1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:03,200 Speaker 1: Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John 2 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:07,560 Speaker 1: Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. After four o'clock. Whatever 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,039 Speaker 1: you missed, you go to the iHeart app for the 4 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:13,320 Speaker 1: John Cobelt Show on demand and you get to hear 5 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:16,919 Speaker 1: what you missed. Deborah Mark is here the great return. 6 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: I'm that after laying in state for several days. Well, 7 00:00:22,960 --> 00:00:25,919 Speaker 1: you're all better. I'm not all better, You're mostly better. 8 00:00:25,960 --> 00:00:29,680 Speaker 1: I'm mostly better. Yeah, she had some kind of some 9 00:00:29,800 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 1: kind of signus issue made her cough a whole lot. 10 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:33,440 Speaker 2: I'm still coughing a lot. 11 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:37,920 Speaker 3: So if if I got a newscast short, or I 12 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:42,320 Speaker 3: take some weird breaks in the middle, you know I'm coughing. 13 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,680 Speaker 1: All right, all right, try not to induce you into 14 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: talking too much. 15 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:46,800 Speaker 2: Thank you. 16 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 4: All right. 17 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: We have big news today, and the US said it 18 00:00:55,440 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: after the House voted to block Californnia's ban on gas 19 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:07,720 Speaker 1: powered cars twenty thirty five. As you may know, we 20 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: wouldn't be able to buy a gas powered car, and 21 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:13,840 Speaker 1: in fact, they were phasing in quotas between now and 22 00:01:13,959 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 1: twenty thirty five. Every year a certain number of electrical 23 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:21,199 Speaker 1: vehicles must be purchased. Although it was never clear exactly 24 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,679 Speaker 1: how they were going to enforce that. And of course 25 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,320 Speaker 1: most people don't want an electric vehicle, and they don't 26 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:30,680 Speaker 1: buy an electric vehicle for obvious reasons. They're really expensive, 27 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:35,399 Speaker 1: there's not that many charging stations around, and besides that, 28 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,399 Speaker 1: there's not an electrical build, an electrical grid that's been 29 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:45,320 Speaker 1: built to handle it, among other reasons. California took the lead, 30 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: and they're very proud of this in trying to force 31 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,720 Speaker 1: us to buy electric cars, taking away our freedom to 32 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: decide how we want to transport ourselves on the roads. 33 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: And today, in a fifty one to forty four vote, 34 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:04,880 Speaker 1: the Senates, no, you can't do that. People have got 35 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:07,440 Speaker 1: to be free. This is part of freedom too, deciding 36 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: what kind of car you want. And of course this 37 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: is the greenhouse gas global warming nonsense that most normal 38 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:21,520 Speaker 1: people don't care about. But Gavin Newsom, this is his religion. 39 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 1: He is the high priest. We are going to, you know, 40 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:26,679 Speaker 1: coming up in the next segment, I'm going to tell 41 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,200 Speaker 1: you exactly how this works because California got a waiver 42 00:02:31,480 --> 00:02:37,359 Speaker 1: from the federal government from the EPA because normally when 43 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:43,880 Speaker 1: you emission standards motor vehicle standards. It's a national standard, 44 00:02:45,160 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: but California has applied over the years for waivers so 45 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,760 Speaker 1: they could enact their own air pollution laws because we 46 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:54,840 Speaker 1: had some unusual terrain here that led to pretty intense smog. 47 00:02:55,000 --> 00:02:57,920 Speaker 1: People who were around here back in the nineteen seventies 48 00:02:57,960 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: will tell you that LA was coded in disgusting, unhealthy 49 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,760 Speaker 1: smog that's largely dissipated. But now they've decided to call 50 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: greenhouse gases with like carbon dioxide to be pollution. Carbon 51 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: dioxide is what you and I exhale, so it's not pollution. 52 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: But you know, there's a whole industry that is built 53 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: around this racket. Anyway. So the Senate says, end of 54 00:03:24,280 --> 00:03:27,200 Speaker 1: the racket in California. So of the House, Trump will 55 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: sign the bill. Let's talk to Senate Transportation Vice Chairman 56 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 1: Tony Strickland for his thoughts on this. 57 00:03:33,480 --> 00:03:38,120 Speaker 4: Tony, how are you fantastic news? John? At least those 58 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:41,320 Speaker 4: common sense in Washington, at least on this issue. 59 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: I've always thought it is outrageous that we have to 60 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: be forced to buy something we don't want, and something 61 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 1: really important here. We're not talking about light bulbs, We're 62 00:03:51,520 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: talking about a motor vehicle and their choice is a 63 00:03:56,520 --> 00:03:58,960 Speaker 1: real pain in the ass. For all the reasons I said, 64 00:03:59,680 --> 00:04:02,880 Speaker 1: it's it's really expensive, it takes a long time to charge, 65 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: there aren't that many public charging stations, and there's no 66 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:09,200 Speaker 1: electrical grid to support it anyway. So it was so 67 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: preposterous that this loss stood as long as it did. 68 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 4: I could agree more. And there's many reasons, and you 69 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,640 Speaker 4: mentioned a lot of them. You know, first and foremost, 70 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:22,800 Speaker 4: the people don't want it. I had Handai in my 71 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 4: office the other day in general motors, and they're number 72 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 4: two in the market, and then two percent growth rate. 73 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:32,359 Speaker 4: With all the federal subsidies and state subspeeds throwing at this, 74 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,480 Speaker 4: the people just don't want it. Number two, most mo 75 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:40,200 Speaker 4: Cailiforniaans can't afford it. Forty to sixty thousand dollars and three. 