Gavin Newsom says he'll campaign for any Democratic nominee heading into 2028 — but his team went quiet when asked if that includes candidates from a self-described "Marxist-Leninist-Maoist" caucus. This week: what Newsom actually said, what he wouldn't answer, and what it means for his national ambitions.
Also on the show: Katie Porter was a frontrunner for governor a year ago. She just finished fifth with 4.4% of the vote — and says she's done with politics.
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Gavin Newsom tries to cozy up with Democratic Socialist of
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America as they continue to rise in popularity.
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Will it benefit his run in 2028 or will it be a liability that
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will come back to haunt him? Also, Katie Porter is out of
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politics. Is it too good to be true?
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We're going to get into that as well.
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Also, Lawson has not disclosed any of their findings or any of
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their budget, as they are required to under law.
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We're going to get into all that and more on this episode of The
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crazy thinking about can I make this chapter better?
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Can I make, oh, let me do a little bit more here.
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It's like now at a certain point, like you've written the
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book, I don't think, I think if you've talked to any author,
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they're going to look at you and go, I probably could have done
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things differently. Maybe the book's not perfect.
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They probably have something in their eye, their mind, but I
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think it's really good. It covers everything that, you
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know, California history, where we came from, all the issues
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that we're facing today, homelessness, crime, economy,
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taxes, education, even farming and ranching, stuff like that.
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Like this is literally a book that is looking at the entire
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history of California, where we were, why California was the
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American dream. In fact, that's the subtitle of
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the book is how California Went from the American Dream to the
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American Nightmare. And it's basically a look at all
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these different industries and how it went from everything that
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everybody wants it to be to what we are today.
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And it has a happy ending. There's there's solutions and
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stuff at the end. All right, enough chitter
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chatter. Let's get into the first topic,
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which is Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom, if there's
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anything you know about old noodles, he never does anything.
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If not for politics, if not for some sort of political move,
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just keep that in mind. Everything that Gavin Newsom has
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some sort of political angle behind it and it's calculated.
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It's calculated for why he does it.
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And if you dig long enough, look at it through those lens.
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If you look at then also everybody in the chat, make sure
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you let us know where you're teaming in from or tuning in
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from. Love to hear where you guys are
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tuning in from. Live in the chat.
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See you all. We have international people.
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Someone from Papua New Guinea actually checked in last week.
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That was pretty awesome. Some people over in like the UK
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and Europe are checking in. Awesome.
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Hey, everybody in international communities, all our
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international fans, there's always a political angle to
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everything Gavin Newsom does. End of story.
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If you examine everything that Gavin Newsom does in his entire
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political career, there's always a political angle to it.
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It's not something he does out of the altruism of his heart.
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It's not something that he sincerely believes.
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He does it because he knows it might help him get to the next
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ring of power. And this is no different.
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This story that came out just recently, basically what is
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happening is that Gavin Newsom is now openly saying I'm going
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to cozy up with the Democratic Socialist of America.
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And we had a whole video about the Democratic Socialist of
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America as a live I did on Thursday night.
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Why they're rising in power. We're not getting into that.
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If you want to go check it out, go check it out.
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It's on YouTube. But the Democratic Socialist of
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America are rising in popularity.
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I think it's 120 registered members now across the country.
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They are winning in races. They're winning in primary
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races, some races in New York, which we're going to talk about
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in a second as an example of why you don't trust the Democratic
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Socialist of America. And Gavin Newsom went out and he
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had this press conference and, well, let's just walk through
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this video because I think this is really important.
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And I apologize for the volume. They didn't mic up the
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reporters, so it may sound a little quiet.
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I'll try and do my best to skip through to the parts where he's
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actually talking and let's get into that.
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These are the parts where it's really quiet.
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So someone's asking a question about basically, are you going
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to campaign with Democratic Socialists of America because
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they're getting more and more popular.
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It's a really long question, long winded.
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If you know anything about reporters, they're always asking
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these long winded questions. Look, as I said, I'm for
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addition in the spirit of academia, not for subtraction.
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I think we're, we're all better off and we're all better off.
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Parties are better off when they have some grace and humility and
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there's fundamental shared values that that unite us
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together. But we're many parts and and,
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and I maybe it's just deep familiarity.
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You know, I ran against the vice presidential nominee for Ralph
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Nader, member of the Green Party for mayor progressives in San
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Francisco with the early versions of the DSA.
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I've seen this all my life. I think it's incredibly healthy.
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I don't understand this sort of notion.
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It's 0 sum and it's always been present in our politics.
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I've been sort of mystified by the punditry.
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There's a lot of I get for certain reasons, there's a over
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indexing because they want to paint the picture of the party.
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So I get the the mishegosh in that respect.
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But you know, Howard Dean in the before the scream, you know, it
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was a different kind of progressive politics.
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The Green Party was an ascendancy during, you know, the
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early, you know, late part of 99, 2002 thousand 123
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progressives, you know, in all stripes of the sort of early DSA
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and what are they promoting? They oh TK you're right for all
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free Community College, you know, low carbon green growth,
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you know, cap and trade, you know, equity, higher minimum
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wage $25 for healthcare workers in Ashley's point, $20.00 for
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fast food workers. I think 1690.
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I haven't checked the latest indexing.
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I think it's going in effect shortly on on that.
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Those are what they're advocating for.
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Where? All right, so things he's saying
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that they are advocating for things that the Green Party and
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progressives had campaigned on way back in the day.
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If you remember about, Oh my gosh, that was like 26 years
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ago, there was an ascendancy of like Ralph Nader and the Green
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Party and the Green Party was the more Liberal Party left of
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the Democrats. And there still are Green Party.
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People used to always see a Green Party candidate.
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Jill Stein was one that Jill Stein they blamed for why Trump
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won in 2016. A lot of Democrats point at Jill
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Stein and basically said you're the reason that Trump won is
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because you didn't get out of the race and you cost us the
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race. I don't know if that was that
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much of a big difference, but the Green Party was around and
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now the Democratic Socialist America in one form or another
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have been around for a long time.
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It's not like they've transformed from the Green Party
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into the Democratic Socialist of America.
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And I apologize if my eye is freaking out.
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It's been something going on with my eyes.
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So if it looks like I'm my eyes tweaking out, I'm sorry about
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that. So that he's saying that they
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what they've done is they they campaigned on these issues and
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they became part of the Democratic platform that works
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for a while, that works for a while, where you can start to
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pluck from farther left parties and start to pluck a lot of
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their platforms. The difference here that is very
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important that people need to realize is those parties were
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putting up a lot of these issues and they were getting their
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issues onto the platform for Democrats.
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And they were saying, OK, well, if we can't win elections, at
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least we'll bring up these points and these these promises
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and all these issues. And then Democrats will take it
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and run with it. The difference here that I think
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everybody really needs to focus on is that that was then when
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the when Green Party people were not winning.
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Now you have democratic socials of America who are winning and
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they're very popular. You have the mayor of New York
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City, one of the largest cities, if not the largest city in
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America. I think it's either LA or New
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York is a democratic socialist, a very out and about democratic
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socialist. You have someone who's running
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for the mayor of Los Angeles who is a democratic socialist.
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Their ascendancy is no longer incumbent on whether or not
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Democrats pluck from their platform and make promises that
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they won't follow through on. And I think that's a lot to do
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with the fact that you have this frustration on the left of these
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corporatist Democrats and corporatist Democrats.
