As we head into week....6 of stay at home order? More people are beginning to wake up and feel they are being severely oppressed and robbed of their rights. Protests breaking out all over the state.
Gavin may have poked a hornets nest by singling out the OC and reawakening its strong Republican foothold.
In an interview with Seth Myers, Gavin talks about how our $24 billion surplus is gone and the federal government needs to bail him out so he can get all his progressive policies on his wish list.
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Happy Mayday at the time of this recording, dozens well, probably
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a handful of protest going on right now all over the state and
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through Sacramento, San Francisco, Huntington Beach, San
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Diego. Not sure if there's one going on
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in LA, but there were a whole bunch of which I mentioned last
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week. If you've been following on
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Instagram, handles fully open CA.
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Right now they have protests going on all over the place.
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I think there might be more protests going on tomorrow.
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If you want to find out what they're doing, you want to check
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in, support them to whatever protests have been happening.
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Protests happened last weekend as well, which I will talk about
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a little bit on the show because I was down there at the one here
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in San Diego, Pacific Beach. So with that, there's a lot to
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always get to, especially with the coronavirus the Rona
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happening right now. And as people were starting to
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head out of it and you started to see a May 1st.
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A lot of states. I think it was 38 states have as
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of now are reopening so that means there's a lot of states
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that are already moving towards reopening.
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Getting back to normal, reopening their economy, helping
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small businesses and small business owners get back into
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some sort of normalcy. Texas led the way I would say
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Texas is leading the way Georgia was the first one to really
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reopen, but mostly it looks like a majority of the states are
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starting to reopen California. Still very reluctant.
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We're going to get into that, but let's start with.
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Out of the gate monologue. You always see people joke about
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how 1984 is here and we've now crossed into an Orwellian world
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without knowing it. This of course was prepandemic,
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but now the laughter is turning into smoldering anger over
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what's going on in our country. If you're not too familiar with
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1984 outside of the fact that it is a book about a dystopian
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future, here's a quick summary. There's an individual by the
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name of Winston Smith, who lives and works in this dystopian
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future country of Oceana, where Big Brother that's where the
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term comes from and the party basically control every aspect
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of your life. The party strongly forbids any
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sort of free thought, or as they like to call it, quote a thought
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crime. In Oceana, you were given a
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specific job, and you're constantly monitored for any
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disobedience. The hero of the story begins to
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question things because he specifically remembers things
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differently than the Ministry of Truth puts them out.
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Since it works at the ministry and is responsible for
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correcting old story, he sees it first hand.
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However, he fears being vaporized for starting to
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question the narrative around him.
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Individuals around him stare blindly into a TV screen where
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Big Brother feeds them. The daily lies the state wants
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you to regurgitate. Probably seen it in the famous
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Apple 1984 commercial as a hero looks around, he sees everyone
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succumbing to the lies and the disinformation frothing
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themselves into a fervor. Now I won't go too far into
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detail. The rest of the story because I
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don't want to spoil it for you, and also it's a good story.
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But we see here a similarities between that story and now.
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I try to refrain from such alarmist notions that are we are
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surrendering to an Orwellian world, but sometimes the
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comparisons are too much to ignore.
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Last week, I discussed how the stats being put out are not
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commensurate with the extreme measures that are being put into
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place to prevent the spread. I truly believe we are starting
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to see people waking up to the reality that this has become
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overblown, and we may have done more harm than good.
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Such thoughts are not allowed in our current climate.
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Two doctors from here in California gained national
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recognition when they openly refuted the notion that we need
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to remain shut down, and we only need it to quarantine the
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elderly and most vulnerable. The news spread like wildfire
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and news channels quickly picked it up, but as soon as they
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explode onto the scene, any video then was taken down as
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disinformation or violating community guidelines by the big
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tech companies. It was memory hold, or at least
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they tried to memory hold it. The mainstream media and the
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tech companies aren't the only ones making sure you abide by
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party rules. Similar to the manic viewers of
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Big Brother in 1984, the media has essentially wiped the
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populace into a fear induced panic over the coronavirus.
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Fear is a powerful motivator and you see it everywhere on the
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news and social media. People parroting the same
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talking points over and over again.
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You've heard them before. We must stay home to flatten the
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curve. We can't even think about
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opening the economy until everyone can be tested.
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I know it hurts, but we're all in this together.
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And my personal favorite, if we reopen too early, we will end up
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killing millions of people. The same point echoed again and
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again want to question what's going on with the facts and
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statistics. That's a thought crime and you
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should be ashamed for thinking such things.
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In fact, if you get particularly cheeky response, it might
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include a nice little doctored waiver saying you waive all
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right to medical care for having such incorrect thoughts.
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Now finally, our Hero 1984 is constantly looking over his
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shoulder for fear that someone might snitch on him and get him
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vaporized for thought crimes. Today, there is no need to worry
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about. How tyrannical governments can
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impose and enforce such strict measures.
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When you have a brainwashed populace ready to tattle on
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every person who is not strictly abiding by arbitrary guidelines,
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don't think that's true. Just look at what Mayor Garcetti
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said in a press conference. He said, you know what they say
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about snitches? Well, in this case snitches get
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rewards. No need for there to be a police
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everywhere when you have scared the populace into doing the
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policing for you. Of course we are far from the
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dark and bleak world of 1904, but its story is no less
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pertinent today than ever. George Orwell said that 1984 was
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to be a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.
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However, the heroes of today don't have to worry about being
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vaporized. There are heroes who stand out
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on street corners, waving signs to open up the country.
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Again, heroes, such as doctors who go against the grain and
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tell you there is not a rational reason for being completely shut
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down. There are Winston Smiths all
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over this country willing to push back on the party's
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tyranny. Thought crimes aren't completely
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illegal yet, so again, I urge those out there who have
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questions and concerns to speak up.
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It is only when our voices are made loud enough and joined
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together will people begin to question what's going on for the
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sake of our country and to ensure 1984 remains a work of
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fiction and engage in thought crimes.
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Commit them on social media, commit them in discussions with
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friends and family. Commit them wherever there is an
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opportunity to do so. Otherwise it really will be a
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crime to think differently. So obviously there's a lot going
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on out there in California, California.
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We're going to get into a little bit about him closing the
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beaches and then reversing his policy, and also some
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interesting tidbits that I pulled from Seth Meyers.
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I didn't even know he was on Seth Meyers last night, but I
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was able to find the footage. Not that it's hard to find.
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You can go on YouTube and find it because they're pushing up
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all these late night hosts, but I found it just by happenstance
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because I was looking for any latest daily briefings.
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From Gavin Newsom for the show. And then I saw that he was on
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Seth Meyers, so I pulled a couple clips up there.
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So one thing that I wanted to talk about really quickly, and
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it's more the national news going on with this whole Joe
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Biden thing. And the double standard that's
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happening and how it really does tie in to what's going on here
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locally. This is Martin.
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Joe Biden went on Morning Joe with Mika Brzezinski, who was
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supposed to be giving him these hardball questions if you heard
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it. She had obviously pain in her
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voice as if every single question that she answered asked
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hurt her in a physical and emotional way.
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There's clips out there of McPherson Ski and Joe
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Scarborough talking about how much they love Joe Biden, how
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Mika Brzezinski said that she knows that he's a flirtatious
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man, that it is. He does this what should call
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safe flirtation, meaning that there could be a kiss there
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could be holding hands. There could be a hug, there
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could be something like that, but it's all safe and harmless
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because that's who Joe Biden is, and she would be sad to know if
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Joe Biden has to change because of everything that's happened.
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But as you've probably already seen that the double standards
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going on between Democrats and Republicans, comparing this to
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what happened with Brett Kavanaugh is night and day.
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And it's not hard to go back and see.
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It's not hard to go back and see what Nancy Pelosi said about him
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now or Brett Kavanaugh then and Joe Biden now and how she has
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changed her tune completely from.
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Well, we must believe all women are guilty until proven
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innocent. Therefore he has to come out and
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prove that he didn't do this to now, which is well.
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Joe Biden is a great man. He's been a leader in the Senate
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and there's no way we must believe and allow him the chance
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to defend himself and prove that he's innocent.
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Of course, that same standard wasn't obviously given to Brett
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Kavanaugh during the Supreme Court hearings, and you have a
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accuser who has a lot more facts on our side.
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She has more people who are corroborating than doctor
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Christine Blasey Ford and all, and it's hard for them to now
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backpedal and say that no, wait a second, the Me too movement,
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which was believe all women 100% guilty until proven innocent and
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that the burden of proof is really on the accused man.
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That there is now all of a sudden this different standard.
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Because it's Joe Biden and you even see articles.
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You see articles saying that he must be held accountable, but
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that doesn't mean he's not electable.
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So before it was well, we can't appoint a man for life to the
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Supreme Court, because obviously this man is going to be on the
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Supreme Court forever and affect millions of lives because he's
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this sexual predator. And this monster who's out there
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on the Supreme Court as opposed to let's say, the leader of the
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free world who has enormous influence over.
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Millions if not billions of lives because of the fact that
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he's the leader of America and we have influence all over the
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world. But that doesn't really matter
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to the left. Now the left is really kind of
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backtracked. So what I'm trying to do is, I'm
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trying to tie this into here locally in California.
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It's not just the Joe Biden issue.
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The double standards exist on both sides.
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If you don't, you're not aware of the fact of Gavin Newsome's
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incredulous history of what happened with him and Kimberly
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Gilfoy. He did cheat on her and he
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cheated on her with one of his best friend's wives and it was
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called out to our attention mostly through Travis Allen
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during the gubernatorial debate back a couple of years ago.
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Here's a clip of it we can't trust Gavin with his best
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friend's wife. How can you trust him with your
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state? Yeah, I mean it's it's hard with
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respect to to hear from Mr. Allen who's a devout supporter
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of Donald Trump, talk about the issue of sexual harassment.
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A devout supporter. I mean it was number.
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Surprise that Travis Allen positioned himself as the maggot
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candidate, the Trump candidate for the gubernatorial race, as
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opposed to feckless John Cox, who really didn't do anything.
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As soon as he made the list, or as soon as he made the ticket,
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he seemed to roll over, but that's all different story, but
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you notice how all of a sudden they keep pushing away and they
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keep deflecting on this issue in the sense that it doesn't matter
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if the Democrats did it. Donald Trump is an awful human
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being and orange man bad, and obviously, he said.
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That horrible thing on the Hollywood access tape with I
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forget who his name is. I mean he's such a flash in the
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pan at this point. I don't even really care who he
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is. Who leaked that tape.
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But as you can see, they always push back on it so they're only
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response. And I mean, if that was your
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only card to play, I guess I would play that too and push
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back. But there is a difference here
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in the sense that yeah, there have been people who have
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accused Donald Trump or not so much as in this case where there
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is somebody who. I mean there were some people
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who tried to come out and. Accused Donald Trump and it
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didn't really work and people looked at it.
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Like, yeah, OK, we don't believe you.
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And you're obviously a little crazy.
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I think the last person who came out and tried to accuse Donald
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Trump made such an embarrassment of herself on CNN and Anderson
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Cooper. He literally had to cut away
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because he started to believe this is literally unraveling as
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we're airing this segment live with her.
