WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:01.919 Democrats are in a bit of a pickle right now, 2 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:06.679 because a lot of them still think we're living in 3 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:11.000 twenty twenty one and it's twenty twenty five. A lot 4 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:18.800 of them still think, believe very sincerely that the kinds 5 00:00:18.839 --> 00:00:23.719 of woke canceling, as much as I hate just mindlessly 6 00:00:24.079 --> 00:00:28.839 restating those terms, that the sort of woke canceling priorities 7 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:32.479 that we're at there really at their zenith in twenty 8 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:38.719 twenty one, that everyone believes in them, That the election 9 00:00:38.799 --> 00:00:41.240 of Joe Biden in twenty twenty signal that the American 10 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:44.200 people had really embraced us, that they had won, and 11 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:46.920 that they had won, just like the way they won 12 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:49.560 on gay marriage, they won on a bunch of other things. 13 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:54.320 They won on the trans issue, they won on you know, 14 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:57.600 defunding the police. They they have won, and they were 15 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.119 able to sort of do their liberal thing where they 16 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:06.239 declare victory by means of changing the language of things, artificially, 17 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:09.319 getting the expert class to anoint a certain range of 18 00:01:09.359 --> 00:01:14.239 worldviews as true and correct, and thereby allowing the media 19 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:17.439 to write about those things as if those things were 20 00:01:17.480 --> 00:01:22.040 default true. All right, That's how they went about gay marriage. 21 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:27.400 They won on the gay marriage fight by you know 22 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:31.200 that basically, the force of media, the force of ten 23 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:35.239 years of Modern Family being on ABC resulted in the 24 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:38.159 American people sort of shifting their views and saying we're 25 00:01:38.200 --> 00:01:42.760 all okay with gay marriage, and then the media starts 26 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:44.920 to write about it as if it's normal. Well, it's 27 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:47.719 passed by the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court says gay 28 00:01:47.760 --> 00:01:51.920 marriages is legal sea to shining sea. So therefore we 29 00:01:51.959 --> 00:01:54.120 just talk about marriage as if it's normal, and we 30 00:01:54.159 --> 00:01:57.519 declare victory. And they thought they could do the same 31 00:01:57.560 --> 00:01:59.640 thing with transgenderism. They thought they could do the same 32 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.640 thing with biological boys playing women's sports, with biological men 33 00:02:02.680 --> 00:02:05.120 being in women's prisons. With well, they don't want to 34 00:02:05.120 --> 00:02:09.280 talk about biological men and women's prisons very much because 35 00:02:09.280 --> 00:02:14.039 that's where the rubber meets the road of the insanity 36 00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:21.039 of their ideology. When actual biological women get raped by 37 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:26.479 male cellmates. They don't want to talk about that anyway. 38 00:02:26.520 --> 00:02:28.840 But they thought that they could sort of declare victory. 39 00:02:29.639 --> 00:02:33.560 And the twenty twenty four election, they thought even maybe 40 00:02:33.599 --> 00:02:36.479 they could get around to the defund the police movement. 41 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:41.479 And the twenty twenty four election was a resounding reminder 42 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:48.560 to them that Nope, not so when the most effective 43 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:55.240 messaging Trump had, some of the most effective messaging Trump 44 00:02:55.319 --> 00:03:01.240 had was his messaging about hell for for you, she's 45 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:07.520 for they them, you know, talking about transgender surgeries for inmates, 46 00:03:07.960 --> 00:03:15.680 blah blah blah blah blah. And we've shift. We've shifted 47 00:03:18.159 --> 00:03:21.080 as far as the national conversation. There is a shift 48 00:03:21.120 --> 00:03:26.120 where a lot of these sort of intersectional ideologies about race, 49 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:32.319 about sex, about transgenderism, we've now realized that at the 50 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:38.840 very least these are hotly disputed topics, if not ideologies. 