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I mean, basically you're Bill Clintons, you're Hillary
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Clinton. They say even Joe Biden was sort
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of a corporatist Democrat. Obama turned out to be a
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corporatist Democrat. All these kind of center left
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Democrats who never really were as progressive as they wanted
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him to be. So they got frustrated.
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They got frustrated with this Democratic Party, and now they
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have Democratic socials of America.
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So they kind of embedded themselves into the Democratic
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Party, added that moniker of they are democratic socialists.
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So they're Democrats who are basically socialists.
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And we're going to get into the pillars of what they kind of
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stand for. And now you have Gavin Newsom
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who recognizes that there are more and more democratic
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socialists, that this fever of democratic socialism is rising
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in America and you better get on board or they're going to
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outflank you to the left. This was a valuable, this was
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easy for him to say. Oh, I, you know, I faced the
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Green Party and all that. That's fine, whatever.
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And I, you know, I've handled them whatever.
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I, I've seen this my whole life. And Democrats, we've always
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taken them for their inspiration, their issues for
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environmentalism and minimum wage and all this stuff, all
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these crazy, you know, political progressive ideas that we are
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now seeing here in California, that we see from far left
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progressives here in, in California.
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That's not gonna work this time around.
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He may say that. Yeah, 26 years ago when I beat
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Matt Gonzales in the mayoral race in San Francisco and he
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beat him pretty handedly. It wasn't even really close.
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Gavin Newsom kind of walloped him.
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That was his first election. His second election, basically
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no one ran against Gavin Newsom. He was unopposed.
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I think it was like a couple people, but they were kind of
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like wackadoodle people. Not really even, you know, not
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even really worth mentioning. But he walloped Matt Gonzalez
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and he said, OK, well, I'm going to take some of your ideas,
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'cause they're very progressive and I'll, I'll put them in my,
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in my platform. That's not going to work this
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time around, OK, You can't run against democratic socialists
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and pretend, oh, I'll just take your ideas and I can run with
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them and that's fine. And you'll vote me in as a
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Democrat. The left does not like
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corporatist center left Democrats right now.
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They are very tired of it. And I think you see it on the
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right too. You're seeing a lot of people
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who are frustrated right now with the MAGA movement and all
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that, that the right is not going as far or as conservative
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as they want it. And now you see the left is
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saying we're you're not going as progressive as you want as we
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want you to. So he's trying to kind of play
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it off of like, well, this has always been around and and you
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know, sure, whatever. This is a great idea.
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This is a different political beast.
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Advocating for all of that and balanced budgets, not to be
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profligate, to be progressive. And we made that point with the
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budgets 2 year budget where we also made historic investments
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in what else they're advocating for, which is childcare.
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No other state, I don't know another state in the United
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States. We, I don't, we just need to
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name it something. I think we're failing on that
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149. I don't, this is important, more
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important perhaps even than the next question.
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And, and let me and now I'm going to get to your question,
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but hold on one second. 149 new subsidized childcare slots.
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We just did another 22 in the budget.
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That's a big deal. That's a big deal.
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I'm proud of that. Members of our party, members of
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the DSA are also promoting that. So the alignment is more
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remarkably, you know, I just the Venn diagram from my perspective
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is, you know, sort of 8020 as opposed to 2080.
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And so I, I just don't see this in those old terms.
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Hold on one SEC. You ought to.
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I'm going to push back on that. Maybe in California, democratic
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socialists are more more 8020 rather than 2080, and he's
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trying to save the Venn diagram of democratic socialists and
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Democrats. Maybe here in California there's
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more of an overlap. So they kind of almost become
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two circles on top of each other.
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There's just a little bit of gap difference.
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This is where it's going to bite.
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Someone like Gavin Newsom in the butt is on local and far left
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cities and liberal cities and blue cities and blue states.
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Democratic socialists can do well and we've seen that in New
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York. We could possibly see it in LA
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as well. The difference is, is we all
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know Gavin Newsom's running for president and try and push these
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ideas in the bread basket in the fly over states in the Midwest.
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Try and push a lot of these ideas about rent control and the
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state owning property and all of these socialist ideas that are
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basically right out of the Lenin Marxist playbook.
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And we're going to talk about those pillars of what they stand
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for. Put that out there to the voters
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in the swing states, I don't think it's going to go over as
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well. And I think Democrats from those
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states are seeing that there are problems that democratic
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socialists are not. There's not even a Venn diagram
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in some of these Midwest states of Democrats and democratic
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socialists. There's not a lot of overlap.
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And all of these radical ideas that you hear being spouted out
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of Mandani and New York, try and play those out in the rest of
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the country in the primary and we'll see how it goes.
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He's trying to court them right now and say I'll, I'll campaign
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with him no problem. I think it's great that we have
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this, you know, he says. It's this great idea, like
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debate of ideas. It's great.
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Let's all talk about these really socialist ideas together.
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It works in California. I don't know if it's going to
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work in the in the presidential race follow.
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Yeah. Look, I, I, I'm, we got to take
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back the House of Representatives that we'll lose
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this Republic. I talked about this Trump
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administration as the great grift because this is a
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corruption story. We will lose the Republic.
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OK, this is off topic, but is anyone else getting tired of
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this? If you don't vote for Party A or
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Party B or red party or blue party, we're going to lose the
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Republic. Like this is it.
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Like, it feels like we hear this every single two year, every two
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years, whether it's the presidential or the midterms,
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we're always hearing, well, if you don't vote for our party,
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America's over and the Republic's lost.
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We've heard that basically for the past 16 years.
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It seems like it just is the same thing.
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If you don't vote for us, the Republic's over.
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Just I, I just want to ask if anybody in the chat wants to let
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me know, what are you tired of this sort of brinksmanship of?
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Like, if you don't vote for us, the Republic's effectively over.
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So if we don't win the House of Representatives, that's what
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Newsome's saying, is if we don't win the House of
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Representatives, the Republic is over.
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I mean, a lot of people were afraid that the Republic was
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over when Joe Biden got into power.
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And we're still here. So things survive.
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That's the reason why our constitutional Republic indoors
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so long is because of checks and balances.
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It's kind of hard to tear down it, but let's keep going.
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I made a point on July 4th. If you haven't seen my speech,
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you should take a look at the speech.
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You'll know exactly my mindset. We will lose this country unless
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we're vigilant about what's going on in terms of election
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security. This is code.
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This is serious. The five alarm fire.
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This guy is not screwing around. He's just winding up more
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unhinged by the hour. Now look at the performance
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overseas NATO. Now Spain's one of our biggest
00:19:18
enemies. I mean, this is serious stuff.
00:19:23
So yes, I will advocate to take back the House of
00:19:26
Representatives. I'll advocate to make sure that
00:19:29
there's a system of checks and balances so we could truly
00:19:32
celebrate the 250th anniversary of the best of Roman Republic
00:19:35
and Greek democracy and our founding fathers.
00:19:37
Because that's what a Republic is all about, for which it
00:19:40
stands three independent Co equal branches of government,
00:19:44
not the. Mind you that there's a lot of
00:19:47
democratic socialists and far left people of his party who are
00:19:50
advocating for undoing a lot of the the pillars of checks and
00:19:53
balances is that they want to, they asked AOC if they want to
00:19:58
abolish the Senate. That's one of their ideas.
00:20:00
They want to abolish the Senate because they think it's not fair
00:20:03
that everybody gets 2 votes and that they can't just for some
00:20:06
reason Democrats can't haven't figured out how to break that
00:20:09
gridlock and get into power again.
