Gavin Newsom is galavanting in Munich and pretending to be President, Nancy Pelosi has made her selection for 2028 Democratic Presidential nominee, and we ask why is California ok with shipping gasoline all the way from the Bahamas when we could produce it here.
Key Takeaways
- Gavin Newsom’s trip to Munich and his shadow campaign tactics
- California’s hypocrisy in energy and environmental policies
- The potential 2028 Democratic presidential candidates
- Pelosi’s backing of Gavin Newsom for president
- California’s oil and gasoline imports from the Bahamas
- The economic and environmental implications of importing fuel
- Hypocrisy around California’s offshore drilling bans versus imports
- Political narratives and vulnerabilities for California leaders
- The influence of historical and familial ties in California politics
Time Stamps
00:00 - Gavin Newsom’s Munich trip and international diplomacy00:43 - What Newsom says about Trump’s temporary status02:13 - California’s political direction and Newsom’s shadow campaign04:33 - The narrative of Newsom’s presidential ambitions05:25 - California’s energy policies and importing oil from the Bahamas06:30 - The hypocrisy of environmental regulations and offshore drilling07:46 - The timeline of EPA regulations and climate policies09:29 - Leadership responsibilities and Newsom’s absence11:10 - Newsom’s memorandum with the UK and international stances13:35 - Democratic contenders for 2028: AOC, Kamala, and others15:17 - AOC’s comments on Taiwan and foreign policy17:39 - The history of California’s oil wealth and current energy crisis18:35 - Pelosi’s endorsement of Newsom for 202824:05 - Family ties between Pelosi and Newsom26:38 - Left-wing media’s critique of Newsom28:59 - California’s economic record and challenges37:50 - California’s import of gasoline from the Bahamas40:13 - The state’s oil reserves and import strategies43:24 - Environmental hypocrisy and the costs of global oil imports47:55 - CO2 emissions from oil tankers and environmental impact50:13 - Comparing emissions from cows and ships52:52 - Final thoughts and community comments
- William Newsom Jr. - Family of Gavin Newsom
- Nancy Pelosi - LinkedIn
- Gavin Newsom - Official Website
- EPA Endangerment Rule Timeline
- Jones Act - Maritime Law
- Bloomberg on California Gas Imports
- California Oil Reserves - EIA
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Gavin Newsom is gallivanting around Munich because I guess he
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solved everything in California. Nancy Pelosi has already made
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her choice for the 2028 Democratic nominee, and I guess
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you'll never have any guess of who it could be.
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We'll save the suspense for later.
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And finally, California is importing gas and oil from the
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Bahamas. We're going to get to that and
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more on tonight's episode of the California Underground, starting
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right now. Well, what's going on everybody?
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Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the California
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Underground. I'm your host, Phil.
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We got a bunch of stuff to get to including Gavin Newsom,
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Galavantine and running around all over Munich spreading anti
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Trump and anti American rhetoric.
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Nancy Pelosi putting her hat in the ring for who she thinks
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should be the Democratic nominee for president in 2028.
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And instead of drilling oil here in California, which is much
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closer, we've decided we're going to import it from the
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Bahamas. Oh, and AOC made a horrible
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gaffe. We're going to talk about that
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as well. But first, let me bring in my
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trusty Co host, the best, the fastest researcher in the West.
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Camille. How are you doing tonight,
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Camille? Good.
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Thank you. How are you?
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I am better than earlier in the week.
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I got whatever was going around. It seems like everybody's been
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getting it and it's not good. Some sort of cold or flu or
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something like that. It's hit me on Sunday, knocked
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me out for a couple days and I'm coming out of it now so I feel
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much better. Good to hear.
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Glad we were able to get a show in tonight.
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Hopefully everyone's staying dry and safe and warm out there.
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The rain, well, let us know where you are in California if
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you got bad rain because I know Southern California, we got
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slammed with rain just these past couple days and today was
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scary rain. But let's get started with our
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first story. Camille, where do you think
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Gavin Newsom should be as the governor of California?
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Good. Just throw this out there.
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Just stay with me here somewhere in the state of California.
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That would be a good guess. I think most common sense people
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will believe that the governor of California should stay in
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California. But Newsom decided he is going
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to go to Munich for the security conference, which is where some
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other Trump administration officials were because it's a
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month or so ago he was where was he was over at the Davos
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conference and he was over in Europe.
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So what was he doing over there? Spreading more anti Trump stuff,
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running his shadow candidacy. Now let's hear from Newsome
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himself. Why are you in Munich?
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Why are you here tonight? Well, I'm I'm here in many
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respects to remind everyone that Trump is temporary.
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He'll be gone in a matter of years.
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States like California are permanent, where reliable,
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stable partners had a chance just a moment ago to be on a
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panel talking about climate policy.
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We saw what Trump just did with the endangerment finding
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completely rolling back progress.
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The last half century wants to recreate the 19th century, and
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we want to transform our economy.
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We want to dominate in the next white global economy, low
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carbon, green growth. And I'm reminding world leaders
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of that. Do the leaders you've spoken to
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here still think that America is the leader of the free world?
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No, they see us as a Wrecking Ball.
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They see us as unreliable and and a lot of them thinks it's
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irrevocable. They don't think we'll ever come
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back to our original form. I'm not as convinced of that.
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Whatever happens, we can undo, we can shape, shape ship, we can
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fix. And while trust is difficult to
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re establish, there's too much at stake in a multinational from
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a multi international perspective that we have a lot
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of work to do. Once Trump's done, and I think
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it can, it's not going to be undone permanently.
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From my perspective, Trump's going to get shellacked in the
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midterms. He knows that the world I think
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is becoming, I think, more and more familiar with that reality.
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He's going to lose likely in the Supreme Court on the tariff
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question. So we'll have to use other
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statutes and authority and tariffs.
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So he's going to lose a lot of leverage and he's going to lose
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a lot of his reputational strength.
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He's increasingly weak masquerading as strong.
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And I think as a consequence, that will open the door again to
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diplomacy and common sense. All right, that's why Gavin
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Newsom says he's in Munich is because he wants to spread
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diplomacy and democracy and all that stuff in Munich because
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Trump is temporary. And I guess Gavin thinks he's
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king of California forever because he's done in a couple of
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months here in California and he's not forever.