51 00:03:38.919 --> 00:03:42.800 The left's ideologies on these topics are being outright rejected. 52 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:46.159 So we went from in twenty twenty one thinking this 53 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:49.400 was just the new culturally accepted norm that everyone was 54 00:03:49.439 --> 00:03:51.879 gonna embrace, just the same way that everyone embraced game 55 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:56.280 marriage eventually, to today in twenty twenty five. Nope, a 56 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.639 lot of people reject this stuff. They reject the defund 57 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:02.240 the police. The defund the police movement is pretty much 58 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:10.960 totally dead. Left wing criminal law enforcement basically, well, the 59 00:04:11.560 --> 00:04:14.479 common thread I feel like I'm rambling a little bit, 60 00:04:14.479 --> 00:04:19.800 but I think the common thread that has lost is 61 00:04:20.959 --> 00:04:28.000 the DEI principles, the idea of equity as our governing 62 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:36.920 moral compass. The idea of equity is that if outcomes 63 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:40.199 don't match the share of the population as a whole, 64 00:04:42.199 --> 00:04:46.000 then there must be racism, sexism, homophobia, et cetera in 65 00:04:46.040 --> 00:04:49.680 the system, and therefore we need to change the system. 66 00:04:51.399 --> 00:04:54.199 That was the root of defund the police, that was 67 00:04:54.240 --> 00:04:57.959 the root of the criminal approach to left wing law enforcement. 68 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:05.920 It underlies a lot of stuff with pro transgenderism, where 69 00:05:06.279 --> 00:05:12.240 well the assumption that, like, they look at transgenderism and 70 00:05:12.279 --> 00:05:14.439 they look at the explosion in the number of kids 71 00:05:14.480 --> 00:05:18.399 identifying as transgender, and their conclusion is not, oh, well, 72 00:05:18.399 --> 00:05:22.759 this must be social contagion. The reason why this huge 73 00:05:22.839 --> 00:05:25.120 number of people are identifying as trans now all of 74 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:29.000 a sudden is obviously social contagent. The idea has gone 75 00:05:29.000 --> 00:05:31.360 out and now a bunch of teenagers have convinced themselves 76 00:05:31.360 --> 00:05:34.720 somehow that they're transgender. No, their interpretation of it was, 77 00:05:35.279 --> 00:05:37.879 we had millions of trans people for years and they 78 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:42.639 were all closeted because of evil anti trans stereotyping within 79 00:05:42.680 --> 00:05:47.360 American culture. That's the conclusion they get to. So a 80 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:53.040 lot of this DEI stuff fundamentally is grounding them. So 81 00:05:53.839 --> 00:06:00.560 they are losing that fight on a nationwide scale. But 82 00:06:03.519 --> 00:06:08.040 on the coasts, in the halls of power in state governments, 83 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:16.199 on the coasts California, the Northeast, they're still living like 84 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:19.759 it's twenty twenty one. They don't. They have not had 85 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:22.920 the kind of crushing electoral losses that the Democrats had 86 00:06:23.199 --> 00:06:27.079 in the twenty twenty election. Democrats are doing just fine. 87 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:31.120 In Sacramento. Democrats still have three quarters of all the seats, 88 00:06:33.720 --> 00:06:38.000 so from their perspective, they're still living in twenty twenty one. 89 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:41.160 They still think the principles and ideologies of twenty twenty 90 00:06:41.199 --> 00:06:43.959 one are very much there. And this is applied to 91 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:49.720 the controversy du jour in the state capitol over Shannon 92 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:56.920 Grove's efforts to classify sex trafficking of sixteen and seventeen 93 00:06:57.000 --> 00:07:05.839 year olds specifically as a felony. And the Democrats are 94 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:11.160 finding themselves because they have to remain true to their 95 00:07:11.720 --> 00:07:17.079 dei criminal law enforcement positions, they don't want to do it. 96 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:21.519 Why why don't they want to do it? For two reasons. 