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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Cobelt Show. Well, apartments everywhere. That's what's going to be
the result of Senate Bill seventy nine. Chris Lagarl has
been following this program, following this for us on this program, Chris,
thanks for spending time with us. Did anything in the
governor's statement give you a sense of whether or not
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he was happy to sign this? Thrilled, begrudging? What's going
on there?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Nothing, and good to talk to you, Lou. I think
this is our first time, so good to be on
with you.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
No.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
As Actually, a colleague of mind pointed out this morning
his we're pretty sure that his signing statement was written
by chat GPT.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, I mean it was just it was just flat.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Yeah, it was flat. It was it was there was
no there there. And you know, we all have our
feelings about Governor Newsom, but I did not envy him
the last few weeks because if he signed it, he
was going to alienate much of his normal voting base,
excuse me, alienate much of his normal voting base. If
he didn't sign it, he was going to alienate his
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paymasters and big tech and big real estate and so forth.
So you know, uh, he was definitely laying in the
bed that he made for himself. And so I guess
he turned to chat GPT and I think he's just
going to hope everybody forgets about it. But thanks to
you and thanks to us, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So he was a mayor. He was the mayor of
the city and County of San Francisco, So he understands
local zoning and how much work goes in in planning
departments and planning commissioners and you know, general plans for cities.
He knows how like, how challenged, how challenging that is.
Without the mandates out of Sacramento, and there are already
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so many mandates of you know, mandatory housing and things
like that. He knows he just is screwing Democrats and
Republican local officials.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Well, I think I don't disagree, Lou, but I think
his perspective is actually quite dated, because you know, he
was mayor fifteen plus years ago now, before all of
this legislation was so much as a glimmer in Scott
Wiener's eye, the world in which he was a mayor
is a much different world than the world that current
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local electives have to grapple with. So while he may
be familiar with the ins and outs of zoning and
land use and so forth, it was just a different time.
And that's actually part of the problem is I don't
think he actually understands the import and the implications not
only for how Californians live and wish to live, but
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for local government. I just don't think he has that perspective.
I mean, he's been running for president for thirty years.
He's never really gotten down into the weeds. As much
as he likes to sort of hould himself out as
a policy walk. If you kind of listen between the
world words, he's not so I think, you know, this
is the trendizure among the Democrats, And what's really worrying
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is that there are an increasing number of Republicans who
are signing on to this YMB economic illiteracy. And I
think that's his modus operandi. I don't think he I
don't think he gave it much thought. He's a political machine,
and this was a purely political decision, and his signing
statement I think reflected as much.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It is certainly among the most progressive things he's done
with respect to housing, and I am I gotta be honest,
I'm surprised that he signed it. It goes too far
and it seems to make more enemies than friends. And
I don't know why the capitulation to the to the
progressives on the hill. He's a lame duck. He's not
going to be governor anymore. It doesn't have to deal
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with these people, and it is it's a bit of
an albatross going forward because if you're right, and this
is part of his presidential ambition, you know, Iowa doesn't
like this kind of stuff. New Hampshire doesn't like this
kind of stuff. South Carolina doesn't like this kind of stuff.
And these are the kinds of stories that are going
to follow him as a presidential candidate.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Well, actually, look, that's not entire I hate to say it,
that's not entirely accurate. The ymbi's have actually been incredibly
successful at attracting Republican state leaders and Republican governors to
their cause because their pitch to their pitch to Democrats
and progressives and the left is this is all about
housing equity. Their pitch to Republicans and libertarians is this
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is all about property rights. And as a matter of fact,
the keynote speaker at YMBI Town, USA, which is the
ymbi's annual national gathering, was and I forget his name,
but the Republican governor of North Dakota, Ron Desantus, has
signed several pieces of legislation in Florida that you would
think came out of Scott Wiener's brain. Same in Texas,
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there's actually a bill similar to SB seventy nine. I
haven't looked at it in the last couple of months,
so I don't know what it's stat but there was
a bill similar to SB seventy nine in Texas. And
as a matter of fact, there is a federal bill
that was introduced last year, believe it or not, by
two Democrats and two Republicans that looks and quacks an
awful lot like SB seventy nine. So the insidiousness of
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this movement is almost impossible to overstate. And that's because
at the end of the day, it's really not about progressiveness,
and it's really not even about politics. It's about cold
hard cash and the big tech and the big finance
and the global dark money that's behind this YIMBI movement
is impossible to overstate. And that's what makes it really scary,
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even more so than as bad as SB seventy nine is.
And then we can go into detail a little bit
that kind of where we think it's going to go.
But at the broader, proverbial, fifty thousand foot level, this
movement has some real legs, and that's what we're up against.
And that's what a lot of us are fighting against
at the state level and increasingly at the national LEVELAWS
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talking a Washington Post reporter five minutes before I called in.
So that's that's the playing field that we're on. It
it's it's honestly scary.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And I don't like when private industry benefits so directly,
especially real estate development. I didn't like it when pharmaceuticals
directly directly benefited from everybody, you know, getting vaccines and boosters.
It just it's it's washing money through government. And you're right,
the opportunity for for all kinds of shenanigans is it's
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this whole thing is fraught with peril and again, I
said this before you came on. If everybody just decided, hey,
I want to live in an eight story apartment building
in downtown next to the train station, then people then
that it would have happened on its own. You wouldn't
need a law. Like the reason that you need a
law is because you have to force people to do
something that they don't want to do.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
According to the US Census Bureau, eighty three percent of
Californians live in single family homes, duplexes, town homes, or
apartment buildings with nine or fewer units. It checked, eighty
three percent of Californians weren't rich white guys, right. That
means everybody from every walk of life wants a little
bit of space. They want some trees, they want some grass,
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they want a little bit of privacy. And so these
Yimbi's and Scott Wiener and Gavin Newsom, you know by
by affiliation, they're literally trying to legislate against human nature.
And I think ultimately that's why we win. And we
need to hold our side to account and say, do
not go down this path any farther than you maybe
already have, because as the saying goes that way, be monsters,
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but everybody who can wants a little bit of space.
