May 22, 2025 • 38 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (05/22) - CA State Senator Tony Strickland comes on the show to talk about CA's electric car mandate being blocked by the US Senate. More on the US Senate blocking CA's electric car mandate. The Deputy Mayor of Public Safety for Los Angeles agrees to plead guilty for calling in a bomb threat.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
Cobelt podcast on the iHeartRadio app. After four o'clock. Whatever
you missed, you go to the iHeart app for the
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what you missed. Deborah Mark is here the great return.
I'm that after laying in state for several days. Well,
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you're all better. I'm not all better, You're mostly better.
I'm mostly better. Yeah, she had some kind of some
kind of signus issue made her cough a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm still coughing a lot.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
So if if I got a newscast short, or I
take some weird breaks in the middle, you know I'm coughing.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
All right, all right, try not to induce you into
talking too much.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We have big news today, and the US said it
after the House voted to block Californnia's ban on gas
powered cars twenty thirty five. As you may know, we
wouldn't be able to buy a gas powered car, and
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in fact, they were phasing in quotas between now and
twenty thirty five. Every year a certain number of electrical
vehicles must be purchased. Although it was never clear exactly
how they were going to enforce that. And of course
most people don't want an electric vehicle, and they don't
buy an electric vehicle for obvious reasons. They're really expensive,
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there's not that many charging stations around, and besides that,
there's not an electrical build, an electrical grid that's been
built to handle it, among other reasons. California took the lead,
and they're very proud of this in trying to force
us to buy electric cars, taking away our freedom to
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decide how we want to transport ourselves on the roads.
And today, in a fifty one to forty four vote,
the Senates, no, you can't do that. People have got
to be free. This is part of freedom too, deciding
what kind of car you want. And of course this
is the greenhouse gas global warming nonsense that most normal
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people don't care about. But Gavin Newsom, this is his religion.
He is the high priest. We are going to, you know,
coming up in the next segment, I'm going to tell
you exactly how this works because California got a waiver
from the federal government from the EPA because normally when
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you emission standards motor vehicle standards. It's a national standard,
but California has applied over the years for waivers so
they could enact their own air pollution laws because we
had some unusual terrain here that led to pretty intense smog.
People who were around here back in the nineteen seventies
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will tell you that LA was coded in disgusting, unhealthy
smog that's largely dissipated. But now they've decided to call
greenhouse gases with like carbon dioxide to be pollution. Carbon
dioxide is what you and I exhale, so it's not pollution.
But you know, there's a whole industry that is built
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around this racket. Anyway. So the Senate says, end of
the racket in California. So of the House, Trump will
sign the bill. Let's talk to Senate Transportation Vice Chairman
Tony Strickland for his thoughts on this.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Tony, how are you fantastic news? John? At least those
common sense in Washington, at least on this issue.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I've always thought it is outrageous that we have to
be forced to buy something we don't want, and something
really important here. We're not talking about light bulbs, We're
talking about a motor vehicle and their choice is a
real pain in the ass. For all the reasons I said,
it's it's really expensive, it takes a long time to charge,
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there aren't that many public charging stations, and there's no
electrical grid to support it anyway. So it was so
preposterous that this loss stood as long as it did.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I could agree more. And there's many reasons, and you
mentioned a lot of them. You know, first and foremost,
the people don't want it. I had Handai in my
office the other day in general motors, and they're number
two in the market, and then two percent growth rate.
With all the federal subsidies and state subspeeds throwing at this,
the people just don't want it. Number two, most mo
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Cailiforniaans can't afford it. Forty to sixty thousand dollars and three.
And I'm glad you mentioned the energy. The worst thing
that can happen in California is everybody go buy an
electric car and plug it in because we don't have
the energy capacity. We would have rolling blackouts all throughout California.
Because we still don't have enough energy in California right now,
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not alone adding fifteen million electric vehicles to the road.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's what's nuts. If we all obeyed the High Priest's
command and plugged in an electric vehicle tomorrow, we'd have
blackouts across the state. It'd be impossible desply that kind
of energy, and it will be impossible for a very
long time.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yes. Absolutely, And you mentioned the charging stations. We have
less than two hundred thousand. You need to over two
million in order to meet the demand or the mandate.
So common sense. This is all common sense nonsense coming
from Governor Newsom and the two thirds majority. What I
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said is this decision in the US Senate make California
affordable again. People can have freedom and buy the car
that they want. You know, if someone wants electric vehicle,
go have at it, but don't force everybody to, you know,
buy an electric vehicle. And again, most Californians can't afford
a forty to sixty thousand dollars car.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think. Well, Noison doesn't
care about this kind of freedom, which is really doll.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
He's like, he's like Marie Antoinette, you know, letting me cake.
He doesn't understand what normal citizens go through. And again,
it's just like the he's good for other people. I
guarantee he drives his I bet he drives. I don't
know this for sure, but you know he doesn't. He
mandates on others what he's not willing to do, just
like the French laundry. He wanted he went out and
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had food out in public, but he didn't want anybody
else to do so his kids went to school in person,
but he didn't want our kids to do it. You know,
he's he's just a classic Marie Antoinette. Let him eat
cake and and again, most most Californians can't afford it.
And the worst thing that can happen is everybody playing
it in because we don't have enough electricity right now.
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We need to work I'm on the Energy committee as well.
We need to work hard to build more energy here
in California. And we shouldn't be energy independent here in
this in the state. But you know they're getting rid
of oil and gasoline and more and more. You know,
Valero's leaving, Phillips sixty six is leaving, and now projections
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are that gas prices are gonna be upwards to eight
dollars a gallon next year. I mean, with management of
this governor is is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, what can be done to stave off these excessive
gas prices because they are coming? Valera really is closing
a refinery. Phillips sixty six really is closing a for refinery.
I think I think Valero or one of the two
is closing a pair. What are we supposed to do here?
