This episode talks all about how the California Primary for the Democratic Nominee affects the Presidential race, for better or for worse. But even in a state that is deep blue, the Democrats are not without their problems. There is a war going on nationally and locally within the Democratic Party of which faction wins. Is it the establishment, corporatist, faction or the far left socialist faction? And if the Democratic Party chooses a California style Democrat for President, how badly will they be beaten in the general election?
Links
- California Democratic Party Is A Mess
- President Trump More Popular Than Democratic State Legislature
- CA Will Pick Next President?
- CA Will Set Democratic Presidential Nominee Agenda
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If you're a California, conservative a Libertarian, a
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moderate Democrat. Believe in common sense or just
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the same person. This is the political podcast
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for you. It's the California underground
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podcast. What's going on everybody?
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Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the
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California underground. Podcast a podcast where we talk
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about national news, California news, politics and everything in
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between. For all those who are out there,
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just like the formal services for conservatives Libertarians,
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moderate Democrats Independents and basically anybody with
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common sense who's just tired of the far-left, taking over our
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state? Because there's a lot of us out
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there no matter what they try and tell.
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Tell you. There's still a lot of us out
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there and there's more than you think and that's what the point
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of this is called the California on the ground.
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We start off with our out of the gate monologue.
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So starting off It used to be so easy back in the day.
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Back in the day when I was wait for it, a Democrat?
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I know. Yes, I'm not afraid to say I'm
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somewhat of a convert but it's not shocking.
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If you know enough about me. See I was always a moderate
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Democrat. I didn't believe in big
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government takeover or socialized.
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Anything I supported the military and Traditional Values.
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I was sort of caught up in the 9/11 Fiasco of George Bush.
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And what happened? And going to Iraq and instead of
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Afghanistan. So I became a Democrat.
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I was so moderate. In fact, that a lot of my
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liberal friends in college used to tease me that I was a
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republican which back then scary to think you're a Lincoln in
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college terrifying. But it was so easy back.
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Then being on the other side, everything in culture suede,
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your way Hollywood. The internet in this was really
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before YouTube kind of took off, late night shows, all of it
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culture was skewed towards your view and you began to think you
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were the resistance fighting against this Pariah in our
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country called The GOP. Fahrenheit 9/11 was the movie of
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our time where we blamed everything on W in his cronies.
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We even blame 9/11 itself on the fact that W fell asleep at the
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wheel. Even though sometimes I still
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think he did. So it was easy to fall into the
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idea that you were somehow waging this righteous Crusade
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against evil. Conservatives you had the right
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because it seemed like everyone was on your side.
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You felt a moral duty to help Stamp Out conservatives and
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Republicans everywhere. Then things changed I started to
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see the Democratic party shifting.
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Its aim towards people like me, middle class, straight white
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guys. Normal people who just want to
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live a normal life, as I was shoved out of the democratic
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party, I crossed over This all taught me something though.
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See, I was on the inside and saw how people thought.
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Now that I was on the other side, I could see those of the
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left were not the resistance. They were, in fact, The
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Establishment and I was being corralled, like, livestock to
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bleep, incessantly about the sins of conservatives and to
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this day left is still believe. They are the resistance that
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they are fighting this Crusade for America's soul.
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But now that I'm on the other side, I can see.
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They are far from the resistant. It's no secret that they control
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big Tech, most of the information on the internet
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late. Shows movies television, and
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pretty much all of the news. Yet they cry foul, every time a
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conservative pushes back on them.
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However this past week, maybe in the week that left this began to
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overplay their hand and I say may because it seems whatever
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left is step out of line just a bit they are never reprimanded.
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Sure they can flaunt rules laws or guidelines with impunity
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because well what they're doing is quote morally, right?
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Their goal is to bash the fashioned, nothing should stop
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them because is morally imperative that they do this.
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Otherwise Cheeto Hitler wins. And I've talked incessantly
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about a lot about how the left is pushing hard, 2D platformer
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sensor, suppress and silence conservatives.
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It's been sort of a running theme at the start of these
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podcast because it's something I'm trying to Ring.
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The Alarm about alarm Bell about right now.
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Before it gets too bad, the left is coming after conservative
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voices and they are coming after them hard.
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But this week, one of the players on the left, may have
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gone just a little bit too far. Now, if you haven't been
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following the ad, pocalypse, here's a basic rundown, Carlos
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Massa who pretends to be a journalist at Fox started
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whining to YouTube that they should take down Steven Crowder
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because Stephen, you some offensive language, and some of
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his rebuttal videos to him is lispy.
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Queer offensive. Maybe, is it something Carlos?
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Maza? Used to describe himself at one
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point or another possible, but Maza went full scorched Earth on
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crowder and wanted YouTube to take him down completely Italy.
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He decried. How unacceptable it was that
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YouTube gave someone like Crowder a platform and the
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probably left this is that they never think about the
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consequences of the their actions.
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They never see 12 steps ahead. Carlos Maza going full scorched
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Earth on crowder, because he doesn't like him, opens the
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floodgates by D platforming and demonetised in him, you now have
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a waterfall of calls to demonetised thousands of user.
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And when does it end? It usually ends coming back to
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bite leftist in their own ass. The left will continue to push
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these gorillas State as tactics as far as they can.
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Because, as I've said before that, they honestly believe that
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what they're doing is Justified. They've been so conditioned and
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brainwashed to believe that they are fighting this moral Crusade
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of the resistance against the evil establishment, full of
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conservatives who are holding them down.
