Episode 234 - San Diego County Goes After Pregnancy Crisis Centers & Democrat DUIs

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[00:00:35] researcher in the West Camille.

[00:00:38] How are you doing tonight, Camille?

[00:00:40] I'm a little bit emotional tonight.

[00:00:43] No, I ain't think crazy, but my oldest child, child will be an adult this week.

[00:00:50] My oldest child turns 18 this week.

[00:00:52] Oh wow.

[00:00:53] This big milestone for him.

[00:00:55] Yes, and I'm like, on my hand, I'm like, okay, I'm old now.

[00:00:59] I have an adult child.

[00:01:00] Although the hand I'm like, I'm too young and too mature to have an adult child.

[00:01:04] But age and maturity aside is like my kids are growing up and that's kind of, it's great

[00:01:10] but it's sad.

[00:01:11] So yeah, he's now a voting age.

[00:01:17] He's now a voting age.

[00:01:18] That's exciting.

[00:01:20] Registered as a Republican.

[00:01:21] So that's good.

[00:01:23] Okay.

[00:01:24] Yeah.

[00:01:25] It's a start.

[00:01:27] Okay.

[00:01:28] Are you?

[00:01:29] I'm good.

[00:01:30] I'm getting slowly better from my cough or whatever I had.

[00:01:34] I don't think it was COVID, even though I talked to the PA or Physicians Assistant today

[00:01:40] and they were like, did you take a COVID test by chance?

[00:01:43] I was like, no, I didn't because I thought it was a cold and I have a cough that just keeps

[00:01:48] lingering and as though same before we hopped on, they gave me a whole bunch of drugs.

[00:01:52] So hopefully it just knocks it out.

[00:01:56] But yeah, besides that I'm good.

[00:01:59] This is going to be a weird episode, I think because we kind of came into this.

[00:02:06] We were like, well what topic are we going to cover?

[00:02:08] Usually we try and hit one topic and kind of really go in depth on it.

[00:02:13] So then we were like, well, one topic might not be enough.

[00:02:16] So let's do two topics and then we added in Q and A.

[00:02:20] And then on top of it, it's election night across America.

[00:02:22] So there is a whole bunch of stuff going on.

[00:02:25] The Republicans have gotten shellacked across the country which I think gives you an idea

[00:02:32] of where the electorate is.

[00:02:35] We can touch upon that a little bit but do you have any initial thoughts about the election

[00:02:40] results or have you been following anything that's been going on right now?

[00:02:43] I have only slightly been following.

[00:02:46] I was trying to catch up because again, I don't know.

[00:02:49] For some reason I forgot, I guess when we were talking about what to talk about tonight,

[00:02:53] I think like at like five o'clock yesterday or like slow news week.

[00:02:57] And I was even thinking, oh well there's like a selection tonight and then all of a sudden

[00:03:01] I was you know, reading up on our other subjects.

[00:03:06] And then it's like, oh wait, there's like, there's polls are closing.

[00:03:09] So I was quickly trying to read up on what's going on.

[00:03:13] So I'm a little behind a little.

[00:03:14] I have a few notes.

[00:03:16] Yeah.

[00:03:17] Well, I mean, I think that's the double edge sort of the fact that our podcast is so focused

[00:03:21] on California politics.

[00:03:24] That sometimes we have blinders on and we're just like what's going on in California?

[00:03:27] What's the news in California?

[00:03:29] And then we just kind of forget like there's all these other things happening around

[00:03:32] the country.

[00:03:35] We don't usually kind of veer into national politics but sometimes when we contain

[00:03:40] gently related back to California, what's going on.

[00:03:43] We like to touch upon it like presidential races and stuff like that.

[00:03:48] Some of the big news, the Democrat won in Kentucky.

[00:03:52] He got reelected.

[00:03:55] The probably the other big thing that a lot of people are really kind of fired up about

[00:04:00] is this issue one in Ohio has passed which now makes abortion a part of the state constitution

[00:04:07] which protects the right to an abortion.

[00:04:11] So obviously has a lot of people kind of fired up and I honestly think like because of that

[00:04:17] issue and because of that, I call it a proposition.

[00:04:21] It's an issue or whatever the heck they call it.

[00:04:23] We probably drove a lot of people to the polls that were not Republicans that were not conservatives

[00:04:31] simply for that one thing and that's probably one part of what bolster Democrats and I think

[00:04:39] going into 2024, abortion is going to be something they hang their hat on.

[00:04:44] It's the one thing that when all of us fails, they can always come back to abortion and

[00:04:47] it gets people to the polls and Republicans as well but I would say it's funny because

[00:04:53] they often say Republicans are a one issue voter which is the one issue is abortion but

[00:04:59] it turns out they are too.

[00:05:01] I mean they really show up for abortion rights.

[00:05:05] Yeah, well it gets both sides really fired up and understandably it's a touchy subject

[00:05:11] and it's very emotional.

[00:05:13] We're going to kind of do our best to segue from that into something else in a couple minutes

[00:05:18] but I'm of the belief and I'll start off by saying this, I personally am a pro-life Catholic

[00:05:27] but I also don't believe in me forcing my views on everybody else.

[00:05:32] I believe what I believe because that's my right to believe what I believe.

[00:05:36] I don't think I should force my beliefs on everybody else.

[00:05:40] I think Republicans got a little too emboldened by Roe v. Wade being overturned and saw that

[00:05:46] as well now we can start issuing these blanket bans on all abortion in a lot of these states

[00:05:52] and that drove a lot of people to the polls when in reality, I think Republicans probably

[00:05:58] should have taken the victory lap that they finally got Roe v. Wade overturned, returned

[00:06:04] it to the states and just let the states decide.

[00:06:07] So I think most pundits that I follow are saying abortion was the number one thing that drove

[00:06:14] people to the polls tonight.

[00:06:17] It's definitely going to be a thing in 2024.

[00:06:19] They're definitely going to make it a thing because especially tonight, if you're a Democrat

[00:06:26] tonight and you're watching what's going on nationally, after you saw this New York Times

[00:06:32] poll that came out that was absolutely devastating to Biden.

[00:06:35] And for those of you who don't know, there's a poll that came out from the New York Times

[00:06:39] which is not a favorable Republican leaning newspaper publication that showed that if Trump

[00:06:48] and Biden face off as of right now, Trump would basically wipe the floor with Biden.

[00:06:53] That all the swing states would go to Trump.

[00:06:55] Some of the swing states he'd win by more than 10 points basically that it would be a slaughter.

[00:07:00] He'd get more than 300 electoral votes.

[00:07:02] It would be a done deal.

[00:07:03] So a lot of people were freaking out that this is it.

[00:07:06] Biden is not the candidate, they can't have him.

[00:07:10] So I think tonight, if you're a Democrat gives you that glimmer of hope and something to grab

[00:07:15] on to and say this is what our issue is going to be going into 2024 in its abortion.

[00:07:22] Does that change how people view Biden?

[00:07:24] I don't know, I don't think so.

[00:07:27] But I think people still look at Biden is probably too old and incompetent.

[00:07:32] They look at the economy and there's a lot of other issues when you're voting for president.

[00:07:37] So what are your thoughts?

[00:07:40] Yeah, so I'm also pro-life.

[00:07:44] And I know like we've obviously talked about this a lot off here and off the podcast

[00:07:50] and I told you like the one thing is like I view abortion as murder, but I realized that

[00:07:57] other people don't view it as the same because they don't believe like it's fetus.

[00:08:00] It's not a human yet.

[00:08:02] And so I get that if I'm trying to argue with someone over this that they're like it's

[00:08:07] not a human and therefore it's not murder and I'm like it's a human, therefore it's murder.

[00:08:11] And I think that's maybe like another reason why I'm a little emotional is I was my first

[00:08:17] pregnancy.

[00:08:18] I was single and I didn't, I never considered abortion, but it was like being pregnant

[00:08:28] and single.

[00:08:29] I was young.