Just take it? We've got all this while down below
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we're walking on top of it. Bakersfield is built over
a gigantic oil reserve and we can't use it. And
this just seems nuts. I mean, what can we do
to change things here?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Well, one of the bills I have is to eliminate
the spending for the high speed rail and lower the
gas prices for all California residents dramatically, seven billion dollar
tax cut in our gas prices. Actually, when you look
at it, the government makes more money off of gas
than than than oil companies do. With the increase in
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gas and sales tax. We have an X size tax
and sales tax on this and it's increased every year
on their Gavin Newsom, So we need relief at the
pump for everyday citizens. You want to do what's right, Relieve, relieve,
the gas tax and lower the prices for everyday citizens
because they're having a hard time.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Living paycheck to paycheck. And this legislature has said that
they wanted to make this year the year of attacking
the affordability crisis in California, but they're now proposing more
more taxes as they keep spending and wasting money. And
then they come up with these crazy, uh, these crazy
ideas that everybody's going to buy an electric car by
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you know, two thousand.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
No, they're they're insane. I mean, they are in a
bizarre religious cult. They're insane. People do not want to
buy these cars, and they have great reasons not to.
And if you want an affordable state, a large component
of affordability is energy because everything we have depends on
cheap energy, not only all the transportation, but the manufacturer
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of goods and and and and moving the goods around.
There isn't an industry that doesn't depend on cheap gas
and cheap oile and and and there's no way to
create enough electricity so that we are not burning gas
and oil. That's just impossible. Nobody's doing that, correct, It
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is impossible.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And again I'm glad that the US n and acted
the way they did, and I welcome it, and I said,
it's a great day for California and because it made
California affordable again, and we need to keep getting more
common sends people up here at Sacramento and get rid
of these crazy people who are in theory and not
in reality.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
All right, good talking with you, Tony, Thanks for coming
on again.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Thanks again for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Tony Strickland, California State Senator out of Huntington Beach, Republican,
Vice Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. I don't think
the average person understands the kind of crisis the wall
that we're hurtling towards, in terms of how expensive gas
is going to be, and just how wonderful it is
that they're lifting this ban on gas powered cars. We
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come back. I'm going to tell you it's not easy
to explain, but I'm going to tell you Newsome is
going to is suing now the federal government, or is
threatening to sue the federal government for blocking his bill,
his dream. You know, he wants to ban gas powered cars.
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The Senate said today you can't do that. We're revoking
your waiver, and they're controversy over the way the Senate
passed the bill. And what I'm reading is some California
officials are defiant and they're going to sue saying this
is illegal, and others in the industry seem to be
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resigned to it happening. So it's of course, you know
the newspapers do cheerleading. Well, the new sites now do
cheerleading for progressive democratic issues. So I'm trying, as I'm
going through all these articles, separate the hype cheerleading from
the progressive side that wants to ban gas powered cars
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and the reality of the situation. We'll talk about it
coming up next, Deborah Mark. You know, Michael Monks is wonderful,
but it's just not it's not the same look. We'll
start with that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I get he wasn't wearing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
On the outside. He wasn't wearing leopard where I could
see it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He has leopard undies.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I don't know what he implied. I was not going
to follow up on that.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm going to follow up on that.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, you can go follow up on that and don't
tell me. Right.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, the uh, the gas powered car ban is dead.
Gavin Newsom and the Democratic legislature a few years ago
had mandated that by twenty thirty five no one could
buy a gas powered car, and that has been reversed.
The US Senate voted on that today. The House already
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voted on it. By the way, the House got thirty
five Democrats to block the ban, including two from southern California.
My god, it was bipartisan. Now in the Senate was
fifty one forty four goes to Trump. Newsom is is
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insisting that he's going to soothe and I'm gonna try
to not try not to get too wonky here. But
here's the basis of their lawsuit. Back in nineteen sixty seven,
Congress passed the Clean Air Act national mandate for standards,
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emission standards and the like, and they gave California the
power to set its own standards more strict. But before
each of those standards can take effect, the EPA had
to grant California a waiver, and since nineteen sixty seven,
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the EPA in Congress has never blocked any of California's
car and truck rules. All the waivers, and there have
been dozens, and they got them off until today. Because
in this case, it wasn't just demanding a car that
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produced fewer emissions. They were saying you can't buy a
gas powered car at all. And that's abusive because the
electric cars are not yet a good replacement. They're unaffordable
for most people. Let's start with that. There. You can't
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really take them on long distance drives very easily because
there aren't that many charging stations, and the charging stations
they have are slow, often broken. There's no electrical grid
to support the mass purchase of electric vehicles. So it's
a half assed idea, and it's the government's own fault.
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They rushed this idea. They also used our tax money
to try to induce people to buy electric vehicles. And
guess who won out on that. Tesla did in California.
Most of the people who buy electrical vehicles are wealthy people,
and mostly they bought Teslas up until the point that
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Musk aligned with Trump, and now Musk is bad and
people aren't buying Tesla's as frequently. In fact, the percentage
of people buying electric cars is dropping in California. This
is how stupid progressive people are. It's shows you just
how trendy and mindless they are. Oh, it's a winner
for to buy electric vehicles. Yes, I bought a Tesla.
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Yes I'm on the right side of history. Wait a second,
Musk is connected to Trump. He's a Nazi. I can't
support a Nazi. And suddenly people are selling their teslas.
They're not buying teslas, they're firebombing teslas because that's the
cool trend. That's the right side of history. Pretent is buffoons.
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So going back to this waiver, there's this there's this
been this debate in the Senate whether a waiver is
a regulation because Congress can block regulations. In fact, there's
a special law that says you can block regulations. Often
presidents dump out a lot of restrictive regulations in the
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final year or two of their term, and Congress is
allowed to go back and reverse those. Well, there's some
in the Senate saying, well, a waiver is not a regulation,
it's an order. You know, they're playing like some kind
of semantic game. They're screwing with the language. They're trying
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to claim that Congress doesn't have the right to reverse
this regulation. Well, then who does. They're acting like once
a regulation is put into a fact or a way,
it can never be reversed for any reason, you know,
Because what's funny is Trump issued all these executive orders
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on various issues recently, and they said, well, that's illegal
what he does. Only Congress could do that in this case,
Congress is doing it. Well that, well, then who is
it Trump? I mean, Trump said, charge is the is
the chief executive. The EPA falls under his domain. He
appoints whoever runs the EPA. So if Trump had done
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it with an executive order, they say, oh, Congress can
only do that. Well, if Congress does it, it's like, well, no,
they're not. They can't do it either. Well then who
we can't vote on it as the people. So if
there's a half assed, hair brained regulation that takes away
people's freedom, then we'll all just have to salute and obey.