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He's temporary here in California as well.
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But I guess he's already he's he's already just rolling into
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his presidential role. He's just going to skip 2026.
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He's just going to move right into the White House.
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He's already like drawing the curtains, measuring, getting
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furniture ready. He's ready to go to the White
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House. He's been running this like
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shadow campaign against Trump, which comes off as strong, like
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pick me energy, like, you know, it just comes off as desperate
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as opposed to like, I don't know, maybe focus on what's
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going on here in California 'cause there's enough stuff
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going on here in California. And fine, if you've solved
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everything in California, if you've solved homelessness, if
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you've solved the affordability crisis, if you've solved you
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know, the housing issue, great. And maybe you can go off to
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Munich and do everything. But it's kind of like with
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little kids and you can't have dessert or ice cream until you
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do all your chores. And Gavin Newsom hasn't done all
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of his chores yet, so he doesn't get the treat of going off to
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Munich. What are your thoughts about
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what he said in that little clip?
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I have three thoughts actually. OK, well, I probably have more
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than that, but but 33 standouts. So First off, he says he's over
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there to remind everyone that Trump is temporary.
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And I feel like he should come back to California and remind
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Katie Porter that Trump is temporary and that, you know,
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she's running for governor here and keeps her whole her entire
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campaign is something about Trump anti Trump, Trump this,
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Trump that. So anyway that we've spoken
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about plenty. Second thing is what I first
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noticed, so I watched the video like I watched it and I listened
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and then the second time I turned the sound off and just
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watched. He's actually using normal
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people hand motions. He's not all over the place and
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I, I don't know why that stood out to me, but he's literally
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just kind of, you know, I talk with my hands, he's talking with
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his hands doing this, but he's not doing this.
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And like his made-up yoga poses and like, you know what it like
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he doesn't do all that. And I'm like, what, why?
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What is it about Europe that makes him suddenly become
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normal? I don't know.
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And then, OK, wait, what was my, I had a, an important third
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note. Well, shoot.
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Well, while you're thinking of it, he did bring out that Trump
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wants to bring us back to the 19th century because of their
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rollback on the endangerment issue.
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You don't know what he's talking about.
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So the EPA under President Trump and Lee Zeldman just rolled back
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this endangerment rule, which was implemented under President
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Obama 2009. And basically what it does is
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said that climate change was an endangerment.
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So basically anything that could cause climate change was now an
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endangerment and the federal government can basically
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regulate all of it. Here's a short timeline.
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Starting 2010, the EPA National Highway Traffic Safety
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Administration began issuing tailpipe emission standards for
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passenger cars and light trucks. In 24 by administration
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increased GHG tailpipe emissions, some more tailpipe
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emissions. The Obama and my
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administration's also championed credits which allowed automakers
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to make other changes. So you have to get these
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credits. These off credits results in
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things like Start Stop feature. So I don't know if you saw Trump
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had that commercial or or ad on social media.
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No longer is it going to be the Start Stop anymore.
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You can now just have your car idle.
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And then they both Obama and Biden ramped up emissions on
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oil, natural gas and coal. So the purpose of this is that
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if he's talking about the 19th century and maybe he got
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confused and thought the early 21st century, because that's
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when this endangerment thing was implemented and he kind of
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skipped over an entire century and went all the way back to the
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19th century. And it's the, the idea is get
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rid of all these regulations so that factories and energy and
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cars and like we can start building stuff and not worry
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about so many EPA regulations. That was one thing I want to
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point out. I did notice that, although I
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didn't, I wasn't familiar with everything that you just brought
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up the Obama thing. I wasn't familiar with that.
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But what he said 19th century, I was like, I don't, I don't think
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you meant that, but so yeah, you just clarified that I did
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remember my Third Point, Gavin Usib is like he's he's always
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off somewhere. He's always leaving California
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and has been since basically since he was elected back in
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2018. He's just like, alright, I got
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elected Sayonora, he's off doing all his things.
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So it's, it's almost like, can we really blame him for all the
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problems here when he wasn't really here to even help create
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them? Yes, yes, we can.
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But it, it feels like he can almost say that while I was
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never there. So maybe it's the Lieutenant
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governor's fault who you know is is running the show.
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Maybe, yeah, he could say is Elena.
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I would knock us. Gavin Newsom by any means, but I
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just kind of thought of that. It's kind of like the deadbeat
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dad who who leaves and doesn't raise the child.
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And so it's like, are they responsible because emotionally
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they checked out of the child's life and the child grew up to be
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a horrible child. I'm not saying this happens with
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every situation. I just mean like when when this
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child grows up to be a horrible person and you're like, well,
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was it because the dad was absent?
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Or if the horrible dad was there and then did a horrible job
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raising the child is, you know, like whose whose fault is it
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here? So it's what I related to.
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Trump obviously want to always take the bait.
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He also wanted to chime in about Newsom being there and and there
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was something else he did while he was there.
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He signed this pact with the UK again, he's he's pretending and
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doing this nice dance of like he pretends that he's president.
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You're not president yet. You're the governor of a state.
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Governors of states can't sign treaties.
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So they signed something called a, what do they call it, mutual
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understanding or something? Is that what it's called Auk?
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Is it like the second? Or third one, he's done like
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this. Yeah, he did it with China too.
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He signed a memorandum of understanding basically between
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the UK and California. They were going to pinky promise
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they're going to work on green energy together.
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But it's not a treaty. It's not binding on the state or
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anything like that. Instead, it's just like a it.
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It's purely almost performative and theatrical in the sense that
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it doesn't really have any legal effect.
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It's just kind of you sign in a note and they sign a note.
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And so President Trump obviously got in on it.
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Let's see if even with my voice can I can I?
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You think I can pull off the Trump voice?
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Excuse me, Let me get in the mode.
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EU KS got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin
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Newscom. Gavin is a loser.
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Everything he's touched towards the garbage, his state has got
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to hell, and even his environmental work is a
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disaster. So that's what Trump had to say
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about. Of course.