97 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:28.680 One is, in general, Democrats in the California state legislature 98 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:31.639 have for years just taken the posture of we're not 99 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:37.199 increasing any criminal punishments for anything. We're going to decrease 100 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:40.040 some criminal punishments. The ratchet only goes one way. We're 101 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:48.480 not increasing criminal punishments. Sorry, not doing it. Why, Well, 102 00:07:49.959 --> 00:07:53.439 it's an equity thing. It's a dei equity thing, a 103 00:07:53.560 --> 00:08:00.199 racial equity thing for most kinds of criminal law, all 104 00:08:00.680 --> 00:08:05.680 provisions punishments for criminal law. They will look at the 105 00:08:05.720 --> 00:08:12.920 stats of who gets arrested, charged, convicted, imprisoned, and they 106 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:20.920 will find that some minority group gets arrested, charged, convicted, 107 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:26.079 imprisoned for it at a disproportionate rate, often African Americans, 108 00:08:27.199 --> 00:08:30.879 but as we'll discuss, sometimes other groups like gay people, 109 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:38.279 and because of that disproportionality, they assume that it's because 110 00:08:38.320 --> 00:08:42.519 of racism that actually it's not. They assume it's pretty 111 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:48.919 much a dogma that I don't know, has a ton 112 00:08:48.919 --> 00:08:51.799 of evidence behind it. They take it up, they take 113 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:56.120 it kind of on faith. They dogmatically believe that it 114 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:04.120 must be because of racism. So they take this sort 115 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:10.120 of default approach of Nope, no increase in criminal justice 116 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:19.000 punishments whatsoever. Now, the specifics the specifics of this, it's 117 00:09:19.080 --> 00:09:22.759 dei in general, but some of the specifics of this 118 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:28.960 sixteens and seventeen year old thing goes to the LGBT cause. 119 00:09:29.559 --> 00:09:35.000 All right, and now we bring in the worst politician 120 00:09:35.039 --> 00:09:41.360 in America. It's not Kamala Harris. The worst elected official, 121 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:43.720 I should say in America. It's not Kamala Harris, it's 122 00:09:43.759 --> 00:09:47.519 not AOC, it's not anyone the man that I would 123 00:09:47.559 --> 00:09:52.840 almost I would practically campaign for a Democrat to stop him, 124 00:09:53.600 --> 00:09:56.440 Like there are rumors that he and Christine Pelosi are 125 00:09:56.480 --> 00:09:59.879 going to pursue Nancy Pelosi's seat in Congress when she retires. 126 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:04.679 I would practically campaign for Christine Pelosi over him. And 127 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:10.559 that is California State Senator Scott Wiener. Scott Wiener, openly 128 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:13.679 gay man who marches in gay pride parades as a 129 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:20.000 sitting California state senator wearing leather bondage gear. Scott Wiener, who, 130 00:10:21.919 --> 00:10:25.919 in seeing certain provisions of California law that would basically 131 00:10:26.159 --> 00:10:31.159 punish gay men for child abuse but not heterosexual men, 132 00:10:31.320 --> 00:10:33.879 proposes to solve the problem by not punishing gay men 133 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:36.879 for child abuse and certain or lessening punishments for gay 134 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:42.120 men for child abuse. Scott Wiener, who consistently supports some 135 00:10:42.159 --> 00:10:53.000 of the most depraved things humanly imaginable. Scott Wiener in 136 00:10:53.080 --> 00:11:00.559 the California State Senate is getting angry at Shannon Groves 137 00:11:00.639 --> 00:11:07.840 bill for categorizing sixteen and seventeen year olds as basically 138 00:11:09.120 --> 00:11:13.159 for increasing penalties on people who buy sixteen and seventeen 139 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:16.000 year olds for sex. So he's got this tweet or 140 00:11:16.080 --> 00:11:18.679 this is something you posted on blue Sky, which, for 141 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:21.360 those who don't know, Blue Sky is like liberals who 142 00:11:21.399 --> 00:11:26.879 are so mad at Elon Musk owning Twitter that they 143 00:11:26.919 --> 00:11:30.440 created a new social media platform that's basically the exact 144 00:11:30.480 --> 00:11:32.240 same thing as Twitter, only it's just not owned by 145 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:36.080 Elon Musk. So it becomes this insane liberal echo chamber, 146 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:41.919 as opposed to x Today, which is actually fairly evenly 147 00:11:41.960 --> 00:11:46.559 split between conservatives and liberals. Blue Sky is just one 148 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.960 hundred percent of liberals anyway, he posts on his blue 149 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:53.840 Sky account sending an eighteen year old high school senior 150 00:11:53.879 --> 00:11:57.639 to state prison for offering his seventeen year old classmate 151 00:11:57.720 --> 00:12:03.200 twenty dollars to fool around. Isn't smart criminal justice policy, 152 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:07.279 yet that's what some people are effectively advocating in this 153 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:15.200 misleading debate. You know what's a little prostitution among friends. 