[00:08:30] It was hard.

[00:08:31] It was you know being born and raised in a Christian conservative home in a church

[00:08:36] it was embarrassing.

[00:08:38] I won't get all into that, but like so this is all kind of maybe extra emotional about

[00:08:43] it because I do viewed as a life, but you're right that especially as Christians Catholics

[00:08:50] are not Catholic, but you know we're both Christian like the Bible.

[00:08:53] Bible gives free will God gives free will and like God was supposed to spread the word

[00:08:58] of God, but we can't force it down to people's throats and unfortunately that you know there

[00:09:04] is a moral issue and it's not like we're not going to win any favors.

[00:09:09] We're not going to be like you are going to hell if you have an abortion and you know

[00:09:13] you're not, that doesn't make you to hell.

[00:09:17] And so you're right that we can't unfortunately like forces on other people, I shouldn't say

[00:09:22] unfortunately, but we can't.

[00:09:24] There's a lot of things like and that's another thing and I won't even go so far to this

[00:09:28] but I was talking to you about how I went through my libertarian phase like 15 years

[00:09:32] ago, but now I'm kind of like maybe I do feel that way again because I do believe

[00:09:37] in free will and we need some basic principles and morals and laws, but really the government

[00:09:43] needs to stay out of everything.

[00:09:44] And so I'm struggling now.

[00:09:45] I'm like struggling with where I stand with this.

[00:09:47] I know why I'm pro-life for myself for sure.

[00:09:50] I don't and I know that I don't want any it's such a tough subject.

[00:09:55] Like I don't want any woman to ever be in that position that they are.

[00:10:01] So I guess this is part of like my

[00:10:08] one of my libertarian ways of viewing this social issue is that if you kind of took both sides

[00:10:18] the far left and the far right and you took them and the government out of it and just

[00:10:23] let the people kind of figure this solution or this issue out on their own, they wouldn't end up

[00:10:29] at one extreme polarity or the other.

[00:10:33] I think most people would just kind of end up sort of in a reasonable middle.

[00:10:38] Now it may not be reasonable to a lot of people, not everyone's going to be completely happy,

[00:10:43] but it won't end up as one extreme or the other.

[00:10:46] And I think that's where most people lie and I think you just have to let people figure

[00:10:53] that out, let people choose that.

[00:10:56] It's kind of like you and I don't agree with it or we're pro life, but that doesn't mean

[00:11:03] I want to force somebody else to not be able to have that right or make that choice.

[00:11:07] So that's part of my libertarian view on is that if you let people decide and just get the far left

[00:11:17] and far right out of it, it will kind of settle and figure itself out.

[00:11:22] And I don't think it'd be as extreme as people think make it out to be.

[00:11:29] Which kind of leads me to the first topic we were going to talk about tonight.

[00:11:35] Also, oh, before I get to that, I did tweet something before we hopped on because I was watching

[00:11:40] all the election results. I had tweeted out something and this is something that just needs

[00:11:45] to be said and I've said it before, but I need to say it again. Republicans are never going

[00:11:51] to make inroads or never going to do anything substantial until they learn how to start flipping

[00:11:57] voters in blue cities. I'm not saying you have to flip the entire blue city over to Republican,

[00:12:05] but you have to start chipping away at the city voters and urban voters.

[00:12:10] And a lot of people ask me, well, how can there be a Democrat governor in Kentucky when the state

[00:12:15] itself is so red, but you have a Democrat governor? Well, because a lot of these states

[00:12:22] are just jam packed with the urban vote and city votes and high concentration of blue voters

[00:12:28] in these cities until you start chipping away at that. There's really no hope anymore. So

[00:12:34] Republicans have to get off this. I don't know what it is. They just refuse to try and chip away

[00:12:40] at that. And I'm not saying, again, I'm not saying you have to flip it, but if you made it,

[00:12:45] if you got 40% of a lot of these cities, how different would California be if Republicans can

[00:12:52] pull 40% of city voters of LA or San Diego or hell? Imagine if there's 40% of people in San Francisco

[00:13:01] or Republican voters. I mean, that would be enormous flips. I mean, most of California and state

[00:13:08] elected politicians, the big state seats are elected by the three big cities. They're not

[00:13:13] elected by the Central Valley or Fresno or the inland empire or anything like that or the stage

[00:13:18] Jefferson. They're elected by big cities and Republicans have to stop trying to

[00:13:23] scrounge for votes in these rural areas where they already have a comfortable lead

[00:13:28] and start going after the cities. And to that point, this was actually pretty interesting.

[00:13:34] As soon as I tweeted that out, I saw something else that a libertarian

[00:13:41] Lilly Wu actually won and defeated a Democrat to be mayor of Wichita Kansas.

[00:13:48] So to me, that's whatever she did, I think you could probably take that and look at it and go,

[00:13:54] okay, well what did she run on? That she defeated a Democrat in a blue city in Kansas. So

[00:14:02] obviously, you know, I'm just saying the libertarians have figured out how to go after urban

[00:14:07] blue voters. But Republicans still continue to sit on the sidelines and tweet stuff like

[00:14:14] about how legal marijuana is going to make everyone go crazy and jump off a bridge or something.

[00:14:20] But that's a whole different subject. I don't understand boomer,

[00:14:24] cons like that anyway. I don't understand because several states already legalized it and

[00:14:28] I didn't have it. Yeah, I mean, California has had legal marijuana for almost 10 years at this

[00:14:35] point. And like, it's not like the whole state has gone into reaffirmedness. But

[00:14:43] yeah, the state is crazy on its own for many different reasons. But I don't think it's because

[00:14:48] of legal marijuana. That's why I think it's for that. Yeah. So I just want to point

[00:14:54] that out. Anyway, let's get to our first topic of tonight, which actually is California based

[00:15:00] speaking of abortion. This actually transpired tonight, but it failed. So we'll kind of lead with

[00:15:10] the spoiler right this this property or this proposal failed in San Diego County. You had told

[00:15:16] me that it failed. Yes, I'm going off. It was like two to two. And so I guess it because it was

[00:15:23] border supervisors who you guys have been without the fifth border supervisor for like

[00:15:29] going on six months now, I think, which you also had that your fourth district had that election

[00:15:35] tonight. Results are supposed to start coming in. I should go refresh the page. Anyway, you take

[00:15:40] it work. Go on. Right. So yeah, I was expecting it was going to be two to two.

[00:15:46] Tara Lawson-Ramer, who's actually my county supervisor. I don't want to get her pronouns wrong,

[00:15:55] but I'm going to go with her. Is it her or should go by that? Anyway, she's non-binary, whatever

[00:16:03] and she brought this proposal up to the San Diego County border supervisors.

[00:16:10] And it's whole, let me read some of the articles just from the San Diego Union Tribune.

[00:16:15] County supervisor Tara Lawson-Ramer is urging her colleagues to get tough with local crisis

[00:16:19] pregnancy centers asking them to consider not just the public education program on their practices,

[00:16:24] but also filing a lawsuit, including but not limited to shutting down such centers.

[00:16:31] Criticized centers have recently been criticized for attempting to pass themselves off as abortion

[00:16:36] providers using internet search engines to reach women considering abortion and attempting to

[00:16:40] convince them to reconsider. A lawsuit filed by state attorney general Rob Bond to last year

[00:16:45] targets two organizations promoting a practice called abortion pill reversal, which the lawsuit

[00:16:50] called an unproven and largely experiments procedure. Let's say, quote, women can end up in a position

[00:16:58] where they are trying to go see a doctor to go see a medical expert instead. They're being lied

[00:17:02] to and misled to the extent when their delay, delay, delay until their choice is taken from them.

[00:17:07] So this was her proposal tonight is that she wanted the San Diego County Board of Supervisors

[00:17:15] to not only do a public education kind of like their own PSAs from San Diego County Board Supervisors,

[00:17:23] but they also wanted to start suing and shutting down pregnancy crisis centers.