00:20:11
It's been a while since they've been in power in the Senate.
00:20:15
The House kind of flips back and forth.
00:20:17
They want to abolish the Senate. They want to pack the Supreme
00:20:19
Court. They basically want to add
00:20:21
electoral votes through Puerto Rico and Washington, DC and all
00:20:24
these different places. So they want to undo the stuff
00:20:27
that the Republic stands for. Yet their advocate and saying
00:20:30
that if you don't do this, we're going to lose the Republic
00:20:32
unless you tilt the game back into our favor.
00:20:37
I mean, if they want to talk about abolishing the Senate, I
00:20:39
would rather, I would counter proposal that we have to abolish
00:20:42
the 17th. If that's what you're concerned
00:20:43
about, sure, abolish the 17th. Let's have that conversation.
00:20:47
AOC, do you want to talk about why we should abolish the 17th?
00:20:50
Because that was the original intent of the founders was not
00:20:53
to have a direct people vote for the Senate.
00:20:57
That wasn't the point of the Senate.
00:20:58
For those who don't know, this is really an, an aside for me.
00:21:00
This is one of my nerdy wonky things that I, I obsess over.
00:21:05
The 17th amendment was enacted around the time, I mean, it was
00:21:08
right after the income tax. So think about the Progressive
00:21:11
Era, early 20th century, 1900s. They started with the direct
00:21:17
election of senators by the people.
00:21:19
And this is something, oddly enough, tell me in the chat.
00:21:23
I was thinking about this the other day.
00:21:26
Did anyone ever, when you were in school, ever explain to you
00:21:29
why we vote for people, why we vote for senators directly?
00:21:33
They always tell you the story, right?
00:21:35
They always tell you the story. Oh, we have the House of
00:21:37
Representatives, and they came to this compromise, right in the
00:21:42
Constitutional Convention. They came to this compromise
00:21:45
that the bigger States and the smaller states, it wouldn't be
00:21:47
fair because some big states would have a lot of House
00:21:49
representative or representative of the House, and smaller states
00:21:52
would have so little. And it'd be like the big states
00:21:54
would just run everything. So they came up with this
00:21:56
compromise and they would let everyone elect 2 senators.
00:21:59
What do they not tell you? People didn't elect senators
00:22:03
back then. That wasn't the point.
00:22:05
It was actually the state legislatures who sent senators
00:22:08
to the federal government because it was the idea that
00:22:10
they said, well, these state legislatures have to have a
00:22:13
voice in the federal government so that they send their
00:22:15
representatives to the federal government so that they can then
00:22:20
tell the federal government, hey, we don't abide by the
00:22:22
certain taxes or how these things are going to affect us
00:22:25
because then they'd have to go home and answer to the state
00:22:27
legislature of that elected body again, elected by the people.
00:22:33
Hey, why did you let this happen to our state?
00:22:36
So that was the idea was it was a balance of power between the
00:22:38
people elected the House of Representatives and the state
00:22:41
legislatures re elected the senators.
00:22:44
And then in the 1900s, they passed the 17th Amendment and
00:22:47
it's the direct vote of the people.
00:22:50
And no one ever talks about that.
00:22:51
No one ever talked. It's almost like I went back and
00:22:53
was like, yeah, they, they don't talk about that for some reason
00:22:56
in school. They kind of leave that out
00:22:58
conveniently. They make it seem like we were
00:22:59
always voting for senators. We were not always voting for
00:23:02
senators. For most of our history until
00:23:03
like the early 20th century, we did not elect senators.
00:23:07
It was from state legislatures. And I think if you do the math,
00:23:11
I think Republicans pick up I think like 6 or 7 more seats if
00:23:17
they actually went by state legislature.
00:23:19
So let's talk about abolishing the 17th.
00:23:22
Let's see what people say anyway.
00:23:25
Our ministries that I described and the DOJ and the FBI and the
00:23:28
IRS and those that countenance it and those that cover for it.
00:23:34
A supine Congress is not what the Founding Fathers promoted.
00:23:37
It's not what they advocated for.
00:23:39
It's the rule of law, not the rule of dawn.
00:23:42
And to the extent it's dawning on people in the Spirit.
00:23:46
How many times do you think he's practiced those lines?
00:23:49
How many times do you think he's practiced those lines?
00:23:53
In the in the mirror? It's the rule of law, not the
00:23:56
rule of dawn. And it's now dawning on people.
00:24:01
Clever. Never misses a beat Cabinet.
00:24:05
I will give him this. He is a slippery, slick and
00:24:08
skilled politician. Don't underestimate.
00:24:12
Him your question that the base of the party is demanding the
00:24:16
fight, Yes. I hope more established
00:24:20
Democrats wake up to that because I've been screaming from
00:24:25
the rafters for years on that. That's what Prop 50 represented,
00:24:32
not just press release. It wasn't an op-ed, it was
00:24:35
action was making real R values. I think that's the fight we need
00:24:40
in this country. Forgive me.
00:24:43
All right, so that's this whole long guy Trevor, about why he's
00:24:46
fine with campaigning for Democratic Socialists of
00:24:48
America. And here's why I think this is
00:24:51
going to bite old Newsome in the booty.
00:24:54
OK, so let's look at this story right here.
00:24:57
Let me pull this up real quick. And again, thank you everyone
00:25:00
for tuning in the chat. Make sure you like share,
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helps as well. I'll get to super chats at the
00:25:06
end of the episode. Thank you for keeping me company
00:25:08
tonight. All right, let's pull this story
00:25:11
up. Nope.
00:25:12
That is not the right one. That is.
00:25:14
Here we go. Let's do this.
00:25:17
There we go. So many buttons and things I
00:25:20
have to press. That's the problem when you do
00:25:22
the show by yourself and you're producing by yourself.
00:25:25
So why am I bringing up this story?
00:25:26
Democratic Rep Adriano Espliat. I don't even know if that's how
00:25:30
you pronounce his name. Espliat loses primary to Mamdani
00:25:34
backed Dar Eliza Avila Chevalier.
00:25:38
So why is this a big deal? Because this Rep has lost his
00:25:42
primary to a challenger backed by Nora New York Mayor Zoran
00:25:45
Mamdani in a major victory for the progressive wing of
00:25:47
Democratic Party goes on talks. She's a community organizer.
00:25:51
Boy, a lot of people keep coming out of that community organizer.
00:25:53
You know, if you want a pipeline to get into politics, a
00:25:56
community organizer seems to be the way to do it.
00:26:00
And he defeated Espalai was 71. She's 32 years old, talks about
00:26:05
working class. So the interesting thing about
00:26:09
this is Esplat 71 actually went out and campaigned and endorsed
00:26:19
Zoran Mamdani. So what does that go to show
00:26:24
you? Zoran Mamdani?
00:26:26
You went out and endorsed Zoran Mamdani and he became mayor and
00:26:29
you thought, hey, I got in his good graces, I got in the
00:26:31
mayor's, I endorsed him. I'm a congressional
00:26:34
representative and I endorsed the next mayor of New York City.
00:26:38
I should be his buddy. I should be his pal.
00:26:39
Like favors and favors, right? That's how it works in politics.
00:26:43
I scratch your back, you scratch mine.
00:26:45
Nope. Zora Mamdani backed.
00:26:47
Someone else backed his challenger and he's out.
