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Speaker 1: Live from Vaal Hartbeyer and the Crossroads of America.

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Speaker 2: It's Tony Katz today.

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Speaker 3: Welcome everybody to Tony Katz today, this Monday, August twenty fifth.

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Speaker 3: As you could probably tell by now, Tony Katz is out.

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Speaker 3: He's doing the Lord's work out there today, going out

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Speaker 3: and supporting the community. He asked me last night, last minute,

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Speaker 3: can I fill in? Of course, I love the TKT audience.

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Speaker 3: I'm Cure Dave. That's filling in for my good friend

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Speaker 3: Tony Katz, coming to you live from southern California. That's right.

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Speaker 3: I am behind the communist wall here in California. You

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Speaker 3: by my book drawing Lines why Conservatives must be into

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Speaker 3: battle fiercely in the arena of ideas, or just search

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Speaker 3: my name on Google. I am not the Hollywood producer

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Speaker 3: named Kia Davis or the anime voiceover named Kia Davis.

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Speaker 3: Who do There were so many amazing Kira Davis's out there.

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Speaker 3: This means I have to step up my game. I've

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Speaker 3: got to be number one in the search results. So

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Speaker 3: we're going to have a rock and show today in

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Speaker 3: pursuit of that very important goal. But we've got a

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Speaker 3: lot going on. I mean, even as I was getting

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Speaker 3: turn off the President. I was waiting for him to

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Speaker 3: finish his Oval Office press conference. He's signing a bunch

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Speaker 3: of executive orders, and it's just it's we're an hour

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Speaker 3: in now, an hour in. President Trump. Last I check

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Speaker 3: was still talking and I had to come to the mic.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't finish. I was really hoping to get some clips.

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Speaker 3: We've got a little bit. We'll see what else pops

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Speaker 3: up during the show and I'll play those for you.

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Speaker 3: But we definitely need to address what went on there today,

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Speaker 3: what's still going on. But before we start that, I

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Speaker 3: just want to say that President Trump has been talking

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Speaker 3: all morning. I tuned into the news on Saturday, and

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Speaker 3: and then he went to the Oval Office and sat

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Speaker 3: in there for another ninety and then he left there

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Speaker 3: and he went somewhere else and talked to the press

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Speaker 3: and anyone who was there for another ninety minutes. And

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Speaker 3: I know that at this point in our history, this

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Speaker 3: is just stating the obvious, but I cannot get over

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Speaker 3: the stark difference between this president and what we have

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Speaker 3: endured for the last four years. And I think the

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Speaker 3: longer this goes on, the more I realize how traumatized

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Speaker 3: we really were. I think all Americans are having this experience.

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Speaker 3: I believe you are too. I think a lot of

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Speaker 3: us are. We're going to connect this to what's going

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Speaker 3: on here in California with our esteemed Governor Gavin Newsom,

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Speaker 3: who I'm positive you've seen in the news lately. Weird

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Speaker 3: stuff going on here, weird, weird stuff, but it's all connected.

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Speaker 3: But the Democrats think, as led by their weird Disney

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Speaker 3: adult leader Gavin Newsom, the Democrats think that messaging is

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Speaker 3: going to change things, and we would just change the

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Speaker 3: way we message our messages. It's going to change things.

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Speaker 3: And it's just a matter of going to find, you know,

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Speaker 3: going back to remind those people that didn't vote in

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Speaker 3: that hey, we're here for you. Whatever they want to

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Speaker 3: go get the voters that they lost. I get it.

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Speaker 3: But the whole what they don't understand is that everybody

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Speaker 3: in America we're just we're not far enough away from

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Speaker 3: the Biden administration to forget what they did to us.

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Speaker 3: We're not. We are because we're still living in the

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Speaker 3: after effects. That's why I think things like the Sydney

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Speaker 3: Sweeney thing, other cultural things that might be coming up.

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Speaker 3: You've seen all these sorority pledging videos that are We're

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Speaker 3: why they matter, because the reason why is we're still

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Speaker 3: the cracker barrel thing. Great example, we'll talk about that

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Speaker 3: today too, the cracker barrel thing. The redesign, it's not

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Speaker 3: like necessarily a woke redesign, but what it is is

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Speaker 3: the fumes. It's the leftover, it's the fumes of the

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Speaker 3: DEI CRT progressive movement. So they're still putting out those

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Speaker 4: But I guess the idea, I guess the idea behind

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Speaker 3: But all it does is remind us that you're not

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Speaker 3: what we voted for. You're not what we voted for.

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Speaker 3: That's what we are seeing now. Everything is still so

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Speaker 3: It hasn't been long enough to forget what they did

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Speaker 3: to us. So everybody sees it. Everybody sees what Gavin

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Speaker 3: And I know for you out there, you might be

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Speaker 3: feeling frustrated because the media is doing. The mainstream media

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Speaker 3: Make no mistake. Just because you see it on TV,

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Speaker 3: just because they're talking head say it doesn't mean that

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Speaker 3: we proved that last November. So what we are seeing,

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Speaker 3: what we are witnessing right here is a market correction

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Speaker 3: at thirty thousand feet and the Democrats don't know what

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Speaker 3: to do. That's clear. We talk Tony talks about it

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Speaker 3: every day. We talk about it on the show every day.

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Speaker 3: What is happening here is that the fumes of the

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Speaker 3: Americans have not forgotten. So every time we see President

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Speaker 3: It is a stark reminder of what we came through

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Speaker 3: just months ago. So the President was in the Oval

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Speaker 3: executive order prosecuting the burning of the American flag. Now,

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Speaker 3: there are a lot of people are saying, look, Scotus

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Speaker 3: has already ruled on this. It's perfectly legal to burn

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Speaker 3: the flag. It is a pretty is a form of

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Speaker 3: We can't become them. This is authoritarianism. However, and by

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Speaker 3: I see their point, and Scotis did rule on it.

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Speaker 3: That being said, I was watching the President as he

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Speaker 3: going to jail for a year immediately, because that's a

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Speaker 3: where we see incidences a public burning of the American flag,

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Speaker 3: we're going to investigate. The dj and the Three Letter

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Speaker 3: agencies are going to investigate. And if we find that

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Speaker 3: That's what it says. So I've been waiting for the

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Speaker 3: executive order email to come through because the White House

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Speaker 3: So here is what it says. Here's the executive order

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Speaker 3: the authority vested in me YadA, YadA. Our great American

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Speaker 3: Over nearly two and a half centuries, many thousands of

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Speaker 3: special symbol on our national life that we should unite

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Speaker 3: A walk of life. Desecrating it is uniquely offensive and provocative.

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Speaker 3: It is a statement of contempt, hostility, and violence against

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Speaker 3: political union that preserves our rights, liberty, and security. Burning

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Speaker 3: this representation of America may incite violence and riot. American

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Speaker 3: flag burning is also used by groups of foreign nationals

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Speaker 3: as a calculated act to intimidate and threaten violence against

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Speaker 3: Americans because of their nationality and place of birth. Notwithstanding

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Speaker 3: the Supreme Court's ruling on First Amendment protections, the Court

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Speaker 3: has never held that American flag desecration conducted in a

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Speaker 3: that his action amounting to quote fighting words is constitutionally protected.

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Speaker 3: See Texas v. Johnson for any one US Section three

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Speaker 3: ninety seven. My administration will act to restore respect and

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Speaker 3: for the updates because everything that Trump says, everything, they

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Speaker 3: I think I want to talk about this morning. I

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Speaker 3: I'm Kia Davis. I'm filling in for Tony Katz, and

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Speaker 3: you're listening to Tony Katz today. Welcome back to Tony

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Speaker 3: Katz today. I'm Kira Davis filling in for my good

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Speaker 3: friend Tony Katz and a hearty congratulations to a great

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Speaker 3: event over the weekend Hollywood to the Heartland with our

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Speaker 3: mutual good friend Nick Searcy. He was there. It was whiskey,

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Speaker 3: it was cigars, it was conversation. Sold out. Looks like

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Speaker 3: it was a great time. So to everybody who went.

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Speaker 3: I'm jealous, but I'm glad you had a good time

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Speaker 4: Well.

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Speaker 3: We've been talking about President Trump's executive order that he

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Speaker 3: just signed to ban flag burning. Now, I've been explaining

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Speaker 3: that it's actually not as cat and dry as social

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Speaker 3: media is making it sound. Right now, Conservatives are going

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Speaker 3: nuts right now on social media. This is not what

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Speaker 3: we do. This is not free speech. I have some

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Speaker 3: things to say about it, but let's just hear what

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Speaker 3: Trump said just moments ago in the Oval Office about

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Speaker 3: the executive Order on flag burning. Let's play that clip.

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Speaker 5: When you burn the American flag, it incites rios at

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Speaker 5: levels that we've never seen before. People go crazy in

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Speaker 3: camp at city hall. That's illegal, so the police should

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Speaker 3: move these people out. Well, their response was to make

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Speaker 3: it legal, and they never made it illegal after. So

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Speaker 3: the first Occupy Wall Street protests I covered was in Denver,

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Speaker 3: and when I went there. I went down to the

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Speaker 3: encampment in the park which is right across from city

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Speaker 3: Hall in Denver, and it was three quarters homeless people. Now,

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Speaker 3: they all had signs in front of their tents, you know,

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Speaker 3: the activists were giving them signs, and the activists were

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Speaker 3: feeding them to keep them there, all this stuff. But

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Speaker 3: it was mostly homeless people then, and then I knew

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Speaker 3: it was a problem. So it not enforcing those laws. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it is connected to terrorism. It is just the most

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Speaker 3: basic laws like that. Because then the Democrats and their

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Speaker 3: progressive looney allies come in and they go, great, we've

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Speaker 3: moved this law. This is one last law for the

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Speaker 3: right to trigger, and then we can go in and

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Speaker 3: cause havoc. And that's what they do with the flag burning.

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Speaker 3: And that's why I think it does matter to say no.

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Speaker 3: If you violate outdoor camping laws that are in every

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Speaker 3: state for good reason, if you violate outdoor burn laws

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Speaker 3: which are there for good reason, then we're going then

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Speaker 3: we're just going to use the law that's available to us.

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Speaker 3: I don't see anything wrong with that, and that's in

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Speaker 3: the executive order. This is leadership. I don't think this

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Speaker 3: is censorship. This is leadership. Again, it is not illegal

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Speaker 3: to burn the American flags. GOTUS has already ruled on that.

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Speaker 3: What Trump is talking about is cleaning up this country.

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Speaker 3: It's a disaster from top to bottom. That's what's going on.

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Speaker 3: I need conservatives to buck up, serious sleep. This is

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Speaker 3: where we're at. We didn't want to get here. Did

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Speaker 3: you think that we were going to elect Donald Trump

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Speaker 3: and then everything was just going to go back to

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Speaker 3: normal and everything was going to be fine. No, in

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Speaker 3: order to reverse some of this very despicable stuff that's

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Speaker 3: been happening to us, a lot of people are going

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Speaker 3: to have to get uncomfortable. But again, I don't think

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Speaker 3: Trump is working outside the constitution here. I read the EO.

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Speaker 3: I suggest that you do that too. This is part

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Speaker 3: of a larger plan. Are you starting to see it?

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Speaker 3: This is not about Russiagate or the border or tariffs.

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Speaker 3: It's about Russiagate, the border, tariffs, and it's about all

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Speaker 3: of it. It is about a leader who is trying

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Speaker 3: to remind Americans that we're in control of ourselves. We

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Speaker 3: need to take control back. We don't have to let

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Speaker 3: these things happen to us. Trump has cleaned up DC

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Speaker 3: and it was almost immediately, just like the border. You

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Speaker 3: and I know this because we're smart people. You're listening

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Speaker 3: to Tony Katz, You're a smart person. We already know

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Speaker 3: that if you lock your door, you're gonna be safer.

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Speaker 3: You know, it's common sense, but it's not that common anymore.

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Speaker 3: All we're seeing here is a return of common sense.

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Speaker 3: But there's a lot that has to happen at the

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Speaker 3: same time. You understand that it's all hands on deck.

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Speaker 3: You can't just say we just we changed the White

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Speaker 3: House and now we can relax for a little bit.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have to do impossible things. One of the

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Speaker 3: things that Trump is doing is it is cleaning up

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Speaker 3: America cities. On my sub stock, I wrote an article

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Speaker 3: this is a few weeks maybe last month, maybe two

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Speaker 3: months ago. It's called It's time to take back America's Cities.

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Speaker 3: You can go look it up. I wrote it months ago,

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Speaker 3: and I said, look, I remember it was during the

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Speaker 3: la Ice riots, which is isn't that qua to think about?

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Speaker 3: We're four hundred and fifty end of democracies into the

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Speaker 3: crisis cycle here. According to the left, it's so quiet. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: back during the la Ice riot, so so We don't

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Speaker 3: have to live like this America. We don't Californians. So

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Speaker 3: I'm going to talk about California specifically next hour because

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Speaker 3: I know you guys want to hear my perspective on

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Speaker 3: what's going on here from an insider. But Californians in particular,

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Speaker 3: and I think New York City has this problem, and

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Speaker 3: a lot of other cities have this problem. People have

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Speaker 3: resigned themselves and it's this way it is. It's just

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Speaker 3: how life is. We don't have to live like this.

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Speaker 3: I think once we begin to see that we don't,

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Speaker 3: that is going to spread, and it is spreading. So

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Speaker 3: President Trump is not just stopping in DC. He knows

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Speaker 3: that we are never going to win future elections if

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Speaker 3: we don't wrestle these cities back into some kind of

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Speaker 3: decent life cycle. All right, let's take a break and

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Speaker 3: when we come back, I'll explore that a little bit more.

