On this episode of Coffee and California Politics, I discuss the results of the primaries, which still have votes coming in shockingly, and an article in The Atlantic discussing how bad San Francisco has gotten and how progressives may have had enough of far left ideology.
Link to Atlantic article: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/06/how-san-francisco-became-failed-city/661199/
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Tomorrow night is going to be rescheduling of last week.
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If you don't remember last week, engine McArdle supposed to be
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on, she's going to be on tomorrow night.
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She is the chair of the libertarian party.
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Not like Each are of just the Los Angeles.
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She was the chair of the Los Angeles libertarian party.
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Now she is the chair of the entire country.
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I mean the whole National libertarian party are talking
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about the mises caucus, what they've done, how they kind of
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took over their party which I think is really like a good
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story to learn. How there was a group that got
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together and said we don't like what our party is doing.
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And therefore we're going to just take over the party and
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we're just going to change it and we're going to send it in a
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different direction. So really incredible story there
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and we're talking about where the libertarian party is going
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to go from there. She'll be on tomorrow night at
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8:00 on YouTube. As always any other
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announcements, got a whole bunch of other shows in the pipeline
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that are coming up. It's gonna get busy election out
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of the primaries are behind us. We're going to talk a little bit
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about the primaries because last week, I sort of did that whole
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live already and kind of gave you my thoughts.
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But I'll definitely, Open time for questions and comments and
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all that stuff. About the primaries as we've
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kind of given it a week and even a week later you're starting to
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see some things change which you know vote-by-mail is obviously
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favoring one particular side which is not surprising.
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It always seems to favor one particular side and definitely
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does not in gender or embolden. A lot of people think that a lot
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of this stuff is really You know, if vote-by-mail was a
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little bit more even in terms of who ends up with all the votes,
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maybe more people would trust that it but not a lot of people
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do and I can understand why after some of this news.
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So with that, we're going to talk a little bit about the
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primaries. We're going to talk about
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article from the Atlantic written by someone who was a
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lifelong San Francisco. San Franciscan moved out and she
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wrote a whole big Atlantic article on what the heck is
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going on in San Francisco and why people are kind of pushing
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back? On that.
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So without further Ado, I don't think I have any more
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announcements for today. Let's get right into it.
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A couple of new stories I want to hop into that.
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I think are just interesting. This is when I saw today from
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the Los Angeles, Daily News for our to LA County residents wear
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a mask indoors before it's mandatory all over again.
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So if you thought it was over in California, it doesn't look like
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especially in LA county. Doesn't look like you're getting
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out of the woods. Quite yet, our code says this
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may not be a Pandemic that ends County Supervisor, Sheila.
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Kuehl said it may be simply continue to shift and change and
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we will live with it one way or another primarily by vaccination
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and probably masking, but I think people really want to
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think the whole thing is over, and that's not helpful to the
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numbers. Supervisor Catherine, a Barger
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Echo that sentiment saying that the county should make it clear
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to businesses that they have the right to require workers and
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customers to wear Mass. Quote, businesses can require
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that in order to combine come into my establishment.
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We want you to wear a mask Ed County Public Health director
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Barbara for our said that the rate of covid hospitalization
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numbers continues rising at the pace.
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It has for the past two weeks, the county would move into the
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US centers of Disease Control and prevention's, high virus
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activity category by late June for our.
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So they have the county remains in the high category for two
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straight weeks, the county will reimpose a universal indoor Mass
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mandate quote. I do not want to encourage
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everybody to use. Oh, I would do want to encourage
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everybody to use your mass. Now for our said, we don't have
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to wait till things. Things get much worse.
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So LA County. Hope you have a right to
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abolish. Crop tops.
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Somebody said LA County. If you are in LA county, get
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ready. Dust off those Mass, because it
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looks like there's a good possibility.
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This summer, they will be coming back.
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It looks like they are going to go back.
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That way, LA county, for some reason just doesn't want to let
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go. I think Barbara Farrar.
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I don't even think she's actually a medical doctor.
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I think she has some Of degree in like psychology or something
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like that. She's not actually a medical
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doctor but she's been the County Public Health director and she
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loves Mass. She has not really even gotten
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away from the mass and I think this whole back-and-forth is not
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really helpful. And I can tell a lot of La
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residents are probably not that enthused about the idea of going
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back to mass. And there may be a lot of people
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who are enthused about going back to mass, but I think the
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good of majority of people are going to probably reject.
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This idea is kind of like when it came back in.
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Vogue down here in San Diego. A lot of people just kind of
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didn't really listen but it's it's something that they're
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going to keep Clinging On to, and I would expect that they're
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going to start, ramping it up again, they're going to
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obviously push it coming into the fall and all that stuff.
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So there is a possibility that you're going to see in
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California. Some of these counties and areas
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and jurisdiction sliding backwards on a lot of covid
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policy. So keep an eye on that and I
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just Point that out because that's something for anybody in
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LA county to be aware of another thing that someone had brought
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up about the AL a mayoral race. Now, this is something that
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let's see if I can find the article because I think it's
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really important. So, talking about why I wanted
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to do this again. In still, talk about the
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primaries even a week later is, because even though the
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primaries were last week, there's still a lot of stuff
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coming in. There's a lot of vote-by-mail,
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there's millions of ballots that have not been counted.
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Which to me is crazy that we can't get millions of ballots
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counted on the night of election.
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That's something that a lot of people are going to start losing
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faith in the electoral process. If millions of millions of those
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are not even counted. By the time they cast their
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ballot that most people don't even really know where the
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results are gonna lie. Now, there are like statistical
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analysis is, and people who can look online and say, like, look,
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here's a sample. And here's Much.
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We know that way, we know that this is too much of a lead to
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overcome even though that didn't really work in the presidential
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race because they said, Pennsylvania was too far to
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overcome for Biden, but somehow he came back and won it.
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But that's why I want to do these primary kind of debrief
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right now a week later. And there's there's still going
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to be stuff going on like a month from now.
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It's going to take a while for this to shake out there.
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Are things, we know for positive, we know that chesa
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Boudin has been recalled which is something I'm going to Talk
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about with this Atlantic article but this is something that's
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interesting. Alex, Mickelson.
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Who if you don't know he's one of the reporters up in l.a. had
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tweeted with the latest batch of ballots.
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Karen bass takes the lead in l.a. mayor's race.
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There are still more than two hundred forty-five thousand
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ballots to count in LA County right now.
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Karen bass is at 41, recruiters 38, Kevin De Leon his way back
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at 8%, not even really a thing. It's see the new Los Angeles
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Times. For a representative, Karen bass
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pulled ahead of rival. Rick Russo on the primary
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election for Los Angeles, mayor on Tuesday.
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After a surge of vote by mail ballots, boosted, the
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congresswoman, and several other Progressive, candidates over the
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week. A flood of late, arriving by
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mail ballots, propelled left-of-center cannons and races
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for mayor City attorney and multiple Council seats that is
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is on that. I can understand if it were
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something that statistically and this is something we saw in
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2020, which is stuff that Raises eyebrows, right?
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It raises certainly a lot of eyebrows with people who are
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looking this going. Wait a second, why is it always
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one thing? Breaks entirely for one
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candidate. Statistically, a lot of people
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who follow elections and voting, all this stuff, look at this and
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go, this doesn't really seem to make a lot of sense.
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And especially in this case, if Karen bass who was behind on
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Election night, all of a sudden has an eight-point swing in just
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a matter of week because of Oh, by now, that's something that a
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lot of people probably look at and go, wait a second, unless
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there, is that much of a discrepancy that the far left
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stays home and they mail in their ballots.
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And people, anybody right of Center actually, goes and votes
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on day of which is why you get these discrepancies.
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That is an issue, that certainly is an issue that people should
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be looking into and saying, wait a second, why are we getting
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only one person or one? One way of Leaning politician.