76 00:04:40,279 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 4: And I'm glad you mentioned the energy. The worst thing 77 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:45,240 Speaker 4: that can happen in California is everybody go buy an 78 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:47,400 Speaker 4: electric car and plug it in because we don't have 79 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:52,279 Speaker 4: the energy capacity. We would have rolling blackouts all throughout California. 80 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,599 Speaker 4: Because we still don't have enough energy in California right now, 81 00:04:55,720 --> 00:04:58,760 Speaker 4: not alone adding fifteen million electric vehicles to the road. 82 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 1: That's what's nuts. If we all obeyed the High Priest's 83 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:08,359 Speaker 1: command and plugged in an electric vehicle tomorrow, we'd have 84 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:11,840 Speaker 1: blackouts across the state. It'd be impossible desply that kind 85 00:05:11,839 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 1: of energy, and it will be impossible for a very 86 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:14,719 Speaker 1: long time. 87 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:20,159 Speaker 4: Yes. Absolutely, And you mentioned the charging stations. We have 88 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 4: less than two hundred thousand. You need to over two 89 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:27,440 Speaker 4: million in order to meet the demand or the mandate. 90 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:33,720 Speaker 4: So common sense. This is all common sense nonsense coming 91 00:05:33,760 --> 00:05:36,560 Speaker 4: from Governor Newsom and the two thirds majority. What I 92 00:05:36,640 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 4: said is this decision in the US Senate make California 93 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 4: affordable again. People can have freedom and buy the car 94 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,799 Speaker 4: that they want. You know, if someone wants electric vehicle, 95 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 4: go have at it, but don't force everybody to, you know, 96 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:54,799 Speaker 4: buy an electric vehicle. And again, most Californians can't afford 97 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:56,520 Speaker 4: a forty to sixty thousand dollars car. 98 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,679 Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think. Well, Noison doesn't 99 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 1: care about this kind of freedom, which is really doll. 100 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:08,800 Speaker 4: He's like, he's like Marie Antoinette, you know, letting me cake. 101 00:06:08,839 --> 00:06:13,479 Speaker 4: He doesn't understand what normal citizens go through. And again, 102 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,520 Speaker 4: it's just like the he's good for other people. I 103 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:19,680 Speaker 4: guarantee he drives his I bet he drives. I don't 104 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:22,560 Speaker 4: know this for sure, but you know he doesn't. He 105 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:24,599 Speaker 4: mandates on others what he's not willing to do, just 106 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,640 Speaker 4: like the French laundry. He wanted he went out and 107 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 4: had food out in public, but he didn't want anybody 108 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 4: else to do so his kids went to school in person, 109 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 4: but he didn't want our kids to do it. You know, 110 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 4: he's he's just a classic Marie Antoinette. Let him eat 111 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 4: cake and and again, most most Californians can't afford it. 112 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,359 Speaker 4: And the worst thing that can happen is everybody playing 113 00:06:47,400 --> 00:06:50,599 Speaker 4: it in because we don't have enough electricity right now. 114 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 4: We need to work I'm on the Energy committee as well. 115 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 4: We need to work hard to build more energy here 116 00:06:55,920 --> 00:06:58,960 Speaker 4: in California. And we shouldn't be energy independent here in 117 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,480 Speaker 4: this in the state. But you know they're getting rid 118 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:05,600 Speaker 4: of oil and gasoline and more and more. You know, 119 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 4: Valero's leaving, Phillips sixty six is leaving, and now projections 120 00:07:11,040 --> 00:07:13,920 Speaker 4: are that gas prices are gonna be upwards to eight 121 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,440 Speaker 4: dollars a gallon next year. I mean, with management of 122 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:19,680 Speaker 4: this governor is is unbelievable. 123 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,640 Speaker 1: Well, what can be done to stave off these excessive 124 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: gas prices because they are coming? Valera really is closing 125 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:31,520 Speaker 1: a refinery. Phillips sixty six really is closing a for refinery. 126 00:07:31,640 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: I think I think Valero or one of the two 127 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: is closing a pair. What are we supposed to do here? 128 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:41,760 Speaker 1: Just take it? We've got all this while down below 129 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: we're walking on top of it. Bakersfield is built over 130 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:50,080 Speaker 1: a gigantic oil reserve and we can't use it. And 131 00:07:50,320 --> 00:07:52,880 Speaker 1: this just seems nuts. I mean, what can we do 132 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:54,160 Speaker 1: to change things here? 133 00:07:55,680 --> 00:07:58,960 Speaker 5: Well, one of the bills I have is to eliminate 134 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 5: the spending for the high speed rail and lower the 135 00:08:01,520 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 5: gas prices for all California residents dramatically, seven billion dollar 136 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 5: tax cut in our gas prices. Actually, when you look 137 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 5: at it, the government makes more money off of gas 138 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:17,240 Speaker 5: than than than oil companies do. With the increase in 139 00:08:17,320 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 5: gas and sales tax. We have an X size tax 140 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 5: and sales tax on this and it's increased every year 141 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,480 Speaker 5: on their Gavin Newsom, So we need relief at the 142 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:31,040 Speaker 5: pump for everyday citizens. You want to do what's right, Relieve, relieve, 143 00:08:31,560 --> 00:08:35,760 Speaker 5: the gas tax and lower the prices for everyday citizens 144 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 5: because they're having a hard time. 145 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:42,040 Speaker 4: Living paycheck to paycheck. And this legislature has said that 146 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,120 Speaker 4: they wanted to make this year the year of attacking 147 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 4: the affordability crisis in California, but they're now proposing more 148 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 4: more taxes as they keep spending and wasting money. And 149 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:55,960 Speaker 4: then they come up with these crazy, uh, these crazy 150 00:08:56,320 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 4: ideas that everybody's going to buy an electric car by 151 00:08:58,760 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 4: you know, two thousand. 