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They will Do anything. And we're not fighting back as
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we should be. We're playing as if we are the
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establishment and they're playing as if they're the
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resistance. When the in fact, the opposite
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is true. We need to be fighting as if
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we're the resistance and they in fact are the establishment we
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need to get out there and fight like it's a street fight like
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it's guerrilla warfare. Because when it comes down to
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it, they will use any tactic in their toolbox to win and they
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already have so much on their side going for them.
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See they continue this Crusade because they believed in the
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world is rid of people who think differently than them.
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So we can all dance gleefully in our socialist Utopia.
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And how do I know this is what they want because I was one of
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them and I remember what it was like.
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Ignorance is bliss. War is peace.
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Slavery is freedom. The world is upside down.
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It's time for us to stop pretending.
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We're The Establishment and that we are the resistance.
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And until we do, we'll never be able to fight back on Square on
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evil. Even footing?
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So this episode, I want to talk a lot about what's going on in
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California. Not a lot of natural news, it
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kind of ties into national news. What I want to talk about is the
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fact that California is moved up next year into March 3rd, which
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is super Tuesday in primary season.
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If you don't want to Super Tuesday, is super Tuesday, is
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when there's a whole bunch of States all at once are voting in
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their primaries, which means that usually by the end of super
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Tuesday, you have a good idea of who's really going to run away
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with it for the primary. For the nomination, California,
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jumped ahead usually California is way out in June.
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So by that time you most nominees or knows most people
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running, I've already sewn up the nomination at that point.
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So California moving into this March third slot is a big deal.
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Because it gives California much more influence and with 500
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delegates it is nothing to sneeze at, that's for sure.
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They're going to need those 500 delegates to get across the
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finish line or separate them for the rest of the pack.
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Some, the candidate who can win California in the Democratic
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party, is going to most likely be the front-runner at the end
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of super Tuesday. And that's why it's so important
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because before then California didn't really have an impact and
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now California is Progressive policies.
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Are going to have more of an impact are going to take more
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Center Stage than they usually have.
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But before we dive into that, there's a couple things I want
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to bring up. The California Democratic party.
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Well from the outside, you may look at it and say well they
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rule everything, how could they be in a bad position and the GOP
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has basically been wiped off the map, so how bad could it be in a
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recent Town Hall article? It was a report that California
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Democrats are actually a complete mess and this is mostly
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due to the fact that you're seeing on the national stage, as
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well as in California, you're starting to see the fraction of
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the democratic party between those.
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Or the old establishment Democrats, the corporate as
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Democrats, the Joe Biden's, the Obamas, the Hillary Clinton's
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who were all corporatist moderate Democrats.
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Centrist Democrats. And now you're getting the rise
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of the super Progressive Democrats, the far-left,
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Democrats. Democrats that are trying to
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outflank Bernie Sanders from the left because he sort of started
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this whole thing. and based on the popularity of people, like
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ioc, That's becoming the new invigorating blood in the
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Democratic party. Now, of course, this fits right
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in with California Democratic policies.
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You would think that all these Progressive policies are right
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up California's right in California's wheelhouse which is
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true, but also not true because they're still establishment
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Democrats here. So the town hall article reads.
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California is the largest state in the country and a Bastion of
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progressivism. It's the Left Coast Democrats
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total dominate State politics. And, to be honest, the
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Republicans are not much better, they're mostly Democrat light,
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which I would agree with them. The California GOP is pretty
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much dead something I'd also agree with but that doesn't mean
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there isn't drama. The state legislature was
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rattled by sexual harassment allegations and in the me to era
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one such allegation Force. California, state party chair
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Eric Bauman to resign. So at the state party
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convention, which was held, this was a couple weeks ago.
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The party was a mess but no one wanted to admit it.
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Vice news, Michael Moynihan ventured into Ground Zero where
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he saw a public united front but behind the scenes, the makings
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of a vicious Civil War. In the establishment and far
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left wings of the party 2020 candidate John Hickenlooper was
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booed for saying, socialism wasn't the way forward.
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Morning and also know that single-payer healthcare in
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impeachment were also issues where the party seemed to
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fracture. Single Payer has been a hot
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issue, especially in the Golden State.
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A single-payer proposal will scuffled by California Democrats
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and 2017 over concerns about cost and how they would pay for
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it. This led to democratic lawmakers
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being the subject of death threats, even the Washington
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Post also trash. The proposals being one that was
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ruinously expensive. Then came the tar and Feathering
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of incumbent incumbent Democratic senator, Diane
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Feinstein, who failed to win her party's endorsement of 2018.
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She won anyway. Still, at show the growing
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tension within the party especially with its boober
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liberal Grassroots that share. One thing in common with Donald
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Trump, they want to smash the system.
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Last year's convention was equally rambunctious.
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So as you can see, there's a lot going on.
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In the California Democratic party.
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And this is like I said, this is a reflection of what's happening
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on the national level and you're going to see this bleeding too.
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So stay with me here and see how California, and the California
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Progressive policies are now bleeding into the national
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politics of the democratic party and how it's going to possibly
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tear the Democratic party apart come 2020.
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You have these far-left Progressive ideas, these Bay
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Area, socialist ideas that are being espoused by the far left
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here in California. It's being espoused by those who
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are on the far left in the Democratic party who are running
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for president, but you're also seeing candidates who are
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standing up, who are trying to be moderate and saying to
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themselves. Excuse me, if we go too far
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left, we're probably not going to win the presidential election
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because going too far left. You're not going to be able to
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win a lot of those swings. States.
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And we'll get to that in a minute.
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There's an article I want to read to you about that and how
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even a Democrat here in California, wrote that.
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Maybe having a Democrat, a California, Democrat running for
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president is not necessarily a good thing.
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To show you that. It's even to show you that.
