2021 is rapidly shaping up to be the year of the Elites vs. the Populists. Between the GameStop Reddit Rebellion and now the Time magazine saying they "fortified" the 2020 election, it's becoming more and more obvious that those in power are consolidating power. The question is, how will the people respond?
Kevin Faulconer, in no surprise move, formally announces his run for Governor. A discussion of how his style of Republicanism may be the first steps toward turning California. Remember turning around California will be like turning an aircraft, slow and steady.
Finally, a discussion how conservative populism (aka Kitchen Table Politics) can begin to pave a way for winning in California and pushing back on extreme leftist policies.
Show Links
- How Populist Conservatives Can Win in California
- https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/how-populist-conservatives-can-win-in-yes-california/
- Time Magazine, Secret Well Funded Cabal Worked to Protect 2020 Election
- https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/02/05/time-magazine-secret-well-funded-cabal-worked-to-protect-2020-election/
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last week was not feeling well, something came up, it's hurting
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to talk. So I have to just skip the
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podcast for the last week, but we're back back to normal with
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the coffee and California politics, which we do every
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Wednesday morning on Instagram live, and, of course, Ivory
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Friday afternoon. Dropping the new podcast as
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always a lot to get to This week, big news in the
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gubernatorial race. We're going to discuss that
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we're going to talk about how populist can win or populist
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conservatism can continue to win here in California.
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So all good signs will talk a little bit more about the recall
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but let's get started with the out of the gate.
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Monologue 2021 is, what do you think?
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They are now? Remember around the same time
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last year people were gearing up for the big Super Bowl.
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He's across the country, large Gatherings, and Homes at bars
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and restaurants. But of course this year, none of
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that is to occur. The CDC has released guidelines
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telling people how to celebrate the Super Bowl this year, and
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dr. Fauci has already this week.
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It was be somewhere around here to be January.
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That we'd be looking at likewise local councils like supervisor
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Nathan, Fletcher, of San Diego County.
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Have told people, this is not the year to celebrate and then
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if we just hold off this year, we can do more Or next year
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supervisor Fletcher skirted around saying, things will be
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back to normal next year. Instead said we could do more,
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what does that entail? Well, it's hard to say because
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allowing one or two households over next year for Super Bowl.
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Would certainly be more than this year where you can't allow
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anyone to come over. But so far in this young year
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with a new Administration in place 2021 is gearing up to be
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The Showdown of the elites versus the populace.
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It's been brewing for a while. This is not a new thing,
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definitely started way back in 2015. 2016 with the beginning,
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brexit and the election of President Trump, but the most
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recent battle between the two, was this game stopped trading?
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That occurred on Wall Street lawyer and home doesn't at home
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doesn't mean acquire knowledge and a group of retail Traders on
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the subreddit Wall Street, bat saw that a lot of hedge funds
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were shorting. The stock for GameStop anything.
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So, what this means, let me explain.
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So hopefully it never gets out. Of committees hope that this is
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one of those bills hedge funds were betting that the price was
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going to go down. So what happens is you short a
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stock and then you are to buy it at a lower price when it hits
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that price. The problem with that is that if
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the price begins to go up, instead of down, you start to
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lose money and it means you could lose an infinite amount of
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money because there's really no stop for it.
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So the rattray is saw this opportunity and they told old
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all its followers to bind to GameStop all of a sudden the
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price skyrocketed without warning.
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And now all these billionaire hedge fund managers are
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scrambling to cover losses as the price soared upwards of 400
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dollars a share. Now this caused Panic on Wall
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Street and trading platforms like Robin Hood started to Halt
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the trading of the stock. Now, this result was a shot
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across the bow for the little people to those in the ivory
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Christ, questions around that gold.
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And I think that's what has a lot of people to push back to
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the frustration. I think that gives them more
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menacing to the little guy. Only big Elites are allowed to
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manipulate and trade like that, not peons like you of course the
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pushback then caused a rallying cry across the globe with
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investors pouring more money into GameStop.
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Mostly amateur investors, don't really care about making any
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money as long as they hold a Higher position than those had
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fun started their short at those billionaire hedge funds are
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losing money. And lots of it in the words of
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Heath Ledger's Joker, it's not about the money.
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It's about sending a message now.
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Robin Hood turned, its back on its customer base by siding with
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the hedge fund managers and protecting them over its
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clients. When in reality, it poses and
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markets itself as the trading platform for the little guy.
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By the middle class, the person who's not on a Wall Street, that
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was Robin Hood's whole thing. Robin Hood's whole thing was we
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steal from the rich to give to the poor and allow you to trade
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as a retail investor or retail Trader.
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Janet Yellen just in case you didn't know, she was the first
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female treasury secretary. Thanks to the by Administration.
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She was paid a hundred and ten thousand dollars in speaking
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fees from Citadel. Citadel's, the company that
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invests in Robin Hood and somehow Janet Yellen skirted
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around ethics violations. To figure out how to put down
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the Reddit Rebellion, Senator Warren.
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Once a self proclaimed champion of the little guy showed her
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true colors when she came out and defended the hedge funds,
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op-ed pieces were now claiming the Reddit rebellion was akin to
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the quote Capital Insurrection and that these Traders were
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nothing more than domestic terrorists.