I mean I often tell people, you know, Scott Wiener
and the Ymbies loved to rail against single family houses.
They call them racist and exclusionary. Will excuse me, but
what is the Mongolian yurt? What what's the teepee? Those
are all examples of single family homes. It's oct I'm
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immemorial and SB seventy nine. That's why I call it
economically illiterate, because SB seventy nine and the entire Yimbie
movement is based on the notion that housing is fungible,
that a house or an apartment or a condo is
no different than a gallon of gasoline, a brick of
gold bullion, or a twenty dollars bill. Anybody who's ever
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taken their first class of economics one oh one knows
how illiterate that is, and yet that is somehow become
the basis of an entire movement.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Chris, thanks so much for staying on this and thanks
for coming on today. I appreciate it. We'll check in
with you again.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Appreciate it. Good talking with you, all right, we'll.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Make it back. I want to talk a little bit
about a point that he brought up. The Democrats just
hate single family homes and they have been belligerent toward
them for quite some time now, and I think I
know why, and we'll talk about it coming up next.
Louke Penrose if of John Cobelt on the John Covelt
Show on.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
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six blue.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Penrose if John Cobelt on the John coblt Show talking
about this ridiculous piece of legislation that Governor Newsoen did sign,
and it's just it's gonna create apartments everywhere and your
local here's what's gonna happen, because most people don't follow
this stuff. And you're gonna go to your house one
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afternoon and all of a sudden, that vacant lot that
is a couple of doors down, there's gonna be a
sment mixer in front of it, and they're gonna be
pouring a foundation, no story polls, no approvals needed. And
you used to have a fantastic view corridor, and now
you're gonna look at an eight story apartment building and
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then you are gonna say what the hell, And you're
gonna find where your city council meeting is, and you're
gonna go down there during the public comments section and
you're gonna yell at the mayor and you'd be right,
except that it's too late. This is what this does.
It goes it's an end around that goes around all
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local ordinance. And it's just so stupid because if people
wanted to live like this, then you wouldn't have to
pass a law. They would put up eight story apartment
buildings and there'd be more buses and more trains. There
aren't because people don't want to live like that. And
the people that are behind these things, they're always the same.
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So here's Leif Gerster. His name is Leif, of course
it is. He's with Ryde SD and he says, no,
this is what we have to do. We got to
get people out of these cars.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
High identsity encourages more people to take the bus because
they're usually closer to the bus stop and they don't
necessarily need a car. We want to see the car
dependency reduced. Obviously, some people will still have a car,
but at least they want to use it for everything.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Why why do we want to see the car dependency reduced.
Why to you where do they get this guy from? Anyway?
This is not Europe. We don't want to be like Europe.
And even if we did, you can't. It's too late.
We already built the roads in the houses. We can't
undo everything and dig a subway. It's too late. And
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there's nothing wrong with the way we live our lives
in southern California in the car. What we need to
do is accommodate our quality of life, which is wider roads,
more parking. And there's nothing wrong with that attitude. But
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these people are always from the beginning of time. They're
always trying to get you out of your car, put
you in an apartment building where you don't want to live,
and tell you that you should be taking the muss.
Same thing with all the bike lane people. Nobody. How
are you supposed to How can you possibly go grocery
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shopping with a bicycle? You can't. You need a caller.
I have three sons. I need the entire back of
the van when we go to Costco or I go
to the supermarket. Can't pull it off with a bicycle.
We're not bicycle people. I mean, bicycling is for bicycle enthusiasts.
It's a recreational activity. It's not part of your daily life.
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And Democrats, and I kid you not, they look at
housing not the way you look at housing. You look
at real estate and houses and your decisions of whether
you're going to live in a condo or you're gonna
be in an apartment building, or maybe it's time, I
want to have a house with a backyard. Like you
think about those decisions on a personal level, and you
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make those decisions based on your place in life and
what you want to do. Oh, I'm getting married, I
want to have a family, I want more bedrooms, right Like,
whatever your reasons are for living the way you live,
they're all personal to you. Democrats don't look at it
like that. Democrats look at housing basically like a utility,
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the way they are involved in water being delivered to
you or electricity being delivered to you. That's kind of
the way they think about housing. They want to be
involved in the decision. And it's the one area of
life that is still a private matter. And I don't
know if you've purchased a piece of real estate lately,
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but when you go to a closing boy, you're signing forever.
You know why, because Democrats want to be involved in
your life, and they pretend that they're helping you. This
whole yes in my backyard thing is just silliness and
it's intrusive, and it's because they don't look at anything
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private like that. They don't think anything's private. The transaction
of a piece of real estate. They believe they have
a right to be involved in that transaction, and they
are getting more and more involved each and every year
with another piece of legislation, sixteen more documents to sign
at the closing, whatever the case is. They really believe
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that housing is a utility, whether it's a private house.
That's why they're so big on getting, you know, government
subsidized housing, because they want to be involved in it.
They want to be involved in every aspect of your life,
including where you live and how you choose to live.
And they are just trying to get you out of
your car constantly. I saw a post today from Governor
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Newsom talking about how a third of all cars purchased
in California this past year were electric cars. That's great,
people can do whatever they want, but why was it
such an important thing for Democrats to increase fuel efficiency
and get more electric cars, and they were offering I
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think they still might be tax credits if you purchase
an electric car or you know, a hybrid. Why why
is that so important? They wanted you out of your
gas car because they thought that, you know, gasoline was
bad for the environment, and this is a safe way
to go. All right, so you won. You got people
hooked on electric cars, a lot of people like them,
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and no product that market decides. Then that's fine with me.
But now that everybody has a hybrid or an electric car,
or at least is warmed up to the idea, now
they still want you out of the car, and they
make it impossible for you to park anywhere, or they
where I live in San Diego, you have to park,
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You're gonna get out of tape measure. You can't park
toward the end of the curve, like where there a
street turns you get to park. I don't know, fifty feet.