152 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: No, they're they're insane. I mean, they are in a 153 00:09:04,160 --> 00:09:07,600 Speaker 1: bizarre religious cult. They're insane. People do not want to 154 00:09:07,640 --> 00:09:10,640 Speaker 1: buy these cars, and they have great reasons not to. 155 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:15,160 Speaker 1: And if you want an affordable state, a large component 156 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 1: of affordability is energy because everything we have depends on 157 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,040 Speaker 1: cheap energy, not only all the transportation, but the manufacturer 158 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,559 Speaker 1: of goods and and and and moving the goods around. 159 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,120 Speaker 1: There isn't an industry that doesn't depend on cheap gas 160 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: and cheap oile and and and there's no way to 161 00:09:36,559 --> 00:09:40,319 Speaker 1: create enough electricity so that we are not burning gas 162 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 1: and oil. That's just impossible. Nobody's doing that, correct, It 163 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:45,760 Speaker 1: is impossible. 164 00:09:45,880 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 4: And again I'm glad that the US n and acted 165 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,360 Speaker 4: the way they did, and I welcome it, and I said, 166 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 4: it's a great day for California and because it made 167 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 4: California affordable again, and we need to keep getting more 168 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 4: common sends people up here at Sacramento and get rid 169 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,040 Speaker 4: of these crazy people who are in theory and not 170 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:05,760 Speaker 4: in reality. 171 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:08,880 Speaker 1: All right, good talking with you, Tony, Thanks for coming 172 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:09,320 Speaker 1: on again. 173 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:12,079 Speaker 4: Thanks again for having me. I really appreciate it. 174 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: Tony Strickland, California State Senator out of Huntington Beach, Republican, 175 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: Vice Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. I don't think 176 00:10:19,040 --> 00:10:22,400 Speaker 1: the average person understands the kind of crisis the wall 177 00:10:22,440 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 1: that we're hurtling towards, in terms of how expensive gas 178 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,720 Speaker 1: is going to be, and just how wonderful it is 179 00:10:28,760 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 1: that they're lifting this ban on gas powered cars. We 180 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,839 Speaker 1: come back. I'm going to tell you it's not easy 181 00:10:37,880 --> 00:10:41,560 Speaker 1: to explain, but I'm going to tell you Newsome is 182 00:10:41,559 --> 00:10:44,000 Speaker 1: going to is suing now the federal government, or is 183 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: threatening to sue the federal government for blocking his bill, 184 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: his dream. You know, he wants to ban gas powered cars. 185 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,520 Speaker 1: The Senate said today you can't do that. We're revoking 186 00:10:57,559 --> 00:11:02,280 Speaker 1: your waiver, and they're controversy over the way the Senate 187 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: passed the bill. And what I'm reading is some California 188 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,560 Speaker 1: officials are defiant and they're going to sue saying this 189 00:11:10,679 --> 00:11:14,480 Speaker 1: is illegal, and others in the industry seem to be 190 00:11:14,559 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: resigned to it happening. So it's of course, you know 191 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:22,240 Speaker 1: the newspapers do cheerleading. Well, the new sites now do 192 00:11:22,440 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: cheerleading for progressive democratic issues. So I'm trying, as I'm 193 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 1: going through all these articles, separate the hype cheerleading from 194 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 1: the progressive side that wants to ban gas powered cars 195 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:39,840 Speaker 1: and the reality of the situation. We'll talk about it 196 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:47,560 Speaker 1: coming up next, Deborah Mark. You know, Michael Monks is wonderful, 197 00:11:47,600 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 1: but it's just not it's not the same look. We'll 198 00:11:51,280 --> 00:11:51,760 Speaker 1: start with that. 199 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:54,760 Speaker 2: I get he wasn't wearing. 200 00:11:57,200 --> 00:11:59,720 Speaker 1: On the outside. He wasn't wearing leopard where I could 201 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:00,000 Speaker 1: see it. 202 00:12:00,320 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 2: He has leopard undies. 203 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: I don't know what he implied. I was not going 204 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:05,200 Speaker 1: to follow up on that. 205 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 2: I'm going to follow up on that. 206 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: Well, you can go follow up on that and don't 207 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: tell me. Right. 208 00:12:10,240 --> 00:12:14,560 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM 209 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:15,360 Speaker 6: six forty. 210 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:22,600 Speaker 1: Yeah, the uh, the gas powered car ban is dead. 211 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsom and the Democratic legislature a few years ago 212 00:12:29,040 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: had mandated that by twenty thirty five no one could 213 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,800 Speaker 1: buy a gas powered car, and that has been reversed. 214 00:12:36,440 --> 00:12:40,079 Speaker 1: The US Senate voted on that today. The House already 215 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: voted on it. By the way, the House got thirty 216 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:50,160 Speaker 1: five Democrats to block the ban, including two from southern California. 217 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:55,280 Speaker 1: My god, it was bipartisan. Now in the Senate was 218 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: fifty one forty four goes to Trump. Newsom is is 219 00:13:00,920 --> 00:13:06,120 Speaker 1: insisting that he's going to soothe and I'm gonna try 220 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: to not try not to get too wonky here. But 221 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:15,720 Speaker 1: here's the basis of their lawsuit. Back in nineteen sixty seven, 222 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: Congress passed the Clean Air Act national mandate for standards, 223 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:28,800 Speaker 1: emission standards and the like, and they gave California the 224 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: power to set its own standards more strict. But before 225 00:13:35,200 --> 00:13:39,160 Speaker 1: each of those standards can take effect, the EPA had 226 00:13:39,200 --> 00:13:43,959 Speaker 1: to grant California a waiver, and since nineteen sixty seven, 227 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: the EPA in Congress has never blocked any of California's 228 00:13:49,400 --> 00:13:52,280 Speaker 1: car and truck rules. All the waivers, and there have 229 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:59,679 Speaker 1: been dozens, and they got them off until today. Because 230 00:13:59,679 --> 00:14:04,240 Speaker 1: in this case, it wasn't just demanding a car that 231 00:14:04,320 --> 00:14:09,560 Speaker 1: produced fewer emissions. They were saying you can't buy a 232 00:14:09,559 --> 00:14:17,680 Speaker 1: gas powered car at all. And that's abusive because the 233 00:14:17,720 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 1: electric cars are not yet a good replacement. They're unaffordable 234 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: for most people. Let's start with that. There. You can't 235 00:14:28,520 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 1: really take them on long distance drives very easily because 236 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:36,160 Speaker 1: there aren't that many charging stations, and the charging stations 237 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:40,720 Speaker 1: they have are slow, often broken. There's no electrical grid 238 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:47,440 Speaker 1: to support the mass purchase of electric vehicles. So it's 239 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: a half assed idea, and it's the government's own fault. 