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 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Cobelt Podcast on the iHeartRadio app. You are here. We 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: are here at all four o'clock. We started at one, 4 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: so you missed a lot. You can make up after 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 1: four o'clock with the John Cobelt Show on demand podcast 6 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: same as the radio show after four on the iHeart app, 7 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:24,360 Speaker 1: and you can hear what you missed. Coming up later 8 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: in the hour, we are going to talk about Gavin 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:34,199 Speaker 1: Newsom suddenly discovering that the homeless situation on the streets 10 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: is intolerable. After six and a half years as governor, 11 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,600 Speaker 1: he is recommending laws to ban people from living on 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: the streets. Six and a half years of failure, six 13 00:00:47,159 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: and a half years, he's blown twenty four billion dollars 14 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: and got nothing for it, and now he's telling the 15 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,440 Speaker 1: cities and towns, well, just just make it illegal. Yeah, 16 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 1: we'll get into that coming up. Also, we must talk 17 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:07,680 Speaker 1: about the pope's brother, you know. Yeah, yeah, you have 18 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 1: enough kids. One of them may grow up to be 19 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 1: a pope. And another one is uh calling politicians foul 20 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 1: names on Twitter, So we'll cover that. Uh, here's your 21 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: gas price update. Here's how badly. You're getting posed by 22 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 1: Gavin News some four dollars and eighty nine cents for 23 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:32,520 Speaker 1: regular in California today for eighty nine on average. The 24 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: national average is three thirteen three thirteen, And there are 25 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:42,280 Speaker 1: twenty seven states selling gas for under three dollars. Twenty 26 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:46,160 Speaker 1: seven states under three dollars. And let me check again. 27 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:52,760 Speaker 1: The low estate is Mississippi at two sixty three, two 28 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 1: sixty three you can get to gas on average, and 29 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 1: we're at four eighty nine. And I bring this up 30 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 1: because we're going to talk to Susan Shelley now. And 31 00:02:03,560 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: she's a columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News and 32 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:12,240 Speaker 1: the Southern California News Group and the legislature, all the 33 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:16,639 Speaker 1: progressives up in Sacramento. They want to raise taxes and 34 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,359 Speaker 1: stop other taxes from expiring in the near future, and 35 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,480 Speaker 1: at least one of them is connected directly to the 36 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:27,639 Speaker 1: excessive cost of gasoline. Let's get Susan Shelley on. How 37 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: are you, Susan? 38 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,600 Speaker 2: I'm great, John, Thanks for having me. 39 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:35,239 Speaker 1: All right, what's the schemes here? They really have tax ideas? 40 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 2: Oh? They do? 41 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 1: You know? 42 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,400 Speaker 2: The first thing you should know is that when you're 43 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 2: paying those gas prices. You're paying a little more than 44 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 2: a Nicola gallon to fund the bullet train. And that's 45 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 2: because we have this cap and trade program. This is 46 00:02:48,480 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 2: one of the ones that's expiring. It expires in twenty 47 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,079 Speaker 2: thirty if it's not renewed, and you are paying. According 48 00:02:55,160 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 2: to the Legislative Analyst, you are currently paying about twenty 49 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,720 Speaker 2: three cents a gallon for this cap and trade program, 50 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:05,200 Speaker 2: which is really a hidden tax, and it could go 51 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 2: as high as seventy four cents according to the LAOS 52 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:11,000 Speaker 2: analysis that depending on how much you have to pay 53 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:11,800 Speaker 2: for these permits. 54 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 1: That's the climate change tax. 55 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:16,720 Speaker 2: That's the climate change tax. It's supposed to reduce greenhouse 56 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:19,440 Speaker 2: gases in California by taking money out of your wallet. 