It's ridiculous. They're belligerent to you just living your life
driving around and now it's gonna be apartments everywhere, and
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I don't know where they're gonna put these cars, uh,
subterranean parking kind of expensive, So I don't know where. Yeah,
I don't know where these cars are gonna go. And
it's always the same story. If they don't build any
parking garages, then they all wind up in front of
my house and in front of your house. All right,
when we get back these nude bicyclists up in Portland,
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I have the latest. You're not gonna believe it. That's
all coming up next. Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt on
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Lou Penrose info John co Belt this week on the
John Cobelt Show. Well, I guess it's an annual tradition
to bike around Portland Naked World Naked Bike Ride. It
usually happens in the summer, but organizers had an emergency
naked bike ride because they said it was absolutely necessary
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to speak out against President Trump in front of the
Ice Detention Center there in downtown Portland. Brad Ford is
with the radio station k EX in Portland. How many
years has this been going on?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Brad Wow, this has gone on actually a long time
here in Portland. I mean, you know, people have the
impression that Portland's a little weird. Well, this is one
of the reasons why. I mean, it really goes back
several years that they've had the naked bike right, But
you're right, they do them during the summer. This year
when they did them, it was cold. People had plastic
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ponchos on right to be able to ride around on
their bikes. A lot of people had some clothing on,
but some didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
They said it was quirky. It's a part of Portland's
quirky and the reverence reputation on display. And I thought,
you know, I mean, putting your baseball cap on backwards
is quirky. This is this is this is certainly a display.
How many I mean, how many people are involved in this?
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This was the emergency one, so I have to imagine
it's smaller.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah, yeah, a lot was probably smaller because it was
really cold yesterday, But it's hard to tell. I saw
some reports of hundreds. I heard other people saying more
than that, So they don't really do an actual count
of the number of people that take part in it.
But normally when these happened during the summertime, they're often
happening at night, and so you really don't have an
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exact number of how many take part, but it was
a large number. They started at the convention center, which
is on the east side of the Lama River, crossed
one of the bridges, they held a die in where
they laid down and blocked traffic. They got back up,
got on their bikes and then rode to the South
Portland area where the Ice building is located, and then
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they demonstrated there.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Do they I mean, do they show up already in
their birthday outfit or do they show up and then
get undressed, because then you got to get back to
your clothes. So is it a full circle or do
they carry the I mean, how does this all work?
Because you can't just leave your house.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Naked, one would assume not, right, especially if you're taking
the bus or you know, getting there some other way,
maybe riding on your bike. I guess you could, you know,
start out naked from your house. But now a lot
of them will go to the gathering point and then
they'll they'll take off whatever they're going to take off.
A lot of them had messages written on their backs
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to show what they're why would they were march or
why they were taking part in the event, you know,
and so it's they started that staging area, they get ready,
and then they go on their right.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So these these demonstrations out in front of the the
ic attention set that they've been going on for quite
some time. And if people have a problem with the
militarization of the downtown or the National Guard card Orde process,
these are legitimate concerns. People can have these thoughts and
and have these and you know, and demonstrate. Doesn't this
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kind of reduced down people that have legitimate concern about
the federalization of the National Guard and almost make it
a little silly. Are they worried about that? Are they
worried about, Hey, we're gonna we're gonna delegitimize this cause
by you know, riding around, you know, with everything flopping around.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, I'm not so sure that that they're they're really
worried about that. I guess, you know, trying to get
into what they're thinking, you know, the the the way
that some of the demonstrations have been portrayed, and some
of them have occurred, there has been violence and towards
the you know, the ice officers going in and out
of the building. Uh, federal officers have made a lot
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of arrests out there. They've the demonstrators have blocked cars,
they've vandalized the building. Those people have been in most cases,
but I think what they're trying to do if you've
seen some of the other demonstrators that are in front
of the Ice building, a lot of them are wearing
costumes they're in you know, in my opinion, what they're
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trying to do is they're trying to go the opposite
direction to show that, Okay, these are not violent demonstrations,
and in most cases when I drive by there, it's not,
but there are times when it does get violent, and
so there, I think they're trying to send kind of
an opposite message to the message of them being violent demonstrations.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Brad Ford, thanks so much for jumping in with us
and giving us the update. Any any reports of any
dangling participles getting caught in the bike.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Chain, No, none that I was aware of.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Very good Brad, Thanks so much. Bad forward from eleven
ninety k e X in Portland. Yeah, the naked the
Naked ride and one rider said it was her first time.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Because we strongly believe that we do not need federal
troops in Portland Some participants showed up in costumes, while
others showed up in nothing at all. But regardless of
what you were wearing, participants tell me it was a
welcoming and accepting atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
It is electric, so fun, it's so Portland, just keeping
everything weird. Yeah, I cannot help but agree with Jerry
Seinfeld on this one. Like there's good naked and bad naked.
Like a woman brushing her hair naked, that's good naked.
A woman getting off a ten speed bicycle, who I
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mean is a large woman getting you know, literally getting
off a bicycle with the big leg. You know, that's
not good naked. And there was a lot more not
good naked. I didn't see any good naked really at all,
even the even some of the guys that were in
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a lot of these people are bicycles anyway, so they're
in really good shape. And yeah, it's just not the
not attractive at all.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Well, this year's naked bike ride drew in a crowd
of beginners. No, I've never done it before, but I'm
very excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Is actually my first Portland protest too.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Season naked bike riders tell me this year's ride meant
something extra special.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
This is has more impacts. We're doing it for something
bigger than just like freedom of expression. You know, we're
doing for human rights, a human rights. Well, this confirms
the Loup Penrose rule that Democrats do not have a
political problem, Democrats have a maturity problem. Loup Penrose infa
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Speaker 2 (23:42):
Lou Penrose infa John coblt this week. Thank you for
tuning in. Good to have you along with us. That
the naked bike ride is just more confirmation that this
is a real maturity problem.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
If Portlanders gathered outside the convention centers Sunday afternoon for
the emergency world Naked by crime, the naked bike ride
is one of the Rose City's weirdest traditions.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I'll say I did not know it was a tradition
at all, so that it's an emergency naked bike ride,
like they had the naked bike ride already in July,
but this was an emergency naked bike ride they had
to have it, couldn't go another day even though it
was raining, had to have the naked bike ride. Portlanders
gathered outside there for the emergency World Naked by Crime.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
The Naked bike Ride is one of the Rose City's
weirdest traditions and usually advocates for climate action and safer streets,
but this time the naked bike ride took the form
of a protest.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, so it's usually climate action or safer streets. Well,
that is why the National Guard was sent to Portland
for safer streets. Like, I just don't get it. These
are the crazy demonstrations. The people that ICE are going
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after have criminal histories. They either have criminal histories or
they hang out with people who have criminal histories. That's
the only way that people that don't have any criminal
history other than being in my country illegally, the only
reason they get deported is because they're in the midst
of somebody that ICE is going after. ICE is going
after somebody that's you know, in the country illegally and
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also assaulted a police officer or got into a dui
and hit somebody, or smacked around their girlfriend or their wife.
