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Speaker 2: It is a Taco Tuesday, Rainy Taco Tuesday, March eleventh,
Speaker 2: And before I dive into what happened with the LAPD
Speaker 2: and give you a little bit of handle history.
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Speaker 2: Okay, now moving on, And this is a story of
Speaker 2: racism within the LAPD. And this has been going on
Speaker 2: since the turn of the last century. LAPD has a
Speaker 2: reputation of being quite possibly historically the most racist police
Speaker 2: department in the country and maybe in the South, they
Speaker 2: were more but for a fairly liberal area, although southern
Speaker 2: California has been at times pretty conservative and so for
Speaker 2: the better part of a year, an LAPD officer working
Speaker 2: in the recruitment office secretly recorded dozens of conversation in
Speaker 2: which fellow cops well racist and derogatory comments against black
Speaker 2: police applicants, female colleagues, lesbian and gay coworkers. One Latina
Speaker 2: LAPD officer said, you hit black people in the liver.
Speaker 1: I heard they got weak livers. Whoever said that? You've
Speaker 1: ever heard that?
Speaker 2: I mean, I've heard every racist rant against African Americans
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 1: We all have really weak livers.
Speaker 2: Another described a Latina janitor to her colleagues as a
Speaker 2: wet back that we've heard. One referred to a female
Speaker 2: supervisor as a gay ass bitch. Black people enjoy grape
Speaker 2: soda soda. Another Latino officer black people enjoy watermelon in
Speaker 2: between basketball. I mean, you know, insanely racist remarks. And
Speaker 2: these are recruitment people they're trying to while the lap
Speaker 2: is trying to bring in minorities. This is what's going on.
Speaker 2: So these officers are in big, big trouble. Not only
Speaker 2: the officers who hurled this invictive stuff. But also there
Speaker 2: was a lieutenant supervisor who heard it and didn't do anything.
Speaker 2: So they've got some issues. But I want to go
Speaker 2: back and talk about the LAPD. The LAPD since its
Speaker 2: inception has been known, has a history of astounding racism.
Speaker 2: My favorite racist story, and it's not particularly racism per se.
Speaker 2: This is not in terms of race, but this is
Speaker 2: a socioeconomic kind of racism that during the Great Depression,
Speaker 2: the dust Bowl Oklahoma, where people were starving to death,
Speaker 2: the farmland disappeared in these huge dust storms, so you
Speaker 2: had a lot of these oakis. That's where that term
Speaker 2: comes from. From Oklahoma driving in their dilapidated old trucks,
Speaker 2: their pickup trucks piled high with furniture. LAPD stopped them
Speaker 2: at the border of Nevada and California and Arizona and
Speaker 2: New Mexico, stop them right there at the order not
Speaker 2: letting them into la because they were Okie's and Los
Speaker 2: Angeleos didn't want them around. We've had police chiefs that
Speaker 2: were members of the q klux Klan, even storied police chiefs.
Speaker 2: William Parker, for example, who was police chief for twenty
Speaker 2: years and is Parker Centers named after him.
Speaker 1: A racist of the first.
Speaker 2: Water and a ton of officers caught making inappropriate remarks
Speaker 2: and straight out beating African Americans. Rodney King was not aberrational.
Speaker 2: There is a huge history of that. What happened with
Speaker 2: Rodney King is it finally became plu public things like
Speaker 2: Chief Daryl Gates, another police chief revered by the rank
Speaker 2: and file, declared blacks might die from choke holds because
Speaker 2: their arteries do not open as fast as normal people.
Speaker 1: He brought in choke holds. He also he started with when.
Speaker 2: Female officers first started going into the force. He wanted
Speaker 2: women and men to be held in the same standards
Speaker 2: in terms of their physical ability. And he said that
Speaker 2: the reason that lesbians are allowed in and going after
Speaker 2: lesbians is only lesbians with good upper body strength. I
Speaker 2: mean just insanity, the stuff that goes on. And so
Speaker 2: here you have a history and you've got at least
Speaker 2: remember the Christopher Commission with all the misgivings. By the way,
Speaker 2: the FEDS took over LAPD for a while, it was
Speaker 2: so bad. So I hope this is going to change
Speaker 2: big time, and I think it will.
Speaker 1: I think it will. The fact is that a cop
Speaker 1: recorded that.
Speaker 2: You know this blue silence, you don't report you protect
Speaker 2: other police officers.
Speaker 1: That's sort of going by the wayside.
