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You can click subscribe 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:18.720 when you check out his YouTube page and definitely check 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:22.920 out the videos. Ramin a Guitar Welcome, Well, how are 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.400 you man, I'm good. Thank you so much for stopping 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:26.319 by this afternoon. 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.320 I appreciate you guys. Awesome show. 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:33.560 So when I grew up here in California, it the 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.800 thought never occurred to me of moving to another place, 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.720 because you live here where the weather's great, all the 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.520 fun stuff is here, all the amusement parks, all the 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.600 great things to do, the beaches, and you name it. 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:52.440 California had advantages that dwarf the advantages of all of 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:54.680 the other states that I had ever been to at least, 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:59.960 and I just knew I would live here my whole life. Now, 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.520 when you talk to nieces and nephews and the children 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:05.880 and your friends and people who are growing up here 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:10.160 right now, almost to a person, none of them plan 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.640 on staying here. None of them plan on buying a 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:18.600 house in California, even though in state tuition is relatively 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:22.200 cheap and inexpensive at the UCS and the cal States. 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.000 They don't have a desire to even stick around that long. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:30.200 They want to move on to other places with greener pastures, 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:33.160 where they don't have a homeless problem, they don't have 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:37.240 the retail theft problem. They can buy a house, they 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:41.359 can raise a family, they have opportunities that just no 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.600 longer exist in California. And it seems like instead of 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:51.760 making things better, Sacramento just doubles and triples and quadruples 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.040 down on all of the policies that make this place 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:59.919 unaffordable and undesirable to live. And I know our population 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.280 in decline right now. I don't see that changing anytime 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.799 soon given the circumstances that we have. Your thoughts, it's 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:08.760 a complete debacle. 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:13.520 It's almost on purpose, as if right, because even to 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.560 the cost of housing, for instance, I think somewhere around 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.520 one hundred and forty five thousand bucks before you put 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:20.760 a stick in the ground, it's what it cost you 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.679 for these mandates. You know what is it called the 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:29.840 Coastal Commission SEQUA. All these you tie into the sewer, 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:32.320 tie into the electric grid. It cost you one hundred 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:34.560 and forty five k before you put it one piece 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.840 of wood in the ground. And that's why the price 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.320 for housing is so expensive. But we're doing it to 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.360 ourselves in California with all these rules and regulations, the 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.960 water issues. I think you were going to talk about 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.119 the high speed rail train. One tax after another, one 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.560 hole to fill after another, and it never stops. The 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.520 holes get bigger and bigger, and we never stopped paying 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:54.840 for it. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.800 And the city's in particular because you go to Orange County, 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.400 it's still relatively norm there. You go to portions of 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:05.920 San Diego County, the Inland Empire, it's still relatively normal. 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:11.120 But you go to Oakland, you go to Los Angeles, 0:04:11.400 --> 0:04:13.680 and it's like the day after the end of the world. 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:17.479 Those the big cities in California just do not function. 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:21.400 The zombie apocalypse, you know, I blame some of that. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:25.320 Actually I blame most of it on NGOs because it's 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.720 become an industrial complex. You mentioned Oakland, that's up the 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.840 street for me. I spent some time on skid Row 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.920 a couple of weeks ago, and it's like you're walking 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:38.000 into a zombie movie. It's completely different landscape. It looks 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.160 like a third world country. And we live, like you said, 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.920 in one of the most beautiful states I think in 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:47.160 the entire the country. We got oceans, we got mountains, 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.520 we got skiing, we got boating, you name it, we 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:54.800 got it here, great weather, great people. Unfortunately run into 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:55.159 the ground. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.960 What is your prescription for cutting off these corrupt NGOs 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.000 who are both bankrupting us and making our problems worse. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.880 Stop feeding them period. You know you're in. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.240 LA, right, John, Well, I'm in Riverside County. 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:14.120 Yeah to me, that's LA right. So I'm North California. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.440 Got everything below me is LA all right? So, but 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.159 you know, it's it's amazing. The homelessness went up three 0:05:21.200 --> 0:05:23.279 point one percent, is what Karen Bass is saying, but 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.720 some some estimates are saying over seven percent because they 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:29.719 changed the wording it's unhoused or under housed or whatever. 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.880 Homelessness has increased. We spent I think what twenty four 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:37.119 billion dollars on homelessness, and now you're seeing it rise. 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:40.240 We are the most popular destination in the country for 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:43.680 homeless people, and we've spent so much money fighting it. 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:46.600 But that money goes to NGOs. It goes to people 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.360 who give needles. Like I told you, I was on 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:52.920 skid row two three weeks ago, and they're getting handed needles. 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:54.520 Guys are walking around with a crack pipe out of 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.080 their mouth, Like instead of a cigarette hanging out of 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.040 his mouth, he's holding one of those little globe things 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.839 in his mouth, just hanging out, walking rails, running for 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:04.920 the police station Central District. And I was just shocked 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:09.320 to see how pervasive it is. It's just crazy. So, yeah, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:11.680 we're paying for it and we're getting nothing, not one 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.920 penny back out of it and no progress. So what's up? 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.159 At what point do we say stop it? I don't 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:19.640 want to spend any more money on this stuff. 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.760 Well, the problem with them is that they're politically connected. 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.039 I mean you look at the LA Mayor's race. Where 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.159 did Nitthie Brahman come from. She came from one of 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:32.840 those homeless services inngos. You look at this revolving door 0:06:32.880 --> 0:06:35.800 of people in elected office and people who work for 0:06:35.839 --> 0:06:39.800 these NGOs. Katie Hill, that congresswoman that had to leave Congress, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.720 she came from that world to so many people at 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.560 the city level, the county level. They go back and 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:49.880 forth and because of these tight knit relationships that they have, 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.880 where you know, frequently you'll have an elected who directs 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:55.120 money to one of these groups and they sit on 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:58.440 the board and then they'll have money come back to 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.120 them in the form of campaign contributions or essentially, the 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.919 group will work to advance the political agenda the elected official, 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:09.200 whether through voter outreach or whatever. And you go, okay. 0:07:09.760 --> 0:07:13.800 Unless some outside entity steps in and stops this, this 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:18.040 is never going to end because it's mutually beneficial for 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:21.600 the electeds and the people who run the NGOs, the 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.520 people who get screwed, or the taxpayers, because the problems 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:30.160 that the NGOs exist to solve only get worse because 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.600 that's not their objective. Their objective is to keep it 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:37.640 going forever because they're making the king's ransom off of it. 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.080 Yeah, they are. And you got to think of those 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.840 NGOs and on these political officials as well. You've got 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:45.520 to think of them as a being a body. A 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.280 body's job is to survive no matter what, right, So 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:51.480 their only way to survive is to get more homeless people, 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:54.080 is to get more drug addicts, is to get more 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.040 whatever it is, right, that's their survival mechanism. So to 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.440 get more bodies, I need to keep the homeless industrial 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.240 complex going. I need to keep the people drugged up 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:05.680 and ready to accept services only to the point where 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.640 they get a little bit better. And I shove them 0:08:07.680 --> 0:08:10.160 back into the next NGO's pocket and see what they do. 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.480 So in terms of fairness, I think the NGOs are 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.400 running like a business, which is what they're supposed to do, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:20.720 but their customers are and the customers are unhoused and 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:24.320 drug addicts, and we're the guys who are paying it. 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:26.720 Where the pipe that pays these people, So that that 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.440 has to stop, it really does. I don't know how 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.280 you're going to stop it. Even Gavin Newsom's own deal 0:08:31.360 --> 0:08:34.720 right now with his wife right money coming into the charity, 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:38.360 what do they call that? I think they have something 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.120 like a kickback happening. But anyway, it is what it is. 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.000 We have to stop the NGOs. We have to stop 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:47.720 these non governmental organizations and these charities that they're just 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:48.880 not working out. 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.160 To my eye, much of what they're doing is money laundering. 