00:26:50
He is now lost his congressional seat and Zora Mamdani doesn't
00:26:53
give a crap. He basically said thanks for the
00:26:56
endorsement, bro. I am now going to endorse your
00:26:59
primary challenger and you lost. So it goes on to say she faced
00:27:05
an onslaught of attacks from groups back as well, including
00:27:07
allies of the Hispanic allies of the Hispanic Caucus.
00:27:11
The attacks highlighted her past social media post in which she
00:27:13
profoundly criticized Democratic leaders, including calling
00:27:16
former President Joe Biden A rapist and writing F Kamala
00:27:20
Harris. So she is not a fan of
00:27:24
corporatist Democrats. Again, this is what I'm talking
00:27:26
about, is that these democratic socialists are not fans of the
00:27:29
corporatist establishment Democrats.
00:27:31
The Post recording the report from the New York Post and CNN,
00:27:34
also including comments that Israel doesn't exist and that a
00:27:37
world without prisons or police is needed and that all
00:27:39
deportation is wrong. My values have always been my
00:27:43
values, she said. But my understanding of how to
00:27:44
approach the systems has grown. Interesting.
00:27:49
Let's look at what Gavin Newsom is willing to campaign with
00:27:53
because basically he said, I'm fine with campaigning with the
00:27:57
democratic socials of America, especially the Liberation
00:28:00
Caucus. These are the points of unity
00:28:03
that he would be endorsing or campaigning or supporting.
00:28:06
And I'm, I'm running to a point here.
00:28:09
So let's let you know. I'll get there in a second.
00:28:12
Points of unity. We are Marxist Leninist Maoist
00:28:16
in DSA Democratic Socialist America's, the largest socialist
00:28:19
mass organization in the United States, with dozens of members
00:28:21
holding elected office and thousands of members engaged in
00:28:24
active grassroots participation movements that have and will
00:28:26
continue to shape the world. However, as Maoist and DSA, we
00:28:30
believe that ideological and political structure cannot be
00:28:33
shirked and Comrade Mao's call to combat liberalism must be
00:28:37
heeded and taken seriously. Otherwise opportunists and
00:28:39
revisionist trends will rise and rot the soul of the organization
00:28:43
for a revolutionary theory of change.
00:28:46
The Marxist Leninist Maoist theory of change and thus that
00:28:50
of the DSA liberation is revolutionary.
00:28:52
While we do not fundamentally oppose participation, reform,
00:28:55
struggles or engagement is in these activities should be to
00:28:57
expose the ruling class, which steals our wealth and robs us of
00:29:01
our happiness. Concessions are not given freely
00:29:04
by the ruling class, they're extracted through vicious,
00:29:06
bitter struggle. Many in DSA Orient towards the
00:29:10
middle class union staffers, Democratic Party workers is a
00:29:13
fundamentally rightist orientation, as the organization
00:29:16
will reflect the interest of the professional middle class.
00:29:19
Instead, our orientation should be towards the proletariat, the
00:29:23
colonized, the masses of queer workers, working class students,
00:29:27
the undocumented prisoners and other militants, other
00:29:29
militants. Let me just stop right there.
00:29:33
Other militants. This is the Democratic Social of
00:29:34
America. This is our Liberation Caucus,
00:29:36
and this is what Gavin Newsom is fine with campaigning for and
00:29:39
supported in this country. Militants, militants within our
00:29:43
country that want to tear it down and tear down all of our.
00:29:47
So remember Gavin Newsom was talking about we have to
00:29:49
preserve the Republic. We have to save the Republic.
00:29:52
It's all the Roman Republic, the Greek democracy.
00:29:54
This is what is all about. We have to preserve the
00:29:56
Republic, right? That's what Gavin Newsom saying
00:30:00
is we have to preserve the Republic.
00:30:02
Yet this group, the Liberation Caucus and the Democratic Social
00:30:05
of America are the people he's fine with going out and
00:30:09
campaigning and supporting because, again, he doesn't care
00:30:13
about what happens to the country.
00:30:14
Gavin Newsom cares about one thing, and that's his political
00:30:17
future and whether or not he can reach up and get to that next
00:30:20
level of power, that next brass ring.
00:30:24
We have people here who are calling themselves militant
00:30:27
revolutionaries, that they basically want to tear down our
00:30:30
institutions, and he's fine with that.
00:30:35
He's fine with that because, again, he doesn't care who he
00:30:39
has to get into bed with, figuratively and literally.
00:30:44
He will just do it because he knows it's towards new power,
00:30:49
towards a party of a new type. Democratic centralism is a
00:30:51
necessity for any revolutionary movement that hopes to win.
00:30:54
It is an organizational method by which the masses of the
00:30:57
Workers Party participate in a truly democratic process, really
00:31:00
debating and struggling over the political line of methods to
00:31:03
implement it, and then abiding by the decision reached after
00:31:06
engaging in a vote, even if the individual members disagree.
00:31:13
So even if you don't like where we're going, buckle up,
00:31:16
buttercup, we're going there. Lines are subject to revisiting
00:31:19
additional debate and revote, but once passed, all members are
00:31:21
expected to adhere to them unless they're overturned.
00:31:25
So much for dissent and free speech, right?
00:31:31
Let's see, excuse me, for the eradication of chauvinism.
00:31:39
A socialist organization of our size and with our democratic
00:31:42
composition will undoubtedly have so chauvinism.
00:31:45
Gavin Newsom, they don't like chauvinism.
00:31:50
Let's just put that out there. White chauvinism and male
00:31:53
chauvinism. What do you think of when you
00:31:56
think of someone like Gavin Newsom, who has cheated on his
00:31:59
wife with his best friend's wife and for a while briefly dated a
00:32:05
19 year old model? Think about that when you think
00:32:08
about whether or not the democratic socialists are gonna
00:32:11
are actually gonna support you. You are basically the embodiment
00:32:14
of a political chauvinist. You may play this feminist but
00:32:18
in reality your personal history is anything but.
00:32:23
Many non white and non male comrades have expressed dismay
00:32:26
at the behavior of many of our white and or male comrades in
00:32:29
DSA spaces. Oh, so they don't even like
00:32:32
males, White males in DSA spaces?
00:32:35
Guess that counts you out. Gavin Newsom, you are the
00:32:37
embodiment of wonder bred white. Remember you talked about eating
00:32:41
wonder bread, playing hoops. The only way to address this is
00:32:45
inexcusable behavior is to Orient ourselves and actively
00:32:49
recruit non white and or non male comrades and encourage them
00:32:52
to seize positions of leadership within the organization.
00:32:54
In a socialist organization which is supposedly oriented
00:32:57
around the needs of political power of the entire working
00:32:59
class, the fact that much of the power is still in the hands of
00:33:02
white male PMC comrades is proof that we have much work to do.
00:33:08
Ignorance of non white and women revolutionary theoreticians such
00:33:12
as Fanning, Gandhi, Mao, Ho Chi Minh and Sisson is a key
00:33:16
manifestation of this chauvinist tendency.
00:33:19
How is it chauvinist if you don't listen to Mao or Ho Chi
00:33:22
Minh who are both men anyway? The solar colonial contradiction
00:33:28
is the primary contradiction. The United States is a settler
00:33:30
colony, is not a nation, is a prison House of nations with the
00:33:34
Euro Americans being the jailer. Many comrades commit errors of
00:33:38
line and practice because they failed to take this into
00:33:40
account. Making allusions to the
00:33:41
multinational working class keeps going on.
00:33:45
Socialism is a rule, the working class is not a series of reforms
00:33:48
it is. Nor is it a party calling itself
00:33:50
Communism in power. Allowing billionaires to exploit
00:33:54
the people while calling themselves red experts keeps
00:33:58
going on say so. As Maoist.
