Ep. 265: New Laws That Just Took Effect in California

[00:00:00] If you're a California conservative, a libertarian, a moderate Democrat, believe in common sense, or just the sane person, this is the political podcast for you. It's the California Underground Podcast. What's going on everybody? Thanks for tuning

[00:00:28] into another episode of the California Underground Podcast. I am your host Phil and as always with me my trusty co-host the best and fastest researcher in the West Camille. How are you doing tonight Camille? Very well. How are you?

[00:00:42] I'm good. For those who are watching, you may notice that the office looks a little different. It's not the same office I've always been in. That's because if you are a regular follower of the show, you know we recently moved so we are past the unpacking stage which

[00:01:00] is torture and nightmarish because it just feels like it never ends. Like when you start unpacking a kitchen like all the stuff for your kitchen, you just go what the hell

[00:01:13] is all this stuff and why do we have so much stuff? You're like there's really no need for all this kitchen stuff. We use the same three pots and pans all the time. We don't need 1,000 to-go containers. Got through that. As you can see the office looks a

[00:01:30] lot better than it did last week with Bill Wells. Microphone is now back in place so I think we're ready to rock and roll here. New place is lovely. I'm telling a kitchen story that I have to actually do with moving but okay.

[00:01:44] I have my family lives nearby. I have not a huge family, but your family's huge. I have my sisters live nearby. We all have a lot of kids. We get together for all the holidays like usually at my parents house or my sister's house. Christmas

[00:01:57] Thanksgiving, Easter, all the things. My mom will always be like, hey girls, can I borrow your crock pots for whatever's cooking? We'll have multiple crock pots going for all the things. I think it was Thanksgiving 2022.

[00:02:13] My crock pot lid disappeared in all this. It never came back and I don't use the crock pot that often but I used it often enough and I was asking all the time. I'm like, has your lid showed up? Anyone have an extra lid?

[00:02:27] And finally, so ghetto I started putting foil over my crock pot and then I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to have to buy a new one. I could have bought a new

[00:02:35] lid but it's almost the price of a new crock pot. So a few weeks ago I finally ordered a new crock pot. It gets delivered and I had been slowly but surely cleaning out my kitchen like me and my girls were going through all the

[00:02:46] drawers and the pantries and just really cleaning it like take everything out, clean everything out, purging whatever. The crock pot comes and I pack up my old crock pot without the lid into the new crock pot box and I'm like,

[00:02:59] okay, I need to rearrange a few things to make space for this crock pot. And I open up a drawer that I guess I had never opened and there's my crock pot lid. After all that?

[00:03:11] You didn't even know. Constantly texting my family. I mean, has the lid shown up? I'm just going to order a new one, not a big deal. I even was like, hey, anyone want the lid's crock pot? Like if you guys use crock pots often,

[00:03:26] you can throw some foil on top and make it work. And they're like, no thanks. Well, that's how it always happens, right? You lose something and then you order it off Amazon and literally the next day you're like, oh, there it is. I found it.

[00:03:41] The new crock pot sat on my counter for like two weeks in the box too. And I was like, okay, I need to, you know, I'm gonna get, we're in his big kitchen. I'm tired of the clutter. Anyway, that is not what we're talking about.

[00:03:57] We're not talking about moving tonight. Tonight we are talking about, well, you know, sometimes it's nice to give a little personal update, you know? So people know we're not just all about politics. Tonight we are talking about

[00:04:12] new laws that have gone into effect in California as of July 1st. So if you're wondering why July 1st, it's because the fiscal year ends June 30th, right? There's 30 days in June,

[00:04:25] June 30th. And so the fiscal year for California ends and they start new legislation in the new year, the new fiscal year. That way it doesn't start in the middle of fiscal year because

[00:04:36] they haven't budgeted for it. And so there's a bunch of laws that went into effect as of July 1st. Now we're going to be going through all of them and we're gonna be doing a little,

[00:04:48] you know, we're gonna be opinionated on them and what we're gonna do, we're gonna either say we hate it, don't hate it or meh as in like we're kind of indifferent. I don't really care about this law

[00:05:05] because there, I'm not gonna lie, there are several laws in here that I'm like, okay, yeah, I don't hate it. Which is weird for me to say because I generally don't think the government should really be doing anything. And I think the government just, especially in California,

[00:05:20] oversteps what they should be doing. They come up with the most ridiculous laws. But there are some laws in this batch where I'm like, I don't hate it. Now there's some laws that I do hate.

[00:05:30] And there's a bunch that I'm kind of like meh about. So we're gonna go through those and if we have time, we're gonna check in on good old noodles who is running his shadow campaign.

[00:05:43] Supposedly campaigning for Biden but he is going to New Hampshire, which why go to New Hampshire is no primary. He's going to Michigan, which is a swing state. So you know, with everything that's been going on Gavin Newsom continues to run his shadow presidential shadow campaign. So

[00:06:06] anything, any thoughts off the top of your head before we get started or any law you want to get started right off the top of your head that you can think about? I don't think so.

[00:06:18] Okay, so I'm just going to go ahead and jump right in. Yes, please do. This one, this is eliminating hidden junk fees. This was SB 478. This law makes it illegal for businesses to advertise or list a price for a good or service that does not include all required

[00:06:38] fees or charges other than certain government taxes and shipping costs. It does not change what a business can charge or what may be included in the cost just that businesses can't surprise a customer with an unexpected fee tacked onto this bill. So what does this mean? Have you

[00:06:57] gone to a restaurant and you've never been to a restaurant, which I know is a lie. I know you've been to restaurants. You've gone to a restaurant and you order all your food, your drinks, dessert comes in the check comes, look at everything. Okay, there's my drinks,

[00:07:14] there's my appetizers, there's my main course. And then at the bottom, there's something that says service charge 4% and you go, what the heck is the service charge? Probably under the tax and you go, I have no idea why you're charging me a service

[00:07:28] charge. Isn't the cost of everything included in the food that I'm buying? And also, what I thought I was already paying for the service by paying for gratuity. I thought that's what the point of

[00:07:39] tip was. So that's become a huge issue. And California has now made it illegal to actually charge those fees. But there's always a loophole. Yes, always a loophole. So this is from Eater San Francisco. This came out literally a couple days ago says California restaurant owners can now

[00:08:06] sigh with relief after Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Saturday, June 29, that allows restaurant surcharges to remain legal. Significantly Senate bill 1524 went into effect immediately superseding the state's junk fee ban that outlaws undisclosed fees from rental car dealers and ticket

[00:08:25] sellers until Saturday restaurant service fees and goes into effect Monday, July 1. The new bill keeps restaurant fees legal so long as they present additional fees clearly and conspicuously. So they changed it at the last minute like literally the 11th hour. It was you couldn't charge them,

[00:08:48] but now as long as you know that they're going to if it's on the menu or they put it somewhere where you can see it, they can still charge those fees. So any initial thoughts on hidden service charges at restaurants? Well, I don't like hidden charges who does.

