WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:04.240 I want to talk about the psychology of voting, how 2 00:00:04.360 --> 00:00:13.039 you change your political opinions. People are really prideful about 3 00:00:13.039 --> 00:00:19.960 their politics. They are honest to God, more willing to 4 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.960 stick to their political opinions. I think this is true 5 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:30.399 of the psychology of modern day, present day Americans, at 6 00:00:30.519 --> 00:00:33.719 least boomers and younger may be greatest generation and younger 7 00:00:34.439 --> 00:00:38.240 that we are honest to God, more adhered to our 8 00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:43.039 politics than we are to our religion. We will change 9 00:00:43.119 --> 00:00:49.039 our religion to suit our politics, far more so than 10 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:52.479 the other way around. If you don't believe me, look 11 00:00:52.520 --> 00:00:57.439 at Joseph Biden, look at Nancy Pelosi, look at every 12 00:00:58.359 --> 00:01:05.480 Catholic liberal out there who you know one is not 13 00:01:05.599 --> 00:01:08.680 budging one inch from the Democratic Party platform when it 14 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:12.040 comes to gay marriage, abortion, and yet is trying to 15 00:01:12.079 --> 00:01:15.280 present themselves as if they're, you know, a card carrying 16 00:01:15.359 --> 00:01:19.920 great old Catholic with nothing nothing amiss in their religious practice. 17 00:01:23.879 --> 00:01:27.400 And it's not just them. I think it goes all 18 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:29.799 the way from the level of someone who's a top 19 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:34.319 level political operative like Nancy Pelosi, all the way down 20 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:39.560 to John Q citizen. People are really prideful about their 21 00:01:39.560 --> 00:01:43.519 political views. It's you saying how you think the country 22 00:01:43.560 --> 00:01:45.760 should be ordered, and you kind of when you say 23 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:49.840 something like that, you're putting yourself out there, and as 24 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.120 a result, people dig in and they get prideful about it, 25 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:55.560 and they get puffy about it, they get offend, they 26 00:01:55.599 --> 00:02:01.879 get defensive about it. They get offended and defensive, and 27 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:06.920 because there's so much pride in it, I think it 28 00:02:07.159 --> 00:02:11.240 politics is one of the few cases where you're willing 29 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:17.520 to sit listen to someone who disagrees with you and 30 00:02:17.599 --> 00:02:20.719 say I was wrong and you were right. You know, 31 00:02:20.759 --> 00:02:24.199 there are very few things in life, very few big 32 00:02:25.199 --> 00:02:28.520 life things where someone is willing to sit and listen 33 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:31.919 and say, yes, I used to think this, but I 34 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:35.840 listened to you, and that convinced me that you were 35 00:02:36.120 --> 00:02:39.080 right and I was wrong. Very few people have that 36 00:02:39.159 --> 00:02:43.800 kind of a one to eighty conversion on politics or religion. 37 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:50.280 Usually it takes a long time to turn the Titanic around. 38 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:56.759 It takes a long time for political attitudes to shift 39 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:00.719 because it has to shift on an individual level for 40 00:03:01.159 --> 00:03:06.879 thousands and thousands and thousands of people. And this is 41 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.319 part of why I sort of had this attitude of 42 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:15.280 you know, there are a lot of Trump people. When 43 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:21.759 you get real deep into deep hardcore Maga land deep 44 00:03:21.800 --> 00:03:26.520 hardcore maga Facebook and Twitter posting. And I remember this 45 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:29.560 during twenty twenty, all the Trump people like, we couldn't 46 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:32.400 have a lot of big gatherings, I guess unless you 47 00:03:32.400 --> 00:03:35.240 were doing a Black Lives Matter protest, and so the 48 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:41.479 Trump people would do these truck and car rallies. You 49 00:03:41.639 --> 00:03:43.479 just get a whole bunch of Trump people together and 50 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:48.360 they drive their trucks or cars by and have American 51 00:03:48.400 --> 00:03:50.680 flags and Trump flags flying from the back of them. 52 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:55.080 