Every Wednesday morning at 9am I go live on Instagram and we discuss California Politics...over coffee.
This week the topics discussed were:
- Political resolutions for 2022
- Larry Elder not running (and why that's a good thing)
- The soft mask mandate
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person, this is the political podcast for you.
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It's the California Underground Podcast.
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What's going on? Good morning, everybody.
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Welcome to a New Year. Happy New Year, everybody. 2022,
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it's going to be a big, crazy year.
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We're going to get to sort of the goals and resolutions that I
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have for myself for 2022 and what I have planned going coming
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up and a lot of other announcements coming up and a
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lot of things coming down the Pike.
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Very exciting. 2022 These are like my favorite years these
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election years, because there's just so much to talk about.
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We got lucky last year because we had the recall and a whole
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bunch of stuff was going on. So there's a lot of talk about
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the recall. But this year there's going to
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be a lot of stuff, even more like exponentially way more than
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anything before this time there's going to be, I mean
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races up and down the state. We're talking about
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propositions, election years in California.
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There's always so much to to kind of look at and to really
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think about in terms of. What's happening in our state,
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and there's always so much material to dissect, you know,
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way down the line, of course, we're going to take, start
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taking a look at each proposition.
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Maybe one day, like every day at coffee in California politics.
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We'll take a look at like the propositions and what kind of
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talk about them and go through them.
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And I'll give you my opinion about what I think about them.
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Some people have disagreed, which is fine.
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I'm glad there's people who have disagreed and that, and that's
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perfectly okay. That's the point of coughing
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California politics. Is that we sit, we chat, we talk
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about coffee or we talk about, well, we could talk about
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coffee, we talk about California politics and we talk about
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what's going on in the state. And it gives you this space
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where you can really voice your opinions and feel like there's
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other people who want to talk about these issues along with
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you. So in a couple of other
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announcements, big events coming up on the 21st, if you're here
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in San Diego, they're all going to be in San Diego because
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that's where I'm based out of. 1st event that's coming up is
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the 21st. It's going to be the Tamika
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Hamilton event where we're going to be there.
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I'm cohosting it with San Diego Young Republicans.
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That's going to be a great event.
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It's going to be at the Flamingo deck over in Mission Beach.
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I can't think of the time off at the top of my head, but the
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flyer is on my page, so if you want to look at that, go right
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ahead. Also coming up right after that
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will be the 25th will be the first ever Cala Publican event,
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which is going to be the first ever Cala publican.
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Meet up where we kind of go over like what our ideas are, see
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what people think, what people are feeling for the new year and
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what people really want to do coming up.
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And that's sort of what the goal of the Cal Publican platform is
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going to be, is. It's going to be separate from
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California. Undergrads could be separate.
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It's going to be its own separate thing.
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Obviously, they're going to be very heavily involved in it.
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There's other people who are going to be heavily involved in
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it as well, but the idea is. I railed on this show plenty of
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times about how bad the California GOP and the
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Republican Party is here in California.
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That it it it's it needs a fresh breath of air and it needs new
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direction. It needs new people who are
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going to, oh, my hair got a little out of proportion there.
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It's going to need a new direction.
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It's going to need a new platform.
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It's getting a new message. Because right now the California
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GOP, I think, is just It's really an empty shell of what it
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really can be. It's not utilizing any sort of
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strategic messaging or platforms or reaching out to independence
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or reaching out to different minority communities, whether
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it's Asian American or Latino communities.
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I feel like there's a lot of things that a Calipublican
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platform can really get behind and get a lot of people
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supportive of just common sense solutions.
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And I don't want to just say, well, they're common sense
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solutions because they may not be common sense to a lot of
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people. They may disagree.
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But they made their solutions that are specific to California.
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And that's really the biggest difference between why I want to
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focus so much on state politics this year.
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Specifically, I want to start reaching out to all those who
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are running. If you're a state legislature,
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running for state assembly or state Senate, even if you're
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running for like county supervisor somewhere, I want to
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have you on the show. I want to have you on and I want
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to talk about what your plans are for 2022 and what makes you
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stand out. Because that's really where the
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focus is this year. That's and this is the year I
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think 2020 was. You know we were still in the
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middle of COVID. There's a lot going on.
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It was the Trump election. Trump probably hurt a lot of
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down ballot Republicans not going to lie about that.
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We're going to talk about Larry Elder in a little, little bit
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and why he's not running and. Why I think that's a good thing.
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But Trump probably hurt the 2020 down ballots, but now it's the
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midterm and there's no Trump on the ballot.
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So now it's just basically Republicans versus Democrats And
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you have now in the news the mainstream media, the corporate
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media is saying that all time disapproval, it's an all time
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record for now. All time record holds a high for
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President Biden when it comes to disapproval.
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So. His disapproval ratings gets
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worse and worse and more importantly, it's getting
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really, really bad amongst independents and that's a big
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deal. That's a big deal if you are
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looking at the tea leaves, independents swing elections and
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if you have a lot of independents across the country
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who are not happy with the way things are going under President
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Biden, they may show up at the ballot box and go okay.
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Well, I'm going to vote for the other party and see what we can
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do. You saw that in Virginia.
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You saw that how there was a backlash.
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You saw that in New Jersey. You saw how there was a
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backlash. Even though he didn't win, it
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got a little close for a deep blue state to have a governor
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that close to being ousted in a deep blue state, a Democratic
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governor being ousted in a deep blue state.
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So that's really the focus of what's going to happen in 2022.
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So that's the two events. It's 21st Tamika Hamilton show
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up. The 25th is going to be the
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Republican event. It's going to be at a downtown
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San Diego place called Knotty Barrel.
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It's one of my favorite places also because I'm a Giants fan.
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It's a Giants bar, but it's just a great place.
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They brew their own beer. It's got a game room.
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I think that's where we're going to be meeting is in the game
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room going to be a fun event, just really kind of casual
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meeting with people and chatting with them.
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So that's basically it. Obviously all the stuff is still
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up in the in the merch store, the elites hate you.
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Stuff the California Underground mug?
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Great for your coffee. Great for watching coffee in
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California politics. Bring it to work.
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People say, what is that mug? You can explain to him, hey, you
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want to go to a place where people actually want to talk
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about solutions in California. You can go check out California
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Underground. And obviously anything you do
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supports this platform. It helps grow the platform and
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keeps working towards increasing our message and what we're
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trying to accomplish here. So with that said, I think
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that's everything out of the way for right now.
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So let's get into the first topic I want to talk about
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today. Which is sort of resolutions for
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2022 that I think I should I I want to personally have.
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And then there's resolutions I think that like listeners should
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have and that they should kind of look at politically
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throughout the year. I've already said it before.
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My first resolution is I want to interview a lot more state
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politicians and local politicians.
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So if you're out there and you are a local politician, if
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you're running for county supervisor, anything like that,
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I want to have you on the program because I want more
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people to realize these people are running.
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You know, and a lot of times we see these names on the ballot
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and we don't really understand it And then they're not a high
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profile race. We don't, they don't spend
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millions of dollars on these races, but they're important.
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They're so, so important that we need to think about this stuff.
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And I I put out another tweet today that when all this is over
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because it eventually it will be over.
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I know a lot of people say, well, this will never be over
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and we'll we'll never get past COVID and everything's going to
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be the same. Forever they they've ushered in
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this new world order. Eventually it's going to be over
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because this is unsustainable because you're already seeing
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pushback. Another thing that we're going
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to talk about sort of the soft mass mandate as well is, are you
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going to be as engaged moving forward with all of this after
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after the masks are long gone, after the signage on your your
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local grocery store comes down? After the restrictions are gone,
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after you see all the COVID testing sites are gone and it's
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all in the rearview mirror, we're back to what it was pre
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COVID. And the question is, are you
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going to be as engaged in this in these local politics as you
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were right now? And a lot of people are very,
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very interested specifically because it's infringing on their
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rights and their liberties and it's affecting their lives, it's
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affecting their daily lives and I think.
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In an odd way, COVID definitely aligned with my original mission
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for why I started this platform, which was to get people to pay
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attention to local California politics.
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And right now, I think there's a lot of people who are really
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tuned into California politics local, down to the minute level,
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who's on their City Council, who's their mayor, who's in the
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county supervisor boards, and even who's on their school
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board. I was watching the local news
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today, KUSI. And they had someone on there
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talking about the possibility of closing schools down, and
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they're talking about, is it going to stay open?
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Are we going to have to send kids back to virtual learning?
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And the anchor made a point that, like, I hope people start
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to realize that they need to show up for the school board
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elections and that the only way this stuff changes.
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Is you go to your school board. That at the end of the day.
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This stuff affects you if you have little kids and they're in
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a public school, if you haven't already moved to home schooling
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or private school or parochial school like Catholic school or
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something like that, if you're going to keep your kids in
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public school, it's fine. I mean, that's your decision.
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That's what you want to choose for your family.
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But you should make it a resolution that you're going to
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show up to the school board meetings.
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And a lot of people just kind of brush them off before because
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their kid went to school, they showed up, they had their.
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Assignments and and life went on and they figured well they're my
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kids are doing great. They're they're fine.
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You know they play sports. They have friends you know
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they're I assume they're learning some things because you
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know last year they didn't know long division and now this year
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they know long division. So I guess that shows that
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they're they're learning, but it's even more important that
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you start to get involved and parents and I think schools
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don't want parents involved as much as they they they kind of
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say they do. It's funny because before COVID,
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I feel like there's probably a lot of teachers who are like,
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our parents don't really care. They're not really involved.
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They need to get more involved in their children and learning.