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Newly minted, present bias, certainly not helped his cause
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to show. He is out to help the little
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guy. He appointed, mostly
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well-connected lobbyists, and former Obama swamp creatures to
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his cabinet political lifers. Like Pete, boot Edge, who knew
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nothing about Transportation was, all of a sudden appointed
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Secretary of Transportation. His only qualification is that
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he is a loyal Democratic party stooge willing to toe the line,
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the progressive populist of the democratic party.
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We're basically left out in the cold So, here in California
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soon-to-be recall Governor Newsom had an incredibly
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tone-deaf moment when he reply to a question about suffering.
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Business in California by saying quote, I asked the Billionaire's
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here, they seem to be doing pretty well and quote Governor
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Newsom misses the entire Point here because the business is the
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reporter was referring to were not billionaire tech companies
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but rather small mom and pop businesses that are suffering
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under his lockdowns, of course, Governor Newsom only cares about
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billionaire tech companies, Facebook recently, Recently did
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him a solid by removing all ads about the recall, ever a
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legitimate constitutionally protected, right?
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Of California's was denied access to advertise on Facebook.
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Now, think about that again, it is a legal constitutionally
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protected, right? That Californians can engage in
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And there's nothing wrong with it.
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There's no hate speech. It's an actual electoral process
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that is allowed by our California Constitution,
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Facebook. Shut it down.
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There was no incitement to violence or harassment.
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Facebook just doesn't like the recall effort because they're
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buddy-buddy with Gabon noodles as 2021 continues to unfold.
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We will continue to see the Coalition of big government.
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Big Tech and big hedge funds colluding to keep the little guy
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in their place, pushing a populist platform.
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Form like the one President Trump won on in 2016 is not to
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be tolerated. You'll be called a domestic
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terrorist a Trader, and you will be squashed all the while
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Biden's thinner is an example. Iran either access, the former
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compiler, Lords. As a news conference Monday,
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whether he would continue to. Now, what we have left to see if
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populace pushbacks like the Rebellion will continue whether
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or not the people still have some recourse against their
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further. Encroachment, I believe, the
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more big three consume come out on the little guys, going to
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vote. It's probably a very good
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likelihood. And this is all based on
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statistics, why even in such a young year, I foresee this year
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as the elites and the populace squaring off to determine the
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future of this country. So it's no surprise that this
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was a last-minute. Addition was this time article
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that came out basically saying in this can be added on before I
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wrote the outer gate monologue was this whole issue that time
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basically came out with this article, I haven't read the
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whole article yet. I've seen Snippets of it
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discussing, how business, and governments, and media, and all
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of them basically and non ngos nongovernmental organizations
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all work together. Either to basically what they
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call fortify so that's the word they're going to go with is that
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they work together to quote for to fi the election against a
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dictator like President Trump because they were worried.
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The President Trump was going to do something as a dictator.
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So they preemptively work together to make sure they had
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this entire apparatus in place to see atoms that pieces of code
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and breaking logs and chain countries.
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That the video is touching that must be eyes that big business
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was on their side that big Tech was Their side and that was to
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quote, 425 the election. If this is just another shot and
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I think the elites here and I by the elites, I mean these
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insiders, the people who are in Washington, d.c. the people who
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are going back to the belief that things are going to go back
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to normal. The swamp is going to continue
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to be the swamp that they think that they're just going to move
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along and no one's really going to notice and that's really
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what's going to happen. The problem is going forward.
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Heard that a lot of people are not going to forget this.
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I know a lot of people think that they woke up on January
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20th, fighting became president. We can roll, credits play, the
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Happy music, everything's fine. They're still, 74 million.
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People who voted for President Trump out there.
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That's a big swath of the country is still out there and
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as so far they haven't really said that they want to build any
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Bridges but more, they're basically saying you're all
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domestic terrorists, you're all Pharisee theories are all q and
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on crazies. So therefore it's time for you
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to heal and sense of H, ee L not heal as in hea l.
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It's now become you have to heal and we can we can unify as long
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as you unify under our banner. And what we believe they have to
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be careful and they have to be careful because people will push
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back at a certain point and I think covid and everything that
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happened in 2020, it gave a lot of people I'll believe.
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And this is something that I advise against this that stuff
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like this does breed extremism, and this extremism can get
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dangerous. And that's what I warned
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against. A lot of people are starting to
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warn against this and sounding the alarm Bells.
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Like, one of my favorite Twitter, people gummy bear said
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those, you know, couple weeks ago about how all of this
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rhetoric was really dangerous, and you got to be careful
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because if you're out there to unify, you can't really go after
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the other side and By them and delegitimize them, and
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delegitimize, their voice. Because that's when you start to
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make people think that really is US versus them.
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And that's when certain sectors can start to believe.
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The only way to get their voices heard is to be violent to be
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extremists, which is dangerous. And it's, it shouldn't be
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allowed. Because that's not really the
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point of a civil discourse in our country.
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So I don't believe that there should be any sort of extremist
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backlash. But I'm warning you that, if
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People don't start to maybe open up a little bit and hear the
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other side and maybe just have a coffee or a beer with someone
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who didn't vote for President Biden or may have voted for
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President Trump and sit down with them and say hey why did
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you vote for President Trump? What do you think about happened
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in 2020? Have a civil Discovery, it's
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hard. I know it's hard in today's day
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and age to have that sort of calm conversation.