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It seems to benefit from vote by mail, which is again, why a lot
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of these far-left people are pushing vote-by-mail, why
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noodles is pushing vote-by-mail, why it's always a lot of
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Democrats who were pushing vote-by-mail.
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They always seem to benefit at the end.
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Now, it'll be interesting in the general, because we know at this
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point, that is going to be Rick Caruso and Karen bass.
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We're going to face off for the LA city mayor.
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Now, if you look at the breakdown, there are other
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people who took 7% 8%, you know, a couple other percent here and
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there. Joe buscaino dropped out.
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So he's no longer a factor but it will be interesting to see
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how it shakes out over the next several months before election
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day. And it looks like if you're Rick
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Russo, you're going to have to build up a substantial lead to
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the point where they call the race on Election night.
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And I fear that that's probably not going to be the case.
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I think it'll probably come down to the wire and it's going to be
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very close between these two and it does.
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You have one Karen bass who will likely just maintain the status
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quo in Los Angeles, and Rick Russo, who is the former
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Republican. Turn independent, turn,
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Democrat, billionaire developer of the Grove and the Americana,
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if you're in l.a. those are some of the nicer areas of Allah
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which is like the high-end shopping malls and stuff like
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that. They're not even shopping malls.
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There like shopping center or shopping plazas.
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I guess you can call them. So coming up into the general
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looks like the recruiter so is going to have to build a
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substantial lead. Going into election night
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because it if this is the case, you can see that vote by mail is
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going to obviously shift for Karen bass and if she's only
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behind by two or three percent, they're not going to call the
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race on Election night. They're not going to call the
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race because there's a possibility.
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If she didn't eight-point swing in the primaries with just those
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two candidates, there's a possibility, she could do the
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same exact thing with vote-by-mail again.
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Why it's important? California and not 20 He's just
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call the primaries right away because these things do kind of
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shake out over the course of a month, but statistically, you
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can look at a lot of this stuff. And most people can say it's
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over, right? We can call the race like the
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chesa Boudin recall that something that people can call
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because it's such a huge disparity.
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It's such an enormous disparity of sixty percent of people voted
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to recall chesa Boudin and you only need fifty one percent that
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it's unlikely that he's going to be able to make The ground at
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this point, he's already. I read that he's conceded that
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he's already out that he is somewhere in down in South
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America. He's not even actually using
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like Costa Rica or something. He's not even actually still in
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San Francisco. We bake it is office.
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Somebody else is going to come in and clean it out.
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What is the cutoff date for the vote?
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By mail, ballots arrive at the register.
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But, or at registrar office has I thought it was yet to drop it
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off by election day. I don't think you can keep
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dropping them off. Someone can correct me Camille.
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I know, you can research that right away and let me know in
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the comments whether that's true or not, but I always assumed
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that it was, you have to drop it off by election day that
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anything postmarked or dropped out you what you can't drop
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anything off after election day because there's no more election
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polling. And I think after you can't
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post, mark, it afterwards, or is there like a week, but that may
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be something to look into. So somebody says it's 8 p.m. by
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election day, they have to be Mark by election day.
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So if you get things that are postmarked June 8 because that
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was the day after that wouldn't be counted.
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So the fact that all this is really coming in so slowly is
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kind of worrying. They yes, they do have to stop
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counting them after a specific date.
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So it has to be I think like 30 days or something that they keep
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counting up until they're not going to keep or it's 36 Days.
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36 days until the vote is certified.
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I'd so they have only 36 days until the vote is over and they
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have to keep they can keep counting ballots.
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So your that's why you see a lot of these ballots and if you
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follow someone, like Rob priors on Instagram, if you want to be
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like a real or Instagram on Twitter, he's a real wonk on
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this stuff when it comes to California elections.
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Follow him. And he shows you that like every
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couple days, there's a big batch and it could change the vote one
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way or another. So it is very it's interesting
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to watch and And this race specifically for LA City
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mayor's, because it's going to kind of get a gauge of where LA
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and San Francisco are going. And I said this last week, in
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terms of why this election is really important and
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specifically these primaries are very important is because I
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think it's the Line in the Sand election for a lot of
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Californians. It's a line in the sand as to
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how far are you going to let California?
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Get really kooky and crazy. Before people start to go, wait
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a second. I'm all for a little kooky and
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crazy because I live here in California.
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It's sort of why I like California.
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Is a little kooky and crazy, but at a certain point, I also want
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to raise a family and live in my house without fear of someone
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breaking in or have my car broken into or walk down the
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street, in a major city and not deal with any sort of drug
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issues or stepping on needle or something like that.
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So this is the Line in the Sand election.
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I think you're going to see a lot of people kind of turn
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against far-left Progressive ideology and this would be a
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perfect segue into the article. I'm going to share with you from
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the Atlantic is that this is the Line in the Sand and you're
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going to see it across the sort of up and down the state and
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l.a. city is definitely one of those.
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Barometers. And if LA City elects, we're
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Caruso as mayor, I think. Think that's a big Line in the
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Sand for the rest of the state. To kind of say this is, as far
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as we've gone, we've done as much Progressive.
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I think the recall chesa Boudin is also a Line in the Sand.
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So I wouldn't all of a sudden say, San Francisco is going to
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get like a whole bunch of Republicans, but you're going to
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start seeing a lot of people who were liberals versus leftist.
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I guess you could say like classical liberals who are
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living like live and sort of. Now you have these leftist who
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are really kind of Ruining the city of San Francisco.
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There were some other elections that you know, Governor didn't
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really, we know nothing really shook out there.
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Brian Dolly, got 17.4 percent of the vote.
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We know that nothing has really changed in any of these other
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races, trying to think of any other races of import Alex
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Padilla got fifty four point four percent of the vote.
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And then behind him is Mark Mauser who got 14.7 percent of
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the vote? So Mark, Mauser is going to be
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moving on some of the House Representatives, young Kim did
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really well in her District. Unfortunately, Scott, bow one in
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the 47 which if, you know, I did an expose on Scott bow but I
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guess if you have enough money and your Scott bow, and you have
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enough Connections in the Orange County, Republican party, that's
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all that matters. As long as you got money in, you
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have connections in Orange County in the Orange County,
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Republican party, then you're fine and forget all the other
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sketchy. Often being indicted for
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election fraud, and all that. But let's hop into this article
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because I do want to give you guys some time to ask questions
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and follow-up about the primaries.
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Any audio listeners who are like wait you had a podcast last
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week. It wasn't a podcast I hopped on
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live to let everybody know that Angela was going to be able to
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make it last Thursday. And it sort of turned into a
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whole hour and a half kind of live out of nowhere and we
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talked about a lot of things. So if you are interested in that
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extra content and you're an audio listener, pure Early go on
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Instagram. You'll see the video of me
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talking about the primaries the day after or a couple days
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after. So let's get into this article
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by the Atlantic, make sure. Okay, they still have all my
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highlights. I've been working with this new
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program about highlighting online because I'm not going to
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read the whole article. It's a very long article.
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I would definitely recommend, I'm going to put the link in the
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show description for the audio and I think it's a really good
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article and this is one of those things.
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If you only read one side or if you only read from One Source,
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you're not going to get as much of an idea of what the heck is
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going on outside of your Echo chamber.
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And I think this is important, that's why I want to read this.
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So this is written by Nelly balls.
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The author forthcoming book of essays writes, a column, the
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newsletter common sense and will hop into it.
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Let's see. She talks about her upbringing.
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She grew up in San Francisco. She loves it.
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Bubble bar, we can kind of skip over that.
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Did you do? It starts off but I need you to
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love San Francisco a little bit. Like I do a lot in order to hear
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the story of how my city fell apart and how it just might be
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starting to pull itself back together because yesterday, San
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Francisco voters decided to turn their district attorney chesa
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Boudin out of office. They did it because he didn't
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seem to care that he was making the citizens of our city
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miserable in service of an ideology.
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That made sense everywhere. But in reality It's not just
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about Boudin though, there is a sense that on everything from
00:19:59
housing to school. San Francisco has lost the plot
00:20:02
that Progressive leaders here have been LARPing.