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Now they're kind of like pushing back and being like, now we
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don't want parent. Now they're domestic terrorists.
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If you show up to a school board meeting and you start to
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question the school. Board and be like, why are you
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doing these things? But those are that's just an
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example. That's an example of like moving
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forward, You have to know these things and we've gone for so
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long. With a kind of blissful
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ignorance that things are just kind of moving along and this is
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the way things are, and nobody, you know, this is how it was
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when I was a kid, and that's how it But now I think people are
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kind of zoned in. And I always think that's the
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really big, thick silver lining to what happened in 2020 and
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what's going on now with COVID. Is that it's forced a lot of
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people to wake up and look at their government and say, oh
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wait a second, something really, really foul and rotten is going
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on here. So I need to pay attention to
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what my politicians or people who represent me are actually
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doing and are they abiding by. What I want them to do or what I
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think they should be doing, you have that right.
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Exciting to do. You have that right to show up
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to a public school, school board meeting and make your voice
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heard and say this is what I believe, and that's that's true
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for everything. That's true for your City
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Council. It's true for county supervisor.
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And these are things a lot of people, I guess, didn't really
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find sexy. Or.
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And now it's become all the rage. 1014 hours because a lot
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of people are showing up and making their voices heard.
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Now you see like down here in San Diego County, you see a lot
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of people who are showing up to these county supervisor meetings
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and they go. But that's just a small example.
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So that's my resolution. My first resolution is obviously
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focus almost zone in completely on state and local politics
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because outside of everything else.
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Yeah, there are some colleagues I have who are running for
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federal government. I wish them all the best.
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I hope they run their their their work can inspire other
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politicians if they're flipping seats, which is fantastic and
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that's great. And I I wish them all the best.
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But in reality, things that are going on here in California have
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to be focused and what's the word I'm looking for?
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They have to be addressed through our state legislature.
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They have to be addressed through your county supervisors
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and they have to be addressed through every single local
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election. And you can see examples of it
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up and down the entire. State another example as I was
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reading a article for those of you who are.
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In LA. That the County Sheriff of LA,
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Alex Villanue, was doing a fantastic job up there.
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He's one of those strong sheriff's in California who says
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he's not going to enforce mass man.
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He's not going to force vaccine mandates.
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They were there having a problem with Olvera St. and if you don't
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know what Olvera Street is in Los Angeles, it's sort of like
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the I compare it to like the Old Town here in San Diego.
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Where it's the original sort of LA where kind of star like the
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1st street where so but it's it's very.
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It's a historical area. There's a historical building
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there that you can kind of walk through and see what it was like
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to live in LA at the the kind of the beginning of the Wild West
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when people showed up. But it's also a like Mexican
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cultural heritage spot in LA and they found that there was a lot
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of homeless people kind of moving in and encamping in the
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Olberra St. and it got to the point where vendors were moving
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out. Restaurants were closed down.
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People weren't going there anymore.
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Basically all Vero St. was dead because there was nothing there.
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So the sheriff of LA County took it upon himself.
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He took the he took it personally because he grew up in
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that area. He remembers going there as a
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kid to go experience the history and culture of it, and he went
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in and cleaned it out. But that's another example of if
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you want that sort of law enforcement, you have to focus
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on who you elect as sheriff. Yes, sheriff is a position that
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you elect. Judges are a position that you
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elect. These are all positions that you
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elect and they have. You may not see them all the
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time, but they have an effect on where you live and they have an
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effect on your local community. So that's sort of my first real
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kind of resolution. I think that's a resolution for
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my listeners as well. Is that stay laser focused this
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year on state and local politics.
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There's always a lot of noise about Congress.
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That's all the news. Congress and Senate, that's all
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fine and dandy. Obviously, you're going to vote
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for who you want in your Congressional District.
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There's obviously the chance that we could flip a couple
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districts here in California. That's going to happen
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regardless. But really it comes down to, are
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you laser focused on the local stuff so that you can help those
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people? And that requires where you are
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to kind of get involved and say to inform people because in a
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lot of these local races. It could be a difference of less
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than 1000 votes of whether 1 person's in or one person's out.
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So my second resolution for 2022 is obviously with the California
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Republican event, is to get more involved in organizing and not
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just kind of sit on the sidelines and do a lot of
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commenting. And I think it's gotten to the
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point now where a lot of people really want to see some sort of
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action. And I've talked to a bunch of
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people. I've had meetings with a bunch
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of people. About this idea of organizing
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and using this platform to inform people of how to get
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organized and how to take action.
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Because a lot of this was before a lot of my commentary on on
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local issues, on California State issues, that's what it
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really came down to, is just me kind of sitting here commenting,
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talking into a microphone, having my little podcast about
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three years ago that maybe 10 people listened to and nobody
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really cared about. I don't, you know, I'm not
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saying all the whole world cares about it now, but I'm saying
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it's it's much different now. So my my goal is to get more
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organized. My idea, my goal is to get
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organized and teach people how to get organized and help people
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get organized. Meaning if this platform has to
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be used to kind of amplify someone's voice, I'm open to it.
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Obviously, I'm not just going to blindly promote every
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organization that comes to me. I'm going to kind of vet you out
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and stuff like that. But at the same time, I think
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it's important that we connect and that big platforms like
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this. And I'm not even that really big
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of a platform. When you look at other platforms
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like Rooted Wings, who has like over almost 200 followers
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when you look at platforms like this, it really has to come down
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to organizing. It has to come down to how can
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we change things and take more. Action in the community.
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And that's sort of where the whole calapublican thing comes
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in. Be involved in that.
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Start that on a local level, see where that goes.
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See how many people are interested.
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If a lot of people are interested, then we sort of have
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something. We got the momentum and we can
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get going. But there is a lot of
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opportunities, especially in 2022 and moving forward, there's
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a lot of people who I think want to see people organize and kind
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of step up and and and do that. And that's not to say that.
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It's going to be all me alone, or it's going to be someone like
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a, you know, Britney with rooted wings or let them breathe or
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anything like that. What I'm saying is, if you want
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to get involved in organizing, you want to get involved in how
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your your local elections work or your local politics works.
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I'm open. I always check my messages.
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I always check my messages a couple times a day.
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So my D M's are always open and I always try and have
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conversations with people. All the time.
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We don't always always agree on everything.
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You know, it's not always just fun banter back and forth.
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Sometimes I have conversations with people who disagree with me
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and think that things are not the way they should be.
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And I the one thing I always say is I respect your opinion and I
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respect your input. So thank you for doing that.
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So organizing is going to be the one way, and I think we need to
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start working on the grassroots organizing.
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How we can start to organize around the state, how we can
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start to organize in different counties, different districts
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and stuff like that, and really kind of make the inroads because
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it has to start somewhere. It's not going to happen
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overnight. Not going to be one big sort of,
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I guess, big event that's going to change everything.
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Like a lot of people say, well, in 2020 they thought like
00:20:03
California flipped red, but it was stolen.
00:20:05
No, it didn't flip red. We got a long way to go before
00:20:08
California flips red. I'm happy within the next five
00:20:11
years, and I've said this before, progress to purple, we
00:20:14
used to say that hashtag progress to purple that maybe in
00:20:18
the next 5 to 10 years maybe California becomes a purple
00:20:21
state. And I think a lot of people
00:20:22
would be ecstatic about a purple California where it's
00:20:28
competitive. It's not necessarily a deep
00:20:30
RedState, but it's competitive and it's not so deep blue and
00:20:34
stuff like that, that it's kind of a competitive state.
00:20:37
I think a lot of people would take that every single election
00:20:40
cycle rather than it's just the blue state and we're never going
00:20:43
to win. So that's why I say hashtag
00:20:45
progress to purple. And I guess the last one is sort
00:20:50
of more of a personal one, which is to connect more with.
00:20:54
And this goes along with the organizing is like connect more
00:20:56
with different influencers and and kind of use each other's
00:21:00
platforms and work together to amplify messages and really kind
00:21:05
of get the word out there. Because at the end of the day,
00:21:07
it's not really about who gets the likes, who has more
00:21:10
followers and stuff like that. If you really care about what
00:21:13
you're doing, if you really care about making a difference, it's
00:21:16
not about, oh, I have 100 followers.
00:21:19
Oh, I have 200 followers. Oh, I have that.
00:21:21
You know, if if that's what you're worried about, you're,
00:21:25
you're in this for the wrong reason.
00:21:26
If you're you're in this because you want to have a great big
00:21:28
following and you're worried about the likes and stuff like
00:21:32
that, that's not why you're in this.
00:21:34
You're not doing it for the right reason.
00:21:36
It may be a byproduct of what you're doing.
00:21:38
If you're doing good work and you're putting out a lot of good
00:21:41
content that people want to interact with and you grow your
00:21:45
following that way, that's absolutely that's commendable.
00:21:49
That's great, that's how it should be done.
00:21:51
But if your whole goal is I want to just get as many people
00:21:54
follow me and get their data and stuff like that, that's then
00:21:56
you're not in this for. The right reason.
00:21:58
So banding together and sort of creating a influencer network
00:22:02
where we're kind of working together and amplifying a
00:22:05
message. So I can amplify a message, but
00:22:08
if I get three or four or five other accounts to do this
00:22:14
together and work together and that may mean more Instagram
00:22:18
lives, that may mean more kind of collaborations.
