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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Crap Beach at Paradise Cove, and then there's crap Beach
at will Rogers Date Park, and then there's crap Beach
at Marina del Rey, and let's not forget crap Beach
at Venice. And then oh wow, wow, this one crap beach.
It's Pega County Beach in Santa Monica, crap beach. It's
appier and only to be finished with crap Beach in
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San Pedro. So we're renaming beaches.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
And now handle on the news. Ladies and gentlemen, here's
Bill Handle.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
And it is a Homeiday, Wednesday, July two. Warn't everybody
handle here? And it is the day before the day
before July fourth, as we celebrate the founding of our country.
Pretty extraordinary place, by the way, the first country in
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the world, country that was founded as a democracy as
well democratic republic. And it was a pretty extraordinary and
it was a total experiment, and people didn't know whether
it was in a survive or not. And it has
become the model for governments all over the world. All Right,
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you probably all knew that, but I just thought I
would repeat it in any case. Let me say good
morning as we start the day before, the day before, Neil,
good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Good morning, Willie Wolf.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes, sir, there's Amy.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Okay. Sweatshirt says I believe in magic. What connection is
that to the Disney folks?
Speaker 4 (01:49):
It's the most magical blaze on er.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Okay. So is it our rabbits considered of part and
parcel of Disney? Of course they are, and top hats,
all of that connected? Why because right rabbit pull rabbits
out of hats and yeah, all of.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
That different kind of magic. Really, I'm wearing Disney shirt too.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Look at of course you'll get me a meal. Yeah,
look at you two? All right? Cono, Oh you're not
wearing a Disney outfit. Cono, No, definitely not. But no,
Cono is in his normal uniform. And I don't know
why I'm so obsessed with what everybody's wearing, uh in
the morning. I don't know that. Why why that's happening? Yeah, well,
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good morning morning, Bill? And what is that? Would say? Skagway, ah, Skagway, Skagway, Alaska,
great place to go, completely commercialized. It is a toast
town and that's all it is. The people who live
there hate all the cruise ships. Businesses love them, but
the residents are not fun.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Is that where the train is?
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yes, yes, And then they do the fake fight in
the middle of the street and it's just so stupid,
it really is. Oh right, And then I think last
and certainly least and good morning. Oh boy, she's just cha,
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won't even talk to me. Well, okay, I'm being shunned
by Anne. She's pretending I'm Amish and I've said the
wrong thing.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Okay, you're Jewish and you did say the wrong thing.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
That's true. All right, guys. Oh, we have a lot
to cover. Of course, as I said yesterday, the big
beautiful bill was going to pass. He was Trump was
going to get it across the line, and he did.
It was it took Vance as a tiebreaker, fifty to fifty.
And the big story about the bill, we're going to
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talk a little bit more about that today, was Senator
Murkowski of Alaska, who hated it, who thought it was terrible,
who said this is not good for the American people,
and she voted in favor of it because she was
able to negotiate from the rest of the Senate all
kinds of carve outs for state of Alaska. For example,
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there was a special carve out for wailing captains out
of Alaska. I mean, it just got ridiculous. We'll talk
more about that later on. And so is it time?
I think it is? It is time for able. Yeah.
I'm just trying to think of what else we're going
to say about that, but there's plenty. All right, let's
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do it, guys, it's time for handle on the news
on this Wednesday morning with Amy and Neil. And by
the way, I and that you are not the least
of it.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
All right, Oh someone's got feelings.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Now Yeah, no, no, I know because I've worked with
her and I don't needed to sabotage this saying and
we can't do the show without Anne maybe.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
AND's the one that's sabotaging the show. Thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Now you're welcome. Late story. As I said, the big
beautiful bill has passed, and it was a struggle in
the Senate. Now is it going to pass passed? Nope,
goes back to the House and there it's going to
have a tough time. It is going to have a
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tough time, and the only way it is going to
pass is literally Trump is going to have to prevail
threatening any Republican that votes against it with primarying out,
and that's the only way it's going to happen. And
presidents really do have an enormous amount of power. I mean,
even with members of their own party voting against bills
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that the president wants, a lot of cajoling, a lot
of personal phone calls, a lot of screaming. I can't
even imagine to being a Republican voting against the Trump bill.