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Speaker 3: I'm Kia Davis filling in for Tony Kats and you're

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Speaker 3: listening to Tony Kats today. Well, come back, everybody too,

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Speaker 3: Tony Kats today, this Monday morning, August twenty fifth, getting

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Speaker 3: your week started right. Tony's not here today, but he'll

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Speaker 3: be back. He's out there serving the community today. I'm

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Speaker 3: Kia Davis sitting in for TONI. You can look me

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Speaker 3: up on the ex at Real Kia Davis. Go find

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Speaker 3: my podcast. Just listen to yourself with Kiara Davis. We're

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Speaker 3: talking about the flag burning band. A lot of conservatives,

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Speaker 3: particularly up in arms. I haven't even really I haven't

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Speaker 3: gone over to Blue Sky yet. I'll do that in

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Speaker 3: the next break. I opened a Blue Sky account of

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Speaker 3: if you don't know what Blue Sky is. Blue Sky

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Speaker 3: is the liberal alternative to X when Elon bought X

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Speaker 3: and they all had their temper tantons and we're going

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Speaker 3: to take our ball and go somewhere else. So they

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Speaker 3: went to Blue Sky, and oh boy. I opened an

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Speaker 3: account recently because I wanted to see what they were

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Speaker 3: saying about something I can't even remember. And oh my goodness,

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Speaker 3: ten minutes over there, it's insane. It's clown town over there.

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Speaker 3: They are, so I don't know what the liberals are saying.

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Speaker 3: This is more conservatives are more upset about this than anything.

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Speaker 3: But this just dropped. I don't have to clip and

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Speaker 3: I'll just read the post to you. This dropped from

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Speaker 3: town Hall again as I'm on radio the Trump and

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Speaker 3: his team, they're still talking in the White House. Stephen

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Speaker 3: Miller says that criminals in DC were doing business directly

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Speaker 3: with foreign terrorists organizations. This is a quote. Not only

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Speaker 3: was the city being run by these criminal thugs, but

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Speaker 3: they were working with some of the most dangerous terrorist

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Speaker 3: organizations on the planet to traffic weapons and drugs into

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Speaker 3: the city. And then the top comment right underneath that is,

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Speaker 3: in Chicago, the cartels work directly with the aldermen and

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Speaker 3: city officials to facilitate arm sales into the city. For example,

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Speaker 3: Representative Chi Garcia is a cartel member currently in Congress.

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Speaker 3: This is the crisis in Chicago. I can tell you

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Speaker 3: that it is the same way in Los Angeles. As

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Speaker 3: a matter of fact, just a few weeks ago, a

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles councilwoman got caught I think she's an Assembly

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Speaker 3: representative got caught. A Latino. A Latina got caught asking

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Speaker 3: the gangs, where are you come out here and fight?

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Speaker 3: Ice telling the gang to me that says she has

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Speaker 3: communication with the gangs. Do you see what I'm saying?

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Speaker 3: Y'all are worried about. Is this a free speech violation

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Speaker 3: which Trump is not going to do because he's got

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Speaker 3: lawyers and he knows what he can get away with

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Speaker 3: him what he can't. Y'all are so worried about that,

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Speaker 3: you're not thinking about that. Trump knows stuff that we

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Speaker 3: don't know. Steven Miller, just what he just said is huge.

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Speaker 3: Do you guys understand You might know it intellectually, you

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Speaker 3: might know it in your spirit because you walk around

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Speaker 3: your city and you see and you're like, yeah, these

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Speaker 3: people have to be working with gangs. For a government

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Speaker 3: official to say it, that is a big deal. Do

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Speaker 3: you understand that? That is what is going on in

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Speaker 3: our cities? When you look around at our American cities

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Speaker 3: and you go, what is going on? Why is every

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Speaker 3: city so crazy? Yes, it's progressive leaders, but also it's

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Speaker 3: because they are Every major American city is owned by

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Speaker 3: the cartels or a foreign terrorist organization or both. This

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Speaker 3: is war. This is war. I don't think. I don't

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Speaker 3: think people get it. Yet Trump gets it. That's why

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Speaker 3: he won. And I'm not trying to be I know,

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Speaker 3: I sound like a Maga influencer here. I'm not trying

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Speaker 3: to be super Maga. Oh Trump can do no wrong.

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Speaker 3: I really am not. I promise you. I am trying

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Speaker 3: to be objective as possible because I do understand that

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Speaker 3: there is a danger of us over correcting here and

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Speaker 3: creating more problems for ourselves down the road. But I

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Speaker 3: actually don't have any control over that. But I do

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Speaker 3: like what I'm seeing because I do think America is

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Speaker 3: that critical mass and it is going to take some

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Speaker 3: bold action. And I don't think Americans understand how close

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Speaker 3: we came to dying, how close this country came to ending.

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Speaker 3: Terrorists are in control of our major American cities. We're

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Speaker 3: about to put a socialist, a communist, in charge of

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Speaker 3: New York City. So yeah, the President Dan Wilbetter used

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Speaker 3: every tool available to him, and he is and that's

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Speaker 3: why I'm excited about this, and that's why I fully

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Speaker 3: support it. All Right, when we come back after the break,

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Speaker 3: we're going to talk California. I'll fill you in on

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Speaker 3: what's going on here. You won't want to miss it.

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Speaker 3: I'm Kiara Davis filling in for Tony Kats and you're

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Speaker 3: listening to Tony Katz Today.

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Speaker 1: Live from Vall Hartbeyer and the Crossroads of America. It's

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Speaker 1: Tony Katz Today.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, everybody to Tony Kats. Today, Monday, August twenty fifth,

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Speaker 3: Tony Kats is out. I'm your guest host, Kira David's,

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Speaker 3: author of Drawing Lines, Why Conservatives must begin to battle

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Speaker 3: fiercely in the arena of ideas. You can find that

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Speaker 3: book on Amazon, endorsed by our great if you bought

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Speaker 3: FBIWD director Dan Bongino when he was just a humble

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Speaker 3: radio host like me. But yeah, go find that. Well,

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Speaker 3: we've been talking about the flag burning executive order, the

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Speaker 3: ban on that it's not a full ban. I've been

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Speaker 3: breaking it down and I promise you'll get to some

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Speaker 3: California stuff and I'm going to. But I've been perusing

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Speaker 3: social media in the breaks, and I think we're going

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Speaker 3: to be talking about this flag burning thing for a

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Speaker 3: minute now. The news cycle moves quickly, so who knows

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Speaker 3: how long it'll last. Thank god. The Sydney Sweeney thing

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Speaker 3: is over a week into that, and I was like, look,

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Speaker 3: I'm having a as good a time talking about this

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Speaker 3: as anyone, but come on, we need to move on.

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Speaker 3: But I think the reason why that stayed so long,

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Speaker 3: relatively speaking, in the cultural news cycle is is it's

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Speaker 3: a sign of something bigger. All of this is a

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Speaker 3: sign of something bigger. So a lot of people are bad,

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Speaker 3: mostly conservatives, batting this flag burning band. I'm using that

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Speaker 3: in air quotes. It's not a ban back and forth.

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Speaker 3: But there are a lot of people pointing out, you

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Speaker 3: know what, there are folks who are in prison right

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Speaker 3: now for quote desecrating LGBTQ pride flags or crosswalks in

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Speaker 3: Long Beach. Long Beach is a really gay city here

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Speaker 3: in California. Like I mean that literally, it's a gay city.

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Speaker 3: They pride themselves in that, and they have prosecuted people

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Speaker 3: for just screeching their tires over those things. So here's

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Speaker 3: a post from Sean Davis of the Federal or Lists.

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Speaker 3: He says, when every single city, state, and federal jurisdiction

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Speaker 3: defacing or giving a dirty look to a rainbow flag

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Speaker 3: amidst wrongdoing and pays restitution to its victims, we can

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Speaker 3: have a discussion about whether burning an American flag is

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Speaker 3: quote free speech. You know what. Maybe the reason why

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Speaker 3: this isn't just going away, as we do need to

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Speaker 3: have this discussion. We do need to talk about it.

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Speaker 3: I give a speech. I talk to local Republican clubs

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Speaker 3: all up and down the state of California. It's one

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Speaker 3: of my side gigs, and the speech that I'm currently

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Speaker 3: giving right now is on the importance of the education

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Speaker 3: battle and how I think that the smaller Republican clubs

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Speaker 3: and organizations nothing necessarily the party, although they could, but

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Speaker 3: everybody needs people where they are and their local politics

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Speaker 3: should be focusing on education. You should be adopting candidates

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Speaker 3: for school board. You should be grooming them. You should

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Speaker 3: be grooming them years in advance. A lot of those

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Speaker 3: people will go on to become bigger political leaders in

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Speaker 3: bigger positions, so we should be grooming them. The unions

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Speaker 3: already do this. We should be doing it. But one

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Speaker 3: of the things I say is we need if we're

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Speaker 3: not going to destroy the public school system, and I

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Speaker 3: don't think that's going to happen anytime soon, then we

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Speaker 3: need to wrestle it back. We need to control it

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Speaker 3: because the Left has been educating our students for fifty years,

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Speaker 3: and they have been educating them in anti American sediment.

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Speaker 3: So when you see anti semitism on our college campuses,

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Speaker 3: when you see these ridiculous protests and all of this

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Speaker 3: insanity going on in our cities. A large chunk of

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Speaker 3: that is due to the fact that we have not

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Speaker 3: been educating patriots. We do not have an electorate that

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Speaker 3: has been raised to honor and value America above all

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Speaker 3: other nations. That is that it's lunacy to educate your

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Speaker 3: population to hate your own country. Do you understand that's lunacy.

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Speaker 3: We have been educating lunatics for fifty years and we

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Speaker 3: are paying the price for it now. So now we

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Speaker 3: have to re educate. And I think, look, making burning

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Speaker 3: flags distasteful and possibly punishable by law isn't just about

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Speaker 3: just like sticking it to the Libs. That's not what

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Speaker 3: it's about. It's about creating an atmosphere that creates patriots.

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Speaker 3: You have to foster that. That's not automatic. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: happen on its own. As we have found out the

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Speaker 3: very hard way. Freedom doesn't sell itself. It needs salesman,

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Speaker 3: and we have had no one on the field to

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Speaker 3: bix metaphors. We've had no one on the field for

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Speaker 3: years and years and years. So we I think we

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Speaker 3: do need to have a discussion to but I frankly

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Speaker 3: think it should be illegal. I'll just say I think

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Speaker 3: it should be illegal to burn the flag. I don't

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Speaker 3: see it as protected speech, just the same way as

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Speaker 3: Sean Davis points out it's been made illegal to desecrate

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Speaker 3: other types of symbols in public. I think those things

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Speaker 3: should be illegal because it says something about us when

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Speaker 3: we value the symbols of our nation. And I don't

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Speaker 3: think that it I think the original decision was wrong.

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Speaker 3: If you ask me, I think it was wrong. So

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Speaker 3: this is about this is a broken windows thing. We

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Speaker 3: talked about it last hour, and we've been under assault

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Speaker 3: in so many different ways. I do want to talk

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Speaker 3: about the American cities and what's going on around the nation,

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Speaker 3: but I also want to let you know what's going

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Speaker 3: on here in California. But I think i'll do that

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Speaker 3: in the next half hour, because right now I want

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Speaker 3: to play for you a clip. This is Al al Sharpton.

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Speaker 3: I almost called him El Trump. I want to play

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Speaker 3: this clip, Al Sharpton. He's talking about Donal Trump. I

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Speaker 3: got something to say about this. He's talking about Donald

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Speaker 3: Trump and this push to wrestle back our American cities,

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Speaker 3: and he's doing the Chicago mayor Brandon Johnson also pointed

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Speaker 3: this out, Brandon Johnson, that's quite an American name for

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Speaker 3: such a communist. Brandon Johnson has also said the same thing.

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Speaker 3: A black mayor, and he's got a problem with the

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Speaker 3: types of cities Trump is going after. Let's play this

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Speaker 3: clip from Al Sharpton.

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Speaker 7: It's got a lot talking about how I've condemned a

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Speaker 7: lot of what was going on in Chicago back in

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Speaker 7: the day and other points. It's not about crime.

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Speaker 2: But when you have this consistent pattern.

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Speaker 7: That you're only going after black mayor's now you're going

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Speaker 7: to fight Wes Moore. I mean, the pattern here is clear,

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Speaker 7: particularly when the data shows that crime is down in

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Speaker 7: these cities, and you should be saying.

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Speaker 3: Why can't I work with the mess?

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Speaker 7: The wise political strategy is to start picking off some

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Speaker 7: of these mans that can say Trump's not that bad,

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Speaker 7: We're working together.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 7: He doesn't want that, and it's clear he's doing.

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Speaker 2: It at the expensive people.

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Speaker 3: All right. So Al Sharpton thinks that there's a pattern

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Speaker 3: here developing with who Trump's going after. Going after the

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Speaker 3: black mayor is now he's going after the black governor.

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Speaker 3: Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, and He says, there's

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Speaker 3: a pattern here of who Trump's going against, and I agree.

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Speaker 3: I agree with the esteemed Reverend Al Sharpton. There is

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Speaker 3: a pattern here. Reverend Sharpton, I'm wondering why you refuse

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Speaker 3: to see it. I guess you're right. It's not a mistake.

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Speaker 3: It's not an accident that Trump is going after cities

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Speaker 3: that have black mayors. There's a there's a disproportionate number

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Speaker 3: of black mayors in America, so already that number is skewed.

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Speaker 3: There's a pattern there, so we have an outsized demographic

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Speaker 3: in this office. Yeah, all of their cities are terrible, Baltimore, Detroit, DC, Chicago.