So they're going after somebody that has committed felony and
also in the country illegally. Now they go show up
where he is and he's there with his brother. Now
the brothers in the country legally too. Brother hasn't yet
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assaulted a police officer. The brother hasn't yet beat his spouse.
The brother hasn't yet gotten a DUI, but he's still
in the country legally, Ice can't just set them free.
In fact, you should be happy. It's two for the
price of one. That does keep the city safe. So
you don't like immigration and Customs enforcement just enforcing existing
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immigration law. And to demonstrate that you're gonna take your
clothes off on a rainy day and bike around the
city and you're gonna tell me these are serious people.
I have said this and I maintain and almost daily
there is another story that confirms that Democrats do not
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have a political problem. The problem isn't politics. The problem
is maturity. You see it all the time. I just
saw another story of somebody that was oh, the guy
that spit on the federal officer. This video viral video
of somebody in Portland. He's spit Now the officer was
wearing a face shield. But nevertheless, you can't spit on it.
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That's actually felony assault. It's also gross. The guy that
got arrested for spitting on the officer thirty eight years old,
thirty eight years old, and he's gonna go to jail
for spitting on an officer. That's immaturity. Remember when the
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ice raids were going on here in Los Angeles and
the shift that wasn't apprehending illegals were out in Rancho
Cucamonga at a hotel taking arrest and there were some
people that were going to the parking lot and I
don't know how they could possibly think they would not
be on camera. I mean there's parking lot cameras at hotels,
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and they were driving nails into the tires of the
ice vehicles. And of course the guy's on film. They
got him, he's got arrested. He can't do that. Fifty
one years old. I couldn't believe it. I mean, you
see this mayhem and chaos with these Antifa people all
dressed up in black and they link their ninja warriors
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and they you see them, and the assumption, at least
for me, the assumption was these are college kids gone bad, right,
They're college kids that just got too close to the
Democrats Socialist of America crowd and just it's cosplay. They're
just they're not children, they're adults. But they're behaving like children,
and the assumption is that they're just like you know,
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college aged, college aged individuals. And then I see these
police reports and they're like in their thirties and forties.
It's absolutely incredible to me, absolutely incredible. Hey, Lou, I'll
bet you fifty bucks you can't take thirty seconds to
say something nice about a Democrat. I'll take that bet. Well,
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first off, I don't think Democrats are saying anything nice
about me. Why do they need me to say something
nice about them? The Democrat Party is not the Democrat
Party it used to be. It is. It's in shambles,
like it's it's just, it's a it's a shell of itself.
It used to stand for American workers, it used to
stand for American families. It used to stand for strengthening
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our workforce. Right, that's what the donkey is. And today
the Democrat Party stands for foreigners in the country illegally,
Palestinian terrorists and Palestinian terrorist sympathizers. And that's about it,
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which is why you see the favorability ratings of Democrats
in the tubes. Everyone talks about how Trump's you know,
approval ratings are underwater. They're below fifty compared to what
compared to the Democrats. The Democrats have no favorability. Look
what's happening. I mean, they have no candidate. They have
there's no national voice, there's no national message. The Democrat
Party is just basically anti Trump. Whatever Trump wants, they
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want the opposite. Trump wants peace in the Middle East
and Democrats don't. Trump wants illegals out of the country,
and Democrats want to keep the illegals in the country.
I mean, it's just the opposite. It's the opposite party,
and there's really nothing nice to say about the platform.
They're not raising wages for American workers by flooding the
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labor force with illegal and ineligible labor. That depresses wages, right,
Illegals take jobs from Americans and they work for less,
which causes the wages to be depressed by literal definition.
So they're not fighting for workers. They're frankly fighting against
at least American workers. They're not bringing down the cost
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of housing by deregulating the industry. They're over regulating the industry.
And they want you to move into some East German
tower and take the bus. That's not freedom. So yeah,
there's very little to say. I look, I grew up.
I had Democrats in my family growing up, because back
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in the seventies and eighties, the Democrat Party stood for workers,
union workers. My grandfather was a general contractor. Right, they
were working to create conditions in which Americans made more money.
It was always that the Democrat Party was supposed to
be the party of working class people.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Right.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Republicans were the party of industry and business, and it
was the inn and yang. Now I don't, as I've said,
I don't know what what name me a position that
they hold that is good for Americans and good for
American workers. I don't see you one. I mean, look
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at you know. I mean there is this example after
example after example of a real immaturity problem. And I
think we're gonna have a bit of a shakeup in
this governor's race. And I think we're going to see
some new blood emerging. And I think it's about time
because the bench is weak, there's no question about it.
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And it's a huge opportunity for Republicans if they want
to have viability in California politics. The lane is wide
open right now. And the British rock band the who
famously said it's the singer, not the song, that makes
the music move along. And what the Republican Party in
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California is missing is the lead singer. But there's still time.
We'll see where this goes. Lou Penrose Info John Coblt
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Lou Penrose info John Cobalt this week on the John
Cobelt Show. Well, apartments everywhere. That's what's going to be
the result of Senate Bill seventy nine. Chris Lagarl has
been following this program, following this for us on this program, Chris,
thanks for spending time with us. Did anything in the
governor's statement give you a sense of whether or not
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he was happy to sign this? Thrilled, begrudging? What's going
on there?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Well?