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It's not all sunshine and rainbows for California as well.
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California has a democratic-controlled
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legislature. Now, suffice it to say here in
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California. You'd be hard-pressed to find
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anything that Donald Trump is more popular than in California.
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But surprisingly enough in a CNS news.com article, they found a
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survey released by the public policy Institute of California
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and found that Donald Trump President.
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Donald Trump is actually more popular in the deep blue State
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than act. Then the Democratic legislature.
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And according to the article Democratic consultant Steve
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mobilio, recently told the Los Angeles Times, all they hear
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from Sacramento are proposals for more taxes and more spending
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for everyone, except the middle class and they rightfully wonder
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where the high taxes. They are already, paying are
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going. And it says, while the
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president's approval ratings are underwater with only 38 percent
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of Californians, approving of his job.
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That's actually, I think pretty high 38 percent, almost 40%
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California. This pales in comparison to the
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state legislature, having only 34 percent among likely voters
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having confidence in them, goes on to say with voters, still
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anxious about a gas hike push through last year.
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Recent suggestions of a two billion dollar hack tax hike on
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everything from water to phones by California.
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Gavin Newsom has an ease that apprehension and Newsom holds a
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job approval rating 45 percent. Among likely voters who 29
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percent disapproving and 26% responding, don't know.
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But that just goes to show you that the Democratic party is not
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all sunshine and rainbows here in California.
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And like I said in the monologue it's time for people in
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California to start in acting and start acting like we really
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are, we are a guerrilla faction fighting a resistance here, in
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California. We can't play by the rules
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anymore and we can't be this cute little hidey toity
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cocktail, clinking Country Club Republican party anymore.
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We have to go on the streets and fight like our lives depend on
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it, because a lot of ways it does, you can only continue to
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push people here in California so far until people break until
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people leave until people say enough of this.
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I'm out of here. And as you start to dwindle away
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the tax base, you start to wonder, hey, wait a second where
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we going to get all the money for these expensive proposals
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and policies that we have going on.
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How do you look at California citizen?
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In the eyes, someone who goes to work, pays their taxes buys a
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home, does all of the things that he supposed to do.
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Says well I live in California, I got to pay what they we all
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joke about the sunshine tax because it's so nice out here.
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That's the sunshine tax. That's what you pay for for
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living out here. But then they turn around, they
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see that they're getting a hundred million dollars to
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illegal immigrants, who are crossing the border for free,
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healthcare. Meanwhile, people in California
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are paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars for their
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own Healthcare. And this is not the time to be
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nice about these issues. The one thing that California
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GOP needs to start learning and they keep pushing away.
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The fact that Donald Trump is not popular here.
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Donald Trump may not be popular here, simply because the GOP is
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basically given up on Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump love him or hate him.
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The reason he won is because of his Street Fighter mentality.
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He was not this hoity-toity Republican, he was not the
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establishment Republican, he was not the country club Republican.
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In fact, he came in and destroyed the whole system.
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As I like to say, he was the molotov cocktail that was thrown
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straight into Washington and has been blowing stuff up ever
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since. And a lot of people like that
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about that's why they we picked him or that's why voters
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supported him. The California GOP has to stop
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pretending like, how Donald Trump.
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One cannot work here in California because he's not
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popular. They just showed you.
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He's got 40 percent approval rating in a state.
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That's deep blue. That's not that terrible.
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Now, when you consider the fact that Gavin Newsom has a 30
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percent disapproval with 30, almost 25 30 % of people saying,
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they don't really know or don't know how to respond to the
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question. He's underwater and his approval
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ratings. The 45 is good, but he still
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underwater nationally. It's not as good as President
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Trump. So what I'm saying to bring it
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all sort of full circle is that the Democratic party is ripe for
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picking them off with the right Guerilla.
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Tactics. If you're a fan of Omar Navarro
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he was a republican who ran in Maxine Waters District.
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If you've been following him on his social media, he's a pretty
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vocal person out on social media.
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I know he's been on different cable news station.
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But he's taking that sort of Guerilla Warfare.
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He had a great video where he went down to the slums of LA and
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kind of went up to people with a microphone in their face and a
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camera and said has Maxine Waters helped you As anyone
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helped you has any Democrat in l.a. helped you?
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Then you get a lot of people were saying no, nobody comes
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down here and helps they supposedly got a hundred million
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dollars to help increase improve the sanitation down there.
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The infrastructure down there. They haven't seen a dime of it.
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They don't know where it's gone. This is the guerrilla warfare.
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I'm talking about. And the California GOP.
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The milk. Milk toast GOP here in
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California. Continue to embrace people like
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John Cox. John Cox who was the perfect,
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California consultant, establishment candidate, Someone
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who would go out there and wave hands and shake.
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Shake hands. Kiss babies, wave to the crowd.
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Go play and all the safe districts.
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You go up and down the Central Valley.
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Take pictures with 20 or so people and that's it.
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He wasn't a fighter you know who is a fighter and whether you
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love him or hate him Travis Allen someone like Travis Allen
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needs to be put at the Forefront of the California party or the
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California GOP. That's my issue.
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You keep putting these people who into power in California GOP
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who want a toe the line as if they didn't witness what
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happened in 2016. As if they look at the brand of
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politics of President, Donald Trump has brought to the
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Republican party, has revived the Republican party from Near
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Death. He's infused it with new blood,
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new energy, New Direction, his style may be unorthodox, but
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it's winning. How can you say a guy who shows
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up randomly with less than 48 hours?
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Notice to any stadium and packs? A 10 20, 30 thousand people show
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up. Meanwhile, you have John Cox who
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can probably get, maybe about 20 people out in an old person's
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home out in Stockton. This is what I'm talking about.
