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And a Republican would be elected governor or of Jersey. Across the river, a governor would be elected governor of New York. Rather, a Republican would be elected, a governor of New York. And then we even had a Republican mayor, two of them in a row in New York City. Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg. Later on, he switched sides. What I'm saying is all my life lived in or next to Democratic states that had a lot of Democrats, and then every once in a while when they screwed up, they'd get punished. And they'd be out of power for eight years, maybe longer. And that happens in the state of Illinois. They've had their share of Republican governors as well. And this is not a commercial for Republican rule. I'm well aware of the many deficiencies they have. What I'm saying is when you're in power for a long time and you get arrogant and stupid and you start abusing the public, you need a punishment. And California is the only place where there's no punishment. You think the courts are lenient, the judges are lenient. Most of the state is lenient. And they're the victims of these political crimes. They're the victims of these economic crimes. And I don't know what's, I know there's been a lot of moderate people who moved out of the state. And that should be a sign. But why is it that the people who remain, and this poll indicates that the people in the middle are still leaning heavily to the likes of Xavier Becerra? It's absurd, really. Now, let me just give you some of the numbers. I mean, one of the problems with the world, obviously, is that 88% of Democrats are voting Democrat, and 91% of Republicans are voting Republican. So it looks like nobody, nobody analyzes anything down to the second sentence. They're just looking at the first sense. Steve Hilton is a Republican. Okay. Javier Milei is a network. Okay. But if you just like look around at your front door, pay attention for five minutes as to what you're stepping over in the streets, it's clear that Bakaria is of the same ilk as Gavin Newsom. And if you hate what's going on, why would you renew for another four years with the same philosophy? He has said there is nothing he would do differently than Gavin Newsom. I mean, he makes a little bit of noise on saying, you know, we've got to come up with a better way to build high speed rail. But he doesn't say, we ought to squash this project and cancel it. Doesn't do that. You know, he plays on the margins with an offhand comet here and there.

Los Angeles County is for Hilton. I'm sorry, Los Angeles County is for Baceres, 60 to 31. Orange County, slightly for Hilton, 49 to 45. San Diego County, 50 to 39. And it's, you know, they've got this poll director for Berkeley's IGS poll, Mark DiCameo. And he says, well, these are people who say, I identify as a progressive. I identify as a democratic socialist. They're overwhelmingly for Bissar it. Now, what is it that's appealing if you are a progressive? And I wish I could have conversations with these people, but they don't listen to this show. They don't communicate with us. I don't get emails. I don't get, we don't get anything. And I don't see anybody interviewing them. It's like, well, what exactly do you like? Now, I do see polls which say most people don't like what's going on in California. Most people say California is on the wrong track. Well, if you see that over and you say that over and over again, and it gets slightly worse and slightly worse or a lot worse, The only way to fix it is to change your voting patterns. There is no other way. Like I said, I grew up and lived in, worked in two states, Jersey and New York, where things went south. That'd be a correction. That was normal. First 30 years of my life was in those states. And even in California here, when I first moved to California in the 90s. It was Pete Wilson, then it was Gray Davis, then it was Schwarzenegger, then I went back to Jerry Brown, back and forth, back and forth. People in like one way, they went to the other. I remember back in the 90s, the Republicans actually had control of the assembly for a time. And you never had life like this. So I'm looking at all this polling here. And the reason. Most likely, the reason, let me rephrase this, the reason most likely voters support Xavier Becerra is 38% support traditional democratic policies. Now, here's what we have in the state. We have 550 a gallon gas. That is not a traditional democratic policy. That is a Gavin Newsom policy. And Xavier Becerra says he's not going to change it. Now, in New York and New Jersey, gas is a buck 50 cheaper, if not more. Illinois is probably a buck 50 cheaper. I didn't look at the exact numbers this morning, but that's been the general range. Generally, we're a buck 50 to $2 more than any other state. So it's not a Democratic policy. Not at all. So when you look at starting with the gas prices, look at the homeless situation. Is that a Democratic policy to leave them piled up on the streets? Well, you don't have this in any other cities and states. The country is roughly 50-50, Democratic and Republican. I grew up in Jersey. I wasn't far from Newark, which was a hellhole. Never saw a homeless body line in the streets of Newark. Even in New York, they take them off the street.