00:22:22
I think that's one way. To do it, especially here on
00:22:25
Instagram, I think there's a great opportunity to kind of
00:22:27
really get a lot of people involved and and really amplify
00:22:30
that message. So that's what I think is
00:22:34
important too, is that, and I've talked to a lot of these
00:22:36
influencers who have bigger platforms than I do, and they're
00:22:40
all in agreeance, that we need to work together and we need to
00:22:42
kind of expand, You know, if we have one message, if something's
00:22:46
really important and we're all kind of in lockstep over it, we
00:22:50
should all be kind of pounding the same message and getting it
00:22:53
out there and letting the people know, you know what's going on.
00:22:58
And so that's really my last resolution.
00:23:01
I already kind of said resolution for any of you, which
00:23:06
is let's just focus on state politics, let's just focus on
00:23:10
the state and local stuff, because that makes an enormous
00:23:14
difference in where you live your daytoday.
00:23:16
Life won't really change with who is in Congress personally.
00:23:25
Like it may change if the Republicans control Congress as
00:23:29
opposed to if the Democrats control Congress, which is
00:23:31
important. But your daytoday life won't
00:23:35
really change that much. And that's why these local races
00:23:38
are so incredibly important to focus on and to get attention
00:23:43
behind. And a lot of people always say
00:23:45
to me, well, you know, like that's that's all well and good.
00:23:49
But with the mail in ballots and all of this, it's it's already
00:23:53
rigged. Like they're just going to,
00:23:54
they're going to win anyway. So why even care?
00:23:57
And my point to that is, is that if Democrats really controlled
00:24:00
every single election, they would just, they just win every
00:24:05
election. Like there wouldn't be a
00:24:08
Republican elected to any sort of office from governor down to
00:24:13
dog catcher if that were the case.
00:24:15
If Democrats controlled every election, they can win every
00:24:17
election and doesn't matter, then that would be the case.
00:24:21
But there are cases of seats being flipped.
00:24:23
There are cases of congressional seats being flipped.
00:24:27
So just get that out of your mind.
00:24:31
And it happens on a small basis, right?
00:24:34
They don't have the resource as much as we like to think or some
00:24:37
people like to think that. Oh, there's this big conspiracy,
00:24:40
there's this new World Order, you know, all this Q Anon like
00:24:43
Deep State sort of stuff and they control everything.
00:24:45
And we have to break the Deep State.
00:24:47
There's not as much as you think.
00:24:49
It's not as it's less House of Cards and more Veep.
00:24:54
And I think this administration by the administration is
00:24:56
definitely approving that. It's more like a comedy show
00:24:58
than it is like a dramatic thriller.
00:25:03
And it starts with little seats because they can't focus on
00:25:07
every single seat. You're talking about dozens and
00:25:10
dozens of seats up for election every single year.
00:25:13
They can't rig every single election no matter what.
00:25:20
And that means that if you flip a county supervisor, and I
00:25:23
always come back to this here in San Diego, if we flip one seat
00:25:26
in the county supervisor board, all of a sudden it's 3.
00:25:29
Two Republican, a whole different ball game.
00:25:32
Now it's a 3. Two majority of Republicans
00:25:34
control the county rather than Democrats.
00:25:38
That's one seat, right? And that has an enormous lasting
00:25:42
impact. If you flip a couple more seats
00:25:45
in the state Senate, I think it's like 6 seats in the state
00:25:48
Senate. Now all of a sudden the
00:25:49
Democratic supermajority is busted and they can't just ram
00:25:53
things through and get through a lot of procedural.
00:25:55
Things that they can kind of work around because they have a
00:25:58
supermajority. And also if you break one house,
00:26:03
if you break one Chamber of legislature supermajority, I
00:26:06
mean, I want to break. Both of them, believe me, that's
00:26:09
my goal. Number one is I want to break
00:26:10
the supermajority. You know, that's step one.
00:26:13
Step 2 is obviously take over one of the chambers.
00:26:16
Step one is break the supermajority.
00:26:18
Because even if you got a Republican governor in somehow,
00:26:21
if you, if somebody, one who could get in and and do
00:26:24
something, it doesn't matter if they veto all day long, right?
00:26:29
It doesn't matter if they veto all day long because it just
00:26:31
goes back to legislature and they'll just override anyway.
00:26:34
But if you break one house, if you break one chamber, and
00:26:37
that's six seats, right? Six seats that most people may
00:26:40
not even pay attention to, you may not even know who your state
00:26:44
senator is. But those are six seats that if
00:26:47
you break this Democratic supermajority in the Senate, the
00:26:50
state Senate, all of a sudden you don't get that rubber stamp
00:26:54
of voter approval to get past it.
00:26:57
Right. So these are the things we have
00:26:59
to start thinking about is that incrementally, it's like a chess
00:27:02
match. We have to go, you know, you
00:27:04
move your paw in one space and you move your knight a couple
00:27:07
spaces. And it's not not all at once.
00:27:09
You don't play chess all at once where you just push all your
00:27:11
things in and go checkmate. It's especially a state like
00:27:15
this where you're we're down so much it's you have to move
00:27:19
incrementally, 1 here, one there, couple here, couple
00:27:22
there, kind of think about your moves a little bit more
00:27:25
strategically and where you can get the most bang for your buck.
00:27:30
So yeah, I don't know where I was going with that, but that
00:27:32
that's sort of where I'm thinking is these are little
00:27:35
things that make a difference. So a lot of people may try and
00:27:38
find excuses and a lot of people may want to get out of it.
00:27:41
And a lot of those people, you know, what I say to him is like.
00:27:43
Well, if you think the elections are rigged and that Democrats
00:27:45
are going to win forever, let me do you a favor.
00:27:48
Stop thinking about politics, right.
00:27:49
Just stop thinking about California politics.
00:27:52
Do yourself a favor because you don't have to think about the
00:27:54
stress of it. Just put it out of your mind.
00:27:56
You know, don't even worry about it.
00:27:57
Just just go on with your life. Don't even worry about it.
00:28:00
If you think there's no solving it, why would you worry about it
00:28:03
and waste energy on it? Just don't even worry about it.
00:28:05
Because at the end of the day, if you don't think there's a
00:28:08
solution and that it's always going to be rigged.
00:28:10
Your life will be better off without thinking about politics,
00:28:12
because there's no reason to. Kind of fret over it.
00:28:16
So, and those are my resolutions.
00:28:19
If you have any resolutions that you want to add in or throw in,
00:28:24
definitely throw them in the comments and I will share them.
00:28:28
The next topic I want to talk about is, oh, as always, if you
00:28:32
have any other comments or stuff like that, obviously throw them
00:28:35
in the down in the comments. I'll get to as many as I
00:28:38
possibly can. It's been a couple weeks, so I'm
00:28:40
sure there's a lot of. Enthusiasm about people getting
00:28:43
back on here. So the next topic that I want to
00:28:48
kind of shift gears is Larry Elder not running for governor
00:28:55
coming up in 2022, someone says you need to help plant the seeds
00:29:00
of what is that you want to see change here in California for
00:29:04
the future. Absolutely.
00:29:06
You have to start and it can start with one person.
00:29:09
And one person is, you know, you always hear that, that, that.
00:29:12
Corny metaphor. It always starts with a spark,
00:29:15
but it does, it really does start with one little spark.
00:29:18
You know, it starts with one person.
00:29:20
You know, I see like Reopen San Diego is on here.
00:29:23
Reopen San Diego was started by a couple of women who are
00:29:27
fantastic women, strong women who are fighters and they got
00:29:33
together and said we want to do something.
00:29:35
And now their organization has grown immensely because a couple
00:29:40
people got together and said we want to do something, we want to
00:29:42
be a part of it, we want to be a part of change that we want to
00:29:45
see here in California. And now they're, they're
00:29:47
recognized all over San Diego County and they're they're
00:29:50
they're taking on action, they're going to court, they're
00:29:52
they're really making a big difference.
00:29:54
So there you go, started with 12 people and now it's probably
00:29:58
grown to an enormous amount. I don't know how many people are
00:30:00
on your list or how many people. Now they're near 20 people.
00:30:04
So that's that's what what that that's what happened.
00:30:07
It starts with a couple people and it may not happen overnight.
00:30:10
You may not start something like just because I started the Cal
00:30:15
Republican Instagram and it's 90 people follow it right now, I'm
00:30:19
not going to throw in the towel and go, you know, only 90 people
00:30:23
want to be a part of this Cal Publican platform.
00:30:26
I guess. I guess we'll just throw in the
00:30:27
towel. I guess that's sort of the end
00:30:29
of it. No, that's that's not what it
00:30:32
comes down to. It's it's it has to start
00:30:35
somewhere. If I had stopped two or three
00:30:38
years ago with California Underground, it would, you know,
00:30:41
I would have never seen where it is today.
00:30:43
It starts with just moving in the right direction.
00:30:48
And sometimes it takes you believing, sometimes it takes
00:30:52
you believing in your cause more than anybody else until other
00:30:56
people start to believe it with you.
00:30:59
And you kind of have to have that persistence to keep it
00:31:02
going even though you're not getting any traction.
00:31:05
That's one of the hardest things, is that you could be
00:31:07
doing something day in and day out.
00:31:10
I always like to tell the story. Now we're kind of getting off
00:31:12
topic here. But around the time that I had
00:31:17
released the infamous Major Williams video on Instagram,
00:31:21
which sort of kind of picked up momentum and sort of got
00:31:24
eyeballs to this account, I remember, I think.
00:31:27
Literally the week before, I was thinking to myself, why do I do
00:31:32
this podcast? It's not growing.
00:31:33
Nobody cares. Nobody wants to be a part of
00:31:36
this. Like, it's not that big of a
00:31:38
deal. Like, nobody really cares what
00:31:40
I'm saying. And it's been at that point.
00:31:42
I've been like, I think 2 years, a couple years.