57 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:20,959 Speaker 2: I don't know why that doesn't work. 58 00:03:20,960 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 1: It seems like it, and it hasn't worked so far. 59 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 2: No, it hasn't worked, But California did it because we 60 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,720 Speaker 2: have to show leadership to the world. And guess what, 61 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:31,600 Speaker 2: no one is following, No one. 62 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:33,760 Speaker 1: Wants It's funny. No other state is anywhere near for 63 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: eighty nine a gallon. They didn't follow us on that. 64 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:37,280 Speaker 2: It's amazing. 65 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: So this is this program. Are they voting on this 66 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: already to extend it. 67 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 2: Or is this something Well, it expires in twenty in 68 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,280 Speaker 2: twenty thirty, but they're worried that if they don't extend 69 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 2: it early, then people will not pay much for these permits. 70 00:03:53,240 --> 00:03:57,600 Speaker 2: You see, the refineries and the electric utilities and the manufacturers, 71 00:03:57,840 --> 00:04:00,080 Speaker 2: they're the ones that have to buy these permits, and 72 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:03,840 Speaker 2: they're auctioned every quarter by the Stay of California. And 73 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:06,080 Speaker 2: how much is it worth if they're going to get 74 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:08,240 Speaker 2: rid of the program. You don't really need to stockpile 75 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:09,920 Speaker 2: these things and pay a lot of money for them 76 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,280 Speaker 2: if the requirement's going to go away. So that's what 77 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:15,400 Speaker 2: they're worried about, and they want to renew it early. 78 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 2: So you have to watch for that because this is 79 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:21,479 Speaker 2: going to take a two thirds vote because it looks 80 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:23,920 Speaker 2: enough like a tax that they're worried that there could 81 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 2: be a lawsuit over it, saying you can't do this 82 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,400 Speaker 2: with less than a two thirds vote. 83 00:04:28,480 --> 00:04:32,320 Speaker 1: It was a backdoor tax that affected directly the refineries, 84 00:04:32,839 --> 00:04:36,279 Speaker 1: and now the refineries are closing at a rapid rate. 85 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:41,160 Speaker 2: What do you know it's going well, I think yeah. 86 00:04:41,279 --> 00:04:46,040 Speaker 1: There's also they're working on getting around Prop thirteen and 87 00:04:46,160 --> 00:04:49,799 Speaker 1: raising our property taxes even though Prop thirteen says you cannot. 88 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:51,400 Speaker 1: How are they trying to do that. 89 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 2: This is very concerning the Board of Equalization, which is 90 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 2: a state agency that oversees all the county assessors for 91 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:02,440 Speaker 2: property taxes. They held a special meeting. They heard a 92 00:05:02,480 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 2: special presentation at their meeting saying, why, look, there's ways 93 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 2: we could get at these property owners around Prop thirteen 94 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 2: and we don't even have to go to the voters 95 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 2: to do it. And they had some law professor come 96 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:17,000 Speaker 2: in and say, yeah, what you could do is the 97 00:05:17,080 --> 00:05:22,160 Speaker 2: legislature could pass a special income tax on people whose 98 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:26,880 Speaker 2: property taxes are judged to be too low relative to 99 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:29,840 Speaker 2: their income. So this is a new thing. This would 100 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 2: get around Prop thirteen. It wouldn't go through the county assessor, 101 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 2: It would go through the franchise Tax Board, and it 102 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,320 Speaker 2: would be an income tax on people whose property taxes 103 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 2: were theoretically too low relative to what they could afford 104 00:05:42,040 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 2: to pay. 105 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:46,560 Speaker 1: But Prop thirteen says no, they can only go up 106 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,440 Speaker 1: at no more than two percent per year. So how 107 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 1: do they think this idea would work? Wouldn't it get 108 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 1: shot down right away in the courts? 