In this episode of the California Underground Podcast, host Phil discusses the ongoing issues in California politics, including the exodus of businesses, Gavin pretending to be a "friend" to the Second Amendment, the secrecy surrounding the Capitol annex project in Sacramento, and the controversial statements made by Karen Bass regarding immigration.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to California's Political Landscape
01:23 In-N-Out's CEO and California's Business Exodus
14:46 Gavin Newsom's Struggles with the Second Amendment
31:49 Gavin Newsom's Gun Control Agenda
34:48 Secrecy in Sacramento: The Capitol Annex Project
45:36 Karen Bass and Immigration Policy Challenges
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Businesses fleeing California, Gavin Newsom suffers a another
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loss when it comes to the Second Amendment in federal court.
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And Karen Bass says the quiet part out loud.
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An ABC interview that she completely flubbed up.
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All that and more coming up on tonight's episode of the
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California Underground podcast, starting right now.
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What's going on, everybody? Thanks for tuning in to another
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episode of the California Underground podcast.
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I'm your host, Phil, the most trusted podcast for all things
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California politics. We got a lot going on in the
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show tonight, including all the businesses that are fleeing
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California, including the CEO of In and Out who said she's moving
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out of California. We have Gavin Newsom, who
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suffered another loss when it comes to the Second Amendment in
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federal court. Karen Bass saying the quiet part
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out loud of what she really thinks of immigration and more
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secrecy going on in Sacramento. That's all coming up tonight as
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part of our story lineup. If you're new here, make sure
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That helps everybody with the with finding and the algorithm
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and all that stuff. So let's get started with our
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first episode, first topic of the night.
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In and out on its way out. Well, not really.
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I mean, in and out is going to stay here in California.
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The corporate headquarters are going to stay here in
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California. Obviously, in and out itself is
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not going anywhere. It is an institution of
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California. If you know anything about
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California, in and out is as much California as Hollywood or
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the Golden Gate Bridge. It's literally when you think of
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California, you think of in and out.
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But the CEO went on a recent interview to talk about how hard
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it is to do business here in California.
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And I think she has a point. And a lot of people are freaking
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out about what she's saying and pretending that it's not
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anything to worry about. But there is definitely more to
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that than I think is being led on.
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So let's get right into that. Well, if you're having trouble
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finding a job, you are not alone.
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The latest job numbers show California is now tied with
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Nevada for the highest unemployment rate in the
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country. The states unemployment rate
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went up slightly over the past month to 5.4%, but that is still
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above the national average. You're seeing it right here at
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4.1%. NBC Bay Areas Alyssa Gord helps
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us understand why this is a uniquely difficult time for job
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seekers. It's so challenging.
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Dylan Keoni Nepomuceno is grateful to have a job, but the
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San Francisco resident has friends and family who've been
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laid off. I know some folks that are still
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trying to find work right now. He says he wasn't surprised to
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hear the new federal job numbers, which have California
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tied with Nevada for the highest unemployment rate in the country
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at 5.4%. Michael Burnick and attorney
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with Dwayne Morris and the former director of California's
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Labor Department thinks factors like hiring costs, uncertainty
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about tariffs, immigration and even AI may be playing a role.
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And the numbers aren't showing an increase so much in layoffs,
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but we are seeing that employers are putting in advance or
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freezing hiring decisions. And some people told us while
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they're grateful to have jobs, they're feeling the impacts of
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their employers not feeling they get positions.
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California did see some job gains in areas like private
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education and health services, but had a net loss of 6100 jobs
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in June. I was thinking of taking
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internships first because I feel like I need them more like
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experience. San Francisco State students
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told us they are looking for ways to stand out in this job
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market. Especially here in the Bay Area
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and especially for white collar jobs, it is more competitive
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than I've seen in 47 years. Burnick.
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Says it's a tough time for job seekers.
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The good news Jobs are being added, but getting them may
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require a lot of patience. Alyssa Gord, NBC Bay Area News.
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Well, regardless of what Lou Reed says there in that video, I
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think there's a lot of things outside of what he's saying
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regarding immigration and AI. Those are the reasons why we're
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seeing job losses. He doesn't really want to tackle
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the real issues of why California is seeing
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unemployment and why businesses are leaving California.
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But of course, he's from the Bay Area, so you know he's not going
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to want to talk about the real reasons that California is
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facing all this business exodus and the higher unemployment
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rate. It is interesting that the only
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jobs that have been added are health care because when it
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comes down to it, they love pumping as much money into
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health care as possible when it comes to state contracts and
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stuff like that. But as it says right here, the
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unemployment rate did rise .1 percentage point to 5.4, which
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now is like the highest rate in the US.
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So for as much as Gavin Newsom and the Democrats here in
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California love to tell, now California is the 4th or 5th
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largest economy in the world. We now have the highest
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unemployment rate in the country.
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And remember, if you compare sort of the purchasing power,
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there was a study done, if you compare the purchasing power of
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California, how expensive it is here, actually California falls
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down to 11th, right ahead of Italy.
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So it almost double S in in in going down the scale as opposed
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to what they think of this 4th or 5th largest economy.
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And they try to paint this picture of it being so
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prosperous and all that, but in reality, it's there's a lot
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under the hood. Now I want to get to this in and
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out CEO clip because she does bring out and this has been
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going viral. So I want to discuss this real
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quick. New this morning, the head of In
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and Out has revealed she's moving out of California.
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For now, the burger chain's headquarters will stay here, but
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the company is building a new eastern headquarters in
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Tennessee. A large number of corporate
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employees are also relocating. The burger chain's president and
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CEO, Lindsay Snyder says her family's move does not take away
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from her love and appreciation for California.
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Raising a family is not easy here.
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Doing business is not easy here. Now the bulk of our stores are
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still going to be here in California, but it will be
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wonderful having an office out there, growing out there.
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Snyder's comments in the move have drawn some backlash online.
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Some in and out fans see it as a betrayal of the state that built
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her business. Snyder took to Instagram trying
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to clarify writing. We're not leaving California or
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leaving our roots behind. Moving into Tennessee provides
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our in and out associates wonderful opportunities to buy a
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home and raise a family and be a part of our expansion in a
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different part of the US. So that drew a lot of backlash
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because people were like, oh, poor lady who was a billionaire,
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she was 6 billion, she has to run out of California.
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It's so hard being filthy rich in California.
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This is being obtuse about the real issue here in terms of
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taxation regulations, how hard it is to run a business, and
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also how much they try to soak the rich when it comes to income
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and taxation here in California. So it makes sense that someone
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who, I mean, if you're chasing away the CEO of in and Out, a
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quite literal California corporation that is like so
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stereotypical California, it's embedded in our culture, that's
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pretty bad. That just shows that the
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business and regulatory and taxation scheme of California is
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so unfriendly, not only on a business level, but on a
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personal level as well, that the CEO of a California institution
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is willing to just move all the way across the country just to
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get away from California. Yeah.