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So we're now going to have to cut away to a commercial and get
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rid of her because it's just so bad.
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But you can see that they always kind of push it back on.
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Well, you know, even though I was incredulous and I cheated on
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my wife, you have Donald Trump who runs around saying grab them
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by the you know what? How dare you even make that
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comparison to me, it doesn't change the fact that you're not
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accountable. I'm not going to sit here and
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say that whatever Donald Trump did if he did or did not do it
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doesn't change the fact that it's still a bad standard to
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set. You can't say well, because I
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cheated on my wife. Therefore it's OK because Donald
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Trump is a horrible person. No, those are still inherently
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bad things, and using Donald Trump as a scapegoat is kind of
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saying well, as long as the president does it, I'm OK.
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And that's become the sort of the double standard as well.
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A Republican can do it, and it's an awful horrible thing.
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And we must believe all women we must.
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Make sure that the man is accused is 100% guilty until
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proven innocent, as opposed on the other side, where if you're
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Democrat, whether it's a reason and maybe maybe it's something
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that was bigger issue. Maybe?
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I don't know, maybe, but there's all these different reasons we
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have to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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Let them figure this out. But you still can't just point
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to Donald Trump and say, well, Donald Trump's a horrible,
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disgusting misogynist human being.
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Therefore it's all right. And he did, you know, Gavin
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Newsom, if I've said anything, I've said that he's a very
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clever and very clever and smart politician.
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He knew when he said that he was able to get a reaction from the
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crowd. He was able to move it around.
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A lot of people picked up on it. There's some people who said
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that whatever Travis Allen said was kill shot.
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It was really good. Some people who saw the debate
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also said that what? Gavin Newsom, how he deflected,
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was the perfect way to deflect because it's orange, man bad
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when it comes down to it. So what does it matter?
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Donald Trump is, supposedly, this is the.
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Poster for the American poster boy of sexual harassment in this
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country. So even if you vote for Donald
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Trump, there's no way you can point out what Democrats did
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because, well, you voted for Donald Trump.
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Which doesn't really make sense, and I guess it's one way to
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deflect. And like I said, if it's your
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only card right now and you really have nowhere to go and
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the Democrats have put kind of painted themselves in this
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corner. Where they have to go back and
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say, well, all that me to believe all women.
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Is now no longer. Oh well, there's some conditions
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and there's it's a little different.
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Now. When it's Joe Biden and they
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know they're caught. They know they're caught in a
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rock and a hard place, and they either cave on what they said
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before. Or they stand up for it and they
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go after Joe Biden. So I don't think this is over
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and I don't think a softball interview like the one Joe.
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How Mika Brzezinski, where she was so pained and agonizing over
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every question she felt so. But Mr Vice President, sorry I'm
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sorry I have to ask you this horrible questions, but you're
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such a good friend and I have to do this because I'm a journalist
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and if anyone believes me, comprehensi is a journalist.
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Well I have a bridge to sell. But I want to move on back to
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the local news. I just wanted to tie that in
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because I just wanted to show sort of the double standard and
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sort of the shell game that they've been playing with this
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whole terror. Read me too.
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Sexual harassment thing with Joe Biden.
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Did go to the? Protest last week down in
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Pacific Beach. I was there in an official
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capacity to keep an eye on things as an attorney.
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And I I will tell you this, I was all about 200 people.
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It was well attended. Nobody got out of hand.
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Nobody caused any violence. Nobody broke any store windows.
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There were a ton of red maga hats.
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There were a ton of flags or a ton of Trump flags.
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And it was. It was well attended and it was
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very calm and a lot of people I know in the community were very
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upset about that because they thought.
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Obviously, if you go out and protest, you're going to kill
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grandma by going out and protesting.
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But it seemed pretty calm and I don't have to give credit to the
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San Diego Police Department. They did a good job of just
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keeping an eye on everything and letting people exercise their
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First Amendment rights. Just making sure they stayed off
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the sidewalk. Stuff like that.
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Don't block the roads. You can stay on the sidewalk.
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And protests. At a certain point, you could
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just see that people were going around in their cars.
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They were sort of creating this caravan.
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A little parade just going back and forth causing all this
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ruckus and noise. So All in all, it was a very
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well attended well taken well. Everyone's well behaved.
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I guess you could say and it wasn't a Antifa protest.
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Not where you see Antifa going in, and they just start breaking
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stuff for no reason. They start throwing trash cans
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through Starbucks, windows, or hitting people, or throwing off
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smoke grenades. It was just people standing
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around signs and American flags and shouting and doing what a
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peaceful. I would say that was a peaceful
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protest. Nothing went wrong, no legal
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legal happened. No one was arrested.
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It was all very up and up, and I'm sure I haven't seen really a
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lot of the footage of what's going on today.
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For tomorrow yet, but I'm sure a lot of people are doing the same
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thing and the different cities right now that fully open
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California is doing right now. I'm sure they're very well
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respected. I'm sure they're following the
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rules that they know what their rights are, and they're not
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really. They're not really causing too
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much of a problem right now, so just want to give you that
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little update and just first hand.
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If you were able to tune out to do a little bit of a live video,
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just going over it so you could see first hand what was going
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on. So the big news.
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This week that happened with California was California's.
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Gavin Newsom, a couple days ago sending out or leaking that memo
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to the police chiefs that he's going to close all beaches
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simply because he saw too many people in Huntington Beach on
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the beach. And he thought that this was
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violating public health guidelines, so he decided he was
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going to crack down and close all the beaches as a panel to
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everybody, which was swiftly met with huge pushback and this was
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released leaked at 10:00 o'clock at night.
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Next day within less than 24 hours.
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To reverse that decision. Mostly because a lot of people
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push back a lot of local leaders.
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You know, a lot of I know for here in San Diego.
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I know the mayor got on the phone and said, look, we've been
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doing our part. We did it safely.
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We have our precautions in place.
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There's no reason to punish all of us just because Orange County
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got out of hand. There was some sheriffs, I know.
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Humboldt County said there is no way I'm going to enforce this.
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This is ridiculous. And so within 24 hours, Gavin
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Newsome backed down. He praised some of the state or
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some of the beaches in the cities for doing a good job, but
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ultimately he did say that OCC is going to be shut down.
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Now here's the thing about why this is a big deal.
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Orange County if you don't remember just recently flipped
00:20:21
blue and a lot of people thought this was a huge win for
00:20:24
Democrats. Orange County is still, it's not
00:20:27
out of the woods yet when it comes to it's not a Democratic
00:20:29
stronghold. I would still say it's very
00:20:32
Republican. There is a strong Republican
00:20:33
presence. In Orange County.
00:20:36
If there's one thing Gavin Newsom did right now, and this
00:20:39
is where he was, not a smart politician is to force all his
00:20:43
ire at Orange County specifically.
00:20:46
Now you've become the poster boy problem within Orange County.
00:20:51
And now you've created yourself. You made yourself out to be the
00:20:54
villain and nothing makes people unite and rebel faster than
00:20:58
making them feel like they are singled out specifically for
00:21:02
what they did. And in this case, Orange County.
00:21:06
Is going to and I believe that this will start to reignite a
00:21:10
lot of that Republican enthusiasm in Orange County.
00:21:13
He's essentially kicked up a Hornets nest in Orange County to
00:21:18
get people back out and push back against him and I know that
00:21:21
there's still people who I know Orange County is pushing back on
00:21:24
this. They've basically said look, he
00:21:26
can tell us what to do whatever we want.
00:21:28
We're still going to let people go back out on the beaches.
00:21:31
Orange County is not going to take this lying down and I'm
00:21:33
just going to throw up their hands.
00:21:35
And say OK yeah, sure, whatever, we'll, we'll abide by whatever
00:21:39
you tell us to do. We're just going to do it
00:21:41
because you're our supreme leader.
00:21:43
Orange County's not going to stand for that.
00:21:45
There's already been pushback. For example, OC supervisor
00:21:48
Michelle Steele, she called the Governor's actions arbitrary and
00:21:53
said it was an act of retribution against the county's
00:21:56
quote. We should be rewarding our
00:21:59
communities for practicing safe social distancing, not punishing
00:22:02
them. By closing down only Orange
00:22:04
County beaches, and this is not acceptable, she said.
00:22:06
I will be looking into the right response to the governors
00:22:09
overreaction and abuse of power. So obviously Orange County is
00:22:14
not going to take this lying down, and they're not going to
00:22:18
just let this fall the way it is.
00:22:20
I think they're going to push back.
00:22:21
They're going to, and this is going to awaken a lot of
00:22:24
Republicans in that county. So smart move by Gavin Newsom to
00:22:28
single out Orange County. Probably not, especially when
00:22:32
they were doing so well, I'm making an inroads there and now
00:22:35
you've made yourself the poster boy for problems, and
00:22:39
Republicans can really go after you.
00:22:41
Make this a campaign issue essentially this year and say
00:22:44
look, do you want more Democrats like Gavin Newsom running Orange
00:22:48
County, representing Orange County and a lot of people who
00:22:51
are fed up with it will probably say yeah, no, I don't want
00:22:54
Democrats like that representing me.
00:22:56
So now I want to move on to some clips that I told you I found
00:23:01
from Seth Meyers last night. He did have Gavin Newsom on.
00:23:05
We did talk about a couple things.
00:23:07
He talked about the beach closing, so I'll play that clip.
00:23:09
And then there's another clip that I want to play as well,
00:23:12
which is probably the more terrifying clip.
00:23:14
But let's start with the first clip him talking about what was
00:23:17
going on with the beaches. Californians?
00:23:20
Justifiably, so brag about their beaches.
00:23:22
We saw footage this past weekend of a lot of people crowding the
00:23:27
beaches. You just gave a press conference
00:23:29
where I think specifically in Orange County, you reinforce the
00:23:34
importance of staying. At home is that it must be hard.
00:23:37
You mentioned Kevin Fever, you know people wanna be outside.
00:23:41
No, I've spent my entire political life opening up beach
00:23:44
access, fighting for people's right to their beach and this
00:23:49
state. It's one of the reasons Horace
00:23:51
Greeley said go West young man go West in the 1850s as our
00:23:55
natural beauty and 1100 mile coastline, 800 miles of pristine
00:23:59
beaches. None more beautiful than down in
00:24:01
Orange County. One of the really most
00:24:03
magnificent bucolic parts of the world.
00:24:06
And so I hated to do it. But I had to do it on the basis
00:24:08
of the advice and counsel for my public health directors.
00:24:12
They're all saying the only way we can set this course back to
00:24:15
reopening with modifications. Our economy is to see the kind
00:24:19
of concentration that we saw on those beaches over the weekend,
00:24:22
and so we're going to do our best try to be collaborative and
00:24:25
cooperative. Most of the beaches over 100 did
00:24:28
everything right and the communities there really met the
00:24:31
moment. But unfortunately people really
00:24:33
eager to get out a little too much.