And there was a big rally like that somewhere in 53 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:58.240 Orange County, I think, somewhere in California, and Trump people 54 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:01.759 were like, Trump's gonna win in California. Oh well, if 55 00:04:01.759 --> 00:04:05.360 you didn't cheat, he definitely win California. California would be 56 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:09.199 so much twich. And I'm looking at this, I'm like, 57 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:15.280 Donald Trump's not gonna win California. And I think people 58 00:04:15.319 --> 00:04:17.959 ask me, what's gonna happen, what's gonna take whin or 59 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:22.519 when is California gonna wake up? And I always kept 60 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:25.160 trying to retort to people, it's not it's not going to. 61 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:30.480 It's not going to. People are dead set in thinking 62 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:34.639 this is better it is better that there there are 63 00:04:34.920 --> 00:04:38.839 a ton of people who vote for whom the big 64 00:04:39.120 --> 00:04:45.439 problems of California don't impact them that much. Homelessness is bad, 65 00:04:45.480 --> 00:04:47.839 but if you live in a really posh neighborhood in 66 00:04:47.879 --> 00:04:50.680 Pacific Palisades, it's really not impacting your day to day 67 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:56.079 all that much. Taxes are bad, but if you're already 68 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:59.360 a multi millionaire, maybe you just don't care. Housing costs 69 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:01.399 are bad, but if you've already owned, you already own 70 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:04.839 your house, what do you care about? High housing prizes 71 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:11.759 just means the value of your home is going up. Yeah, 72 00:05:11.759 --> 00:05:14.240 there are a lot of problems with California, and there 73 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:18.439 are also you know, oh, taxes are high. Well, IM 74 00:05:18.920 --> 00:05:22.480 a lowering com person. I don't pay much taxes anyway. 75 00:05:23.199 --> 00:05:26.240 There are a lot of people who have, because of 76 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:32.319 where they are in society, either don't care or don't 77 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:37.399 allow themselves to connect the dots that. Hey, Democrat policies 78 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:44.079 are bad and are making life worse, and there are 79 00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.959 way too many people like that. I think there are. 80 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:52.279 There is an army of millennial to gen z women 81 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:56.600 who are gonna vote for Democrats eighty five to fifteen 82 00:05:57.639 --> 00:06:02.199 every election for a long long, long time, and they're 83 00:06:02.199 --> 00:06:04.319 just gonna do that because they think that there's some 84 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:07.680 kind of moral superiority to do in that. And this 85 00:06:07.839 --> 00:06:13.079 is the first election when millennial and zuomer men sort 86 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:14.800 of woke up and were like, I don't know that 87 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:19.079 there's anything morally superior about voting for Democrats. And there's 88 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:24.279 this massive new gender divide on politics between young men 89 00:06:24.319 --> 00:06:26.279 and young women, which is kind of fascinating to see. 90 00:06:26.360 --> 00:06:31.839 But in California, I just think the dynamics of generation 91 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:35.079 after generation after generation pumped out by liberal California public 92 00:06:35.079 --> 00:06:38.759 schools and too many people for whom the problems of 93 00:06:38.800 --> 00:06:42.480 California just aren't impacting them, and they're the ones staying. 94 00:06:42.600 --> 00:06:45.519 They're not the ones fleeing to Idaho, They're the ones staying. 