154 00:12:15.279 --> 00:12:20.759 You know how high schoolers are. The kinds of things 155 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:24.799 that Scott Wiener keeps revealing that he doesn't think are 156 00:12:24.840 --> 00:12:30.919 a big deal are astounding. Here's another clip from the 157 00:12:30.960 --> 00:12:39.159 Illustrious Senator. This is Scott Wiener discussing Shannon Groves bill 158 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:43.159 talking discussing, well, I think this might be a different bill. 159 00:12:43.519 --> 00:12:47.080 He's discussing the Sex Offender Registry and how it quote 160 00:12:47.200 --> 00:12:52.000 unfairly targets the LGBTQ community. 161 00:12:52.960 --> 00:12:56.559 You know that the sex Offender Registry contains a massive 162 00:12:56.919 --> 00:13:01.399 array of crimes including don't know, having sex in a 163 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.879 car or in a park that gets you in the 164 00:13:03.879 --> 00:13:08.679 sex offender Registry. We also know that LGBTQ people have 165 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:13.919 been massively and disproportionately targeted and subjected into being slammed 166 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:17.000 onto the sex offender Registry. That's the whole history of 167 00:13:17.039 --> 00:13:20.799 the Sex Offender Registry. So this aspect of the bill 168 00:13:20.879 --> 00:13:25.679 is incredibly overbroad and discriminatory. 169 00:13:26.360 --> 00:13:29.039 So there's a lot packed into that. That was only 170 00:13:29.039 --> 00:13:33.000 a thirty one second clip. There's a lot packed in. First, 171 00:13:34.279 --> 00:13:36.639 he's trying to make the point that this that the 172 00:13:36.799 --> 00:13:40.320 kinds of crimes that place someone on the sex offender 173 00:13:40.840 --> 00:13:45.000 on the sex offender registry is too broad, so he 174 00:13:45.080 --> 00:13:48.240 tries to give an example of things that he thinks 175 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:53.240 aren't really that big of a deal. Having sex in 176 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:56.279 a car, well, that would presumably be in some kind 177 00:13:56.279 --> 00:14:00.639 of public place. Having sex in a park, I don't know. 178 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:05.879 Call me crazy when I go to a park. You 179 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:07.879 know what I am gonna do. If I see two 180 00:14:07.919 --> 00:14:12.399 people having intercourse in a public park, I'm gonna call 181 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:19.559 the cops. And frankly, I think I'm okay. If people 182 00:14:19.559 --> 00:14:22.960 having sex in a park, you know, get on a 183 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:25.879 sex offender registry. You're in a public place. So what 184 00:14:25.879 --> 00:14:35.200 the heck are we doing? Like literally they're so it's 185 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.159 not a great kids seed. But there was this Will 186 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:41.480 Ferrell movie called The Other Guys where one of the 187 00:14:41.559 --> 00:14:45.000 he has this Toyota Prius. It's Will Ferrell and Mark 188 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:48.360 Wahlberg who are buddy cops, and it's a really funny 189 00:14:48.399 --> 00:14:51.679 movie and one of the running jokes is how not 190 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:54.440 very manly Will Ferrell's character is and he has a 191 00:14:54.480 --> 00:14:57.120 red Toyota Prius. That's sort of a running joke throughout 192 00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:59.840 the series. The prius gets stolen and a bunch of 193 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:07.120 homeless guys have group sexual activity in the prius, and 194 00:15:07.559 --> 00:15:10.559 they say, called a soup kitchen. It's winning a bunch 195 00:15:10.600 --> 00:15:16.440 of homeless guys. Pa. Anyway, go look up soup kitchen 196 00:15:16.559 --> 00:15:20.120 the other guys. It's really really fun. Scott Wiener, apparently 197 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:23.480 totally fine with a soup kitchen, doesn't think it should 198 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:26.200 put you on the sex offended registry. Dirty Mike and 