Man can't even imagine what happens at that. So now
it goes to the House, and there's some big problems
with the House, and I will explain that later on.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Bass Is fighting back. Mayor bass Is fired back at
the Department of Justice, calling the lawsuit filed by the
Department of Justice against her and the City of La
and La City Council and all out assault on Los
Angeles by President Trump. She said federal agents have been
randomly grabbing people off the street, chasing Angelitos through parking lots,
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arresting immigrants, showing up at court for annual check ins.
Of course, the Mayor's been at odds with the administration
since early June, when federal immigration agents started doing their
immigration raids across southern California, which sparked protests.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Suits have been filed. And by the way, she's absolutely right.
The Trump administration is engaged in assault against Los Angeles,
viewing Los Angeles as the enemy, and this says certainly
in terms of immigration and calling it a sanctuary city.
And this is why the lawsuits being filed. And so
you've got the administration going out against California and specifically
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LA even more so. So she's absolutely right, and we'll
see who wins. We'll see who wins. Are the courts
going to let the Trump administration prevail Supreme Court? Yeah, probably,
because the Supreme Court is a big, big fan of
presidential power and governmental power federal and then the Feds
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have an argument that constitutionally, if you look at the
way laws are passed, federal law superseded state law with
superseded city law. But is the city in violation of
federal law when it does not help the Feds, is
not help border control. All it does is failed to
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is fail to help them when they ask for it.
That's a big difference. So we'll see where the law
goes on that one. He did he news.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
All right, Sean Diddy Combs, We've been following this, Jerse
have reached a verdict apparently in four of the five
counts against music mogul Sean Diddy Combs. He's on trial
in New York, of course, a federal courtroom. They're accused
of racketeering, sex trafficking, and transportation for prostitution. Seems the
racketeering is the one that is the Yeah, it's a
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tough one.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
It's a tough one. And I'll explain. They shouldn't even
brought that up. I'll explain. And he's screwed by.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
The way, because it seems like they've well they've they've
already oh yeah, they've already know they've already voted that
he's guilty on the first four accounts because he prayed
and he right in there.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh he knew, Yeah, he knew. He knows. He's in trouble.
And here's why he was. Yeah, well that's a given.
But here's why. Because if he was acquitted on the
first four accounts, it would never get to this automatically,
they couldn't even look at this count. And now they're
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looking at this count.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Or because it is not the biggest one, is it?
Speaker 2 (09:25):
No, No, actually it is. The racketeering is the biggest
charge that gives you the most. But he's still going
to do decades in jail. I mean, it's not going
to stop that from happy. I'm going to explain all
of this a little bit later on, and that's at
seven thirty. He is screwed, beyond screwed.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
So we have a deal, well half of one anyway.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Israel has agreed to finalize a sixty day ceasepire in Gaza,
escording to President Trump, and Hamas has not responded yet,
but Trump said I hope Hamas takes the deal because
it will not get better, it will only get worse.
Of course, the announcement comes just ahead of Israeli Prime
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Minister ben Jamin Netanyahu's meeting scheduled for Monday at the
White House.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Now we don't know the terms yet, do we No.
All we know is that Israel has agreed to it.
So I'm assuming, knowing Hamas that it's not going to
be cutting loose all the hostages and unfortunately the bodies.
Let me tell you what these cockroaches do is not
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only do they kidnapped men, women, children, elderly small kids
and murder of course most of them, but kept the
bodies so the families couldn't even bury their loved ones.
And that's part of the hostage taking. So we don't
know what they're going to get. And certainly, well, Israel
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wants hostages, and Hamas wants Israel out of Gaza. Israel
wants to also the dismandling one hundred percent of Hamas,
certainly as a military force, and beyond that just wants
Hamas to disappear. And it's senior leadership to go into exile,
get out of dodge.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
So something just come up with another it's a hydrant
hydra rather, it's just another one just pops up every
single time.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Yeah, but they don't have it's yes, yes and no,
and let me analyze it. Let me analyze it for
a minute. Yes when it's yes, and no when it's no.
Does that help her?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I think there you go.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
You're welcome, all right.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Federal Reserve basically said I was good to lower them,
but you're messing around. So the Federal Reserve would likely
have lowered interest rates this year if it weren't for
President Donald Trump and those and those crazy kids. Of course, apology.
