days. What's happening 24 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.480 in Los Angeles was the most predictive catastrophe in the 25 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:44.239 history of mankind. 26 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:45.400 You knew it was gonna happen. 27 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:49.599 You see, Los Angeles was built in a desert, in 28 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:54.200 a grassy field. The whole area is not meant for 29 00:01:54.280 --> 00:02:00.560 human habitation, and should not be any human habitation between 30 00:02:00.599 --> 00:02:04.760 the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains because it 31 00:02:04.799 --> 00:02:08.240 isn't meant to be that way, despite those protestations of 32 00:02:08.280 --> 00:02:13.520 Mother Nature. When you build in a desert in grasslands, 33 00:02:14.479 --> 00:02:17.520 it's been done the past one hundred years, and every 34 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:20.719 year or two some worse than others. It was worse 35 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:23.120 than the nineteen fifties and it is today. Of course, 36 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:26.080 it's been seventy five years since then that the Santa 37 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:28.759 Ana wins blow one hundred miles an hour, and that 38 00:02:28.879 --> 00:02:32.159 sparks take place. And I'm very suspicious when people are 39 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:36.599 arrested kind of walking around with blow torches. And Wayne 40 00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.960 Allen roots coming up later. I read his column about 41 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:43.759 is this terrorism? Since the way of burning down or 42 00:02:43.800 --> 00:02:48.199 destroying the largest metroplex in the United States of America. 43 00:02:48.759 --> 00:02:52.840 Maybe there's about twelve million who only live in Los 44 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:56.360 Angeles County. The metro area is close to twenty million people, 45 00:02:57.039 --> 00:02:59.960 and right now it is offline. It's awful, it's terror 46 00:03:01.039 --> 00:03:03.800 and there was a confluence of several events. Number One, 47 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:08.080 Mother Nature once again showed herself and despite the protestations 48 00:03:08.400 --> 00:03:12.400 a FEMA director, she was on Face the Nation this morning, 49 00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.879 a woman named Chris Well. She said, quote, I think 50 00:03:16.080 --> 00:03:20.800 LA was very prepared for this, and I'm thinking, Administrator, 51 00:03:20.879 --> 00:03:24.000 if this is good preparation. Hell, I don't want to 52 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:27.319 see bad preparation. If this is good, because she's a 53 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:30.840 left wing radical Democrat who ignores the good folks of 54 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.560 North Carolina and the folks in the Panhandle of Florida, 55 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:37.560 and cares deeply about Los Angeles. But when I watched 56 00:03:37.719 --> 00:03:43.759 this morning the San Anna wins, even Brennan, the so 57 00:03:43.960 --> 00:03:47.000 called journalist in charge of Face the Nation, asked a 58 00:03:47.080 --> 00:03:51.599 question to the effect of are you concerned about the 59 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:55.960 lack of preparation by Los Angeles officials? She said, quote, 60 00:03:56.000 --> 00:03:59.479 I think they were very well prepared. They've never seen 61 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:02.719 one mile prior winds that are fueling this far, Yes 62 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:05.120 they have. It's happened a lot. Now it shouldn't happen 63 00:04:05.159 --> 00:04:09.240 a lot. It's rare, but it happens if those in 64 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:14.520 charge were good stewards of their city and they knew 65 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:18.160 essentially what was going on, if they had the correct 66 00:04:18.199 --> 00:04:24.319 planning for this, which was predicted, if they had management handled, 67 00:04:24.920 --> 00:04:28.439 and if they had leadership as the fires are starting, 68 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:31.399 none of most of this could have been avoided by 69 00:04:31.439 --> 00:04:35.600 any fair estimate. But here's a little secret. There's certain 70 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:40.360 principles that have torn us under the idea of electing 71 00:04:40.399 --> 00:04:43.839 someone better to do a job, or someone who is competent, 72 00:04:44.079 --> 00:04:46.439 someone who is not, shall we say, of a certain 73 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:51.519 race or color or sexual orientation, but someone. 74 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:53.240 Who has the merit to do the job. 75 00:04:53.279 --> 00:04:58.399 There's nothing in the background of Mayor Karen Bass that 76 00:04:58.439 --> 00:05:01.399 would indicate she had any cop and see whatsoever to 77 00:05:01.439 --> 00:05:03.839 become a mayor. She had been a congresswoman for a 78 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:09.279 long time, advocating certain things, including punishing Senator Ted Cruz 79 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.839 of Texas for going on a vacation while there was 80 00:05:12.920 --> 00:05:17.240 some cold weather in Dallas, and she issued several tweets 81 00:05:17.240 --> 00:05:21.040 that leadership must be present when these catastrophes occur and 82 00:05:21.079 --> 00:05:24.079 Ted Cruz to his credit respondent and came back home. 83 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:28.079 But nonetheless, a US senator has lied her operational control 84 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.560 of what's happening in Dallas or Houston. On the other hand, 85 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:36.560 Karen Bass has complete control of Los Angeles and the 86 00:05:36.600 --> 00:05:42.319 obsession in left wing havens like New Orleans, in Minneapolis 87 00:05:42.360 --> 00:05:47.560 and Chicago and New York and Cincinnati and Atlanta and Washington, 88 00:05:47.639 --> 00:05:52.160 d C. With left wing politics. There's five or six 89 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:55.720 cardinal rules about politics. If you're a Democrat. Number one, 90 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:57.600 you have to be right when it comes to woke 91 00:05:57.680 --> 00:06:03.399 DEI diversity equity and which means excluding white males who 92 00:06:03.399 --> 00:06:03.839 are straight. 93 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:07.639 Make no mistake about it. When all the news conferences. 94 00:06:07.079 --> 00:06:10.120 Were had over the past one or two years and 95 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:13.519 the mayor Karen Bass picked leadership in the fire department, 96 00:06:14.040 --> 00:06:17.439 she picked leaders who had shalways say, a different sexual 97 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:22.600 orientation than none myself, and they picked someone who fit 98 00:06:22.639 --> 00:06:25.879 a category much like Kamala Harris was picked not because 99 00:06:25.920 --> 00:06:28.720 she was competent, but because she was a black female. 100 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:31.079 According to Joe Biden, he was looking for a black 101 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:34.399 female and Karen Bass, believe it or not, was second 102 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:37.759 on the list behind Kamala Harris. And for those who 103 00:06:37.800 --> 00:06:40.480 think this is a racial or sex matter, it is not. 104 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:45.519 Who's more incompetent than the Denver mayor Mike Johnston, who's 105 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:49.959 a Democrat in Denver. Who's more incompetent than Jacob Frye, 106 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:54.360 white male from Minneapolis who watched his city burn down, 107 00:06:54.399 --> 00:06:57.879 watched the Rioters take over a police station, just watched 108 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.279 it burn down, still not and build up. So the 109 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:01.959 fact of the matter is you don't have to be 110 00:07:01.959 --> 00:07:04.399 white or black, a or straight to be incompetent. You 111 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:07.600 simply have to be incompetent. I think of individuals like 112 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:14.319 Richard Grenell, who's homosexual and he was Trump's acting DNI designate. 113 00:07:14.879 --> 00:07:17.720 I think of dearly departed Herman Kane. I think of 114 00:07:17.839 --> 00:07:20.639 Jesse Lee Peterson. I think of many others. I think 115 00:07:20.680 --> 00:07:23.319 a condo Liza Rice, all of whom shall always say 116 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.560 are African Americans, but all of whom are competent. There's 117 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.560 nothing about race or general that makes you competent or incompetent. 118 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:32.360 It's what you've done in your life is a person 119 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:36.240 that makes you competent or incompetent. And there's nothing in 120 00:07:36.279 --> 00:07:38.839 the background of Karen Bass to indicate that she was 121 00:07:38.920 --> 00:07:41.720 competent to run a city with a budget up to 122 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.160 US several billions of dollars. They spent the money on homelessness. 123 00:07:46.480 --> 00:07:50.759 They spent the money on DEI principles, hiring individuals based 124 00:07:50.800 --> 00:07:55.319 upon sexual orientation and not competency. They spent the money 125 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:59.360 on needle exchange programs. They spent the money on illegal aliens. 126 00:07:59.519 --> 00:08:03.199 They spent the money on not prosecuting smash and grab 127 00:08:03.279 --> 00:08:05.639 robbers of every description. So by the time it was 128 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:09.000 necessary to do the things basic to a city, money 129 00:08:09.040 --> 00:08:11.759 was not available. So she cut the fire department by 130 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:16.959 seventeen million after Gavin Newsoon cut the state contribution to 131 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:20.160 the fire department by one hundred million dollars. It didn't fit, 132 00:08:20.240 --> 00:08:25.519 shall we say, the idea of DEI in climbate extremism 133 00:08:26.079 --> 00:08:30.720 or homelessness, or firing firefighters that wouldn't take the vaccine 134 00:08:30.879 --> 00:08:35.440 seven hundred were fired, or open borders and fueling the 135 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:38.480 illegal rise in this country. I could not imagine living 136 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:42.679 in Los Angeles before this particular fire came down from 137 00:08:42.679 --> 00:08:46.360 the mountains the Santa Ana Wins and destroyed large sections there. 138 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.639 The taxes are confiscatory, the rules and regulations take five 139 00:08:50.679 --> 00:08:53.960 to ten years to build a home, the income tax, 140 00:08:54.039 --> 00:08:57.320 state income tax of fourteen point four percent, the city 141 00:08:57.320 --> 00:09:01.519 income tax, the real estate taxes. I have a guest 142 00:09:01.559 --> 00:09:04.879 coming up later to talk about rider truck rentals go 143 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:08.399 in one direction, which is out of California. People can't 144 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:11.759 take it anymore. And despite the protestations of those via 145 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:16.600 North Carolina or Montana, California likely is our most beautiful state, 146 00:09:16.960 --> 00:09:22.279 ruined by left wing radical democratic politics and extreme climate 147 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.840 ideas that have put into the air right now the 148 00:09:25.960 --> 00:09:30.200 largest particulate matter since there was a volcano in Mount 149 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.519 Saint Helens about thirty five forty years ago. Think how 150 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:37.639 how ironic is it that I watched this morning the 151 00:09:37.720 --> 00:09:43.320 interview of Gavin Newsom and he said, quote California leads 152 00:09:43.360 --> 00:09:47.000 the nation in environmental stewardship. That's what he said, They 153 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:50.200 lead the nation in stewardship. I'm not going to give 154 00:09:50.279 --> 00:09:51.720 up on that. But one thing I won't give up 155 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:54.600 on is delay. He's going to issue some executive orders. 156 00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:56.799 I set them meet the press that we're going to 157 00:09:56.799 --> 00:09:59.960 expedite the building process. The building process, are you kid? 158 00:10:00.720 --> 00:10:03.600 According to the experts? Monday Tuesday and Wednesday, and maybe 159 00:10:03.639 --> 00:10:05.960 as bad as it was a week ago. I can't 160 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:09.200 help but notice the irony and Gavin Newsom's claim that 161 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:14.519 quote California leads the nation in environmental stewardship unquote. Right now, 162 00:10:14.759 --> 00:10:19.879 the Golden State is spewing trillions of tons of particulate 163 00:10:19.960 --> 00:10:23.639 matter into the atmosphere, so much so that residents can't breathe, 164 00:10:24.279 --> 00:10:27.759 the water system is being contaminated, and the smoke can 165 00:10:27.759 --> 00:10:30.519 be seen from outer space. And they lead the nation 166 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:34.080 in stewardship of the environment. Are you kidding me? 167 00:10:34.519 --> 00:10:35.279 No, they don't. 168 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:39.200 Their policies help to bring about what is occurring, and 169 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:42.480 it's occurring in an area and that is a desert 170 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.960 and an area that should not be built whatsoever, but 171 00:10:47.120 --> 00:10:49.600 it's built. So then if you do that, much like 172 00:10:49.639 --> 00:10:52.720 in Florida, which has many hurricanes, when you build near 173 00:10:52.759 --> 00:10:54.799 the coast, those lots of things you better do to 174 00:10:54.840 --> 00:11:00.279 get ready. Those things include the right building code and 175 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:04.600 also the attendance of a competent stewardship and management. When 176 00:11:04.639 --> 00:11:07.960 there were hurricanes hitting Florida, the evacuation routes were known. 177 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:11.279 We knew exactly whether hurricanes were going to hit. Quickly, 178 00:11:12.399 --> 00:11:14.679 groups got in there and took care of business. And 179 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:19.360 a hurricane in Florida generally is not a catastrophe as 180 00:11:19.399 --> 00:11:24.960 it was fifteen twenty thirty years ago. And it's sad 181 00:11:25.120 --> 00:11:28.639 to watch the great state of California devolve in the 182 00:11:28.799 --> 00:11:32.639 chaos because of the stewardship of liberal Democrats of which 183 00:11:32.639 --> 00:11:35.399 the current leadership is only a part. Now, I've heard 184 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:38.519 some say, well, wait till Trump takes over on the twentieth, 185 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:40.559 what eight days from now, and he'll. 186 00:11:40.360 --> 00:11:43.879 Take over Los Angeles for what reason? For what reason? 187 00:11:43.879 --> 00:11:47.200 What can he do sitting in Washington, d C. That 188 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:51.399 the locals themselves have not done. Look at the problems, 189 00:11:51.519 --> 00:11:56.000 they're incredible. Number one is the lack of stewardship of 190 00:11:56.039 --> 00:12:00.000 what was going to happen. All the reservoirs have been drained. 191 00:12:00.480 --> 00:12:04.360 In fact, in twenty fourteen, the citizens in California put 192 00:12:04.440 --> 00:12:08.200 up seven point five billion dollars to build more reservoirs. 193 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:12.000 But what happened is the governor said no. In fact, 194 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:15.519 the governor four or five years ago destroyed three dams 195 00:12:15.759 --> 00:12:19.120 because they were affecting the spawning habits of the shmeltfish 196 00:12:19.399 --> 00:12:23.279 and also salmon. He destroyed the dams and did not 197 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:27.799 build the reservoirs, And there was other water retention facilities 198 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:30.159 to the tune of trillions and gallons that were left 199 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:33.879 dry the last several years by the incompetency of those 200 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:36.360 in charge of water in Los Angeles County and the 201 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:38.600 fire department. And it goes on and on and on. 202 00:12:39.799 --> 00:12:43.720 Wildfire alone is not destroying Los Angeles. And make no 203 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:46.639 mistake when I hear good words being said, we're going 204 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.200 to build better the next time, We're gonna build quickly. 205 00:12:49.240 --> 00:12:51.799 No, it's not. Whenever you sit. 206 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:54.320 Down at the house closing, the first thing said, do 207 00:12:54.360 --> 00:12:56.799 you have your insurance policy with you? And if you 208 00:12:56.840 --> 00:12:59.600 can't ensure the property, the bank is not going to 209 00:12:59.679 --> 00:13:03.320 loan you money unless you're rich. Unless you're rich can 210 00:13:03.360 --> 00:13:06.360 put pay cash for property. And of those areas, it's 211 00:13:06.360 --> 00:13:08.519 millions and millions of dollars. You have to bring an 212 00:13:08.559 --> 00:13:12.039 insurance policy. One report said not because most of the 213 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:16.960 insurance companies have pulled out of Los Angeles. That's seventy percent. 214 00:13:17.240 --> 00:13:20.960 And some zip codes do not have homeowners insurance because 215 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:23.519 they don't have a policy to buy even if they 216 00:13:23.519 --> 00:13:25.879 could spend fifty or one hundred thousand dollars a year 217 00:13:26.039 --> 00:13:29.240 for a yearly premium. Guess what, insurance companies, why not 218 00:13:29.320 --> 00:13:33.720 write policies in certain zip codes because of the prevalence 219 00:13:34.240 --> 00:13:36.879 of these fires, Santa Ana wins, especially this time of 220 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:40.960 the year. So if you add the cost, and where 221 00:13:40.960 --> 00:13:44.399 do you go to find twenty thousand homebuilders? I'm talking 222 00:13:44.480 --> 00:13:47.879 twenty thousand. What about the schools and the restaurants, the 223 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:52.080 coffee shops, the grocery stores, They're all gone, they don't exist. 224 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:57.200 That this is something because of the incompetence of Karen 225 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:59.720 Bass and Gavin Newsom and many others. It's going to 226 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:02.120 lad for a decade or more. It will not be 227 00:14:02.200 --> 00:14:04.759 the same. It's not coming back for a long time, 228 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:07.879 which will destroy the tax base in Los Angeles and 229 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:11.679 the tax base in California, which borrows fifty billion dollars 230 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:13.960 a year to meet their state budget. And guess what, 231 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:15.960 I doubt the FEDS are going to step up and 232 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:19.000 say we're going to handle the problems of your inadequacies. 233 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:21.960 We're not going to do it. It's sad, but it's 234 00:14:21.960 --> 00:14:24.120 the way things are. It's not about race or gender, 235 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:28.799 because there are white male mayors of the Democratic Party 236 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:33.840 like Jacob Pry and Mike Johnston of Denver and Minneapolis, respectively, 237 00:14:34.159 --> 00:14:38.960 who believe the same philosophy as Karen Bass. When when 238 00:14:38.960 --> 00:14:42.759 the main qualification for your job is your skin color 239 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:47.519 or your sexual orientation, it's over. It's done, it's not 240 00:14:47.600 --> 00:14:51.120 going to work. You need merit based promotion, and no 241 00:14:51.159 --> 00:14:53.159 one should be hired because of the color of their 242 00:14:53.200 --> 00:14:56.840 skin nor the kind of sex they enjoy. But that's 243 00:14:56.879 --> 00:15:00.600 what happens in almost every major Democratic city. You can't 244 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:03.279 apply for work, much like New Orleans. I had on 245 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:07.320 last week the experts from New Orleans who said that 246 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:11.279 Mayor LaToya Cantrell and the chief of police that looks 247 00:15:11.320 --> 00:15:15.120 like a character from the Beverly Hillbillies are completely incompetent, 248 00:15:15.360 --> 00:15:18.519 but they were hired. They were hired first, and then 249 00:15:18.559 --> 00:15:21.279 they were retained and then voted into office because of 250 00:15:21.320 --> 00:15:24.159 the skin color. When you vote by skin color and 251 00:15:24.240 --> 00:15:27.240 not vote by merit, that's the heart and soul of 252 00:15:27.240 --> 00:15:30.080 the modern Democratic Party. When Joe Biden said I'm going 253 00:15:30.159 --> 00:15:32.559 to find me a vice president who's a black female, 254 00:15:32.679 --> 00:15:36.399 there was like two qualified Karen Bass and the best 255 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:39.679 was Kamala Harris. And if that's the way you picked 256 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:42.240 your candidates for a high political office. My god, are 257 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:44.919 we in trouble? And lastly, this is from the New 258 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:46.919 York Times. I read these things so you don't have 259 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:51.120 to have a headline From January the twelfth, a couple 260 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:55.080 of days ago. Before taking office, LA's mayor said she 261 00:15:55.120 --> 00:15:58.639 would not go abroad. She was noted for travel when 262 00:15:58.639 --> 00:16:00.559 she was in the Congress. She would try travel all 263 00:16:00.600 --> 00:16:03.679 over Hell's half acre. She went to Africa six to 264 00:16:03.720 --> 00:16:07.440 seven times a year. She made seventeen trips to Cuba 265 00:16:07.840 --> 00:16:12.720 to communist regime of Fidel Castro and his brother. She 266 00:16:12.840 --> 00:16:14.600 told the New York Times she would not travel if 267 00:16:14.600 --> 00:16:17.440 she was the mayor. She quickly broke that promise and 268 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:20.960 has made many trips overseas on taxpayer expense to get 269 00:16:21.080 --> 00:16:24.480 more perspective on how to operate a water system in La, 270 00:16:24.600 --> 00:16:26.679 which she has not done well. 271 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:27.279 Let's continue. 