Ep. 276: Newsom Wages War on Memes

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[00:00:36] How are you doing, Tanec Camille?

[00:00:37] I am good. Thank you. Look what arrived. Should you skip?

[00:00:41] Mine hasn't come yet actually.

[00:00:43] Yes, mine.

[00:00:44] I ended up with my voter registration because I had to get my new driver's license.

[00:00:49] Is your change your choice?

[00:00:52] Well, actually, because it was also... Well, we changed the address and then it was also just due.

[00:00:58] So I need to get a new one.

[00:01:01] Yes, so, and I was a little worried because I waited a little too long,

[00:01:05] even though my wife told me you should have gotten this done a long time ago.

[00:01:09] And she was like, I don't know why you waited until literally a month before,

[00:01:14] because it says it takes two to four weeks from the California DMV to get your new driver's license.

[00:01:18] And then I was like, oh crap, it might go to my old address because I didn't update my address.

[00:01:23] So now I don't know if I'm going to get my driver's license in time. Now what do I do?

[00:01:26] And now I got to walk around with the passport and it came to weeks.

[00:01:30] Right, right all that yes.

[00:01:32] And it's good that you didn't do it too soon because you moved and then you would have had to just go and update it again.

[00:01:38] This is so not what my topic is, but...

[00:01:41] Yeah, I was a little worried that I had overloaded or broken the DMV system because I applied for my new license.

[00:01:50] And then I was like, oh crap, it has my old address because it's like giving me the temporary.

[00:01:55] It says my old address.

[00:01:56] And I was like, oh crap, I got to change my address. So I went in really quick and changed my address.

[00:02:00] I'm like, I don't know if this is going to work.

[00:02:03] Surprisingly, the DMV figured it out that I put my change of address and my new, my renewal in.

[00:02:08] And they figured it out. They put two and do together.

[00:02:11] I was fully expecting them to come to a complete shutdown, not know what I was doing,

[00:02:16] not get my new license for like another year because it's the DMV.

[00:02:20] They actually got it done.

[00:02:21] They did the public California DMV and you have an issue.

[00:02:23] You can blame Phil for clogging up the system basically.

[00:02:27] Yeah, basically. The next time you go to a DMV, which I just learned that like you can't actually do a lot of things at DMV anymore.

[00:02:33] Like renewals, you can't go to the DMV anymore. It's all online.

[00:02:36] Like a lot of stuff is all online.

[00:02:37] And they now have key asks.

[00:02:38] I was just there last week because I have a daughter that just finished drivers ed and so we spent some time there, you know, for her private test and stuff.

[00:02:47] And I learned all sorts of crazy things too.

[00:02:49] And but now, okay, I'm just going to say this because we're talking about this PSA.

[00:02:54] If you want to travel by May 2025, I think Europe requires a real ID and that's done through, you like do it halfway online and then you go to the DMV to complete it.

[00:03:05] I guess I need to take care of that. My birthdays were after Christmas.

[00:03:09] And Christmas Eve is the best time to go to the DMV.

[00:03:13] Yeah, that's a good point. I bet no one's at the end of the day.

[00:03:18] Yeah, I wouldn't want to be at the DMV as a last thing I don't want to do is be at the DMV.

[00:03:24] So all those moving on, I put a pull up a couple of weeks ago.

[00:03:29] I think it was a couple of weeks we know and I was like, do people like it when we chat or do they want us to jump right in?

[00:03:37] You know, because we're a democratic or we approve of democracy here.

[00:03:41] The people who said they like banter one, it was a close race. It was 42 to 38 was the vote of people who like us doing a little bit of banter.

[00:03:51] So we're just going to listen to what the voter said.

[00:03:54] I feel like you put it that whole just to show me it because I just talk and talk and talk and you were like the people wanting to silence yourself and then he didn't.

[00:04:04] Now because people some people were like, they were like I like your show but like.

[00:04:11] Because you guys chat too long, I like stopped sharing it and not liking it.

[00:04:16] I was like, that's aggressive.

[00:04:18] But that's also why we try to do clips of like the really important parts.

[00:04:21] Although sometimes we slack on that because it's just us doing this and we have busy lives.

[00:04:29] But for those that said that I totally understand, but we do have those short clips that you can share with your friends. We share them to Instagram, TikTok.

[00:04:38] I don't know where else.

[00:04:40] Yeah and we're getting better at posting like smaller clips of like segments of the show.

[00:04:47] So you don't have to tune into like the whole show like we're trying to clip it up so that like there will be a conversation.

[00:04:52] It was like 15 to 20 minutes. You can listen to that piece rather than listen to us talk about renewing your driver's license at the California D&V.

[00:05:01] So with that said, tonight's episode is all about Gavin Newsom waging war on memes.

[00:05:10] Now it's I know fact checkers are going to come out of the orgs and be like, it's not memes.

[00:05:14] It's a, it's free speech.

[00:05:17] But I like saying memes because it's funny here because this all came about because of an AI generated video of Kamala Harris, which we're going to watch in a little bit.

[00:05:27] That sounds like Kamala Harris. I mean they use video clips of Kamala Harris, you know, to the person who I guess would get fooled by this to think that's actually Kamala Harris.

[00:05:39] They somehow got these bills done in a record time and Gavin Newsom signed three bills attacking basically AI generated materials stuff like that that could come off as deceptive weather not.

[00:05:54] That stands up in court we're going to see because we'll talk about that in a little bit. It's already headed to court under first amendment and free speech rights.

[00:06:05] So yeah it's Gavin Newsom and the Democrats basically being like we don't like the fact that you guys are posting stuff that is deceptive about us.

[00:06:15] We can't have any of that so.

[00:06:18] But before we get started, we had we've been doing our weekly cringe moment of the week.

[00:06:25] This week we have two we have a bonus one this week because I had to.

[00:06:30] So this first one is Kyle McColley.

[00:06:36] If that's what is if I'm pronouncing his name right he's actually an elected official here in California.

[00:06:43] He had a little bit of a meltdown at this event and it went viral so we're going to take a little look at what happened with Kyle.

