Even when something as good as American military killing the leader of ISIS happens, Leftists can't even give an ounce of praise to the Trump Administration. In the words of someone I spoke with "I will not give any credibility or praise to this administration no matter what."
Did you hear that? It might be howling cries of shock from the Left as the Durham investigation turns into a criminal investigation. This means that he can now assemble grand juries, subpoena witnesses, and maybe get some underlings to flip on the top dogs.
California is a mess of wild fires and soaring gas prices. So what is Gruesome Newsom to do? Well blame evil capitalism and oil companies of course! No way over regulation, high taxes, and incompetent leadership could be behind right?
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It's the California Underground podcast.
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What's going on? Everybody think he's returning
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to another episode of the Powerful Underground podcast.
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Back on that recent schedule, friendly every single week.
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Lots to get to a lot happened over the weekend.
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Obviously impeachment is getting crazy destinations going on in
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California and is on fire. Whole bunch of things to get to
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you, so let's get right to our out of the gate monologue.
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Are the Bush years I remember them well?
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I mean, I back then I was a bright eyed young liberal
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college student. That's right, that's right.
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I'm not afraid to admit it. I was at one point.
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A liberal. But I changed.
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This is the story of how I changed.
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See back then I felt betrayed by the administration that sent
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troops to Iraq rather than Afghanistan to fight the evil
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doers who perpetrated 911. After that I was an espoused
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dyed in the wool blue liberal. Very shocking, but like I said,
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I changed. However, I remember back during
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the Bush years, liberals were like a second coming of the
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hippies from the 60s. The parallels were pretty stark
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and unpopular present struggling to sell a quagmire of a war to
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the American people. Thousands of lives lost in a
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country people had no idea why we were there.
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Liberals back at home called President Bush.
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A war criminal cried for his immediate impeachment for lying
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to the American people about weapons of mass destruction.
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They talked about bringing the troops home and ending overseas
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conflicts, and I know this because I was one of those
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liberals. I talked about the fear of a
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possible draft because we were sending so many troops to them
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the least. It's all people on the left
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could talk about bringing the troops home.
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And end these needless wars. Now Fast forward to 2008, when a
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young candidate rose quickly to become the Democratic nominee
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and campaign on bringing the troops home, a message pulled
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directly from the Liberal voter base.
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During the Bush years, now people cheered him.
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They loved his message of ending war and bringing peace to the
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world. However.
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Something happened that changed everything.
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See President Obama never brought the troops home.
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He brought some home and he scaled back, but that didn't
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stop him from going into other areas of the Middle East and
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causing unrest. President Obama was also
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famously decry for his inhumane use of drone strikes, but even
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with all of that, the left still stayed quiet about bringing the
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troops home. Their fever pitch screams during
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the Bush years turned into nothing but a quiet hush during
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the Obama years. Fast forward again to now.
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President Trump has promised to end foreign conflicts and bring
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troops home. For the most part, he has done
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so, but it's hard to believe the same people who were calling
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President Bush a war criminal for sending troops to the Middle
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East are now decrying President Trump for trying to take troops
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out of the Middle East. They scream about how President
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Trump is taking 50 troops out of northern Syria because he's
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abandoning the Kurds. However, forget that they have a
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tree. What Turkey it says we won't
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fire on each other, and that the Turks would just go around our
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troops. The Kurds, they said.
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The Kurds would be slaughtered and forget that President Trump
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and his administration quickly negotiated a permanent ceasefire
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with Turkey. They cried that pulling the
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troops would hasten the spread of ISIS.
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In fact, you heard them regurgitating lines,
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conservatives said during the Bush years, such as if we don't
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fight them there, then we will have to fight them here.
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Forget that despite all this, President Trump announced the
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death of ISIS leader Baghdadi just yesterday.
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Yet leftists still cry about President Trump bringing troops
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home and pulling them out of the Middle East when it wasn't too
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long ago they were screaming for President Bush to be hung for
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treason for sending troops in the least, and even a shorter
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period of time from when they conveniently neglected President
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Obama not ending any of the wars as promised.
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Why is this? It's because the left doesn't
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necessarily stand for being an anti war.
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They stand for being anti conservative in any form.
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The irony being that most leftists don't see their own
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contradictions. They sound like Bush era
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conservatives when defending why we need to stay in the Middle
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East indefinitely. They become the very thing they
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hated years ago, not because they had some epiphany and
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realized conservatives who were right all along, but because it
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wasn't advantageous to their goal of knocking a conservative
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president down a few pegs. Republicans sending troops to
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the Middle East War Monger Republican president, bringing
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troops home irresponsible and reckless, foreign policy.
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And again, This is why it's impossible to take what leftists
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say as serious. They changed their positions
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based on who is in office and not based on their own personal
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political beliefs. Whatever position is the best
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for achieving their political goals, that's the position they
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will take. It's not about convictions, it's
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about power, and suppressing those who disagree with them.
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See, I may have changed from a bright eyed liberal to a more
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populous conservative. But at least I never changed my
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anti war stance. I can't say the same for many on
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the left today. So.
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The news that broke this weekend.
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Obviously was that Baghdadi was killed by a military operation.
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By American military, and even though it's on the scale of.
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President Obama killing. Bin laden two completely
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different reactions from the left.
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Obviously, when President Obama did it, it was a big deal for
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America. I remember when Osama bin Laden
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was killed. All of a sudden in the middle of
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a game, and I remember this specifically because there was a
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Sunday night baseball game where the Mets were playing the
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nationals. And all of a sudden chants of
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USA started up and people started to figure out what was
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going on. They were getting notifications
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on their phones that Osama bin Laden had been killed, and in
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that moment it was a. Release of stress and anger that
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people had said. We finally got him.
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The guy who was behind or supposedly behind 911 and I'm
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not being a conspiracy theorist, it's just that's who they say it
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was. He was behind 911.
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They went out, they got him finally.
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After how many years of searching for him?
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And in that moment a lot of Americans stepped back and said?
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Good like we were happy to be Americans.
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We were proud that we got Osama bin Laden.
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We got the bastard who did this to our country.
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And it didn't really matter if you're on the left or the right.
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President Obama and his team was generally hailed and applauded
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and congratulated for what he did.
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Now, this is only been barely 24 hours of what has happened with
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President Trump and Baghdadi, Baghdadi, who is the head of
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ISIS? Has been captured.
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He was tracked down and then he was killed.
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Supposedly if you read the story he ran away.
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He took three children with them.
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He ignited his suicide vest, killed himself and these three
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kids with him. That's what I read.
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Yet if you look at what leftists are saying today, not even 24
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hours, people are already saying, uh, enough President
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Trump with the bragging. And oh, this isn't that big of a
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deal, who cares? I'm sorry, it seems to me there
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is a completely different standard for the fact that
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President Trump and his team completed this and did this.
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Then, when President Obama did it.
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And a lot of people back then looked at President Obama and
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said. That's it, he won reelection.
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There's no way, because I think he's right in the heat of it was
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almost time for another election.
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I think it was the summer before it was going into the
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reelection. If I remember correctly.
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People say, well, he's won the reelection and people on the
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left. Would sit there and say, well at
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least President Obama got bin Laden and President Obama got
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bin Laden president and they would repeat it over and over
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and over again. But now 24 hours later, if you
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are a Trump supporter or you support this President his
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administration, you can't talk about the fact that they went
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out and got Baghdadi. It hasn't even been almost 48
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hours and people already being told to shut up and stop
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celebrating so much. The man completed an incredible
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military mission. With the help of the multi I you
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got to give credit to the military because the military.
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If you've ever seen the movie. Zero Dark 30.
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You know that President Obama didn't capture bin Laden on his
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own? A lot of people like to say
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President Obama got bin Laden, but if you watch the movie, you
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see that the actual operation to find Bin Laden started during
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the Bush years and it just sort of happened that they were able
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to track him down. Finally, during the Obama years.
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So what I'm saying is the military is doing these
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operations regardless of who is really in office, so this could
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have been started under President Obama, although I
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haven't seen any reports saying that it was started under
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President Obama. It looks like it was basically
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started under President Trump. But he's not allowed to take
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credit for it. He is the commander in chief is
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not allowed to take credit for it.
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To me that's unbelievable, and it's just.
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The Echo chamber and the pure hatred for this president is
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unbelievable, and you saw even when he went to the Nationals
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game, people booed him. He just killed the leader of the
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biggest Islamic terrorist group in the world.
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And people were booing him, is it?
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And it's you could compare and contrast its eerie.
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That it was a baseball game on Sunday night.
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The same thing with Bin Laden. A baseball game on Sunday night.
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America's pastime people were chanting USA USA during Obamas
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years when he killed bin Laden. Or when his team capture killed
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bin Laden. But now that President Trump he
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kills Baghdadi. And he's booed.
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People can't even just say. Could you know?
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Good job? Thank you for taking care of.
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Thank you for being the commander-in-chief, who did
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this, who is protecting our country?
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There is such hatred and vitriol for this President, and for
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anything he does, people refuse. People are absolutely refused
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and I talked to some people today who said I will not under
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any circumstances, give credit to this President and his
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administration under any circumstances.
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Isn't it? That's terrifying that this is
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how divided we are as a country. That we can't even rally around
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a simple win like this. We can't even step back and say.
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This is good for America. This is good for the world and
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not only that, his successor, who was supposed to take over
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for him the spokesperson. We got him too earlier.
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So we're already dismantling ISIS and I'm not saying there
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won't be a successor because there's always a successor, but
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it weakens the organization as a whole when you take the head
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out. Whether they'll continue to be
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as effective, it's all about who their leader is.
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But the fact that we couldn't even come together as a country
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that people on both sides couldn't just say good job.
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This is good news for America. This will indubitably actually
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obviously help President Trump. I mean, this is a big win for
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him and not right now. I mean, if you were watching the
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mainstream media, if you're watching people on the left and
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the people who are decrying him, you know the people with the
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worst cases of Trump derangement.
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Trump Derangement syndrome, and it's even funnier than SNL is
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running a skit. About how he's made ISIS
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stronger by pulling troops out of northern Syria.
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And Pete Davidson, who is an absolute mess of a comedian and
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a human being. Catch up there and says.
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As a joke. Well, thank you for making ISIS
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great again. Meanwhile, the raid is going on
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to kill Baghdadi, the head of ISIS and they're making this
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joke. So SNL kind of looks stupid.
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Not that anybody who watches SNL really cares.
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They're probably people on the other side who hate President
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Trump. Will this make a difference with
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those on the left? Now will help people.