[00:09:10] But and I think it's fair to put it on the menu but now this is because they're going to be required to do this. If you have like a chain of restaurants, you have a whole lot of menus to

[00:09:20] reprint and that they're gonna you know just upcharge their food and drinks likely is probably what's going to happen which okay. I don't know where to go with that. I mean So my thought is I would put this in the bucket of I don't hate it.

[00:09:44] And this is coming from someone I worked in the restaurant business for five years between college and when I went to law school. I was in the restaurant business the whole time. We never had service charges. That was not a thing that existed in the restaurant business

[00:10:01] when I was working on the East Coast. So this is coming from someone who's worked in the business and I think it's kind of ridiculous. I think it's ridiculous because well first off

[00:10:15] you go into a restaurant, you look at the prices and you go okay these are the prices that I am agreeing to and then you look you know tax is going to be included and you know

[00:10:27] you're probably going to leave a good tip if it's a good place and you get a good service 18 to 20%. I guess the the lawyer in me goes I have assented or agreed to pay those prices of which I am

[00:10:44] paying you for for the product for the service and tax obviously the government I can't get out of that. I wish you could, I wish you could negotiate not ever paying tax

[00:10:55] but then when you throw in the 4% or 5% or whatever they're charging that's not something I agreed to and it does come off as like they're slipping in that little fee they're not telling you about

[00:11:09] it until the last minute and what are you going to do? You know you're going to you're going to be in a restaurant and start arguing with someone over a 4% service fee

[00:11:17] like after you've probably spent I don't know you went to a nice steakhouse or something you spent $300 on the bill and you're going to argue over 4%. I'm sure there are people who are who do that

[00:11:26] I'm sure there are people who are arguing over the 4% but it just seems like it's the principle of like I didn't agree to pay this fee and now you're kind of putting it on me.

[00:11:38] The reasons for it have kind of varied like why people say they need it. Some people say it's because of like the rising costs of supplies and goods and expenses and utilities and all of that

[00:11:51] stuff which if that's the case most businesses if your costs go up then usually what you do to cover those costs is you increase the prices you don't add like sneaky little service charge fees

[00:12:07] because it's deceptive in the sense of what are you agreeing to you look at the prices of a restaurant you base your kind of assessment of a restaurant on price like it goes into the whole

[00:12:21] factor like is the food good is the prices good is the ambiance good is the service good so I think like if you're kind of playing you're kind of fudging the numbers a little bit with the prices

[00:12:33] you know you just raise the prices and pay for all these things if everything's going up or so that that bothers me and I if you didn't know that this all kind of started like I think in

[00:12:48] San Francisco this service charge like restaurants doing the service charge right there everything sort of starts in San Francisco. You have any idea when this started I was going to ask because

[00:12:59] I actually don't know because it is a newer thing. I'm not quite sure when it exactly started but I do know that San Francisco passed something called the San Francisco's healthcare security

[00:13:10] ordinance and I actually have an article up that this guy went on like a huge legal campaign. His name is Jue, I hope I'm pronouncing that right, XUE Jue. He went to sacred taco in Calhalla and his $153 check came with an additional San Francisco service charge equivalent to

[00:13:35] 5% of his total before tax and tip. And so after failing to find any notice on the menu or in the restaurant, Jue said he was incorrectly told by sacred taco staff that the additional fee was a

[00:13:46] tax imposed by the local government. In fact like many restaurants sacred taco uses the fee to defray the cost of complying with San Francisco's healthcare security ordinance which requires businesses of a certain size to set aside money for employee health care so that's where

[00:14:02] it really started I think. I could be wrong but I feel like that's where it started was they were adding this service charge in San Francisco like 4 or 5% because they imposed this local ordinance

[00:14:15] that you had to start paying for restaurant health care and then I think it just kind of spiraled out of control from there and more restaurants were starting to take it up so again if you want to pay for your restaurant employee's health care that's your prerogative

[00:14:34] as a business owner. I don't care if you want to do that that's what your business model is and you're like I want to take care of my employees great. Again as someone who worked in the

[00:14:42] restaurant business none of us had health care not saying that's the way to go about it but if you want to do that then raise your prices and maybe explain to your customers our prices are a

[00:14:55] little higher because we take care of our employees and at least that way you can be like hey okay well I'm paying a little bit more and I'm taking care of these employees. I think it's just the fact

[00:15:05] that you don't agree to this and it's somehow being charged to you yeah that gets a lot of people upset. Right yeah I mean I'm all for transparency obviously not obviously but

[00:15:19] who doesn't love transparency but yes when I go into a restaurant I know that I'm not paying the cost of like the steak that they purchased I understand that I'm you know helping pay the lease on

[00:15:32] the building and the employees salaries and all the other little you know the business owner needs to make some money like I understand that but the service fee is weird. Yeah so I'm

[00:15:50] going to file this under I don't hate it although now at the last minute I guess as long as they let you know there's gonna be a four or five percent or whatever service charge they're gonna have to tell you and you're gonna have to agree to it.

[00:16:05] But at least. So sorry go ahead. I was gonna say I already flipped this on the government and like every time that they want to raise any sort of little tax or bond then we need to see the exact

[00:16:18] breakdown of it too and it should be you know we need to know like California is the least I don't know if it's the least but it's there at the top bottom how everyone say it

[00:16:30] of transparency with where our taxes are going and yet they want everyone else to be transparent with the money well I would like that with the state as well I would like to know where

[00:16:41] every little bit of my taxes go. Well you might be waiting a while as we discussed on this podcast and we've had Andre from open the books tell us they never distribute their state checkbook it's

[00:16:56] one of the few states in the entire country that actually doesn't do this and let people know exactly what they're spending money on which kind of you know obviously raises the question

[00:17:08] if you won't show us what's going on kind of wonder okay well then what are you hiding from us. Okay so that's the hidden fees do you have any suggestion for the next one or should we just

[00:17:20] keep going. You keep going. I keep going okay um let's see did did it do so we went over hidden junk fees um I guess the next one we can talk about is this one it's a date rape drug testing kits

[00:17:36] in bars AB 1013 1013 this law mandates certain alcoholic beverage license holders to offer drug testing kits for sale or at no cost to patrons places with a type 48 license should have signs up letting people know the kits are available to test for date rape drugs it will be

