While it may be tempting to launch an all out revolution in California to "turn it red" the truth is turning any state around is going to require a long game that the Republicans need to learn how to play. Change takes time, but COVID may be providing the best opportunity to do so. With people frustrated with draconian orders, and government ineptitude to be able to help its citizen, there is a great opportunity to present a better vision for California.
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If you're a California, conservative a Libertarian, a
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moderate Democrat. Believe in common sense, or just
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the same person. This is the political podcast
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for you. It's the California underground
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podcast. What's going on everywhere?
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Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the
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California underground. I am your host.
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Phil. How's everyone enjoying the new
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round of lockdowns going on? 19 counties all over the state?
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Obviously. We're heading backwards, not
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forwards in the face of a virus with 99 percent survival rate.
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But hey, at least you haven't killed Grandma recently, right?
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That's the whole point of this. Let's get started with our out
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of the gate monologue. And it's a doozy and I'm sorry,
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I will already say, if you are a republican.
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I apologize for this one because it may be a little bit of hard
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truth. So, let's get into it.
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There is one thing that I will give credit to the left for,
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they have learned and implemented.
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The long game for decades. Now.
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Everyone has heard the phrase frog in boiling water.
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And if not, the sentiment is very simple.
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If you throw a frog in boiling water, supposedly, they will hop
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out because the shock of the temperature will cause them to
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reject it. However, if you put a frog and
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room temperature water and allow the heat to build up, they will
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eventually be boiled alive because they Realize the
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temperature is slowly Rising. Whether this is scientifically
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true or not. The lesson is still the same.
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People are more likely to accept incremental changes rather than
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radical changes. The left has been excelling at
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this for decades. They were able to slowly
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Implement their plans and vision through many of our
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institutions, education. Hollywood Sports is all been
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slowly integrate with leftist ideology over the course of
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years. We are now at a point where
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conservatives look up and ask, where did we go?
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Wrong, Republicans are now in a position where they feel their
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country is slowly slipping through their fingers covid,
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lockdowns, racial, and social unrest.
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It seems that our country is boiling over right now, and a
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lot of people are afraid of where we are going.
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There's a candidate on social media, who is gaining a little
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recognition for announcing his early run for governor of
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California. His name is Major Williams.
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And while I follow his candidacy, I doubt.
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He'll ever become governor is because he does not appear to
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know the issues or lacks Charisma.
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Now, he appears to have a grasp on those things.
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Is it? Because he does not yet have the
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backing of the California GOP. That's still too early to
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determine that. Now, I believe he won't win
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because his platform is boiling water to California voters.
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He is pro God pro to a pro conservative values, etc.
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Etc. And don't get me wrong.
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These are not awful things to be for mind.
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You, I'm certainly not against such pillars of conservative
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ideology. I just think it's toxic to
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California voters and is not a winning strategy right now.
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I've said numerous times, the California Republican has to be
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different than an Oklahoma Republican.
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I California is a lot different than a state like, Oklahoma.
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I'm not just singling out, Oklahoma.
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I'm just saying as a stark contrast from Oklahoma to
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California. You could say, South Dakota.
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Montana doesn't really matter. Our population is different.
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Our culture is different. Our way of living is different.
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We need to be able to reflect our constituency in address,
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their concerns a hard turn to the right.
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And California is as unlikely as Governor Newsom, not continuing
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to be a hypocrite. Instead, we have to treat this
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as if we are trying to turn around an aircraft carrier, it's
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long and slow, but we will eventually get there.
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Now is also the perfect time to slowly start turning this ship
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around. People are tired of the
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continued Draconian orders coming from Sacramento.
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Millions of Californians are out of work and more have just been
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added many of them are still waiting on unemployment check
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since they applied in March because of the government and
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aptitude cost of living is skyrocketing.
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Our city streets are filled with homeless who are unable to keep
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up, California citizens are primed and ready for a change.
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Maybe not a radical change, but a change.
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Maybe instead of a hard right candidate for governor.
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We put for the candidate who can address the pressing issues of
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California. For example, I believe a
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candidate like San Diego, mayor, Kevin Faulkner would be a
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perfect fit. He's a steady cam leader of one
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of California's biggest cities. Use pro-business Pro, lower
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taxes, but he also understands that connects with the citizens
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of his City. He is not hard, right?
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But a common sense rebuttal to Governor newsom's radical left
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ideology. He understands he is the mayor
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of a major, California. The N represents his citizens as
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such. While many may see him as to
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moderate compared to the radical left, he would be a breath of
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fresh air into everyday Americans.
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As the life continues to become more radical, now is the time to
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put for someone who can slowly start to change things for the
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better and once California sis and start to see the success of
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common-sense kitchen table policies.
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They will begin to think. This isn't so bad.
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The slow turn towards a pro-business, pearl, lower tax,
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California can give way to other policy changes, like, being pro
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to a pro God and pro Liberty. Remember radical change, scarce
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assistance, because it's not what they're used to.
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But Low, incremental, change can forever.
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Change a state? Now is the time to start slowly
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turning the ship around. There is no better time to
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present a sensible alternative to what our state is going
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through the left, didn't get where it is today because it
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woke up one day and started a single Revolution.