272 00:16:27.279 --> 00:16:30.159 I want to get your reaction and where do we 273 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:33.679 stand as an American taxpayer? Do you think we should 274 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.480 bail out Los Angeles and New Orleans? Do you think 275 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:40.639 we should spend hundreds of billions of dollars to build 276 00:16:40.679 --> 00:16:44.360 back better in Los Angeles until they change their ways? 277 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:46.759 Do you help a part of the country that will 278 00:16:46.799 --> 00:16:52.279 not help itself. Well, let's continue line becomes available eight 279 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:55.960 sixty six six four seven seven three three seven Bill 280 00:16:56.000 --> 00:17:09.480 cunning and the Great American with you every Sunday night. 281 00:17:12.960 --> 00:17:15.880 And I would note that about two hours ago, sources 282 00:17:16.279 --> 00:17:20.599 from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Fox News on 283 00:17:20.799 --> 00:17:25.400 Sunday night that a suspect has been arrested for setting 284 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:29.279 some of the fires called the Kenneth Fire. He was arrested. 285 00:17:29.599 --> 00:17:33.200 There's video of him with a blow torch. Sources from 286 00:17:33.240 --> 00:17:37.440 I say his name is Juan Manuel Sierra Leva. He's 287 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:41.240 a Mexican national. The suspect one viral left of social 288 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:45.319 media video showed a group of Good Samaritans subduing him 289 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.440 near the Kenneth Fire while he was holding a blow torch. 290 00:17:49.160 --> 00:17:53.559 The suspect is in custody on a probation violation, so 291 00:17:53.640 --> 00:17:57.640 he did something else illegal. Mexican should not be here 292 00:17:57.680 --> 00:18:00.000 with a blow torch. And I says they will put 293 00:18:00.119 --> 00:18:03.759 a detainer on him so that when LA releases him 294 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:07.519 for no particular reason, the ICE has a retainer. Of course, 295 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.759 because LA is a sanctuary city, they do not honor 296 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:15.960 ICE retainers, so it is hoped that he's not released 297 00:18:16.000 --> 00:18:21.359 before noon a week from tomorrow. But one knows that 298 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:24.799 we have thousands of terrorists in this country. We have 299 00:18:25.079 --> 00:18:28.680 hundreds of known terrorists who are on terror watch lists. 300 00:18:29.119 --> 00:18:32.680 We have thousands of Mexican nationals. How easy it's been 301 00:18:32.880 --> 00:18:37.440 to cause complete havoc in America's largest, most populated area, 302 00:18:37.519 --> 00:18:42.160 Los Angeles County and surrounding. And this illegal immigrant has 303 00:18:42.200 --> 00:18:45.160 a blow torch near where the fire started. And there's 304 00:18:45.200 --> 00:18:48.960 five or six different fires started almost simultaneously at different 305 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.359 parts of the county, in different parts of the area, 306 00:18:51.400 --> 00:18:54.799 which indicates how's that possible they all started? Was it 307 00:18:54.799 --> 00:18:56.880 the San Ana Wins blowing the embers or was it 308 00:18:56.920 --> 00:19:00.680 something else? And I would note that Wayne Allen Root, 309 00:19:00.720 --> 00:19:02.440 my friend, will be here in about thirty five minutes. 310 00:19:02.440 --> 00:19:05.000 I want to bring this up to him about possibly 311 00:19:05.039 --> 00:19:08.160 how easy it is to bring down American society, especially 312 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:11.200 in relationship to what FBI Director Ray said on his 313 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:13.319 way out the door and his exit interview in sixty 314 00:19:13.359 --> 00:19:17.720 minutes that the Chinese have implanted malware in every critical 315 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:20.559 juncture of the American way of life, from the water system, 316 00:19:20.799 --> 00:19:24.920 the phones, to electric electrical grid and more. And we 317 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.279 are so vulnerable. Think of the menu of problems that 318 00:19:28.359 --> 00:19:31.200 Donald Trump has as he takes office in eight days. 319 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:37.119 Unbelievable Mexican illegal arrested with a blow torch. Pill Cunningham 320 00:19:37.119 --> 00:20:04.480 with you every something, Billy cunning in the Great America. 321 00:20:04.480 --> 00:20:08.200 And I would note the FBI Director Christopher Ray appeared 322 00:20:08.200 --> 00:20:11.000 on sixty Minutes kind of like an exit interview in 323 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:14.119 which he said something that made some sense. He often doesn't, 324 00:20:14.359 --> 00:20:17.359 but he said that quote, the Chinese government is pre 325 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:22.079 positioning on US civilian critical infrastructure to lie in wait, 326 00:20:22.839 --> 00:20:25.160 in those networks, to be in a position to wreak 327 00:20:25.240 --> 00:20:28.599 havoc and inflict real harm on the United States of 328 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:31.960 America at a time and manner of their choosing, including 329 00:20:32.039 --> 00:20:35.640 drone technology if you seen any drones recently, the ability 330 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:43.720 to run water, to conduct to our electrical appliances, cell phones, businesses, military, 331 00:20:44.319 --> 00:20:47.519 They have millions and millions of bits of malware all 332 00:20:47.519 --> 00:20:50.920 over this country that they have prepositioned to cause havoc. 333 00:20:51.920 --> 00:20:54.319 You see how simple it would be for an legal 334 00:20:54.359 --> 00:20:58.279 migrant from Mexico with a blowtorch to cause absolute havoc 335 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:02.559 in La And what he said send a chill down 336 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:05.720 my spine because we're completely unprepared for any of this 337 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:08.240 the last four years. This is one of the worst 338 00:21:08.279 --> 00:21:10.920 things that Biden Kamala Harris did not do is look 339 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:14.000 out for our interest when it comes to Chinese malware 340 00:21:14.160 --> 00:21:18.119 and also drone technology and also spy balloons flying all 341 00:21:18.160 --> 00:21:20.400 over the country on a regular basis from China. 342 00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:23.119 This is utterly ridiculous. 343 00:21:23.119 --> 00:21:25.039 I want to get your calls and later on we'll 344 00:21:25.039 --> 00:21:28.000 set up tonight's big show and if the line becomes 345 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.960 available eight six six six four seven seven three three seven, 346 00:21:32.119 --> 00:21:34.720 let's go to Lindsay and Texas first. Then calls from 347 00:21:34.839 --> 00:21:38.319 Arkansas and Florida and North Carolina and Lindsay and Texas. 348 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:40.839 Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. And Lindsay, how are you. 349 00:21:42.680 --> 00:21:45.000 I'm pretty good, Bill, thank you for taking my call. 350 00:21:45.640 --> 00:21:48.559 I could be better. I'm very saddened by what's happened 351 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:53.400 to these people. I'm more saddened to those who didn't 352 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:57.920 vote these people in office a few years ago. 353 00:21:58.440 --> 00:21:58.759 I know. 354 00:22:00.960 --> 00:22:05.920 When they tried to recall the governor, right and that failed. 355 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:12.200 So stupidity sins, not common sense, which is what Donald 356 00:22:12.240 --> 00:22:18.039 Trump talks about. So where you have the Red States 357 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:23.079 there's common sense. Where you have the Blue States, there's stupidity. 358 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:25.440 If you take California, takes your call. 359 00:22:25.559 --> 00:22:30.440 How about every major American city controlled decades by liberalism. 360 00:22:30.480 --> 00:22:32.559 It's not black or white, or gay, whatever, it's a 361 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:36.279 philosophy of liberalism. And when that philosophy is given long 362 00:22:36.359 --> 00:22:39.759 enough time to seep into the body politic, into the groundwater. 363 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:44.960 There's not one great successful American city doing well under democratic, liberal, 364 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:45.799 progressive rule. 365 00:22:45.960 --> 00:22:46.519 You can be a. 366 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:49.599 White male, a black female, black, lesbian, married guy with 367 00:22:49.640 --> 00:22:53.920 three kids, whatever it is. It's the philosophy of progressivism. 368 00:22:54.279 --> 00:22:58.400 Liberalism destroying American cities like it's destroyed every city or 369 00:22:58.440 --> 00:23:00.920 state in the world it's ever touched. It's not about 370 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:04.279 race or gender or sex. What it's about is a philosophy. 371 00:23:04.799 --> 00:23:07.559 And I look at LA with all the advantages they have, 372 00:23:08.119 --> 00:23:11.640 and the characters come and go, but the electorate remains. 373 00:23:11.680 --> 00:23:14.920 What makes you think that when Karen Bass and Newsom 374 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:17.640 leave the scene, that Californias are going to pick a 375 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:18.279 better leader. 376 00:23:20.119 --> 00:23:21.119 I don't think they are. 377 00:23:21.119 --> 00:23:23.160 I don't think so, because they are. 378 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:26.119 Who they are and they can live with what they get. 379 00:23:26.319 --> 00:23:29.519 I mean, they're four hundred million dollar homes burned. 380 00:23:30.000 --> 00:23:30.519 Live with it. 381 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:33.440 You got the money, live with it. The other people 382 00:23:34.079 --> 00:23:37.279 you know, come to Texas, come to Florida, go to 383 00:23:37.640 --> 00:23:39.039 South Dakota, North Dakota. 384 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:41.160 Beautiful. Yeah, just get out. 385 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:45.559 Beautiful places and you don't have to live with these 386 00:23:45.599 --> 00:23:49.400 people that try to drag you down. Take all your money, 387 00:23:49.880 --> 00:23:52.640 put it in their pockets, and we don't even know 388 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:55.279 where it goes. There's no accountability for it. What have 389 00:23:55.400 --> 00:23:57.200 they proven that what they've done with it. 390 00:23:57.400 --> 00:24:00.480 I'll give you an example, lindsay, about two years ago, 391 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:04.359 there was a huge tax increase in order to handle 392 00:24:04.400 --> 00:24:07.920 the homelessness problem. There's seventy five thousand homeless living on 393 00:24:07.960 --> 00:24:12.559 the streets of Los Angeles, urinating, defecating, fornicating. There are 394 00:24:12.640 --> 00:24:16.640 sidewalks taken over by homelessness using drugs, kids walking over 395 00:24:16.720 --> 00:24:19.359 feces to go to school. And so the state of 396 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:23.160 California agreed to spend one hundred billion dollars. Now, that 397 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.960 is a boatload of money to solve the homelessness problem. 398 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:29.799 Guess what, it's worse now than it has ever been before. 399 00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:32.160 Give you another example. Three or four years ago, the 400 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:35.960 Congress passed under the Democrats, this wiring up of America. 401 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:38.880 That is to have these electrical power stations all over 402 00:24:38.920 --> 00:24:39.400 the country. 403 00:24:39.440 --> 00:24:40.160 For the EVS. 404 00:24:41.720 --> 00:24:45.559 They gave forty billion dollars in order to have literally 405 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:49.400 one hundred thousand EV power stations all over the country. 406 00:24:49.599 --> 00:24:52.319 So far there's been twenty built, and half of those 407 00:24:52.359 --> 00:24:55.920 don't work. Having spent the money, we have no results. 408 00:24:56.160 --> 00:24:59.319 So government activity that doesn't solve a problem, it can't 409 00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:03.240 exacerbate it. And lastly, lindsay, imagine being a kid growing 410 00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:05.680 up in Los Angeles going to school as a first grader. 411 00:25:05.839 --> 00:25:08.200 You've got to run an obstacle course to get to class, 412 00:25:08.400 --> 00:25:11.160 and when you get there, you're taught DEI. You're taught 413 00:25:11.160 --> 00:25:14.079 what's wrong in this country, not reading, writing, and arithmetic. 414 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:17.079 You're taught all the evils of the United States of America. 415 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:19.440 And that's how you're indoctrinated. So when you get to 416 00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:22.160 be a voter, you think Karen Bass makes sense. You 417 00:25:22.200 --> 00:25:25.079 think Gavin Newsom makes sense because you don't know anything different. 418 00:25:25.440 --> 00:25:28.599 And lindsay, if for those who say, okay, let Donald Trump, 419 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:31.359 let them take over California, what the hell are you 420 00:25:31.440 --> 00:25:34.559 talking about? Do the Californians want that? When they start 421 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:39.359 voting for constitutional conservatives to run their governments. I'll start 422 00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:42.279 believing in it. But it's been about thirty years since 423 00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:45.880 Arnold Schwarzenegger. It wasn't much of a Republican anyway, was 424 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:49.960 the governor. And it's been thirty years since a Republicans 425 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:53.799 controlled city council in Los Angeles. It doesn't exist anymore 426 00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:59.559 until they help themselves. Why should we help them? 427 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:03.960 Tell me if I'm wrong, But have we not all 428 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:08.440 the time bailed them out? I know Texas, you know. 429 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:09.720 We balance our budgets. 430 00:26:10.160 --> 00:26:13.559 We have money. We got to give it to California. 431 00:26:13.880 --> 00:26:18.000 And if you don't think that takes us off, it does. 432 00:26:18.039 --> 00:26:20.920 And I'm sure it takes every other state off. That 433 00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:24.920 they screw up and they waste their money and they 434 00:26:24.960 --> 00:26:31.119 know that it's a sham, and then they take our money. 435 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:32.640 It's our money. 436 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:37.559 Well, I tell you, Lindsay, people are voting with their feet. 437 00:26:38.160 --> 00:26:41.240 There's one way out of California. Get down too, Las Vegas. 438 00:26:41.319 --> 00:26:44.119 Get into North or South Dakota or Montana. I think 439 00:26:44.160 --> 00:26:46.519 those individuals, but don't bring your politics with you. 440 00:26:46.880 --> 00:26:47.119 I know. 441 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:49.519 Sean Hannity, my good friend got to New York City, 442 00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:52.880 got onto the east coast of Florida, and he's begging 443 00:26:52.920 --> 00:26:56.039 those who flee New York, do not bring your politics 444 00:26:56.079 --> 00:26:59.279 with you, because they have failed. And right now it 445 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:02.440 is a fail state. It is beyond repair. What's happened 446 00:27:02.480 --> 00:27:05.160 in Los Angeles because of the failure of its politicians 447 00:27:05.440 --> 00:27:08.400 is beyond repair. And until they say we're gonna change 448 00:27:08.400 --> 00:27:12.000 our way, when Gavin Newsom can actually say to Karen 449 00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:14.720 bass Man, you're doing a great job, when the director 450 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:17.960 of FEMA can say that Karen bass is doing a 451 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:20.519 great job, and the fire department is doing a great job, 452 00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:24.519 and they need more money. They want to rebuild. What 453 00:27:24.720 --> 00:27:28.279 to rebuild in an area that's basically a desert? Why 454 00:27:28.359 --> 00:27:32.319 rebuild in an area where you can't find builders of homes? 455 00:27:32.440 --> 00:27:35.160 They got to build twenty thousand homes, and you've got 456 00:27:35.160 --> 00:27:36.599 to show up at the closing. You've got to bring 457 00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:39.400 your insurance policy with you, whether it's all state or 458 00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:42.759 State farm or Fireman's fund. They're all dumping out of California. 459 00:27:42.839 --> 00:27:47.319 They can't take it anymore. And therefore without insurance, you 460 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:50.079 cannot build a home. And it takes five years to 461 00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:53.319 build a home. Anyway in California, be goes the rules 462 00:27:53.359 --> 00:27:54.200 and regulations. 463 00:27:54.839 --> 00:27:56.359 It is a failed city state. 464 00:27:57.559 --> 00:28:00.440 They're just gonna burn down again because not going to 465 00:28:00.559 --> 00:28:01.160 change their way. 466 00:28:01.319 --> 00:28:03.240 You have to you have to have you have to 467 00:28:03.359 --> 00:28:03.680 you have. 468 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:05.440 To sign of the forestry. 469 00:28:06.000 --> 00:28:09.440 Can they have water resources like tru plenty? 470 00:28:09.799 --> 00:28:11.839 They have plenty, but not if you not if you 471 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:14.240 destroy the dams, not if you don't use the money 472 00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:17.279 to build more water retention systems. I mean, there's trillions 473 00:28:17.319 --> 00:28:20.079 of gallons of water every other goes into the Pacific Ocean. 474 00:28:20.480 --> 00:28:22.680 Save the water for when you need it. But they're 475 00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:28.720 they're encapsulated with DEI, discrimination, homelessness, drug use, cross genderism, 476 00:28:28.799 --> 00:28:32.160 all that stuff. And in reality, uh, they're not using 477 00:28:32.200 --> 00:28:37.200 the money basically to make the lives of average Angelinos better. 478 00:28:37.240 --> 00:28:40.079 What they're doing is spending it pursuant to liberalism. Same 479 00:28:40.079 --> 00:28:42.759 thing happened in Minneapolis, Same thing happened to my hometown 480 00:28:42.799 --> 00:28:45.480 of Cincinnati. We used to have five hundred thousand people 481 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:48.279 in Cincinnati. We now have three hundred thousand. The schools 482 00:28:48.279 --> 00:28:51.000 you cannot attend the schools, they stink. There's not much 483 00:28:51.079 --> 00:28:53.599 lawlessness because we have a pretty good sheriff here. But 484 00:28:53.680 --> 00:28:57.519 let's face it, right now, every major American city is 485 00:28:57.559 --> 00:29:01.680 similar to Los Angeles and governance, and that's got to stop. 486 00:29:01.720 --> 00:29:03.680 We got to run. Thanks for your call. Let's go 487 00:29:03.759 --> 00:29:07.240 to uh, let's go to Rick and Indy. Rick in Indianapolis. 488 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:08.599 Welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. 489 00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:09.279 Rick. How are you. 490 00:29:10.519 --> 00:29:12.759 I'm blessed, Professor Cunningham. 491 00:29:12.759 --> 00:29:13.680 How are you? Well? 492 00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:15.480 I'm doing my best. But Trump. 493 00:29:15.640 --> 00:29:18.599 Can you imagine a president with these problems coming into 494 00:29:18.680 --> 00:29:21.759 office in the media getting ready to attack Donald Trump 495 00:29:21.920 --> 00:29:23.000 because of California. 496 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:24.039 They're getting ready. 497 00:29:24.880 --> 00:29:27.440 Now, They've already been doing it for quite a while, 498 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:29.640 and they just have to find anything they can do 499 00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:33.599 to try to tear him down and give us a 500 00:29:33.640 --> 00:29:37.839 bad attitude about everything. And you know that's just unfortunate 501 00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:38.599 for these people. 502 00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:38.839 To do that. 503 00:29:39.839 --> 00:29:42.240 Well, I'm just telling you we got problems. 