It now Bill Cunningham, the great American. Of course, what happened to
California today will happen throughout the Midwest tomorrow and beyond. And the Gavin Newsom
nightmare, the California disaster is ongoing. There was an announcement of a few
months back that, in addition to all the other deficit spending, in addition
to all the homelessness, in addition to all the lack of handling the resources
of California properly, on top of chasing out productive Californians, et cetera,
now Gavin Newson wants to provide free medical care to a half a million illegals,
as if that won't impact the cost or the weight and ers, etc.
The whole system hospital system is not set up, as you may know,
to handle that many people into it. Whether it's the one hundred million
coming into America over the next several decades, or whether it's California, we're
in trouble. Of course. John Cox is a former California gubernatorial candidate.
Sadly he did not win. Nonetheless, the book is the News and Nightmare
of the California Disaster, and John Cox, can I lay out for you
the nightmare scenario that I've been talking about the last few months. Do you
want to hear the nightmare scenario. I'm pretty much already familiar with it,
Bill. I've lived with Newslian for a while, and I know that he's
running the shadow campaign for president. But go ahead, have at it.
It is now the end of July. It is hot, broiling and unforgiving,
and Joe Biden is tumbling downstairs. He's babbling incoherently, and the White
House has become a retirement center. And the Democratic Party runs all these polls
the end of July, and guess what, Trump is gonna beat Biden.
So someone goes to Joe Biden, first to Jill Biden, and then to
Joe Biden, saying, for the good of the party, you gotta step
down. We're gonna do this big show in August at Chicago, and we're
gonna come out behind the drape. We're gonna have Michelle Obama come out as
the presidential candidate, and at her side will be vice president to be Gavin
Newsom. The nightmare scenario in which Michelle Obama wins, Gavin Newsom is the
president in waiting. In every shot, overlook on her shoulder constantly. How
real as kind of a you're a business leader and author, is what I'm
saying, Completely out of the realm of reality, not at all. I
think any Democrat, frankly, who looks at Joe Biden. Of course,
Republicans have thought Joe Biden is out of it for a while, but the
Democrats have certainly thought that too. And I really think I agree with you.
I don't know how he makes it for four more years. And what
they don't want Bill is president Kamala. Oh, she would be even worse
and for the Democratic Party and for the country. And so I think that
your scenario is not crazy. I'm not sure about Michelle Obama. I don't
know what she gains by becoming president, except I suppose more power for her
and her husband. But you know, I think it'll be a broker convention.
It's in Chicago in August, my hometown, and we'll have to see.
This is going to be unprecedented. It really is unprecedented to have a
president out of it as Joe Biden to begin with, and of course he's
the second coming of Jimmy Carter, with problems with oil and inflation, and
iron I think the Democrats have got to see themselves in trouble and they certainly
don't want Trump to be repeated. No, John Cox, let's get let's
look under the covers of the California for disaster, the fiscal disaster awaiting in
California. When you have a disaster like that, fiscally, the best thing
to do is is keep spending lots of money and tell productive Californians to leave.
Those are the two things you do. Tell that Tony Bender types get
the hell out of California. We're going to tax you out of existence.
And then second, we've got to spend more money. Explain that California fiscal
disaster. Well, listen, I'm in the business world, Bill, I've
been in business for forty years, and the first rule of business is when
you're in a hole, stop digging. And now that's the opposite of politicians
like Newsomb. But I'll tell you really, truly, it's all about Newsom
and his rise to power, which is also about the special interest money.
The unions, the environmental lobbyists, the trial lawyers. All these groups flood
him with money. And then of course the media also backs Newsom because he
loves to talk about their pet issues like abortion, like guns, like climate
change. He ignores all the other disasters, the housing crisis, homelessness,
shortages of water and electricity and gasoline, and the lousy roads and the rising
prime He ignores all that to talk about those hot button issues, and he
also feeds his special interests. And that's how California has just made it so
difficult for the average person to live there. If you get a lot of
money, you're gonna do fine. But if you don't, which is ninety
nine percent of the population, you are really struggling in what it should be
a beautiful place to live. And I wrote this book bill because I don't
want the rest of the country to experience what we have in California. I
look at the flooding happening all over California right now as I speak, And
there was an availability many years ago to double the reservoir system. In other
words, all the water possible is falling on California to be used. It's
going strictly out to the ocean. Why didn't California the last ten to fifteen
years, with this explosion in population because of Illego aliens and the doubling of
the state budget in ten years, why not double the reservoir system, So
all this flooding happening, you're going to have water as far as the eye
can see. Why didn't that happen because there were deep pocketed environmental groups Bill
that didn't want it. And of course they represent a tiny sliver of the
population. And they're not worried about farmers, they're not worried about people drinking
water. They rather have a declining population. They think there's too many people
in the world already, and certainly they think there's too many people in California.