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Everybody wants the gotcha, mom. Everybody wants to walk away and
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think that they own somebody. But I think it's really
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important that we start to if the big Tack and media and all
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that aren't going to do it. It's very important for us as
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the citizens to slowly start to reach out to people from the
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other aisle and say, hey why did you vote for President Biden?
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Why did you not like President Trump?
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Why did I vote for President Trump stuff like that?
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Those are the things that we really need to be focused on
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moving forward because pushing and pushing and pushing and
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doing these acts like this. It's just going to lead to
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further extremism, more divided and In a polarization of our
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country and makes it really, really dangerous going down the
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line even more. So enough about that.
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I haven't read the whole article yet, but it is sort of the big
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news today. I was a little bit busy with
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everything else, but, yeah, there's a whole bunch of stuff
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on it. There, you know, Breitbart did a
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whole piece on it talking about it that they protected or
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fortified the election and stuff like, that is really, what gets
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people upset makes you feel like you're rubbing your face in it?
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When people are going to get upset and people are going to be
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very angry moving forward. But in other news here in
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California, great news with as we are Like barreling towards
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the magic number to get the recall on the ballot. 1.4, as of
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the last time I saw 1.4 million signatures have, been collected,
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verified Signature Series have been collected.
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Now, obviously, the goal is to get way more than that.
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You want to get around like 2 million before the end of this
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because you want to make sure that there's no funny business
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that they don't go back and say well there's duplicates or this
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or you know, you just want to give yourself enough Cushion.
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Because they're gonna play some sort of games when they go
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through these vote through signatures and the running joke,
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is you'll see all of a sudden Democrats are L on favor of
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auditing signatures and votes. Now when there's a recall
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against one of their precious Democratic politicians like
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Avenues them. So you'll all of a sudden, see
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them believe in signature audit and the fact that they're scared
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and the fact that they are calling it a queue and on
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conspiracy it's a coup. It's not a coup.
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It's a An actual, we've gone over this before, is a
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constitutionally protected device here in California as it
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isn't in. Plenty of other states that you
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can use, if you are not satisfied with an elected
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leader, you can do recalls from the state all the way down to
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your city level. There are, you can recall,
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basically, anyone here in San Diego.
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They're already getting a recall going for one of the city
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council members. So recall is now becoming sort
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of the tool of the minority here in California which I, you know,
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I don't think it's a bad idea. It's a tool left there, so that
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people could do it if they want to and it definitely a tool to
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say, hey you're going beyond what you're elected to do.
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You've really been negligent in your duties, I think it's a
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great tool. If you're you feel like you're
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in the minority here in California where you're
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outnumbered by Democrats, basically two to one so it's a
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tool to use, it's definitely it's legal.
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They've been following all the protocols to do this correctly.
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It is a legal process, so the fact that Facebook is censoring
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the fact that Facebook has blocked all the ads and there's
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no reason they didn't really give a reason they just said
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well it's we don't like it so we're just going to I'm sure
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they figured out one of their many guidelines to get rid of
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the ads on Facebook. I mean they could decline
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advertising money, they don't have to accept every single
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person but it seems weird if they were paying advertising
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dollars and also they turn around they made money off their
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advertising dollars. And now they're going to Turn
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around and say, well, we don't want your advertising dollars
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anymore because we're friends with Gavin Newsom.
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So 1.4, we're closed. Its 1.45 is the number.
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So 50 it seems like every couple days it seems like it's
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jumping bigger and bigger numbers.
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Keep in my, it's been getting a lot of cash infusions by people.
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Even in Silicon Valley, one of those was I can't pronounce his
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name correctly, but it was tomate.
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I think I am saying that correctly is a big.
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Facebook executive, he did tease that he was going to run for
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governor. He's thinking about running for
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governor, which would have made a really interesting because he
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says, he's a moderate Democrat. Obviously a billionaire has more
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than enough money to do whatever he wants.
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You could definitely run and support himself in a
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gubernatorial election. Plus, as a Democrat, he could
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put a big Hurtin on Gavin Newsom.
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No matter how much money governor's from raises, this guy
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could have just easily thwarted him and how much money he had.
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It's not like he didn't even really want to take a salary as
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Governor. He had some interesting ideas,
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he wants to bring a state income tax down to 0% some other
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things. He wants to be more
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pro-business, but it looks like now that he's not going to run
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and I think people were scared of him because the sfk actually
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ran a huge smear campaign against the fact, that there was
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even a rumor out there that he might run scared people.
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Because now, he's not running. But let's say let's play this
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out. Hypothetically.
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Let's say there's It's a recall I for and it goes and it passes
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and then there's a recall election.
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Now, what would happen is everyone would have to run for
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governor. Like, it's a wide-open race mean
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Gavin, Newsom is removed, but he can run again.
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So he could run again, you could reelect them.
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But if you put in something like this schemata, who's a moderate
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Democrat. Now, all of a sudden you have
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this issue of. Well, do they go with Gavin
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Newsom as a Democrat? Does it split the vote a little
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bit more? Does it open the door for
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another Contender? Like the next guy I'm going to
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talk about a little bit more. Kevin Faulkner, does it open the
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door for him? So it would have made a little
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bit more interesting if you stayed in the race but it
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doesn't look like he's going to stay in the race.
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Race anymore. However he did donate to the
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recall effort so I don't think he's going anywhere.
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It's just a sign that if Silicon Valley in the investors are
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starting to put money into his recall that they're not
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necessarily incredibly over the moon, with Gavin Newsom either.