00:34:00
We recognize a class struggle continues during social period
00:34:03
and working class revolutionaries must be vigilant
00:34:05
about old and new bourgeois elements that will destroy the
00:34:08
revolution cast working class back into slavery.
00:34:12
Nationalization of industries and utilities is a key part of
00:34:15
socialism, but equally important is shifting the relations of
00:34:17
production in a communist direction.
00:34:22
Let's see. The party apparatus must
00:34:23
continue to merge itself in the masses and build communist
00:34:25
structures, while also forestalling the rise of a new
00:34:28
bureaucrat capitalist class, as happened in the USSR and PRC.
00:34:33
That's the People's Republic of China.
00:34:36
We are unequivocally anti imperialist.
00:34:37
Communist in the Imperial corps, have as our main duty the
00:34:40
destruction of the imperial system, blah blah blah, anti
00:34:44
imperialism. Most recently around the
00:34:45
question Palestinian self determination, National
00:34:47
Liberation. The time for such wavering is
00:34:50
over. Our goal is to endure that DSA
00:34:53
takes firm stances in Word and deed against imperialism.
00:34:57
Sorry that took so long, but I do want to get through that
00:34:59
because this is really important.
00:35:01
And I'm not trying to warn Gavin Newsom that he's getting into
00:35:06
bed with the wrong people who will hate him and destroy him.
00:35:11
But this is their track record. You, we've just gone through
00:35:15
their principles of unity, the stuff that they believe in,
00:35:18
meaning you either believe in this or face the wall.
00:35:20
We don't want you part of our country.
00:35:22
They don't believe in free speech.
00:35:24
They don't believe in free will. They want you to be a part of
00:35:26
the the communist revolution here in America.
00:35:30
They may call themselves something pretty like the
00:35:32
democratic socials of America, but in reality, it's either
00:35:36
submit or we would kill you. If they had the power, they
00:35:39
would. And that's how most of these
00:35:41
systems end up in power is, well, you either abide or we
00:35:46
kill you, which is why communism has killed way more people.
00:35:50
How many millions and 10s of millions of people more than
00:35:52
Nazism? And people never talk about how
00:35:54
much communism has actually killed unless you're someone who
00:35:58
is right leaning. You talk about how much
00:36:00
communism has killed. This is how communist power
00:36:02
structures get into places. They basically force you at the
00:36:05
end of the gun that you're going to submit to this.
00:36:07
And Gavin Newsom is too silly and too stupid to see.
00:36:12
Or he's just so obsessed with power that he doesn't realize
00:36:17
the strange bedfellows he he's getting into bed with is these
00:36:20
people. The democratic socialist will
00:36:22
eat you up and spit you out. They don't care.
00:36:27
They'll certainly use you. Absolutely.
00:36:29
They will absolutely use you, Gavin Newsom, your power and
00:36:32
your influence. And they will say thank you very
00:36:35
much, Gavin Newsom, for electing these people to Congress.
00:36:38
Thank you very much, Mr. Newsom, for electing these people to the
00:36:40
Assembly. Now go F off and we're going to
00:36:44
destroy your political career because you're white, you're a
00:36:47
male, you're a chauvinist. You're all of these things.
00:36:49
You, you represent everything that they hate.
00:36:53
You are a wealthy white male chauvinist and they will eat you
00:36:58
alive and they've already done so.
00:37:02
It's not even, it didn't even take that long.
00:37:04
Zoran Mamdani turned his back on people who endorsed them to
00:37:07
endorse and bring on more Democratic Socialists of America
00:37:11
and Democrats. I'm not trying to give a warning
00:37:14
to Democrats, but these Dsas and these democratic socialists will
00:37:19
eat your party alive. It's going to be like termites
00:37:22
eating away at a house to the point where the foundations
00:37:25
fall, and what we have is probably going to be a lot
00:37:27
scarier than any Democrats we have going right now.
00:37:30
Excuse me, I'll take a sip of water.
00:37:34
So to answer the question of the show, has Gavin Newsom become
00:37:40
full comrade? No, he's never going to become
00:37:43
full comrade. Why would Gavin Newsom become
00:37:45
full comrade? He loves the finer things in
00:37:47
life. He is an elitist.
00:37:49
He is someone who lives off the backs of the people he rules.
00:37:53
He may maybe he would make a great communist leader because
00:37:55
he thinks he's above everybody. But the reality is he loves
00:37:59
money and he loves power. And that's what he sees the
00:38:02
democratic socialist as is another Ave. to power.
00:38:05
And he's courting them early. He's going to start courting
00:38:09
them early so that when it comes time in 2027 rolls around as
00:38:14
time for the run up into 2028, he's going to say, I campaigned
00:38:18
with this democratic socialist. I campaigned with it.
00:38:20
I actually supported democratic socialist.
00:38:23
I also came from California. Look at all the nice progressive
00:38:25
things that I did. You know what the democratic
00:38:27
socialist will do? They will look at him and go,
00:38:29
you didn't go far enough. Sorry, sorry, comrade, you
00:38:33
didn't go far enough. You didn't go.
00:38:34
You didn't push the revolution as far as you could in
00:38:36
California. In fact, there's a lot of things
00:38:38
you vetoed that we really liked. So you're out.
00:38:42
We'll elect someone else. At this point, I'm not even sure
00:38:45
AOC is revolutionary enough for the Democratic Socialist of
00:38:49
America, which is terrifying. But All in all, is Gavin Newsom
00:38:54
a gonna be a full blown comrade? No, he won't be a full blown
00:38:59
comrade. He won't be a full blown
00:39:02
communist. This is basically just him
00:39:06
trying to grab at power all right.
00:39:08
I talked a lot about let's see I want to get to some of your your
00:39:13
chats here. You guys are blowing it up.
00:39:14
Thank you very much everyone for making sure you like share
00:39:16
subscribe all that stuff chatting it up.
00:39:21
If you want a super chat helps kind of highlight what you want
00:39:24
me to read 'cause there's so many things Let's see I'll start
00:39:30
at the bottom. Most recent Newsom loves money
00:39:32
too much. That is absolutely sure.
00:39:36
Let's see. French Laundry.
00:39:38
Yeah, let's see. First time on this channel,
00:39:42
Ramin sent me. Oh, thanks, Ramin.
00:39:44
Thanks for sending them over. What up, Ramin?
00:39:47
Just looking at all this stuff. Yeah, Like the other channel
00:39:55
calls them demon rats. Yeah.
00:39:57
Push the globalism. Bad, bad, bad.
00:39:59
Let's see China, Russia, Iran and demon rats.
00:40:03
The fact that they call each other comrade shows you they are
00:40:06
communist. Yeah, they're absolutely
00:40:07
communist. Yeah, they're they're not hiding
00:40:10
it. Define chauvinism.
00:40:15
Well, chauvinism is anything that they think is male
00:40:19
dominated. I mean, they would even think
00:40:22
that holding the door open for a lady or for children is
00:40:25
chauvinistic in today's society. So the S as goal is to abolish
00:40:30
the Constitution and capitalist system.
00:40:32
Yeah, that is, I mean, that's it's not a secret.
00:40:36
Like they put it out on their website.
00:40:37
You can go look at this stuff like this is not like a
00:40:39
conspiracy. Please don't call them
00:40:42
socialist. They're a communist.
00:40:43
Well, that's what I'm calling them.