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They've been slowly increasing the temperature of the water in
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California for decades and we are here because we didn't
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effectively fight back a prosperous and Freer, California
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is not an unattainable goal, but it is one that will take a long
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time to get. To now, I believe we can get
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there. So let's get to work.
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I say this because you know, I struggle.
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And I've said this before on this podcast, when it comes to
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California Republicans, that comes to what is going on in our
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state. I will say this and I reiterate
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this a lot, and I've had discussions for example, with
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Libertarians Libertarians. I think are good example, of
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maybe California. Republicans are closer to
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Libertarians than they actually realize, and maybe this idea of
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holding on to the Ronald Reagan ideas of the past are not the
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same. The Republican party has changed
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a lot. There's obviously, conservatives
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are social conservatives, don't believe in a lot of things but
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in California, there's a lot of conservatives who are also
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socially liberal. For those people who are big
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fans of the big tent, obviously, who are fine with LGBT rights,
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who are okay with legalizing marijuana stuff like that.
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There is definitely a Libertarian strain in California
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Republic politics. And I think there's a good
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opportunity here for the Republican party to start
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adopting. Some of that stuff.
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But there's always this fear that if they let go of this Uber
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conservative base, that they'll eventually that they'll just be
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voted out. Out of office left and right,
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but that's really not. I think the way to go over
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California. Republicans.
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The state is changed a lot. There's a lot of diversity.
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Whether it be with, cultures with races ethnicities way, you
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live your life. I think there's absolutely an
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opportunity for California. Republicans, at least California
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conservatives to start to slowly take things back from the
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radical left. Because right now, there may be
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people who agree with the left solely for the social issues,
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but they will deal with the taxes and the High Cost of
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Living and everything involved. Even though at the end of the
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day, they know it hurts their pocketbook.
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They know it hurts their ability to raise a family to provide
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prosperity for their family. And I'm not saying that the
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Republican party has to all of a sudden turn into a Democrat
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light. I'm not saying that at all, but
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what I'm saying is that, California, Republicans have to
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slowly understand that there has to be a little bit of a Middle
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Road. And the reason I brought Kevin
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Faulkner is because he's someone who in the past has not been a
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full-throated trump supporter. I wouldn't say he's on the
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maggot rain. I don't think he's someone who
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wears a hat. I mean he has visited the
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president for you. Ambassador real reasons because
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he's you know a mayor of a large city.
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He's gone there to help gone to the White House to get help for
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the Imperial Beach and Tijuana sewer issue.
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But he's someone I look and I say, okay the way he's been
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handling it San Diego County did really well.
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San Diego city did really well when it came to the coronavirus.
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I think when you compare someone like Kevin Faulkner with a mayor
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Garcetti and you look at the absolute difference between San
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Diego County and LA county or LA City and San Diego City.
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You see that Kevin Faulkner obviously destroys what Garcetti
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did in LA. In fact, La is still absolutely
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a mess. And you could look at the
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numbers and see that pretty much half of all of our new cases
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that keeps spiking up are usually from the LA area.
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So, the rest of the state has to suffer because La can't get
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their crap together. And I think we should, maybe we
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should just build a wall around LA county and just keep them
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keep them there, until they can figure out what's going on.
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But I think like a Kevin Faulkner is a good middle ground
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to start slowly turning this ship around and obviously you
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can tell me what you think. You can email me at California
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underground, a proton mail.com or go on Instagram, California
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underground and message me there.
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And let me know what you think. Or as always you can leave a
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voice message about what you think by going to Anchor dot f
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m-- forward slash, California underground, but I think the
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someone like a Kevin Faulkner is a good way to go in.
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The reason I say that is because Because you look at how far the
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radical left keeps going in, California gets farther and
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farther away from these kitchen table politics and it becomes
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more about pandering to these social issues to these radical
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ideas. Obviously, BLM has been a big
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thing in the news recently and we've discussed how Gavin
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Newsom, even though he issued that executive order about
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protests and L can only be a hundred people.
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It was the same week that all these protests broke out and
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kind of turned a blind eye. I think they're slowly starting
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to turn back because they realize they can't.
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The kind of maybe they had internal polling or something.
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That said, maybe you might want to not go full-throated support
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with these protests because it looks a little hypocritical
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because you say, well, the protests are great.
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But also you going to a restaurant and a bar is not
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good. So, therefore we have to shut
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down the state again, but I think the damage is pretty much
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already done. When it comes to Governor
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Newsom. We already know.
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He's been far left. He was the Democrat on the
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ticket. He was likely going to win
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because John Cox, Had nothing to offer besides the fact that he
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wasn't Gavin Newsom. And that's another issue that I
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want to talk about is that when it comes to the California GOP
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and I've had my issues with the California GOP.
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I have no qualms about that. I think that could be run a
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little bit better. I think they're they're not open
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to new ideas or not open to radical ideas.
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I don't think they're ready to get down and fight in the sense
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of they just want to kind of stay at the margins and I think
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sometimes they enjoy being the party.