[00:17:55] up to each establishment to get their own kits the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control will not sell or provide them so that's interesting um go ahead it's interesting that California did not decide to sell them with their like they they this is you know

[00:18:18] this bill has passed there's no law but I'm surprised that they're not like and you have to use our kit because this is you know the specifications this is the one that works this is whatever um

[00:18:30] but you can carry on with your thoughts and all of mine. No that's actually a good point I hadn't thought of that I'm surprised they hadn't figured out uh some business that wants to get

[00:18:44] in good with somebody in Sacramento and be like well we'll provide the kits for you if you give us this huge government contract and give us all this money and overpay for these kits um

[00:18:59] I'm surprised that wasn't proposed I'm sure maybe someone along the way thought of that but yeah that's a good point I'm surprised California didn't take the opportunity to try and and give out some money to some buddies or something and make their own California date

[00:19:16] rape drug test kits um to give out and sell because they could make a profit on it or something so I don't I don't think this is a bad idea um I don't know how I don't know how many people

[00:19:31] might be one of those ones where it like it sounds great in principle um but I I don't know how practical it is I think you know in a large bar where it's busy and crazy and hectic

[00:19:45] which is usually where a lot of this happens where you know patrons get slipped a roofie I'm not sure there's the wherewithal to kind of stop and go oh I'm gonna purchase this drug testing kit for my drink um

[00:20:02] but at least it's there I I guess um now I don't know how much these kits cost and I don't know if it's going to be like do you have to keep a lot of them on hand or do you just have to

[00:20:13] keep like half a dozen on hand like I don't know like what the specifics are about it but um I guess I that yeah I don't hate this one either so I guess I'm two for two already on

[00:20:24] not hating what about you yeah okay so I don't hate it but I do question I I know this happens I I know you know like primarily obviously to women but does it happen more often in bars and clubs than at home parties? I

[00:20:43] so I was having a conversation with someone yesterday we were talking about 4th of July and she had spent the 4th of July at Newport Beach and she was talking about how insane it was

[00:20:52] and how they're watching their people watching and they actually these girls who are clearly like 14 15 16 years old but they're all like they're wearing basically string of bikinis they're walking around they're getting drunk and she's we're talking about the people that are watching and they're watching and they're watching

[00:21:09] bikinis they're walking around they're getting drunk and she's we're talking about like who are you know this is the perfect place for the creepy men to go and pray on these girls who are probably trying to even pretend

[00:21:19] like they're older oh I'm 18 whatever they're the ones that are gonna get like the victim of these yes there's going to be women in bar settings and clubs but I do question where does it happen

[00:21:31] more in a public setting or in a private setting and there was a few years ago where my I think my sister was house watching like she was watching my parents house and there was a party on their

[00:21:44] street and all of a sudden a bunch of cops showed up so my sister walked my parents on a very small street she walked up the street see what was going on they were taking a bunch of passed out teenage

[00:21:54] girls young 15 16 year old girls to the ER and they were like she like heard them saying like they all have to be you know pull out the rape kits they all have to be tested a bunch of boys

[00:22:05] 17 18 year old boys like boys had slipped stuff in their drinks and that was a home party and I so I just I don't hate this at all and it is a problem for sure but let's say that me and my

[00:22:24] girlfriends were young and we're having fun and we you know take maybe we're responsible we take a new work but we all go get drunk I'm not young I'm just pretending like I'm young in this

[00:22:32] scenario we all go get drunk are any of us even going to have the foresight to be like oh wait we need to check our drinks I don't even know how you check your drink how long does this take

[00:22:41] like is this like a 10 minute thing is this like and then it's all weird to me and I again I'm not opposed to it I just wonder like you said like how realistic is this how much

[00:22:53] is it going to prevent things from happening yeah it's one of the I feel like it's one of those feel good California laws where it's like it sounds good but then in practicality like

[00:23:05] how is it actually going to work out in real in real life and we I guess we won't know until it actually people start having to buy them because as of July 1st bars do have to start

[00:23:17] buying these and be in compliance someone in the chat said Alyssa oh said additionally it's recognized the restaurant slash bar cannot be how liable if the kit isn't effective I was literally going to ask that that's interesting so my next comment question so I guess yeah if

[00:23:35] you're yeah if you're if it's ineffective and something you're not how liable so does that again it's one of the who's liable who's like really responsible here I don't know it sounds great but I'm interested to see how it actually works out in like the real world

[00:23:56] but again I think it's I don't hate it because I think the idea is in the right place which is you know let's protect people from being roofied funny enough it's not just girls I when I went to our my bachelor party in Vegas

[00:24:16] my buddy got roofied so it happens somebody did somebody yeah one of my buddies got roofied so oh wow yeah it happens happens to guys too so it's not just girls all right

[00:24:32] say primarily women I didn't say it doesn't happen to men just no I'm not I'm just saying throwing it out there that it can be men as well it can be men and women so on that point

[00:24:46] let's move on to the next one all right this will be the first one that I hate okay and I think you know which one I'm gonna pick right away the punch line come on okay this one is ammo

[00:24:59] and gun tax this is ab 2a I mean anybody who watches this show is probably gonna assume I hate this one the gun violence prevention and school safety act of course they always put school safety in there

[00:25:12] puts an 11 state tax on guns and ammunition california is the first to implement such a law and the funds are supposed to go to school safety in violence prevention programs okay so obviously I hate this this is stupid they always throw school safety in there because

[00:25:33] that always makes it pass when it's school safety I'm not sure what they're gonna spend the money on for school safety are they going to add security are they gonna add more metal detectors

[00:25:44] are they gonna add different prevention techniques more secure like more security cam like what are they adding what are these funds going to for school safety um prevention education crime prevention dare programs I don't know like but yeah I I I don't know but that's usually when you

[00:26:05] read through it it's always like da da da da education and you're like okay what does that mean yeah and so they always say oh it's gonna go to school safety violence prevention programs

[00:26:16] of course a lot of and it comes back to the same simple argument which is that the majority the vast overwhelming majority of lawful gun owners who show up to a gun store who will

[00:26:28] only give over their IDs and do a background check which now you have to get your background check and you gotta when it comes to ammo they gotta swipe your driver's license every single time

[00:26:39] like lawful gun owners who show up are not committing these crimes and they're not going to these places so again it punishes lawful gun owners who follow the law who do what they're supposed to and we get punished um so hate this law that they added 11%