00:31:45
I've been doing it regularly for like every week.
00:31:48
I was like I was doing a podcast.
00:31:50
I don't know if I'd started coffee in California politics
00:31:52
yet. Maybe I just started it, but
00:31:55
before it was just me doing a weekly podcast, doing a couple
00:31:58
posts on Instagram, and I remember the week before that I
00:32:04
thought to myself, you know, this is really just, this is.
00:32:07
I I don't get it. Like I I'm doing this.
00:32:10
I think it's important for people to hear this stuff and I
00:32:13
think it's important that people really need to get on board.
00:32:16
I think there's a lot of people out there like me.
00:32:21
Needless to say the video was released off to the races.
00:32:23
Here we are today. But that's that's just an
00:32:27
example like if you're going to start something, you're going to
00:32:29
be a part of something. It takes time and it doesn't
00:32:33
hurt to ask for help. It doesn't hurt to have somebody
00:32:36
reach out for help and ask for more people to come on board.
00:32:40
Like someone said to me the other day, it's sometimes it's
00:32:46
important to know who's on the bus before you move the bus to a
00:32:49
certain direction. And that's also important, like
00:32:51
who is kind of around you and who's helping you.
00:32:54
Some people do it on their own. No one was helping me with
00:32:56
California Underground when I first started.
00:32:58
But now there's a lot of people who want to be a part of it and
00:33:00
and I appreciate them coming on and being a part of it.
00:33:04
So anyway, that's that's really. Yeah, reopen nails it.
00:33:08
Yes. Start where you are and grow
00:33:10
slow. You got to be persistent and
00:33:12
change slowly happens. Like Scott Pressler is another
00:33:15
great example of a guy who was just kind of sitting in a coffee
00:33:19
shop doing his thing with his little sign on his laptop, and
00:33:23
he got more and more attention. And then slowly he turned that
00:33:27
attention into action. And then that action is now
00:33:31
turned into a national movement. I don't even know if he has like
00:33:34
a national organization. I think he's just, I think
00:33:37
Scott. Presley just sort of like he's
00:33:38
just doing it. Like I don't think he has like a
00:33:40
pack or anything. Correct me if I'm wrong, I don't
00:33:42
think he has any sort of pack. But he started small and it was
00:33:47
just a guy who said I'm just going to put this little thing
00:33:49
on my laptop and it got more attention.
00:33:52
And now look at Scott Pressler. He's making like huge change
00:33:57
across the country. So if you want to be a part of
00:34:00
something or you want to start something, just remember that
00:34:03
you have to be persistent. And obviously if you're if you
00:34:07
want to come to me and say like, hey, I got this idea and I want
00:34:10
this organization, great, let's talk about let's get you on the
00:34:13
platform. We'll do a live or we'll do a
00:34:15
podcast, we'll get your name out there.
00:34:17
And we'll we'll, we'll do it. But you know, and don't be
00:34:21
afraid to reach out to other people.
00:34:22
Don't be afraid to reach out to other platforms and be like,
00:34:24
hey, I got this, can I hop on and and discuss it?
00:34:29
That's the only way we grow. That's the only.
00:34:31
Way we get better. So yeah, I'd love to.
00:34:36
I actually want to try and get in contact with Scott Pressler
00:34:39
to see how he can give us some tips on the Cal Publican thing
00:34:42
and see how we can change things around there with voter
00:34:45
registration. Yeah.
00:34:47
And you reach out to reopen San Diego as well, they're they're
00:34:49
great. There's a lot of great platforms
00:34:53
out there, you know, little bragging, but I think San Diego,
00:34:57
we might have the bulk of like the really great influencers.
00:35:03
You know, we got a deep bench here in San Diego.
00:35:06
That's all I'm going to say. We got let them breathe.
00:35:08
We got reopen, we got rooted wings.
00:35:10
We got Sean Frederickson. We got I can never remember his
00:35:14
pronounce. His last name?
00:35:14
Louis Arito. We got a lot of people here who
00:35:19
are doing great things and kind of amplifying their voices.
00:35:22
So, you know, San Diego, a little dirt off your shoulder,
00:35:25
brush that dirt off your shoulder because we're doing it
00:35:28
down here in San Diego. But that's fine.
00:35:30
I think there's people who need to, if they want to do it in OC
00:35:33
or in LA or whatever, go right ahead, just go for it.
00:35:38
So anyway, the next topic I was going to talk about was Larry
00:35:43
Elder. Yeah, I'm surprised Orange
00:35:47
County doesn't have more more kind of people maybe because
00:35:52
Orange County like they kind of take for granted where they are
00:35:56
and they think like well, nobody really needs to take any action
00:35:58
because Orange County has has sort of been conservative.
00:36:03
I think what San Diego, it's a little bit different because
00:36:06
we're kind of like veering from, you know, we went from like we
00:36:10
were more conservative and now we're kind of like tilting the
00:36:13
other way. So we're like we're trying to
00:36:15
stop it before it gets too far. We're like, we see the writing
00:36:18
on the wall. We're like we need to stop this
00:36:20
now. So LA needs help.
00:36:23
We're still Speakeasy style. LA might be like an underground.
00:36:28
LA might be an underground kind of thing.
00:36:31
For a while, but that doesn't mean don't do anything because
00:36:35
I'm sure there's a lot of people in LA especially.
00:36:36
LA County who are? Who would?
00:36:39
Agree with you. Oh, thank you.
00:36:43
Reopen. Thank you for your support.
00:36:47
I keep trying to get to the Larry Elder thing, but we're all
00:36:49
just kind of chatting now, which is fun.
00:36:51
Actually. There's a couple questions, so
00:36:53
I'm going to see real quick. Let's see.
00:37:02
Oh, okay. Somebody asked, is this live on
00:37:04
YouTube as well? Yeah, so there's always an audio
00:37:09
version. I always say this pretty much
00:37:11
every coffee in California politics, there's always an
00:37:12
audio version of this uploaded as a podcast.
00:37:16
So if you want to like, listen later on in the car, stuff like
00:37:19
that, you don't have to feel like you're obligated to sit
00:37:22
here and join us at 9:00 AM You can always listen later.
00:37:27
I've had a lot of people who say I want to tune.
00:37:29
In, but I I'm busy. I'm at work or I'm dropping my
00:37:32
kids off at the school or something like that.
00:37:34
That's fine. That's why I put it up as an
00:37:36
audio so that you can listen to it.
00:37:38
It's a little bit different because you don't see the
00:37:39
comments. But you know, I try and do my
00:37:41
best to kind of work them in together.
00:37:45
Yeah. And reopen just posted a whole
00:37:47
bunch of great accounts to follow.
00:37:48
If you don't follow them, those are all San Diego people and
00:37:51
they're awesome. So Larry Elder is not running
00:37:54
for Governor of California. And I will say this, I will say.
00:38:02
Because nothing against Larry Elder.
00:38:04
I saw him speak live. In fact, I think I live streamed
00:38:07
it as well when he came down to San Diego.
00:38:09
Not taking anything away from him.
00:38:11
Obviously he's a radio show host.
00:38:12
He's a big personality. He's very charismatic.
00:38:15
Oh, and fed up with Fletcher yet Don't forget, fed up with
00:38:18
Fletcher, we got a lot of freedom fighters down here in
00:38:20
San Diego. We're just we're we're busting
00:38:22
at the seams, which is why, Which is why I think.
00:38:27
Where Cal Publican can really start down here in San Diego and
00:38:31
really kind of move, but that's a whole different subject.
00:38:35
Larry Elder not running for governor.
00:38:37
Again, thank you. He's not, to take anything away
00:38:42
from him, very charismatic, obviously.
00:38:44
He's a celebrity and he, you know, he's a great speaker.
00:38:50
I saw him speak and you know, I did say, wow, this guy has like
00:38:54
the charisma to be a politician. He, he had the room wrapped
00:38:58
around his fingers, which is very hard to do.
00:39:00
It's very hard to get someone wrapped around, get a whole room
00:39:03
and there's hundreds of people were there.
00:39:04
I mean the room was packed full of people to go see Larry Elder.
00:39:09
So not take anything away from him as a personality and a
00:39:12
celebrity. It's really not anything to do
00:39:16
with Larry Elder himself or. What he did, it's the fact that
00:39:20
he became and I will stand by this and you can see it in the
00:39:24
polls. It's almost an immediate
00:39:27
turnaround. So the polls back up my
00:39:29
position, which is that when Larry Elder entered the race,
00:39:32
the recall race, the whole thing changed.
00:39:35
Now before Larry Elder entered the race, it was close.
00:39:39
It was a 4548 support of the recall, which is in the margin
00:39:46
of error. We don't really know.
00:39:48
And then a lot of pollsters were kind of saying this is sort of
00:39:51
in the range of like where Gray Davis was or actually it was
00:39:55
worse than where Gray Davis was at that time before his recall.
00:39:59
So a lot of people were writing doom and gloom that Newsom could
00:40:02
actually be recalled and there was a lot of enthusiasm that he
00:40:09
that there could possibly there might be a chance that there's
00:40:12
enough people who that the the Democrat base was.
00:40:15
Asleep. They don't really care, but
00:40:17
there's enough people activated who can show up on that day
00:40:20
because all you needed was 51% to get rid of Newsom.
00:40:24
And there was just like there was a sliver of hope, and people
00:40:27
could see that sliver of hope. The minute Larry Elder entered
00:40:30
the race, everything changed because Noodles figured out that
00:40:35
he could turn Larry Elder into the Trump candidate.