95 00:06:50.879 --> 00:06:56.800 This brings me to the wildfires in Los Angeles. I 96 00:06:56.879 --> 00:07:04.279 am sure that there are tens of thousands of people 97 00:07:04.439 --> 00:07:10.759 who have been impacted by the wildfires or are family 98 00:07:10.800 --> 00:07:14.160 members of people directly impacted. That that probably extends into 99 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:19.279 the hundreds of thousands of people by the wildfires who 100 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:24.160 voted for Kamala Harris and two years before that voted 101 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.199 for Gavin Newsom, and two years before that voted for 102 00:07:27.319 --> 00:07:29.399 Joe Biden in two years before that, voted for Gavin 103 00:07:29.399 --> 00:07:32.040 Newsom and voted for Gavin Newsom and vot and voted 104 00:07:32.079 --> 00:07:35.680 for Jerry Brown and voted for Hillary Clinton and voted 105 00:07:35.920 --> 00:07:41.480 and have just consistent Democrat voting track record. I am 106 00:07:41.560 --> 00:07:45.079 sure there are tens of thousands of people like that 107 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:49.600 who have lost their homes or a family member lost 108 00:07:49.639 --> 00:07:56.199 their homes. I've been saying on this show, and what's 109 00:07:56.319 --> 00:07:58.759 going to take for California to wake up? What's going 110 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.439 to take to change things? My response has always been, 111 00:08:01.879 --> 00:08:05.560 you can't think of California politics this way. It's taken 112 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:08.399 us thirty years to slide to where we are now, 113 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:14.399 with the Republican Party being absolutely dead, with Democrats having 114 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:19.439 this massive super duper majority. It's gonna take a long 115 00:08:19.720 --> 00:08:24.399 time for Republicans to build back up to being competitive again. 116 00:08:24.439 --> 00:08:27.000 This is not something that you're gonna snap your fingers overnight. 117 00:08:27.079 --> 00:08:32.559 This is a twenty year project. That's what I've repeatedly 118 00:08:32.600 --> 00:08:35.519 been saying that there's no I just don't believe there's 119 00:08:35.519 --> 00:08:39.240 a silver bullet that's gonna restore We got to bring 120 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.320 California back. What do you mean bring California back. The 121 00:08:43.360 --> 00:08:45.679 state is so screwed up on so many fronts in 122 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:49.240 so many different ways. Even a good governor couldn't change 123 00:08:49.279 --> 00:08:54.639 everything overnight. Not when Democrats control literally three quarters of 124 00:08:54.679 --> 00:08:58.720 the state legislature. I'm not exaggerating, three quarters of the 125 00:08:58.720 --> 00:09:02.720 state Legislature, of the eighty seats in the California State Assembly, 126 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:07.279 thirty of the forty seats in the state Senate, in fact, 127 00:09:07.320 --> 00:09:10.279 in fact, I think it's slightly more than those numbers. 128 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:15.679 One governor's not going to change everything now when they 129 00:09:15.720 --> 00:09:17.679 have six of the seven seats on the California State 130 00:09:17.720 --> 00:09:20.200 Supreme Court. Not when they have all of these appointees 131 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:23.960 all over the place on entities like the California Air 132 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:27.720 Resources Board. That thing wields unbelievable power. I don't think 133 00:09:27.759 --> 00:09:30.480 you can replace everybody overnight. I don't think a new 134 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:39.360 governor can replace everybody overnight. But boy, if there's any 135 00:09:39.480 --> 00:09:45.799 one thing that could be a catalyst to change people's minds, 136 00:09:45.840 --> 00:09:54.399 because it has to involve individual people's minds changing people 137 00:09:54.519 --> 00:09:57.000 changing their minds on their owns. Why I started by 138 00:09:57.000 --> 00:09:59.399 talking about the pride that people have in their politics. 139 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:03.679 People don't change their politics. People are stubborn as heck 140 00:10:03.679 --> 00:10:07.399 about them. They're prideful about them that they're they dig in. 141 00:10:09.080 --> 00:10:11.960 My pastor and I was we were talking about this, 142 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:17.240 how even we notice sometimes among certain Catholics that they're 143 00:10:17.279 --> 00:10:20.519 more there, even Catholics who are like pro life, but 144 00:10:20.679 --> 00:10:24.840 in certain cases that it's almost like they're more tied 145 00:10:24.879 --> 00:10:28.759 to the Republican Party to being anti woke than they 146 00:10:28.759 --> 00:10:31.559 aren't necessarily to being Catholic people. People are so dug 147 00:10:31.559 --> 00:10:38.799 into their politics, but if there's anything that could really 148 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:46.360 change your mind, it's your house burning down, or your 149 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:50.840 dear friend's house burning down, your brother in law's house 150 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.879 burning down, and your sister and your nieces and nephews 151 00:10:55.480 --> 00:10:57.720 scrambling and needing a home, needing to stay with you 152 00:10:57.840 --> 00:11:07.240 for a month. It's seeing that some reservoir it had 153 00:11:07.279 --> 00:11:09.840 to be covered and then they had to drain a 154 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:14.480 reservoir and they never refilled the reservoir because of environmental loans. 