00:24:35
So last weekend, and so I just want to slow that down,
00:24:37
decompress a little bit, and then have a pathway to reopen
00:24:40
very quickly. So again, going after Orange
00:24:45
County specifically, he did backtrack and say what he's
00:24:50
basically repeating his press conference that a lot of the
00:24:52
beaches did a good job of staying within the boundaries
00:24:58
and the guidelines. But at this point I think
00:25:01
really, is this a fight? Is this a hill that Gavin Newsom
00:25:04
wants to die on? And he said that he wants to
00:25:06
open the beaches and he wants to reopen as fast as possible.
00:25:11
And I don't think this is a hill.
00:25:13
He wants to die on, and I think it's like I said, poking the
00:25:18
Hornets nest of specifically Orange County.
00:25:20
If this was LA, I would understand if this was San
00:25:23
Francisco, although there really aren't beaches up there in that
00:25:25
area. If this was LA and they said to
00:25:28
LA, people in Los Angeles as well, you can't go out to the
00:25:31
beach because you guys got a little rowdy.
00:25:32
A lot of people will probably comply with that and agree with
00:25:35
him, but Orange County is different and you've started a
00:25:38
little bit of a problem there for you and Democrats.
00:25:42
And this is not the hill that you can die on because
00:25:46
Californians pay a lot to live close to the beach.
00:25:49
And there's a reason why the rest of the country believes
00:25:52
that California is 2 miles wide and everybody lives on a beach
00:25:56
or close to Hollywood is because all the images you see are
00:25:59
people at beaches or San Diego, or surfing or Hollywood, or
00:26:03
stuff like that. You don't see the big counties
00:26:06
that are way up in what I like to call the state of Jefferson.
00:26:10
And in other news, just a side note, there's a county up there,
00:26:13
Modoc County, that basically just gave the middle finger to
00:26:16
Gavin Newsom and said, look, we're opening.
00:26:18
We don't care. There's nobody up here.
00:26:20
We've been practicing social distancing because we're
00:26:23
sparsely, densely hated or sparsely populated county and
00:26:26
there's no reason for us to keep doing these social distancing.
00:26:29
So they're basically thumbing their nose, so you're starting
00:26:31
to see a little bit more of this specific county starting to
00:26:36
fracture away from what the governor and the state orders
00:26:39
are saying, so I don't think this is a really good idea.
00:26:42
From the dial on this hill and a lot of people may say, well,
00:26:45
it's stupid. What's the big deal?
00:26:46
It's a beach. It's been there forever.
00:26:48
You're going to have the beach when this is over and I think in
00:26:51
California this is one of the things that it's not, only that
00:26:54
it's emblematic of the lockdown and what it is, and maybe the
00:26:58
craziness of these lockdowns if you go down to the beach.
00:27:01
People are walking around, people are milling around.
00:27:04
When we went down and walked around back when they opened up
00:27:09
the beach that it was this Monday this past Monday.
00:27:12
People walk, people were playing sports.
00:27:15
People were throwing the Frisbee around.
00:27:16
Someone was maybe sunbathing more than 102 hundred feet away
00:27:21
from anybody just laying out on this towel and a lot of people
00:27:23
can say what's the big harm in that.
00:27:25
It's not really harming anybody if you're all out there.
00:27:29
Keep me your social distancing, no ones sitting on top of each
00:27:32
other. I don't know.
00:27:33
I mean, this isn't the New Jersey shore.
00:27:35
And if anybody who's ever been in the New Jersey Shore
00:27:36
understands in the summer time it can get really crowded to the
00:27:41
point where you're literally sitting towel to towel.
00:27:44
And there's really no room but not in California, where there's
00:27:47
huge beaches, especially places like Orange County.
00:27:51
You can spread out and you can sit on a towel and be way far
00:27:54
away from anybody else. So why these are these things?
00:27:58
These are the issues that people are looking at, and they're
00:28:01
saying this is ridiculous. This is overburden, something.
00:28:04
This really has nothing to do with the virus anymore.
00:28:06
It's just about penalizing us because we don't comply.
00:28:10
With what you want us to do, and this is a bad hill for him to
00:28:14
die on. It was smart of him to back off.
00:28:19
Doesn't make him look like he's a flip flopper.
00:28:21
A little bit. Sure.
00:28:22
Do people say Oh well now he's being a very smart and pragmatic
00:28:26
politician. It was bad in the 1st place.
00:28:29
He could have just reprimanded them and said look he could have
00:28:32
handled this a little bit more diplomatically.
00:28:34
He could have called Orange County supervisor like Michelle
00:28:38
Steele and say look. I'm not crazy about how many
00:28:42
people are out on your beaches. Can you make a point to let them
00:28:46
know in a responsible way? Just take it easy, you know
00:28:49
social distance to whatever you have to, but he didn't do that.
00:28:52
Instead he just closed it down like they were a little child
00:28:55
and he was punishing them and putting them in timeout.
00:28:58
It's not the hill you want to die on, especially not in
00:29:01
California. People are very, very attached
00:29:05
to their beaches and their beach life here in California.
00:29:07
So not a good move on his part. But the next clip I'm going to
00:29:10
play you is a little bit more. Terrifying and probably a little
00:29:14
bit more scary if you look between the lines, we're going
00:29:16
to talk about that you mentioned three months ago.
00:29:21
The good news was this incredible budget surplus in
00:29:23
California budget surplus that allowed a budget to have a lot
00:29:27
of space for progressive issues. Things like climate change
00:29:31
things like addressing homelessness.
00:29:34
The reality is you are not going to be able to hold that surplus,
00:29:37
correct? No, not all that surplus is
00:29:40
gone. And by the way previous year
00:29:43
literally a year to go this month.
00:29:45
A year ago, this month we were announcing how we're going to
00:29:47
balance a $21.4 billion budget surplus.
00:29:51
I mean, it's just incredible how quickly things move.
00:29:54
The good news is we were prudent in terms of our investments.
00:29:57
One time surplus, one time investments paid down debt
00:30:01
started, pay down pension obligations, and it's a way of
00:30:04
saying this and forgive me because I've lost half the
00:30:06
people watching. Don't want to talk about
00:30:07
pensions? It's not why they watch your
00:30:09
show, but it's a way of saying this when you hear some
00:30:12
Republican leaders say we're not going to bail out these states
00:30:16
because of mismanagement. With all due respect,
00:30:19
California's been running surpluses.
00:30:21
We've been sending money to the federal government over the last
00:30:24
few decades to send to other states to help them, and I'm
00:30:28
really proud of this effort, and I can only say this.
00:30:30
We can't balance these budgets and protect the most vulnerable
00:30:33
without the federal government's help, we're going to need a
00:30:36
substantial amount of support. It's directly because of this
00:30:41
pandemic. It's not because of
00:30:42
mismanagement, it's because of pandemic and that's why we're
00:30:46
blessed to have speaker Nancy Pelosi from the state of
00:30:48
California and she's putting up now close to $1 trillion.
00:30:53
In separate bills to focus on the needs of states, counties
00:30:56
and cities. And I'll tell you what Seth just
00:30:58
flat out. We sent her a letter three weeks
00:31:01
ago, saying if you're not talking close to a trillion,
00:31:04
you're not having a serious conversation about the magnitude
00:31:06
of this crisis on budgets and the impact on police and fire
00:31:10
and health care workers and teachers all across this
00:31:13
country. And I'm really proud of her and
00:31:15
pleased that she's starting to socialize numbers at that level
00:31:18
because that's the level of this crisis and the impact over the
00:31:22
next three years. That these budgets are going to
00:31:25
feel there's a lot to unpack in that clip.
00:31:29
And if you listen closely, there is a lot of stuff that is
00:31:33
terrifying and a lot that you can take away from just that
00:31:38
little clip. Now, obviously Seth Meyers and I
00:31:40
just want to say this about Seth Meyers and all these late night
00:31:43
shows. Is it that hard to go on Amazon
00:31:47
and buy a $20 inline mic or a wireless mic or even a snowball
00:31:53
mic? Or any sort of mic that doesn't
00:31:55
make you sound like you're recording?
00:31:57
In a shoe box, I don't understand all these late night
00:32:00
hosts who get millions of dollars in budgets all of a
00:32:02
sudden they can't figure out how to use any sort of mics or
00:32:06
anything that Youtubers or podcasters have been using
00:32:08
forever. But regardless of that.
00:32:12
The issues there are so many issues to unpack here.
00:32:15
First off, let's talk about the fact that the $24 billion
00:32:18
surplus that Gavin Newsom likes to brag about is now gone.
00:32:22
And this is something I've said before.
00:32:24
It doesn't matter that there is a $24 billion surplus if you're
00:32:28
not spending it on anything, and if you have an enormous amount
00:32:31
of debt and deficit. And we've said this before, and
00:32:34
I'll beat the drum again and again and again.
00:32:37
California has a trillion dollars in unfunded pension
00:32:40
liabilities, 1 trillion. Dollars, so even if Nancy Pelosi
00:32:45
were to bail out her own nephew. And run out to the Congress and
00:32:50
say, OK, we need a trillion dollars to bail out California.
00:32:53
That would be the amount it would have to all go to
00:32:56
California to pay for their pension liabilities.
00:32:59
That's not to say that we won't get in this problem again.
00:33:02
Even if you were bailed out. But the scarier thing is not
00:33:06
that the $24 billion is gone. I mean, that is terrifying that
00:33:09
$24 billion. Where did it go?
00:33:12
Even the legislature starting to wonder where Gavin Newsom was
00:33:15
spending some of this money. He was recently caught.
00:33:19
Giving a billion dollars to a Chinese car manufacturer for
00:33:23
making PPE face masks and a lot of the legislature.
00:33:28
Even people in his own party were saying whoa, whoa whoa wait
00:33:30
a second. You can't appropriate this many
00:33:32
funds just for yourself and same thing with putting aside $75
00:33:35
million in cash payments for illegal immigrants struck down
00:33:39
by the California Supreme Court, saying you can't do that either.
00:33:41
So where did all this money go? Where did all this money go?
00:33:46
Where did he spend it? We won't know for a while, but
00:33:50
the scarier thing is this. Is that he pointed out that with
00:33:52
that $24 billion he was in Seth Meyers.
00:33:55
Kind of alluded to this. If you heard what you're saying
00:33:57
about climate change and different issues and green
00:34:01
energy and all that issue all the vogue things a celebrity
00:34:04
like Seth Meyers would obviously care about, because they've all
00:34:07
been pushing it. For years and years and years.
00:34:11
He said, well, now you can't go out and spend on these types of
00:34:17
measures. OK.
00:34:20
So what when you have? Personally, when you have a
00:34:25
surplus of money, let's talk about it on an individual
00:34:29
matter. OK, so California doesn't have
00:34:32
its big savings account anymore to go out and buy the things
00:34:35
that it's been wanting, or that it's on its big wish list.
00:34:39
Right so. Does that mean you get to go
00:34:44
somewhere else and have someone bail you out to get the things
00:34:47
that are not necessary? All on your wish list?