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Remarks came shortly after Newsome signed a memorandum of
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understanding London, with UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband
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pledging cooperation on clean energy technologies, including
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offshore wind. The agreement also aims to
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expand access for British firms, including Octopus Energy, to
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California's market and to boost collaboration between research
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institutions on both sides of the Atlantic.
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And then it goes on to say Newsome, a likely 2028
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presidential likely. It's almost a for certainty that
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he's going to be a 2028 presidential candidate.
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Oh, let's see. Did he go on to say anything
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else? Nope.
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That was basically it. That was Trump taking aim at.
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Maybe, maybe we have it all wrong.
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Maybe Gavin's entire plan is to try to get California secede
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from the Union and he's just going to be president of
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California and have all these allegiances with these other
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countries. I mean, that's an easy work
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around. If he wants to secede from the
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Union, then he could just name himself like president of
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California and maybe Oregon and Washington secede as well.
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He could be the president of the West Coast.
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Yeah. And I'm not being serious, so
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I'm just, I'm just saying. But no, I don't believe that.
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In case anyone watching this is like, well, she's really lost
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it. No.
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Let's see. So he wasn't the only person in
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Munich. Somebody else who's a 2028
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presidential, Democratic presidential contender was also
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in Munich and and she stepped onto the world stage and let
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everybody know her brilliant foreign policy inside.
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Of course, I'm talking about Alexandria Ocasio Cortez from
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New York. She was there, and this is what
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she had to say after being questioned about Taiwan.
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Would and should the US actually commit U.S. troops to defend
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Taiwan if China were to move? You know, I think that this is
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such a, you know, I, I think that this is a, this is of
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course a, a very long standing policy of the United States.
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And I think what we are hoping for is that we want to make sure
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that we never get to that point. And we want to make sure that we
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are moving in all of our Economic Research and our global
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positions to avoid any such confrontation and for that
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question to even arise. Have you ever had a dreams?
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That that you, you had you, you would you could you do you would
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you want you? You could do so you, you do you
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could you? You want you want him to do you
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so much. You could do anything.
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I can't tell the difference between those two clips.
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AOC she's so pretty until she opens her mouth and then her
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voice sounds like an 11 year old girl.
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Her responses sound like a 7 year old girl.
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I would almost say Kamala Harris is more coherent than AOC.
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Yeah, by that clip, yeah, Kamala could actually spit out a word
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salad that is likely on topic. Maybe on topic that was nowhere
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near anything coherent at all. Right about.
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I mean, she went into this whole gobbledygook about education and
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economic, and she's like, let me just throw out all industries
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and say it furthers our interest, OK?
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Think of at the moment she was like looking around the room.
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She's like a red chair and. Blue hat and light.
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And education. Education and Green New Deal
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and. Foreign Policy.
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America. And America and democracy she
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died in. Other just been like, you know,
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should we send the troops? The question is, should America
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support them with troops? And I think what we think of
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China, the country, not the dishes.
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And when we think of Taiwan and sending our troops, you know,
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it's something we have to think about.
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It's a serious issue. We have to think about the
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serious issues that have to deal with China and Taiwan.
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Thank you. She was also asked a question
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about Western civilization, and she made a comment about how
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Marco Rubio wrongfully said that Cowboys come from Spain because
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she said, well, they don't come from Spain, they come from
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Mexico, which I don't think she knows her history, which is
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where? Where do you think Mexico came
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from? What?
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What was Mexico? Mexico was a colony of a
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European country that was Spain and it came from the vaqueros
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who were sort of ranchers, Cowboys in Spain.
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And that's where it came from. That's where we get the cowboy
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culture. But she said that no, that
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Europe in white culture are, you know, their their contributions
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to civilization are very thin, very thin.
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It's not that impressive. Western civilization and white
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culture and you know, OK, and just whatever built the United
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States and North America at that point.
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South America, mostly South America, but sure, whatever.
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That's what you believe. All right, so those are our two
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top contending candidates for Democratic nominee.
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Good job, Democrats. Those are your two top people
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going in 2028. I don't know who else you have
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going. Good luck, good luck, Good luck,
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America, because those are your two top right there.
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You have one who can't answer a question about Taiwan and one
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who's getting his centuries all wrong and loves using his hand
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motion. So all right, I want to take a
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look at the comments real quick. Everyone hanging out.
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Thank you everyone for checking in wherever you are.
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A lot of people checking in. Fountain Valley, what's up?
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Fountain Valley, Roseville. Excuse me if my voice sound a
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little different. Like I said, I'm getting over
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being sick. Folsom, what's up?
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Occidental, California, Thank you everyone for tuning in.
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Let us know your thoughts in the comments and chat and all that
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stuff and make sure you like, share, subscribe, all that
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stuff. All right?
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And Speaking of 2028 presidential candidates, Nancy
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Pelosi, who is set to retire, she has picked who she thinks
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should be the 2028 Democratic nominee.
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I'll save the suspense. I'll save the answer until after
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this video. So we'll watch the video 1st and
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then we can discuss. Welcome back Nancy Pelosi.
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Former speaker reportedly has one more campaign in mind these
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days, and it is not for Congress.
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She is still retiring, but according to new reporting from
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Axio, she is a big fangirl of California Governor Gavin
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Newsom. Fangirl is a quote.
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She's working behind the scenes to boost his 2028 presidential
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hopes. Let's bring in California Post
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senior editor Joel Pollock. You know, Pelosi and other
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older. Dems like Steny Hoyer comes to
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mind have been roundly criticized by their own party
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for failing to groom a new next generation of party leaders.
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Maybe this this sounds like this is Pelosi trying to do.
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With all the Epstein stuff going on, grooming's probably not the
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right word to use. I'm just going to go ahead and
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say that. Also, when she's like the older
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candidates, she needed a a a better word, a few better words
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in there. Older cans the the really age
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like the really old wrinkly ones.
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Those ones, yeah, they they need to groom a young candidate much
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better. Yes, Pelosi trying to do that.
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Well, Nancy Pelosi is not only a veteran political player, but a
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winner, and she usually picks winners.
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She couldn't keep Trump out of the White House, but she does
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have significant clout within the Democratic Party.