109 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:01,159 Speaker 2: Well? Maybe, but it's not a property to So the 110 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:04,479 Speaker 2: way the courts view taxpayers is as if they're organ 111 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 2: donors and you just take whatever you can get out 112 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 2: of them. Before they completely write it's. 113 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 1: A tax based on whether your property tax are too 114 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,960 Speaker 1: low relative to your income. But it's not a property tax. 115 00:06:15,520 --> 00:06:17,800 Speaker 2: That's what they're That's what this law professor was arguing 116 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 2: on the Board of Equalization, which oversees property taxes, is 117 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:24,799 Speaker 2: sitting there listening to this. I think that's a bad sign. 118 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: I think they might have been put up to it 119 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:28,480 Speaker 2: by though, someone in the legislatures, like, well, see if 120 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 2: you can float this and we'll see if anybody salutes 121 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:33,920 Speaker 2: it when it goes up the flagpole. Do not salute this. 122 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 2: This is a really bad idea to raise people's income 123 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 2: taxes based on their ability to pay their property tax bill. 124 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:40,839 Speaker 2: That's crazy. 125 00:06:41,760 --> 00:06:46,359 Speaker 1: So it's an income tax based on your property taxes 126 00:06:46,440 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: being too low in their opinion, that's all I see. Now, Yeah, 127 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:56,919 Speaker 1: now that's that's that's nonsense. That is really garbage. 128 00:06:57,640 --> 00:06:59,560 Speaker 2: Well I hope it's garbage, but you never know it. 129 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,280 Speaker 2: Calif Or. You know, they get a lot of stranger 130 00:07:01,520 --> 00:07:02,320 Speaker 2: through the courts here. 131 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,039 Speaker 1: No, they can easily pass a garbage tax and have 132 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,159 Speaker 1: it approved. But I mean, the whole concept is just 133 00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:12,280 Speaker 1: these people are horrible. All right, here's another one. There's 134 00:07:12,360 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: a temporary income tax on anyone who makes above two 135 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. Go through the 136 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 1: history of this thing and what's up next. 137 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 2: Well, this passed in twenty twelve. This was an initiative 138 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:29,520 Speaker 2: supposedly from citizens, but how many citizens really go out 139 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 2: and ask for tax increases. Not too many. It was 140 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 2: actually the Teachers' union that did this, and Governor Governor 141 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 2: Jerry Brown said, unless this passes, there are going to 142 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 2: be catastrophic cuts to education. The world's going to come 143 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 2: to an ask unless this tax increase passes. And it's 144 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,880 Speaker 2: just temporary, so of course it passes so that we 145 00:07:48,920 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 2: don't have catastrophic cuts to education, and then it gets 146 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 2: renewed four years later till twenty thirty. Well, the same 147 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:58,320 Speaker 2: thing is with the cap and trade. We're getting close 148 00:07:58,360 --> 00:08:00,760 Speaker 2: to twenty thirty. They want to renew it as soon 149 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,920 Speaker 2: as possible. And I've already seen one news report that 150 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:08,600 Speaker 2: someone who's going to run for superintendent of education statewide 151 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:10,640 Speaker 2: is saying, well, you know, if you make a lot 152 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 2: of money, you're using the system that education supports, and 153 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:16,120 Speaker 2: you it's time for you to pay up. 154 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:18,360 Speaker 1: Wait a second, hold there you go. I couldn't send 155 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:22,440 Speaker 1: my kids to public schools because in LA they're so bad. 156 00:08:23,040 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: I mean, they're so horrible. I had to spend an 157 00:08:25,640 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: exorbitant amount of money on private schools. 158 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,520 Speaker 2: And it's terrible what's happened to the schools and that 159 00:08:32,800 --> 00:08:35,560 Speaker 2: all these kids are wasting so much time and we're 160 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 2: wasting so much money and they're learning nothing. 161 00:08:38,920 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: I saw the other day like roughly like seventy five 162 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:47,640 Speaker 1: percent of the kids in California can't read at grade level, 163 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,200 Speaker 1: can't do math at grade level, seventy five percent, and 164 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 1: they graduate this way. So exactly, if we didn't fund 165 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:58,520 Speaker 1: it and the system collapsed, how would we even know? 166 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,880 Speaker 2: It's a good question. You know, they closed the schools 167 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 2: during COVID and we did have learning loss from that, 168 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:07,360 Speaker 2: and now how are they going to make it up? 169 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:10,720 Speaker 2: These kids have just been so robbed of their time 170 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 2: and of their opportunities, and I hope everybody can recover 171 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 2: that they can watch YouTube videos and learn what they've 172 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,160 Speaker 2: missed when they get older and they need this information. 