[00:06:53] And we're going to chat about it so.

[00:06:58] And then we're going to pull this up.

[00:07:01] I can't put see get the fuck out of here you little bit get out of here little bit.

[00:07:06] You guys I am still so destroyed about what's going on in the world that I am going out of my way to be extra kind of people.

[00:07:28] Just really.

[00:07:33] You're a piece of crap.

[00:07:34] Get out if you're right now all of that out if you're having any.

[00:07:39] We are having a bit of any.

[00:07:42] Any.

[00:07:46] Get out of there.

[00:07:48] And laughing with them and smiling with them and being respectful and complimentary and loving.

[00:07:57] You're going to have to do that.

[00:07:59] You're going to have to do that.

[00:08:01] Do that.

[00:08:05] Just this is the only way that we're going to heal.

[00:08:09] This is the only way that things are going to get better.

[00:08:13] So that's basically the just of the.

[00:08:17] So that's a elected official and when we say local elections matter.

[00:08:24] We're not kidding local elections do matter.

[00:08:26] He's like a city council or a.

[00:08:30] He's in the city.

[00:08:32] He's like he's on the board of like a small town and he had this freak out over a journalist who came to this event.

[00:08:42] And yeah, I mean it was caught all on video.

[00:08:45] He just as you can hear or as you can see, he absolutely lost his mind.

[00:08:48] And these are the people who are getting elected.

[00:08:50] And I think he's had a he's kind of bounced around as a political elected official in California.

[00:08:56] And yeah, this is why we always say a local elections matter because you get.

[00:09:01] Not cases like this who are actually in there running your government and running your local city or running your local city council.

[00:09:08] He's a Republican just Casey Dick we leave pick on Democrats.

[00:09:11] He's a Republican.

[00:09:13] So yeah, I mean again, local elections matter and we always tell you do your research.

[00:09:17] Don't just vote because they're an R or D.

[00:09:19] But yeah, this guy clearly lost it on a journalist and there was another video I saw of him.

[00:09:26] And when I was doing more or research on him, he was like bragging about like how amazing his life is and how.

[00:09:32] How baller his life is and stuff like that.

[00:09:35] I'm like, I don't know if you want to be bragging how baller your life is if you're an elected official.

[00:09:39] But anyway, so that was Kyle McCalley McAlley.

[00:09:47] I'd.

[00:09:47] Probably the first and last time you'll ever hear of him until he runs for governor in like 10 years or something like that.

[00:09:52] But anyway, next bonus clip.

[00:09:56] Y'all ready for this because this is featuring the man of the hour Gavin Newsom and.

[00:10:04] Bill Nye the science guy who I'm sad to see Bill Nye kind of went off the deep end so so poorly.

[00:10:13] Because I grew up watching Bill Nye science guy.

[00:10:16] I was more of what was the other guy is, Bill Nye the science guy and beekman's world.

[00:10:21] Beekman was the other guy.

[00:10:23] And do you remember any of these shows where am I just talking about like.

[00:10:25] You'll know that I don't what you just mentioned.

[00:10:28] Yeah, beekman's world was another one.

[00:10:29] He's like same sort of thing.

[00:10:30] He was a scientist.

[00:10:32] He was a little bit more cookie.

[00:10:33] And he had characters and puppets and stuff like that.

[00:10:37] But so as beekman's world and build nice science guy.

[00:10:39] Not really important.

[00:10:40] But anyway, well, Governor Newsom should be running our state.

[00:10:45] As if we don't have enough problems with wildfires and homelessness and crime and stuff like that.

[00:10:51] He has a podcast.

[00:10:52] It's called Paula Ticken with a K.

[00:10:55] Marcia on Lynch is on the show or at least he was on the show.

[00:10:58] He hasn't been on the show in the past couple episodes.

[00:10:59] I think he probably got bored with it.

[00:11:02] And I don't blame him because who wants this.

[00:11:05] I think you watch what episode of the show and I always bored.

[00:11:09] Podcasts in an easy.

[00:11:11] That's all I got to say.

[00:11:13] Anybody out there who's thinking about starting a podcast podcast in an easy.

[00:11:17] But anyway, this was a recent clip from Bill Nye appearing on his show.

[00:11:22] Paula Ticken.

[00:11:23] I don't even know the other guy is on the show.

[00:11:25] Nor do I care but we're just going to watch what Bill Nye has to say about this.

[00:11:32] I said CEO of the nonprofit.

[00:11:34] I have gone to congressional offices many times.

[00:11:39] Senate offices many times admit senators members of Congress who know the constitution took an oath to it.

[00:11:47] And they're generally familiar with article one where we're going to have a Senate and a House of Representatives.

[00:11:53] But I've met a lot of people who don't know section eight clause eight Congress shall promote the progress of science and useful arts.

[00:12:02] The word science is in the constitution.

[00:12:07] So there you have it, Bill Nye.

[00:12:12] Science is in the constitution.

[00:12:14] It says there in black and white that government, the federal government based on the constitution,

[00:12:21] should be promoting science and useful arts.

[00:12:26] Now put yourself in the mind of you know, a leftist or a liberal and you hear Bill Nye say that.

[00:12:32] You say you hear him say that in that 30 second clip and you go, wow, what does that mean that the federal government should do.

[00:12:41] Apparently we should if we're just going to end it there.

[00:12:45] That's all it says then the federal government should be promoting fine arts and science.

[00:12:52] Right.

[00:12:53] Apparently they should be spending taxpayer meaning you funded dollars to promote science and fine arts.

[00:13:01] Right.

[00:13:03] That's yeah that's what Bill Nye seems to have gotten because he did read past that he just got really excited that science was in the constitution.

[00:13:11] He was very excited that the word science was in the constitution and if you read only the first part now.

[00:13:18] Bill Nye as a quote unquote scientist, he didn't read the rest of the rule or what the rest of the chair said.

[00:13:29] Now and as a scientist, I think if you were going to look into something and research something you probably want to read all of what your research team before you go out and make a claim.

[00:13:39] So just a little knife to stop spreading misinformation.