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Now keep in mind things like Oracle of laugh, Tesla has left.
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There are a lot of big companies that are Bay Area companies that
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are leaving California for greener pastures.
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Sadly, they're going to Texas which means that the bring a lot
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of their people with them to Texas, you know, the Don't
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California, my taxes, but it should be heroin for a lot of
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these tech companies that they can't really grow their business
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here in California with the over-regulation and a high
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taxes. And you're starting to see a
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little bit of that pushback, from Silicon Valley investors,
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like this jamaat, who are donating to the recall to get
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cabin out of there. It also, I think is indicative
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of, there are a lot of moderate Democrats out there.
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Who are probably upset with Gavin Newsom.
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Now, keep in mind, the California GOP did not jump on
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this recall until very late in the game.
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So the recall had really gotten all the way up to about eight
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hundred thousand signatures and we talked about it on the show,
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it was really a Grassroots sort of effort by a couple guys who
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started it. It picked up steam, it was
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social media is totally Grassroots and then it got up to
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about eight hundred thousand signatures before the
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California. GOP.
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Really got on board which shows you that?
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It's not really a republican thing.
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It's not like to California to up.
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He said well we're going to kick off this recall effort and we're
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going to try and recall. Gavin Newsom, it made a good
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amount of distance before the Republicans even got involved.
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So that goes to show you that this recall effort is really a
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supported by a crisscross of people.
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Not only Republicans, probably Independence, probably moderate,
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Democrats who are getting on board.
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Bored with this now. And now with a huge influx of
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cash that seems to be coming in at the last minute, they can
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send out more mail, they can send out more advertising.
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They can maybe they start doing a press in the last month with
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TV ads, or something like that. But will say and you're starting
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to see that all of the momentum is coming together at the last
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moment, and it, I mean, they're very, very close to gain the
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official number. Of course they want to go over.
00:20:18
Of course, I want to go way past that to be safe, but I think
00:20:22
when the Number hits the number that we're all looking to hit
00:20:27
well 1.45 million. It's going to show people that
00:20:30
we that they did it and they're going to keep pushing to say,
00:20:33
well, we got to keep collecting more and more signatures.
00:20:36
It also shows maybe the rest of the country that a recall
00:20:39
signature count actually worked. And that that we're trying to
00:20:41
get rid of Gavin. Newsom, may send shockwaves
00:20:46
through the political, the national political news, which I
00:20:51
wholeheartedly believe it will. But one man who has stepped onto
00:20:55
the stage and actually I think scares Gavin.
00:20:58
Newsom the most someone I talked about a lot was Kevin Faulkner
00:21:02
Kevin Faulkner. If you don't know who he is,
00:21:04
he's the former to turn. They say two-term mayor of San
00:21:09
Diego. He took over for Bob filner,
00:21:11
after Bob, filner left and then he won his own election and had
00:21:15
served out his four-year term. So he just finished his
00:21:17
four-year term, this past December and turned it over to
00:21:21
radical leftist. Super Progressive Talk.
00:21:23
Gloria. So talk about a absolute
00:21:27
About-face, 184, San Diego to go from a moderate, Republican to a
00:21:31
radical left, but Kevin Faulkner, who had always kind of
00:21:35
teased running for governor. He was teased as running for
00:21:38
governor back in 2018. There was a poll.
00:21:41
He'd never even announced that he was actually running for
00:21:44
governor back in 2018 and he was of all the poles and all the
00:21:49
people who were suspected to run for governor couldn't Gavin.
00:21:52
Newsom, he was second right behind Gavin Newsom, and he had
00:21:56
anyone Unannounced or said that he was interested in running
00:22:00
back. Then he didn't run obviously
00:22:03
went to John Cox. We all know the story with John
00:22:04
Cox. He went disappeared.
00:22:06
Hit her under a rock or something.
00:22:08
I don't know. He never really want to campaign
00:22:10
against. Gavin Newsom, God forbid.
00:22:11
I hope please John Cox. If you hear this, please do not
00:22:15
run. Again, please.
00:22:16
Will you please just stay out of it?
00:22:18
You were an awful candidate in 2018.
00:22:20
You may be a great guy and whatever you're doing behind the
00:22:22
scenes for the California, Republicans fine, but just don't
00:22:25
run for governor again. Thank you.
00:22:27
You know how organized super Pacs or stuff like that switch.
00:22:31
The state legislature, but please don't run for governor
00:22:34
again. So, Kevin Faulkner has now
00:22:37
officially stepped onto the stage as of this past week and
00:22:42
no surprise, I knew he was teasing at it.
00:22:44
I knew he'd probably be one of the biggest choices.
00:22:47
I think he's stepping on the stage at a right time for Kevin
00:22:51
Faulkner to really step up and build a coalition.
00:22:56
Now a lot of people People. I've been going back and forth
00:22:58
on this on Instagram. A lot of people saying, well I
00:23:00
don't like Kevin Faulkner. They say he's too liberal, he's
00:23:04
a rhino and we don't need more career politicians and stuff
00:23:08
like that, and we need someone better.
00:23:10
We need major Williams or Baba. Well, we all know what if you
00:23:15
tuned in this past week on my Instagram live on coffee and
00:23:18
California Politics on Wednesday morning at 9, a.m. you would
00:23:21
have seen a, you would have heard me talk about major
00:23:23
Williams in the whole issue there, I major Williams is too
00:23:26
conservative. If you won't be Governor period,
00:23:28
end of story. Kevin Faulkner.