504 00:29:42.720 --> 00:29:44.720 Oh yeah, I wouldn't want to be president. 505 00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:45.200 No, thank you. 506 00:29:46.319 --> 00:29:50.319 He's got Whether whether it's Ukraine, the Middle East, North Korea, 507 00:29:50.759 --> 00:29:54.160 China puts malware over every computer system in this country, 508 00:29:54.319 --> 00:29:56.839 whether it's a southern border, whether it's what's happened in 509 00:29:56.839 --> 00:29:59.200 Los Angeles may get worse the next two or three days, 510 00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:02.079 whether it's a such a deficit of two trillion dollars 511 00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:04.680 a year, the fact that the ten year notes rising, 512 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:08.160 which means rates rise, mortgage rates rise, which means LA 513 00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:10.119 is going to be off the market for years to come, 514 00:30:10.160 --> 00:30:13.559 which will be a tax loss that Sacramento will ask 515 00:30:13.720 --> 00:30:17.400 Washington to paper over. Practically every urban public school in 516 00:30:17.440 --> 00:30:20.519 America cannot be attended because they're so bad. We have 517 00:30:20.799 --> 00:30:24.480 defund the police movements everywhere in DEI, which isn't based 518 00:30:24.519 --> 00:30:28.880 upon merit, based upon skin color and sex, which is ridiculous. 519 00:30:28.960 --> 00:30:31.400 Karen Bass got the job and was elected because she's 520 00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:35.119 a black female and not because she's competent. And Gavin 521 00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:37.880 Newsom got the job and he's incompetent. He's a white, 522 00:30:37.920 --> 00:30:41.319 married male. So it's not about your sexual orientation, it's 523 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:42.359 about your incompetence. 524 00:30:42.400 --> 00:30:44.880 You know what I'm saying, Yes, sir, I do. 525 00:30:45.160 --> 00:30:47.559 And I grew up in California as a young man, 526 00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:51.240 went to the public schools. It was beautiful, We enjoyed it, 527 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:53.000 but you couldn't pay me to go back there. Now. 528 00:30:53.759 --> 00:30:56.359 It's just a complete and total rick, and has been 529 00:30:56.400 --> 00:30:57.200 for quite some time. 530 00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:00.680 What changes Because I've heard some commentators say, well wait 531 00:31:00.680 --> 00:31:03.440 till Donald Trump gets in office. What the heck can 532 00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:09.039 he do about Chicago, Austin, Texas, Atlanta, Memphis, San Francisco. 533 00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:12.119 By the way, there's more dogs in San Francisco and 534 00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:15.319 kids in the public school system in San Francisco. There's 535 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:18.240 more abortions black babies a board in New York City 536 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.319 than black babies that are born because of the abortion pill. 537 00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:24.680 And look, La, what can Trump do about any of that? 538 00:31:24.759 --> 00:31:27.079 When the residents don't want to help themselves? What can 539 00:31:27.119 --> 00:31:27.759 the Trump's to do? 540 00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:29.319 Well? 541 00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:32.720 Thank God, he likes to work. Yeah, and our current 542 00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:35.680 president has only been there maybe a third of the time. 543 00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:40.359 And it is that And I know that I have 544 00:31:40.480 --> 00:31:43.400 hope in Trump that he's not going to sleep easy 545 00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:46.240 at night until he solves some of these issues. And 546 00:31:46.680 --> 00:31:49.960 that's why I voted for him and the people around me. 547 00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:52.960 And you know, I run a street ministry here in Indianapolis, 548 00:31:53.000 --> 00:31:55.880 and I'm dealing with the people that are less fortunate. 549 00:31:56.400 --> 00:31:58.880 But it's something that we all agree with that at 550 00:31:58.960 --> 00:32:01.920 least he's going to work and he's not going to 551 00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:03.359 stop until he does something. 552 00:32:03.920 --> 00:32:06.960 You know, Reverend, I know Joe Biden is mentally incompetent, 553 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:09.319 God bless him. Maybe at some point you and I 554 00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:12.200 might be in the same diminished mental capacity. But we 555 00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:14.559 shouldn't be the president. But when you say he worked 556 00:32:14.559 --> 00:32:16.799 one third at the time, that might be high. But 557 00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:19.519 on the other hand, maybe that's a blessing. All he's 558 00:32:19.519 --> 00:32:22.000 done is wrongful things and so therefore if it worked 559 00:32:22.039 --> 00:32:23.240 any harder, things would be worse. 560 00:32:24.319 --> 00:32:27.720 Yeah, I guess, thank God for small miracles. And that's 561 00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:29.920 the reason I called is because I wanted to ask 562 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:34.079 you about him giving the Pope the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 563 00:32:34.480 --> 00:32:37.200 In my space. I'm not Catholic, and I know you 564 00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:42.319 are a staunchly Catholic. I'm charismatic Christian and it's something 565 00:32:42.359 --> 00:32:45.440 that I think, in my opinion, the Pope should have 566 00:32:45.440 --> 00:32:50.079 refused that because that is a word from the earth, 567 00:32:50.720 --> 00:32:53.519 so to speak. And I was always taught that you 568 00:32:53.559 --> 00:32:56.319 shouldn't boast upon yourself, but if you have to boast, 569 00:32:56.359 --> 00:32:58.160 boast upon the Lord, well. 570 00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:04.799 You know, Pope course is an Argentinian socialist. My favorite 571 00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:08.160 pope was John Paul the second and Benedict and the 572 00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:10.960 idea of this pope, I mean, I wish him well, 573 00:33:11.000 --> 00:33:16.720 he's almost ninety years old. If I can't speak to 574 00:33:16.839 --> 00:33:20.880 I know he received the order with distinction. The first 575 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:24.279 one given out and the Pope accepted it, and I 576 00:33:24.319 --> 00:33:27.440 do not. I can't judge anybody yet I be judged 577 00:33:28.519 --> 00:33:33.640 if Joe Biden is a good, practicing Roman Catholic. That's 578 00:33:33.680 --> 00:33:36.240 not my definition of what a good Roman Catholic is, 579 00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:38.279 and that would be Joe Biden. I think, if your 580 00:33:38.359 --> 00:33:40.240 call got to take a break, I'm not going to 581 00:33:40.279 --> 00:33:41.119 judge someone else. 582 00:33:41.799 --> 00:33:42.680 Let him be judged. 583 00:33:42.720 --> 00:33:46.079 But when Joe Biden, unless he apologizes and asks forgiveness 584 00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:49.599 before the Seat of God, his place may be warm. 585 00:33:50.400 --> 00:33:53.400 Let's continue with more forty eight minutes after the hour, 586 00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:56.640 Bill Cunningham, the Great America with you every Sunday night. 587 00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:20.119 Judge not lest they be judged. 588 00:34:20.159 --> 00:34:22.079 And I would say that Joe Biden, who claims to 589 00:34:22.079 --> 00:34:24.960 be a practicing Roman Catholic, well a lot to answer 590 00:34:25.000 --> 00:34:27.599 for before the Seat of God, just as some of 591 00:34:27.639 --> 00:34:30.000 those things might be his behavior with his own daughter. 592 00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:33.599 Also might be the fact that he thinks abortion is 593 00:34:33.639 --> 00:34:36.360 like a sacramento. He gave the nation's highest civilian honor 594 00:34:36.760 --> 00:34:42.079 to Planned Parenthood members who kill babies from the that's 595 00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:44.000 the worst crime that can be committed, as when you 596 00:34:44.079 --> 00:34:46.800 kill the innocent and from the moment of conception of 597 00:34:46.920 --> 00:34:49.760 natural death. Those are human lives. And for Joe Biden 598 00:34:49.800 --> 00:34:53.880 to give the highest civilian award to plan parenthood is disgusting. 599 00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:57.880 And to claim somehow that his behavior with his own 600 00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:02.400 daughter Ashley was somehow, somehow acceptable and not necessarily wrong, 601 00:35:02.920 --> 00:35:06.840 and somehow a hiss. Behavior with other women like Tara Reid, 602 00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:10.559 who sexually assaulted she said it happened. I don't know 603 00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:13.320 if it did or not. Are all rather despicable acts, 604 00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:16.000 to say nothing of other things he's done inside the 605 00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:16.519 White House. 606 00:35:17.039 --> 00:35:17.800 That's for another day. 607 00:35:17.840 --> 00:35:20.800 Let's go to Keith and North Carolina hopefully recovered from 608 00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:23.559 the storm, and Keith, welcome to the Bill Cunningham Show. 609 00:35:23.559 --> 00:35:25.639 And Keith, how are you hi? 610 00:35:25.719 --> 00:35:27.679 I'm great, sir. It's a privileged to talk to you. 611 00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:29.000 Appreciate you, thank you. 612 00:35:31.800 --> 00:35:36.440 Basically, Western I'm not measuring pain here. Western North Carolina 613 00:35:36.639 --> 00:35:41.320 was devastated. These are the regular folk, right yep. And 614 00:35:41.360 --> 00:35:44.039 they go white out of the house, went down the creek, yep. 615 00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:48.519 And we're sitting here going like, oh, I understand not 616 00:35:48.679 --> 00:35:52.039 worried about the I am worried about the California fires. 617 00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:55.039 But the point is, you know, these folks have been 618 00:35:55.119 --> 00:35:58.280 left abandoned. They're sitting there now going like, hey, we're 619 00:35:58.280 --> 00:36:02.079 no longer going to pay for your hotel room because 620 00:36:02.119 --> 00:36:05.679 your house has been certified, i e. A government approval 621 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.000 that you can move back into your house, but we 622 00:36:08.159 --> 00:36:11.199 can't get hold of you. Now, help me understand this. 623 00:36:12.039 --> 00:36:14.480 You can't get hold of somebody who you're paying for 624 00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:17.239 the room in a hotel. That's bizarre. 625 00:36:17.559 --> 00:36:21.679 Now the thing didn't a FEMA official say that skip 626 00:36:21.800 --> 00:36:24.719 the homes with Trump signs that somehow if you're a Trumpster, 627 00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:27.599 you're not entitled to federal benefits. And when you have 628 00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:31.039 the director of FEMA this morning, this woman say, I 629 00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:34.039 think it was on Meet the Press this morning. Now, 630 00:36:34.119 --> 00:36:37.199 Karen Bass and LA officials are doing a good job. 631 00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:40.199 If that's a good job there, I don't want to 632 00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:41.039 see a bad one. 633 00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:44.000 I'm with you. I'm with you, and if don't wait 634 00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:46.800 for the government to support you. But that's what we're 635 00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:49.599 talking about, So let's go ahead and continue the conversation. 636 00:36:50.440 --> 00:36:55.199 FEMA went in there and actually deterred the locals from 637 00:36:55.199 --> 00:36:58.440 helping themselves. I don't care about this, it's rumor whatever. 638 00:36:58.519 --> 00:37:02.159 I don't live there, I'm near so sir, but they're 639 00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:05.840 my backyard, all right. So let's not forget about the 640 00:37:05.840 --> 00:37:08.840 folks that don't have a house. And now you, saint kid, 641 00:37:08.880 --> 00:37:11.719 get hold of them because you can't find them. But 642 00:37:11.800 --> 00:37:14.840 yet you're paying for the room. That's maloney you want. 643 00:37:14.679 --> 00:37:19.079 To get Keith, good point, Thank you, And North Carolinians 644 00:37:19.760 --> 00:37:22.719 did a great job cleaning up themselves. And the ministries 645 00:37:22.719 --> 00:37:26.679 did wonderful work. Great work I know Matthew twenty five 646 00:37:26.760 --> 00:37:30.039 did great work in the Ministry of Franklin Graham did 647 00:37:30.039 --> 00:37:32.519 great work. I can't say that about FEMA. When the 648 00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:35.559 director of FEMA says LA fire officials now are doing 649 00:37:35.599 --> 00:37:38.480 a good job, I don't want to see a bad one, say. 650 00:37:38.480 --> 00:37:39.079 Tuned for more. 651 00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:42.119 Coming up first will be Wayne Allen Root. He's got 652 00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:44.559 a great column at Root for america dot com. Also 653 00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:48.159 later on is Grover Norquist? Have one or two other 654 00:37:48.199 --> 00:37:50.639 guests coming. But we live in difficult times, and the 655 00:37:50.679 --> 00:37:54.320 menu of problems given to this guy is unpresident since 656 00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:57.559 eighteen sixty one, when Lincoln took over the presidency. There's 657 00:37:57.599 --> 00:38:01.239 no part of the world, either literally or figure figuratively, 658 00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:03.880 not on fire. And it's going to be laid in 659 00:38:03.880 --> 00:38:06.400 his lap. And every little thing he does right or wrong. 660 00:38:06.679 --> 00:38:09.360 Mainly it's going to be right. Sometimes wrong will be 661 00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:13.159 roundly criticized by the mainstream media, who shut up completely 662 00:38:13.559 --> 00:38:15.800 when Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were doing things, shut 663 00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:19.480 up completely. And if Republicans controlled California and this stuff 664 00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:21.760 would go on the media, what have a completely different 665 00:38:21.760 --> 00:38:24.920 attitude because they were the same Jerseys as the Democrats. 666 00:38:25.159 --> 00:38:27.559 Let's continue with more. Phil Cunningham, the Great American, with 667 00:38:27.639 --> 00:38:30.800 you and all great Americans every Sunday. 668 00:38:30.519 --> 00:39:02.320 Night, Willie. 669 00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:09.760 Brought you by Choice Hotels a Conor Roger roadway in 670 00:39:09.840 --> 00:39:12.800 hotels are serving up double points for every qualifying stay 671 00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:16.320 book at Choice Hotels dot com. Now here's the man 672 00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:20.519 who's been recognized as radio's best, the recipient of not one, 673 00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:25.360 but two prestigious Marconi Awards for his broadcast excellence, the 674 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:28.400 one and only Bill Cunninghead. 675 00:39:28.480 --> 00:39:30.599 Right, Billy Cunningham, the Great America and the great win 676 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:33.519 on the Route, spent many years living in California. 677 00:39:33.559 --> 00:39:34.519 Wrote a column about this. 678 00:39:34.719 --> 00:39:38.480 He left Malibu, California about twenty three years ago as 679 00:39:38.519 --> 00:39:41.760 a big story up at a Root for America dot com. 680 00:39:41.800 --> 00:39:46.039 Wildfire alone didn't destroy La how the dumb radical left 681 00:39:46.079 --> 00:39:50.559 six favorite obsessions made the fire unstoppable and joan you 682 00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:52.559 and I now is the great went on Route? And 683 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:54.880 first of all win I note that two or three 684 00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:57.440 days ago even the New York Times wrote a story 685 00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:01.360 about her, Karen Bass, and the headline is before taking office, 686 00:40:01.679 --> 00:40:05.480 LA's mayor said she would not go abroad, and the 687 00:40:05.559 --> 00:40:08.280 reason was when she was in Congress. That's all she 688 00:40:08.320 --> 00:40:11.679 did was go abroad on the nation's dime, especially to 689 00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:16.639 Cuba and to Africa. But nonetheless, what destroyed, what has 690 00:40:16.679 --> 00:40:19.920 destroyed La, continues to be so went en Route. What 691 00:40:19.920 --> 00:40:20.559 are your thoughts? 692 00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:23.880 Well, looking at you know, the chickens are coming home 693 00:40:23.920 --> 00:40:26.159 to roost. I've said for years now it's not La, 694 00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:28.960 it's the whole country under Joe Biden, or I should 695 00:40:28.960 --> 00:40:32.480 say puppet Joe Biden, probably really under Barack Obama, who 696 00:40:32.519 --> 00:40:35.119 I think has been the clear leader of the country 697 00:40:35.639 --> 00:40:38.840 who gives the orders. But I've said for years it's 698 00:40:38.880 --> 00:40:41.639 two things. Number One, we're spending all of our money 699 00:40:41.719 --> 00:40:44.559 on illegal aliens, and it will come home to roost 700 00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:48.360 because there's no money left for anything or anyone else, 701 00:40:48.719 --> 00:40:51.800 no money left for seniors, nobody left for veterans. No 702 00:40:51.880 --> 00:40:54.519 money left for cops or firemen, no money left for 703 00:40:54.559 --> 00:40:59.239 the military. Every dime is going, it seems to illegal aliens. 704 00:40:59.280 --> 00:41:01.800 It's in saturity. And number two I said, the whole 705 00:41:01.800 --> 00:41:04.880 country has been destroyed by DEI. You know, not gonna 706 00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:07.280 have anything against you. If you're black, if you're Latino, 707 00:41:07.679 --> 00:41:10.679 if you're brown, if you're gay, if you're lesbian, if 708 00:41:11.320 --> 00:41:12.280 you're transgender. 709 00:41:12.480 --> 00:41:12.840 Great. 710 00:41:13.320 --> 00:41:15.559 But if you are that, and you have a great 711 00:41:15.599 --> 00:41:19.320 resume and great experience and great talent, then you should 712 00:41:19.400 --> 00:41:22.039 get the job. But if you don't have that, you 713 00:41:22.079 --> 00:41:24.719 can't give someone the job or give them a promotion 714 00:41:25.599 --> 00:41:30.000 to run a major agency just because they're black, or transgender, 715 00:41:30.079 --> 00:41:33.519 or Latino or lesbian. And the whole country has been 716 00:41:33.639 --> 00:41:37.199 ruined by this insanity, not just giving jobs, but giving 717 00:41:37.519 --> 00:41:39.840 you know, college entrance because of the color of your 718 00:41:39.880 --> 00:41:42.400 skin or the fact that you're gay. Well that's the 719 00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:42.920 whole LA. 720 00:41:43.119 --> 00:41:43.280 I mean. 721 00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:45.480 The other day one of my buddies was watching the 722 00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:48.119 press conference in LA and he said, Wayne, they're like 723 00:41:48.159 --> 00:41:50.280 twelve people on the stage and eleven of them are gay, 724 00:41:50.679 --> 00:41:54.199 mostly lesbian. He said, this is insanity. This is all 725 00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:56.599 you've got to run Los Angeles and not one of 726 00:41:56.599 --> 00:41:59.360 them knows how to put a fire out. You know, 727 00:41:59.440 --> 00:42:00.960 it's it's insanity. 728 00:42:01.039 --> 00:42:04.199 So you know it's la but it's the whole country. 729 00:42:05.159 --> 00:42:07.800 And so I tell the story that I spent a 730 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:09.320 lot of my time in the summers. I think, you 731 00:42:09.360 --> 00:42:11.719 know this bill in Parks City of Utah. I love 732 00:42:11.960 --> 00:42:14.840 Parks City of Utah. In the summer, it's heaven. And 733 00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:17.239 about two I think it was two summers ago. It 734 00:42:17.239 --> 00:42:19.360 could have been three, but it was recently. And I 735 00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:21.719 was sitting there having something to eat at a restaurant, 736 00:42:22.119 --> 00:42:24.760 and suddenly the word got out that a massive fire 737 00:42:25.320 --> 00:42:27.840 was in the forest. You know, you know, it's surrounded 738 00:42:27.840 --> 00:42:30.360 on all four sides by trees as far as you 739 00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:33.079 could see, you know, the forests on the on the 740 00:42:33.199 --> 00:42:36.800 forests and woods on the mountains. And that everybody was scared. 741 00:42:36.840 --> 00:42:39.400 They all went running home. The place emptied out because 742 00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:43.159 everyone was told get home, pack your suitcase, get all 743 00:42:43.159 --> 00:42:46.960 your biggest belongings, your most important papers, and you know, 744 00:42:47.039 --> 00:42:49.840 protect your pets. This is the big one. It could 745 00:42:49.880 --> 00:42:52.960 burn the whole town down. We've been dreading this for decades. 746 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:55.559 When's the big one gonna come? It was that bad 747 00:42:55.599 --> 00:42:58.079 of a fire. Well, the moral to the story is 748 00:42:58.239 --> 00:43:01.000 about three or four hours later, it was like all clear, 749 00:43:01.119 --> 00:43:03.880 we put it out. We hit it with the helicopters 750 00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:07.199 with water drops and planes with water drops, and the 751 00:43:07.239 --> 00:43:10.320 fire was out. In that one house in Park City burned. 