Speaker 2: By the way, it's a law now that if police
Speaker 2: officer sees what's going on and doesn't report it, that's
Speaker 2: a crime in and of itself.
Speaker 1: Okay, one of the things.
Speaker 2: And I don't know where the hell Neil is, but
Speaker 2: I wanted to bring him into this because he cooks
Speaker 2: with eggs.
Speaker 1: Yesterday I had an omelet.
Speaker 2: I made an omelet, and what did I pay for
Speaker 2: a dozen eggs? Ten bucks for a dozen eggs?
Speaker 1: Isn't that? Isn't that special? Well?
Speaker 2: Bird flu hit in twenty twenty two, right, the Avian flu,
Speaker 2: and since then, one hundred and sixty six million egg
Speaker 2: laying eggs hens have been quote cold, which is another
Speaker 2: way they've been killed. It's like, you know, for example,
Speaker 2: putting your dog to sleep. You do not put your
Speaker 2: dog to sleep. You have your dog killed. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's the bottom line. Aren't I special?
Speaker 1: With that?
Speaker 2: The price of eggs is predicted to climb forty one
Speaker 2: percent higher this year after climbing like crazy, So it's
Speaker 2: my ten dollars egg price is going to be fourteen
Speaker 2: dollars this year is boy, that's special.
Speaker 1: So what are people doing?
Speaker 2: I mean, eggs have gotten to the point where either
Speaker 2: they're not buying eggs, using fewer eggs, going to restaurants
Speaker 2: where some restaurants are charging a surcharge if you have
Speaker 2: an egg dish, Well, how about backyard chicken.
Speaker 1: Raise your own chickens. That's a simple solution.
Speaker 2: And if you look at backyard chicken forums on the internet,
Speaker 2: it has exploded. Story on Saturday, Brooke Rowlands, the new
Speaker 2: Secretary of Agriculture, in a Fox and Friends interview, said
Speaker 2: that raising backyard chickens is an awesome solution to high
Speaker 2: egg prices. Okay, so an interview was done, a story
Speaker 2: was done with someone who did start a backyard chicken flock. Now,
Speaker 2: if you're raising them just to have chickens pecking around
Speaker 2: and you like chickens, or you're blind and when a
Speaker 2: train of seeing eye chicken.
Speaker 1: That is not a bad idea.
Speaker 2: If you're doing it to get eggs, they're going to
Speaker 2: be the most expensive eggs you will ever ever buy
Speaker 2: in a lifetime. Because let's go through what's going on
Speaker 2: chicken coops. That's kind of mandatory a thousand bucks, give
Speaker 2: or take, unless you want to build your own the
Speaker 2: chicks themselves. Egg laying chicks are about seventy bucks, and
Speaker 2: then they grow, and then you have to feed them,
Speaker 2: and so a heating plate to warm the birds because
Speaker 2: you gotta have to keep them warm. Then about seven
Speaker 2: months after you buy the little chicks, you get your
Speaker 2: first egg. And eggs are seasonal because around November the
Speaker 2: chickens slow down and then until March there are no
Speaker 2: longer any eggs, so you got a few months of
Speaker 2: springtime laying. If you have your own chickens, unless you
Speaker 2: have your own industrial chicken farm that you have these
Speaker 2: huge warehouses with artificial light and kept to a certain temperature,
Speaker 2: then you are going.
Speaker 1: To be able to have your own egges.
Speaker 2: And the thought of the price is just astronomical. Why
Speaker 2: wire eggs or used to be such an inexpensive way
Speaker 2: to have protein. I mean, eggs are great food well
Speaker 2: economies of scale. Eighty five percent of the table eggs
Speaker 2: in the country they are from hens in industrial houses
Speaker 2: that contain fifty thousand to three hundred and fifty thousand.
Speaker 1: Hens each each big facility.
Speaker 2: Some of these farms can have up to six million
Speaker 2: of these chickens. The Department of agri Agriculture refers to
Speaker 2: any farm with fewer than ten thousand eggs as smaller.
Speaker 1: Now, a backyard flock of three to twenty hens, please,
Speaker 1: doesn't even show up. It's not even a speck. Now.
Speaker 2: Back in the early nineteen hundreds, when we were a
Speaker 2: grarian society, eggs did come from smaller flocks, and it
Speaker 2: was typically the housewife who raised eggs and sold them
Speaker 2: to her neighbors. And those days are gone, Neil, So
Speaker 2: let's talk about eggs for a moment.
Speaker 1: You're Are you still using eggs?
Speaker 2: Are you paying ten bucks a carton for a dozen
Speaker 2: eggs like I do?