And so this tiny sliver of environmental extremists really kind of control things because
they raise money scaring people half to death, and they got to spend it.
And what do they do. They spend it buying politicians, giving new
some money. And of course then he asked to kowtow. What we've got
to do, Bill is and that's what the book is about, as well,
changing our electoral system to get away from the nightmare of California. We
got to get away from this political structure that gives all the power to the
special interest and to the media. And I know you're a member of the
media, but you're a good member of the media. Yeah, the mainstream
media in this country is very far left of where the people are. Yes,
but they have a lot of the power bill and what I'm proposing,
it's an idea called here are the People that we'll start with Congress, getting
the money out, making Congress truly the people's House again, and in doing
so, we'll get away from the politicians for hire like Gavin Newsom. And
we have to do it for the future of the country. We really do
talk about healthcare and then the public education system. You're saying California is now
having a Fisco armageddon, It's going to get a lot worse. Explain what
Gavin Newsom did and the Democrats and Sacramento relative to healthcare. For a legal
aliens shouldn't be here in the first place. Well, let's play. Let's
face it. You know, a big chunk of Newsom's power and money come
from healthcare companies, the big hospital change, the big insurers, and of
course they're all too happy to take government money to cover illegal immigrants. And
they just opened the floodgates, just open the veins of the taxpayers of the
state and they're paying for that. And of course the same thing with the
education system bill. Listen, my mother was a Chicogo public school system.
The school teacher. The school system in California, it's basically owned by the
teachers' unions. There's one hundred billion dollars spent in California on education bill,
and the teachers' unions decide how that gets spent. You can't fire an incompetent
teacher. There's so much money spent on administration. We've got to get the
education system and the healthcare system away from the politicians, away from these interest
groups. More competition, more opportunity, better service, better quality. That's
only going to happen if we change this political structure, which is really what
my book is about. I saw, sorry this morning on NBC News about
the city at Denver is three hundred million dollars upside down in one hospital because
of over usage by those who pay nothing into the system in California. If
somebody would twist an ankle, break an arm, and go to an er
and downtown Los Angeles into a hospital system, what would that look like?
Because I've not had that experience, If somebody would have a medical emergency and
go to an er in Los Angeles or San Francisco. What would one face.
First of all, there would be long lines. Bill, when you
open up the healthcare system to just anybody, especially illegal immigrants, you're going
to have, first of all, long lines, rationed care and poor quality.
And that's what is faced. You know, I have a concierge doctor,
you know, because I can afford it in California. But I'm one
of the lucky few. Most everybody in California faces rationed, you know,
low quality care. And again it's managed by the government, and the interest
groups don't care. They're pocketing the money, they're pocketing the profits. We've
got to get, basically our politicians to be free of these interest group influences
so that we can get a system that actually works for everybody. And again,
that's what here the people, and that's what my book is is trying
to communicate the people. We just can't keep complaining about this. We've got
to do something. Demographers of the US Census Bureau saying the year twenty fifty,
and we think twenty fifty, John Cox is a long way off.
Well, we're as close to twenty fifty as we are to the year nineteen
ninety nine, which happened like last weekend, and we're told that in twenty
fifty and current trends that the population of California will double to almost ninety million
human beings living in California. California doesn't have the capacity for the forty to
forty five million living there now, whether it's the expressways, the water systems,
the reservoir systems and sewerages systems, the ers, the public schools.
What does California look like on the path that it's on now and the year
twenty fifty, when the population of California has doubled, Well, first of
all, I'm not sure it will double because so many people are already leaving
the state. But you're right, we may attract so many illegal immigrants and
other people that just want to live off the government. But you know,
you know, Margaret Thatcher said it, Bill, you know, socialism works
great until you run out of other people's money, and that's what we have.
We don't have another Ronald Reagan in the wings yet. I'm hoping that
he or she is out there, that it's going to make the argument to
people that you know, socialism just doesn't work, that it's never worked.