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The loser party here in California because it helps
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fundraising by saying. Oh, well, you know, we got to
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fight back against this that or the other thing, although they
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have done a good job. They were able to fly like a
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flip Mark that seat from Mike Garcia, which was a big win, but
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still there's a lot of a lot of way to go.
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Let's just put it this way under this new.
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Chairwoman. What's your name?
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Jessica Patterson? I believe it's her name.
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We lost Orange County. If you think about that way,
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that that right, there should be reason to expel the head of the
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California GOP. When you lose a stronghold,
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like, Orange County. Can she get it back to share?
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I don't know. We'll see.
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But if you've lost Orange County for good, a usual, Republican
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stronghold, such as orange, cat Orange County, that should be
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caused to say. Maybe you aren't doing exactly
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what we need you to be doing and you're not taking this party in
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the right direction, but going back to Kevin Faulkner, I think
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he's a good and palpable solution for the next governor.
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Republican, governor of California.
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Like I've said before he's had success running a major city.
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It's prosperous. It's doing well.
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It's clean. It's one of the cleaner
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California cities. I mean, we still have our
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homeless problems as every California City does, but not as
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bad. He's been innovative.
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If he's been calm and steady and the sense of he's not very
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inflammatory. He doesn't go out and insult
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people. He's very conciliatory.
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He also is, like I said, he's not a big full-throated Trump
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supporter, which was probably one of Travis Islands, biggest
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weaknesses, when he ran, was that he was the self-proclaimed
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Maga candidate, which hurts you here in California, especially
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at that time. But I think he's palpable, and I
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think he's a good way. Like I said, in the out of the
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gate monologue, which is to slowly turn this state in the
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right direction. And, you know, I say that, no
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pun intended, turn it back the way it should.
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He obviously has no issue with LGBT.
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He's marched and pride parades. He supports dreamers and a lot
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of you thinking right now, maybe say oh Phil.
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I can't believe you're saying this.
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I've gone soft. I'm never going to listen to
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you. I'm starting.
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I'm going to boycott you. I'm turning this off right now.
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But again it goes back to this idea.
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The California is a big state and we have to slowly start
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turning it around. Let me put it this way.
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Would you rather have at this point Governor Newsom?
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Or would you rather have a Kevin Faulkner?
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Who is pro business pro lowering taxes pro-government,
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efficiency, at least those three things, which you take a
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governor. Who is pro lower taxes
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pro-business and pro government efficiency over Gavin?
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Newsom. Would you, I believe you would
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take them in a heartbeat? And that's my point.
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Is that right? Now?
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We have to slowly start moving the electorate back towards a
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conservative, or at least a Populist or a constituency that
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Republicans continually win and that becomes an issue of not
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only does the California GOP have to start changing their
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message. Do they have to start reaching
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out to certain constituents and groups within, California?
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They have to do a better job at presenting their message.
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In the Republicans have always had a bad bad time of presenting
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their message. Because, especially in
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California, they always come off as sort of the dweeby dweeb in
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the room. If you ever been to a California
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GOP convention, you know, what exactly what I'm talking about?
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And these are harsh words, but we need to speak the truth right
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now and it can accept that posting on social media and just
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saying, well, let's turn California red.
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It's not going to do anything. We have to start reaching out to
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people and telling them the idea is that we believe that are the
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foundations of a better, California.
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Can we at least start in agree that a pro business pro lower
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taxes, Pro better cost of living?
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Pro-government, efficiency is better for California than what
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we currently have in office right now.
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And I think most people would agree at this point and I think
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the iron you gotta strike while the Iron's hot in this sense
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because there is this recall for Gavin Newsom, if it succeeds
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even more reason why you'd have to get someone and recruit
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someone like a Kevin Faulkner to jump into the race.
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Because at that point, Gavin Newsom is weak enough that
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people are going to look at him and say, well, why is he being
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recalled? Of course, they're going to
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smear campaign. Say this is some sort of, is
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This Trump supporters just being toxic and whatever.
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But I think if you showed Californians a moderate
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alternative, To a Gavin. Newsom, you can start to move
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things in the right direction. Now, I'm not saying this is the
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end goal. I'm not saying that this is the
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way Republicans should be Republicans, should just keep
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watering themselves down. To the point where they're
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basically just Centrist Democrats, but they call
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themselves Republicans. Now, I'm not saying that at all,
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but I am saying that the same way the radical left likes to
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push these ideas that don't really have anything to do with
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kitchen table, politics, which is always the winner hands down
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is always the winner. When it comes to, any sort of
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election is kitchen table politics.
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And if you can get two people on those kitchen, table politics,
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there's a good chance. You're going to win.
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But if you can start to get two people on those kitchen table
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politics, that helped them. Make them feel like they're
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living in a state where they can prosper or they have a future or
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that it's easier to live in. Then people might say, Hey, you
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know, this this Republican Governor Kevin falkner's not so
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bad. What else does the Republican
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Party have to offer? See how it starts in that one
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instance? The moderate, like that is a for
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lack of a better term. Becomes the gateway drug to
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other conservative ideals. Sure, there were probably a lot
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of people who are against guns. But do they really know the
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difference between all these different gun laws?