00:34:52
No. If you're an individual like you
00:34:55
are now here in the coronavirus and you are shut down and you're
00:34:59
quarantined and you've had to use your entire savings to just
00:35:03
put food on the table, or at least keep a roof over your
00:35:07
head. Or maybe at least keep your
00:35:08
business open. Maybe you're paying employees
00:35:11
with your savings account, who knows?
00:35:13
So this big surplus you may have amassed over the past couple of
00:35:16
years when the economy was really good is now gone, but you
00:35:20
don't get to go. To the government and say, well,
00:35:23
I spent all my savings and now I don't get to do the things like
00:35:26
I wanted to go to Disneyland or I want to take a trip to Europe
00:35:29
or I wanted to add a new addition on my house or put in a
00:35:32
pool or buy a new car or et cetera, et cetera.
00:35:37
You don't get to get your wish list things because your savings
00:35:40
ran out. That's what you're saving.
00:35:42
Savings are gone. I'm sorry that's what it's for.
00:35:44
It's for a rainy day so you don't get to bail out so that
00:35:49
California could go ahead and push forward.
00:35:52
With these progressive. Initiatives.
00:35:56
Just because now you're savings is gone.
00:35:59
No, that's you're not getting bailed out.
00:36:02
Every state got hit. Every state had to figure out
00:36:06
what to do in this crisis. And every state is going to have
00:36:10
to look at well, what's crucial now.
00:36:12
How do we get back to normal? How do we kind of get our budget
00:36:15
back under order? That's what every state is going
00:36:18
to have to do. Now, if there's an issue, if
00:36:21
there is an emergency, and I'm not even a big fan of this.
00:36:25
I'm sort of along with Mitch McConnell that if you hit
00:36:28
bankruptcy and you can't balance your budgets now, the fact is
00:36:31
California lost all its surplus. It's going to have lost revenue
00:36:34
tax revenue because it lost 1/4 of the year to coronavirus.
00:36:38
And the longer Gavin Newsom keeps this shut down.
00:36:41
He's going to lose even more tax revenue.
00:36:45
He's now going to have a problem where his books are not going to
00:36:48
be well balanced. You're going to have enormous
00:36:51
amounts of debt. Enormous amounts of deficit not
00:36:54
being able to. Pay any of that stuff.
00:36:59
Here's an idea for Gavin Newsom. Like that individual who stuck
00:37:04
at home and spent his entire savings to keep a roof over his
00:37:08
head and to feed his family. Or to keep the lights on, or to
00:37:11
pay employees. You know that rainy day in case
00:37:15
of emergency savings fund, he won't get to use it for the fun
00:37:18
things he's been wishing for. Maybe Gavin Newsom needs to go
00:37:22
back to the legislature and say, OK, we need to revise our budget
00:37:25
to figure out how we're going to work within this new paradigm.
00:37:30
What are things that are essential and non essential?
00:37:33
Where can we cut back what's way stuff like that?
00:37:35
But that's not what a progressive like Gavin Newsom
00:37:38
sees. See he has a clear vision of
00:37:42
what he wants to do, what he wants to enact.
00:37:44
He knows. And he said this in a previous
00:37:48
interview which I talked about that he wants to, or he sees the
00:37:53
opportunity to push for a progressive form of capitalism
00:37:56
coming out of this. So just because the the state
00:38:02
might be flat broke at this point, it doesn't mean he's not
00:38:05
going to run to anti Nancy and have her bail him out and give
00:38:09
him billions of dollars to replenish his surplus.
00:38:13
So now he can go out and get his progressive wish list.
00:38:17
And if this should infuriate the individual, because if you're no
00:38:22
one's been coming to help a lot of individuals here in
00:38:25
California, millions of people are unemployed.
00:38:27
California businesses are drawing up.
00:38:29
I haven't seen anyone who's really gotten too much help from
00:38:32
the state in the sense of I don't know any state grants or
00:38:35
stuff like that. I don't even really know anybody
00:38:37
who's talked about it. It's always been coming from the
00:38:39
federal government with the PPP loans and the economic injury
00:38:42
disaster alone. Outside of that, I haven't heard
00:38:45
California rushing to send. Millions of dollars to help its
00:38:50
small businesses. Have you?
00:38:51
Has anyone heard of California helping the small business owner
00:38:55
has any unemployment checks that were supposed to go out as fast
00:38:59
as possible? Are still three weeks behind
00:39:02
four weeks behind? They still haven't gotten their
00:39:04
first paycheck. It's now we've now gone so far
00:39:07
into the crisis. That by the time they start
00:39:10
getting their unemployment we should be reopening.
00:39:13
We're actually on the other side of this now that we should be
00:39:16
reopening. And people should be going back
00:39:19
to work and the unemployment won't be worth anything.
00:39:23
But those people still had to scrape by and get through an
00:39:26
entire six weeks 8 weeks. Without any help from the
00:39:30
government, so California basically did zilch to help its
00:39:34
citizens to help its small businesses to bail them out.
00:39:39
And a lot of these individuals and small businesses should be
00:39:42
upset that they had to figure out and make sacrifices and
00:39:45
figure out what they're going to do with their businesses moving
00:39:48
forward. Their business budgets are going
00:39:50
to be different. Their business budgets aren't
00:39:52
going to be the same. Maybe they were on track to
00:39:56
expand. Maybe they were on track to add
00:39:58
more space or buy a new piece of property.
00:40:00
Maybe they are on track to add a couple dozen new employees.
00:40:04
Now they can't. Now that wish list is gone
00:40:07
because they may have had to use all their saved up money and all
00:40:09
their capital just to keep the doors open.
00:40:12
But Gavin Newsom doesn't see things that way for his
00:40:15
government. He sees things as I wanted these
00:40:19
things. I want climate change
00:40:22
initiatives. I want progressive initiatives
00:40:24
here in California to help the most vulnerable.
00:40:28
Then you could fill in the blanks of whoever you want him
00:40:30
to be. The vote most vulnerable.
00:40:34
Whatever that means, but he still wants his wish.
00:40:37
List of progressive policies. And if that doesn't wake up a
00:40:43
lot of people in California to the idea that they don't care
00:40:48
about the little guy, they don't care about the middle class, and
00:40:50
they don't care about small businesses that should terrify
00:40:53
you. Because here he is.
00:40:58
Basically saying I don't have to be responsible with your tax
00:41:03
dollars. Let me say that again, Gavin
00:41:08
Newsom is essentially saying I don't have to be responsible
00:41:11
with your tax dollars. I just want more tax dollars so
00:41:15
I can get my progressive initiatives passed.
00:41:19
Instead of being the pragmatic politician like I said, who
00:41:22
should figure out what to do moving forward and maybe all
00:41:27
those progressive things that he couldn't do are now put by the
00:41:31
wayside. He still goes and asks for a
00:41:37
trillion dollars or he's asking that Nancy Pelosi at least.
00:41:40
Gets a trillion dollars which I doubt will ever pass and I doubt
00:41:46
that the President might ever pass it, because at this point
00:41:49
we've already printed, made up, pulled money out of the air.
00:41:53
How many trillions of dollars out of the air right now?
00:41:55
And now you want a trillion dollars?
00:41:58
And I'm not the only one saying this.
00:42:00
I'm not the only one who is saying that this is a problem.
00:42:04
People saw this coming down the Pike 2 weeks ago.
00:42:07
And This is why Mitch McConnell came out and said I'm not going
00:42:11
to help bail out all these states.
00:42:13
You screwed up bad mismanagement and even President Trump said
00:42:16
bad mismanagement of your budgets does not mean that we're
00:42:19
going to bail you out just because of this coronavirus.
00:42:25
That's not how this works. If you had bad budgets before,
00:42:28
it doesn't mean that you get to use the coronavirus as an excuse
00:42:32
to get all this bailout money. How do you figure that out?
00:42:36
It's real simple. Go back.
00:42:40
And I heard a reporter asked this, a President Trump.
00:42:42
How do you figure out what was bad management?
00:42:46
Was it due to the coronavirus or poor management?
00:42:49
It's not that hard. Go back.
00:42:55
To February and prior to all the shutdowns was the state in
00:43:00
trouble before if the state was in trouble before.
00:43:04
That's bad mismanagement and you don't get a bailout because of
00:43:07
that. And it like here in California,
00:43:11
if you had a trillion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities.
00:43:16
Before all this happened, that doesn't mean you get to come out
00:43:20
and say, well, I need a trillion dollars so that because I just
00:43:24
need to need help because of the coronavirus.
00:43:27
No, no, you had that liability long before coronavirus ever
00:43:32
even showed up on our shores. Same thing with New York and New
00:43:36
York City. All these States and cities who
00:43:39
are high tax who spend their money Willy nilly who have no
00:43:42
issue with waste or fraud or abuse when it comes to taxpayer
00:43:46
money. All of a sudden.
00:43:47
Are you running to the federal government with their hands up?
00:43:51
In California, will probably be one of the first in line to say,
00:43:53
oh look, we bail out so many people because we're the
00:43:57
California word. This booming economy and blah
00:43:59
blah blah blah. Sure there is an argument that
00:44:03
we do give a lot of federal aid back or federal money back.
00:44:07
That goes to the government. But that's because you like to
00:44:11
brag where, like the 5th largest economy in the world or
00:44:14
something like that. I don't know what constantly
00:44:16
shifts up and down. It's always 5th or 7th or
00:44:19
whatever. However, largest phony.
00:44:24
You want to brag about being a big economy.
00:44:26
OK, so you do actually give more in taxes because you make more.
00:44:31
You raise more revenue for the entire country.
00:44:33
That's a good thing, you know, because if you're a successful
00:44:36
economic person usually what happens when you're successful
00:44:39
economically in this country you end up do spending more money in
00:44:42
taxes because that's how our system as a progressive tax
00:44:45
system is made. But that's besides the point.
00:44:49
I guess California doesn't like the progressive tax code when it
00:44:53
doesn't apply to them. Or when it does apply to.
00:44:58
So it's terrifying to hear that he thinks that he's entitled to
00:45:02
this bailout money. That he thinks Nancy Pelosi is
00:45:05
going to ramrod this trillion dollar bill through to help bail
00:45:09
out the states. I don't think that's how this
00:45:12
works. You had a $24 billion rainy day
00:45:19
fund because it was supposed to be used in case of emergencies
00:45:24
like this. This is the ultimate rainy day
00:45:27
right now. And you built it up and good for
00:45:31
you. You were able to build up this
00:45:33
$24 billion surplus. And now it's gone, it's sad.
00:45:39
But why not look into how to rebuild that through better
00:45:44
budgetary management rather? Than just asking Nancy Pelosi
00:45:51
for a huge bailout. So there are a couple articles I
00:45:56
was going to talk about and then I found these clips and I wanted
00:45:59
to talk about a little bit more. I'm still going to post them up
00:46:02
in the show notes. I want to get too far into it
00:46:05
because if I get into it another topic this is going to start
00:46:07
really going over an hour and really trying to keep these
00:46:10
shows under an hour under 5040 minutes.
00:46:15
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At the time of this recording, dozens well, probably a handful
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of protest going on right now all over the state, including
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Sacramento, San Francisco, Huntington Beach, San Diego.