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.719 Yet they never they never seem to get popped for it, 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.080 or if they do, it's a very rare occurrence. And 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.120 it's when they get real gross with how they're doing 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.880 it and they just get sloppy and not on the rest. 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:09.800 God blessed Bill A. Saley. He's made some arrests and 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.559 these are only blaytant cases that are getting arrested. I 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.240 think that guy with a Hermeslofers and the house of 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.360 in Greece that he bought, right, the kind that comes 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:18.840 to mind. But get what do we get out of it? 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.240 We got a range rover and his house and that's it. 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.199 So he's in jail. What happened to all the money? Right? 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.160 What happened to the hotel he bought that he never refurbished? 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:31.160 For the homelessness? And on this homelessness thing, when we 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.520 were on skid row, I saw some new construction going 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:34.920 up and one of the guys comes up to me, Hey, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:36.120 what are you guys out here for? I said, well, 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:37.840 I'm just trying to figure out where all the money 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.319 is going for homeless. He goes, look at that building 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.520 right there, they're building homeless shelters. Like, okay, let's do 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:45.120 some quick math. Seven stories high, eight windows, I see, 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.600 So that's fifty six Okay, let's multiply it by ten wide. 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.880 That's five hundred and sixty homes. Potentially, you have one 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:57.599 hundred and eighty seven thousand homeless people in California. And 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:00.200 let's just take let's put a quarter down in La Okay, 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.040 let's just make it two hundred, and we'll make it 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:05.800 a quarter of those guys fifty five hundred and sixty. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:07.640 That's not going to house anybody. And what do they 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.160 do when they get housed too How long are they 0:10:09.160 --> 0:10:11.200 going to stay in those houses? And that's your money 0:10:11.240 --> 0:10:13.320 and my money going to pay for that building going 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.680 up Number one, Number two for the staff to have 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.840 has staff said number three for the services they provide 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:20.240 to what end? 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:25.680 What we're doing now is not sustainable. And usually what 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.439 happens is the counterbalance to this is, Okay, when one 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:33.040 party is in charge and they get too greedy and 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:37.080 they push things too far, the voter step in and go, okay, 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.880 we're going to take the power away from you and 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.160 we're going to give it to the other party. But 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.559 California is such a one party state now there are 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:51.439 no consequences for bad behavior. There's no consequences for not delivering. 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.920 And when we do vote them out, if they get 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.720 to be, you know, too hot, we replace them with 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.480 someone who's worse. I mean, in Oakland, we replaced Shang 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:06.559 Tao with Barbara Lee, which I can't understand. In Los Angeles, 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:08.680 it looks like We're going to replace kring Bass with 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:13.320 Nythia Rahman, who's part of the DSAS, and you go topic, Okay, 0:11:13.520 --> 0:11:17.800 we're changing the personnel. We're changing the individuals in these offices, 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.120 but we're either replacing them with someone who sees the 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.199 world exactly the same way or someone who's going to 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:25.280 take us to hell faster. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.360 Yeah, the road to hell. It's you guys in Los Angeles. 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.000 I really feel bad. I mean, I don't know. I 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:33.000 don't want to talk about the elections or how many 0:11:33.040 --> 0:11:35.120 votes were cast or whatever, because you saw the graphs 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.319 one day it's you know, Nythia Rama like this and 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:39.880 is like this going up, and you know, Spencer Pratt's out. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.800 I don't understand where we're going to stop at this point. 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.640 I think we got red jerseys and blue jerseys. We 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:47.120 need to stop thinking about I'm on a red team 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:49.000 or on a blue team. You need to think about you. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.040 You need to become a little bit more selfish and 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.760 think about is my life better? I don't think so. 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.360 How can I stop it? Maybe these other guys from 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.000 the other party might help, right, And we have a 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.360 lot of people who are Democrats. The blue jerseys, they're 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.040 starting to wear purple now, but the purple guys are 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.560 still voting to the red jerseys. They're still cheering for 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:09.920 their own team. We got to stop cheering for teams. 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:13.280 We've got to get people in office who actually want 0:12:13.320 --> 0:12:16.800 to affect change and change. 