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So I can't see this. I think he's do some
huffing and puffing. I can't see the lawsuit going anywhere.
Somebody has to have the authority to change a bad law,
or even to change a good law. There's got to
be a way to do it. If the people's representatives
in the House and the Senate change the regulation, then
it's changed. If the President signs it, then that's the
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way it goes. Then you got to vote differently to
try to change it back. But the idea that nobody
can change these things is stupid, especially when you're teath
taking away a freedom that we ought to have. And
by the way, the bottom line on this, banning gas
powered cars in California has zero effect on the climate.
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Zero and everybody knows it, and nobody says it out loud.
We're a very small percentage of the Earth's population, very
small percentage of the Earth's land mass, and of the
of the entire planet. Nothing we do matters, it really doesn't.
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We can all die tomorrow and nobody will be driving
in a gas powered car, an electric car, nothing. We're
all dead, we're all laying in on the ground. Climate
doesn't change around the world, same climate because we're too
tiny to have an effect. This is just you know,
I've realized a lot of people are just kind of stupid,
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but they want to be cool, they want to be
on the winning side, they want to be on the
right side. The progressives are really good at creating this
mythology of this is cool. Yeah, this is this. This
is the what the cool kids want to do. We're
all gonna have Tesla this, We're all gonna have electric cars.
And those are bad people over there driving gas powered cars.
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Stop it. This is this is a complete this is artificial,
This is made up, this is invented. There is no
infrastructure to support all of us driving electric cars. This
is abusive and dictatorial. We have a jackass for a governor,
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and he should be happy that the Senate has reversed
this because he can't run for president having banned gas
powered cars. No way he wins anything. He's a fool,
he's a buffoon. He's talking tough to please progressives in
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his state. Well, that crowd's time is over. Around the country,
they're clinging on here to power. But I gotta think
time is running out, even in California, because the rest
of the country has rejected all these progressive ideas because
they're all bad, they all failed, they've all made life worse.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Well, John, Also, when we have power shutoffs and all
of that that happened in California, how are you going
to expect people to charge their cars?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I have never seen anybody ask newsom, it's like we
had we had blackouts, remember rolling blackouts a couple of
years ago, and it was because.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It was a hot day, And they're going to be there.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I'm sure this summer there will be more because of
worry about fires.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And uh, you know, he reversed his decision on closing
down some natural gas plants that created electricity, and he
also reversed his decision on a nuclear plant that created electricity.
He went back on that.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I'm surprised he didn't go back on this, but that
he's not backing down on this so he.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Knows he doesn't have enough electricity to pull this off.
And he's out of office in a year and a half.
So I don't I don't understand fighting for something that
if he won he could never follow through on. We'd
have a disaster, we'd have complete blackouts all over the state,
and nobody ever questions him on it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, we're questioning him right now.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
We're questioning it. Yes, you imagine this is the you know,
I want to you know, he was having all kinds
of different guests on his podcast. I should be on
his podcast.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I've said that to you or you should have him
as a guest on your show.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Well, he of you won't come on you don't you
know what?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Have Ray? Try again?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I want to be in his show. Iheartry owns both podcasts.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Okay, so you tell him, Hey, I'll be on your
show if you're on.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's my that's my first question. I'd say, we get
you get your way. We all have electric cars. Where's
the electric good for this? Did you build it?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
What happens when the next big earthquake hits? What happens
when we have more fires and we have the rolling blackouts?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What are people going to do?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
That's right when they had to shut off the power
in the fire areas? How are all those people going
to escape?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Idiot.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
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in case you missed it. And we're talking a lot
about and we will continue today because there's a lot
of different angles to the story of the US Senate
voting to block California from banning gas powered cars. California
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was going to have a complete band by twenty thirty five.
They were going to start insisting on quotas a certain
number of electrical vehicles would have to be sold between
now and twenty thirty five. It would go up from
year to year. And that's all out the window. And
this has a Newsom bent over without his pants squealing,
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although it really helps his chances running for president. But
I'm sure he does that. He's being a phony because
that's what he That's what he does. And what's interesting
is I've noticed in the media they are now switching
the argument as to why they passed the ban on
gas powered cars. It was entirely because a climate change.
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At the time, it was all about climate change. Now
because there's almost no interest in climate change among the
general public. People don't care or don't believe it. Really,
if you look at the polling, it's usually you give
them twenty issues. Climate change ends up twentieth. If you
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don't put it on the list, nobody thinks of it
on their own. So now the Times is trying to
spin it like these electric car requirements we're going to
eliminate seventy thousand tons of smog forming emissions forty five
hundred tons of soot by twenty forty, which is why
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California was allowed to implement regulations to limit over time
the amount of soot or the amount of emission going
into the atmosphere, you know, if the car companies were
able to do it. So California was allowed to have
stricter policies because our climate causes smog to form and
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hang in the air more easily than other places. So
that's why for fifty almost sixty years, Congress ever got
in the way because it was about an adjusting you know,
the hardware in a car, so that produces fewer emissions.
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But this was a complete ban, and they'll throw in
a statistic preventing more than twelve hundred premature deaths. Well,
prove that. How do you how do you how do
you prove? First of all, what's a premature death? And
if this, if this ban on gas powered cars are
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going to prevent it, how do you how do you
prove something was going to happen but didn't happen? And
who are these people? Who are these people who are
the twelve hundred people who are going to die but
didn't die. That's an entirely invented statistic that's completely unprovable.
What which twelve hundred people? Why twelve hundred people and
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the researchers or politicians or lobbyists make up these statistics
out of thin air? Why would they be dying exactly?
And where would they be dying? What towns are they
living in? I guess maybe you can make a case
if they're living next to a freeway. Ill, maybe you
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shouldn't live next to a freeway then, huh. They said
that all the time. With pollution. It's like, well, you know,
people in certain neighborhoods, you know, are more prone to
certain disasse. Well, to move out of the neighborhood. That's
what most normal people do if they find that they're
living next to toxic factories. Don't live there. Oh it's
not that easy, ye, yes it is. Yeah, Yeah, You
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pack up the truck and you go drive somewhere else
where it's not polluted, where you're just gonna sit there
and die. Factories aren't going anywhere. And by the way,
these gas powered cars aren't going anywhere. We have to
have them I realize. You know, they're talking about the
soot that's gonna be removed. If you're gonna have modern life.