00:20:05
Left-wing values instead of working, to create a livable
00:20:08
City, and many, San Francisco's have had enough.
00:20:13
This is the right off the bat. I think this is really
00:20:15
interesting for her to say, this, as someone who loves San
00:20:18
Francisco, grew up in San Francisco, who kind of got used
00:20:20
to the idea of San Francisco, is this kooky place.
00:20:23
And, again, it's this line. In the sand.
00:20:25
It's that there's a certain point where people, you push
00:20:28
them farther and farther, and farther, and sooner or later,
00:20:30
people are going to push back and go and it doesn't really
00:20:32
work in reality and it's all over the map.
00:20:36
She goes over a whole bunch of different things.
00:20:37
We're only going to focus on parts of the article but I like
00:20:42
that lime that San Francisco has lost a pot that Progressive
00:20:45
leaders here have been LARPing. If you know a LARPing is LARPing
00:20:49
is basically like it's live action role play, right?
00:20:52
That's what it means. It's like when people go out in
00:20:53
the woods and pretend they're Swords or something or fantasy
00:20:57
things. And they LARP left-wing values
00:20:59
instead of working to create a livable City, and many, San
00:21:03
Francisco's have had enough. I think that's really a lot of
00:21:07
kind of California politics. Some matzo, mised into one
00:21:11
little sentence, which is week, do keep pushing a lot of these
00:21:14
policies in California that where you want a LARP, as this
00:21:18
really, really cool Progressive, who has these idealistic ideas,
00:21:22
but it doesn't work in reality and it Work in the real world
00:21:26
and you can pass all of these really really Progressive cool
00:21:33
ideas. Like Scott wieners idea of he
00:21:36
wants to pass. Make drag queen story time.
00:21:38
Something that is required in K through 12 stuff like that,
00:21:43
sounds really Progressive and it gets you clicks and it gets a
00:21:46
lot of people on his side or like Yas queen stuff like that
00:21:49
but at the end of the day there's gonna be a lot of
00:21:51
parents who go no you're not making a state law where you
00:21:54
were Choir drag queen Story Hour in every single School K through
00:21:58
12, not going to happen, not going to work in reality.
00:22:02
During the first part of the pandemic, San Francisco County
00:22:05
lost more than one in 20 residents myself among them
00:22:09
signs of the city's. Pandemic, decline are
00:22:11
everywhere. The boarded-up stores, the
00:22:13
ghostly downtown, the encampments, but walk in the
00:22:15
streets, awakens me to how bad San Francisco had gotten even
00:22:20
before the coronavirus. Hit to how much suffering in
00:22:23
squalor at come to think was normal.
00:22:25
Stepping over people's bodies blurring my eyes to not see a
00:22:28
dull needle, jabbing and jabbing again between toes.
00:22:31
It course. And me I've gotten used to the
00:22:33
idea that some people just want to live like that.
00:22:35
I was even a little defensive it.
00:22:37
Hey it's America it's your choice.
00:22:40
That's that Live and Let Live kind of San Francisco attitude
00:22:42
of like hey just you know, what you want to do, what you want to
00:22:46
do, you want to die in a gutter addicted, to fentanyl.
00:22:48
Go right ahead, and she sure she sort of talks about this a
00:22:52
couple of years ago. One of my friends saw a man
00:22:54
staggering down the street bleeding.
00:22:57
She recognized him as someone who regularly slept outside in
00:23:00
the neighborhood and called 911, On paramedics and police arrived
00:23:04
and began treating him. But members of a homeless,
00:23:06
advocacy group noticed and intervene they told the man that
00:23:09
he didn't have to get into the ambulance and that he had the
00:23:11
right to refuse treatment. So that's what he did.
00:23:15
The paramedics left, the activists left, the man sat on
00:23:18
the sidewalk alone, still bleeding.
00:23:20
A few months later, he died about a block away.
00:23:23
Again, you have a lot of these progressives who push these
00:23:26
ideas and these nonprofits, but what ultimately happened.
00:23:31
This man lost his life as opposed to getting treatment.
00:23:35
I used to tell myself to San Francisco politics were wacky
00:23:38
but the city was trying really trying to be good, but the
00:23:41
reality is that the smartest minds and so much money, and the
00:23:44
very best of intention. San Francisco, became a cruel
00:23:47
City. It became so, dogmatically
00:23:49
Progressive that maintaining the purity of the politics required
00:23:52
accepting, or at least ignoring the devastating results.
00:23:57
But this dogmatism maybe buckling under pressure from
00:24:00
reality earlier this year in a landslide, San Francisco voters
00:24:03
recalled, the head of the school board and two of her most
00:24:06
Progressive colleagues. These are people who also turned
00:24:08
out boating early results, show that about 60% of Voters chose
00:24:13
to recall him. So, this is one of those things
00:24:16
and I think, again, this is sort of an encapsulation of what's
00:24:19
going on in California. It's not that these ideas don't
00:24:26
really work in, Quality. And she even admits it here that
00:24:29
a lot of this dogmatic ideas of these Progressive ideas.
00:24:32
He's far-left ideas that work in these think tanks and
00:24:35
universities and professors and they think it's all great and
00:24:37
good, but when it's out in the real world, you're starting to
00:24:41
see the effects of it and it's harming, normal, everyday
00:24:44
citizens and its cotton to the point now where a lot of people
00:24:49
on the far left can admit that they are wrong because they're
00:24:53
afraid that if they even say anything.
00:24:57
If they say boo about any sort of progressive policy, they're
00:25:02
going to get labeled as a republican, a trump supporter
00:25:05
because it's that black and white to them.
00:25:07
It's if you are against what they're pushing every single
00:25:13
Progressive ideology, then you must be some sort of fascist
00:25:17
right-wing Trump supporter because you can't be one of us.
00:25:21
And that's that dogmatic sort of adherence to religious religion
00:25:27
Is a problem with the far left here in California.
00:25:30
They may say they're atheist and they don't believe in God, but
00:25:33
the reality of it is, they do believe in a god, they believe
00:25:36
in the god of the state and they believe in the god of a
00:25:38
progressive State, an Uber Progressive State, and I don't
00:25:41
even like saying that they are Uber Progressive, because
00:25:44
Progressive as we've talked about on this show means you're
00:25:47
actually going somewhere. There is progress to where you
00:25:50
are going and a lot of their policies are not Progressive
00:25:55
because it doesn't progress, it doesn't make anything Thing
00:25:57
better. And in this case, in San
00:25:59
Francisco, you're seeing a lot of these quote-unquote
00:26:01
Progressive policies, harming everyday citizens.
00:26:05
And this is where their dogmatic and religious kind of worship at
00:26:13
the foot of the state and worship at the foot of
00:26:15
government as long as it's a progressive government
00:26:19
Progressive in quotes because that's what all it is.
00:26:22
Then you're part of the church. If you dare question it, if Our
00:26:27
question, you're a heathen and you'll likely be thrown out of
00:26:30
the church. Moving on policymakers and
00:26:35
residents largely embrace. The exciting idea that people
00:26:39
should be able to do whatever they want to do, including live
00:26:41
in 10 cities and have fun with drugs and make their own medical
00:26:44
decisions. Even if they are out of their
00:26:47
mind sometimes, but then a fentanyl arrived and more, and
00:26:50
more people start dying in those tents and the pandemic began the
00:26:53
drug crisis got worse. Due to do the moment to
00:26:59
decriminalize shoplifting, in San Francisco began in 2014 with
00:27:02
47, the state law that downgrade drug possession and also
00:27:06
re-categorized the theft of merchandise, worthless less than
00:27:09
950 950 dollars as a misdemeanor.