173 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:25,000 Speaker 1: It's just emotional manipulation on everybody on the legislator's part. 174 00:09:25,840 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, the education gets forty percent of 175 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,719 Speaker 2: the general fund. It's not like they're underfunded, and yet 176 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:32,680 Speaker 2: they always want more. 177 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: I know, and I remember about fifteen years ago. I think, 178 00:09:35,520 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: like Schwarzenegger's last year, the budget was one hundred billion dollars. 179 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:42,959 Speaker 1: Now it's close to three hundred billion. So they had 180 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: forty percent of one hundred billion. Now they're getting forty 181 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: percent of three hundred billion. They've got plenty of money. 182 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,880 Speaker 1: There's no problem with the money. And the test scores 183 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:53,800 Speaker 1: are the worst they've been in thirty five years since 184 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 1: they started counting test scores. 185 00:09:56,320 --> 00:09:59,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really heartbreaking for all the kids who are 186 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,680 Speaker 2: in school who just are so much better. And the 187 00:10:01,720 --> 00:10:06,360 Speaker 2: taxpayers have come through again and again approving these tax increases, 188 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,040 Speaker 2: and what do we get out of it. Nothing but 189 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 2: increased spending on administrators and increased benefits for people who 190 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 2: work in the school system. And it's really unfortunate. 191 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:19,400 Speaker 1: Susan Shelley, thanks for coming on again. Thank you with 192 00:10:19,440 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 1: the LA Daily News, we come back. The Pope's brother. 193 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,840 Speaker 1: Pope's brother is not like the Pope. 194 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:30,960 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM. 195 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:31,760 Speaker 3: Six forty. 196 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:38,559 Speaker 1: After Debra's three thirty News, Gavin Newsom suddenly discovered there's 197 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:41,760 Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty seven thousand homeless people laying around 198 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:44,880 Speaker 1: in California and it's got to stop, you know, it's 199 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 1: got to stop. And he is sending out a proposed 200 00:10:48,440 --> 00:10:54,080 Speaker 1: law for every city and town to pass immediately to 201 00:10:54,320 --> 00:11:00,520 Speaker 1: end encampments. Yes, he's really doing this. We'll get to that, 202 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: but first, you know, I have three sons and wildly 203 00:11:06,520 --> 00:11:09,600 Speaker 1: different personalities, the three of them. I mean, they're not 204 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:11,640 Speaker 1: that far apart in age, just two to three years 205 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: for each one of them. And it looks like the 206 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:19,959 Speaker 1: Pope's mother also gave birth to three wildly different sons. 207 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:24,160 Speaker 1: Because I think we know well the Pope Leo the fourteenth, 208 00:11:24,679 --> 00:11:30,240 Speaker 1: he he seems to be a very like, calm, decent, 209 00:11:31,360 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 1: compassionate religious man. And then there's brother Louis. Louis Prevost, 210 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:41,040 Speaker 1: the eldest brother, lives in Port Charlotte, Florida, and New 211 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:44,600 Speaker 1: York Times called him up and he was asked, how 212 00:11:44,640 --> 00:11:48,520 Speaker 1: you feel about his brother's electionist pope and he said, geez, 213 00:11:48,520 --> 00:11:50,439 Speaker 1: it was just like yesterday I was throwing him down 214 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 1: the stairs and now he's Pope. But the best part 215 00:11:54,120 --> 00:12:00,600 Speaker 1: is somebody went through his Twitter feed and found him 216 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:06,040 Speaker 1: posting a video of Nancy Pelosi from nineteen ninety six 217 00:12:06,080 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: with the caption, well, he reposted this. These effing liberals 218 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: are crying about tariffs? Is just unreal? Do they not 219 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: know there's a thing called video? Just listen to what 220 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: this drunk sea word had to say in the mid nineties, 221 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 1: long before her husband had grinder dates. Oh, referring to 222 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:29,960 Speaker 1: Paul Pelosi, he took the hammer in the head, right. 