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Do they know the reason for the micro stamping or anything like
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that that we've talked about in the past?
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Not really. I think a lot of people in the
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left because of all covid. And the riots have found out how
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crazy gun laws are here in California because just go stand
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in a gun store and see how many people go in and have no idea
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that you got to wait 10 days to get You gon what I thought.
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I just pick one up, like, I'm going to the grocery store.
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Like you think you just saunter into a gun store on a Saturday
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afternoon and just say, well, I'll just take that that one
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over there and they'll pack it up and put it in a bag for you
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and you walk out with a new gun. That's how it works here in
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California. So that's why I'm saying that
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there is an opportunity here. That people are starting to say,
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wait a second. Is there a better alternative?
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And I think the Republicans have an opportunity here to really
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capitalize on it and again? This is also part of the idea
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that California GOP has to kind of look at who they are as a
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party. Is the California GOP going to
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continue to be the party. That is conservative sticks to
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its conservative roots. That sticks to socially
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conservative issues, which I think in California is a
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dead-end, loser of a of a policy.
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Or they going to step back and say, hey, we're for you living
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your life. The way you want to limited
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government lower taxes, lower gas prices, lower cost of
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living. Better government efficiency.
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And welcoming of all people who want to be California citizens.
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Legally, of course, they always have to add that but that's what
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I think is how you're going to slowly turn the elector because
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we you know, Arnold Schwarzenegger was an
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interesting phenomenon and I think mostly he probably got
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him. Similarly to what's going on.
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Now based on a recall, this this backlash against Democrats is
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Gray. Davis was a Democratic governor.
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I also think he had the name recognition.
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I think everybody just wanted to vote for all Schwarzenegger.
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Maybe they thought it was funny, that Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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The Terminator is running for governor of California and he
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won, but I also think there's an opportunity here if Gavin Newsom
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is actually recalled. That there may be a thirst for a
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hunger for something different. And I'm not putting all my eggs
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in one basket. Say well, it's got to be Kevin
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Faulkner. I just live in San Diego.
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I believe it's Probably he I've seen him in action and seeing
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that, he's seen what he's done and say, well, this guy looks
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like he could probably be a good Governor.
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He's been handling, this very well.
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He stays Above. The Fray doesn't really get into
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Petty politics. He doesn't get into the name
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calling or anything like that. He, I mean he, I think he's
00:21:32
probably one of the farthest away from a trumpian Republicans
00:21:36
out there. But I think that's that's how
00:21:42
you have to go about doing this. You can't go about trying to
00:21:46
change everything overnight. And for the people who are going
00:21:50
to say, well, we got changed everything, and we got to change
00:21:52
everything now. It's not going to happen that
00:21:54
way. The left didn't do it that way.
00:21:58
The left slowly changes things over time.
00:22:01
I mean, look, what's happening with Texas?
00:22:03
One of those things. You never thought Texas would
00:22:05
start to go blue or be in question that it might go blue,
00:22:11
but slowly over time, they've chipped away, and they've
00:22:14
chipped away and they've chipped away.
00:22:16
And then you saw with this beta or Roark.
00:22:17
It was a little too close for comfort for the state of, Texas.
00:22:25
But that's how it happened before, you know it, you're it's
00:22:28
to you've too far gone and you can't go back and it where it's
00:22:33
hard to go back. but we're at this weird opportunity, or this
00:22:39
this moment in time where you can use this as a catalyst to
00:22:45
put your ideas in a meaningful productive way in front of the
00:22:49
California citizens and say, Here's an alternative.
00:22:55
Here's our ideas of how we can move forward as a state.
00:23:03
So with that, there is an article.
00:23:05
Speaking of how far left it's gonna is an interesting article
00:23:10
that I found. As always, I post the Show links
00:23:13
in or I post all the websites and articles.
00:23:16
I read in the show link so you can always go read them for
00:23:18
yourself because sometimes I don't read the whole thing
00:23:20
because it's a really really long article.
00:23:25
This is a nice little City Journal so you Journal da Torre,
00:23:30
and the title to San Francisco for its Good, San franciscans.
00:23:35
Love complain about how terrible San Francisco has become will
00:23:38
bond about the high cost of rent, the homeless problem, and
00:23:41
how we're playing to leave the city because the techies ruined
00:23:43
it quote. I've been here forever got here.
00:23:45
Four years ago is totally different than of course.
00:23:49
I've lived in San Francisco, since 1987, not quite a native.
00:23:52
I was born in Korea but long enough to have duper Roots.
00:23:55
The many, very few people. I know from my high school days
00:23:58
remain for stop by exorbitant rents and cost of living who in
00:24:02
the 1980s and 90s expect that they need to become a software
00:24:06
engineer to afford living in their own City.
00:24:09
Not many as it turns out. Most tech workers are from other
00:24:16
parts of the country. If not, the world, I come from
00:24:18
the high paying jobs and for the lifestyle, including the ultra
00:24:20
Progressive values that San Francisco represents.
00:24:22
I don't blame them, San Francisco, on a good day is an
00:24:25
amazing City, but it seemed fewer and fewer.