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Will it be a big selling point? When he goes into reelection
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next year, absolutely don't think this is going to be tamped
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down by those on the left. Don't think this is going to be
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something that. The mainstream media and those
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in the liberal elite are going to be able to just shovel away
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and not make a big deal. He's going to say this at
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rallies over and over again. Who was the president?
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Who killed the head of ISIS and is dismantling ISIS?
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I told you this is what he said he's going to go out there and
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say I told you I knew how we were going to dismantle ISIS.
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We're going to bomb the hell out of them.
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And a bomb the shit out of them. And he he's basically doing it.
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He's dismantling ISIS. And that's what's going to rally
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his base. That's what's going to get
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people in the middle to say, look, he said he was going to do
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XY&Z and he's doing it, he said. He's going to dismantle ISIS.
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He did, he said. He was going to make the economy
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great. He did.
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He said he's going to start building the wall.
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Maybe it's not as happening as fast as Ann Coulter would like
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it to be, and Ann Coulter can keep her pants on.
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But it it does take a while. This isn't like SIM City, where
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you can just click a button in the wall is going to be built in
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5 minutes. I don't think she understands
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that and Ann Coulter is inflammatory and she says these
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things only to get an arousal out of people who either follow
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her or hear her. Ann Coulter is about one person
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that's herself. If you've ever figured that out,
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someone like Ann Coulter only cares about Ann Coulter.
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But he can now go into the reelection cycle and say, look,
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I've checked off this box. I said the economy was going to
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be great. The economy is fantastic.
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I said I was going to bomb the shit out of ISIS and destroy
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them. I've killed Baghdadi, I've
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killed the head of ISIS. And a lot of his underlings.
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He said they was going to start bringing troops home, which he
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has done. He said he's going to help build
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the wall, which he's done. He's worked out a deal with
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Mexico for Mexico to stop immigrants and refugees from
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coming over the border, which is huge.
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So these are things that are going to work in his favor.
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These are. This is not something he's just
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going to say. Oh well, no one cared about it.
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I guess I'll just forget about it and not bring it up.
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He's going to bring this up from now until Election Day.
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This will be part of his campaign and it's going to work
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for those in the base. It's going to work for those who
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support him. It's going to work for
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independents who want a secure country.
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For him to say, look, I took the fight to them and we are
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dismantling them while we're also being responsible and
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bringing troops home in areas we don't need our troops.
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So obviously this was an ability this wasn't part of my original
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plan for this show, but I had to talk about it anyway because
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there was such big news. This is not something you can
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just gloss over. I wanted to get into the other
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news that came out on Friday, which was big news and that is
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that the Durham, the Durham investigation, John Durham, who
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was a US attorney. Was it was revealed?
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That the probe into the origins of the Trump Russia fiasco.
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Or the supposed collusion? Has now shifted into a criminal
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investigation. Which is it's shifted from an
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administrative review. Which was just sort of OK.
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Well, let's just see what happened now.
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It's turned into a criminal investigation, which is.
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Absolutely. I don't know what's a good word
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to say this. Is it earth shatter?
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Is it earth shaking? For those on the left to know
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that John Dorham has now switched from an administrative
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review over to a criminal review.
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Because that's a big deal. As opposed to just the
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MINISTRATOR review, where you can get fine, or you can hand
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down little punishments. Now we're talking about a
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criminal investigation, jail time grand juries.
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People could be in big trouble and not only that, it means
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gives us a little peek into what's going on with this
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investigation and John dorm. It means that John Durham, who
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is a smart guy. He's been sort of a corruption
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Buster his whole entire career. He's a bulldog.
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That's what people know him as. He's looked at this.
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What's going on right now? And he has said there is enough
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here for me to believe that we need to start looking into a
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criminal investigation. And subpoenaing witnesses means
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now you can't run and hide. That means if you get subpoenaed
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as a witness, if you or someone who is involved in this and they
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want to get your testimony, you can't run and hide or you're
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going to have to lawyer up. And you have to get lawyers to
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fight for you or. You can try and not pay
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attention to it, but if you ignore a criminal subpoena, they
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can send. They can set an arrest warrant
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after you. So this was from the red state
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redstate.com. And they talked a little bit
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about it. Just a little bit of what's
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going on the New York Times reported for more than two
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years. President Trump has repeatedly
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attacked the Russian investigation, portraying as a
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hoax and illegal even after months, of the special counsel
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closed it. Now Mr Trump's own Justice
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Department has opened a criminal investigation into how it all
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began. Justice Department officials
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have shifted administrative review of the Russia
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investigation, closely overseen by Attorney General William P.
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Barr, to a criminal inquiry. According to two people familiar
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with the matter, the move gives the prosecutor running at John
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H. Durham the power to subpoena.
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Witness testimony and documents to Impanel a grand jury and to
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file criminal charges. Times goes on to say the opening
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of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that Mr.
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Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his
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perceived enemy. And of course they knew you knew
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that was going to be the line coming out of it, that they were
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going to say. Trump is using the Department of
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Justice to go after his political enemies.
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Even though no one said this about when Mueller and comedy
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and all of them were used by the Obama administration to go after
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President Trump and his campaign.
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Of course, they're going to sit back and freak out and say.
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This is why you know now he feels the pressure of
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impeachment, so he's going to run out and use the Department
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of Justice. Forget all this has been going
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on for a lot longer than impeachment hearings.
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This is not the impeachment is relatively new, and now you have
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a criminal investigation going on.
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This is not he didn't do this and say well now I'm going to
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order my Department of Justice to look into people overnight.
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This is something that's been going on for a while.
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So now you have people like Nadler and Schiff representative
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Nadler. Who tweeted out?
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He said these reports, if true, raise profound new concerns that
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the Department of Justice under AG Barr's lost its independence,
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become a vehicle for President. Trump's political revenge goes
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on to save the Department of Justice may be used as a tool of
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political retribution or to help the president with a political
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narrative for the next election. The rule law will suffer in a
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reparable damage. And that was a joint statement
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with him and Adam Schiff. It's crazy that this is what
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this is. What the left does is they use
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one. If they're investigating
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President Trump. They say oh, it's not for
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political reasons. It's not with it's not for.
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It's not for political reasons, not for political gain.
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It's not for some sort of strategy or anything like that.
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It's because the rule of law and nobody's above the rule of law
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and yada yada yada, and we this is what it all comes down to.
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Forget that the Russia collusion narrative was absolutely debunk
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that there was nothing to it that after how many days, how
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many weeks and months we spent worrying about.
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When was Mueller going to drop his report and it was going to
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be this big deal. It turned out to be a big
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nothing burger. Now you have the left who say,
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whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Well, you can't investigate what
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we did to even start the Russia collusion that's using the
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Department of Justice for your own political narrative.
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Even though they'd used the Department of Justice for their
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own political purposes. And now they're using the
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impeachment inquiry as their own political narrative.
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It's always. And they say this a lot.
00:22:21
You see a lot of people say the left always accuses those on the
00:22:24
right of what they are guilty of.
00:22:26
So they'll sit here and say President Trump is using the
00:22:29
Department of Justice for his political gain for his own
00:22:31
political narrative. But they don't.
00:22:36
Usually it means whatever they're accusing you of means
00:22:40
that they're doing it themselves, and now why would
00:22:42
they say that? Because they're experts at it,
00:22:44
they know they're experts at using the government and the
00:22:47
Department of Justice or any agency to enact their political
00:22:51
gains or their political strategy.
00:22:55
But this is going to keep going, and while a lot of people have
00:22:58
been a little impatient with what AG Barr has been doing
00:23:01
because he's been a little quieter when he came out, he was
00:23:04
loud. He was proud he had some great
00:23:06
sound bites. He had those congressional
00:23:08
hearings where people heard him. Now he's been more quiet.
00:23:12
People don't really know what's going on, but like they say.
00:23:16
Son, do keep your enemies guessing on what you're doing.
00:23:19
It's all about the confusion. So this has moved into a
00:23:22
criminal investigation. It means we're likely going to
00:23:25
start seeing. People being subpoenaed that
00:23:28
there's going to be witnesses called there might be grand
00:23:30
juries, but even more crucial than any of this is that now
00:23:35
anybody who's involved, you're going to get lower level people,
00:23:38
possibly flipping. To avoid jail time.
00:23:42
Because you're not going to have the high powered people might be
00:23:45
able to get away with it because they might have the money to get
00:23:47
out of it. Or they might pay the right
00:23:50
attorney, but the little people, the little people who can't
00:23:53
fight a long protracted battle. With the Department of Justice.
00:23:58
And the attorney general are going to flip, and that could
00:24:02
have the whole House of Cards crumbling, and I would be
00:24:05
incredibly interested to see if the whole establishment and the
00:24:09
whole swamp or whatever is going to be able to keep this all
00:24:13
together. And prevent anybody.
00:24:18
From actually flipping and selling anybody up the river.
00:24:24
Well, this mean that you're going to start to see people in
00:24:28
chains, and you're going to be frog walked.
00:24:30
I don't know is it perfect timing for what's going on
00:24:34
heading into 2020? I think it is.
00:24:38
I think now you've got the start of this criminal investigation.
00:24:40
The impeachment inquiry is is dying out.
00:24:45
Pelosi said, she's going to finally hold a vote, which is
00:24:48
gutsy of her. Even though I called it, it said
00:24:51
that she wouldn't hold a boat she's holding off on a boat as
00:24:54
long as possible, but I think she's realized she can't keep a
00:24:57
vote off the table forever because people are going to
00:25:01
start calling her bluff and say there's nothing to it.
00:25:05
She said that she's looking at having a formal vote on the
00:25:08
articles of impeachment. And we'll see where that goes.
00:25:15
But impeachment itself is not that popular in the swing
00:25:18
states. A new Marquette poll that came
00:25:20
out showed that in the swing states like Michigan, Florida,
00:25:23
Pennsylvania, stuff like that. The pole is under water for
00:25:27
supporting any impeachment of President Trump.
00:25:30
So Democrats are really shooting themselves in the foot here.
00:25:33
If you're going to move forward with this impeachment inquiry,
00:25:36
impeachment sounds great. In New York, it sounds great in
00:25:38
California. People love the idea of
00:25:41
impeachment in those states, but who cares about those states?
00:25:44
Those are diet blue states. You're not going to flip them
00:25:48
anyway. The states you have to look at
00:25:50
and say is impeachment really popular is in the swing states.
00:25:55
And this Marquette poll. I'll link it in the show notes
00:25:59
shows that it's not that popular.
00:26:02
And. They might be shooting
00:26:05
themselves in the foot. They may have overplayed their
00:26:07
hand. President Trump's doing a good
00:26:09
job of calling their bluff, saying look.