[00:17:29] I will admit before tonight I did not know much about pregnancy crisis centers.

[00:17:34] I didn't really know that they existed until just this past year, but I did more research and

[00:17:43] I learned more about what they actually are. So this is from Charlotte and Lowe-Jare Institute.

[00:17:51] Basically answers the question and this was 2021 since 2020 study.

[00:17:58] Pro-life pregnancy centers formerly known as crisis pregnancy centers and also pregnancy care

[00:18:03] resource centers are faith-based community based non-for-profit organizations which first began to

[00:18:08] appear in the US in the late 1960s as abortion was becoming illegal to provide care and resources

[00:18:14] to assist women with immediate and ongoing needs related to unexpected pregnancy. Their focus

[00:18:19] on alternatives to abortion also known as life-affirming services was and is designed to empower a woman

[00:18:25] to welcome her child into the world. Today pregnancy centers provide an expanded range of essential

[00:18:29] and professional care encompassing support services, medical care and resources usually at

[00:18:34] no cost for women men and youth they serve. Personal care is provided with a respectful

[00:18:39] respectful compassionate and supportive environment by trained workers and individuals.

[00:18:46] Right so let's see I'm just looking over some more facts here.

[00:18:54] It goes on to say pregnancy centers have been under attack by pro-abortion advocates since first

[00:18:58] opening their doors a 2015 California law dubbed the Reproductive Fact Act which forced life

[00:19:04] life-affirming pregnancy centers to display information including a phone number on how women

[00:19:09] can obtain a free or low cost abortion which struck down as unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court

[00:19:15] in 2019. The Supreme Court ruling was a victory for free speech protections. Similarly laws in

[00:19:21] Maryland New York and Texas have been found unconstitutional at the federal court level pervasive attacks

[00:19:25] against pregnancy centers in academia have increased over the past decade efforts to demonstrate

[00:19:29] and validate the essential highly valuable impactful care provided centers remain vitally important

[00:19:34] to protect the life saving work they do. So as I understand it these pregnancy centers are basically

[00:19:47] the polar opposite of play and parenthood which is if something were to happen you can go to

[00:19:53] these centers they help support the mothers and the fathers and all that and they give you that

[00:19:58] alternative to abortion. I don't see the big deal about it I think Democrats have made this

[00:20:09] an odd issue kind of their pro-choice this is their big thing their pro-choice as long as you

[00:20:17] choose the choice that they want you to which is go get an abortion from play and parenthood.

[00:20:23] Also if anyone wants to talk about deceptive titles and deceptive marketing

[00:20:28] isn't it interesting that plan parenthood actually has really nothing to do with planning

[00:20:33] parenthood because you can get an abortion you won't be a parent anymore. That to me seems

[00:20:40] deceptive I don't know why we're not talking about that but this new attack on pregnancy crisis

[00:20:46] centers or these pregnancy centers is an interesting attack by Democrats that they just

[00:20:52] don't want people to have this option. What are your thoughts about this? Yeah it is interesting for

[00:21:02] especially because these aren't being funded by the state these are non-profits community

[00:21:06] based church based whatever okay so back to myself for example like I said abortion was never

[00:21:12] an option for me I was pro-life but I was not as a port of family like my mom had told my sisters

[00:21:18] and I well we were not super young what we're younger she had known of a family who their daughter

[00:21:23] had gotten pregnant younger I decided to give it the baby of her adoption but her parents were like no

[00:21:29] we want the baby and there was a whole like legal fight and my mom was like if you girls are ever

[00:21:33] in that situation we will adopt your baby and um I'd to my parents did not adopt my baby I had my baby

[00:21:39] but some women don't want an abortion they just don't see another option for whatever reason whether

[00:21:47] it's financial whether an abusive relationship whether it's because the the guy was like no I you know

[00:21:53] I'm not sticking around if you know whatever and they and so there's obviously a million reasons why

[00:21:57] they're going to go to abortion it's not necessarily because they don't want the baby it's just that

[00:22:02] they don't see any other way that's where these crisis pregnancy centers come in okay you you

[00:22:07] want your baby we're gonna help you we're gonna and then they can even like help you with adoption too

[00:22:12] with just like getting you through the pregnancy and um and don't I don't see why the state

[00:22:18] because I know this is where I'm saying Diego but the state we've talked about before has

[00:22:22] led an attack on this I mean they put up a whole abortion access website with you know report

[00:22:27] these crisis pregnancy centers it's so sick and bizarre to me um because again women like myself

[00:22:35] who didn't want an abortion but there's women that don't have that supportive family who you know

[00:22:40] that that's where they go I also think yeah sorry go ahead no it's okay go ahead now I was just

[00:22:50] gonna say I think it's also uh I guess it's kind of insulting to the women who because they say a

[00:22:58] a woman fall for this and they fall because it's deceptive marketing and I mean it's no secret like

[00:23:03] if you're trying to if you're a pregnancy center or pregnancy crisis center and you want to help

[00:23:10] women choose to keep the baby rather than to get an abortion I mean it's not unheard of

[00:23:20] that you're going to add into your search terms for Google or whatever

[00:23:25] that women who are looking for abortion centers you might want to get in front of them and say like hey

[00:23:30] wait a second like think again maybe you want to keep the baby um here's another option

[00:23:37] I mean if you type in anything you're gonna get competing ads or competing search terms because

[00:23:44] that's how marketing works online um but it's insulting to women to to to say that they they get

[00:23:50] duped and they they don't know what's going on um because if you were to go to a pregnancy

[00:23:55] crisis center and it's very clear they're trying to convince you to knock it in abortion but you are

[00:24:03] determined to get an abortion you probably would leave that center and go okay I have to find

[00:24:09] some place else if I want to go get an abortion um because this place is not going to do it for me

[00:24:16] so I think that's kind of insulting to those women to say that they're I guess that goalable or

[00:24:24] that naive that if they go to these pregnancy crisis centers that they can't figure out this

[00:24:29] place isn't going to give me an abortion or perform an abortion but I guess I'll just stick around

[00:24:35] until they might get performing abortion even though they've never told me they're going to perform

[00:24:39] an abortion so um it's not present you don't like walking there and you're stuck in their

[00:24:44] fronting once now okay no so I I think that's kind of insulting to those women who are

[00:24:49] you know if if that's your goal and that's what you want to do and you're determined I need to get

[00:24:54] an abortion and you go to a place and they're not going to give you an abortion then you're probably

[00:24:59] going to walk out and the first thing you're going to do is go okay where can I get an abortion

[00:25:03] and then probably end up in Planned Parenthood um so at I think it's just that the attack is so weird

[00:25:12] in the sense that they're like you can't have this choice and how dare there be this other place

[00:25:16] out there that actually wants to convince women to knock it abortions or to convince them that maybe

[00:25:23] they should be mothers and they should carry the baby to term and we'll help them and we'll

[00:25:27] provide them diapers and baby food and clothes and all of this stuff and like god what horrible people

[00:25:33] that they want to help mothers who are in need or families who are in need you know bring the bring

[00:25:39] the baby to to her to have the baby to support the baby when they're when it's born it's a newborn

[00:25:45] I don't see why that's such a horrible thing like so women can only choose one thing

[00:25:50] in California according to tarot loss and remor or at least in San Diego County

[00:25:55] they can only choose one thing you have to go get an abortion you can't choose the other way

[00:26:00] um or if you're you're uh uh in tarot loss and remor's words women are too stupid to figure out

[00:26:08] if they go to a place that they're not and they don't get an abortion that they're going to be stuck

[00:26:11] there and they can't figure out where else to get an abortion um does that sound about like the

[00:26:17] right summation of what this all this whole issue is because that's how I kind of read all of this

[00:26:25] and their whole attack on these centers you do raise an interesting point

[00:26:30] and if we are too stupid to know the difference than she i think she's a she probably shouldn't be

[00:26:37] on the board of supervisors because that's it's a lot of you know it's a lot of decisions being made