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You need the guerrilla warfare. You need the street fighter
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mentality. That's going on with President.
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Donald Trump you need to in and actually embrace that here in
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California because at this point, what else do you have to
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lose? The California GOP is so worried
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about losing, what? They're holding onto that they
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continue to lose District after District after they'll keep
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losing the, the legislature here.
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They lost the governorship, they lost everything.
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But if You had Republicans like, Omar Navarro and who were
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actually going out there and pushing people to say, look what
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have the Democrats done for you? I'm going to start calling them
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out. I'm going to start telling them
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to debate me. Use these Guerrilla War, these
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Guerrilla tactics, start fighting like our lives depend
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on it. Now, could I possibly sway the
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California GOP to start thinking like maybe we should embrace
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this style of Donald Trump and Infuse it into California?
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I don't know. There's a lot of money that goes
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into who gets what candidacy and who gets what, and who gets the
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slots who gets this, who gets that, there's a lot of politics
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within the California GOP. Because I've been there, I've
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seen it, I've seen a lot of people and they were all
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resistant to President Trump. I was there.
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How many years ago? I remember when I was there at
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the convention, it up in San Francisco and I remember that
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was the one where President Trump had to like crawl through
00:23:24
under a fence, or through a sewer or something to get in
00:23:26
because of the protesters. And I can tell you the feeling
00:23:31
in that conventional was, everybody was behind, Ted Cruz,
00:23:34
Ted Cruz was the real conservative.
00:23:36
He was the Constitutional conservative that we all needed
00:23:39
to run for president in win. Now don't get me wrong, I love
00:23:43
Ted Cruz, I think he's a brilliant.
00:23:45
Appellate attorney. He's a brilliant Senator, I
00:23:50
think he's just a guy who knows how to debate he comes off.
00:23:53
He's gotten a little bit better, he's not so cringe-worthy.
00:23:56
Now, he was a little crunchy when he ran for president.
00:23:59
I was kind of like that kid in your class who was too
00:24:02
goody-goody and ran for president and tried to keep a
00:24:06
nice straight edge profile. He's kind of roughed up around
00:24:10
the edges. Now, he's kind of Taken on that
00:24:12
whole Twitter thing where he can go after people.
00:24:16
But that was the feeling, you know, moments before, you know a
00:24:20
month or two before President Trump actually won the
00:24:23
nomination. You had people in California who
00:24:27
were not for him? They couldn't they couldn't
00:24:33
distance themselves farther from President Trump. so, all I'm
00:24:40
saying is, If you have, there is an opening, the California
00:24:45
Democrats are not completely in lockstep.
00:24:49
They are very good at putting themselves in a lock step but
00:24:52
there is an opportunity. To fracture the party into to
00:24:58
and to win some stuff back here in California.
00:25:03
We just need to adopt the correct tactics.
00:25:07
We need to reach the right people, a few points here there.
00:25:11
And you start talking about flipping a lot of things.
00:25:16
So we'll see, but back to the Californian Democratic primary
00:25:23
and what's going on with that, this was an article that was in
00:25:26
this SF Chronicle. So take it with you, who else?
00:25:29
It's going to be a very slanted. In the next one after that, I
00:25:34
have is from the LA Times. So that one is also going to be
00:25:36
very slanted, but it's good to read.
00:25:39
What the other side is thinking. You can't just keep looking at
00:25:42
what Fox News says or oh. Aan, or Breitbart over all that
00:25:45
stuff. You got to read into what the
00:25:47
other people are saying, or what they think.
00:25:51
So this one is called California.
00:25:53
Will probably pick the new the next president, which contain
00:25:57
your laughter if you think that California is going to pick the
00:25:59
next president, I don't think they will.
00:26:01
And I think that's talked about in the next article.
00:26:06
Beta O'Rourke fails Falls face. First into the water while
00:26:10
trying to Surf off La. Jolla, Joe, Biden Danza paper
00:26:13
had to take orders. I love mine animal style to
00:26:17
ma'am in an in-and-out drive-through, Bernie Sanders
00:26:21
desperate to catch FrontRunner Biden packs, a bomb with legally
00:26:24
grown, California cannabis and smokes.
00:26:26
It, the mean, breaks the internet for now these scenes
00:26:30
are merely the product of one columnist imagination, but in
00:26:33
the next 10 months, don't be surprised if they show up in the
00:26:36
Shall we call the presidential race traditionally?
00:26:39
California has had little to say in picking presents other
00:26:42
Americans out of a commitment to electing study.
00:26:45
Even boring presidents allowed all states Iowa and New
00:26:48
Hampshire to drive the process. But Americans no longer attached
00:26:52
to sober-minded. Presidents that cultural shift
00:26:55
in combination with an early California primary and an
00:26:58
unpopular Republican president. And his opinion means that the
00:27:03
Golden State might. Well, pick the next president,
00:27:05
President. I'm sorry.
00:27:06
I try not to laugh, whenever I read that line.
00:27:10
The process of selection should involve the whole state because
00:27:12
Democrats decide to allocate, delegates to anyone who wins at
00:27:15
least 15 percent of the vote in any California.
00:27:17
Congressional District, while more delegates are allocated to
00:27:20
districts with more Democrats, which will push candidates to
00:27:23
spend more time in Democratic heavy, Coastal districts,
00:27:26
lesser-known contenders are likely to make hay by going to
00:27:29
the state's interior to pick up delegates in districts.
00:27:32
Where there may be less competition?
00:27:35
The race will not be easy for anyone even, California has own.
00:27:38
Senator Kamala Harris who could struggle to meet expectations
00:27:41
that she should win her home state.