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Speaker 3: Trying to think of where I know the other black

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Speaker 3: mayors are, New Orleans. Take your pick. Maybe the pattern

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Speaker 3: isn't Trump's pattern. Maybe it's hours and I'm using our

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Speaker 3: because I'm black, but I don't really count myself with

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Speaker 3: these people. But maybe, just speaking as a Black American,

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Speaker 3: this is an US problem. It blows my that Sharpton

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Speaker 3: would not think for one second to ask what's wrong

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Speaker 3: with us? What is wrong with us? He knows better

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Speaker 3: than anyone. He's in those communities. He's always marching and

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Speaker 3: doing some activism work, but he doesn't do anything that's

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Speaker 3: worth anything. But he's always there, isn't he Wherever there's

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Speaker 3: a camera, and wherever there's quote oppressed people, Al Sharpton

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Speaker 3: is there. He's marching in the streets against crime, you know,

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Speaker 3: but usually he's always tying it to white folks. So

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Speaker 3: he's seen it. He doesn't live there, or he lives

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Speaker 3: in a fancy Manhattan penthouse paid paid for by the

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Speaker 3: donors of people who think he's actually fighting injustice, but

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Speaker 3: he still goes to those communities, so he sees it,

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Speaker 3: and he meets those families, those black families who have

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Speaker 3: lost loved ones to violent crime in our own streets.

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Speaker 3: He knows that it's there, he knows it's bad, he

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Speaker 3: knows people don't like it, and yet he is not

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Speaker 3: even for one second willing to connect the fact that

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Speaker 3: these places are run by black mayors. And that's the problem.

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Speaker 3: That's the problem. We're the problem. It's us h Taylor Swift.

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Speaker 3: This is a hard thing to say out loud, and

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Speaker 3: it's a hard thing for a lot of people to hear.

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Speaker 3: But the reason why it seems like Trump is targeting

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Speaker 3: black marrors is because almost every black mirror in America

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Speaker 3: is grossly incompetent and criminal. And that's the truth. Why

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Speaker 3: are we like this? That's what I want to know.

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Speaker 3: Why are we like this? It's something that does need

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Speaker 3: to be talked about. So, yeah, I wouldn't expect anything

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Speaker 3: else from Al Sharpton. I wouldn't expect any other I

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Speaker 3: wouldn't expect for him to say anything else. But on

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Speaker 3: Tony Katz today, I'm saying this to you today. This

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Speaker 3: is not a Donald Trump problem. This is a US problem.

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Speaker 3: Maybe we should get our cities cleaned up. Don't you

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Speaker 3: dare sit there and say crime is down in DC,

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Speaker 3: crime is down in Chicago, And you know, damn well,

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Speaker 3: you're in those streets every month, marching with families who

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Speaker 3: have lost people. How dare you are you going to

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Speaker 3: talk to those people? You're going to tell them that

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Speaker 3: crime is down. I know you're sad, but crime is down.

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Speaker 3: It is a a It's not. Those numbers are bunk.

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Speaker 3: We know this, but be if you're living on the street.

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Speaker 3: This has been the Democrat's old problem for a year

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Speaker 3: now and it's going to continue for the next three

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Speaker 3: Their only strategy is don't believe you're lion eyes. But

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Speaker 3: Americans still have ice. We still have eyes to see

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Speaker 3: those haven't been made illegal yet. Don't believe you're lyon eyes.

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Speaker 3: And you tell you tell the very black people you're

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Speaker 3: marching within the streets that that crime is not a

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Speaker 3: problem for them. Screw you. You're vile and disgusting. It

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Speaker 3: is a problem. It's a problem for us. It's a

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Speaker 3: problem in our communities, and black mayors are a problem. There.

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Speaker 3: I said it, Clip it up, send it everywhere. Let's

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Speaker 3: take a break. I'm Kia Davis filling it for Tony Katz,

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Speaker 3: and you're listening to Tony Katz today. Welcome back, everybody

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Speaker 3: to Tony Katz Today. Tony Katz is out. I'm your

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Speaker 3: guest host, Kira Davis. We've been talking about Trump. I've

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Speaker 3: just been doing stuff all morning, you guys, he is.

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Speaker 3: He's still talking now. He has moved to the couch

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Speaker 3: in the Oval office and he's holding a bilateral meeting

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Speaker 3: with South Korea. And who's the other entity there? Nobody

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Speaker 3: that I care about. I didn't remember. But this is

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Speaker 3: something very interesting that you just said. So again, this

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Speaker 3: is why it's great if you sign up for the

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Speaker 3: White House emails. They'll even email you transcripts of what's

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Speaker 3: being said in the Oval Office as it's happening. So

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Speaker 3: here's a little nugget that they emailed out. In the

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Speaker 3: break A reporter asked President Trump about his truth social

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Speaker 3: posts on South Korea. I didn't know what was going on,

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Speaker 3: but this is what he said. I heard there were

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Speaker 3: raids on churches over the last few days, very vicious

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Speaker 3: raids on churches by the new government in South Korea.

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Speaker 3: That they even went into our military base and got information.

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Speaker 3: They probably shouldn't have done that, but I heard bad things.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if it's sure or not. I'll be

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Speaker 3: finding out. As you know, your new president is coming

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Speaker 3: in just a couple of hours. Looking forward to meeting him.

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Speaker 3: But we won't stand for that. We just won't stand

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Speaker 3: for that. This is a story that we have not

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Speaker 3: really paid very close attention to here in the US

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Speaker 3: because we have been obviously going through a lot by ourselves.

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Speaker 3: But South Korea has just suffered a Chinese coup. The

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Speaker 3: Chinese took over the country. You might recall about six

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Speaker 3: months ago the president of South Korea shut down the

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Speaker 3: elections and Americans immediately when we hear elections shut down,

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Speaker 3: we were like, oh no, we don't like that. But

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Speaker 3: as it turns out, what he understood what was happening,

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Speaker 3: which we did not, was a Chinese coup. They cheated

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Speaker 3: their way into the leadership of South Korea. It's very concerning,

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Speaker 3: and I thought, okay, well, maybe nothing will happen. But

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Speaker 3: the fact that South Korea, one of our greatest Asian allies,

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Speaker 3: South Korea, which is very Americanized, by the way, extremely Americanized,

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Speaker 3: so much so that we are now trading culture ka

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Speaker 3: pop cultures come to America. South Korea is now invading churches.

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Speaker 3: That's China people. So when you see Trump out there

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Speaker 3: doing crazy stuff like talking about buying Greenland, closing the border,

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Speaker 3: even this intel chip thing again something I'm going to

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Speaker 3: look into. I don't know enough about it to have

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Speaker 3: a real informed opinion on it, but I am cautious

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Speaker 3: about it. But even all of that, it is designed

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Speaker 3: to combat combat the Chinese incursion. That is exactly what's

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Speaker 3: happening in our American cities. Have you seen the mayor

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Speaker 3: of Boston. I will bet every cent in my innemic

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Speaker 3: savings account that she is owned by the Chinese. Government.

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Speaker 3: I have no doubt here in California. If you ever

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Speaker 3: wonder why our politics are so insane, it's because this

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Speaker 3: state is owned by the Chinese government. We are at

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Speaker 3: critical mass. Gavin Newsom is owned by the Chinese government.

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Speaker 3: Case in point, San Francisco. Last year, before President Trump

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Speaker 3: took office. Last year, the commie leader g came in

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Speaker 3: to San Francisco. Now you know San Francisco, it's so bad.

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Speaker 3: They have poop maps. They have to lay out maps

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Speaker 3: of human feces in San Francisco to help people get

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Speaker 3: around the literal crap that's laying in the streets. Homelessness, crime,

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Speaker 3: you've seen. You've seen it all by now, you've seen

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Speaker 3: all the videos by now. It's insane for a city

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00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 3: as wealthy, expensive and beautiful as that. And when President

854
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:10,480
Speaker 3: g came in, they cleaned the whole place up pristine,

855
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:13,439
Speaker 3: not a single homeless person on the street. I still

856
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:16,479
Speaker 3: don't know where they all went. They came back, picked

857
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:18,880
Speaker 3: up all the trash, cleaned up all the poop. It

858
00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:24,400
Speaker 3: was pristine. That's what you do for your leader. You

859
00:52:24,480 --> 00:52:28,360
Speaker 3: lay out the red carpet for your leader. This problem

860
00:52:28,480 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 3: is so much bigger than just individual policies and individual cities.

861
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:38,040
Speaker 3: We have been taken over by a foreign entity. It's

862
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 3: in every city. That's why your cities look the way

863
00:52:40,640 --> 00:52:44,279
Speaker 3: they look. That's why here in California we have a

864
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 3: high high speed railed to nowhere that has been in

865
00:52:48,000 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 3: construction since twenty and ten, was supposed to be finished

866
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:58,000
Speaker 3: by twenty and sixteen, delayed till twenty and twenty five,

867
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:00,839
Speaker 3: and now until two thousand and thirty five, and now

868
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:03,960
Speaker 3: is in I think forty billion dollar overrun and not

869
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 3: a single mile of track has been laid. Where do

870
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 3: you think the money is going? The Chinese? Why do

871
00:53:13,520 --> 00:53:18,080
Speaker 3: you think the Democrats want us all on wind and

872
00:53:18,120 --> 00:53:22,880
Speaker 3: solar power because we buy those things from the Chinese.

873
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 3: This is this is not just one thing or the other.

874
00:53:27,360 --> 00:53:32,400
Speaker 3: This is a holistic approach to repairing the incredible damage

875
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 3: that has been done to America. By the way, here

876
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,480
Speaker 3: in California, I know a lot of you out there.

877
00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:39,440
Speaker 3: You always ask me, Caro, why don't you just move,

878
00:53:39,520 --> 00:53:41,200
Speaker 3: just get out of there. Tony was here, he did

879
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 3: he found greener, greater pastors in Indianapolis. I'm happy for him,

880
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 3: and I'm a little bit jealous. No hard feelings but

881
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:52,640
Speaker 3: let me tell you something. You America better hope that

882
00:53:52,719 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 3: people like me stay here in California. I'm the last

883
00:53:56,120 --> 00:54:00,040
Speaker 3: thing standing between you and a President Newsom, between you

884
00:54:00,280 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 3: in San Francisco, between you and this madness. It's coming

885
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,359
Speaker 3: to you, and people like me are the last line

886
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,759
Speaker 3: of defense. It's already come to you. It's already in

887
00:54:10,800 --> 00:54:14,520
Speaker 3: your city. It's already in Indianapolis and Boston and Dallas

888
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 3: and Austin. They went for the cities first. The country,

889
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 3: folks are a little bit tougher, right. COVID was designed

890
00:54:24,840 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 3: to get to the rest of us. Now. Thankfully, the

891
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,319
Speaker 3: American spirit wasn't quite dead and we were able to

892
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 3: beat that back. But it took us far too long,

893
00:54:31,920 --> 00:54:36,960
Speaker 3: if you ask me so, California is ground zero for

894
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,600
Speaker 3: what's going on in the rest of the country. Not

895
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,919
Speaker 3: because we're so great, but because what we do here

896
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 3: has a significant impact on what is going to happen

897
00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:49,240
Speaker 3: in the rest of the country. We are exporting Chinese

898
00:54:49,280 --> 00:54:53,080
Speaker 3: values because that's what has bought California. All right, more

899
00:54:53,120 --> 00:54:55,239
Speaker 3: on that when we come back. I'm Kira Davis filling

900
00:54:55,239 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 3: in for Tony Kats. You're listening to Tony Kats Today.

901
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:20,879
Speaker 3: Welcome back everybody too, Tony Katz Today. I am your

902
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 3: guest host, Kira Davis. You can find me on x

903
00:55:23,520 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 3: at Real Kira Davis. Go to my bio, find all

904
00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:31,200
Speaker 3: of my credentials, my links, everything up there. Coming to

905
00:55:31,239 --> 00:55:34,840
Speaker 3: you live from southern California. As my good friend Tony

906
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 3: is out today. But I'm going to get you through

907
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,760
Speaker 3: the rest of this Monday. No worries. We've been talking

908
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 3: all things Trump. I'm trying to move on a little bit.

909
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,839
Speaker 3: We're in California News now. I'm here in southern California,

910
00:55:47,000 --> 00:55:51,600
Speaker 3: and as I was saying before the break, look, we've

911
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,239
Speaker 3: got a Chinese problem. That's a bigger problem than just

912
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 3: rogue mayors or rogue cities or even crime. I did

913
00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,239
Speaker 3: a big rant about our responsibility these as black Americans

914
00:56:01,280 --> 00:56:03,360
Speaker 3: for our own communities. But it's even bigger than that.

915
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:07,920
Speaker 3: We actually have a Chinese incursion into most American cities

916
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 3: and most of American politics, and in particular here in California.

917
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 3: It's a big problem. That's why there's two issues here.

918
00:56:15,320 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 3: It's the Chinese. We have a lot of Chinese illegal immigrants.

919
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 3: That's they don't really get reported. But Ice has been

920
00:56:22,040 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 3: parked here in California for two months now, and they've

921
00:56:25,200 --> 00:56:27,920
Speaker 3: been posting up in Asian communities. We have a huge

922
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 3: Chinese immigrant problem here, illegal immigrant problem here. But also

923
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,239
Speaker 3: here's the other thing that people don't understand about California.

924
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:39,520
Speaker 3: We're a border state and so we obviously we have

925
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:44,840
Speaker 3: horrible immigration issues, illegal immigration issues. But because the way

926
00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 3: that our local laws are set up, those people can

927
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:49,560
Speaker 3: get on their city councils, they can run for office.