00:27:12
It accelerate and 2019 with the election of Bodine as district
00:27:15
attorney Bodine rental left, as a fierce Progressive, ideologue
00:27:21
who's worldview was shaped by his imprisoned, parents members
00:27:24
of The Weather Underground. He was a public defender, not a
00:27:28
prosecutor at all and this is always why it's kind of a big
00:27:32
Deal. If you see a race running for
00:27:35
district attorney. And you see someone who is a
00:27:37
prosecutor who was running, who has 10-15 years running or 15 or
00:27:42
20 years running, as a prosecutor has been a DA for
00:27:45
that many years and you see someone who's running as a
00:27:47
public defender. Nine times, nine point, nine
00:27:51
times out of ten, always support the person who actually ran and
00:27:55
has experience as a prosecutor. Don't elect the public defender.
00:28:00
They try that down here in San Diego.
00:28:02
They tried to get someone in, who was a public defender who
00:28:04
had no prosecutorial discretion. Of course, she was backed by
00:28:07
Soros part of the Soros campaign to change all the prosecutors.
00:28:11
I think chesa Boudin and gascon were two of those but it didn't
00:28:14
work down here in San Diego. So thankfully summer Stevens one
00:28:17
and she beat back the Soros back public.
00:28:19
Under Bodines election party is City, supervisor led the crowd
00:28:24
and a chain of f. The POA in the POA, is to Police
00:28:28
Officers Association because they fought really hard against
00:28:30
them. They spend about four hundred
00:28:31
thousand dollars in attack ads during his campaign.
00:28:34
Bodine said he wouldn't prosecute quality-of-life
00:28:37
crimes. He wanted to quote, break the
00:28:39
cycle of recidivism by addressing the social causes of
00:28:43
crime poverty, addiction mental health issues, Boudin was
00:28:46
selling revolution in San Francisco is ready in theory.
00:28:50
But not in fact because it turns out that people on the left also
00:28:53
owned property and generally believe stores should be paid
00:28:57
for the goods they sell. Let me say that again because it
00:29:01
turns out that people on the left also owned property and
00:29:04
generally believed that store should be paid for the goods
00:29:07
that they sell. So there is this sort of again,
00:29:11
we're going back to this idea of there is a line, and there is a
00:29:14
line even for people on the left to go.
00:29:18
I would like to feel If in my house I'd like to feel like my
00:29:21
car is not going to get broken into.
00:29:24
And I do believe that the stores that I go to are going to sell
00:29:29
products and make money on those products and they're not going
00:29:31
to get robbed from those products.
00:29:35
So that's again, that's that line.
00:29:36
We're starting to see a line and we're starting to see how far
00:29:39
they can butt up against it and clearly in this recall chesa
00:29:42
Boudin you've seen the line, and now you've seen that people kind
00:29:46
of, this is the line, and we're pushing back on it.
00:29:50
Under boating, prosecutors in the city could no longer use the
00:29:52
fact that someone had been convicted of a crime in the
00:29:54
past, to ask for a longer sentence.
00:29:56
Except in extraordinary extraordinary circumstances
00:30:00
Boudin ended cash bail and limited the use of gang
00:30:02
enhancements which allow harsher sentences for gang-related
00:30:06
felonies. In most cases, he prohibited
00:30:08
prosecutors from seeking charges.
00:30:10
When drugs and guns were found during minor traffic stops
00:30:14
quote. We will not charge cases to to
00:30:17
be a kid. We will not charge cases too.
00:30:19
I meant to be a racist, pretextual, stop that leads to
00:30:23
recovery of Contraband. Rachel Marshall the District
00:30:26
Attorney's. Director of communications told
00:30:28
me about 60 prosecutors to the left.
00:30:32
Since boating took off his clothes to half of his team,
00:30:34
some retired or were fired. But others quit in protest.
00:30:37
I talked with to who join the recall campaign one of them
00:30:40
omastar prosecutor, named Brooke Jenkins, told me.
00:30:42
She left in part because boating was pressuring some lawyers to
00:30:46
prosecute Major Crimes as lesser offenses, she couldn't be a Part
00:30:50
of it. Quote, the victims feel
00:30:51
hopeless, they feel he has lost their opportunity for Justice
00:30:54
right now. What they see and feel is that
00:30:57
the only concern is the criminal offender 2020, tweet from the
00:31:02
tenderloin, police station captured, the frustration
00:31:04
rank-and-file tonight for the 15th time, at 18 months and the
00:31:07
third time in 20 days, we are booking the same suspect a
00:31:10
county jail for felony motor vehicle theft.
00:31:15
And again, it's one of those issues where Apps are not going
00:31:21
to necessarily arrest someone. Once they know that the DA's not
00:31:25
going to prosecute them. It's not worth the paperwork.
00:31:28
It's not worth holding the person.
00:31:30
It's not worth going through the whole procedure because they
00:31:33
know that if they're going to arrest somebody and bring them
00:31:36
up on charges and they're not going to prosecute him they're
00:31:39
going to be back out on the street police are just going to
00:31:42
say that screw it. I'm not really it's not really
00:31:44
my issue anymore you know not my monkey not my circus so that It
00:31:49
contributes to a lot of the crime in 2020.
00:31:52
I interviewed Bodine while working a story for the New York
00:31:54
Times when we talked about using, why he wasn't interested
00:31:57
in Prosecuting quality of life? He explained.
00:32:00
Hold onto your pants. Hear, you explain that street
00:32:03
crime is Small Potatoes compared with the high level stuff.
00:32:07
He wants to focus on kilos, not crumbs is a favorite line of
00:32:11
his. He suggested that many drug
00:32:14
dealers in San Francisco are themselves.
00:32:16
Vulnerable, and in need of protection, quote, a significant
00:32:19
percentage of people, Selling drugs in San Francisco.
00:32:21
Perhaps as many as half are here from Honduras.
00:32:24
He said in a 20/20 virtual Town Hall.
00:32:27
We need to be mindful about the impact of our interventions.
00:32:30
Have some of these young men have been traffic here under
00:32:33
pain of death. Some of them have had family
00:32:35
members in Honduras who have been or will be harmed if they
00:32:38
don't continue to pay off these traffickers.
00:32:41
So there you have it chesa Boudin believes that there's no
00:32:44
real reason to prosecute drug dealers because there's a good
00:32:49
chance that if you're a drug dealer and you were trafficked
00:32:52
here from Honduras that you have to pay up, you know, you have to
00:32:56
kick up to the guy upstairs 10% of the big guy upstairs, whoever
00:33:00
it is back in Honduras. So just let them sell is
00:33:05
basically his, the, his Mantra forget that it then brings in
00:33:09
more drugs that it does harm. People at harms children aren't
00:33:12
students at Arms homeless, it harms, a lot of people, but
00:33:15
because we're worried about what's going on in Honduras.
00:33:20
Don't prosecute any of them don't prosecute, any of the
00:33:23
laws, don't enforce any of the laws because there may be a
00:33:26
chance that that drug dealer has a connection to the cartel back
00:33:30
in Honduras and therefore that's why Community should be ruined
00:33:34
because of that connection. I when I saw that I was
00:33:39
absolutely astounded. That that's one of your
00:33:41
rationales for why, you know, if you're come to a different
00:33:45
country and there's laws there, you're going to expect to be
00:33:50
prosecuted on those laws if I went to Europe or if I went to a
00:33:54
European country, if I went to Italy, you know, screw that.
00:33:57
Even if I went down, 20 minutes down South of the Border and I
00:34:01
broke a law in Mexico. I'm not going to say don't
00:34:04
prosecute me because I'm from United States and I have all
00:34:06
these issues Back in the United States, they're going to say we
00:34:10
don't care. You broke our law here in
00:34:11
Mexico. Therefore you're going to face
00:34:13
time, you're going to be prosecuted.
00:34:16
That sort of logic that you don't want to prosecute someone
00:34:19
because they're breaking laws here may impact their lives.
00:34:23
I mean, there could be a better way to do that.