00:24:27
Good days with the recent covid-19 shut down.
00:24:31
San Francisco is much quieter. No more bustling North Beach
00:24:34
restaurants serving up. Sloppy shots of fernet branca.
00:24:36
No large conferences, at the mosque on mosque, own Center
00:24:40
know, hanging out with friends. San Francisco, flatten the curve
00:24:43
recording, only 49 tests a day. It's just a few days ago, the
00:24:47
opening of barbershops nail salons originally set for June
00:24:50
29th was delayed indefinitely. As businesses of all size
00:24:55
flounder and employment has risen from 2% to 3%, many key
00:24:58
issues, challenging San Francisco of gotten worse.
00:25:02
One of, those is homelessness a topic.
00:25:03
The city is always myopic about in which its leaders are working
00:25:07
to keep under wraps, the shutdowns of compounding, this
00:25:09
issue to an enormous extent, by keeping it largely out of the
00:25:12
public eye. He like takes a quick drive
00:25:14
through parts of the city, see how much worse it's gotten in.
00:25:16
Just a few months, the national almonds information project,
00:25:19
estimated the 2019 homeless population of San Francisco at
00:25:22
greater than 17, Thousand the San Francisco, Examiner reports
00:25:26
that Homeless tents set up in the tenderloin district has
00:25:29
increased 300% since January. It would be no great.
00:25:32
Stretch of the imagination to get gas at the current homeless
00:25:35
population of San Francisco exceeds, 30 thousand, three
00:25:38
percent of the city's total populations, the policy San
00:25:43
Francisco put into place during the pandemic, have like Glee
00:25:45
contribute to this increase. In addition, to giving out free
00:25:48
tents. The city has offered to put
00:25:49
homeless people up in hotel paid for by tax dollars.
00:25:54
So in the city's new, tenants are receiving free, deliveries
00:25:56
of alcohol, hypodermic needles and methadone has a matter of
00:25:59
compassion while reporting ports of overdoses and violence map.
00:26:04
Mayor, London brief campaign as all San Francisco politicians,
00:26:07
do on a platform of compassion, tolerance for the homeless, but
00:26:10
voting patterns reflect the politics of residents, who have
00:26:12
no intention of staying here. Long term as long-term residents
00:26:16
are forced out and transient workers have been brought in the
00:26:18
politics of San Francisco has become even more lopsided.
00:26:21
Having gone from 75% vote. Democrat in 2000 election to
00:26:24
re-record 84.5% in 2016. New covers are increasingly
00:26:30
driving policies while the voice of the Native.
00:26:32
San Francisco becomes isolated. It's easy to tolerate aggressive
00:26:36
panhandling, open drug. Use.
00:26:37
If one plans to stay in San Francisco only temporarily, it's
00:26:40
hard to care about long-term plan of owning property is Out
00:26:43
Of Reach too many potential. Homeowners have been priced out
00:26:46
of the city when stay-at-home orders are finally lifted
00:26:50
lawmakers will have to deal with the consequences of their
00:26:52
policies and Able and homeless and druggist Drew homelessness,
00:26:55
and drug abuse. Even those who want to take,
00:26:58
common-sense measures will face pushback from peers worried
00:27:00
about the political cost. A few Democrats, in this
00:27:03
heavily, blue City. Will Dare Challenge incumbent,
00:27:06
mayor, breathe. San Francisco is virtue,
00:27:07
signaled itself into a hole looking at a 1.5 budget deficit
00:27:12
over the next two years. The city by the bay is
00:27:14
hemorrhaging, people and revenue.
00:27:15
Some of its biggest employers are letting employees work
00:27:18
remotely from anywhere in the world.
00:27:19
Others are moving their headquarters out of San
00:27:21
Francisco entirely. Thousands of tech jobs have been
00:27:25
lost in recent weeks. A third of the city's residents
00:27:27
report that they're considering leaving and thousands already
00:27:30
have done. So those departing site issues
00:27:33
like homelessness and crime as factors for their departure
00:27:37
according to San Francisco Chronicle.
00:27:38
There may be up to five new tax hikes on the ballot.
00:27:41
This November to fill the Gap. These include increasing taxes
00:27:44
on hiring CEOs, a payroll tax on stock-based, compensation, and a
00:27:48
gross receipts tax. That would increase taxes for
00:27:51
hotels and restaurants the businesses hit.
00:27:53
It is by the shutdown's the city seems focused on getting rid of
00:27:57
not only its residents but it's most successful businesses too
00:28:01
busy to criminalizing. Everything from shoplifting at
00:28:03
drug. Use San Francisco's lawmakers.
00:28:04
Don't seem to realize that the city May soon be left gutted of
00:28:07
its residents and its most successful Industries better
00:28:11
policies. And Leadership could have
00:28:13
presented prevented the situation State San Francisco
00:28:15
ignored. Its everyday citizen who want
00:28:18
Safe Streets and took its cues from a wealthy hyper-progressive
00:28:21
internet class. Results.