155 00:11:14.879 --> 00:11:19.000 It's seeing a mayor who's clearly incompetent, who said that 156 00:11:19.039 --> 00:11:21.720 she wasn't going to be traveling doing foreign travel to Africa, 157 00:11:21.720 --> 00:11:24.039 and then of course was doing foreign travel to Africa. 158 00:11:24.639 --> 00:11:27.679 It's a mayor who's you know a bunch of liberals 159 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:30.120 who are screaming and yelling, well, we can't be pointing 160 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:32.200 the fingers right now. Meanwhile, the mayor is firing the 161 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:35.159 fire chief because the fire chief said, hey, we don't 162 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:40.960 have water. The fire chief whose main priority the fired 163 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.240 fire chief, by the way, who said one of her 164 00:11:43.240 --> 00:11:46.639 main priorities was making sure that DEI is enforced within 165 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:49.440 the fire department. You know, the fire department that's putting 166 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:53.519 forward female officers to say, well, people, when they get 167 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:57.200 firefighters coming for emergency response, they want someone who looks 168 00:11:57.240 --> 00:11:59.679 like them. If you're a if I can't lift your husband, 169 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:08.679 then well sorry. And what can the Democrats say? I mean, 170 00:12:08.840 --> 00:12:14.679 what possible excuse can the Democrats give for this situation 171 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:26.279 when insurance companies were telling people, we can't ensure these houses. 172 00:12:26.679 --> 00:12:30.720 The fire risk here is too extreme, it's too deadly. 173 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:34.320 Certain kinds of forests managed certain kinds of ways by 174 00:12:34.320 --> 00:12:37.159 certain kinds of entities, like so Southern California, Edison that 175 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.559 did thinning, that did all kinds of fire breaks, all 176 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:45.200 kinds of stuff. Those are fine. But the constant push 177 00:12:45.279 --> 00:12:48.320 from the environmental left, the Sierra Club left, that which 178 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:51.960 was basically of push that Gavin Newsom has to listen to. 179 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:55.759 He has to give some credence to was never cut 180 00:12:55.840 --> 00:13:01.240 anything down, don't ever cut anything down, don't the forest floors, 181 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:06.039 don't do anything, don't drive a truck into a forest. Ever. 182 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:10.279 That's their forestrym management strategy for much of the left, 183 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:14.759 and for the activist left, that's their forest stream management strategy. 184 00:13:14.759 --> 00:13:17.960 And the political left has to placate that movement somewhat. 185 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:20.200 They didn't do everything they wanted, but they had to 186 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:26.360 listen to him somewhat. There's a strain of folks on 187 00:13:26.399 --> 00:13:28.200 the left who are sort of trying to be like, 188 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:32.720 now is not the time for pointing fingers, and they're 189 00:13:32.759 --> 00:13:36.600 immediately looking for someone to point fingers at Gavin. You know, 190 00:13:37.279 --> 00:13:39.720 Gavin Newsom doesn't want to hear anyone pointing a finger 191 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:42.440 at him, but he's writing, Left, we need to get 192 00:13:42.440 --> 00:13:46.240 to the bottom of who's responsible for this. You You've been 193 00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:50.360 the governor for six years. You've had Democratic supermajorities in 194 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:55.919 the state legislature your whole time in office. You appointed 195 00:13:55.919 --> 00:14:00.399 people to the California Air Resources Board. You it's you 196 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:05.679 and the Democrats had full control of everything for the 197 00:14:05.720 --> 00:14:11.399 eight years prior to you. Okay, don't point fingers. One 198 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:17.200 party has been completely in charge of everything in La 199 00:14:17.320 --> 00:14:21.200 City government, La County government, California state government for at 200 00:14:21.320 --> 00:14:33.039 least fourteen years. It's all them. And this gets