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Now this is something that I want to bring up as well,
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because we all saw this coming when they passed the higher
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minimum wage for fast food workers because it kept going up
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and up and up. First it was 16, then it was 18,
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then they got to $20.00 an hour. They did see that there is a
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drop in fast food workers. It cost the state roughly 18
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jobs, according to a new report by the National Bureau of
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Economic Research. MBRE or MBER reports that they
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pay bump from 16 to 20 an hour appears to have backfired on
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employees with the state's fast food sector experiencing a
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decline in employment by 2.7% or 18 jobs compared to other
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parts of the country. In and out notoriously known for
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paying its employees even better.
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So it can't be that, but it is sort of everything that I just
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want to get into. Fittingly, there was a new study
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done by the Public Policy Institute of California and they
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just completed this and put it out.
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So this is really interesting for me to look at.
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There are some key takeaways from this that I want to dive
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into regarding this. Our company headquarters leaving
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California. So there is obviously this, this
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momentum and exodus of companies leaving California.
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And there are some some figures and graphs I want to point out
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here in the Public Policy Institute of California.
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They do really good work. So when they put something out
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like this, I know they've done their homework.
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So that's why I wanted to kind of bring this up to you.
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So this first graph you can see right here is companies
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headquartered in California are increasingly moving out of state
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and jobs are leaving with them. So in and out is not a good
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example because of the fact that they are still leaving their
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headquarters here in California. But when you think of like the
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Teslas and then like Facebook and other companies that are
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moving out of California, the Silicon Valley, those big tech
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companies that are moving Austin and places like that, those
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places are moving out and there's a lot of headquarters
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that are moving out. So you can see relocating to
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California, that line is going down precipitously.
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It keeps going down. And then you have relocating
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from California, which is going up.
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And then you have the cumulative net loss in headquarters and
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headquarter jobs. And then this is it keeps going
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up and up and up. So you can start to see that
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there is a trend. It's not going the way that
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Gavin Newsom wants it or the California Democrats in
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Sacramento want it to go. Let's go down a little bit more.
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So these are headquarters that relocate from California, tend
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to move to large or nearby states.
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No shocker here. Texas seems to be the biggest
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recipient of all these California refugee companies,
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Tesla being one of them who moved out to Austin.
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I think Facebook or Meta also moved out to Texas.
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Nevada, right across the state lines.
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New York, which was interesting to me.
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I was surprised that there was movement to New York, Florida,
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Arizona, These are all states with better taxes and less
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regulations. Jobs at headquarters also
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relocate again, Texas, Florida, and you can see some of the
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other states, Virginia, which well, Virginia has Glenn Yonkin,
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so that's possible. New York.
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I'm still surprised that New York is taking a lot of
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corporate jobs and corporate headquarters away from
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California. Headquarters leaving California
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tend to choose states with lower taxes and less regulation.
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So the most important thing to them is regulations.
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Less taxes and less regulations. That seems to be the driving
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force for a lot of these, which makes sense why In and Out moved
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to their headquarter. Well, not their headquarters.
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They moved to another part of Tennessee, another office.
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And then you're seeing other companies like Tesla who are
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moving out to Texas. And again, you get to see more
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of this as well. So as you can see, business is
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not friendly here in California. The scheme of California is not
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friendly to businesses. And I think the reason in and
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out is getting so much backlash or the CEO of in and out is
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getting so much backlash is because it's, it's, it's almost
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more personal to Californians, right?
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It is this idea of this California institution is quite
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literally palm trees and cars and drive UPS that is such
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California quintessential culture that the idea of the CEO
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leaving and opening another office in Tennessee while not
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moving the headquarters, She's not moving the headquarters.
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It does feel like a kind of a wake up call to a lot of people.
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If you're scaring away the CEO of in and out a California
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institution. How bad is California?
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As we've seen, we have the highest rate of unemployment in
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the US tied with Nevada. We have horrible business
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regulations and taxes, higher corporate tax.
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We have higher income tax for a lot of individuals, especially
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those like CEO. So they are taking their wealth
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and leaving. There is more opportunities in
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these states like Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Georgia,
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Florida, all these other states, Tennessee, that offer way more
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opportunities for them to thrive and do their business.
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And that's the one thing that I think Democrats in California
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don't ever think about is that businesses can move, businesses
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can leave. They're not stuck here.
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They are not chained to California where they cannot go
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anywhere. If you push hard enough,
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businesses will leave. And I think in and out is
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probably the largest alarm bell for a lot of people in
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California that if the CEO is publicly saying she's moving out
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of California and she's opening a new office location, that is
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probably the biggest thing to show that California really
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needs to change its business. A friendly attitude or not
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business friendly attitude and get with it before everything
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falls apart and unemployment skyrockets and all of business
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starts to leave and head for the exits.
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All right, welcome on everybody. Thank you for tuning in live,
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everyone who is tuning in. Thanks for hanging out with me.
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In the chat. Somebody said Cali hasn't built
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a new oil refinery since 1976 and the rest are closing or
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moving out. Yep.
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Yeah, that's, that's a problem that we talked about.
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And the state does think that they want to start getting back
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into that 100% regulations and crazy laws are forcing
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businesses and families out. Yep.
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Yeah. It's, I mean, if it makes sense,
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it's business sense. Like if you're going to make
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better profits and you're going to go somewhere where it's less
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regulations and it's easier to run your business, you're going
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to move out to these other states.
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So it's, it's not, it's kind of a no brainer, but In-n-out I
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think was the biggest one that does push people to go, wait a
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second, how bad is California if the, the CEO of In-n-out is
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leaving? Well, not the corporate
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headquarters, but her leaving I think sparked a big backlash.
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So, all right, next story, Gavin Newsom continues to suffer court
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losses over the Second Amendment because I guess he just doesn't
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understand that it's shall not be infringed.
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And it's right there in black and white.
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I want to get to this story recently, this came out this
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past week. So if you are a Second Amendment
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advocate, a court blocks ammunition background checks in
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new blow to California's gun control framework.
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So there was a law that was passed years ago, back in 2018.
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So this was really a long time ago.
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In 2018, before the law went into effect, a group of gun
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right advocates and ammunition vendors sued to block the law.
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It's been hanging around for a long time.
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So this gives you an idea of how long just by passing these laws,
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this is really the infringement is they pass these laws, they
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get tied up in courts for, you know, five to six years before
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we ever get a ruling on any of these Second Amendment cases.
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And to them, I guess I get they feel like that's a win because
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they've prevented you from really exercising your Second
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Amendment right. The article goes on to say
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today's ruling helped clarify what a post brewing future could
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look like. Given the fees in delays
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associated with California's ammunition background check
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regime and the wide range of transactions to which it
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applies. We conclude that in all
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applications, a regime meaningful meaningfully
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constrains California residents right to keep and bear arms,
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justice Sandra Segal Ikuta wrote in the 21 majority opinion.
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Newsom in a written statement criticized the decision.
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Quote, strong gun laws save lives, and today's decision is a
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slap in the face to the progress California's made in recent
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years to keep its communities safer from gun violence.
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Californians voted to require background checks on ammunition
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and their voices should matter. Now let's keep in mind here that
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why the timeline is important is because this was voted on or
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passed into law in 2018. There was the brewing decision
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that came out recently in the past couple years.
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So the brewing decision had a lot to do with carrying a
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firearm out in the public and did talk a lot about the
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historical precedent of the Second Amendment and your right
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to bear arms. And that opened a lot of
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opportunity for Second Amendment gun at right advocates to take a
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lot of these California cases to federal court and say you are
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violating this standard under the Bruins standard, which is
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this new historical precedence and what was the intent of it.