[00:13:42] No, no absolutely no.

[00:13:45] No because I mean this is maybe this is misinformation that Gavin Newsom was talking about or misinformation that Bill Nye was spreading during COVID.

[00:13:54] But anyway, for clarity sake what section eight clause eight that Bill Nye is referring to.

[00:14:02] It says to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.

[00:14:16] That's much different than the federal government should be promoting science and useful arts.

[00:14:21] What this means is that the federal government decided well if we're going to promote an economy and a market where people are going to be scientists,

[00:14:31] where they're going to engage in science and you know there's useful arts and we want that because that's the basis of a good society.

[00:14:38] We want people to do that and feel like they're protected. They feel like their work is going to be protected and that's what it is. It's intellectual property basically the federal government is saying we will protect what you create.

[00:14:51] So that you don't have to worry about investing all this money going down this rabbit hole doing all this work putting years of research or working on something.

[00:14:58] And then all of a sudden someone steals your stuff so that's what it comes down to it's intellectual property has nothing to do with the federal government promoting science or useful arts.

[00:15:10] So.

[00:15:11] I got a quick I have a great book.

[00:15:13] I don't make a dive off of this I don't have a link.

[00:15:15] It's the constitution explained a guide for every American I think I need sentil Nye a copy and in this book they just they break down everything.

[00:15:24] And this is known as the copyright clause does not know it is.

[00:15:28] It's definitely promoting vaccines for science or whatever bill Nye was trying to get away with.

[00:15:35] It's a great book for for us laymen people here such as myself who are not constitutional attorneys such as yourself.

[00:15:44] And I love it. I use it with whom school for my kids and stuff but anyway, Bill 9 needs a copy of that book.

[00:15:49] Yeah, I mean for someone who walks around with the paperback of it.

[00:15:54] He should have read the rest of it if he's walking around with the paperback of the constitution.

[00:15:59] Also I bet if you asked any of those senators and representatives and you're like are you familiar with the idea of intellectual property in the constitution?

[00:16:05] They'll be like.

[00:16:07] Yeah, we're all fair from the way with it.

[00:16:08] It's something that federal government does all the time.

[00:16:12] Are you familiar with promoting science?

[00:16:14] Did you see trying to it was he meeting with them, trying to be like what the constitution says.

[00:16:18] Therefore, you should open up your pocket books and give me some money like what it for my non-profit or a very goal with this.

[00:16:24] Yeah, I did he have meetings saying you need you guys need to promote science and useful arts.

[00:16:29] So give me federal tax dollars because if that were the case they're probably laughing amount of the office going.

[00:16:35] Okay, Namscoe, you should be reading the rest of it.

[00:16:38] Not not a smart move on the guy who's you know comes off as the smart science guy anyway.

[00:16:43] So speaking of Miss spreading misinformation tonight's episode we wanted to talk about how newsom has signed these three quote deep fake election ad bills into law.

[00:16:54] This is from California globe.

[00:16:56] So this just happened.

[00:16:57] He signed all three of these laws and I said they already said at the top of the episode it came about because of this video that was created with AI and come alias.

[00:17:07] And then it was shared by Elon Musk and then Elon Musk obviously blew it up and got really popular and Gavin Newsom swore that he was going to take this on as he always likes to do.

[00:17:19] So he signed a signed three bills the first bill is assembly bill 2655 this is probably the one everyone knows authored by assembly member Mark burning.

[00:17:30] The Democrat from the public would require a large online platform to block the posting of a materially deceptive content related to elections in California during specified periods before and after an election.

[00:17:44] The bill also known as the defending democracy from deep fake deception act of 2024 would require a large online platform to label certain additional content inauthentic fake or false story and specified periods before and after an election in California a reporting process as well as a litigation system.

[00:18:03] And then the bill would also be put into place so I actually pulled in the language of the bill and here's the summary of the bill actually yeah here's the summary of the bill that I want to pull and it talks about.

[00:18:18] The bill require a large online platform to local label certain additional content inauthentic fake where I talked about it and require a large online platform.

[00:18:27] The bill would also authorize candidates for elected office elected officials elections officials the attorney general and day districts attorney or city attorney to seek injector relief against a large online platform for non compliance with the act as specified.

[00:18:43] And what is signed precedents to such actions when they are filed in court meaning that they go to front of the line.

[00:18:49] Doesn't matter if you know the courts are busy and they have thousands of cases you go to the front of a line because it's so important.

[00:18:57] The bill would exempt from its provisions a broadcasting station any regularly published online newspaper.

[00:19:03] Magazine or other periodical of general circulation that satisfies specified requirements the bill would also exempt content that is satire or parody.

[00:19:13] So something that.

[00:19:15] That's that video was labeled as parity wasn't it like the author of the video the creator was very much like this video is parody.

[00:19:24] Right and I think that leaves a lot that leaves a big gap in whole open under the first amendment and the reason is because.

[00:19:34] You may think it's satire or parody so the people who share that video with common Harris may think it's satire party officials like city attorneys or district attorneys or elected officials might think that's.

[00:19:46] Deceptive they might think that you're being it's satire parody but they may think that you're actually trying to deceive people and that becomes sort of a subjective call which I think opens all this up to litigation now.

[00:20:02] Without going into the like details.

[00:20:04] You and I we embarked on a litigation journey together.

[00:20:10] And it involved the issue of free speech and I will tell you this about the first free speech in California.

[00:20:19] It's not the first amendment but there is free speech in the California Constitution and I will tell you this free speech in California which is ironic that he's passed these bills.

[00:20:29] Free speech in California is actually broader than the first amendment that has been held by the California Supreme Court by California case law over and over and over again meeting it actually goes beyond the protections of the first amendment how much more free can it be.

[00:20:45] Well, California says it's free as possible we want to encourage speech we want to let people be free to speak.

[00:20:53] In the meaning that you can basically go out there and call elected officials or people running for office any sort of name in the book and it doesn't really make a difference it's free speech it's protected in California.

[00:21:06] And that's it like you can say these things now obviously you can't put out.