00:28:24
Haven't been pretty. Now this again goes back to
00:28:28
essentially what we're talking about, which is that at a
00:28:32
certain point. There's a breaking point and I
00:28:34
think For a lack of a better term, covid-19 may have actually
00:28:40
exposed a lot of the left and the weaknesses of all these
00:28:46
policies. Covid has not been super
00:28:51
friendly to the left, in my opinion because of one reason
00:28:54
that is because it's shown the absolute rot that is going on.
00:29:01
In our society, one example was, I was reading a article from the
00:29:06
Zero Hedge was talking about California's absolute disaster
00:29:10
right now, and it's headed towards probably even a worse
00:29:13
disaster right now. I posted a little bit on the
00:29:17
Instagram page the other day, but there is something like 2
00:29:20
million applicants who have not received their unemployment
00:29:24
checks since they applied in March.
00:29:29
Now, no matter how much they call, no matter how much they
00:29:32
try to get through. They can't get through.
00:29:38
And it's scary, because there's two million people out there who
00:29:41
are now going through their life savings or credit cards or
00:29:44
borrowing money and they can't make it any longer.
00:29:47
And this was months ago and you're thinking about, they
00:29:49
haven't received one unemployment check and no matter
00:29:51
how much they try. They can't get through.
00:29:55
So, this idea of government bloat, government, government
00:29:58
ineptitude spending more money, but not really making things.
00:30:02
More efficient is really starting the roost.
00:30:05
The chickens are coming home to roost.
00:30:06
When it So left and it's really showing a lot of bad policies.
00:30:09
It's also showing that the government for all its money and
00:30:13
for all its power and for everything that's been doing
00:30:15
hasn't really been super helpful in terms of saving at State and
00:30:20
the federal government was able to move quickly because it's the
00:30:22
federal government, but you think that the California
00:30:24
government for all its power and money and everything.
00:30:27
It keeps talking about would be able to help businesses and
00:30:31
residents a little bit better. So right now you have two
00:30:35
million people who are technically Trying to get on
00:30:37
unemployment since March, who can't get on unemployment.
00:30:41
And now you have Governor. Newsom who turned around, shut
00:30:43
down, more businesses, which makes it begs the question.
00:30:47
If you were already rehired, you probably won't be able to go
00:30:50
back on unemployment, because a lot of these businesses were
00:30:52
already shut down. Leaving a lot of California
00:30:55
citizens, probably thousands of them really with nothing nowhere
00:30:59
to go. There's absolutely nowhere to
00:31:00
go. There's no options for them.
00:31:02
There's no Financial relief for them on the way.
00:31:06
I can tell you right now. At twelve hundred dollars that
00:31:08
was sent out back in March or whatever is, is probably long
00:31:11
gone at this point, especially if you live in California
00:31:14
probably doesn't even cover rent, but it may have covered at
00:31:16
least groceries or something for the couple months, but still at
00:31:20
the same time, covid is really. And this article is a good
00:31:25
example of what's going on. is that it's starting to really
00:31:30
highlight the rot and bad policies of The left, it's
00:31:37
almost like a pyramid scheme. The more you, they keep saying.
00:31:40
Well the more you pay into it, government's going to get better
00:31:42
and better and better. But now we're at the point where
00:31:44
government you turn around say well, government needs to help
00:31:48
because we're in dire crisis here.
00:31:49
You're telling us to shut down our business is and there's
00:31:51
nothing else we can do and then they kind of turn around say,
00:31:55
oh, okay. Well, there's nothing really we
00:31:56
can do. The Surplus is gone.
00:31:57
We spent it on faulty mass from China.
00:32:02
Like has there been a, you know, maybe I missed it.
00:32:06
Maybe there wasn't enough press on it.
00:32:07
But I follow this stuff pretty religiously and I did not see
00:32:12
any sort of California stimulus, package in the sense of we're
00:32:16
going to help give grants or loans.
00:32:18
I mean, I've seen local cities. I've seen San Diego County.
00:32:22
I've seen the city do grants and low-interest Loans, but I
00:32:26
haven't seen California. Really step up and try to help
00:32:29
all its businesses and and mind you.
00:32:30
These are the businesses that help pay.
00:32:33
The coffers and the huge taxes and the cost of doing business
00:32:37
here in California and the state Governors basically turn around.
00:32:40
So, if there's no help for you here, same thing for
00:32:43
individuals. Now you have individuals who
00:32:45
can't get their unemployment, just probably some more leaving
00:32:49
the state or because there's nowhere else to go and they
00:32:51
can't afford rent. So maybe they got to move home
00:32:53
or something like that. Remember they just figure.
00:32:55
It's better to get out Dodge because they can't afford it and
00:32:58
there's nowhere to go and they have no job, so maybe we'll go
00:33:00
to another state. But this article about San
00:33:04
Francisco is really a microcosm of what happens in California.
00:33:08
If you let these leftist policies, go as far as they are.
00:33:13
For all has, is expensive. It is as it is in San Francisco.
00:33:16
Now, the high amount of taxes that they raised when covid hit.
00:33:19
They were not really able to help normal everyday.
00:33:23
San franciscans. Homelessness is on the rise
00:33:28
streets are filthy. They were able to help
00:33:32
businesses. They want to raise taxes on
00:33:34
businesses that have been most hard-hit, especially hotels, and
00:33:38
restaurants hotels and restaurants are shut down.