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Keep in mind, she's not only connected to that older
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generation of establishment Democrats, but she also has
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significant credibility on the left.
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And even though she had some fights with AOC and the Squad,
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ultimately they accepted her leadership.
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She may be one of the few figures left in the Democratic
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Party who can span those two generations of the party.
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And her endorsement is going to mean a lot for Gavin Newsom's
00:21:33
fundraising and for what they call the donor primary, that is
00:21:37
the collection of money in the year so before presidential
00:21:40
campaign actually begins. Well, and that I think public
00:21:45
support, but even more importantly, I think getting
00:21:48
access to her incredibly large donor base could potentially be
00:21:53
game changing for somebody like Newsom, right?
00:21:57
Absolutely. And of course, he is mastering
00:22:01
the art of social media. He's trolling President Trump,
00:22:05
and critics such as myself will say that his record in
00:22:09
California is very poor. But Democratic Party primary
00:22:13
voters don't seem to be in the mood to judge candidates based
00:22:16
on their record right now. They want a fighter.
00:22:18
They want someone who can stand up to Donald Trump, and Pelosi
00:22:21
certainly did that. We all remember when she tore up
00:22:24
his State of the Union address. And Gavin Newsom is from the
00:22:28
same mold. They're also, of course, both
00:22:29
from San Francisco. They have a distant family
00:22:32
relation, and they've been partners for many years.
00:22:35
So in that sense it's a natural pairing, but it could also be a
00:22:38
very consequential 1. That's right, I forgot about.
00:22:40
There is some familiar it's like her niece is married to his
00:22:45
fourth cousin or that's not right, but something like that
00:22:48
between the two of them. She's helped him already, too,
00:22:51
right, with that big redistricting push in the state.
00:22:55
Yes. When he was facing upside down
00:22:57
polling on Proposition 50, which is basically a partisan
00:23:01
gerrymander of California, she got on the phone and told donors
00:23:05
they had to support it. And lo and behold, with a little
00:23:08
bit of money, in fact with a lot of money, the polls flipped
00:23:10
around and Proposition 50 passed.
00:23:13
So that was an early win for the two of them.
00:23:16
And as long as she stays involved and stays political and
00:23:20
engaged, then I think he does have a chance to maintain his
00:23:24
lead as the early Democratic Party frontrunner for the
00:23:27
presidential nomination. Very early to be fair, but it is
00:23:31
worth starting to track all this stuff.
00:23:35
OK, so Nancy Pelosi, no shock, is sporting Gavin Newsom to be
00:23:42
the next Democratic nominee. I do want to clear this up
00:23:46
because just as a little factoid, everyone always says
00:23:52
that they're like aunt and uncle.
00:23:54
It's not fourth cousin. It's not that distant.
00:23:57
But here's a helpful little chart to show you.
00:24:01
So Gavin's dad was William Newsom Junior.
00:24:08
His sister was Barbara Newsom. She married Ron Pelosi, who was
00:24:15
brothers with Paul Pelosi and Paul Pelosi married Nancy
00:24:21
Pelosi. So what does that make them?
00:24:26
It doesn't make them anything technically.
00:24:28
Not really related at all. So I guess.
00:24:32
Husband's brother's wife's family is not my is not related
00:24:38
to me. Yeah.
00:24:40
I mean, I guess if you want to give her a a loving term of aunt
00:24:43
you could, but they're not blood related at all.
00:24:47
But it's close enough. And I believe that marriage
00:24:51
didn't even last. So they're really not related.
00:24:56
And I, you know what's funny? So I was, I was glad that that
00:24:59
video went into it. And I was going to ask you if we
00:25:01
could address that tonight because it does drive me crazy
00:25:04
when people were like, well, his Auntie Pelosi.
00:25:07
And I'm like, technically she was never his aunt.
00:25:10
And yeah, she was never his aunt.
00:25:15
And that's really all there is to it.
00:25:17
And so I just it's there's no defense of either of them.
00:25:22
I just like facts. And that's a fact.
00:25:24
So if we could all just collectively stop referring to
00:25:27
her as his Auntie Pelosi because she never was.
00:25:32
And and maybe they were really close.
00:25:33
I don't know, some people maybe that like distant family thing
00:25:37
is really close. But so my husband has three
00:25:41
brothers and we're like really close to one of them.
00:25:46
He was actually sat here last week and he's married.
00:25:50
The brother and brother's wife has a couple sisters.
00:25:55
I've never even met them. I just there's just they're not
00:26:00
they're not family. I'm not like hating on them, but
00:26:04
they're like, they're nobody to me.
00:26:07
Yeah. So.
00:26:09
Distant, very distant, although they've they've been close.
00:26:14
Obviously she's been part of his like upbringing.
00:26:18
The interesting thing I've found about Gavin Newsom, if you've
00:26:22
been keeping your ear to the ground and excuse me, just
00:26:25
popped a cough drop to because of my throat and the cold, is a
00:26:30
lot of left-leaning publications are now starting to come out
00:26:35
against Gavin Newsom. One of them being The Atlantic
00:26:40
and there was another one, New York Magazine.
00:26:41
But a lot of these are behind paywalls.
00:26:43
And believe me, I don't want to pay any of these left wing
00:26:46
publications more money or anything at any money at all.
00:26:51
They're all behind paywalls. This one I did find on MSN.
00:26:55
So it it's from The Atlantic. Let me pull it up real quick.
00:26:59
It's interesting that they are starting to go after Gavin
00:27:03
Newsom, and I don't know who's behind it, but it seems very
00:27:07
coordinated. It goes on to say a key source
00:27:12
of Newsom's appeal is the belief that he's electable.
00:27:16
It's easy to see why the party's voters such a favorable view of
00:27:19
his political skills. The California governor has
00:27:21
combined an ideological flexibility lately, embracing
00:27:24
both the abundance agenda. I don't know what his abundance
00:27:28
agenda is. It seems like a scarcity agenda
00:27:31
here in California and dialogues with conservatives with a
00:27:34
relentless mockery of President Trump.
00:27:36
His new persona as a fighting moderate, a Democrat in
00:27:39
two-month, the country's shifting desires, and ruthless
00:27:42
toward the man at top definitely speaks to the needs of a party
00:27:45
desperate to regain the White House.