[00:26:58] state tax on guns and ammunition but but there's good news there is a silver lining the FPC which is the firearms policy coalition along with uh I believe it's the NRA the California Rifle and Pistol Association the Second Amendment Foundation they have filed a lawsuit in the

[00:27:20] southern district of California and federal court which is great because that's Judge Benitez and anybody who knows Second Amendment jurisprudence knows Judge Benitez is a big supporter of the Second Amendment so they file a lawsuit saying that this was unconstitutional it says quote

[00:27:37] this is from a press release from them quote California's unconstitutional and immoral gun tax is a modern Jim Crow law that targets people and rights hated by tyrants like Governor Gavin Newsom thankfully the Constitution forbids Californians political warfare scheme

[00:27:52] FPC and our allies are committed to restoring the right to keep and bear arms in California and throughout the United States here California effectively seeks the power to destroy the exercise of a constitutional right by singling it out for special taxation if this tax is permitted

[00:28:07] there's nothing stopping California from imposing a 50 percent or even 100 tax on a constitutional right it disfavors whether it be the right to bear arms the right to exercise of religion or any other right the complaint states so

[00:28:23] I have a good if I was to predict I mean it's super early already I have a prediction that Judge Benitez will find this tax unconstitutional you can't tax a constitutional right

[00:28:36] and it will then get appealed to the Ninth Circuit and then maybe he'll end up in the Supreme Court which is it's a valid question go ahead question two-part question I guess

[00:28:49] because so this tax is in addition to the federal tax which is like what 10 to 11 percent depending on the gun that you buy so this is in addition to that but so if you can't tax a constitutional

[00:29:03] right and if this goes to the Supreme Court could they possibly rule over rule the federal tax yeah I mean they could they could say you're not supposed to tax a constitutional right like

[00:29:18] anything the bill writes you're not supposed to tax that because it infringe it these are rights that you're supposed to freely be well this is one take on it one that I believe in that you are to be able to freely exercise these original 10

[00:29:37] bill of right amendments these are constitutional rights these are natural rights derived from nature derived by God or whoever you want to say derived from nature our fact of us being alive these are our natural rights and to tax those natural rights I think is unconstitutional

[00:29:53] so they could yeah this could be a good question as to whether they could tax federally or they can tax statewide so but we'll see whether or not I'm sure Benita as we'll say it's

[00:30:09] unconstitutional because that's likely who's going to hear it and then it'll get appealed the question is whether they stay the ruling on appeal or we're gonna have to deal with 11 percent state tax for the foreseeable future so that's why I hate it

[00:30:26] what yeah I know it's but it's not funny but California you know they've tried to basically get rid of gun ownership they can't so they're like well we're just gonna make it

[00:30:39] unaffordable for you and oh yeah that's that's one of the main tools of the government is when they don't like you doing something they tax it you know that's that's just basic you know it's

[00:30:54] it's social engineering by the government 101 which is if we don't like you doing something then we're gonna tax it and then hopefully it goes away if we want you to do something

[00:31:06] we'll give you a tax credit or a tax rebate so in California they don't want you owning guns this is definitely not going to stop people from owning guns or buying guns or ammunition that's for

[00:31:19] for damn sure but it still sucks that you have to pay 11 percent on all this stuff so but in California lawful gun owners are used to being beaten over the head with stuff like this so

[00:31:33] doesn't change doesn't change how we practice or uphold our own right so good news is somebody's already on top of it somebody's already fighting and if it's the FPC and the California Rifle and Pistol Association they've been very successful in a lot of Second Amendment

[00:31:49] legislative or litigation here in California NRA not so crazy about them but FPC and California Rifle and Pistol Association both have been very good with litigation okay there's a

[00:32:04] couple more I mean we can go through all of them but there's we can do a speed round on some of these because I do want to get a little bit to Gavin Newsom in his shadow campaign

[00:32:15] building home ownership SB 684 SB 684 is intended to streamline the construction of housing developments it requires cities and counties to approve without public hearings or vote certain projects with 10 or less housing units in urban areas the lot can't be larger

[00:32:34] than five acres the law was originally applicable in single family residential zoning districts but a late amendment now means the law only applies to site zone for multi-family housing okay that one kind of confused me but I was like trying to read what does it actually change

[00:32:54] again I think it's just permitting and approval for those permits streamlining to get it through to get more development through so like that means work over at committees I'm just kidding hopefully it means less government committees but I mean they're kind of they're kind of flirting with

[00:33:17] the whole why is housing so unaffordable in California which is the government is in the way and the faster you get the government out of the way here so we did this to themselves and now

[00:33:28] they're slowly unraveling it there's now they're adding laws to create exemptions to get around the regulations that they've put in place rather than just start pulling away the regulations kind of like sequel like they keep complaining about sequel which they put into place and in

[00:33:49] reality they just should just scrap it and start all over again they keep trying to do like these little amendments and like little reforms on sequel they just need to scrap it and start all over again with sequel but as we've said on this show before politicians

[00:34:02] never like admitting defeat or that they were wrong so they never repeal anything they've ever passed or their party is passed so instead they'll create these little carve outs like this which allow for just multifamily and like I guess 10 housing units are every so it's just more

[00:34:17] I think it's going to be urban density is going to be I think that's the sad thing about what's going on in California right now is that they're streamlining a lot of this stuff for urban development so it's going to be a lot of apartments

[00:34:33] but I don't know how that helps with like home ownership because you're not buying a home you're buying you're you're going to live in an apartment in an urban area they're just going to start

[00:34:43] packing people on top of each other in urban areas which I don't know if like the infrastructure of any of these cities is ready for an influx of that many citizens I mean LA is already kind

[00:34:54] of like at you know bursting at the seams with people so and I certainly don't want you know a crap ton more people here in San Diego in downtown San Diego so you have plenty of people we have

[00:35:09] plenty we're good San Diego's closed we don't we don't need any more people we're all full thank you um okay keep kids in school this one I don't know if you you might have a better opinion that I do

[00:35:24] because I don't I don't really understand this punishment keep kids in school SB 274 the keep kids in school bill changes education code to ban suspending K through 12 students based on willful defiance previous code only applied to grades K through 8 a portion of the bill

[00:35:43] discusses research finding students of color homeless students with disabilities and lgbtq plus students are more likely to be suspended for willful defiance than their peers do you have an opinion on this this bill means now if they're acting out in class like causing

[00:36:03] I think it's it's not like high level stuff like this this doesn't pertain to like if they're being violent class but like they're they're disrupting class basically maybe being slightly defined or whatever right so my my correct understanding so according to CBS news historically