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I'm not sure if there's one going on in LA, but there were a
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whole bunch of which I mentioned last week.
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If you've been following on Instagram handles fully open CA
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right now they have. Protests going on all over the
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place. I think there might be more
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protests going on tomorrow if you want to find out what
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they're doing. You wanna check in, support them
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to whatever protests have been happening.
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Protests happened last weekend as well, which I will talk about
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a little bit on the show because I was down there at the one here
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in San Diego, Pacific Beach. So with that there's a lot to
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always get to, especially with the coronavirus the Rona
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happening right now. And as people were starting to
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head out of it and he started to see.
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May 1st a lot of states. I think it was 38 states have as
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of now are reopening so that means there's a lot of states
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that are already moving towards reopening.
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Getting back to normal, reopening their economy, helping
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small businesses and small business owners get back into
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some sort of normalcy. Texas led the way I would say
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Texas is leading the way Georgia was the first one to really
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reopen, but mostly it looks like a majority of the states are
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starting to reopen California. Still very reluctant.
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We're going to get into that. But let's start with our out of
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the gate monologue. You always see people joke about
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how 1984 is here and we've now crossed into an Orwellian world
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without knowing it. This of course was pre pandemic,
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but now the laughter is turning into smoldering anger over
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what's going on in our country. If you're not too familiar with
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1984 outside of the fact that it is a book about a dystopian
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future, here's a quick summary. There's an individual by the
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name of Winston Smith, who lives and works in this dystopian
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future country of Oceana, where Big Brother that's where the
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term comes from and the party basically control every aspect
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of your life. The party strongly forbids any
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sort of free thought, or as they like to call it.
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Quote a thought crime. In Oceana, you were given a
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specific job, and you're constantly monitored for any
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disobedience. The hero of the story begins to
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question things because he specifically remembers things
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differently than the Ministry of Truth puts them out.
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Since it works at the ministry and is responsible for
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correcting old story, he sees it first hand.
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However, he fears being vaporized for starting to
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question the narrative around him.
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Individuals around him stare blindly into a TV screen where
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Big Brother feeds them. The daily lies the state wants
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you to regurgitate. Probably seen it in the famous
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Apple 1984 commercial as a hero looks around, he sees everyone
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succumbing to the lies and the disinformation frothing
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themselves into a fervor. Now I won't go too far into
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detail. The rest of the story because I
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don't want to spoil it for you, and also it's a good story.
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But we see early similarities between that story and now.
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I try to refrain from such alarmist notions that are we are
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surrendering to an Orwellian world, but sometimes the
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comparisons are too much to ignore.
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Last week, I discussed how the stats being put out are not
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commensurate with the extreme measures that are being put into
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place to prevent the spread. I truly believe we are starting
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to see people waking up to the reality that this has become
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overblown, and we may have done more harm than good.
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Such thoughts are not allowed in our current climate.
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Two doctors from here in California gained national
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recognition when they openly refuted the notion that we need
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to remain shut down, and we only need it to quarantine the
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elderly and most vulnerable. The new spread like wildfire and
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news channels quickly picked it up, but as soon as they explode
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onto the scene, any video of them was taken down as
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disinformation or violating community guidelines by the big
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tech companies. It was memory hold, or at least
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they tried to memory hold it. The mainstream media and the
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tech companies aren't the only ones making sure you abide by
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party rules similar to the manic viewers of Big Brother.
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In 1984, the media has essentially wiped the populace
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into a fear induced panic over the coronavirus.
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Fear is a powerful motivator and you see it everywhere on the
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news and social media. People parroting the same
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talking points over and over again.
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You've heard them before. We must stay home to flatten the
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curve. We can't even think about
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opening the economy. Well, everyone can be tested.
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I know it hurts but we're all in this together and my personal
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favorite if we reopen too early we will end up killing millions
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of people. The same point echoed again and
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again want to question what's going on with the facts and
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statistics. That's a thought crime and you
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should be ashamed for thinking such things.
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In fact, if you get particularly cheeky response, it might
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include a nice little doctored waiver saying you waive all
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right to medical care for having such incorrect thoughts.
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Now finally, our Hero 1984 is constantly looking over his
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shoulder for fear that someone might snitch on him and get him
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vaporized for thought crimes. Today, there is no need to worry
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about. How tyrannical governments can
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impose and enforce such strict measures.
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When you have a brainwashed populace ready to tattle on
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every person who is not strictly abiding by arbitrary guidelines,
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don't think that's true. Just look at what Mayor Garcetti
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said in a press conference. He said, you know what they say
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about snitches? Well, in this case snitches get
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rewards. No need for there to be a police
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everywhere when you have scared the populace into doing the
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policing for you. Of course we are far from the
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dark and bleak world of 1904, but its story is no less
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pertinent today than ever. George Orwell said that 1984 was
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to be a cautionary tale, not an instruction manual.
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However, the heroes of today don't have to worry about being
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vaporized. There are heroes who stand out
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on street corners, waving signs to open up the country.
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Again, heroes, such as doctors who go against the grain and
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tell you there is not a rational reason for being completely shut
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down. There are Winston Smiths all
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over this country, willing to push back on the party's
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tyranny. Thought crimes aren't completely
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illegal yet, so again. I urge those out there who have
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questions and concerns to speak up.
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It is only when our voices are made loud enough and joined
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together when people begin to question what's going on for the
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sake of our country and to ensure 1984 remains a work of
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fiction. Engage in thought crimes.
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Commit them on social media, commit them in discussions with
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friends and family. Commit them wherever there is an
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opportunity to do so. Otherwise it really will be a
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crime to think differently. So obviously there's a lot going
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on out there in California, California.
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We're going to get into a little bit about him closing the
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beaches and then reversing his policy, and also some
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interesting tidbits that I pulled from Seth Meyers.
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I didn't even know he was on Seth Meyers last night, but I
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was able to find the footage. Not that it's hard to find.
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You can go on YouTube and find it because they're pushing up
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all these late night hosts, but I found it just by happenstance
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because I was looking for any latest daily briefings.
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From Gavin Newsom for the show. And then I saw that he was on
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Seth Meyers, so I pulled a couple clips up there.
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So one thing that I wanted to talk about really quickly, and
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it's more the national news going on with this whole Joe
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Biden thing and the double standard that's happening and
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how it really does tie in to what's going on here locally.
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This Morning Joe Biden went on Morning Joe with Mika
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Brzezinski, who was supposed to be giving him these hardball
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questions. If you heard it, she had
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obviously pain in her voice, as if every single question that
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she answered asked her in a physical and emotional way.
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There's clips out there of McPherson Ski and Joe
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Scarborough talking about how much they love Joe Biden, how
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Mika Brzezinski said that she knows that he's a flirtatious
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man, that it is. He does this what should call
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safe flirtation, meaning that there could be a kiss there
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could be holding hands. There could be a hug, there
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could be something like that, but it's all safe and harmless
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because that's who Joe Biden is, and she would be sad to know if
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Joe Biden has to change because of everything that's happened.
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But as you've probably already seen that the double standards
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going on between Democrats and Republicans, comparing this to
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what happened with Brett Kavanaugh is night and day.
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And it's not hard to go back and see.
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It's not hard to go back and see what Nancy Pelosi said about him
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now or Brett Kavanaugh then and Joe Biden now and how she has
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changed her tune completely from.
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Well, we must believe all women are guilty until proven
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innocent. Therefore he has to come out and
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prove that he didn't do this to now, which is well.
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Joe Biden is a great man. He's been a leader in the Senate
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and there's no way we must believe in allow him the chance
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to defend himself and prove that he's innocent.
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Of course, that same standard wasn't obviously given to Brett
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Kavanaugh during the Supreme Court hearings, and you have a
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accuser who has a lot more facts on our side.
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She has more people who are corroborating than doctor
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Christine Blasey Ford and all, and it's hard for them to now
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backpedal and say that no, wait a second, the Me too movement,
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which was believe all women 100% guilty until proven innocent and
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that the burden of proof is really on the accused man.
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That there is now all of a sudden this different standard.
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Because it's Joe Biden and you even see articles.
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You see articles saying that he must be held accountable, but
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that doesn't mean he's not electable.
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So before it was well, we can't appoint a man for life to the
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Supreme Court, because obviously this man's going to be on the
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Supreme Court forever and affect millions of lives because he's
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this sexual predator and this monster who's out there on the
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Supreme Court as opposed to let's say the leader of the free
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world who has enormous influence over.
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Millions if not billions of lives because of the fact that
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he's the leader of America and we have influence all over the
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world. But that doesn't really matter
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to the left. Now the left is really kind of
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backtracked. So what I'm trying to do is, I'm
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trying to tie this into here locally in California.
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It's not just the Joe Biden issue.
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The double standards exist on both sides.
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If you don't, you're not aware of the fact of Gavin Newsome's
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incredulous history of what happened with him and Kimberly
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Gilfoy. He did cheat on her and he
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cheated on her with one of his best friend's wives and it was
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called out to our attention mostly through Travis Allen
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during the gubernatorial debate back a couple of years ago.
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Here's a clip of it we can't trust Gavin with his best
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friend's wife. How can you trust him with your
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state? Yeah, I mean it's it's hard with
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respect to to hear from Mr. Allen who's a devout supporter
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of Donald Trump, talk about the issue of sexual harassment.
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A devout supporter. I mean it was number.
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Surprise that Travis Allen positioned himself as the maggot
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candidate, the Trump candidate for the gubernatorial race, as
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opposed to feckless John Cox, who really didn't do anything.
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As soon as he made the list, or as soon as he made the ticket,
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he seemed to roll over, but that's all different story, but
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you notice how all of a sudden they keep pushing away and they
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keep deflecting on this issue in the sense that it doesn't matter
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if the Democrats did it. Donald Trump is an awful human
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being and orange man bad, and obviously, he said.
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That horrible thing on the Hollywood access tape with I
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forget who his name is. I mean he's such a flash in the
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pan at this point. I don't even really care who he
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is. Who leaked that tape.
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But as you can see, they always push back on it so they're only
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response. And I mean, if that was your
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only card to play, I guess I would play that too and push
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back. But there is a difference here
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in the sense that yeah, there have been people who have
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accused Donald Trump or not so much as in this case where there
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is somebody who. I mean there were some people
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who tried to come out and. Accused Donald Trump and it
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didn't really work and people looked at it.
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Like, yeah, OK, we don't believe you.
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And you're obviously a little crazy.
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I think the last person who came out and tried to accuse Donald
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Trump made such an embarrassment of herself on CNN and Anderson
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Cooper. He literally had to cut away
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because he started to believe this is literally unraveling as
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we're airing this segment live with her.
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So we're now going to have to cut away to a commercial and get
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rid of her because it's just so bad.
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But you can see that they always kind of push it back on.
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Well, you know, even though I was incredulous and I cheated on
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my wife, you have Donald Trump who runs around saying grab them
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by the you know what? How dare you even make that
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comparison to me, it doesn't change the fact that you're not
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accountable. I'm not going to sit here and
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say that whatever Donald Trump did if he did or did not do it
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doesn't change the fact that it's still a bad standard to
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set. You can't say well, because I
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cheated on my wife. Therefore it's OK because Donald
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Trump is a horrible person. No, those are still inherently
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bad things, and using Donald Trump as a scapegoat is kind of
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saying well, as long as the president does it, I'm OK.