me 201 00:14:33.120 --> 00:14:38.200 back to the individual John Q. Voter. Is this the 202 00:14:38.279 --> 00:14:44.559 moment where John Q. Voter looks around at his house 203 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.200 that burned down, His house that had a Kamala Harris 204 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:49.759 yard sign in it, that had a Gavenue sign Newsom 205 00:14:49.879 --> 00:14:52.679 sign in it two years prior, that had a Joe 206 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:55.320 Biden sign in it, two years prior, that had another 207 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:57.559 Gaven Newsom sign in it, that had a no on 208 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:01.039 Gaven Neuwso recall sign in it. Does he look at 209 00:15:01.039 --> 00:15:04.879 his yard that's now burned down and say, I don't 210 00:15:04.879 --> 00:15:08.240 think I'm voting for these people again. There is going 211 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:11.320 to be more than zero people like that. I'll guarantee that. 212 00:15:14.320 --> 00:15:22.799 I'll guarantee the numbers more than zero. Where this colossal 213 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:32.720 failure of providing this one basic service firefighting forestream management, 214 00:15:35.720 --> 00:15:41.240 which leads me to my next question, what problem did 215 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:46.759 Gavin Newsom encounter that he has actually made better? Next 216 00:15:46.799 --> 00:15:51.960 on the John Girardi Show, what were the problems California 217 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:56.320 was experiencing when Gavin Newsom became the governor in January 218 00:15:56.360 --> 00:16:01.720 of twenty nineteen, and what are the problems we are 219 00:16:01.759 --> 00:16:11.519 experiencing today? Six years on? Homelessness was starting to be 220 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:17.399 a pretty bad problem. It's worse by every metric, it's worse, 221 00:16:18.639 --> 00:16:24.559 more homeless people, and we have spent tens of billions 222 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:33.600 of dollars on it, and it's not better. Housing availability 223 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:38.519 was a problem in twenty nineteen. Housing was too expensive. 224 00:16:38.639 --> 00:16:42.960 It was too expensive to build. It was too expensive 225 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:46.759 for builders to build anything other than In many markets, 226 00:16:46.840 --> 00:16:49.279 much of the time, too expensive to build anything other 227 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:56.559 than high end housing or California registered trademark low income 228 00:16:56.600 --> 00:17:01.799 housing and low income housing often lost exorbitantly high prices 229 00:17:01.799 --> 00:17:07.759 to build and could only be built because of government subsidies. 230 00:17:07.960 --> 00:17:10.200 This unsustainable model where the only way to build it 231 00:17:10.279 --> 00:17:17.440 is through government subsidy. Newsom came in in twenty nineteen 232 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.079 talking about how we need to have more homes, we 233 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.720 need to have more housing construction, we need more, we 234 00:17:22.759 --> 00:17:28.960 need Have we improved, No, there's been no improvement. The 235 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:35.240 Dallas metro area of Texas builds more homes annually than 236 00:17:35.319 --> 00:17:40.480 all of California, all of the key constraints that limit 237 00:17:40.519 --> 00:17:45.319 our ability to build and sequa worst of all, they're 238 00:17:45.359 --> 00:17:49.279 still there. We have a huge shutdown of all kinds 239 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.039 of building construction projects here in Fresno because of one 240 00:17:52.119 --> 00:17:57.119 stupid sequel lawsuit against the city. One stupid sequel lawsuit 241 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:03.519 that brought in the city's entire environmental and development plan 242 00:18:03.880 --> 00:18:08.039 that all these different businesses were relying on to help 243 00:18:08.079 --> 00:18:12.279 them build, including building new housing. All of it shut 244 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:17.240 down because one left wing nonprofit filed One left wing 245 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:20.839 nonprofit filed a lawsuit that was it. That's how sequel works, 246 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:27.599 the California Environmental Quality Act. We have really high taxes. 247 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:31.599 We still have really high taxes. We had budgetary problems. 248 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:39.000 We still have budgetary problems. We have some of the 249 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:41.920 highest unemployment in the country. We have the highest gas 250 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.640 prices in the country. We have really high energy costs. 