There's a certain amount of pollution, there's a certain amount
of certain amount of emissions. That's the way it goes.
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And science and automobile industries they're gonna work on reducing
the problem, and they have to be pushed by the government.
Everybody agrees with that generally, but it doesn't mean that
we get rid of all the gas powered cars. That's absurd.
They don't want us to live modern life, and they
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want to have control over how we live from day
to day, hour to hour, limit the number of hours
we're driving because they say so, because it really is.
It comes down to because they say so. Because they're arrogant, obnoxious,
dictatorial a holes. That's what they are. Progressives are obnoxious,
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dictatorial a holes. They like to control other people. This
is what the Communists party in China enjoys. It's what
the Communists and the Soviet Union enjoy It's what every dictatorship,
what every oppressive government enjoys. Because it's cool. It's cool
to tell other people what to do and one of
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their weapons, and it's very effective is emotionally manipulate your
subjects into feeling shame, into feeling guilt and remorse. It's like, oh, was.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
I polluting the planet? I'm sorry, my lord, I didn't
mean to pollute the planet. This way, I will stop
driving my car, I will no longer take my children
to school, I will not go out and buy any food.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I will not work anymore. And they'll be happy if
you don't work anymore. They're happy to send you a
welfare check and make you more dependent on them, so
they have power over you. They have control over you.
One of the amazing phenomenons, really of this entire era
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is how willing people in California, more than anywhere else,
how willing they are to give control over to a
bunch of dictatorial aholes. Progressive Democrats in Sacramento, the legislators
are some of the most unpleasant people you will ever encounter. Angry,
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stupid bullies, unhappy, always trying to impose their way of
life on others. You know how nasty they get if
you contradict them. And they have now been drunk on
absolute power in Sacramento for many years. Super majorities veto
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proof majorities. They don't think any of you matter, But
so many in this state just bend over. There's so uh.
They're so cowed, they're so fearful. You don't want to
You don't want to anger your masters. If they say
I'm not supposed to drive that, yeah, I won't drive
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because they tell me it's good for the planet. They know,
they must know more than I do. It's like, don't
It's one of the most powerful forces in human nature
to control others, to tell people what to do. You
see it in your families, you see it at your workplace,
you see it even among friends. There's always somebody who
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wants to tell you what to do. And often it's
the stupid people who maybe are more sessive. We're more
emotionally unbalanced, and so they're they're obsessive, compulsive, driven. They
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can outlast you. It's not worth it.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Nobody can outlast us, John.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
No, I know that, right. No, we are crazier than
they are.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
We are.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
But you really, you really have to have a stomach
to want to want to resist these forces, and most
people don't.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Well, because I think people give up.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
They don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You get tired of pushing and pushing and pushing.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
We don't get tired here, and we expect you not
to get tired either. All right, do we know.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
What started the Palisades fire yet? By the way, I've
been off a.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Couple of days, a few days, well more points towards
those fireworks. Yeah, do you hear about that?
Speaker 6 (31:44):
I did.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, it's not definitive, but it looks like it.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, it looks like it. And now and now the
fire department has to explain why they didn't keep a
crew for six days on that stretch, because they should
have been able. They should have had a crew there
the whole week for at least and put out the
fire as soon as it kicked up.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Well, I hope things change this fourth of July. Oh yeah,
I know that was New Year's but you know, Fourth
of July is coming up and.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Things already have dried out.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Alex Stone is coming on right after two o'clock over
this plane crash in a San Diego neighborhood. You just
mentioned how we don't know what the origin of the
fire was, right, Karen vass As you remember took off
on a flight to Africa right before the fire, a
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couple of days before the fire, even though she was
warned for several days that we had extreme fire warnings.
She had a deputy mayor who's normally assigned to oversee
the fire and police departments. He was the deputy mayor
in charge of public safety. His name Brian Williams. But
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Brian Williams was on home confinement. He had been on
administrative leave because the FBI suspected he was calling in
bomb threats to the to city Hall. So Karen Bass
was in Africa and Brian Williams was on leave while
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the FBI did is its investigation, so that that played
there was there was nobody in charge clearly. Well, just
minutes ago, the LA Time said that Brian Williams has
struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors. He now admits
he called in a fake bomb threat to city Hall,
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some kind of anti Israeli statement. Bass hires insane people,
absolutely insane. Got Genie Kinez who didn't fill up the reservoir.
You got that Valicia Adams Kellum who ran the Homeless
(34:01):
Authority into the ground and gave her husband's nonprofit two
million dollars along the way. Now you got Brian Williams.
He was deputy mayor of public Safety. He pleaded guilty
to a single count of threats regarding fire and explosives,
maximum prison term of ten years. He's going to show
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up in court in the next few weeks. This is
from Bill A. Saley, the US Attorney in an air
of heated political rhetoric that sometimes had escalated into violence.
We cannot allow public officials to make bomb threats. My
office will continue its effort to keep the public safe,
including from those who violate their duty to uphold the law.
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The deputy mayor is calling in bomb threats allegedly, well,
he's making a plea deal. Now he's admitting it. Williams
supposedly made the call last October to LAPD Deputy Chief
Scott Harrelson, who was chief of staff for dominic Joi,
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the interim police chief that we had on of the
show where he gave us all those phony crime statistics.
About ten minutes after placing the fake bomb threat, Brian
Williams sent a text message to Karen Bass and other
officials saying bomb threat. I received a phone call on
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my city Seal at ten forty eight this morning. The
mail caller said he was tired of the city supporting
Israel and he's decided to place a bomb in city Hall.
It might be in the rotunda. I immediately contacted the
chief of staff at LAPD. They're going to send a
number of officers over to do a search of the building.
So he sent He sent a text to Karen Bass
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saying somebody's threatening to blow up city Hall when he
was the one. He was the one who called in
the bomb threat. Then he followed up with other texts
saying there was no need to evacuate City Hall. Then
he wrote a meeting with threat management officers within the
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next ten minutes. In light of the Jewish holidays, We're
taking this threat a little more seriously. I'll keep you posted.
What a nut. What a nut? And Bass hired him.