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And that's become the sort of the double standard as well.
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A Republican can do it, and it's an awful horrible thing.
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And we must believe all women we must.
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Make sure that you know the man is accused is 100% guilty until
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proven innocent as opposed to on the other side.
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Where if your Democrat, well, there's a reason.
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Maybe maybe it's something that there was a bigger issue, maybe
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I don't know. Maybe, but there's all these
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different reasons we have to give them the benefit of the
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doubt. Let them figure this out.
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But you still can't just point to Donald Trump and say, well,
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Donald Trump's a horrible, disgusting misogynist human
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being. Therefore it's all right.
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And he did, you know, Gavin Newsom, if I've said anything,
00:14:36
I've said that he's a very clever and very clever and smart
00:14:42
politician. He knew when he said that he was
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able to get a reaction from the crowd.
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He was able to move it around. A lot of people picked up on it.
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There's some people who said that whatever Travis Allen said
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was kill shot. It was really good.
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Some people who saw the debate also said that what?
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Gavin Newsom, how he deflected, was the perfect way to deflect
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because it's orange, man bad when it comes down to it.
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So what does it matter? Donald Trump is, supposedly,
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this is the. Poster for the American poster
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boy of sexual harassment in this country.
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So even if you vote for Donald Trump, there's no way you can
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point out what Democrats did because, well, you voted for
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Donald Trump. Which doesn't really make sense,
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and I guess it's one way to deflect.
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And like I said, if it's your only card right now and you
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really have nowhere to go and the Democrats have put kind of
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painted themselves in this corner.
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Where they have to go back and say, well, all that me to
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believe all women. Is now no longer well, there's
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some conditions, and there's it's a little different now.
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When it's Joe Biden and they know they're caught.
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They know they're caught in a rock and a hard place, and they
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either cave on what they said before.
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Or they stand up for it and they go after Joe Biden.
00:16:00
So I don't think this is over and I don't think a softball
00:16:02
interview like the one Joe. How Mika Brzezinski, where she
00:16:06
was so pained and agonizing over every question she felt so.
00:16:11
But Mr Vice President, sorry I'm sorry I have to ask you this
00:16:15
horrible questions, but you're such a good friend and I have to
00:16:19
do this because I'm a journalist and if anyone believes Mika
00:16:22
Brzezinski is a journalist, well I have a bridge to sell you.
00:16:25
But I want to move on back to the local news.
00:16:28
I just wanted to tie that in because I just wanted to show
00:16:31
sort of the double standard and sort of the shell game that
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they've been playing with this whole terror.
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Read me too. Sexual harassment thing with Joe
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Biden. I did go to the.
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Protest last week down in Pacific Beach.
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I was there in an official capacity to keep an eye on
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things as an attorney. And I I will tell you this, I
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was all about 200 people. It was well attended.
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Nobody got out of hand. Nobody caused any violence.
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Nobody broke any store windows. There were a ton of red maga
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hats. There were a ton of flags or a
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ton of Trump flags. And it was.
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It was well attended and it was very calm and a lot of people I
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know in the community were very upset about that because they
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thought. Obviously, if you go out and
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protest, you're going to kill grandma by going out and
00:17:23
protesting. But it seemed pretty calm and I
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don't have to give credit to the San Diego Police Department.
00:17:29
They did a good job of just keeping an eye on everything and
00:17:32
letting people exercise their First Amendment rights.
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Just making sure they stayed off the sidewalk.
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Stuff like that. Don't block the roads.
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You can stay on the sidewalk. And protests.
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At a certain point, you could just see that people were going
00:17:45
around in their cars. They were sort of creating this
00:17:48
caravan. A little parade just going back
00:17:50
and forth causing all this ruckus and noise.
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So All in all, it was a very well attended well taken well.
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Everyone's well behaved. I guess you could say and it
00:18:02
wasn't a Antifa protest. Not where you see Antifa going
00:18:06
in, and they just start breaking stuff for no reason.
00:18:09
They start throwing trash cans through Starbucks, windows, or
00:18:12
hitting people, or throwing off smoke grenades.
00:18:14
It was just people standing around signs and American flags
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and shouting and doing what a peaceful.
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I would say that was a peaceful protest.
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Nothing went wrong, no legal legal happened.
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No one was arrested. It was all very up and up, and
00:18:27
I'm sure I haven't seen really a lot of the footage of what's
00:18:30
going on today. For tomorrow yet, but I'm sure a
00:18:34
lot of people are doing the same thing and the different cities
00:18:37
right now that fully open California is doing right now.
00:18:40
I'm sure they're very well respected.
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I'm sure they're following the rules.
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They know what their rights are, and they're not really.
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They're not really causing too much of a problem right now, so
00:18:50
I just want to give you that little update and just first
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hand. If you were able to tune out to
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do a little bit of a live video, just going over it so you could
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see first hand what was going on.
00:19:00
So the big news this week that happened with California was
00:19:04
California. Gavin Newsom, a couple days ago
00:19:09
sending out or leaking that memo to the police chiefs that he's
00:19:12
going to close all beaches simply because he saw too many
00:19:16
people in Huntington Beach on the beach.
00:19:20
And he thought that this was violating public health
00:19:23
guidelines, so he decided he was going to crack down and close
00:19:26
all the beaches as a panel to everybody, which was swiftly met
00:19:30
with huge pushback and this was released leaked at 10:00 o'clock
00:19:34
at night. Next day within less than 24
00:19:37
hours. To reverse that decision.
00:19:40
Mostly because a lot of people push back a lot of local
00:19:42
leaders. You know, a lot of I know for
00:19:45
here in San Diego. I know the mayor got on the
00:19:46
phone and said, look, we've been doing our part.
00:19:48
We did it safely. We have our precautions in
00:19:51
place. There's no reason to punish all
00:19:53
of us just because Orange County got out of hand.
00:19:55
There was some sheriffs, I know. Humboldt County said there is no
00:19:58
way I'm going to enforce this. This is ridiculous.
00:20:03
And so within 24 hours, Gavin Newsom backed down.
00:20:07
He praised some of the state or some of the beaches in the
00:20:10
cities for doing a good job, but ultimately he did say that OCC
00:20:14
is going to be shut down. Now.
00:20:16
Here's the thing about why this is a big deal.
00:20:19
Orange County if you don't remember, just recently flipped
00:20:21
blue and allow people thought this was a huge win for
00:20:24
Democrats. Orange County is still, it's not
00:20:27
out of the woods yet when it comes to it's not a Democratic
00:20:29
stronghold. I would still say it's very
00:20:32
Republican. There is a strong Republican
00:20:33
presence. In Orange County.
00:20:36
If there's one thing Gavin Newsom did right now, and this
00:20:39
is where he was, not a smart politician is to force all his
00:20:43
ire at Orange County specifically.
00:20:46
Now you've become the poster boy problem within Orange County.
00:20:51
And now you've created yourself. You made yourself out to be the
00:20:54
villain and nothing makes people unite and rebel faster than
00:20:58
making them feel like they are singled out specifically for
00:21:02
what they did. And in this case, Orange County.
00:21:06
Is going to and I believe that this will start to reignite a
00:21:10
lot of that Republican enthusiasm in Orange County.
00:21:13
He's essentially kicked up a Hornets nest in Orange County to
00:21:18
get people back out and push back against him and I know that
00:21:21
there's still people who I know Orange County is pushing back on
00:21:24
this. They've basically said look, he
00:21:26
can tell us what to do whatever we want.
00:21:28
We're still going to let people go back out on the beaches.
00:21:31
Orange County is not going to take this lying down and not
00:21:33
just going to throw up their hands.
00:21:35
And say OK yeah, sure, whatever, we'll, we'll abide by whatever
00:21:39
you tell us to do. We're just going to do it
00:21:41
because you're our supreme leader.
00:21:43
Orange County's not going to stand for that.
00:21:45
There's already been pushback. For example, OC supervisor
00:21:48
Michelle Steele, she called the Governor's actions arbitrary and
00:21:53
said it was an act of retribution against the county's
00:21:56
quote. We should be rewarding our
00:21:59
communities for practicing safe social distancing, not punishing
00:22:02
them. By closing down only Orange
00:22:04
County beaches, and this is not acceptable, she said.
00:22:06
I will be looking into the right response to the governor's
00:22:09
overreaction and abuse of power. So obviously Orange County is
00:22:14
not going to take this lying down, and they're not going to
00:22:18
just let this fall the way it is.
00:22:20
I think they're going to push back.
00:22:21
They're going to, and this is going to awaken a lot of
00:22:24
Republicans in that county. So smart move by Gavin Newsom to
00:22:28
single out Orange County. Probably not, especially when
00:22:32
they were doing so well, I'm making an inroads there and now
00:22:35
you've made yourself the poster boy for problems, and
00:22:39
Republicans can really go after you.
00:22:41
Make this a campaign issue essentially this year and say
00:22:44
look, do you want more Democrats like Gavin Newsom running Orange
00:22:48
County, representing Orange County and a lot of people who
00:22:51
are fed up with it will probably say.
00:22:53
Yeah, no, I don't want Democrats like that representing me.
00:22:56
So what? Now I want to move on to some
00:22:59
clips that I told you I found from Seth Meyers last night.
00:23:02
He did have Gavin Newsom on. We did talk about a couple
00:23:06
things. He talked about the beach
00:23:08
closing, so I'll play that clip. And then there's another clip
00:23:11
that I want to play as well, which is probably the more
00:23:13
terrifying clip. But let's start with the first
00:23:15
clip him talking about what was going on with the beaches.
00:23:19
Californians? Justifiably, so brag about their
00:23:22
beaches. We saw footage this past weekend
00:23:25
of a lot of people crowding the beaches.
00:23:27
You just gave a press conference where I think specifically in
00:23:32
Orange County, you reinforce the importance of staying.
00:23:35
At home is that it must be hard. You mentioned Kevin Fever, you
00:23:39
know people wanna be outside. No, I've spent my entire
00:23:42
political life opening up beach access, fighting for people's
00:23:46
right to their beach and this state.
00:23:49
It's one of the reasons horse Greeley said go West young man
00:23:53
go West in the 1850s as our natural beauty and 1100 mile
00:23:57
coastline, 800 miles of pristine beaches, none more beautiful
00:24:01
than down in Orange County. One of the really most
00:24:03
magnificent bucolic parts of the world.
00:24:06
And so I hated to do it. But I had to do it on the basis
00:24:08
of the advice and counsel for my public health directors.
00:24:12
They're all saying the only way we can set this course back to
00:24:15
reopening with modifications. Our economy is to see the kind
00:24:19
of concentration that we saw on those beaches over the weekend,
00:24:22
and so we're going to do our best try to be collaborative and
00:24:25
cooperative. Most of the beaches over 100 did
00:24:28
everything right and the communities there really met the
00:24:31
moment. But unfortunately people really
00:24:33
eager to get out a little too much.