251 00:18:46.160 --> 00:18:48.400 All by the way, in the gas and energy costs, 252 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:53.880 everyone knows why. We know why. Because California has much 253 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.920 higher emission standards than everywhere else in the country. We 254 00:18:57.000 --> 00:19:03.519 have to set up separate refinery systems just for our gasoline. 255 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:07.039 Because we have our specific blend of California gas. So 256 00:19:07.079 --> 00:19:09.799 we're a gas island. You know, the same gas that 257 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:13.480 they sell in Nevada or Arizona wherever, they can't sell 258 00:19:13.519 --> 00:19:20.319 it in California because California has special regulations. And what 259 00:19:20.359 --> 00:19:23.000 does Gavin Newsom try to argue, Well, he's arguing that 260 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:25.839 the gas companies are greedy and are price gouging. That's 261 00:19:25.839 --> 00:19:27.960 why the prices are high. He knows that's not why 262 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:32.079 the prices are high. Everyone understands why energy costs in 263 00:19:32.119 --> 00:19:35.519 California are expensive. Oh, we're trying to get rid of 264 00:19:35.720 --> 00:19:39.559 natural gat We're moving to a situation where we're going 265 00:19:39.640 --> 00:19:44.599 to have no nothing but green energy production in this state, 266 00:19:47.680 --> 00:19:51.759 but no nuclear. We constantly want to shut down the 267 00:19:51.880 --> 00:19:56.319 L Diablo nuclear plant until we realize that we're not 268 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:00.440 going to have any any power without it. We don't 269 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:02.480 want any nuclear in spite of the fact that it's 270 00:20:02.640 --> 00:20:10.160 zero emissions in the atmosphere. You know, the only thing 271 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:12.240 you can say about nuclear about nuclears, what are you 272 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:14.200 going to do with nuclear waste? Which I would respond, 273 00:20:14.240 --> 00:20:15.799 what are you going to do with the batteries that 274 00:20:15.839 --> 00:20:18.400 are done from your solar panels? What do you do 275 00:20:18.440 --> 00:20:22.319 with the batteries you can't recycle them, what do you 276 00:20:22.359 --> 00:20:27.599 do with the batteries? So Newsom's grand plan is to 277 00:20:27.599 --> 00:20:30.839 build a whole solar power industry that does not exist 278 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:35.119 in this state, a whole offshore solar power production infrastructure 279 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:41.160 that does not exist anyway anyway, Needless to say, another 280 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:46.319 problem that hasn't been solved and completely bat bleep unrealistic 281 00:20:46.400 --> 00:20:55.799 goals that we know we're never going to achieve. There 282 00:20:55.799 --> 00:20:59.799 are a lot of people in California who are able 283 00:20:59.880 --> 00:21:04.000 to who live complacently ignore the fact that Gavin Newsom 284 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:06.839 hasn't made any of those things better, and still line 285 00:21:06.920 --> 00:21:11.400 up and vote for Democrats. That's what people did this 286 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:15.720 year in California, although Republicans did better than they normally do, 287 00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:23.480 at least in the presidential election. Certainly there are people 288 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:26.079 who are able to be complacent about all these problems 289 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:28.599 that never get better and never resolve themselves, and they 290 00:21:28.599 --> 00:21:31.200 still vote Democrat because housing costs their high but they 291 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:34.079 already own their home, doesn't impact them. Homelessness is a 292 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:36.079 big problem, but maybe not in their neighborhood. It's not 293 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:37.839 that big of a deal. It's only when they go 294 00:21:37.920 --> 00:21:44.440 to the downtown part of the city. Yeah, whatever energy 295 00:21:44.480 --> 00:21:46.400 costs or high Yeah, I already made my money. I'll 296 00:21:46.440 --> 00:21:49.880 be all right. I sort of calculated that into my budget. 