00:40:44
They're communist. They are absolutely.
00:40:45
They want to get into, they want a communist regime here in the
00:40:50
United States. They want to abolish the
00:40:52
Republic. Remember, Gavin Isham said we,
00:40:55
we want to preserve the Republic.
00:40:58
Just wait till they define the police in New York.
00:40:59
Chaos. That's already bad enough.
00:41:03
Let's see. Just keeping looking at them
00:41:09
anyway. All right, I'll come back to
00:41:11
this in a second. Scott Bessing and Marco Rubio
00:41:15
just said they are announced they are targeting all non
00:41:18
profits funding left wing terrorists like Antifa.
00:41:22
It'll be interesting. All right, let's see next story.
00:41:29
I will get back to you guys in a couple minutes.
00:41:31
So keep those chats coming, keep liking and all that stuff keeps
00:41:34
people from keeps people coming. More people tuning in.
00:41:37
Love it. Love to see so many people here.
00:41:40
All right, next story we'll end on a a good note, maybe a note
00:41:45
that was very dark, very dark and heavy.
00:41:47
The idea of democratic socialist and communist taking over and
00:41:50
tearing down our entire Republican and just ripping up
00:41:52
our Constitution, it was a little heavy.
00:41:54
I'm sorry about that. And it went a little bit longer
00:41:55
than I was expecting, but there's a lot I had to say about
00:41:58
it. So I'll end on a lighter note in
00:42:01
this last story and then I'll get back to your chats.
00:42:04
Katie Porter, you don't remember Katie Porter.
00:42:07
She ran for, she ran for Senate. She ran recently for governor
00:42:12
and she finished in fourth place with about 4% of the vote.
00:42:16
Has announced that she is stepping away from politics.
00:42:19
I'm sorry, sorry to tell everybody, but Katie Porter is
00:42:23
out of politics. She's she's endured enough.
00:42:26
She said this is too much. Let's take a look at what Katie
00:42:30
Porter is going to be doing now that she is no longer in
00:42:33
politics. Hi, it's Katie Porter with a non
00:42:38
political post. I'm done for now with politics
00:42:42
and campaigning, but one thing that's always been a constant
00:42:46
from when I was a little kid to now is to love to read and
00:42:51
taking a lot of solace and heart and joy, pleasure in reading.
00:42:55
So I'm rebranding this account as Katie Porter turns the page.
00:43:00
It's partly a reference to a new chapter in my life, to the
00:43:03
change, but also to something I do a lot which is turn the page
00:43:07
when I'm reading. I'm a fast reader and so stay
00:43:10
tuned for a book recommendations, book ideas, and
00:43:13
author content. Thanks so much.
00:43:18
So there you have it. Katie Porter is out of politics.
00:43:20
And what is she going to be doing now?
00:43:22
She's still a professor. I think she's a law professor at
00:43:24
one of EU CS. I can't remember which one
00:43:26
specifically. She's going to be doing a book
00:43:29
club. So if you want to join Katie
00:43:30
Porter's book club, you can go find her at Katie Turns the
00:43:33
Page, Whatever. And she's going to be doing a
00:43:36
book club. So if you want to keep up with
00:43:37
her reading books, can't imagine what kind of books she'll be
00:43:40
reading. Probably won't be the books that
00:43:42
you and I like to read, let's just put it that way.
00:43:44
I don't think she'll be reading any of the classical literature,
00:43:47
but stuff that probably has a slant or an agenda to it, but
00:43:51
that's what she's going to be doing.
00:43:52
Now, Katie Porter was, let's go in the Wayback Machine.
00:43:56
Katie Porter, if you remember way back when this all started,
00:44:00
she was actually the favorite front runner when she first
00:44:03
jumped into the race. She was the Democratic
00:44:07
frontrunner. She was exactly what she was
00:44:10
going to be the Xavier Becerra to Steve Hilton.
00:44:12
She was going to be the Democratic challenger going for
00:44:14
governor. That didn't work out because
00:44:18
around September of last year when all this stuff came out,
00:44:22
was it around September or recently?
00:44:24
It came out, a lot of bad stuff came out about Katie Poor.
00:44:27
Turned out that she's not a very good person to work for it now.
00:44:32
And if you remember this video, let's take a look at it.
00:44:35
The air pollution and other problems and the state could
00:44:38
lose get out of my shot. Get out of my effing shot, is
00:44:46
what Katie Porter yelled at one of her staffers in the middle of
00:44:49
an interview for a media appearance and stuff like that
00:44:52
came out. And I think people are not fans
00:44:56
of bad bosses because a lot of people have bad bosses.
00:44:58
They have temperamental bosses, and they don't like bosses who
00:45:01
yell at them. They already deal with bosses at
00:45:03
their work. Imagine a boss who yells at you.
00:45:05
You're not a big fan of that person.
00:45:06
You don't want that person running your state.
00:45:08
You don't even want that person running your job because you
00:45:11
don't like that person as a boss.
00:45:13
And that's her yelling at that. That was like the final straw.
00:45:16
We've had all the stories about Katie Porter in terms of she
00:45:20
poured mashed potatoes on her husband's head or ex husband's
00:45:23
head, like boiling hot potatoes. She would tell her kids that
00:45:27
daddy was being stupid. She would talk down her husband
00:45:30
in front of the kids and basically tell them like daddy's
00:45:32
being stupid. There was also her flip out on
00:45:37
one of her interviews where she just took her mic and she left.
00:45:40
Katie Porter is a hot head and she has a bad temperament.
00:45:44
And to think that she was very close to becoming the governor
00:45:47
of California if it was not for that video.
00:45:49
That video that came out basically saved us from having
00:45:53
Katie Porter become the next governor of California.
00:45:57
Thankfully, I don't know if Xavier Besser is going to be any
00:46:00
better or well, we have Steve Halton.
00:46:02
The race is still going. I'm not going to say anything
00:46:04
yet, but the race is absolutely still gone.
00:46:08
But thankfully, she's out of politics.
00:46:12
Is it too good to be true? Maybe.
00:46:15
I remember Camille sent this to me.
00:46:16
Camille is a big fan of Katie Porter.
00:46:19
I think Katie Porter drives her nuts.
00:46:22
She sent this to me and I was like, is it?
00:46:23
Is it too good to be true? It might be.
00:46:26
I think Katie Porter, she's not done with politics.
00:46:28
I think they'll probably run her one more time or something,
00:46:31
maybe for a representative. I don't know why she went after
00:46:34
Senate seat, but I guess when you have the opportunity to do
00:46:36
so, she lost it to Adam Schiff for the Senate seat and she's
00:46:40
now out of the gubernatorial race.
00:46:42
She's not a representative anymore.
00:46:43
She was a representative from like 2019 to 2020.
00:46:47
Somebody tell me it was 25. No, that seems like a long time.
00:46:51
That was the last year, 2022, I think, something like that.
00:46:54
So for a little bit, she was a House representatives in Orange
00:46:57
County. She was the whiteboard lady.
00:46:59
If you remember the whiteboard lady, she was the lady who
00:47:01
showed billionaires like I know stuff.
00:47:03
So I put it on my whiteboard to explain to you like you're a
00:47:06
child. So imagine being in her book
00:47:09
club and trying to discuss with her about books.
00:47:11
Is there going to be like a is there going to be like a Zoom
00:47:14
meeting or are there going to be like online meetings for book
00:47:16
club with Katie Porter now that she's officially out of
00:47:19
politics? Who knows?