[00:21:11] Falls information.

[00:21:14] With malice or with the intention of harming because you just want to put out this false information but you can have an opinion about elected official you can do satire you can do parity.

[00:21:26] But that's what's interesting about this to me from a legal standpoint already is you can go attack it under the first amendment which I think it probably will get struck down under the first amendment.

[00:21:37] But under the California constitution it might even be harder to get this past because free speech is actually broader in California than the first amendment.

[00:21:47] The next assembly bill 2839 authored by Assemblywoman Gail Palerin if you don't remember who Gail Palerin is she authored the bill that gave us the official state slug the vanilla slug.

[00:21:59] Okay, so that real quick I learned this weekend we already have a state insect.

[00:22:05] So now we have a state insect and a state slug.

[00:22:11] Well now you got to tell us what the state insect is it's I want to say a dog faced moth there's another dog face butterfly moth.

[00:22:22] So I forget we were doing on our road trip I took my girls on a road trip, but we did California trivia all along the way so yeah and when I read that I was like.

[00:22:33] But then we have like are we going to need each individual category of insects now and that is so not nice podcast I'm sorry.

[00:22:39] I hate insects bugs are gross.

[00:22:42] I can't even imagine looking at what a dog faced moth slash butterfly is probably terrifying although I have nothing in spiders I think spiders are useful the eat flies.

[00:22:54] Now spider spiders eat all this stuff that that bother me so spiders are cool in my mind.

[00:23:02] Anyway, not the point of the episode to talk about whether spiders are cool or not but anyway gale pallor in.

[00:23:07] wrote this bill it were prohibiting person committee or other entity from knowingly distributing an advertisement or their election communication that contains certain material deceptive content with malice subject to specific exemptions.

[00:23:21] his bill would apply this prohibition within 120 days of an election California and 60 days after an election.

[00:23:29] AB 2839 would also authorize a recipient of materially deceptive content distributed in violation of this section candidate or committee participating the election.

[00:23:38] Or elections official to file a civil action to enjoy the distribution of media and seek damages against the person.

[00:23:44] And then finally assembly bill 2355 authored by assembly woman one need got a yo of lost Angela's.

[00:23:53] The she the what the drunk one.

[00:23:58] She was driving drunk and then was like saying she had a sneezing fit and hence her yes yeah yeah yeah she was the one who had this sneezing fit and it turned out to be a car.

[00:24:09] Yeah, it wasn't because she was over the limit.

[00:24:13] It would require she's spreading misinformation herself that she would sneeze and that's why.

[00:24:19] It would require a committee that creates originally publishes or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement to include in the advertisement a specified disclosure at the advertisement was generated or substantially altered using artificial intelligence.

[00:24:35] So.

[00:24:38] That's where we're at.

[00:24:40] And like I said, it's still early and in terms of how this is going to shape out legally well when it comes to passing those sorts of laws in California it's shoot now asked questions later.

[00:24:55] Which is you know that's always been California's motto is wolves will pass the laws and then we'll see if they're constitutional or not.

[00:25:04] And in terms of whether it's going to stand up in court, the ex user who shared the AI altered common Harris video is already soon.

[00:25:13] These new bills in the eastern district of California federal court.

[00:25:20] As name is Christopher Coles he led just the new laws are a flagrant use of state power to force private social media companies to censor private says it's speech by purging election related AI generated content.

[00:25:33] Coles uses the ex handle Mr. Reagan USA came into the spotlight in July after posting a campaign video that uses AI generated audio clips mimicking Harris's voice and referring to it as the ultimate diversity higher in a pub state puppet so while we're on the topic of this video that that started it all.

[00:25:53] Why don't we just watch it for those of you who probably haven't already seen it.

[00:25:57] You haven't seen the video.

[00:26:01] Okay, so this is the video that is causing a stir.

[00:26:10] I come all Harris and your Democrat candidate for president because Joe Biden finally exposed to salinity today.

[00:26:17] I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity higher and both a woman and a person of color.

[00:26:22] So if you criticize anything I say you're both sexist and racist.

[00:26:27] I may not know the first thing about running the country but remember that's a good thing.

[00:26:32] If you're a deep state puppet, I had four years under the tutelage of the ultimate deep state puppet a wonderful mentor Joe Biden.

[00:26:40] Joe taught me rule number one carefully hide your total of.

[00:26:44] I take in significant things and I discuss them as if they're significant and I believe that exploring the significance of the insignificant is in itself significant talking about the significance of the passage of time.

[00:26:58] Right, the significance of the passage of time.

[00:27:01] So when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time and there is such great significance to the passage of time.

[00:27:09] Another trick is trying to sound black. I pretend to celebrate quantum and in my speeches, I always do my best Barack Obama crush.

[00:27:17] So hear me when I say, I know Donald Trump's type.

[00:27:22] And okay, look maybe my work addressing the root causes of the border crisis with catastrophic but my knowledge of international politics is truly shocking.

[00:27:30] The United States shares a very important relationship which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea.

[00:27:38] It is an alliance that is strong and enduring and just remember when voting this November, it is important to see what can be unburdened by what has been and by what has been.

[00:27:50] So that's yeah that.

[00:27:54] That's good idea.

[00:27:55] She's because on here it comes across a little bit choppy, but it actually doesn't sound like AI so much as they just took clips of finding all those words and finding her saying the words and then putting them together.

[00:28:08] Which is not AI it would just be.

[00:28:11] What a work.

[00:28:14] Yeah, I mean AI has gotten really good at mimicking people's voices actually the platform we record this podcast on actually does AI voices so if you want to insert something with your own AI voice, you can do that as well but I know it's kind of terrifying.

[00:28:32] But I think it's because it was so smooth and it was done so well.

[00:28:36] I think that what scared people is that it does come off as like but again it's so like.

[00:28:43] It's so ridiculous to sit there and think that that's an actual ad that like Kamala Harris actually recorded like you really think she sat there and said like hiding my incompetence and I'm the ultimate diversity higher like that's like.