223 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,640 Speaker 1: Remember there was a young guy who burst in and 224 00:12:31,679 --> 00:12:37,440 Speaker 1: everybody thought he was Evan. So he reposted a tweet 225 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: calling Pelosi the sea word, a drunk sea word. Other 226 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:46,440 Speaker 1: reposts showed a meme a mental institution with the caption 227 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:52,040 Speaker 1: where the woke lived before the nineteen seventies. Another post 228 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:56,280 Speaker 1: invoked the power of prayer to insult democrats the caption, 229 00:12:56,440 --> 00:12:59,439 Speaker 1: please pray for the thirty three percent to approve of Biden, 230 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:04,839 Speaker 1: that they be healed of their mental affliction. His brother 231 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:09,319 Speaker 1: might be able to help with that. Yeah, looks it 232 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:13,160 Speaker 1: looks like the prayers don't work, because I mean, I mean, 233 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,160 Speaker 1: if Biden ran, he still would have probably gotten about 234 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:21,960 Speaker 1: forty five percent of the vote. He also uh, He 235 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: also called for Democrats who met with the Ukrainian president 236 00:13:27,360 --> 00:13:32,600 Speaker 1: Zelensky to be arrested for treason, and he also wrote 237 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,479 Speaker 1: that Europe should go their own way into complete socialism 238 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 1: and ultimately communism. You just usually if you have a 239 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,199 Speaker 1: like a genetic pool or an environment that that is 240 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 1: so religious, it produces a pulpe that that you know, 241 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:57,080 Speaker 1: his his immediate family. You would think we're kind of 242 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: mellow and religious, and but guy, he's uh, he's having 243 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: none of this this. You know, like the worst, the 244 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:11,720 Speaker 1: worst and best invention was Twitter, because I didn't realize 245 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 1: just how unstable and stupid much of the public was 246 00:14:15,840 --> 00:14:18,319 Speaker 1: until everyone got to post every thought they had in 247 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: their heads twenty four to seven, And it turned out 248 00:14:22,680 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: human nature was far, far worse than I ever thought 249 00:14:25,840 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: he could be. And I always had a very low 250 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: opinion truthfully human nature. But when we come back, all right, 251 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:40,000 Speaker 1: Gavin Newsome, this is so infuriating. You know, if one 252 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:41,760 Speaker 1: percent of me thought he was doing this for the 253 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: right reason, but zero percent of me thinks he's doing 254 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:47,520 Speaker 1: it for the right reason. One hundred percent of me 255 00:14:47,680 --> 00:14:50,440 Speaker 1: knows he's doing this because he wants to run for 256 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: president and he wants to make the world forget that 257 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,120 Speaker 1: he allowed all the disgusting He allowed the disgusting mess 258 00:14:59,360 --> 00:15:02,400 Speaker 1: that's fester in most of California's big cities. It was 259 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 1: him that's coming up next to you. 260 00:15:07,560 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI Am 261 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 3: six forty. 262 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 1: Ron every day one until four o'clock. After four o'clock 263 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:18,760 Speaker 1: we become a podcast. John Cobelt's show on demand, So 264 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: download it and see whatever it is you missed. Gavin Newsom, Oh, 265 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: this is infuriating to wake up to this. Upset me 266 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:32,880 Speaker 1: this morning. New York Times broke the story and it's 267 00:15:32,920 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 1: a real thing. Newsome after six and a half years 268 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:41,960 Speaker 1: as governor, twelve and a half years in an executive 269 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: position in Sacramento governor lieutenant governor, and after spending tens 270 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,680 Speaker 1: of billions of dollars of our money on programs that 271 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: do not work. In fact, it's worse than that. He 272 00:15:54,280 --> 00:15:58,359 Speaker 1: doesn't know where the money went twenty four billion for homeless, 273 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 1: and he's admitted to it. He's admitted to it, and 274 00:16:01,480 --> 00:16:05,560 Speaker 1: he still is running for president. But he's spooked by 275 00:16:05,560 --> 00:16:10,440 Speaker 1: his own record, and so he wakes up and he goes, wow, 276 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: this is a disgusting state. There's one hundred and eighty 277 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:19,960 Speaker 1: seven thousand people homeless. We have half of the street 278 00:16:20,000 --> 00:16:25,360 Speaker 1: homeless in the whole nation. And much of it happened 279 00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,680 Speaker 1: under his watch, while he was spending tens of billions 280 00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: to try to reverse things. So now he issues a 281 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:42,000 Speaker 1: press release and an ordinance, a model ordinance for local 282 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:50,320 Speaker 1: counties and cities and towns to make homelessness illegal on 283 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:56,520 Speaker 1: the streets. Now it's illegal to camp on public property. 