Welcome to the Church of Climate Change, where your personal rights and property come second, no questions asked. If you think it sounds a little cultish and fanatical, it's because it is.
California is walking a tight rope with its budget and reliance on the highest earners in the state. What happens when a couple thousand of those high earners decide to head towards the exit in favor of greener pastures? It's not pretty and California could be in for a world of hurt.
In no surprise to anyone, we dive into whether the Sanctuary State law was put into place to benefit a Democratic lawmaker's personal family. California continues to thumb their nose at the federal government and the Supremacy Clause when it comes to immigration. At what point do lawful California citizens get tired and push back?
Articles Referenced in Podcast:
- California's Rendezvous with Reality https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/02/28/californias-rendezvous-with-reality-n2542316
- California Lawmakers and Lobbyists Hustle to Write Hundreds of Bills, Many Not Fully Cooked https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-road-map-california-legislature-bills-introduced-20190224-story.html
- How Many Bills Will Governor Newsom Sign? https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/28/exclusive-california-refused-5-6k-requests-to-turn-over-criminal-illegal-aliens-to-federal-officials/
- OANN Clip of Kevin DeLeon https://youtu.be/1OBfYRHIbds
- California Refused 5.6k Requests to Turn Over Criminal Illegal Aliens to Federal Officials https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/28/exclusive-california-refused-5-6k-requests-to-turn-over-criminal-illegal-aliens-to-federal-officials/
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You know, someone very profoundly once said, many years
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ago, that if fascism ever comes to America to come, and let him
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rule of liberalism, and what is fascist fascism is private
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ownership? Private Enterprise, but total
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government control and regulation?
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Well, isn't this the liberal philosophy?
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The conservative so-called is the one that says less
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government. Get off my back, get out of my
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pocket and let me have more control of my own destiny.
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They're 2020 platform. Sounds identical to policies,
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already tried and now failing in the collapse.
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Socialist, state of Venezuela funny.
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Sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is.
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This people in lining up, that's a good thing.
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I believe it will totally, eliminate private insurance.
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So, for people out there, who like their insurance, what they
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don't get to keep it. Let's eliminate all of that.
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Let's move on abolish ice. It's a growing call from
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Democrats to get rid of the agency that Arrests and removes
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illegal immigrants in the u.s. I think we should get rid of
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ice. We need to probably think about
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starting from scratch. Why is it good for us to pay for
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the health care bills with people who snuck in here against
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our law? It's good for people who are in
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our country who are contributing to this country success or
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there's also apply to I don't know.
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Gang members are vagrants. I think they were covered too.
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Weren't they? He's hot button issues like free
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college, free healthcare once thought to be radical appear to
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be the starting line. In this Democratic primary, The
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Three core demands of the national day of action are free
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public College, a cancellation of student debt and a $15, an
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hour, minimum wage for people who work on the campus.
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And how is that going to be paid?
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Great question. I mean, you know, so you call
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yourself a radical. Yeah, you know, if that's what
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radical means, call me a radical Nancy Pelosi.
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Do you recognize her as the leader for the house, Democrats.
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We are. As you are aware we have we are
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diligent I think one way you get rid of trump is a crashing
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economy. So please bring on the recession
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if sorry if that hurts people and the Cabinet in a restaurant.
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You got we can no more under attack for anti-semitic tweets.
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He responded. No, thank you.
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Such harm the occupation of Palestine.
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What did you mean by that? Oh, I think it what I meant is,
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like the, the settlements that are increasing, I am not the
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expert. They are the future face of the
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democratic party. They are not only anti-israel,
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but often that anti-zionism morphs into anti-Semitism either
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The Clansman or the guy in blackface is right now, the
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Democratic governor Virginia Ralph Northam.
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North of nickname was a racial slur.
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They called me khun Mae. I did participate in a dance
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contest in which I dark. And my face as part of a Michael
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Jackson costume, I actually won the contest because I had
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learned how to do the moonwalk. My wife says in appropriate
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circumstances Democratic Senator, Elizabeth Warren of
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Massachusetts with a DNA test to prove her Native American
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ancestry. Her DNA test claiming she's part
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native. American appears to be
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backfiring tonight. The leaders of the Cherokee
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Nation are speaking out against Senator, Elizabeth Warren's
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campaign video, touting her Native American ancestry.
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You consider dropping out of the race, You're trying to zero
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carbon emissions? No, use of fossil fuels with in
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12 years, that is the goal, its ambitious.
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And it was that positive, everybody helping to drive an
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electric car, admitting an earlier drafts that quote.
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We aren't sure that we'll be able to fully get rid of
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farting, cows and airplanes that fast.
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I really don't like their policy of taking away.
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Your car of taking away your airplane.
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Flights of let's hop a train. You're not allowed, To own cows
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anymore. You don't a lot of problems.
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It was stunning. How quickly some Democrats
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jumped on this proposal? We need to be bold.
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No it's impractical. Oh it's too expensive.
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Keeping track of Democrats who might be driving a hard left and
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a lot of them happy to do. So socialism is apparently
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becoming mainstream America will never be a socialist country
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Born Free. We will live free.
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And we will die free. This has been a great movement.
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They try like hell. They cannot stand what we've
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done, but we're doing the right thing, and I will never, ever,
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ever let you down. We will make America wealthy.
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Again, we will make America strong again.
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We will make America safe again, and we will make America gotta
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race. If you're a California,
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conservative a Libertarian, a moderate Democrat.
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Believe in common sense or just the same person.
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This is the political podcast for you.
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It's the California underground podcast.
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How's it going everybody? Welcome back to another episode
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of the California underground podcast.
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I'm your host Bill. That intro is On the CPAC
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convention where we're broadcasting live.
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I wish. No, we're not.
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But watch it on TV. President Trump just finished up
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a over to our mostly freehand, speech longbaugh, sting
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everybody from the rhinos and the fake Neo cons to Pocahontas,
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to pretty much everybody. He went off in his typical
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President Trump fashion little on script little off script.
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So very Interesting. And of course, when you're
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playing to a crowd like that, it's easy to kind of ham it up a
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little bit more, throw some red meat out there.
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He can't do that in the state union of course.
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But yeah, so CPAC going on right now.
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One of the biggest yearly annual conventions of conservatives.
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I always want to go, but it's always a big trip.
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So, but with that said, we got a lot to get to today.
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A lot of news, obviously, log, national news.
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There's always a lot now. National news, a lot of
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California news, we want to get to, and obviously, let's jump
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right into it, with today's out of the gate subject, which is
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welcome to the Church of climate change.
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I feel like there should be some nice, organ music playing right
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now, kind of like we're in a church.
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Welcome to the Church of climate change.
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Come sit down and relax, and one of our pews taking the Grandeur
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over the space quietly. Reflect on the horrible things,
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you have done that need to be forgiven by the high priests and
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priestesses of the church. Did you drive here in a
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gasoline-powered car? Well, that's a sin in the
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church. Did you eat a hamburger for
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lunch the other day? That's a sin.
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Did you question the practicality of the churches
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proposals for a Utopia where by no one has to work in?
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The earth is completely rid of carbon emissions.
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That's definitely a sin. As service begins.
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You settle in to hear the sermons from the clergy.
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The first one, a younger High Priestess steps up to the
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lectern and begins with this. Our planet is going to hit
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disaster if we don't turn this ship around and so it's
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basically like there's a scientific consensus that the
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lives of children are going to be very difficult and it does
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lead. I think young people to have a
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legitimate question you know, is it okay to still have children?
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Now the last part hits you pretty hard think is it okay to
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still have children? That seems a little harsh.
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You were for cleaner air and water but now the church is
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asking you to give up having children.
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That doesn't seem fair to you but you continue to sit there.
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Now, after the first high priest of spoken, other one gets up
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while Usher's. Begin to make their rounds to
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pass the hat around. This one goes on about how much
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money they need to raise to make their goals a reality.
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She proclaims, that when people start saying cost cost cost, my
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response is. No, it's not about cost, it's
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about investment, it's about investment.
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When an usher comes around, you drop a couple dollars in the pan
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and they look at you with judgment, they tell you what you
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gave was not enough and you need to give more you ask, how much
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more and they say, 70% of everything you have right now
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and no delay. You try to argue that.
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You need that for essential so you can live and provide for
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your family, it doesn't matter. This is for the good of the
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world in our church, don't count the cost.
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Count it as an investment. This all sounds incredibly
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ludicrous when you read this or listen to this.