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.199 You know, it's funny. I used to have a neighbor 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.839 who is very part as a Democrat, but a very 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:27.360 very smart lady, and we were talking about complaining about 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.280 the failures of the state, very similar to the conversation 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.720 you and I are just having. And she would have 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:37.880 no problem participating in that conversation and acknowledge all of 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.560 the problems that we brought up are real. And she 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.960 doesn't like it too. And then you go, okay, well, 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.040 why are you voting for Gavin Newsom if you're upset 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:51.240 with the government services you're receiving. Yeah, And then the 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.160 answer is always something performative that means nothing. Well, he's 0:12:55.160 --> 0:13:00.480 good on women's rights, Well, he's good on democracy. Okay, 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:07.040 well he's good on the environment, And you go in 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.080 every way where you can use the metrics to evaluate 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:14.400 his performance, you yourself said he was a complete and 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:17.240 total failure, but you're going to vote for him again 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:20.440 because he's good on women's rights. Whatever the hell that means. 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.040 I don't even know how you can substantiate that. Now, 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.280 Gavin News was a special kind of guy. He's good looking, 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.040 he looks great on camera. He always knows exactly what 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:30.760 to say. The only time I've seen him couple times 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:32.959 I've screw up is that last press conference he had 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:35.520 where he was talking about his taxes being released, and 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.040 also the other one where he's talking about is you know, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.839 Trump going after his wife. So you see him slip 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:42.760 a little bit. As long as he's not moving his 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:44.559 hands like I have right, I'll stop moving my hands. 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:47.280 He's not moving his hands or slinking around like this. 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.920 You can maybe see the inside of gavinus. But he's 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.280 very slick and he's very polished. He knows exactly what 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:56.480 to say. And here's the problem I'm talking these days. 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.880 I'm talking about caveman. If I'm in a cave, this 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.000 is my crib, and we hang out in this cave. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.280 We've got strawberries, we know those saber tooths are, and 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:04.959 we know how to you know, harvest some peanuts or 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.480 whatever so we can eat. Yeah, I'll give you some 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:09.440 peanuts and I'll give you some strawberries if you come over, 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:11.400 knock on my cave door and say, hey, we're starving 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.160 over here. But at some point I'm going to run 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:17.240 out of strawberries and nuts to give you guys, And 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:18.640 I'm not going to tell you where the saber tooth 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.840 is anymore because you've hunted them down. I'm out of strawberries. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.640 Stop asking me for more strawberries. You have to become 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:26.640 a little bit more selfish. I think we'd all do 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.000 you know, with the property taxes, the income taxes, with 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.640 the gas prices we capentry, What the hell is all 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.520 this money going to what? And we're not seeing any 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.880 direct result of it. What's our budget this year? Three 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.400 hundred and fifty two three fifty six billion, I think 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:44.440 something like that. It's increased fifty percent over the past 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.520 three four years. Has your life improved fifty to sixty percent? 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.800 Are your roads any better? I just bought a car 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.000 in January. I've replaced three rims already driving back and 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:57.000 forth to the Los Angeles and San Jose, three rims 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.320 on a brand new car. So as my road all 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:00.000 that much better? 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:00.680 No? 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:03.520 Is my life better? No? We have the highest income 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.520 tax thirteen point three. And by the way, there's a 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:09.040 new bill on the November ballot that's going to make 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.520 that a permanent fixture. That you was a temporary ten 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:14.480 year deal that we had with the government. Now they're 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:17.400 going to make it a permanent fixture. So we have 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:20.480 to start thinking a little bit more selfishly, start thinking 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.960 about my cave. And I don't have any more strawberries 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.680 to give you, so can you please leave? Hang out later. 