Speaker 1: Nine something? Yes, indeed we are.
Speaker 3: We still have them, and we haven't switched to different
Speaker 3: proteins or anything like that.
Speaker 1: What can you do at that price? Even in a
Speaker 1: bucket egg? What do you do? What do you mean?
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you do to supplant it?
Speaker 2: If eggs are protein and you are, what you're doing
Speaker 2: is supplanting that protein with some other protein or egg?
Speaker 1: Still a decent deal at ten dollars a dozen?
Speaker 3: I think so, But that you know, our household may
Speaker 3: be different. Than other people's households. So for us, it's
Speaker 3: an easy way to do it. You could still you
Speaker 3: could supplement with beans. Beans are a great protein. You
Speaker 3: could supplement with meat and add these different types of
Speaker 3: things into your But for us, the amount of eggs
Speaker 3: we eat it makes sense, and it's fine, it doesn't
Speaker 3: It's not like we're plowing through them, you know, and
Speaker 3: having you know where we're getting carton after carton after carton,
Speaker 3: carton will last quite a while here.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: Usually I don't pay attention at the supermarket. I don't.
Speaker 1: It's just not something I do.
Speaker 2: I just throw things into the cart because you know,
Speaker 2: I make enough so it's not going.
Speaker 1: To affect me.
Speaker 2: So there's two things I pay attention to. One now
Speaker 2: the price of eggs, and two when I have a
Speaker 2: barbecue and I go to Costco like the other day
Speaker 2: and there was some prime beef and I was gonna
Speaker 2: barbecue at my daughter's house at twenty six dollars a pound,
Speaker 2: then I paid attention.
Speaker 1: And with eggs I pay attention. Yeah, I'm not really.
Speaker 3: I only pay attention to know what's going on because
Speaker 3: of the show. But my wife is very much she
Speaker 3: has three or four different grocery stores, including Costco, Smart
Speaker 3: and Final and the like, and she goes to them
Speaker 3: based on cost and pricing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and unfortunately they're Unfortunately there are more and more
Speaker 2: people that really do have to be concerned with cost
Speaker 2: because food has gotten to be so dear.
Speaker 1: But I still a good bargain. It's same with milk.
Speaker 3: The cost of milk goes up and down, but when
Speaker 3: you think about what you're getting, the nutrients, the vitamins,
Speaker 3: the protein in these things, to me, I think it's
Speaker 3: well worth it.
Speaker 1: I'd rather cut back on something else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm a big milk drinker. In the morning
Speaker 2: with my coffee, I drink milk. And I always buy
Speaker 2: homogenized milk as opposed to raw milk because I don't
Speaker 2: want to die because crazy people out there believe in
Speaker 2: raw milk. Although I do buy raw eggs.
Speaker 1: Go Fike.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but you don't eat them that way, Rocky.
Speaker 1: Some do.
Speaker 2: Some people you know, suck them up, put them in
Speaker 2: blenders and make egg drinks and things.
Speaker 1: All right, Okay, story about the Pardons.
Speaker 2: And as as strongly as I felt about the Pardons,
Speaker 2: which I thought were completely insane, not all of them,
Speaker 2: but certainly, you know, pardoning the cops. You know the
Speaker 2: people who are January sixth insurrection, who were beating up cops,
Speaker 2: some with an insure of their lives, all pardoned, all
Speaker 2: of them heroes, all of them patriots, all of them hostages.
Speaker 2: There was no legitimate arrest or conviction. It just didn't happen.
Speaker 2: As we know.
Speaker 1: Well it's it's.
Speaker 2: Taken another step and this one man, I mean, come on, okay.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, the skuy Elias Constianus was the
Speaker 2: FBI raided his house and they found cocaine to stop costerone.
Speaker 2: I guess he had some issues marijuana, scale guns.
Speaker 1: Prosecutors said he was a drug dealer. He was also armed.
Speaker 2: Now he said he was merely supplying himself and friends.
Speaker 2: So last September, a federal judge sentenced him to a
Speaker 2: year and a day in prison. He pleads guilty to
Speaker 2: possessing a gun while using illegal drugs. But Costianus brings
Speaker 2: up a new card and this is on appeal right now.
Speaker 2: He was part of the Capitol riot on January sixth.
Speaker 2: President Donald Trump had pardon him for that, and he's
Speaker 2: saying that the pardon also covered his gun conviction because
Speaker 2: the FBI raid was related to his actions on January sixth,
Speaker 2: and guess what the government did.
Speaker 1: Department of Justice agreed with him, said.