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But who would join such a church?
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Who would subscribe to such a rigid ideology?
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The truth is millions of Americans do believe in this
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ideology. Lots of them are running around
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the halls of Congress. This very moment saying how the
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sky is falling. We need to pass, quote,
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ambitious legislation, to save the world.
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Otherwise we're all dead and there's no America to govern if
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we don't take this opportunity, Now, of course, I jest about the
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Church of climate change, but as I watch the supporters of it, I
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don't think it's a laughing matter anymore.
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Millions of Americans actually fully believe this crazy
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ideology and like, any religious, zealot are willing to
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forgive you for go rational and civility to make their goals a
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reality. You see when it comes to the
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Divine truth. That is climate change.
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There is nothing off. Limits to argue against the
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truth of. It is akin to an atheist telling
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a devout Christian that Jesus is not your lord and savior, the
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believer will turn blue to argue that their ideology is true.
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And righteous sounds oddly familiar to arguing with the
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member of the Church of climate change facts.
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Don't matter their heresy because they undercut, the one
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true ideology, that is the world.
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Going to come to a screeching halt if you people don't follow
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their instructions, 100%. And therein lies the rub.
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The Church of climate change is not really about climate change.
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Now, is it? It's about power and control and
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much. Like the Catholic church.
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When it was only when it was the only game in town during the
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Middle Ages, there's a scripted response in a reason from the
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church on practically every issue.
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Too many people breeding let's legalize after birth abortions
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because too many people, create climate change.
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Does that sound crazy? Maybe at the moment but think
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about the quote above, they are actively suggesting population
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control for the reason of climate change.
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They want the power to decide who lives, and who dies, because
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of climate change. When they want to confiscate
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your wealth and grow the federal government to authoritarian
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levels. It's all in the name of client
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change. They shriek if we don't take all
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your money. How will we come back climate
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change? They seem to leave out that by
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taking all your wealth. You're not only giving the more
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power you are becoming more dependent on the federal
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government. Nothing is off limits.
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When it comes to the Church of climate change, the Constitution
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would be ripped to shreds if the church had its way, you would be
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stripped of all your unalienable rights.
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And you see it all over the world.
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France is burning because president mccrone imposed the
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tax on diesel to help you guessed it.
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Combat climate change. You also see it right here in
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California when confronted with a need for a reason.
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To impose another crazy leftist piece of legislation, they
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simply just tack on quote to combat climate change at the
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end. And now all of a sudden it makes
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sense passing legislation to give legal aid, to help illegal
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immigrants come to California office because of climate
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change. Obviously, This is why the
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Church of climate change is particularly dangerous.
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Their goal is world domination. No matter the cost.
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They're devout followers blindly accept their sermons and quite
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literally use them as gospel out in the real world.
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They've suspended reasonable rationale for the goal of
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achieving these Divine goals. There is no other reason for
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anything to exist, unless it's to combat climate change, your
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basic needs and wants they come secondary.
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I don't foresee the church closing up anytime soon.
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It's been very effective for a long time.
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Similar to the old monarchies and the Middle Ages.
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The church is very willing to use its power and cachet to help
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the elites of the world. Accomplish their goals just as
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long as they get a little kick back and maybe I mention here
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and there, Even more similar, this church seeks to create a
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serfdom of citizens who are compliant and beholding to them.
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So welcome to the Church of climate change.
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Have a seat and accept your fate for the purposes of combating
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climate. Change of course.
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Now, of course, I just when I talk about the, this idea of the
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Church of climate change, but I started to think about it and it
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was something I came up with a term because as I start to think
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about how people argue climate change in our world, and you're
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starting to see it from presidential candidates right
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now. Especially Kamala Harris, you're
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starting to see it from Senator, Elizabeth, Warren, and Senator
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Booker. And you heard some people talk
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about it in that intro from the video from C PAC.
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There is no end to what they can use climate change for as an
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excuse and they try believe me. They continually try to figure
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out how can we continually put climate change as an excuse to
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push more leftist. Agendas obviously, we need to
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tax you at 70%. We need to take all your wealth
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and confiscate your property. We need to make you more
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dependent on the federal government.
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We need to tell you, whether you can have children or not.
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We need to decide who lives and who dies?
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There's that sound a little Alex.
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Jonesy for you. Does that sound a little too
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conspiracy theorist for you? Maybe it sounds crazy right now,
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but is it possible that when you start to attach climate change
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to every single thing that really isn't related to climate
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change? Maybe you start to step back and
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say it's not all about climate change.
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That when you start to look at the the how to get from point A
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to point B, when it comes to climate change, you start to
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step back a minute and start to see what's the goal here.
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The goal is to expand the use of the federal government to expand
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the scope to create more reason for them to have control over
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everyday lives, to create more bureaucracy to create more
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stipulations to make you more dependent on the federal
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government and they're doing it in States like California to.
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That's why I mentioned it California's very big on.
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Well we have to do it because of climate change.
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Look at the fact that they don't let people go in and clean up.
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The wildfires, or the underbrush.
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I know President Trump got derided for this because Excel.
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I gotta go in and you got a rake and everybody says oh you know
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raking like you're gonna go in like with raking like some
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leaves or something. No, it's not.
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There's an actual machine that's called a rake or it's a big
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thing, it goes through and it kind of breaks the forest floor
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and gets up all the dead wood that's highly flammable.
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And I said, well, you can't, you can't have these trees laying
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around, or you can have these trees laying around because they
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cost fire. But the environmental.
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So like, well, no, we have, we can't touch those trees.
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And now, all of a sudden, you have homes, thousands and
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millions of Acres being burned to the ground people dying
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animals. Dying property loss value, not
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to mention that as York as there as California continues to push
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these ideas of what we got to do it to combat climate change and
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then they let the environmentalist in the
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Greenies. Have control over the forest so
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that they burn up. No one wants to talk about the
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fact that those wildfires we experienced last year here in
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California. Pretty much wiped out.
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Any progress that California would have made We were now a
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net positive carbon emitter just because the Wildfire.
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So all the work you did because you listened to the Greenies and
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it up being for not because the Wildfire is a emitted so much
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carbon into the atmosphere. It just negated everything
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you've done but that's really a side issue that climate change
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is becoming this Panacea for the left.
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And it works. It definitely works.
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And that's why you see every presidential candidate, that's
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why you seek. And it's like Gavin Newsom, who
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use the idea of climate change? Of course, he's preaching to the
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choir here in California. You don't have to tell anybody
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about, you have to convince anybody, as long as you tack on
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is for climate change, everyone just freaks out and goes.
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Ah, it's for climate change. So obviously we have to do.
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It doesn't matter. The cost we got to do it because
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it's for climate change. But presidential candidates are
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starting to use this idea of climate change, which is why
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they're jumping on this hole. Green New Deal idea.
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Which I will argue is going to come back to bite them in the
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ass. The more people talk about this
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green, New Deal or the green pipe dream as I like to call it.
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More people are going to see into the point of the green New
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Deal in the green pipe dream. What's the point of it?
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Look at what it does. It wants to tax everybody to the
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absolute maximum. They can and they want to
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control how people get around the country.
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They want to give everybody a working, living wage.
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So you're depending on the government, when you start to
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look at these things and you go, what does someone getting a
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guaranteed minimum check? Every month have to do with
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climate change. It doesn't It just doesn't and
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that's why it's almost a cult to the sense of I'm for clean air
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and clean water. I don't want cause I don't want
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Smog and dirty water in this country.
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I like the idea of nature. I like the idea of our forests
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and our natural habitats are not destroyed.
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I'd like to hand off a beautiful country to my children, I'm not
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against it. I'm not against being
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environmental to being smart and saying, oh, that's pretty cool.
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Hey, these to-go containers, guess what?
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They're biodegradable. They'll just turn into dirt or
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something and five years. That's pretty cool.
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I'm all for that. I don't care.
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It's a great idea is I think about these things, but when you
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start to say, well, we also need to give everybody a minimum
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wage. What need to pay everybody who's
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unwilling to work. What does that have to do with
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climate change? People stay home and they don't
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do anything, so they don't get in a car.
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They don't use any more carbon emissions.
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So, start to take more of a bird's eye view of this idea of
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climate change. Take a step back and really,
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really start to push the question.
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What this is have to do with climate change That is, of
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course, if you're someone out there, who debates whether
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climate change actually exist, I'm not going to get into that.
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I'm not well-versed on that, I don't know any of the science.