00:26:11
If you've got something, bring it forward.
00:26:14
We'll comply and we'll work with you, but you can't just
00:26:17
arbitrarily ask us for stuff just for the hell of it.
00:26:21
We have to know what we're, I mean.
00:26:22
There's lawyers on both sides, and they're both.
00:26:25
They have lots of smart lawyers. They're not just going to hand
00:26:28
stuff over just because. So.
00:26:34
Interesting to see where this criminal investigation is going
00:26:37
to go. It's going to be interesting.
00:26:40
I was reading today something about they called it the
00:26:42
investigation wars because you got the impeachment inquiry.
00:26:45
That's an investigation and now you got this criminal
00:26:48
investigation that's going on what happened with the Trump
00:26:50
Russia collusion. So we're going to see where each
00:26:55
one of these goes. So jumping back into California
00:27:01
news because there's a lot to get to if you're, I'm assuming
00:27:04
you're here in California. You're listening to this.
00:27:07
What's going on with the outages?
00:27:10
What's going on with the wildfires?
00:27:11
California is a little bit of a hot mess right now.
00:27:16
But First off, I want to talk about this article from the Fox
00:27:18
and the Hounds, and it's about a sales tax on services which is
00:27:21
being proposed or that they're trying to push through.
00:27:26
And the article reads as the 2020 election nears,
00:27:29
Californians are bracing for an onslaught of local and state tax
00:27:32
increase proposals on everything from property to soda proponents
00:27:36
are already selling these taxes as though they are missing piece
00:27:39
in the California dream. While conveniently ignoring the
00:27:44
people who are going to pay more taxpayers, consumers and small
00:27:47
businesses as part of this mix, Senator Bob Hertzberg is again
00:27:50
advocating for adding sales tax to services, a fatally flawed
00:27:54
fiscal policy that creates several harmful economic
00:27:57
consequences for California. The fairy tale he is selling is
00:28:01
that taxing services will reduce California's notorious budget
00:28:04
volatility at the $11 billion a year in new taxes will somehow
00:28:09
help the average California family.
00:28:11
The facts say otherwise. Says a new group formed to
00:28:15
educate policymakers in California about the extent of
00:28:18
harmful impacts that result from a sales tax on business
00:28:21
services, according to the California Tax and Budget
00:28:23
Research Project. A new sales tax and services
00:28:26
will not fix California's budget volatility, no matter how the
00:28:29
tax is structured. CPRP points to a recent study
00:28:34
conducted by Justin Adams, PhD, for the California Foundation of
00:28:37
Commerce and Education that found none of the recent sales
00:28:40
tax on services proposals, including hertzberg's current
00:28:43
proposal of a sales tax only on business to business services,
00:28:47
would have fixed California's budget volatility.
00:28:50
If they have been placed over the last 20 years, the reality
00:28:52
is taxing services just increases taxes and spending
00:28:55
without addressing the structural problem of
00:28:57
California's tax policies. The problem with a sales tax on
00:29:00
services runs deeper than the false advertising bias
00:29:03
proponents. It would cost consumers and
00:29:05
businesses. Billions of dollars a year in
00:29:08
higher costs for housing, infrastructure and everyday
00:29:11
needs like legal help, auto repair and banking.
00:29:14
The atoms report found that a 5% sales tax on business services
00:29:18
would result in higher costs and unintended consequences for
00:29:20
consumers, including increasing the cost of an average single
00:29:24
family home by at least $16, increasing the cost of a new
00:29:28
school construction by more than $17 million per facility and
00:29:32
increasing the cost of Allstate and local infrastructure work by
00:29:35
nearly three point 2%. These are only a few examples of
00:29:39
how a tax designed to impact corporations will actually fall
00:29:43
hardest on low and middle income consumers.
00:29:46
Small businesses also would be severely impacted.
00:29:49
Not only will small businesses have to pay more for the
00:29:52
services they rely on to run their operations, but the cost
00:29:55
of sale taxes on services would get passed.
00:30:00
We'll get passed on by small businesses to their customers,
00:30:02
raising the price of their goods against competitors.
00:30:05
These added costs and competitive disadvantages would
00:30:08
likely result in some small businesses, small business
00:30:11
closures, or flight to other states, although Hertzberg says
00:30:14
he will exempt small businesses making less than $100 per
00:30:18
year. That still leaves hundreds of
00:30:20
thousands of California small businesses that would receive no
00:30:23
relief, but perhaps the most troubling issue with hertzberg's
00:30:26
tax plan is the inherent flaws with broadening sales taxes.
00:30:29
To include business to business services which causes tax
00:30:32
pyramiding tax, pyramiding is a process where a consumer good is
00:30:36
taxed multiple times during the production cycle which
00:30:40
artificially increases the cost of that product or service
00:30:43
without transparency to the end purchaser.
00:30:46
States have explored taxing services, tried to reduce the
00:30:49
harm of pyramiding through tax exemption to specific
00:30:52
industries, but policy makers have found that all business
00:30:55
inputs would need to be exempt from a service tax services to
00:30:58
avoid pyramiding. In annual balloting of NFIB'S
00:31:02
members, the Golden State Main St entrepreneurs have almost
00:31:05
unanimously opposed a sales tax on services 96% 2016, 97% in
00:31:10
2017 and 98% in 2019. I agree with Senator Hertzberg,
00:31:16
there's nothing more important than improving the economic
00:31:18
well. Being of California families,
00:31:20
that's exactly where the National Federation of
00:31:22
Independent Businesses stays large or small.
00:31:23
Business has joined the California tax and Rate
00:31:25
Coalition to oppose any effort to tax services.
00:31:28
Taxing services will make everyday goods and services more
00:31:31
expensive and make it even harder to have a good quality of
00:31:33
life. Successful business in
00:31:35
California, so. Big again California liberals.
00:31:41
There is nothing that California liberal can't find that they
00:31:44
can't tax. It's always this issue of
00:31:48
there's a good tax or there's something.
00:31:51
That we're not taxing and we're just one tax away from that
00:31:54
California utopia that we've been promised over and over
00:31:57
again that we've been promised this free health care.
00:32:01
You know new infrastructure. It's always this one tax away.
00:32:04
It's like I talked about last week with the gas tax.
00:32:08
The gas tax was promised to us or sold to Californians.
00:32:13
As a way to improve the infrastructure of our state.
00:32:17
But what's happened? It was supposed to go towards
00:32:21
fixing roads and infrastructure instead.
00:32:25
Gavin Newsom gruesome Newsom has gone out.
00:32:29
And taking that money, and now he's diverted it.
00:32:33
To his own little pet projects, he said, well now it's for
00:32:36
public transit. It's for things that help combat
00:32:39
climate change. Forget the fact that millions of
00:32:42
people are still riding on these roads are still paying these
00:32:45
taxes. And they haven't seen the
00:32:48
benefit of it. So there is no end to what a
00:32:54
California leftist? Will tax.
00:32:58
And it's always based on this idea.
00:32:59
Well, if we just tax this one thing, this one more thing we'll
00:33:05
get to utopia and that's it. But it never stops.
00:33:10
The taxes in California never stop, and they'll tax anything
00:33:13
they could possibly get their hands on.
00:33:16
Does anybody remember? I believe we spoke about on this
00:33:19
show. Remember when they were actually
00:33:24
talking about taxing your text messages?
00:33:28
Now that got people, all those people on the left and the right
00:33:31
stood up and said texting or texting text messages.
00:33:35
Try and say that five times fast.
00:33:37
Is a little ludicrous and it made national news and it was
00:33:40
ridiculed as one of the dumbest ideas California has ever come
00:33:43
up with. But it's someone came up with
00:33:45
that idea. Someone actually sat down and
00:33:47
said this is a good idea. We should tax text messages.
00:33:56
But there's no end to what Californians will tax.
00:34:02
And this is just an example of how it makes this falls back on
00:34:07
hurting the middle class. It hurts the people, the working
00:34:10
class of Californians. And they always think that by
00:34:15
taxing more. It's somehow going to help
00:34:18
everyday Californians. And it doesn't.
00:34:21
Gas tax does not help everyday Californians, because it makes
00:34:25
the cost of gas more expensive, which makes it now harder to put
00:34:29
food on the table, which makes it harder to pay bills, which
00:34:32
makes it harder to provide for your family.
00:34:36
People need to get in their cars and go to work to provide.
00:34:40
And a gas tax only chips away at their budget.
00:34:43
If you're already living paycheck to paycheck and you
00:34:45
increase the gas tax. You've effectively made it
00:34:48
harder for that person living paycheck to paycheck to live in
00:34:51
California. These taxes and they always
00:34:56
allow that we got a tax for this reason and that reason.
00:34:59
It always falls back on the middle and lower classes.
00:35:03
Those who can't afford it. Taxing services just makes it
00:35:08
that much more expensive for the middle class and the lower
00:35:11
classes to get access to those services, and that made a point,
00:35:15
obviously that legal. Lawyers provide a service.
00:35:19
Area that I'm in. If you had to start adding
00:35:23
service tax on top of that, it makes it harder for people to
00:35:26
get access to legal because now the attorneys have to add on
00:35:30
more of service tax where they have to add tax on top of what
00:35:35
they're doing. You know only that a lot of
00:35:38
attorneys work with other service providers, so now
00:35:40
they've got to pay for the service tax of other people.
00:35:44
And this is where this idea of pyramiding comes in, is that if
00:35:47
everyone's paying these service taxes and it's just on top of
00:35:49
each other. It's it's going to get passed
00:35:53
down. To the consumer.
00:35:57
They're going to pass on that service tax down to the
00:35:59
consumer. That's what businesses do is
00:36:01
when they get a cost or an expense.
00:36:04
They can pass it on to the consumer.
00:36:05
That's what they do. That's just free market
00:36:08
capitalism. That's just how the economy
00:36:10
works. That's just how a business is
00:36:12
run is when you have an expense and you can pass it down to the
00:36:15
consumer, you pass it down to the consumer.
00:36:20
So where does? This is just for me.
00:36:27
And anybody who who's out there listening thinks that if you
00:36:30
keep increasing taxes, you're somehow helping the middle and
00:36:32
lower classes. I think you need to get your
00:36:36
head checked. It doesn't.
00:36:38
It doesn't help those who need it the most, unless you're
00:36:42
taking these taxes and giving it back to the middle and lower
00:36:45
classes, which you're not because the tax is most people
00:36:48
keep going up and up property taxes so taxes, gas tax.
00:36:52
All this stuff gives up and up and up.