240 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: They rushed this idea. They also used our tax money 241 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:01,880 Speaker 1: to try to induce people to buy electric vehicles. And 242 00:15:01,960 --> 00:15:07,920 Speaker 1: guess who won out on that. Tesla did in California. 243 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 1: Most of the people who buy electrical vehicles are wealthy people, 244 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:14,760 Speaker 1: and mostly they bought Teslas up until the point that 245 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 1: Musk aligned with Trump, and now Musk is bad and 246 00:15:19,160 --> 00:15:23,040 Speaker 1: people aren't buying Tesla's as frequently. In fact, the percentage 247 00:15:23,040 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: of people buying electric cars is dropping in California. This 248 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 1: is how stupid progressive people are. It's shows you just 249 00:15:29,600 --> 00:15:33,200 Speaker 1: how trendy and mindless they are. Oh, it's a winner 250 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: for to buy electric vehicles. Yes, I bought a Tesla. 251 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: Yes I'm on the right side of history. Wait a second, 252 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:45,400 Speaker 1: Musk is connected to Trump. He's a Nazi. I can't 253 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:50,040 Speaker 1: support a Nazi. And suddenly people are selling their teslas. 254 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:54,640 Speaker 1: They're not buying teslas, they're firebombing teslas because that's the 255 00:15:54,680 --> 00:16:01,640 Speaker 1: cool trend. That's the right side of history. Pretent is buffoons. 256 00:16:02,880 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: So going back to this waiver, there's this there's this 257 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: been this debate in the Senate whether a waiver is 258 00:16:11,240 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 1: a regulation because Congress can block regulations. In fact, there's 259 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:21,600 Speaker 1: a special law that says you can block regulations. Often 260 00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:26,120 Speaker 1: presidents dump out a lot of restrictive regulations in the 261 00:16:26,160 --> 00:16:31,040 Speaker 1: final year or two of their term, and Congress is 262 00:16:31,080 --> 00:16:35,240 Speaker 1: allowed to go back and reverse those. Well, there's some 263 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,200 Speaker 1: in the Senate saying, well, a waiver is not a regulation, 264 00:16:38,760 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: it's an order. You know, they're playing like some kind 265 00:16:43,720 --> 00:16:47,320 Speaker 1: of semantic game. They're screwing with the language. They're trying 266 00:16:47,360 --> 00:16:52,320 Speaker 1: to claim that Congress doesn't have the right to reverse 267 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: this regulation. Well, then who does. They're acting like once 268 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: a regulation is put into a fact or a way, 269 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,920 Speaker 1: it can never be reversed for any reason, you know, 270 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:07,399 Speaker 1: Because what's funny is Trump issued all these executive orders 271 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:10,720 Speaker 1: on various issues recently, and they said, well, that's illegal 272 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: what he does. Only Congress could do that in this case, 273 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:18,639 Speaker 1: Congress is doing it. Well that, well, then who is 274 00:17:18,640 --> 00:17:21,080 Speaker 1: it Trump? I mean, Trump said, charge is the is 275 00:17:21,119 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: the chief executive. The EPA falls under his domain. He 276 00:17:26,760 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 1: appoints whoever runs the EPA. So if Trump had done 277 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,280 Speaker 1: it with an executive order, they say, oh, Congress can 278 00:17:33,359 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: only do that. Well, if Congress does it, it's like, well, no, 279 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:41,920 Speaker 1: they're not. They can't do it either. Well then who 280 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 1: we can't vote on it as the people. So if 281 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:49,240 Speaker 1: there's a half assed, hair brained regulation that takes away 282 00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 1: people's freedom, then we'll all just have to salute and obey. 283 00:17:58,240 --> 00:18:00,520 Speaker 1: So I can't see this. I think he's do some 284 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 1: huffing and puffing. I can't see the lawsuit going anywhere. 285 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 1: Somebody has to have the authority to change a bad law, 286 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:12,200 Speaker 1: or even to change a good law. There's got to 287 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,000 Speaker 1: be a way to do it. If the people's representatives 288 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:17,719 Speaker 1: in the House and the Senate change the regulation, then 289 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,840 Speaker 1: it's changed. If the President signs it, then that's the 290 00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:23,520 Speaker 1: way it goes. Then you got to vote differently to 291 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,360 Speaker 1: try to change it back. But the idea that nobody 292 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:30,400 Speaker 1: can change these things is stupid, especially when you're teath 293 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: taking away a freedom that we ought to have. And 294 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 1: by the way, the bottom line on this, banning gas 295 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:43,200 Speaker 1: powered cars in California has zero effect on the climate. 