00:33:41
Now are effectively, there's no tourism coming into San
00:33:43
Francisco and you want to tax them and punish them even more.
00:33:49
So this really exposes this rot of California politics, where
00:33:54
the point is, there is a bevy of issues that a moderate
00:33:59
Republican candidate can come in and say, look, this is what your
00:34:05
state when you leave people. Like Gavin Newsom in charge,
00:34:08
gets you a government. That's over bloated, spends
00:34:12
money like crazy and at the end of the day, doesn't is not able
00:34:16
to help you. It's not able to help you or
00:34:20
help save your family or do anything like that.
00:34:25
And speaking of Gavin, Newsom. There's another article.
00:34:27
I want to read off. Let's see.
00:34:30
Pull this up. This is not the article doo, doo
00:34:34
doo doo. Hold, please.
00:34:42
Okay. This one is the California
00:34:43
political review originally appeared in Cal matters, title
00:34:48
Newsome. Now owns the covid-19 pandemic
00:34:50
just a few weeks ago, Governor Gavin.
00:34:53
Newsom was boasting about California's apparent success
00:34:55
and suppressing covid-19 infections, and implicit
00:34:57
contrast to other states such as New York that were being
00:35:00
clobbered by the pandemic. He called it bending the curve
00:35:04
of the infection rate and decided to reopen a vast
00:35:06
sections of the economy that he had shuttered.
00:35:08
In March. We have to recognize, you can't
00:35:11
be in a permanent. State where people are locked
00:35:13
away for months and months and months and months on end to see
00:35:16
lives and livelihoods completely destroyed without considering
00:35:18
the health impact of those decisions as well.
00:35:20
Newsome, rationalize. In recent days, however, Newsom
00:35:24
is reverse course, citing alarming increases and infection
00:35:27
rates, and deaths. The governor close bars made
00:35:29
wearing protective mask face mask mandatory, reinstituted
00:35:32
reinstitute, a bands on indoor activities and 19 counties with
00:35:36
high infection rates. Formed multi-agency strike teams
00:35:39
to crack down on people who are thumbing their noses at
00:35:42
restrictions and threatened counties with a loss of State
00:35:45
funds. If they balk, We've conditioned
00:35:49
2.5 billion dollars in our state, budget on a plane, the
00:35:52
spirit and the letter of the law as it relates to health
00:35:54
directives at the county level Newsome said, if local officials
00:35:58
are unwilling to enforce and are being dismissive, will condition
00:36:01
the distribution of those dollars with these and other
00:36:05
actions Newsome, drop the pretense that fighting the
00:36:08
pandemic was fundamentally in hands of local officials made
00:36:11
clear that. He's calling the shots.
00:36:12
You some now, owns the pandemic in California, every bit as much
00:36:16
as president. I'll Trump owns an on a national
00:36:18
level newsom's governorship will be defined on how he manages
00:36:22
this crisis, especially since he's fond of terming California.
00:36:26
A nation state that goes Its Own Way.
00:36:28
Regardless of federal policy, California could not have
00:36:31
reopened had Newsom, not declared that.
00:36:33
It was ready to do. So because of a relatively low
00:36:36
infection rates and the reopening clearly sparked the
00:36:39
surge. He said it himself.
00:36:41
Last week. We are open to our economy and
00:36:43
more people mixed. However, he did not take any
00:36:46
personal responsibility. Look for the cause and effect
00:36:48
relationship of these two events in seemed to be blaming
00:36:51
California's, because they resume the human interaction,
00:36:54
that he implied would be safe to resume.
00:36:56
There's another aspect to the situation.
00:36:58
That's also on nursing, a fierce outbreak of infection in the
00:37:02
state's prisons veteran, journalist, and more rain in an
00:37:05
article for the California health line report in detail
00:37:07
from kurakin to Avenal state. Prisons in the Arid, Central
00:37:11
Valley to historical San Quentin on the San Francisco Bay,
00:37:14
California prisons have emerged as Raging covid-19. 19 hot
00:37:17
spots, even as the state annually spends more on inmate
00:37:20
health care than other big state spent on their entire prison
00:37:23
systems sink went and had no confirm covid-19 infections
00:37:27
until for some reason, a received a transfer of infected
00:37:30
inmates. It's outbreak was so severe that
00:37:32
the state senate convened, a special carrier during which
00:37:34
legislators roasted prison officials all-new some
00:37:38
appointees, those nothing. More than the worst prison
00:37:42
house. Grew up in State history
00:37:43
assembly. Mark, Levin.
00:37:44
Whose District includes San Quentin told the hearing.
00:37:47
We did not meet this moment. It was an obvious dig at
00:37:50
Newsome. Who's following the phrase?
00:37:51
Meet the moment, despite the infection serves Newsom remains
00:37:55
out. Really hopeful saying we bent
00:37:57
the curve in the state of California.
00:37:58
We will bend it again. However, if it doesn't Bend, do
00:38:01
some fairly or not, will bear the illness.