297 00:21:50.759 --> 00:21:53.440 It's just an annoying nuisance. You just don't make the 298 00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:55.319 connection that the government has anything to do with it, 299 00:21:55.359 --> 00:21:57.200 that the people you elect have anything to do with it. 300 00:22:01.000 --> 00:22:06.359 At some point though, you know, as I said, there 301 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:11.759 was certainly at least one house burnt down in this fire, 302 00:22:11.839 --> 00:22:14.920 in these fires, maybe in the Palisades fire, at least 303 00:22:14.960 --> 00:22:18.599 one house burned down that had a Kamala Harris for 304 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:20.599 President's sign in it, that had had before that a 305 00:22:20.640 --> 00:22:22.799 Gavenusom for Governor's sign in it, that before that had 306 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:24.799 a Joe Biden for President sign in it, that before 307 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:27.000 that had had another Gavenuissem sign in it, that before 308 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:29.039 that had had a No on the Gaven Newsom recall 309 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:31.319 sign in it, and before that had had a Hillary 310 00:22:31.319 --> 00:22:34.759 Clinton sign in it. Certainly a house with those yard 311 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:37.839 signs burned down, and the owner has got to be 312 00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:43.440 standing there and thinking to him or herself, did these 313 00:22:43.599 --> 00:22:48.240 people fail me? Did this governor fail me? Did this 314 00:22:48.359 --> 00:22:53.960 political party fail me? This political party that led me 315 00:22:54.039 --> 00:22:59.400 to support Democrat politicians in the city of La, County 316 00:22:59.400 --> 00:23:06.720 of La, and statewide throughout California. Maybe I think differently 317 00:23:06.960 --> 00:23:12.400 next time I pull that lever. Maybe I think, if 318 00:23:12.440 --> 00:23:15.759 anything could be a catalyst for change, maybe this is it. 319 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:22.920 When we return the convenient excuse of climate change. Next 320 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:27.400 on the John Girardi Show, What were the causes of 321 00:23:27.440 --> 00:23:34.160 the Roman Civil War that pitted Julius Caesar against Pompey. Well, 322 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:38.200 the cause one could on one level, one could say 323 00:23:38.200 --> 00:23:43.640 the cause was Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon River, violating 324 00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:48.119 the office given to him. He crossed the Rubicon River 325 00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:51.640 at the head of an army that violated Roman law. 326 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:55.000 Roman law said, nope, if you're a commander, if you're 327 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:59.240 a proconsul with military command in this region, if you 328 00:23:59.400 --> 00:24:01.440 leave that regent at the head of your army, you've 329 00:24:01.480 --> 00:24:04.440 broken the law. You're marching on Rome with an army 330 00:24:04.480 --> 00:24:07.440 behind you. You violated the law. You've started a rebellion. 331 00:24:09.400 --> 00:24:13.839 That was the immediate cause of that civil war. But 332 00:24:13.920 --> 00:24:20.039 what was the real cause. The real causes were the 333 00:24:20.119 --> 00:24:27.720 dysfunction of the Roman Republic, the changing of how Roman 334 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:33.839 militaries viewed their allegiances, Roman legions or individual units of 335 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:37.480 the Roman military viewed their allegiance changes that had been 336 00:24:37.519 --> 00:24:40.640 introduced in the prior generation, as far as the ability 337 00:24:40.680 --> 00:24:45.559 of extremely wealthy men who got appointed to different proconsular 338 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:49.880 positions to help directly fund and pay for soldiers and 339 00:24:49.960 --> 00:24:54.880 their equipment and their pay themselves, which resulted in soldiers 340 00:24:54.920 --> 00:24:57.160 having more of an allegiance to their generals than they 341 00:24:57.160 --> 00:25:02.599 did to the Roman state. So if Julius Caesar, your 342 00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:06.440 guy that you've campaigned with, who's put bread on your table, 343 00:25:06.960 --> 00:25:09.519 says hey, boys, we're crossing the rubicon here, we're going 344 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:13.480 to go. We're going to go take Rome. Hell. Yeah. 345 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:16.039 And a lot of dysfunction within the Roman state of 346 00:25:16.880 --> 00:25:20.759 senators not wanting any one individual man to take credit 347 00:25:21.039 --> 00:25:25.680 for good things, petty jealousies towards Julius Caesar, a culture 348 00:25:25.839 --> 00:25:32.079 of law fair basically prosecuting people. Basically the way the 349 00:25:32.160 --> 00:25:35.680 Roman legal system worked, you could have private people could 350 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:40.400 prosecute you for capital crimes, for criminal crimes. It wasn't 351 00:25:40.400 --> 00:25:43.160 the state that prosecuted for crimes. An individual would bring 352 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:46.240 a charge against you. And Julius Caesar knew if he 353 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:48.200 came back to Rome, not at the head of his 354 00:25:48.319 --> 00:25:51.880 army with his weapons put down just coming back as 355 00:25:51.880 --> 00:25:55.680 a citizen, he'd immediately be subject to lawsuits for decisions 356 00:25:55.680 --> 00:25:59.519 he made when he was consul in about a decade prior. 