[00:28:59] Okay, do you really think that Kamala Harris said that it's funny it's funny because it comes off is so real that people are like I could believe this is actually a real video.

[00:29:09] And that is from Mr. Reagan and he does put on top of the tweet says Kamala Harris campaign at parody in big big letters so he already labeled it as parody.

[00:29:21] I think one of his issues that he's taking to federal court with this is he's complaining that they would require him on the video to put like huge letters that it's parody like almost like obnoxiously big like to say this is parody and like which would ruin the feel of the video.

[00:29:42] Like you could maybe put it in the corner and be like this is parody.

[00:29:47] But still to kind of force him to put it all over so let me find there was another video.

[00:29:57] While I'm looking for it why don't you give me your thoughts on the video itself well like you said.

[00:30:04] It comes across as real but when you sit and watch it and listen to it there's no way that you can possibly think.

[00:30:10] Kamala Harris actually put out a video insulting herself line after line.

[00:30:16] Well no politicians going to do that especially not one running for president of the United States.

[00:30:23] Yeah so not to be out done and I even feel like.

[00:30:29] Democrats would find it funny.

[00:30:31] I laugh at when there's so many videos making fun of Republicans and I I have since humor I crack up at them.

[00:30:38] Yeah I think it's funny when people make parody videos of Trump.

[00:30:41] Sorry go ahead.

[00:30:42] No I was just gonna say I think it's funny when people make parody videos of Trump like.

[00:30:46] Yeah I absolutely find the humor and I was actually thinking I drove by the French laundry on my on my little road trip.

[00:30:52] And I was thinking about.

[00:30:53] Cavity's been there with this 12 friends and like can you imagine going to such an expensive restaurant with somebody who has no sense of humor like come on Gavin this is funny.

[00:31:02] I think I would not I would not want to go be like a weapon of my closest friends and you can't even laugh at that parody that sad.

[00:31:14] So not to be out done somebody I think it was the Babylon be when I had after Gavin Newsome signed all these bills and decided we're going to make the same sort of video but with Gavin Newsome so here is that video.

[00:31:30] Hi I'm Gavin Newsome the governor of California this is a message for the people of America given in my authentically recorded non AI voice.

[00:31:40] Thanks to the leadership over the last several years California has become a world leader in extremist left wing governance.

[00:31:47] My policies were so effective that almost 1 million people are now fleeing the state every year we even ran out of you halls.

[00:31:53] During the COVID pandemic I locked everyone in their homes and shut down businesses for months not the French laundry though that's my favorite restaurant last year.

[00:32:03] I cleaned up the dangerous messy streets of San Francisco you know because Chinese communist president she was coming and I really wanted to impress him he's my boss after all this year.

[00:32:12] I signed legislation that allows me to take custody of your kid if you refuse to give a artificial hormones and chop off his genitals because if you don't do that you're a big it and big it shouldn't be allowed to have kids.

[00:32:25] I've also led the way in green energy by banning all cars that don't run on electricity then I banned almost all the electricity this is smart leadership.

[00:32:36] On my watch the cost of living in homelessness of skyrocketed schools are failing drug dealers and human traffickers are pouring across the border and poop has covered the sidewalks of San Francisco this is the positive joyful vision we offer as Democrats.

[00:32:52] That's why I'm enthusiastically endorsing comola Harris for president 2024.

[00:32:56] She'll do to the country everything I did in California anyway I'm California governor Gavin Newsom and I approved this 100% real message which is a recording of my voice without the assistance of any AI whatsoever.

[00:33:09] This isn't a deep fake and you can rest assured that it isn't because I just signed an unconstitutional law outlawing deepfakes no one would dare violate it.

[00:33:24] Thank you in science bless America.

[00:33:26] Yes, that was Babylon being not for me not to be out done so just to really poke fun at Gavin Newsom even more.

[00:33:34] But yeah this is there's an article I pulled up from real clear politics.

[00:33:41] I think this is really kind of the scary thing about this is this is not new in terms of what Democrats think of social media I mean they have in 2020 they had a grip on social media maybe in 2016 they grew maybe not so much in 2016 but 2020 they definitely had a grip on social media.

[00:34:05] Based on the fact that they would tell them what COVID stuff you could share what information you could share.

[00:34:12] They kicked Donald Trump off platforms now you have Twitter which is now X run by Elon Musk and he doesn't care and he's going to let anything on he brought Donald Trump back onto the platform so they hate that they hate that someone's not in their pocket for that.

[00:34:29] They hate that even Mark Zuckerberg has come out and said no we're not going to be strong arm this year for anything or not going to be told what stories can and cannot be published on our platform it's just everything is going to go.

[00:34:44] So I think they're they are afraid that now they're losing control of what's going on on social media and stuff like this is trying to get shared and they're not terribly excited about it.

[00:34:55] They don't like this this what they call misinformation or deceptive material and this isn't new.

[00:35:02] This is not new and it's Gavin Newsom took the dive on it because it's California and he could get the bills passed and they're going to try I think this is going to be like the canary in the coal mine in terms of how far they can go on pushing back on this first amendment.

[00:35:17] But yeah, I think any thoughts on that or is it going to get to that's all the questions kids.

[00:35:22] Sure.

[00:35:22] It's one thing it like we the people are putting out this information but it's another of California the state of California is like we're going to require these large social media platforms to remove this information.

[00:35:34] I feel like.

[00:35:37] That's like an extra extreme step that they will have no control over as much as they're going to try I mean can they really.

[00:35:45] Do that like I don't know where it's YouTube is owned by Google now and I guess most these companies are based in California that but like it's tick talk.

[00:35:55] I guess China and that's supposed to be banned soon supposedly whatever's happening with that but I guess X is in San Francisco Google's up near their.

[00:36:05] Oning YouTube and then Facebook same thing made it made of meta whatever it is I don't know, but how do they come after these corporations and be like you will follow or rule.

[00:36:14] I think it's a lot of like well when the force of the federal government leans on you.

[00:36:21] That's one thing that I don't think any company as big as they they are want to fight the federal government and that means the federal government could maybe make your life a little bit more of a living hell in terms of audit or regulations or they not push buttons state laws.