00:34:25
There may be a better way to help but to not prosecute at all
00:34:31
and just let them go seems to be a really bad idea, but Ian's
00:34:36
Defenders like to dismiss his critics as whiny Tech Bros or
00:34:41
Rich. Right-wingers one pro, boating
00:34:44
flyer said, stop the right-wing agenda, right?
00:34:48
Because you could fit basically all the Republicans in San
00:34:52
Francisco. In and out.
00:34:54
That's about how many there are. And you're going to say that
00:34:57
it's a right-wing agenda that it was so powerful that they were
00:35:02
able to get a far left, Progressive district attorney in
00:35:07
San Francisco, booted out of office right wrong because 60%
00:35:12
of people who voted are not likely all Republicans.
00:35:15
If that were the case, San Francisco would be a completely
00:35:17
different city. If 60% of people who were
00:35:20
Republican voted to get rid of this guy, that would be an
00:35:22
enormous. With an enormous swing and be
00:35:25
old different city but he's gonna blame everybody else.
00:35:29
If it were only the rich well, the rich can hire private
00:35:32
security or move to the suburbs and many do.
00:35:36
Wait, hold on, let me go back but the drumbeat of complaints
00:35:38
came from plenty of good liberals and so did the votes
00:35:41
against them. If it were only the rich well
00:35:42
the rich can hire private security or move to the suburbs
00:35:45
and many do. They're not the only people who
00:35:48
live here and they're not the only ones who got angry, right?
00:35:54
The Seas Progressive seem to feel that is all just too
00:35:56
beautiful and fragile to change. Any change will mean
00:35:59
diminishment any new bigger building?
00:36:01
Means the old Charming. One is gone.
00:36:04
And the old Charming resident, is probably gone to the flow.
00:36:06
Newcomers is out of control. They should just stop coming
00:36:09
here. The Community Gardens have to
00:36:10
stay along with the sunlight spilling across the low
00:36:13
buildings. No, one thinks about it.
00:36:14
As a damning teachers and firefighters to mega commutes,
00:36:18
no one thinks of it as kicking out the middle class, given the
00:36:20
choice between housing people in a sidewalk tents.
00:36:23
Or a new buildings that might be risk of blocking up an inch of
00:36:26
their view of the Bay San Francisco's for years.
00:36:28
Chose the tents and that's talking about a lot of housing
00:36:31
developments. So Switching gears now about
00:36:33
chesa Boudin anymore. So when I ask what article my
00:36:37
raining, it's from the Atlantic, I'll go ahead and post it in the
00:36:40
show notes of the audio podcast. Now talking about schools, the
00:36:45
city schools were shut for. Most of Twenty One, Twenty
00:36:48
Eight, twenty two, Twenty One Academic Year longer than
00:36:50
schools in most other cities and much longer in San Francisco's
00:36:53
private schools in the middle of the pandemic.
00:36:56
No, real opening plan site. School Board means became major
00:36:58
events with audiences on Zoom of more than 1, the board
00:37:03
didn't have, you know, Laura lateral power to reopen schools,
00:37:05
even if it wanted to, that depend on negotiations, between
00:37:08
the district, the city and the teachers union.
00:37:10
But many parents were appalled to find the board members didn't
00:37:13
even seem Want to talk about much talk much about getting
00:37:17
kids back into the classrooms. They didn't want to talk about
00:37:20
learning loss or issues with attendance and functionality.
00:37:22
It seemed they couldn't be bothered with topics like
00:37:24
ventilation. Instead, they want to talk about
00:37:28
white supremacy because that was really the big issue of 2020 do
00:37:37
to keep going on talking to Anna Bodines opponents.
00:37:40
Likewise came from all over the city, he liked to say they were
00:37:42
funded by Elites in the rear. Call campaign did raise about
00:37:45
twice as much money. But wealthy people have donated
00:37:47
to the pro boating camping to the racial group that most
00:37:51
likely say they wanted boating recalled.
00:37:54
Asian-americans, their allies include many from the remnants
00:37:58
of the city's middle class, as well as same sort of swayable
00:38:00
liberals, who went from going for Collins to recalling her.
00:38:05
Going on to finish up. My hometown isn't turning red on
00:38:10
any electoral Maps, but the shift is real the farm at 770,
00:38:13
woosley the developer. Finally as approval turn into
00:38:15
housing Grace progressives, have overplayed their hand gotten a
00:38:19
little decadent in the culture War wins and starring slogans.
00:38:22
Without the good government to back them all up, San Francisco
00:38:25
is showing the way toward an internal Reformation.
00:38:30
It, of course, it'll take more than a couple of recall votes to
00:38:33
save San Francisco. When I asked breed about the new
00:38:35
center for addicts in the plaza, the creation of which she
00:38:37
supported. She seemed a little
00:38:39
uncomfortable and soon after want to wrap up our interview,
00:38:42
she says something vague about how not all change can happen at
00:38:45
once for too long. San Francisco has been too
00:38:48
satisfied to address the slow raw and every one of its
00:38:51
institutions. Again, what have I always been
00:38:54
saying about covid? In all this stuff covid did
00:38:57
expose the rod, Going on in California institutions, we saw
00:39:01
it firsthand. So covid, expose, not only over
00:39:05
Statewide. What we saw in Sacramento in
00:39:07
terms of rot. Now, a lot of people in San,
00:39:10
Francisco are starting to see the slow rot of a lot of their
00:39:13
institutions, but nothing's given me more hope than the rage
00:39:17
and the recalls San franciscans feel ashamed.
00:39:19
I think for the first time people are like, wait, what is a
00:39:22
progressive and my responsible is this my fault.
00:39:26
San franciscans are now saying we want a fair, Justice system
00:39:29
and also want to keep our windows from getting smashed and
00:39:33
it's not white supremacy. Do that the school stay open
00:39:36
that teachers teach children and yes that they test to see what
00:39:40
those kids have learned, right? Finally, San Francisco's trick
00:39:48
themselves into believing that Progressive politics required
00:39:51
blocking new construction, shunning the immigrants who came
00:39:53
to town to code. We trick ourselves into thinking
00:39:56
psychosis and addiction on the sidewalk were just part of the
00:39:58
city's diversity, even as the homelessness and housing, prices
00:40:01
drove out the city's actual diversity.
00:40:03
Now residents are coming to their senses.
00:40:05
The recalls mean, there's a limit to how far we will let the
00:40:07
decay of this great City go and thank God again, she agrees with
00:40:12
me. She agrees with me that there is
00:40:14
a line in the sand. And and there is a line that a
00:40:17
lot of people on the left are not willing to really go past
00:40:22
and I think those are basic tenants.
00:40:24
Those are basic tenants that a lot of Californians can agree
00:40:26
on. So when I had a cough in
00:40:28
California politics, several weeks weeks back, we talked
00:40:31
about how we're not really that different.
00:40:34
In terms of sort of these core issues, these kitchen table
00:40:37
politics issues and a lot of sort of the loudest cries come
00:40:42
from these far left progressives, they're being
00:40:45
exposed, their being Exposed as the status and leftist that they
00:40:48
are and that their ideas don't really work.
00:40:51
In reality that people want to send their kids to schools that
00:40:54
work that they know that their kids are going to learn
00:40:57
something. And they're more worried that.
00:40:59
Those kids will learn something be smart and go on to college or
00:41:01
whatever they want to do. People also want to live in a
00:41:05
city where they don't have to worry about their Windows being
00:41:07
smashed through people walking into their house on who are
00:41:10
three sheets to the wind or on drugs or something like that and
00:41:13
they also don't want to walk their kids down the street and
00:41:16
have Worry about stepping over dead bodies of people who have
00:41:18
overdosed on fentanyl. These are core issues.
00:41:22
And again, I think that's an important thing going forward
00:41:25
here. And why these primaries are this
00:41:28
Line in the Sand. And if San Francisco is a
00:41:31
microcosm, I think you're seeing it across the state.