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I'm not going to sit here and pretend I'm some sort of expert,
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and I'm going to cite somebody study because someone can come
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back and say all, you know, there's this other study that
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says there is climate change. I'm not going to get into that
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argument. People are still trying to
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figure it out. People way smarter than me at
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this stuff or trying to figure it out.
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But I'm just saying, look at the big picture when they tack on,
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it's the Church of climate change over the, it's for
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climate change, kind of take a step back and say, is it really,
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is it really to help combat climate change?
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And you'll start to figure out your answer.
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We can be for being pro environment.
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That's fine. I actually quite like that about
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how those one thing I loved about California.
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When I moved here, I said oh they're pretty Forward Thinking
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about this stuff. But when you mandate it, and it
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comes from the government and they force it down your throats.
00:21:33
It starts to become an issue of power and control.
00:21:41
So just beware beware of these Disciples of the Church of
00:21:44
climate change and what they're out there.
00:21:47
Espousing In other news we had Trump, President Trump was over
00:21:53
in Vietnam as everybody knows he was talking about, we're just
00:21:58
talking about Kim Jang, hoon and he walked away without a deal.
00:22:05
And I know that a lot of new stations are obviously lambast
00:22:07
in him because oh, he's he's President Trump.
00:22:09
He said, he's the best deal maker.
00:22:11
There is he's the art of the deal.
00:22:13
Let me tell you something about this idea of walking away from
00:22:16
the table. President Reagan, did it at the
00:22:19
OSS are back. In the 80s and it actually
00:22:21
worked out pretty well for him. He walked away from the table
00:22:24
with USSR and the next year, he was able to get the special Arms
00:22:27
Treaty that effectively ended the Cold War.
00:22:33
Walking away from a deal is not a bad thing.
00:22:36
And this is something as when I was in law school, we had this
00:22:41
club it was called ADR alternative dispute resolution,
00:22:45
don't worry. It doesn't.
00:22:46
It's really just called a negotiation Club where you sit
00:22:49
across the table and you work on how do we negotiate and they had
00:22:53
all these fancy terms bat, none whack NE and what's your anchor
00:22:56
claim and all these cute little terms of how to get the deal
00:22:59
going. I'll tell you one thing.
00:23:02
The one thing they never taught in law school, I'm just using
00:23:07
this as an example. The one thing they never talked
00:23:10
about was that you could walk away from the table that if the
00:23:13
if the deal was bad, you can walk away from the table and
00:23:17
there's no point in signing on to a bad deal.
00:23:22
When it's a bad deal and this was something that they taught
00:23:26
us in law school was that you have to come to some sort of
00:23:29
deal where you can both walk away and be miserable.
00:23:32
But congratulations how you got there was what's important, you
00:23:36
know as an attorney tell that to a client that you walked away
00:23:39
and so you know we didn't really get a good deal but you know we
00:23:44
came to a deal and that's what's important because that's what I
00:23:47
learned in law school. Coming to a deal is more
00:23:50
important than whether it was a good deal.
00:23:52
Or not. So people are going to
00:23:54
Ambassador and they're going to chastise on, they're going to
00:23:56
say oh you know, President Trump, couldn't walk couldn't
00:23:58
come away with a deal. I guess he's not that great of a
00:24:00
deal maker but you know what? Kim Jang Hoon was offering.
00:24:05
He wanted all the sanctions lifted for just a couple of the
00:24:09
nuclear sites to be dismantled and put out of commission.
00:24:16
How is that fair that? That Kim Jang.
00:24:17
Hoon gets all the sanctions lifted off of his country and he
00:24:22
only has to take away. I don't know a couple of his new
00:24:26
of his nuclear sites. I really present Trump holds
00:24:33
most of the cards in the scenario.
00:24:36
What's Kim Jong? I'm going to do it.
00:24:37
He's not going to go back to the way it was.
00:24:39
He's not going to go back to the way this hostile environment.
00:24:43
He's come too far at this point. He's come too far and there's
00:24:49
too much at stake right now for him to turn around.
00:24:53
Be the bad guy again. His people are starving, there's
00:24:57
no food. He's got to do something.
00:25:02
And the fact that he has to deal with President Trump, He is
00:25:07
really working in his Arena, and I don't think he understands
00:25:10
this is sort of like, when people said, President Trump had
00:25:13
the tough vernacular, about Kim Jang, hoon.
00:25:17
And they're talking about his big red button or whatever.
00:25:22
That was a tactic that was a tactic to get Kim Jang Hoon to
00:25:24
the table. Just like this is a tactic you
00:25:27
walk away from a deal because it's a bad deal and this isn't
00:25:33
like past presidents who go to these Summits and stuff and they
00:25:37
signed these BS declarations that say, well my country
00:25:41
promises to work diligently, towards bop, bop, bop, bop bop,
00:25:46
and then the other person signs a declaration that says, huh,
00:25:48
and I work diligently. I promise to work diligently to
00:25:52
not do pop up. It's like all these G20 Summits
00:25:56
that the world leaders go to nothing ever gets done at these
00:26:00
G20 Summits. Okay, any of these big
00:26:02
International Summit set, they have nothing ever gets done.
00:26:07
First off because none of them have the authority to actually
00:26:10
do anything pressing. United States.
00:26:12
Can't just go there and start signing away treaties.
00:26:16
I mean he could but he has to get the consent of the Senate.
00:26:24
But you get all these these BS Declarations of.
00:26:28
Well, we all promised that we're going to work on on, on climate
00:26:32
change, you're familiar with that one.
00:26:35
We're going to work on world poverty and we're going to work
00:26:39
on Global, Peace and everybody applauds and says good job G20
00:26:44
and they pat themselves on their back and then go off to their
00:26:46
fancy dinners and they fly off in their private jets back to
00:26:49
their country. Nothing ever gets done.
00:26:53
So, is that what the media wants?
00:26:54
What'd they want to Trump to walk away with some empty
00:26:56
promise from Kim Jang Hoon they killed him.
00:27:00
The last Summit when he came back with a proclamation or
00:27:03
Declaration like that they count.
00:27:06
They were raking him over the coals because they said I he
00:27:08
didn't get anything he just got some be as empty declaration
00:27:13
that they both signed for a photo op.
00:27:15
It didn't do anything. So now he actually walks away
00:27:18
from it without scientific right now.
00:27:19
They're saying I didn't get anything.
00:27:23
There's nothing wrong with walking away from the table.
00:27:27
Excuse me. There's nothing wrong with
00:27:30
walking away from the table from a bad deal.
00:27:33
Nobody's got a force your hand. This isn't, we're going to put
00:27:36
you two in a room and make you figure it out.
00:27:42
So I thought it was a good move and everyone was disappointed
00:27:45
yet because there's a high-stakes, a lot of people who
00:27:47
you people are hyping it up, maybe he'll come back and I'll
00:27:49
declare the end of the. Why not?
00:27:51
Why not say it's possible that if things go well this could be
00:27:55
the end of the Korean War. It's not a bad goal going into
00:28:00
it just because they didn't get there.
00:28:04
Bounding was a bad move to walk away from the table.
00:28:06
It looked at their photos of them saying, goodbye to each
00:28:09
other. They were smiling.
00:28:10
They're happy. It doesn't look like there's
00:28:13
that. The relationship is bad.
00:28:17
It looks like it worked out and I well, it didn't work at this
00:28:19
time. We'll keep in contact.
00:28:21
It's not like they're never going to talk to each other.
00:28:24
Their people will be in touch with our people.
00:28:29
At the end of day, it's okay to walk away from a bad deal.
00:28:32
We're made a lot of progress in North Korea.
00:28:35
Just be happy. We're making progress in North
00:28:37
Korea. Okay.
00:28:40
So, what else is going on? National news.
00:28:41
I really want to get through this national news because we
00:28:43
got a lot to talk about California.
00:28:45
It's and I mean, there's always a lot of stuff going on
00:28:48
California, but I want to get to the California stuff.
00:28:51
Let's say congress, of course, we knew this was going to
00:28:54
happen. Congress was trying to stop the
00:28:55
Declaration, the emergency state of emergency declaration or
00:28:59
National Emergency declaration. Interesting thing to look for
00:29:04
when this comes up, you'll get to see which Republicans are
00:29:07
really on Trump side and not any sort of rhinos or neo-cons.
00:29:12
We know the Democrats are obviously going to all vote it
00:29:15
down, they're all going to line up.
00:29:18
That's the one thing Democrats are great at.