00:36:53
You're making it harder, and squeezing in a lot of people
00:36:56
out. And not only that.
00:36:57
If you start squeezing these service industry businesses out
00:37:00
of the state. You're now taking jobs away from
00:37:04
people who could work there. So adding taxes on top of taxes.
00:37:14
Never works. And it's going to hurt the
00:37:17
middle class. It's going to hurt the lower
00:37:19
class. This next article is from the
00:37:23
Daily Caller and it's basically what's been going on in
00:37:26
California. Is this a mess right now?
00:37:31
And the title of his governor Gavin Newsome struggles to stay
00:37:34
in control as California goes dark wildfire, spreading gas
00:37:36
prices spike. Democratic California Governor
00:37:40
Gavin Newsom is Warren systems that they could be in for a long
00:37:42
weekend's the state's public utility announced Saturday plans
00:37:45
to shut down huge sections of the electric grid.
00:37:47
The Pacific Gas and electric companies move could black out
00:37:50
an estimated 940 homes and businesses and parts of more
00:37:54
than 30 counties up and down. California, PG and E is trying
00:37:58
to prevent potential wildfires from spreading through the state
00:38:01
while keeping. Grabs on down power lines.
00:38:04
Newsom, who is under pressure as gas prices increase, told
00:38:06
Californians things are going to be tough for the next few days
00:38:09
and as long as he's in office is probably tough for the next
00:38:12
couple of years. The next 72 hours will be
00:38:15
challenging, the Democrats said in a news conference I could
00:38:18
sugarcoat it, but I will not. The rolling blackouts could
00:38:21
surpass those of 750 customers who dealt with similar
00:38:25
shutoffs earlier in October. Newsome started to circulate
00:38:29
blame for many of the problems Californians are facing,
00:38:31
including the blackouts and rising gas prices.
00:38:34
These are difficult calls, he says today's conference.
00:38:37
But as a society. But a society as industrious and
00:38:40
entrepreneurial and innovative as ours should not have to face
00:38:43
a choice between public safety and public blackouts.
00:38:45
We can do both together. And that is the path we are on.
00:38:50
Newsom also lit into PG and E. It's more than just climate
00:38:53
change. It's about the failure of
00:38:55
capitalism. Oh, the failure of capitalism.
00:38:59
Here it is. It's about the failure of
00:39:01
capitalism to address climate change.
00:39:05
He told reporters on Friday as he spoke about the utilities
00:39:08
continued use of rolling blackouts.
00:39:12
The failure of capitalism to address climate change.
00:39:18
Even though. When Governor Brown had the
00:39:21
ability to help these public utility monopolies granted by
00:39:25
the government to fix a lot of their power lines and to
00:39:29
innovate. Jerry Brown said, now we're
00:39:32
good. That's right there, but you know
00:39:36
it's the failure of capitalism, not the failure of the
00:39:40
government that grants them. The public monopoly to help
00:39:45
improve their infrastructure and improve how their wires, whether
00:39:49
their wires are above ground or underground, or to get them.
00:39:53
Ready for wildfires and winds and all this stuff is this not
00:39:57
his fault. Newsom also leaned in on oil
00:40:00
companies as state faces staggering gas prices.
00:40:03
Uh, now it's the oil companies. Companies are why the gas prices
00:40:10
in California are so high. Those greedy, greedy greedy oil
00:40:14
companies. The ones who keep outside of the
00:40:17
rest of the country where it's I don't know.
00:40:19
The average is 2 dollars, $2.30 or something like that.
00:40:23
Virginia it's $2.30 or other states where it's super cheap.
00:40:28
No, it's obviously. It's the oil companies fault.
00:40:32
For raising the gas prices solely in California.
00:40:36
Not the taxes, not the gas tax that you're using to fund all
00:40:39
your public transit and climate change pet projects.
00:40:43
It's the oil companies. OK, so and this is governing.
00:40:48
Blaming everybody and everything.
00:40:52
But himself, and he's trying to sound like he's a big hero.
00:40:54
Or he's a big shot and forget the fact that he could open this
00:40:59
up and make it better for Californians by.
00:41:03
Predicting this First off. Knowing that this was a problem
00:41:08
knowing he's seen this year after, year after year, and know
00:41:11
that we probably should have been more prepared for the
00:41:12
wildfires and this stuff. And now he's investigating why
00:41:16
oil is so high. And he's saying, Gee, I wonder
00:41:21
why oil is so high even though we just passed a gas tax.
00:41:26
Article goes on to say the Democrat governor asked his
00:41:28
attorney general in October. 23rd Xavier Basera to
00:41:33
investigate oil companies for conspiring to keep gas prices
00:41:36
artificially high. Oh artificially high.
00:41:39
OK, as if it's just a conspiracy in California itself to keep the
00:41:44
gas prices artificially high. Newsom based his request on a
00:41:48
report suggesting California drivers are paying a dollar more
00:41:50
per gallon of gasoline than the rest of the country, according
00:41:53
to The Associated Press. As for the blackouts, PG and E
00:41:56
said the utility is keeping tabs on wind conditions.
00:41:59
We are working vigilantly to forecast condition and the
00:42:02
weather is dynamic and changing PG and E spokeswoman.
00:42:06
Suzanne Housen said in a statement Saturday we are
00:42:09
adjusting start times based on the weather forecast.
00:42:12
Newsome's office has not responded to the Daily Caller.
00:42:15
You got to get it, yadda. So gruesome news and doing his
00:42:19
absolute best to. Push off all of the blame onto
00:42:24
everybody else and you notice it's always the same tire.
00:42:26
It's capitalism's fall. It's the greedy oil companies
00:42:30
fault. He just opened.
00:42:31
He must just open the leftist playbook and say it's like a mad
00:42:35
Lib. OK, whose fault is it?
00:42:38
Insert oil company insert? Oh, it's capitalism's fault
00:42:43
because we haven't insert climate change.
00:42:47
Oh yeah, OK, so we haven't addressed climate change.
00:42:51
I mean, he could work with people and maybe get rid of the
00:42:54
gas tax. That's a start, but he's not
00:42:57
going to do that. He's not going to get rid of the
00:43:00
gas tax and appointing his attorney general.
00:43:04
The political hack that Basara is.
00:43:08
To actually. Look into this and figure out
00:43:11
why because it's all going to come back bad on the government
00:43:14
in California. Why it's so artificially high?
00:43:18
Why are other states have such cheap gas even though we have
00:43:21
refineries right here in California?
00:43:23
Why is gas not cheap here? It would be a boom for the
00:43:27
California economy if he could figure this out.
00:43:30
I mean, he would be a savior to California if he could figure
00:43:34
this out and say, OK, I'm going to fix this and we're going to
00:43:37
reduce gas to. I don't know.
00:43:39
I would take 250. I would take $3.
00:43:43
I would take 280. But $4 is expensive and it's
00:43:48
expensive in going back to the other story.
00:43:51
This is all part of. How it just suppresses and puts
00:43:56
pressure on middle class and working Californians everyday.
00:43:59
Californians, not the bougie ones, not the ones driving the
00:44:02
Teslas or living in Beverly Hills.
00:44:04
Who can afford it the normal everyday Californians who are
00:44:08
working and living here in the state who are trying to stay
00:44:11
here to keep the economy humming?
00:44:13
And to try to keep this data flow who haven't abandoned or
00:44:16
gotten into a U-Haul and gone somewhere else, like Nevada or
00:44:20
Texas? But he's pushing all the blame
00:44:26
all over different to everybody, and it's always the same.
00:44:30
It's the capitalist, and it's the oil companies and it's this.
00:44:33
And it's that it's never Gavin Newsom saying, you know what, we
00:44:36
got some real problems here. And I think it's time to start
00:44:40
really looking into it. But he's not going to do that
00:44:43
because he's probably getting his leftist credentials all
00:44:45
online for 2024 run after President Trump has done.
00:44:51
Which I wouldn't be surprised. He's probably got his ambitions
00:44:53
on the next site. He'll have been in office a
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while. At that point, he can what he'll
00:45:00
run on. I'm not quite sure, but keep in
00:45:03
mind that great Davis was recalled.
00:45:07
For this exact same exact thing. Rolling power outages.
00:45:13
Gray, Davis, who was elected governor, was quickly recalled
00:45:16
because of this same thing. Which leads me to the point that
00:45:21
if you haven't checked it out already, recalled Gavin now com.
00:45:26
Go to that. It's a state certified petition.
00:45:29
Spread the word. They need 2 signatures.
00:45:33
They only need like 1.3 or something like that, but they're
00:45:36
shooting for 2 because they know if they get just over
00:45:40
the line that the Secretary of State is going to look and say,
00:45:43
well, a lot of these signatures don't really count or they're
00:45:45
going to knock a bunch of signatures off, so they want to
00:45:47
make sure they get enough and that's why they're going with
00:45:50
the 2. So.
00:45:55
Recall, Gavin. Now com great Avis was recalled
00:46:00
for something very similar to this.
00:46:04
Is it possible this is going to be a perfect storm for someone
00:46:08
like Ave SIM? You can only hope you can only
00:46:13
hope that this is the mess that he needs for people to look at
00:46:17
someone like Gavin Newsom and say this was a bad thing and I
00:46:21
predicted this when he got elected.
00:46:24
I said hopefully the best thing that happens to Gavin Newsom is
00:46:27
that he runs the state so far into the ground.
00:46:33
That people will step back and go.
00:46:34
We need to take a better look at who we're putting into office in
00:46:37
California. I'm not saying it's going to go
00:46:40
right overnight. I'm not saying you're going to
00:46:42
get like a MAGA candidate in there.
00:46:44
Who's going to run California? But at this point, if you slowly
00:46:50
are pulling. The state back from leftist
00:46:54
socialism. That's probably a win.
00:47:01
So it's a mess for Gavin Newsom and where he goes from here.
00:47:08
I'm sure as soon as the winds die down and this is all taken
00:47:11
care of, but the gas prices are not going anywhere.
00:47:14
Gas prices are as high as over $4 here in San Diego.
00:47:19
This game more expensive in certain cities it's getting over
00:47:21
450. When is the attorney general
00:47:25
going to come out with a report whether the report actually
00:47:28
indicates where they need to fix it?
00:47:33
But he's holding on. He's trying to hold on in a
00:47:35
state that it's getting harder for him.
00:47:38
And middle middle class and lower class Californians are
00:47:41
starting to feel the heat from all this.
00:47:44
And not having access to electric is a big deal for a lot
00:47:48
of people. So with that I'm going to end a
00:47:53
little earlier today. Hopefully if you're listening to
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Everybody, thank you for tuning into another episode of this
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California Underground podcast. We lost the go to a lot happened
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over the weekend. Obviously he's getting crazy.