752 00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:13.280 They caught it before it got to the city. And 753 00:43:13.400 --> 00:43:15.440 I said at the time, I went on the radio TV. 754 00:43:15.639 --> 00:43:17.960 About three or four days later, I got back to 755 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:20.960 my vacation and I said, what I just witnessed could 756 00:43:21.000 --> 00:43:24.719 never happen in California because they've spent all their money 757 00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:27.000 on illegals, and they have no money left for firemen. 758 00:43:27.360 --> 00:43:31.079 They have no money left for fire training, for wildfire preparedness. 759 00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:34.559 That DEI they've got the wrong people in charge. And 760 00:43:34.639 --> 00:43:37.199 of course let's add in the other big one in California, 761 00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:41.760 environmental extremism. They don't clear the brush, and they don't 762 00:43:41.800 --> 00:43:45.079 do what needs to be done, like build new reservoirs. 763 00:43:45.159 --> 00:43:49.119 Not one new one since nineteen seventy nine. No, many 764 00:43:49.119 --> 00:43:53.519 people have moved into California since nineteen seventy nine without 765 00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:56.599 any new extra water. And every year they have massive 766 00:43:56.719 --> 00:44:00.119 rainstorms and flooding, and yet there's no water because they 767 00:44:00.199 --> 00:44:02.599 let it all run into the ocean. And this time 768 00:44:02.639 --> 00:44:06.079 there was an empty reservoir in Pacific Palisades and the 769 00:44:06.119 --> 00:44:08.719 story was it was empty for like two weeks and 770 00:44:08.760 --> 00:44:10.840 it was just bad luck. Well, last night I'm having 771 00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:13.199 dinner bill in Las Vegas with two friends of mine 772 00:44:13.320 --> 00:44:16.719 who lived part time in Vegas, part time in pack Palisades, 773 00:44:17.320 --> 00:44:20.039 and they told me that their daughter went hiking a 774 00:44:20.079 --> 00:44:23.320 year ago at the top of this hill where you 775 00:44:23.360 --> 00:44:26.440 could see into that reservoir, and they said, one year 776 00:44:26.480 --> 00:44:29.320 ago it was empty. And today the article just came out. 777 00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:31.920 It hasn't been empty for two weeks. It's been empty 778 00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:34.679 for a year. There's been no water in the main 779 00:44:34.960 --> 00:44:39.039 reservoir to put the fires out for a year. So 780 00:44:39.320 --> 00:44:42.320 you know in the hydrants the water pressure is no good. 781 00:44:42.480 --> 00:44:44.639 Because if you spend all your money in illegals, then 782 00:44:44.679 --> 00:44:47.679 you're not spending money to fix and upgrade your infrastructure. 783 00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:50.599 The pipes need to be fixed, the hydrants need to 784 00:44:50.599 --> 00:44:54.559 be fixed, reservoirs need to be built. This is insanity. 785 00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:57.000 And now you see the result of putting the wrong 786 00:44:57.000 --> 00:45:00.599 people in charge, having the wrong ideas about environmental streamism. 787 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:04.440 And most importantly, I guess spending all your money on illegals, 788 00:45:04.639 --> 00:45:06.320 and you could even throw in a little something else. 789 00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:09.719 I saw today that almost all the highest paid public 790 00:45:09.840 --> 00:45:13.960 servants in Los Angeles our fire captains, making seven hundred 791 00:45:14.000 --> 00:45:17.000 thousand years. What if you instead of paying them seven 792 00:45:17.039 --> 00:45:20.559 hundred grand a year, what if instead you hired more 793 00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:23.599 firemen at fifty thousand year and you got twenty extra firemen, 794 00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:27.400 so forget. They also fired hundreds of firemen in California 795 00:45:27.400 --> 00:45:30.639 in LA for not taking the COVID vaccine. Now, how 796 00:45:30.719 --> 00:45:32.960 many houses could you have saved with an extra three 797 00:45:33.079 --> 00:45:35.960 four hundred firemen that you fired because ooh they got 798 00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:39.840 cooties they didn't take the COVID vaccine. These people are crazy, 799 00:45:40.159 --> 00:45:43.920 They're mentally ill, and they've just destroyed a wonderful city. 800 00:45:43.920 --> 00:45:45.559 I mean, I loved LA when I got there, I 801 00:45:45.599 --> 00:45:47.719 thought it was the greatest place to live, you know, 802 00:45:47.719 --> 00:45:49.360 in nineteen eighty nine, when I got there, I just 803 00:45:49.360 --> 00:45:51.800 thought I found heaven. And then I raced away from 804 00:45:51.840 --> 00:45:53.920 it because I thought the liberal crazies have ruined it. 805 00:45:54.079 --> 00:45:56.239 And that was twenty three years ago. It's only gotten worse. 806 00:45:56.480 --> 00:45:57.719 The n away LA route. 807 00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:00.599 I had last week on some executives, those in the 808 00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:03.039 know from New Orleans, and they have a similar mayor 809 00:46:03.320 --> 00:46:07.599 named LaToya Cantrell who's completely incompetent. The chief of police 810 00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:11.199 there looks like she's an actress from Beverly Hillbillies. And 811 00:46:11.440 --> 00:46:14.480 over the years we've dealt with the idiocy of Jacob Fry, 812 00:46:14.559 --> 00:46:16.880 the mayor of Minneapolis. He was the guy that rolled 813 00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:19.880 over and played dead, let them burn down police precincts 814 00:46:19.880 --> 00:46:23.440 in Minneapolis. He's a white guy. Karen Bass, of course, 815 00:46:23.519 --> 00:46:26.320 Mike Johnston of Denver, the mayor there, he's a left 816 00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:30.039 roing radical extremist. He also is handing out money hanover 817 00:46:30.119 --> 00:46:34.239 fist to homeless and etc. Mayor Brandon Johnson in Chicago 818 00:46:34.440 --> 00:46:37.320 is a complete joke. And Kamala Harris herself is a 819 00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:42.199 perfect example of DEI Now. Richard Grennell worked for years 820 00:46:42.320 --> 00:46:45.719 for Donald Trump. He was an ambassador, acting director of 821 00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:46.239 d and I. 822 00:46:47.199 --> 00:46:47.679 He's gay. 823 00:46:48.280 --> 00:46:55.559 No problem, Justice Judge Janis Rogers, brilliant, Condaleza Rice is 824 00:46:55.679 --> 00:46:56.519 not about race? 825 00:46:57.079 --> 00:47:00.760 What's about his competency that I ermantine? 826 00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:03.159 I don't care if you're black, it's brilliant, it's great, right, 827 00:47:03.280 --> 00:47:05.559 But if you're black and dumb or white and dumb, 828 00:47:05.639 --> 00:47:08.639 I don't want you running my city or my fire department. 829 00:47:08.679 --> 00:47:10.800 If you're lesbian, dumb, I don't want you run in 830 00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:13.719 my fire department. And it turns out the lesbian fire 831 00:47:13.800 --> 00:47:16.199 chief first one in the history of la who hired 832 00:47:16.239 --> 00:47:19.800 a lesbian black number twospia chief whose entire goal of 833 00:47:19.880 --> 00:47:22.440 life is DEI literally said, we're getting rid of all 834 00:47:22.440 --> 00:47:26.719 the old white guys who are racist. And these people 835 00:47:26.719 --> 00:47:31.119 are not smart their entire life. They got jobs because 836 00:47:31.159 --> 00:47:34.880 they're black, because they're women. Nobody ever bothered to check 837 00:47:35.199 --> 00:47:38.280 their credentials. I'm sure there was someone who was black 838 00:47:38.440 --> 00:47:41.559 or white, or gay or straight who had better credentials, 839 00:47:41.599 --> 00:47:44.000 but they hired them because the color of their skin. 840 00:47:44.079 --> 00:47:49.039 They're raised, their creed, you know, their sexual orientation. It's insanity. 841 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:50.960 And I'll tell you one more thing. I didn't mention 842 00:47:51.039 --> 00:47:54.320 that that, of course this Mayor Karen Bass cut seventeen 843 00:47:54.360 --> 00:47:57.559 million for the fire department budget, and then a week 844 00:47:57.760 --> 00:48:02.719 before this ever happened, she also asked for another forty 845 00:48:02.719 --> 00:48:04.800 plus million dollar cut. I think it was forty nine 846 00:48:04.800 --> 00:48:07.719 million she wanted to cut just a week before this happened. 847 00:48:08.079 --> 00:48:11.239 If you give all your money away to illegals, this 848 00:48:11.400 --> 00:48:13.960 is what happens, you have no money left for what 849 00:48:14.000 --> 00:48:16.599 you need to do, which is train You know, because 850 00:48:16.639 --> 00:48:18.400 I was in LA so many years, I know what 851 00:48:18.519 --> 00:48:21.840 happens in California, and general at LA and specific Bill. 852 00:48:22.400 --> 00:48:25.639 There's three things that plague LA since the beginning of time. 853 00:48:26.440 --> 00:48:30.599 Wildfires and then immediately after the wildfire, terrible mud slides, 854 00:48:31.079 --> 00:48:34.000 and then earthquakes. And you've got to prepare for them. 855 00:48:34.079 --> 00:48:37.119 And no one has spent a dime on any of 856 00:48:37.119 --> 00:48:40.519 that because they're too busy coddling illegals and giving illegals 857 00:48:40.519 --> 00:48:43.719 everything they want, from free college to public school, free 858 00:48:44.039 --> 00:48:48.119 to welfare to free healthcare. It's a free housing allowance. 859 00:48:48.280 --> 00:48:49.239 It's insanity. 860 00:48:49.639 --> 00:48:54.039 Well, you add homelessness, drug use in public, massive smash 861 00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:57.480 and grab robberies. The LA public school system is a 862 00:48:57.519 --> 00:49:00.719 complete meltdown. I read a report from Mail Times at 863 00:49:00.760 --> 00:49:03.599 seventy five percent of the black boys in the LA 864 00:49:04.039 --> 00:49:08.199 school system are chronically absent from schools. Defund the police 865 00:49:08.199 --> 00:49:12.039 their two thousand cops short, they're seven hundred firefighters short. 866 00:49:12.639 --> 00:49:16.599 They have transgender houses erected for those who are homeless. 867 00:49:16.800 --> 00:49:19.719 They have dei upwards and downwards. So one of the 868 00:49:19.719 --> 00:49:22.800 assistant chiefs said, why don't you hire some more men 869 00:49:22.960 --> 00:49:25.440 who can carry people out of buildings, possibly one hundred 870 00:49:25.440 --> 00:49:28.320 and fifty pounds down a ladder. And she said, well, 871 00:49:28.480 --> 00:49:30.960 that person shouldn't have put themselves there in the first place. 872 00:49:31.239 --> 00:49:33.199 We don't do that right And. 873 00:49:33.119 --> 00:49:36.320 That statement I saw that, Yeah, that statement should put 874 00:49:36.320 --> 00:49:39.920 her fired a b banned from ever holding any sort 875 00:49:39.920 --> 00:49:42.920 of role in any fire department of the United States ever. Again, 876 00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:45.199 she said, you're in the wrong place, of the wrong time, 877 00:49:45.239 --> 00:49:48.639 off you need rescuing by a female. Firefighters can't carry 878 00:49:48.679 --> 00:49:51.239 you out. I mean, that's so disgusting and disgraceful, it's 879 00:49:51.239 --> 00:49:55.000 beyond belief. Don't forget another couple issues. My buddies live 880 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:57.199 in LA lots of them still. Someone go back and 881 00:49:57.280 --> 00:49:59.559 forths to Vegas and they're making the transition and they're 882 00:49:59.559 --> 00:50:01.760 opening gain out of LA full time. But in the 883 00:50:01.800 --> 00:50:04.440 meantime they've got a house in both places. And they 884 00:50:04.480 --> 00:50:07.280 tell me that if you watch city council meetings in 885 00:50:07.400 --> 00:50:11.039 La bill eighty percent of the time of the city 886 00:50:11.039 --> 00:50:14.559 council is spent on only two issues, illegals and homelessness 887 00:50:14.639 --> 00:50:17.360 and the homeless. That's it. That's all they think about. 888 00:50:17.400 --> 00:50:19.840 Twenty four hours a day when they should be thinking 889 00:50:19.840 --> 00:50:23.679 about real productive citizens, taxpayers. And how do you prepare 890 00:50:23.760 --> 00:50:26.760 for the next firestorm, the next mud slide, and the 891 00:50:26.760 --> 00:50:29.639 next earthquake? And by the way, it's coming, you know, 892 00:50:29.800 --> 00:50:33.000 is I guarantee you by April there will be massive 893 00:50:33.079 --> 00:50:35.840 rains in LA and there will be massive mud slides 894 00:50:35.880 --> 00:50:38.800 in all the areas that just suffered this horrendous you 895 00:50:38.840 --> 00:50:42.880 know firestorm. These are all predictable things. They happen every year. 896 00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:46.840 And how I throw in one more Democrats caddo terrorists 897 00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:49.639 and terrorism. How do you know these fires are natural? 898 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.239 How do you know they're not started by terrorists? This 899 00:50:52.239 --> 00:50:54.360 could be a way to destroy our country. I don't 900 00:50:54.400 --> 00:50:57.320 know about the first one, the very first spark of 901 00:50:57.360 --> 00:51:00.559 the first fire impact Palisades, I don't know. It may 902 00:51:00.559 --> 00:51:03.360 have been a down line. But since then there have 903 00:51:03.400 --> 00:51:06.719 been fires all over the city, and they've caught people 904 00:51:06.719 --> 00:51:10.000 with blow torches in their hands. They've caught illegal alien 905 00:51:10.079 --> 00:51:15.199 gangs robbing holmes, including Kamala Harris's mansion in Brentwood, and 906 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:18.760 so a lot of this may be intentional arson to 907 00:51:18.920 --> 00:51:22.519 create havoc and crisis and maybe distract them while they 908 00:51:22.599 --> 00:51:26.320 rob people's houses, or maybe it's Islamic extremists looking destroy 909 00:51:26.320 --> 00:51:29.840 our country, or Chinese military age males which we've let 910 00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:32.440 in by the hundreds of thousands through the open border, 911 00:51:32.599 --> 00:51:35.800 who may be under order from China to create crisis 912 00:51:35.840 --> 00:51:38.480 throughout our country, so we don't pay attention to China 913 00:51:38.559 --> 00:51:41.880 attacking Taiwan, which I believe is going to happen very soon. 914 00:51:42.719 --> 00:51:47.519 Well, in addition to that, the Sacramento General Assembly Sacramento 915 00:51:47.639 --> 00:51:50.440 was convened the last few days talking about how to 916 00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:53.920 combat Donald Trump. And already I see a senators are 917 00:51:53.960 --> 00:51:57.559 saying it's Donald Trump's fault. What's happening, despite the fact 918 00:51:57.840 --> 00:51:59.280 that California is blue? 919 00:51:59.360 --> 00:51:59.719 Is blue? 920 00:51:59.719 --> 00:52:02.599 Can hey, they're gonna blame Donald Trump on anything. But 921 00:52:02.679 --> 00:52:05.719 a reporter pushed back and said, is that the right 922 00:52:05.760 --> 00:52:07.880 time to deal with Donald Trump? When the city of 923 00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:10.559 La the city of Angels is on fire? And the 924 00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:13.159 Speaker of the House in Sacramento couldn't answer the question 925 00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:16.679 because he was stymied by an objective reporter that asked 926 00:52:16.679 --> 00:52:21.800 a question. And I thought, what Wayne Allen rue is 927 00:52:21.840 --> 00:52:25.000 their hope because I've read some say, well, we need 928 00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:25.639 to take over. 929 00:52:25.800 --> 00:52:29.159 Who's we taking over? California. Yeah, is federal control. 930 00:52:29.400 --> 00:52:32.639 Why, here's another issue. 931 00:52:32.880 --> 00:52:34.920 Here's another issue that everyone has to think about. 932 00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:38.000 So let's just assume this is all by mistake. Let's 933 00:52:38.000 --> 00:52:40.920 assume this was not purposeful. It's not the intentional destruction 934 00:52:40.960 --> 00:52:43.800 of the United States. Let's assume it's not another Maui. 935 00:52:44.079 --> 00:52:47.559 Let's assume it's not another western North Carolina mountains where 936 00:52:47.559 --> 00:52:50.159 they just let everybody die, they let everybody freeze the 937 00:52:50.239 --> 00:52:53.119 death intents in the middle of the winter. FEMA doesn't help. 938 00:52:53.280 --> 00:52:54.960 If you've got a Trump flag and foot in your house, 939 00:52:55.000 --> 00:52:57.079 they won't help you. Let's assume none of this is 940 00:52:57.119 --> 00:53:01.480 intentional and a fire is natural made, not man made. Well, 941 00:53:01.519 --> 00:53:04.559 wait till the LA homeowners find out that. Number One, 942 00:53:04.960 --> 00:53:07.480 it takes five to ten years to get approval from 943 00:53:07.480 --> 00:53:11.000 the Coastal Commission to rebuild your home. So a lot 944 00:53:11.039 --> 00:53:13.880 of people who are in pack palisades are sixty and over, 945 00:53:14.440 --> 00:53:16.960 seventy and over, They're going to be dead before they 946 00:53:17.039 --> 00:53:19.920 ever get back at a home in their community. Number Two, 947 00:53:19.960 --> 00:53:23.360 you may never get approval from the crazy environmentalists of 948 00:53:23.400 --> 00:53:27.280 the California Coastal Commission. Number Three, if your home was 949 00:53:27.320 --> 00:53:29.440 worth three million dollars, which the average home in Packed 950 00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:34.199 Palisades was based on the insane strict requirements of the 951 00:53:34.239 --> 00:53:37.639 California Coastal Commission. To rebuild that three million dollar house 952 00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:40.079 is going to cost you maybe five or six or 953 00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:42.599 seven million dollars. No one's going to have the money 954 00:53:42.599 --> 00:53:45.280 to rebuild unless you're super rich. And where will you 955 00:53:45.320 --> 00:53:49.679 find a contractor to rebuild these thousands of homestead of 956 00:53:49.719 --> 00:53:52.280 burn out? So who's going to get the contractor? Whoever 957 00:53:52.360 --> 00:53:55.840 offers the most ridiculous money, which means again, the rich 958 00:53:55.960 --> 00:53:58.639 are good and the poor. Forget the poor, but the 959 00:53:58.679 --> 00:54:01.239 middle class and upper middle class screwed over and the 960 00:54:01.280 --> 00:54:03.760 world is running just for the super rich in LA, 961 00:54:03.840 --> 00:54:07.480 where will you find fire insurance? Ever, again, they couldn't 962 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:10.400 even get it before the fire. Wait till after the fire. 963 00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:12.880 There will be none available unless you want to spend 964 00:54:12.880 --> 00:54:15.360 two hundred fifty thousand a year for your house, which 965 00:54:15.400 --> 00:54:17.480 means only the rich will be able to afford to 966 00:54:17.559 --> 00:54:20.119 live there. And last, but not least, how about your 967 00:54:20.159 --> 00:54:24.440 property taxes. Let's just say under or listen. Prop thirteen 968 00:54:24.639 --> 00:54:28.599 in California holds your taxes the same as long as 969 00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:30.119 you live in the house so if you lived in 970 00:54:30.119 --> 00:54:32.440 the house forty years, it might only be one thousand 971 00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:35.239 dollars a year. But the minute you rebuild the house 972 00:54:35.760 --> 00:54:39.000 or sell it. But if you rebuild it, it resets 973 00:54:39.079 --> 00:54:41.320 as if you have a new house. So now your 974 00:54:41.360 --> 00:54:43.719 taxes go from a thousand year to fifty thousand a year. 975 00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:46.679 So everybody who is in superrich and everybody who is 976 00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:48.760 over the age of sixty is going to find out 977 00:54:48.760 --> 00:54:50.880 they are locked out of the market. They will never 978 00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:52.880 be able to have that house again, they will never 979 00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:54.599 live in that neighbood again, and they're gonna have to 980 00:54:54.679 --> 00:54:57.199 go find a smaller house in a smaller neighbood or 981 00:54:57.280 --> 00:55:02.320 leave the state of California. Everybody's life has changed dramatically. 982 00:55:01.800 --> 00:55:04.079 Including the tax base. I can't imagine. 983 00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:07.719 Of course they'll come up, they'll just run more budget deficits. 984 00:55:07.800 --> 00:55:10.800 Right now in Sacramento it's about fifty billion dollars a 985 00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:13.440 year as far as I can see, with budget deficits 986 00:55:13.480 --> 00:55:16.199 borrowing in the future to payoff present bills, but wipe 987 00:55:16.239 --> 00:55:18.639 out large parts of Los Angeles, which is one of 988 00:55:18.679 --> 00:55:21.719 the functional parts paying taxes. In that case, Sacramento won't 989 00:55:21.760 --> 00:55:24.239 have the money, and it's all about it's all about DEI. 990 00:55:24.599 --> 00:55:26.880 It's by getting someone of the right race, the right genda, 991 00:55:26.920 --> 00:55:29.480 the right sexual orientation to do a job instead of 992 00:55:29.599 --> 00:55:32.239 by merit, by hiring the best person available. 993 00:55:32.320 --> 00:55:32.960 They don't do that. 994 00:55:33.320 --> 00:55:36.960 And why take over a state completely dysfunctional, is completely 995 00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:40.639 destroyed if the residents, the citizens, the voters themselves won't 996 00:55:40.679 --> 00:55:43.599 fundamentally change back to the days of Ronald Reagan that 997 00:55:43.719 --> 00:55:47.800 had a functional California Republic. At this point, Let's face it, Wayne, 998 00:55:47.840 --> 00:55:50.880 California's done done, Chicago done. 999 00:55:50.960 --> 00:55:53.639 I look at all the major cities done. Or New 1000 00:55:53.679 --> 00:55:55.320 York's done, you know done? 1001 00:55:55.840 --> 00:55:57.599 Well there also, look anyone. 1002 00:55:57.320 --> 00:56:00.599 Who's got a Democrat running the show, Docrats in the 1003 00:56:00.639 --> 00:56:01.320 town council. 1004 00:56:01.599 --> 00:56:02.079 You're done. 1005 00:56:02.239 --> 00:56:05.119 It's over. Thank god, we have Trump running the country, 1006 00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:09.199 but he can't change the future of an LA or 1007 00:56:09.199 --> 00:56:12.360 a San Francisco, or New York or Chicago. Those cities 1008 00:56:12.400 --> 00:56:15.079 are not gonna be for any normal working people ever again. 