00:27:48
But Newsom has a problem. He's been a California
00:27:50
politician for decades and has held the state's governorship
00:27:53
since 2019. During his tenure, the state has
00:27:56
been a laboratory for some of the Democratic Party's most
00:27:58
politically fraught policies and instincts, which has left it
00:28:01
less affordable and more culturally radical than it used
00:28:04
to be. His record not only raises press
00:28:07
and questions about how effectively he could govern as
00:28:09
president, it also provides opponents and endless buffet
00:28:13
vulnerabilities across social, excuse me, and economic issues.
00:28:19
So they're going after him, excuse me, apologize for that,
00:28:27
on a whole bunch of different things.
00:28:28
And then they're kind of pointing out his records.
00:28:30
A problem. Homelessness is a problem.
00:28:31
Affordability. If you're going to campaign on
00:28:33
affordability, that's a problem. So he can be a troll on social
00:28:40
media all he wants and he can go to Europe and sign these
00:28:43
memorandums of understanding with Britain and stuff like
00:28:46
that. But when it comes presidential
00:28:49
time, they're going to run ads about his record and it's not
00:28:54
pretty. So I'll let you ask your let me
00:28:58
ask your thoughts on that while I think.
00:29:00
I just thought maybe we could take a wall, but well, you'd
00:29:03
need to take a wall to drink some water.
00:29:04
But thank you to talk about what can he actually factually write
00:29:13
on for president. You had just posted today a
00:29:17
photo that you on Instagram. You posted a photo from outside
00:29:21
LA City Hall. Now I realized that each county
00:29:25
and each city has their leadership as well, which is
00:29:27
failing big time in LA. And so we can't 100% blame all
00:29:31
these things on Gavin Newsom, but it feels like he's like
00:29:34
supposed to be kind of the, the manager, the CEO of California.
00:29:40
I mean, he's the governor, but all these people, he, he needs
00:29:44
to kind of be like, hey, let's, let's get it together.
00:29:47
And he's not doing that. And it feels like the majority
00:29:51
is failing. So the, oh, the photo that you
00:29:53
posted of City Hall, because people are quite like, well,
00:29:56
what it was the photo, there was like so much trash, so much
00:30:00
trash just piled up. I don't even know what happened.
00:30:03
Did did a bunch of people just go dump their trash?
00:30:06
Did a trash truck catch fire and unload right in front of City
00:30:08
Hall? What it's, it was so bad.
00:30:10
I, I sincerely don't know what happened and if it happened
00:30:14
overnight or if it's just a, a thing that's been piling up
00:30:17
because I didn't, I didn't click on it and read what's going on.
00:30:20
So is there anything factual positive that Gavin Newsom can
00:30:27
run on that he did for California?
00:30:29
I mean, I'm trying to give him the benefit of the doubt and be
00:30:31
like, is there anything I can think of that he could at least
00:30:34
run on to your point about like he's he's the head of
00:30:38
California. He could say if he was a hands
00:30:42
off governor was like, well, this is your issue.
00:30:44
It's a county, it's a city level thing.
00:30:47
That's fine. But he's had enough press
00:30:49
conferences of him saying, well, we're going to get tough on
00:30:53
homelessness, We're going to get tough on all of this and
00:30:56
encampments. We're going to get the CHP
00:30:57
involved or we're going to get all in the National Guard.
00:31:00
We're going to clean up a lot of binders of empty pages.
00:31:05
He says. We're going to clean up the
00:31:06
encampments and Tenderloin and then nothing, like nothing's
00:31:11
changed. So he's campaigned here locally
00:31:14
on a lot of things, promised a lot of things.
00:31:17
But at the end of the day, they they haven't come through it.
00:31:25
It is. He doesn't have anything that I
00:31:26
can think of. Housing hasn't gotten better,
00:31:29
affordability hasn't gotten better.
00:31:31
Homelessness hasn't gotten better.
00:31:33
By any metric. I can't think of anything that's
00:31:35
gotten better under Gavin Newsom in his eight years as governor
00:31:41
of California. So that's going to be hard.
00:31:43
It's going to be hard to run on a record of nothing.
00:31:48
Well, I know what he could run out, that the left always loves
00:31:51
and always gets behind, and that he has done for California
00:31:55
expanded abortion. Yeah, Yeah, He could say that
00:32:00
they did expand that they wasn't at the proposition that.
00:32:04
States and anyone can come here to get to seek an abortion.
00:32:08
We won't turn them in. We'll fund it.
00:32:11
You know, he just promised $90 to Planned
00:32:16
Parenthood. So and the left loves that.
00:32:20
I mean, that's kind of their, I'm surprised AOC didn't pivot
00:32:23
to, well, education, but abortion?
00:32:28
But abortion, as long as abortion is still legal in
00:32:30
Taiwan, that. In 2028, right there, all she
00:32:33
had to say was abortion and would have been like, yes, not
00:32:37
everyone. But I think go ahead.
00:32:41
Well, I'm pro-life. I've, I've been, you know, very
00:32:43
clear about that, but the left is typically pro-choice and that
00:32:48
is definitely something that you could say is a positive if
00:32:51
that's your belief that Gavin Newsom has certainly promised
00:32:55
and what's the word I'm looking for?
00:32:58
He's come through for that. So I think that that's one
00:33:03
thing, whether whether you think that's positive or negative, but
00:33:06
it's one true thing that he can definitely campaign on that he's
00:33:11
done. He's probably done some cultural
00:33:14
stuff, but in terms of kitchen table politics, which wins the
00:33:18
day in presidential elections, I can't think of anything.
00:33:22
I can't think of anything he's done.
00:33:24
He'll probably say tax credits, which we lambasted political
00:33:28
candidates last week about tax credits and how tax credits are
00:33:33
sort of useless because you get a credit back at the end of the
00:33:36
year. Why don't you just remove the
00:33:38
taxes in the 1st place and make it more affordable so people can
00:33:41
keep money in their pocket? I, I honestly can't think of
00:33:45
anything, you know, net migration out of California,
00:33:49
losing congressional seats because of the fact that they've
00:33:53
lost so many people. How many businesses have LED?