The homeless are guaranteed the right to shelter. They're not allowed to be on the street. Even Zohran Mamdani was taking people off the streets. So again, this is a California-L.A. specific thing. And it doesn't break into any neat political or ideological category. It's just weird behavior. It's just sick psycho behavior on the part of people in charge. Now... Let's see, 38% of voters vote for Xavier Becerra because he's traditional Democrat. Then 38% because Xavier Becerra is going to aggressively fight Trump administration policies. Exactly what? When they say that, what are they talking about? Because Trump cut off the homeless funding. to the Los Angeles Housing Services Authority. That's a good thing because they're a disaster. They've blown billions of dollars and the homelessness went up. So that's a good policy to cut off the money. I heard Catherine Barger, one of the L.A. County supervisors saying, yeah, money should be cut off from Lhasa. The county has cut off their money from Lhasa. They're not using them anymore. The state, Gavin Newsom. has cut some of the money. So is that a bad Trump policy? You know, this is what confuses me. Was it a bad Trump policy when he sent in the R.B. Car of Engineers right away and the EPA and all the other government agencies to clean up the palisades and out to Dina, to get rid of all the debris and then get rid of all the toxicity? So I don't understand. What is it that, that, I understand Trump's personality. I completely understand. But to broad brush and say all the policies have to be opposed, hey, he pulled the money from high speed rail. Does anybody think we should have more federal money or any money put into high speed rail? Now, Fontaine Gavin Newsom opposed when Trump pulled the money. They sued. And then they withdrew their lawsuit, as we told you yesterday on the show. Turned out they had repeatedly missed deadlines to use the money to buy trains. Now, what nobody has asked is we, Trump's administration gave them, well, it was probably Biden's administration, gave them billions of dollars, and they were supposed to buy trains, six of them. They never bought any. It's never been explained why. Where did the money go? Because now, by the end of next year, they're out of cash. By December of 2027, they're out of cash. So that was a good Trump policy from a federal point of view. It's like, yeah, we're turning this off. We gave you a chance. Repeatedly you missed deadlines. The money was supposed to go for the trains. You didn't buy the trains. Over and over again, you missed deadlines. This is just what I don't get. What's the point of fighting somebody, some administration that the state needs? Everybody whines and complains, well, you know, we pay so much in federal taxes, we don't get back enough. Well, then why would you constantly pick a fight for a guy who's not going to back down from a fight? Why would you constantly attack a guy who is hell-bent on revenge? Is that smart? Would you do that in your personal life?

Would you constantly take on somebody who's got more power and can do you more damage than you can do him? That's not smart. That's just an absurd reflex. Besides, he's done in two years. And this, the Sarah gets elected, that could be eight years. Steve Hilton. It says here, among his supporters, 55% support traditional Republican policies. I'm going to ask the same question. What's the traditional Republican policy that people are worked? Now, is it lowering taxes? Okay, we'll go with that. That's specific. Is that a bad thing, considering with the highest tax state in the nation, with little to show for it? Why is it wrong to say maybe we shouldn't be the highest tax state in the nation with all the degradation that we're putting up with? Maybe the lot of the money is wasted and stolen. I mean, I think Hilton is proving that with all his investigations. Dr. Oz's investigation into all the Medicaid fraud and Medicare fraud. Seems like it's a personally, perfectly rational thing to do.

Hilton has a 50% unfavorable rating. Exactly what is he done, which makes you go, ew, that's terrible. I mean, really, he's focused on the economy. Terrible amount of government waste, incredibly high taxes and regulation that chokes so many businesses. What's all? Trump likes him. So? Look at the policy. What? Like, I feel, I feel like, I feel like the whole state is filled with these little toddlers. Oh, he has cooties. You're friends with the kid who has cooties. You have cooties too. I don't like it. This is so frustrating. At least discuss this rationally. At least let's go issue by issue. You really think ass ought to be 5.50 when the rest of the country's at four? And if this war is ever over and the gas drops in the rest of the country to 250, we're still going to be a buck 50 to $2 more. It's just amazing. All right. We're going to go on to other stuff in just a moment. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our warfighters, advances life-saving health care, combat cyber threats, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage. This is Jacob Goldstein from What's Your Problem? Running a business is hard enough. Don't make it harder with a dozen apps that don't talk to each other. One for sales, another for inventory, a separate one for accounting. That's software overload. Odu is the all-in-one platform that replaces them all. CRM, accounting, inventory, e-commerce, HR, fully integrated, easy to use, and built to grow with your business. Thousands have already made the switch. Why not you? Try O-D-for-free at O-D-O-O-O dot com. That's O-D-O-D-com. This is Tony A.O. from The Real Report with Tony A.O. and Uncle Murder. You ever notice how everything keeps going up, rents going up, streaming services are going up? Even your favorite burrito spot suddenly thinks salsa should cost extra. But with Boost Mobile, you and your phone bill don't have to play the Willis Go Up Soon game because Boost Mobile has an unlimited talk, text, and data plan at a price that'll never go up. It's the same price you'll pay for life, meaning you're said to never worry about your bill increasing again for as long as you're on the plan. While the world keeps finding new ways, to nickel and dime you, Boost Mobile gives you unlimited wireless at one set price for life. Imagine something in your budget actually staying the same. You'll pay the same for unlimited wireless when you're posting mirror selfies in your 20s and when you're posting mirror selfies in retirement. Some things never change. Switch now for unlimited wireless at a price that will never go up, only at Boost Mobile. After 30 gigabytes, customers may experience slower speeds. Customers will pay $25 a month as long as they remain active on a boost.