284 00:16:57,320 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: No tents, no sleeping bags, no blankets. You can't sleep. 285 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,600 Speaker 1: You can't lie there for more than three consecutive days 286 00:17:04,680 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 1: or nights in the same location. You got to move 287 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: along after three days, and then you got to move 288 00:17:11,320 --> 00:17:15,600 Speaker 1: along again. You got to move along again, or you 289 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:20,320 Speaker 1: can get arrested. You can't have any semi permanent structures 290 00:17:20,800 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 1: like no sheds, no roofing, sighting materials. You've seen these things. 291 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: You can't sit, sleep, li or camp on any public street, 292 00:17:33,840 --> 00:17:38,840 Speaker 1: road or bike path, or on any sidewalk. So it 293 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:45,280 Speaker 1: get it off the streets, off the sidewalks, and he's 294 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,560 Speaker 1: asking all the cities to pass it because he can't 295 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:52,120 Speaker 1: control what goes on in the cities, and a lot 296 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:55,080 Speaker 1: of cities, like Los Angeles have not been listening to him. 297 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:58,879 Speaker 1: He's been selling this idea for a while, so now 298 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:04,080 Speaker 1: he wrote it down and it's all so he has 299 00:18:04,480 --> 00:18:08,040 Speaker 1: talking points when he gets interviewed by reporters about running 300 00:18:08,040 --> 00:18:11,119 Speaker 1: for president. He's got nothing to do. In nineteen months. 301 00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:17,119 Speaker 1: How old is he, like, fifty six, fifty seven, something 302 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:21,399 Speaker 1: like that, fifty seven. She he's got, you know, another 303 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:26,959 Speaker 1: thirty five years to live, and there's nothing for him 304 00:18:26,960 --> 00:18:31,360 Speaker 1: to do. He's turned out. And he was a guy 305 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:33,359 Speaker 1: who wanted to be president since he was a little kid, 306 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,600 Speaker 1: and thought he was on a glide path because he 307 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: never had any opposition, He never had anybody criticizing him. 308 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:44,160 Speaker 1: Here in California, he lived in a bubble. And suddenly 309 00:18:44,160 --> 00:18:46,399 Speaker 1: he's poking his head outside the boatable and he goes, oh, 310 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,080 Speaker 1: my god, you mean the other forty nine states don't 311 00:18:49,119 --> 00:18:53,439 Speaker 1: have this, No, they don't. There's one hundred and eighty 312 00:18:53,520 --> 00:18:59,520 Speaker 1: seven thousand homeless people, two thirds are living out in 313 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:04,120 Speaker 1: the street around the country. No, I'm sorry. One hundred 314 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,879 Speaker 1: and eighty seven thousand homeless in the state, and two 315 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 1: thirds of those are living outdoors. So we got one 316 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:15,520 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five thousand vagrants, mental patients, and drug 317 00:19:15,520 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 1: addicts in the street, one hundred and twenty five thousand. God, 318 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:23,280 Speaker 1: and more than half of that's in La County. Oh, 319 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:30,479 Speaker 1: it's so disgusting, isn't it. And what's in California is 320 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:38,480 Speaker 1: half of all the street homeless in the nation. That's 321 00:19:38,600 --> 00:19:42,440 Speaker 1: just astonishing. See you follow this this two hundred and 322 00:19:42,520 --> 00:19:48,080 Speaker 1: fifty thousand street homeless in the nation, one hundred and 323 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 1: twenty five thousand here in California. Seventy thousand of those 324 00:19:52,920 --> 00:19:59,600 Speaker 1: are in La County. So we have almost thirty percent 325 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: in La County of the whole country's street homeless. And 326 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:09,199 Speaker 1: I'm looking at this story written by Sean Hubler, and 327 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,600 Speaker 1: she used to work for the La Times, and she 328 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,160 Speaker 1: said it's because of the temperate climate and the state's 329 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: brutal housing crisis. No, it's not. I mean, she should 330 00:20:19,280 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 1: be sent to journalism jail for that. That is a 331 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: complete falsehood. It's because they're addicted to drugs, or they're 332 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:37,159 Speaker 1: mentally ill or both, that's it the housing climate. You 333 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,199 Speaker 1: could give them a free house, and we've tried that. 334 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,960 Speaker 1: They're still mentally ill and they still are on drugs. 