[00:26:42] by someone who's of the gender that's not capable of making rational decisions apparently

[00:26:48] right i mean if she thinks women are too stupid to figure this stuff out um she can't be much of a

[00:26:54] feminist should we vote it i mean yeah what am I even doing here right now

[00:27:00] i mean should we just repeal the 19th amendment is that where we're going at this point

[00:27:04] yes but should we be allowed to vote on that

[00:27:08] should women be allowed to vote on repealing the 19th amendment that's a good question

[00:27:13] i'd be interested in if women all of a sudden we're like i'll repeal the 19th amendment

[00:27:17] if i don't have to worry about being drafted or anything like that um anyway

[00:27:22] there is a video a five minute video i wanted to show because i watched it um

[00:27:27] and it actually was more informative about pregnancy centers or these pregnancy crisis centers

[00:27:31] and what they do funny enough we started off the show talking about Kentucky this actually takes

[00:27:37] place in Kentucky um so and i will try my best don't do any air quotes

[00:27:45] i won't do any air quotes now i also need to figure out how to turn that off in ios for those of you

[00:27:53] who uh didn't watch last week or maybe you're just an audio listener we had a an interesting

[00:28:01] oh now i can't do the air quotes an interesting interruption with confetti and balloons

[00:28:07] based on the new ios anyway here's the video we're going to watch it it's five minutes i'll do my best

[00:28:12] to narrate for the audio listeners what's going on um so yeah here we go less than a day after the

[00:28:20] overturning of rovy weighed everything seemed a bit too quiet and i looked at the video cameras

[00:28:25] and noticed the footage that i was viewing something wasn't quite right

[00:28:41] we exist to save lives and comfort those involved in unplanned pregnancies while furthering

[00:28:48] the gospel of Jesus Christ where the only pregnancy crisis center in lynchburg

[00:29:05] we have two operating rooms that our nurses are able to do the life saving ultrasound

[00:29:11] you would be able to see that flicker on the screen which is the heartbeat

[00:29:18] that baby in your womb is a living breathing growing thing and most abortion clinics do the exact

[00:29:25] opposite they tell you things like it's a blob of tissue it's a clump of cells it hasn't even

[00:29:30] developed yet and the reality is that we know life begins at conception all of our services are

[00:29:37] no charge to anyone that comes through our doors and we see honey wear from 50 to 75 patients

[00:29:44] on a really good month where crisis is high during covid it was even higher

[00:29:52] rovy weighed doesn't change anything for what we do women will need us now more than ever

[00:29:58] when you agree to partner with us and come to our classes to gain the knowledge of what it would be

[00:30:02] like to be a better parent what to do with this baby that we're helping you choose life for

[00:30:07] we do not want financial resources to be any hindrance in your life the diapers behind me and

[00:30:13] beside me all over me are provided by anyone in the community just an amazing support of churches

[00:30:20] businesses life affirming individuals people are very proud of what we do so I was a bit shocked

[00:30:27] that we had been hit

[00:30:34] I first learned of the vandalism around 10 a.m. on Saturday morning after the rovy weighed head

[00:30:40] overturned as I approached the walkway from around the back of the building they had taken

[00:30:45] crowbars to almost all of our windows two of our doors and just shattered all of the glass

[00:30:52] they had spray painted coat hangers on the sidewalk and put political things like zook blue

[00:30:59] in red on the stamped concrete it read if abortion ain't safe you ain't safe

[00:31:06] I'd say anybody who thinks that it's okay to vein the law is a center that's aimed at helping

[00:31:10] women if their most desperate needs are cowards by every definition they hide behind a mask

[00:31:15] and they think you're making a political statement they're absolutely victimizing the very

[00:31:19] women they claim that they're standing up for

[00:31:26] I was Virginia I was all wrong it's actually Virginia Virginia attorney general was the one who

[00:31:32] was just speaking

[00:31:38] and the quote on the screen for those who are listening on audio over 60 pregnancy resource

[00:31:42] centers have been vandalized in 2022

[00:31:45] I can guarantee you if it was the other way if you had over 40 abortion clinics that had been

[00:31:51] vandalized you would hear it on the front page of almost every newspaper in the country

[00:32:01] there's been such a I think monstrous lie that has been perpetrated in the media

[00:32:07] the crisis pregnancy center are only there temporary or they're there to quote trick women

[00:32:13] crisis pregnancy centers that are there to full people who are looking for pregnancy

[00:32:20] termination help outnumber true abortion clinics by three to one we need to shut them down

[00:32:28] during messages and we need to shut them down all around the country so what I would say to

[00:32:32] a little bit is have we ever done I'm sorry um I mean I know you kind of already made this point

[00:32:37] but going back to just what what Elizabeth Warren just said so do they think that these

[00:32:43] crisis pregnancy centers are ringing women in and tricking the women into believing that they

[00:32:48] gave them an abortion and that these women aren't gonna figure out a few months they're still pregnant

[00:32:51] I mean that's honestly what it sounds like I'm not being sarcastic right I don't

[00:32:58] again I you would have to begin at the assumption to make their argument feasible you'd have to

[00:33:05] begin at the assumption that you believe women are naive and stupid and can't figure out on their

[00:33:11] own that if they go to one of these centers they're not going to get an abortion so somehow they're

[00:33:17] gonna be tricked into not getting an abortion and if if you're talked out of an abortion let's say

[00:33:23] you go to what you end up at one of these places and you're a woman who's carrying you originally

[00:33:28] think I want to have an abortion you end up at one of these pregnancy centers and you sit down you

[00:33:33] have a consultation with with this nice lady and she talks to you in all of a sudden you leave

[00:33:40] there and think maybe I don't want to have an abortion maybe you weren't 100% into getting an

[00:33:47] abortion and maybe there's something in you that goes maybe I don't want to get an abortion maybe

[00:33:52] this person talked me out of it maybe I've changed my mind but you're right it does begin at that

[00:33:59] you would have to start at the presumption that women are stupid and naive and they can't figure out

[00:34:05] that these pregnancy centers are not going to perform an abortion and once we finish the video I want

[00:34:12] bring up what she brought up something as well about the three to one but we can finish this video

[00:34:17] and we can talk about a little bit more. We've ever seen the rooms like this of clothes they want

[00:34:22] to give to young expected mothers or the ceiling to the floor of just toiletries and diapers

[00:34:29] and the services they provide. Shadow in appointment show her the life-saving measures

[00:34:34] that we are able to do and I hope and pray that she would gain a different perspective as an open

[00:34:40] invitation. What's your message to those who've been lost? Immediate forgiveness if you were to dwell

[00:34:51] on what they had done false accusations they had made it would be easy to fall into unforgiveness

[00:34:57] and even bitterness because you felt so violated but I know as a Christian I've walked that path

[00:35:03] many times and I won't allow my heart to go down that direction. When they walk through our doors

[00:35:10] from the moment they enter our lobby they receive nothing but love and compassion and guidance

[00:35:17] and support. We not only help save the crisis pregnancy we care about the whole person.

[00:35:28] All right so I thought that video was was pretty interesting because

[00:35:35] well one I think it gives you a glimpse of inside of what a pregnancy center really does

[00:35:39] the people behind it also the attacks they've been getting especially after Roe v Wade was overturned

[00:35:47] again it just this is the whole thing I think sticks in my crawl about both sides. The left believes

[00:35:58] that if you don't allow unfettered abortions and you have a mindset of being pro-life

[00:36:07] you're the enemy that your center needs to be vandalized they need to break windows they need

[00:36:14] to paint coat hangers and right vote blue like it's just this tribalistic mentality of like

[00:36:22] you disagree with my position so therefore I have to act like an absolute crazy person

[00:36:30] and destroy your stuff and take it out on you. And the right again it's about both sides kind of

[00:36:38] forcing their views on you when in reality you watch this video and you go that this center is

[00:36:44] seems very innocent they just want to help people and give people a different option.