00:33:59
You know, Mark Zuckerberg has left, Tesla has left.
00:34:02
So. Today.
00:34:03
Who was it that announced there today?
00:34:06
I didn't see that but. Spielberg.
00:34:14
Bielberg left. That's I I could have sworn I
00:34:16
read that tweet today. Now I have.
00:34:18
To now we're going to have to look this up.
00:34:20
Yeah, I can't think of any anything but, you know, Nancy
00:34:23
Pelosi and if you follow the history of California politics,
00:34:27
especially from San Francisco Bay Area, they are like thick as
00:34:31
thieves. And it's it's been growing and
00:34:35
expanding since the late 60s. I would start with a guy named
00:34:39
Philip Burton who mentored Nancy Pelosi and got her into
00:34:43
Congress. And then Nancy Pelosi became the
00:34:45
most powerful woman in Congress in the House of Representatives.
00:34:49
And she's very powerful. And she, like Gavin Newsom, they
00:34:52
do have one thing going for him, which is they can raise a ton of
00:34:57
money. And money does pay for.
00:35:02
It does pay for ads. It does pay for reach.
00:35:05
It does pay for, you know, all that war chest that you're going
00:35:09
to need when you run in the Democratic primary against other
00:35:11
people. So it it it's definitely helpful
00:35:16
to have Nancy, but it's not shocking.
00:35:17
Nancy Pelosi is backing Gavin Newsom.
00:35:19
Of course she wants him to be president.
00:35:20
I mean, it's not like it's a betrayal.
00:35:25
And yeah, it's it's not shocking.
00:35:29
But it is going to be interesting to see as we inch
00:35:33
closer to 2028, what prominent Democrats start aligning with
00:35:39
certain candidates. For example, if an AOC runs,
00:35:44
does that mean a Bernie Sanders is going to align with her?
00:35:48
If Gavin Newsom runs, does that mean more California Democrats
00:35:51
are going to start aligning with him?
00:35:54
That's basically it. I can't think if Kamala runs,
00:35:57
who's going to start backing Kamala again?
00:36:00
I know to everyone in the chat, I'm just naming wonderful people
00:36:02
that you're all very excited about running in 2028.
00:36:06
So I can't think of anybody else who might run for president.
00:36:10
On the Democratic side. Josh Shapiro will probably run.
00:36:14
He's the moderate, moderate. I put in quotes from
00:36:18
Pennsylvania, Steven Spielberg, That's who it was to ditch.
00:36:21
California had a proposed billionaires tax, which to be
00:36:24
fair, Gavin Newsom does not support the billionaires tax.
00:36:28
He's trying to kill it behind the scenes, but it's still his
00:36:32
state. He's still the governor of it,
00:36:34
so he's trying to campaign. On prop passing Prop 50, while
00:36:40
many of us don't like it, it was a push back against Trump and
00:36:48
people like that. So like that can be his.
00:36:50
You know, I fought for Prop 50 and got it passed and stood up
00:36:55
to Trump. Yeah, but Trump's not running in
00:36:59
2028. And we brought that up numerous
00:37:01
times, the whole. Thing is, standing up to Trump,
00:37:02
I mean, that's why he's in Germany, right?
00:37:05
Yeah, he's staying up to Trump and MAGA and all that.
00:37:09
All right, so not surprising. Nancy Pelosi supporting Gavin
00:37:12
Newsom. All right.
00:37:14
Any comments or questions before we somebody said he will lose
00:37:20
worse than Kamala? Hopefully.
00:37:24
I might give him more credit than that.
00:37:26
I might say he actually does. Kamala didn't get one primary
00:37:30
vote. I will say that he does get a
00:37:33
primary vote, so he'll do better because he'll get at least one.
00:37:38
She didn't get any, but let's see.
00:37:42
What is it? Wait till we see the Cali gas
00:37:44
prices are in 28. Wait till Vance calls that out
00:37:47
during the debate. Speaking of, go ahead.
00:37:51
Well, isn't that our next topic? Oh yeah, that's an excellent
00:37:56
segue. Good job.
00:37:59
Usually I pick up on the Segways.
00:38:01
All right, final story of the night.
00:38:03
You guys keep putting comments and stuff in the chat.
00:38:08
We'll get to your comments and chats and stuff like that
00:38:10
towards the end of the show. But final story of the night,
00:38:14
California, for as much oil we actually have in our state,
00:38:20
they've decided instead of drilling here and making it more
00:38:25
affordable here, they've decided that they're going to take it
00:38:29
from the Bahamas. Gasoline starved California is
00:38:33
turning to fuel from the Bahamas is from Bloomberg.
00:38:36
Shipments on a securitus route are increasing.
00:38:39
California reported more gasoline in November than ever
00:38:41
before, with more than 40% coming from the Bahamas.
00:38:45
The lengthy journey adds another layer of cost to California's
00:38:48
already expensive gasoline market.
00:38:50
Yet the phenomenon isn't likely to disappear soon, thanks to a
00:38:53
combination of disappearing oil refineries, a lack of Interstate
00:38:56
pipelines, and a loophole and 106 year old maritime law.
00:39:01
California has among the strictest environmental
00:39:03
regulations in the US, making it costly for energy companies to
00:39:06
operate in, though a wave of upcoming refinery closures is
00:39:09
prompting officials and regulators to soften their
00:39:11
stance. On average, the closures could
00:39:13
raise the cost of gasoline for consumers between 5 and 15
00:39:16
cents, which I think is conservative talks about the
00:39:21
Jones Act. Under the Jones Act, any good
00:39:24
ship between US ports must travel on US bill owned and
00:39:27
operated vessels. Those tankers are in short
00:39:29
supply and expensive to charter. They're about 55 Jones Act
00:39:33
compliant oil tankers worldwide compared with more than 7000 oil
00:39:37
tankers globally. So not a lot of them.
00:39:42
You probably have to pay a high premium.
00:39:45
And you can see from this nice little drawing here, this is
00:39:49
what it looks like December 15th.