What's with all these crazy people? He spent two years
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as a deputy mayor in her office. Two years he
worked on police hiring, public safety spending. He worked on
the search for a new police chief. This can't be.
He was also a deputy mayor for James Hahn twenty
years ago. He was executive director of the Sheriff's Civilian
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Oversight Commission. Working in Bass's office, he oversaw the police Department,
the Fire Department, the Port Police, the Airport Police, and
the city's Emergency Management Agency. He was a member of
the Mayor's inner circle when Nathan Hockman was sworn in
last year. Williams was the city official who addressed the
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audience on behalf of the mayor calling in fake bomb
threats over Israel, and wasn't available the day of the
fire when Bass ran off to Africa. Have you ever
seen a worse crew than this? This is just all
this is impossible, This just can't be true. All right,
(37:48):
we'll have more coming up. Deborah Mark is lied in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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what you missed. Deborah Mark is here the great return.
I'm that after laying in state for several days. Well,
(00:22):
you're all better. I'm not all better, You're mostly better.
I'm mostly better. Yeah, she had some kind of some
kind of signus issue made her cough a whole lot.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
I'm still coughing a lot.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
So if if I got a newscast short, or I
take some weird breaks in the middle, you know I'm coughing.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
All right, all right, try not to induce you into
talking too much.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
All right.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
We have big news today, and the US said it
after the House voted to block Californnia's ban on gas
powered cars twenty thirty five. As you may know, we
wouldn't be able to buy a gas powered car, and
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in fact, they were phasing in quotas between now and
twenty thirty five. Every year a certain number of electrical
vehicles must be purchased. Although it was never clear exactly
how they were going to enforce that. And of course
most people don't want an electric vehicle, and they don't
buy an electric vehicle for obvious reasons. They're really expensive,
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there's not that many charging stations around, and besides that,
there's not an electrical build, an electrical grid that's been
built to handle it, among other reasons. California took the lead,
and they're very proud of this in trying to force
us to buy electric cars, taking away our freedom to
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decide how we want to transport ourselves on the roads.
And today, in a fifty one to forty four vote,
the Senates, no, you can't do that. People have got
to be free. This is part of freedom too, deciding
what kind of car you want. And of course this
is the greenhouse gas global warming nonsense that most normal
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people don't care about. But Gavin Newsom, this is his religion.
He is the high priest. We are going to, you know,
coming up in the next segment, I'm going to tell
you exactly how this works because California got a waiver
from the federal government from the EPA because normally when
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you emission standards motor vehicle standards. It's a national standard,
but California has applied over the years for waivers so
they could enact their own air pollution laws because we
had some unusual terrain here that led to pretty intense smog.
People who were around here back in the nineteen seventies
(02:57):
will tell you that LA was coded in disgusting, unhealthy
smog that's largely dissipated. But now they've decided to call
greenhouse gases with like carbon dioxide to be pollution. Carbon
dioxide is what you and I exhale, so it's not pollution.
But you know, there's a whole industry that is built
(03:19):
around this racket. Anyway. So the Senate says, end of
the racket in California. So of the House, Trump will
sign the bill. Let's talk to Senate Transportation Vice Chairman
Tony Strickland for his thoughts on this.
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Tony, how are you fantastic news? John? At least those
common sense in Washington, at least on this issue.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
I've always thought it is outrageous that we have to
be forced to buy something we don't want, and something
really important here. We're not talking about light bulbs, We're
talking about a motor vehicle and their choice is a
real pain in the ass. For all the reasons I said,
it's it's really expensive, it takes a long time to charge,
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there aren't that many public charging stations, and there's no
electrical grid to support it anyway. So it was so
preposterous that this loss stood as long as it did.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
I could agree more. And there's many reasons, and you
mentioned a lot of them. You know, first and foremost,
the people don't want it. I had Handai in my
office the other day in general motors, and they're number
two in the market, and then two percent growth rate.
With all the federal subsidies and state subspeeds throwing at this,
the people just don't want it. Number two, most mo
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Cailiforniaans can't afford it. Forty to sixty thousand dollars and three.
And I'm glad you mentioned the energy. The worst thing
that can happen in California is everybody go buy an
electric car and plug it in because we don't have
the energy capacity. We would have rolling blackouts all throughout California.
Because we still don't have enough energy in California right now,
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not alone adding fifteen million electric vehicles to the road.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
That's what's nuts. If we all obeyed the High Priest's
command and plugged in an electric vehicle tomorrow, we'd have
blackouts across the state. It'd be impossible desply that kind
of energy, and it will be impossible for a very
long time.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
Yes. Absolutely, And you mentioned the charging stations. We have
less than two hundred thousand. You need to over two
million in order to meet the demand or the mandate.
So common sense. This is all common sense nonsense coming
from Governor Newsom and the two thirds majority. What I
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said is this decision in the US Senate make California
affordable again. People can have freedom and buy the car
that they want. You know, if someone wants electric vehicle,
go have at it, but don't force everybody to, you know,
buy an electric vehicle. And again, most Californians can't afford
a forty to sixty thousand dollars car.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think. Well, Noison doesn't
care about this kind of freedom, which is really doll.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
He's like, he's like Marie Antoinette, you know, letting me cake.
He doesn't understand what normal citizens go through. And again,
it's just like the he's good for other people. I
guarantee he drives his I bet he drives. I don't
know this for sure, but you know he doesn't. He
mandates on others what he's not willing to do, just
like the French laundry. He wanted he went out and
(06:27):
had food out in public, but he didn't want anybody
else to do so his kids went to school in person,
but he didn't want our kids to do it. You know,
he's he's just a classic Marie Antoinette. Let him eat
cake and and again, most most Californians can't afford it.
And the worst thing that can happen is everybody playing
it in because we don't have enough electricity right now.
(06:50):
We need to work I'm on the Energy committee as well.
We need to work hard to build more energy here
in California. And we shouldn't be energy independent here in
this in the state. But you know they're getting rid
of oil and gasoline and more and more. You know,
Valero's leaving, Phillips sixty six is leaving, and now projections
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are that gas prices are gonna be upwards to eight
dollars a gallon next year. I mean, with management of
this governor is is unbelievable.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Well, what can be done to stave off these excessive
gas prices because they are coming? Valera really is closing
a refinery. Phillips sixty six really is closing a for refinery.