[00:36:50] The one thing I did want to bring up though Elizabeth Warren brought up in the video and I saw

[00:36:54] this headline a lot that pregnancy centers or pregnancy crisis centers like this far out number

[00:37:01] abortion clinics in America and I think that's interesting. I really want to know what you had to

[00:37:07] say and you cut out. I was saying how Elizabeth Warren brought up in the video that of pregnancy

[00:37:15] centers out number abortion clinics three to one and I saw this headline a lot when I was doing

[00:37:22] research for the show and thought that's interesting and I think that goes back to what we were

[00:37:29] talking about at the beginning of this episode if you leave people to their own devices

[00:37:34] and you don't have one side or the other in power forcing their extreme values

[00:37:40] look at what sprouts up in its place. Obviously there's a demand and local communities are supporting

[00:37:47] these pregnancy centers right like if there was no demand for these pregnancy centers they wouldn't

[00:37:53] be outnumbering abortion clinics three to one but quietly they've grown and grown and grown and now

[00:38:00] outnumber abortion clinics three to one and they outpace them. That to me shows at the ground

[00:38:06] level if you leave people to their devices this is what happens you have more pregnancy centers like

[00:38:13] this as opposed to abortion clinics and again if you're trying to push one or the other and you're

[00:38:19] like Republicans tonight you learned in the election maybe you don't have to force it maybe just

[00:38:25] trust that people are going to move a certain direction. I don't know am I completely off-base

[00:38:32] with that thought? Not. No you raise another good point that you know they are sprouting up

[00:38:45] and I'm happy to hear that because I was actually thinking about that a few nights ago

[00:38:49] that that's something like I wish more churches were involved with that like they would start

[00:38:54] leasing and buying all the properties around existing plant parenthoods and just putting in

[00:38:58] like right across the street right next door crisis pregnancy centers and all the local churches

[00:39:03] would be you know funding that supporting that. All right yeah so yeah that that's a good point

[00:39:08] that there's a demand for that and something that I thought of during the video is that if you go

[00:39:13] to plan to parenthood and you are getting an abortion because you are in like a horrific abusive

[00:39:19] relationship you're probably ending the pregnancy but not getting out of that relationship.

[00:39:25] If you go to the crisis pregnancy center they're probably hoping you through the pregnancy

[00:39:30] and helping you to get out of that relationship. Yeah probably I you know I think one is

[00:39:37] and it's actually the Virginia AG brought up the point if you think that this place is only

[00:39:45] here to temporarily help you. If any place is only there temporarily to help you it's probably

[00:39:50] someplace like Planned Parenthood where they perform the seizure maybe they check in with you later

[00:39:54] see if you're doing all right but that's it like they're not there to help you through the pregnancy

[00:40:00] once you have the baby they give you the clothes and food and diapers and all that stuff

[00:40:04] they're not they're not there long term so it is very I guess my final thoughts on this because

[00:40:13] we do have another topic. No I was going to say we're supposed to talk about many things. We're

[00:40:18] supposed to talk about we're going to touch on the next subject pretty quickly and then we'll get

[00:40:21] to your questions and answers to all those who submitted questions and answers thank you also if

[00:40:25] you're in the chat right now and you have questions that you want questions or comments make sure

[00:40:29] you do it because we love hearing from you. So yeah final thought it's a weird thing that

[00:40:35] Democrats are going after these places and for all the reasons listed obviously people like Elizabeth

[00:40:42] Warren, Terrell Lawson, Riemann, or think women are dumb and naive and they can't figure things out

[00:40:47] for themselves and also they don't want people to have the choice so the fact that they want them

[00:40:53] completely shut down is indicative of the fact that they don't want people to have the choice

[00:40:59] again they believe in pro choice as long as it's their choice any other final thoughts before we

[00:41:05] move on. No final thoughts. No final thoughts okay um next topic really quickly that we want to

[00:41:13] touch upon is more of a little bit lighter hearted well maybe not super lighthearted definitely

[00:41:19] a little bit lighter than abortion at the crisis centers um recently uh just as of last week

[00:41:27] California Assemblywoman Rendy Carrillo was arrested on suspicion of DUI and intends to seek

[00:41:34] necessary help and support uh Fox LA reported assemblywoman Wendy Carrillo a Los Angeles Democrat who

[00:41:41] is buying for the city council seat held by Kevin De Leon was arrested early Friday on suspicion

[00:41:47] of driving under the influence. Carrillo 43 was taken into custody after officers went to

[00:41:53] the 60 60 200 block of Monterey Road in Monastery Heights on a report of a traffic collision involving

[00:42:00] a motorist who had struck some parked cars in the remains of Los Angeles Police Department um

[00:42:07] did it do then she issued the following statement early this morning I was involved in a

[00:42:13] traffic incident involving parked vehicles thankfully no one was harmed and I had been

[00:42:19] cooperating with law enforcement as a public servant I am aware that I must adhere to the higher

[00:42:23] standard that demands personal accountability for my conduct and I accept your responsibility

[00:42:27] for my actions. I sincerely apologize to my family constituents colleagues and staff for any

[00:42:32] actions of mine that have fallen short of the expectation. I intend to seek the necessary help

[00:42:37] and support as I do so I remain dedicated to my family my constituents in the community that I

[00:42:41] grew up and I'm proud to represent. So so I don't think what her it doesn't say what her blood

[00:42:51] alcohol was um but either way if you're hitting parked cars uh you must be pretty sloshed that's

[00:43:01] all I got to say um well you heard her excuse right it's on video she said she sneezed right

[00:43:10] she sneezed yeah that's why she got in an accident she sneezed she sneezed so then the next

[00:43:17] day she releases a statement that she's going to seek the necessary support and help for sneezing

[00:43:23] yeah well she was trying to get out of it uh and play it off as if she sneezed that must have

[00:43:28] been one hell of a sneeze if she ran into multiple parked vehicles um I mean yeah that's a monstrous

[00:43:36] sneeze to make you drive into multiple parked one maybe I don't know maybe you could assume one

[00:43:42] park car is fine even then uh I don't think a sneeze would make you hit multiple parked cars um but

[00:43:50] she lied she got caught out why would you even lie as well it's gonna come out it's public knowledge

[00:43:57] like it's gonna come out that you got arrested for DUI like well why are you trying to say you sneezed

[00:44:03] in light because when you're so drunk that you hit multiple cars your brain is obviously not

[00:44:08] in the right place yeah and so you quickly come up with something stupid like ice sneezed

[00:44:16] right um just as an update uh mothers against drunk driving have not issued a statement about

[00:44:24] when it got a yo uh drunk driving so keep a lookout for that okay there's also no organization

[00:44:33] for mothers against sneezing while driving they haven't made a statement either

[00:44:39] but this is uh you know it's interesting it's happened once it's happened twice to

[00:44:48] democratic California Democrats here and recently uh Dave Min also was arrested for DUI this was

[00:44:57] back in May and he's running for Katie Porter seat uh isn't that like close to your neck of the

[00:45:05] woods Katie Porter seat it is it's very close it's right outside my district 47 is in that

[00:45:13] uh gosh what's his name I can't remember his name now who's running again

[00:45:20] Scott ball Scott ball yeah uh he's running is he running for that seat again

[00:45:27] yeah he's in the lead right now um it's an open sea obviously since she's you know running

[00:45:33] for senate Katie Porter's running for senate so uh yeah there's David Min and Max whose last name

[00:45:41] I don't want to chop up but he we had him on at the convention right yeah Max was on

[00:45:48] and I believe there might be a fourth so far Scott Scott balls like pulling ahead as well as has

[00:45:56] the most money yeah and if we know anything about any GOP in California it's not about whether you're

[00:46:02] a good person it's about whether you bring in the most money so no you're in their inner circle

[00:46:12] that's true as well um that's how he's bringing just kidding there's plenty of really good

[00:46:17] Republicans in California it's just there's also the party apparatus loves people who bring in money