Unlimited plan. Some people like working twice as hard just to stay right where they are. And in Ohio, we really don't get it. Because to us, owning a home in your 30s, working in tech without the traffic, and still being able to make it to your kids' soccer game, sounds pretty good. In fact, Ohio is the second most affordable state to buy a home. Your move? Learn more at Your MoveOhio.com. But should we do the comments down? All right? Yeah, do it. All right. Let's do some listener comments here. And, you know what? I've got to figure out how I can, because it looks really tiny. Oh, I need to have a full screen on my screen. And then I could see everything better. You want me to read them? Well, let me see. What's his name? Why don't you say the name? And then I'll do the comment. All right. This is from Senile Joe 7932. All right, Senile. One of the last people in L.A. radio that actually tells the truth. Well, thank you. And why is that? Why isn't everybody who has a show talking about this stuff? Why isn't this on the news every day? We can't do this by ourselves here. All right. Who's the next person? Mr. Warhammer 8834. All right. 1980 Democrats are no longer Democrats. A lot of them are no longer alive. That's another problem because out of the factory comes all these Democratic Socialists. Have you seen the freaks really coming out of the universities now? Oh my God. Yeah, that's difficult. But you know something? That's an easy way to go. But truthfully, they don't vote that much. Young people vote at very low rates. I don't know why the media gets all whipped up about what young voters want. That's better what they want. They don't vote. Voting patterns are overwhelmingly 45 plus. They are. People don't vote very much at all until they're 30. I didn't. I don't think I voted in an election until, yeah, it was probably about 30. Oh, why would I? Running around single, bouncing from town to town doing radios, you know, running around at night, drinking with my buddies. But that was not of any interest to be until I got married and then I had kids. Then I started doing this kind of radio and I put it all together. But, you know, so what people, the young people that they're constantly, and even when I, even when I was like 20 years old, I thought most of the people in my age group were idiots. I really did. I don't know if I was like an old guy at 20, but I looked and it's like, people are dopes. You don't know anything. Let's do some more here. Mr. Warhammer's got one more. All right. I'm a registered independent. I'm not voting for Javier Milei. Well, no, you shouldn't. If he does, anybody who comes and says he's going to continue all of Gavin Newsom's policies. Like, what the hell? I mean, the other, you'll see when Gavin Newsom runs.

When he runs for president and he's in the Democratic primary, watch the other Democrats chop him up into little pieces. The other Democratic governors who don't have the crap going on in this state. That's what I'm saying. It's like, oh, he's, that's democratic policies. It's not democratic policies in a lot of states. This is peculiar just to hear. And I realize one of the biggest issues is that most people don't travel very much. They really don't. And it's expensive. But if you get to other states, and I've been to a lot of states, mostly because my kids all moved. Yeah, my young people, my three sons, none of them want to live in Los Angeles. They think this place is nuts. And they've gone everywhere else. the Great Plains, the Midwest, the South, the East. I mean, there's just, and they come back here, and they go, what the hell is going on? And I don't think most people know how nice it is once you get out of here. And it didn't used to be that way. So I don't understand this Democratic policy, Republican policy thing. I can name you 10 Democratic states that are very pleasant to go visit. And, you know, 10 Republican states. It's not, it's what's peculiar to hear. All right. Let's do another one. All right. This is from Misfit from Zanty. Misfit from Zanty. Oh my God. Oh, my God. That effing train. Yeah, that effing train. They're going. We talked about this this week, but that train now is running out of cash in about 16 months. They'll be out of cash because they have no funding sources. They have blown $15, $16, $17 million, a different number in every article. There's no train. There's no tracks. And Xavier Becerra says, we're going to keep going. They need tens of billions of dollars just to do Bakersfield to Merced. And then this week, we found out it's not Bakersfield to Merced. It's a few miles outside of the two downtowns. So you're going to have to take a bus. or a taxi or something to get to downtown Bakersfield and downtown Merced. This is after they complete that stretch. It's still not going to connect the two cities. This probably wouldn't happen until the 2040s. So you're going to see another 20 years of them attempting to build this thing. In the Julie Watts story, CBS Sacramento, they haven't ordered the trains yet. When they do, it's going to take four years to build and at least another two to four years to test. So even if they bought them tomorrow, then they wouldn't be ready until 2034 or 2035 for passengers.

