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Speaker 1: You're listening to the John Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio apps.

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Speaker 2: Lou Penrose info John Cobalt this week on the John

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Speaker 2: Cobelt Show. Well, apartments everywhere. That's what's going to be

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Speaker 2: the result of Senate Bill seventy nine. Chris Lagarl has

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Speaker 2: been following this program, following this for us on this program, Chris,

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Speaker 2: thanks for spending time with us. Did anything in the

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Speaker 2: governor's statement give you a sense of whether or not

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Speaker 2: he was happy to sign this? Thrilled, begrudging? What's going

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Speaker 3: Well?

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Speaker 4: Nothing, and good to talk to you, Lou. I think

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Speaker 4: this is our first time, so good to be on

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Speaker 4: As Actually, a colleague of mind pointed out this morning

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was just it was just flat.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was flat. It was it was there was

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Speaker 4: no there there. And you know, we all have our

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Speaker 4: feelings about Governor Newsom, but I did not envy him

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Speaker 4: the last few weeks because if he signed it, he

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Speaker 4: was going to alienate much of his normal voting base,

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Speaker 4: excuse me, alienate much of his normal voting base. If

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Speaker 4: he didn't sign it, he was going to alienate his

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Speaker 4: So you know, uh, he was definitely laying in the

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Speaker 2: So he was a mayor. He was the mayor of

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Speaker 2: the city and County of San Francisco, So he understands

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Speaker 2: He knows how like, how challenged, how challenging that is.

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Speaker 2: Without the mandates out of Sacramento, and there are already

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Speaker 4: Well, I think I don't disagree, Lou, but I think

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Speaker 4: his perspective is actually quite dated, because you know, he

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Speaker 4: this legislation was so much as a glimmer in Scott

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Speaker 4: Wiener's eye, the world in which he was a mayor

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Speaker 4: And that's actually part of the problem is I don't

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Speaker 4: I mean, he's been running for president for thirty years.

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Speaker 4: He's never really gotten down into the weeds. As much

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Speaker 2: It is certainly among the most progressive things he's done

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Speaker 2: I'm surprised that he signed it. It goes too far

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Speaker 2: I don't know why the capitulation to the to the

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Speaker 4: Well, actually, look, that's not entire I hate to say it,

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Speaker 4: but the Republican governor of North Dakota, Ron Desantus, has

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Speaker 4: there's actually a bill similar to SB seventy nine. I

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Speaker 4: But at the broader, proverbial, fifty thousand foot level, this

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Speaker 4: And that's what a lot of us are fighting against

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Speaker 4: at the state level and increasingly at the national LEVELAWS

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Speaker 4: So that's that's the playing field that we're on. It

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Speaker 2: And I don't like when private industry benefits so directly,

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Speaker 2: It just it's it's washing money through government. And you're right,

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Speaker 2: this whole thing is fraught with peril and again, I

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Speaker 4: According to the US Census Bureau, eighty three percent of

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Speaker 4: And I think ultimately that's why we win. And we

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Speaker 4: I mean I often tell people, you know, Scott Wiener

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Speaker 4: They call them racist and exclusionary. Will excuse me, but

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Speaker 4: what is the Mongolian yurt? What what's the teepee? Those

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Speaker 4: economically illiterate, because SB seventy nine and the entire Yimbie

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Speaker 4: movement is based on the notion that housing is fungible,

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Speaker 4: Appreciate it. Good talking with you, all right, we'll.

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Speaker 2: Make it back. I want to talk a little bit

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Speaker 2: about a point that he brought up. The Democrats just

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Speaker 2: Penrose if John Cobelt on the John coblt Show talking

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Speaker 2: about this ridiculous piece of legislation that Governor Newsoen did sign,

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Speaker 2: and it's just it's gonna create apartments everywhere and your

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Speaker 2: except that it's too late. This is what this does.

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Speaker 2: It goes it's an end around that goes around all

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Speaker 2: the people that are behind these things, they're always the same.

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Speaker 2: So here's Leif Gerster. His name is Leif, of course

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Speaker 2: it is. He's with Ryde SD and he says, no,

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Speaker 2: this is what we have to do. We got to

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Speaker 2: get people out of these cars.

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Speaker 5: High identsity encourages more people to take the bus because

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Speaker 5: they're usually closer to the bus stop and they don't

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Speaker 5: dependency reduced. Obviously, some people will still have a car,

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Speaker 5: but at least they want to use it for everything.

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Speaker 2: Why why do we want to see the car dependency reduced.

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Speaker 2: Why to you where do they get this guy from? Anyway?

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Speaker 2: This is not Europe. We don't want to be like Europe.

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Speaker 2: And even if we did, you can't. It's too late.