[00:46:24] not necessarily the best candidates um so if you didn't hear about senator uh Dave Min he's a state

[00:46:30] senator uh he was arrested back in May uh according to the capital protection section of the

[00:46:37] California Highway Patrol Senator Min of Orange County was driving a Toyota camera through Sacramento

[00:46:42] after 10 p.m at 1023 the CHP observed Min go south on 9th street just north of 5th street without

[00:46:50] headlights on following him then they witnessed him go past a red light at 9th street in Broadway

[00:46:56] before finally pulling him over at Riverside and Broadway um the officers proceeded to conduct a

[00:47:03] DUI test on Min however he failed and was arrested on suspicion of driving with a blood alcohol

[00:47:08] level above the legal limit of .08 i was later confirmed with Min that being formally charged with

[00:47:14] the DUI misdemeanor arrested and sent to Sacramento County jail on Wednesday morning the center was

[00:47:19] then subsequently released uh i believe i read somewhere that he was actually double more than double

[00:47:27] the legal limit so yeah i thought i remember so he's like ordered to attend 30 hours of a

[00:47:37] like a licensed you know help groups something like a type thing and then probation for a few years

[00:47:46] some like me and i will say this i've done a couple uh DUI cases um there is it's called the first time

[00:47:56] diversion program so if you get arrested for a DUI the first time they're gonna send you on this

[00:48:02] probation-diverted uh sentence and all that stuff so it's not uncommon it's not like a sweet heart

[00:48:09] deal but it's it's just normal that you would be on probation for like three years and then you have

[00:48:14] to do these classes um so he was like double the legal limit uh he did not drive into any cars he

[00:48:24] was just pulled over because he wasn't stopping any lights uh somebody had said i've been

[00:48:32] or one of his constituents said quote i've been a democrat forever and i voted for porter here

[00:48:36] since she first ran for the house said uh Maria constituent and mean district who lost her brother

[00:48:41] in a drunk driving incident several years ago quote i was even planning on voting for Min but i just

[00:48:47] can't now i'd rather see a Republican candidate win than him representing me i know how they always

[00:48:52] say that it's a mistake and they're human but those words mean nothing when you've lost someone

[00:48:57] um so yeah it's what's up well you had texted me and said i wonder what the

[00:49:06] the different like how many people have been killed via drunk driving in California versus firearms

[00:49:12] which i think man can we find that out for me yes that was uh put the research hat on and go figure

[00:49:21] this out okay so um so then i pulled up some 2022 stats and uh they were 1069 drunk driving

[00:49:33] fatalities in California in 2022 and from 3576 firearms deaths over half of those are suicide

[00:49:48] okay um not not to say that that justifies it but you know obviously and they're mass shooting

[00:49:59] when you take away guns like all like they're yeah i mean i that was my first thing i thought

[00:50:07] when i see like these democrats especially California democrats who are voting for the like

[00:50:12] strictest gun laws in america and then they get caught uh driving drunk it's like you are getting

[00:50:19] behind the wheel of a car which is itself a deadly weapon when you're drunk um and plenty of people

[00:50:29] like this constituent said that she lost a brother to drunk driving so i mean people

[00:50:35] it's a serious thing and so for people to be lectured about oh guns guns this and that if you're

[00:50:41] a lawful gun owner we don't care we want to take away your guns because clearly you're you're a

[00:50:44] menace to society well clearly two californian democrats are menace to society because they don't

[00:50:50] know that if you drink you shouldn't be driving um and it's not like they can't i mean if they're on

[00:50:57] a campaign event they can't order an uber or a lift or a taxi or something and just put it on

[00:51:02] the campaign expenditure like is it that hard to think to do something like that? I think it's

[00:51:07] important to go and drink and they afford an uber too. Yeah and there was this tweet of Dave

[00:51:15] man like hours before and it was from the sleigh lore of free minutes as always inspiring to join

[00:51:21] activists from pro-choice california see it just all comes full circle as they fight for

[00:51:27] hashtag reproductive justice on hashtag narrow c a lobby day um so it was a political event that he

[00:51:36] was at um and they have another picture of him in front of the bar uh which is showing that yep

[00:51:45] there was alcohol and he drank so um could have been he could have just i guess if he's there on

[00:51:52] a campaign or official business he could have used it but anyway more all the story

[00:51:57] why can't californian democrats drive sober two in one year it may not seem like a lot but

[00:52:04] two is still a lot i mean the fact that it's happened twice already this year

[00:52:08] yeah i mean you would think after david main gets pinched for a dui you think every other politician

[00:52:16] in the legislature would be like uh i'm not gonna risk it i'll probably just uber or take a taxi

[00:52:23] so you would help but right so i don't it's the years coming up pretty

[00:52:30] the end of the years come out pretty soon so i'll be surprised if there's another californian

[00:52:33] democrat who gets arrested for dui but you never know crazy or things have happened all right uh

[00:52:41] so the last thing we want to do there was we asked sorry go ahead no before you get to the questions

[00:52:48] sandy a go update um with voter turnout well sorry 17.9% about it's counted right now for

[00:52:57] border supervisors just strict for special election uh monika montgomery step if i'm pronouncing

[00:53:03] her last name correctly has 61.45% of the votes with Amy wiker with 38.55% of the votes that is

[00:53:15] 17.9% counted right now um it's a big big lead to overcome for Amy um she's a fighter uh you know

[00:53:26] we'll see how that that playing pants out but that's a more than 20 point uh it's a big big swing

[00:53:35] uh which would be a shame because we'd have three democrats on the supervisor board again

[00:53:41] and two of them i would say two out of the three are very very far left leaning uh right so

[00:53:48] Amy would be fantastic addition yeah i mean i guess the only hope is next year kevin faulkner is

[00:53:54] going up against terror loss and reamer so maybe he can get get her out of there but anyway um

[00:54:01] all right it's just to think if she was on the board tonight that proposal to start suing and

[00:54:06] shutting down pregnancy centers probably would have passed and they would have been using tax dollars

[00:54:10] to pay for that all right ready for some questions and answers yep all right so this was posted on

[00:54:19] instagram uh we do this every once in a while to get your guys's feedback um get you involved in the show

[00:54:27] so we will do our best to get through all of these again if you are in the chat and you want to

[00:54:32] bring up any questions feel free to uh whatever happened to the idea of dividing the state into sections

[00:54:40] um i guess nothing uh yeah i i mean i guess he's referring or she is referring to

[00:54:51] uh the idea was there was that like new california and if you did not that long they were going

[00:54:57] to split up the state into like three different pieces or something right i haven't heard any

[00:55:02] any talk of that recently months months so yeah i don't know whatever happened to that idea

[00:55:07] you did not give me that question beforehand therefore i did not have time to look that up

[00:55:12] well i want to save i want to save some how much i knew off the top my head

[00:55:17] yeah uh well i mean also these questions are coming in like up until the show so

[00:55:23] uh yeah i haven't heard anything a while about whether or not they're going to try that again

[00:55:28] that's that's a tough sell i mean i would be surprised if we ever see a state split up in

[00:55:36] america anymore i think everything's kind of concretely set at this point you're not going to see

[00:55:42] like a split like a west virginia and a virginia in north dakota whatever all that um it'd be monumental

[00:55:49] if it happened and they split up california um but it's more than just pulling and then being like

[00:55:54] okay govern yourselves it's like there's so many issues at hand that would have to you know

[00:56:01] i mean like we get our water from northern california right it's like that

[00:56:07] yeah like like if you cut off southern california from like northern california then they have to

[00:56:12] like work out a deal between the two of them like it's a lot like it's a lot of paperwork and

[00:56:19] and logistics and stuff like that i'm not saying it's not a bad idea i think i'm never going

[00:56:24] to say that i just it's a lot to get done and i think probably a lot of people voted against it

[00:56:30] because or i don't even know if it made it to the ballot did it i i don't even remember if it made

[00:56:35] it so no um so whatever happened to it i don't know uh they tried it didn't work out so well how can