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And that does change a lot of things.
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So when it was originally put into law, Bruin was not into
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into effect. And now with Bruin in effect,
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this changes a lot of things. This goes on to say the
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background check law is different the appellate court
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rule because it meaningfully constrains people's ability to
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purchase ammunition, which previous 9th Circuit decisions
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have found is foundational to a person's ability to own guns in
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court. The state's attorney also
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proposed that California's ammunition sales law conformed
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to the United States historical tradition of regulating guns,
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citing colonial era laws or laws written after the Civil War in a
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fiery dissent. Now, as dissent is when one of
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the judges doesn't agree with the majority and they just want
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to, you know, have their two cents heard, they're useful, the
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cents have their their place. They can make some good
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arguments that maybe somebody picks up later.
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But sometimes in the sense it's just they want to get it off
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their chest and and kind of complain about the majority.
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In a fiery dissent, Judge JB Bybee said the decision failed
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to correctly apply the Bruin test and that using the logic of
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the decision, any firearms regulation could be interpreted
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as a violation of the Second Amendment.
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Great. That sounds sort of like what
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we've been talking about for a long time.
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Is shall not be infringed. And these all these regulations.
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And that's what the second amount kind of stands for.
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And the Supreme Court paved the way for this with Bruin.
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I mean, if that's what he thinks, great.
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That's good news for all of us. Then a lot of California laws
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should really be struck down. Based on that quote, it's
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difficult to imagine a regulation on the acquisition of
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ammunition or firearms that would not meaningfully constrain
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the right to keep and bear arms in the majority's new general
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applicability standard by be wrote in The Descent.
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Well, you don't throw guns at people.
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You need ammunition. That's sort of the point.
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They kind of go, it's like bread and butter.
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They kind of go together. You sort of need the ammunition
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for a gun to work. Can't just throw guns at people.
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I mean, you could throw a gun at person, but it's not as
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effective as if you actually had ammunition.
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So Gavin Newsom suffers another loss regarding the Second
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Amendment. He has been suffering, you know,
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several losses again and again, especially with this new brewing
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decision. Now, there are a couple other
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laws or cases that I want to bring your attention to right
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now and that is new. In versus Bonta, they struck
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down California's one gun a month law, so that has been
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struck down by the 9th Circuit. Miller versus Bonta, which is
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still ongoing, was filed in 2021.
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A federal judge in the Southern District of California declared
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the state's ban and assault weapons unconstitutional in
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2021. Argue that violated the Second
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Amendment. It's still pending, but based on
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this whole new brewing decision, probably could see some movement
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on that. Carolyra versus Bonta 2023 still
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ongoing. Senate Bill 2, which is probably
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the most egregious to me, is Senate Bill 2 where they
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basically tried to restrict your complete use of the carry and
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conceal principle. You would not be able to carry
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and conceal. I am not joking when I say as a
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carry conceal permit holder myself, I looked at the law and
00:20:43
basically the only place you'd be able to carry and conceal is
00:20:47
the sidewalk in front of your house, maybe walking to your
00:20:51
car, and that's about it. Everywhere else would be
00:20:56
prohibited. Restaurants, stores, everything
00:20:59
would be prohibited. Everything's a sensitive place.
00:21:02
So that's what they do with SB-2.
00:21:04
SB 2 was also passed in sort of retaliation for what the Supreme
00:21:08
Court came out with, Bruin. Basically, they said, well, if
00:21:11
that's the standard about sensitive places and then we're
00:21:14
going to make everything sensitive.
00:21:16
Likely this will get struck down because it is such an affront to
00:21:19
the fact that Bruin came out carrying concealed.
00:21:24
Now, even though he is facing a ton of losses and he continues
00:21:29
to file these frivolous lawsuits regarding the Second Amendment.
00:21:32
Did you know Gavin Newsom is no enemy to the Second Amendment?
00:21:36
That's right. He's no enemy to the second.
00:21:38
He's a friend. I He loves the 2nd Amendment.
00:21:41
He respects it, loves the Second Amendment.
00:21:44
I want to show you this clip right quick from a recent
00:21:47
podcast he did. Is this an accident?
00:21:49
I got to report this gift man that is so that is a California
00:21:54
compliant big sour. This E 365 macro come on man.
00:22:01
I don't know exactly what makes by the way, this is this is too
00:22:04
cool. The fact that you would give me
00:22:06
this you like that. So you just want me to TSA to
00:22:09
take this from me in my house. I'm on to you, man.
00:22:13
Well, I got a buddy at sig and now he was like you got to get a
00:22:17
cig and his name is Jason brother.
00:22:19
This is fabulous. You know what people last thing
00:22:24
people would expect is that I respect this gift.
00:22:27
Really I appreciate yeah man, I'm not anti gun at all.
00:22:30
I'm for. Well, First off, I don't have a
00:22:35
prop. This is the best I can have.
00:22:37
But anybody else find it funny that he holds the gun like it's
00:22:40
like it's radioactive and icky and he holds it like, like, oh,
00:22:44
look at that. Oh, a gun.
00:22:46
Thank you, thank you. And at one point he actually
00:22:49
flipped it around with the muzzle facing Shawn Ryan, which
00:22:53
anybody who's in the chat or in comments knows what's the number
00:22:56
one rule of gun safety is you do not point your firearm at
00:23:00
something you do not want to destroy.
00:23:02
So I'm flipping around. Oh, it's really nice.
00:23:05
Hold on. It looked like he didn't know
00:23:07
how to handle it. Like he I've never seen anyone
00:23:10
hold a gun like like this like like gingerly like this.
00:23:15
You can tell he doesn't really handle a lot of firearms.
00:23:17
And 1st off, his his this whole I'm not anti gun.
00:23:23
I know you're floored. I know you're floored to hear
00:23:26
Gavin Newsom say he's not anti gun.
00:23:29
We'll get into it more with a little bit more details.
00:23:31
Some gun safe common sense that I think vast majority of folks,
00:23:35
the right and the left agree and I think we've lost a little
00:23:37
touch with some common sense around background checks.
00:23:41
I think there's an age appropriateness.
00:23:43
I do have some, you know, I'm challenged by large capacity
00:23:47
magazine clips and urban centers and you know, weapons of war
00:23:52
that are out there sometimes outgunning the police.
00:23:54
And I've experienced that directly with the loss of a
00:23:56
police officer. It was gunned down by an AK47
00:23:59
and the police were outgunned in Baby Hunters Point in San
00:24:02
Francisco. Couple things here.
00:24:09
So he says he's he's not anti gun.
00:24:10
He's for common sense gun laws, for common sense gun safety, for
00:24:14
background checks. That's always something
00:24:15
Democrats say is the background checks anytime you go purchase a
00:24:19
firearm. Anyone in the chat you want to
00:24:21
let me know, raise your hand, say yes.
00:24:24
How many times have you gone to purchase a firearm and had a
00:24:31
background check, right? How many you you've all had to
00:24:35
do it like that is part of buying a firearm is a background
00:24:38
check. You have to go through the DOJ
00:24:40
and everything. It it is literally the first
00:24:42
thing they do before they even sell you the firearm.