928
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 3: Some of those people are in California government, and they

929
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 3: come from Latino South American communist countries. So communism is

930
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 3: a very American value, really, and so they come and

931
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,720
Speaker 3: they and a lot of them don't even they aren't

932
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 3: even here legally. I bet if I'm hoping DJ is

933
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,640
Speaker 3: already doing this. But I bet if Ice and DJ

934
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:16,960
Speaker 3: really looked into the papers of a lot of the

935
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:21,520
Speaker 3: people serving in California government, they'd find a lot of

936
00:57:22,520 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 3: non citizens, a lot. It's a big problem here. So

937
00:57:26,560 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 3: if you're wondering why is everything so calming coming out

938
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:32,120
Speaker 3: of California, we literally have communists running the system here,

939
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:35,440
Speaker 3: which means the system is broken, right, So a lot

940
00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 3: of you ask me all the time, Kiara, how you

941
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:40,120
Speaker 3: keep you keep voting for this the poland keeps showing this. No,

942
00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 3: I we are not voting for this. We are not.

943
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 3: There are crazy Californians. There are weirdos in San Francisco,

944
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 3: in La the you know, the true blue they're everywhere.

945
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,439
Speaker 3: They're in your city too, right. You can't convince them

946
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 3: they're going to vote no matter what. But we have

947
00:57:56,400 --> 00:57:59,160
Speaker 3: a system here that is rigged. So not only are

948
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:03,560
Speaker 3: we battling information distribution, which is also ragged here in

949
00:58:03,600 --> 00:58:09,320
Speaker 3: California because we have a communist media. They are just lapdogs.

950
00:58:09,320 --> 00:58:12,400
Speaker 3: They are like the national media was until eight months ago.

951
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 3: So it's hard to get information out, true information. It's

952
00:58:16,600 --> 00:58:19,120
Speaker 3: my goal to set up a California network here in

953
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 3: Orange County because we don't even get our information out

954
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:24,800
Speaker 3: properly here. We have to rely on LA Media to

955
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:28,480
Speaker 3: do that for us. Can imagine how that goes. Some

956
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 3: of you in the area where Tony lives, you might

957
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 3: know what I'm talking about. We're from We came here

958
00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,520
Speaker 3: from Gary, Indiana. Now Gary is twenty five thirty miles

959
00:58:36,520 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 3: south of the south side Chicago, and it's treated like

960
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 3: it doesn't belong to Indiana. Really it's Lake County. Lake

961
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 3: County politics are the same on the Indiana side as

962
00:58:48,200 --> 00:58:52,720
Speaker 3: they are on the Chicago side, and so Gary there's

963
00:58:52,760 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 3: a lot of crappy stuff going on in that city,

964
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 3: a lot of really dastardly stuff. It never gets reported

965
00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 3: it because the only news they have to rely on

966
00:59:02,760 --> 00:59:06,479
Speaker 3: is Chicago news, and then the rest of Indiana ignores them.

967
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 3: We have the same problem here, so it's an information

968
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:17,000
Speaker 3: blackout as well. But California, this is not just about

969
00:59:17,480 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 3: bad politicians, but the system is rotted from the inside out.

970
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:23,440
Speaker 3: So that's what we're working to do. We're doing the

971
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:28,360
Speaker 3: typical things that you see. We're filing lawsuits and fighting

972
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 3: the bad legislation. I'm going to talk about some of

973
00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:34,000
Speaker 3: it in just a second here just for poops and giggles.

974
00:59:34,080 --> 00:59:36,919
Speaker 3: You can see how crazy it is here. But it's

975
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:45,880
Speaker 3: not just that. It is also that the system is

976
00:59:45,920 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 3: owned by unions. So for instance, let's talk about this

977
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 3: jerrymandering thing. I know y'all want to know about this jerrymandering.

978
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 3: The response that NEWSOM is giving to Texas. Now, my

979
00:59:58,000 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 3: sense this is based on nothing but my sense, this

980
01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:05,040
Speaker 3: is totally anecdotal. My sense about California voters is we

981
01:00:05,280 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 3: are over it. We are over Gavin Newsom. We hate him.

982
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:14,840
Speaker 3: He's pretty much universally hated after the LA fires because

983
01:00:15,800 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 3: the fires burned down the last of his donors' mansions.

984
01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 3: So now even they hate him. We all hate him,

985
01:00:23,320 --> 01:00:27,440
Speaker 3: even seeing what he's been doing with his social media account.

986
01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:31,760
Speaker 3: He's hired a new team, this new gen Z team,

987
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 3: and they're I'm convinced they're buying bots and likes, and

988
01:00:37,760 --> 01:00:42,800
Speaker 3: they're aping Trump and they're I guess they're saying, it's

989
01:00:42,840 --> 01:00:45,280
Speaker 3: really it's not parody people if you can't understand it.

990
01:00:45,320 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 3: But anyway, the left can't mean. But I guess their

991
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 3: point is, oh, we're driving the right crazy. We're pointing

992
01:00:50,840 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 3: out how dumb Trump sounds by making Gavin sound this dumb.

993
01:00:55,040 --> 01:00:59,240
Speaker 3: But they don't understand that Gavin just sounds dumb. Trump

994
01:00:59,320 --> 01:01:01,120
Speaker 3: doesn't sound dum. I mean, it only sounds dumb to

995
01:01:01,240 --> 01:01:04,440
Speaker 3: them because they don't understand them and they don't understand

996
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 3: what's going on. It only sounds dumb to them. So

997
01:01:07,440 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 3: now they're making Gavin sound doubly dumb. It's all they have.

998
01:01:14,920 --> 01:01:20,120
Speaker 3: But the idea here is that they think that they

999
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 3: they think that it's a messaging problem, right, and we

1000
01:01:22,920 --> 01:01:24,760
Speaker 3: just figure out the right way to message to the

1001
01:01:24,840 --> 01:01:26,920
Speaker 3: voters and then they'll get it. Now, the voters here

1002
01:01:26,920 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 3: in California, I have every confidence get it. But here

1003
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 3: is what is happening with the Jerry manderin It's a

1004
01:01:32,120 --> 01:01:37,000
Speaker 3: special election. We might call it a snap in Canada,

1005
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,680
Speaker 3: it's a special election. It's been called We've never done

1006
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 3: anything so fast in California in my entire life here,

1007
01:01:42,880 --> 01:01:46,200
Speaker 3: never not want nothing moves this fast. And suddenly in

1008
01:01:46,240 --> 01:01:49,040
Speaker 3: four days we've got a special election on the ballot.

1009
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:53,920
Speaker 3: That so, in special elections, it's only the very politically

1010
01:01:53,960 --> 01:01:59,160
Speaker 3: that the very politically engaged that go to the ballot box. Period.

1011
01:01:59,720 --> 01:02:04,480
Speaker 3: All Ready, you're dealing with a limited number of voters

1012
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:10,760
Speaker 3: California special election voters, right. The politically engaged that would

1013
01:02:10,840 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 3: go to the polls. On the left are the unions.

1014
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:17,360
Speaker 3: And that's where the problem is. The unions have the numbers.

1015
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 3: They can just send a memo around and go, you're

1016
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:23,439
Speaker 3: going to the ballot box on this day and you're

1017
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:27,640
Speaker 3: going to vote yes for this. And because special elections

1018
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 3: have such an anemic turnout, it's enough them just activating

1019
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:35,880
Speaker 3: the union base is enough to pass certain things. So

1020
01:02:35,920 --> 01:02:39,440
Speaker 3: it's not that in general Californians are voting on it.

1021
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,680
Speaker 3: It's the robots. It's the zombie voters that are voting

1022
01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:45,120
Speaker 3: on it, and the rest of us have to depend

1023
01:02:45,200 --> 01:02:48,040
Speaker 3: on getting out and getting the base activated to get

1024
01:02:48,040 --> 01:02:51,040
Speaker 3: involved in a special election. Gavin Newsom would not have

1025
01:02:51,120 --> 01:02:53,240
Speaker 3: put this on the ballot if he didn't think he

1026
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:56,720
Speaker 3: could win. But I promise you he's not going to

1027
01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 3: win because of organic voters. It won't win because it's

1028
01:02:59,840 --> 01:03:02,880
Speaker 3: the truth and it's what we want. This jerrymandering is

1029
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:07,000
Speaker 3: polling at forty one percent here. We don't want it.

1030
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:11,480
Speaker 3: We're jerrymandered out the wazoo. Here we've got forty nine

1031
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 3: Republican representatives in a body of one hundred and twenty.

1032
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:20,439
Speaker 3: In Sacramento. Jerrymandering is aimed at Orange County, where I'm

1033
01:03:20,480 --> 01:03:23,439
Speaker 3: sitting right now. As I talk to you, you may

1034
01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 3: know about us. We're the last red wall in the state.

1035
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 3: The governor came for us through COVID and he hasn't

1036
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:32,640
Speaker 3: stopped Huntington Beach. Anyone Huntington Beach will get carved up

1037
01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:37,680
Speaker 3: and half that beautiful city, that beautiful, surfing, conservative red city.

1038
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:43,240
Speaker 3: Half that city will go to Long Beach in representation.

1039
01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:49,880
Speaker 3: There's almost nothing left to jerrymander. This is the problem

1040
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 3: that the Democrats are going to run up against. They're

1041
01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 3: going to do it in Maryland, They're going to do it.

1042
01:03:54,000 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 3: They're threatening to do this everywhere. This is the and

1043
01:03:58,520 --> 01:04:01,080
Speaker 3: this is the genius of Trump. He knew that Texas

1044
01:04:01,120 --> 01:04:05,320
Speaker 3: had the legal standing for those jerrymandered seats. So conservatives

1045
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:08,600
Speaker 3: again I call them the professional contrarian class. They call

1046
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 3: themselves conservatives, but they're always like me, making sure I'm

1047
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:14,080
Speaker 3: not you know, I'm not like those other conservatives, and

1048
01:04:14,080 --> 01:04:15,880
Speaker 3: so they like to say, well, maybe we just shouldn't

1049
01:04:15,880 --> 01:04:18,360
Speaker 3: be doing this at all. Maybe not. But Trump made

1050
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,360
Speaker 3: very sure that when he made that request at Texas,

1051
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:23,840
Speaker 3: that he was making a request which was well within

1052
01:04:23,920 --> 01:04:27,920
Speaker 3: his legal right. So none of these other cities and

1053
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 3: excuse me, states have legal standing. And the cherry on top,

1054
01:04:35,680 --> 01:04:37,480
Speaker 3: although it's going to hurt while we're going through this,

1055
01:04:37,520 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 3: it's hurting right now in California, the cherry on top

1056
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:44,560
Speaker 3: is that they've got almost nothing left to jerrymander. The

1057
01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,520
Speaker 3: only I will never forget I'm gonna go to break

1058
01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:49,640
Speaker 3: here just a second, but let me end this segment

1059
01:04:49,680 --> 01:04:53,600
Speaker 3: with this. I will never ever forget the opening weeks

1060
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 3: of this administration when Elon was still doing Doge and

1061
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 3: he sat down for an interview on Box and they said,

1062
01:04:59,640 --> 01:05:02,440
Speaker 3: what are the one of the things that surprised you

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Speaker 3: the most, or that you want Americans to know that

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Speaker 3: should be surprising to them. I will never forget it.

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Speaker 3: He said, Americans are about to find out that they've

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Speaker 3: been living in the Truman Show. Nothing is real. And

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Speaker 3: he didn't go further than that, but I've always thought

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Speaker 3: about that, and I've always wondered exactly what he meant

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Speaker 3: by that. And this is one of those things, everybody,

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Speaker 3: that we're about to find out. All of this bitching

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Speaker 3: and moaning that you're doing about California voters, it's not real.

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Speaker 3: We're not voting for this. Our elections are fake. They're rigged,

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Speaker 3: and I think most elections have been rigged for a

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Speaker 3: very long time in this country. And we're going to

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Speaker 3: find out. We're finding out the hard way, and yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's going to be uncomfortable, but I need you guys

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Speaker 3: to understand that once we do get this rooted out,

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Speaker 3: and I think we can once we do. Democrats are

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Speaker 3: going to lose for a very very long time, and

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Speaker 3: that's why they're doing everything they're doing right now. They

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Speaker 3: know that this is ending and they are in big,

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01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,840
Speaker 3: big trouble. I'm Kia Davis filling in for Tony Katz

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Speaker 3: and you're listening to Tony Kats today. Well got back

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Speaker 3: everybody too, Tony Katz today, Thanks for having it out

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Speaker 3: with me. Kira Davis, your guest host is Tony is

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Speaker 3: out serving the community today. He'll be back tomorrow, but

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Speaker 3: in the meantime, I am coming to you live from

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Speaker 3: southern California. Former Indiana resident myself though so always have

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Speaker 3: had great ties to Indiana, Gary, Indiana specifically. Yes, that

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01:06:29,720 --> 01:06:32,200
Speaker 3: was my home for ten years. My husband was born

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Speaker 3: and raised there and still have a footprint in the community. Actually,

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Speaker 3: it's crazy. I went back recently. We went back last year,

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01:06:42,640 --> 01:06:45,680
Speaker 3: and you just think, like it's been a while. You know,

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Speaker 3: we've been here in California for fifteen almost twenty years,

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Speaker 3: but the family's still there. You know, we still have

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Speaker 3: property there, we still have investments there, and we went back,

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Speaker 3: you just think, yeah, we're going to see something different,

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01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:00,880
Speaker 3: and this is worse. This is worse. It's worse every

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Speaker 3: time you go there. It's just incredible. I'm just reading

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01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:07,680
Speaker 3: this tweet from Gavin Newsom's gen Z press team. Well

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01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:10,080
Speaker 3: they posted under his account, but this is not him.

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Speaker 6: Real.