And then, that's assuming nothing else goes wrong, and they get the money, and it still doesn't connect Bakersfield. And Merced. This is how crazy it is. Now, if Barracera has such bad judgment, such stupid judgment, or is so corrupt and bent over for the unions, just on high-speed rail, there's probably 15 other things he's not going to be able to manage properly. He doesn't tell you the truth about high speed rail. In fact, for two months, he didn't talk to reporters. Yesterday, he talked to reporters for the first time in two months and reaffirmed his support for high speed rail allowed that, you know, we've got to do things differently. What are you going to do differently? Maybe buy a train, maybe get track laid down. It's just crazy. Let's do one more. All right. This is from J.G.H. 6012. So glad my husband and I left California. I listen to the show almost every day and just laugh because things will never change in California. Well, I may be a stupid optimist, but I think there's got to be 15% of the state that's persuadable. 10% of the state. Generally, the Republicans. And they run bad campaigns, and they've had a lot of bad candidates, and they have their share of stupid ideas. But generally, they get 40%. One out of 10 people. One out of 10 people, if you could switch from being an independent voter or a soft Democrat voter just by running on the obvious, does that seem so difficult to do?

We'll get back. All right. I'll do probably more. Now, by the way, if you're just joining us, it's John Cobalt show, the special live stream hour we're doing today. Special live stream, not quite an hour. We only have one hour on the radio today between three and four o'clock. The Los Angeles Chargers have their first preseason game at four, and the coverage begins, I should say that. So we only get one hour. Thought we do an extra one. I want to talk about Luigi Mangione here because he's supposed to plead guilty. I don't know if it happened yet. Last I checked it hadn't. He's going to plead guilty on a federal stalking charge, not a murder charge. I'll explain all this in a moment. And this stalking charge could get him the death penalty. And Luigi Mangione was this guy who killed Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare. Out on the streets of New York, I think it was at 6.45 in the morning. He's going to go on trial on a state murder charge September 8th. But they gave up on the federal charge. And this is fascinating because the federal charge that he's pleading carries a potential life sentence. And I remember talking with Royal Oaks for ABC News about this. There is rare, there really isn't a general federal murder charge. There is if you kill somebody on federal property. But if you kill somebody in the street, it's a state charge. So you have to go by the state of New York laws. So that's the murder charge. So the feds came up with a stalking charge because he did. stalked Brian Thompson for a while before he actually killed him. And maybe it's because he crossed state lines to do so. I don't know the specifics. But under federal law, stalking carries a potential life sentence. And the top federal prosecutor, Jamie McDonald in Manhattan said that They're not commenting right now, and neither is Mangione's attorneys. His lawyers are going to try to seek dismissal of the state charges on double jeopardy. Although I think we've had plenty of cases where somebody's been charged with a federal crime and also a state crime. That's not unusual, so I don't think that would go anywhere.