296 00:18:43,520 --> 00:18:50,440 Speaker 1: Zero and everybody knows it, and nobody says it out loud. 297 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:56,400 Speaker 1: We're a very small percentage of the Earth's population, very 298 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: small percentage of the Earth's land mass, and of the 299 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 1: of the entire planet. Nothing we do matters, it really doesn't. 300 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:13,679 Speaker 1: We can all die tomorrow and nobody will be driving 301 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: in a gas powered car, an electric car, nothing. We're 302 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,639 Speaker 1: all dead, we're all laying in on the ground. Climate 303 00:19:20,680 --> 00:19:23,600 Speaker 1: doesn't change around the world, same climate because we're too 304 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: tiny to have an effect. This is just you know, 305 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 1: I've realized a lot of people are just kind of stupid, 306 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:34,439 Speaker 1: but they want to be cool, they want to be 307 00:19:34,480 --> 00:19:36,480 Speaker 1: on the winning side, they want to be on the 308 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:41,000 Speaker 1: right side. The progressives are really good at creating this 309 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:46,400 Speaker 1: mythology of this is cool. Yeah, this is this. This 310 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:48,440 Speaker 1: is the what the cool kids want to do. We're 311 00:19:48,440 --> 00:19:51,040 Speaker 1: all gonna have Tesla this, We're all gonna have electric cars. 312 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: And those are bad people over there driving gas powered cars. 313 00:19:55,440 --> 00:20:02,520 Speaker 1: Stop it. This is this is a complete this is artificial, 314 00:20:02,720 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 1: This is made up, this is invented. There is no 315 00:20:05,280 --> 00:20:08,600 Speaker 1: infrastructure to support all of us driving electric cars. This 316 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: is abusive and dictatorial. We have a jackass for a governor, 317 00:20:16,000 --> 00:20:19,719 Speaker 1: and he should be happy that the Senate has reversed 318 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: this because he can't run for president having banned gas 319 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:32,600 Speaker 1: powered cars. No way he wins anything. He's a fool, 320 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:37,359 Speaker 1: he's a buffoon. He's talking tough to please progressives in 321 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:41,240 Speaker 1: his state. Well, that crowd's time is over. Around the country, 322 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,640 Speaker 1: they're clinging on here to power. But I gotta think 323 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:47,440 Speaker 1: time is running out, even in California, because the rest 324 00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:51,040 Speaker 1: of the country has rejected all these progressive ideas because 325 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:54,600 Speaker 1: they're all bad, they all failed, they've all made life worse. 326 00:20:54,720 --> 00:20:57,880 Speaker 3: Well, John, Also, when we have power shutoffs and all 327 00:20:57,920 --> 00:21:00,480 Speaker 3: of that that happened in California, how are you going 328 00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 3: to expect people to charge their cars? 329 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:05,560 Speaker 1: I have never seen anybody ask newsom, it's like we 330 00:21:05,640 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 1: had we had blackouts, remember rolling blackouts a couple of 331 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 1: years ago, and it was because. 332 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,480 Speaker 2: It was a hot day, And they're going to be there. 333 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:14,080 Speaker 3: I'm sure this summer there will be more because of 334 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 3: worry about fires. 335 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 1: And uh, you know, he reversed his decision on closing 336 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:29,040 Speaker 1: down some natural gas plants that created electricity, and he 337 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:32,880 Speaker 1: also reversed his decision on a nuclear plant that created electricity. 338 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 1: He went back on that. 339 00:21:34,680 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 3: I'm surprised he didn't go back on this, but that 340 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 3: he's not backing down on this so he. 341 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:41,359 Speaker 1: Knows he doesn't have enough electricity to pull this off. 342 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:43,359 Speaker 1: And he's out of office in a year and a half. 343 00:21:44,119 --> 00:21:47,120 Speaker 1: So I don't I don't understand fighting for something that 344 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,680 Speaker 1: if he won he could never follow through on. We'd 345 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,480 Speaker 1: have a disaster, we'd have complete blackouts all over the state, 346 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:55,200 Speaker 1: and nobody ever questions him on it. 347 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 2: Well, we're questioning him right now. 348 00:21:57,440 --> 00:22:01,399 Speaker 1: We're questioning it. Yes, you imagine this is the you know, 349 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: I want to you know, he was having all kinds 350 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:04,679 Speaker 1: of different guests on his podcast. I should be on 351 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: his podcast. 352 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 3: I've said that to you or you should have him 353 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:08,480 Speaker 3: as a guest on your show. 354 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:11,480 Speaker 1: Well, he of you won't come on you don't you 355 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: know what? 356 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 2: Have Ray? Try again? 357 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 1: I want to be in his show. Iheartry owns both podcasts. 358 00:22:16,680 --> 00:22:19,360 Speaker 3: Okay, so you tell him, Hey, I'll be on your 359 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:20,199 Speaker 3: show if you're on. 360 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,760 Speaker 1: That's my that's my first question. I'd say, we get 361 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,600 Speaker 1: you get your way. We all have electric cars. Where's 362 00:22:27,640 --> 00:22:29,560 Speaker 1: the electric good for this? Did you build it? 363 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:31,159 Speaker 4: No? 364 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 3: What happens when the next big earthquake hits? What happens 365 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,440 Speaker 3: when we have more fires and we have the rolling blackouts? 366 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 2: What are people going to do? 367 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,480 Speaker 1: That's right when they had to shut off the power 368 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,199 Speaker 1: in the fire areas? How are all those people going 369 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: to escape? 370 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 4: Exactly? 371 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:43,360 Speaker 1: Idiot. 372 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM. 373 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,280 Speaker 1: Six forty moistline is eight seven seven Moist eighty six 374 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,320 Speaker 1: eight seven seven Moist eighty six. So you use the 375 00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:57,760 Speaker 1: talk back feature on the iHeartRadio app. And remember, after 376 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: four o'clock you get the podcast version of the show 377 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: in case you missed it. And we're talking a lot 378 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,879 Speaker 1: about and we will continue today because there's a lot 379 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: of different angles to the story of the US Senate 380 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: voting to block California from banning gas powered cars. California 381 00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:18,639 Speaker 1: was going to have a complete band by twenty thirty five. 382 00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:22,200 Speaker 1: They were going to start insisting on quotas a certain 383 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:27,640 Speaker 1: number of electrical vehicles would have to be sold between 384 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: now and twenty thirty five. It would go up from 385 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:33,240 Speaker 1: year to year. And that's all out the window. And 386 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 1: this has a Newsom bent over without his pants squealing, 387 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,520 Speaker 1: although it really helps his chances running for president. But 388 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,879 Speaker 1: I'm sure he does that. He's being a phony because 389 00:23:46,880 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: that's what he That's what he does. And what's interesting 390 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,640 Speaker 1: is I've noticed in the media they are now switching 391 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 1: the argument as to why they passed the ban on 392 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 1: gas powered cars. It was entirely because a climate change. 