335 00:20:43,520 --> 00:20:46,399 Speaker 1: Oh god, we just told you on Friday, wasn't it 336 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:54,560 Speaker 1: Friday that there's a building not far from downtown seventh 337 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:58,400 Speaker 1: and Whitmer. I think yeah, because that's the name of 338 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: the intersection and the building, and it was built in 339 00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 1: twenty twenty and it's totally trashed. It's totally destroyed by 340 00:21:04,920 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 1: the homeless people and all the homeless visitors. So you 341 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: can give them a free home. You can give a 342 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:17,320 Speaker 1: free building. These were free apartments, a free building was constructed. 343 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,240 Speaker 1: So Sean Hubler is lying. You can tell there's nobody 344 00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:26,080 Speaker 1: at the New York Times that has spent even five 345 00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:28,400 Speaker 1: minutes in la or learning about what the homeless city. 346 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:33,440 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, it's the housing crisis here. No it's not. 347 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: Oh it's temperate climate. No it's not. Go to Florida, 348 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,399 Speaker 1: you won't find this. Go to North Carolina, you won't 349 00:21:40,400 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 1: find this. This doesn't exist. It's the policies. This didn't 350 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:48,399 Speaker 1: exist in California even ten years ago. So sick of 351 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:53,479 Speaker 1: this and then this buffoon, this clown stands up and 352 00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: he look, I wrote all by myself an ordinance, and 353 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 1: it should be a model for every city in town 354 00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,480 Speaker 1: here in the state. This is what you do. You 355 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 1: make it illegal. How about that? I just thought of that. 356 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: You make it illegal. Oh, this is so infuriating. And 357 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:17,480 Speaker 1: there's going to be no follow up because he announces 358 00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:19,679 Speaker 1: this every few months. There's never any follow up to anything. 359 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,360 Speaker 1: He's trying to lure them with three billion dollars. Oh 360 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:28,360 Speaker 1: another after spending twenty four billion that went for nothing? Hey, 361 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: how about another three billion? Yeah, and how much you 362 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:38,280 Speaker 1: want to bet the homelesses are still going to be 363 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:44,239 Speaker 1: on the streets. Karen Bass is out right against all this. 364 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:49,040 Speaker 1: I mean, the Supreme Court said nobody has a right 365 00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 1: to sleep in public. Nobody has a right to do it. 366 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 1: You simply ban it, and you arrest them, and the 367 00:22:55,400 --> 00:23:00,359 Speaker 1: Supreme Court holds up the arrest. They back it. You 368 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:02,320 Speaker 1: don't nobody has to live like this. There's nothing in 369 00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:06,119 Speaker 1: the law and nothing in the constitution. No, this is 370 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: a choice that progressive politicians make. Why and why what's 371 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:15,440 Speaker 1: the bottom line? You know what it is? It because 372 00:23:15,560 --> 00:23:19,359 Speaker 1: they and their friends and relatives are making a fortune 373 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:24,280 Speaker 1: because all the silly goofs in this state that vote 374 00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:29,439 Speaker 1: for these propositions, these extra taxes have supplied billions of 375 00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:36,679 Speaker 1: dollars to this criminal operation and at best spends a 376 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: billion three of tax money for what they're still living 377 00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: in the streets by the tens of thousands. You live 378 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:54,679 Speaker 1: in La City and County. You picked the worst place 379 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 1: for homeless policy in the nation. There is no other 380 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: city or county with worst homeless policies. They have the 381 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:09,760 Speaker 1: most homeless, and they're so corrupt and everybody's getting rich 382 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:16,000 Speaker 1: off it. And the lady running the homeless uh Lossa 383 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:20,760 Speaker 1: Valsia Adams Kellum. Yeah, she was enjoying life. She