Speaker 2: Yep, that pardon extend did to what you were picked
Speaker 2: up for seven cases around the country. Department of Justice
Speaker 2: has argued that separate criminal actions uncovered by the investigation
Speaker 2: in January sixth are covered by Trump's pardon, and unrelated charges,
Speaker 2: usually for illegal gun possession, should be dismissed. Now in
Speaker 2: these cases, federal prosecutors initially opposed wiping away those unrelated
Speaker 2: felony convictions. They argued on appeal, you can't do that
Speaker 2: because they're unrelated. That's what federal prosecutors did Washington, d c.
Speaker 2: And within weeks they changed their mind completely, reversing themselves,
Speaker 2: saying that they receive quote, further clarity on the intent
Speaker 2: of the presidential pardon from the Justice Department, saying the
Speaker 2: president intended to pardon Costianus for crimes activities not related
Speaker 2: to that specific day. Now, the executive order that he
Speaker 2: signed pardoning about sixteen hundred basically everybody, the sixteen hundred
Speaker 2: January sixth defendants, says right there in the executive order,
Speaker 2: the pardon applies only to convictions for offenses related to
Speaker 2: events that occurred at or near the United States Capital
Speaker 2: on January sixth. Okay, Now, his lawyers and the Justice
Speaker 2: Department now are arguing that this was Trump's intent to
Speaker 2: basically pardon him, to incorporate all of it, and the
Speaker 2: courts should defer to the executive's reasonable interpretation of the
Speaker 2: pardon language.
Speaker 1: Now, it's with the courts, right, it's with a judge.
Speaker 1: Department of Justice is right there.
Speaker 2: The position of the government is that those January sixth
Speaker 2: defendants are were heroes, they were all patriots, they were
Speaker 2: all hostages, and they are all victims of the weaponization
Speaker 2: of the Department of Justice. And the position of the
Speaker 2: department is that crimes that are quote not related, they're
Speaker 2: saying are related.
Speaker 1: And when the judges are asking saying, wait a minute.
Speaker 2: You are arguing that this was the president's intent, and
Speaker 2: this is too the Department of Justice, and they're saying, yep,
Speaker 2: this was the president's intent. Based on what it's the
Speaker 2: president's intent, because we say it's the president's intent, and
Speaker 2: it is up for us to make that decision based
Speaker 2: on what we believe was the president's intent. By the way,
Speaker 2: the White House isn't saying it was Trump's intent. Even
Speaker 2: the White House isn't gonna go that far, but the
Speaker 2: Department of Justice is. And you know, just here's one
Speaker 2: Jeremy Brown by his misdemeanor of January sixth was dismissed,
Speaker 2: but he was convicted in twenty twenty two of possessing
Speaker 2: classified material illegally possessing short barreled guns live M sixty
Speaker 2: seven hand grenades.
Speaker 1: All discovered during a search.
Speaker 2: And he is arguing, after your sentenced to seven years,
Speaker 2: he appealed, the conviction is now awaiting oral arguments, and
Speaker 2: the government is on his side. And you have his
Speaker 2: defense attorney and the government saying yes, the pardon included
Speaker 2: those charges, even though he was convicted separately, and originally
Speaker 2: the prosecutor said, no, this is separate, and he was
Speaker 2: prosecuted and convicted. Now the government has changed his mind
Speaker 2: and said the pardon includes pardoning him.
Speaker 1: So it's the judge. She's gonna go no matter of fact.
Speaker 2: The judge asked his lawyer why that pardon covered the
Speaker 2: Florida case, his Florida case, and the attorney for the
Speaker 2: Just Department said because the Department of Justice has determined
Speaker 2: that it covers that, and the judge says that is
Speaker 2: not a completely satisfactory answer. So you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: can it get any crazier? I mean, I will reach
Speaker 2: the point where anybody who is a Trumps supporter gets
Speaker 2: off the hook. If I get convicted of a federal crime,
Speaker 2: I'm going to prison. If I stand here or sit
Speaker 2: here and I talk about what a great guy Trump
Speaker 2: is and how God really did save him to save America.
Speaker 1: I'm off the hook. Okay.
Speaker 2: Now a story about the Trump administration and going after
Speaker 2: folks that they don't like, and in this case, for
Speaker 2: the most part, I sort of agree and disagree. And
Speaker 2: this happens to be with dealing with the case of
Speaker 2: Columbia University student Mahmud Khalil, arrested by Homeland Security for
Speaker 2: his participation in the pro palest Indian demonstrations on the
Speaker 2: Columbia campus. President Trump said this would not be the
Speaker 2: last one. He said, we know there are more students
Speaker 2: at Columbia and other universities across the country who have
Speaker 2: engaged in pro terrorists, anti Semitic, anti American activity, and
Speaker 2: the Trump administration will not tolerat it this is Trump.