199 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:28.799 the boys. That was the guys who were doing that 200 00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:37.320 in the in the Other Guys movie. Anyway. Now, first 201 00:15:37.480 --> 00:15:40.679 he's like, those aren't big deals. Oh, what's a little 202 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:42.759 you know, what's a little sex in a public park? 203 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:46.279 You're gonna say you're a sex offender for that? Hey, 204 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:52.519 come on, boys will be boys. Huh. Hopefully we're not 205 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:57.360 talking about boys. Good God. Anyway. Uh. He then goes 206 00:15:57.440 --> 00:16:01.720 on to talk about the whole idea, well that the 207 00:16:02.279 --> 00:16:06.879 you get slammed onto the sex offender registry, that LGBT 208 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.120 persons have been slammed onto the sex offender registry, that 209 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:17.440 it targets them. Well, all right, nobody gets slammed onto 210 00:16:17.480 --> 00:16:20.200 the sex offender registry. It's not like people are just 211 00:16:20.279 --> 00:16:22.200 walking down the street and all of a sudden, bang, 212 00:16:22.240 --> 00:16:25.240 you're on the sex offender registry. You get on the 213 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:32.720 sex offender registry by being convicted of a criminal sex act, 214 00:16:34.440 --> 00:16:40.039 convicted in a trial as being guilty beyond a reasonable 215 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:43.639 doubt by a jury of your peers, or that you 216 00:16:43.759 --> 00:16:49.000 pled to because clearly they had evidence for a lot more. 217 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:54.279 No one's getting slammed. It's not like someone's walking down 218 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:57.200 the street. You get on the sex offender registry when 219 00:16:57.200 --> 00:17:05.039 you're convicted of a sex crime. Do we really like 220 00:17:05.680 --> 00:17:11.319 this idea? That? And so, of course the dei assumption 221 00:17:13.839 --> 00:17:20.720 the LGBTQ community, when probably it's just gay men are 222 00:17:20.759 --> 00:17:28.680 disproportionately convicted of sex crimes. Ergo, the only possible explanation, 223 00:17:29.240 --> 00:17:33.640 The only possible explanation, says the guy who apparently thinks 224 00:17:33.640 --> 00:17:35.240 having sex in a park is not a big deal 225 00:17:35.799 --> 00:17:38.680 and doesn't merit being on a sex offender registry, is 226 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:44.319 that police prosecutors all up and down the state of 227 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:52.039 California are just a bunch of homophobes. There is, of course, 228 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:56.960 another conclusion to draw, namely, and by the way, I'm 229 00:17:56.960 --> 00:18:01.519 not saying it about all gay people. Maybe, though, there's 230 00:18:01.559 --> 00:18:07.240 another conclusion to draw that if they're being convicted at 231 00:18:07.240 --> 00:18:10.880 a higher rate still today in the enlightened halcyon Days 232 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:13.759 of twenty twenty one, that the California state legislatures still 233 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:21.480 living in that maybe they're getting convicted more because they're 234 00:18:21.519 --> 00:18:27.680 doing it more. I mean, logically speaking, you would have 235 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.440 to acknowledge that those are the two options. It's either 236 00:18:31.559 --> 00:18:36.079 homophobia that they're being persecuted, or they're just doing it more. 237 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:42.480 I don't know. I guess I just don't necessarily think 238 00:18:42.680 --> 00:18:45.680 that in the state of California, with California judges and 239 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:51.839 California lawyers. By the way, you know, you hang out 240 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:54.319 with people in the Fresno County DA's office, it's not 241 00:18:54.480 --> 00:18:57.200 like all a bunch of right wingers, and Presne County's 242 00:18:57.240 --> 00:18:59.519 DA office probably much more conservative than a lot of 243 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:06.440 other counties. I don't think there are all these prosecutors' 244 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:09.640 offices from Seed, from all up and down this Golden 245 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:12.880 State that they're all a bunch of raging homophobes. Just 246 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:15.880 don't believe it. When we return more on State Senator 247 00:19:15.920 --> 00:19:20.240 Scott Wiener that's next on the John Jrwardy Show. The 248 00:19:20.279 --> 00:19:23.720 one person watching this