00:27:43
And while California has been represented in the Senate
00:27:46
exclusively by women, since 1992, it remains to be seen
00:27:50
whether it is favourable Turf for women.
00:27:52
Seeking the presidency. Yes.
00:27:54
Hillary Clinton won the 2008 and 2016 presidential primaries
00:27:57
here, but as a state, we've been less inclined to select women to
00:28:00
Executive positions. California has never had a
00:28:03
female governor in Los Angeles is A female mayor.
00:28:08
California is not fertile ground for Republican Challenger to the
00:28:11
president. Cut.
00:28:12
Republicans here like Trump nearly as much as Republicans
00:28:14
nationally Which I don't understand what that means
00:28:17
either. But sure.
00:28:20
This is the SF Chronicle. Keep in mind, they live up in a
00:28:24
little bubble, but it's not just about the candidates
00:28:26
California's. Likely shape the issues of the
00:28:28
presidential campaign, previous presidential races, high focus
00:28:31
on the economy, Healthcare and National Security, but housing
00:28:34
and homeless as the top priorities of many Californians
00:28:36
will become National issues next year.
00:28:38
Remember how I said in the last one?
00:28:39
Interesting, how now all the sudden it is a homelessness is a
00:28:43
national issue. Interesting.
00:28:46
I'll give the Democrats. This, I will say this.
00:28:49
The Democrats are very good about sending out internal memos
00:28:52
throughout the party so that everyone sort of on the same
00:28:54
page, Republicans are not so much because Republicans like to
00:28:58
think they are all free thinkers and they like to actually
00:29:01
criticized or think critically about things with Democrats.
00:29:06
I'll give it to them. You know, it was governor Newsom
00:29:09
who started off and the Nancy Pelosi jumped in and said and
00:29:11
all this is a national issue homelessness.
00:29:14
Look at it. Now, you have someone the SF
00:29:16
Chronicle saying how homelessness, which is a top
00:29:19
priority. Koreans will become a national
00:29:21
issue next year goes out and say other lower profile issues that
00:29:26
divide Californians like water and High-Speed Rail.
00:29:28
Also should cut become big points of contention as
00:29:31
presidential candidates, spend more time here in California is
00:29:34
Teachers. Union may have been asking can
00:29:36
to the back federal regulations to curtail the growth of charter
00:29:40
schools as a condition of their support, climate change debates,
00:29:43
over the state's policies, to curtail it through cap and trade
00:29:46
and growing anxiety over disasters.
00:29:48
Like the fire that destroyed Paradise, Also could move from
00:29:51
California to the National Arena.
00:29:53
And our state's commitment to protecting immigrants and their
00:29:55
families. Regardless of legal status
00:29:57
should shape the race in California, perhaps more than
00:30:00
anywhere else. Biden is likely to face potent
00:30:03
attacks from Rivals who point to his service in the Obama
00:30:06
Administration that engaged in massive deportation of
00:30:09
immigrants. But our votes are not.
00:30:12
The only way that Californians will impact the selection of the
00:30:15
president, despite new methods of online, fundraising from
00:30:17
small donors, the state's richest, people have even more
00:30:20
power and influence than usual as Canada.
00:30:23
Is grow desperate for funding and such a large field.
00:30:25
The struggle for attention could also make the backing of
00:30:27
Hollywood figures even more important.
00:30:30
Look for next year's Oscars, which will take place just three
00:30:33
weeks before the California primary to be the most political
00:30:35
in history with perhaps some candidates walking, the red
00:30:38
carpet to boost their name recognition.
00:30:41
But it's through technology that Californians are likely to have
00:30:44
the most impact on the identity of the next president.
00:30:47
This Cuts many ways that decisions made by Menlo, Park,
00:30:50
based Facebook and handling. Political content will affect
00:30:52
Americans, very perception perceptions of the content.
00:30:56
And of course, the California Titans of the internet,
00:30:58
including Google, and Twitter could potentially be harnessed
00:31:01
by those, who mean American democracy harm?
00:31:04
At the same time, Facebook and other Tech.
00:31:06
Giants are becoming a major issue in the race.
00:31:09
Should they be broken up? How do we defend our Privacy
00:31:11
from them. There are reasons to worry about
00:31:14
a president picked by California.
00:31:15
This is a wonderful place of beaches and Innovation, but it
00:31:18
is. Also the volatile crazy state
00:31:21
that gave us Prop 13 and the Kardashians.
00:31:24
If we Californians give America president who reflects our state
00:31:27
true preferences character. The whole world may is feel as
00:31:30
if it's smoked something. So, that was the article that
00:31:34
talked about how picking a Democrat through, California
00:31:43
could potentially have a problem with the national stage, which I
00:31:46
think it would. I think if you pick someone
00:31:48
who's a little too far left, you're going to have an issue,
00:31:53
you're not going to be able to win on the big stage.
00:31:55
You're not going to be able to beat Trump in the Rust Belt.
00:31:58
You're not going to be able to beat you.
00:32:00
Not be a good, you're not going to be able to go toe-to-toe with
00:32:02
him. It's just the simple fact of it.
00:32:05
How can you as a socialist? Look at what's going on with the
00:32:09
economy? And go to the Rust Belt where
00:32:13
they start to see. Manufacturing come back, go to
00:32:15
places like Pennsylvania, where manufacturing has come back and
00:32:19
say to them. Hey, you know, these jobs are
00:32:21
coming back in the economy's, gotten a lot better for you
00:32:23
guys. How about you vote for
00:32:26
socialism, and I'll get rid of all of it, a globalist
00:32:30
socialist, who's going to open up the borders?