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Speaker 3: Donald Trump turned a booming economy into a stagnant one

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01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:19,040
Speaker 3: in record time. His war on affordability and small business

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01:07:19,120 --> 01:07:22,320
Speaker 3: are having real impacts, from his chaotic tariffs to his

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Speaker 3: jobs and economy killing immigration ray and excuse me and

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Speaker 3: economy killing immigration rays. California will continue to fight back.

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Speaker 3: There is so much in here. I might have to

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Speaker 3: go do a substack commentary on this so I can

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Speaker 3: expand expound to some video. I love substack. By the way,

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01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,320
Speaker 3: you should go look at my substack. I love it.

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01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:47,680
Speaker 3: It's totally made for a gen xer like me. It's

1113
01:07:47,720 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 3: like user friendly. I just hate all of the different

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01:07:50,960 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 3: types of social media. You have to know and be

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01:07:52,960 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 3: into to be seen and heard. Go find me over there.

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01:07:55,720 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 3: If you find me, great. If you don't owe out,

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01:07:57,440 --> 01:07:59,480
Speaker 3: you know, I still got someone paying my bills over

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01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:04,520
Speaker 3: here anyway, So don't panic. I'm not a prostitute. I'm

1119
01:08:04,560 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 3: just a wife. I don't know, some liberals might argue

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Speaker 3: it's the same thing, but there's just so much hump

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Speaker 3: back here, he says. First, he says he's turned a

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Speaker 3: booming economy into a stagment, A stagnant, a stagnant one

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Speaker 3: excuse me, now, you guys, remember what I said at

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Speaker 3: the break that this is the Democrat playbook and it's

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Speaker 3: been this way for a year to two years. Now.

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Speaker 3: Don't believe you're lion eyes. It's mostly peaceful protest the border.

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Speaker 3: There's no problem at the border. These are fine, upstanding

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Speaker 3: American citizens and not gangbanger. You know it, just don't.

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Speaker 3: Crime is going down. We don't have an illegal alien

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Speaker 3: criminal problem. The economy is fine. The price of eggs

1131
01:08:51,560 --> 01:08:53,880
Speaker 3: are just fine. Look at this decimal point and moved over.

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Speaker 3: Why are you so dumb that you can't see it?

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01:08:56,360 --> 01:08:59,360
Speaker 3: That's been their whole strategy. Again, This is why I'm

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01:08:59,360 --> 01:09:02,719
Speaker 3: not worried about this. I know it looks like Newsom

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01:09:02,800 --> 01:09:06,479
Speaker 3: is surgeon right now. He's just surging and being spoken about. Right,

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01:09:06,560 --> 01:09:09,759
Speaker 3: So congratulations for that. We're talking about you. But there's

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01:09:09,800 --> 01:09:14,639
Speaker 3: nobody that's talking about this in a context that is Wow,

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01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,680
Speaker 3: he's got some great ideas like they get it he

1139
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:19,880
Speaker 3: is going to lead the No, they don't get it.

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01:09:20,120 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 3: I would be worried if he was tweeting out these

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01:09:22,960 --> 01:09:25,520
Speaker 3: like solid ideas that we're going to solve our problems.

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01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 3: But this guy's gen Z team, which by the way,

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Speaker 3: these are the San Francisco limo limousine liberal set that

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Speaker 3: he's hired. None of them live, all of them have

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01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:41,360
Speaker 3: their bills paid by daddy. They're all interns that their

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01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:44,600
Speaker 3: dad's got them these jobs. Like none of them have

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01:09:44,760 --> 01:09:47,439
Speaker 3: paid rent or lived a real life for one second

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Speaker 3: in the state. And it's obvious when you watch them tweet.

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Speaker 3: But not only are they saying that, are they saying, well,

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Speaker 3: this economy has been a stagnant one. They're telling us

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Speaker 3: not to believe are lying. They're not saying, here's what

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01:10:03,800 --> 01:10:06,559
Speaker 3: Newsom is going to do to lead us out. Their

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01:10:06,840 --> 01:10:11,640
Speaker 3: entire response is do not believe your lying eyes. Was

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Speaker 3: the economy forget about California, by the way, we are

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Speaker 3: not booming. It has never been. We are not riding

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Speaker 3: this great golden age yet we're about a year or

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Speaker 3: two behind the rest of the country. Was the economy booming?

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Speaker 3: In December of twenty twenty four. Not a single person,

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Speaker 3: not a single living American who doesn't work for Gavin

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Speaker 3: Newsom would tell you that who was living in real America.

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Speaker 3: So already that's crazy that he called. Then he says

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Speaker 3: he accuses Trump of having a war on affordability and

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Speaker 3: small business in California. Imagine being the governor of California

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Speaker 3: and having the nerve to accuse the president of waging

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Speaker 3: a war on affordability. You have to have a million

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Speaker 3: dollars in the bank to buy a lottest two bedroom

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Speaker 3: home here in California, almost anywhere. That is no joke.

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Speaker 3: And everyone knows that we are hemorrhaging businesses, bed bath

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Speaker 3: and beyond. Gabe using the middle finger last week. We'll

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Speaker 3: talk about it more when we get back. Don't leave

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Speaker 3: us it Starty Cats.

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Speaker 1: Today Live from vall Hartbiner and the Crossroads of America.

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Speaker 2: It's Tony Kats Today.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back everybody, two hour three of Tony Kats Today.

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Speaker 3: This is Monday, August twenty fifth. It's our last and

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Speaker 3: final hour. I'm your guest host Kira and Javis, host

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Speaker 3: of Just Listen to Yourself with Tira Davis. That's a

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Speaker 3: critical thinking podcast. You can find wherever you find podcasts.

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Speaker 3: It is on hiatus for the summer, but there's tons

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01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:59,559
Speaker 3: and tons of episodes. Best place though to keep up

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01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 3: with what I'm doing. If you're on Acts, I'm very active.

1182
01:12:03,400 --> 01:12:06,320
Speaker 3: That's probably the social media platform I'm most active on

1183
01:12:06,960 --> 01:12:10,040
Speaker 3: at Real Kira Davis or make sure you're signed up

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01:12:10,040 --> 01:12:13,720
Speaker 3: for my substack. And it's just it's a mix of

1185
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:19,960
Speaker 3: opinion but also keeping you informed about news stories that

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Speaker 3: I don't think everyone sees, especially when it comes to

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Speaker 3: what's happening here in California. And before the break, we

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01:12:25,520 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 3: were talking about what is going on here in California

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Speaker 3: with our governor and he's adopted this strange new tactic

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Speaker 3: to imitate Trump and his team thinks they're really having

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Speaker 3: great success. I'm convinced they bought they're buying bought likes

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Speaker 3: the gate. They'll have a lot of engagement, but the like,

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Speaker 3: it's a lot of likes all of a sudden, it

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01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:54,639
Speaker 3: just smells like the fixes in And I think they

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Speaker 3: think it's clever. I think again, it's not parody if

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Speaker 3: you don't know what it means. And I think they

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01:13:02,640 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 3: think it's clever and we think it's dumb. So they

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Speaker 3: can saying conservatives can stop talking about it, but we're

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Speaker 3: not threatened by it, or we just think it's weird,

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Speaker 3: it's very it's again, go to X and just look

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Speaker 3: at look at the I wouldn't even bother reading it

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01:13:18,880 --> 01:13:20,720
Speaker 3: to you because it wouldn't even make sense to read

1203
01:13:20,760 --> 01:13:23,000
Speaker 3: it to you. A lot of it's in all caps,

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01:13:23,040 --> 01:13:30,240
Speaker 3: which I have now started ignoring. So but they think

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01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:33,559
Speaker 3: it's it's clever, that's some kind of clever strategy. But

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01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 3: what they don't understand it's not just that we're making

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Speaker 3: fun of them, but we feel almost sorry for them.

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Speaker 3: Like this is cringe levels of not getting it, just

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Speaker 3: cringe levels. I cannot get over how absolutely the Democrats

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Speaker 3: have become. This is not it would not on my

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Speaker 3: Bengo card. I really, my whole political life, I've been

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01:14:03,120 --> 01:14:07,960
Speaker 3: I've always been politically active. I have always, even when

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Speaker 3: I was a big LIB, like I was raised by

1214
01:14:09,520 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 3: godless hippies, you know, they were pro My mom. Still

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01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 3: she's a Canadian, she's a big Canadian LIB. She's still

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01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:18,120
Speaker 3: up there protests again, she protests against the stuff she

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Speaker 3: votes for. So don't even get me started on that.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, but I'm just saying, I've always been politically engaged,

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Speaker 3: and so I've almost I guess I kind of forgot

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Speaker 3: where I was going at this point. Oh, I guess

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Speaker 3: even back then, I couldn't have figured. I couldn't have

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Speaker 3: imagined how far the Democrats would have fallen. I always

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01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:46,600
Speaker 3: thought of them as really on point with their engagement,

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Speaker 3: like they really had a well oiled machine. And I think,

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Speaker 3: as I was saying before the break, I was saying,

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Speaker 3: I remember Elon Musk saying, we're living in the Truman Show,

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Speaker 3: and when the lid comes off all of this, you're

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01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:57,320
Speaker 3: going to be shocked at how much of your what

1229
01:14:57,360 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 3: you think is real isn't real. And I think the

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Speaker 3: elections are going to be a big part of that.

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Speaker 3: I don't think Democrats have been winning elections in this country.

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Speaker 3: I don't. I think that's the Truman Show Elon was

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01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:14,920
Speaker 3: talking about, and that's why they're fighting all this so hard.

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Speaker 3: This is their last negotiation for a seat at the

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01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:22,519
Speaker 3: table before they get pushed all the way out. I

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01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:27,559
Speaker 3: don't think they've been genuinely winning most elections. I don't

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Speaker 3: believe this country is split fifty to fifty. It might

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01:15:30,680 --> 01:15:33,960
Speaker 3: be close, but I don't believe it's split fifty to fifty.

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Speaker 3: That's all been a lie because everything they have is

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01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:41,320
Speaker 3: based on the lie. They don't they think that changing

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01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:44,680
Speaker 3: the tone of the messaging is going to help. And

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Speaker 3: it's not the tone of the messaging, it's the message,

1243
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:50,800
Speaker 3: it's the policy. It sucks. We don't want it. So

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01:15:50,840 --> 01:15:53,000
Speaker 3: you can pretend that you're giving it to us like

1245
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 3: Donald Trump, but we all know that you're not Donald Trump,

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01:15:57,400 --> 01:16:00,439
Speaker 3: and nothing you're saying is you're not even pretend that's

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01:16:00,479 --> 01:16:02,680
Speaker 3: the worst part, Like you're not even pretending to be

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01:16:02,720 --> 01:16:05,559
Speaker 3: Donald Trump. You're not saying I'm going to do the

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01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:09,160
Speaker 3: same things that Donald Trump is doing to make things better.

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Speaker 3: You're saying, I'm going to sound like Donald Trump while

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01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:16,680
Speaker 3: doing the same things that gave us Donald Trump in

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01:16:16,720 --> 01:16:20,920
Speaker 3: the first place. They're losing so badly I cannot even

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01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,880
Speaker 3: wrap my mind around it, and yet they keep doing

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01:16:23,920 --> 01:16:25,760
Speaker 3: it every day. So I don't want to get in

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Speaker 3: their way. I want them to lose. I want them

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01:16:27,720 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 3: to keep losing. But as a California and I have

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01:16:31,560 --> 01:16:34,840
Speaker 3: to tell you that as much as I'm trying not

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01:16:34,960 --> 01:16:36,719
Speaker 3: to let this get to me, because I know that's

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01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 3: the point I do find it deeply insulting, but not

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01:16:41,040 --> 01:16:43,400
Speaker 3: because of the Trump. You know, I don't care you

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01:16:43,439 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 3: make fun of Trump. Trump makes fun of himself. Nobody

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01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:47,400
Speaker 3: cares if you make fun of Donald Trump. Have you

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01:16:47,520 --> 01:16:51,719
Speaker 3: learned nothing from Elon Musk? You will never out Trump Trump.

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01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:54,920
Speaker 3: The right loved Elon, but the second he stepped out

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01:16:54,920 --> 01:17:01,120
Speaker 3: of line with Donald Trump persona non grata. It's Trump

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Speaker 3: that's the winner, not Elon. He's a great inventor, a

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01:17:04,920 --> 01:17:08,400
Speaker 3: great innovator, a great man, but it was Trump. He

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Speaker 3: tried to out Trump Trump and he couldn't do it.

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Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom, oh, Gavin Newsom can't even hold a candle

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Speaker 3: to guy like Elon Musk. So he's definitely not gonna

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Speaker 3: out Trump Trump. But instead of thinking about how I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna fix things, I'm gonna change things by even pretending

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Speaker 3: you're Donald Trump. It's just messaging. And so what are

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Speaker 3: the rest of us doing here in California? We're suffering.

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Speaker 3: He's trolling us. I read you that tweet. Gavin's talking

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Speaker 3: about Trump making things unaffordable. The average home here in

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Speaker 3: California is a million dollars. Home ownership is almost it's

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01:17:49,560 --> 01:17:53,920
Speaker 3: a pipe dream. For almost every Californian, almost every single one.

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Speaker 3: I live in the fancy suburbs here in California. And

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Speaker 3: when we got here, I used to ask myself, how

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Speaker 3: are all these young couples affording these homes? Like I

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Speaker 3: can't even afford to buy my home here, and I'm

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Speaker 3: middle age and we're very we have lucrative carew we

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Speaker 3: have very good careers. Why can't I afford to live

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Speaker 3: like this here? And then as I got to know people,

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Speaker 3: I realize, well, no, a lot of these kids, these

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Speaker 3: young kids, the only way they can afford to live

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Speaker 3: here is they have help from their parents. So their

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Speaker 3: parents are gifting them down payments for homes or gifting

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Speaker 3: them you know, I'll make the mortgage payment for you

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Speaker 3: over time or whatever. And by the way, I don't

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Speaker 3: have any moral qualms with that. I don't look at

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Speaker 3: those people with envy at all, not at all, because yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's what you have to do to own a home here,

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Speaker 3: to live here. Every day people are LA is a

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01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 3: nightmare every day every day. Your car, it's carjackings, it's murders.