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Nothing, and good to talk to you, Lou. I think
this is our first time, so good to be on
with you.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
No.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
As Actually, a colleague of mind pointed out this morning
his we're pretty sure that his signing statement was written
by chat GPT.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Yeah, I mean it was just it was just flat.
Speaker 4 (00:51):
Yeah, it was flat. It was it was there was
no there there. And you know, we all have our
feelings about Governor Newsom, but I did not envy him
the last few weeks because if he signed it, he
was going to alienate much of his normal voting base,
excuse me, alienate much of his normal voting base. If
he didn't sign it, he was going to alienate his
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paymasters and big tech and big real estate and so forth.
So you know, uh, he was definitely laying in the
bed that he made for himself. And so I guess
he turned to chat GPT and I think he's just
going to hope everybody forgets about it. But thanks to
you and thanks to us, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
So he was a mayor. He was the mayor of
the city and County of San Francisco, So he understands
local zoning and how much work goes in in planning
departments and planning commissioners and you know, general plans for cities.
He knows how like, how challenged, how challenging that is.
Without the mandates out of Sacramento, and there are already
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so many mandates of you know, mandatory housing and things
like that. He knows he just is screwing Democrats and
Republican local officials.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
Well, I think I don't disagree, Lou, but I think
his perspective is actually quite dated, because you know, he
was mayor fifteen plus years ago now, before all of
this legislation was so much as a glimmer in Scott
Wiener's eye, the world in which he was a mayor
is a much different world than the world that current
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local electives have to grapple with. So while he may
be familiar with the ins and outs of zoning and
land use and so forth, it was just a different time.
And that's actually part of the problem is I don't
think he actually understands the import and the implications not
only for how Californians live and wish to live, but
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for local government. I just don't think he has that perspective.
I mean, he's been running for president for thirty years.
He's never really gotten down into the weeds. As much
as he likes to sort of hould himself out as
a policy walk. If you kind of listen between the
world words, he's not so I think, you know, this
is the trendizure among the Democrats, And what's really worrying
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is that there are an increasing number of Republicans who
are signing on to this YMB economic illiteracy. And I
think that's his modus operandi. I don't think he I
don't think he gave it much thought. He's a political machine,
and this was a purely political decision, and his signing
statement I think reflected as much.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
It is certainly among the most progressive things he's done
with respect to housing, and I am I gotta be honest,
I'm surprised that he signed it. It goes too far
and it seems to make more enemies than friends. And
I don't know why the capitulation to the to the
progressives on the hill. He's a lame duck. He's not
going to be governor anymore. It doesn't have to deal
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with these people, and it is it's a bit of
an albatross going forward because if you're right, and this
is part of his presidential ambition, you know, Iowa doesn't
like this kind of stuff. New Hampshire doesn't like this
kind of stuff. South Carolina doesn't like this kind of stuff.
And these are the kinds of stories that are going
to follow him as a presidential candidate.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Well, actually, look, that's not entire I hate to say it,
that's not entirely accurate. The ymbi's have actually been incredibly
successful at attracting Republican state leaders and Republican governors to
their cause because their pitch to their pitch to Democrats
and progressives and the left is this is all about
housing equity. Their pitch to Republicans and libertarians is this
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is all about property rights. And as a matter of fact,
the keynote speaker at YMBI Town, USA, which is the
ymbi's annual national gathering, was and I forget his name,
but the Republican governor of North Dakota, Ron Desantus, has
signed several pieces of legislation in Florida that you would
think came out of Scott Wiener's brain. Same in Texas,
(04:53):
there's actually a bill similar to SB seventy nine. I
haven't looked at it in the last couple of months,
so I don't know what it's stat but there was
a bill similar to SB seventy nine in Texas. And
as a matter of fact, there is a federal bill
that was introduced last year, believe it or not, by
two Democrats and two Republicans that looks and quacks an
awful lot like SB seventy nine. So the insidiousness of
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this movement is almost impossible to overstate. And that's because
at the end of the day, it's really not about progressiveness,
and it's really not even about politics. It's about cold
hard cash and the big tech and the big finance
and the global dark money that's behind this YIMBI movement
is impossible to overstate. And that's what makes it really scary,
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even more so than as bad as SB seventy nine is.
And then we can go into detail a little bit
that kind of where we think it's going to go.
But at the broader, proverbial, fifty thousand foot level, this
movement has some real legs, and that's what we're up against.
And that's what a lot of us are fighting against
at the state level and increasingly at the national LEVELAWS
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talking a Washington Post reporter five minutes before I called in.
So that's that's the playing field that we're on. It
it's it's honestly scary.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
And I don't like when private industry benefits so directly,
especially real estate development. I didn't like it when pharmaceuticals
directly directly benefited from everybody, you know, getting vaccines and boosters.
It just it's it's washing money through government. And you're right,
the opportunity for for all kinds of shenanigans is it's
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this whole thing is fraught with peril and again, I
said this before you came on. If everybody just decided, hey,
I want to live in an eight story apartment building
in downtown next to the train station, then people then
that it would have happened on its own. You wouldn't
need a law. Like the reason that you need a
law is because you have to force people to do
something that they don't want to do.
Speaker 4 (06:51):
According to the US Census Bureau, eighty three percent of
Californians live in single family homes, duplexes, town homes, or
apartment buildings with nine or fewer units. It checked, eighty
three percent of Californians weren't rich white guys, right. That
means everybody from every walk of life wants a little
bit of space. They want some trees, they want some grass,
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they want a little bit of privacy. And so these
Yimbi's and Scott Wiener and Gavin Newsom, you know by
by affiliation, they're literally trying to legislate against human nature.
And I think ultimately that's why we win. And we
need to hold our side to account and say, do
not go down this path any farther than you maybe
already have, because as the saying goes that way, be monsters,
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but everybody who can wants a little bit of space.
I mean I often tell people, you know, Scott Wiener
and the Ymbies loved to rail against single family houses.