00:32:31
Again, let the companies leave whenever they want and we'll be
00:32:35
back at square one. I don't think it's going to
00:32:38
happen. You just get these Pages.
00:32:43
Correct, this next one, hold onto your hats as a little bit
00:32:46
longer. This is the LA Times article
00:32:49
about picking the president, One By One, The Democratic
00:32:54
presidential candidates campaign, Iowa show their fealty
00:32:57
to ethanol the Corn based fuel that supports over 42 jobs
00:33:01
and buoys the state's crucial, agricultural Colony.
00:33:05
That is the raw power that IO, which holds the first test of
00:33:08
the 2020 presidential election possess In American politics, at
00:33:12
least for a while by the morning.
00:33:13
After the February 3rd, caucuses the contenders may never mention
00:33:16
the commodity again. Many years ago, the late
00:33:20
historian, Kevin Starr said that modern California was an Eco
00:33:24
medical experiment conducted on an unprecedented level.
00:33:30
Now the product of that experiment carried out over
00:33:32
Centuries by missionaries and miners dreamers and the Down and
00:33:35
Out. Producers of airliners iPhones
00:33:37
on Hollywood films, has the real potential.
00:33:40
Dominating one of the most important elections of modern
00:33:42
times 4. Is the trademark issues and
00:33:45
values of California immigration.
00:33:47
Health Care trade and environment that To a large
00:33:49
extent will drive this presidential contest, the notion
00:33:52
of a national race, being a referendum on one States values.
00:33:55
Or in another conception a struggle between the worldview
00:33:58
of California and the world view of President.
00:34:00
Donald Trump could only emerged in a political environment where
00:34:04
urgent, economic and foreign policy issues won't dominate as
00:34:07
they ordinarily. Do to the extent that economic
00:34:11
issues are in play. They are poverty.
00:34:12
Globalization income equality. All Central to the California
00:34:16
zeitgeist. These are topics where
00:34:18
California conflicts with the most President.
00:34:21
Trump unquote said, Bill carica, veteran, Los angeles-based
00:34:25
Democratic strategist. We are as far out of touch with
00:34:29
this President of sweet ever been with any prison.
00:34:31
It's striking, and it's all over California.
00:34:33
Overall, the issues and an early.
00:34:36
March third Primary in the presence of California
00:34:38
candidates including Center Kemal Harris, and bay area where
00:34:41
Eric's wall. Wow!
00:34:43
Among the nearly two dozen Democratic contenders only
00:34:46
serves to The California orientation of the 20/20
00:34:49
election or as mock Mark, baldessari the president of the
00:34:55
nonprofit public policy Institute of California puts it.
00:34:57
The issues that are front and center in California are the
00:35:00
very ones that country will be forced to confront in the next
00:35:03
four or five years for decades California's been where the
00:35:07
American future first came into Focus.
00:35:09
Thanks to Visionaries who appeared beyond the present, the
00:35:12
pioneers of the film Aerospace in high-tech Industries.
00:35:14
Yes. But all political leaders like
00:35:16
the Hiram Johnson and Upton Sinclair and the conservatives
00:35:21
Arthur Laffer and Ronald Reagan. Those ideological fault lines.
00:35:25
Persist dominant on the left but not dormant on the right in a
00:35:29
California that more than ever seems a world of its own, the
00:35:33
state, boasts the world's fifth largest economy, a population of
00:35:35
40 million exceeds that of Canada California's. 55
00:35:39
electoral votes are more than a fifth of the total required to
00:35:42
win the White House to work in the swing states of Michigan.
00:35:44
Wisconsin in Pennsylvania, as well as the Niall Battlegrounds
00:35:48
of Florida and Ohio today. The state is big and powerful
00:35:52
enough to pursue its own economic and foreign policies.
00:35:55
AKA issue, setting, California part in setting, the standard
00:35:57
for the rest of the country is climate change.
00:35:59
The state is pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 40
00:36:02
percent below 1990 levels in a fewer than a Dozen Years while
00:36:06
dramatically increasing renewable energy and reducing
00:36:09
the Reliance on fossil fuels. The release of LA mayor.
00:36:14
Eric Garcetti is green, New Deal With It zero missions
00:36:16
Transportation Network and elimination of plastic straws
00:36:20
and single-use takeout food, receptacles Echoes previous
00:36:22
pioneering initiatives. It signaled, the Primacy of
00:36:25
environmental issues in a state that 1882 and did hydraulic
00:36:29
mining options. After Central Valley Farmers
00:36:31
complained of the damaging debris, a decision regarded as a
00:36:34
landmark in American Environmental history, Let's
00:36:40
see. Going on going ONN.
00:36:44
The majority of California bars are more likely to support
00:36:47
expansion of obamacare's than its replacement.
00:36:49
This is a very blue State, Bill Democrats and minorities for
00:36:52
whom health is a top issue, so it drew Altman prison of the San
00:36:55
francisco-based Kaiser Family Foundation, which studies
00:36:58
healthcare related issues. The Trump tax bill will also get
00:37:04
substantial attention especially in California, where taxpayers
00:37:07
of spring unhappily discovered one of the bills major features
00:37:10
the 10 dollar Federal cap impose in the deduction of state
00:37:13
and local taxes. The average state and local tax,
00:37:16
burden California's 18 $438. According to a Pew Foundation
00:37:20
study, making the impact, particularly ownerís another,
00:37:24
another notable part of the 2020, political calculus is the
00:37:27
increased role. California can play.
00:37:29
And selecting Trump's opponent. This is a direct result of my In
00:37:32
the California primary from June.