00:41:35
You're seeing a lot of people who are pushing back, smaller
00:41:39
races, one that I pointed out down here in San Francisco, or
00:41:44
San Francisco, San Diego. Is one where David Alvarez has
00:41:48
won, a special election to take over the assembly seat. 80 down
00:41:53
here in San Diego, and he beat Georgia Gomez.
00:41:56
Now, you're going to say, well, he's a Democrat, he is but he's
00:42:00
a moderate Democrat. He's a moderate Democrat.
00:42:02
Who actually came out and supported suspending.
00:42:03
The guys tax don't know if he'll stick to that.
00:42:06
But the fact that he came out and said that we need to help
00:42:09
Californians in this time of need.
00:42:11
We need to suspend the gas tax. Is a lot more moderate than what
00:42:14
Georgette Gomez was. In which is she didn't want to
00:42:17
spend the guys to actually want to create more legislation to go
00:42:21
after and price go after any sort of price gouging when it
00:42:25
came to oil companies and stuff like that.
00:42:28
So again, I think there is a line in the sand and if there is
00:42:32
any Silver Lining to what is going on in California, right
00:42:36
now, is the fact that you are seeing how far it can go.
00:42:42
And there is a line. And if you can say, here are the
00:42:44
borders of what L will accept, and what people won't accept at
00:42:48
least right now, you can argue in those Lanes.
00:42:51
You know, it's extra like in Bowling when you put the bumpers
00:42:54
up because you can't Bowl in, you're a little kid or something
00:42:56
like that, and they put the bumpers up to make sure your
00:42:58
ball goes down the lane. It's not going to go off and be
00:43:01
a Gutterball. Like those are your bumpers.
00:43:02
You know, this is as far as they'll go right?
00:43:04
And this may be as far as they go left.
00:43:06
So these issues in the middle. Scuze me.
00:43:09
These issues in the middle are what we're really going to start
00:43:13
arguing about or what we're going to move forward on and
00:43:15
another Think outside of California was the win out in
00:43:20
Texas, which is a big deal. And Myra Flores, I believe her
00:43:24
name is huge issue that of congressional seat that never
00:43:30
been won by a republican Was Won by this this young lady and it
00:43:36
was the first time a republican has held the seat.
00:43:38
It's also the first time, a Mexican born citizen actually is
00:43:42
elected into Congress. So if that shows you anything it
00:43:46
Does show you there is a push back, amongst Hispanics, and
00:43:49
Hispanics are starting to change their tune on whether they vote
00:43:52
democrat or republican in that could have huge implications in
00:43:56
Texas. It can have huge implications in
00:43:58
New Mexico and Arizona and here in California, you're going to
00:44:02
see a lot of that. You're going to see a lot of it.
00:44:04
You're going to see a lot of now, if that Hispanic block
00:44:09
stars to move more to the right and start voting conservative,
00:44:13
it could change a lot of things here in So we may be on a
00:44:18
precipice of where California says, this is the line.
00:44:22
We're not going any farther than this, in terms of far-left
00:44:26
progressivism, and you have a Hispanic population that is
00:44:32
becoming more conservative here in California and Across the
00:44:35
Nation. Now, all of a sudden you have a
00:44:39
recipe to kind of change things and move back and kind of a stem
00:44:44
the tide and move backwards. So I'm always a glass-half-full
00:44:47
kind of guy in terms of this and I always think that there is a
00:44:50
possibility here, there is certainly a possibility to take
00:44:54
advantage of this window that we have where people are looking
00:44:58
for new ideas. They're looking for a different
00:45:02
solution, they're tired of the same old way of doing things and
00:45:06
here they are, here it is. And if people don't take
00:45:09
advantage of that, well, that's their fault.
00:45:12
I doubt the California GOP is going to necessarily take huge
00:45:14
advantage of it. But it's up to people at the
00:45:17
Grassroots, right? It's up to people at the
00:45:19
Grassroots organized and then, you know, subtle plug for
00:45:23
tomorrow's podcast. Look at what the mises caucus do
00:45:25
with the libertarian party. It's a whole new libertarian
00:45:28
party. It's not the low batarians, it's
00:45:30
not these woke Libertarians who are all fine with drag queen
00:45:34
Story Hour and stuff like that. It's a whole different
00:45:36
libertarian party. So There's positivity there,
00:45:42
there's some good things and some bad things.
00:45:43
I'm reading the tea leaves about what I think is good and I think
00:45:48
you can do agree with me or disagree with me, and that's
00:45:51
basically it, so, but that's there's about 10 minutes left.
00:45:54
I do want to open it up for questions or comments.
00:45:57
Well, I do take a sip of coffee, so, It's a really good article.
00:46:03
It's a lot longer than what I read, and that was a lot of the
00:46:06
article, but I would definitely check it out.
00:46:08
It's a great article to read and sort of get this person's first
00:46:13
hand experience of someone who really does love San Francisco.
00:46:17
And they see the writing on the wall and how bad it's gotten,
00:46:20
and they can say it's gotten really bad and I'm hopeful that
00:46:23
it can save itself. Now again, she's right, it's not
00:46:26
going to be necessarily read any times.
00:46:30
June. But if San Francisco is The
00:46:35
Benchmark of far-left ideology, right?
00:46:39
And a lot of the crazy and cuckoo ideas come out of there
00:46:42
that then make it to the rest of the country if they're not as
00:46:46
cuckoo crazy anymore and they become more moderate.
00:46:50
It doesn't seem that bad anymore, right?
00:46:53
Of course there's other places where kooky ideology comes out
00:46:55
of here, San Diego. Nathan Fletcher.
00:46:58
Seems to be fine with being the guinea pig, the canary in the
00:47:03
coal mine too. So to speak to try out.
00:47:05
A lot of these ideas, I don't know if a lot of people realize
00:47:09
that the whole Ministry of Truth was really kind of a idea that
00:47:15
started here in San Diego. This idea of pushing back on
00:47:18
misinformation that kind of got I doubt there's a lot of cool
00:47:22
ideas that start here in San Diego, just because the Nathan
00:47:25
Fletcher. And remember, it's just one seat
00:47:26
that changed the supervisor. So.
00:47:28
All right, let's get some questions on 866 they want to
00:47:35
try and mend it to keep it alive.
00:47:36
We need to keep the heat on to kill it all together.
00:47:39
Yeah you can follow their accounts will give you a lot of
00:47:43
information on where to call in but you can just go to the
00:47:46
assembly site and called find your person call up and email
00:47:49
them. Did you watch speakers from the
00:47:51
libertarian convention? I didn't necessarily watch.
00:47:54
I watched a couple of them. I didn't watch all of them, so I
00:47:59
sort of got it secondhand. I understand your line is say
00:48:02
analogy, but the same time how much of these policies passed
00:48:04
during this doubling down on progressivism is irreversible.
00:48:09
Well, I mean it's none of it's irreversible.
00:48:11
Let me put it that way. None of this is irreversible
00:48:14
laws can be changed laws can be amended.
00:48:17
You can have propositions that repeal things.
00:48:19
If 47, gets more attention. You could certainly put out a
00:48:23
Citizens proposition that could repeal Prop. 47, boom, done.
00:48:28
You know we had the opportunity to repeal the gas tax but
00:48:32
because of the way the Attorney General worded it, they lot of
00:48:35
people voted yes when they should have voted now but there
00:48:40
are ways to do it. Obviously, there's ways to hold
00:48:43
up, things just ways to negotiate.
00:48:45
There's ways to get politicians and even out and get rid of the
00:48:47
supermajority, so that politicians actually.
00:48:50
Have to argue over legislation. There is ways to reverse a lot
00:48:55
of this so it's not going to happen overnight.
00:48:58
It's not going to be like, someone's going to come in wave
00:48:59
a magic wand and be like it's all over we're a red State.
00:49:04
Now you know the ghost of Reagan has blessed us it's like it's
00:49:08
going to take time but nothing is irreversible.
00:49:11
So I didn't watch it. But Dave Smith aired, his
00:49:16
podcast, from the convention sucks here in Reno and not in
00:49:19
Sac. Yeah.