00:39:51
It has to leave from the Bahamas, go all the way through
00:39:53
the Panama Canal and arrive in Los Angeles almost two or three
00:39:59
weeks later. And that's where we're getting
00:40:01
it from. It goes on to say blah, blah,
00:40:05
blah, talking about where it came from, more Bahamas, all
00:40:10
right. But this is just another example
00:40:16
of sort of. Sticking to your principles even
00:40:21
though it hurts you in the long run because California has a ton
00:40:28
of gas. They have millions.
00:40:32
I think it was like how many millions of barrels?
00:40:36
I should have pulled this up. If you want to add some thoughts
00:40:40
while I look this up real quick, I was.
00:40:42
Looking something else up, which I should have done prior to the
00:40:47
podcast of my apologies. Waiting for Grok to answer.
00:40:52
Here we go, 1.7 billion barrels of oil in reserve here in
00:40:58
California. So and then there is total
00:41:02
technically recoverable this onshore and offshore, it's 30
00:41:05
billion undiscovered onshore, 100 and 5200 million, Yeah,
00:41:11
onshore and offshore undiscovered, offshore, 1 to 2
00:41:14
billion barrels. Yet for some reason we are
00:41:21
importing oil from the Bahamas while gas prices are going
00:41:25
through the roof. That's what they're sticking to.
00:41:29
You found something on Grok? Well, no, I know that the whole
00:41:32
thing is climate change. So, which again, none of this
00:41:37
makes sense for climate change, but we have other Western states
00:41:42
that produce oil that are a heck of a lot closer than the
00:41:44
Bahamas, New Mexico. Yeah. 166 million Colorado,
00:41:51
Alaska that we produce like 118 million barrels, the San Joaquin
00:41:58
Valley and offshore Wyoming, Utah like we have all these
00:42:02
states that are even closer. Again, none of this makes sense
00:42:07
about climate change like that. Like because they're just saying
00:42:11
we don't want to drill in California because we want to be
00:42:14
the cleanest state. But it's not really climate
00:42:16
change. It doesn't, you know, worldwide
00:42:19
because how does, how does it help the climate in the Bahamas,
00:42:23
in New Mexico and California or whatever?
00:42:25
Like the whole thing should be no drilling.
00:42:27
I mean, I don't agree with that. But if you're going to say this
00:42:30
is so bad, then we should just not be drilling.
00:42:33
Obviously, if it's just that terrible for the environment.
00:42:36
But I don't understand the logic because there is none.
00:42:40
And well, we're not going to drill here, but we'll drill
00:42:44
there and then import it all. So if we're going to just import
00:42:48
it, why don't we go to New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming?
00:42:54
Or why don't we build pipelines? That's something that
00:42:57
California. California is known as an oil
00:43:00
island because we don't have any Interstate pipes.
00:43:05
So there are like, to your point, there are states that
00:43:08
produce oil and pump oil, but we don't have any pipes into
00:43:12
California. So we could be importing oil
00:43:14
from within the United States, but we don't.
00:43:19
Instead we have to import it from third world countries like
00:43:23
Iraq and Guatemala and try anything of the other ones.
00:43:29
Well, you can say the Bahamas if you want to call that a third
00:43:30
world country there. Are no We're always like arguing
00:43:33
with other countries. And so no more Saudi Arabia for
00:43:36
you would like no more. I don't even know where we'd get
00:43:38
our gas anymore these days. Except the Bahamas, apparently.
00:43:42
I'd say I'm trying to get the quick answer here.
00:43:45
Of course it's giving me the huge print out of everything.
00:43:50
I picked the wrong setting for grok to answer my question.
00:43:57
While it's doing that, I want, I do want to pull this up because
00:44:00
I always bring this up about how California used to be a very big
00:44:08
oil producer. In fact, AP Getty, who made his
00:44:12
fortune, the guy who, you know, bankrolled Gavin Newsom, well,
00:44:17
not JP Getty. The Getty family who bankrolled
00:44:19
Gavin Newsom. They made their money and their
00:44:25
billions of dollars off of oil. They were an oil family.
00:44:28
And this, in fact, right here is what Los Angeles used to be.
00:44:32
LA was built on oil money like it was built on oil wealth, Oil
00:44:39
money, Lots of people, lots of prosperity and wealth.
00:44:43
I'm not saying we want to have all this again, but it shows you
00:44:46
how much oil is actually in California.
00:44:50
And they, because they're so stuck to their principles about
00:44:53
these green policies, they really cut off their nose to
00:44:57
spite their face and not just do the most simplest answer, which
00:45:01
is drill, baby, drill here, here in California.
00:45:05
And I feel like we're a broken record because we say this all
00:45:07
the time. You could create a booming
00:45:10
middle class, blue collar industry here in California if
00:45:15
you just took off the restrictions on drilling for oil
00:45:19
here and allowed it to be done here under our worker
00:45:22
protections under RI. If you want to make sure it's
00:45:26
environmentally sound, sure, go ahead, you can do that as well.
00:45:29
But who knows what's coming out of Iraq or Kuwait or the
00:45:33
Bahamas. I mean, you want to talk about
00:45:36
emissions and climate change and global warming.
00:45:39
Who knows what impact they're doing.
00:45:41
Do you think any of those countries really care about
00:45:44
climate change or anything like that?
00:45:46
Like does it does it make a difference that I I guess in
00:45:50
their mind in California, it doesn't make a difference if you
00:45:54
get oil from halfway around the world just because you didn't
00:45:58
drill here. So good for you.
00:46:00
Good on you. You didn't do anything here, but
00:46:03
instead you imported from around the world, which is.
00:46:07
Funny for a state that seems to care so much about immigration
00:46:12
at being anti ICE and like everyone should come here and
00:46:15
everywhere. No one is, you know, illegal on
00:46:18
stolen land and blah blah blah blah, blah.
00:46:20
But we're OK with those same people being affected in their
00:46:24
home country by bad policy, hostile child labor, probably
00:46:31
horrific working conditions. And you know, because we we all
00:46:36
know that there's there's sickness, illness involved often
00:46:41
with a lot of these types of industries.