00:37:34
At the end of the primary season 2 March 3rd after the four lead
00:37:37
states of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina vote,
00:37:40
of course, not all hold Californians.
00:37:42
Brenda left, costal has liberalism in particularly high
00:37:45
regard. The influence of the state by
00:37:48
virtue of its size. Its position on the primary
00:37:50
calendar in. Perhaps if the eventual nominee
00:37:53
or vice presidential candidate is a Californian.
00:37:55
Could prove worrisome for Democrats.
00:37:56
If it seems moving the party too far left.
00:38:00
The Democrats are in the middle of an argument about who they
00:38:02
are. One of the options is to be a
00:38:04
California party with California views.
00:38:07
All the themes that work for a large portion of Democrats are
00:38:10
themes that really resonate in California, but they have to be
00:38:13
careful because in being a California party.
00:38:15
They risk. Alienating the midwestern
00:38:17
voters, they didn't get last time.
00:38:20
If the Democrats view, this election is a choice between
00:38:22
California. Donald Trump, they risk winning
00:38:24
only States like California and when he States like California
00:38:28
isn't enough as long as we still have the Electoral College So of
00:38:33
course, another Swiper the Electoral College because the
00:38:36
Electoral College only works when they're president wins.
00:38:41
So, when President Obama won, how there's no problem with the
00:38:45
Electoral College when President Trump wins and beats Hillary
00:38:48
Clinton because she won the popular vote.
00:38:51
Well, then there's something wrong with the electoral
00:38:53
college, but here's my overall point.
00:38:58
This is what I've been saying and Democrats are now even
00:39:01
starting to recognize it. The fact that if you elect or
00:39:05
nominate someone, who's too far to the left, you might as well
00:39:08
just call the election for President Trump right now.
00:39:11
And you have politicians, like, John Delaney.
00:39:14
Who went out there in the California Convention, the
00:39:17
Democratic Convention and says something like, you know, we
00:39:21
can't do medicare-for-all because it's a bad idea or
00:39:24
Medicaid for all and people, boom, and you have AOC going on
00:39:28
Twitter working. Her furious little finger saying
00:39:32
you should say, Sashay your way out of this, but the guys,
00:39:35
right? And it's a shame, it kind of
00:39:38
goes back to the whole Howard Schultz thing.
00:39:39
I don't even know if Howard Schultz is still running.
00:39:41
I haven't read anything that he's not gonna run or Israel.
00:39:45
But maybe the fact that a lot of people had a lot of problems
00:39:49
with the fact that he was running, he bowed out
00:39:51
gracefully, but this is a problem with the Democratic
00:39:54
party nationally. I would say the farther left
00:39:59
that go. The better.
00:40:00
Let him keep going farther left. Let him keep embarrassing.
00:40:02
Seeing themselves because then you get more people who are more
00:40:06
populous, you get to see the populist movement continued to
00:40:10
rise. President Trump will probably
00:40:12
win at most likely win a second term if you get a California
00:40:15
Democrat in there. It's that simple.
00:40:18
RIT history repeats itself. Okay.
00:40:20
It's like when Ronald Reagan went up against Michael Dukakis.
00:40:25
Was it? Michael Dukakis.
00:40:26
Yeah. and, Wasn't my. I'm trying to think wasn't to
00:40:32
caucus George w-- Bush, or was it Ronald Reagan either way?
00:40:35
When Ronald Reagan, won his second term.
00:40:37
Anyway, he just wiped the floor with his opponent.
00:40:42
That's what it could be like you could see a bigger electoral
00:40:45
Victory, his second term, if you get a California Democrat in
00:40:48
there because a lot of people are going to see the stuff that
00:40:52
you say in the primary does not go away.
00:40:55
And a lot of these politicians who think that they're going to
00:40:57
have to outflank Someone Like A Bernie Sanders.
00:41:02
Too kind of sacrifice at the altar of socialism.
00:41:06
They're going to have to pay up when it comes to the general
00:41:08
election. When you get to the general
00:41:10
election, you don't think that the strategists on the right,
00:41:13
you don't think President Trump strategist.
00:41:15
People like that are already taking note, they're already
00:41:17
getting sound bites they're already figuring out ways to go
00:41:21
after you. Now.
00:41:23
You got a back all that rhetoric up to win to even have a hope at
00:41:27
winning States, like Pennsylvania or Michigan, or
00:41:30
Wisconsin. And If you can't win those
00:41:32
States, forget it. If you can't win States, like
00:41:37
Ohio, Michigan. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, just
00:41:40
pack it up. If you have a far left
00:41:44
socialist, at the top of the the party and you see a lot of
00:41:47
moderate Democrats who are just kind of like not really crazy
00:41:51
about the socialism. Someone like me, who looks at a
00:41:53
socialist Democrat and says, not really crazy about the whole
00:41:57
socialism thing they may out of two things.
00:42:01
They may one not vote at all, or to, they may vote for President
00:42:06
Trump because they may look at President Trump and say, Well,
00:42:11
the economy is doing pretty well under him, and he's not talking
00:42:13
about taking most of my money for God knows, whatever, for
00:42:17
climate change, or whatever. I'm going to go with this guy.
00:42:23
so, California is Has positioned itself in an interesting place.
00:42:30
Nationally. But coming back to the state
00:42:34
level, and what's coming, what's going on at the local level.
00:42:37
There is an opening there is an opportunity as for conservative
00:42:43
Independence. Moderates, excuse me.
00:42:47
To kind of get in there and start wedging the Democratic
00:42:50
party apart, there's only so far, you can really go and I
00:42:54
know it's hard, it's tough to think in California.
00:42:56
People are just going to blindly vote Democrat.