They call them racist and exclusionary. Will excuse me, but
what is the Mongolian yurt? What what's the teepee? Those
are all examples of single family homes. It's oct I'm
(08:00):
immemorial and SB seventy nine. That's why I call it
economically illiterate, because SB seventy nine and the entire Yimbie
movement is based on the notion that housing is fungible,
that a house or an apartment or a condo is
no different than a gallon of gasoline, a brick of
gold bullion, or a twenty dollars bill. Anybody who's ever
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taken their first class of economics one oh one knows
how illiterate that is, and yet that is somehow become
the basis of an entire movement.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Chris, thanks so much for staying on this and thanks
for coming on today. I appreciate it. We'll check in
with you again.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
Appreciate it. Good talking with you, all right, we'll.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Make it back. I want to talk a little bit
about a point that he brought up. The Democrats just
hate single family homes and they have been belligerent toward
them for quite some time now, and I think I
know why, and we'll talk about it coming up next.
Louke Penrose if of John Cobelt on the John Covelt
Show on.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
six blue.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Penrose if John Cobelt on the John coblt Show talking
about this ridiculous piece of legislation that Governor Newsoen did sign,
and it's just it's gonna create apartments everywhere and your
local here's what's gonna happen, because most people don't follow
this stuff. And you're gonna go to your house one
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afternoon and all of a sudden, that vacant lot that
is a couple of doors down, there's gonna be a
sment mixer in front of it, and they're gonna be
pouring a foundation, no story polls, no approvals needed. And
you used to have a fantastic view corridor, and now
you're gonna look at an eight story apartment building and
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then you are gonna say what the hell, And you're
gonna find where your city council meeting is, and you're
gonna go down there during the public comments section and
you're gonna yell at the mayor and you'd be right,
except that it's too late. This is what this does.
It goes it's an end around that goes around all
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local ordinance. And it's just so stupid because if people
wanted to live like this, then you wouldn't have to
pass a law. They would put up eight story apartment
buildings and there'd be more buses and more trains. There
aren't because people don't want to live like that. And
the people that are behind these things, they're always the same.
(10:30):
So here's Leif Gerster. His name is Leif, of course
it is. He's with Ryde SD and he says, no,
this is what we have to do. We got to
get people out of these cars.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
High identsity encourages more people to take the bus because
they're usually closer to the bus stop and they don't
necessarily need a car. We want to see the car
dependency reduced. Obviously, some people will still have a car,
but at least they want to use it for everything.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Why why do we want to see the car dependency reduced.
Why to you where do they get this guy from? Anyway?
This is not Europe. We don't want to be like Europe.
And even if we did, you can't. It's too late.
We already built the roads in the houses. We can't
undo everything and dig a subway. It's too late. And
(11:19):
there's nothing wrong with the way we live our lives
in southern California in the car. What we need to
do is accommodate our quality of life, which is wider roads,
more parking. And there's nothing wrong with that attitude. But
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these people are always from the beginning of time. They're
always trying to get you out of your car, put
you in an apartment building where you don't want to live,
and tell you that you should be taking the muss.
Same thing with all the bike lane people. Nobody. How
are you supposed to How can you possibly go grocery
(12:01):
shopping with a bicycle? You can't. You need a caller.
I have three sons. I need the entire back of
the van when we go to Costco or I go
to the supermarket. Can't pull it off with a bicycle.
We're not bicycle people. I mean, bicycling is for bicycle enthusiasts.
It's a recreational activity. It's not part of your daily life.
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And Democrats, and I kid you not, they look at
housing not the way you look at housing. You look
at real estate and houses and your decisions of whether
you're going to live in a condo or you're gonna
be in an apartment building, or maybe it's time, I
want to have a house with a backyard. Like you
think about those decisions on a personal level, and you
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make those decisions based on your place in life and
what you want to do. Oh, I'm getting married, I
want to have a family, I want more bedrooms, right Like,
whatever your reasons are for living the way you live,
they're all personal to you. Democrats don't look at it
like that. Democrats look at housing basically like a utility,
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the way they are involved in water being delivered to
you or electricity being delivered to you. That's kind of
the way they think about housing. They want to be
involved in the decision. And it's the one area of
life that is still a private matter. And I don't
know if you've purchased a piece of real estate lately,
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but when you go to a closing boy, you're signing forever.
You know why, because Democrats want to be involved in
your life, and they pretend that they're helping you. This
whole yes in my backyard thing is just silliness and
it's intrusive, and it's because they don't look at anything
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private like that. They don't think anything's private. The transaction
of a piece of real estate. They believe they have
a right to be involved in that transaction, and they
are getting more and more involved each and every year
with another piece of legislation, sixteen more documents to sign
at the closing, whatever the case is. They really believe
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that housing is a utility, whether it's a private house.
That's why they're so big on getting, you know, government
subsidized housing, because they want to be involved in it.
They want to be involved in every aspect of your life,
including where you live and how you choose to live.
And they are just trying to get you out of
your car constantly. I saw a post today from Governor
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Newsom talking about how a third of all cars purchased
in California this past year were electric cars. That's great,
people can do whatever they want, but why was it
such an important thing for Democrats to increase fuel efficiency
and get more electric cars, and they were offering I
(15:00):
think they still might be tax credits if you purchase
an electric car or you know, a hybrid. Why why
is that so important? They wanted you out of your
gas car because they thought that, you know, gasoline was
bad for the environment, and this is a safe way
to go. All right, so you won. You got people
hooked on electric cars, a lot of people like them,
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and no product that market decides. Then that's fine with me.
But now that everybody has a hybrid or an electric car,
or at least is warmed up to the idea, now
they still want you out of the car, and they
make it impossible for you to park anywhere, or they
where I live in San Diego, you have to park,
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You're gonna get out of tape measure. You can't park
toward the end of the curve, like where there a
street turns you get to park. I don't know, fifty feet.
It's ridiculous. They're belligerent to you just living your life
driving around and now it's gonna be apartments everywhere, and
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I don't know where they're gonna put these cars, uh,
subterranean parking kind of expensive, So I don't know where. Yeah,
I don't know where these cars are gonna go. And
it's always the same story. If they don't build any
parking garages, then they all wind up in front of
my house and in front of your house. All right,
when we get back these nude bicyclists up in Portland,
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I have the latest. You're not gonna believe it. That's
all coming up next. Lou Penrose Info John Cobelt on
The John Cobelt Show.