Speaker 2: In a social and social media post, the Education Department
Speaker 2: said Monday yesterday it sent letters to sixty schools warning
Speaker 2: of potential enforcement actions if they don't fulfill the obligations
Speaker 2: to protect Jewish students, and Columbia has become a ground zero.
Speaker 2: The other thing that Trump administration does. You can kiss
Speaker 2: goodbye for one hundred million dollars worth of grants and
Speaker 2: contracts Columbia has. Now, this is an issue of someone
Speaker 2: who has a green card, whose wife is an American citizen,
Speaker 2: who's still a student at Columbia graduate program, and he
Speaker 2: was arrested for what he did. Here's his problem is
Speaker 2: he occupied the library at Columbia. His organization stopped Jewish
Speaker 2: students from going to class.
Speaker 1: Graduation was canceled because of this.
Speaker 2: Now does he have the right to stay here pending
Speaker 2: a conviction. Absolutely, And a judge just agreed with that
Speaker 2: because he was about to be deported. But the issue is, oh,
Speaker 2: it's First Amendment. First Amendment. Hey, occupying libraries is not
Speaker 2: first Amendment. I mean, you may think it is because
Speaker 2: you have a legitimate bitch, but I don't buy it.
Speaker 2: By the way, to Palestinian pro Palestinian students and people
Speaker 2: have a right to They can protest all they want.
Speaker 2: Can they go on campus, No, they're trespassing. Can they
Speaker 2: occupy buildings, No they can't. And Trump, who is a
Speaker 2: big fan of Israel, has delineated anti Semitism as the
Speaker 2: poster child of what he wants to do in terms
Speaker 2: of political discourse.
Speaker 1: And political opposition. He says, I won't take it. It's
Speaker 1: all there is to it. Now. The universities, frankly, have been.
Speaker 2: Anti Israel universities, the professors have been pro Palestinian across
Speaker 2: the country.
Speaker 1: That's just the way they roll.
Speaker 2: They're super left wing, and for some reason, the left
Speaker 2: wing loves the Palestinians and hates Israel because of the occupation,
Speaker 2: because of the underdog, and for so many people. By
Speaker 2: the way, if you ask him, the occupation has been
Speaker 2: going on nineteen forty eight, when Israel became a state
Speaker 2: and Israel invaded Gaza, he'll say absolutely.
Speaker 1: Ask him about October seventh, that did well? Did that happen?
Speaker 2: And you deflect. I want to talk about the occupation.
Speaker 2: How about twelve hundred Israeli's murdered. It's the occupation.
Speaker 1: We have to talk about.
Speaker 2: And that's the part that just riles me because if
Speaker 2: you look at what's going on, have you seen one
Speaker 2: pro Palestinian organization talk about October seventh and not October eighth?
Speaker 1: One? I haven't.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll buy the argument of occupation, you know,
Speaker 2: yes or no. Israel says it's for national security. The
Speaker 2: pro Palestinians, the Palestinians there argue it's about occupation and
Speaker 2: putting the Arabs down. Okay, I got it. You know
Speaker 2: it's a legitimate argument. But you know, admit what happened,
Speaker 2: Admit the murder of twelve hundred people, just arbitrarily, you know,
Speaker 2: admit that you're holding innocent hostages. No, no, no, it's
Speaker 2: all about occupation. So now, does he have a right
Speaker 2: to stay here penning a conviction? Absolutely, and then they
Speaker 2: should deport his ass. By the way, green card is
Speaker 2: not the right to stay here. The green card is
Speaker 2: a permission to stay here by the government, and it
Speaker 2: could be yanked at any time. Now granted for legal reasons,
Speaker 2: and there is a legal argument, but until there is
Speaker 2: a citizenship uhuh, you can be tossed.
Speaker 1: And if you are a citizen, you're an American citizen.
Speaker 2: But if you have applied under fraudulent circumstances, then you
Speaker 2: can get tossed. And I think as an American citizen,
Speaker 2: I don't think you can get deported. Even if you're
Speaker 2: arrested for treason or seditious insurrection I do, or seditious conspiracy.
Speaker 2: I think you still have to be tried as an
Speaker 2: American I think, and you can't be deported. Okay, enough
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