00:47:22
Camille just said in the chat, Porter for President 2028.
00:47:26
Please, God, no, Please God, no. That's all I could say.
00:47:31
She would probably cozy up with Democratic socialists, and they
00:47:34
would eat her alive as well. So Katie Porter is out of
00:47:37
politics. See, there's always good news in
00:47:40
California. You just got to dig deep enough
00:47:41
for it. All right, let me get into some
00:47:44
of your comments because let's see.
00:47:46
The interview on CBS was hilarious.
00:47:48
Yeah, that was the one I said if I could read, I'd read Phil's
00:47:53
book for short. Maybe there'll be an audio book.
00:47:56
Maybe I'll have an audio book after it's released.
00:47:58
So keep an eye out for that. Yeah.
00:48:00
The interview on CBS was hilarious.
00:48:02
They're kind of pushing her on whether or not we'll be reading
00:48:05
your book, Phil, not hers. Thank you.
00:48:08
Thank you very much. Maybe we should do a little one
00:48:11
night. We should do a little book club
00:48:13
with my book if anybody wants to talk about it.
00:48:18
Porter is Warren's kind of gal. Well, she learned under
00:48:24
Elizabeth Warren. So yeah, that's where she.
00:48:27
She was like a protege. She's going to write a book,
00:48:31
isn't she? I think she already read, wrote
00:48:33
a book. Not like it was a big seller.
00:48:36
Crazy Kitty Porter is done, and we're done with her, too.
00:48:40
Good things do happen. Yeah.
00:48:42
See, there's there's good news in California.
00:48:45
Let's see. I'm looking at some more of
00:48:46
these chats. Somebody said, what kind of
00:48:57
drugs is Camille taking tonight? She said I'm on painkillers for
00:49:00
broken bones. There you go.
00:49:02
She's not afraid. I'll listen.
00:49:05
Thank you. Thank you.
00:49:06
I'm glad you listened to my my audio book.
00:49:10
President of the PTA. Phil, do a narration stream.
00:49:15
Oh, maybe that's that's not a bad idea.
00:49:17
OK, all right. Any other comments tonight?
00:49:21
I know that this was a little bit, this wasn't the longest
00:49:23
episode. It's kind of tough when you do
00:49:25
it all by yourself. It's hard to get that back and
00:49:27
forth. But I did want to kind of go
00:49:29
over the stuff with with Comrade Newsome, who I don't think is
00:49:33
going to be be a comrade. I thought we were going to get
00:49:35
to the story about Lhasa. As I learned last week from
00:49:38
Randy, it's called Lhasa LAHSA about how they haven't reported.
00:49:43
Maybe they'll be next week's story.
00:49:44
I also want to get to the diaper story.
00:49:46
The whole scandal of what's happening with the diapers that
00:49:50
will probably be next week's episode is the story about Gavin
00:49:54
Newsom and his wife and the diapers.
00:50:00
The Brownstone Institute published Clarence Thomas
00:50:02
dissenting opinion on birthright citizenship.
00:50:05
It is a very informative. I will tell you this, as a
00:50:08
constitutional law nerd, I love reading constitutional opinions
00:50:12
and when I saw that Thomas wrote a 96 page dissent, that was
00:50:20
pretty impressive for a dissent. Now let me explain to you for
00:50:25
all you are hanging around. Thank you again for hanging
00:50:27
around through the whole episode.
00:50:28
You're the diehards. So thank you for hanging out
00:50:31
with me as I kind of chat with you.
00:50:34
The reason they write dissents, OK, this is the sense are not
00:50:38
just I want to air my grievances and say what a bad and horrible
00:50:42
decision this is. There's a purpose to dissents,
00:50:45
all right. They are done strategically
00:50:48
because what happens is is when you go to an appeals court and
00:50:54
you lose. Sometimes judges will write a
00:50:56
dissent and the dissent is not only because they want to
00:51:00
publish their own opinions and say, I don't like this decision
00:51:04
because XY and ZA lot of times what they're doing is signalling
00:51:10
to lawyers and people out there, hey, here's where I think they
00:51:16
got it wrong. And here's where I think you can
00:51:20
argue and win the case on different merits.
00:51:24
That's why a lot of times judges will write dissent is because
00:51:27
they're kind of signaling to litigators out there in the
00:51:30
world and in the country and say, here are some ideas.
00:51:35
If this came up to me, I think this is these are the issues
00:51:39
that you have to focus on if you're ever going to bring this
00:51:42
again. It's a signal.
00:51:44
It's a subtle signal, but it's worth looking at.
00:51:46
And they're also interesting to read dissents because it's it's
00:51:50
obviously the disagreement of what the majority opinion is.
00:51:53
Clarence Thomas is just such an amazing writer and such an
00:51:55
interesting writer. When you read his stuff, he kind
00:51:57
of he's, he's very Scalia esque, you know, Justice Scalia, may he
00:52:02
rest in peace. Great justice, very entertaining
00:52:06
to read a lot of stuff. If you read a lot of his stuff
00:52:09
on any Second Amendment stuff, He's a big supporter of the
00:52:13
Second Amendment, doesn't like Second Amendment infringements.
00:52:17
He wrote in the Bruin case, he wrote a lot about, I think
00:52:21
there's a concurring opinion about Bruin basically saying
00:52:24
that it is important that we have the right to carry and
00:52:27
conceal. It was basically what protected
00:52:29
African Americans after the civil wars that they they had
00:52:32
the right to carry and conceal under the Second Amendment.
00:52:34
So, you know, Second Amendments are women's rights, they are
00:52:39
black American rights, they're Hispanic rights, they're Asian
00:52:41
rights. They're it's everybody's right,
00:52:43
the Second Amendment, the right to carry, the right right to
00:52:45
protect yourself. All right, now they're talking.
00:52:52
Let's see, everyone in the chat is talking about everyone's
00:52:55
talking about recent medical procedures.
00:52:59
That's cool. See, this is what I love about
00:53:00
live chats. Sometimes I check in and you
00:53:02
guys are y'all are talking about stuff that has nothing to do
00:53:05
with the show. I'm just sitting here rambling
00:53:08
about Justice Thomas and Scalia about how I nerd out on Adam
00:53:13
Schiff sucks even more than Katie Porter.
00:53:17
They're both not great, but they're both corporatist
00:53:20
Democrats. They are the central, they are
00:53:22
the centrist Democrats that the democratic socialists and just
00:53:24
kind of bring it all back to our original point.
00:53:27
They are the corporatist centrist Democrats that these
00:53:32
DSA they hate and they are going to eat you alive again.
00:53:35
They don't like you, bottom line, they don't like you and
00:53:40
they're they're not going to support you.
00:53:42
So stop pretending like they're going to support you or they're
00:53:45
going to they're going to help you.
00:53:46
They don't care. Their their whole goal is to
00:53:48
tear down the entire system. Let's see, I'm going to go back
00:53:51
and see if there's any other comments.
00:53:53
Thank you again, everybody for tuning in.
00:53:55
Let's see. Newsome loves money too much.
00:53:59
Yeah, absolutely. He does love money too much to
00:54:02
be a communist. That's why he will never be a
00:54:04
communist. Just keeping up.
00:54:16
Sorry, this is the part where I have to read all of your chats
00:54:19
and scan all of them so that I can see if I didn't miss
00:54:23
anybody. DSA hates the Dems for the most
00:54:27
part. Yep.
00:54:28
Yeah, kind of said that a bunch of times, but thank you for 4.