[00:56:44] we get our border closed is the next question um that's a federal issue i believe um and i'd be

[00:56:55] surprised right now the whole border issue is turning on democrats um democratic mayors of cities are

[00:57:07] upset because they don't have the money to support this stuff anymore uh you know even governor

[00:57:13] Newsom in one video we reviewed sort of admitted that he was a fan of the border wall um so i again

[00:57:21] it's when it politically doesn't make sense for them anymore that you'll start to see changes

[00:57:27] at the border wall i mean Biden already is going back and building more of the border wall quietly he

[00:57:33] he unveiled that and announced that um so yeah democrats are slowly changing their seats

[00:57:42] what's that we got to flip those congressional and senate seats right yeah and you know get Biden out

[00:57:49] of the white house um any way this state can turn it around and stop mail and ballots require voter

[00:57:57] ID laws um okay well first off uh i can tell you the way not to do it and that is to support anything

[00:58:05] Karl demio was doing on this issue because he's not going to get anything done besides and rich

[00:58:10] himself um there i i said it i said it um now the only way you're gonna do it is is uh unfortunately

[00:58:20] and this kind of sounds like circular logic is you're gonna have to elect people and get democrats out

[00:58:25] of office um and i know a lot of people say well how are you going to get people out of office if we can

[00:58:32] if they're using mail and ballots to win elections and uh well you got to play the game

[00:58:38] you gotta you gotta jump in you gotta do ballot harvesting you gotta get on top of it and you

[00:58:42] gotta start flipping seats slowly but surely um whether it's republican or libertarian or independent

[00:58:48] that's gonna uh change this um but that's the only way you're gonna do it there's not going to be a

[00:58:55] lawsuit there's no legal crackings going to be released um that's basically it you you have to

[00:59:02] change the legislature who's gonna change the laws uh where can we move if new sum becomes president

[00:59:10] co-starica co-starica has uh is very affordable it's a sort of limited government and but you can't

[00:59:22] on a firearm unless you're actually like a resident there not just a temporary residence right

[00:59:28] something to keep in mind um can move to mexico um yeah uh who knows if new sum is gonna be trying

[00:59:40] to become president well somebody else has this question so we'll get to that cities kind of

[00:59:46] uh you said i think you answered this question cities counties and california that have laws that

[00:59:50] move them to hand uh i guess that force them hand counting votes only in ban mail and votes so another

[00:59:57] mail and vote question um well i can't really read in the question because it was i didn't fully

[01:00:04] understand the way it was worded like maybe i'm answering wrong because maybe i misunderstood

[01:00:09] the question but new sum signed a b nine six nine which allows hand count counting only in some very

[01:00:16] limited circumstances and uh so no cities or counties are banning mail in voting in california

[01:00:26] i don't did you read the question another way was i it's kind of confusing how to read it um

[01:00:32] um i i guess the question is are there cities or counties that have laws that are going towards hand

[01:00:39] counting votes only and are gonna not do mail and votes um i i mean i don't think there's any

[01:00:46] in california of course how can you prevent noodles love the noodles reference from president

[01:00:56] or congressional run uh unfortunately uh there's nothing you can do to prevent him from running

[01:01:04] the only thing you can do to prevent him from winning i don't think he'll run for congress i

[01:01:09] i think that's below him at this point uh he's gonna run for president whether it's 2024 or 2028

[01:01:16] yeah he's yeah he's got time he's got plenty of time yeah i mean if it doesn't work out this time

[01:01:22] i did post something that john federman had said probably one of the smartest most

[01:01:28] adherent things he said since he's become senator that if new sim should just man up and announce

[01:01:35] that he's running for president uh and stop trying this whole like shadow campaign or this soft

[01:01:40] campaign for president and i was like no i mean it's the smartest most adherent thing you've said

[01:01:45] john federman um because that's what he's doing right now can so can we prevent him from running

[01:01:51] now you can't prevent him but uh we can continue to expose him and bring up how badly he's managed the

[01:01:57] state um and i think most people would probably look at california and say i don't want that to be

[01:02:04] our entire country so i'm not gonna vote for that uh will you guys cover cbdc's is that central bank

[01:02:13] digital currencies and what their impact on california could look like um we could um you said you knew

[01:02:20] somebody who might be willing to come on and talk about it i do i i know uh i guess from

[01:02:31] i don't know financially but i know uh i guess politically i don't like the idea of the government

[01:02:41] completely having control over our money digitally and being able to like peek into our bank

[01:02:46] counts and all that so well what do you like government having control over in your life

[01:02:52] that's a good question nothing the answer is absolutely nothing um at this point i really don't trust

[01:02:57] the government to do anything one day i'll i'll completely write out my political theory which

[01:03:04] i like to call the dirty parking meter theater theory um i'll go into that one day just a

[01:03:10] just like a plug for your book is it a plug for my book no that's that's a different

[01:03:16] topic for my book uh this is something i never heard this before why are so many illegal aliens

[01:03:23] wearing bass pro shirts and hats i i don't know i didn't know that i think i'm like numbered

[01:03:28] at all i wasn't aware i had my text but yeah i didn't even know that was like all my

[01:03:34] responses like i i wasn't aware that was a thing i'd love to hear more about that

[01:03:40] yeah i i didn't even know that was really a thing um the salaries earned by director i believe

[01:03:46] that means directors of the homeless NGOs and the source of funding uh i did find this article

[01:03:54] so yes you're onto something a lot of these nonprofits that do homelessness or homelessness

[01:04:00] outreach here in california they make a lot of money um and the people who run those also make a lot

[01:04:07] of money like four to five hundred thousand dollars a year uh i did find this article

[01:04:12] it's a little wording yeah it's nonprofit but it's big profit for the people running it

[01:04:19] this was from december 28 2019 um entitled who is profited from the homeless crisis financially

[01:04:27] and politically in la they passed this measure measure age and the quarter cent sales tax was

[01:04:38] estimated to raise 355 million a year for 10 years to fund homeless services and prevention

[01:04:44] the sales increase will amount to 3.55 billion yet the city continues to ask for more funding

[01:04:50] and measure age also allowed million four point excuse me 41.1 million to be advanced

[01:04:59] to uh l-a-h-s-a i think that's the lost angel's housing services something or other

[01:05:08] for linds to fund ramped up services and operating expenses despite millions being thrown at

[01:05:13] almost crisis under linds watch the amount of homeless grew by 33% uh lind who i believe is the CEO

[01:05:20] they're referring to stepping down at the end of december has been making close the 250k year for

[01:05:24] the last five years so um and you can look up all of these homeless organizations there's plenty of

[01:05:33] sites that you can look up the tax returns pro-publica is one i think uh you know about this where you

[01:05:39] can go research this more but and now i said we should do a training on this sometime

[01:05:45] where you can look up all these nonprofits i think i'll go and go into that following the money

[01:05:49] with nonprofits and stuff um so yeah i mean look it up um you just like type in irs nonprofit search

[01:05:57] and if you know the name of the the nonprofit or their e-i-a number they're like there comes up a

[01:06:02] search tool on the irs website and then you can plug in there you know the number or the name

[01:06:08] and if they make over if they bring in over 50k a year they have to have public statements on

[01:06:14] their their tax returns and you can start going through them and see how much are they paying

[01:06:18] their staff because it's listed on there how many hours are they working with sir uh you know

[01:06:24] paint their salary plus bonuses and stuff like that and then of course uh you're not going to see

[01:06:29] everyone that's donating to them but you can kind of start go into the website sometimes

[01:06:34] or listings so oftentimes um political packs and stuff will donate to them or even candidates

[01:06:39] and so you can go to the FEC website search that see who's donated to them as well as just like

[01:06:45] the site pro-publica that you just mentioned and kind of just like even like google like who who's

[01:06:50] supporting xy and c non-profit um interesting i saw a clip recently uh it's been very interesting