00:49:20
If it wasn't, you know, the fact that was in Reno Reno is I think
00:49:24
even Dave Smith made a comment about how hard it was to
00:49:27
actually get to Reno on purpose. But yeah, he has a good podcast
00:49:33
live from the convention, where a lot of people are, it's fun.
00:49:35
It's a Rowdy sort of Rowdy crew that follows Dave Smith and
00:49:40
especially the mises caucus But hey, they did a great job, you
00:49:44
know and I've been following them and I think what they did
00:49:47
is really important because it does show that if you organize
00:49:51
and you get the right people in, you can take over parties, you
00:49:54
know, a lot of people get frustrated with the
00:49:57
establishment and stuff like that and they get frustrated
00:49:59
with oh you know the calvary GOP is just nothing but
00:50:02
establishment and rhinos and and they don't really fight for us.
00:50:07
Well you can get involved and you can be a delegate and you
00:50:10
can create caucuses with In your party, that become a voting
00:50:14
Bloc. And that's what happened with
00:50:15
the libertarian party. Was they created a caucus that
00:50:18
created this mises caucus, everyone voted and everyone
00:50:22
said, hey these are the people we're going to support.
00:50:24
We're going to put all these people in charge and that's how
00:50:27
we're going to take over the libertarian party and they did
00:50:29
it and the gun of people and they got enough delegates.
00:50:31
That they're able to overwhelm a lot of this stuff and they won.
00:50:37
So hypothetically, could you do that with The Republican Party
00:50:43
Shore. You could get enough people who
00:50:44
believe in a certain idea and that's sort of the idea of the
00:50:47
Calla Publican caucus is an idea of people who believe in a
00:50:51
certain amount of ideals and they support people taking over
00:50:55
certain counties and they support people taking over the
00:50:57
party and you get enough people in that caucus to be delegates
00:51:01
that they can go to the convention and they can vote on
00:51:05
certain issues and vote down certain bylaws and stuff like
00:51:08
that. And you become sort of a Going
00:51:11
to voting block that you can take over the party and you can
00:51:13
put your people in place. That's really how it works.
00:51:17
I really boiled it down. I'm sure someone will be like,
00:51:19
it's not that easy, but that's basically boiled down to what it
00:51:23
really is. So, all right, any more
00:51:26
questions comments about the primaries comments about the
00:51:29
article comments about San Francisco in general.
00:51:32
I mean you can Anything else going out on out in the world?
00:51:45
Nothing else. No one's really.
00:51:46
No one's really talking of today.
00:51:49
Interesting waiting for people to have a question.
00:51:58
Drinking my coffee. Looking at June Gloom Iran.
00:52:04
I don't know what's going on, Iran.
00:52:06
This is a California politics show.
00:52:08
We're not really talking about Iran.
00:52:11
Any tea? Now I don't have really any tea
00:52:16
going to San Fran. This weekend, haven't been in
00:52:18
five years, so wish me luck. I mean, I was just in San Fran a
00:52:20
couple weeks ago and it wasn't as bad as I think people made it
00:52:24
out to be. It's still there.
00:52:26
Still issues in San Francisco. Believe me.
00:52:28
It does have a weird feeling to it.
00:52:30
That is not complete. Lee turned around yet.
00:52:35
And yeah it hasn't turned that corner yet but there's still a
00:52:39
lot of businesses and you can still do things and you know,
00:52:44
just like any big city in California, just be careful.
00:52:47
So depends on what you're going to go.
00:52:49
Do their, I mean, if you're going to go see a Giants game,
00:52:52
Giants games are fine, that area is very well taken care of.
00:52:57
They want to make sure that areas well taken care of.
00:52:59
Do I think Amy right? Car has any chance in San Diego?
00:53:04
I know Amy and I think she does a great job.
00:53:09
What day is Trump going to be reinstated as president any day
00:53:12
now? Right.
00:53:13
That's what they always tell you, they'll be August a because
00:53:18
8 2, 2 2 times 2 is 4 times. 2 is 8.
00:53:24
I don't know. I'm just kidding.
00:53:28
It's always the running joke. His message.
00:53:30
Boards of one Will trump be reinstated as president.
00:53:32
And people always keep pushing the date out.
00:53:35
If you're a big parks and rec fam, there's a funny episode
00:53:39
with the cult they're called like, zorg or something, is or
00:53:45
absorber whatever, but they show up like every year or so and
00:53:51
they say this is the end of the world and then like the guy
00:53:53
comes out and he's like, oh we got it wrong.
00:53:55
So we're going to need to reserve that Park another day
00:53:58
and that it So funny episode. If you're not a Parks and Rec
00:54:01
fan, you don't really know what the heck I'm talking about.
00:54:04
Does Amy reichardt, have a chance, it's going to be tough,
00:54:06
It's is going to be very tough. She's gonna be going up against
00:54:12
a tough opponent in the fact that he's going to slander the
00:54:15
hell out of her. He's going to throw a lot of mud
00:54:17
because that's all Nathan Fletcher knows how to do is
00:54:19
sling mud at people. He doesn't know how to debate
00:54:21
his ideas. I'd be interested to see if they
00:54:23
actually agree to a debate Nathan Fletcher.
00:54:26
I know we'll probably dodged a debate as much as possible.
00:54:30
It would be great to see the two of them actually get into a
00:54:33
debate and debate the ideas. But sadly a lot of these
00:54:36
Democrats who know that they're going to win by a landslide or
00:54:39
feel. Like they are going to win by a
00:54:40
landslide. Just feel like they don't have
00:54:42
to debate. They're just like, I, you know,
00:54:43
I don't have to debate you. Why do I have to debate you?
00:54:45
I'm, if I don't debate you, I'm still gonna win by double
00:54:48
digits. So, it would be great if they
00:54:52
actually did debate and that Amy could actually take Nathan
00:54:56
Fletcher to task on a lot of things.
00:54:58
But Is really she's going to be outspent, he's got millions of
00:55:05
dollars behind him and he has a lot of connections.
00:55:12
So he's going to outspend her. He's going to put a lot of ads
00:55:15
on, and he may not even actually need to spend that much money to
00:55:18
be honest. He may just say Why even waste a
00:55:23
lot of my money on beating someone who I'm going to beat by
00:55:26
double digits? So, hopefully, she gets short of
00:55:31
a push from people and she does get the support of the local
00:55:35
party that she can actually kind of get her name out there.
00:55:40
But in all likelihood, I doubt he'll debate and he probably
00:55:44
just going to cruise to a real action.
00:55:49
Why don't they debate should? And that always be mad.
00:55:51
We're supposed to vote for these people.
00:55:53
You don't have to debate your, it's not mandatory.
00:55:56
You can walk away from debates, you don't have to, I mean, look
00:55:59
what happened in the presidential election.
00:56:01
There were only two debates, right?
00:56:03
And Biden refused to debate Trump for one of the debates.
00:56:07
So if something about covid and whatever, and like, you can
00:56:11
refuse a debate, you don't have to debate, you know.
00:56:14
I mean, I have to show up. So it would be interesting if
00:56:17
they set up a debate and there was an empty Podium and Amy A
00:56:21
just kind of did her own thing and just kind of use that time
00:56:25
to actually just debate or like prove her point and argue her
00:56:30
point. So, that would be an interesting
00:56:34
optic. I know, someone tried to do
00:56:36
that. They were, they were running
00:56:37
against Todd Gloria and they want to show.
00:56:40
They want to have a debate and then show up to the debate
00:56:42
knowing Todd Gloria was not going to show up to the debate
00:56:45
and then kind of prove that you didn't really care about people
00:56:48
and just use the time, but it never really worked and never
00:56:50
happened for. Particular Camp.
00:56:52
I could see her doing that. We cannot write an account for
00:56:56
the general correct ways to vote.