393 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,400 Speaker 1: At the time, it was all about climate change. Now 394 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:09,520 Speaker 1: because there's almost no interest in climate change among the 395 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: general public. People don't care or don't believe it. Really, 396 00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,560 Speaker 1: if you look at the polling, it's usually you give 397 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,679 Speaker 1: them twenty issues. Climate change ends up twentieth. If you 398 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:24,159 Speaker 1: don't put it on the list, nobody thinks of it 399 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: on their own. So now the Times is trying to 400 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:34,119 Speaker 1: spin it like these electric car requirements we're going to 401 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: eliminate seventy thousand tons of smog forming emissions forty five 402 00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:46,800 Speaker 1: hundred tons of soot by twenty forty, which is why 403 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: California was allowed to implement regulations to limit over time 404 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,560 Speaker 1: the amount of soot or the amount of emission going 405 00:25:00,600 --> 00:25:03,360 Speaker 1: into the atmosphere, you know, if the car companies were 406 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: able to do it. So California was allowed to have 407 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:11,639 Speaker 1: stricter policies because our climate causes smog to form and 408 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:15,679 Speaker 1: hang in the air more easily than other places. So 409 00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: that's why for fifty almost sixty years, Congress ever got 410 00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:27,119 Speaker 1: in the way because it was about an adjusting you know, 411 00:25:27,200 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 1: the hardware in a car, so that produces fewer emissions. 412 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:36,960 Speaker 1: But this was a complete ban, and they'll throw in 413 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:41,360 Speaker 1: a statistic preventing more than twelve hundred premature deaths. Well, 414 00:25:43,119 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: prove that. How do you how do you how do 415 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:50,720 Speaker 1: you prove? First of all, what's a premature death? And 416 00:25:51,640 --> 00:25:55,280 Speaker 1: if this, if this ban on gas powered cars are 417 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,480 Speaker 1: going to prevent it, how do you how do you 418 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:02,280 Speaker 1: prove something was going to happen but didn't happen? And 419 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 1: who are these people? Who are these people who are 420 00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 1: the twelve hundred people who are going to die but 421 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:12,400 Speaker 1: didn't die. That's an entirely invented statistic that's completely unprovable. 422 00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:17,720 Speaker 1: What which twelve hundred people? Why twelve hundred people and 423 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:24,119 Speaker 1: the researchers or politicians or lobbyists make up these statistics 424 00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: out of thin air? Why would they be dying exactly? 425 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: And where would they be dying? What towns are they 426 00:26:34,119 --> 00:26:37,800 Speaker 1: living in? I guess maybe you can make a case 427 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: if they're living next to a freeway. Ill, maybe you 428 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,000 Speaker 1: shouldn't live next to a freeway then, huh. They said 429 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,000 Speaker 1: that all the time. With pollution. It's like, well, you know, 430 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,639 Speaker 1: people in certain neighborhoods, you know, are more prone to 431 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:51,000 Speaker 1: certain disasse. Well, to move out of the neighborhood. That's 432 00:26:51,040 --> 00:26:54,000 Speaker 1: what most normal people do if they find that they're 433 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 1: living next to toxic factories. Don't live there. Oh it's 434 00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,479 Speaker 1: not that easy, ye, yes it is. Yeah, Yeah, You 435 00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,840 Speaker 1: pack up the truck and you go drive somewhere else 436 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: where it's not polluted, where you're just gonna sit there 437 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 1: and die. Factories aren't going anywhere. And by the way, 438 00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 1: these gas powered cars aren't going anywhere. We have to 439 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:16,679 Speaker 1: have them I realize. You know, they're talking about the 440 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,399 Speaker 1: soot that's gonna be removed. If you're gonna have modern life. 441 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,119 Speaker 1: There's a certain amount of pollution, there's a certain amount 442 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,639 Speaker 1: of certain amount of emissions. That's the way it goes. 443 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:30,280 Speaker 1: And science and automobile industries they're gonna work on reducing 444 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,360 Speaker 1: the problem, and they have to be pushed by the government. 445 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:39,640 Speaker 1: Everybody agrees with that generally, but it doesn't mean that 446 00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,640 Speaker 1: we get rid of all the gas powered cars. That's absurd. 