I think I think Valero or one of the two
is closing a pair. What are we supposed to do here?
Just take it? We've got all this while down below
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we're walking on top of it. Bakersfield is built over
a gigantic oil reserve and we can't use it. And
this just seems nuts. I mean, what can we do
to change things here?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
Well, one of the bills I have is to eliminate
the spending for the high speed rail and lower the
gas prices for all California residents dramatically, seven billion dollar
tax cut in our gas prices. Actually, when you look
at it, the government makes more money off of gas
than than than oil companies do. With the increase in
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gas and sales tax. We have an X size tax
and sales tax on this and it's increased every year
on their Gavin Newsom, So we need relief at the
pump for everyday citizens. You want to do what's right, Relieve, relieve,
the gas tax and lower the prices for everyday citizens
because they're having a hard time.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
Living paycheck to paycheck. And this legislature has said that
they wanted to make this year the year of attacking
the affordability crisis in California, but they're now proposing more
more taxes as they keep spending and wasting money. And
then they come up with these crazy, uh, these crazy
ideas that everybody's going to buy an electric car by
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you know, two thousand.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
No, they're they're insane. I mean, they are in a
bizarre religious cult. They're insane. People do not want to
buy these cars, and they have great reasons not to.
And if you want an affordable state, a large component
of affordability is energy because everything we have depends on
cheap energy, not only all the transportation, but the manufacturer
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of goods and and and and moving the goods around.
There isn't an industry that doesn't depend on cheap gas
and cheap oile and and and there's no way to
create enough electricity so that we are not burning gas
and oil. That's just impossible. Nobody's doing that, correct, It
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is impossible.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
And again I'm glad that the US n and acted
the way they did, and I welcome it, and I said,
it's a great day for California and because it made
California affordable again, and we need to keep getting more
common sends people up here at Sacramento and get rid
of these crazy people who are in theory and not
in reality.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
All right, good talking with you, Tony, Thanks for coming
on again.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Thanks again for having me. I really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Tony Strickland, California State Senator out of Huntington Beach, Republican,
Vice Chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee. I don't think
the average person understands the kind of crisis the wall
that we're hurtling towards, in terms of how expensive gas
is going to be, and just how wonderful it is
that they're lifting this ban on gas powered cars. We
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come back. I'm going to tell you it's not easy
to explain, but I'm going to tell you Newsome is
going to is suing now the federal government, or is
threatening to sue the federal government for blocking his bill,
his dream. You know, he wants to ban gas powered cars.
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The Senate said today you can't do that. We're revoking
your waiver, and they're controversy over the way the Senate
passed the bill. And what I'm reading is some California
officials are defiant and they're going to sue saying this
is illegal, and others in the industry seem to be
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resigned to it happening. So it's of course, you know
the newspapers do cheerleading. Well, the new sites now do
cheerleading for progressive democratic issues. So I'm trying, as I'm
going through all these articles, separate the hype cheerleading from
the progressive side that wants to ban gas powered cars
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and the reality of the situation. We'll talk about it
coming up next, Deborah Mark. You know, Michael Monks is wonderful,
but it's just not it's not the same look. We'll
start with that.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
I get he wasn't wearing.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
On the outside. He wasn't wearing leopard where I could
see it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
He has leopard undies.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
I don't know what he implied. I was not going
to follow up on that.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm going to follow up on that.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
Well, you can go follow up on that and don't
tell me. Right.
Speaker 6 (12:10):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, the uh, the gas powered car ban is dead.
Gavin Newsom and the Democratic legislature a few years ago
had mandated that by twenty thirty five no one could
buy a gas powered car, and that has been reversed.
The US Senate voted on that today. The House already
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voted on it. By the way, the House got thirty
five Democrats to block the ban, including two from southern California.
My god, it was bipartisan. Now in the Senate was
fifty one forty four goes to Trump. Newsom is is
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insisting that he's going to soothe and I'm gonna try
to not try not to get too wonky here. But
here's the basis of their lawsuit. Back in nineteen sixty seven,
Congress passed the Clean Air Act national mandate for standards,
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emission standards and the like, and they gave California the
power to set its own standards more strict. But before
each of those standards can take effect, the EPA had
to grant California a waiver, and since nineteen sixty seven,
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the EPA in Congress has never blocked any of California's
car and truck rules. All the waivers, and there have
been dozens, and they got them off until today. Because
in this case, it wasn't just demanding a car that
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produced fewer emissions. They were saying you can't buy a
gas powered car at all. And that's abusive because the
electric cars are not yet a good replacement. They're unaffordable
for most people. Let's start with that. There. You can't
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really take them on long distance drives very easily because
there aren't that many charging stations, and the charging stations
they have are slow, often broken. There's no electrical grid
to support the mass purchase of electric vehicles. So it's
a half assed idea, and it's the government's own fault.
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They rushed this idea. They also used our tax money
to try to induce people to buy electric vehicles. And
guess who won out on that. Tesla did in California.
Most of the people who buy electrical vehicles are wealthy people,
and mostly they bought Teslas up until the point that
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Musk aligned with Trump, and now Musk is bad and
people aren't buying Tesla's as frequently. In fact, the percentage
of people buying electric cars is dropping in California. This
is how stupid progressive people are. It's shows you just
how trendy and mindless they are. Oh, it's a winner
for to buy electric vehicles. Yes, I bought a Tesla.
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Yes I'm on the right side of history. Wait a second,
Musk is connected to Trump. He's a Nazi. I can't
support a Nazi. And suddenly people are selling their teslas.
They're not buying teslas, they're firebombing teslas because that's the
cool trend. That's the right side of history. Pretent is buffoons.
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So going back to this waiver, there's this there's this
been this debate in the Senate whether a waiver is
a regulation because Congress can block regulations. In fact, there's
a special law that says you can block regulations. Often
presidents dump out a lot of restrictive regulations in the
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final year or two of their term, and Congress is
allowed to go back and reverse those. Well, there's some
in the Senate saying, well, a waiver is not a regulation,
it's an order. You know, they're playing like some kind
of semantic game. They're screwing with the language. They're trying
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to claim that Congress doesn't have the right to reverse
this regulation. Well, then who does. They're acting like once
a regulation is put into a fact or a way,
it can never be reversed for any reason, you know,
Because what's funny is Trump issued all these executive orders
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on various issues recently, and they said, well, that's illegal
what he does. Only Congress could do that in this case,
Congress is doing it. Well that, well, then who is
it Trump? I mean, Trump said, charge is the is
the chief executive. The EPA falls under his domain. He
appoints whoever runs the EPA. So if Trump had done
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it with an executive order, they say, oh, Congress can
only do that. Well, if Congress does it, it's like, well, no,
they're not. They can't do it either. Well then who
we can't vote on it as the people. So if
there's a half assed, hair brained regulation that takes away
people's freedom, then we'll all just have to salute and obey.