I love this new Argentine president and the speechy David Davos. I would love
if every college student were to pay attention to that speech, because you know,
freedom and opportunity and free market capitalisms are Capitalism is the only way to
provide prosperity to people and abundance. Socialism is all about scarcity and low quality,
and we've got to just get that message out. I'm hoping California finally
grows some you know, political leaders, that we'll talk about that. In
the meantime, the idea I have bill about changing the structure so that we
subdivide congressional districts into one hundred little tiny districts. I'm hoping that's going to
take hold, because that would take away the power of the media. That
would take away the power of these big interest groups like the unions and big
oil. And that's where we have to get back to. We have to
get back to real leaders and a people's risk that isn't manipulated by all these
outside forces. John Cox, you're a hopeful individual. I'm not intimately familiar
with Sacramento politics, but as I understand that the Democratic Party controls everything,
the governorship, all statewide offices, attorney general, veto proof majorities in the
House and the Senate, the California Supreme Court, they're all. You can't
find a Republican in California with a search warrant. It doesn't exist. So
it is hopeful to say, you know, okay, things all get better.
But isn't it up to the people, to the actual voters, to
say we can't take it anymore? And is there any indication in a small
way that we've turned the corner be goes, I don't see it at this
point. Well, hate to disagree with you, Bill, but you know,
California actually has more Republicans than almost any state in the Union. There's
five million registered Republicans. It's just that we're major. You know, we're
overshadowed by the Democratic registration, which you know, it's been pushed up by
motor voter and by the control that is in Sacramento. Now I'm looking for
people to finally reach their breaking point. I'm hopeful that the idea of here
the People, which people can find out about it here Thepeople dot Org,
that we can remake the Congress and the Congressional districts in California as well as
the whole country, and in doing that, we can get people back interested
in politics. You know, Bill, a lot of people have turned off
of politics because it's so reactionary, it's so us versus them, and they
also look at the media and the interest groups having so much power that most
people say to themselves, why should I pay attention? I can't have any
impact. If we get congressional districts subdivided into one hundred little tiny districts where
people actually get to meet their representatives, they get to talk to them,
they get to feel like they have a relation ship, maybe people will get
back interested in politics. And we need to have that because we can't keep
going the way we're going right now. And you know, with people like
Newsom, we need better leaders. Well, Chicago had a chance about a
year ago. They had Lori Lightfoot also known as Beetlejuice. She absolutely ran
the place into the ground. And then they elect someone more liberal. Brandon
Johnson is the mayor of Chicago. He's worse than Lori Lightfoot. And I
hope that Californians can lead the way. Lastly, i'd say this, you
made a comment earlier about when you're in a hole, quit digging. If
you divide the losses for EVS and Ford between the amount of money they lost
and the amount of number of evs they sold, every electric vehicle Ford sold
last year cost a company minus sixty five thousand dollars sixty five thousand dollars per
car. If I was Farley at Ford, I'd probably quit selling our vs.
Every time you sell one it costs to sixty five thousand plus. Throw
on top of that, the rental car agencies are saying, we're nobody wants
to rent these things fifty percent reduction so far in sales in the month of
in the last quarter. The consumer don't it doesn't want them. Rental car
companies won't take them. But Gavin Newsom has the requirement that in twenty thirty
everything must change fundamentally in California, and that's got to stop. But John
Cox, I love your optimism. I love the idea that California is going
to lead the way. They would have been so much better off if you've
been elected governor. The name of the book is the Newsom Nightmare, the
California Disaster. And but most importantly, you have chapters after chapter on how
to reform things, and once again, and that's the ID like to be
hopeful. Can you give me a minute of hope before we conclude this.
What hope Californians have? Well, you know, there's no expression in economics,
and that is things will keep going the way they are until they can't
anymore. And that's really what's going to happen in California, where people are
just going to get so up with the lack of water, the electricity rates,
the cost of living, the housing, the homelessness, all this stuff,
and they're gonna rebell And I believe that's going to happen. And if
it's not happening now, it's going to happen pretty soon. And I'm hopeful
that Americans will, you know, do the right thing, like Winston Churchill
said, you know, Americans, you know will do the right thing after
they've exhausted every other alternative. Well, the nightmare scenario is Michelle Obama for
four years and then Gavin Newsom for eight years past that, bringing the California
disaster the nightmare to the entire country, in which case we can't survive.
John Cox, God bless you. The Newsom Nightmare, the California Disaster,
how to reform things once again, thank you very much for coming on the
Bill Cunningham Show and keep the disasters in California. Thank you, Bell really
appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Good Sure, God bless you.
Let's continue with more, John Cox. The book is the Newsome Nightmare.
And if I'm right, and I'm seldom wrong, the Democratic Party will say,
at some point we can't take it anymore. And that here comes Michelle.
Obama is the figurehead, with Gavin Newsom running everything. Bill cunning and
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