1009 00:56:15.400 --> 00:56:17.119 And by the way, if you're a taxpayer, you pay 1010 00:56:17.239 --> 00:56:20.039 into the system. You've got to be crazy to stay 1011 00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:22.280 in a high tax state like California. You know, I 1012 00:56:22.639 --> 00:56:25.239 moved from California, where the highest tax rate now is 1013 00:56:25.280 --> 00:56:28.119 fourteen point four percent. But if you make even eighty 1014 00:56:28.239 --> 00:56:30.920 thousand a year, like most firemen do as an example, 1015 00:56:31.079 --> 00:56:33.639 you're gonna you're paying nine point I think it's nine 1016 00:56:33.639 --> 00:56:37.719 point three percent state income tax. You moved to Las Vegas, 1017 00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:42.360 your income tax is zero zero with anyone stay in California. 1018 00:56:42.360 --> 00:56:43.639 It doesn't make any sense. 1019 00:56:43.679 --> 00:56:43.880 Ever. 1020 00:56:43.960 --> 00:56:46.280 Again, they're in big trouble. They're gonna have to keep 1021 00:56:46.360 --> 00:56:49.199 raising taxes, and the rich and anyone who can is 1022 00:56:49.199 --> 00:56:51.519 gonna leave. And all that's gonna be left the visious 1023 00:56:51.559 --> 00:56:54.079 cycle is people at welfare and illegal aliens. 1024 00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:56.199 That's gonna be the whole state went on the route. 1025 00:56:56.239 --> 00:56:58.760 Thank you very much Root for America dot com. Your 1026 00:56:58.760 --> 00:57:01.519 stories are great and all I can say is thanks 1027 00:57:01.559 --> 00:57:03.840 again for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. Imagine where 1028 00:57:03.880 --> 00:57:05.920 we would be if Kamala Harris was taking the oath 1029 00:57:05.960 --> 00:57:08.280 of office in about a week. That's a different story. 1030 00:57:08.400 --> 00:57:10.000 I got to run way up against the clock. 1031 00:57:11.239 --> 00:57:11.679 You got it. 1032 00:57:11.719 --> 00:57:13.599 Have a great day, Happy New Year. You have to 1033 00:57:13.599 --> 00:57:15.599 say that, Happy New Year, God blessed. I'll be at 1034 00:57:15.599 --> 00:57:18.519 the inauguration. Trust the President. We're gonna be okay. We 1035 00:57:18.519 --> 00:57:20.639 don't live in la We're gonna be okay, be good. 1036 00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:22.599 Root for America dot Com. Thank you. 1037 00:57:22.639 --> 00:57:26.039 I let's continue with more things look a bit dark white. 1038 00:57:26.039 --> 00:57:29.079 Take over a city or state federally when the residents 1039 00:57:29.119 --> 00:57:33.559 and the voters have ruined it and won't change. Bill 1040 00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:49.480 Cunningham with You Every Sunday Night. I Billy Cunningham, the 1041 00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:51.639 Great American. Hear from Wayne On on the rude. A day 1042 00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:54.639 without rude is a day without sunshine. The guy makes 1043 00:57:54.639 --> 00:57:57.880 a whole bunch of sense all the time, never fails 1044 00:57:57.920 --> 00:58:01.159 to deliver the goods. And and some have said, well, 1045 00:58:01.159 --> 00:58:03.400 how about the Feds taking over? How about Donald Trump 1046 00:58:03.480 --> 00:58:04.679 taking over California? 1047 00:58:04.719 --> 00:58:05.400 Are you kidding me? 1048 00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:09.239 God helps those who help themselves. Until the voters say 1049 00:58:09.280 --> 00:58:11.760 we can't take this anymore, nothing's going to change. Stay 1050 00:58:11.760 --> 00:58:14.159 tuned from more coming up next to Dan Schneider from 1051 00:58:14.360 --> 00:59:02.719 NewsBusters dot Org. Bill Cunningham with You Every Sunday Night. 1052 00:58:42.920 --> 00:58:44.480 By Billy Cunningham, The Great American. 1053 00:58:44.559 --> 00:58:47.280 Dan Schneider's with Media Research Center, my good friend Brent 1054 00:58:47.320 --> 00:58:50.599 Bozel's grouping around for a long time, also Executive vice 1055 00:58:50.639 --> 00:58:54.119 president of NewsBusters, Etc. That chronicles what the mainstream media 1056 00:58:54.360 --> 00:58:56.920 feeds into the minds of the American people, Welcome again 1057 00:58:56.960 --> 00:58:59.000 to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, before 1058 00:58:59.000 --> 00:59:01.719 we deal with the car, before we deal with the 1059 00:59:01.800 --> 00:59:05.800 California incompetent wildfires, before we deal with all that, there's 1060 00:59:05.840 --> 00:59:08.599 a movement of foot to have Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg 1061 00:59:08.639 --> 00:59:10.920 has said something that made a lot of sense, and 1062 00:59:10.960 --> 00:59:13.800 the mainstream media hates it. They don't like the idea 1063 00:59:14.320 --> 00:59:17.440 of a fact checking because it's their facts to being 1064 00:59:17.559 --> 00:59:20.079 checked and not anyone else's. So can you tell the 1065 00:59:20.079 --> 00:59:22.920 American people how Facebook now with Zuckerberg is going to 1066 00:59:22.960 --> 00:59:26.000 do pretty much what Twitter x is doing presently. 1067 00:59:27.199 --> 00:59:27.440 Yeah. 1068 00:59:27.480 --> 00:59:27.719 Bill. 1069 00:59:28.320 --> 00:59:30.920 The thing that this really reminds me most of is is, 1070 00:59:31.559 --> 00:59:35.320 you know the late eighties and when the barbed wire 1071 00:59:35.480 --> 00:59:39.199 started to get rolled up in Czechoslovakia, and Czechoslovakia was 1072 00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:41.440 saying we're no longer a puppet of the Soviet Union 1073 00:59:41.519 --> 00:59:45.039 than Hungary and eventually the Berlin walking down. And when 1074 00:59:45.079 --> 00:59:47.719 I saw that barbed wire first in Czechoslovakia, I thought, 1075 00:59:47.760 --> 00:59:51.480 this can't be happening, Kenn, Is it true? It can't 1076 00:59:51.480 --> 00:59:57.000 be true. It's similar here Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. They've 1077 00:59:57.039 --> 01:00:01.280 been part of the enemy cohort on silent and conservatives 1078 01:00:01.320 --> 01:00:03.599 They've been the leader of it at different times. Google 1079 01:00:03.679 --> 01:00:06.119 right now is the leader of it. But then suddenly 1080 01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:10.400 Mark Zuckerberg is rolling up the barbed wire. He's saying, 1081 01:00:10.440 --> 01:00:14.119 we're no longer part of the evil empire. I support 1082 01:00:14.360 --> 01:00:18.599 free speech, and he's actually making he's making decisions that 1083 01:00:18.639 --> 01:00:22.800 reflect that reality. You know, no longer is the COO 1084 01:00:23.239 --> 01:00:26.159 Cheryl Sandberg And I almost had a dirty word that 1085 01:00:26.360 --> 01:00:29.840 FCC would not permit me to say. Cheryl something Sandberg. 1086 01:00:30.119 --> 01:00:32.440 You know, she is a radical lefty. She's no longer 1087 01:00:32.440 --> 01:00:38.280 the COO. And Nick Clegg, former Labor Party head in 1088 01:00:38.360 --> 01:00:41.599 the United Kingdom, he's no longer the number three person. 1089 01:00:42.039 --> 01:00:46.840 They've been replaced by Republicans. What but yes, and then 1090 01:00:46.920 --> 01:00:51.840 the fact that Checkers' so called Soros funded fact checkers, 1091 01:00:52.320 --> 01:00:55.519 they all woke up Tuesday morning to discover their contract 1092 01:00:55.679 --> 01:01:01.559 has all been terminated, every last one of them. I mean, 1093 01:01:01.599 --> 01:01:04.159 it is the barbed wire being rolled up. 1094 01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:07.519 You know, when you say that, I think the guy 1095 01:01:07.519 --> 01:01:09.639 in charge at Czechoslovakia at that point was a guy 1096 01:01:09.679 --> 01:01:13.559 named dupe Check, and Dupcheck decided, let's roll up the 1097 01:01:13.639 --> 01:01:16.159 barbed wire, let's open up the border and see what 1098 01:01:16.239 --> 01:01:17.960 happens is the USSR. 1099 01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:19.159 Are we going to be obliterated? 1100 01:01:19.159 --> 01:01:21.079 And the answer was no, and then it rippled all 1101 01:01:21.119 --> 01:01:25.559 across Europe. And so Zuckerberg gives a million dollars to 1102 01:01:25.639 --> 01:01:29.880 Donald Trump for the inaugural. Zuckerberg does his online speech 1103 01:01:29.920 --> 01:01:32.559 that hell you made or I could have made. It's 1104 01:01:32.599 --> 01:01:36.000 about letting people decide for themselves in a free society 1105 01:01:36.119 --> 01:01:38.239 what is and what is not relevant to their lives. 1106 01:01:38.320 --> 01:01:41.360 And I'm watching Mark Zuckerberg do this and he kind 1107 01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:43.000 of reminded me of of Duke Check. 1108 01:01:43.280 --> 01:01:44.679 We got a new dupe check. 1109 01:01:45.599 --> 01:01:48.760 Yes, yes, no, no, just to make sure people know 1110 01:01:48.880 --> 01:01:51.360 I'm not a sick fanta like I don't get paid 1111 01:01:51.360 --> 01:01:57.119 a penny by my mortal enemy Facebook. But he has 1112 01:01:57.159 --> 01:02:01.360 not merely said I'd now sport priest. He has vowed, 1113 01:02:01.400 --> 01:02:04.280 he has pledged that he's going to fight the European Union, 1114 01:02:04.320 --> 01:02:06.280 He's going to fight the Chinese and others that are 1115 01:02:06.280 --> 01:02:09.039 trying to censor speech. Now that's still not good enough. 1116 01:02:09.360 --> 01:02:12.559 He needs to make restitution. Oh, Facebook and all the 1117 01:02:12.599 --> 01:02:18.239 meta companies, they have really really harmed conservatives, conservative organizations. 1118 01:02:18.480 --> 01:02:21.000 We are still calling for them to make restitution for 1119 01:02:21.039 --> 01:02:21.559 their harm. 1120 01:02:23.199 --> 01:02:26.119 How about reparations. We need reparations. Can I get it? 1121 01:02:26.119 --> 01:02:28.079 Can I get a check? I need reparation. 1122 01:02:29.440 --> 01:02:30.000 This is real. 1123 01:02:30.079 --> 01:02:31.800 There are a lot of people who lost their jobs. 1124 01:02:32.039 --> 01:02:35.039 A lot of conservative media outlets went under this is 1125 01:02:35.199 --> 01:02:39.599 this is real, and every American citizen had their voices 1126 01:02:39.679 --> 01:02:43.400 squelched by this, and every American citizen was denied knowledge 1127 01:02:43.639 --> 01:02:46.840 like about the Hunter Biden laptop story. You know, they 1128 01:02:47.039 --> 01:02:51.519 caused serious harm and Facebook needs to needs to atone 1129 01:02:51.559 --> 01:02:54.199 for its sins. But we can still celebrate the fact 1130 01:02:54.239 --> 01:02:56.639 that they've come to our side of the aisle on 1131 01:02:56.679 --> 01:02:57.440 this issue. 1132 01:02:57.920 --> 01:03:00.559 Dan Schneider, Media Research Center, I asked you a question, 1133 01:03:00.840 --> 01:03:03.760 is this real or is this memorys? A year or 1134 01:03:03.800 --> 01:03:07.079 two into the Trump presidency, and God knows, right now, 1135 01:03:07.079 --> 01:03:08.960 there's peace everywhere. There may not be a lot of 1136 01:03:09.000 --> 01:03:12.320 riots on January the twentieth. Madonna may not show up 1137 01:03:12.360 --> 01:03:14.360 to blow up the White House. There may not be 1138 01:03:14.400 --> 01:03:17.719 a bunch of pea hats running around talking and screaming, 1139 01:03:17.760 --> 01:03:19.480 hollering and shouting about my vagina. 1140 01:03:19.800 --> 01:03:21.440 And maybe that stuff will not happen. 1141 01:03:21.719 --> 01:03:24.280 But do you believe in your harder hearts after two 1142 01:03:24.400 --> 01:03:26.679 or three years, if you and I get back together 1143 01:03:26.719 --> 01:03:29.920 hopefully more often between now and then that actually Mark 1144 01:03:30.039 --> 01:03:33.960 Zuckerberger of Facebook will be fair, reasonable and support the 1145 01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:36.320 First Amendment. Will you say the same thing in two 1146 01:03:36.440 --> 01:03:39.239 years from now, after two years of the Trump presidency, 1147 01:03:39.280 --> 01:03:40.039 what do you say? 1148 01:03:41.119 --> 01:03:45.239 Look, I might be proven naive indullible two or three 1149 01:03:45.280 --> 01:03:47.800 years from now, but yeah, I think this is real. 1150 01:03:48.320 --> 01:03:52.880 I think this is a real commitment to this cause. Now, 1151 01:03:52.920 --> 01:03:54.000 there are a couple of things I'm going to be 1152 01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:57.639 looking for to determine whether I'm just naivendullible. You know, 1153 01:03:57.920 --> 01:04:02.599 Will Facebook pull itself out of the trade association called 1154 01:04:02.840 --> 01:04:06.519 net Choice. This is their lobby arm, it's their legal arm. Well, 1155 01:04:06.559 --> 01:04:09.960 Facebook pull out of net Choice and no longer advocate 1156 01:04:10.000 --> 01:04:13.039 in the court for censorship. If they pull out a 1157 01:04:13.079 --> 01:04:17.400 net Choice, that is a serious that serious evidence that 1158 01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:19.760 I'm right that this is real. If they don't pull 1159 01:04:19.800 --> 01:04:22.079 out a net Choice, then it starts to look it 1160 01:04:22.079 --> 01:04:24.360 starts to look faker, It kind of starts to look 1161 01:04:24.400 --> 01:04:24.920 short term. 1162 01:04:25.000 --> 01:04:29.639 And Dan Schneider, to whom does credit belong? And I think, 1163 01:04:29.679 --> 01:04:32.800 in a sense, ultimately it's the American people. It's the 1164 01:04:32.920 --> 01:04:37.119 seventy seven million people that voted for Donald Trump. In fact, 1165 01:04:37.119 --> 01:04:39.960 in the last three times he's run, He's received a 1166 01:04:40.000 --> 01:04:43.199 total of about two hundred and twenty million votes in 1167 01:04:43.239 --> 01:04:46.000 sixteen twenty twenty four. But in the most recent election, 1168 01:04:46.159 --> 01:04:49.360 there was a stark choice between the California way of 1169 01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:52.559 doing things or the common man every man, which is 1170 01:04:52.599 --> 01:04:55.360 Donald Trump's way of doing things, the heartland and the 1171 01:04:55.400 --> 01:04:59.639 heartland one over California and New York. In fact, there's 1172 01:04:59.679 --> 01:05:02.039 not one county in New York who had more votes 1173 01:05:02.079 --> 01:05:05.079 for Kamala Harrison the head for Joe Biden. And if 1174 01:05:05.079 --> 01:05:07.639 you look at a map, there's more red counties in 1175 01:05:07.679 --> 01:05:11.039 New York State and California voting for the for Trumpton 1176 01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:13.800 there was for Biden or Kamala Harris. But do you 1177 01:05:13.880 --> 01:05:17.639 give credit mainly to the American people or some other 1178 01:05:17.679 --> 01:05:18.559 person or source? 1179 01:05:19.639 --> 01:05:23.719 Bill, It is no surprise that you are spot on. 1180 01:05:24.679 --> 01:05:27.559 You are spot on. I've been concerned for a long time, 1181 01:05:27.599 --> 01:05:31.119 and I still remain concerned that this whole experiment and 1182 01:05:31.239 --> 01:05:35.639 representational democracy is coming to an end. Will the American 1183 01:05:35.679 --> 01:05:38.719 public rise up against these woke mobsters and take our 1184 01:05:38.760 --> 01:05:42.599 country back? It looked almost hopeless for a while. Yeah, 1185 01:05:42.880 --> 01:05:46.039 cancel culture and everything was just crushing everybody, and I 1186 01:05:46.199 --> 01:05:50.400 just I didn't know if this experiment was done. But 1187 01:05:50.679 --> 01:05:54.519 it is the American public that rose up and said enough. 1188 01:05:54.760 --> 01:05:57.079 And it's not just those who voted for Trump, those 1189 01:05:57.079 --> 01:06:00.119 who voted against Trump. I would say maybe half of 1190 01:06:00.159 --> 01:06:03.559 those who voted against Trump still are going to acknowledge 1191 01:06:03.679 --> 01:06:07.320 that the woke mob went too far and there's got 1192 01:06:07.400 --> 01:06:09.880 to be a reckoning and a pulling back of those 1193 01:06:09.960 --> 01:06:15.760 extreme excesses. And here's my evidence of that. After Zuckerberg 1194 01:06:15.800 --> 01:06:19.639 told all of his employees that their fact checker colleague 1195 01:06:19.679 --> 01:06:23.559 are done and that there's no more censorship on the platform, 1196 01:06:24.440 --> 01:06:27.400 and there give me some other big announcements. The next 1197 01:06:27.480 --> 01:06:30.440 couple of weeks after he told them all this, not 1198 01:06:30.519 --> 01:06:33.480 a single person has walked out in protest, not a 1199 01:06:33.519 --> 01:06:37.960 single person quit. Even those wokesters out in Silicon Valley understand. 1200 01:06:38.320 --> 01:06:41.480 Today is a different day. The world has changed. Their 1201 01:06:42.519 --> 01:06:44.519 excesses have been curtailed. 1202 01:06:45.320 --> 01:06:46.159 It's unbelievable. 1203 01:06:46.559 --> 01:06:48.679 It's a new day. It's a new day in America. 1204 01:06:49.119 --> 01:06:51.920 I'm a skeptic, I'm a Saint Thomas kind of a guy. 1205 01:06:51.960 --> 01:06:53.639 I went a wait a year or two because when 1206 01:06:53.679 --> 01:06:55.480 I watched the video of Mark Zuckerberger. 1207 01:06:55.760 --> 01:06:58.480 I rewounded what listen to it? Watched the two or 1208 01:06:58.480 --> 01:06:59.320 three more times. 1209 01:06:59.639 --> 01:07:02.800 It was it's so bad in twenty seventeen that James 1210 01:07:02.840 --> 01:07:04.960 call me and his band of the FBI thought it 1211 01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:08.079 was okay to wiretap the president of the United States, 1212 01:07:08.159 --> 01:07:12.000 wiretap the transmission, to have illegal warrens being issued, and 1213 01:07:12.039 --> 01:07:14.920 to go after General Flynn and Trump directly and to 1214 01:07:15.039 --> 01:07:17.519 ruin the first two years of his presidency. They were 1215 01:07:17.559 --> 01:07:21.000 so confident they would find something that would be expanded 1216 01:07:21.000 --> 01:07:23.599 into a crime that they did this, even rated the 1217 01:07:23.599 --> 01:07:27.239 President's home and threw Maloney's underwear all over the carpeting 1218 01:07:27.519 --> 01:07:30.280 and positioned all the secret documents in a way that 1219 01:07:30.360 --> 01:07:31.960 make it look like he was a complete fool and 1220 01:07:32.000 --> 01:07:34.800 an idiot. They had so much confidence in their success 1221 01:07:35.079 --> 01:07:39.159 they raided Donald Trump's personal residence with a bunch of bs, 1222 01:07:39.159 --> 01:07:42.920 They suppressed the laptop, They committed law fair against the 1223 01:07:43.000 --> 01:07:45.880 Russian collusion delusion. They were so certain they would win 1224 01:07:46.199 --> 01:07:48.719 that guess what they did all that to Donald Trump 1225 01:07:48.760 --> 01:07:51.880 and his friends, and dited his lawyers, and dited his consultant, 1226 01:07:51.920 --> 01:07:53.880 and died at the White House chief of Staff, knowing 1227 01:07:54.159 --> 01:07:56.559 that they'd be protected in the end and now they're 1228 01:07:56.639 --> 01:07:58.760 bear and they're saying, are you kidding me? 1229 01:07:59.480 --> 01:08:01.119 And that's how confident they were. 1230 01:08:02.199 --> 01:08:05.840 And don't forget. They attacked Catholics, they attacked parents of 1231 01:08:06.679 --> 01:08:10.599 k through twelve students. They have attacked all of America. 1232 01:08:10.719 --> 01:08:15.280 They attacked individual rights. They tried to crush this entire 1233 01:08:15.360 --> 01:08:19.520 system of government. They tried to replace themselves, you know, 1234 01:08:19.680 --> 01:08:23.199 try to replace the American people with themselves, and they failed. 1235 01:08:24.119 --> 01:08:29.119 And please God, let's get let's get our new leadership 1236 01:08:29.159 --> 01:08:33.520 over DOJ right away. There's got to be a reckoning. 1237 01:08:33.760 --> 01:08:36.720 Those people have to pay the price for their illegal, 1238 01:08:36.960 --> 01:08:39.159 criminal and unconstitutional conduct. 1239 01:08:39.359 --> 01:08:41.159 And this is on top of if you take the 1240 01:08:41.279 --> 01:08:46.159 three sentinels of liberalism progressivism, Chicago, take Illinois, Take New 1241 01:08:46.199 --> 01:08:49.039 York State, Take New York City, Take California with all 1242 01:08:49.039 --> 01:08:49.880 the wildfires. 1243 01:08:50.119 --> 01:08:52.159 Look at the incompetence. In New York State. 1244 01:08:52.199 --> 01:08:54.640 You have the you have the governor Hockel is going 1245 01:08:54.680 --> 01:08:58.600 to charge people like three thousand dollars per year simply 1246 01:08:58.640 --> 01:09:01.840 to drive a car on Manhattan three thousand bucks. As 1247 01:09:01.840 --> 01:09:04.399 she's giving away in New York State money about a 1248 01:09:04.479 --> 01:09:07.640 billion dollars a year to illegal aliens who are getting 1249 01:09:07.760 --> 01:09:10.199 there being wined, dined in, pocket lined all over New 1250 01:09:10.279 --> 01:09:13.279 York City. Some eighty thousand are getting checks in the mail, 1251 01:09:13.520 --> 01:09:15.520 but New Yorkers have to pay just to drive a 1252 01:09:15.520 --> 01:09:18.359 car onto the island. You have in the subway system, 1253 01:09:18.560 --> 01:09:22.520 women set on fire men, jump jumping tolls, repeatedly throwing 1254 01:09:22.560 --> 01:09:25.880 people onto the train tracks. Murders in the subway system. 1255 01:09:25.920 --> 01:09:28.920 In New York City's up sixty percent crime is through the roof. 1256 01:09:29.119 --> 01:09:31.359 Throw on top of that the city of Chicago, and 1257 01:09:31.399 --> 01:09:34.199 that the mayor there has an eighteen percent approval factor. 1258 01:09:34.279 --> 01:09:37.359 This city of Chicago's upside down, all their pensions, that 1259 01:09:37.439 --> 01:09:39.520 no one wants to be a cop. Throw in California. 1260 01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:42.399 Throw in what happened with Karen Bass. She's in Africa 1261 01:09:42.520 --> 01:09:47.920 celebrating a Gananese president as her city's literally burning. They're 1262 01:09:47.960 --> 01:09:50.479 on an ocean. They're on an ocean, and they have 1263 01:09:50.600 --> 01:09:54.399 no water because of the incompetence of Los Angeles City Council. 1264 01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:57.159 Do you see a new berth in America? Dan Schneider, 1265 01:09:57.159 --> 01:09:59.239 do you see a new berth as I do? Or 1266 01:09:59.520 --> 01:10:01.479 is this all something? Is this a mirage what I'm 1267 01:10:01.479 --> 01:10:02.000 watching here? 1268 01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:05.560 You know, Bill, let's have a moment of silence. As 1269 01:10:05.600 --> 01:10:08.960 we list all of the accomplishments, the positive accomplishments of 1270 01:10:09.039 --> 01:10:14.119 Democrats over the last four years. There that's the list 1271 01:10:14.119 --> 01:10:15.279 of positive accomplishments. 1272 01:10:15.560 --> 01:10:20.039 Southern border deficits out of whack completely, crime is rampant, 1273 01:10:20.239 --> 01:10:21.399 California's burning. 1274 01:10:21.399 --> 01:10:23.000 New York is a complete crisis. 1275 01:10:23.119 --> 01:10:26.079 We're giving money to the Ukrainians billions of dollars keep 1276 01:10:26.079 --> 01:10:28.680 a war going with Israel under attack. We have the 1277 01:10:28.720 --> 01:10:31.199 North Koreans ready to attack the South Koreans. We have 1278 01:10:31.279 --> 01:10:34.279 China flying bombers over the top of Taiwan. We have 1279 01:10:34.359 --> 01:10:37.800 crises upon crises upon crises. And none of this was 1280 01:10:37.880 --> 01:10:41.720 fairly and objectively independently reported by any of the mainstream media. 