00:23:30
And I've said this before and I'll continue to say, because
00:23:32
I'm going to stand by California to turn around is going to be
00:23:36
like, turning and aircraft carrier around.
00:23:39
A lot of people are not going to be crazy, maybe the hard hard,
00:23:42
conservatives people who are really conservative may not be
00:23:45
happy or be over the moon, Kevin Faulkner.
00:23:49
But it's going to take a long, the California GOP is going to
00:23:53
take a while to turn California around.
00:23:57
Okay. You don't just snap your fingers
00:24:00
and change everything overnight. I know a lot people think that's
00:24:03
how it was going to be everyone. Thought, 2016, they, you know,
00:24:07
Trump one, that's huge election. That it was going to change
00:24:09
everything things, move a little bit slower, and that's sort of a
00:24:13
good thing of our system, is that things take a while to
00:24:17
change, they said, set it up that way.
00:24:19
So we're not at the whims of one man or one dictator.
00:24:25
But Kevin Faulkner, I think is stepping on the stage at the
00:24:28
perfect time right now. He's a moderate Republican.
00:24:32
Yes. He's I'm going to make, he's a
00:24:33
moderate Republican by any other standards by national standards.
00:24:37
Yes, Kevin Faulkner is a moderate Republican, but you
00:24:40
have to look at what he did going into this.
00:24:43
He was the mayor of San Diego, one of the three coastal cities
00:24:47
here in California. The other two colors, Cities are
00:24:49
run by Garcetti and London Bridge.
00:24:53
Well, now, San Diego has joined the club with Todd Gloria but
00:24:57
Kevin Faulkner won an election in a coastal city here in
00:25:02
California. That's a big deal to say that
00:25:05
you can do. That means he was able to appeal
00:25:08
to a broad spectrum of Voters and to break it down for you.
00:25:12
Remember the Democrats, hold a 49% registration Advantage here
00:25:17
in California, so 49 that's it. A two-to-one to Republicans who
00:25:20
only hold 25%. And yes the other 25% is
00:25:24
independent, so Republicans and independents make up one
00:25:28
percentage more of Democrats, but still Democrats hold 50
00:25:32
percent of the registered voters to win a Statewide race like
00:25:37
Governor, you're going to need to build a coalition of
00:25:41
Democrats Independents and Republicans.
00:25:44
Meaning you can't just reply them rely on Republicans, even
00:25:47
if you want every single Can vote.
00:25:50
It doesn't matter. Democrats could still demolish
00:25:52
us, he would have to win, basically, the majority of the
00:25:55
Republicans, which I think Republicans would come out and
00:25:58
support them, he would have to win a very sizable majority of
00:26:02
Independence. So now he's chipping away and he
00:26:06
would have to pull a lot of Democrats over.
00:26:09
And another thing, about Kevin Faulkner that makes him more
00:26:13
appealable to slowly, start turning California around and
00:26:17
I'm going to get to that point in a minute.
00:26:19
It is the fact that He is what I believe.
00:26:25
California. Republicans need to start
00:26:28
focusing on which is this moderate sort of conservative,
00:26:33
who is basically free market basically.
00:26:39
Lower taxes smaller government but also lives up to the ideals
00:26:45
of what California is. And I've said this before about
00:26:47
California, California is an Innovative State.
00:26:49
They think outside the box, they focus on stuff like the
00:26:53
environment. That's not a terrible thing.
00:26:54
It's not terrible thing to think about the environment.
00:26:57
So there are things that yes a lot and I can understand why
00:26:59
people look at Kevin Faulkner, say, oh my God, he's a rhino,
00:27:02
he's just a liberal really? He's really a Democrat.
00:27:05
Is the fact that he believes in these things, a lot of
00:27:07
Californians just sort of do Even like a better cleaner
00:27:12
environment, you know, cleaner water, cleaner are better
00:27:15
public, transportation stuff like that.
00:27:18
That's a lot of things that are crossover issues that can win
00:27:22
Democrats and independents to his side.
00:27:24
Now, if you're just someone who is a hard conservative and you
00:27:27
come out and say, well I want lower taxes, I want a small
00:27:29
government. I don't want to care about the
00:27:30
environment and I don't really care about being Innovative or
00:27:35
try and increase public transportation or something like
00:27:38
that. Not going to win a lot of
00:27:40
Californians because a California.
00:27:41
California is a weird State politically and really there's a
00:27:46
lot of people who really have nowhere else to go, but
00:27:48
Democrats, obviously independent is not a party.
00:27:51
So there is no independent party and the Republicans have done a
00:27:54
bad job of really seizing on these issues and make them their
00:27:59
own. And I think when you combine a
00:28:03
free market ideal of look, bring your companies to California.
00:28:08
And I think you'd said this in his ad that used to be a land of
00:28:11
promise or businesses and Tech and Innovation, creativity sort
00:28:15
of were fostered here in California and that's why we
00:28:18
have these big tech companies. That's what we had a Tesla.
00:28:22
Is because I thought that was the California promise.
00:28:24
Now, there's no promise for California or businesses that
00:28:27
want to change the world and do better and help the environment
00:28:30
or stuff like that, because it's just too burdensome to do
00:28:33
anything like that here in California.