The Justice Department has said they're going to seek the death penalty for Mangione. And if they do that, it's not going to make a difference what happens with the state case. The state charges include second-degree murder, and that could be 25 to life. Now, the state says it can prosecute Mangione because the state charges address murder rather than the stalking case. So that's why I think the defense attorney's arguments are going to fall apart. It's not double jeopardy. It's not the same charge. It's stalking in the federal case, murder in the state case, even though the stalking case could result in a harsher sentence. You can get death for that. Can't get the death penalty in the state of New York. I don't believe they have it. Have you seen, by the way, the wacky girls who support Luigi Mangione? I just, a lot of overfed ladies, but wow, he's got people who just go crazy for him. It's just so good. And this was, I'm like marveling in a lot of ridiculous human behavior this morning. Not only the absurdity of people who hate the direction California is going, but are willing to vote for a guy who promises, literally promises out loud more of the same. And then you've got a guy who killed another man on camera in daylight and you're in love with him. And it's just we are an absurd species. We really are ridiculous. All right. Let me move on here. If we got any more comments, we could also take a few more comments. Okay. All right. Anything good. Yeah. And then I'm going to talk about this ridiculous story in the L.A. Times. on the LAPD issuing a report on how they handled the ICE riots. More absurd illogic. All right, let's do a few more here. All right, this is from George Hernandez 9420. Ever since Pete Wilson messed up the Republican Party in California, it's never been the same, but there's hope with Steve Hilton. I don't know what Wilson did. The 90s were a glorious time, so I don't think I agree with that. That was a great time in California. I mean, we were here for that. We couldn't believe how wonderful it was here. This is from Bernard Ryan 2870. Federal charges should put this city council in prison. Free housing for them. Yeah, I... I dream about that every day. Although there's another guy who may be going to jail, Curran Price. Oh, yeah, yeah. Current Price is another L.A. City Councilman. And he was, I think, officially charged this week, corruption charges involving some money laundering scheme with his wife.

is a short way to describe it. Curran Price, he's another jackass who came after us publicly some years ago. I like all our city council critics, like him, Mark Ridley Thomas, prison. All going to be in prison. But you know what they did? They put Curran Price on some kind of committee to oversee law enforcement. Yeah, he's chairing the committee that oversees law enforcement. The guy who's probably going to prison. The contempt, Marquise Harris Dawson is the city council president. The contempt Dawson has for all of us is overwhelming. And of course, it gets very little coverage in the media. What else we got here? All right. This is from Chris Holtgren 777. We need a broom party that just sweeps all these corrupt politicians out of office. Well, when you get somebody who's making sense and Hilton is making sense, I mean, I read these criticisms of him, and I know it's just partisan trolls. It's like, well, he has a British accent. It's like, you know, would you rescind your citizenship? Would you like deport yourself? Trump likes him. Oh, for God's sakes. You're paying $5.50 a gas for gas, and we have a high-speed rail project for 18 years. We have the highest unemployment in the country. We have the highest inflation rate in the country. Highest tax rate, most poverty, worse roads. Oh, that's another thing with Bissar. Bissar, when he's asked about the gas tax, it's like, well, you know, you want good roads, don't you? We've had this absurd gas tax for a long time, and we have the worst roads every year, according to third-party analysts. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our war fighters, delivers mission-ready intelligence, advances life-saving healthcare, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage. This is Jacob Goldstein from What's Your Problem? Running a business is hard enough. Don't make it harder with a dozen apps that don't talk to each other. One for sales, another for inventory, a separate one for accounting. That's software overload. Odu is the all-in-one platform that replaces them all. CRM, accounting, inventory, e-commerce, HR, fully integrated, easy to use, and built to grow with your business. Thousands have already made the switch. Why not you? Try O-D-for-free at O-D-O-O dot com. That's O-D-O-O-com.

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Monks got a strong whiff of the tear gas, didn't he? Well, because he was violent and he was out of order. And the decision to use gas reflected extreme conditions faced at the height of the unrest. Do you know they had not used tear gas, which I don't believe since the 1970s, according to this L.A. Times story, that can't be. They can use tear gas during the Rodney King riots. This is what I'm saying? I can't read anything before I stop and go. That can't be true. Seriously? Were they launching 50-year-old tear gas canisters? Jim McDonald said the level of violence, I've been doing this for 45 years. I have not seen that here or anywhere else in the country. He said 50 offices were injured. But here's the wussy part of the report. Well, we'll see part of the reaction. In the view of some long-time department observers, there wasn't any reflection about the officer's use of less lethal weapons that left hundreds of people injured and drew strong condemnation from human rights groups. Well... I don't understand if the police are getting hit with rocks and bottles and fireworks and Molotov cocktails, how could they're lucky they didn't get lethal force. What all these protesters deserved, I think, was a machine gun. That's what they should have gotten. And apparently there was a commission meeting on Tuesday. There was a 45-minute public comment period. Dozens of speakers showed up, and they're all angry. This is just amazing. You have all these taxpayer-funded groups who start riots, attack police viciously. When the police gassed them, they didn't machine gun them, they gassed them. Then they go to the police commission meeting and complain about how they were treated.