debate in the state legislature between 249 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:27.480 Democrats who apparently don't think we should make it a 250 00:19:27.480 --> 00:19:31.559 felony to purchase sixteen or seventeen year olds for sex 251 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:38.000 and Democrats who are apparently okay with it. Clearly, Gavin 252 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:41.160 Newsom has made it known that no, I am not 253 00:19:41.680 --> 00:19:44.200 okay with sixteen seventeen year olds being pover sex, and 254 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:47.279 I'm not okay with Democrats in the legislature's stone walling it. 255 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:50.880 So Newsom has kind of made it clear he wants 256 00:19:51.839 --> 00:19:56.880 he is tired of the rest of his party's positioning 257 00:19:57.680 --> 00:20:04.240 on law enforcement. Why because Gavin Newsom is like the 258 00:20:04.279 --> 00:20:07.680 only Democrat in California who's actually living in twenty twenty 259 00:20:07.680 --> 00:20:11.119 five and actually responding to the signs of the times. 260 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:15.640 Why Well, because he's the only Democrat right now in 261 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:18.680 California other than Kamala Harris who wants to run for president. 262 00:20:18.680 --> 00:20:22.920 That's why Newsom has his sights on a national prize ergo. 263 00:20:23.039 --> 00:20:27.480 He has to be responsive to these massive nationwide trends 264 00:20:28.640 --> 00:20:30.599 in a way that Scott Wiener doesn't have to. Scott 265 00:20:30.599 --> 00:20:33.480 Wiener his political ambitions are he wants to run for 266 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:36.599 Nancy Pelosi's seat in the House of Representatives, that's what 267 00:20:36.640 --> 00:20:39.319 he wants, or he wants to run for some maybe 268 00:20:39.319 --> 00:20:44.079 California statewide office at some point someday. He doesn't need 269 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:46.759 to moderate, he doesn't need to stop living as if 270 00:20:46.799 --> 00:20:49.680 it's twenty twenty one. He can keep living in twenty 271 00:20:49.720 --> 00:20:52.440 twenty one as long as he wants, because until it's 272 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:54.680 politically painful for Democrats, they're going to keep doing it. 273 00:20:57.839 --> 00:21:03.839 And that's the thing, like the Democrats still, you know, 274 00:21:04.039 --> 00:21:07.839 why is the governor of Maine still stubbornly insisting the 275 00:21:07.839 --> 00:21:10.880 biological men play women's sports and fighting the Trump administration 276 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:12.799 tooth and nail well, Because she's the governor of Maine, 277 00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:17.160 and she kind of feels like well, which is surprising 278 00:21:17.160 --> 00:21:18.799 because Maine is a bit more of a swing state 279 00:21:18.880 --> 00:21:24.279 than most Northeast Blue Democrats stronghold. They've had Republican governors before, 280 00:21:25.319 --> 00:21:29.000 like Paul la Page, not Paula Paige, Paul la Page. 281 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:33.319 But she's just like, well, I'm not I'm almost certainly 282 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:35.720 not going to face a political repercussion. And some of 283 00:21:35.720 --> 00:21:42.000 these people, they're still true believers. And I think for 284 00:21:42.039 --> 00:21:44.319 a lot of Liberals in the Northeast, especially liberals in 285 00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:47.559 d C, they view Trump winning and coming into town, 286 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:50.039 coming into d c and upsetting their whole apple card 287 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:53.359 is like, how dare they well, he rejects all these 288 00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:57.559 principles of equity, Like they view it as this illegitimate 289 00:21:57.559 --> 00:22:01.279 storming of the castle, in part because they don't realize 290 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:04.400 that the country has shifted its views, or you know, 291 00:22:04.880 --> 00:22:07.000 maybe there's this maybe the country didn't really shift its 292 00:22:07.079 --> 00:22:10.480 views much. I think the country was never on board 293 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:14.119 with this trans stuff. Joe Biden got elected in twenty 294 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:17.279 twenty more so I think because people were you know, 295 00:22:17.640 --> 00:22:20.240 Trump had had a lot of stuff piling up, a 296 00:22:20.240 --> 00:22:23.839 lot of media narrative scandals piling up. The economy wasn't 297 00:22:23.839 --> 00:22:25.319 doing well, and we were in the midst of COVID 298 00:22:25.400 --> 00:22:27.839 and so, and they were getting tired of him, and 299 00:22:27.920 --> 00:22:30.680 so they voted for Joe Biden. Then under Joe Biden, 300 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:32.519 they realized the economy stunk and a lot of this 301 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:35.160 woke stuff is silly, so they elect Donald Trump again. 