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So I can't see this. I think he's do some
huffing and puffing. I can't see the lawsuit going anywhere.
Somebody has to have the authority to change a bad law,
or even to change a good law. There's got to
be a way to do it. If the people's representatives
in the House and the Senate change the regulation, then
it's changed. If the President signs it, then that's the
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way it goes. Then you got to vote differently to
try to change it back. But the idea that nobody
can change these things is stupid, especially when you're teath
taking away a freedom that we ought to have. And
by the way, the bottom line on this, banning gas
powered cars in California has zero effect on the climate.
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Zero and everybody knows it, and nobody says it out loud.
We're a very small percentage of the Earth's population, very
small percentage of the Earth's land mass, and of the
of the entire planet. Nothing we do matters, it really doesn't.
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We can all die tomorrow and nobody will be driving
in a gas powered car, an electric car, nothing. We're
all dead, we're all laying in on the ground. Climate
doesn't change around the world, same climate because we're too
tiny to have an effect. This is just you know,
I've realized a lot of people are just kind of stupid,
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but they want to be cool, they want to be
on the winning side, they want to be on the
right side. The progressives are really good at creating this
mythology of this is cool. Yeah, this is this. This
is the what the cool kids want to do. We're
all gonna have Tesla this, We're all gonna have electric cars.
And those are bad people over there driving gas powered cars.
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Stop it. This is this is a complete this is artificial,
This is made up, this is invented. There is no
infrastructure to support all of us driving electric cars. This
is abusive and dictatorial. We have a jackass for a governor,
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and he should be happy that the Senate has reversed
this because he can't run for president having banned gas
powered cars. No way he wins anything. He's a fool,
he's a buffoon. He's talking tough to please progressives in
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his state. Well, that crowd's time is over. Around the country,
they're clinging on here to power. But I gotta think
time is running out, even in California, because the rest
of the country has rejected all these progressive ideas because
they're all bad, they all failed, they've all made life worse.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Well, John, Also, when we have power shutoffs and all
of that that happened in California, how are you going
to expect people to charge their cars?
Speaker 1 (21:02):
I have never seen anybody ask newsom, it's like we
had we had blackouts, remember rolling blackouts a couple of
years ago, and it was because.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
It was a hot day, And they're going to be there.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
I'm sure this summer there will be more because of
worry about fires.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
And uh, you know, he reversed his decision on closing
down some natural gas plants that created electricity, and he
also reversed his decision on a nuclear plant that created electricity.
He went back on that.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I'm surprised he didn't go back on this, but that
he's not backing down on this so he.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Knows he doesn't have enough electricity to pull this off.
And he's out of office in a year and a half.
So I don't I don't understand fighting for something that
if he won he could never follow through on. We'd
have a disaster, we'd have complete blackouts all over the state,
and nobody ever questions him on it.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Well, we're questioning him right now.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
We're questioning it. Yes, you imagine this is the you know,
I want to you know, he was having all kinds
of different guests on his podcast. I should be on
his podcast.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
I've said that to you or you should have him
as a guest on your show.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Well, he of you won't come on you don't you
know what?
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Have Ray? Try again?
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I want to be in his show. Iheartry owns both podcasts.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
Okay, so you tell him, Hey, I'll be on your
show if you're on.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
That's my that's my first question. I'd say, we get
you get your way. We all have electric cars. Where's
the electric good for this? Did you build it?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
What happens when the next big earthquake hits? What happens
when we have more fires and we have the rolling blackouts?
Speaker 2 (22:36):
What are people going to do?
Speaker 1 (22:37):
That's right when they had to shut off the power
in the fire areas? How are all those people going
to escape?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
Exactly?
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Idiot.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM.
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in case you missed it. And we're talking a lot
about and we will continue today because there's a lot
of different angles to the story of the US Senate
voting to block California from banning gas powered cars. California
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was going to have a complete band by twenty thirty five.
They were going to start insisting on quotas a certain
number of electrical vehicles would have to be sold between
now and twenty thirty five. It would go up from
year to year. And that's all out the window. And
this has a Newsom bent over without his pants squealing,
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although it really helps his chances running for president. But
I'm sure he does that. He's being a phony because
that's what he That's what he does. And what's interesting
is I've noticed in the media they are now switching
the argument as to why they passed the ban on
gas powered cars. It was entirely because a climate change.
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At the time, it was all about climate change. Now
because there's almost no interest in climate change among the
general public. People don't care or don't believe it. Really,
if you look at the polling, it's usually you give
them twenty issues. Climate change ends up twentieth. If you
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don't put it on the list, nobody thinks of it
on their own. So now the Times is trying to
spin it like these electric car requirements we're going to
eliminate seventy thousand tons of smog forming emissions forty five
hundred tons of soot by twenty forty, which is why
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California was allowed to implement regulations to limit over time
the amount of soot or the amount of emission going
into the atmosphere, you know, if the car companies were
able to do it. So California was allowed to have
stricter policies because our climate causes smog to form and
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hang in the air more easily than other places. So
that's why for fifty almost sixty years, Congress ever got
in the way because it was about an adjusting you know,
the hardware in a car, so that produces fewer emissions.
(25:32):
But this was a complete ban, and they'll throw in
a statistic preventing more than twelve hundred premature deaths. Well,
prove that. How do you how do you how do
you prove? First of all, what's a premature death? And
if this, if this ban on gas powered cars are
(25:55):
going to prevent it, how do you how do you
prove something was going to happen but didn't happen? And
who are these people? Who are these people who are
the twelve hundred people who are going to die but
didn't die. That's an entirely invented statistic that's completely unprovable.