00:29:20
They're very good at, they all line up when the cause comes to
00:29:24
it, and it's time for him to close rank-and-file.
00:29:27
Republicans are very bad at that Republicans seem to have the
00:29:31
best They're very good at what they like to call a circular
00:29:34
firing squad of shooting on each other.
00:29:38
Which is a byproduct of obviously free thought and
00:29:41
critique and critical thinking stuff like that.
00:29:43
But when it comes to something like this, Republicans should
00:29:47
just Unify but you're going to get some of those Rhino
00:29:53
Senators. Like Lisa murkowski.
00:29:55
Obviously, she's gonna be a problem because she's besties
00:29:58
with Dianne Feinstein. But they have to get a
00:30:02
veto-proof vote, which means they would have to override
00:30:05
President Trump. He can just veto anyway.
00:30:08
I'm not going to get too far into it.
00:30:09
Like I say, if you want to really get a good idea of what
00:30:12
the National Emergency acts is about, I would say, tune into
00:30:15
Mark Levin, he knows this stuff, he's worked with it.
00:30:18
He's been at the Attorney General's office when stuff like
00:30:20
this is gone down, he knows a lot more about it than I do, but
00:30:27
this will be interesting. And of course, this will go up
00:30:29
to the Supreme Court where we To see who's on, who is really
00:30:33
going to stick to it? Who's gonna uphold?
00:30:37
It is Robert's going to be on the left or the right.
00:30:41
I don't think any of them to say any of them are Trump.
00:30:44
Loyalists, I think is disingenuous to what the point
00:30:46
of the Supreme Court is, there are people who are going to look
00:30:49
at and say, well this is what the statute that Congress wrote
00:30:52
into law says and this is what the president did.
00:30:55
Does it is the present constitutionally Allowed by this
00:30:58
statute do so and if he is most likely the Supreme Court will
00:31:02
uphold it, But of course because it's a hot button issue and it's
00:31:06
the wall and nobody wants the wall.
00:31:09
It becomes more political than whether or not he does have the
00:31:12
power, which he does have the power.
00:31:14
He has the power into the National Emergency Act passed by
00:31:17
Congress. They delegated that authority to
00:31:21
the president and presidents have been using it.
00:31:24
It's not a red button. It's not a Defcon 3 or defqon.1
00:31:28
sort of issue. It's been used presidents.
00:31:32
Have used it. I think President Obama used 10
00:31:35
Clinton got up to like 13 or something.
00:31:38
So there was a lot. But that will be something to
00:31:42
keep an eye on the news. The Cohen.
00:31:44
Hearing I didn't watch the Cohen hearing, I think the guy is just
00:31:48
the skis, Paul, I think he he's a rat.
00:31:52
He's like, any sleazy lawyer. He's going to protect his hide.
00:31:55
I'll blame, he's got to protect his family and he's trying to
00:31:57
look out for himself. But the fact that they brought
00:32:00
him in shows more about the Democrats really than about
00:32:04
Michael Cohen, who's just trying to get his last couple minutes
00:32:08
in the sun? He's trying to audition
00:32:09
obviously for a CNN or MSNBC. DC gig what does he get out
00:32:13
three years from now, I'm, he's been disbarred.
00:32:17
Can't be an attorney anymore, which is huge, but Michael Cohen
00:32:23
Haines. He's convicted for lying to
00:32:26
Congress and then they Brent what are the Democrats do?
00:32:30
They bring him in because they want to hear him but he's going
00:32:33
to come and he's going to lie to Congress which is why there's
00:32:37
already been a criminal referral filed by Mark Meadows against
00:32:41
him or to look into him. But that's that should be the
00:32:46
end of Michael Cohen. He's going off to prison.
00:32:48
We have to hear from it again for three years but it's the
00:32:50
Democrats playing political theater.
00:32:52
They just wanted someone to come out there in Bastrop although
00:32:55
and the end there were a lot of nothing Burgers more than there
00:32:59
were bombshells. Michael Cohen never been to
00:33:02
Prague which is what they thought part of the conspiracy.
00:33:07
The Russia thing there was no collusion he came out so there's
00:33:10
no collusion. He said some other things that,
00:33:13
of course, he tried to trash the president about, but people
00:33:17
mostly have come out and said that, none of those things are
00:33:19
true. I've worked for President Trump,
00:33:21
and that's not true. That's not how things go down.
00:33:24
The whole thing with Roger, Stone in the Wikileaks, he tried
00:33:28
to say, well, Roger Stone was giving him the heads up about
00:33:31
Wikileaks, okay? But Wikileaks already had said
00:33:36
that they were going to release the emails in a prior tweet.
00:33:41
So Roger Stone didn't have any privy information and Roger.
00:33:45
Stone must be lying or he must be making up a story that Roger
00:33:48
Stone got off the phone with Wikileaks home.
00:33:50
We got off the phone with Wikileaks and Wikileaks told
00:33:53
Roger Stone and Roger Stone told President Trump.
00:33:55
And they knew that there was going to be this drop of emails
00:33:57
and they were in on it. The whole world knew.
00:34:00
If you followed Wikileaks on Twitter, you everyone knew that
00:34:02
they were going to drop emails. There was no special
00:34:06
information. It would be like, Roger Stone
00:34:10
telling him any sort of news that's out there on the
00:34:12
twittersphere. It's not collusion, it's not
00:34:16
criminal but Michael Cohen tried to make it into something that
00:34:19
it was not because that's Michael:.
00:34:21
So that's it for local news. Want to get to this what's going
00:34:26
on California? Because there's a lot to go over
00:34:30
and I got a whole stack of stories here.
00:34:33
I'm going to try and get through as fast as possible so we can
00:34:36
chat about a little bit. This was an interesting article
00:34:39
says off townhall.com. It's called California's
00:34:41
rendezvous with reality and what is Is about is about the fact
00:34:45
that California right now, is teetering on the edge of
00:34:48
collapse, if they don't protect High earners and I'll read some
00:34:56
of it. Californians brag about their
00:35:01
state is the world's fifth largest economy.
00:35:03
They talked as referentially of Silicon Valley companies, Apple
00:35:06
Facebook, and Google as the ancient Greeks did of their
00:35:09
Olympian gods Californians. Also see the progressive
00:35:13
one-party. State is a Neo socialist model
00:35:15
for a nation, moving hard to lift California's, 40 million
00:35:18
residents, depend on less than one percent of the state's
00:35:21
taxpayer to pay nearly half of the state income tax which for
00:35:25
California's highest here, Learners tops out.
00:35:27
The nation's highest rate of 13.3% In other words, California
00:35:31
cannot afford to lose, even a few thousands of its wealthiest
00:35:35
individual taxpayers, but a new federal law.
00:35:38
Now, caps deductions for state and local taxes at ten thousand
00:35:42
dollars. A radical change that promises
00:35:44
to cut many hiring taxpayers tens of thousand dollars.
00:35:49
Now even if a few thousand of the state's, 1% Fleet to nearby
00:35:53
noatak State such as Nevada and Texas.
00:35:55
California could face a devastating shortfall and annual
00:35:58
income So let's see any talk about as a result of during the
00:36:07
2011, 2016 California, drought politicians, experts claim that
00:36:12
global warming, had permanently altered the climate and that
00:36:14
snow and rain would become increasingly rare in California
00:36:17
as a result. Long plan.
00:36:18
Low elevation reservoirs designed to store water during
00:36:22
exceptionally. What years were considered all
00:36:24
but useless and thus were never built that in 2016. 2017.
00:36:29
And now, this year, California's received record, snow and
00:36:32
rainfall in the windfall of millions of acre free of runoff,
00:36:36
mostly let out to see. Nothing has been learned.
00:36:39
Since the inability to build reservoirs is especially tragic
00:36:43
given that the state's high speed, rail project has gobbled
00:36:46
up more than five billion dollars in funds without a
00:36:48
single foot of track laid. The total cost sword from an
00:36:52
original 40-billion dollar promise to a projected 77
00:36:55
billion dollars. California.
00:36:59
Politicians Vie with each other. It's a prove their open borders.
00:37:02
Bona. Fide open borders.
00:37:04
Bona, fides, in an effort to appeal to the estimated 27% of
00:37:07
Californians who were not born in the United States, but the
00:37:11
health educational legal costs associated with massive, illegal
00:37:14
immigration, or squeezing the budget at about a third of the
00:37:16
California. Budget.
00:37:17
Goes to States, Medicare program.