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There's investigations going on California is on fire, whole
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bunch of things to get to, so let's get right to our out of
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the gate monologue. Ah, the Bush years.
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I remember them well. I mean, I back then I was a
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bright eyed young liberal college student.
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That's right, that's right. I'm not afraid to admit it.
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I was at one point. A liberal.
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But I changed. This is the story of how I
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changed. See back then I felt betrayed by
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the administration that sent troops to Iraq rather than
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Afghanistan to fight the evil doers who perpetrated 911.
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After that I was an espoused dyed in the wool blue liberal.
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Very shocking, but like I said, I changed.
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However, I remember back during the Bush years, liberals were
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like a second coming of the hippies from the 60s.
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The parallels were pretty stark and unpopular present struggling
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to sell a quagmire of a war to the American people.
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Thousands of lives lost in a country people had no idea why
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we were there. Liberals back at home called
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President Bush. A war criminal cried for his
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immediate impeachment for lying to the American people about
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weapons of mass destruction. They talked about bringing the
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troops home and ending overseas conflicts, and I know this
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because I was one of those liberals.
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I talked about the fear of a possible draft because we were
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sending so many troops to them the least.
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It's all people on the left could talk about bringing the
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troops home. And end these needless wars.
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Now Fast forward to 2008, when a young candidate rose quickly to
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become the Democratic nominee and campaign on bringing the
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troops home, a message pulled directly from the Liberal voter
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base. During the Bush years, now
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people cheered him. They loved his message of ending
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war and bringing peace to the world.
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However. Something happened that changed
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everything. See President Obama never
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brought the troops home. He brought some home and he
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scaled back, but that didn't stop him from going into other
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areas of the Middle East and causing unrest.
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President Obama was also famously decry for his inhumane
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use of drone strikes, but even with all of that, the left still
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stayed quiet about bringing the troops home.
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Their fever pitch screams during the Bush years turned into
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nothing but a quiet hush during the Obama years.
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Fast forward again to now. President Trump has promised to
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end foreign conflicts and bring troops home.
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For the most part, he has done so, but it's hard to believe the
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same people who were calling President Bush a war criminal
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for sending troops to the Middle East are now decrying President
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Trump for trying to take troops out of the Middle East.
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They scream about how President Trump is taking 50 troops out of
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northern Syria because he's abandoning the Kurds.
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However, forget that they have a tree.
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What Turkey it says we won't fire on each other, and that the
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Turks would just go around our troops.
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The Kurds, they said. The Kurds would be slaughtered
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and forget that President Trump and his administration quickly
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negotiated a permanent ceasefire with Turkey.
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They cried that pulling the troops would hasten the spread
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of ISIS. In fact, you heard them
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regurgitating lines, conservatives said during the
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Bush years, such as if we don't fight them there, then we will
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have to fight them here. Forget that despite all this,
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President Trump announced the death of ISIS leader Baghdadi
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just yesterday. Yet leftists still cry about
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President Trump bringing troops home and pulling them out of the
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Middle East when it wasn't too long ago they were screaming for
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President Bush to be hung for treason for sending troops in
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the least, and even a shorter period of time from when they
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conveniently neglected President Obama not ending any of the wars
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as promised. Why is this?
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It's because the left doesn't necessarily stand for being an
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anti war. They stand for being anti
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conservative in any form. The irony being that most
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leftists don't see their own contradictions.
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They sound like Bush era conservatives when defending why
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we need to stay in the Middle East indefinitely.
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They become the very thing they hated years ago, not because
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they had some epiphany and realized conservatives who were
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right all along, but because it wasn't advantageous to their
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goal of knocking a conservative president down a few pegs.
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Republicans sending troops to the Middle East War Monger
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Republican president, bringing troops home irresponsible and
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reckless, foreign policy. And again, This is why it's
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impossible to take what leftists say as serious.
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They changed their positions based on who is in office and
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not based on their own personal political beliefs.
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Whatever position is the best for achieving their political
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goals, that's the position they will take.
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It's not about convictions, it's about power, and suppressing
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those who disagree with them. See, I may have changed from a
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bright eyed liberal to a more populist conservative.
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But at least I never changed my anti war stance.
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I can't say the same for many on the left today.
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So. The news that broke this
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weekend. Obviously was that Baghdadi was
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killed by a military operation. By American military, and even
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though it's on the scale of. President Obama killing.
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Bin laden two completely different reactions from the
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left. Obviously, when President Obama
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did it, it was a big deal for America.
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I remember when Osama bin Laden was killed.
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All of a sudden in the middle of a game, and I remember this
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specifically because there was a Sunday night baseball game where
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the Mets were playing the nationals.
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And all of a sudden chants of USA started up and people
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started to figure out what was going on.
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They were getting notifications on their phones that Osama bin
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Laden had been killed, and in that moment it was a.
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Release of stress and anger that people had said.
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We finally got him. The guy who was behind or
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supposedly behind 911 and I'm not being a conspiracy theorist,
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it's just that's who they say it was.
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He was behind 911. They went out, they got him
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finally. After how many years of
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searching for him? And in that moment a lot of
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Americans stepped back and said? Good like we were happy to be
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Americans. We were proud that we got Osama
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bin Laden. We got the bastard who did this
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to our country. And it didn't really matter if
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you're on the left or the right. President Obama and his team was
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generally hailed and applauded and congratulated for what he
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did. Now, this is only been barely 24
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hours of what has happened with President Trump and Baghdadi,
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Baghdadi, who is the head of ISIS?
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Has been captured. He was tracked down and then he
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was killed. Supposedly if you read the story
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he ran away. He took three children with
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them. He ignited his suicide vest,
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killed himself and these three kids with him.
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That's what I read. Yet if you look at what leftists
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are saying today, not even 24 hours, people are already
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saying, uh, enough President Trump with the bragging.
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And oh, this isn't that big of a deal, who cares?
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I'm sorry, it seems to me there is a completely different
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standard for the fact that President Trump and his team
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completed this and did this. Then, when President Obama did
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it. And a lot of people back then
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looked at President Obama and said.
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That's it, he won reelection. There's no way, because I think
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he's right in the heat of it was almost time for another
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election. I think it was the summer before
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it was going into the reelection.
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If I remember correctly. People say, well, he's won the
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reelection and people on the left.
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Would sit there and say, well at least President Obama got bin
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Laden and President Obama got bin Laden president and they
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would repeat it over and over and over again.
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But now 24 hours later, if you are a Trump supporter or you
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support this President his administration, you can't talk
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about the fact that they went out and got Baghdadi.
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It hasn't even been almost 48 hours and people already being
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told to shut up and stop celebrating so much.
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The man completed an incredible military mission.
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With the help of the multi I you got to give credit to the
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military because the military. If you've ever seen the movie.
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Zero Dark 30. You know that President Obama
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didn't capture bin Laden on his own?
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A lot of people like to say President Obama got bin Laden,
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but if you watch the movie, you see that the actual operation to
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find Bin Laden started during the Bush years and it just sort
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of happened that they were able to track him down.
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Finally, during the Obama years. So what I'm saying is the
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military is doing these operations regardless of who is
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really in office, so this could have been started under
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President Obama, although I haven't seen any reports saying
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that he started under President Obama.
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It looks like it was basically started under President Trump.
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But he's not allowed to take credit for it.
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He is the commander in chief is not allowed to take credit for
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it. To me that's unbelievable, and
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it's just. The Echo chamber and the pure
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hatred for this president is unbelievable, and you saw even
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when he went to the Nationals game, people booed him.
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He just killed the leader of the biggest Islamic terrorist group
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in the world. And people were booing him, is
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it? And it's you could compare and
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contrast its eerie. That it was a baseball game on
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Sunday night. The same thing with Bin Laden.
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A baseball game on Sunday night. America's pastime people were
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chanting USA USA during Obamas years when he killed bin Laden.
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Or when his team captured killed bin Laden.
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But now that President Trump he kills Baghdadi.
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And he's booed. People can't even just say.
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You know, good job, thank you for taking care of.
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Thank you for being the commander in Chief who did this,
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who is protecting our country? There is such hatred and vitriol
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for this President and for anything he does, people refuse.
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People are absolutely refused and I talked to some people
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today who said I will not under any circumstances, give credit
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to this President and his administration under any
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circumstances. Isn't it?
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That's terrifying that this is how divided we are as a country.
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That we can't even rally around a simple win like this.
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We can't even step back and say. This is good for America.
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This is good for the world and not only that, his successor,
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who was supposed to take over for him the spokesperson.
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We got him too earlier. So we're already dismantling
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ISIS and I'm not saying there won't be a successor because
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there's always a successor, but it weakens the organization as a
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whole when you take the head out.
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Whether they'll continue to be as effective, it's all about who
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their leader is. But the fact that we couldn't
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even come together as a country that people on both sides
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couldn't just say good job. This is good news for America.
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This will indubitably actually obviously help President Trump.
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I mean, this is a big win for him and not right now.
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I mean, if you were watching the mainstream media, if you're
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watching people on the left and the people who are decrying him,
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you know the people with the worst cases of Trump
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derangement. Trump Derangement syndrome, and
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it's even funnier than SNL is running a skit.
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About how he's made ISIS stronger by pulling troops out
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of northern Syria. And Pete Davidson, who is an
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absolute mess of a comedian and a human being.
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Catch up there and says. As a joke.
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Well, thank you for making ISIS great again.
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Meanwhile, the raid is going on to kill Baghdadi, the head of
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ISIS and they're making this joke.
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So SNL kind of looks stupid. Not that anybody who watches SNL
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really cares. They're probably people on the
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other side who hate President Trump.
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Will this make a difference with those on the left?
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Now will help people. Will it be a big selling point?
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When he goes into reelection next year, absolutely don't
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think this is going to be tamped down by those on the left.
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Don't think this is going to be something that.
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The mainstream media and those in the liberal elite are going
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to be able to just shovel away and not make a big deal.
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He's going to say this at rallies over and over again.
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Who was the president? Who killed the head of ISIS and
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is dismantling ISIS? I told you this is what he said
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he's going to go out there and say I told you I knew how we
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were going to dismantle ISIS. We're going to bomb the hell out
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of them. And a bomb the shit out of them.
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And he he's basically doing it. He's dismantling ISIS.
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And that's what's going to rally his base.
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That's what's going to get people in the middle to say,
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look, he said he was going to do XY&Z and he's doing it, he said.
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He's going to dismantle ISIS. He did, he said.
