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