00:37:19
Médicale, half the state's purse or funded by Medi-Cal and nearly
00:37:22
a third of those state-funded birth.
00:37:24
The mother is an undocumented immigrant Also nearly one-third
00:37:30
of the nation's welfare recipients live in the state and
00:37:32
nearly one in five live below the poverty line.
00:37:34
The result is that tens of thousands of people live on the
00:37:36
streets and sidewalks of the state's major cities where
00:37:40
primeval primeval diseases such as typhus have reappeared
00:37:45
Californians. Progressive government seems
00:37:47
clueless how to deal with these issues, given that solution such
00:37:50
as low-cost housing and strict enforcement of Health codes are
00:37:52
seen as either too expensive or Politically Incorrect in.
00:37:56
Some California has no margin for error. are spiraling,
00:37:59
entitlements, unwieldy pension cost money wasted on High-Speed
00:38:02
Rail inadequate, water storage and delivery and lacks
00:38:05
immigration policies were formally tolerable only because
00:38:08
150 Californians, paid huge federally, deductible, state
00:38:12
income, taxes, No more Californians.
00:38:16
May have once derided the state's 1% as selfish rich
00:38:19
people now, they are praying that these heavily burdened
00:38:22
taxpayer. Stay put in are willing to pay
00:38:24
far more than what they have paid before.
00:38:27
That is the only way California can continue to spend money on
00:38:30
projects, that is not led to safe, roads, plentiful water,
00:38:32
good skit, good schools, and Safe Streets.
00:38:35
A California Reckoning is on the horizon and it may not be
00:38:40
pretty. Now, this is something I thought
00:38:42
was pretty interesting when the tax Act was originally or the
00:38:45
tax cuts were originally passed. This issue of salt.
00:38:49
Deductions now, salt stands for state and local taxes.
00:38:52
It used to be whatever you paid in state and local taxes.
00:38:55
You could deduct from your federal taxes, can't do that
00:38:59
anymore. And a lot of people were
00:39:02
shrieking about that. A lot of people were up in arms
00:39:05
about the fact that it will actually in the long run raise
00:39:07
taxes for people in States like California or New York, these
00:39:11
deep blue states with high taxes, But I saw, I don't know
00:39:16
if this was done on purpose and if it was, it was an ingenious.
00:39:21
Absolutely ingenious move by the President Trump Administration.
00:39:26
By doing. So, I knew that if you got rid
00:39:28
of the salt deduction, you would for States, like California, New
00:39:33
York to actually live up to their Promises of what they're
00:39:36
spending, all their tax money on, it would make taxpayers, the
00:39:40
highest earners actually take a little bit more of a look at
00:39:44
what's going on with California or whatever their state is,
00:39:47
especially here in California. Now, you're going to get people
00:39:50
who are looking at the State of California saying, whoa, whoa,
00:39:52
whoa, whoa, whoa. I can't deduct it anymore.
00:39:55
Now, let me see. See how much I have to pay?
00:39:57
Well, now I got to pay more just because of the fact that I paid
00:40:00
so much in state and local here in California, but now I can't
00:40:04
deduct it from federal so now you're going to look at the
00:40:07
state and local and say, well, why am I paying so much for
00:40:09
state and local? It's kind of a brilliant move if
00:40:13
it was designed that way to do that and I give whoever wrote
00:40:18
that in as credit. I read somewhere that some, I
00:40:23
believe it was a couple. I mean, obviously this was
00:40:25
filed, this was completed by year or so ago.
00:40:28
I remember reading that this was something that someone had an
00:40:31
idea and it puts pressure on these blue States and I think
00:40:35
it's a good idea. I think it's a good idea because
00:40:38
it forces a lot of these high earners to take a second.
00:40:41
Look at what's going on with their tax money, in places like
00:40:43
California. They don't get the benefit of
00:40:47
what we can deduct it from our federal so don't really worry
00:40:51
about it. We can tax the hell out of you
00:40:53
just deduct it from your federal will you can't do that anymore.
00:40:56
Now you have to pay both. Now you have to pay your federal
00:41:00
and your state and local taxes, which means you're going to look
00:41:03
at your state and local. And now, when you look at stuff
00:41:07
like the high-speed rail and you're looking at stuff like
00:41:10
your roads and your infrastructure and your schools
00:41:15
and you're looking at, how come we don't have any water.
00:41:18
How come no one's dress this issue but we've spent billions
00:41:21
of dollars on these projects. Your guys start to get a
00:41:25
citizenry that starts at take a little bit of a second.
00:41:27
Look at what's going on with your tax dollars and if not,
00:41:31
it's just the shock alone of having to pay tens of thousands
00:41:34
dollars. More It's going to cause a lot
00:41:37
of people to take a second look. now obviously, if it stays like
00:41:43
this, And let's say it stays like this for a long time and
00:41:47
the salt deduction doesn't apply.
00:41:48
What's going to happen you're going to have a residual effect
00:41:51
of people who are going to come out and say we need to reduce
00:41:56
our state and local taxes. You're going to have candidates
00:42:02
and blue States, they're going to have a little bit more of a
00:42:05
leg to stand on when they come out, and they're anti High tax
00:42:08
because they can come out and say, well, I'm against, I want
00:42:12
to lower our state tax or I want to lower our local tax.
00:42:17
Most importantly, a state tax, which is probably the highest
00:42:19
one, but you can get these candidates.
00:42:22
Now who say, well, I want to lower the the state tax and for
00:42:25
people who got sticker shock this year, Because now they have
00:42:29
to pay that much money, they might look at that candidate and
00:42:32
say you know what, I never really thought I would look at a
00:42:35
candidate like this but guess what I like money and I like
00:42:39
having tens of thousands of dollars in my pocket and I don't
00:42:43
like giving it up to the federal government or to the state.
00:42:49
Okay. Maybe I'll vote for you.
00:42:51
It's an interesting political move, that's for sure.
00:42:57
But we all know this was going to happen.
00:43:01
California Teeters on the edge when it comes to the budget
00:43:05
because the taxes at such a high rate, it assumes that this stuff
00:43:09
like this is always going to be around and I guess that's why
00:43:12
they have the 20 billion dollar Surplus, which they say is kind
00:43:15
of like a rainy day fund. But at this rate, if they keep
00:43:20
losing, I think in the last podcast last week's podcast, I
00:43:23
talked about how Gavin Newsom has fallen short of his monthly
00:43:28
budget or his monthly income from his tax revenues.
00:43:33
Now they're trying to say well it's because they filed earlier
00:43:37
this or that they tried to it that's why he'll come back.
00:43:41
But watch what happens if it continues to be like this.
00:43:43
What happens if month after month?
00:43:45
Gavin Newsom is faced with the fact that he's not meeting his
00:43:47
budget. What is he start cutting?
00:43:50
Does he start? Cutting is the question because
00:43:54
if he doesn't start cutting that 20 billion dollar Surplus is all
00:43:57
of a sudden, going to go bye-bye really quickly.
00:44:01
He's gonna have to start dipping into it.
00:44:04
If he keeps missing his budget, does he start cutting things?
00:44:06
Does he start having having to really be sort of a fiscal
00:44:10
conservative And if so what does he start to cut?
00:44:16
Does he start to cut these programs for illegal immigrants?
00:44:21
He has to make really hard decisions, because most of his
00:44:24
platform is based on the fact that he wants to spend spend
00:44:28
spend on this. And because the old, there's
00:44:30
only one that person that can fix all the problems in
00:44:32
California. It's the government, the
00:44:33
government fixes, everything, California, they're going to fix
00:44:36
health care because they're we're going to go to a
00:44:38
single-payer. We're going to fix education.
00:44:41
We're going to fix all the water and all this stuff.
00:44:45
It costs a lot of money. And that's basically what his
00:44:50
whole thing was about, was that we're going to spend spend
00:44:53
spend, we're going to be ambitious, he said a couple
00:44:55
times. He said I'm going to try and be
00:44:57
a good Steward for my budget, but we all know at the end it
00:45:00
says BS. He's going to spend as much as
00:45:02
he can. But maybe just maybe this whole
00:45:05
salt thing is going to come back and bite.
00:45:10
Gavin Newsom in the ass. Maybe maybe a force has a lot of
00:45:15
these higher earners to go to the exit and say screw this I'm
00:45:19
out. I'm going other states that
00:45:20
don't have state income tax and I'll effectively effectively
00:45:24
give myself a huge raise tens of thousands of dollars in a raise
00:45:32
But we'll see. This is going to be interesting.