And of course, they're going to sue and they're going to make money. And journalists showed up and complained. Well, you know what? I'm all for journalists, except if there's a riot breaking out, don't go stand in the middle of the riot. You might get hit. You might get gassed. I mean, what do you think is going to happen? And then what? You're going to file a lawsuit and complain about it? The commission president, Rasha Gergis Shields, there's a name. She said they should have examined whether reforms that were called for in 2020 had been implemented. But this is wartime. This is warfare. What you have to do is anything to stop the violence so that innocent people and police officers don't get hurt. Oh, officers were shown trampling demonstrators on horseback. That's good. Less lethal launchers at people's heads. Good. Maybe they'll go back home. Again, that was our tax money financing this stuff. I got no sympathy at all, at all for these protesters. You know, they were lucky. They were absolutely lucky that they weren't just all mowed down.

The review was hyper-focused on the threats faced by officers. But had little to say about the less lethal weapons. Well, we already discussed that. All right, let me see. A few more. And then we'll wrap this thing up here. All right. This is from the Bandana Rana. The police were restrained from doing their jobs. Yeah, that's been the general policy in L.A. You know, we talked yesterday about how the police aren't allowed to, aren't allowed to stop all the animal abuse and the murders on Skid Row. And of course, you know, from 2020 onward, they were defunded and told to stay in their cars for a time. And I, I, I, it's, it's made things awful. You know, when they didn't stop the riding in 2020, what did we end up with? Huge swaths of L.A. businesses went out of business, never returned. Empty storefront, still everywhere on the boulevards. So what was the point of that? Let's get another one here. This is from Sedan for Life. Biggest trash in L.A. is Karen Bass. Yeah. Except what do you think is going to happen? She still got 35% of the vote. And Nithya Raman is so abhorrent that Bass has a decent chance of winning another four years. And look at all the stuff she doesn't care about now. Imagine she gets four years. She's not going to do anything to make the place better. She'll be prattling about the stupid Olympics the whole time. I've seen another one here. All right. Sheila G70. John, any suggestions that I had to help people open their eyes? It's like the walking blind. I wrestle with that question every day because if you take your comment literally and they have their eyes open, they look around and who else are you going to hold responsible other than the current government? Who else? And if you went to any other state and almost any other city, you know, outside of the whack job cities on the West Coast, and you don't find this, is that a, like a clue that this is self-inflicted, man-made disaster that can be fixed? This can be fixed quickly. I know it can. New York went through a real rough period when I lived there in the 90s. And the Rudy Giuliani came in almost overnight, everything. was made wonderful. And everybody knows this. Everybody knows exactly what to do. This is on purpose. Like the homeless thing is on purpose so everyone could make money from all the taxes that have been raised that have been increased. And they did it right in front of us. People went for their lives whenever they have elections and whenever there's campaigns for tax increases. And the majority believes them. People pay so little attention. They don't even pay attention to what's in front of them, to what they're walking through, to what's being taken out of their paycheck, to the prices. The prices here are higher than everywhere else.

Because of the policies we have. Play some more. The Three Suns Channel. Our high California gas prices, let me see this again. Our high California cash price, I mean Gavin Newsom will never be present. Yes. Gavin Newsom is never going to be president. It's going to be entertaining to see the hype about him. But. The other, I read there might be as many as 12 or 13 Democratic candidates. They're all just as ambitious. And some of them are reasonable. Some of them have better records as governor. Some of them represent states that I've been to and there is no such thing as what the life we have here. It just doesn't exist. I got a friend who lives in Kentucky. He's pretty left wing. He's got a Democratic governor in a Republican majority state. Andy Beshear, he says this place runs great. And not because there's all these left-wing policies in place. It, because it runs great. You can be left-wing and want to spend more on your social programs. But being left-wing in creating the disgusting mess in the streets and all crime, that's anarchy. That's not Democrat or Republican. That's anarchy. That's destroying civilization. which is what the DSA is about. All right. We're done for now. And I'm glad you joined us. Get some of this out of my system. We only have an hour today. So if you want to hear the show new stuff today, three to four o'clock, and this will be a podcast. This will remain on YouTube as well if you only caught part of it, record it. And then we'll do one more hour. And then the Chargers pregame comes on at four. And we'll be back to normal. tomorrow, Friday. All right? Thank you for joining us on this special extra hour of the John Cobalt Show live stream. See you later.

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