447 00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 1: They don't want us to live modern life, and they 448 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,360 Speaker 1: want to have control over how we live from day 449 00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,760 Speaker 1: to day, hour to hour, limit the number of hours 450 00:27:53,760 --> 00:27:57,679 Speaker 1: we're driving because they say so, because it really is. 451 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:02,680 Speaker 1: It comes down to because they say so. Because they're arrogant, obnoxious, 452 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:08,200 Speaker 1: dictatorial a holes. That's what they are. Progressives are obnoxious, 453 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:13,360 Speaker 1: dictatorial a holes. They like to control other people. This 454 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:17,280 Speaker 1: is what the Communists party in China enjoys. It's what 455 00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:21,840 Speaker 1: the Communists and the Soviet Union enjoy It's what every dictatorship, 456 00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:25,520 Speaker 1: what every oppressive government enjoys. Because it's cool. It's cool 457 00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:30,399 Speaker 1: to tell other people what to do and one of 458 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: their weapons, and it's very effective is emotionally manipulate your 459 00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:41,480 Speaker 1: subjects into feeling shame, into feeling guilt and remorse. It's like, oh, was. 460 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,640 Speaker 7: I polluting the planet? I'm sorry, my lord, I didn't 461 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 7: mean to pollute the planet. This way, I will stop 462 00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 7: driving my car, I will no longer take my children 463 00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,400 Speaker 7: to school, I will not go out and buy any food. 464 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:57,479 Speaker 1: I will not work anymore. And they'll be happy if 465 00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 1: you don't work anymore. They're happy to send you a 466 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: welfare check and make you more dependent on them, so 467 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,640 Speaker 1: they have power over you. They have control over you. 468 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 1: One of the amazing phenomenons, really of this entire era 469 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: is how willing people in California, more than anywhere else, 470 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:25,880 Speaker 1: how willing they are to give control over to a 471 00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 1: bunch of dictatorial aholes. Progressive Democrats in Sacramento, the legislators 472 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: are some of the most unpleasant people you will ever encounter. Angry, 473 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:49,960 Speaker 1: stupid bullies, unhappy, always trying to impose their way of 474 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:55,120 Speaker 1: life on others. You know how nasty they get if 475 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:57,880 Speaker 1: you contradict them. And they have now been drunk on 476 00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:04,000 Speaker 1: absolute power in Sacramento for many years. Super majorities veto 477 00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: proof majorities. They don't think any of you matter, But 478 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:13,880 Speaker 1: so many in this state just bend over. There's so uh. 479 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:19,680 Speaker 1: They're so cowed, they're so fearful. You don't want to 480 00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: You don't want to anger your masters. If they say 481 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:26,320 Speaker 1: I'm not supposed to drive that, yeah, I won't drive 482 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,160 Speaker 1: because they tell me it's good for the planet. They know, 483 00:30:29,440 --> 00:30:33,920 Speaker 1: they must know more than I do. It's like, don't 484 00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 1: It's one of the most powerful forces in human nature 485 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,440 Speaker 1: to control others, to tell people what to do. You 486 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,880 Speaker 1: see it in your families, you see it at your workplace, 487 00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: you see it even among friends. There's always somebody who 488 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:55,880 Speaker 1: wants to tell you what to do. And often it's 489 00:30:56,040 --> 00:31:01,200 Speaker 1: the stupid people who maybe are more sessive. We're more 490 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: emotionally unbalanced, and so they're they're obsessive, compulsive, driven. They 491 00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:09,800 Speaker 1: can outlast you. It's not worth it. 492 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,080 Speaker 2: Nobody can outlast us, John. 493 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 1: No, I know that, right. No, we are crazier than 494 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:14,600 Speaker 1: they are. 495 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 7: We are. 496 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:19,080 Speaker 1: But you really, you really have to have a stomach 497 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,560 Speaker 1: to want to want to resist these forces, and most 498 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:22,120 Speaker 1: people don't. 499 00:31:22,240 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 2: Well, because I think people give up. 500 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 1: They don't know. 501 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,800 Speaker 2: You get tired of pushing and pushing and pushing. 502 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:33,040 Speaker 1: We don't get tired here, and we expect you not 503 00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:35,560 Speaker 1: to get tired either. All right, do we know. 504 00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 2: What started the Palisades fire yet? By the way, I've 505 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:37,960 Speaker 2: been off a. 506 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:41,600 Speaker 1: Couple of days, a few days, well more points towards 507 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:44,160 Speaker 1: those fireworks. Yeah, do you hear about that? 508 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:44,520 Speaker 6: I did. 509 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's not definitive, but it looks like it. 510 00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like it. And now and now the 511 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,080 Speaker 1: fire department has to explain why they didn't keep a 512 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 1: crew for six days on that stretch, because they should 513 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,680 Speaker 1: have been able. They should have had a crew there 514 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:00,040 Speaker 1: the whole week for at least and put out the 515 00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:01,479 Speaker 1: fire as soon as it kicked up. 516 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 3: Well, I hope things change this fourth of July. Oh yeah, 517 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 3: I know that was New Year's but you know, Fourth 518 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:08,880 Speaker 3: of July is coming up and. 519 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 1: Things already have dried out. 520 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:10,800 Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. 521 00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:16,640 Speaker 6: You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am sixty. 522 00:32:17,520 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 1: Alex Stone is coming on right after two o'clock over 523 00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: this plane crash in a San Diego neighborhood. You just 524 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,000 Speaker 1: mentioned how we don't know what the origin of the 525 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,680 Speaker 1: fire was, right, Karen vass As you remember took off 526 00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,560 Speaker 1: on a flight to Africa right before the fire, a 527 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:39,640 Speaker 1: couple of days before the fire, even though she was 528 00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 1: warned for several days that we had extreme fire warnings. 