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He was going to make the economy great.
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He did. He said he's going to start
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building the wall. Maybe it's not as happening as
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fast as Ann Coulter would like it to be, and Ann Coulter can
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keep her pants on. But it it does take a while.
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This isn't like SIM City, where you can just click a button in
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the wall is going to be built in 5 minutes.
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I don't think she understands that and Ann Coulter is
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inflammatory and she says these things only to get an arousal
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out of people who either follow her or hear her.
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Ann Coulter is about one person that's herself.
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If you've ever figured that out, someone like Ann Coulter only
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cares about Ann Coulter. But he can now go into the
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reelection cycle and say, look, I've checked off this box.
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I said the economy was going to be great.
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The economy is fantastic. I said I was going to bomb the
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shit out of ISIS and destroy them.
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I've killed Baghdadi, I've killed the head of ISIS.
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And a lot of his underlings. He said they was going to start
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bringing troops home, which he has done.
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He said he's going to help build the wall, which he's done.
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He's worked out a deal with Mexico for Mexico to stop
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immigrants and refugees from coming over the border, which is
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huge. So these are things that are
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going to work in his favor. These are.
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This is not something he's just going to say.
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Oh well, no one cared about it. I guess I'll just forget about
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it and not bring it up. He's going to bring this up from
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now until Election Day. This will be part of his
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campaign and it's going to work for those in the base.
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It's going to work for those who support him.
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It's going to work for independents who want a secure
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country. For him to say, look, I took the
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fight to them and we are dismantling them while we're
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also being responsible and bringing troops home in areas we
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don't need our troops. So obviously this was an ability
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this wasn't part of my original plan for this show, but I had to
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talk about it anyway because there was such big news.
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This is not something you can just gloss over.
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I wanted to get into the other news that came out on Friday,
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which was big news and that is that the Durham, the Durham
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investigation, John Durham, who was a US attorney.
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Was it was revealed? That the probe into the origins
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of the Trump Russia fiasco. Or the supposed collusion?
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Has now shifted into a criminal investigation.
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Which is it's shifted from an administrative review.
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Which was just sort of OK. Well, let's just see what
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happened now. It's turned into a criminal
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investigation, which is. Absolutely.
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I don't know what's a good word to say this.
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Is it earth shatter? Is it earth shaking?
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For those on the left to know that John Dorham has now
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switched from an administrative review over to a criminal
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review. Because that's a big deal.
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As opposed to just the MINISTRATOR review, where you
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can get fine, or you can hand down little punishments.
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Now we're talking about a criminal investigation, jail
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time grand juries. People could be in big trouble
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and not only that, it means gives us a little peek into
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what's going on with this investigation and John dorm.
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It means that John Durham, who is a smart guy.
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He's been sort of a corruption Buster his whole entire career.
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He's a bulldog. That's what people know him as.
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He's looked at this. What's going on right now?
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And he has said there is enough here for me to believe that we
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need to start looking into a criminal investigation.
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And subpoenaing witnesses means now you can't run and hide.
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That means if you get subpoenaed as a witness.
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If you are someone who is involved in this and they want
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to get your testimony, you can't run and hide, you're going to
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have to lawyer up. And you have to get lawyers to
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fight for you or. You can try and not pay
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attention to it, but if you ignore a criminal subpoena, they
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can send. They can set an arrest warrant
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after you. So this was from the red state
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redstate.com. And they talked a little bit
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about it. Just a little bit of what's
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going on the New York Times reported for more than two
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years. President Trump has repeatedly
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attacked the Russian investigation, portraying as a
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hoax and illegal even after months, of the special counsel
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closed it. Now Mr Trump's own Justice
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Department has opened a criminal investigation into how it all
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began. Justice Department officials
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have shifted administrative review of the Russia
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investigation, closely overseen by Attorney General William P.
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Barr, to a criminal inquiry. According to two people familiar
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with the matter, the move gives the prosecutor running at John
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H. Durham the power to subpoena.
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Witness testimony and documents to Impanel a grand jury and to
00:19:23
file criminal charges. Times goes on to say the opening
00:19:31
of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that Mr.
00:19:34
Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his
00:19:36
perceived enemy. And of course they knew you knew
00:19:40
that was going to be the line coming out of it, that they were
00:19:42
going to say. Trump is using the Department of
00:19:46
Justice to go after his political enemies.
00:19:51
Even though no one said this about when Mueller and comedy
00:19:56
and all of them were used by the Obama administration to go after
00:20:00
President Trump and his campaign.
00:20:04
Of course, they're going to sit back and freak out and say.
00:20:07
This is why you know now he feels the pressure of
00:20:10
impeachment, so he's going to run out and use the Department
00:20:13
of Justice. Forget all this has been going
00:20:15
on for a lot longer than impeachment hearings.
00:20:18
This is not the impeachment is relatively new, and now you have
00:20:21
a criminal investigation going on.
00:20:23
This is not he didn't do this and say well now I'm going to
00:20:27
order my Department of Justice to look into people overnight.
00:20:29
This is something that's been going on for a while.
00:20:36
So now you have people like Nadler and Schiff representative
00:20:40
Nadler. Who tweeted out?
00:20:43
He said these reports, if true, raised profound new concerns
00:20:46
that the Department of Justice under AG Barr's lost its
00:20:48
independence become a vehicle for President.
00:20:50
Trump's political revenge goes on to say the Department of
00:20:53
Justice may be used as a tool of political retribution or to help
00:20:57
the president with a political narrative for the next election.
00:20:59
The rule law will suffer in a reparable damage.
00:21:03
And that was a joint statement with him and Adam Schiff.
00:21:08
It's crazy that this is what this is.
00:21:10
What the left does is they use one.
00:21:13
If they're investigating President Trump.
00:21:16
They say oh, it's not for political reasons.
00:21:19
It's not with it's not for. It's not for political reasons,
00:21:26
not for political gain. It's not for some sort of
00:21:28
strategy or anything like that. It's because the rule of law and
00:21:33
nobody's above the rule of law, and yadda yadda, and we.
00:21:36
This is what it all comes down to.
00:21:38
Forget that the Russia collusion narrative was absolutely debunk
00:21:42
that there was nothing to it. That after how many days, how
00:21:45
many weeks and months we spent worrying about.
00:21:48
When was Mueller going to drop his report and it was going to
00:21:50
be this big deal. It turned out to be a big
00:21:52
nothing burger. Now you have the left who say,
00:21:55
whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Well, you can't investigate what
00:21:58
we did to even start the Russia collusion that's using the
00:22:03
Department of Justice for your own political narrative.
00:22:06
Even though they'd used the Department of Justice for their
00:22:09
own political purposes. And now they're using the
00:22:13
impeachment inquiry as their own political narrative.
00:22:17
It's always. And they say this a lot.
00:22:21
You see a lot of people say it's the left always accuses those on
00:22:24
the right of what they are guilty of.
00:22:26
So they'll sit here and say President Trump is using the
00:22:29
Department of Justice for his political gain for his own
00:22:31
political narrative. But they don't.
00:22:36
Usually it means whatever they're accusing you of means
00:22:40
that they're doing it themselves, and now why would
00:22:42
they say that? Because they're experts at it,
00:22:44
they know they're experts at using the government and the
00:22:47
Department of Justice or any agency to enact their political
00:22:51
gains or their political strategy.
00:22:55
But this is going to keep going, and while a lot of people have
00:22:58
been a little impatient with what AG Barr has been doing
00:23:01
because he's been a little quieter when he came out, he was
00:23:04
loud. He was proud he had some great
00:23:06
sound bites. He had those congressional
00:23:08
hearings where people heard him. Now he's been more quiet.
00:23:12
People don't really know what's going on, but like they say.
00:23:16
Son, do keep your enemies guessing on what you're doing.
00:23:19
It's all about the confusion. So this has moved into a
00:23:22
criminal investigation. It means we're likely going to
00:23:25
start seeing. People being subpoenaed that
00:23:28
there's going to be witnesses called there might be grand
00:23:30
juries, but even more crucial than any of this is that now
00:23:35
anybody who's involved, you're going to get lower level people,
00:23:38
possibly flipping. To avoid jail time.
00:23:42
Because you're not going to have the high powered people might be
00:23:45
able to get away with it because they might have the money to get
00:23:47
out of it. Or they might pay the right
00:23:50
attorney, but the little people, the little people who can't
00:23:53
fight a long protracted battle. With the Department of Justice.
00:23:58
And the attorney general are going to flip, and that could
00:24:02
have the whole House of Cards crumbling, and I would be
00:24:05
incredibly interested to see if the whole establishment and the
00:24:09
whole swamp or whatever is going to be able to keep this all
00:24:13
together. And prevent anybody.
00:24:18
From actually flipping and selling anybody up the river.
00:24:24
Well, this mean that you're going to start to see people in
00:24:28
chains, and you're going to be frog walked.
00:24:30
I don't know is it perfect timing for what's going on
00:24:34
heading into 2020? I think it is.
00:24:38
I think now you've got the start of this criminal investigation.
00:24:40
The impeachment inquiry is going to is dying out.
00:24:45
Pelosi said, she's going to finally hold a vote, which is
00:24:48
gutsy of her. Even though I called it, it said
00:24:51
that she wouldn't hold a boat she's holding off on a boat as
00:24:54
long as possible, but I think she's realized she can't keep a
00:24:57
vote off the table forever because people are going to
00:25:01
start calling her bluff and say there's nothing to it.
00:25:05
She said that she's looking at having a formal vote on the
00:25:08
articles of impeachment. And we'll see where that goes.
00:25:15
But impeachment itself is not that popular in the swing
00:25:18
states. A new Marquette poll that came
00:25:20
out showed that in the swing states like Michigan, Florida,
00:25:23
Pennsylvania, stuff like that. The pole is under water for
00:25:27
supporting any impeachment of President Trump.
00:25:30
So Democrats are really shooting themselves in the foot here.
00:25:33
If you're going to move forward with this impeachment inquiry,
00:25:36
impeachment sounds great. In New York, it sounds great.
00:25:38
In California, people love the idea of impeachment in those
00:25:42
states, but who cares about those states?
00:25:44
Those are diet blue states. You're not going to flip them
00:25:48
anyway. The states you have to look at
00:25:50
and say is impeachment really popular is in the swing states.
00:25:55
And this Marquette poll. I'll link it in the show notes
00:25:59
shows that it's not that popular.
00:26:02
And. They might be shooting
00:26:05
themselves in the foot. They may have overplayed their
00:26:07
hand. President Trump's doing a good
00:26:09
job of calling their bluff, saying look.