00:45:34
Keep an eye on the budget, keep an eye on whether or not every
00:45:38
month or making their gold, if not if it starts to go month
00:45:43
after month, and they're not making it or not meeting it.
00:45:49
It's gonna be some tough choices.
00:45:50
And old old Gavin's, going to have to make some hard decisions
00:45:54
can have a hard first year up in Sacramento.
00:45:58
If every month he's not making his budget, that's going to be a
00:46:01
problem. So in LA Times article this was
00:46:05
the next thing I want to talk about.
00:46:07
I guess in California, if you didn't know this, there's a
00:46:09
deadline to propose legislation. Let me read a little bit of this
00:46:17
is from the LA Times one Jet by John Myers.
00:46:23
Former Governor Jerry Brown famously wrote in a veto
00:46:26
message, that not every human condition.
00:46:29
Dirt deserves a law Could have fooled me in California.
00:46:34
I think they think everything deserves a lot.
00:46:37
A few Point worth pondering light of the fact that a
00:46:39
staggering two thousand five hundred, Seventy-Six bills are
00:46:42
introduced in the legislature before last week's deadline,
00:46:47
that is likely to be a record. According to statistics compiled
00:46:49
by Chris Miceli. A veteran lobbyist who tracks a
00:46:52
legislative process. Even in years with lots of
00:46:54
bills, the annual averages, since 2013 has been close to a
00:46:57
2200, the first year, this current to Your session in
00:47:01
Sacramento, stands out in part. It's because so many of them are
00:47:04
little more than empty vessels introduced in either the state
00:47:07
senate or assembly as a placeholder.
00:47:10
A review of legislative record. Saturday found 694, so-called
00:47:14
quote intent bills, promising details will later be announced
00:47:19
on ideas, including Wildfire warning, sirens, and free
00:47:21
School, meals with California grown up products or California,
00:47:24
grown products, not California. Grownup.
00:47:26
Grownup products. Specific ways to make good on
00:47:30
those intentions won't come for several more months.
00:47:33
Even less clear in many cases is who actually wrote the bills.
00:47:37
California allows lobbyists are right.
00:47:39
A proposed law from start to finish and then have a
00:47:41
legislator introduced it as his or her own work.
00:47:44
It's officially called a sponsored bill but there's a
00:47:48
there's a little consistency to know who's the real force behind
00:47:51
it. Now, the bills are vetted by
00:47:53
legislators lawyers, of course at the taxpayer expense and
00:47:56
often shop by lobbyists around the Capitol and sir.
00:47:58
We'll all maker who will be the official author?
00:48:01
Well, longtime legislative Watchers say good idea.
00:48:04
Shouldn't be dismissed, simply because they came from interest
00:48:06
groups uneven transparency in the process can make it almost
00:48:09
impossible to know. The real reason, the bills being
00:48:11
considered in the first place to dit it.
00:48:17
And they go on to say that. The assembly Appropriations
00:48:22
Committee Lorena Gonzalez, said, perhaps at the legislature
00:48:27
should do to improve the lowering processes.
00:48:29
Remove most existing deadlines. If a bill could be introduced at
00:48:32
almost any point in the legislative calendar.
00:48:34
She said and discussions on Crafting, better policy and
00:48:37
committee hearings wouldn't be limited to just a few months
00:48:39
instead would be year round. I finish off gets all set.
00:48:45
She's not quite ready to push that kind of change.
00:48:47
But with so many proposal wasn't buying late, winter, and early
00:48:49
spring. It be hard for lawmakers and
00:48:51
citizens alike to fully understand what's at stake.
00:48:54
As it stands, the bills constitute an incredibly long,
00:48:56
to-do list for elected officials one, they must quickly make
00:48:59
their way through starting this week, as interesting.
00:49:03
I never really knew that about the legislature here in
00:49:06
California that there's a deadline that you actually have
00:49:09
to file your bills by for the entire legislature legislative
00:49:13
session. Does that it?
00:49:15
Does anybody else think that sounds idiotic?
00:49:17
What happens if something comes up during the year, that needs a
00:49:20
bill. Are we supposed to have the
00:49:24
foresight to believe that these legislators know what we need to
00:49:28
encounter for the whole year and then what happens if something
00:49:32
comes up. And they say, well, we'll wait
00:49:33
till next year, we'll just introduced a bill.
00:49:36
Then what? If at that point?
00:49:39
Nothing the nothing needs to be done.
00:49:42
What's even more frightening? I think is the fact that
00:49:44
lobbyists can actually help write these bills.
00:49:47
So you have all these people talk about transparency and
00:49:49
special interests. It's scary to think that many
00:49:53
bills are written by special interest here in California.
00:49:58
I mean, you see what the propositions you have to kind of
00:50:00
look at these propositions and see who wrote them and kind of
00:50:04
dig down to see. And a lot of these have a very
00:50:07
vague misleading titles that when you look at them you say,
00:50:13
oh I'm going to look at the title and title says that, this
00:50:16
is what it's for, and you look at the actual text and you say
00:50:19
that's not actually what it's for So that's kind of scary,
00:50:24
that's kind of scary that lobbyists.
00:50:25
Have that sort of freedom in Sacramento.
00:50:26
That's something I didn't know. Personally, of course, I am not
00:50:30
going to sit here and pretend I'm some sort of expert on
00:50:32
what's going on in the sacramental legislature.
00:50:35
But that's interesting. I know and that's something that
00:50:40
maybe call your local assembly, man.
00:50:43
Say, hey, what's going on here? I didn't know what lobbyists
00:50:46
could write that many bills and maybe we need to figure out.
00:50:51
How do we stop getting lobbyists to write our bills for us?
00:50:54
They're not legislators. We didn't write them or we
00:50:57
didn't vote for him, but now we have lobbyists who are
00:50:59
essentially writing these bills and then passing them up to the
00:51:02
people that they're supporting, then, of course, they put them
00:51:05
in, become the author of them. That's scary.
00:51:10
And then another article from The Fox and the Hound kind of
00:51:13
going off the whole, same thing with the amount of bills that
00:51:16
are being introduced. As we stay a total of two
00:51:20
thousand, five hundred and seventy six bills were
00:51:22
introduced at this deadline. There are over 1 assembly
00:51:25
bills and over 775 Senate bills that were introduced.
00:51:30
Question is, how many of these bills will reach Governor
00:51:32
newsom's desk? And how many will he sign?
00:51:35
So this guy tries to break it down and he does the math.
00:51:39
He says, if history is a guide we expect over 1 measures to
00:51:42
be signed this year with about half of those that we introduced
00:51:46
to reach the governor's desk for final action.
00:51:50
Now, looking back at 2018 and we're 1217 bills that reach
00:51:55
Governor Brown's desk in 2018 out of 2225 bills introduced 55%
00:52:02
of the bills and Crews made it to the governor's desk last year
00:52:04
with 45% of the bills. Introduced gain sign into law
00:52:07
and nine percent of the bills introduced getting veto.
00:52:10
So based on his calculations, if he has to go by history, he
00:52:15
speculates that roughly half of this year's bills.
00:52:17
Reach Governor Newsom says, which would be 1285 and that Evo
00:52:22
vetoes about 12% of them, which is 155 and he signs about 88
00:52:27
percent of them, which is 1130. Scary 1130 new laws in one year
00:52:39
alone is that not absolutely insane.
00:52:44
What could possibly? I mean a lot of these could be,
00:52:48
of course, repeals amendments to certain laws.
00:52:52
It's not all new law. But is that absolutely not
00:52:56
terrifying that there's that many bills and new laws that are
00:53:02
introduced every single year? This state continues to be
00:53:09
regulated and over legislated. Just think you think that the
00:53:16
straw thing is a crazy thing. It's amazing, what?
00:53:20
People get sort of up in arms about, people got up in arms
00:53:24
about straws and I know I can say this comment because Yeah.
00:53:30
It's people they get upset by the whole straw thing.
00:53:35
That's but that's one law. That's one law.
00:53:40
That's one law that actually was passed.
00:53:46
Or was that a proposition? I don't remember, but that's
00:53:49
just one law. Think of 1130 laws are being
00:53:54
passed every single year. what, what do we need that many laws
00:53:59
for I can't even think of one thing that I can think of 10
00:54:04
things to come up with law. But then again that's maybe why
00:54:08
I'm Not A legislature or a lobbyist because I can't think
00:54:10
of that many things but again it's just another example of how
00:54:16
California is continually being run into the ground.