00:56:58
You can write in anybody, you always have the option to write
00:57:01
in, for anybody. I mean, I don't know who you'd
00:57:03
want to write in necessarily, but if you want to make a
00:57:07
statement, you can certainly write in people but you have the
00:57:11
ability to write in for basically anything.
00:57:14
Have you heard of any schools using the summer to better
00:57:16
safeguard for security? No.
00:57:18
Now they're going to be using that this opportunity to grab as
00:57:22
many guns as possible. So, what happened to Cordy
00:57:25
Williams? I just don't think he had the
00:57:28
campaign. I don't think he had the backing
00:57:30
Mark. Mauser had the entire backing of
00:57:34
the Republican party and he won. So Courtney Williams, I don't
00:57:39
necessarily, I didn't know too much about I know, Mark had a
00:57:43
much better. Clear plan of how to win, he
00:57:46
knew what he had to do in the campaign and the general to make
00:57:48
it competitive. So, Let's see.
00:57:51
I know someone, a juror who held his own debate because he wasn't
00:57:56
invited to the others. I mean yeah sure that sounds
00:58:03
like he just probably did a live where he just kind of sat there
00:58:06
and did his own thing which could be kind of sad.
00:58:11
Not saying it's a great tactic, but Chaos.
00:58:18
I would probably cover that. Yeah, I could see KUSI doing
00:58:22
that. I could see KUSI actually having
00:58:26
a debate and inviting Nathan Fletcher and Amy to debate each
00:58:30
other. But I could see Nathan not going
00:58:32
on KUSI because he'll probably use some excuse about Kaos is or
00:58:36
right-wing jogging when you use. And then just follow racists and
00:58:42
bigots and lot like Beholding a debate in.
00:58:47
Your backyard doesn't count? Yeah.
00:58:48
Having someone hold your iPhone and watch you debate yourself.
00:58:52
As not doesn't count. It makes more sense.
00:58:55
If you have it, like, actually on a news channel that people
00:58:57
are going to tune in and watch and then see that that person
00:59:00
doesn't show up. So that's the bigger short of
00:59:05
symbolism is that the other person doesn't show up kind of
00:59:10
laughs. So what's up killer was your
00:59:11
next move? Because me and my people are
00:59:13
waiting for a war Waiting for a war, what kind of War.
00:59:20
I mean, we're just plugging away we're doing our thing.
00:59:23
We got to keep organizing. We've got to keep doing our
00:59:25
thing. So we said the last week time to
00:59:29
start organizing get the Revolution going. and revolution
00:59:33
in terms of political revolution, not you know
00:59:36
Instagram I don't want you to think I'm talking about any sort
00:59:38
of violent revolution like a political revolution, where we
00:59:46
Change politics here in California.
00:59:50
Got to be careful because I mean at least invite someone to a
00:59:54
real debate, wasn't he? They should want to show up a
00:59:59
put him in the backyard eating it boots-on-the-ground activate
01:00:02
voters. Yep.
01:00:04
Yeah it's going to take work. It's absolutely going to take
01:00:07
work to get this stuff done. A lot of people just think if
01:00:10
they show up and vote, which you should show up and vote, that's
01:00:12
obviously really important. But there's going to be a lot of
01:00:17
work. It's going to be, it's not going
01:00:19
to happen overnight. It's not going to happen just
01:00:22
because you wish it to it's going to take work.
01:00:25
It's going to take groups organizing community.
01:00:27
And getting the word out there cracking through a lot of this
01:00:29
stuff and things change, slowly in politics which thankfully was
01:00:36
the way they intended it to happen.
01:00:38
Here in the United States is that things are supposed to.
01:00:42
Change slowly not rapidly. They wanted it to take a slow
01:00:48
progress to get things done. They did not want things to
01:00:53
happen rapidly because they didn't want the mob rule to take
01:00:56
over and change the country overnight.
01:00:58
They wanted to make it really hard to amend the Constitution,
01:01:01
they want to make it hard to pass a lot of stuff.
01:01:05
So that's why I sort of things happen over the course of a long
01:01:07
time as opposed to overnight, you know, the only time Never
01:01:12
going to happen overnight is if you actually throw a real
01:01:14
Revolution and really just go in and change things but does
01:01:22
Fletcher have a chance of being booted, Lex it will get
01:01:25
involved. You know, the problem is Lexa, I
01:01:29
don't know if they have the money to back Amy in the sense
01:01:33
of he's going to, he's going to raise a crap ton of money and
01:01:35
he's going to spend money. So When I had kind of flirted
01:01:41
with the idea of running against him because he was my district,
01:01:44
he's not my district anymore. Thankfully, he's not my district
01:01:47
anymore. Someone said you're going to
01:01:50
have to figure out how to raise over a million dollars.
01:01:54
So that's all it is. He's going to spend a million
01:01:57
dollars on a supervisor's race and he's going to blow away,
01:02:00
anybody, he goes up against but it doesn't mean give up.
01:02:04
I mean, if Amy's a fighter Amy's, not going to give up,
01:02:08
she's not going to roll over, I know.
01:02:09
That you can raise a lot of issues, being the opponent of
01:02:14
somebody. You know, even if you don't win,
01:02:17
you can win by changing minds. And maybe the next time someone
01:02:23
like a Nathan Fletcher doesn't get in, right?
01:02:28
So it does, you know, I always think that you can, you don't
01:02:33
want to write off any race because Any Rays could make a
01:02:40
difference and any raised that you run a good race even if it's
01:02:43
can more competitive than other than what people may have,
01:02:48
thought there's a lot of data to collect and that data then goes
01:02:51
into the next person who runs, it's kind of like, handing the
01:02:54
Baton, like, you may lose this race but the next person who
01:02:59
comes along in that District can look at your race and see what
01:03:02
you did and work with you and say, hey, what did you do to
01:03:05
make a competitive? And that person say, well, I
01:03:07
went after these Is this was the message that really resonated
01:03:11
and then people can improve upon that.
01:03:13
So even if a raised looks like it's going to head to a loss,
01:03:18
doesn't mean just give up on it and just say, you know let's
01:03:21
throw up our hands. It's not really worth it either.
01:03:23
Still be competitive and still do things to help the next
01:03:27
person down the line. So all right, if there's no
01:03:33
other questions or comments, I'm going to end for the day as I
01:03:37
said tomorrow. No, Angela Micarta will be on.
01:03:39
She is the new chair of the entire libertarian party.
01:03:43
The national libertarian party because I want to ask me, they
01:03:45
said, what do you got going on for the, what do you got going
01:03:49
on? And I said, I got Angela Macario
01:03:52
coming on. She's the Cherry libertarian
01:03:53
party and they go what county I said?
01:03:55
No, she's the head of the entire country.
01:03:59
She's not just the head of a county.
01:04:00
She's the head of the entire country, so it's a big deal and
01:04:05
we'll see what she has to say. And what, how that's going to
01:04:07
affect hearing? California.
01:04:09
But it's interesting. You're right.
01:04:15
I think they scare you with money signs, but to change
01:04:17
Minds, we debate the issues and change my yeah, you got to be
01:04:19
out there. I mean, it's it's the classic
01:04:23
Teddy Roosevelt man in the arena quote, which is one of my
01:04:25
favorite quotes in the world, you know, even if you try and
01:04:28
don't succeed, at least you tried and did something and gain
01:04:32
something. So, you can't show up to a fight
01:04:35
if you don't show up. So can Tamika Hamilton boot,
01:04:39
Ami, Bera, the Democrats gerrymander the crap out of
01:04:42
that, District point where I live five.
01:04:44
Outside. Yeah, I think she can I think
01:04:47
she can win. So I think her district is
01:04:50
definitely flippable. A lot of people are saying her
01:04:51
district is definitely flippable and winnable.
01:04:54
So with that said, I'm going to end for today.
01:04:57
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01:04:58
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01:05:32
Hamilton. I think she's coming on next
01:05:33
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It actually gives lukewarm by the Which is unfortunate.
01:05:47
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