00:28:35
Those are issues. I think a lot of Californians
00:28:37
can get behind and when Republicans don't offer any
00:28:40
solutions to that and they just don't want to talk about it.
00:28:44
Then people go over to the Democrats but I think there's a
00:28:48
argument to be made I think you kind of hinted at it in his ad
00:28:53
that we need to be more open for these businesses and for these
00:28:58
entrepreneurs and these creative minds to come to California,
00:29:02
think outside the box. Follow that, California promise
00:29:06
and Really become what, you know, become what California
00:29:12
used to be, which was Innovation, forward-thinking
00:29:18
free market, kind of huge Industries where a lot of people
00:29:23
could get in middle class. Upper middle class, excuse me.
00:29:27
So I think those are issues that he's trying to bring over to his
00:29:30
side. Now to say look, we believe in
00:29:33
those issues too. We just think there's a more
00:29:36
efficient and economical way to get to those issues.
00:29:41
He also released an added Spanish where he did speak
00:29:44
Spanish. So I don't think Avenues and can
00:29:46
speak Spanish. That's a big deal.
00:29:49
I guess. Supposedly he's been wearing it
00:29:50
since he was a little kid, so he knows how to speak Spanish.
00:29:53
That's a big deal, I think, and Republicans I think can really
00:29:57
make inroads and the Latino Community.
00:30:00
I think a lot of republicanism is very appealable to the Latino
00:30:05
community. So I think that that's another
00:30:07
Avenue to go. So it's a lot of things and I
00:30:10
understand a lot of people might get give me a lot of hate and
00:30:13
say I don't like Kevin Faulkner, you're just gushing on Kevin
00:30:15
Faulkner. I just want to slowly start
00:30:19
turning this state around and I think if you have your best shot
00:30:23
in this one, guy who can change things, maybe change what the
00:30:27
California Republican party looks like.
00:30:28
Maybe change the voter registration a little bit so
00:30:31
it's not so lopsided. Maybe if he's the gate Wade
00:30:35
forward for what a California Republican, looks like.
00:30:39
That's not a terrible thing. Remember we want it.
00:30:42
We've talked about on this show and on Instagram alive.
00:30:45
We've talked about this idea of moving in California from a deep
00:30:51
blue state. Would you be happy if, in five
00:30:53
years, it's a purple State. It's a competitive state where
00:30:57
it's not always just super dark blue and Progressive.
00:31:00
Now it's a progressive state or a purple state.
00:31:04
I think a lot of people I talk to say, well yeah I'd take a
00:31:06
purple State at this point, if that's where we are in five
00:31:09
years where we're a purple State and now Republicans and this new
00:31:13
idea of California Republicans is more viable.
00:31:17
It's more appealable to everybody to more voters,
00:31:20
they're picking up more voter registration, we're flipping
00:31:22
more seats and now all of a sudden we're competitive and
00:31:26
it's not so just well, we're, it's just Democrats.
00:31:30
And it's always going to be Democrats, what you?
00:31:32
I think I'd be in. Readily happy with that at this
00:31:35
point because it so far, it feels like you're just in a sea
00:31:37
of blue, but if we can start to slip it back to a little bit
00:31:42
more purple, you may surprised and shocked the nation, which
00:31:47
leads me to the next thing I want to talk about which is this
00:31:50
article. It was America, the American
00:31:55
conservative title, how populist conservatives can win in
00:31:59
California. The golden state has long, been
00:32:02
a hub of progressivism, but the hell Brought by big Tech and big
00:32:05
government might yet change that.
00:32:08
So, it's a big article again Show links or the article is
00:32:11
always Linked In the Shone out. So if you ever want to go read
00:32:14
the whole thing, I just read those Snippets for you.
00:32:16
You can go ahead and find it there and then you can go share
00:32:19
it with a lot of people. So, the article starts off talks
00:32:24
about the Miss role of California and talks about how
00:32:32
the Electoral College Hello. It's always go to the Democrats
00:32:40
article goes on to say voter ID laws and Electoral College
00:32:42
margins aside. The time has come as the
00:32:44
Democrats flip, Arizona, Georgia for Republicans to go on the
00:32:48
offensive in enemy territory to do.
00:32:51
So would consolidate the great realignment, the GOP begun by
00:32:55
President Trump from the party of big business, to be
00:32:58
multi-ethnic multi-religious. Populist nationalist Workers
00:33:01
Party. The Democrats fear this Threat
00:33:04
to the status quo under which they've been having their cake
00:33:07
and eating it too calling themselves.
00:33:08
A part of the people while working hand-in-glove with the
00:33:10
country's Media Tech and globalist business
00:33:12
establishment. It's true that California broke,
00:33:16
big for chill bite on Election Day but a raft of propositions
00:33:19
favored. By state progressives, were also
00:33:21
defeated a ballot measure reinstating.
00:33:24
Affirmative action. The, UC system was rejected,
00:33:26
propositions expanding rent control and increasing property
00:33:29
taxes. On businesses were also defeated
00:33:32
prop, 22, allowing, a pace Drive, Has to remain independent
00:33:34
contractors instead of being characterized as employees
00:33:37
blunted, the efforts of labor laws and judicial rulings meant
00:33:40
to redesign the gig economy. Michelle steel and young came to
00:33:43
Asian-American, Republicans retook Democrat control House
00:33:47
Seats that has been part of a blue wave and 2018 after public
00:33:52
outcry over viral videos of California restaurant.