[00:36:39] So state laws I think maybe they don't even really they're not as scared with with state laws even with California's biggest California is they're not as worried about this.

[00:36:51] Also I mean like.

[00:36:54] Elon's not worried about this at all like they passed these laws and he reshared it again like he doesn't care just like.

[00:37:00] But also think the state with my company.

[00:37:04] But she's already done I think you're kind of said he was moving X to Texas.

[00:37:10] I know they've moved Tesla out.

[00:37:14] But yeah, I think will these companies comply with this and will they kind of like bend the need to California?

[00:37:24] I don't think it's as big as like the federal government cracking down on you like the DOJ cracking down on you.

[00:37:30] I also think this is like so I mean they have good lawyers they've lawyers in house they can afford the best lawyers probably in California.

[00:37:39] And they probably went to their general council and said like hey is there something we need to worry about in the general council's probably like no it's probably going to get struck down in courts, but don't worry about it.

[00:37:47] And they go okay well we're going to keep doing whatever we are doing.

[00:37:51] So I don't think I can see them really leaning California leaning on the social media companies too much to get them to do anything.

[00:37:59] They'll certainly try and they have tried with the first step where they get this these bills passed but yeah I don't know.

[00:38:07] I don't know if these go into effect immediately right aren't they.

[00:38:11] I don't know when they probably should look that out when do they go into effect I think maybe they go into effect probably they probably going to effect like next year I think it might be too soon to go into effect right now.

[00:38:21] It would so serious.

[00:38:23] It's so serious it's going until effect.

[00:38:25] We're ready we don't it next year well let me see.

[00:38:29] Let's see any of the bill tax.

[00:38:32] 20 no not for a couple years actually it looks like it's not going to come into effect until 2027.

[00:38:41] What is.

[00:38:41] How well.

[00:38:43] So there you go.

[00:38:44] It's so important that it's not going to go into effect for three more years.

[00:38:50] Basically the next.

[00:38:52] It's going to be the next.

[00:38:54] It's what they're trying to protect.

[00:38:57] Yeah yeah well that's actually pretty convenient.

[00:39:00] Well this is taking off.

[00:39:03] And.

[00:39:05] I won't go down the road of come all versus Trump but yeah it just seems like they're like okay we need to protect ourselves for 2028.

[00:39:13] That's interesting.

[00:39:14] Yeah it's interesting why they pick that date if it's such a so you're going to it's such a danger to democracy that you're going to.

[00:39:24] And we're going to be able to do that.

[00:39:25] I mean there's the midterms coming up there's a state elections local elections coming up.

[00:39:31] But you're not allowed this to happen for three years.

[00:39:35] Until the presidential election or then until the primary start in 2027 so.

[00:39:39] Yeah.

[00:39:41] Can be it which would also be convenient because of governor and resum runs for president.

[00:39:47] In 2027 and this is still law.

[00:39:52] Huh interesting he's protecting himself may be protecting himself absolutely.

[00:39:57] Hmm that does put a little more interesting wrinkle in it that it's not going into effect until 2027 so.

[00:40:05] I guess he or just.

[00:40:08] To one the main one that.

[00:40:10] Yeah the big ones going in 2027 interesting that he didn't want to do it now for his buddy.

[00:40:16] He's a very common Harris.

[00:40:18] Although I did finally get around to reading that article you sent me a long time ago about the riff between him and there's definitely riff between them.

[00:40:24] I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:40:27] There's an article you sent me.

[00:40:30] I think it's an LA times article about how there's a riff between the two of them and they don't really like each other anyway.

[00:40:36] So this real clear politics article which is titled the war on free speech is here kind of talks about these bills.

[00:40:44] And halfway through it goes on to say after the ad was dropped that newsom was not amused the elites never are when the commenters laugh at their folly.

[00:40:54] Well manipulating a voice in an ad like this one should be illegal he wrote on x2 days after the joke ad was posted I'll be signing a bill in a matter of weeks to make sure it is.

[00:41:06] He did he's not the only Democrat eager to silence voices he disagrees with.

[00:41:10] If social media sites quote act as a megaphone for misinformation then quote we are going to hold them accountable Harris said in a 2019 speech.

[00:41:19] Another quote there's no guarantee to free speech on misinformation governor Tim Waltz now the Democrat vice presidential candidate said in 2022.

[00:41:29] Earlier this month former secretary of state Hillary Clinton said those involved in propaganda quote should be civilly or even in some case.

[00:41:36] Criminally charged and quote these are chilling sentiments individuals have a fundamental god given right to speak their minds.

[00:41:44] Sonsoring and arresting people for political speech is a gross abuse of governmental power this right is so fundamental at the family fathers enshrined it in the first amendment.

[00:41:54] Leftist will usually pretend to agree with that but they claim to want to stop is inaccurate information that's a real concern bad information usually leads to bad decisions.

[00:42:02] That is literally called you to some I am not one of those Republicans that everything is coming to some I am not like that on my ground that's coming to some that's right now this this is communism.

[00:42:14] Right this is when you start to control.

[00:42:16] You have questions you oppose we jail you that's communism.

[00:42:21] Right and if you you speak up about.

[00:42:24] If you speak up about those who are in power and those who are running and you're not allowed to then that becomes that's communism and we don't like to be hyperbolic on the show but that literally is communism.

[00:42:38] That's authoritarianism.

[00:42:40] So.

[00:42:42] In our cogos on the talk about how Harris herself is currently pushing me for misinformation.

[00:42:48] Two years ago, Amir Therman died from complications after taking abortion pills she went to North Carolina for the pills because her home state Georgia had banned the murder of preborn children.

[00:42:59] Days later she went to the emergency room in Georgia it's unclear why doctors didn't perform a dilation and curterage.

[00:43:05] Soon after she arrived at the hospital that would have been legal because her babies were already dead.

[00:43:10] But Harris attributed her death to quote Trump abortion bands.

[00:43:16] So she's saying it's a abortion thing but it was really abortion.