00:40:40
Which, and I've said this before, and I'll say this again,
00:40:42
I'll stand by it. Trump is toxic in California,
00:40:45
right? Trump is toxic in California.
00:40:48
The more you can distance yourself from Trump, the better.
00:40:51
I know there's a lot of people who still love Trump.
00:40:54
He still cracks me up every once in a while because the guy is
00:40:56
just an entertainer and I think of all the stuff he used to say.
00:41:01
But regardless, he's still toxic in California.
00:41:04
He doesn't sell to independence. He doesn't do well amongst the
00:41:08
groups that need to be won over. Not only that.
00:41:11
He's such a polarizing figure. He galvanizes the Democratic
00:41:15
base. He gets the Democratic base
00:41:17
going and he gets the Democratic base up to vote against him and
00:41:22
it's not really they made him is not really like.
00:41:28
They were voting for Newsome. They were voting against this
00:41:31
idea of Trumpism. And Gavin Newsom ran on the idea
00:41:36
of Trumpism. And every 30 seconds I felt like
00:41:40
I saw the same commercial of right in the first picture was
00:41:43
Larry Elder standing there with Donald Trump.
00:41:46
And they would show the pictures of January 6th.
00:41:48
I think on one podcast we actually looked at it and we
00:41:52
went through the the whole. Ad and stuff like that.
00:41:57
And we showed that nothing of it, really.
00:41:59
What Guy Newsom was purporting had nothing to do with
00:42:03
California. Like, the whole ad had nothing
00:42:05
to do with California. It had to do with Trump.
00:42:07
It had to do with January 6. It had to do with everything on
00:42:09
a national level, had nothing to do with California specifically.
00:42:12
It didn't talk about, like, what was Newsom doing so well that he
00:42:16
needed to be reelected. It wasn't like, oh, we have an
00:42:19
idea. Here's what Gavin Newsom did
00:42:21
since he's been office and he's done XY&Z and we can stand by
00:42:24
this and the facts support that. It was no, what?
00:42:27
What's Trump doing? Look over here.
00:42:28
Look over here. Trump's doing something.
00:42:29
It's January 6th and it's scary and Oh my God, it's COVID.
00:42:32
And you know, look at how many people died under Trump, under
00:42:34
COVID. And that was the problem that.
00:42:38
So it's not really personally Larry Alder and maybe, I think
00:42:42
maybe he had some smart people close to him and said look if
00:42:45
you run again. You're obviously very popular,
00:42:48
but you're very popular with a very small part.
00:42:51
Small portion. I wouldn't say small portion a
00:42:53
good size of the Republican electorate that will vehemently
00:42:57
support you, but you will. Alienate a lot of independence
00:43:03
and you'll alienate a lot of moderate Democrats who don't
00:43:05
really want to be associated with that Trumpism.
00:43:09
So it's not really, it's not really anything to do with Larry
00:43:14
Elder. Him personally.
00:43:16
Again, this is not like I didn't like the guy.
00:43:18
I think he was very charismatic, but him not running now opens
00:43:23
the door and gets hopefully takes that Trumpist candidate
00:43:26
out. Does it open the door?
00:43:29
Hopefully not for John Cox. I'm sure John Cox will try and
00:43:33
run again. Let's see what kind of crazy
00:43:36
circus he rolls out this time. Him and the bear would have
00:43:39
voted for the bear over John Cox.
00:43:43
But hopefully it opens the door for someone who can come in and
00:43:49
kind of be that Republican who can win over the independence.
00:43:52
Because that's what you need. You need the people.
00:43:55
You need someone who can reach out to those independence and
00:43:58
say, hey, look, I'm the better option than Gavin Newsom because
00:44:03
of XY&Z and here are my solutions.
00:44:07
You know, Anthony Tremino I know has declared, I think he's
00:44:10
coming on to live sometime later this month.
00:44:13
I don't remember specifically what day he's coming on.
00:44:16
I'll have to double check, but I'm sure I'll post it.
00:44:20
Anthony Tremino I know for sure is rotting.
00:44:23
The the whispers I'm hearing is that Kevin Faulkner is basically
00:44:26
a 90% chance he's going to run again.
00:44:30
As for Kevin Kiley? The rumors I'm hearing is that
00:44:34
Kevin Kiley is looking actively looking at running for Congress
00:44:37
in his district. So I don't think Governor is
00:44:39
really in his in his sights this time.
00:44:44
So I don't know who else would run as far as like big names.
00:44:47
I don't know who else would run in the Republican Party.
00:44:49
And that changes things. It changes things as to who gets
00:44:52
the through the primary and who gets the nomination and who gets
00:44:55
the full support. But a lot of times I don't
00:44:59
really know if that really helps anymore.
00:45:00
I don't know if getting the California GOP endorsement
00:45:03
really helps. It may just get all the power
00:45:05
and backing of the state party behind you.
00:45:10
But we'll see. So I I'm, you know, I I was
00:45:14
relieved when I I heard that he is not going to run Larry Elder.
00:45:20
He's not going to run again just because when it comes to again
00:45:24
this idea of like this chess strategy, you heard John Cox is
00:45:30
out, thank God on that one too. John Cox has taken enough air
00:45:34
and wasted enough. I feel bad for the guy.
00:45:35
He's wasted enough of his money. I see how many millions of
00:45:37
dollars he drops in his own campaign ago.
00:45:40
You probably could have done a lot with your millions of
00:45:42
dollars and like started a pack or something and just changed
00:45:47
California politics for the better with your millions of
00:45:50
dollars and said you wasted it on your bad gubernatorial
00:45:53
campaigns. So with that, I don't really
00:45:59
know if there's any outside of Kevin Faulkner and Anthony
00:46:01
Trimino and Anthony Trimino. I wouldn't say they're on the
00:46:05
same level of like Kevin Faulkner and Anthony Trimino.
00:46:08
And I say that just by looking at like the the results in the
00:46:12
recall election. Like, yeah, I think it was Larry
00:46:15
Elder was first and then way behind him at second.
00:46:20
Major Williams, that's the big name.
00:46:21
Major Williams is going to start running again.
00:46:23
Well, you got to keep it going, I guess.
00:46:24
You got to keep the grift going. But I think Faulkner was next,
00:46:29
far behind him. I mean, it wasn't close.
00:46:31
It wasn't like it was like Larry Elder.
00:46:33
And then right behind him was Kevin Faulkner.
00:46:36
But Kevin Faulkner was the second most GOP vote getter.
00:46:39
And then I think it was like Kevin Kiley and stuff like that.
00:46:41
And then way down was more Anthony Tremino.
00:46:45
Again, nothing. I'm just going based off of
00:46:47
numbers. Yeah, I guess Major Williams is
00:46:50
still at it. He has the office of Major
00:46:52
Williams, where he just stole the presidential seal and put
00:46:56
the office of Major Williams around it.
00:46:58
So yeah, got to keep it going. But anyway, yeah, that's where I
00:47:05
really see where the women, I don't know, I got an e-mail
00:47:09
from. I got a generic e-mail from
00:47:11
Jenny Ray LaRue, who is one of the smartest people I chatted
00:47:16
with on this podcast. Really knows her stuff, really
00:47:20
fantasize, like really, really smart.
00:47:23
Definitely someone who you sit down, chat with and go, She
00:47:27
knows what she's talking about and she has the answers to it.
00:47:30
That's for Dang Shore. Like, she's not, she's not
00:47:34
screwing around. Like she says.
00:47:35
Here are the facts and here's how I would address them.
00:47:39
I don't know if she's like gubernatorial level.
00:47:42
I would say, like maybe if I if I had her ear, I would say like
00:47:46
you got a lot of support and you're very smart, like run for
00:47:50
state assembly, get your voice in the legislature.
00:47:53
Get some experience there. A lot of people don't want to do
00:47:55
that. They want to run for governor.
00:47:57
But you know there's a lot of things she could do and she's a
00:48:01
valuable player and she's definitely something someone to
00:48:05
keep your eye on. I don't, I don't think she's
00:48:06
done with politics. I think she is going to keep
00:48:10
doing what she's doing. There are several other women.
00:48:13
There are some other woman. I I can't remember her name now.
00:48:18
Oh, what's her name? She did the make a California
00:48:22
Golden again. I forget what her name was.
00:48:26
She spoke at one of the the San Diego convention.
00:48:29
She was very adamant, but she was definitely very Sarah
00:48:34
Stevens. Yeah, that's what her name was.
00:48:38
Caitlyn Jenner is running well. I thought we were talking about
00:48:40
the women were running, but yeah, I don't think she has the
00:48:46
same level of notoriety as other people.
00:48:50
So right now I think the, if I were being completely honest, I
00:48:52
think it's basically wide open for a Kevin Faulkner to run and
00:48:56
kind of just dominate the entire field.
00:48:58
He probably is the backing. Well, I know he has the backing,
00:49:01
that's for sure. Being involved in San Diego
00:49:03
politics. I know he has the backing and I
00:49:05
know he'll probably get the endorsements and I know he'll
00:49:07
get the support of the party and the assembly and the
00:49:09
legislatures and stuff like that.
00:49:11
And it would be very, very hard to beat a Kevin Faulkner,
00:49:14
especially if Kevin Kiley's not running and John Cox is not
00:49:17
running. I don't really see any other big
00:49:20
Republican names hopping in outside of Anthony Tremino who
00:49:23
could raise a bunch of money. I don't know, he could raise a
00:49:25
whole bunch of money and make a play.
00:49:29
You know, it's it's very early. I This is me right now on
00:49:32
January 5th, 2022, saying, I'm not sure, but there's still
00:49:37
completely a chance that he could.