00:24:46
That this whole idea that there's no background checks and
00:24:49
that people are just walking in and buying stuff off the street,
00:24:53
which leads to the second point of, well, if you're buying a gun
00:24:57
with no background check and you're buying an AK47 that is
00:25:00
illegal and not allowed in California, then that is a
00:25:05
problem of illegal gun running. That has nothing to do with
00:25:09
legal gun owners who are probably the most responsible
00:25:14
gun owners and the safest gun owners because they don't want
00:25:16
to lose their right. So where did they get that AK47?
00:25:21
You're you're conflating crime and gun running with those who
00:25:26
practice their Second Amendment rights properly and care about
00:25:30
gun safety. And that's something Democrats
00:25:32
always do is they make it sound like, well, it's just all these
00:25:36
crazy gun nuts are out here able to get all these weapons of war
00:25:39
and stuff like that. That's why we need to put all
00:25:41
these restrictions on no, no, no, no, no, no.
00:25:43
It's not the people who are pro gun and are actually actually
00:25:49
really responsible, it's usually the criminals and those who are
00:25:52
running guns that get their hands on these illegal guns that
00:25:55
you want to ban. But otherwise, man, people have
00:25:59
the right to bear arms and I got no ideological opposition to
00:26:02
that at all. Do you think bullshit?
00:26:06
Excuse me, sorry, I got something in my throat.
00:26:09
I should probably take a drink of water.
00:26:12
I was good, by the way. You're welcome.
00:26:13
That's crazy. Last name thing.
00:26:14
I expected. I expected a hat.
00:26:17
OK, you gave me a goddamn gun. Well, I got another gift for you
00:26:20
too. OK, but but diving into the two
00:26:24
way. Remember, he's a man of faith
00:26:28
and he loves to see, say, G damn.
00:26:30
That's, that's the man of faith, Gavin Newsom right there.
00:26:32
He loves to drop the G Damn. All right.
00:26:35
Well, you heard it right there. Gavin Newsom respects and loves
00:26:39
the Second Amendment. And these are all just common
00:26:41
sense. This is all just common sense
00:26:43
stuff that he wants to he wants to implement.
00:26:46
I mean, come on. When you look at it, it's all
00:26:48
common sense. And he's a friend of the Second
00:26:50
Amendment and he doesn't think what he's doing is too crazy.
00:26:54
He loves guns. I mean, he's a big Second
00:26:56
Amendment guy. I'd love to see Gavin.
00:26:57
I don't think I've ever seen footage of Gavin Newsom shoot.
00:27:00
If you remember back in 2008, they posted some cringe footage
00:27:04
of Barack Obama trying to shoot skeet.
00:27:08
Like they put him out somewhere and they gave him the little
00:27:10
orange shag and they made him like shoot skeet.
00:27:12
And they're like, oh, look at what a manly man he is.
00:27:14
He can actually shoot a shotgun and stuff like that.
00:27:16
Wait until you start seeing the videos of Gavin Newsom shooting
00:27:18
and how awkward that's going to be.
00:27:20
You know, he's going to have to learn that you can't hold a gun
00:27:22
like this. You're going to actually have to
00:27:23
grab it. But I want to take a look at all
00:27:27
these common sense things that Gavin Newsom, you know, friend
00:27:31
of the Second Amendment, right? He's a Mr. I love the Second
00:27:34
Amendment, respect it. Let's let's take a look at this.
00:27:38
I did my homework and I want to just show you the laws that were
00:27:43
signed in by Gavin Newsom regarding gun restriction.
00:27:49
So let me pull this up right here.
00:27:51
Did my homework. I made a nice little art project
00:27:54
for you. So let's see.
00:27:56
This is starting in 2019. These are all signed.
00:28:00
These are all signed into law. Let's see, I'm trying to sell
00:28:05
firearms. Precursor conducted through a
00:28:07
licensed vendor. Prohibits the sale of firearms
00:28:09
in San Diego County at Delmar Fairgrounds.
00:28:13
Strengthen regulation of firearms storage.
00:28:16
Gun show regulations keeps going on the purchase of semiotic
00:28:20
rifles to 1 gun per month. Regulates the sale firearm adds
00:28:25
restrictions on ghost guns. That's a big thing that they
00:28:27
always make up about these ghost guns.
00:28:29
Authorizes private Well, I want to pause right here.
00:28:32
Authorizes private lawsuits against those who import,
00:28:34
distribute, manufacturers, sell illegal firearms.
00:28:37
Basically what they did with Texas in the abortion law, that
00:28:42
was another thing that they did in retaliation.
00:28:44
California loves to pass these in retaliation.
00:28:46
So this is stuff signed in 2023, SB 2, which we went over
00:28:50
strength, strengthens concealed carry regulations by doubling
00:28:53
training time, which is now a pain in the butt.
00:28:56
They've increased fees, which makes it even harder.
00:28:58
AB28 imposes an 11% state tax on firearms and ammunition to fund
00:29:04
school safety. Let's see now this one is crazy.
00:29:08
AB1089 requires semiotic pistols sold in California micro
00:29:12
stamping technology. Now if you're not familiar with
00:29:16
what micro stamping is, micro stamping is the idea that a gun
00:29:21
could sure hypothetically could have the technology to put a
00:29:25
tiny little serial number on every casing that is fired.
00:29:29
So that way when they find the case and then go, oh, this is
00:29:31
from serial number gun blah blah blah.
00:29:33
And it owns the IT belongs to this person.
00:29:37
Most gun companies don't have that.
00:29:39
So basically, by requiring all gun manufacturers to include
00:29:44
micro stamping, you've effectively banned every single
00:29:48
gun in California. Because if you don't have micro
00:29:51
stamping, you can't sell in California.
00:29:53
This is a sneaky way around just getting rid of all guns in
00:29:58
California because gun manufacturers are not going to
00:30:00
go through the whole trouble of making a micro stamp just for a
00:30:03
gun in California. It's already hard enough with
00:30:06
the California roster and stuff like that, which to me, I think
00:30:09
the California roster actually makes it less safe because you
00:30:13
can't get new generations of firearms that are more safe.
00:30:16
Instead you're using generations, you know, two or
00:30:19
three generations behind which are not as safe.
00:30:23
So that's their sneaky way around it.
00:30:25
And Raw Bonta of course, said hypothetically.
00:30:27
The technology exists for micro stamping.
00:30:29
So of course we're going to keep going with it.
00:30:32
Let's see. Enhances background checks for
00:30:34
firearm purchases to prevent prohibited persons from
00:30:36
acquiring guns. I mean, that makes sense.
00:30:38
We don't want those people getting guns.
00:30:40
Requires storage. Secures storage of firearms and
00:30:43
homes when not carried or controlled.
00:30:45
Prohibits firearm possession for 10 years and older.
00:30:48
Bans ammunition possession for individuals mental ills.
00:30:51
Yeah, that makes sense. Cars age appropriate and foreign
00:30:54
exit share. Expands red flag laws to include
00:30:56
threats of hate based violence. Pro is the sale of firearms,
00:31:01
parts of blah blah. And so if you take a look at all
00:31:04
of that and you look at that list and you go, boy, he looks
00:31:09
like the friend of Second Amendment.