[00:43:20] But yes, I have read extensively about that that the abortion pill can cause death in women and not to get like TMI and two personal.

[00:43:31] But I have had the abortion pill after having a miscarriage and my body didn't miscarry.

[00:43:39] And had I known at the time what it possibly could have done, I would not have taken it obviously here I am but it's supposed to cause your body to like miscarry the baby and that didn't happen for me so then I had the DNC which had like they just mentioned Biden she have it.

[00:43:53] But yes, like after the fact I read all thought I was like I would have never taken that risk.

[00:43:59] No, it like learning about it after the fact so.

[00:44:02] But her misinformation that she's spreading is that says all because of Trump abortion.

[00:44:08] Like like I think the article points out if abortion was banned nationwide she actually wouldn't have had that happen because she wouldn't have had access to that pill.

[00:44:17] So speaking of Hillary Clinton here's the clip of her.

[00:44:26] Talking about why she thinks we should crack down on disinformation with Rachel Maddo.

[00:44:33] Obviously didn't push back didn't really disagree with it.

[00:44:36] And we think Trump back in 2016 but I also think there are Americans who are engaged in this kind of propaganda and whether they should be civilly or even in some cases criminally charge is something that would be a better deterrence because.

[00:44:57] So that was Hillary Clinton and that's what she said that the article referred to.

[00:45:03] So she ironically queen of disinformation she shared if you remember back to 2016 go all the way back to 2016 which is spread the.

[00:45:18] Still dossier which was full of misinformation in terms of what the Trump campaign and what Donald Trump was doing so we talked about spreading started the Obama birth certificate thing as well.

[00:45:32] Yes, yes she was the first one to start the Obama verse to a lot of people forget that a lot of people say it was all Donald Trump but.

[00:45:39] She actually during the primary is was the one who really got it started about Obama and his birth certificate so she also put that misinformation out there so between that and steal dossier.

[00:45:51] She should be jailed for spreading misinformation right among other things.

[00:45:58] Yeah, I mean among a whole bunch of other things that we won't get into for fear of being a archensider Clinton side anyway.

[00:46:08] Now here's the current democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in her thoughts on what they should do on disinformation.

[00:46:20] And we'll put the Department of Justice of the United States back in the business of justice.

[00:46:28] We will double the civil rights division and direct law enforcement to counter this extremism.

[00:46:35] We will hold social media platforms accountable for the hate infiltrating their platforms because they have a responsibility to help fight against this threat to our democracy.

[00:46:50] And if you profit off of hate, if you act as a megaphone for misinformation or cyber war fair.

[00:47:00] If you don't police your platforms we are going to hold you accountable as a community.

[00:47:08] So that's Kamala Harris.

[00:47:10] Community is because it our entire communities gather in together to profit off of hate.

[00:47:15] I guess, according to her entire communities are profiting off of hate on social media.

[00:47:23] So if you're seeing the trend obviously Democrats in that video is old and it's from 2019.

[00:47:31] If you're seeing the trend, the trend is Democrats don't like when you spread stuff they don't agree with.

[00:47:42] And that's again going back to what we're talking about with the social media companies.

[00:47:46] I think they're ramping this up now because they're kind of losing control over social media.

[00:47:51] They've lost control over X. They've lost control over meta.

[00:47:55] There are new companies like rumble out there which you know they're not YouTube and a lot of people are going to rumble and watching videos and stuff like that.

[00:48:05] So there is more and more options out there.

[00:48:08] There's more and more places to go.

[00:48:11] People can find the information they want X being sort of a largely free platform now.

[00:48:17] Thanks Elon Musk is really a thorn in their side, which is why they're going after them.

[00:48:22] So yeah, it's it's scary to think that they've been waiting.

[00:48:28] They've been pushing for this for so long.

[00:48:31] The way that was she didn't do anything like all those promises that she made in 2019 and she's the vice president and she didn't push.

[00:48:40] Biden to do all those things.

[00:48:43] Yeah, I mean, she was right there in the Oval Office. She's been in the White House and a lot.

[00:48:48] She could have started a task force to go after this stuff and disinformation.

[00:48:54] Could have been a big thing. I could have been something that she made part of her agenda along with the borders are.

[00:49:02] But you know, when you ask her why she didn't do anything in the past three and a half years as vice president even though she was in the White House.

[00:49:10] You know, you'd be hard press to find actually getting a good answer out of it.

[00:49:15] So it is scary. It is again, this is why

[00:49:22] Bring it back to like California and these bills. These bills are always tried out in California.

[00:49:29] This stuff is always we're always the canary in the coal mine when it comes to these things.

[00:49:35] You know, California passes these laws and they see how far they can get.

[00:49:40] And then if it works out, then it eventually comes to the federal level.

[00:49:46] So what was the one thing we were talking about it recently about something that came to the federal level and we're like, this is a direct thing from California.

[00:49:54] And I can't remember it now.

[00:49:55] I don't know.

[00:49:57] We talked about so much.

[00:49:58] We do talk about a lot. I can't remember it now. There was something that literally just got passed.

[00:50:02] We didn't least said because we talked about how we always the phrase.

[00:50:06] So it was California. So it goes the country and we're like here's a perfect example of that.

[00:50:12] And now I can't remember.

[00:50:13] That's as much as I remember.

[00:50:15] Yeah, there was something that I can't honestly remember.

[00:50:18] But anyway, yeah, this is the stuff that they try out here.

[00:50:21] And if it works and they get away with it, then they slowly implemented on the federal level.

[00:50:28] So that's why again, this is going to be my pitch.

[00:50:30] Maybe the entire show kind of wrap up.

[00:50:35] Why all the local elections matter coming up in November? Why it matters that you pay attention to who you're sending to Sacramento?

[00:50:43] Who you're sending to be in city council? These things do bubble up and go through California and they end up on the national level.

[00:50:50] They try it out here because they know that they're not going to get any pushback and they know with a democratic super majority at every level of state governance.

[00:50:59] That they're not going to get a pushback. They're not going to get everyone's going to comply with it.