The policy changes with the tariffs and everything like that,
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as has made the Fed not lower interest rates at
all this year.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Yeah, and that's what Powell said, that it is, it's
the fault of Trump, or it's a reaction to Trump
and the tariffs. Trump, by the way, and doing a
terrific job of analyzing deeply what Powell has said. I
basically called him a numb skull and a moron.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
That's his analysis. By the way, he did. I'm not
making that up.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
We're not making this up.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
A Democratic Socialist has won the primary on the Democratic
ticket for New York City's.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Mayor Zorn Mom Dummy.
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Was officially declared the winter or the winner by the
Board of Elections. He got sixty, not sixty fifty six
percent of the vote.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
You skipped a couple stories there, yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Oh wait, okay, going there.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
You're on Trump and deportation.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Oh oh yeah, okay, all right, well mom, Donnie's coming.
But right now, could Trump dump Elon for good?
Speaker 4 (13:13):
There we go?
Speaker 5 (13:13):
President Trump said he would look at having Elon Musk deported. Okay,
so the comment came that he was outside taking reporter questions,
and a reporter asked, are you going to deport Elon Musk?
Speaker 4 (13:28):
And he said, I'll have to look at it. So
it's not like he started the conversation.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No, he can, but Musk is a US citizen, and
it's kind of hard to un citizen someone. Now, is
it technically possibly? Kind of sort of one in a million.
It turns out that Musk probably, and it's the evidence
is there that he was actually working beyond when he
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had a visa that didn't allow him to work, not
for very long, but the citizenship came I don't know
how many years, decades and decades ago. So it's this
is one of those things where reporters ask, for example,
do you believe in gravity? I'll have to look at that,
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and then the headline now reads Trump doesn't believe in gravity.
Every time a stupid question is thrown at Trump and
he says, I'll have to look at that, which is
a fine political answer. It's a great deflection. Yeah, I'll
look at it, leave me alone kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
What a toxic relationship that, oh it has, well, we
knew it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
We knew it. We talked about that, saying you can't
have Musk and Trump in the same room. Something's got
to give, and since Trump is the president, guess what
it's going to be, musk that's going to give or
give up?
Speaker 3 (14:52):
All right, So Trump administration is pausing some weaponshipments to Ukraine.
This includes all kinds of things here, defense missiles and
things like that, following a review of the military spending
and American support of foreign countries. Of course, he ran
on not participating in foreign wars. Russia not surprisingly welcomed
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the decision, claiming, without providing any evidence, it was made
because the US did not have enough does not have
enough weapons.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Well, I mean the US is using the US is
using a lot of its own munitions, its own stockpile
of munitions. But that's not quite that's not quite it.
I tell you this is not good news for Zelenski.
Netsan Yahoo Trump loves because they're the same, they're cut
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out of the same cloth. Zelensky Trump does not like
at all. Remember what I mean in the White House
when JD. Vans and Trump laid into him publicly, I
mean total humiliation, and it's this is very bad for Ukraine.
I think in the end they're going have to negotiate
some kind of a deal with Russia. Give up a
good chunk of land with Russia, make a deal that
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Ukraine never gets in Tonato. Ever, the Ukraine's going to
lose this one because without American aid isn't going to happen.
Samely with Israel. But Israel will never have to worry
about American aid, certainly not under Trump. Were any Republican
All right.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
It's official. Now it's my turn for this story that
I kind of jumped the gun on.
Speaker 5 (16:31):
Zoron Mamdani is a Democratic socialist. He has won the
Democratic primary for mayor of New York City by a
significant margin. The official results were just released yesterday. Mamdani
got fifty six percent of the vote. Former Governor Cuomo
got forty four percent of the vote. And now he
moves on to the general election in November, where he
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will face Mayor Eric Adams, who's running as an independent.
Jim Walden is a lawyer running as an independent, and
Curtis Leewa is the Guardian Angels founder.
Speaker 4 (17:05):
He's running on the Republican ticket.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, and the Republicans are not going to be backing
up the Silva because he has a chance or Sleaway
don't have a chance of winning. They're going to the
money is going to be backing up Eric Adams, and
you would never think that would happen. I mean, Adams
would have no chance of getting re elected based on
the fact that he was indicted and then that was dropped.
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The indictment was dropped, the federal charges based on the
fact that Adams turned around, and all of a sudden
became when New York went from a sanctuary city that
would do anything to fight the Trump Administration's attempt to
capture detain to port illegal migrants to now Adams is
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on the administration side. He switched gears and strangely enough,
the administration then dropped the charge. Hey, no connection as
Adams and the administration would say, so, the money is
going to be backing Adams because everybody's scared about Mom Donnie.