1281 01:10:41.760 --> 01:10:42.479 They ignored it. 1282 01:10:42.640 --> 01:10:44.640 I reached some of the items on your website about 1283 01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:46.960 ninety nine percent of the guest on late night comedy 1284 01:10:46.960 --> 01:10:50.359 shows and aren't funding anymore Liberals. Eighty eight percent or 1285 01:10:50.359 --> 01:10:52.479 more of the reporting on all of the Trump nominees 1286 01:10:52.479 --> 01:10:55.359 are all negative about the mainstream media. And I'm watching 1287 01:10:55.399 --> 01:10:58.319 this and I'm surprised. Are you still shocked that Trump 1288 01:10:58.359 --> 01:10:59.279 won against all this? 1289 01:10:59.279 --> 01:10:59.960 This is unbelieva. 1290 01:11:01.479 --> 01:11:04.880 You know, I didn't know how the election was going 1291 01:11:04.920 --> 01:11:07.439 to go. I didn't know if the American people had 1292 01:11:07.479 --> 01:11:12.039 had enough. I was nervous. Bill. The first time people 1293 01:11:12.079 --> 01:11:15.119 came together to form a government to govern themselves was 1294 01:11:15.279 --> 01:11:20.399 ancient ascents. The second time was in seventeen seventy six. 1295 01:11:21.239 --> 01:11:25.039 This form of representational democracy has already outlasted the first 1296 01:11:25.079 --> 01:11:28.760 attempt twofold. And I didn't know if we were coming 1297 01:11:28.760 --> 01:11:31.840 to an end. And you know, thank god, we are 1298 01:11:31.880 --> 01:11:35.760 not coordinating. Queen Commel in a couple of weeks, you know, 1299 01:11:36.239 --> 01:11:38.520 that would have been the end of us. But the 1300 01:11:38.520 --> 01:11:40.600 American people said no more. 1301 01:11:41.319 --> 01:11:41.560 I have. 1302 01:11:41.920 --> 01:11:45.560 I have renewed hope that this system of government and 1303 01:11:45.560 --> 01:11:49.720 our freedom might still endure a while longer. But it 1304 01:11:49.760 --> 01:11:54.239 takes all of us every day fighting for freedom, fighting 1305 01:11:54.279 --> 01:11:57.239 for democracy, because what you know, this is not the 1306 01:11:57.319 --> 01:11:59.920 natural order of things in world history. The natural order 1307 01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:02.680 is a king telling everybody what to do. We have 1308 01:12:02.800 --> 01:12:06.159 to work to preserve our freedom. We let down, we 1309 01:12:06.279 --> 01:12:07.760 let go, we died. 1310 01:12:08.119 --> 01:12:10.159 You know last I gave a speech the other day 1311 01:12:10.199 --> 01:12:12.880 for a Supreme Court justice in Ohio. My good friend 1312 01:12:12.960 --> 01:12:16.359 Joe Dieters, who was an elevator to the seat, and 1313 01:12:16.399 --> 01:12:18.640 I made the comment that we're the only country on 1314 01:12:18.720 --> 01:12:21.960 earth the only one that has rights given by God, 1315 01:12:22.479 --> 01:12:25.960 and that governments are instituted among men in order to 1316 01:12:26.000 --> 01:12:29.600 secure the rights given by God Almighty. In every other government, 1317 01:12:29.880 --> 01:12:32.840 all of our rights come from government, and the government 1318 01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:35.119 that gives you those rights can take away those rights. 1319 01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:37.840 But not here in America. And if we were in 1320 01:12:37.920 --> 01:12:41.840 a few days going to commemorate the Kamala Harris presidency 1321 01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:45.000 with the adoring coverage of the media that she would 1322 01:12:45.000 --> 01:12:47.840 have gotten, and if she had eight years in office, 1323 01:12:48.199 --> 01:12:52.199 in order to solidify, to cement the lack of descent 1324 01:12:52.279 --> 01:12:55.600 in this country, the ability of media types to freely speak, 1325 01:12:55.640 --> 01:12:58.560 and the idea that Catholics need to be investigated, that 1326 01:12:58.600 --> 01:13:00.720 the southern border has got to be more wide open, 1327 01:13:00.720 --> 01:13:02.840 that we have to pay out more money to illegals 1328 01:13:02.840 --> 01:13:05.079 and shouldn't be here, that the crime on the streets 1329 01:13:05.159 --> 01:13:08.319 will become cemented into a perpetuity. I'm not sure we 1330 01:13:08.359 --> 01:13:11.279 could have survived. Imagine if she had won and in 1331 01:13:11.359 --> 01:13:15.560 twenty thirty two Kamala Harris left office, Dan Schneider, what 1332 01:13:15.560 --> 01:13:16.520 does American look like? 1333 01:13:19.159 --> 01:13:21.079 Who's to say she would have left office in twenty 1334 01:13:21.119 --> 01:13:26.760 thirty two. Yeah, you know, it's that truly our system 1335 01:13:26.800 --> 01:13:28.039 of government would have come to an end. 1336 01:13:28.600 --> 01:13:29.119 Yeah. Yeah. 1337 01:13:30.239 --> 01:13:33.920 People couldn't understand why she was not actually articulating her 1338 01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:37.199 policy views during the campaign. It's because she didn't want 1339 01:13:37.239 --> 01:13:40.279 to tell anybody what she was going to do, because 1340 01:13:40.680 --> 01:13:43.119 she was going to do crazy things. We already know 1341 01:13:43.159 --> 01:13:45.760 the kind of crazy things she's going to do because 1342 01:13:45.880 --> 01:13:47.960 they've been doing it. We're just about to release the 1343 01:13:48.039 --> 01:13:52.439 report of one hundred and thirty different and censorship initiatives 1344 01:13:52.640 --> 01:13:56.279 in the Biden Harris administration. One hundred and thirty different 1345 01:13:56.319 --> 01:14:01.199 ways our taxpayer dollars were being used to crush the Well, 1346 01:14:01.239 --> 01:14:04.640 you know this is stalinistic kind of stuff. 1347 01:14:05.000 --> 01:14:07.520 Well, Dan Schneider, what would have happened as that? Bernie 1348 01:14:07.520 --> 01:14:10.479 Sanders said it several months ago that a reporter asked, 1349 01:14:10.479 --> 01:14:16.520 Bernie Sanders, the literal socialist from Vermont, are you concerned 1350 01:14:16.520 --> 01:14:20.079 about Kamala Harris is seemingly changing her position from the 1351 01:14:20.159 --> 01:14:22.960 California comments today? He kind of bound and said, no, 1352 01:14:23.479 --> 01:14:25.920 I'm not concerned about what she says because I know 1353 01:14:25.960 --> 01:14:26.680 what she's going to do. 1354 01:14:27.680 --> 01:14:28.920 And that was Senator. 1355 01:14:29.000 --> 01:14:32.000 That was Senator Bernie Sanders said, just get elected and 1356 01:14:32.000 --> 01:14:34.760 then we're going to solidify the socialism that was creeping 1357 01:14:35.079 --> 01:14:37.920 and now is in retreat. But if Trump only serves 1358 01:14:37.960 --> 01:14:41.119 four years and then we go back to Kamala Harris 1359 01:14:41.239 --> 01:14:46.079 or god forbid, Gavin Newsom or someone Pritzker the governor 1360 01:14:46.079 --> 01:14:49.039 of Illinois, then we're back at it again. We need 1361 01:14:49.239 --> 01:14:51.880 eight to twelve years of my good friend Jady Vance 1362 01:14:52.119 --> 01:14:54.920 from the great state of Ohio after that. But Dan Sneyder, 1363 01:14:54.920 --> 01:14:57.039 we got a run once again. It's a wonderful site 1364 01:14:57.199 --> 01:15:01.000 which is NewsBusters dot Org MRC Media rese Center once 1365 01:15:01.039 --> 01:15:03.119 again keep hope alive. We have hope at least for 1366 01:15:03.119 --> 01:15:05.359 the next four years, hopefully for the next twelve. And 1367 01:15:05.479 --> 01:15:08.119 Dan Schneider, thank you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. 1368 01:15:08.119 --> 01:15:12.119 Thank you, Dan. Thanks Bill, God bless America. Let's continue 1369 01:15:12.159 --> 01:15:13.600 with more. Wow. 1370 01:15:14.520 --> 01:15:17.199 And if you happen to see the some of the 1371 01:15:17.319 --> 01:15:20.640 body language at the Carter funeral, you know, the disgust 1372 01:15:20.720 --> 01:15:24.560 and hatred among Democrats for Democrats much less Trump. 1373 01:15:25.079 --> 01:15:26.039 Let's continue with more. 1374 01:15:26.079 --> 01:15:39.159 Bill Cunningham, the Grand American, live with you every Sunday night. 1375 01:15:42.760 --> 01:15:45.920 All right, Billy Cunningham, the Great American. Dan Schneider, NewsBusters 1376 01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:49.399 dot Org have the website up, and you can only 1377 01:15:49.439 --> 01:15:52.960 imagine if a Republican was in charge of the city 1378 01:15:52.960 --> 01:15:56.359 of Los Angeles, which is in today's political climate, would 1379 01:15:56.399 --> 01:16:00.600 be impossible, or Republican was the governor of California, which 1380 01:16:00.600 --> 01:16:04.039 today is impossible, how the media would deal with Gavin 1381 01:16:04.119 --> 01:16:06.439 Newsom and Karen this is a good name, Karen Bass 1382 01:16:06.640 --> 01:16:09.560 be completely different. When it's a Democrat, they pull their punches. 1383 01:16:09.720 --> 01:16:12.319 When it's a Republican they use hooks and claws. And 1384 01:16:12.399 --> 01:16:16.880 right now, according NewsBusters dot Org, which is my last guest, 1385 01:16:17.159 --> 01:16:22.600 Dan Schneider's main website, NBC Softball Interview aims to rehab 1386 01:16:22.680 --> 01:16:27.560 Governor Newsom into looking confident, getting ready, of course, for 1387 01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:31.319 the twenty twenty eight presidential race. See the Media Believes it, 1388 01:16:31.399 --> 01:16:34.359 Believe it or not? Once Gavin Newson to be the 1389 01:16:34.399 --> 01:16:36.960 nominee of the Democrat Party because of his hair gel 1390 01:16:37.279 --> 01:16:39.880 and he's got a nice smile. What about his confidence? 1391 01:16:40.000 --> 01:16:40.560 Does that matter? 1392 01:16:40.640 --> 01:16:44.760 Absolutely not. The d solves all kinds of difficulties. Coming 1393 01:16:44.840 --> 01:16:47.880 up next to Christen Briggs's written to column about the 1394 01:16:48.079 --> 01:16:50.520 financial health of this great country and what's happening in 1395 01:16:51.000 --> 01:16:54.600 San Francisco and what's happening in Los Angeles certainly provides 1396 01:16:54.640 --> 01:16:57.960 a more difficulties. As Wail on the Root said, imagine 1397 01:16:57.960 --> 01:17:01.279 the expenses of homelessness, drug addiction, and illegal aliens and more. 1398 01:17:01.560 --> 01:17:03.600 Don't counting into grant American with you and all other 1399 01:17:03.640 --> 01:17:06.079 great Americans. Of course, every Sunday. 1400 01:17:05.840 --> 01:17:47.239 Night, Willie brought you by Choice Hotels, Acono Lodge and 1401 01:17:47.359 --> 01:17:49.920 Roadway In Hotels are serving up double points for every 1402 01:17:50.000 --> 01:17:53.399 qualifying stay book at choice hotels dot com. 1403 01:17:53.439 --> 01:17:56.840 Now here's the man who's been recognized as radio's best, 1404 01:17:57.199 --> 01:18:01.079 the recipient of not one, but two prestigious Marconi Awards 1405 01:18:01.159 --> 01:18:05.800 for he is broadcast Exodence, the one and only Bill cunning. 1406 01:18:05.600 --> 01:18:07.880 Have Bill Cunningham, the Great American. 1407 01:18:07.920 --> 01:18:11.279 Of course, economically, we look for a revitalization when Trump 1408 01:18:11.600 --> 01:18:13.479 takes office on January the twentieth. 1409 01:18:13.680 --> 01:18:14.840 It's going to be a slow haul. 1410 01:18:14.920 --> 01:18:17.520 But one of the great concerns many Americans have and 1411 01:18:17.600 --> 01:18:21.000 many economists have, is something called bricks. Now you may 1412 01:18:21.039 --> 01:18:23.399 think bricks are something you put on the house, but 1413 01:18:23.560 --> 01:18:28.000 bricks refers to a loose organization of five or six 1414 01:18:28.079 --> 01:18:34.119 great economies Brazil and Russia, India, China and South Africa, 1415 01:18:34.439 --> 01:18:37.479 and more indicative willingness to join and this would be 1416 01:18:37.600 --> 01:18:43.039 like a second alternative source of economic strength around the world, 1417 01:18:43.039 --> 01:18:45.840 and it would mean that the American dollar would not 1418 01:18:45.920 --> 01:18:48.560 be a reserve currency, which is a really big deal. 1419 01:18:48.960 --> 01:18:51.600 Joining you and I now is Kristin Briggs is the 1420 01:18:51.640 --> 01:18:55.279 CEO of Hard Asset Management. Kristin Briggs. Welcome, I think 1421 01:18:55.319 --> 01:18:57.479 for the first time to the Bill Cunningham Show. And 1422 01:18:57.560 --> 01:19:00.520 first of all, did I set it up correctly that Bricks, 1423 01:19:01.159 --> 01:19:05.520 especially with China being involved with Brazil and Russia, India, 1424 01:19:05.600 --> 01:19:09.560 South Africa, is a mortal danger to the economic health 1425 01:19:09.600 --> 01:19:10.880 of the United States of America. 1426 01:19:12.079 --> 01:19:15.960 It's exactly right, and you pose a really good point here. 1427 01:19:16.600 --> 01:19:20.800 Bricks is trying to undermine the financial stability the United States. 1428 01:19:21.119 --> 01:19:23.640 If it wasn't such a problem, and if it wasn't 1429 01:19:23.840 --> 01:19:26.560 literally on the top of Trump's list, he would not 1430 01:19:26.680 --> 01:19:28.680 have come out in swinging on this one. Instead, one 1431 01:19:28.720 --> 01:19:32.560 hundred percent tariffs on anybody who undermines the US dollar. 1432 01:19:32.319 --> 01:19:33.920 And puts it as second class citizen. 1433 01:19:34.359 --> 01:19:36.239 The thing that you've got to realize is of the 1434 01:19:36.279 --> 01:19:40.520 original five countries, which have strong economics in their own right, 1435 01:19:40.560 --> 01:19:44.600 but together the Bricks nations now which are about seventeen 1436 01:19:44.680 --> 01:19:47.960 countries from the original two thousand and nine at the 1437 01:19:48.000 --> 01:19:51.279 gate to today. The biggest change, I would say was 1438 01:19:51.319 --> 01:19:55.239 the UAE United Arab Emirates joined, which is seven countries 1439 01:19:55.560 --> 01:19:57.159 Abu Dhabi and Dubai and so. 1440 01:19:57.039 --> 01:20:00.319 Forth, has a lot of oil impact. Iran now as 1441 01:20:00.359 --> 01:20:00.960 part of BRICKS. 1442 01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:04.279 So what you've got here as a coalition of countries 1443 01:20:05.039 --> 01:20:09.840 that have right now together a forty percent bigger GDP 1444 01:20:10.199 --> 01:20:12.840 than the G seven. When you take out the six 1445 01:20:12.880 --> 01:20:15.720 countries of the G seven, let the United States be standalone, 1446 01:20:16.520 --> 01:20:20.479 they're over double our GDP. So Trump knows that it's 1447 01:20:20.560 --> 01:20:23.439 not just an issue with the reserve currency status, it's 1448 01:20:23.479 --> 01:20:27.920 a national security issue. In fact, in a recent conversation 1449 01:20:27.960 --> 01:20:29.720 I had with one of the leading House members, chairman 1450 01:20:29.720 --> 01:20:32.479 of one of the committees, his point plank, which he's 1451 01:20:32.479 --> 01:20:34.880 going to have dinner with Trump this weekend, said, if 1452 01:20:34.920 --> 01:20:38.079 there's any one thing that you can destabilize a country, 1453 01:20:38.239 --> 01:20:41.359 destroy the currency and then there's nothing left in the country, 1454 01:20:41.399 --> 01:20:44.399 because that is the bedrock of the financial system. Bricks 1455 01:20:44.640 --> 01:20:47.800 have made no bones about it. Their goal is to 1456 01:20:47.920 --> 01:20:54.600 undermine debate and decouple the dollar from oil and commodity 1457 01:20:54.640 --> 01:20:57.479 trading as fast as they can. So that way, our 1458 01:20:57.520 --> 01:21:00.359 interest rates will skyrocket because no one will buy our debt. 1459 01:21:00.359 --> 01:21:03.399 Why well, the debt's based in dollars. Look what's happening 1460 01:21:03.439 --> 01:21:05.760 over the last year or so. It's not inflation that's 1461 01:21:05.800 --> 01:21:09.880 always running up these rates. It's the unwillingness of countries 1462 01:21:09.960 --> 01:21:13.119 right now to buy our debt. That's your problem, and 1463 01:21:13.119 --> 01:21:14.319 that's what Bridge is trying to do. 1464 01:21:14.640 --> 01:21:18.319 Explain reserve currency. My producer may not fully understand it though. 1465 01:21:18.840 --> 01:21:23.239 If the world trade is funded and fueled and layered 1466 01:21:23.279 --> 01:21:23.640 with the. 1467 01:21:23.680 --> 01:21:25.960 US dollar, the US dollar has great value. 1468 01:21:25.960 --> 01:21:28.439 If, on the other hand, some other currency like the 1469 01:21:28.520 --> 01:21:31.359 wand from China is going to be the reserve currency, 1470 01:21:31.439 --> 01:21:34.039 then we're in trouble, big trouble. In fact, we've done 1471 01:21:34.079 --> 01:21:36.119 a lot of this to ourselves because of our debt 1472 01:21:36.159 --> 01:21:39.000 and deficit. But explain to the American people what is 1473 01:21:39.159 --> 01:21:42.279 reserve currency and how does that impact someone living in 1474 01:21:42.319 --> 01:21:43.000 ames Iowa? 1475 01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:47.640 Well good, Well, like you said, Iowa, I have relatives 1476 01:21:47.640 --> 01:21:50.720 and aims as well as in Iowa. So that's good, yeah, 1477 01:21:50.800 --> 01:21:54.199 all of Iowa. Well, let's talk about what reserve currency means. 1478 01:21:54.239 --> 01:21:57.680 First of all, when a country determines its asset base 1479 01:21:57.800 --> 01:21:59.760 or asset classes. It's going to have a number of 1480 01:21:59.800 --> 01:22:01.760 fun in the mental things. Is going to strategically put 1481 01:22:01.840 --> 01:22:06.520 in gold, silver, oil, and currency, currency being the liquid 1482 01:22:06.720 --> 01:22:09.319 portion of all of those, Okay, the most liquid. So 1483 01:22:09.359 --> 01:22:12.279 when you look at reserve currency, we are now from 1484 01:22:12.359 --> 01:22:14.800 nineteen forty six, when ninety percent of the world transacted 1485 01:22:14.840 --> 01:22:17.520 only in dollars and it was the number one reserve currency. 1486 01:22:17.760 --> 01:22:19.800 Let me tell you where we're at today. We are 1487 01:22:19.840 --> 01:22:24.279 now number six. In reserve asset. We're number one, but 1488 01:22:24.319 --> 01:22:27.119 we've got from ninety percent to forty nine percent in 1489 01:22:27.199 --> 01:22:30.359 daily transactions with the dollar. We're still number one because 1490 01:22:30.399 --> 01:22:33.119 since nineteen forty six, there is a plethora of localized 1491 01:22:33.159 --> 01:22:36.119 currencies out there that have subsequently been made to be 1492 01:22:36.199 --> 01:22:40.319 their their number one go to sales transactional asset, which 1493 01:22:40.479 --> 01:22:42.000 you know, people think, oh, it's going to be crypto 1494 01:22:42.000 --> 01:22:42.319 one day. 1495 01:22:42.319 --> 01:22:43.720 It will not be crypto like in the sense what 1496 01:22:43.760 --> 01:22:44.199 we have today. 1497 01:22:44.199 --> 01:22:46.800 It's going to always be a localized currency, whether it's 1498 01:22:46.840 --> 01:22:50.239 digital or in paper form. What we're looking at is 1499 01:22:50.319 --> 01:22:55.920 losing the number one position in daily transactions. If we 1500 01:22:56.000 --> 01:22:58.760 lose that, that means demand is shifting to other currencies, 1501 01:22:58.800 --> 01:23:02.319 which it has since nineteen six. The scary thing is, 1502 01:23:02.680 --> 01:23:05.960 and Trump knows this is the number one national security riscue. 1503 01:23:05.960 --> 01:23:08.119 Like I said earlier, it's number one with him right now. 1504 01:23:08.159 --> 01:23:12.920 Because here's what the bricks represent. The bricks have two purposes. 1505 01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:17.319 One to coalition, to bring financial instability to the United States, 1506 01:23:17.600 --> 01:23:21.159 to create doubts so people stop buying the debt, people 1507 01:23:21.199 --> 01:23:24.119 short the debt, or all together, they just eliminate. 1508 01:23:23.680 --> 01:23:25.159 The use of the dollar. That's the goal. 1509 01:23:25.720 --> 01:23:28.159 Now in some degree that's already happened, or we would 1510 01:23:28.199 --> 01:23:31.560 still get that ninety percentile from nineteen forty six. The 1511 01:23:31.600 --> 01:23:35.560 second thing they're doing is military strategically located basis. 1512 01:23:35.680 --> 01:23:39.359 This is the reason why number of years. 1513 01:23:39.159 --> 01:23:45.119 Ago Trump set China represents the greatest risk, and the 1514 01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:47.439 bricks part of it because China is now moving on 1515 01:23:47.520 --> 01:23:51.760 Greenland and they're moving just like they did the Soviet 1516 01:23:51.800 --> 01:23:55.279 Union in the early sixties with Khrushchev and putting missiles 1517 01:23:55.279 --> 01:23:59.000 in Cuba. Greenland represents it basically, it's an aircraft carrier. 1518 01:24:00.399 --> 01:24:04.840 It's an aircraft carrier Hawaiian Islands. These are strategic locations 1519 01:24:04.880 --> 01:24:06.760 to put in military operations. 1520 01:24:07.119 --> 01:24:07.960 Panama Canal. 1521 01:24:08.079 --> 01:24:10.479 Why is he so worried about that well, because China, 1522 01:24:10.520 --> 01:24:12.920 which is part of the Bricks, which is intend to 1523 01:24:13.840 --> 01:24:18.119 undermine the dollar undermin military, is now controlling Panama in 1524 01:24:18.199 --> 01:24:21.359 violation of the treaty when Carters let Panama have the 1525 01:24:21.359 --> 01:24:25.520 Panama Canal back. So now he's having to fight four fronts. 1526 01:24:25.840 --> 01:24:28.720 He still has Ukraine in Russia, which rushes part of Bricks. 1527 01:24:29.159 --> 01:24:33.119 He still has Hesbala Israel and Iran. Iran is part 1528 01:24:33.159 --> 01:24:36.279 of Bricks. He's still got the Panama Canal with China, 1529 01:24:36.760 --> 01:24:39.479 and China is also interfering in Greenland, which is part 1530 01:24:39.479 --> 01:24:41.760 of Bricks, which is the founding member. So when he 1531 01:24:41.800 --> 01:24:44.880 says Bricks is the biggest threat to the national security 1532 01:24:44.920 --> 01:24:49.239 of the United States, Trump is right. He's always going 1533 01:24:49.279 --> 01:24:50.960 to be proven right, whether it's the next day, the 1534 01:24:51.000 --> 01:24:52.159 next year, or the next decade. 1535 01:24:52.199 --> 01:24:53.079 The guy's as smart as that. 1536 01:24:53.119 --> 01:24:54.399 We have look at his sun as that one hundred 1537 01:24:54.399 --> 01:24:56.760 and seventy IQ good looking kid, Baron so and all 1538 01:24:56.800 --> 01:24:59.119 his kids are smart because it comes from a good stock. 1539 01:24:59.640 --> 01:25:01.640 Trump knows what he's talking about. 1540 01:25:02.159 --> 01:25:05.119 Now, in order to defeat the Bricks, he's gonna have 1541 01:25:05.119 --> 01:25:09.079 to do one thing. In my company, we analyze things 1542 01:25:09.119 --> 01:25:10.840 every day in real time twenty four to seven. 1543 01:25:10.880 --> 01:25:11.680 We never go to sleep. 1544 01:25:11.680 --> 01:25:14.359 There's always people working around the clock to manage hard 1545 01:25:14.359 --> 01:25:17.039 assets for individuals. Well, that's how Trump's going to have 1546 01:25:17.079 --> 01:25:20.239 to manage bricks. In order to defeat the bricks, he 1547 01:25:20.319 --> 01:25:22.439 can't go head to head. He's gonna have to find 1548 01:25:22.439 --> 01:25:25.319 the cracks within the membership. And I think that's what's 1549 01:25:25.319 --> 01:25:27.720 gonna happen, is he's going to go to the weakest links, 1550 01:25:28.079 --> 01:25:32.079 cut deals, strategic deals, not just willing nearly throw a 1551 01:25:32.079 --> 01:25:34.159 grenade and see what happens and where the casualties are, 1552 01:25:34.199 --> 01:25:36.920 but more tactical, more surgical. 1553 01:25:37.600 --> 01:25:39.239 I think what we'll do is and this is what 1554 01:25:39.239 --> 01:25:39.640 I would do. 1555 01:25:39.680 --> 01:25:41.840 And he's a smart guy, so I think he'll be 1556 01:25:41.880 --> 01:25:44.920 able to relate to this. Find the weakest link within 1557 01:25:44.960 --> 01:25:48.560 an organization that you need to dismantle, subdivide that by 1558 01:25:48.760 --> 01:25:52.039 taking a few pieces off to make the whole weaker 1559 01:25:52.079 --> 01:25:54.640 than what was originally started. And next thing, you know, 1560 01:25:54.720 --> 01:25:56.760 the rest will follow suit. They'll want to cut deals. 