gave 384 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:29,199 Speaker 1: her husband's nonprofit two million dollars. It's it's just so 385 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 1: discussed and now I want to see news somem come 386 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:38,480 Speaker 1: out and challenge Bass. Just Sinker entirely. Come on, he's 387 00:24:38,520 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 1: afraid he should. He should say Bass is an unfit 388 00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,159 Speaker 1: to be mayor. That's what she should he should say. 389 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: Between that and we talked about this earlier. You know 390 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: how many permits the County of La has approved of 391 00:24:56,600 --> 00:25:01,119 Speaker 1: for rebuilding Palisades and Alta Dina total fourteen weeks you 392 00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:11,679 Speaker 1: know how many seven seven? That's it, one every two weeks. 393 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,320 Speaker 1: Jim Garrity has figured out that a national review has 394 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:18,640 Speaker 1: figured out it will take four hundred and sixty one 395 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: years to rebuild Altadene in Palisades at the rate of 396 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:29,479 Speaker 1: approval we have now. But nobody challenges her. Nobody. Everyone's afraid. 397 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 1: I don't know what they're afraid of. Oh, yeah, right, 398 00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:36,359 Speaker 1: it violates the progressive religion, which most of the media 399 00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:41,159 Speaker 1: belongs to. That religion, and certainly most of the Democrats 400 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:42,720 Speaker 1: in this state belong as well. 401 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:48,600 Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM sixty. 402 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 1: All right. In Massachusetts, one of the devout members of 403 00:25:54,200 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: the of the woke progressive cult is a politician Unsulman 404 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,800 Speaker 1: in Woolster. Uh and his name, I don't really know 405 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: how to pronounce it. Uh it tell hoxyodge h A 406 00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:16,800 Speaker 1: x h I A j HAXIAJ and uh the uh. 407 00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 1: The ice guys showed up in Worcester and they wanted 408 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:28,160 Speaker 1: an arrest an accused violent criminal. Okay, an accused violent criminal. 409 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: Twenty five neighbors went out into the street wailing and chanting, 410 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:39,280 Speaker 1: no warrant and not the mother. Uh. 411 00:26:40,040 --> 00:26:40,119 Speaker 2: Uh. 412 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:45,480 Speaker 1: The person who was apprehended was Fierra de Oliviera, and 413 00:26:45,560 --> 00:26:48,760 Speaker 1: the daughter of Ferira jumped in front of an unmarked 414 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:52,000 Speaker 1: ICE vehicle while holding her own infant, trying to stop 415 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:52,600 Speaker 1: the arrest. 416 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:53,720 Speaker 2: Uh. 417 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:59,359 Speaker 1: And and then and then the councilman attel hoxyadge uh 418 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 1: started whipping up the crowd. Here's here's what it sounded like. 419 00:27:04,200 --> 00:27:40,880 Speaker 1: This is the chaos. I should correct one thing. Excel 420 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:44,320 Speaker 1: was a woman, so as a council woman can't can't 421 00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:49,040 Speaker 1: tell what these names. And the accused criminal they arrested 422 00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: also a woman very day the area. She was arrested 423 00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 1: for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and 424 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 1: battery and a pregnant victim. Hmm. So the councilwoman got violent, 425 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:12,080 Speaker 1: the illegal alien they were arresting was violent. And then 426 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,080 Speaker 1: the illegal alien's daughter was busted. She ran after an 427 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,760 Speaker 1: ICE car and kicked its passenger side. She's charged with 428 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:23,520 Speaker 1: reckless endangerment of her child because she was carrying a baby, 429 00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,200 Speaker 1: her baby in the arms. Also charged with disturbing the peace, 430 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:33,280 Speaker 1: disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. Ice was trying to arrest 431 00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:37,840 Speaker 1: an illegal alien who'd been arrested for the salt and battery. 432 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,800 Speaker 1: Then the daughter jumped in and attacked the ice car, 433 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:47,040 Speaker 1: and then this crazy councilwoman at Telhayaj jumped in and 434 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:54,240 Speaker 1: was inciting the mob. None of this should be in 435 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,719 Speaker 1: the country. All of this should be gone. Conway is 436 00:28:57,880 --> 00:29:02,600 Speaker 1: coming up next and we'll see it. 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