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.360 Let's go back to the DSA for a moment, because 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:34.239 they've been racking up wins all over the country New York, Colorado, 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.480 even in some primaries. Here in California, we could end 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.440 up with the DSA mayor. In Los Angeles, we have 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.800 a growing DSA block on the La City Council. We 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.600 have elections going on today in Michigan. There could be 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:52.240 a candidate who's very DSA friendly win the Democratic nomination 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:56.600 for US Senate. Incumbent Democratic members of Congress could lose 0:15:56.640 --> 0:16:01.400 their primaries to DSA challengers. That's entirely possible as well. 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:05.800 What do you make of their ascendancy and how damaging 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:07.640 do you think it would be if they start to 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.120 gain traction here in California at the state. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:13.960 Start to gain traction. They've already traction. They have gained 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:17.480 a lot. And some of this I blame on the economy, right, 0:16:17.880 --> 0:16:21.000 because if I'm a student, then I went to find 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.640 out gender studies in South Africa or something like that. 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.520 What It's some crazy, you know, degree that I got 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:28.040 and I'm not going to get a job for it. 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:31.160 I'm still spending my money on Lululemons. I'm going out 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.080 to Starbucks. I'm sorry Phill's coffee because Starbucks doesn't cut 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.480 it right, so I'm scaling my coffee. I'm still doing 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.280 the same stuff I used to do. I call these 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:43.040 Lululemons socialists, and they're still They're poor, they have no money. 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:44.760 They went and got a four year degree from a nice, 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:47.960 prestigious school, spent one hundred thousand bucks. Now they can't 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.320 find work, and they're still doing the same stuff they 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:53.720 used to do. Well. I think this is a pervasive 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.480 disease in America. I related to a cancer almost. If 0:16:57.520 --> 0:17:00.840 we don't stop talking about the socialis some stuff, or 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.520 start talking about the socialism stuff, how it has never 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:08.000 worked in any economy, in any in any country, then 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.600 we're going to be sucked into it, unfortunately, and you know, 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:14.560 the stuff they're talking about is crazy. Stop the presidency. 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.280 Was this, Stop the Congress or something like that, only 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.080 oh no, it stop the Senate. I'm sorry, Stop the Senate. 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:23.920 Stop the Congress. Install more. I think judges in the 0:17:23.960 --> 0:17:25.760 court they want to jacket up to twelve or fifteen 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:28.080 I believe, or something like that. The stuff they want 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:32.600 to do is develop a new country, not America anymore, 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.040 not the stuff that we found in two hundred fifty 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:36.399 years ago. They want to rewrite the constitution and the 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:38.280 inner workings of how we do things. And once we 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:40.520 go down that route, it's gonna be crazy. 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.720 They want no police, they want no ice, they want 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.879 no door, no jails. Prison is violence is something that 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:52.240 they buy into. And it goes to show you what 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.760 is wrong with the Democratic Party where they look at 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.439 these people and they don't look at them as a 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:04.080 threat to I guess the party itself, and they embrace them. 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.400 And if they win the primary, okay, we'll all vote 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:09.480 for you. How could you vote for someone who wants 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:11.879 to get rid of the jails? How could they vote. 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:13.840 For someone about how they're doing this, They're going into 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:17.160 low level elections where there's not a lot of turnout, 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.160 and then they're going to be able to get the vote. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.280 This is what they've been doing. I think, who's that 0:18:21.480 --> 0:18:25.600 Francesca chan I believe she wants to abolish Thanksgiving? Did 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:27.480 you see that? Yeah, she put out a few years 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.000 and abolished Thanksgiving. They got such radical ideas and they've 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:35.680 infested the Democrat Party and they're saying good things. Now, No, 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:37.600 that was something I meant in the past. It's not 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:40.439 something I really believe in anymore. They told you what 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.439 they believe in. If you don't trust them about what 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:45.600 they told you, they're going to change their ways once 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:48.119 they get into the Democrat Party. And unfortunately, Gavin Newsom 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:52.560 was saying this, We're a tentive addition, not subtraction. Democrats. 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.320 You're going to lose this country, the stuff where you 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.040 grew up, where your kids grew up, where your parents 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:01.400 grew up. This country's not gonna be the same once 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.560 those guys get their feet in the door, unfortunately, and 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.520 we need to see that again. Caveman principle, save your cave. 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:13.040 Ramin Echuitar, host of Ramin Real Talk on YouTube. Check 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.960 that out and click the subscribe button. 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