There aren't enough red outfits left in the city of
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New York. We have to sing when we go do
any of these stories, Kono, you have to put the
Marcia or not the Barcia the Internacional.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
That's what that was. It was the English version.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yeah, I know, but we have to do the number one,
the original Russian version. That's for starters, and we have
to play it from now on. Excellent, the anthem of
communism all over the world. Okay, scary, by the way,
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that was a very good choice. That's why I congratulated you.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
He's a smart kid. They'll let it go to your head, knou.
In kind of a weird statement from Attorney General Pam Bondi,
she says that the Trump administration promises to release more
files from its sex trafficking investigation on Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
She said that.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
There's tens of thousands of videos. I can't even imagine
what that it's about of the wealthy financier with children
or child porn. So what are they going to release?
They are not going to release that now.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I think I had to do with enemies of the
administration being involved somehow, names, somehow connected with Epstein, and
Epstein knew everybody. I mean, there are pictures of Epstein
with every a player, politic, anybody with the rich. Yeah,
and then everybody goes to the same galas and they
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all take pictures with each other, and you'll see what
was I just saw a picture of some sleeves ball
with Bill Clinton and Obama because he donated money, and
you'd get your picture taken kind of thing, therefore proving
your best friends.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
So no one knows about the Diddy stuff that if
that's gonna if they're gonna start going down that list
and indicting.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
People who have seen it.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
He yeah, or that were participants, famous people.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Well, it's a little bit different. If you see someone
who's an A player rubbing themselves with baby oil. Yeah,
that's versus a just a picture at a fundraiser. Eh,
all right, moving on.
Speaker 4 (20:40):
Amy, smile, you're on candid camera kind of.
Speaker 5 (20:45):
An AI powered bus lane enforcement program has officially expanded
into two new cities. The program is active and there's
a warning period in effect, so before you get the tickets,
they're gonna send out warnings for the next couple of
months through September second. It's for vehicles that block La
Metro bus lanes and bus stops along North Libera Avenue
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in West Hollywood, and also visitors who block Santa Monica's
Big Blue bus lanes. Drivers caught blocking bus lanes after
the warning period based tickets of two hundred and ninety
three dollars for each violation. They're automatically issued, and so
far the system has proven to be lucrative ten thousand
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tickets issued in the first two months of the program.
Speaker 2 (21:32):
Hey, I have a question why this is a big
deal at all. This is effectively a red light camera.
It's on the front of buses. It snaps a picture
of someone in the bus lane, parked or whatever whatever
you're doing illegally, and somehow it's controversial. You know, you
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got them and then and then it's not automatic because
according to the story, a human being has to actually
look at the photo and somehow vett it. Why there
you are, you're part. Here's the camera, took a picture
of it in front of the bus. Thank you. Conversation
over there's three hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
Well it's la We don't like to punish people for
breaking along.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Well, it depends on the law, right I suppose, yeah,
I suppose. Yeah, you're all right?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Right, So Bill had called this was going to go down.
It's kind of a leave me alone payment. Paramount settles
Trump sixty minutes lawsuit with sixteen million dollars payout, but
no apology, kind of like you, Bill, Yeah, no apology
for anything apologizing.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
So here's what happened here. Because of the interview with
Kamala Harris in sixty minutes edited. Trump had argued that
it was edited in such a way it was to
his detriment in the election, even though he won it,
So I don't know how much of a detriment it
actually was. He then sues CBS for twenty billion dollars.
I think it then went up to one hundred billion dollars.
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I mean, something insane. The lawsuit have absolutely no merit,
I mean zero merit had no chance to prevail none.
But he files a lawsuit. And why would Paramount now
spend sixteen million dollars to settle by the way, not
the Trump directly, but for legal fees as well as
quote a donation, the money going, whatever's left going to
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the Presidential Library that President Trump's going to set up.
And that's because the Global the Paramount, the Paramount company,
Global Paramount that owns CBS is trying to sell itself
a deal with to I think it's the Sky it's
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the European Oh yeah, yeah, conglomerate, and it needs FCC
approval to do that without FC.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Approval, Sky Dance Media, I think.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
There you go, and it's the and they can't do
it without FCC approval. FCC is part of the administration,
and so what's going to happen is the deal's going
to go through. FCC is going to say yes, Paramount's
paying the or CBS is paying the sixteen million dollars.