00:38:03
It's his pandemic now, Again, bringing it all back into the
00:38:08
fold, Gavin Newsom, and the beginning, not too bad.
00:38:13
When it came to getting started. We were not as Draconian or
00:38:16
craziest New York. We actually open faster than I
00:38:19
was expecting, but the issue is now that like this article said,
00:38:24
he's now taking the onus since he's calling all the shots.
00:38:26
He gets to really take all the blame as much as they like to
00:38:30
point the finger at Donald Trump and sale.
00:38:32
Will, you know, Donald Trump, he's the president.
00:38:34
He should be taking he should. Taking all the blame for this on
00:38:37
a national level. Gavin's going to have to.
00:38:41
Now take it on the chin in the sense of anything that goes
00:38:44
wrong is really at his feet now and it's going to be hard.
00:38:48
There's 58 different counties and they're all not going to
00:38:51
want to listen to Historic Oney and measures.
00:38:54
There's gonna be a lot of counties that are probably going
00:38:55
to thumb their nose at him and say, look, we're far away from
00:38:58
Sacramento. We're not densely populated.
00:39:01
We're fine. We're not going to listen to
00:39:02
you. You could tell us all you want.
00:39:06
Could he do it? Could he try and go out and have
00:39:08
his agency? Strike teams, go up into like
00:39:10
the state of Jefferson and start shutting down businesses.
00:39:13
Maybe would it seem very political if you went into
00:39:15
Republican counties and start shutting down?
00:39:17
Business is incredibly I mean if there's anything he should be
00:39:22
stepping in and a hotspot, like Los Angeles because that's
00:39:26
really what it comes down to is that's really the worst spot in
00:39:31
California right now is Los Angeles.
00:39:35
So to bring it all home and kind of bring it and wrap it all back
00:39:38
up before we end. This is really as much as we.
00:39:42
A lot of people are talking about how a lot of these radical
00:39:45
left are these leftist politicians are using their
00:39:49
powers, or they're trying to do this or they're ushering in this
00:39:53
new world order. Whatever.
00:39:56
This is really, I don't believe this is a good look for the left
00:39:59
and I think it's hurting them more than its helping them.
00:40:04
About how fast. Andrew Cuomo, went from the
00:40:09
anointed Democratic governor. Who should be president to a
00:40:15
laughingstock of the nation and is now not taken seriously
00:40:17
anymore. Think I have fast.
00:40:21
Governor Gretchen. Whitmer went from this
00:40:26
rebellious young up-and-coming rising star in the Democratic
00:40:31
party to another laughingstock. And nobody really takes her
00:40:37
seriously anymore. Gavin, Newsom might be on that
00:40:40
track right now, when it comes to National politics.
00:40:45
If he doesn't handle this correctly, if there's going to
00:40:47
be an opening for people to say, you didn't handle this
00:40:49
correctly. You took onus of this and you
00:40:52
took the ownership of this. And you screwed it up.
00:40:59
And again, it gives you the opportunity to contrast you with
00:41:02
a better alternative and more moderate or more.
00:41:07
Let's say just farther right on the political Spectrum, sort of
00:41:10
candidate. This is the opportunity.
00:41:15
You don't get this opportunity very often to get the attention
00:41:19
of so many people who may look at this and go.
00:41:22
Hmm. Maybe the person I voted for is
00:41:25
not the best person for the job. And I think people at this
00:41:32
point, we're excited that the reopening happened.
00:41:35
I think they were excited to see restaurants coming back.
00:41:37
I think I had no problem going to restaurants every restaurant.
00:41:41
I went to went above and beyond to make sure it was safe.
00:41:45
Everyone was social distancing. There are mass, there were
00:41:48
cleaners there, people wiping the tables.
00:41:53
And you forget how many people know people in restaurants, how
00:41:57
many people know, a bartender or waiter or waitress or a Or
00:42:01
something like that. It sounds stupid.
00:42:04
And I know it's not but It's that human level that people
00:42:08
start to see that these people were excited.
00:42:11
They could go back to their jobs and start making a living and
00:42:14
they start to see that now. They see them really up their
00:42:16
wits and nowhere to go. So, just add it all up, the rot
00:42:23
of the California government, the way it is, is really
00:42:26
starting to come to light unemployment was not ready to
00:42:34
for as much money. As we put into the government.
00:42:36
They were outdated and not ready for it.
00:42:38
Two million. People are still waiting.
00:42:41
Now, there's thousands more out of work.
00:42:42
Can't get unemployment. Think about the mask debacle,
00:42:48
half a billion dollars. Think about the fact that the
00:42:52
Surplus was spent so quickly. There's a lot of rock going on
00:42:58
in the California state, government and covid.
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I think at the end of the day is exposing more and more of it.
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And I think it's turning people away from the left.
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And maybe that's why these protests are being shoved in
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your face so much by the mainstream media.
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Because they want to remind you why you might vote laughter.
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Why you're a Democrat or shame you into voting for a Democrat?
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But I don't think it's a good look.
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And I don't think the left is done.
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Well with what's going on with koban.
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I think history will show that at the end of the day.
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So with that and the show stay safe, everybody.
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