00:31:11
And those are some of those are just common sense, like micro
00:31:13
stamping common sense. It's technology that does not
00:31:17
exist, but it's it's common sense.
00:31:19
That's all common sense gun safety.
00:31:21
And I do want to say this kind of to wrap this all up about
00:31:25
Gavin Newsom. He keeps suffering these losses
00:31:28
in litigation in court, and he's going to continue to suffer them
00:31:31
based on the new Bruin standard that's out from the Supreme
00:31:34
Court and the historical precedents and all that.
00:31:36
That's the new standard. He's going to continue to lose
00:31:39
in court. But being the slippery, slick
00:31:42
politician that he is, he's going to go on shows like the
00:31:45
Sean Ryan show. He's going to go toward the
00:31:47
Midwest. He's going to go toward the
00:31:48
South and he's going to pretend like he's some big fan of the
00:31:52
Second Amendment. He loves the Second Amendment.
00:31:55
He just wants common sense. That's what he keeps in common
00:31:58
sense. But when you look at all those
00:32:00
gun laws that he has passed and that he has signed, then you go,
00:32:05
are any of these real? Are all these common sense now?
00:32:08
Some of them are common sense. Some of them you want to keep
00:32:10
out of the hands of those with mental illness or with a
00:32:12
criminal history. Sure.
00:32:15
Are all of them common sense? Is micro stamping common sense?
00:32:18
Is banning concealed carry common sense?
00:32:21
A lot of these things are not incredibly common sense, but
00:32:24
he's passed a lot of them. Any gun law that he sees, he
00:32:27
usually signs it. And not to mention, this is also
00:32:30
the guy who wanted to introduce a constitutional amendment
00:32:33
regarding gun safety, changing all sorts of things like age of,
00:32:37
you know, background checks, age to own a gun, all of this stuff.
00:32:40
You want to introduce a new constitutional amendment.
00:32:43
So you're going to see the pivot of Gavin Newsom on the Second
00:32:46
Amendment. I guarantee it.
00:32:48
He's going to pretend like he's a friend of the Second
00:32:50
Amendment. But we have the receipts.
00:32:53
Those are the laws that he has signed into law here in
00:32:56
California that's going to follow him around.
00:32:58
So let me know in the comments. Do you think he'll be able to
00:33:02
successfully pivot and pretend he's a friend of the Second
00:33:04
Amendment, or do you think every his pass is going to catch up
00:33:07
with him? All right, so I want to say it's
00:33:14
all charisma for his presidential.
00:33:16
Yeah. I mean, this is all presidential
00:33:17
run. He's trying to get out there.
00:33:20
And he's going on the Sean Ryan show.
00:33:21
I guess he's like a former Navy SEAL.
00:33:22
I've never watched the Sean Ryan show.
00:33:25
So it's this idea of like, well, he's a former Navy SEAL.
00:33:27
He gave him a gun. They're two Bros now.
00:33:29
He's like a big tough guy, even though he has no idea how to
00:33:31
handle a gun. That was really awkward.
00:33:34
You know, maybe his political consultants are gonna have to
00:33:36
pull him aside and say, OK, you know, you know, old Gabby and
00:33:39
Gavin Newsom, we're going, we're going to have to take you to the
00:33:41
range and let, like, show you how to handle it.
00:33:46
I'm retired Elio or LEQ and didn't even notice there were
00:33:50
this many laws. Yeah, until I actually looked it
00:33:53
up and like wrote them out. I was like, wow, that is a lot
00:33:57
of laws that Gavin Newsom signed into law but shall not be
00:34:02
infringed. And then they proceed to
00:34:05
infringe. Yep, that's what they do.
00:34:08
They pretend like they're not infringing and they call it
00:34:10
common sense. So, all right, just looking at
00:34:17
some more of the check, keeping up, up to what you guys are
00:34:20
saying. Yeah.
00:34:22
And it's it's up to us to keep the pressure here in California.
00:34:25
It's up to us to keep the pressure on him.
00:34:28
So that is, it's up for us to continually bring this stuff up
00:34:35
and then put it out there so that people see this when he
00:34:37
runs. Like we can't just be silent
00:34:39
about it. We got to keep putting this
00:34:40
stuff out there. So All right, next story.
00:34:48
Sacramento, run by a super majority of the political party
00:34:52
that pretends to be all about democracy and transparency,
00:34:57
doesn't want to tell you what's going on with this capital annex
00:35:01
and why are they building secret tunnels where they can avoid the
00:35:04
public? Let's get into that story right
00:35:07
now. Construction continues, and so
00:35:11
does the secrecy surrounding the California Capital Annex
00:35:14
project. The steel beams you see now will
00:35:17
someday house the offices of state lawmakers and the
00:35:20
governor. But exactly how much it will
00:35:22
cost and when it will be completed is still to be seen.
00:35:26
The Joint Rules Committee leading the project has violated
00:35:29
the Legislative Open Records Act, refusing to acknowledge or
00:35:33
respond to KCRA 3's latest request for its contracts with
00:35:36
Turner Construction. The Records Act requires them to
00:35:39
respond within four business days.
00:35:42
It's been 29 since our request. The.
00:35:45
Legislative Open and Records Act actually specifies that it is a
00:35:49
fundamental and necessary right for the public to have access to
00:35:53
legislative documents. Adjunct Mcgeord School of Law
00:35:56
professor Chris McHale is also a lobbyist and longtime capital
00:36:00
observer. And again, disclosure of the
00:36:03
taxpayer dollars that are being expended on this project
00:36:07
certainly are appropriate for public disclosure.
00:36:10
But I think one of the points that is being lost here is, is
00:36:14
that this is the people's house. That's not our only hurdle with
00:36:19
the records requests. Earlier this spring, we
00:36:21
requested a cost estimate on how much more lawmakers plan to
00:36:25
spend on security measures in the new building.
00:36:28
Nearly two months after submitting that request with no
00:36:31
response, Joint Rules said they did not have an estimate.
00:36:34
We also asked, with those security measures in place, what
00:36:38
specific spaces will journalists have to work and access
00:36:42
lawmakers? Joint Rules responded by
00:36:44
basically saying the public's interest is better served if it
00:36:48
doesn't have that information. So.
00:36:51
The public is better served. These are elected
00:36:56
representatives in California. Remember the party of democracy
00:37:00
and transparency. The public is better served.
00:37:06
If you don't know, wow. OK, we have a shirt on our store
00:37:14
website and it's one of my favorites.
00:37:16
I wear, you know, I wear the sweatshirt.
00:37:18
I need to get more of the the stuff.
00:37:20
But it's literally says the elites hate you.
00:37:24
That right there might be the perfect encapsulation of this
00:37:29
principle that the elites hate you.
00:37:33
They tell you, listen, peasants, you're better off not knowing.
00:37:37
You don't need to know what's going on up here and what we're
00:37:40
spending your tax debt, just we're building a nice new
00:37:43
capital annex for us. And you can just sit down and
00:37:46
shut up and stop asking questions.
00:37:50
This project is less transparent than some of the top secret
00:37:54
military projects I worked on. Dick Cowan served on the
00:37:58
Historic State Capital Commission before becoming a
00:38:01
vocal opponent of the Annex project.