00:49:39
Make a lot of noise and and get people to pay attention to them.
00:49:43
All right, so we got about 10 minutes left.
00:49:45
There was one more thing I wanted to chat about, but I
00:49:47
completely forgot what I was going to chat about.
00:49:52
But that's what happens on these coffee in California, politics,
00:49:54
you know, the interaction kind of is great.
00:49:57
I love interacting. So 10 minutes left if you guys
00:49:59
have any comments, questions, chats, observations.
00:50:03
What are your resolutions for 2022 politically?
00:50:06
What do you want to see happen in 2022?
00:50:09
What are some goals, realistic goals?
00:50:11
Where are some realistic goals you want to see in 2022?
00:50:15
What do you think about Larry Elder not running?
00:50:17
Oh, the soft mask mandate, Okay. Well, while you guys do your
00:50:20
comments, I'll kind of ramble on about the soft mask mandate and
00:50:23
why I I call it the soft mask mandate.
00:50:28
Election integrity. Yeah, that's, that's big.
00:50:30
But again, that has to come down to local races and our
00:50:32
legislature. Very important, but also you
00:50:36
know. Sometimes you got to play the
00:50:37
game and and right now. The game is sort of stuck.
00:50:40
We're we supposed to have flying cars by now?
00:50:42
We're always supposed to have flying cars?
00:50:44
The Jetsons thought. Who's running against Fletcher?
00:50:49
No one's declared yet this is his year.
00:50:53
This would be his year. And I I haven't heard any
00:50:55
rumblings. And you know, I definitely have
00:50:59
my ears to the ground when it comes to San Diego politics.
00:51:02
Because the house resigning, Yeah, and Gonzalez resigning is
00:51:07
good because she's out of the assembly.
00:51:09
I'm sure somebody else will take her her seat, but it's not
00:51:16
shocking. Like she, she was a union lackey
00:51:23
her entire time in the Assembly and now she's just going to go
00:51:26
work for the unions. So she just, she came home, she
00:51:30
came home, she did her job in the assembly.
00:51:31
She passed a lot of bills. She passed a B5 which helped the
00:51:34
unions. So I know reform California had
00:51:38
filed an ethics complaint against Lorena Gonzalez, saying
00:51:43
that if you were the chair of the Appropriations Committee,
00:51:45
meaning every single bill has to come past your desk as the chair
00:51:49
of the Appropriations Committee. If you voted on any of these
00:51:53
bills that helped union labor while at the same time
00:51:56
procuring, even if it was for a little bit, even if she was
00:51:59
doing this and then she was also procuring employment with the a
00:52:04
FLCIO, that's an ethics violation.
00:52:07
Now we'll see if anything comes of it.
00:52:09
I don't know. Democrats obviously play by a
00:52:12
different set of rules because who's going to hold them
00:52:13
accountable? The attorney general of
00:52:16
California who is a far radical leftist, probably not.
00:52:21
So her resigning is, I guess, good because we get her out of
00:52:24
the assembly and we get her out of legislature, she gets to go
00:52:27
home and. Be a union lackey, which is what
00:52:29
she always wants to do. None of her arguments make any
00:52:33
sense as to why she does what she does.
00:52:35
And if you call her out on stuff and you make a good point,
00:52:38
she'll just tell you to go F off.
00:52:39
So that's the classiness of Lorena Gonzalez the bully her
00:52:44
and her, her husband, Nathan Fletcher.
00:52:46
I don't know who's running against Nathan Fletcher.
00:52:48
I haven't heard anybody who's running against.
00:52:49
Nathan Fletcher. Whoever is, my advice to them
00:52:53
would be you're probably going to face an uphill battle.
00:53:00
You're going to have to get creative.
00:53:02
You're going to have to use different forms of
00:53:04
communication. Get your your word out.
00:53:09
Also, don't be afraid to take the gloves off.
00:53:13
He's not a liked person and he's he's a he's a bully.
00:53:17
You know, he's going to sling mud.
00:53:20
So you might as well just get down in there and sling mud with
00:53:23
him because if you try and stay above the fray and and stuff
00:53:26
like that, you might as well just go knock him out, drag him
00:53:29
out and point out what a bully he is and just go all out and
00:53:32
just say he's a bully. He doesn't care about the
00:53:35
people. Stuff like that just go after
00:53:38
like just no holds barred. That's what I say.
00:53:41
Soft mass mandate. Why do I call it the soft mass
00:53:44
mandate? Because everywhere I've been in
00:53:46
San Diego, no one is really enforcing the mass mandate.
00:53:50
I've been to Trader Joe's, I've been to Bonds, I've been to
00:53:54
Staples, I've been to EU PS:. Store.
00:53:58
I've been to church. I've been to our gym is just
00:54:01
flat out going, yeah, we're not doing it.
00:54:04
So they don't even have a sign on the store.
00:54:05
We're not. They're not even like pretending
00:54:07
that they're trying. They're just like no sign on the
00:54:09
door. They're just like whatever, come
00:54:10
on in and and work out. So in reality, there's only been
00:54:14
like a couple places that have really kind of pushed it and
00:54:18
required it, and most of the places don't really care.
00:54:21
And I've been shopping, and there's no one at the front door
00:54:25
yelling at people to do it. There's nobody dedicated to
00:54:29
chasing people down. You know, I'll walk around
00:54:32
Trader Joe's. People without masks will ask
00:54:34
associates with masks for help. The associates will not kind of
00:54:38
look at them and be like they'll help them.
00:54:42
And, you know, I've gone and I've checked out, had no
00:54:45
problem. Had wonderful conversations with
00:54:47
the cashier without a mask on. You know, just this last time I
00:54:51
was at Trader Joe's, I bought this new seasoning, the guy
00:54:53
said. Hey, you ever tried this before?
00:54:54
It's really good, I said. Oh no, you don't put it in.
00:54:56
I'll try it later. Put in some soup or something
00:54:58
like that. You'll love it.
00:54:59
And nothing. No, no.
00:55:01
Like, oh, by the way, while next time you're here, can you make
00:55:03
sure you put a mask on? So that's why I call it the soft
00:55:06
mask mandate is because a lot of places just aren't enforcing it.
00:55:10
They just aren't enforcing it. I think a lot of people.
00:55:13
Don't really care. And I think that's a good sign
00:55:18
that people are moving past this.
00:55:20
And it really takes just a couple people to really start
00:55:25
something. Because if you go into a Trader
00:55:26
Joe's and you see a good 15 or 20% of people not wearing masks,
00:55:31
it may entice people to actually show up at these places and not
00:55:37
do it. And 20% turns into 30%.
00:55:41
And then before you know it's 40 or 50%, don't do it because
00:55:45
these people are going to look at you and go, you know, they
00:55:48
may have been enticed to go because they saw a side on the
00:55:50
door, but if they walk into a place and there's a whole bunch
00:55:55
of people not wearing masks and no one's getting yelled at or
00:55:57
thrown out of the store, there's probably.
00:56:01
Going to be a good amount of people who are just going to go
00:56:03
well. I'm not going to wear it either.
00:56:06
So it's slowly, I think changes the perception and I think it
00:56:10
changes the perception that they don't really have as much power
00:56:13
as they think they do. And as long as the businesses
00:56:16
don't enforce any of it, it really has absolutely no, no
00:56:20
teeth. And I think I've said that
00:56:22
before, like when it was first implemented, I didn't really see
00:56:25
this having any teeth. And I don't think they really
00:56:28
said that they were going to enforce it as much as they
00:56:30
thought. I think it was the head of the
00:56:33
California Department of Public Health.
00:56:35
So look, we don't really have an enforcement mechanism for this.
00:56:39
It's basically the honor system. We're asking people to do this.
00:56:41
And once that happened once, he said, well, we don't have an
00:56:44
enforcement mechanism. I think a lot of places were
00:56:46
like then we're just not going to do it like.
00:56:48
So let's see some comments and a whole bunch of comments.
00:56:55
Somebody said, people literally putting the signs up where I am
00:57:01
and don't enforce. Yeah, I think people are just
00:57:02
putting the sign up so that if somebody drive by, they can be
00:57:05
like, yeah, I put a sign up and stuff like that.
00:57:08
Like when I was in church, there wasn't a sign on the door.
00:57:11
There were a lot of people wearing it, but there's a good
00:57:13
amount of people who weren't wearing the mask.
00:57:15
No one said anything. But on the way out, there was a
00:57:18
little sign like on the way out, like as you were like picking up
00:57:22
your program or something and said, like, you know, masks are
00:57:24
required in the state of California until January 15th.
00:57:28
Like, that's it. Like you wouldn't see it coming
00:57:29
in, You see it going out. So same here.
00:57:33
No one says anything about I don't have a mask on, which is
00:57:35
always, yeah. So like basically I, you know, I
00:57:38
was all worried about the mask mandate and kind of, like pissed
00:57:40
off about it because I was like, I don't want to go back to
00:57:42
wearing these masks. But lo and behold, no one's
00:57:47
really enforcing it. If I can go to my gym, I can go
00:57:50
to Trader Joe's, I can go to all these places that I routinely go
00:57:53
to multiple times a week, then I'm I'm not.
00:57:59
Then to me, there is no mask mandate.
00:58:00
There really is no mask mandate. It's kind of over and we'll see
00:58:04
what happens on the 15th. Maybe they see that it's not
00:58:07
really doing anything. Maybe Omacron will start to like
00:58:09
drop off and people say, oh look what we did.
00:58:11
The mask worked. It's frustrating that they don't
00:58:14
stand up and say we aren't even going to put the sign up back
00:58:18
up. Yeah, I mean I I understand.