00:24:35
So last weekend, and so I just want to slow that down,
00:24:37
decompress a little bit, and then have a pathway to reopen
00:24:40
very quickly. So again, going after Orange
00:24:45
County specifically, he did backtrack and say what he's
00:24:50
basically repeating his press conference that a lot of the
00:24:52
beaches did a good job of staying within the boundaries
00:24:58
and the guidelines. But at this point I think
00:25:01
really, is this a fight? Is this a hill that Gavin Newsom
00:25:04
wants to die on? And he said that he wants to
00:25:06
open the beaches and he wants to reopen as fast as possible.
00:25:11
And I don't think this is a hill.
00:25:13
He wants to die on, and I think it's like I said, poking the
00:25:18
Hornets nest of specifically Orange County.
00:25:20
If this was LA. I would understand if this was
00:25:23
San Francisco, although there really aren't beaches up there
00:25:25
in that area. If this was LA and they said to
00:25:28
LA, people in Los Angeles, well, you can't go out to the beach
00:25:31
because you guys got a little rowdy.
00:25:32
A lot of people were probably comply with that.
00:25:34
In agree with him, but Orange County is different and you've
00:25:38
started a little bit of a problem there for you and
00:25:41
Democrats. And this is not the hill that
00:25:44
you can die on because Californians pay a lot to live
00:25:48
close to the beach. There's a reason why the rest of
00:25:51
the country. Lives in California is 2 miles
00:25:54
wide and everybody lives on a beach or close to Hollywood is
00:25:58
because all the images you see are people at beaches or San
00:26:01
Diego, or surfing or Hollywood or stuff like that.
00:26:04
You don't see the big counties that are way up in what I like
00:26:07
to call the state of Jefferson. And in other news, just a side
00:26:12
note, there's a county up there, Modoc County, that basically
00:26:15
just gave the middle finger to Gavin Newsom and said, look,
00:26:17
we're opening. We don't care.
00:26:18
There's nobody up here. We've been practicing social
00:26:21
distancing because we're sparsely, densely hated or
00:26:25
sparsely populated county and there's no reason for us to keep
00:26:28
doing these social distancing. So they're basically thumbing
00:26:30
their nose, so you're starting to see a little bit more of this
00:26:33
specific county starting to fracture away from what the
00:26:38
governor and the state orders are saying.
00:26:40
So I don't think this is a really good idea from the die on
00:26:43
this hill and a lot of people may say, well, it's stupid.
00:26:46
What's the big deal? It's a beach.
00:26:47
It's been there forever. You're going to have the beach
00:26:49
when this is over and I think in California this is one of the
00:26:53
things that it's. Not only that it's emblematic of
00:26:56
the lockdown and what it is, and maybe the craziness of these
00:26:59
lockdowns if you go down to the beach.
00:27:01
People are walking around people and milling around.
00:27:04
When we went down and walked around back when they opened up
00:27:09
the beach. There was this Monday.
00:27:11
This past Monday people walked, people were playing sports,
00:27:15
people were throwing the Frisbee around.
00:27:16
Someone was maybe sunbathing more than 102 hundred feet away
00:27:21
from anybody just laying out on this towel and a lot of people
00:27:23
can say what's the big harm in that.
00:27:25
It's not really harming anybody if you're all out there.
00:27:29
Keep me your social distancing, no ones sitting on top of each
00:27:32
other. I don't know.
00:27:33
I mean, this isn't the New Jersey shore.
00:27:35
And if anybody who's ever been in the New Jersey Shore
00:27:36
understands in the summer time it can get really crowded to the
00:27:41
point where you're literally sitting towel to towel.
00:27:44
And there's really no room but not in California, where there's
00:27:47
huge beaches, especially places like Orange County, that you can
00:27:51
spread out and you can sit on a towel and be way far away from
00:27:55
anybody else. So why these are these things?
00:27:58
These are the issues that people are.
00:28:00
Looking at and they're saying this is ridiculous.
00:28:02
This is overburdensome. This really has nothing to do
00:28:05
with the virus anymore, it's just about penalizing us because
00:28:08
we don't comply with what you want us to do.
00:28:12
And this is a bad hill for him to die on.
00:28:16
It was smart of him to back off. Doesn't make him look like he's
00:28:20
a flip flopper. A little bit.
00:28:21
Sure. Do people say Oh well now he's
00:28:24
being a very smart and pragmatic politician.
00:28:27
It was bad in the 1st place. He could have just reprimanded
00:28:30
them and said look he could have handled this a little bit more
00:28:34
diplomatically. He could have called Orange
00:28:37
County supervisor like Michelle Steele and say look.
00:28:40
I'm not crazy about how many people are out on your beaches.
00:28:44
Can you make a point to let them know in a responsible way?
00:28:48
Just take it easy, you know social distance to whatever you
00:28:50
have to, but he didn't do that. Instead he just closed it down
00:28:54
like they were a little child and he was punishing them and
00:28:57
putting them in timeout. It's not the hill you want to
00:29:00
die on, especially not in California.
00:29:02
People are very, very attached to their beaches and their beach
00:29:06
life here in California. So not a good move on his part.
00:29:09
But the next clip I'm going to play you is a little bit more.
00:29:11
Terrifying and probably a little bit more scary if you look
00:29:15
between the lines, we're going to talk about that you mentioned
00:29:18
three months ago. The good news was this
00:29:22
incredible budget surplus in California budget surplus that
00:29:25
allowed a budget to have a lot of space for progressive issues.
00:29:29
Things like climate change things like addressing
00:29:31
homelessness. The reality is you are not going
00:29:35
to be able to hold that surplus, correct?
00:29:38
No, not all that surplus is gone.
00:29:40
And by the way previous year literally a year to go this
00:29:45
month. A year ago, this month we were
00:29:46
announcing how we're going to balance a $21.4 billion budget
00:29:50
surplus. I mean, it's just incredible how
00:29:53
quickly things move. The good news is we were prudent
00:29:56
in terms of our investments. One time surplus, one time
00:29:59
investments paid down debt started, pay down pension
00:30:02
obligations, and it's a way of saying this and forgive me
00:30:05
because I've lost half the people watching.
00:30:07
Don't want to talk about pensions?
00:30:08
It's not why they watch your show, but it's a way of saying
00:30:11
this when you hear some Republican leaders say we're not
00:30:14
going to bail out these states because of mismanagement.
00:30:18
With all due respect, California's been running
00:30:20
surpluses. We've been sending money to the
00:30:23
federal government over the last few decades to send to other
00:30:26
states to help them, and I'm really proud of this effort, and
00:30:29
I can only say this. We can't balance these budgets
00:30:32
and protect the most vulnerable without the federal government's
00:30:34
help, we're going to need a substantial amount of support.
00:30:39
It's directly because of this pandemic.
00:30:42
It's not because of mismanagement, it's because of
00:30:44
pandemic and that's why we're blessed to have speaker Nancy
00:30:47
Pelosi from the state of California and she's putting up
00:30:50
now close to $1 trillion. In separate bills to focus on
00:30:55
the needs of states, counties and cities.
00:30:57
And I'll tell you what Seth just flat out.
00:30:59
We sent her a letter three weeks ago, saying if you're not
00:31:02
talking close to a trillion, you're not having a serious
00:31:05
conversation about the magnitude of this crisis on budgets and
00:31:08
the impact on police and fire and health care workers and
00:31:11
teachers all across this country.
00:31:13
And I'm really proud of her and pleased that she's starting to
00:31:16
socialize numbers at that level because that's the level of this
00:31:20
crisis and the impact over the next three years.
00:31:24
That these budgets are going to feel there's a lot to unpack in
00:31:28
that clip. And if you listen closely, there
00:31:31
is a lot of stuff that is terrifying and a lot that you
00:31:36
can take away from just that little clip.
00:31:39
Now, obviously Seth Meyers and I just want to say this about Seth
00:31:41
Meyers and all these late night shows.
00:31:43
Is it that hard to go on Amazon and buy a $20 inline mic or a
00:31:50
wireless mic or even a snowball mic?
00:31:53
Or any sort of mic that doesn't make you sound like you're
00:31:56
recording? In a shoe box, I don't
00:31:59
understand all these late night hosts who get millions of
00:32:01
dollars in budgets all of a sudden they can't figure out how
00:32:04
to use any sort of mics or anything that Youtubers or
00:32:07
podcasters have been using forever.
00:32:09
But regardless of that. The issues there are so many
00:32:14
issues to unpack here. First off, let's talk about the
00:32:16
fact that the $24 billion surplus that Gavin Newsom likes
00:32:20
to brag about is now gone. And this is something I've said
00:32:24
before. It doesn't matter that there is
00:32:26
a $24 billion surplus if you're not spending it on anything, and
00:32:29
if you have an enormous amount of debt and deficit.
00:32:32
And we've said this before, and I'll beat the drum again and
00:32:36
again and again. California has a trillion
00:32:38
dollars in unfunded pension liabilities, 1 trillion.
00:32:42
Dollars, so even if Nancy Pelosi were to bail out her own nephew.
00:32:48
And run out to the Congress and say, OK, we need a trillion
00:32:51
dollars to bail out California. That would be the amount it
00:32:54
would have to all go to California to pay for their
00:32:58
pension liabilities. That's not to say that we won't
00:33:01
get in this problem again. Even if you were bailed out.
00:33:04
But the scarier thing is not that the $24 billion is gone.
00:33:08
I mean, that is terrifying that $24 billion.
00:33:10
Where did it go? Even the legislature is starting
00:33:13
to wonder where Gavin Newsom is spending some of this money.
00:33:16
He was recently caught. Give me a billion dollars to a
00:33:21
Chinese car manufacturer for making peepee face masks and a
00:33:27
lot of the legislature. Even people in his own party
00:33:29
were saying whoa, whoa, whoa wait a second.
00:33:30
You can't appropriate this many funds just for yourself and same
00:33:33
thing with putting aside $75 million in cash payments for
00:33:37
illegal immigrants struck down by the California Supreme Court,
00:33:40
saying you can't do that either. So where did all this money go?
00:33:44
Where did all this money go? Where did he spend it?
00:33:47
We won't know for a while, but the scarier thing is this.
00:33:51
Is that he pointed out that with that $24 billion he was in Seth
00:33:55
Meyers. Kind of alluded to this.
00:33:56
If you heard what you're saying about climate change and
00:34:00
different issues and green energy and all that issue all
00:34:03
the vogue things a celebrity like Seth Meyers would obviously
00:34:06
care about, because they've all been pushing it.
00:34:09
For years and years and years. He said, well, now you can't go
00:34:13
out and spend on these types of measures.
00:34:19
OK. So what when you have?
00:34:24
Personally, when you have a surplus of money, let's talk
00:34:27
about it on an individual matter.
00:34:30
OK, so California doesn't have its big savings account anymore
00:34:33
to go out and buy the things that it's been wanting, or that
00:34:37
it's on its big wish list. Right so.
00:34:42
Does that mean you get to go somewhere else and have someone
00:34:45
bail you out to get the things that are not necessary?
00:34:51
All on your wish list? No.