302 00:22:37.079 --> 00:22:41.759 There was never, I think, some great nationwide embrace of 303 00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:46.240 the zenith of woke nonsense that again reached its peak 304 00:22:46.279 --> 00:22:49.559 in twenty twenty one. But a lot of Democrats are 305 00:22:49.599 --> 00:22:54.799 still living there all right. When we return the Rorshach 306 00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:58.559 test of Trump is Trump funny or is he not 307 00:23:00.000 --> 00:23:02.039 so totally depends on kind of how you feel about 308 00:23:02.079 --> 00:23:06.400 him politically. That's next on the John Girardi Show. There's 309 00:23:06.440 --> 00:23:11.119 a news story that's a real Rorshach test. It's among Catholics, 310 00:23:11.160 --> 00:23:14.200 where a Rorshack test is basically the thing, this thing 311 00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:17.480 where it's kind of a I guess, a tool for 312 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:23.000 psychoanalysis or psychiatry where you present someone with a kind 313 00:23:23.000 --> 00:23:28.240 of ink blot image of a kind of ambiguous shape, 314 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:31.000 and you ask the person what does this look like? 315 00:23:31.599 --> 00:23:37.160 And different people, allegedly with different kinds of issues look 316 00:23:37.200 --> 00:23:39.480 at it, and we'll see different kinds of things. And 317 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:43.240 I guess the idea is that this can be revelatory 318 00:23:43.279 --> 00:23:46.519 about certain aspects of their mental state. So being presented 319 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:51.440 with the same image, you get multiple outcomes, multiple responses 320 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:55.720 for what this means. There's been a news story among 321 00:23:55.799 --> 00:24:00.880 US Catholics that I shouldn't say news story, stupid Twitter 322 00:24:00.920 --> 00:24:05.799 controversy among US Catholics that I think is very revelatory 323 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:10.200 though about the broader viewpoints of the American public with 324 00:24:10.240 --> 00:24:17.039 regard to Trump, and that is this silly AI image 325 00:24:17.359 --> 00:24:22.000 that somebody produced and that Trump retweeted or posted on 326 00:24:22.119 --> 00:24:24.720 truth Social and then it made its way to the Internet. 327 00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:29.400 A silly AI image someone made of Donald Trump as 328 00:24:29.480 --> 00:24:33.160 the Pope. It's wearing the white pope outfit. He's got 329 00:24:33.160 --> 00:24:36.799 like a bishop's hat on. Donald Trump as the Pope. 330 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:39.160 Someone made a silly AI image of Donald Trump as 331 00:24:39.200 --> 00:24:43.200 the Pope. The Pope Francis passed away. The cardinals, starting 332 00:24:43.200 --> 00:24:46.799 on Wednesday, are gonna begin the process to elect a 333 00:24:46.839 --> 00:24:51.319 new pope. And oh, Donald Trump as the Pope. All right, 334 00:24:52.880 --> 00:25:00.279 it's a real rorshack test. A bunch of liberals and 335 00:25:00.359 --> 00:25:07.119 liberal leaning Catholics, Catholics and non Catholics have looked at 336 00:25:07.160 --> 00:25:14.000 this with deadly seriousness, including embarrassingly the National Catholic reporter 337 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:16.960 that did this whole thing. It's not even theoretically possible 338 00:25:16.960 --> 00:25:19.359 for Donald Trump to be pope, which is like, we 339 00:25:19.400 --> 00:25:23.519 all know he's not a Catholic. Oh no, it's because 340 00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:27.599 he's not in his right mentals. He's he's clearly insane 341 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:31.519 and therefore, like like this whole like almost serious article 342 00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:34.799 about how Donald Trump wouldn't be eligible to be pope 343 00:25:34.839 --> 00:25:38.279 because he's not compost mentis or something. It's like, all right, 344 00:25:38.319 --> 00:25:40.880 first of all, kind of a bold claim to say 345 00:25:40.920 --> 00:25:44.160 Trump is senile after what we had the prior four years. 346 00:25:46.279 --> 00:25:48.759 You say what you want about Trump, I I he's 347 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:54.920 compost mentis like, he's clearly directing things. He's clearly pretty 348 00:25:54.960 --> 00:25:58.599 sharp for a seventy eight year old guy, like, you know, 349 00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:04.240 for all his flaws whatever. Anyway, and all these left 350 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:07.000 wingers are taking this super seriously. 