[00:36:21] in California around the nation willful defiance suspensions have typically been levied for low level disruptions such as a student wearing a hat backward falling asleep in class or talking back to a teacher willful defiance suspensions have been disproportionately directed students of

[00:36:36] color lgbtq plus students students who are homeless or in foster care and those with disabilities the senator's office said under SB 274 teachers would be able to remove a student from a specific class for unruly behavior but the youth would not be suspended from school instead it would

[00:36:53] be up to the school administrators to determine appropriate and timely in school interventions or support for the student um I guess this one I don't know I guess I'm kind of like meh

[00:37:05] on this one like I don't I guess if it's like little infractions like you know you're just kind of being a little bit of a rebel do you need to be suspended over being a little bit like

[00:37:17] some kids push the boundaries like that's just boundaries because they want to see how far they you know go with stuff oftentimes if a kid is like that it not all the time but oftentimes

[00:37:28] reflects on maybe their home life and so is you know suspending them from school the best option no especially when we already have veiling schools but I could also see how

[00:37:41] kids are not stupid and now this is like so this expanded for k through 12 so I could see how kids in high school will learn to take advantage of this because they can just get themselves

[00:37:53] removed from class they don't like uh a lot of schools don't allow kids to dye their hair crazy colors kind of thing and so I could see how kids would start being like well I'm

[00:38:02] shown it with bright green hair just to get myself removed from class or to get out of doing this test today or whatever and then and I don't agree that they should be suspended for that and kind of like

[00:38:16] I was talking to you earlier though ranting about I'm kind of like just over this whole public school thing I my kids have never been in public school I've already you know my first

[00:38:27] child he's not a child he's now an adult he's graduated from high school I homeschooled him all the way he's never been in private or public school I got two girls in high school one

[00:38:37] in middle school and I'm just like you know what we got all these parents fighting all the rules allegedly fighting all the rules they say they don't like this that that that and that

[00:38:47] and and then they just continue to send their kids to school and so I don't care what public school does at this point they can all they people are going to hate me for this do what

[00:38:57] you want in public school like it's public school they're going to impose all the rules if parents their only thing is to like you know rant and show up at school we're reading some rant which is

[00:39:08] important but then send their kids to school the very next day when nothing changes and they continue to do that day after day year after year well they're never going to change because

[00:39:16] you're not pulling your kids out of school so yeah yeah it's kind of like you you signed up for this and yeah you know if sorry you're in you're in their terrain you got to play by their rules

[00:39:30] so and I don't say that like I'm better than anyone I'm not saying homeschool is the only option I'm not I'm just like I didn't sign up for this and I you know I'm over here with my kids at

[00:39:43] work and not being run by the government so yeah I mean if you're if it's an overwhelming amount of things and you have the ability to take your kids out of public school and move them somewhere

[00:39:54] else you have that option you can do that um and like you said it the only way they're ever going to change is if a lot of people are taken out of public school um and they start to see people

[00:40:08] leaving public school in droves um so but on this one I'm kind of like meh I guess whatever it's not mean like what they're doing it's not mean and I kids shouldn't be just

[00:40:21] suspended for everything absolutely yeah I don't think they should be kicked out of school just for like being a little bit of a rebel maybe it's better they are they stay in school so that they

[00:40:29] can get some guidance and tutoring and mentorship like right you know rather than just sending teachers we do we have teachers who genuinely care about the kids you know so okay this next

[00:40:41] one I'm definitely um this one I would have to say I'm meh on uh this one is menstrual products in schools ab 230 under current law public schools with grades six through 12 must stock bathrooms with free menstrual products new law ab 230 expands the requirement to public schools

[00:40:59] with grades three through five meaning free menstrual products must now be available to grades three through 12 and I am completely meh on this one because I have no opinion does this extend to the boys bathroom and I'm serious I don't know oh yeah that's a good question

[00:41:19] does it extend you know what if oh that's a good question because if there is someone who is transitioning and they want to be a boy but they're going to the boys bathroom

[00:41:34] is it available there that's a good question um I don't know the answer to that speak I don't know the answer to that either but I feel like in California I would not be surprised if

[00:41:48] they require that it has to be nothing on that blurb says it has to be just in female bathrooms it just says uh in bathrooms must stock bathrooms because that's a question I really do have

[00:42:00] that's a that's an interesting question yeah because otherwise I'll for it so yeah otherwise I'm just meh on this because obviously I don't it doesn't affect you doesn't it doesn't affect me

[00:42:13] so I'm meh on it um okay right to repair act SB 244 the rights to repair act is supposed to make it easier for owners of electronic devices to make repairs themselves or take to take them to independent repair shops this law requires manufacturers to make tools parts

[00:42:30] and software available for seven years after the production of devices sold for more than $100 the window of time for less expensive devices is shorter at three years okay I mean again parts in the right place meh I don't like whatever okay that's why we buy

[00:42:52] I have a person who sold DIY repair so I guess it's going to convenient yeah I mean I'm pretty good with lucky with my phone not going to wood um not a lot of stuff happens to it

[00:43:05] I know there are businesses that do this um that like you know you can put go and yell up and there's like iPhone repair and all that stuff um I'm sure you can make the tools

[00:43:18] and like all that stuff available but like if you're not an expert at repairing a super computer in your in the palm of your hand like I don't know how success like you could require that tools be

[00:43:31] provided to me to fix my car doesn't mean I know how to fix my car like right I'm assuming this has a lot to do with like washing machines I can't think of other appliances right now

[00:43:45] but I don't know what refrigerators yeah all that stuff I mean sure if you want to be a do a DIY person and do it all yourself go right ahead um I mean I think that's that's better

[00:44:02] that we start to repair stuff more than just throw it out and be such a disposable it used to be you know back in the good old days when things broke people used to fix them

[00:44:13] and then we would have them for a long time living in sue crazy California a read now that sure get to weird territory where somebody tries to fix their dryer but they didn't

[00:44:24] unplug it first and then they get burnt and then they sue like weird I always go down these paths and I know that's weird but that's you know it's actually not a bad question um because now if you're incumbent if the manufacturer is incumbent to provide the tools

[00:44:46] in the parts and the software and instructions what if those instructions are not clear and then they hurt themselves they like lose a finger where the garbage disposal yeah like you know then you could sue the manufacturer and say like your instructions were

[00:45:04] not clear so yeah definitely possible um this one I'm on I'm like whatever so yeah I like I said like my husband will probably appreciate that I mean he genuinely will probably be like whoa

[00:45:21] got these two points it's got all the tools so when it comes down to fix it I'm I can just do it myself okay let's see a couple more and then we'll we'll look at noodles doing his shadow campaign