00:54:20
It kind of ties back into this hole.
00:54:23
Higher and higher tax thing. Is that the state is continually
00:54:28
over? Legislates over-regulated, it's
00:54:30
anti-business. It's anti Rich, it's anti
00:54:34
wealthy and they keep passing these laws thinking.
00:54:37
Everyone's just going to stay put and everyone's just going to
00:54:39
sit here and do what they do what they're told.
00:54:41
But I don't think the so I think at a certain point there's got
00:54:45
to be a Breaking Point and people kind of look at this and
00:54:47
goes why there's way too many laws way.
00:54:49
Too many regulations taxes are out of control in this state.
00:54:53
I hate to get the hell out of here.
00:54:59
But that I, when I read that, that was terrifying to me that
00:55:02
there's that many laws being passed all the time, or at least
00:55:06
yearly. Not to mention a lot of these
00:55:10
laws are written by people. We did intellect by lobbyists
00:55:14
and special interests, who who's really in control here in
00:55:16
California. Is it the legislators or is it
00:55:22
the lobbyist? I'm going to venture to say it's
00:55:25
probably the lobbyist. Just because legislators don't
00:55:29
like to take any sort of hard stance on anything.
00:55:35
We're going to keep an eye out, keep an eye out for how many
00:55:37
bills get to his desk. How many bills is he going to
00:55:42
have to veto? If he doesn't meet his budget?
00:55:48
That's another thing. He's going to have to look at
00:55:49
its gonna have to make some tough decisions on bills.
00:55:54
If these salt adduction zand earners, get out and start
00:55:57
leaving the state. He's going to have to start
00:56:00
being a little bit smarter. So next subject last subject for
00:56:07
California. Then I'm going to address is
00:56:10
obviously the sanctuary State. Some news came from acquaintance
00:56:15
of professional acquaintance of mine, but before we get into
00:56:20
that, I'm going to play a clip from one American News Network,
00:56:24
which I thought was pretty interesting.
00:56:27
Beginning this year, California became the first Sanctuary state
00:56:30
in the nation. Protecting the millions of
00:56:33
illegal aliens living in the state, including the family
00:56:36
members of some lawmakers, the sanctuary State Bill known as SP
00:56:40
54 was introduced in 2017 by Kevin.
00:56:43
De Leon the leader of California State Senate.
00:56:46
He says the bill is aimed at making life easier for the
00:56:49
aliens living here illegally. But it turns out he might have
00:56:52
had an ulterior motive for the bill.
00:56:55
That's because according to Kevin, Own family was living in
00:56:58
California. Illegally at a testimony before
00:57:02
the Senate Public Safety Committee for SB 54 Kevin said,
00:57:05
half his family would be eligible for deportation under
00:57:08
President Trump's executive order and the reality is with
00:57:13
the executive order and the criteria that has been developed
00:57:17
any individual. I can tell you, half of my
00:57:19
family would be eligible for deportation under the executive
00:57:23
order but that's not all Kevin also, Is that naturally people
00:57:28
living here? Illegally have to use false
00:57:31
identification. It's their only choice that
00:57:34
includes stealing a social security card, getting a fake
00:57:37
ID, a fake green card, and a fake driver's license to get a
00:57:42
false social security card at they got a false identification.
00:57:47
It's got a false driver's license prior to us, passing a
00:57:50
be 60 and I got a false green card.
00:57:53
And anyone who has family members, you know, who are Game
00:57:57
ended nose, it almost entirely, everybody has secured some sort
00:58:01
of Faisal false identification. That's what you needed to
00:58:03
survive to work. They are eligible for massive
00:58:07
deportation. This is a u.s. lawmaker
00:58:11
defending criminals including his own family members, whose
00:58:16
activities hurt American citizens according to the
00:58:19
Inspector General for the IRS. The vast majority of illegals
00:58:23
who do file taxes, roughly 90%. Don't have stolen someone's
00:58:29
legal identity in 2015, some 1.4 million American citizens had
00:58:35
their identities stolen by illegal aliens, which causes a
00:58:38
major burden on taxpayers within have to explain incomes.
00:58:42
They never learned, none of that matters to Kevin De Leon,
00:58:45
however, who dismisses the theft of identities and argues that we
00:58:49
have a duty to make our community safe apparently to
00:58:52
Kevin and California's other lawmakers.
00:58:55
That means protecting people Broke the law and committed
00:58:59
fraud against American citizens, that was a clip from one
00:59:03
American news and they were talking about Kevin De Leon who
00:59:06
ran against Senator Feinstein for the senate seat.
00:59:10
He's a far left far leftist and he's advocating, obviously that
00:59:15
he thinks the sanctuary state law is good thing.
00:59:18
One, American News came out with this to.
00:59:20
So show that maybe he wrote the Bill With the idea of protecting
00:59:25
his own family, which I mean, that's swampy enough, that's
00:59:29
unbelievable enough, if that's true that he did that to protect
00:59:32
his own family and put millions of Californians lives at risk.
00:59:36
Because now, there is a flood of illegal immigrants coming into
00:59:40
our state. I mean, I'm just flabbergasted
00:59:46
at the idea that that's actually what happened, I wouldn't put it
00:59:49
past them them again. When we've talked about this
00:59:52
that Notice when it comes to them, it's rules for thee, but
00:59:55
not for me. And I've said this numerous
00:59:57
times, they make up the rules that benefit them, but they
01:00:01
don't benefit you or I they don't benefit them normal.
01:00:04
Everyday working Americans who just want to have a good life,
01:00:08
they just want to be able to raise their families but to
01:00:12
them, it doesn't matter. So with that there was an
01:00:17
interview by a professional acquaintance of mine, Dale
01:00:20
Wilcox, he is the executive director of the immigration
01:00:24
reform law Institute and he was interviewed on Sirius, xm's
01:00:28
Breitbart News tonight. And he revealed that within a 27
01:00:33
month period, the state of California have failed to honor
01:00:35
about 5600 immigration. Customs Enforcement detainers.
01:00:40
Also knows ice detainers which are the holds ice agents file to
01:00:43
local jails and And police to request that a illegal alien.
01:00:47
Be turned over to them for arrest and deportation of these
01:00:51
5600 failed. Ice detainers, more than 3
01:00:54
were lodged against an illegal alien who have been classified
01:00:57
quote level 1 and quote level 2. Offenders meaning that these
01:01:00
illegal aliens have been charged with crimes, like homicide
01:01:03
kidnapping, sexual assault robbery, aggravated assault
01:01:06
drugs and fraud. Dale Wilcox, quote says, the
01:01:10
bottom line is sanctuary. Cities are neither Humane or
01:01:14
compassionate. They're dangerous policies.
01:01:16
That cost American lives. What will it take for these anti
01:01:19
border politicians to wake up and put the Safety and Security
01:01:22
of their citizens, the legal residents before the interest of
01:01:25
criminal aliens? About 250 of the ice detainers.
01:01:29
Not honored had been filed to Napa County and Sonoma County,
01:01:32
law, enforcement officials. And these two California.
01:01:36
Counties had Sanctuary City policies before the state
01:01:38
Statewide Sanctuary policy. The 5600 failed request by a
01:01:43
staff, criminal illegal aliens turned over to them came before
01:01:46
California, enacted their Statewide Sanctuary policy where
01:01:50
all local jails and counties are prohibited from cooperating with
01:01:53
Federal immigration officials IRL.
01:01:56
I Researchers Cedric records after the passage of California.
01:02:00
Sanctuary, State policy are likely showing increased number
01:02:03
of cases, where local jails and law enforcement.
01:02:05
Officials refused to turn criminal illegal, aliens over to
01:02:08
ice in a specific case. Most recently Wilcox, know that
01:02:12
what Napa County. California Deputy Riley jarecki
01:02:17
was nearly killed by three times.
01:02:19
Deport illegal alien Javier Hernandez, Morales, during a
01:02:22
traffic. Stop after local officials,
01:02:24
refused to turn him over to ice agents for deportation.
01:02:28
Its own. Deputy almost got killed as a
01:02:30
result of its refusal to honor ice detainer request quote
01:02:34
Wilcox said and this individual had been deported three times in
01:02:38
the past so they say there's no emergency or need for a wall.
01:02:42
This Criminal Alien is just walking back into the country.
01:02:45
Unquote. I said requested four separate
01:02:49
times that Hernandez Morales be turned over to them to be
01:02:52
arrested and deported back to Mexico.