00:33:55
Owners, having to shut down. Activists are collecting
00:33:58
signatures to recall, Governor. Gavin, Newsom Newsom, then
00:34:00
abruptly. Change course.
00:34:02
Canceling Statewide stay-at-home order.
00:34:04
Last Monday arguably to take some of the heat off himself and
00:34:07
redirect it at local officials to be fair.
00:34:10
It didn't happen. Quite that quickly.
00:34:12
The recall is going on for a long time.
00:34:14
I think he just saw the writing on the wall.
00:34:16
That was picking up steam. Republican officials should go
00:34:19
to the tent cities and the eggs herbs of the three, our
00:34:22
communities of California, they should meet with these.
00:34:24
Those sleeping cars between work shifts and make the case for how
00:34:27
and why the tyranny of tech goes well beyond speech censorship.
00:34:34
Senators like Josh Holly and others should also speak to the
00:34:38
sites of California's formal industrial glory and the Los
00:34:40
Angeles area. For instance, there's no better
00:34:42
backdrop for an American first message than the Citadel and
00:34:46
commerce and the plant and Van Nuys.
00:34:48
Both are former Auto plants, have been turned into sacred
00:34:51
temples of globalization shopping malls, Long Beach and
00:34:54
Burbank Airport, swear Boeing Lockheed and McDonnell.
00:34:57
Douglas, once made aircraft are other reminders of a time when
00:35:01
California built things and paid its workers.
00:35:04
All to build them. The home price is over, 700
00:35:10
is California, becoming a quick quickly, becoming a two-tier
00:35:12
State. The Uber rich in the class that
00:35:14
relies on their Large Ass for jobs instead of denying climate
00:35:17
change or pie-in-the-sky. Fantasies of a zero-emission
00:35:19
Connery, a Nimble, California, conservatives and what advocate
00:35:23
for policies geared towards adapting to climate change such
00:35:26
as Coastline protection, desalination plants and Forest
00:35:29
thinning. Conservatives should also make
00:35:32
the case relentlessly and genetically for nuclear power,
00:35:35
as an integral part of the green Energy Solution because nuclear
00:35:39
outperforms Renewables on price and reliability.
00:35:42
California. Conservatives would be able to
00:35:43
send a message that there is such a thing as practical
00:35:45
environment policy, finally on the housing front.
00:35:48
Republican should aggressively push deregulation to add housing
00:35:51
units and they should make Democrats own housing costs by
00:35:54
pointing out. As Urban studies Professor Joel
00:35:56
kotkin has the Unholy Trinity of labor unions.
00:36:00
Large developer and government bureaucrats artificially limited
00:36:03
housing Supply Driving up the cost of construction.
00:36:05
So like I said, the whole idea of environmentalism, which was
00:36:12
not always a republican thing or a republican issue can now all
00:36:16
of a sudden, I think someone like a Kevin Faulkner or, I
00:36:18
mean, any Republican going forward?
00:36:20
This really should be the roadmap.
00:36:21
For most Republicans going forward is that we can attack
00:36:24
environmentalism here in California.
00:36:27
It is an important issue. I think there's a lot of people
00:36:29
who when asked would say, well, if you could attack or L've a
00:36:34
lot of environmental issues in a economical efficient manner.
00:36:38
That doesn't raise taxes or make things harder to live in
00:36:41
California. A lot of people would probably
00:36:42
just say yes. I think conservatives have to
00:36:45
say there are ways to do this without having the government.
00:36:48
Do it for us at enormous cost and enormous tax hikes.
00:36:55
Article goes on to talk about the idea of how to reach out to
00:36:59
minorities. That Democrats use are the party
00:37:01
of anti-racism. While Republicans, they suggest
00:37:04
other party of whiteness and institutional racism, The answer
00:37:08
is that many non-white, California.
00:37:10
Voters are less inherently liberal than Progressive.
00:37:12
Democrats would like us to believe.
00:37:15
The differences are papered over by willing accomplishments
00:37:18
accomplices in the media such as the LA Times claimed that news
00:37:21
from recall is orchestrated by The Fringe, right?
00:37:24
How could a Democrat, possibly oppose a lockdown or insisting?
00:37:27
That young Asian Americans are overwhelmingly in favor of
00:37:30
affirmative actions for Pollux relentlessly pursue a populist
00:37:35
message on bread and butter issues.
00:37:37
Issues. Okay.
00:37:38
Kitchen table politics. Like I like to call them like
00:37:41
housing and energy costs and point out the big Tech and
00:37:43
deindustrialization go hand-in-hand that it costs.
00:37:46
Nothing to the offshoring, bottom line, of Silicon, Valley
00:37:49
to embrace Logan's, like, black lives matter.
00:37:51
Then, the party May reach an inflection point.
00:37:54
Millions of Californians, May Yet to Come understand that.
00:37:56
The political choice is not between anti racism and white
00:37:59
supremacy, but what crony capitalism and economic
00:38:02
populism. Again, I think that's where a
00:38:06
lot of Republican has to go here in the state of California.