[00:45:36] this one is security deposit cap AB 12 under AB 12 landlords can't ask for a security deposit greater than one month's rent it's designed to make housing more accessible and affordable since some landlords have previously asked for two to three months rent landlords are still

[00:45:52] allowed to seek damages from tenants if repairs exceed the security deposit amount and I actually pulled this up because as curious there are exceptions there is an exception for small landlords with a maximum of four rental units and two properties

[00:46:11] total they can still ask for two months rent as a rental deposit all other landlords are capped at one month's rent so also there is something I found a PDF from Rob Bonta's office

[00:46:27] he says landlords can only use security deposits for the following specified expenses past due rent the cost of repairing damages caused by tenants or their guests not including ordinary wear and tear

[00:46:38] the cost of cleaning the property so that it is clean as when the tenant first moved in the cost of replacing or restoring the landlord's personal property such as furniture but only if

[00:46:47] the rental agreement says this is allowed and it may not be used for damages that were already there when the tenant moved in unreasonable or unnecessary expenses or ordinary wear and tear which is interesting because I feel like they use security deposits a lot for wear and tear

[00:47:07] I've definitely rented my fair share of apartments and stuff in the past 10 years and I feel like every time I want to get my security deposit back they're like oh no we

[00:47:16] had to come in and we had to paint and painting was $2,000 and you didn't fight it Phil? yeah you can sit there and fight it all you want but like what are you gonna do they're

[00:47:28] gonna just show you well we were our landlord 15 years ago to small claims court and won oh really he did not get this deposit back within 30 days which is the law in California

[00:47:39] and they have to give you an itemized like what did they use it for so we had the house we were renting a house we had it professionally cleaned and the carpets professionally cleaned before we

[00:47:51] moved out and then he didn't give us back our deposit and when we asked for it he got all weird and then finally sent us an itemized receipt that somehow came to the exact amount

[00:48:00] of the security deposit and he made up a bunch of things that we knew were not sure so we took him to small claims court and we won and in fact the judge granted us more money than we

[00:48:13] had asked for and then he mailed us the check with a post-it note that says the stupid law has no justice and I was like cute but I'm the one depositing the check right now that's cute but I won

[00:48:24] so thank you for giving me more money um it's always funny how that it's always the professional carpet cleaning they always hit you up with like we need to bring in professional carpet cleaners

[00:48:37] and it cost a thousand dollars I'm like bro this was a studio apartment there was like no carpet in this place like one room I think a living room had carpeting and everything else was hard floor

[00:48:48] so we we paid to have a clean yeah I don't I don't know who they find they must just find like people they know and they're like yeah come on in and do the cleaning we'll pay you

[00:48:58] a thousand dollars for it so that we don't have to give their security deposit back okay last one and we'll we'll watch some videos some short videos with noodles workplace violence prevention SB 553 this law requires employers to develop and implement

[00:49:14] workplace violence prevention plans it applies to almost all employers with limited exceptions the plan must be in writing easily accessible and contain an anti-retaliation provision employers must also have workplace violence incident logs and provide staff with annual trading about the law

[00:49:30] how to report incidents and keep a record of the training actually I just realized we didn't give our opinion is it hate don't hate or meh on the security deposit that was it was meh I mean

[00:49:42] it's it's helpful rent rent is insane right now as you know um so yeah that's that is one way to I guess I guess I I love it then because because you've been screwed over and yeah I I don't hate it

[00:50:04] um I guess a lot of people might be like well you should be able to do with your property what you want and it's like yeah it's a no sure but when you enter that whole like rental land like

[00:50:15] um parameters kind of change when you enter rental land doesn't mean there's the exception if you are someone like let's say our landlord who doesn't own like an apartment complex and he wants to do it

[00:50:29] that's up to his prerogative but it does prevent like the big apartment companies and property management from asking for two or three months rent which is insane that's a lot of money to ask for

[00:50:40] like two or three months a lot of people can't afford that we don't love people all the streets so yeah so don't hate it um so far it's been a good you know there's only one law that I hate

[00:50:56] and so far it's been a lot of meh like I don't really care and don't hate it um this last one workplace violence prevention um I mean I don't hate it I'm sure I'll hate it when I have to go

[00:51:11] through like a three hour online training at work um can we talk about workplace violence sure what obviously there was an incident or two or three that happened to bring about this law

[00:51:27] I don't know what the heck happened like is that is that a thing I've never been in a violent yeah I don't know what they're what like what qualifies as workplace violence like people

[00:51:39] beating each other up like yeah I know I'm being really naive in this but I'm just picturing like my last job in an office setting I'm like picturing like people throwing like

[00:51:48] file folders at each other in anger and like and I'm not making fun of this I I'm generally like what happened where is where is this happening who's getting violent like I don't yeah I don't I don't know I I mean I haven't heard a lot of stories

[00:52:05] of people like beating the crap out of each other at work like sexual harassment and sexual like that probably happens way more than people want to talk about it and that's why we have

[00:52:17] required training um this I don't I mean what what else do you need to know like I guess how to not engage in workplace violence like don't punch your co-worker in the face is violence spoken as well can violence be spoken

[00:52:40] but that's my question is is is words violence um yeah words um what like yeah how how I genuinely don't understand this one and I'm all for no workplace violence I'm all for no violence yeah I mean I don't want violence anywhere um but I guess I haven't

[00:53:05] heard of a lot of workplace violence happening where like we need to require businesses to train to stop workplace violence um I feel like it's kind of common sense like don't eat the crap out of your

[00:53:17] workers or your bosses like just don't do that um just as extent to outside of work hours like if people you and another lawyer have a little thing and you're like all right meet me you know on

[00:53:30] Saturday in the parking lot like like we're like the jets and the sharks and we're gonna throw down or something I'm not gonna do that but like where does this go where like I genuinely don't understand

[00:53:43] this I I guess I need to do more reading on it yeah I mean based on that little blurb I don't hate it don't beat up people I but again like I said I'll probably hate it when we're all required

[00:53:56] at work to take a three hour seminar on it or something do they test your seminars well I had to do the sexual harassment training which is required and then they like have little

[00:54:11] quizzes at the end it's like it's like nine chapters of like all things you have to go over regarding it and it's like it took forever and you can't fast forward if you don't pass the

[00:54:25] little quiz or test you have to like restart the chapter restart like no they just keep giving you chances to like take it over like just keep answering the question until you get it right so um but yeah

[00:54:36] it took a long time I was like I did it when I first got there I was like this is like three hours are you gonna now do this again for workplace violence if I do I will let you know and then