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Speaker 3: It's even in Beverly Hills, in Brentwood, the gated community,

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Speaker 3: even there the roving home invasion game. Gangs have targeted them.

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Speaker 3: That's why I'm telling you. This is why I said,

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Speaker 3: don't believe the hype, don't believe the pulling. Everyone hates

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Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom here. He's burned literally every last bridge here.

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01:19:17,720 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 3: Everyone hates him. It's not the voters that are going

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01:19:20,320 --> 01:19:24,920
Speaker 3: to give him this win, it's the cheating. Everyone hates

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01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 3: him here. He's a horrible human being and we all

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01:19:27,840 --> 01:19:31,479
Speaker 3: know it, and even his rich donors understand that. Now,

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01:19:32,360 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 3: that's another thing that you're seeing him do. He's desperate.

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01:19:35,240 --> 01:19:44,519
Speaker 3: You're seeing desperation here. Don't believe you're lying eyes the troll.

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01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 3: He is trolling his own voters, his own citizens. We

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01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 3: are hurting. Pacific Palisades is nowhere. It's not even a

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Speaker 3: shred towards being rebuilt. But you know what is happening there.

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01:19:57,920 --> 01:20:00,639
Speaker 3: The government has allowed for developers come in and buy

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Speaker 3: the proper cheaply, and they've changed the zoning laws so

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Speaker 3: you can put what death right, high density affordable housing there. Gosh,

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Speaker 3: isn't that convenient? How that worked out? The evil that

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Speaker 3: runs this state is unimaginable. And I would ask those

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Speaker 3: of you out there who think it's fun to insult

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Speaker 3: us or think it's fun to make fun of us

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01:20:25,520 --> 01:20:27,559
Speaker 3: for the way we vote. I would ask you for

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01:20:27,680 --> 01:20:31,320
Speaker 3: just a modicum of compassion because we are not Gavin Newsome,

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Speaker 3: We're me, We're regular people. Most of the people in

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01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:37,760
Speaker 3: the state are regular working class people. Why are they

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01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:40,240
Speaker 3: still here? Well, there's lots of reasons why people stay

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01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:42,720
Speaker 3: where they are. Not to mention, how much do you

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01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:46,600
Speaker 3: think it costs to move somewhere. It's a lot of

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01:20:46,640 --> 01:20:50,320
Speaker 3: money because you don't just leave, right, you live in

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01:20:50,360 --> 01:20:53,120
Speaker 3: a state where every single person, even the rich people,

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01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:58,120
Speaker 3: lives paycheck to paycheck. But you've got to save a

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01:20:58,160 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 3: few thousand dollars for a moving truck if you're going

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01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:04,000
Speaker 3: to take your stuff with you, or a U haul

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Speaker 3: if you're going to do it yourself. Then you've got

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01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:09,799
Speaker 3: to save at least a few thousand dollars for rent

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01:21:10,240 --> 01:21:12,880
Speaker 3: in some other city or some other state. Right, you

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01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:15,559
Speaker 3: have to pay your rent up front, you have to

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Speaker 3: have advance rent. I mean, it's a heavy lift for

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Speaker 3: a lot of families to even try to leave the state.

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01:21:25,439 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 3: They may want to, but even just having the money

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Speaker 3: to get up and go. Do you understand we are

1338
01:21:30,479 --> 01:21:34,120
Speaker 3: trapped here, so Newsome's taking advantage of that. So again,

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Speaker 3: just to go back to the whole point of this,

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Speaker 3: it's that we're not going to vote for this jerrymandering

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01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:42,880
Speaker 3: in California. We hate Newsome, everybody hates him. It may

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01:21:43,120 --> 01:21:46,000
Speaker 3: it probably will pass, but that will be because of

1343
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:49,880
Speaker 3: the cheating. Let me take a break here because when

1344
01:21:49,880 --> 01:21:51,479
Speaker 3: we get back, I want to talk to you about

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01:21:51,520 --> 01:21:53,960
Speaker 3: two bills we've got on the docket here in California.

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01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 3: Don't think the jerrymandering is the least is the most

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01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:59,920
Speaker 3: of our worries here, it's the least. We've got two

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Speaker 3: insane bills here in California weaving their way through the legislature.

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Speaker 3: I want to talk to you about them, because again,

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Speaker 3: as California goes, so it goes the rest of the nation.

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Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere. I'm Kia Davis billing in for Tony Katz,

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Speaker 3: and this is Tony Katz Today. Welcome back everybody to

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Speaker 3: Tony Katz today, Monday, August twenty fifth. I'm your host,

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01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:20,519
Speaker 3: your guest host for today, Kira Davis. Tony will be

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01:22:20,560 --> 01:22:24,639
Speaker 3: back in tomorrow. We've been talking about crazy California. Lots

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01:22:24,640 --> 01:22:26,479
Speaker 3: of crazy stuff going on here. So I promised that

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Speaker 3: I would let you know a couple of bills that

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01:22:29,040 --> 01:22:33,840
Speaker 3: we're currently battling along with this Jerrymannering thing. I have

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01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:37,160
Speaker 3: to say it is, it's exhausting doing political work here.

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01:22:37,280 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 3: You're never there's never one front. And when you're an

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Speaker 3: opinion journalist like me and you, so you have a

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01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:47,320
Speaker 3: broad spectrum of things that you pay attention to, everybody

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01:22:47,360 --> 01:22:50,599
Speaker 3: is hitting you up for coverage because there's just so much.

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Speaker 3: I mean, as soon as I get off the phone

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Speaker 3: with you, I am going to go talk to a

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Speaker 3: school board member in a neighboring city who has been

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Speaker 3: trying to out her district's gender transition plan. Her school

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Speaker 3: district has a secret gender transition plan that the student

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Speaker 3: can apply for and the school will change the student's name,

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Speaker 3: provide them with quote gender affirming care and counseling, and

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Speaker 3: hide their identity from parents if requested by the student.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to go talk to this lady about that.

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Speaker 3: But guess what this is all. I mean, this is

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Speaker 3: just one piece. We were fighting the gender affirming stuff

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Speaker 3: and the gender ideology stuff back in twenty thirteen here

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Speaker 3: in California. I was on the front lines of that battle.

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Speaker 3: I did every radio show, news program, podcast, anybody who

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01:23:52,120 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 3: would talk to me about this. I spoke to Larry

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Speaker 3: O'Connor and he was in the Beltway, but him, you know, Bongino,

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Speaker 3: Fox News News. But I was on everything talking about this,

1381
01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:09,559
Speaker 3: and everywhere I went people said it's not true. This

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01:24:09,600 --> 01:24:12,640
Speaker 3: can't be true. We were trying to get people in

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01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:15,760
Speaker 3: California to pay attention to this, and we're screaming at

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Speaker 3: the top of our lungs. They said, this is ridiculous,

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Speaker 3: it's not true. And now here we are it's so

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Speaker 3: true that schools now have gender transition plans that are

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01:24:24,880 --> 01:24:28,639
Speaker 3: that are secret plans to steal your child from you

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01:24:29,600 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 3: while they're in school. Like that's what we're up against

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01:24:32,200 --> 01:24:37,559
Speaker 3: here in California. So it's yeah, it's that crazy here.

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Speaker 3: So here's another bill we're fighting this Assembly, Bill four

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Speaker 3: ninety five. I just told you what. I'm going to

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Speaker 3: go talk to this board member about Bill four ninety five.

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Speaker 3: I kid you not, I promise you this is the

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Speaker 3: exact truth. This is a bill designed to give adults

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Speaker 3: over the age of a eighteen agency over your child

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Speaker 3: if they just sign a simple Apple but David, that's right.

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Speaker 3: Eighty forty nine will make it legal for any random

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Speaker 3: adult to come in off the street, go to your

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Speaker 3: child school or child's place of care during the day,

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Speaker 3: sign a piece of a paper, Affidavid, This Affidavid. It's

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01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:17,639
Speaker 3: just a piece of paper. You just sign it. There's

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01:25:17,680 --> 01:25:22,400
Speaker 3: no background checks, there's no there's no follow ups, nothing.

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01:25:22,439 --> 01:25:24,280
Speaker 3: It is simply a piece of paper that says I

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Speaker 3: am this child's guardian. This is a child that lives

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Speaker 3: in my place of domicile. I and now I am

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01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:39,679
Speaker 3: going to be making medical and educational decisions for this child.

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01:25:39,720 --> 01:25:43,360
Speaker 3: So that person could ostensibly take the child out of school,

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01:25:43,720 --> 01:25:50,639
Speaker 3: that could could sign waivers for medication, for curriculum, anything anything.

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Speaker 3: So of course we immediately we're out there telling everybody no, hello,

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Speaker 3: And the Democrats response is, no, this isn't about this

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Speaker 3: is you guys are reading this, you guys are mischaracterizing this.

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Speaker 3: This is a bill for the illegal immigrant children whose

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Speaker 3: parents are getting deported all over the place. By the way,

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Speaker 3: isn't that an interesting argument. That's it's another eving. Gavin

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Speaker 3: Newsom said in the tweet that Trump's ice raids are

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Speaker 3: killing the economy and we have such a problem with

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Speaker 3: kids parents being deported that we need to protect them

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Speaker 3: in schools. Sounds to me like we've got a ton

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01:26:26,240 --> 01:26:30,439
Speaker 3: of illegals that shouldn't be here. If deporting illegal immigrants

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Speaker 3: kills an entire economy, maybe our entire economy is based

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01:26:35,080 --> 01:26:40,719
Speaker 3: on nothing. Truman show anyone. They're admitting it left and right.

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Speaker 3: So apparently this is supposed to help those illegal those

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01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:49,400
Speaker 3: poor illegal immigrant kids whose parents get carted off by

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01:26:49,439 --> 01:26:54,639
Speaker 3: ice raiding the home depot in any given day. Listen

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Speaker 3: to me, it has nothing to do with that. This

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01:26:57,680 --> 01:27:00,439
Speaker 3: bill has nothing to do with ice. This bill has

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01:27:00,439 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 3: been in development for years. This is a bill about

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Speaker 3: gender ideology, because they have been trying to separate us

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01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:10,320
Speaker 3: from our kids in the school for years now, in

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Speaker 3: public school, and that's what this bill will do. What

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01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:22,320
Speaker 3: they want is for the alphabets can't create. They've sterilized themselves, right.

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01:27:22,320 --> 01:27:27,080
Speaker 3: Their ideology is necessary sterilization. And I believe that's the

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01:27:27,160 --> 01:27:30,040
Speaker 3: ultimate goal, which is to end the progenation of the

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Speaker 3: human race. That's what I believe the ultimate evil goal is.

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01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:34,160
Speaker 3: But I'm not going to take it to church right now,

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01:27:34,200 --> 01:27:36,200
Speaker 3: because this is a Tony show go sign up for

1437
01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:37,800
Speaker 3: my substack if you want to hear more from me

1438
01:27:37,880 --> 01:27:41,840
Speaker 3: on that they can't create anything. All they can do

1439
01:27:41,880 --> 01:27:46,240
Speaker 3: is recruit. And where do you if you can't create children,

1440
01:27:46,240 --> 01:27:49,559
Speaker 3: You've got to recruit children. And so our public schools

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01:27:49,600 --> 01:27:55,720
Speaker 3: are recruiting grounds for moral degradation and evil. And one

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01:27:55,760 --> 01:27:57,240
Speaker 3: of the things they need to do is to make

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01:27:57,280 --> 01:27:59,640
Speaker 3: sure that the parent does not have any say over

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01:27:59,680 --> 01:28:03,280
Speaker 3: their care. Because parents are the last wall standing behind

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01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:07,360
Speaker 3: children in insanity. And they know that, they know that,

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01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:09,559
Speaker 3: they know that no one loves a child more than

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01:28:09,600 --> 01:28:13,320
Speaker 3: their parents. So this bill is designed to separate the

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Speaker 3: parents from the last place that they have say over

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01:28:18,520 --> 01:28:21,400
Speaker 3: what happens to their family. You know, to say no,

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01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:24,640
Speaker 3: that what happens to my child's mind and body is

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01:28:24,640 --> 01:28:27,679
Speaker 3: not my own anymore. One adult can simply go in

1452
01:28:27,960 --> 01:28:30,280
Speaker 3: and just sign an affidavit. Hey i'm cool, I'm good.

1453
01:28:31,080 --> 01:28:33,360
Speaker 3: Let me take your kid. Let me get them a

1454
01:28:33,479 --> 01:28:37,799
Speaker 3: chest binder, Let's get them hormones, let's get them an abortion.

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Speaker 3: ABE four ninety five. It's sitting in Sacramento right now.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 3: It's been tabled, it's been tabled, it's been it's in

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01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:50,679
Speaker 3: the suspended file, which means they're going to put it away.

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01:28:50,880 --> 01:28:53,160
Speaker 3: It got so much heat right they I can't believe

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01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:55,240
Speaker 3: they really thought they were going to do this without

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01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 3: getting noticed. That's how the Dems pass bills here. They

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01:28:58,400 --> 01:29:00,679
Speaker 3: got to do it without getting noticed because people notice

1463
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:04,439
Speaker 3: are like, no, it's ridiculous. And these people all know

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01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:06,719
Speaker 3: that they're on the bubble with their elections. I don't

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01:29:06,720 --> 01:29:08,720
Speaker 3: care what they think they're going to do with gerrymandering.