529 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: She had a deputy mayor who's normally assigned to oversee 530 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,880 Speaker 1: the fire and police departments. He was the deputy mayor 531 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: in charge of public safety. His name Brian Williams. But 532 00:32:57,720 --> 00:33:02,640 Speaker 1: Brian Williams was on home confinement. He had been on 533 00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:07,680 Speaker 1: administrative leave because the FBI suspected he was calling in 534 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: bomb threats to the to city Hall. So Karen Bass 535 00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,960 Speaker 1: was in Africa and Brian Williams was on leave while 536 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: the FBI did is its investigation, so that that played 537 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,160 Speaker 1: there was there was nobody in charge clearly. Well, just 538 00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:32,479 Speaker 1: minutes ago, the LA Time said that Brian Williams has 539 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,440 Speaker 1: struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors. He now admits 540 00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:39,000 Speaker 1: he called in a fake bomb threat to city Hall, 541 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:50,400 Speaker 1: some kind of anti Israeli statement. Bass hires insane people, 542 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:55,440 Speaker 1: absolutely insane. Got Genie Kinez who didn't fill up the reservoir. 543 00:33:56,520 --> 00:34:01,560 Speaker 1: You got that Valicia Adams Kellum who ran the Homeless 544 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: Authority into the ground and gave her husband's nonprofit two 545 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:11,600 Speaker 1: million dollars along the way. Now you got Brian Williams. 546 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:15,760 Speaker 1: He was deputy mayor of public Safety. He pleaded guilty 547 00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:20,000 Speaker 1: to a single count of threats regarding fire and explosives, 548 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:24,439 Speaker 1: maximum prison term of ten years. He's going to show 549 00:34:24,480 --> 00:34:27,239 Speaker 1: up in court in the next few weeks. This is 550 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:31,520 Speaker 1: from Bill A. Saley, the US Attorney in an air 551 00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:35,600 Speaker 1: of heated political rhetoric that sometimes had escalated into violence. 552 00:34:35,760 --> 00:34:38,640 Speaker 1: We cannot allow public officials to make bomb threats. My 553 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,799 Speaker 1: office will continue its effort to keep the public safe, 554 00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:45,040 Speaker 1: including from those who violate their duty to uphold the law. 555 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:51,680 Speaker 1: The deputy mayor is calling in bomb threats allegedly, well, 556 00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:58,320 Speaker 1: he's making a plea deal. Now he's admitting it. Williams 557 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:03,399 Speaker 1: supposedly made the call last October to LAPD Deputy Chief 558 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:08,040 Speaker 1: Scott Harrelson, who was chief of staff for dominic Joi, 559 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,640 Speaker 1: the interim police chief that we had on of the 560 00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:14,399 Speaker 1: show where he gave us all those phony crime statistics. 561 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,600 Speaker 1: About ten minutes after placing the fake bomb threat, Brian 562 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:25,919 Speaker 1: Williams sent a text message to Karen Bass and other 563 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:29,799 Speaker 1: officials saying bomb threat. I received a phone call on 564 00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,480 Speaker 1: my city Seal at ten forty eight this morning. The 565 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 1: mail caller said he was tired of the city supporting 566 00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:38,480 Speaker 1: Israel and he's decided to place a bomb in city Hall. 567 00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: It might be in the rotunda. I immediately contacted the 568 00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,120 Speaker 1: chief of staff at LAPD. They're going to send a 569 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,560 Speaker 1: number of officers over to do a search of the building. 570 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,120 Speaker 1: So he sent He sent a text to Karen Bass 571 00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:55,920 Speaker 1: saying somebody's threatening to blow up city Hall when he 572 00:35:56,120 --> 00:36:00,680 Speaker 1: was the one. He was the one who called in 573 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:05,920 Speaker 1: the bomb threat. Then he followed up with other texts 574 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:11,120 Speaker 1: saying there was no need to evacuate City Hall. Then 575 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,239 Speaker 1: he wrote a meeting with threat management officers within the 576 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,719 Speaker 1: next ten minutes. In light of the Jewish holidays, We're 577 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,600 Speaker 1: taking this threat a little more seriously. I'll keep you posted. 578 00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:30,840 Speaker 1: What a nut. What a nut? And Bass hired him. 579 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:35,799 Speaker 1: What's with all these crazy people? He spent two years 580 00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,759 Speaker 1: as a deputy mayor in her office. Two years he 581 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 1: worked on police hiring, public safety spending. He worked on 582 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 1: the search for a new police chief. This can't be. 583 00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,040 Speaker 1: He was also a deputy mayor for James Hahn twenty 584 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: years ago. He was executive director of the Sheriff's Civilian 585 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:06,120 Speaker 1: Oversight Commission. Working in Bass's office, he oversaw the police Department, 586 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:08,880 Speaker 1: the Fire Department, the Port Police, the Airport Police, and 587 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,440 Speaker 1: the city's Emergency Management Agency. He was a member of 588 00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:19,680 Speaker 1: the Mayor's inner circle when Nathan Hockman was sworn in 589 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,000 Speaker 1: last year. Williams was the city official who addressed the 590 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:28,360 Speaker 1: audience on behalf of the mayor calling in fake bomb 591 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:33,640 Speaker 1: threats over Israel, and wasn't available the day of the 592 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:36,400 Speaker 1: fire when Bass ran off to Africa. Have you ever 593 00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:42,839 Speaker 1: seen a worse crew than this? This is just all 594 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:48,160 Speaker 1: this is impossible, This just can't be true. All right, 595 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:51,799 Speaker 1: we'll have more coming up. Deborah Mark is lied in 596 00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 1: the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening 597 00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,200 Speaker 1: to the John Covelt Show podcast. You can always hear 598 00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,919 Speaker 1: the show live on KFI AM six forty from one 599 00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,479 Speaker 1: to four pm every Monday through Friday, and of course, 600 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,240 Speaker 1: anytime on demand on the iHeartRadio app.