[00:54:47] I'll tell you violent if you have to I might get violent well that'd be ironic if you that'd be ironic if you got violent because you're taking a workplace violence you're like I just can't

[00:54:58] take it anymore you start throwing stuff and breaking stuff and you're like I'm too busy for this crap I can't do this rock start throwing stuff all over the place um all right let's

[00:55:10] see what noodles has been up to uh with his shadow campaign um I call it a shadow campaign because as we all know Biden did not do well at the debate and I'm not overstating that I think

[00:55:26] everybody in the world is kind of saying he did not do very well some people said he crashed and burned some people said it was the worst debate performance of all time um and obviously with

[00:55:37] that came a lot of uh massinations and hand wringing over who should replace Biden and obviously Gavin Newsom just as we've been saying he's been putting himself out there just kind of

[00:55:49] waiting in the wings being like I can raise all this money look at how charismatic I am I go to all these places I he did that like campaign for democracy tour through like Alabama or something

[00:56:00] like you know he's slowly been putting himself out there like well Biden turns into a demented vegetable I'm standing right here and I'd slide right in perfectly he's got money

[00:56:12] he's got the credential like you know so since then he says he didn't just talk about any insane laws I mean like we don't like the gun law but we we actually didn't have anything in like total

[00:56:29] insanity to discuss tonight which is yeah I mean um I know people and this has been my theory is that because Gavin Newsom is a complete narcissist and wants to run for president

[00:56:45] we've been lucky in the sense that he has vetoed a good amount of like far left radical stuff because he knows that if he passes a lot of far left radical stuff he's not winning winning any of those swing states like they'll crush him in swing states

[00:57:03] he's always reaching for the next brass ring so thankfully he's been trying to run for president and that's made him a little little bit more moderate than we could expect he's still signed some pretty crazy laws but there's some stuff he's he's vetoed you're like

[00:57:18] yeah that was a presidential move I fear who the next governor is going to be because I feel like the next governor won't have presidential ambitions maybe they will I mean you're coming out of California you're one of the largest states you could always have presidential ambitions

[00:57:35] but I fear the next governor will probably be way worse and farther left than Gavin Newsom so kind of weird the devil you know right isn't that the same the devil you know is better than

[00:57:47] worst what's the same I don't know what that is yes I'm sorry the devil the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know or something like that I don't know all right anyway let's go for we'll start here in Michigan

[00:58:12] your voice your vote and we begin tonight with California Governor Gavin Newsom who is in West Michigan on this 4th of July campaigning for President Joe Biden 13 on your sides Julia Gorman is here now with what he had to say in Van Buren County at the Democratic Party's

[00:58:25] 4th of July event in South Haven this afternoon Julia Julia Governor Gavin Newsom was one of 20 Democratic governors to meet with the president just last night behind closed doors obviously a top

[00:58:36] concern right now for many Americans on both sides of the aisle is can our current president be successful President Donald Trump says here's a look at the governor speaking to the crowd at

[00:58:52] the event in South Haven he made sure to cite many of the successes of the Biden administration over the last three and a half years speaking to that crowd there he talked about low unemployment rates for women and people of color he talks about the current president's

[00:59:07] infrastructure work so far he also talked about how Biden is working for everyone Republicans included citing putting money into many Republican districts over the last few years compared to a country led by former president Donald Trump governor Newsom compared the two as right and

[00:59:22] wrong daylight and darkness Joe Biden regardless of time of life as a quality of imagination where he's delivered more than gosh what is this ad time now now what is this stuff

[00:59:45] darn ads okay any president in my lifetime and just three and a half years I care about mode fashion I care about you know results and and outputs and he's produced and so

[00:59:58] you know leave more objective minds to judge that but I'm not looking for a performer in chief I'm looking for a commander in chief now michigan's republicans are responding to governor Newsom's visit saying quote Gavin Newsom campaigning in michigan shows just how out of

[01:00:13] touch Joe Biden and his team are to michiganders and the struggles we face here I hope they enjoy their barbecue which thanks to by dynamics is significantly more expensive and quote and again that is according to michigan republican party chair Pete hoekstra now for more

[01:00:27] information on our continuing coverage of the california governor's visit to our state I send it back to julia julia thank you well our political reporter josh albert is just spoke to governor Newsom in a one-on-one interview about his visit to west michigan today coming up

[01:00:42] tonight at 11 o'clock why news okay so that's him in michigan um any thoughts particularly to that specific well the statement I'm not looking for a performance chief I'm looking

[01:01:01] for a commander in chief sure but um either way biden's failing both so um and I just I'm tired of Newsom pretending like this is a master class in how to oh gosh every time he says oh this is a master class

[01:01:21] in my master class uh this is a master class and how to get things done I'm so tired of everyone pretending like this is okay which I guess we've refriended gotten to a point where everyone

[01:01:31] isn't pretending like this is okay but gavin's pretending and he still has two years left in california and we don't have we're still having issues major issues not minor issues were you know

[01:01:45] we always talk about like he needs to get back here he's governed the state he doesn't need to be out campaigning for a brain dead president yeah um I mean he kind of just like got that

[01:01:58] budget deal done and he's like wiped his hands and now he's like back out on the campaign trail already so it's like you know and I don't even think the budget deal resolves the deficit I think

[01:02:09] they have to borrow a lot and they declared an emergency a state of emergency regarding the budget um which shows that I mean if there's a state emergency regarding your state's budget like that's not a good sign and you probably shouldn't be gallivanting around the country

[01:02:25] to you know campaign for a president who you have to and I think what makes it even more laughable at this point that Gavin Newsom is doing this is you know he's smart enough to look

[01:02:40] at what happened at that debate and go he is not capable of being president anymore like he's just not going yes well yeah I mean he's deep down he's going yes that's why he I mean he

[01:02:53] went to the debate as a quote unquote surrogate like no but I don't think anyone asked him to be there as a surrogate I think he just went as a surrogate to be on the floor and like he was in

[01:03:04] the right place at the right time where it's like okay now all these people are freaking out about how bad Biden's performance was but like he's smart enough to know if there's anything I give

[01:03:13] Gavin Newsom credit for he is a he's savvy smart politician um he knows that Biden's days are numbered and he's trying to play we and I think we called this I think we knew that like

[01:03:27] he would play like the reluctant kind of like savior if it comes to that where it's like he's going to be a good little soldier for Biden as long as he needs to be

[01:03:40] he's not going to look like he's going for a power grab he's not going to look like he's trying to undermine him but if it comes down to it and somebody's like hey

[01:03:49] you would be a better choice to run for president right now than Joe Biden we need you I could but okay fine I guess I'll run for president like that's what I think we believed was going