00:43:02
People used to think that they would blindly vote Republican in
00:43:04
Orange County until they flipped it.
00:43:07
Districts are flippable if you work on it but the California
00:43:12
GOP has to really step it up. And they have to start driving a
00:43:15
wedge Into the Heart of the California Democratic party.
00:43:19
They can't continue to play these cute little games.
00:43:22
They can't continue to play nice by the rules.
00:43:26
The Democrats short Democrats. Sure as hell will not play by
00:43:30
the rules. They have never played by the
00:43:31
rules and they don't expect that.
00:43:34
They ever think they will play by the rules.
00:43:37
No one is on the Democratic side is expected to play by the
00:43:40
rules. Like I said, in the opening
00:43:42
monologue, when you're fighting, what you think is a moral
00:43:45
crusade to save America, all rules and everything go out the
00:43:50
window. When you have this belief, this
00:43:54
radical radicalized belief, that what you're doing is one of the
00:43:58
most holy and important things to do rules.
00:44:01
Don't matter rules, don't apply to you and Democrats have been
00:44:05
doing that again and Again, and again and again, now those on
00:44:10
the right, President Trump has been trying to change the rules
00:44:13
and say, look I don't live by the rules and it's worked for
00:44:15
him. He's a street fighter and he
00:44:17
figures it out and he does it a lot people say I was on
00:44:20
presidential. Well, that's the thing.
00:44:23
They want him to play by the rules, they're frustrated
00:44:27
because they thought, well, Republicans play by the rules.
00:44:30
We don't play by the rules. That's how we keep beating
00:44:34
Republicans, is because we don't play by the rules.
00:44:36
Now, you have a president in there who they call
00:44:38
unpresidential, because he doesn't quote play by the rules.
00:44:45
Okay, Republicans need to get better at that.
00:44:48
Republicans need to step up this idea of Guerrilla warfare and
00:44:51
actually go after it. Contrary to popular belief,
00:44:56
contrary to the fact that the establishment that you the, the
00:45:00
internet, the YouTube, the huge, excuse me, I sound like an old
00:45:03
person that YouTube Google all these Tech Giants.
00:45:08
That culture, that Hollywood, that sports, that all this stuff
00:45:12
seems to lean left. They need it because if they
00:45:17
don't have that support, they would crumble.
00:45:19
If they didn't have the support of big Tech and big Tech was
00:45:23
wide open and let anybody talk. They wouldn't win their ideas
00:45:28
would be absolute. Their ideas are absolute
00:45:30
garbage. That's why they need this
00:45:37
handicap to let people like YouTube demonetized conservative
00:45:41
speakers because they think it's quote hate speech.
00:45:44
This new Vogue, turn is all. That's hate speech, that's hate
00:45:47
speech, so I can just Mark anything hate speech.
00:45:49
So therefore if it's hate speech, I can I can demonetised
00:45:52
or ban you That's the guerrilla warfare they're using on us and
00:45:57
it's time for us to turn around. Say okay, it's time for us to
00:45:59
play with more guerrilla warfare.
00:46:02
It's not time for us to go quietly.
00:46:04
It's not time for us to say all the cheese.
00:46:08
All shocks we lost again. Now it's time to get out there
00:46:12
and do what we need to do. It's time to be like the Omar
00:46:15
Navarro go into the belly of the Beast and start pushing voters
00:46:19
to say. Do you think what Maxine Waters
00:46:22
is doing is good for your District?
00:46:26
Do you think I'm Nancy, Pelosi, what she's doing for your
00:46:28
district is good to you think a guy with Newsom is good for the
00:46:31
state? It's time to push back and cute
00:46:36
little Instagram tweets or a little thing from the California
00:46:39
GOP that get, I don't know, maybe a dozen or so likes or
00:46:43
interactions. You think that's winning the
00:46:45
culture War. Do you think that's winning us
00:46:47
over? I don't think so. and they push
00:46:52
people like Travis Allen out out into the cold because he's a
00:46:55
little too radical for them or he doesn't play by the rules or
00:46:59
they don't like him, the guy had more enthusiasm for his campaign
00:47:04
and what he was doing, then John Cox ever could have hoped for
00:47:08
Yet they again, the California GOP pushes him aside.
00:47:14
Because they want to continue. And I this is a little
00:47:17
conspiracy theory I believe is that the California GOP likes be
00:47:20
playing The Lovable loser it helps increase their
00:47:24
fundraising. If they keep saying where the
00:47:28
Lou we're you know we're trying to fight back against Democrats.
00:47:31
Pepper pepper. Donate now and will fight
00:47:34
against the tax. Repeal.
00:47:37
Who it doesn't work in the end. That's what I'm trying to say
00:47:43
is, is they're playing by old rules in a new world where the
00:47:47
other side is not plain. It's like the old saying, the
00:47:51
caliper and GOP is playing checkers.
00:47:53
They're playing chess. In fact, it's not even like
00:47:55
that. It's not even the same board.
00:47:58
They're playing Mahjong or Chinese checkers.
00:48:02
That's what's going on here. And conservatives and moderates,
00:48:08
and Libertarians, and independents need to start
00:48:10
waking up and realizing that there is an opportunity to push
00:48:14
these leftist and break them apart.
00:48:18
It's going to be done, it's being done on the national level
00:48:21
right now and it can be done on a state level as well. so with
00:48:29
that said, I'm going to close out this episode, keep an eye on
00:48:32
what's going on because the California Democrats and the
00:48:35
national Democrats they got a lot of problems and who's going
00:48:39
to take advantage So I like to say, as I always do spread the
00:48:43
word if you know people who are interested in this stuff.
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