00:58:21
I mean it's a half measure the businesses, they don't want to
00:58:26
be harassed by anybody and places I guess like Trader
00:58:30
Joe's, they might have had a corporate call where all of a
00:58:33
sudden and they say, hey this is back and you know like put the
00:58:39
sign up. But in reality, like don't get
00:58:41
yourself in trial, like don't enforce it.
00:58:42
Like we're not here to be the mass police.
00:58:44
I wholeheartedly believe that's what happened is that a lot of
00:58:47
these places had their regional calls with their managers and
00:58:51
said, look, put the sign back up.
00:58:52
Everyone's got to wear like your employees have to wear it
00:58:55
unfortunately. But if, like, people come in
00:58:57
without a mask on because they don't want to wear it, like
00:58:59
don't get in their face and do anything, like just let them
00:59:01
shop and get out because we don't.
00:59:03
Like, I don't think stores want to do this.
00:59:26
Like, you can walk in, but it's always like the the test is to
00:59:29
me, the test is really, can you walk in, get all your shopping
00:59:34
done, get to the cashier and then maybe have a pleasant
00:59:36
conversation with the cashier and then walk out?
00:59:05
I don't think stores want to be the police.
00:59:10
I've decided if a business tells me to put on a mask, I will
00:59:12
leave. There are plenty of places that
00:59:13
will not harass me if I don't have a mask on.
00:59:15
Yeah, I mean, there's there's plenty of places.
00:59:17
Oh, Petco too. That's another one.
00:59:19
When I went to go pick up dog food, they didn't really care
00:59:23
either. Had a nice conversation with the
00:59:24
person. Again, it's.
00:59:38
Because that shows to me they don't really care.
00:59:42
Like, yeah, I could walk around Trader Joe's and then if I get
00:59:45
to the cashier, they're like, I'm sure can you put a mask on?
00:59:48
We're not going to let you check out unless you have a mask on,
00:59:51
then I know they're really enforcing it.
00:59:53
But if they just kind of letting you go and they're having a nice
00:59:55
conversation, that's how you know they're not really, they
00:59:57
don't really care. At Costco they offered a muzzle
01:00:00
and tried to say it was a mandate and my wife said no.
01:00:03
It's not. Have a nice day.
01:00:04
There you go. Most businesses are not forcing
01:00:08
it, but I see a lot more people wearing them now.
01:00:11
I'm usually the only younger person not wearing one in
01:00:13
stores. Yeah, an Omecron has changed a
01:00:16
lot of people's perception. A lot of people are kind of
01:00:18
running around because the numbers are are big.
01:00:22
But again, it's more contagious. A lot of people are getting it
01:00:27
and they've started the whole testing craze all over again.
01:00:31
They've sort of gone crazy with the testing and and it's.
01:00:36
It's the whole well, everyone should go get tested.
01:00:39
But if you're asymptomatic, why are you rushing out to go get
01:00:41
tested? Like it means that you if you're
01:00:44
asymptomatic, it means your body's already like taking care
01:00:46
of it. But it's it's amazing how fast
01:00:49
people change trade. Joe's, Sprouts, Starbucks, Vons,
01:00:53
HomeGoods, all soft masks. And these stores do not enforce
01:00:56
it. Yeah.
01:00:58
And really it's just like if there's a good 20 percent, 25%
01:01:03
of people who just won't do it and just walk into these stores
01:01:07
and don't do it. And there's like a bunch of
01:01:09
other. You know, a handful of other
01:01:10
people, maybe 5 to 10 other people in these stores not doing
01:01:13
it. That shows you there's enough
01:01:16
pushback that like, it's not going to really take hold and
01:01:20
that it's probably even if they come down and say like, but
01:01:24
we're going to extend it. I think a lot of these places
01:01:25
are still just going to do this soft mask mandate where it's
01:01:28
really just a soft mask recommendation where they're
01:01:31
like, well, we kind of recommend you wear these masks because of
01:01:34
al macron and stuff. Like that, but a lot of places
01:01:36
just aren't doing it outside, like LA.
01:01:39
In the Bay Area, which I've heard people say in LA, there's
01:01:42
places that a lot of places that don't enforce any of this stuff.
01:01:46
Everywhere in Sacramento I go, I don't wear a mask.
01:01:48
I'm pretty much the only one. Most of the time.
01:01:50
In Costco, they enforce it but don't care if we wear it looped
01:01:53
onto one ear. So you can walk in and do the
01:01:56
chin diaper and no one really cares.
01:01:58
I think businesses are putting up the signs as a formality.
01:02:01
Yeah, I I would absolutely agree.
01:02:02
Yeah. I think they're putting them up
01:02:04
as a formality. I don't think.
01:02:08
I don't. I don't think they want to do it
01:02:09
anymore just because we've gone so long.
01:02:13
A lot of places have gone so long without it that all of a
01:02:16
sudden to just be like, we're doing it again.
01:02:19
I think a lot of these businesses are like, yeah, no,
01:02:22
we're not doing it again. We're we're, we're past this.
01:02:24
I walk around without a mask and just smile every minute so I
01:02:27
walk by so they can see a normal face and don't have to wear one.
01:02:30
I try and, like, catch eyes with people at Trader Joe's.
01:02:32
You know, like, you know, like if I see some of that a mask on,
01:02:35
I'll just kind of catch eyes with it.
01:02:37
Like. So just to give him the nod.
01:02:40
Like, yeah, we're in this together, buddy.
01:02:42
Like, it's you and me. All the employees at rallies
01:02:44
here in Fair Oaks are over it. Yep.
01:02:47
I'm kind of basically a cold. People act like they don't know
01:02:50
how to get through a cold. Yeah.
01:02:53
Like, I had the sniffles recently.
01:02:56
I didn't get tested, so I don't know if I had anything, but it
01:03:00
had the earmarks of a cold that I've had.
01:03:02
I. Don't know dozens of times
01:03:05
before where like, it's your winter cold.
01:03:08
It's the cold that most people get in the winter because
01:03:11
they're by, especially me. Going from like San Diego to the
01:03:14
East Coast, like the change in temperature definitely shocked
01:03:17
my system, so I probably picked it up somewhere.
01:03:20
Especially in colder weather areas, there's more chance of me
01:03:22
catching it. But it had the same earmarks of
01:03:25
a basic cold. You know you were.
01:03:27
I went through my sore throat phase and the right nose and
01:03:29
then all of a sudden you woke up and your chest was congested.
01:03:33
And then after that, it just went away and that was basically
01:03:35
the end of it. And it followed the same exact
01:03:40
path as as a normal cold. And then I think my dad got it
01:03:47
as well. He kind of had the same exact
01:03:49
symptoms I did after I left. And he tested for COVID just to
01:03:54
be sure my mom, ma'am get tested and he was negative.
01:03:58
So it was a cold or are we just in flu or cold season?
01:04:05
It's, I think it's probably that.
01:04:07
And the problem is when you have COVID, where the the symptoms
01:04:10
are everything under the sun. I mean, they can basically say,
01:04:14
well, do you have this? Yeah.
01:04:16
Do you have this? Well, it's got to be COVID.
01:04:18
You got to go get like you can't let you can't list everything as
01:04:22
a symptom of COVID. You can't be like everything's A
01:04:25
symptom of COVID testing is just proving you're part of the club.
01:04:29
It's almost like they want to have it and wear it as a badge
01:04:31
of honor. Yeah.
01:04:33
I mean, you see the the lines of people in New York City.
01:04:36
People were waiting hours in New York City out in the freezing
01:04:41
cold and they were asymptomatic. Like they were like, I'm, I'm
01:04:44
just standing here to make sure I now some people had a good
01:04:47
reason. They're like, well, I have to go
01:04:49
visit my family in Italy. So I have to get tested to get
01:04:52
on a plane and go see my family in Italy.
01:04:54
Yeah, fair enough. But if you're just someone who's
01:04:56
like, I'm just going to go down and get a test even though I'm
01:04:59
asymptomatic, just because I want to go get a.
01:05:01
Test and even here in San Diego. There's lines and people are it.
01:05:05
It looks like 2020 all over again.
01:05:06
There's people who are showing up and lining up all over again
01:05:12
like it's 2020 and people waiting in lines for hours to
01:05:15
get tested. And it's like, are you all, do
01:05:18
you all have symptoms or are you just showing up?
01:05:23
Yes. See another person who had a
01:05:24
cold over. If testing stops or slows down,
01:05:28
they won't have data to scare you with.
01:05:31
It's interesting now that they are now going to differentiate
01:05:36
and make sure that they let the people know that there is a
01:05:39
difference between being diagnosed with COVID or or
01:05:44
showing up at the hospital with COVID or because of COVID, which
01:05:48
is, you know, conspiracy theory. A lot of people have been saying
01:05:50
that for almost 2 years for for over a year because it hasn't
01:05:54
been two years yet. It'll be two years this early
01:05:58
spring of March, but now all of a sudden we're going to have
01:06:04
people who are with COVID or because of COVID.
01:06:08
And I think you're going to see all of a sudden the numbers are
01:06:10
going to start to change rapidly because it's not going to be,
01:06:13
oh, 1000 people showed up at the hospital.
01:06:15
So we have 1000 more people at the hospital.
01:06:17
They're also going to say, well, 1000 people, 500 people showed
01:06:23
up because of COVID and the other 500 tested positive.
01:06:25
So they don't really have it now.