[01:04:03] to happen all along. If anything keeps Trump out I'll save my country. If it's about saving democracy and I have a pact called campaign for democracy then I guess I will um so that's

[01:04:18] I think he's doing his part and he's doing it and I think in a weird way ironically him doing this and and smiling through his teeth and being like everything's fine. Bidens don't put in on a master

[01:04:32] class. You look more disingenuous and like a liar because you know everyone knows what you're saying is not true like everyone's like like we know you're lying like you're lying through your

[01:04:47] teeth which makes you look more like a lying scumbag so why are voters going to trust you? So anyway and then he went off after Michigan you think he'd return to come back to his state

[01:05:05] and you know address all the issues of crime in the budget and all that stuff wildfires but he did it instead he went on to New Hampshire which is usually known as a kind

[01:05:20] of testing ground for presidential candidates in primary so it's weird he went to New Hampshire. I wonder why. California Governor Gavin Newsom is in New Hampshire he's campaigning for President Biden right now but many voters are saying they'd rather see someone like Newsom at the top

[01:05:37] of the ticket. WBC's Louisa Muller is live on the campaign trail she joins us now and Louisa I know you just spoke with Governor Newsom. Yeah Lisa while some Democrats have signaled or flat out called for President Biden to step aside Governor Newsom once again right here

[01:05:54] said he maintains his staunch support for the president he dismissed any questions. Oh gosh another what is with these ads? Very targeted ad Phil. Yeah I don't know what this ad is

[01:06:11] if you want to be a hundred thousand K earner no thank you. Says he has full confidence in his cognitive and physical abilities but he is concerned about Donald Trump's record and his

[01:06:20] fitness for office. As you said of course Gavin Newsom's name has been tossed around as a possible alternative to a Biden candidacy and potentially a top 2028 contender so I asked him what if the Democratic National Convention in August is a brokered convention here's what he said.

[01:06:40] I think that's a legitimate question and I respect it but it's also exactly the question that Donald Trump is hoping everyone asks us he's out of the golf course so to me

[01:06:50] that is not a question I'm going to respond to because Joe Biden is our nominee's our president is not the presumptive nominee he's going to be our nominee and I look forward to voting for him

[01:06:59] not just advocating for him on November. Now at the same time of this a post debate poll conducted by St. Anselt here in New Hampshire found the New Hampshire voters are swinging

[01:07:13] in the direction of Donald Trump so today we took the temperature of voters and asked them how they feel about the state of the race. As sure as scrambled eggs and pancakes hot off the griddle

[01:07:24] politics are served up at the dairy diner. And right now they come with a side of uncertainty. I'm feeling that this race is just dividing the entire country in it and it's a pretty sad

[01:07:40] for months. President Joe Biden has held a roughly 10 point lead over former President Donald Trump among New Hampshire voters but a new poll by St. Anselm College conducted after Mr. Biden's stumbling debate has the granite stage swinging from Trump leading with 44% support to Biden's

[01:07:58] 42% which is within the margin of error. The good news for Democrats is that on the generic ballot where you say do you prefer a Democrat or Republican Democrats still hold a three point

[01:08:10] lead but that also does show how weak the candidate himself Joe Biden is in a state like New Hampshire. We took the temperature of voters and dairy won by Trump in 2020 by roughly 800 votes.

[01:08:23] The Trump was president I was doing a lot better than I am now. I find myself cutting corners everywhere to try and save a couple of dollars. That was the most like New England,

[01:08:35] New Hampshire guy I think they could have ever found. That was a thick New England accent. I was doing a lot better when Donald Trump was the president. In Manchester one by Biden last

[01:08:50] cycle at a political hotspot right arrow diner. I know what he stands for democracy and I'd like to keep him where he is. Voters are also digesting calls by some Democrats for President Biden to step

[01:09:05] aside. What do you say to those people who are concerned? Well they have a reason to be concerned but I think it would still be a good president for four more years. One of the most fervent calls coming from Massachusetts Congressman Seth Molton. But what I'm imploring

[01:09:23] the president to do is just think yourself Mr. President about what's best for America because this is not about you it's about our country. Now in 2020 President Biden took New Hampshire by roughly 7% snagging the state's four electoral votes. There are just four votes but they could

[01:09:44] be critical this coming November general election. Okay. Gavin Newsom. Question at the beginning of the video did Newsom say Trump is out on the golf course like it was a bad thing? Yeah like Trump doesn't have to do anything right now he's not president. Why? Who cares?

[01:10:07] Exactly. Like oh we just out on the golf course and what's your point? And you're not in your state so yeah and you're not governing California so what's the big deal here? He's not president.

[01:10:20] He has no responsibility to do I mean his company is being run by other people. He's a private citizen right now. He's a private citizen he can do what he wants if he wants

[01:10:30] would it be better that he's out on the golf course and not campaigning while Biden is weak? Wouldn't you I don't know. I think he forgot that Donald Trump was not president right now.

[01:10:41] If he was president maybe that's a zinger but yeah absolutely. Yeah he can do whatever he wants. If he wants to golf all the way until election who cares? Like that's what Donald Trump can do. And I think not to veer too much into presidential politics because we're

[01:11:01] a little over time right now but I've been pretty impressed with how President Trump, former president Trump, Donald Trump has kind of kept quiet during all of this and been very restrained.

[01:11:19] I think a lot of people expected him to jump on Truth Social and go nuts over this but he's kind of just kept quiet. He's kind of stayed in the background. He's been golfing.

[01:11:32] He just does his thing and I think it's pretty brilliant on his part to kind of be like not going to announce my VP pick even though I said I was going to. I'm just going to lay low

[01:11:44] for a while. It's been almost two weeks at this point, two weeks at this point I think since the debate. So whoever's advising him is nailing it on the head because there's

[01:11:57] no reason to interrupt your enemy while they're making a mistake and the whole new cycle for two weeks has been Biden looking like an old senior and how he can't run the country and it just

[01:12:09] continually gets worse and worse and worse. So I know he had a rally tonight down in Florida. He looked like he was having a good time. He seemed like pretty good jovial spirit but yeah, he's been pretty restrained letting the Democrats do their own damage control and

[01:12:26] freak out. So good for him I guess. Any thoughts? No, I agree with you. Okay. Full agreeance. Okay so that's our show for this evening. Those are some of the new laws. A lot of mass

[01:12:46] some don't hate and one I do hate absolutely. So that's what's gone into effect on July 1st. We got some more candidates coming up. It's almost crunch time for election season coming up because we're almost you know it's July for you know it's August, September October

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