00:26:11
If you've got something, bring it forward.
00:26:14
We'll comply and we'll work with you, but you can't just
00:26:17
arbitrarily ask us for stuff just for the hell of it.
00:26:21
We have to know what we're, I mean.
00:26:22
There's lawyers on both sides, and they're both.
00:26:25
They have lots of smart lawyers. They're not just going to hand
00:26:28
stuff over just because. So.
00:26:34
Interesting to see where this criminal investigation is going
00:26:37
to go. It's going to be interesting.
00:26:40
I was reading today something about they called it the
00:26:42
investigation wars because you got the impeachment inquiry.
00:26:45
That's an investigation and now you got this criminal
00:26:48
investigation that's going on what happened with the Trump
00:26:50
Russia collusion. So we're going to see where each
00:26:55
one of these goes. So jumping back into California
00:27:01
news because there's a lot to get to if you're, I'm assuming
00:27:04
you're here in California. You're listening to this.
00:27:07
What's going on with the outages?
00:27:10
What's going on with the wildfires?
00:27:11
California is a little bit of a hot mess right now.
00:27:16
But First off, I want to talk about this article from the Fox
00:27:18
and the Hounds, and it's about a sales tax on services which is
00:27:21
being proposed or that they're trying to push through.
00:27:26
And the article reads as the 2020 election nears,
00:27:29
Californians are bracing for an onslaught of local and state tax
00:27:32
increase proposals on everything from property to soda proponents
00:27:36
are already selling these taxes as though they are missing piece
00:27:39
in the California dream. While conveniently ignoring the
00:27:44
people who are going to pay more taxpayers, consumers and small
00:27:47
businesses as part of this mix, Senator Bob Hertzberg is again
00:27:50
advocating for adding sales tax to services, a fatally flawed
00:27:54
fiscal policy that creates several harmful economic
00:27:57
consequences for California. The fairy tale he is selling is
00:28:01
that taxing services will reduce California's notorious budget
00:28:04
volatility at the $11 billion a year in new taxes will somehow
00:28:09
help the average California family.
00:28:11
The facts say otherwise. Says a new group formed to
00:28:15
educate policymakers in California about the extent of
00:28:18
harmful impacts that result from a sales tax on business
00:28:21
services, according to the California Tax and Budget
00:28:23
Research Project. A new sales tax and services
00:28:26
will not fix California's budget volatility, no matter how the
00:28:29
tax is structured. CPRP points to a recent study
00:28:34
conducted by Justin Adams, PhD, for the California Foundation of
00:28:37
Commerce and Education at found none of the recent sales tax on
00:28:40
services proposals, including hertzberg's current proposal of
00:28:44
a sales tax only on business to business services, would have
00:28:47
fixed California's budget volatility.
00:28:50
If they have been placed over the last 20 years, the reality
00:28:52
is taxing services just increases taxes and spending
00:28:55
without addressing the structural problem of
00:28:57
California's tax policies. The problem with a sales tax on
00:29:00
services runs deeper than the false advertising bias
00:29:03
proponents. It would cost consumers and
00:29:05
businesses. Billions of dollars a year in
00:29:08
higher costs for housing, infrastructure and everyday
00:29:11
needs like legal help, auto repair and banking.
00:29:14
The atoms report found that a 5% sales tax on business services
00:29:18
would result in higher costs and unintended consequences for
00:29:20
consumers, including increasing the cost of an average single
00:29:24
family home by at least $16, increasing the cost of a new
00:29:28
school construction by more than $17 million per facility and
00:29:32
increasing the cost of Allstate and local infrastructure work by
00:29:35
nearly three point 2%. These are only a few examples of
00:29:39
how a tax designed to impact corporations will actually fall
00:29:43
hardest on low and middle income consumers.
00:29:46
Small businesses also would be severely impacted.
00:29:49
Not only will small businesses have to pay more for the
00:29:52
services they rely on to run their operations, but the cost
00:29:55
of sale taxes on services would get passed.
00:30:00
We'll get passed on by small businesses to their customers,
00:30:02
raising the price of their goods against competitors.
00:30:05
These added costs and competitive disadvantages would
00:30:08
likely result in some small businesses, small business
00:30:11
closures, or flight to other states, although Hertzberg says
00:30:14
he will exempt small businesses making less than $100 per
00:30:18
year. That still leaves hundreds of
00:30:20
thousands of California small businesses that would receive no
00:30:23
relief, but perhaps the most troubling issue with hertzberg's
00:30:26
tax plan is the inherent flaws with broadening sales taxes.
00:30:29
To include business to business services which causes tax
00:30:32
pyramiding tax, pyramiding is a process where a consumer good is
00:30:36
taxed multiple times during the production cycle which
00:30:40
artificially increases the cost of that product or service
00:30:43
without transparency to the end. Purchaser.
00:30:46
States have explored taxing services, tried to reduce the
00:30:49
harm of pyramiding through tax exemption to specific
00:30:51
industries, but policy Microsoft found that all business inputs
00:30:55
would need to be exempt from a service tax services to avoid
00:30:58
pyramiding. An annual balloting of NFIB'S
00:31:02
members, the Golden State Main St entrepreneurs have almost
00:31:05
unanimously opposed a sales tax on services. 96% 2016, 97% in
00:31:10
2017 and 98% in 2019. I agree with Senator Hertzberg,
00:31:16
there's nothing more important than improving the economic
00:31:18
well. Being of California families,
00:31:20
that's exactly where the National Federation of
00:31:22
Independent businesses states large or small business has
00:31:24
joined the California tax and Rate Coalition to oppose any
00:31:26
effort to tax services. Taxing services will make
00:31:29
everyday goods and services more expensive and make it even
00:31:32
harder to have a good quality of life.
00:31:34
Successful business in California, so.
00:31:38
Big again California liberals. There is nothing that California
00:31:43
liberal can't find that they can't tax.
00:31:46
It's always this issue of there's a good tax or there's
00:31:49
something. That we're not taxing and we're
00:31:53
just one tax away from that California utopia that we've
00:31:56
been promised over and over again that we've been promised
00:31:58
this free health care. You know new infrastructure.
00:32:03
It's always this one tax away. It's like I talked about last
00:32:06
week with the gas tax. The gas tax was promised to us
00:32:10
or sold to Californians. As a way to improve the
00:32:14
infrastructure of our state. But what's happened?
00:32:19
It was supposed to go towards fixing roads and infrastructure
00:32:23
instead. Gavin Newsom gruesome Newsom has
00:32:26
gone out. And taking that money, and now
00:32:30
he's diverted it. To his own little pet projects,
00:32:35
he said, well now it's for public transit.
00:32:37
It's for things that help combat climate change.
00:32:40
Forget the fact that millions of people are still riding on these
00:32:43
roads are still paying these taxes.
00:32:47
And they haven't seen the benefit of it.
00:32:51
So there is no end to what a California leftist?
00:32:56
Will tax. And it's always based on this
00:32:59
idea. Well, if we just tax this one
00:33:02
thing, this one more thing we'll get to utopia and that's it.
00:33:08
But it never stops. The taxes in California never
00:33:12
stop, and they'll tax anything they could possibly get their
00:33:14
hands on. Does anybody remember?
00:33:17
I believe we spoke about on this show.
00:33:21
Remember when they were actually talking about taxing your text
00:33:26
messages? Now that got people, all those
00:33:30
people on the left and the right stood up and said texting or
00:33:34
texting text messages. Try and say that five times
00:33:36
fast. Is a little ludicrous and it
00:33:39
made national news and it was ridiculed as one of the dumbest
00:33:42
ideas California has ever come up with.
00:33:43
But it's someone came up with that idea.
00:33:45
Someone actually sat down and said this is a good idea.
00:33:48
We should tax text messages. But there's no end to what
00:33:59
Californians will tax. And this is just an example of
00:34:03
how it makes this falls back on hurting the middle class.
00:34:08
It hurts the people, the working class of Californians.
00:34:12
And they always think that by taxing more.
00:34:17
It's somehow going to help everyday Californians.
00:34:19
And it doesn't. Gas tax does not help everyday
00:34:23
Californians, because it makes the cost of gas more expensive,
00:34:27
which makes it now harder to put food on the table, which makes
00:34:30
it harder to pay bills, which makes it harder to provide for
00:34:33
your family. People need to get in their cars
00:34:38
and go to work to provide. And a gas tax only chips away at
00:34:42
their budget. If you're already living
00:34:44
paycheck to paycheck and you increase the gas tax.
00:34:47
You've effectively made it harder for that person living
00:34:49
paycheck to paycheck to live in California.
00:34:53
These taxes and they always say all that we got a tax for this
00:34:57
reason and that reason. It always falls back on the
00:35:02
middle and lower classes. Those who can't afford it.
00:35:07
Taxing services just makes it that much more expensive for the
00:35:10
middle class and the lower classes to get access to those
00:35:13
services, and that made a point, obviously that legal.
00:35:17
Lawyers provide a service. Area that I'm in.
00:35:21
If you had to start adding service tax on top of that, it
00:35:25
makes it harder for people to get access to legal because now
00:35:29
the attorneys have to hide it on more of service tax or they have
00:35:34
to add tax on top of what they're doing.
00:35:37
You know only that a lot of attorneys work with other
00:35:39
service providers, so now they've got to pay for the
00:35:41
service tax of other people. And this is where this idea of
00:35:45
pyramiding comes in, is that if everyone's paying these service
00:35:48
taxes and it's just on top of each other.
00:35:51
It's it's gonna get passed down. To the consumer.
00:35:57
They're going to pass on that service tax down to the
00:35:59
consumer. That's what businesses do is
00:36:01
when they get a cost or an expense.
00:36:04
They can pass it on to the consumer.
00:36:05
That's what they do. That's just free market
00:36:08
capitalism. That's just how the economy
00:36:10
works. That's just how a business is
00:36:12
run is when you have an expense and you can pass it down to the
00:36:15
consumer, you pass it down to the consumer.
00:36:20
So where does? This is just for me.
00:36:27
And anybody who who's out there listening thinks that if you
00:36:30
keep increasing taxes, you're somehow helping the middle and
00:36:32
lower classes. I think you need to get your
00:36:36
head checked. It doesn't.
00:36:38
It doesn't help those who need it the most, unless you're
00:36:42
taking these taxes and giving it back to the middle and lower
00:36:45
classes, which you're not because the taxes on most people
00:36:48
keep going up and up property taxes, so taxes, gas tax.
00:36:52
All this stuff gives up and up and up.
00:36:53
You're making it harder, and squeezing in a lot of people
00:36:56
out. And not only that.