00:34:53
If you're an individual like you are now here in the coronavirus
00:34:57
and you are shut down and you're quarantined and you've had to
00:35:01
use your entire savings to just put food on the table, or at
00:35:05
least keep a roof over your head.
00:35:07
Or maybe at least keep your business open.
00:35:10
Maybe you're paying employees with your savings account, who
00:35:13
knows? So this big surplus you may have
00:35:15
amassed over the past couple of years when the economy was
00:35:17
really good is now gone, but you don't get to go.
00:35:21
To the government and say, well, I spent all my savings and now I
00:35:24
don't get to do the things like I wanted to go to Disneyland or
00:35:27
I want to take a trip to Europe or I wanted to add a new
00:35:30
addition on my house or put in a pool or buy a new car or et
00:35:35
cetera, et cetera. You don't get to get your wish
00:35:38
list things because your savings ran out.
00:35:40
That's what you're saving. Savings are gone.
00:35:42
I'm sorry that's what it's for. It's for a rainy day so you
00:35:47
don't get to bail out so that California could go ahead and
00:35:51
push forward. With these progressive.
00:35:55
Initiatives. Just because now you're savings
00:35:58
is gone. No, that's you're not getting
00:36:00
bailed out. Every state got hit.
00:36:03
Every state had to figure out what to do in this crisis.
00:36:09
And every state is going to have to look at well, what's crucial
00:36:12
now. How do we get back to normal?
00:36:14
How do we kind of get our budget back under order?
00:36:16
That's what every state is going to have to do.
00:36:20
Now, if there's an issue, if there is an emergency, and I'm
00:36:23
not even a big fan of this. I'm sort of along with Mitch
00:36:27
McConnell that if you hit bankruptcy and you can't balance
00:36:30
your budgets now, the fact is California lost all its surplus.
00:36:33
It's going to have lost revenue tax revenue because it lost 1/4
00:36:36
of the year to coronavirus. And the longer Gavin Newsom
00:36:39
keeps this shut down. He's going to lose even more tax
00:36:42
revenue. He's not going to have a problem
00:36:46
where his books are not going to be well balanced.
00:36:50
You're going to have enormous amounts of debt.
00:36:52
Enormous amounts of deficit not being able to.
00:36:56
Pay any of that stuff. Here's an idea for Gavin Newsom.
00:37:02
Like that individual who stuck at home and spent his entire
00:37:06
savings to keep a roof over his head and to feed his family.
00:37:10
Or to keep the lights on, or to pay employees.
00:37:13
You know that rainy day in case of emergency savings fund, he
00:37:16
won't get to use it for the fun things he's been wishing for.
00:37:20
Maybe Gavin Newsom needs to go back to the legislature and say,
00:37:23
OK, we need to revise our budget to figure out how we're going to
00:37:27
work within this new paradigm. What are things that are
00:37:31
essential and nonessential? Where can we cut back what's way
00:37:34
stuff like that? But that's not what a
00:37:36
progressive like Gavin Newsom sees.
00:37:39
See, he has a clear vision of what he wants to do, what he
00:37:43
wants to enact. He knows.
00:37:46
And he said this in a previous interview which I talked about
00:37:50
that he wants to, or he sees the opportunity to push for a
00:37:54
progressive form of capitalism coming out of this.
00:37:59
So just because the. State might be flat broke at
00:38:03
this point. It doesn't mean he's not going
00:38:05
to run to anti Nancy and have her bail him out and give him
00:38:09
billions of dollars to replenish his surplus.
00:38:13
So now he can go out and get his progressive wish list.
00:38:17
And if this should infuriate the individual, because if you're no
00:38:22
one's been coming to help a lot of individuals here in
00:38:25
California, millions of people are unemployed.
00:38:27
California businesses are drawing up.
00:38:29
I haven't seen anyone who's really gotten too much help from
00:38:32
the state in the sense of I don't know any state grants or
00:38:35
stuff like that. I don't even really know anybody
00:38:37
who's talked about it. It's always been coming from the
00:38:39
federal government with the PPP loans and the economic injury
00:38:42
disaster alone. Outside of that, I haven't heard
00:38:46
California rushing to send. Millions of dollars to help its
00:38:50
small businesses. Have you?
00:38:51
Has anyone heard of California helping the small business owner
00:38:55
has any unemployment checks that were supposed to go out as fast
00:38:59
as possible? Are still three weeks behind
00:39:02
four weeks behind? They still haven't gotten their
00:39:04
first paycheck. It's now we've now gone so far
00:39:07
into the crisis. That by the time they start
00:39:10
getting their unemployment we should be reopening.
00:39:13
We're actually on the other side of this now that we should be
00:39:16
reopening. And people should be going back
00:39:19
to work and the unemployment won't be worth anything.
00:39:23
But those people still had to scrape by and get through an
00:39:26
entire six weeks 8 weeks. Without any help from the
00:39:30
government, so California basically did zilch to help its
00:39:34
citizens to help its small businesses to bail them out.
00:39:39
And a lot of these individuals and small businesses should be
00:39:42
upset that they had to figure out and make sacrifices and
00:39:45
figure out what they're going to do with their businesses moving
00:39:48
forward. Their business budgets are going
00:39:50
to be different. Their business budgets aren't
00:39:52
going to be the same. Maybe they were on track to
00:39:56
expand. Maybe they were on track to add
00:39:58
more space or buy a new piece of property.
00:40:00
Maybe they are on track to add a couple dozen new employees.
00:40:04
Now they can't now that wish list is gone because they may
00:40:07
have had to use all of their saved up money and all their
00:40:10
capital just to keep the doors open.
00:40:12
But Gavin Newsom doesn't see things that way for his
00:40:15
government. He sees things as I wanted these
00:40:19
things. I want climate change
00:40:22
initiatives. I want progressive initiatives
00:40:24
here in California to help the most vulnerable.
00:40:28
Then you could fill in the blanks of whoever you want him
00:40:30
to be. The bulk most vulnerable.
00:40:34
Whatever that means, but he still wants his wish.
00:40:37
List of progressive policies. And if that doesn't wake up a
00:40:43
lot of people in California to the idea that they don't care
00:40:48
about the little guy, they don't care about the middle class, and
00:40:50
they don't care about small businesses that should terrify
00:40:53
you. Because here he is.
00:40:58
Basically saying I don't have to be responsible with your tax
00:41:03
dollars. Let me say that again, Gavin
00:41:08
Newsom is essentially saying I don't have to be responsible
00:41:11
with your tax dollars. I just want more tax dollars so
00:41:15
I can get my progressive initiatives passed.
00:41:19
Instead of being the pragmatic politician like I said, who
00:41:22
should figure out what to do moving forward and maybe all
00:41:27
those progressive things that he couldn't do are now put by the
00:41:31
wayside. He still goes and asks for a
00:41:37
trillion dollars or he's asking that Nancy Pelosi at least.
00:41:40
Gets a trillion dollars which I doubt will ever pass and I doubt
00:41:46
that the President might ever pass it, because at this point
00:41:49
we've already printed, made up, pulled money out of the air.
00:41:53
How many trillions of dollars out of the air right now?
00:41:55
And now you want a trillion dollars?
00:41:58
And I'm not the only one saying this.
00:42:00
I'm not the only one who is saying that this is a problem.
00:42:04
People saw this coming down the Pike 2 weeks ago.
00:42:07
And This is why Mitch McConnell came out and said I'm not going
00:42:11
to help bail out all these states.
00:42:13
You screwed up bad mismanagement and even President Trump said
00:42:16
bad mismanagement of your budgets does not mean that we're
00:42:19
going to bail you out just because of this coronavirus.
00:42:25
That's not how this works. If you had bad budgets before,
00:42:28
it doesn't mean that you get to use the coronavirus as an excuse
00:42:32
to get all this bailout money. How do you figure that out?
00:42:36
It's real simple. Go back.
00:42:40
And I heard a reporter asked this, a President Trump.
00:42:42
How do you figure out what was bad management?
00:42:46
Was it due to the coronavirus or poor management?
00:42:49
It's not that hard. Go back.
00:42:55
To February and prior to all the shutdowns was the state in
00:43:00
trouble before if the state was in trouble before.
00:43:04
That's bad mismanagement and you don't get a bailout because of
00:43:07
that. And it like here in California,
00:43:11
if you had a trillion dollars in unfunded pension liabilities.
00:43:16
Before all this happened, that doesn't mean you get to come out
00:43:20
and say, well, I need a trillion dollars so that because I just
00:43:24
need to. I need help because of the
00:43:26
coronavirus, no, no, you had that liability long before
00:43:31
coronavirus ever even showed up on our shores.
00:43:35
Same thing with New York and New York City.
00:43:37
All these States and cities who are high taxes who spend their
00:43:40
money Willy nilly who have no issue with waste or fraud or
00:43:44
abuse when it comes to taxpayer money.
00:43:47
All of a sudden are going to be running to the federal
00:43:48
government with their hands out. In California, will probably be
00:43:52
one of the first in line to say, oh look, we bail out so many
00:43:55
people because we're the California word.
00:43:58
This booming economy and blah blah blah blah.
00:44:02
Sure there is an argument that we do give a lot of federal aid
00:44:05
back or federal money back. That goes to the government.
00:44:10
But that's because you like to brag where, like the 5th largest
00:44:12
economy in the world or something like that.
00:44:15
I don't know what constantly shifts up and down.
00:44:17
It's always 5th or 7th or whatever, however, largest
00:44:20
conomy. You want to brag about being a
00:44:25
big economy. OK, so you do actually give more
00:44:29
in taxes because you make more. You raise more revenue for the
00:44:32
entire country. That's a good thing, because if
00:44:35
you're a successful economic person usually.
00:44:37
What happens when you're successful economically in this
00:44:40
country you end up do spending more money in taxes because
00:44:43
that's how our system as a progressive tax system is made.
00:44:46
But that's besides the point. I guess California doesn't like
00:44:50
the progressive tax code when it doesn't apply to them, or when
00:44:55
it does apply to them. So it's terrifying to hear that
00:45:00
he thinks that he's entitled to this bailout money.
00:45:04
That he thinks Nancy Pelosi is going to ramrod this trillion
00:45:07
dollar bill through to help bail out the states.
00:45:11
I don't think that's how this works.
00:45:15
You had a $24 billion rainy day fund because it was supposed to
00:45:22
be used in case of emergencies like this.
00:45:25
This is the ultimate rainy day right now.
00:45:28
And you built it up and good for you.
00:45:31
You were able to build up this $24 billion surplus.
00:45:36
And now it's gone, it's sad. But why not look into how to
00:45:42
rebuild that through better budgetary management rather?
00:45:48
Than just asking Nancy Pelosi for a huge bailout.
00:45:54
So there are a couple articles I was going to talk about and then
00:45:58
I found these clips and I wanted to talk about a little bit more.
00:46:01
I'm still going to post them up in the show notes.
00:46:04
I want to get too far into it because if I get into it another
00:46:06
topic this is going to start really going over an hour and
00:46:09
really trying to keep these shows under an hour under 5040
00:46:12
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00:46:17
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