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Speaker 2: We already built the roads in the houses. We can't

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Speaker 2: undo everything and dig a subway. It's too late. And

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Speaker 2: there's nothing wrong with the way we live our lives

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Speaker 2: more parking. And there's nothing wrong with that attitude. But

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Speaker 2: when we get back these nude bicyclists up in Portland,

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Speaker 2: John Cobelt Show. Well, I guess it's an annual tradition

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Speaker 2: to bike around Portland Naked World Naked Bike Ride. It

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Speaker 2: Ice Detention Center there in downtown Portland. Brad Ford is

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Speaker 3: Brad Wow, this has gone on actually a long time

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Speaker 3: when they did them, it was cold. People had plastic

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Speaker 2: They said it was quirky. It's a part of Portland's

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Speaker 2: Do they I mean, do they show up already in

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Speaker 2: Because you can't just leave your house.

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Speaker 3: Naked, one would assume not, right, especially if you're taking

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Speaker 3: A lot of them had messages written on their backs

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Speaker 2: So these these demonstrations out in front of the the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not so sure that that they're they're really

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Speaker 2: Brad Ford, thanks so much for jumping in with us

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Speaker 2: Very good Brad, Thanks so much. Bad forward from eleven

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Speaker 7: Because we strongly believe that we do not need federal

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Speaker 2: It is electric, so fun, it's so Portland, just keeping

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Speaker 2: Like a woman brushing her hair naked, that's good naked.

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Speaker 7: Well, this year's naked bike ride drew in a crowd

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Speaker 2: Is actually my first Portland protest too.

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Speaker 7: Season naked bike riders tell me this year's ride meant

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Speaker 2: This is has more impacts. We're doing it for something

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Speaker 2: doing for human rights, a human rights. Well, this confirms

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Speaker 2: Lou Penrose infa John coblt this week. Thank you for

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Speaker 7: If Portlanders gathered outside the convention centers Sunday afternoon for

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Speaker 2: I'll say I did not know it was a tradition

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Speaker 2: at all, so that it's an emergency naked bike ride,

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Speaker 2: like they had the naked bike ride already in July,

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Speaker 2: but this was an emergency naked bike ride they had

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Speaker 2: to have it, couldn't go another day even though it

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Speaker 2: was raining, had to have the naked bike ride. Portlanders

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Speaker 2: gathered outside there for the emergency World Naked by Crime.

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Speaker 7: The Naked bike Ride is one of the Rose City's

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Speaker 7: weirdest traditions and usually advocates for climate action and safer streets,

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Speaker 7: but this time the naked bike ride took the form

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Speaker 7: of a protest.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's usually climate action or safer streets. Well,

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Speaker 2: that is why the National Guard was sent to Portland

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Speaker 2: for safer streets. Like, I just don't get it. These

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Speaker 2: are the crazy demonstrations. The people that ICE are going

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Speaker 2: after have criminal histories. They either have criminal histories or

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Speaker 2: they hang out with people who have criminal histories. That's

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Speaker 2: the only way that people that don't have any criminal

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Speaker 2: history other than being in my country illegally, the only

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Speaker 2: reason they get deported is because they're in the midst

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Speaker 2: of somebody that ICE is going after. ICE is going

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Speaker 2: after somebody that's you know, in the country illegally and

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Speaker 2: also assaulted a police officer or got into a dui

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Speaker 2: and hit somebody, or smacked around their girlfriend or their wife.

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Speaker 2: So they're going after somebody that has committed felony and

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Speaker 2: also in the country illegally. Now they go show up

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Speaker 2: where he is and he's there with his brother. Now

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Speaker 2: the brothers in the country legally too. Brother hasn't yet

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Speaker 2: assaulted a police officer. The brother hasn't yet beat his spouse.

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Speaker 2: The brother hasn't yet gotten a DUI, but he's still

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Speaker 2: in the country legally, Ice can't just set them free.

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Speaker 2: In fact, you should be happy. It's two for the

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Speaker 2: price of one. That does keep the city safe. So

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Speaker 2: you don't like immigration and Customs enforcement just enforcing existing

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Speaker 2: immigration law. And to demonstrate that you're gonna take your

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Speaker 2: clothes off on a rainy day and bike around the

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Speaker 2: city and you're gonna tell me these are serious people.

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Speaker 2: I have said this and I maintain and almost daily

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Speaker 2: there is another story that confirms that Democrats do not

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Speaker 2: have a political problem. The problem isn't politics. The problem

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Speaker 2: is maturity. You see it all the time. I just

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Speaker 2: saw another story of somebody that was oh, the guy

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Speaker 2: that spit on the federal officer. This video viral video

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Speaker 2: of somebody in Portland. He's spit Now the officer was

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Speaker 2: wearing a face shield. But nevertheless, you can't spit on it.