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01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:12,840
Speaker 3: They know they're in trouble, so they put it in

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01:29:12,840 --> 01:29:15,160
Speaker 3: the suspended file, which means it's going to sit there

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01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:17,080
Speaker 3: until we all forget about it, and then they'll pull

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01:29:17,080 --> 01:29:19,479
Speaker 3: it back out. Because a bad idea never goes away

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Speaker 3: in a place like California, or in a party like

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Speaker 3: the Democratic Party, a bad idea never goes away. This

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01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:35,120
Speaker 3: is all part of the attempt to separate us from

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01:29:35,160 --> 01:29:39,400
Speaker 3: our natural rights. I believe that. I believe a lot

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01:29:39,439 --> 01:29:41,920
Speaker 3: of these decisions that we've seen that have led to

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01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:46,000
Speaker 3: deeper consequences are a deep attempt to separate us from

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Speaker 3: our natural rights. We're going to have the gay marriage discussion.

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Speaker 3: I can't believe that either, but guess what it's coming.

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01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:57,240
Speaker 3: We're going to relitigate that I think, and I think

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01:29:57,280 --> 01:30:01,240
Speaker 3: it's probably going to go down, and that had a

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01:30:01,360 --> 01:30:05,280
Speaker 3: lot of deep consequences. It was after Oberfoul that we

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01:30:05,400 --> 01:30:08,720
Speaker 3: got the trans stuff because it's never enough. This is

1482
01:30:08,760 --> 01:30:12,280
Speaker 3: why the slippery slope is real. This is why Conservatives, Republicans,

1483
01:30:12,280 --> 01:30:14,799
Speaker 3: you have to be brave. You have to be brave.

1484
01:30:15,360 --> 01:30:21,840
Speaker 3: You have to be intellectually honest too. There's nothing there's

1485
01:30:21,880 --> 01:30:25,439
Speaker 3: no negative action. Nothing happens in or there's no neutral action.

1486
01:30:25,520 --> 01:30:29,880
Speaker 3: Nothing happens in a vacuum. We can use the power

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01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:33,760
Speaker 3: of our constitution to advocate for the great society on Earth,

1488
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:37,680
Speaker 3: or we can use it to degrade it. All right,

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01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:39,800
Speaker 3: I've got another bill you need to know about in

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01:30:39,840 --> 01:30:42,800
Speaker 3: California that's going to kill homeschooling and charter schools. Yes,

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01:30:43,760 --> 01:30:46,000
Speaker 3: don't go anywhere. I'm cure David's feeling it for Tony Kats.

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Speaker 3: And this is Tony Katz Today. Welcome back everybody too,

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Speaker 3: Tony Kats Today, moving right along with your So it's

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Speaker 3: Kira David. So I was talking a little bit about

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Speaker 3: the same sex marriage debate otherwise known as gay errand,

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Speaker 3: and I was saying, look, I think that it is

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Speaker 3: not settled. I think everyone needs to steal themselves, that

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01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:18,519
Speaker 3: this is a cultural conversation that is about to come

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01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:22,960
Speaker 3: back up. And there are a couple of cases right

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01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:27,559
Speaker 3: now weaving their way through the court system that are

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01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:31,680
Speaker 3: probably yes, going to make it up to SCOTUS. And

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01:31:31,720 --> 01:31:35,360
Speaker 3: then there's another one that they just made a request.

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01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:38,200
Speaker 3: So that's three. So but they made a formal request

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01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:40,920
Speaker 3: to SCOTUS to take up that case. Now that doesn't

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01:31:40,960 --> 01:31:44,800
Speaker 3: mean anything because they don't have to, but eventually a

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01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:47,720
Speaker 3: case is going to get there, and it's going to

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01:31:47,800 --> 01:31:51,760
Speaker 3: do the same thing that happened during Roe v. Rate

1508
01:31:52,200 --> 01:31:56,840
Speaker 3: way right, which is it's not about that that precedent,

1509
01:31:57,240 --> 01:32:00,760
Speaker 3: but it will address that precedent. We're going to experience it.

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01:32:00,840 --> 01:32:02,880
Speaker 3: So as I was looking in the break, I look

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01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 3: at this tweet and it says Gallup's new new Gallup pole,

1512
01:32:07,479 --> 01:32:10,680
Speaker 3: released ear earlier this month, reveals a Republican support for

1513
01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:13,400
Speaker 3: same sex marriage has dropped fourteen points from its high

1514
01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:17,559
Speaker 3: of fifty five in twenty twenty two. There's little change

1515
01:32:17,560 --> 01:32:22,360
Speaker 3: among Independents and Democrats. They're still at sixty eight percent overall.

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01:32:22,360 --> 01:32:26,200
Speaker 3: But I do think that that Republican drop is significant,

1517
01:32:27,640 --> 01:32:29,920
Speaker 3: and that goes back to what I was saying about

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01:32:29,960 --> 01:32:35,960
Speaker 3: the Truman showing of America. And I don't think that

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01:32:36,200 --> 01:32:39,920
Speaker 3: most people in this country are left or even center left,

1520
01:32:40,160 --> 01:32:43,919
Speaker 3: so it is significant that Republicans have dropped their support.

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01:32:45,640 --> 01:32:48,080
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if it ever was really that high.

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01:32:48,200 --> 01:32:50,640
Speaker 3: I think if you think about what was going on

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01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:54,439
Speaker 3: during when the debate first came up, you know, we

1524
01:32:54,560 --> 01:32:57,400
Speaker 3: defeated it here in California. We defeated it in California,

1525
01:32:58,800 --> 01:33:01,160
Speaker 3: we voted against it. So if you look at what

1526
01:33:01,200 --> 01:33:03,200
Speaker 3: was going on at the time, that was the Obama era,

1527
01:33:03,400 --> 01:33:06,400
Speaker 3: we were all being brainwashed into believing that the only

1528
01:33:06,479 --> 01:33:12,040
Speaker 3: way to prove that we're not racist and seconds sexist

1529
01:33:12,120 --> 01:33:16,559
Speaker 3: and bigots was to vote for Obama and support everything

1530
01:33:16,600 --> 01:33:20,280
Speaker 3: Democrats do. And there was this huge shame campaign going on,

1531
01:33:20,400 --> 01:33:23,599
Speaker 3: and we all fell prey to it in one way

1532
01:33:24,040 --> 01:33:27,519
Speaker 3: or another, and those of us who weren't buying it,

1533
01:33:28,120 --> 01:33:31,840
Speaker 3: in order to even have a voice in the public stage,

1534
01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:35,480
Speaker 3: we had to present all of our arguments as you know, persuasion.

1535
01:33:35,560 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 3: We were getting canceled left and right, and who it

1536
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:42,639
Speaker 3: was even getting difficult to tell the truth about it.

1537
01:33:44,280 --> 01:33:47,320
Speaker 3: We were being told and there a lot of Republicans

1538
01:33:47,320 --> 01:33:52,599
Speaker 3: bought it. A lot of conservatives bought into it. As

1539
01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:56,760
Speaker 3: a conservative content creator. I have to say that there

1540
01:33:56,800 --> 01:33:58,920
Speaker 3: is a purge that's going to need to calm in

1541
01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:03,200
Speaker 3: this movement. We got excited about a lot of the

1542
01:34:03,240 --> 01:34:07,559
Speaker 3: young people who are saying right wing things, but we

1543
01:34:07,600 --> 01:34:10,799
Speaker 3: didn't understand a lot of those people are steeped in

1544
01:34:11,120 --> 01:34:13,839
Speaker 3: progressive culture, and they come to us with our progress,

1545
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:18,000
Speaker 3: with their progressive ideas. It's going to dilute the base.

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01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:21,120
Speaker 3: So I do think there's going to be a purge

1547
01:34:21,120 --> 01:34:26,160
Speaker 3: there too. I'm just I have no idea how it's

1548
01:34:26,160 --> 01:34:28,599
Speaker 3: going to go down. I'm just saying that you need

1549
01:34:28,600 --> 01:34:32,240
Speaker 3: to prepare yourself that this is coming, and the way

1550
01:34:32,320 --> 01:34:38,160
Speaker 3: we survived Roe v. Wade will survive this too. But

1551
01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:43,760
Speaker 3: it will be another symbol of a the difference, the

1552
01:34:43,840 --> 01:34:47,040
Speaker 3: differences in the types of Americans there are, and be

1553
01:34:47,880 --> 01:34:52,479
Speaker 3: just how many of us are sick of the progressive left.

1554
01:34:53,479 --> 01:34:56,920
Speaker 3: And we will continue to divide further red state, blue state,

1555
01:34:57,760 --> 01:34:59,880
Speaker 3: But it's the blue states that are going to become

1556
01:35:00,080 --> 01:35:03,800
Speaker 3: increasingly isolated. You know, I was watching this TikTok. I

1557
01:35:03,840 --> 01:35:06,559
Speaker 3: was doom scrolling the other day. I was watching this

1558
01:35:06,680 --> 01:35:10,120
Speaker 3: TikTok and it was some some bros on a podcast.

1559
01:35:10,200 --> 01:35:14,080
Speaker 3: I don't know, it's just a funny little clip. One

1560
01:35:14,080 --> 01:35:17,080
Speaker 3: of the guys, the Asian. They were talking about race

1561
01:35:17,160 --> 01:35:18,960
Speaker 3: and the problem with white people, and the Asian guy

1562
01:35:18,960 --> 01:35:21,760
Speaker 3: in the panel said, look, here's what I think we

1563
01:35:21,760 --> 01:35:23,679
Speaker 3: should do it. And they were being funny, but he said,

1564
01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:25,360
Speaker 3: here's what I think we should do. We should take

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01:35:25,360 --> 01:35:27,400
Speaker 3: all the white people and put them on an island

1566
01:35:27,479 --> 01:35:30,280
Speaker 3: somewhere and like, fine, then do your white people stuff there,

1567
01:35:30,400 --> 01:35:33,439
Speaker 3: like like, make society however you want it, run the

1568
01:35:33,479 --> 01:35:36,479
Speaker 3: government however you want it, run trade and everything, do

1569
01:35:36,600 --> 01:35:38,479
Speaker 3: that however you want it, and leave the rest of

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01:35:38,560 --> 01:35:41,200
Speaker 3: us alone. And then the other guys who were white said, well,

1571
01:35:41,200 --> 01:35:43,720
Speaker 3: the problem with that is is that very quickly that

1572
01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:46,960
Speaker 3: would become the most successful society on the planet, and

1573
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:48,880
Speaker 3: then everybody would be trying to get in there and

1574
01:35:48,920 --> 01:35:51,280
Speaker 3: complaining that the white people are hoarding all the good

1575
01:35:51,320 --> 01:35:56,720
Speaker 3: stuff themselves. And I thought it was funny, but it's

1576
01:35:56,840 --> 01:35:59,240
Speaker 3: kind of true. And that's what's going to happen right

1577
01:35:59,400 --> 01:36:05,080
Speaker 3: with the Democrat these blue states that think, okay, fine,

1578
01:36:05,400 --> 01:36:07,759
Speaker 3: we're happy to push out all of our red state,

1579
01:36:08,360 --> 01:36:10,760
Speaker 3: all of our red voters we're happy about it. We're

1580
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:14,560
Speaker 3: going to isolate, We're going to create these bastions of paradise.

1581
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:17,479
Speaker 3: But as the Red states get stronger and the Blue

1582
01:36:17,520 --> 01:36:19,599
Speaker 3: states get weaker, what's going to happen is the American

1583
01:36:19,640 --> 01:36:25,120
Speaker 3: people are gonna notice, just like they do now, just

1584
01:36:25,120 --> 01:36:27,960
Speaker 3: like people who live in Los Angeles notice, they're not

1585
01:36:28,120 --> 01:36:31,200
Speaker 3: living the same kind of life that the people they

1586
01:36:31,240 --> 01:36:36,920
Speaker 3: supposedly hate in Oklahoma are. I'm telling you, folks, they're

1587
01:36:36,920 --> 01:36:41,519
Speaker 3: doing it to themselves and they don't even see it.

1588
01:36:41,520 --> 01:36:44,400
Speaker 3: It is both the best part and the worst part.

1589
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:48,920
Speaker 3: It's the best part because it's delightful to me that

1590
01:36:49,040 --> 01:36:53,320
Speaker 3: they are clearly nowhere near doing what they need to

1591
01:36:53,360 --> 01:36:54,920
Speaker 3: do to win, and I don't want them to win,

1592
01:36:55,280 --> 01:36:58,600
Speaker 3: so I don't want them to get it. But it

1593
01:36:58,680 --> 01:37:05,759
Speaker 3: is also just sad and frustrating to watch, too, because

1594
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:11,720
Speaker 3: while they're being this ignorant, real people are suffering. Here

1595
01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:13,200
Speaker 3: in California. I told you I was going to tell

1596
01:37:13,240 --> 01:37:16,920
Speaker 3: you about this other bill, AB eight four, Assembly Bill

1597
01:37:16,960 --> 01:37:18,960
Speaker 3: eight four. So we had Assembly Bill four ninety five.