1561 01:25:56.960 --> 01:25:58.840 They'll want to say, okay, we're back on the dollar. 1562 01:25:59.159 --> 01:26:01.640 We're gonna go ahead him do business with you, and 1563 01:26:01.720 --> 01:26:04.279 all of a sudden that bricks will be weakened enough 1564 01:26:04.600 --> 01:26:07.840 to where it may actually be dismantled. Possibly not. Dismantling 1565 01:26:07.880 --> 01:26:10.199 is a big word, and they're very unified, but there 1566 01:26:10.279 --> 01:26:14.079 is definitely cracks. There's definitely some confusion within the Bricks 1567 01:26:14.119 --> 01:26:17.279 memberships because why you've got a warrior now in the 1568 01:26:17.279 --> 01:26:19.479 White House, you don't have a dementia patient, You've got 1569 01:26:19.520 --> 01:26:20.039 a warrior. 1570 01:26:20.800 --> 01:26:22.159 They don't like warriors. 1571 01:26:22.239 --> 01:26:25.279 Why will Warriors are tough, Warriors will push back, Warors. 1572 01:26:24.960 --> 01:26:27.800 They'll hit back. That's what Trump is. He's a warrior, 1573 01:26:28.479 --> 01:26:28.880 and so. 1574 01:26:28.800 --> 01:26:31.840 The most important thing he can do is maybe it's Brazil, 1575 01:26:32.479 --> 01:26:35.640 maybe it's India, the largest country on Earth, or maybe 1576 01:26:35.640 --> 01:26:38.239 it's the UAE because of their fear of what's happening 1577 01:26:38.239 --> 01:26:40.760 in Iran. You can pick off two, three or four 1578 01:26:40.760 --> 01:26:43.560 of them to go back on the dollar and right 1579 01:26:43.600 --> 01:26:45.720 now the one the Chinese in ten for the wand 1580 01:26:45.720 --> 01:26:49.039 to become the reserve currency. And these nations together have 1581 01:26:49.079 --> 01:26:52.199 a much bigger GDP than the US, but they don't 1582 01:26:52.199 --> 01:26:54.680 have the same military power, and you can grab them 1583 01:26:54.680 --> 01:26:56.560 by the coyones, especially the UAE. 1584 01:26:56.720 --> 01:26:58.279 So that means when UAE. 1585 01:26:58.119 --> 01:27:02.439 Or Saudi Arabia trades with a Germany, you need some currency, 1586 01:27:02.479 --> 01:27:05.119 and that has been the reserve currency right now it 1587 01:27:05.199 --> 01:27:07.960 is not. And because there was such fecklessness the past 1588 01:27:07.960 --> 01:27:11.239 four years that the bricks and these other seventeen nations 1589 01:27:11.239 --> 01:27:14.159 got together to use a different currency than the dollar, 1590 01:27:14.439 --> 01:27:17.680 which will trash the American economy. Wouldn't it make us 1591 01:27:17.720 --> 01:27:22.479 look like a great depression again in America? If economically 1592 01:27:22.800 --> 01:27:25.399 the rest of the world would use the wand as 1593 01:27:25.439 --> 01:27:28.479 the reserve currency where goods are exchanged instead of the dollar, 1594 01:27:28.640 --> 01:27:31.039 wouldn't that be an unmitigated disaster for us? 1595 01:27:32.359 --> 01:27:35.000 If that happens, the US would have twenty five percent 1596 01:27:35.079 --> 01:27:37.920 interest rates, overnight mortgages would be fifteen to twenty percent, 1597 01:27:37.960 --> 01:27:40.199 real estate would drop by fifty percent in a second. 1598 01:27:40.279 --> 01:27:43.960 Because here's the problem, and you're right, You're absolutely right. 1599 01:27:45.079 --> 01:27:48.159 The digital U one right now is about eighteen percent 1600 01:27:48.399 --> 01:27:50.960 of the world's transact whether it's paper or whether it's digital, 1601 01:27:51.000 --> 01:27:53.560 About eighteen percent of the world transactions are now through 1602 01:27:53.720 --> 01:27:58.479 the bricks. China obviously representing so many population of the 1603 01:27:58.800 --> 01:28:00.880 whole world of the planet, so that gives it some 1604 01:28:01.000 --> 01:28:03.760 kind of a little bit stewed their direction, a little 1605 01:28:03.760 --> 01:28:06.119 bit more of a bias, But it doesn't matter. 1606 01:28:06.119 --> 01:28:07.680 They're still people they're still transacting. 1607 01:28:08.319 --> 01:28:12.399 So if we lose this reserve status and we are 1608 01:28:12.439 --> 01:28:14.760 on the verge of losing it, we're down to under 1609 01:28:14.800 --> 01:28:18.439 fifty percent. We're in the forty nine percentile again, down 1610 01:28:18.520 --> 01:28:20.199 from ninety percent and forty six. 1611 01:28:20.640 --> 01:28:22.720 But what you said was profound. He said something very good. 1612 01:28:23.640 --> 01:28:26.319 If the digital ue continues its current growth rate, which 1613 01:28:26.359 --> 01:28:29.680 is exponentially moving very rapidly around the world, especially in 1614 01:28:30.039 --> 01:28:36.199 wherever China has built massive infrastructure deals. The way China 1615 01:28:36.239 --> 01:28:40.800 started to move quickly once they joined the World Trade Organization, 1616 01:28:41.279 --> 01:28:44.079 they were able to move with more efficiency at a 1617 01:28:44.159 --> 01:28:47.039 much rapid pace, to be able to get money into 1618 01:28:47.079 --> 01:28:51.119 infrastructure deals within countries by giving them two billion dollar loans. 1619 01:28:51.560 --> 01:28:54.760 They own the country, they basically seize the assets. If 1620 01:28:54.760 --> 01:28:56.439 you can't pay the loan back, don't worry about it. 1621 01:28:56.439 --> 01:28:58.560 We're your new government. You'll do all of these things. 1622 01:28:58.800 --> 01:29:01.439 That's what happened in Panama, It's happened throughout South America, 1623 01:29:01.520 --> 01:29:06.119 it's happened all over Africa. See Schishi Ping comes from 1624 01:29:06.119 --> 01:29:09.279 a long line of leaders whose ultimate goal was to 1625 01:29:09.359 --> 01:29:13.720 create supremacy both in a financial status in a military status. 1626 01:29:14.039 --> 01:29:16.600 And this goes back to the eighteen fifty occupation of 1627 01:29:16.680 --> 01:29:18.760 the British in Hong Kong. They said they would never 1628 01:29:18.840 --> 01:29:21.760 allow that to happen again, and they haven't in that sense. 1629 01:29:22.239 --> 01:29:25.079 So if the digital U one continues at its current 1630 01:29:25.159 --> 01:29:28.800 pace of growth, and it is substantial pace of growth, 1631 01:29:29.000 --> 01:29:31.239 which I think we can slow it down. The hard 1632 01:29:31.279 --> 01:29:33.079 part is going to be eliminating it, which could be 1633 01:29:33.079 --> 01:29:36.119 next to impossible. But slow it down and put it 1634 01:29:36.159 --> 01:29:39.199 almost in a quarantine, in a box to limit its 1635 01:29:39.199 --> 01:29:42.239 growth or limit its what I consider to be the octopus. Right, 1636 01:29:42.279 --> 01:29:45.199 it's tentacles to go to the far reaches of the world, 1637 01:29:45.560 --> 01:29:48.840 bring back Greenland because it's a strategic place. China wants 1638 01:29:48.840 --> 01:29:51.319 a military base there because then they can leverage that 1639 01:29:51.399 --> 01:29:53.239 against the US. They did it in the South Sea 1640 01:29:53.279 --> 01:29:56.199 when they built those islands, which was against all international treaties. 1641 01:29:56.479 --> 01:29:58.880 It was the closest they could get to the Hawaiian Islands, 1642 01:29:58.880 --> 01:30:01.560 which again as an aircraft carrier for anybody who has 1643 01:30:01.680 --> 01:30:05.840 military ideology. And the last part, again going back to 1644 01:30:05.880 --> 01:30:07.760 your question, I'll give you an answer at full circle. 1645 01:30:09.000 --> 01:30:11.600 We are going to move from paper currency to digital 1646 01:30:11.640 --> 01:30:14.000 currency within the next three to five years. There's no 1647 01:30:14.079 --> 01:30:17.600 way around it. The debt is so bad that mathematically, 1648 01:30:17.680 --> 01:30:21.479 at the rate it's currently being I call it built. Okay, 1649 01:30:21.520 --> 01:30:22.600 I don't know how much you want to say it, 1650 01:30:22.640 --> 01:30:24.560 but the debt's getting built bigger and bigger every day 1651 01:30:25.000 --> 01:30:28.079 that by twenty twenty nine we're in default mode. There's 1652 01:30:28.159 --> 01:30:30.560 just not enough revenues by the government. You can't tax 1653 01:30:30.600 --> 01:30:33.600 out of it, and you certainly can't create more manufacturing 1654 01:30:33.640 --> 01:30:35.840 jobs enough to eliminate the debt. 1655 01:30:35.960 --> 01:30:38.079 And the bricks are playing off that. 1656 01:30:38.079 --> 01:30:42.119 That's why Elon Musk came out today and said there's 1657 01:30:42.159 --> 01:30:44.239 no way to cut two tillion dollars from the federal budget. 1658 01:30:44.319 --> 01:30:46.800 You can't do it. We all knew he couldn't. Two 1659 01:30:46.880 --> 01:30:47.560 hundred billion a. 1660 01:30:47.600 --> 01:30:52.319 Year would be catastrophe almost for the GDP. So Trump's 1661 01:30:52.359 --> 01:30:53.800 going to have to go in there and cut deals 1662 01:30:53.840 --> 01:30:56.640 and divide the bricks in order to save the United States. 1663 01:30:56.960 --> 01:30:58.760 You know, on the media in this country simply want 1664 01:30:58.800 --> 01:31:01.680 to attack Donald Trump. They kind of snicker and laugh 1665 01:31:02.039 --> 01:31:06.039 about Greenland, About Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is managed 1666 01:31:06.079 --> 01:31:09.720 by the communists Red Chinese, and when pavements can't be made, 1667 01:31:09.720 --> 01:31:11.960 they'll take over the canal. And they're the one managing 1668 01:31:12.000 --> 01:31:14.359 it right now. They have a multi billion dollar port 1669 01:31:14.359 --> 01:31:17.680 they put in Peru in Peru, for God's sakes, and 1670 01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:21.680 Greenland is being encircled by the Chinese. Whenever media reports 1671 01:31:21.680 --> 01:31:25.880 on Trump wanting to take control directly or indirectly of Greenland, 1672 01:31:26.159 --> 01:31:28.560 they just laugh and snicker at the guy. And by 1673 01:31:28.640 --> 01:31:31.439 twenty twenty nine, at the rate of borrowing a trillion 1674 01:31:31.520 --> 01:31:35.199 dollars every one hundred days, we do not have the economy, 1675 01:31:35.279 --> 01:31:38.039 do not have the money to keep borrowing money without 1676 01:31:38.079 --> 01:31:41.399 greatly higher interest rates. And when those around the world 1677 01:31:41.479 --> 01:31:43.960 quit buying our debt, we're out of business, in which 1678 01:31:44.000 --> 01:31:46.159 case the value of assets we own iti we cut 1679 01:31:46.199 --> 01:31:48.760 in half and it will take twenty five thirty percent 1680 01:31:48.800 --> 01:31:51.479 to buy a house, in which case the economy crashes, 1681 01:31:51.680 --> 01:31:55.720 which is exactly what Red China wants. They want America 1682 01:31:55.840 --> 01:31:59.920 to economically collapse. They were banking on Kamala Harris continue 1683 01:32:00.159 --> 01:32:02.520 the same policies for the next four to eight years, 1684 01:32:02.760 --> 01:32:04.359 and Trump's gonna have to be the one to make 1685 01:32:04.399 --> 01:32:06.560 the case that we can't continue in this route. If 1686 01:32:06.600 --> 01:32:09.239 we do, the country's over with because if the currency 1687 01:32:09.319 --> 01:32:12.560 is worthless, assets are worthless, in which case the lines 1688 01:32:12.640 --> 01:32:15.039 form in front of Kroger stores and we're done. 1689 01:32:15.199 --> 01:32:16.199 Do I have that correct? 1690 01:32:18.600 --> 01:32:21.760 As correct and clear as crystal? You say it exactly. 1691 01:32:21.840 --> 01:32:24.680 If the dollars undermined, nobody buys the debt rate spike, 1692 01:32:25.319 --> 01:32:29.880 everything goes south, everything with the exception of hard assets. 1693 01:32:29.960 --> 01:32:31.159 I'm gonna make a point. 1694 01:32:31.279 --> 01:32:33.960 There are two things that are the most clearest barometers 1695 01:32:34.000 --> 01:32:37.399 of economics. No matter what it is, no matter what 1696 01:32:37.680 --> 01:32:41.159 the numbers are in the economy, no matter who runs 1697 01:32:41.199 --> 01:32:44.119 the state, whether it's Russia, whether it's the United States 1698 01:32:44.119 --> 01:32:45.319 and Canada, it doesn't matter. 1699 01:32:45.359 --> 01:32:48.800 The two barometers you need to focus on are follows. 1700 01:32:48.800 --> 01:32:51.680 Interest rates in bonds. Okay, that's kind of synonymous with 1701 01:32:51.680 --> 01:32:53.720 each other. And rates are going up, bonds are going 1702 01:32:53.760 --> 01:32:56.640 down treasuries because nobody wants the debt. It's not just inflation, 1703 01:32:56.800 --> 01:32:59.039 it's also fear. It's fear. 1704 01:33:00.000 --> 01:33:01.479 And then the other thing is gold. 1705 01:33:01.800 --> 01:33:04.840 See gold goes up twelve to eighteen months prior to 1706 01:33:04.880 --> 01:33:08.439 a catastrophic event. It's done it every single time since 1707 01:33:08.479 --> 01:33:12.640 every cycle since eighteen eighty four. Okay, literally since eighteen 1708 01:33:12.680 --> 01:33:15.279 eighty four. So when you see them move in gold, 1709 01:33:15.760 --> 01:33:20.000 it always comes before. When you see them move in bonds. 1710 01:33:20.079 --> 01:33:23.000 In this case, we've got fear of the debt, of 1711 01:33:23.039 --> 01:33:26.760 the underlying value of the dollar, and normally bonds would 1712 01:33:26.760 --> 01:33:28.880 be going up because of a safe haven. Equity is 1713 01:33:28.920 --> 01:33:31.960 going down. So we know that the bonds are in trouble, 1714 01:33:32.119 --> 01:33:34.960 equities are in trouble, and we certainly know that gold 1715 01:33:35.039 --> 01:33:38.720 is forecasting a tremendous downturn that's coming soon. 1716 01:33:39.199 --> 01:33:41.199 Because the numbers. Math is math. 1717 01:33:41.239 --> 01:33:44.000 Okay, people lie, Math doesn't and that's the way it is. 1718 01:33:44.439 --> 01:33:46.960 So we need to look at this. And yes, China 1719 01:33:47.039 --> 01:33:50.720 is playing off this. There was a gentleman that I 1720 01:33:50.760 --> 01:33:53.039 had the pleasure of meeting in China doing business over 1721 01:33:53.079 --> 01:33:56.399 there number of years ago, and he always said, he said, 1722 01:33:56.720 --> 01:34:00.680 we always try to capitalize on the weakness of the enemy. 1723 01:34:00.800 --> 01:34:03.079 This is a tradition for China for thousand years. Sun 1724 01:34:03.119 --> 01:34:05.720 Shou said it. Actually, So what they're doing now is 1725 01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:10.680 they're trying to expand accelerate because we're at a weak 1726 01:34:10.720 --> 01:34:12.880 point economics doing with Trump coming in. 1727 01:34:13.159 --> 01:34:15.720 Look at the debt. Look at the debt. How are 1728 01:34:15.760 --> 01:34:17.920 you going to pay back thirty seven trillion dollars? You 1729 01:34:17.960 --> 01:34:19.800 can when the revenues of the United States you can't. 1730 01:34:19.800 --> 01:34:22.600 It's forty a half trillion. You can't do it. It's impossible. 1731 01:34:23.920 --> 01:34:27.319 The Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Congress and 1732 01:34:27.359 --> 01:34:30.880 Warren Davidson, who's incredibly a smart friend, very student. 1733 01:34:30.640 --> 01:34:31.399 About this stuff. 1734 01:34:31.600 --> 01:34:34.159 Yeah, well, him and I have done some talks together 1735 01:34:34.199 --> 01:34:36.560 and we've done some a couple of presentations, and we 1736 01:34:36.680 --> 01:34:40.319 both concurred, you cannot pay the debt down. And China 1737 01:34:40.439 --> 01:34:43.239 knows this, and they're dumping all their treasuries. Think about 1738 01:34:43.279 --> 01:34:45.199 this in twenty ten. 1739 01:34:46.119 --> 01:34:48.359 Thirty seconds, thirty seconds, all right. 1740 01:34:48.319 --> 01:34:48.800 Ready for this. 1741 01:34:49.520 --> 01:34:52.079 But twenty ten they had four trillion dollars worth of treasuries. 1742 01:34:52.119 --> 01:34:54.760 You know they got today four hundred billion. They've reduced 1743 01:34:54.760 --> 01:34:57.800 it by ninety percent. Why they put it all in gold? 1744 01:34:58.199 --> 01:34:58.600 Period. 1745 01:34:59.159 --> 01:35:01.600 Christian, Let's keep sounding the bell before it's too late, 1746 01:35:01.640 --> 01:35:04.239 because twenty twenty nine is as close to us now 1747 01:35:04.319 --> 01:35:07.239 as twenty twenty one. It's right around the corner. And 1748 01:35:07.520 --> 01:35:10.039 Christian Briggs, you're great about this. The fate of bricks 1749 01:35:10.359 --> 01:35:12.279 and Trump is the guy we have right now to 1750 01:35:12.319 --> 01:35:15.640 save this country. Christian Briggs, thanks again for coming on 1751 01:35:15.680 --> 01:35:18.760 the Bill Cunningham Show, CEO of Hard Asset Management. Let's 1752 01:35:18.760 --> 01:35:20.720 make sure we do it again. Thank you Christian. 1753 01:35:20.800 --> 01:35:22.760 All right, thank you, my brother, God bless you. 1754 01:35:22.760 --> 01:35:22.960 Thank you. 1755 01:35:23.000 --> 01:35:25.840 Bill Cunningham, the Great American. Live with you every Sunday 1756 01:35:25.880 --> 01:35:40.399 Night by Billy Cunningham, the Great American. And the financial 1757 01:35:40.399 --> 01:35:42.760 status in this country, shall we say, is not the best. 1758 01:35:43.199 --> 01:35:46.680 When you read about deficits of something a range of 1759 01:35:46.880 --> 01:35:50.079 two trillion dollars every year and accumulate national debt of 1760 01:35:50.119 --> 01:35:53.199 something in the range of thirty six trillion, and the 1761 01:35:53.319 --> 01:35:55.800 Chinese owns so much of our debt. Now they're cashing 1762 01:35:55.840 --> 01:35:58.279 in their ten year bonds, which means there's more bonds 1763 01:35:58.279 --> 01:35:59.880 available to be purchased by others. 1764 01:36:00.119 --> 01:36:01.439 That's why the rates are going up. 1765 01:36:01.640 --> 01:36:04.239 It's kind of a sad situation in which we find ourselves, 1766 01:36:04.560 --> 01:36:07.199 but we put ourselves here, and I'm not sure even 1767 01:36:07.239 --> 01:36:09.399 Donald Trump can get us out of the debt circle 1768 01:36:09.479 --> 01:36:13.159 that debt crisis. We may end up like Zimbabwe, for example. 1769 01:36:13.239 --> 01:36:16.119 It's not good and someone's got to have a come 1770 01:36:16.159 --> 01:36:19.439 to Jesus meeting or grossly increase the economy. Of course, 1771 01:36:19.439 --> 01:36:23.760 that would be Donald Trump grossly increasing the economy. But nonetheless, 1772 01:36:24.640 --> 01:36:26.359 I think this feeds nicely. We're going to put a 1773 01:36:26.359 --> 01:36:30.119 call in the Grover Norquist Americans for Tax Reform. Grover 1774 01:36:30.239 --> 01:36:33.319 Norquist has been fighting this battle now for many, many years. 1775 01:36:33.960 --> 01:36:37.600 And the consequences of having all the fires in Los Angeles, 1776 01:36:37.680 --> 01:36:40.199 which is going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars, 1777 01:36:40.479 --> 01:36:43.039 the rebuilding of Los Angeles by itself is going to 1778 01:36:43.079 --> 01:36:46.079 be hundreds of billions of dollars or more. And the 1779 01:36:46.119 --> 01:36:49.439 fact that we're not prepared economically for this is it's 1780 01:36:49.479 --> 01:36:52.079 deeply saddening to me as a great American. I don't 1781 01:36:52.079 --> 01:36:54.399 know how we come over it, but we got to 1782 01:36:54.399 --> 01:36:56.119 do something. We've got to go in a different direction. 1783 01:36:56.800 --> 01:37:00.159 To build a city in a desert with grasslands that 1784 01:37:00.239 --> 01:37:03.199 is meant to burn, and then blaming climate change for 1785 01:37:03.239 --> 01:37:06.000 it makes no sense to me at all. Bill Cunningham 1786 01:37:06.039 --> 01:37:22.600 with you every Sunday Night, By Billy Cunningham, the Great America, 1787 01:37:22.680 --> 01:37:25.319 one of the great advocates for tax reform the last 1788 01:37:25.520 --> 01:37:29.479 twenty twenty or thirty years as Americans for Tax reformatr 1789 01:37:29.600 --> 01:37:33.039 dot org and then leading the Saint Peter of that organization. 1790 01:37:33.439 --> 01:37:35.800 The leader upon that rock we will build our church 1791 01:37:36.199 --> 01:37:39.239 is of course, Grover Norquist. And Grover welcome again to 1792 01:37:39.279 --> 01:37:42.159 the Bill Cunningham Show. Two or three issues are percolating 1793 01:37:42.199 --> 01:37:44.239 him my head. Number one, you have a column up 1794 01:37:44.319 --> 01:37:48.800 about you haul index shows Americans voting with feet or 1795 01:37:48.840 --> 01:37:52.840 shall is say, entires in favor of lower taxes greater 1796 01:37:52.920 --> 01:37:56.880 worker freedom. So explain what you haul rental rates tell 1797 01:37:56.920 --> 01:38:01.680 about the American people moving within America. 1798 01:38:00.960 --> 01:38:04.640 Ye, we kind of know from talking to friends that 1799 01:38:05.680 --> 01:38:09.239 people are moving from New York to Florida because New 1800 01:38:09.279 --> 01:38:13.000 York has a ten percent personally come tax and Florida 1801 01:38:13.039 --> 01:38:16.760 has zero. People move from California to Texas because they 1802 01:38:16.760 --> 01:38:21.159 go from about fourteen down to zero. And you hear 1803 01:38:21.199 --> 01:38:24.359 the stories and you know it anecdotally. But every year 1804 01:38:24.840 --> 01:38:28.119 you haul the people who provide let you rent their 1805 01:38:28.600 --> 01:38:33.319 trucks to move stuff from one to the other. Report 1806 01:38:33.359 --> 01:38:35.439 And by the way, if you're using you haul and 1807 01:38:35.560 --> 01:38:39.960 driving your own truck, you're not some rich guy, right. 1808 01:38:40.840 --> 01:38:43.239 They can hire somebody else to drive their stuff from 1809 01:38:43.239 --> 01:38:47.479 one place to another. But you all says, here's the 1810 01:38:47.640 --> 01:38:52.800 top ten states people are leaving California and New York Illinois. 1811 01:38:53.039 --> 01:38:54.920 They go through the list. What are they? They are 1812 01:38:55.039 --> 01:38:59.279 high tech states and their states run by democratic governors 1813 01:38:59.279 --> 01:39:02.640 and democratic legislatures. Well, where are the ten states people 1814 01:39:02.640 --> 01:39:09.079 are moving to. Of Florida and Texas and Tennessee. States 1815 01:39:09.319 --> 01:39:13.600 that people move to that have either no personal state 1816 01:39:13.600 --> 01:39:18.039 income tax or very low personal state income taxes. The 1817 01:39:18.159 --> 01:39:21.880 average of the ten people moved to is about two percent. 1818 01:39:22.000 --> 01:39:24.000 The average of the one that people leave is about 1819 01:39:24.000 --> 01:39:29.439 six to eight. So people always loved the idea. I 1820 01:39:29.439 --> 01:39:33.319 grew up in before I moved to United States and immigrated, 1821 01:39:33.520 --> 01:39:37.520 I used to live in Massachusetts, and there in Massachusetts, 1822 01:39:37.520 --> 01:39:41.079 people say, oh, that people moved to Texas for the weather, 1823 01:39:41.880 --> 01:39:46.079 and I thought, really, you ever been to Texas? You 1824 01:39:46.159 --> 01:39:49.800 know the idea that people leave California to move to 1825 01:39:49.920 --> 01:39:55.119 Texas for the weather. It's counterintuitive, and Florida is wonderful 1826 01:39:55.159 --> 01:39:58.119 in the winter, but not in the summer. People are 1827 01:39:58.119 --> 01:40:01.760 not moving. You make hast in Florida for the weather. 1828 01:40:01.840 --> 01:40:03.439 You move for the Texas. 1829 01:40:03.960 --> 01:40:04.600 No question. 1830 01:40:04.720 --> 01:40:07.239 In California, I think the most beautiful state I've been 1831 01:40:07.239 --> 01:40:10.640 in is North Carolina. And if I spend time in Montana, 1832 01:40:10.680 --> 01:40:13.920 I'd probably say Montana. But there's no more beautiful state 1833 01:40:14.079 --> 01:40:18.399 well positioned than the state of California. It has skiing, 1834 01:40:18.560 --> 01:40:22.760 it has beaches, it has mountains, has valleys, great agricultural center. 