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Speaker 2: That's actually felony assault. It's also gross. The guy that

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Speaker 2: got arrested for spitting on the officer thirty eight years old,

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Speaker 2: thirty eight years old, and he's gonna go to jail

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Speaker 2: for spitting on an officer. That's immaturity. Remember when the

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Speaker 2: ice raids were going on here in Los Angeles and

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Speaker 2: the shift that wasn't apprehending illegals were out in Rancho

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Speaker 2: Cucamonga at a hotel taking arrest and there were some

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Speaker 2: people that were going to the parking lot and I

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Speaker 2: don't know how they could possibly think they would not

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Speaker 2: be on camera. I mean there's parking lot cameras at hotels,

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Speaker 2: and they were driving nails into the tires of the

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Speaker 2: ice vehicles. And of course the guy's on film. They

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Speaker 2: got him, he's got arrested. He can't do that. Fifty

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Speaker 2: one years old. I couldn't believe it. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: see this mayhem and chaos with these Antifa people all

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Speaker 2: dressed up in black and they link their ninja warriors

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Speaker 2: and they you see them, and the assumption, at least

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Speaker 2: for me, the assumption was these are college kids gone bad, right,

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Speaker 2: They're college kids that just got too close to the

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Speaker 2: Democrats Socialist of America crowd and just it's cosplay. They're

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Speaker 2: just they're not children, they're adults. But they're behaving like children,

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Speaker 2: and the assumption is that they're just like you know,

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Speaker 2: college aged, college aged individuals. And then I see these

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Speaker 2: police reports and they're like in their thirties and forties.

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Speaker 2: It's absolutely incredible to me, absolutely incredible. Hey, Lou, I'll

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Speaker 2: bet you fifty bucks you can't take thirty seconds to

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Speaker 2: say something nice about a Democrat. I'll take that bet. Well,

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Speaker 2: first off, I don't think Democrats are saying anything nice

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Speaker 2: about me. Why do they need me to say something

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Speaker 2: nice about them? The Democrat Party is not the Democrat

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Speaker 2: Party it used to be. It is. It's in shambles,

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Speaker 2: like it's it's just, it's a it's a shell of itself.

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Speaker 2: It used to stand for American workers, it used to

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Speaker 2: stand for American families. It used to stand for strengthening

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Speaker 2: our workforce. Right, that's what the donkey is. And today

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Speaker 2: the Democrat Party stands for foreigners in the country illegally,

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Speaker 2: Palestinian terrorists and Palestinian terrorist sympathizers. And that's about it,

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Speaker 2: which is why you see the favorability ratings of Democrats

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Speaker 2: in the tubes. Everyone talks about how Trump's you know,

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Speaker 2: approval ratings are underwater. They're below fifty compared to what

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Speaker 2: compared to the Democrats. The Democrats have no favorability. Look

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Speaker 2: what's happening. I mean, they have no candidate. They have

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Speaker 2: there's no national voice, there's no national message. The Democrat

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Speaker 2: Party is just basically anti Trump. Whatever Trump wants, they

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Speaker 2: want the opposite. Trump wants peace in the Middle East

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Speaker 2: and Democrats don't. Trump wants illegals out of the country,

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Speaker 2: and Democrats want to keep the illegals in the country.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's just the opposite. It's the opposite party,

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Speaker 2: and there's really nothing nice to say about the platform.

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Speaker 2: They're not raising wages for American workers by flooding the

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Speaker 2: labor force with illegal and ineligible labor. That depresses wages, right,

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Speaker 2: Illegals take jobs from Americans and they work for less,

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Speaker 2: which causes the wages to be depressed by literal definition.

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Speaker 2: So they're not fighting for workers. They're frankly fighting against

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Speaker 2: at least American workers. They're not bringing down the cost

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Speaker 2: of housing by deregulating the industry. They're over regulating the industry.

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Speaker 2: And they want you to move into some East German

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Speaker 2: tower and take the bus. That's not freedom. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: there's very little to say. I look, I grew up.

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Speaker 2: I had Democrats in my family growing up, because back

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Speaker 2: in the seventies and eighties, the Democrat Party stood for workers,

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Speaker 2: union workers. My grandfather was a general contractor. Right, they

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Speaker 2: were working to create conditions in which Americans made more money.

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Speaker 2: It was always that the Democrat Party was supposed to

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Speaker 2: be the party of working class people.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 2: Republicans were the party of industry and business, and it

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Speaker 2: was the inn and yang. Now I don't, as I've said,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what what name me a position that

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Speaker 2: they hold that is good for Americans and good for

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Speaker 2: American workers. I don't see you one. I mean, look

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Speaker 2: at you know. I mean there is this example after

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Speaker 2: example after example of a real immaturity problem. And I

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Speaker 2: think we're gonna have a bit of a shakeup in

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Speaker 2: this governor's race. And I think we're going to see

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Speaker 2: some new blood emerging. And I think it's about time

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Speaker 2: because the bench is weak, there's no question about it.

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Speaker 2: And it's a huge opportunity for Republicans if they want

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Speaker 2: to have viability in California politics. The lane is wide

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Speaker 2: open right now. And the British rock band the who

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Speaker 2: famously said it's the singer, not the song, that makes

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Speaker 2: the music move along. And what the Republican Party in

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Speaker 2: California is missing is the lead singer. But there's still time.

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Speaker 2: We'll see where this goes. Lou Penrose Info John Coblt

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