1598
01:37:20,040 --> 01:37:22,759
Speaker 3: That's the bill that will allow any random adult to

1599
01:37:22,960 --> 01:37:25,840
Speaker 3: sign an affidavit saying they can make medical decisions for

1600
01:37:25,880 --> 01:37:30,559
Speaker 3: your child. That's a real bill. As I said, they

1601
01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:33,320
Speaker 3: put that in the suspense folder on Friday, so we'll

1602
01:37:33,320 --> 01:37:35,040
Speaker 3: see where it goes. I think they're just going to

1603
01:37:35,120 --> 01:37:37,240
Speaker 3: let it sit there for a minute until we forget

1604
01:37:37,280 --> 01:37:42,720
Speaker 3: about it. The other bill is AB eight four. This

1605
01:37:42,800 --> 01:37:47,040
Speaker 3: is an anti charter school homeschool bill. As you can imagine,

1606
01:37:47,080 --> 01:37:52,559
Speaker 3: as California has dove deeper and deeper into the gender

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01:37:52,600 --> 01:38:01,280
Speaker 3: ideology curriculum, which now bleeds into every aspect of California curriculum.

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01:38:01,360 --> 01:38:03,080
Speaker 3: Do you understand. I was talking to a mom last

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01:38:03,160 --> 01:38:05,400
Speaker 3: night and I was telling her. I think I offended her,

1610
01:38:05,400 --> 01:38:06,840
Speaker 3: and I didn't mean to. I was telling her, a look,

1611
01:38:06,960 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 3: if you have a choice, don't put your kid in

1612
01:38:08,600 --> 01:38:12,639
Speaker 3: public school. I know private school is unaffordable for most people,

1613
01:38:13,160 --> 01:38:16,240
Speaker 3: but finding some alternatives because what is coming to your

1614
01:38:16,280 --> 01:38:22,560
Speaker 3: small children is terrifying, you know. I was explained to

1615
01:38:22,560 --> 01:38:23,560
Speaker 3: her and she said, well, you know, I have a

1616
01:38:23,600 --> 01:38:25,559
Speaker 3: friend who just opts her kids out of the sex set.

1617
01:38:25,600 --> 01:38:28,160
Speaker 3: I'm like, honey, it's not the sex set anymore. That's

1618
01:38:28,200 --> 01:38:32,400
Speaker 3: only one thing. Every history lesson is gay history. Trans history.

1619
01:38:32,560 --> 01:38:36,599
Speaker 3: There is such a thing. Every math problem, every math

1620
01:38:36,680 --> 01:38:40,280
Speaker 3: word problem is about trans kids or gay kids. Your

1621
01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:45,320
Speaker 3: English teacher has a pornographic gay library in her in

1622
01:38:45,320 --> 01:38:49,800
Speaker 3: her classroom. There's no opting out of it because it

1623
01:38:49,920 --> 01:38:53,720
Speaker 3: now permeates every aspect of California education. So as you

1624
01:38:53,760 --> 01:38:56,519
Speaker 3: can imagine, the response to that has been, we're leaving

1625
01:38:56,560 --> 01:39:00,559
Speaker 3: the schools in droves. Parents are COVID showed us we

1626
01:39:00,680 --> 01:39:03,760
Speaker 3: actually can do other things. A lot of parents, particularly

1627
01:39:03,760 --> 01:39:06,679
Speaker 3: in my area of Orange County, went into a pod system.

1628
01:39:06,960 --> 01:39:10,360
Speaker 3: They're setting up their own homeschooling co ops. We have

1629
01:39:10,400 --> 01:39:12,960
Speaker 3: a lot of stay at home parents here or parents

1630
01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:16,800
Speaker 3: that work from home, so excuse me. They set up

1631
01:39:16,840 --> 01:39:20,200
Speaker 3: their own homeschool co ops, run them out of their homes,

1632
01:39:20,200 --> 01:39:23,160
Speaker 3: their garagees. It's five or six neighborhood students and they

1633
01:39:23,160 --> 01:39:26,639
Speaker 3: all share teaching duties. There's that, there's charter schools, which

1634
01:39:26,640 --> 01:39:31,440
Speaker 3: are still public schools. They still fall under public school legislation,

1635
01:39:31,840 --> 01:39:35,680
Speaker 3: but they are held to a higher standard, and the

1636
01:39:35,800 --> 01:39:40,880
Speaker 3: charter schools have greater flexibility with curriculum and discipline. So

1637
01:39:40,920 --> 01:39:44,280
Speaker 3: AB and then there's homeschooling. So AB eighty four will

1638
01:39:44,280 --> 01:39:48,639
Speaker 3: remove the approval of charter school boards from local districts.

1639
01:39:48,720 --> 01:39:52,800
Speaker 3: Right now, it's local education districts that control the approval

1640
01:39:52,840 --> 01:39:56,040
Speaker 3: of charter schools. So, for example, here in Orange County,

1641
01:39:56,280 --> 01:40:00,280
Speaker 3: i have my district school Board. Right, there's many different

1642
01:40:00,320 --> 01:40:04,479
Speaker 3: districts within Orange County. I've got my district school Board,

1643
01:40:04,960 --> 01:40:08,400
Speaker 3: which consults with the County Board of Education. Then we

1644
01:40:08,439 --> 01:40:11,080
Speaker 3: have the County Board of Education and they consult with

1645
01:40:11,120 --> 01:40:14,200
Speaker 3: the County Board of Education on opening new charters, this, that,

1646
01:40:14,240 --> 01:40:17,000
Speaker 3: and the other. It's a team effort. The County Board

1647
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:21,360
Speaker 3: of Education gives the charter school approvals in Orange County.

1648
01:40:21,600 --> 01:40:25,320
Speaker 3: County Board of Education is conservative, that is deliberate. We

1649
01:40:25,439 --> 01:40:28,200
Speaker 3: launched a three year campaign to overturn that board and

1650
01:40:28,240 --> 01:40:31,240
Speaker 3: we did it. That's what this bill is for. Just

1651
01:40:31,280 --> 01:40:34,479
Speaker 3: like the gerrymandering bill is meant to cut up Orange County,

1652
01:40:35,000 --> 01:40:37,360
Speaker 3: this Abaight four is meant to cut up what we

1653
01:40:37,439 --> 01:40:40,559
Speaker 3: are doing here to combat the public education system. So

1654
01:40:40,680 --> 01:40:44,160
Speaker 3: this bill will take the approval of charter schools from

1655
01:40:44,240 --> 01:40:46,280
Speaker 3: the districts and put it in the hands of Sacramento.

1656
01:40:47,120 --> 01:40:51,080
Speaker 3: And it will also close the loopholes for homeschools because

1657
01:40:51,160 --> 01:40:53,880
Speaker 3: right now we don't have a homeschool law in California.

1658
01:40:54,000 --> 01:40:56,480
Speaker 3: What you do is you apply to be a homeschooler.

1659
01:40:56,600 --> 01:40:59,759
Speaker 3: Under charter law, you just apply as an individual charter school.

1660
01:41:00,080 --> 01:41:02,000
Speaker 3: So as a mom when I was homeschooling, I just

1661
01:41:02,040 --> 01:41:04,760
Speaker 3: made myself a charter school, Crea Davis Charter School. That's

1662
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:07,000
Speaker 3: how you get around it. That's the loophole they're closing.

1663
01:41:07,040 --> 01:41:14,080
Speaker 3: It's that's the level of evil we are fighting in

1664
01:41:14,080 --> 01:41:17,400
Speaker 3: this state every single day. It's not just the jerrymandering,

1665
01:41:17,880 --> 01:41:20,559
Speaker 3: it's not just the gender ideology. If it's not one thing,

1666
01:41:20,640 --> 01:41:23,960
Speaker 3: it's another. Please don't tell me to leave. If I leave,

1667
01:41:24,320 --> 01:41:26,680
Speaker 3: this stuff takes over the state, and who's stuff and

1668
01:41:26,760 --> 01:41:29,080
Speaker 3: who suffers? And when does it come to you? It's

1669
01:41:29,120 --> 01:41:31,800
Speaker 3: already where you live, isn't it. It already is. You're

1670
01:41:31,840 --> 01:41:34,479
Speaker 3: already battling this in a place you never would have

1671
01:41:34,520 --> 01:41:37,080
Speaker 3: imagined having to battle this kind of stuff. So we

1672
01:41:37,160 --> 01:41:39,360
Speaker 3: have to take it seriously here too. All right, let's

1673
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Speaker 3: take another break. I'm Cure Davis's filling it for Tony

1674
01:41:41,479 --> 01:41:44,719
Speaker 3: Kats and this is Tony Kats Today. Welcome back everybody too,

1675
01:41:45,000 --> 01:41:48,400
Speaker 3: Tony Kats Today. Wow, time flins, when you're having fun

1676
01:41:48,640 --> 01:41:51,479
Speaker 3: always well, we are rolling into the last moments of

1677
01:41:51,520 --> 01:41:53,439
Speaker 3: this show. It's been my pleasure to be with you,

1678
01:41:53,560 --> 01:41:56,360
Speaker 3: Kirat Davis. You'll find me on x at Real Kira

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01:41:56,439 --> 01:41:59,720
Speaker 3: at Davis. That's k r A. Go over to my

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01:41:59,720 --> 01:42:02,559
Speaker 3: step Sack. I think I'm going to do a barn

1681
01:42:02,560 --> 01:42:04,280
Speaker 3: burner over. They're going to talk about some of the

1682
01:42:04,320 --> 01:42:07,280
Speaker 3: issues that we've been chatting about this morning. I've got

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Speaker 3: some things to say about Reverend now sharpen in this

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Speaker 3: idea that Trump is targeting black mares, and I think

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Speaker 3: it's time for reckoning for all of us. So you'll,

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Speaker 3: you know, make sure you're signed up for the substack

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Speaker 3: so you don't miss that when it comes. I want

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Speaker 3: to read this story to you today. It's actually not

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Speaker 3: from today, it's from a couple of days ago, but

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Speaker 3: I thought it's worth noting. Excuse me. The last American

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Speaker 3: fighter ace from World War Two dies at one hundred

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Speaker 3: and three. Donald McPherson, who scored five aerial victories and

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Speaker 3: was considered the last living American ACE pilot from World

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Speaker 3: War Two, has died this month this month at the

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Speaker 3: age of one hundred and three. McPherson served as a

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Speaker 3: naval aviator during the war, flying a Grumming F six

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Speaker 3: F held CAAP fighter over the Pacific Theater. He died

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Speaker 3: on August fourteenth, according to his family, and a funeral

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Speaker 3: for McPherson took place on the nineteenth at his hometown

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Speaker 3: of Adams, Nebraska. Eight decades ago. In the skies above

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Speaker 3: the Pacific ensign, McPherson was part of Flying Squadron eighty three.

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Speaker 3: Over the course of just a month, he scored five

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Speaker 3: aerial kills, earning him ACE status. According to the Fagans

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Speaker 3: Fighter World War Two Museum and the American Fighter Aces Association,

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Speaker 3: he was the last living American pilot from the war.

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Speaker 3: He was born on May twenty fifth in nineteen twenty two,

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Speaker 3: and he enlisted in the US Navy in January of

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Speaker 3: nineteen forty three. He married Thelma Johnson just a few

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Speaker 3: days later in nineteen forty four, and then he shipped

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Speaker 3: out to the Pacific Theater. He returned to Nebraska after

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Speaker 3: the war, and he worked as a mail carrier. Donald's

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Speaker 3: life was a harmonious blend of hard work and passion,

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Speaker 3: his obituary noted. According to his family and McPherson did

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Speaker 3: not talk about his wartime experiences. Instead, he remained in

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Speaker 3: his community in Nebraska, working with veterans organizations and local groups,

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Speaker 3: including coaching youth sports. He took up the woodworking. He

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Speaker 3: took up woodworking and fishing as hobbies when not helping others.

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Speaker 3: Excuse me, I'm getting a little emotional because, first of all,

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Speaker 3: thank you, sir for your service. And we are losing

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Speaker 3: this piece. I mean necessarily, we can't. We can't change

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Speaker 3: the march of time. Obviously, we are now in an

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Speaker 3: era we are losing many of these heroes, and we're

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Speaker 3: losing the passion and experience and the knowledge that came

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Speaker 3: with them. So thank you Ensen McPherson for your aace

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Speaker 3: McPherson for your service. But also it just as we

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Speaker 3: spent the whole show talking about all the way that

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Speaker 3: America has gone wrong and all of the types of

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Speaker 3: people who are here who shouldn't be here, who hate

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Speaker 3: our country and who are hurting our country, and they're

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Speaker 3: here living with us. We have to live next to them,

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Speaker 3: and it's easy to get frustrated to say, you know,

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Speaker 3: what has happened to our country, But let us not

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Speaker 3: forget that we are also the country that produces great

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Speaker 3: patriots like Donald McPherson, who not only served his nation

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Speaker 3: by going to war and killing the enemy, but coming

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Speaker 3: home and serving his fellow veterans and his community and

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Speaker 3: doing it quietly. You know, not like Gavin Newsom about

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Speaker 3: everythings he changed in the world by writing in all

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Speaker 3: cabs and imitating the president. That's not the America that

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Speaker 3: I know and love. This is the America I know

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Speaker 3: and love, the Donald McPherson's of the world who went

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Speaker 3: and did their duty and came home and lived quietly

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Speaker 3: and served their fellow Americans and contributed to this nation.

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Speaker 3: Because even though he must have seen and done horrible things,

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Speaker 3: he knew what that liberty was worth fighting for and

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Speaker 3: America was worth fighting for. He knew that because that's

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Speaker 3: how he grew up, and that's how he was trained

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Speaker 3: to believe that America is the greatest country on earth.

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Speaker 3: And if we want more Donald mcphersons in this country

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Speaker 3: and leading this world, we need to educate more great patriots.

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Speaker 3: It starts in school and it ends at the White House.

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Speaker 3: It's been a pleasure to be with you. Go check

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Speaker 3: me out on acts at Realkiara Davis or Justcaradavis dot

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Speaker 3: subject dot com. Thanks for having me on today, Tony.

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Speaker 3: We'll be back tomorrow. It's been great, and it's been

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Speaker 3: Tony Kats today