00:46:43
And so that is where something America tries to at least be
00:46:47
really safe about. And usually these third world
00:46:52
countries don't have those, those type of safety working
00:46:55
conditions. And so for us to be saying, oh,
00:46:59
we're saving the climate by somehow getting this oil from
00:47:02
elsewhere where they don't have these safe working conditions
00:47:05
for the people, we're literally making them sick and not caring
00:47:08
about them. But I guess we care about them.
00:47:10
If they come here illegally, then we want to protect them.
00:47:14
But otherwise, out of sight, out of mind.
00:47:16
They're, we don't, we don't care.
00:47:18
They're just they're worthless to us or we don't, there's
00:47:22
nobody. I don't know.
00:47:22
I don't get it. All right, this was the number I
00:47:26
was looking for. Just to give you an idea of how
00:47:29
much they're they're ignoring the fact that they are actually
00:47:34
hypocrites on this whole climate change, carbon emissions by
00:47:38
importing it from the Bahamas. I asked Grok to tell me how much
00:47:42
CO2 emissions would an oil tanker put off just to get oil
00:47:49
from the Bahamas to California. It says 1000 30 metric tons of
00:47:57
CO2 and for analogy for passenger vehicles driven for
00:48:03
one year is the equivalent to an annual CO2 emissions from about
00:48:06
220 to 225 gasoline powered cars for an entire year.
00:48:11
So that's 225 cars driving for an entire year.
00:48:17
Fairly annual electric consumed about A140150 average US
00:48:21
households per year. Gasoline roughly the same as
00:48:26
burning about 110 to 115 gallons of gasoline.
00:48:31
That's enough to fill 2300 average car gas tanks for air
00:48:39
travel. So into the TO2O2 or air travel
00:48:43
similar to the CO2 from New York to Miami, or there is the
00:48:48
emission share from any transatlantic flight from New
00:48:52
York to London. It would take 25 to 30
00:48:56
mature trees to offset it. If you could somehow collect the
00:49:02
CO2 gas at standard temperature and pressure, it would fill a
00:49:05
volume equivalent to a cube roughly 9095 meters on each
00:49:10
side, taller than the Statue of Liberty, including its pedestal.
00:49:16
That's one trip. That's just one trip.
00:49:20
And how many trips are they? They said it's 40% of all gas is
00:49:23
being imported from the Bahamas. It's not like this is once a
00:49:27
year. This is happening probably every
00:49:30
month. We're getting these oil ship or
00:49:32
these gasoline shipments and that's how much CO2 you're
00:49:37
emitting. Rather than just drill and pump
00:49:41
it and refine it here in California and save yourself all
00:49:44
that CO2. But again, in California
00:49:47
politicians eyes, if CO2 is produced somewhere on the other
00:49:51
side of the globe, it doesn't matter as long as it's not
00:49:53
produced here in California. I know you didn't ask, but I'm
00:49:58
now curious about the comparison to cows, since, you know, the
00:50:01
cows are so evil with all their CO2 emissions and we've got to
00:50:06
get rid of the cows. We've got to get them out
00:50:10
because they're, they're apparently the problem.
00:50:12
It was polluting our air. We're having fun with with Grok
00:50:16
tonight. This.
00:50:18
Episode brought to you by Grok. This We're not sponsored by
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00:50:23
Anyone. We're not sponsored, but if Grok
00:50:25
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00:50:30
You might ask. Let's see, you can keep talking
00:50:37
while I'd wait for this answer. I don't have anything to.
00:50:40
Say you don't have anything to say.
00:50:41
OK, let's see. There's a straightforward
00:50:44
equivalence using cows primarily through their methane emissions
00:50:47
from blah blah blah. Cows are often citing climate
00:50:50
discussions for this reason, as methane is a potent greenhouse
00:50:53
gas converted to CO2. Single cow belches 220 lbs of
00:50:59
methane per year. This converts to a 2.8 metric
00:51:04
tons CO2 per cow per year using another percent.
00:51:10
But let's see, how many cows would it take?
00:51:15
It would take one trip is about 400 to 450 annual gas produced
00:51:23
by cows. So there you go.
00:51:27
And again, we have a lot of cows here.
00:51:29
If you ever drive up to five, everybody's very, very well well
00:51:32
aware of the Grapevine where you drive past those cow farms and
00:51:35
you can, you can smell that CO2 and that methane burning.
00:51:39
But. Practically next door in Cheeto.
00:51:42
Cheeto Hills. So that's, that's the irony and
00:51:46
that's why I wanted to bring this whole story up is because
00:51:49
it just seemed so hypocritical and stupid that as long as we
00:51:54
import it from halfway around the world, it doesn't matter.
00:51:57
We don't pretend those CO2 emissions happen, but you could
00:52:01
eliminate 1000 / 1000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per trip
00:52:08
if you just drilled here in California.
00:52:14
And not to mention it's costing us.
00:52:17
And it costs us because it's expensive.
00:52:19
We could be drilling here and producing oil here and flooding
00:52:23
and creating more supply and lowering the price.
00:52:26
But you know, hell, they could even if they want to because
00:52:32
they're Democrats. They could even tax it.
00:52:33
But they don't want to do that because they're so they're such
00:52:37
acolytes of the Church of Climate Change.
00:52:40
They just can't find their way around it and they can't fathom
00:52:45
actually drilling here because that's so evil.
00:52:48
All right. Any final thoughts about that
00:52:50
story? No.
00:52:53
OK, I'm going to look through some of the chat right now.
00:52:56
Thank you everyone again for tuning in.
00:53:00
Apologies for my voice being a little shaky tonight, but it's
00:53:04
much better than it was on Monday, Monday or Tuesday.
00:53:08
I was, I was down for the count. I thought I could power through
00:53:11
on Tuesday. I was like, I'm going to do it.
00:53:13
I'll be fine, I'll be fine. I'll just, you know, take some
00:53:15
cough drops. I'll be fine.
00:53:17
I was not doing well on Tuesday. I was like, I just have to go
00:53:19
lay down and watch a movie or something.
00:53:24
All right, thank you again everyone for tuning in.
00:53:27
I was somebody said Pelosi is just the puppeteer.
00:53:31
I won't repeat the end of that do All right, I think it's all
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00:53:57
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00:54:00
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