351 00:26:07.519 --> 00:26:10.960 And they're like, this is a grave act of disrespect 352 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:14.200 to the Pope for Donald Trump to post this while 353 00:26:14.200 --> 00:26:17.319 Catholics worldwide are mourning the passing of Pope Francis. 354 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:25.640 This is a mockery of the Catholic religion. Whereas I 355 00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:30.599 looked at it and I'm I mean, I don't I 356 00:26:30.599 --> 00:26:32.480 didn't think it was the funniest thing in the world. 357 00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:36.359 I mildly chuckled only because of and I think Trump 358 00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:40.920 plays into this. Trump knows he's a self aggrandizing kind 359 00:26:40.920 --> 00:26:44.960 of guy, like like, you know, there aren't very many 360 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:47.240 people in the world who literally put their own name 361 00:26:47.319 --> 00:26:50.720 in gold letters on the front of massive skyscrapers, Like, yeah, 362 00:26:51.119 --> 00:26:54.920 that's his stick is. He plays into this grandiose idea 363 00:26:54.960 --> 00:26:57.599 that he's he's Donald Trump, He's the coolest, you know, 364 00:26:57.599 --> 00:27:00.400 blah blah, blah blah blah. So I I mean I 365 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:03.720 thought it was mildly funny. I mean it's again. The 366 00:27:04.160 --> 00:27:07.720 problem is that anyone can generate these AI images now 367 00:27:07.839 --> 00:27:13.440 anytime they want. People made jokey images of a gorilla 368 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:18.400 being elected pope. You know, people have made jokey images 369 00:27:18.440 --> 00:27:20.920 of all kinds of People are making all these jokes 370 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:25.119 lately about Marco Rubio. So Mike Walls, the National Security Advisor, 371 00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:32.119 got demoted basically to be the UN representative, the UN 372 00:27:32.160 --> 00:27:38.039 ambassador for the United States, and the role of the 373 00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:42.400 role of National Security Advisor got given to Marco Rubio, 374 00:27:42.440 --> 00:27:44.319 even though he's Secretary of State. So people have joked 375 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:47.240 that Marco Rubio is now currently the Secretary of State, 376 00:27:47.240 --> 00:27:51.440 the National Security Advisor, the Archivist of the United States, 377 00:27:52.640 --> 00:27:57.440 and the administrator for USAID, like he's personally overseeing administration 378 00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:01.759 for USAID. So people are joking that Marco Rubio, now 379 00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:03.799 all of a sudden he has all of these roles 380 00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:07.599 within the president's administration. Oh well, why don't we make 381 00:28:07.640 --> 00:28:09.799 Marco Rubio the pope too? You know, hey, he's a 382 00:28:09.839 --> 00:28:13.480 Catholic male. Jd Vance made that joke. I kind of 383 00:28:13.599 --> 00:28:17.279 viewed the Trump AI pope images sort of along those lines. 384 00:28:17.880 --> 00:28:22.720 I don't know, it's not like the idea that it's, oh, 385 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:28.440 this is a grave offense against the Catholic Church. Calm down. 386 00:28:29.640 --> 00:28:32.119 First of all, Pope Francis died like two weeks ago. 387 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:39.519 And you know, look, I recognize that news cycles change, 388 00:28:40.839 --> 00:28:45.599 and that the duration of what an appropriate news cycle 389 00:28:45.720 --> 00:28:49.279 or period of mourning for a pope should be that 390 00:28:49.400 --> 00:28:53.160 has changed a lot over the ages. Maybe you know, 391 00:28:53.440 --> 00:28:55.480 in Italy one hundred years ago, everyone would still be 392 00:28:55.519 --> 00:28:57.759 going around dressed in black when the pope had passed 393 00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:02.519 away two weeks prior. Okay, well that's not Donald Trump 394 00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:05.400 doesn't have to do that. Donald Trump went to the Vatican, 395 00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:09.359 He went to the pope's funeral. He ordered all American 396 00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:11.599 flags to be at half staff for the pope's funeral. 397 00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:15.359 He and Vice President Vance said very complimentary things about 398 00:29:15.400 --> 00:29:20.079 Pope Francis. You know, I think they were perfectly respectful. 399 00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:23.559 And he's not talking about Pope Francis as dead. He's 400 00:29:23.599 --> 00:29:25.880 talking about, hey, well the Catholic Church needs a new pope. 401 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:31.599