00:36:57
If you start squeezing these service industry businesses out
00:37:00
of the state. You're now taking jobs away from
00:37:04
people who could work there. So adding taxes on top of taxes.
00:37:14
Never works. And it's going to hurt the
00:37:17
middle class. It's going to hurt the lower
00:37:19
class. This next article is from the
00:37:23
Daily Caller and it's basically what's been going on in
00:37:26
California. Is this a mess right now?
00:37:31
And the title of his governor, Gavin Newsom, struggles to stay
00:37:34
in control as California goes dark wildfire, spreading gas
00:37:36
prices. Spike Democratic California
00:37:39
Governor Gavin Newsom is Warren systems that they could be in
00:37:42
for a long weekend as the state's public utility announced
00:37:44
Saturday plans to shut down huge sections of the electric grid.
00:37:47
The Pacific Gas and electric companies move could black out
00:37:50
an estimated 940 homes and businesses and parts of more
00:37:54
than 30 counties up and down. California, PG and E is trying
00:37:58
to prevent potential wildfires from spreading through the state
00:38:01
while keeping tabs. Down power lines.
00:38:04
Newsom, who is under pressure as gas prices increase, told
00:38:06
Californians things are going to be tough for the next few days
00:38:09
and as long as he's in office is probably tough for the next
00:38:12
couple of years. The next 72 hours will be
00:38:15
challenging, the Democrats said in news conference.
00:38:17
I could sugarcoat it, but I will not.
00:38:20
The rolling blackouts could surpass those of 750
00:38:23
customers who dealt with similar shutoffs earlier in October.
00:38:27
Newsome started to circulate blame for many of the problems
00:38:30
Californians are facing, including the blackouts and
00:38:32
rising gas prices. These are difficult calls.
00:38:35
These tyrants conference. But as a society but a society
00:38:39
as industrious and entrepreneurial and innovative
00:38:41
as ours, should not have to face a choice between public safety
00:38:44
and public blackouts. We can do both together and that
00:38:47
is the path we are on. Newsom also lit into PG and E.
00:38:52
It's more than just climate change.
00:38:54
It's about the failure of capitalism.
00:38:56
Oh, the failure of capitalism. Here it is.
00:39:00
It's about the failure of capitalism to address climate
00:39:04
change. He told reporters on Friday as
00:39:07
he spoke about the utilities continued use of rolling
00:39:09
blackouts. The failure of capitalism to
00:39:14
address climate change. Even though.
00:39:19
When Governor Brown had the ability to help these public
00:39:23
utility monopolies granted by the government to fix a lot of
00:39:28
their power lines and to innovate.
00:39:31
Jerry Brown said, now we're good.
00:39:34
That's right there, but you know it's the failure of capitalism,
00:39:38
not the failure of the government that grants them.
00:39:42
The public monopoly to help improve their infrastructure and
00:39:47
improve how their wires, whether their wires are above ground or
00:39:50
underground, or to get them. Ready for wildfires and winds
00:39:55
and all this stuff is this not his fault.
00:39:59
Newsom also leaned in on oil companies as state faces
00:40:02
staggering gas prices. Uh, now it's the oil companies.
00:40:08
Companies are why the gas prices in California are so high.
00:40:11
Those greedy, greedy greedy oil companies.
00:40:16
The ones who keep outside of the rest of the country where it's I
00:40:18
don't know. The average is 2 dollars, $2.30
00:40:22
or something like that. Virginia it's $2.30 or other
00:40:26
states where it's super cheap. No, it's obviously.
00:40:30
It's the oil companies fault. For raising the gas prices
00:40:34
solely in California. Not the taxes, not the gas tax
00:40:38
that you're using to fund all your public transit and climate
00:40:41
change pet projects. It's the oil companies.
00:40:45
OK, so and this is governing. Blaming everybody and
00:40:50
everything. But himself, and he's trying to
00:40:53
sound like he's a big hero. Or he's a big shot and forget
00:40:56
the fact that he could open this up and make it better for
00:41:01
Californians by. Predicting this First off.
00:41:06
Knowing that this was a problem knowing he's seen this year
00:41:09
after, year after year, and know that we probably should have
00:41:11
been more prepared for the wildfires and this stuff.
00:41:15
And now he's investigating why oil is so high.
00:41:19
And he's saying, Gee, I wonder why oil is so high even though
00:41:23
we just passed a gas tax. Article goes on to say the
00:41:27
Democrat governor asked his attorney general in October.
00:41:30
23rd Xavier basera to investigate oil companies for
00:41:35
conspiring to keep gas prices artificially high.
00:41:37
Oh artificially high. OK, as if it's just a conspiracy
00:41:42
in California itself to keep the gas prices artificially high.
00:41:46
Newsom based his request on a report suggesting California
00:41:49
drivers are paying a dollar more per gallon of gasoline than the
00:41:52
rest of the country, according to The Associated Press.
00:41:55
As for the blackouts, PG and E said the utility is keeping tabs
00:41:58
on wind conditions. We are working vigilantly to
00:42:01
forecast condition and the weather is dynamic and changing
00:42:04
PG and E spokeswoman. Suzanne Housen said in a
00:42:08
statement Saturday we are adjusting start times based on
00:42:10
the weather forecast. Newsome's office has not
00:42:13
responded to the Daily Caller. You got to get it, yadda.
00:42:17
So gruesome news. I'm doing his absolute best to.
00:42:22
Push off all of the blame onto everybody else and you notice
00:42:25
it's always the same tire. It's capitalism's fall.
00:42:29
It's the greedy oil companies fault.
00:42:31
He just opened. He must just open the leftist
00:42:34
playbook and say it's like a mad Lib.
00:42:36
OK, whose fault is it? Insert oil company insert?
00:42:41
Oh, it's capitalism's fault because we haven't insert
00:42:46
climate change. Oh yeah, OK, so we haven't
00:42:48
addressed climate change. I mean, he could work with
00:42:53
people and maybe get rid of the gas tax.
00:42:55
That's a start, but he's not going to do that.
00:42:58
He's not going to get rid of the gas tax and appointing his
00:43:02
attorney general. The political hack that Bisera
00:43:06
is. To actually.
00:43:10
Look into this and figure out why because it's all going to
00:43:12
come back bad on the government in California.
00:43:14
Why it's so artificially high? Why are other states have such
00:43:19
cheap gas even though we have refineries right here in
00:43:22
California? Why is gas not cheap here?
00:43:26
It would be a boom for the California economy if he could
00:43:29
figure this out. I mean, he would be a savior to
00:43:32
California if he could figure this out and say, OK, I'm going
00:43:35
to fix this and we're going to reduce gas to.
00:43:38
I don't know. I would take 250.
00:43:41
I would take $3. I would take 280.
00:43:46
But $4 is expensive and it's expensive in going back to the
00:43:50
other story. This is all part of.
00:43:54
How it just suppresses and puts pressure on middle class and
00:43:57
working Californians everyday. Californians, not the bougie
00:44:01
ones, not the ones driving the Teslas or living in Beverly
00:44:04
Hills. Who can afford it the normal
00:44:06
everyday Californians who are working and living here in the
00:44:09
state who are trying to stay here to keep the economy
00:44:12
humming? And to try to keep this data
00:44:15
flow who haven't abandoned or gotten into a U-Haul and gone
00:44:18
somewhere else, like Nevada or Texas?
00:44:24
But he's pushing all the blame all over different to everybody,
00:44:28
and it's always the same. It's the capitalist, and it's
00:44:31
the oil companies and it's this. And it's that it's never Gavin
00:44:35
Newsom saying, you know what, we got some real problems here.
00:44:39
And I think it's time to start really looking into it.
00:44:42
But he's not going to do that because he's probably getting
00:44:44
his leftist credentials all online for 2024 run after
00:44:48
President Trump has done. Which I wouldn't be surprised.
00:44:52
He's probably got his ambitions on the next site.
00:44:55
He'll have been in office a while.
00:44:57
At that point, he can what he'll run on.
00:45:01
I'm not quite sure, but keep in mind that great Davis was
00:45:05
recalled. For this exact same exact thing.
00:45:11
Rolling power outages. Gray, Davis, who was elected
00:45:14
governor, was quickly recalled because of this same thing.
00:45:20
Which leads me to the point that if you haven't checked it out
00:45:22
already, recalled Gavin now com. Go to that.
00:45:26
It's a state certified petition. Spread the word.
00:45:31
They need 2 signatures. They only need like 1.3 or
00:45:35
something like that, but they're shooting for 2 because
00:45:38
they know if they get just over the line that the Secretary of
00:45:42
State is going to look and say, well, a lot of these signatures
00:45:44
don't really count or they're going to knock a bunch of
00:45:46
signatures off, so they want to make sure they get enough and
00:45:49
that's why they're going with the 2.
00:45:52
So. Recall, Gavin.
00:45:57
Now com great Avis was recalled for something very similar to
00:46:01
this. Is it possible this is going to
00:46:06
be a perfect storm for someone like Ave SIM?
00:46:12
You can only hope you can only hope that this is the mess that
00:46:15
he needs for people to look at someone that Gavin Newsom and
00:46:18
say. This was a bad thing and I
00:46:21
predicted this when he got elected.
00:46:24
I said hopefully the best thing that happens to Gavin Newsom is
00:46:27
that he runs the state so far into the ground.
00:46:33
That people will step back and go.
00:46:34
We need to take a better look at who we're putting into office in
00:46:37
California. I'm not saying it's going to go
00:46:40
right overnight. I'm not saying you're going to
00:46:42
get like a MAGA candidate in there.
00:46:44
Who's going to run California? But at this point, if you slowly
00:46:50
are pulling. The state back from leftist
00:46:54
socialism. That's probably a win.
00:47:01
So it's a mess for Gavin Newsom and where he goes from here.
00:47:08
I'm sure as soon as the winds die down and this is all taken
00:47:11
care of, but the gas prices are not going anywhere.
00:47:14
Gas prices are as high as over $4 here in San Diego.
00:47:19
This game more expensive in certain cities it's getting over
00:47:21
450. When is the attorney general
00:47:25
going to come out with a report whether the report actually
00:47:28
indicates where they need to fix it?
00:47:33
But he's holding on. He's trying to hold on in a
00:47:35
state that it's getting harder for him.
00:47:38
And middle middle class and lower class Californians are
00:47:41
starting to feel the heat from all this.
00:47:44
And not having access to electric is a big deal for a lot
00:47:48
of people. So with that I'm going to end a
00:47:53
little earlier today. Hopefully if you're listening to
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