00:38:11
I've said this before kitchen, table politics, wins, I think
00:38:14
2020 was a weird election, will probably be looking back on
00:38:17
20/20 for years to come. I mean we're going to be looking
00:38:21
at 20:20 for the rest of 2021. So we don't really know what
00:38:25
happened there, and but most of the time kitchen table politics
00:38:31
wins. This populist idea wins whether
00:38:35
it's out and about or someone like a Barack Obama comes along
00:38:40
and really toes the line and gives it lip service.
00:38:45
I'll give Barack Obama a lot of credit.
00:38:47
He came out and did a great job, making him.
00:38:51
See make himself seem like a populist, like a person of the
00:38:55
people like a revolutionary Outsider person of the people.
00:38:59
That's really what a populist is if Who is for the people?
00:39:03
Kind of like Andrew Jackson, who's now being replaced by
00:39:05
Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill. Andrew Jackson, was the first
00:39:09
populist president really the first president that got into
00:39:12
the White House by representing the people as opposed to at that
00:39:16
point which was still just the Elites in Washington insiders?
00:39:19
Yep, that's right back. Then there was still even a
00:39:21
swamp back. Then when Andrew Jackson was the
00:39:24
seventh president of the United States populism, I think wins in
00:39:29
a lot of Elections whether you whether it's In front or that's
00:39:34
really what your campaign essential around.
00:39:37
And I think that's really this populist idea, resonates with a
00:39:41
lot of people and there's a lot of people, I think, in
00:39:43
California, who can get behind this populist idea and bring it,
00:39:47
I guess. Full circle back to what we
00:39:50
talked about top of the show is that this is really now becoming
00:39:54
the elites versus the populace. And I think the Democratic party
00:39:57
is slowly losing that idea of where for the people more more.
00:40:02
People are looking at Democrats who are hiding behind big Tech
00:40:05
and hedge funds and big media and stuff like that Democrats.
00:40:09
Really just don't seem like they're populous anymore.
00:40:11
They seem like they're in the Cool Kids Club, they have their
00:40:15
exclusive little groups that you're not allowed into and
00:40:19
you're starting to push the normal person out and I think a
00:40:21
lot of people are starting. That's why they gravitated
00:40:24
towards a President Trump in 2016, and a lot of people who
00:40:28
are Barack Obama supporters flipped over to President Trump
00:40:30
because Barack Obama, Came into the power on a message of
00:40:34
changing things because it was a populist, he was for the people.
00:40:37
He's very good at that. Kind of delivering that message
00:40:41
he of course did not deliver on a lot of his promises then you
00:40:44
have President Trump come along, who said, hey, no, I'm actually
00:40:47
a populist and came along and did a lot of populist things,
00:40:50
but populism wins, populism and kitchen, table, politics, win,
00:40:55
and there has to be a populist kitchen, table economical,
00:40:59
efficient manner, or answer to Everything the left says and the
00:41:04
left thinks they have a monopoly on a lot of these issues going
00:41:08
back to environmentalism. There are a lot of economical
00:41:12
ways to address environmentalism here in the state of California.
00:41:17
It doesn't all have to go through the government.
00:41:18
It doesn't all have to be through higher taxes
00:41:23
desalination plants here in San Diego.
00:41:25
There's a desalination plant. I'll tell you a quick story
00:41:27
here, in, in San Diego. There's a desalination plant
00:41:30
desalination plant start. It was doing such a good job
00:41:34
that they are starting to make more gallons than Sacramento,
00:41:39
actually agreed to. So Sacramento, had a contract
00:41:42
with them and said, hey, we'll buy water from you at so many
00:41:48
gallons. I forget how many number gal was
00:41:51
the desalination plant. That was built start doing so
00:41:54
well. That they had too much water.
00:41:59
So what happened was the Sacramento.
00:42:01
So we're not going to change our contract because we don't want
00:42:03
to renegotiate, and buy more water.
00:42:06
Seems kind of stupid, right? Because in California, we could
00:42:08
always use more water. So what did they tell them to
00:42:11
do? Well, this time, I don't know,
00:42:12
just throw it in the ocean. I think some of it got thrown
00:42:15
into reservoirs but most of it was just kind of wasted.
00:42:18
So that's an example of when you allow unique technology
00:42:24
companies, Or people to actually take these risks and be
00:42:28
creative. You could solve the California
00:42:31
Water problem with desalination plants, obviously, one in San
00:42:34
Diego produced so much. That Sacramento even say what
00:42:37
this is way too much water. We don't even know what to do
00:42:39
with this. There's unique creative free
00:42:42
market ways to address a lot of this stuff, and I think that's
00:42:46
where Republicans have to go. I think they have to go on the
00:42:50
idea that there are good solutions to securing a homeless
00:42:55
more. I was saying issues like that,
00:42:58
that we have to stay on message and we have to stay on this
00:43:01
populist message that appeals to the kitchen table, politics of
00:43:06
those who are looking for help, whether they will actually end
00:43:10
up crediting, someone like President Trump for really
00:43:13
pushing this. They're pushing this new
00:43:15
platform that will appeal to more people, who knows?
00:43:19
But I think they saw how well it worked and what kind of
00:43:22
Republican they're looking for, and how it could work here in
00:43:24
California. And who knows?
00:43:27
This could be the beginning of the economic populist or the
00:43:31
conservative populist here in California, that really appeals
00:43:34
to a lot of people and starts to change how things are done here
00:43:38
in California. And as they say, as California
00:43:41
goes, so does the rest of the nation.
00:43:45
So, with that, I'm going to end for today.
00:43:48
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