01:06:27
That number is a big difference. So looked for that to be sort of
01:06:33
the push now it's almost like as a like as one whole thing that
01:06:37
just all of a sudden changed and we're like, Yep, we're all going
01:06:41
to report it differently now because that's that's how we
01:06:46
believe it should be done, Okay. But people have been saying that
01:06:50
for like over a year now that that's how it should have been
01:06:52
done all along. So the numbers will change.
01:06:55
And I I would foresee a lot of people predicting this will peak
01:06:58
and start to head back down the next couple weeks.
01:07:02
I would say by the end of January.
01:07:03
I think Omacron will probably be behind us.
01:07:06
That's the problem. In LA, it's been going, no
01:07:08
breaks since March of 2020. You've had like 2 weeks off now
01:07:10
in time for signs to come off. Yeah, I feel bad for you guys in
01:07:13
LA and Bay Area. It's, it's rough.
01:07:15
The only place I see people tell you about the people not wearing
01:07:18
masks is on the next door app. Yeah, next door cracks me up.
01:07:24
I like jump on every once in a while and kind of see what
01:07:27
people complain about and what they get in fights over and I'm
01:07:32
sure, yeah, I'm sure there's probably going to be bunch of
01:07:35
people were. Like I walked into sprouts and
01:07:37
there wasn't. There was like 5 people without
01:07:41
math on and it was like, you're putting everyone at harm.
01:07:43
Like we're all in this together except if you're on vaccinated,
01:07:47
I want you to die. So like, we're not really all in
01:07:50
this together, don't worry. The new French variant that's
01:07:53
actually old. I saw that someone reported that
01:07:58
and it was like from months ago, like Omecron hadn't even come
01:08:00
out yet and they were talking about the French variant.
01:08:04
Yes, they have the next variant lined up to continue to fear.
01:08:07
You know I I think there's a point I think there's a
01:08:09
threshold and I'm I think they're really getting close to
01:08:12
that threshold of I think they're really getting close to
01:08:16
that threshold of it's not going to work anymore where a lot of
01:08:19
people are just over it. And if you're getting pretty
01:08:24
substantial non compliance here in California, think about the
01:08:28
rest of the country where there's probably no, not a lot
01:08:31
of compliance at a certain point.
01:08:34
There's only so much people will take.
01:08:36
There's only so much people who will be like, you know, I did
01:08:40
everything you asked me. I got double Vaxed, I did all
01:08:43
that stuff and now you're telling me to get another shot
01:08:45
and put the mask back on, like, no, I'm over.
01:08:49
I'm done. I'm moving on with my life like,
01:08:51
goodbye, like and I think. There's a there's a threshold.
01:08:54
And I think you can't keep this going forever, otherwise you're
01:08:57
going to lose faith. And also when you're President
01:09:00
Biden, you can't paint on crushing the virus and the virus
01:09:03
keeps going forever and ever and ever.
01:09:05
Certainly people are going to go like, so you didn't have a plan
01:09:08
to crush the virus. You never had a plan.
01:09:11
And then he comes out and says it's a federal solution.
01:09:13
I don't. I don't.
01:09:15
You don't have a plan. It's just all the states.
01:09:17
Oh, okay. Then why did we elect you?
01:09:18
Because you said you had a plan to crush the virus, but now
01:09:22
you're basically washing your hands of it and going.
01:09:24
I don't have a plan. It's it's not a federal
01:09:25
solution. I understand why people are
01:09:27
still testing the tests. Don't.
01:09:29
Yeah. Tell me, what's the point?
01:09:33
To get tested. Just for someone to tell you
01:09:34
you're sick. We can't do anything there.
01:09:38
Do, do, do, do, do. There's a difference between
01:09:40
COVID symptoms, the actual virus.
01:09:43
I had the same winter cold symptoms and didn't get tested.
01:09:46
I didn't see the point. I just rested and now I'm on the
01:09:48
tail end with the cough. Yeah, I'm in Maxine Waters
01:09:51
neighborhood right now. That's that's a rough
01:09:54
neighborhood. It's so bad.
01:09:57
Homeless everywhere in LA Did you do?
01:10:01
They told me my boyfriend had COVID sent him home and said
01:10:04
take vitamins, Ibuprofen. Stay hydrated.
01:10:06
Sphere was 100 of four. They didn't care.
01:10:08
That's what they're doing. They're sending people home.
01:10:12
Really same here on day three of an oldfashioned cold.
01:10:16
What would change if I got tested?
01:10:17
Yeah, that was my point as well as like, I was like, well, what
01:10:21
does it change? Like, I'm sick.
01:10:23
So like, there's really nothing that's going to change.
01:10:25
Like I'm, I don't feel well. So running out and getting
01:10:28
tested wasn't going to change anything.
01:10:32
The French very does come with croissants, and it also comes
01:10:36
with a heavy dose of European condescension where they look it
01:10:41
down on you even though America's had to save your butt
01:10:44
from the Germans twice in the past 100 years.
01:10:48
I think that, well, yeah, they'll milk it for everything
01:10:50
they can until they start to see the polls change in favor.
01:10:53
Because remember, the one constant, the one constant that
01:10:57
you can always fall back on, that is irrefutable.
01:11:00
Is that? People in public office fear one
01:11:03
thing, losing power. And if they see that they have a
01:11:06
sliver of losing power or a chance of losing power, they'll
01:11:10
change their whole attitude, their whole platform, because
01:11:13
they don't want to lose power. That's the one constant always.
01:11:17
You can apply that to basically almost every politician is that
01:11:20
if they are fear that they're going to going to be voted out
01:11:23
or not reelected or that they're going to lose power, they will
01:11:27
ultimately change their their position.
01:11:29
So I was wondering if, you know someone would try to put us back
01:11:34
on a lockdown. No, I don't think so, especially
01:11:37
not in a election year. I don't.
01:11:39
He's going to tightrope what he has to do.
01:11:44
He's going to have to tightrope what he has to do this year.
01:11:48
He's not going to go full leftist status because that's
01:11:51
going to piss a lot of people off.
01:11:54
So I don't think he's going to lock down again.
01:11:56
I don't think he has. I think the mass mandate, the
01:11:57
soft mass mandate was the best he can do.
01:11:59
And maybe the vaccine mandate of healthcare workers which will
01:12:02
probably be tied up in court anyway like every vaccine
01:12:05
mandate. But outside of that I don't
01:12:08
really know what else you can do unless they only go on next door
01:12:11
just to laugh. I know it's probably it's funny.
01:12:18
Yeah he won't lock us down in an election year I don't think but
01:12:22
but but but okay, let's finish up.
01:12:26
No 5G I think is delayed because of the airlines.
01:12:28
It was recently super sick. Went to get a home test, came
01:12:30
out positive. It was rough.
01:12:32
Yeah, there's some people. It it sucked like I, you know,
01:12:35
in 2020 I had come back from the East Coast and I got, I had
01:12:39
something I never had before, which was immediate fever, no
01:12:46
appetite, didn't want to eat anything, you know, nothing
01:12:52
tasted good. I would, I would get a like a
01:12:54
burrito with the hottest sauce so you could put on it.
01:12:56
No taste whatsoever. And then I was sick for like 3
01:13:01
weeks. I was tired.
01:13:02
I couldn't breathe. I was coughing up a lung.
01:13:05
I wholeheartedly believe I had COVID before.
01:13:07
COVID was like, you know, in the ultimate hipster way.
01:13:10
I think I had COVID before. It was like cool to have COVID,
01:13:15
but it it sucks like if that if that was COVID, it's not fun.
01:13:20
What's your thought about business continuing with
01:13:22
vaccines and testing for unvaccinated, but yet those that
01:13:24
are sick of the will they change their approach?
01:13:28
Some places are going to double down.
01:13:29
You know, there's some places that they're not going to admit
01:13:32
that they're wrong, because if they admit that they're wrong,
01:13:35
that's a stain on their political career.
01:13:38
So that's that's why a lot of these politicians are just
01:13:40
plowing ahead because they don't want to admit that they're
01:13:42
wrong. It's pronounced croissant.
01:13:50
People tested in the art of school.
01:13:54
All right. A couple more.
01:13:59
Yeah, they're about any no 5G now.
01:14:03
I I think the only thing that I know about 5G is that they're
01:14:06
not rolling it out because of the airlines.
01:14:08
The airlines are like it's going.
01:14:09
To screw up our systems and all that stuff.
01:14:12
So anyway, let's see, I'm going to finish up a couple question
01:14:17
here in Los Angeles. Do we have to wear a mask or is
01:14:20
this based on the county we live in?
01:14:23
It's your local county. It's whoever is really kind of
01:14:25
enforcing it. But mob mentality is strong.
01:14:29
So if you live in a county where it's very prevalent and it's
01:14:32
been very prevalent, there's a good chance that people are
01:14:36
going to make you wear it. But if you're in a place where
01:14:39
they're not going to make you wear it, people don't really
01:14:41
care. It's really county by county
01:14:43
base. So I mean, do you have to wear a
01:14:46
mask? I mean, you can walk in anywhere
01:14:48
without a mask on. It's the question of whether or
01:14:50
not you'll get any pushback. Could you feel the burn from the
01:14:55
salsa but not the taste? I couldn't feel anything.
01:14:57
I can literally taste. It was like bland.
01:14:59
It was like just eating mush. OK, so that's it for today.
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01:15:12
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01:16:22
I feel it. I feel like 22.
01:16:24
There's going to be a big, big change.
01:16:25
I think lots of things are going to lots of good things are going
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01:16:31
are changing. I think we're.
01:16:32
We're at the corner and we're turning around and hopefully
01:16:36
we're heading in the right direction.
01:16:38
I feel it. I feel like we're we're this is
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