00:38:03
Doesn't our constitution about say something about not
00:38:07
abridging the right of a Free Press?
00:38:10
I would think they would be eager to share with you in the
00:38:14
COVID era, in the terrorist threat era, here's how we've
00:38:20
balanced the needs of the press to have access to the government
00:38:26
with these new factors. The Legislature has said it
00:38:29
plans to update the public on the project at some point this
00:38:33
year. They have at some point.
00:38:37
Don't worry peasants, at some point this year, we'll get back
00:38:40
to you. Maybe.
00:38:41
I don't know. You don't need to know anyway.
00:38:44
We don't need to know what we're spending all your tax dollars
00:38:46
on. To say when at the state
00:38:49
Capitol. Ashley Zavala KCRA 3 News.
00:38:52
And there's this, we also reported that broad non
00:38:55
disclosure agreements on the project have been legally
00:38:57
forcing 2000 people to basically keep information about all of
00:39:01
this under wraps. And that includes several state
00:39:03
lawmakers and government officials and those NDA's are
00:39:07
still in place. That's another element is a lot
00:39:12
of people signed NDA's regarding this.
00:39:15
There's a lot of people who are involved in this.
00:39:17
The planning committee, those who are working on it, signed
00:39:19
Ndas. Basically, they can't tell you
00:39:21
what is going on and what they're actually doing and what
00:39:24
the contracts are for. We have no idea what they're
00:39:28
spending money on or what they're building up there with
00:39:30
that capital annex. They are spending a ton of our
00:39:32
money, that's for sure. They're spending our tax dollars
00:39:35
that we give them, but they don't feel beholden to tell us
00:39:38
what is going on at the capital annex or what they're building.
00:39:43
This is a snippet from a different article talking about
00:39:45
private hallways. Uh, they're for lawmakers are
00:39:50
called secret corridors. That's what they're dubbing
00:39:52
them. Speaking at Institute of
00:39:54
Governmental Advocates meeting in Sacramento, McGuire, who is
00:39:57
the Senate pro temp leader, confirmed to dozens of lobbyists
00:40:02
that there will be private hallways for lawmakers in the
00:40:05
new capital annex. McGuire did not deny in a
00:40:08
statement to KCRA 3. Quote, secure corridors have
00:40:12
always been included in plans for the new annex as they
00:40:15
already exist in this space. And we designed to help ensure
00:40:19
the safety and security of lawmakers, which is even more
00:40:22
important today given the events that unfolded on January 6 at
00:40:26
our nation's Capitol building. In the act of threats public
00:40:29
officials continue to face, sources said the private
00:40:34
hallways will now bridge the two, shielding lawmakers from
00:40:37
the public, journalists and lobbyists who may want to speak
00:40:40
with them. Right after they vote.
00:40:42
Before I get into the elevator. So Ndas, people who worked on
00:40:48
this project or voted on this project, playing this project,
00:40:51
can't talk about what's going on.
00:40:52
They won't tell you what's going on with this project.
00:40:56
The joint committee rules won't tell you because even if you
00:40:59
require them, they're required by 30 days.
00:41:01
They won't tell you what's going on right now.
00:41:03
It's 29 days. I think they missed their
00:41:04
deadline. The story is a couple days old
00:41:08
at this point. This was published on the 24th.
00:41:10
It's now the 29th. So I think they missed their
00:41:12
deadline. And now they're talking about
00:41:15
secret corridors where they don't even have to face the
00:41:18
public or lobbyists or reporters.
00:41:22
This is how democracy or transparency dies.
00:41:25
It dies right here in Sacramento where they don't want you.
00:41:28
Because when you have a super majority, who's going to stop
00:41:30
you, right? When you have a super majority,
00:41:33
who's going to stop you? Who's going to question you?
00:41:35
And right now, if you you do see more reporters like Ashley
00:41:39
Zavala going into Sacramento and asking these tough questions,
00:41:42
they don't like it. Speaker Rivas is notorious for
00:41:45
running away from reporters. If you see him in Sacramento, he
00:41:48
does not answer any of these questions.
00:41:50
So it is not shocking that they are being so secretive about
00:41:54
this and the fact that they are going to run on this January 6th
00:41:58
thing for probably the next attorney about January 6.
00:42:02
And they're never going to let that, you know, they're just
00:42:04
going to say this is the reason we have to do XY and Z.
00:42:06
This is why politicians have to be, you know, secured with all
00:42:09
the security and secret corridors and stuff like that.
00:42:12
You start to elevate them to not politicians, but now they're
00:42:15
Lords and ladies, like actual royalty.
00:42:17
That's sort of what they're doing with January 6.
00:42:20
There is something interesting. So the new office building is
00:42:23
expected to cost as much as an NFL stadium and will end up
00:42:27
being more expensive than the Golden One Center in Sacramento.
00:42:32
At last check, the capital annex project was expected to cost
00:42:36
California taxpayers $1.1 billion, which I think is triple
00:42:42
what they originally planned. And now it's going to be this
00:42:46
better be one heck of an annex if it's going to cost as much as
00:42:50
a football stadium, an NFL football stadium.
00:42:52
But it is going to be 1 giant secretive capital annex where
00:42:58
politicians can run and hide and not be accountable to the
00:43:01
public, not be accountable to the journalist, not be
00:43:04
accountable even to their lobbyist buddies so they can run
00:43:07
away and vote on, you know, all these unpopular things like the
00:43:11
laws we were just talking about. But this is the problem with a
00:43:15
super majority is that they have now reached the point where they
00:43:18
think they are above everybody else.
00:43:20
We don't need to deem any information to you, you
00:43:23
peasants. Just listen to us.
00:43:25
We Lord over you. We've really become a feudal
00:43:27
state here in California. So this is where transparency
00:43:30
and democracy goes to dies in, in Sacramento where they don't
00:43:33
want to talk to anybody. I mean, right now, I mean, the
00:43:36
capital annex is about as transparent as what's going on
00:43:39
with the Epstein file. So I don't know which one is
00:43:42
more transparent, the Epstein files or the capital annex.
00:43:45
You can let me know in the comments.
00:43:49
All right, so I said spend all my money as long as you don't
00:43:55
misgender me. Look, the high speed rails going
00:44:00
and go right through it. So please respect their privacy
00:44:03
as they build this. Yeah, maybe that's the plan is
00:44:05
they're going to put the high speed rail right up to the end
00:44:07
of it. A government agency that had a
00:44:12
project and went over budget. I'm shocked.
00:44:15
I know, I know you're shocked. Thank you everyone for hanging
00:44:18
out in the chat tonight. It's a lot of a lot of people
00:44:21
hanging out wherever you are, where they're on YouTube, XIG,
00:44:24
Rumble, all those places. Let's see, so they can shoot
00:44:29
some ladder around without being confronted for their their
00:44:31
crimes, their failures of the personal controversy.
00:44:34
Yep. Yeah.
00:44:35
They don't want to answer to anybody.
00:44:39
Anyone think that's odd, Kylie? The last state to court account
00:44:42
flows, but it's done the quickest.
00:44:45
Yeah, it does. And the Secretary of State said
00:44:47
it would cost more money. That's what she said.
00:44:50
She said the reason it takes so long is because it would cost
00:44:52
more money if we counted up faster.