The president can say, see, I was right. They did
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damage me, or they damaged the election process because of
a poor editing and giving Kamala Harris some kind of
kudo she shouldn't have had. And it's a win. Now.
The fun part is both the administration and CBS or
Paramount owned CBS is saying one has nothing to do
with the other. Both are saying, oh no, no, there's
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no connection whatsoever at all.
Speaker 3 (24:43):
All right, you know, Kamala Harris did come out and
she said, I think that winning is losing, and that
standing here today, I see the things the future in
the past have brought us and joy and if you believe,
then you can't go without not sitting down and smelling
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the roses. And I think that's pretty powerful.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
It is and very close to what she said. It
wasn't even very much of a paraphrase.
Speaker 5 (25:16):
If you don't want to acknowledge climate change, just erase it.
Trump administration has shut down a federal website that had
presented congressionally mandated reports and research on climate change. Of course,
scientists are saying that is going to hinder the nation's
efforts to prepare for worsening drought s, floods, and heat waves.
The US Global Change Research Program's website, it's a globalchange
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dot gov, was taken down, along with all five versions
of the National Climate Assessment Report and information on how
global warming is affecting the country.
Speaker 2 (25:50):
You make a good point if you eliminate the language,
if you never use the words global warming or acknowledge
that it exists, it doesn't. It doesn't. There is no
global warming. They're right. So you go to the government,
you look up global warming. Nope, No, it's the same
thing with Noah right with the weather forecasts. There is
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no weather. It doesn't exist. The weather people every afternoon,
the local news. That's fake news because weather doesn't exist.
Global warming doesn't exist. When does gravity not exist? I'm
a big fan of gravity.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
When we start floating off the surface of the planet.
Speaker 2 (26:37):
No, no, because that is reality, whether still exists, whether
it's on a website or not. See, so when you
study gravity, that's fake news. Hmm, I don't know. If
that worked analogy wise, but I think it.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
Did, Thank you, Madame Vice President with two conservative in descent.
The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a property rights
claim from Los Angeles landlords. They said they lost, well,
they did lose millions from unpaid rent during COVID nineteen
on the pandemic emergency. They sued the city seeking twenty
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million dollars in damages from tenants who did not pay
their rent during the pandemic. Yeah. Now, of course, they
responded with listen, looting is okay. Stealing from seven elevens
it's okay, and you not getting paid is okay.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Now here's the interesting legal argument here, because it really
wild spin and clever lawyers are making this argument. Rent
control has been upheld. The Court has said rent control
ordinances are legal, and of course property owners have always
said it's illegal. But the court said, now those are
perfectly legal. Cities can put in rent controls, states can.
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In this case, they argued that the limits on evictions
during COVID it has nothing to do with rent control.
It's you took away our property, or you took away
our right to make money off of our property, and
that is a right you didn't let us make money
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that we normally would allow to do. That. It's an
illegal taking of property, and the court didn't want to
hear it. They just said, now now we're not interested.
They didn't grant sociority. The court just said no, with
of course two of the judges going the other way.
And who would they be, Oh, I don't know, Clarence
Thomas and who else was it? Was it alito? I
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don't even know the two.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
But anyway, couldn't they do that with other things? Why
couldn't they say that milk was free and food was
free during that time too.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
They could have done anything. The point is the argument.
And then the milk producers would say, it's not a
question of you giving if they can't get enough money,
you've taken away our property. That's the argument. The connection
is we made less money or couldn't make money and
couldn't be full. We couldn't force an eviction, which under
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the law we normally would because of a pandemic, and
that is not an eviction. It's taking away our property,
and the court would didn't want to hear it.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Uh shedding a tear for fallen soldiers. Kim Jong un
has held the first public commemoration of North Korean troops
who've died fighting Russia's war with Ukraine. They held a
glitzy galla performance in Pyongyang. North Korea's leader hosted Russia's
Culture meet minister in it or During it, they showed
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photographs of Kim mourning soldiers standing among a row of
caskets that appeared to be placed on an airport tarmac.
He was photographed putting both of his hands on top
of the caskets, which are draped with North Korea's red, black, blue,
and white national flag. Watching the scene at the gala,
Kim was shown shedding tears. But apparently this ceremony is
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aimed at preparing the population for more deployments.
Speaker 2 (30:15):
I don't even know why the population has to be prepared.
All you have to do is Kim says it, and
it's done. Okay, We're done. This is KFI AM sixty.
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