01:02:54
Three of the detainees replaced with the Napa County Sheriff's
01:02:57
Department. No, one in 1 was placed with
01:02:59
Sonoma County Sheriff's Department.
01:03:00
None of the ice detainers were honored Wilcox said Americans,
01:03:04
lives are being put at risk in sanctuary cities and Sanctuary
01:03:07
States like California. Also that Democrats are able to
01:03:09
import potential voters. Quote with the Democrats, it's
01:03:14
about potential future voters. They have an interest in
01:03:17
bringing a new voters that they can win elections.
01:03:19
That's what that's all about. I mean, 10 years ago Democrats
01:03:23
weren't out preaching Sanctuary cities and open borders.
01:03:26
That just wasn't their party platform.
01:03:28
They swallowed this belief that if you want to stay in power, if
01:03:31
you want to win future elections more voters and diverse voters
01:03:35
is the way to go. Sanctuary cities are dangerous.
01:03:39
They're not Humane, they're not compassionate Wilcox.
01:03:41
Continued people are dying. It's senseless and avoidable
01:03:46
deaths. There's no excuse for
01:03:47
politicians to sell their constituency for future
01:03:50
potential voters. This is a problem in California
01:03:56
and it's scary that politicians. Have you have politicians like
01:04:01
Kevin De Leon who are out there and are putting out these
01:04:06
policies for the personal benefit or you have Democrat
01:04:09
politicians and far left is in Sacramento.
01:04:12
Who believe that these are good ideas.
01:04:15
It's scary. It's scary to think that they
01:04:18
put these personal policies or these virtue, signaling policies
01:04:23
above the needs of the constituency.
01:04:26
The people here, who are here legal residents of California,
01:04:31
the people who live and die in the state, who wake up every
01:04:34
morning and go to work and pay their taxes are good citizens.
01:04:42
All because your people at Kevin De Lyon who want to protect
01:04:46
family members or people who are looking for future potential
01:04:48
voters. This is such an affront to
01:04:52
California. I don't know how people don't
01:04:54
wake up to this and say, Excuse me.
01:04:59
I'm actually a legal citizen here.
01:05:01
I'm a legal resident of California.
01:05:05
I'm a legal American citizen and for some reason I'm always
01:05:09
second class. Why am I always treated?
01:05:15
As if I'm disposable and it, maybe they do look at people as
01:05:18
disposable. By the end.
01:05:22
A these are terrible policies. Is it because of President?
01:05:28
Trump will this go away. When President Trump is out of
01:05:31
office, who knows have they figured out a way to kind of
01:05:37
make this a political emotional issue to bring in potential
01:05:44
future voters. Again, it is it a way that they
01:05:49
kind of see we can stay in power if we import new voters, people
01:05:53
who are going to vote with us. And like Dale with Wilcox said,
01:05:57
Democrats used to not be a party that was for legal immigration.
01:06:02
These the Democrats used to be in the 70s and 80s.
01:06:05
They used to be for unions. Remember the unions unions still
01:06:09
lineup for Democrats? Which at this point, I'm not
01:06:11
really quite sure why unions lineup for Democrats.
01:06:15
President Trump me a little bit more of an inroad with the
01:06:17
unions in the past election. But how can you as a Democratic
01:06:21
party or as a party? Say, well, we're for unions,
01:06:24
were for workers rights. But also, we're going to import
01:06:27
a whole bunch of citizens, from out of the country, who are
01:06:31
going to replace your job here in, do it, much cheaper, and
01:06:34
they'll work longer hours and they don't have to go through
01:06:37
all these Union rules or these employment laws and gun, don't
01:06:42
got worried about that. Democrats used to be that type
01:06:47
of party that looked out for the American worker.
01:06:51
And now they are actively importing these workers here to
01:06:55
the country, whether they're for future potential voters.
01:06:59
It's quite possible. They figure if they bring them
01:07:02
here and they bend over backwards for them, they'll vote
01:07:06
for him forever and they'll never be out of power. and it's
01:07:11
scary to me that federal government, which actually has
01:07:17
the supremacy over the state law is being denied by the state and
01:07:21
the cities these ice holds That's not how it works in our
01:07:26
system of government. That's not how federalism works.
01:07:29
The federal government has Supremacy, it's called the
01:07:31
supremacy clause, look it up in the Constitution, the federal
01:07:35
government has power over the state.
01:07:38
And if you're in violation of federal law, as a state, you get
01:07:42
in trouble, but a lot of these states are just flaunting this
01:07:45
around and they're thumbing their nose at President Trump.
01:07:49
It this shouldn't be an issue to the fact that if a city says,
01:07:52
well, we're going to be a sanctuary City and we're not
01:07:55
going to hand this over to the federal government, the federal
01:07:57
government should just look at and say tough.
01:08:00
You know, that's not how this works.
01:08:04
The federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over the
01:08:09
issue of immigration exclusive jurisdiction.
01:08:13
This is not a state issue. This is not a city issue.
01:08:15
This is the government, the federal government has exclusive
01:08:20
jurisdiction over immigration, okay?
01:08:24
So you don't get to pick and choose immigration laws.
01:08:26
You don't get to pick and choose what you like to adhere to you,
01:08:29
don't get to pick and choose whether you're going to comply
01:08:33
with. Certain laws and certain
01:08:35
agencies or not. and you have these issues where yes they're
01:08:40
I'm not going to say that they do highlight the scariest of
01:08:43
individuals, but if you can save just one life By allowing ice to
01:08:51
do their job, is that not worth it. is the argument that if you
01:08:57
know, as law is the leftist argument Well we can keep them
01:09:05
here because we're doing what they believe is the right and
01:09:08
just the thing. But if a few American citizens,
01:09:12
died few, California residents die or get injured because of
01:09:17
this. Is it a loss?
01:09:21
I would argue. One is too many.
01:09:24
One is way too many. And for cities to go out and say
01:09:29
oh well I see you can't come in here.
01:09:35
You can't come in here and do your job.
01:09:36
People who are here illegally and flaunting our laws.
01:09:41
Well, that's too bad. People, I don't know how most
01:09:50
citizens, don't get infuriated by this.
01:09:55
We've talked about how California passes over a
01:10:01
thousand laws a year about how taxes now because of the salt
01:10:05
deduction, people are going to be paying way more the higher
01:10:09
earners going to be paying way more.
01:10:12
People in general in California, be paying more because of the
01:10:14
salt deduction has gone away. And now you have a state that
01:10:19
says well we can have criminals in our in our state who are here
01:10:24
illegally as Citizens or here illegally.
01:10:28
Not a Citizens here illegally. In California protects them at.
01:10:37
What point do you push back at what point do people start to
01:10:40
really get upset and say enough? Do you just head for the exit?
01:10:47
Most people are and that's a big danger.
01:10:50
That's a big danger to California because we need those
01:10:54
taxpayers to fund. Gavin newsom's.
01:10:57
And the leftist, big huge, ambitious policies, whether its
01:11:02
climate change or illegal immigration, or Sanctuary cities
01:11:05
and states. But I don't know what at what
01:11:12
point people start to really push back and get fed up with
01:11:14
this. And that to me is just that is
01:11:23
pure hatred for the president. It's pure politics, it has
01:11:27
nothing to do with looking out for America or American citizens
01:11:31
or California residents. because if there's people here, who are
01:11:35
a danger to our society, who are a danger to us, And they're not
01:11:42
being taken care of or in. They're here, illegally and
01:11:45
they're not sent back to where they were supposed to where they
01:11:48
come from. How much do they really care
01:11:54
about you? They don't is the big thing.
01:11:59
Do politicians like Kevin De Leon really care about, you
01:12:03
know, they don't care about you, they care about their immediate
01:12:05
family to write legislation, like this to protect him.
01:12:10
They don't care if they're people, we already have enough
01:12:14
criminals and problems in the state and we don't need to add
01:12:18
criminals from other countries coming in here.
01:12:22
It's a burden on us, it's a burden on the state, it's a
01:12:25
burden on the budget. It's a burden on the taxpayer
01:12:30
who has two front and Supply the budget but it's being shown time
01:12:35
and time again that they don't care.
01:12:38
They don't care about you. They don't care about your
01:12:40
family, they don't care about what you provide for the state
01:12:45
and they don't care about really your vote.
01:12:49
Maybe they do, but they care about the other person's vote
01:12:52
more. So with that, thanks again, for
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