00:54:32
This was the comment I was looking at. 4 of 15 LA City
00:54:34
Council members are DSA already with momentum building further.
00:54:38
LA y'all in trouble? You got something's got to
00:54:41
happen in LA because right now you got democratic socialist
00:54:44
who's running for mayor. You got how many democratic
00:54:46
socialist on the City Council? They're taking over.
00:54:50
They're taking over LA and New York.
00:54:52
So be careful. Matt Gonzalez was mumdani back
00:54:56
then. Yeah, he was the far left
00:54:58
progressive in San Francisco to Gavin Newsom, but in that case,
00:55:02
Gavin Newsom won over Matt Gonzalez.
00:55:06
So all right, some people, let's see checking in and see where
00:55:13
people are checking in from. Stockton.
00:55:15
Oh, what up Stockton, My old stomping grounds used, you know,
00:55:18
UOP alum, Sacramento, Long Beach, CA, Placer County, Napa.
00:55:24
Yeah. Let me know where you guys are
00:55:25
checking in from as I finish up the show for tonight.
00:55:29
Don't be a doomer, Phil. Oh, I'm sorry, don't be a
00:55:31
doomer. Do you know where Newsome's in
00:55:36
laws ranch in Montana? Aren't they the ones who moved
00:55:39
to Florida because they're Republicans?
00:55:43
I want the DSA to eat them alive.
00:55:45
I actually here's a good question as we we finish out the
00:55:48
show and and chat if you want to jump in and let me know your
00:55:51
thoughts. This is one of those cases where
00:55:54
the devil you know is better than a devil you don't know.
00:55:56
And the democratic socialist I think are way more dangerous
00:55:59
than your average run-of-the-mill Democrats.
00:56:01
I'm just going to say that I think if you're worried about
00:56:05
making sure this country doesn't go too far off the rails, you
00:56:09
certainly don't want democratic socialist being elected to any
00:56:11
positions power. And not that the Democrats are
00:56:15
any better by a long stretch, but the devil you know is better
00:56:18
than the devil you don't know. And as we've seen from those
00:56:21
principles of unity on their website, they want to tear the
00:56:27
whole thing down. And maybe Democrats do as well.
00:56:30
They just don't. They're just not out and about
00:56:31
about it. But they're not tearing it down
00:56:34
as fast as democratic socialists want to.
00:56:36
So Vallejo, CA checking in. Oh, yeah.
00:56:39
What's up? Old Town Vallejo, you're always
00:56:41
checking in. Los Angeles currently has five
00:56:44
water main breaks. They have 100 year old pipes.
00:56:47
You know what's going on with LA and your water main breaks.
00:56:51
Every time I look, there's a new something else going on with the
00:56:54
the water mains. Some some water thing is
00:56:56
breaking. They have the boys we talked
00:57:00
about last week with Randy. It's like almost a billion
00:57:02
dollars, 900 million dollars, 840 or something like that.
00:57:06
Almost a billion dollars for homelessness annually and they
00:57:12
can't fix their water pipes and firefighters are sleeping in
00:57:18
like dilapidated old fire houses.
00:57:21
It's unbelievable really. It's the amount of money they
00:57:24
spend on homelessness. Well, they grift off
00:57:25
homelessness. Elk Grove, CA What up Elk Grove?
00:57:30
Thank you everyone for tuning in.
00:57:31
I love to see, I love to see everybody checking in wherever
00:57:38
you are, wherever you're from. Yeah, I saw last week somebody
00:57:42
checked in from Papua New Guinea.
00:57:44
That was awesome. Carmichael, CA.
00:57:48
What's up? Where's Carmichael?
00:57:50
See, California is so big. I I don't, there's some places
00:57:53
sometimes you guys throw up there and I go, I'm embarrassed.
00:57:58
I'm like, I don't, I don't know where Carmichael is.
00:58:00
Well, let me know where Carmichael is.
00:58:02
I know where Elk Grove is. That's Sacramento area.
00:58:06
Vallejo. I know where that is.
00:58:08
Everywhere else. I know where you guys are
00:58:09
checking in from. Stockton, all that stuff.
00:58:11
Stockton, obviously, it used to be.
00:58:13
They used to be my old stomping grounds.
00:58:15
Where's Carmichael? I have no idea where Carmichael
00:58:18
is. It's a huge state. 58 counties.
00:58:22
Yeah. Kelseyville.
00:58:23
Here's another one. Kelseyville, California.
00:58:25
I have no idea where Kelseyville, California is.
00:58:29
People listening about audio after this show are going to be
00:58:31
sitting here going what is he talking about?
00:58:33
Is this what the whole show is going to be?
00:58:35
Him just looking at where they're checking in Up by sack.
00:58:38
OK. Hot as hell.
00:58:43
Palm Desert, CA. Well, it's been kind of hot
00:58:46
here, too. Got up to 80° today.
00:58:49
So, you know, for us sandy aegans, us delicate little
00:58:52
flowers, 80° is very hot for us. So.
00:58:57
All right. Yeah.
00:58:59
Where is Kelseyville? Everyone's like, where is
00:59:01
Kelseyville, California. I've never heard of Kelseyville.
00:59:05
We're all going to sit here and wait.
00:59:06
We're all going to sit here and wait until Kelseyville,
00:59:08
California tells us Lake County. And to be honest, I don't know
00:59:14
where Lake County is either. Where is Lake County Dead air
00:59:22
waiting for the answer. I could just look it up, but I
00:59:26
think it's more interesting if we sit and wait for the chat to
00:59:28
tell us where Lake County is before we log off for the night,
00:59:33
Right? If you feel better, again, if
00:59:36
you're listening on audio, I may have to just edit all this stuff
00:59:38
out because this is not really, you don't tune into the audio
00:59:41
for this. This is just really us chatting
00:59:43
now. All right, just pull up a mat
00:59:48
and start Googling now. It's more fun if we we let the
00:59:50
chat tell us. Kelseyville, California.
01:00:00
Kelseyville is an unincorporated community in Lake County.
01:00:03
Again, doesn't really help. Let's see where this is.
01:00:09
Kelseyville, California. You have got us all thinking
01:00:12
about where are you? This doesn't really help does
01:00:17
it? I keep pulling out.
01:00:20
OK, anything. Does anybody recognize anything
01:00:23
right now from Kelseyville, CA? Nope, not yet.
01:00:30
Anything. Anything.
01:00:34
Oh, you're way up there. Oh, you're like State of
01:00:37
Jefferson. Oh, OK.
01:00:40
Wow. OK.
01:00:40
You're way up there. OK.
01:00:43
Santa Barbara, CA. Yeah, We all know where Santa
01:00:47
Barbara is. That's not a big mystery.
01:00:52
Santa Barbara is beautiful anyway.
01:00:55
Is above Napa County. Yeah, that's what we just saw.
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It's it's kind of in that area above Napa County.
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All right, enough Googling, enough chatting.
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I want to thank everybody for tuning in live tonight.
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We will be back next week. We're probably going to be
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talking about the diaper story and the diaper scandal that is
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going on and how many millions of dollars that was shovelled
01:01:13
into this diaper initiative and why they're spending way too
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much money on diapers. Probably get to the loss of
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story as well. So many stuff to get to.
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We also have to start getting into the propositions.
01:01:24
It's already the end of July, meaning we have to start talking
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about deposit or propositions, not deposition propositions.
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And that there's a bunch of, I think there's 14.
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So we got to start jumping on those explaining what's going on
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with the propositions. But thank you everyone for
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