00:44:55
Well, they seem to have plenty of money laying around for a
00:44:57
capital annex with all these like bat caves and secret
00:44:59
tunnels and all that stuff. So I bet it would reveal
00:45:06
something like the tunnel is an expensive nuke proof bomb
00:45:08
shelter scaring and angering the public.
00:45:11
Yeah, maybe maybe they they built themselves a little bunker
00:45:15
or something like that. We're remodeling Mordor, so do
00:45:27
All right, final story of the day.
00:45:29
Let's get into it and then we have a couple minutes.
00:45:31
I'll hop back on the chat and chat with you guys.
00:45:36
Karen Bass, she said quite the year and it's been a rough year.
00:45:41
2025, she had wildfires, she had the protests and then she got
00:45:46
this interview with ABC, which I think she thought was going to
00:45:50
be some sort of softball interview.
00:45:52
And then when it wasn't, everything sort of unravelled
00:45:55
for her. And I well, she said the quiet
00:45:58
part out loud, so let's take a look.
00:46:01
When you look at the raids and the deportations, just tell me
00:46:08
who you think should be deported.
00:46:10
Is it just people who've been convicted of crimes?
00:46:14
You have, what, almost a million undocumented workers in Los
00:46:18
Angeles? What should happen to those?
00:46:21
So let me just say that because we are a city of immigrants, we
00:46:26
have entire sectors of our economy that are dependent on
00:46:29
immigrant labor. We have to get the fire areas
00:46:33
rebuilt. We're not going to get our city
00:46:35
rebuilt without immigrant labor. And it's not just the
00:46:38
deportation, it's. Just going to throw this out
00:46:45
there. It is illegal under US code to
00:46:49
employ illegal aliens. So is Karen Bass advocating that
00:46:56
people need to employ illegally and which is committing federal
00:47:00
crimes? Is that what she's advocating?
00:47:01
She's telling people you should just go out and commit federal
00:47:03
crimes. She's also saying that there's
00:47:05
absolutely no way we could get this solved unless you just stop
00:47:10
deportations in Los Angeles. Fear that sets in when raids
00:47:16
occur, when people are snatched off the street.
00:47:19
And I know you are aware that even people who are here
00:47:22
legally, even people who are U.S. citizens, have been
00:47:25
detained. Immigrants who had their papers
00:47:28
and were showing up for their their annual immigration
00:47:32
appointment were detained when they showed up doing exactly
00:47:35
what they were supposed to be doing.
00:47:37
So they should not be. Deployed.
00:47:38
I don't. Think they should stay?
00:47:40
Well, this is 1. Undocumented.
00:47:42
No. Let me.
00:47:43
Just tell you what I think. Martha, asking the hardball
00:47:49
questions here at Point Point Blank.
00:47:51
Karen Bass, do you think the million undocumented immigrants
00:47:55
here, undocumented citizens, illegal aliens should be allowed
00:47:59
to stay in LA? Because that's her argument is
00:48:02
that, you know, the economy will fall apart in Los Angeles if we
00:48:05
keep these deportation. We won't be able to rebuild the
00:48:07
Palisades. I mean, you won't be able to
00:48:09
rebuild the Palisades mostly because the city of LA is
00:48:12
dragging their feet when it's coming to permitting.
00:48:14
Because I don't know, there's only been like a dozen or so,
00:48:18
you know, out of 96 or something, like there's only
00:48:20
been like a dozen permits even issued in Los Angeles.
00:48:25
Comprehensive immigration reform.
00:48:27
I served in Congress for 12 years and didn't get it.
00:48:30
And, well, it didn't. And didn't get it.
00:48:35
I, I have to give credit to Martha here because this is this
00:48:39
is some hardball stuff. I always laugh at this because
00:48:43
if you want to know how Democrats really don't care
00:48:46
about this issue and they just use this issue just for
00:48:51
political points, think of how many times Democrats have
00:48:55
controlled the presidency in both houses of Congress, and
00:48:58
they never got something done, right?
00:49:02
They never got something done. You know, when Barack Obama was
00:49:07
in office and he was immensely popular, right?
00:49:13
Why didn't you get it done then? You've been there for 12 years.
00:49:16
You didn't get it done. When Joe Biden was in office,
00:49:19
you didn't get it done. So yeah, it this shows me that
00:49:26
it wasn't a top priority for them.
00:49:28
It's only a top priority for them now because they can kick
00:49:30
their feet and throw a little temper tantrum about it.
00:49:32
So for all those who think that Democrats care about this, I
00:49:35
don't, I don't believe they actually care about this issue.
00:49:38
It's only for politics. And then why didn't we get it?
00:49:41
I mean, after I left, there was an immigration reform bill that
00:49:45
had bipartisan support. This was during the campaign.
00:49:49
The president decided he didn't want to have it happen because
00:49:53
he didn't want immigrant immigration reform to happen
00:49:57
where he didn't take credit. For it but but but.
00:50:03
Shocker. It's Trump's fault that's I've
00:50:07
been in Congress for 12 years and it's Trump's fault that we
00:50:11
didn't get immigration reform. And let me see, I'm no
00:50:14
mathematician, but let's see, OK, 12 years ago, how many
00:50:17
years? And then, you know, there was
00:50:19
Joe Biden in the middle, right? You still had the opportunity
00:50:25
and Democrats still had the opportunity.
00:50:27
So it's all Trump's fault, right?
00:50:31
Because you put forward this bill and the Republicans
00:50:35
controlled the House and they said, no, we're not going to do
00:50:37
it, it's Trump's fault. Yep.
00:50:41
Forget the fact that again, like I said, you had Barack Obama,
00:50:44
immensely popular president back in the time.
00:50:46
Didn't do it. To that question of undocumented
00:50:49
workers, I'm, I'm thinking back and a border control agent once
00:50:53
said to me, as we saw migrants during a very bad time for so
00:50:58
many migrants coming across when Joe Biden was president and you
00:51:01
know that just massive numbers. And I said, do you feel bad for
00:51:05
these people? And the border agents said, you
00:51:08
know what I I do, But I also know they're cutting in line in
00:51:12
front of those people who want to do it legally in the right
00:51:15
way. Let me just tell you that the
00:51:18
people that make that trek, many of whom walk from Central
00:51:23
America and even South America up to our border, risk their
00:51:28
lives. I don't believe that all of
00:51:31
these people are sitting at home dreaming of coming to Los
00:51:34
Angeles. They're coming.
00:51:37
I mean, we can agree on that. I, I, yeah, I don't think a lot
00:51:41
of people are dreaming of going to Los Angeles, but not in the
00:51:45
current state it's in. I don't think a lot of people
00:51:47
are dreaming about going to Los Angeles.
00:51:48
So we can certainly agree there. Here out of desperation.
00:51:55
No offense to people who live in Los Angeles, it's not my cup of
00:51:58
tea. Again, I'm from San Diego.
00:52:01
I like San Diego better. Look, go back to Joe Biden
00:52:04
again, OK, There were there was hundreds of thousands of people
00:52:09
crossing that border. When you look at that border
00:52:12
today, is there anything good you think the administration has
00:52:14
done in these six months at the border?