[01:07:01] to see anacusbarian's political evolution uh if you don't know who you did about that

[01:07:07] and it's answering yeah uh if you don't know anacusbarian she's the other half of the young Turks

[01:07:14] with chenk yugger um and recently uh some people have been saying it's coinciding with after she

[01:07:21] became a mother that she's been changing her policy and her tune on progressive policies uh

[01:07:28] it happens uh that's why they don't want crisis pregnancy centers that's why they don't want

[01:07:35] pregnancy crisis centers is because when there's more mothers they end up being more conservative

[01:07:39] and not so progressive uh yeah she was on the patrick bet david show and she was going off about

[01:07:45] california and she was saying how all the policies are failed and how much they've spent she was

[01:07:50] talking about the billions of dollars and she even brought up these non-profits are making

[01:07:55] the CEOs are making half a million dollars for homelessness and she's sitting there going what

[01:08:00] why are you taking my money and my family's money and you're making five hundred thousand dollars

[01:08:05] a year and you're not solving the issue so and she even said it's made me question

[01:08:10] my progressive values or my progressive beliefs um so she's even on to something as well i think

[01:08:17] the more you expose this you might get people more fired up about what's going on with homelessness

[01:08:24] in california because it is an entire uh money laundering racket that people are just making

[01:08:30] money handover fist um and the sad thing is is that there's people out there who think

[01:08:36] we've spent eighteen billion dollars why don't we just let them spend more money because that's

[01:08:42] the issue we should just let them spend more money um but next question uh can the ammo tax be

[01:08:49] removed in a few years when gavin gets out of office um sadly i don't think so uh i don't think

[01:08:57] as anything to do with when gavin gets out of office because the person taking over for him

[01:09:03] will likely either be rob bonta or his lieutenant governor ill probably be i'm gonna venture to

[01:09:09] guess it's rob bonta who is vehemently anti second amendment so i don't think the ammo tax is going

[01:09:17] to be more severe but i said short answer yes it can be yes but not but not a remite and not just

[01:09:26] by removing newsroom um yeah california california is the only state with ammo tax but we have an

[01:09:33] extreme majority of crazy true and striving liberals making laws of passing bills so we have to vote

[01:09:38] the crazies out turning california california red will take many years yeah i mean it's it's not

[01:09:45] just about getting news amount like you said like we're gonna have to really flip uh you know assembly

[01:09:50] and send it seats if we want to overturn any of these crazy bills right that's going to be time

[01:09:56] uh unless somebody comes up with a brilliant lawsuit that says you can't tax ammo because it's

[01:10:01] uh protected under the second amendment let's do that's the only one that's the fastest way i can think

[01:10:06] of if newsroom runs for president united states in 2024 could he realistically win against trump or

[01:10:13] anyone else um i'm gonna say uh if he's running against trump probably not well i don't know that's

[01:10:27] actually could i may be changing my tune about that i mean the new york times pole showed that

[01:10:33] trump would be by it in by a landslide right now that he's gonna win in all the swing states

[01:10:40] i don't think newson would be able to carry a lot of those swing states like the rust bell

[01:10:46] i i don't i just don't feel like gavin newsroom could could do that i don't think he could connect

[01:10:53] with swing voters in alhio and pennsylvania in michigan and was constant all that i just

[01:10:59] he's uh he's a pretty boy from california and people in those states look at california

[01:11:06] and think that state has gone completely to hell i'm not going to vote for you for president so

[01:11:12] i would say look what i would just turn out to do issue issue one that's true which was probably

[01:11:20] primarily women and those women because as we already talked about women are stupid and can't

[01:11:28] make decisions because that's so hence why they get tricked at crisis pregnancy centers no but

[01:11:34] that's and that's not what you're saying that's with tarot loss and reamer is

[01:11:37] i know i know sorry that was our castic moment but this is true we know this

[01:11:42] we've seen this over and over and we talked about it last week

[01:11:48] people think gavin is so handsome and they get so caught up in that oh my gosh do they got caught up

[01:11:58] oh but he's so good looking oh he's so good looking and like

[01:12:03] apparently that matters

[01:12:07] so women who want these who want you know these progressive abortion policies

[01:12:16] probably also you know he's pushing the 26th amendment of

[01:12:20] the anti-gun thing like they're probably totally on board with that

[01:12:24] like those same women in Ohio are going to show up and be like yes pro choice anti-gun yes

[01:12:33] yeah and if it's trump trump did have a problem in 2020 with suburban women

[01:12:42] that's no secret he did have that that was his weak spot which probably didn't help him

[01:12:48] win a lot of those swing states so there there is a possibility that gavin could swing that

[01:12:54] um so and he again i i will say this every single time he is a dangerous politician because

[01:13:02] he's good at what he does and i think like we are paying attention to california because we live here

[01:13:08] i think most people are not paying attention to like what it's actually happening with gavinusum so

[01:13:12] the second that he should put his name in for president then that's when people start looking

[01:13:18] up at him and then that's when they're going to he's a smooth talker you know he's easy to look

[01:13:23] at like all those things are going to be like oh i want to hear more about what he has to say

[01:13:28] yeah um and i'm gonna say that's make him win i'm just saying these are advantages

[01:13:34] yeah and it makes you know it could be a pros in his in the pro column form um i think once he runs

[01:13:43] i think any opponent of him is just gonna run constant ads showing california over and over and over

[01:13:48] again so they're gonna show the smashing grabs the core san vetsisco makes out you want

[01:13:55] yeah just just show live footage of san francisco and show how all the stores are gone um now they're

[01:14:03] now they're promising that they're going to make it safe for the the holiday shopping season

[01:14:08] just for the holiday shopping season not for the rest of the year that's right through the rest

[01:14:12] of the year if you live here they don't necessarily have to comment to you well there's no shopping left

[01:14:16] because they all left san francisco so of course it's like no shops or harvests in the

[01:14:20] season in san francisco because they weren't there exactly um so could he make a run for it

[01:14:27] sure crazier things have happened um he's gonna run for president and um there's really nothing

[01:14:32] gonna stop him whether it's 2024 and he's forced into it or it's 2028 um so we'll we'll just go

[01:14:39] to say i think we're over the belief on this program that he's probably gonna try and we as well as

[01:14:43] way into 2024 because i think the polls look horrible bite-in versus trump so

[01:14:51] maybe they figure slight news in there some new energies some new fresh blood um but yeah

[01:14:58] i'm sure we'll be talking about this way more uh but yeah that was that was fun we should do this

[01:15:03] more often with the question and answers um thank you everybody who submitted um so hopefully

[01:15:09] you tuned in and heard the answer to your questions if you did submit uh an answer or a question

[01:15:15] all right that's our show the show that we were 24 hours wondering if we'd be able to fill up a full

[01:15:21] hour with um and we blew past it and it's now an hour and 15 so we gave you way more content

[01:15:26] than we were expecting um so next week we have uh our first presidential candidate on the

[01:15:36] to show right yeah uh Michael Recklewald we're having Michael Recklewald on who is uh running for

[01:15:47] libertary he's the libertarian candidate um so he'll be on the show and then uh we have tentatively

[01:15:55] can i say that we have bill salient coming up in two weeks yes the 21st right so we're we're

[01:16:01] looking to get everything scheduled for the rest of the year so everyone knows what's going on

[01:16:06] until the end of the year with the holidays and everything um and once we do that we'll let everybody

[01:16:11] know but that's the end of tonight's program and you know it was only an hour and 15 minutes i think

[01:16:17] we we barely filled up that hour so good on us i think we just barely had enough stuff to get

[01:16:24] through that hour and she said yeah i think we did um all right any other final thoughts before we

[01:16:33] sign off no great for my my son you know turning 18 yeah he can you know go register go buy a pack

[01:16:45] of cigarettes um a lot of ticket a lot of tickets i think that's about it you can do when you're

[01:16:52] 18 um enjoy that uh take them out to a good steakhouse that should be good uh anyway as we end

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