Speaker 6 (16:35):
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six forty.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Lou Penrose info John co Belt this week on the
John Cobelt Show. Well, I guess it's an annual tradition
to bike around Portland Naked World Naked Bike Ride. It
usually happens in the summer, but organizers had an emergency
naked bike ride because they said it was absolutely necessary
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to speak out against President Trump in front of the
Ice Detention Center there in downtown Portland. Brad Ford is
with the radio station k EX in Portland. How many
years has this been going on?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Brad Wow, this has gone on actually a long time
here in Portland. I mean, you know, people have the
impression that Portland's a little weird. Well, this is one
of the reasons why. I mean, it really goes back
several years that they've had the naked bike right, But
you're right, they do them during the summer. This year
when they did them, it was cold. People had plastic
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ponchos on right to be able to ride around on
their bikes. A lot of people had some clothing on,
but some didn't.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
They said it was quirky. It's a part of Portland's
quirky and the reverence reputation on display. And I thought,
you know, I mean, putting your baseball cap on backwards
is quirky. This is this is this is certainly a display.
How many I mean, how many people are involved in this?
(18:05):
This was the emergency one, so I have to imagine
it's smaller.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Yeah, yeah, a lot was probably smaller because it was
really cold yesterday, But it's hard to tell. I saw
some reports of hundreds. I heard other people saying more
than that, So they don't really do an actual count
of the number of people that take part in it.
But normally when these happened during the summertime, they're often
happening at night, and so you really don't have an
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exact number of how many take part, but it was
a large number. They started at the convention center, which
is on the east side of the Lama River, crossed
one of the bridges, they held a die in where
they laid down and blocked traffic. They got back up,
got on their bikes and then rode to the South
Portland area where the Ice building is located, and then
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they demonstrated there.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Do they I mean, do they show up already in
their birthday outfit or do they show up and then
get undressed, because then you got to get back to
your clothes. So is it a full circle or do
they carry the I mean, how does this all work?
Because you can't just leave your house.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Naked, one would assume not, right, especially if you're taking
the bus or you know, getting there some other way,
maybe riding on your bike. I guess you could, you know,
start out naked from your house. But now a lot
of them will go to the gathering point and then
they'll they'll take off whatever they're going to take off.
A lot of them had messages written on their backs
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to show what they're why would they were march or
why they were taking part in the event, you know,
and so it's they started that staging area, they get ready,
and then they go on their right.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
So these these demonstrations out in front of the the
ic attention set that they've been going on for quite
some time. And if people have a problem with the
militarization of the downtown or the National Guard card Orde process,
these are legitimate concerns. People can have these thoughts and
and have these and you know, and demonstrate. Doesn't this
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kind of reduced down people that have legitimate concern about
the federalization of the National Guard and almost make it
a little silly. Are they worried about that? Are they
worried about, Hey, we're gonna we're gonna delegitimize this cause
by you know, riding around, you know, with everything flopping around.
Speaker 3 (20:29):
Yeah, I'm not so sure that that they're they're really
worried about that. I guess, you know, trying to get
into what they're thinking, you know, the the the way
that some of the demonstrations have been portrayed, and some
of them have occurred, there has been violence and towards
the you know, the ice officers going in and out
of the building. Uh, federal officers have made a lot
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of arrests out there. They've the demonstrators have blocked cars,
they've vandalized the building. Those people have been in most cases,
but I think what they're trying to do if you've
seen some of the other demonstrators that are in front
of the Ice building, a lot of them are wearing
costumes they're in you know, in my opinion, what they're
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trying to do is they're trying to go the opposite
direction to show that, Okay, these are not violent demonstrations,
and in most cases when I drive by there, it's not,
but there are times when it does get violent, and
so there, I think they're trying to send kind of
an opposite message to the message of them being violent demonstrations.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Brad Ford, thanks so much for jumping in with us
and giving us the update. Any any reports of any
dangling participles getting caught in the bike.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Chain, No, none that I was aware of.
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Very good Brad, Thanks so much. Bad forward from eleven
ninety k e X in Portland. Yeah, the naked the
Naked ride and one rider said it was her first time.
Speaker 7 (21:58):
Because we strongly believe that we do not need federal
troops in Portland Some participants showed up in costumes, while
others showed up in nothing at all. But regardless of
what you were wearing, participants tell me it was a
welcoming and accepting atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
It is electric, so fun, it's so Portland, just keeping
everything weird. Yeah, I cannot help but agree with Jerry
Seinfeld on this one. Like there's good naked and bad naked.
Like a woman brushing her hair naked, that's good naked.
A woman getting off a ten speed bicycle, who I
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mean is a large woman getting you know, literally getting
off a bicycle with the big leg. You know, that's
not good naked. And there was a lot more not
good naked. I didn't see any good naked really at all,
even the even some of the guys that were in
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a lot of these people are bicycles anyway, so they're
in really good shape. And yeah, it's just not the
not attractive at all.
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Well, this year's naked bike ride drew in a crowd
of beginners. No, I've never done it before, but I'm
very excited to be here.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Is actually my first Portland protest too.
Speaker 7 (23:13):
Season naked bike riders tell me this year's ride meant
something extra special.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
This is has more impacts. We're doing it for something
bigger than just like freedom of expression. You know, we're
doing for human rights, a human rights. Well, this confirms
the Loup Penrose rule that Democrats do not have a
political problem, Democrats have a maturity problem. Loup Penrose infa
John Coblt.
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Speaker 2 (23:42):
Lou Penrose infa John coblt this week. Thank you for
tuning in. Good to have you along with us. That
the naked bike ride is just more confirmation that this
is a real maturity problem.
Speaker 7 (23:58):
If Portlanders gathered outside the convention centers Sunday afternoon for
the emergency world Naked by crime, the naked bike ride
is one of the Rose City's weirdest traditions.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
I'll say I did not know it was a tradition
at all, so that it's an emergency naked bike ride,
like they had the naked bike ride already in July,
but this was an emergency naked bike ride they had
to have it, couldn't go another day even though it
was raining, had to have the naked bike ride. Portlanders
gathered outside there for the emergency World Naked by Crime.