1835 01:40:22.840 --> 01:40:26.039 Of course, Hollywood, et cetera. You have the tech industries 1836 01:40:26.079 --> 01:40:28.640 there and so much more. There's about forty million Americans 1837 01:40:28.840 --> 01:40:31.960 who live in the California, which is beautiful, and all 1838 01:40:32.000 --> 01:40:36.960 they have is ridiculous governmental policies caused by ineptitude and 1839 01:40:37.000 --> 01:40:41.439 by DEI helping to cause the wildfires and more. Right 1840 01:40:41.479 --> 01:40:44.279 now there's more and more than three thousand structures affected. 1841 01:40:44.640 --> 01:40:47.880 All hell continues to break loose in California. They can't 1842 01:40:47.920 --> 01:40:50.640 deal with it, and instead of going a different direction, 1843 01:40:50.800 --> 01:40:54.359 they fail to do so. California, for example, is beautiful. 1844 01:40:54.479 --> 01:40:58.000 Texas often for six months of the year has terrible weather. 1845 01:40:58.319 --> 01:41:00.840 The state of Florida. I have a home there. About 1846 01:41:01.199 --> 01:41:03.039 six months of the year it's great. The other six 1847 01:41:03.079 --> 01:41:05.560 months is hotter than the hinges of hell. People aren't 1848 01:41:05.560 --> 01:41:09.199 moving to Texas or North Carolina or Mississippi or Florida 1849 01:41:09.239 --> 01:41:13.399 because of the weather. They're moving for less crime, less regulation, 1850 01:41:13.840 --> 01:41:18.520 more entrepreneurship, and fewer taxes, and so California has got 1851 01:41:18.560 --> 01:41:21.720 to be. In fact, if I could trade California, Washington 1852 01:41:21.720 --> 01:41:24.600 and Oregon for maybe Canada, I might make the trade. 1853 01:41:24.800 --> 01:41:28.119 But Canadians are very close right now in politics to Californians. 1854 01:41:28.399 --> 01:41:29.359 But what do you see. 1855 01:41:29.640 --> 01:41:33.760 Why are more and more and more Americans leaving California 1856 01:41:33.800 --> 01:41:38.199 and then being replaced by legal migrants illegally getting lots 1857 01:41:38.199 --> 01:41:40.880 of government support. So the right kind of people are 1858 01:41:40.880 --> 01:41:43.560 moving out and the wrong kind of people are moving in. 1859 01:41:43.920 --> 01:41:52.279 Why California has past the tipping point. They just spend 1860 01:41:52.399 --> 01:41:55.840 so much money, and they do that to buy Democrat 1861 01:41:56.000 --> 01:42:01.159 voting constituencies. Either government employees given mats of pensions beyond 1862 01:42:01.199 --> 01:42:05.199 anything in the private sector, and they have to keep 1863 01:42:05.319 --> 01:42:09.319 funding that. That's bankrupting a number of the Blue states. 1864 01:42:09.319 --> 01:42:14.640 We're talking about trillions of dollars in unfunded liabilities promises, 1865 01:42:14.680 --> 01:42:16.840 way beyond what they've been willing to steal from Pact 1866 01:42:16.880 --> 01:42:19.760 players so far. They're going to have to do much 1867 01:42:19.960 --> 01:42:22.840 higher taxes in the future just to pay off their 1868 01:42:22.880 --> 01:42:26.359 promises to the to the public sector union. And then 1869 01:42:26.399 --> 01:42:29.800 you have an entire constituency that gets welfare in various 1870 01:42:29.880 --> 01:42:33.319 forms and they say to people, you can't accomplish anything, 1871 01:42:33.319 --> 01:42:35.439 which is not very nice in the government to say 1872 01:42:35.840 --> 01:42:37.399 to people and say, well, well we'll give you some 1873 01:42:37.439 --> 01:42:42.640 welfare and so just vote for us, and that'll that's 1874 01:42:42.680 --> 01:42:46.760 the deal, Shut up, go away, and it's becoming too 1875 01:42:46.800 --> 01:42:51.279 expensive for them to buy the votes they need. And 1876 01:42:51.960 --> 01:42:55.079 this is a huge challenge. New York spends two hundred 1877 01:42:55.119 --> 01:42:58.319 and thirty billion a year state budget, two and thirty billion, 1878 01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:03.840 Florida one fifteen. Okay, half half as much. Florida actually 1879 01:43:03.840 --> 01:43:07.560 has two million plus more people living in Florida than 1880 01:43:07.600 --> 01:43:11.800 in New York's. That wasn't true X number of years ago. Right, 1881 01:43:12.039 --> 01:43:15.119 Florida is bigger than New York and they but New 1882 01:43:15.199 --> 01:43:18.319 York spends twice as much per capita. Why what do 1883 01:43:18.399 --> 01:43:20.960 they get? Are the road's better? No, the schools better? 1884 01:43:22.279 --> 01:43:26.479 What they have? No, well, it's transportation better. No, okay, 1885 01:43:26.800 --> 01:43:33.640 it's more expensive. They pay more government employees, more money, 1886 01:43:34.079 --> 01:43:38.600 more benefits, They work fewer days, they work fewer hours, 1887 01:43:38.960 --> 01:43:42.319 they retire earlier, and they get pensions that nobody in 1888 01:43:42.359 --> 01:43:45.319 the real world ever gets to see. So they have 1889 01:43:45.359 --> 01:43:50.800 a very well paid aristocratic class that, like the European aristocrat, 1890 01:43:51.079 --> 01:43:54.119 live off the hard work of the peasants who pay 1891 01:43:54.159 --> 01:43:58.520 the taxes. And that's what New York gets for spending 1892 01:43:58.680 --> 01:44:02.239 twice as much what Florida get Because they spend one 1893 01:44:02.319 --> 01:44:05.000 hundred and fifteen billion dollars a year less in the 1894 01:44:05.039 --> 01:44:08.399 state government. They get people moving to their state, they 1895 01:44:08.399 --> 01:44:11.760 get businesses investing in their state. They get jobs and 1896 01:44:13.039 --> 01:44:16.560 growth in the state because people spend their money there 1897 01:44:16.600 --> 01:44:19.479 by investing in it. Right, if you put your money 1898 01:44:19.520 --> 01:44:21.520 in the bank, they're shipping it to Florida to build 1899 01:44:21.520 --> 01:44:26.439 houses and work and great things. They're not building in 1900 01:44:26.520 --> 01:44:31.439 New York because there isn't opportunities there. So this is 1901 01:44:31.479 --> 01:44:34.760 really beginning to shift the country. Next year the electoral 1902 01:44:34.800 --> 01:44:37.720 College about ten more votes, ten more votes moved to 1903 01:44:37.760 --> 01:44:40.920 low tax states away from high tax states, and eventually 1904 01:44:40.920 --> 01:44:43.760 we'll have a permanent majority against the tax and spenders. 1905 01:44:44.039 --> 01:44:45.359 Well, two other issues. 1906 01:44:45.399 --> 01:44:48.760 One is that I hear liberal Democratic congressmen and women 1907 01:44:49.119 --> 01:44:52.000 like at Keem Jefferies say it's all about tax cuts. Well, 1908 01:44:52.079 --> 01:44:55.079 if you pay taxes, you get a tax cut. And 1909 01:44:55.119 --> 01:44:58.960 because the income distribution, the top one percent pay about 1910 01:44:59.000 --> 01:45:01.479 forty percent of the tax txes. So when there's tax 1911 01:45:01.560 --> 01:45:05.079 cuts across the board, the one percent likely to get 1912 01:45:05.119 --> 01:45:07.840 forty percent of the revenue return to them in a 1913 01:45:08.079 --> 01:45:11.399 form of checks to have more economic activity. So if 1914 01:45:11.439 --> 01:45:14.680 one percent pay forty percent, the top five percent pay 1915 01:45:14.720 --> 01:45:18.199 eighty percent. That means when the tax cuts across the board, 1916 01:45:18.720 --> 01:45:21.359 the eighty percent, the five percent who pay eighty percent 1917 01:45:21.359 --> 01:45:24.680 of the taxes get relief. But secondly, the Democrats want 1918 01:45:24.720 --> 01:45:29.920 to sell the lie le italisize it, put it in quotes, 1919 01:45:30.119 --> 01:45:33.479 put a big line under it, and they lie by saying, well, 1920 01:45:33.600 --> 01:45:36.359 that's going to starve government. When you have tax cuts, 1921 01:45:36.520 --> 01:45:40.159 it means less government money goes to Washington to spend money. 1922 01:45:40.319 --> 01:45:43.159 Explain the truth, Grover nor Quist, Explain the truth. 1923 01:45:44.239 --> 01:45:48.039 Sure, When we cut marginal tax rate on the income 1924 01:45:48.119 --> 01:45:50.920 tax in the nineteen twenties, we had the Roaring twenties. 1925 01:45:51.319 --> 01:45:54.039 Then Hoover erased the taxes up to seventy five percent. 1926 01:45:54.119 --> 01:45:56.920 We had a great depression when John F. Kennedy said 1927 01:45:57.000 --> 01:45:59.560 let's take the rates down about twenty five percent across 1928 01:45:59.560 --> 01:46:02.720 the board. Like Reagan, we had strong growth in the 1929 01:46:02.760 --> 01:46:07.560 sixties until they created the Great Society, spent trillions of 1930 01:46:07.600 --> 01:46:11.119 dollars and Nixon had Nixon raised taxes to pay for 1931 01:46:11.159 --> 01:46:13.800 the welfare state that the Democrats created, and you have 1932 01:46:13.920 --> 01:46:17.279 the lousy seventies. Reagan came in cut marginal tax rates. 1933 01:46:17.319 --> 01:46:20.439 You had strong economic growth for seven straight years until 1934 01:46:20.680 --> 01:46:23.640 George Herbert Walker buck broke his promised not to raise 1935 01:46:23.720 --> 01:46:26.800 taxes and did raise taxes, and we had as a result, 1936 01:46:27.279 --> 01:46:31.199 flower growth following that, when we reduce taxes, we have 1937 01:46:31.359 --> 01:46:34.239 more growth. We have more revenue coming in. Because you 1938 01:46:34.279 --> 01:46:37.159 have more people working, there are more people paying taxes, 1939 01:46:37.439 --> 01:46:41.319 more people making higher wages. The Trump tax cuts saw 1940 01:46:41.359 --> 01:46:44.720 the median income family of four in nine twenty nineteen, 1941 01:46:45.119 --> 01:46:48.119 a year after the tax cuts took effect, jumped six 1942 01:46:48.199 --> 01:46:51.720 point eight percent median family income. Not rich people, not 1943 01:46:52.279 --> 01:46:55.399 the media dead center, middle half earning more half earning 1944 01:46:55.520 --> 01:46:58.640 was six point eight percent, growth more than the entire 1945 01:46:58.760 --> 01:47:03.720 eight years of Obama. Lower taxes create economic growth. The 1946 01:47:03.760 --> 01:47:06.920 second line the Democrats say is, well, the corporate income tax, 1947 01:47:06.960 --> 01:47:09.159 we should raise that, and they're only going to have 1948 01:47:09.199 --> 01:47:12.800 tax The Republicans are cutting taxes for corporations. What does 1949 01:47:12.800 --> 01:47:16.720 that mean. Corporations don't pay taxes. There's no mister General 1950 01:47:16.760 --> 01:47:20.560 Motors writing a check. Companies the corporate income taxes paid 1951 01:47:20.560 --> 01:47:23.119 by workers who get paid less money because the company 1952 01:47:23.119 --> 01:47:27.079 has less money, fewer workers, because the companies shrink at 1953 01:47:27.119 --> 01:47:30.920 their workforce. Prices go up because they have to try 1954 01:47:30.960 --> 01:47:32.920 and raise the money to pay the taxes. Some way, 1955 01:47:33.000 --> 01:47:36.199 So consumers get hit. And if you're saving for your 1956 01:47:36.239 --> 01:47:39.079 retirement in a four to one pay in an ira 1957 01:47:39.359 --> 01:47:42.039 and the stock market in your home and land, you 1958 01:47:42.199 --> 01:47:48.159 see those taxes on the taxes on corporations actually reduce 1959 01:47:48.399 --> 01:47:56.279 the value of your life savings. So favors consumers. Workers 1960 01:47:56.760 --> 01:48:00.279 pay the corporate income tax and all do the you 1961 01:48:00.279 --> 01:48:03.039 do with the corporating camp. Taxes hide that the middle 1962 01:48:03.039 --> 01:48:06.199 class is being looted. When the property tax people come 1963 01:48:06.239 --> 01:48:09.079 and tax the local grocery store you go to, who 1964 01:48:09.079 --> 01:48:12.880 do you think pays the property tax the grocery store. No, No, 1965 01:48:13.000 --> 01:48:16.560 you when you buy potatoes. Okay, So they like to 1966 01:48:16.720 --> 01:48:19.079 hide the taxes, and the corporate income tax is a 1967 01:48:19.079 --> 01:48:21.600 great way to hide that they're screwing the middle class 1968 01:48:21.600 --> 01:48:23.239 and pretending it comes from somebody else. 1969 01:48:23.359 --> 01:48:26.279 Now, lastly, when corporate taxes are raised, the price of 1970 01:48:26.359 --> 01:48:29.560 the product or service goes up and the consumer pays 1971 01:48:29.600 --> 01:48:32.399 all the corporate taxes is simply a pass through. But 1972 01:48:32.640 --> 01:48:37.920 too many Democrats can't understand that. Secondly, about the deficit, 1973 01:48:39.039 --> 01:48:42.319 I read an article recently about the bricks. What's happening 1974 01:48:42.319 --> 01:48:46.039 with the bricks which is Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. 1975 01:48:46.079 --> 01:48:49.319 About fourteen other nations have joined. They want the dollar 1976 01:48:49.479 --> 01:48:52.840 not to be the reserve currency because it's unreliable. They're 1977 01:48:52.840 --> 01:48:55.640 claiming that if we keep borrowing a trillion dollars every 1978 01:48:55.680 --> 01:48:58.520 one hundred days, that the value of our dollar will 1979 01:48:58.560 --> 01:49:01.000 be much less because dollars we print it and the 1980 01:49:01.039 --> 01:49:03.239 answerest rates what goes up because you have to pay 1981 01:49:03.239 --> 01:49:05.680 more money to attract more investors. How much of a 1982 01:49:05.760 --> 01:49:09.239 problem for long term health of America is a deficit 1983 01:49:09.279 --> 01:49:09.960 of this character. 1984 01:49:12.560 --> 01:49:15.479 There is a problem, but it's the spending. It's the 1985 01:49:15.600 --> 01:49:19.119 total spending. The deficit is the part of the iceberg 1986 01:49:19.199 --> 01:49:21.880 you can see. It's the part of spending that is 1987 01:49:22.399 --> 01:49:26.680 beyond what's taxed. Okay, But if you were spending at 1988 01:49:27.199 --> 01:49:30.279 ten dollars and the government said, well, we're going to 1989 01:49:30.359 --> 01:49:35.319 take nine by taxes and borrow one. Okay, Oh, here's 1990 01:49:35.359 --> 01:49:38.279 an improvement. We're going to take off ten. That doesn't 1991 01:49:38.680 --> 01:49:42.359 free opp resources. The problem is the size of the government. 1992 01:49:42.520 --> 01:49:45.479 So the real cost of government Milton Friedman said this 1993 01:49:45.520 --> 01:49:48.359 in million times, and we need to remember it. The 1994 01:49:48.359 --> 01:49:52.279 real cost of government is total government spending, whether they 1995 01:49:52.399 --> 01:49:55.960 take the money from you or borrow it. It is 1996 01:49:56.079 --> 01:50:01.159 gone from the real economy. So yes, that total spending 1997 01:50:02.039 --> 01:50:04.880 get high enough there they're not. They get scared to 1998 01:50:04.960 --> 01:50:07.680 raise the taxes to meet it. It is a sign 1999 01:50:08.039 --> 01:50:10.680 the government is spending too much. But the problem is 2000 01:50:10.720 --> 01:50:13.640 not the deficit itself. It's the totals, and definite is 2001 01:50:13.720 --> 01:50:16.680 the piece of the problem. The bigger problem is total 2002 01:50:16.720 --> 01:50:19.640 government spending what gets sucked out of the real economy, 2003 01:50:20.000 --> 01:50:22.359 and that's what we need to keep down. I'm not 2004 01:50:22.479 --> 01:50:24.600 worried that the countries you list are going to replace 2005 01:50:24.640 --> 01:50:27.880 the dollar, because it's sad and sorry as our government 2006 01:50:27.880 --> 01:50:31.239 can be, those are all worse. It's so good luck 2007 01:50:31.760 --> 01:50:35.000 trying to get them to have a currency that works. 2008 01:50:35.319 --> 01:50:38.439 But we do need to have a stronger currency, and 2009 01:50:38.479 --> 01:50:43.640 that means spend less money, lower regulations, lower taxes, more growth. 2010 01:50:43.920 --> 01:50:47.319 Grover norquest to atr dot org American for tax reform 2011 01:50:47.319 --> 01:50:50.479 a friend of mine. But recently build a home that 2012 01:50:50.560 --> 01:50:53.600 costs five million dollars, and when someone hears that day, 2013 01:50:53.600 --> 01:50:57.079 I think that is ridiculous that someone in Cincinnati, Ohio 2014 01:50:57.359 --> 01:51:00.279 can actually spend five million dollars. I say to that person, 2015 01:51:00.359 --> 01:51:03.600 Look that five million dollars wasn't put in a pile 2016 01:51:03.680 --> 01:51:06.760 of bonfire and burned that five million dollars. One of 2017 01:51:06.800 --> 01:51:11.159 the pockets of the blacktopper, the carpenter, the plaster or 2018 01:51:11.199 --> 01:51:15.399 the drywall, or the kitchen manufacturer, the flooring. The trust 2019 01:51:15.479 --> 01:51:19.680 is the roof itself. So when someone rich spends money, 2020 01:51:19.920 --> 01:51:22.399 that money goes in the pockets of the middle class, 2021 01:51:22.680 --> 01:51:25.560 and that feels their lifestyle. They then have better income 2022 01:51:25.800 --> 01:51:27.800 they pass on to someone else, to pass on to 2023 01:51:27.840 --> 01:51:30.520 someone else, to pass on to someone else. So when 2024 01:51:30.560 --> 01:51:33.760 some rich person like a Mark Zuckerberg buys a hundred 2025 01:51:33.800 --> 01:51:36.399 million dollar a yacht, how bad is that? I listen 2026 01:51:36.439 --> 01:51:39.760 to some congressional testimony. That's terrible. He spent one hundred 2027 01:51:39.800 --> 01:51:42.199 million dollars. Well, where did one hundred million dollars go? 2028 01:51:42.520 --> 01:51:45.600 And one of the pockets and middle class workers who 2029 01:51:45.680 --> 01:51:46.600 built the damn thing? 2030 01:51:46.880 --> 01:51:47.840 Am I right or wrong? 2031 01:51:49.840 --> 01:51:49.920 Now? 2032 01:51:50.119 --> 01:51:55.000 You're right? And what Zuckerberg has done is created tens 2033 01:51:55.039 --> 01:51:59.159 of billions of dollars of value that is in the 2034 01:52:00.159 --> 01:52:04.279 one case, and individual retirements counts and pensions of millions 2035 01:52:04.279 --> 01:52:08.760 of Americans, and that we ought to have. That's good 2036 01:52:09.079 --> 01:52:11.640 when when the value of that stock goes up, the 2037 01:52:11.680 --> 01:52:14.720 people who benefit. He doesn't need an extra billion dollars 2038 01:52:14.760 --> 01:52:16.680 he's got. You know, if you take money from him, 2039 01:52:16.760 --> 01:52:19.000 it's not like he doesn't have a house. He doesn't 2040 01:52:19.039 --> 01:52:21.560 have a jot if he wants one. That just comes 2041 01:52:21.560 --> 01:52:25.079 out of the investment that he has in his company, 2042 01:52:25.640 --> 01:52:28.239 in the jobs of the people who work for him. Right, 2043 01:52:28.479 --> 01:52:30.920 he's busy inventing stuff. He's a little quieter about it, 2044 01:52:30.920 --> 01:52:33.279 but he's another regular Elon Musk in terms of the 2045 01:52:33.359 --> 01:52:36.479 kind of stuff that he's been investing in and making 2046 01:52:36.560 --> 01:52:39.760 products and creating new opportunities. That's why the United States 2047 01:52:39.840 --> 01:52:43.800 leads the world on all the interesting new technologies because we, 2048 01:52:44.399 --> 01:52:48.680 as bad as we sometimes do it, we're less horrible 2049 01:52:48.960 --> 01:52:51.000 than all the other governments in the world. But we 2050 01:52:51.039 --> 01:52:53.640 can do better. That's that's not the market that we 2051 01:52:53.800 --> 01:52:57.359 need to be significantly better in our growth, in our 2052 01:52:57.439 --> 01:53:00.760 job creation, in the people that we are able to 2053 01:53:00.840 --> 01:53:03.560 hire here in the United States. So this we're going 2054 01:53:03.640 --> 01:53:06.600 to win the competition internationally. I think Trump's tax cuts 2055 01:53:06.600 --> 01:53:09.479 are a huge step in the right direction. And the 2056 01:53:09.520 --> 01:53:12.880 idea of Elon Musk and the they going through the 2057 01:53:12.920 --> 01:53:15.399 regulations and say let's get rid of half of the 2058 01:53:15.439 --> 01:53:18.840 regulations we have. They're not only not helpful, they're destructive. 2059 01:53:19.079 --> 01:53:19.640 Gotta run. 2060 01:53:19.680 --> 01:53:23.199 Grover norquestatr dot org. Thanks again for coming on the 2061 01:53:23.199 --> 01:53:26.000 Bill Cunningham Show. The truth will set us all free. 2062 01:53:26.279 --> 01:53:27.880 Grover Norquest, thank you very much. 2063 01:53:29.319 --> 01:53:30.000 Good to be with you. 2064 01:53:30.079 --> 01:53:32.359 Thanks though, Bill Cunningham, the Grand American live with you 2065 01:53:32.560 --> 01:53:40.640 every Sunday night. Hi, Billy Cunningham the Great American. Thanks 2066 01:53:40.680 --> 01:53:43.680 for listening this rather frigid Sunday night. At least in 2067 01:53:43.760 --> 01:53:46.359 large parts of the country, including the South, and I 2068 01:53:46.399 --> 01:53:49.159 live a little Cincinnati, Ohio. If anyone ever talks about 2069 01:53:49.159 --> 01:53:51.920 global warming again, I may kick them between the lakes. 2070 01:53:52.319 --> 01:53:54.560 I know it's all about climate change, but climate change 2071 01:53:54.600 --> 01:53:57.039 is every about every three months. Anyway, I'm talking about 2072 01:53:57.039 --> 01:54:00.560 global warming. Guess what doesn't exist, and it's used as 2073 01:54:00.560 --> 01:54:03.640 an excuse as a reason to spend lots of money 2074 01:54:03.880 --> 01:54:05.159 on ridiculous programs. 2075 01:54:05.159 --> 01:54:06.279 It won't change a darn thing. 2076 01:54:06.279 --> 01:54:08.920 In fact, if you think about it, in California, for 2077 01:54:09.239 --> 01:54:12.680 the last i don't know, fifty years, ninety five percent 2078 01:54:12.680 --> 01:54:14.760 of the time the city has been completely controlled by 2079 01:54:14.760 --> 01:54:17.760 the Democratic Party, and for twelve of the last sixteen 2080 01:54:17.840 --> 01:54:21.640 years the president's been a Democrat. So what you're seeing 2081 01:54:21.680 --> 01:54:24.560 in Los Angeles is the result of what the result 2082 01:54:24.560 --> 01:54:28.079 of democratic policies on the environment, that is what's happening. 2083 01:54:28.359 --> 01:54:30.760 And so if these are the results of democratic policies, 2084 01:54:31.039 --> 01:54:33.199 I don't know what in the world's going on around 2085 01:54:33.199 --> 01:54:36.399 this place, because it's not good. And when you pick 2086 01:54:36.439 --> 01:54:41.680 your leaders based upon obsessions with woke dei in climbate 2087 01:54:41.720 --> 01:54:46.720 extremism and homelessness and firing those like firefighters in Los 2088 01:54:46.760 --> 01:54:50.479 Angeles seven hundred were fired because they wouldn't take the vaccines. 2089 01:54:50.800 --> 01:54:54.199 When open borders and illegals and you spend all the 2090 01:54:54.239 --> 01:54:58.000 money possible on those circumstances and then a fire breaks out, 2091 01:54:58.000 --> 01:55:02.479 which is predicted. L is built on a desert and 2092 01:55:02.560 --> 01:55:05.560 a grassland. There should be nothing between the ocean and 2093 01:55:05.600 --> 01:55:09.399 the Santa Monica Mountains. But for economic reasons, the Hollywood 2094 01:55:09.479 --> 01:55:12.279 left and others built all these mansions tens of thousands, 2095 01:55:12.319 --> 01:55:14.000 in an area in which is going to burn in 2096 01:55:14.079 --> 01:55:16.760 a regular basis, which means you must be prepared, like 2097 01:55:16.880 --> 01:55:20.600 Ron DeSantis is prepared in Florida for hurricanes. You gotta 2098 01:55:20.640 --> 01:55:23.920 be prepared. And to hire a Dei mayor who spends 2099 01:55:23.920 --> 01:55:27.039 her time in Ghana or Cuba that as Karen Bass 2100 01:55:27.079 --> 01:55:29.399 the mayor makes no sense at all. You should hire 2101 01:55:29.399 --> 01:55:33.520 by competency, not by gender, race, or sexual orientation. Would 2102 01:55:33.520 --> 01:55:37.159 you agree? Let's continue with more Next Sunday Night. Bill 2103 01:55:37.199 --> 01:55:39.880 cunning into Great American with you every Sunday Night.