357 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:08.119 And basically the Roman Republican system was flood. That was 358 00:26:08.160 --> 00:26:15.079 the actual cause of the Roman Civil War. I feel 359 00:26:15.119 --> 00:26:24.480 like blaming the fires on quote climate change is a 360 00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:29.720 way of sort of it's an amazing way to sort 361 00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:34.200 of disclaim any responsibility and just to vaguely put it 362 00:26:35.599 --> 00:26:44.119 the responsibility for the fires on the shoulders of vague, faceless, nameless, shapeless, 363 00:26:44.200 --> 00:26:51.440 anonymous conservatives in California who somehow apparently are stopping us 364 00:26:51.440 --> 00:26:57.359 from achieving the environmental utopia that we all really desperately want. 365 00:26:57.680 --> 00:27:03.079 If only Yeah, if it weren't for climate change, if 366 00:27:03.119 --> 00:27:06.039 it weren't for climate change, these firefires, these forest fires, 367 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:09.319 wouldn't have happened. These forest fires are happening because of 368 00:27:09.359 --> 00:27:15.960 climate change. Climate change. Also, the term is so vague 369 00:27:17.920 --> 00:27:21.559 climate change. It doesn't even mean hotter temperatures, because lest 370 00:27:21.640 --> 00:27:24.559 you all forget, this is happening in January, it's not 371 00:27:24.599 --> 00:27:29.680 because it's hot. Well, climate change happened, which led to 372 00:27:29.880 --> 00:27:35.240 less rain, led to a dry rain year. I mean, 373 00:27:35.279 --> 00:27:40.960 I thought, so is it less rain happens. Now, this 374 00:27:41.039 --> 00:27:43.240 is the fun thing about climate change is that any 375 00:27:43.359 --> 00:27:45.720 bad thing that happens you can blame on climate change. 376 00:27:46.039 --> 00:27:48.880 If you have more hurricanes and too much rain, whoa 377 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:52.400 climate change? If you have a dry year, not enough rain, Hey, 378 00:27:52.519 --> 00:28:00.359 climate change. The climate's always changing. And it's sort of 379 00:28:00.440 --> 00:28:03.960 a way for Democrats who have run this state completely, 380 00:28:04.039 --> 00:28:07.599 no holds barred, for fourteen years, and who've run Los 381 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:11.799 Angeles for longer than that. It's this great way for 382 00:28:11.920 --> 00:28:18.759 liberals to disclaim any individual responsibility, for any one politician 383 00:28:18.839 --> 00:28:23.440 to disclaim responsibility, any one political party to disclaim responsibility. 384 00:28:23.519 --> 00:28:27.119 It's climate change. And you know who is pro climate change? 385 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:35.720 Or conservatives? Conservatives who have last I checked, not run 386 00:28:35.880 --> 00:28:46.480 anything in California since Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor. And this 387 00:28:46.559 --> 00:28:49.599 is the infuriating thing with people. A little climate change, 388 00:28:49.799 --> 00:28:52.160 You know, you have to look at climate change. Well, 389 00:28:53.480 --> 00:28:58.160 if climate change is so bad that it leaves us 390 00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:02.559 vulnerable to forest fires like this, yes, let's just take 391 00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:05.559 that for the sake of argument. There's some evidence that 392 00:29:06.039 --> 00:29:09.359 average temperatures have crept up one or two degrees, you know, 393 00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:12.279 two degrees or so over the last one hundred years. 394 00:29:14.039 --> 00:29:19.519 Let's just take that as a given. Doesn't that put 395 00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:28.119 even more of an onus on responsible environmentalists people concern 396 00:29:28.200 --> 00:29:33.559 with the environment, given that climate change is here and 397 00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:36.960 that I don't know that climate change gets resolved by 398 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:40.319 just California doing stuff. I mean, there's federal policy that 399 00:29:40.359 --> 00:29:45.400 the state of California can control. There's international business and 400 00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:49.519 policies that California simply cannot control. We have no ability 401 00:29:49.559 --> 00:29:52.000