[00:51:04] So they try it out here. This is like the test lab and how do you stop it?

[00:51:10] Got to show it for local elections, you know? And you can't give up on California because if you give up on California, sooner or later everything that passes here in California,

[00:51:21] it will find you somewhere federally. And that's the truth is that if you give up on California and thank God,

[00:51:28] God, forget it. Just leave them over there. Those crazy cookie people sooner or later.

[00:51:32] It's going to bubble up to Washington, DC and then once it gets to DC and you get someone like common in power,

[00:51:39] then all of us, everybody in the country has to deal with California policies. So more stories show for your local elections, you know?

[00:51:46] I don't remember what that is that we were saying.

[00:51:51] I don't know about me now, too. And I can't remember what it was.

[00:51:54] Man, we were literally, it wasn't that long ago. We were just talking about it because they just came out of DC.

[00:51:59] I was like, this literally is why you stop things in California.

[00:52:06] Gosh, I can't even remember now. But anyway, I'm sure.

[00:52:10] How did you do with housing?

[00:52:11] Yes. Yeah. It was down payments.

[00:52:14] Yes. Yes, because now Kamala Harris is promoting down payment assistance, which California started. Right?

[00:52:21] It was the down payment thing. So yeah, there you go. Perfect example.

[00:52:26] There's down payment assistance here in California, which they're trying out.

[00:52:30] It's broke. There is no money left in it anyway.

[00:52:32] They've tried it out. It worked for some people and then they ran out of money and forgot to budget for more people.

[00:52:38] Yep.

[00:52:39] Hey, finally good luck.

[00:52:42] Federally, it's an unlimited amount of money and the Fed will just keep printing money.

[00:52:46] So they can find that money wherever they want.

[00:52:49] And then the housing market will really boom.

[00:52:52] But yeah, more of the story, pay attention to here in local politics.

[00:52:55] Don't give up on California because you got to start pushing back here in California.

[00:52:59] You got to stop what's going on here in California.

[00:53:02] Otherwise, it's going to get nationally.

[00:53:05] It's going to go nationally. There's nowhere you can hide.

[00:53:07] Doesn't matter where you go.

[00:53:09] The reddest corner of America, you can go hide and it's going to find you one way or another.

[00:53:15] So any final thoughts before we wrap up for the night?

[00:53:21] We were supposed to get to the whale story again with Gavanoos.

[00:53:23] I guess that's a little bit of a deal. Maybe it'll change by the time we get to it.

[00:53:27] No, I just, you know, elections to Valzar about to drop.

[00:53:31] Like I said, this game, the mail and I just want to remind everyone there's important propositions we've been talking about.

[00:53:36] And I don't like to tell people how to vote, but it's pretty much becoming.

[00:53:42] You know, an on-parts issue to vote yes on 36 which is the reform 47 because that real is still making its way that we made with sure

[00:53:50] Bianco and people are still questioning there's no prop 47 on the November ballot.

[00:53:56] But the prop 36 is to reform 47 and it's a vote yes.

[00:54:01] And like I said, I don't want to tell you how to vote but pretty much Democrats and Republicans are all pushing for that.

[00:54:09] So yeah.

[00:54:09] So even if you want to abstain from voting for a president this year, please your ballots are dropping soon.

[00:54:16] There's lots of loss of local elections and measures that are very.

[00:54:20] Exactly.

[00:54:21] Sorry, Mike.

[00:54:22] It's crazy.

[00:54:24] Your dog obviously jazzed up about Prop 36.

[00:54:26] Yes.

[00:54:27] Yeah, it's the polling that came out was the P.P. I.C. came out and shows 70% of people support Prop 36 which you know Gavin Newsom didn't like he was like,

[00:54:40] I don't even know what state I'm living in anymore because so many people.

[00:54:43] Yeah, he's totally backed down.

[00:54:44] But then he say, I don't have the energy to even.

[00:54:48] Deal with him.

[00:54:48] He's given up. He's like, I don't have the bandwidth to be paying against that anymore.

[00:54:52] So he's given up. He's wave the white flag. He's tried every dirty trick in the book. He tried special sessions and you know, trying to jam laws through the last minute.

[00:55:01] And it looks like Prop 36 is going to likely pass now.

[00:55:06] Obviously if the show up in vote polls don't mean anything but it's obviously a lot of people are in favor of Prop 36.

[00:55:12] Not crazy about the fact that Prop 33 is in the lead to past.

[00:55:19] That was the one we just talked about with rent control.

[00:55:22] So not crazy about that one last week, right? Last week.

[00:55:26] So I don't even know what episode number around but last week's episode.

[00:55:29] We broke down a few more props.

[00:55:31] Yep. So check those out.

[00:55:33] We, I think we have a couple more props to do, which we should get to because ballots are dropping.

[00:55:38] But yeah, so basically it will keep an eye on where this goes.

[00:55:45] All these laws in terms of first amendment and the free speech.

[00:55:49] I think I think we'll get struck down in the federal court.

[00:55:55] I think they may limit it. They may cut back on it but it'll be interesting.

[00:56:00] I mean any, again, any if the court doesn't completely strike it down and keep some of it.

[00:56:07] That's a win for Democrats because they'll be like, ah, so we can run with this idea.

[00:56:13] And again, that's sort of their game plan is like we're going to make this outlandish law.

[00:56:19] We know it's going to go to court and we'll see what happens either.

[00:56:23] It gets all struck down and then we start from scratch or maybe parts of it gets struck down.

[00:56:29] And then now we have the legit it now we have the legal premise and now it's been through court in the case precedents as federal.

[00:56:36] Now the federal government can do something about it like that.

[00:56:40] That's how this operates. This isn't they do this on purpose.

[00:56:43] This is a complete game plan to try and do this and see how far they can push it.

[00:56:48] So hopefully it gets completely struck down and laughed out of court.

[00:56:53] But crazy or things have happened.

[00:56:55] So any other final thoughts before we log off for the night?

[00:56:58] I've done.

[00:57:00] Okay.

[00:57:01] Well with that, thanks for tuning in.

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