Speaker 7 (24:34):
The Naked bike Ride is one of the Rose City's
weirdest traditions and usually advocates for climate action and safer streets,
but this time the naked bike ride took the form
of a protest.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Yeah, so it's usually climate action or safer streets. Well,
that is why the National Guard was sent to Portland
for safer streets. Like, I just don't get it. These
are the crazy demonstrations. The people that ICE are going
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after have criminal histories. They either have criminal histories or
they hang out with people who have criminal histories. That's
the only way that people that don't have any criminal
history other than being in my country illegally, the only
reason they get deported is because they're in the midst
of somebody that ICE is going after. ICE is going
after somebody that's you know, in the country illegally and
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also assaulted a police officer or got into a dui
and hit somebody, or smacked around their girlfriend or their wife.
So they're going after somebody that has committed felony and
also in the country illegally. Now they go show up
where he is and he's there with his brother. Now
the brothers in the country legally too. Brother hasn't yet
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assaulted a police officer. The brother hasn't yet beat his spouse.
The brother hasn't yet gotten a DUI, but he's still
in the country legally, Ice can't just set them free.
In fact, you should be happy. It's two for the
price of one. That does keep the city safe. So
you don't like immigration and Customs enforcement just enforcing existing
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immigration law. And to demonstrate that you're gonna take your
clothes off on a rainy day and bike around the
city and you're gonna tell me these are serious people.
I have said this and I maintain and almost daily
there is another story that confirms that Democrats do not
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have a political problem. The problem isn't politics. The problem
is maturity. You see it all the time. I just
saw another story of somebody that was oh, the guy
that spit on the federal officer. This video viral video
of somebody in Portland. He's spit Now the officer was
wearing a face shield. But nevertheless, you can't spit on it.
(26:58):
That's actually felony assault. It's also gross. The guy that
got arrested for spitting on the officer thirty eight years old,
thirty eight years old, and he's gonna go to jail
for spitting on an officer. That's immaturity. Remember when the
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ice raids were going on here in Los Angeles and
the shift that wasn't apprehending illegals were out in Rancho
Cucamonga at a hotel taking arrest and there were some
people that were going to the parking lot and I
don't know how they could possibly think they would not
be on camera. I mean there's parking lot cameras at hotels,
(27:44):
and they were driving nails into the tires of the
ice vehicles. And of course the guy's on film. They
got him, he's got arrested. He can't do that. Fifty
one years old. I couldn't believe it. I mean, you
see this mayhem and chaos with these Antifa people all
dressed up in black and they link their ninja warriors
(28:08):
and they you see them, and the assumption, at least
for me, the assumption was these are college kids gone bad, right,
They're college kids that just got too close to the
Democrats Socialist of America crowd and just it's cosplay. They're
just they're not children, they're adults. But they're behaving like children,
and the assumption is that they're just like you know,
(28:29):
college aged, college aged individuals. And then I see these
police reports and they're like in their thirties and forties.
It's absolutely incredible to me, absolutely incredible. Hey, Lou, I'll
bet you fifty bucks you can't take thirty seconds to
say something nice about a Democrat. I'll take that bet. Well,
(28:51):
first off, I don't think Democrats are saying anything nice
about me. Why do they need me to say something
nice about them? The Democrat Party is not the Democrat
Party it used to be. It is. It's in shambles,
like it's it's just, it's a it's a shell of itself.
It used to stand for American workers, it used to
stand for American families. It used to stand for strengthening
(29:15):
our workforce. Right, that's what the donkey is. And today
the Democrat Party stands for foreigners in the country illegally,
Palestinian terrorists and Palestinian terrorist sympathizers. And that's about it,
(29:39):
which is why you see the favorability ratings of Democrats
in the tubes. Everyone talks about how Trump's you know,
approval ratings are underwater. They're below fifty compared to what
compared to the Democrats. The Democrats have no favorability. Look
what's happening. I mean, they have no candidate. They have
there's no national voice, there's no national message. The Democrat
Party is just basically anti Trump. Whatever Trump wants, they
(30:01):
want the opposite. Trump wants peace in the Middle East
and Democrats don't. Trump wants illegals out of the country,
and Democrats want to keep the illegals in the country.
I mean, it's just the opposite. It's the opposite party,
and there's really nothing nice to say about the platform.
They're not raising wages for American workers by flooding the
(30:28):
labor force with illegal and ineligible labor. That depresses wages, right,
Illegals take jobs from Americans and they work for less,
which causes the wages to be depressed by literal definition.
So they're not fighting for workers. They're frankly fighting against
at least American workers. They're not bringing down the cost
(30:52):
of housing by deregulating the industry. They're over regulating the industry.
And they want you to move into some East German
tower and take the bus. That's not freedom. So yeah,
there's very little to say. I look, I grew up.
I had Democrats in my family growing up, because back
(31:14):
in the seventies and eighties, the Democrat Party stood for workers,
union workers. My grandfather was a general contractor. Right, they
were working to create conditions in which Americans made more money.
It was always that the Democrat Party was supposed to
be the party of working class people.
Speaker 4 (31:32):
Right.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
Republicans were the party of industry and business, and it
was the inn and yang. Now I don't, as I've said,
I don't know what what name me a position that
they hold that is good for Americans and good for
American workers. I don't see you one. I mean, look
(31:54):
at you know. I mean there is this example after
example after example of a real immaturity problem. And I
think we're gonna have a bit of a shakeup in
this governor's race. And I think we're going to see
some new blood emerging. And I think it's about time
because the bench is weak, there's no question about it.
(32:14):
And it's a huge opportunity for Republicans if they want
to have viability in California politics. The lane is wide
open right now. And the British rock band the who
famously said it's the singer, not the song, that makes
the music move along. And what the Republican Party in
(32:35):
California is missing is the lead singer. But there's still time.
We'll see where this goes. Lou Penrose Info John Coblt
on KFI AM six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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