00:52:16
Well. I will he preys on the
00:52:19
administration for the first six months in Los Angeles with the
00:52:22
fires if you. That's not an answer.
00:52:29
The answer, the question was, is there anything you thought they
00:52:32
did well on the border, not the wildfires.
00:52:35
Ask me, is there anything that they have done good in terms of
00:52:39
immigration? I don't know.
00:52:41
I don't think so. I think that the viewpoint has
00:52:44
been punitive has been let's make it as miserable as possible
00:52:48
so that these people don't come. Are you having conversations
00:52:51
with the Trump administration about this?
00:52:53
I have not. Recently I have put in a request
00:52:56
and I hope to. I will always be open to a
00:52:59
conversation. So even with the guard here,
00:53:01
they they've had no conversations.
00:53:03
I want to work with the administration to solve this
00:53:06
problem. We have the World Cup in 11
00:53:09
short months here. We have the Olympics and
00:53:12
Paralympics coming in three short years.
00:53:15
I know that these games are very important to the president and I
00:53:19
look forward to working with him.
00:53:21
And we have a extreme. Well, I'm sure he's looking
00:53:28
forward to working with you as well, but I don't think he wants
00:53:30
to do the things that you want to work together on regarding
00:53:33
deportations. You know, there was that
00:53:37
incident in the park where you came down, wagged your finger
00:53:39
and act like, you know, the prototypical Karen waving at ICE
00:53:43
and Border Patrol to get out of there.
00:53:47
She, I think, really stepped in it in this interview.
00:53:50
And I give credit to Martha from ABC, Martha Raddatz, who gave
00:53:55
her hardball questions. It was not a softball interview.
00:53:59
She basically said, look, do you believe that 1
00:54:03
undocumented citizens or illegal aliens in the Los Angeles area
00:54:06
should stay here? And she pressed her on it.
00:54:10
Like, do you think, you know, hundreds of thousands were
00:54:13
pouring across the border? Dorian, Joe Biden, did you have
00:54:15
a problem with that? It's and she put her into a
00:54:19
little box. She basically made Karen Bass
00:54:23
admit I love open borders and illegal immigration.
00:54:26
That's what she basically admitted in that entire
00:54:29
interview, is that we want these people to come here.
00:54:33
We want people to, to make the trek to come here.
00:54:35
We want open borders. We, you know, we, I had no
00:54:39
problem with Joe Biden opening the border and letting them
00:54:41
flood across. I had no problem with that.
00:54:44
That is what she's basically saying.
00:54:46
And Martha got her to admit that on camera right there in that
00:54:51
interview. She could not defend it.
00:54:53
She could not for the life of her give any sort of credit to
00:54:57
the Trump administration for doing what they're doing.
00:55:00
She couldn't say anything. You know, she brought up that
00:55:03
story about Border Patrol and how he felt bad for people who
00:55:07
were doing it the right way and how there's people who are
00:55:10
cutting. And there's another issue that
00:55:13
Democrats never bring up about illegal immigration, which is a
00:55:17
really sad issue. And I, I urge you, you can go
00:55:19
back to our episode with Jorge Ventura.
00:55:22
Is the child trafficking that is going on at the border right
00:55:26
now, the amount of little minor children who are ending up
00:55:30
caught or, you know, apprehended at the border because they are
00:55:33
these children who you have no idea who they're with.
00:55:36
They're not with their parents, and they're being trafficked
00:55:38
across the border and then sent off to all parts of the country.
00:55:42
That, to me is an incredible tragedy that none of the
00:55:45
Democrats ever talk about or they never bring up.
00:55:48
But Karen Bass in that interview, basically open
00:55:52
admission, she's for open border, she's for illegal
00:55:55
immigration. We need it because we need them
00:55:58
to rebuild the Palisades. We need it because we have the
00:56:01
games coming. Like this is all the stuff that
00:56:03
she knew. I mean, we have the our economy
00:56:05
will fall apart if we get rid of all of these people.
00:56:08
Our whole economy is based on illegal immigration.
00:56:10
But it is interesting to see how she, Martha pressed her.
00:56:14
She thought she was getting a softball interview and instead
00:56:17
she got a hard interview, flubbed up and really stepped in
00:56:21
it and said the quiet part out loud.
00:56:23
Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
00:56:24
Do you think that Karen Bass really said the quiet part out
00:56:28
loud and really just let everybody know her real agenda
00:56:31
when it comes to illegal immigration in Los Angeles?
00:56:39
All right, Camille said in the chat. 12 years was actually
00:56:47
Obama's second term. So thank you for the math.
00:56:51
His entire second term, I was trying to do the math in my
00:56:53
head. I'm trying to be like 12 years.
00:56:55
It's been how many years? Because eight years, right,
00:57:00
would have been Trump's first. So four years before that would
00:57:03
have been. Yeah, that would have been
00:57:04
Obama's first or second term. So thank you for doing the math.
00:57:08
I can do the math in my head. All right, got a couple more
00:57:11
minutes left. Thank you, everybody, for
00:57:13
hopping in the chat. We got a lively chat going on.
00:57:16
Everybody, wherever you're tuning in, if you're listening
00:57:19
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00:57:23
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00:57:26
So thank you, everyone for tuning in live and all that
00:57:30
stuff. Let's see in Life is Hard.
00:57:32
Take your pick. The burn area, tents on the
00:57:35
street or the protest where you want to live.
00:57:39
Immigrants. Yeah.
00:57:41
That's basically, you know, they're dreaming about moving to
00:57:44
Los Angeles. That's kind of, you know,
00:57:48
talking down to her about her city.
00:57:50
Yeah, I, I found that kind of odd that she kind of talked down
00:57:53
her own settings, like, oh, I doubt people in Central America
00:57:57
are dreaming about coming to Los Angeles.
00:58:00
Like, wow, you think that Los Angeles is worse than a third
00:58:05
world country? OK, nice of you to say, Karen.
00:58:10
You think that people don't dream of coming from a third
00:58:14
world country of Los Angeles because it's it's worse or not
00:58:18
better? All right, Feds needs to
00:58:22
investigate and prosecutor the feds.
00:58:25
Well, we did this a couple episodes ago about the
00:58:29
concentration of illegal immigration in Los Angeles.
00:58:32
So it makes sense why there's so much activity with ICE and
00:58:34
Border Patrol in Los Angeles. It's the highest concentration
00:58:38
in all of. So if you're going to really
00:58:40
kind of chip away, Los Angeles is where it's at.
00:58:43
Like she said one you know, Martha said in the interview
00:58:46
1 undocking citizens. Yeah, she does have those
00:58:50
communist ties. So that is Karen Bash.
00:58:54
You did learn under some communist could be new Olympic
00:58:58
events for LA homeless long jump use needle jab and throw.
00:59:02
The chat is wild. And tonight, you guys are crazy.
00:59:06
All right, I'm confused because I was told that during the BI
00:59:10
administration, our borders were safe and we had no invasion.
00:59:13
Yeah, Kamala was on top of it. Kamala Harris was on top of it.
00:59:16
Now imagine she runs for governor of California, and
00:59:19
that's an issue is about the border.
00:59:20
And her borders are so I think is a lot of Californians, you
00:59:24
know, don't really mind her stance on the border.
00:59:28
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