What which twelve hundred people? Why twelve hundred people and
(26:18):
the researchers or politicians or lobbyists make up these statistics
out of thin air? Why would they be dying exactly?
And where would they be dying? What towns are they
living in? I guess maybe you can make a case
if they're living next to a freeway. Ill, maybe you
(26:40):
shouldn't live next to a freeway then, huh. They said
that all the time. With pollution. It's like, well, you know,
people in certain neighborhoods, you know, are more prone to
certain disasse. Well, to move out of the neighborhood. That's
what most normal people do if they find that they're
living next to toxic factories. Don't live there. Oh it's
not that easy, ye, yes it is. Yeah, Yeah, You
(27:02):
pack up the truck and you go drive somewhere else
where it's not polluted, where you're just gonna sit there
and die. Factories aren't going anywhere. And by the way,
these gas powered cars aren't going anywhere. We have to
have them I realize. You know, they're talking about the
soot that's gonna be removed. If you're gonna have modern life.
There's a certain amount of pollution, there's a certain amount
of certain amount of emissions. That's the way it goes.
(27:25):
And science and automobile industries they're gonna work on reducing
the problem, and they have to be pushed by the government.
Everybody agrees with that generally, but it doesn't mean that
we get rid of all the gas powered cars. That's absurd.
They don't want us to live modern life, and they
(27:46):
want to have control over how we live from day
to day, hour to hour, limit the number of hours
we're driving because they say so, because it really is.
It comes down to because they say so. Because they're arrogant, obnoxious,
dictatorial a holes. That's what they are. Progressives are obnoxious,
(28:08):
dictatorial a holes. They like to control other people. This
is what the Communists party in China enjoys. It's what
the Communists and the Soviet Union enjoy It's what every dictatorship,
what every oppressive government enjoys. Because it's cool. It's cool
to tell other people what to do and one of
(28:30):
their weapons, and it's very effective is emotionally manipulate your
subjects into feeling shame, into feeling guilt and remorse. It's like, oh, was.
Speaker 7 (28:41):
I polluting the planet? I'm sorry, my lord, I didn't
mean to pollute the planet. This way, I will stop
driving my car, I will no longer take my children
to school, I will not go out and buy any food.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
I will not work anymore. And they'll be happy if
you don't work anymore. They're happy to send you a
welfare check and make you more dependent on them, so
they have power over you. They have control over you.
One of the amazing phenomenons, really of this entire era
(29:17):
is how willing people in California, more than anywhere else,
how willing they are to give control over to a
bunch of dictatorial aholes. Progressive Democrats in Sacramento, the legislators
are some of the most unpleasant people you will ever encounter. Angry,
(29:40):
stupid bullies, unhappy, always trying to impose their way of
life on others. You know how nasty they get if
you contradict them. And they have now been drunk on
absolute power in Sacramento for many years. Super majorities veto
(30:04):
proof majorities. They don't think any of you matter, But
so many in this state just bend over. There's so uh.
They're so cowed, they're so fearful. You don't want to
You don't want to anger your masters. If they say
I'm not supposed to drive that, yeah, I won't drive
(30:26):
because they tell me it's good for the planet. They know,
they must know more than I do. It's like, don't
It's one of the most powerful forces in human nature
to control others, to tell people what to do. You
see it in your families, you see it at your workplace,
you see it even among friends. There's always somebody who
(30:48):
wants to tell you what to do. And often it's
the stupid people who maybe are more sessive. We're more
emotionally unbalanced, and so they're they're obsessive, compulsive, driven. They
(31:08):
can outlast you. It's not worth it.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
Nobody can outlast us, John.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
No, I know that, right. No, we are crazier than
they are.
Speaker 7 (31:14):
We are.
Speaker 1 (31:17):
But you really, you really have to have a stomach
to want to want to resist these forces, and most
people don't.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
Well, because I think people give up.
Speaker 1 (31:25):
They don't know.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You get tired of pushing and pushing and pushing.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
We don't get tired here, and we expect you not
to get tired either. All right, do we know.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
What started the Palisades fire yet? By the way, I've
been off a.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Couple of days, a few days, well more points towards
those fireworks. Yeah, do you hear about that?
Speaker 6 (31:44):
I did.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, it's not definitive, but it looks like it.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
Yeah, it looks like it. And now and now the
fire department has to explain why they didn't keep a
crew for six days on that stretch, because they should
have been able. They should have had a crew there
the whole week for at least and put out the
fire as soon as it kicked up.
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Well, I hope things change this fourth of July. Oh yeah,
I know that was New Year's but you know, Fourth
of July is coming up and.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Things already have dried out.
Speaker 2 (32:10):
It's ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
You're listening to John Cobbels on demand from KFI Am sixty.
Speaker 1 (32:17):
Alex Stone is coming on right after two o'clock over
this plane crash in a San Diego neighborhood. You just
mentioned how we don't know what the origin of the
fire was, right, Karen vass As you remember took off
on a flight to Africa right before the fire, a
(32:37):
couple of days before the fire, even though she was
warned for several days that we had extreme fire warnings.
She had a deputy mayor who's normally assigned to oversee
the fire and police departments. He was the deputy mayor
in charge of public safety. His name Brian Williams. But
(32:57):
Brian Williams was on home confinement. He had been on
administrative leave because the FBI suspected he was calling in
bomb threats to the to city Hall. So Karen Bass
was in Africa and Brian Williams was on leave while
(33:18):
the FBI did is its investigation, so that that played
there was there was nobody in charge clearly. Well, just
minutes ago, the LA Time said that Brian Williams has
struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors. He now admits
he called in a fake bomb threat to city Hall,
(33:41):
some kind of anti Israeli statement. Bass hires insane people,
absolutely insane. Got Genie Kinez who didn't fill up the reservoir.
You got that Valicia Adams Kellum who ran the Homeless
(34:01):
Authority into the ground and gave her husband's nonprofit two
million dollars along the way. Now you got Brian Williams.
He was deputy mayor of public Safety. He pleaded guilty
to a single count of threats regarding fire and explosives,
maximum prison term of ten years. He's going to show
(34:24):
up in court in the next few weeks. This is
from Bill A. Saley, the US Attorney in an air
of heated political rhetoric that sometimes had escalated into violence.
We cannot allow public officials to make bomb threats. My
office will continue its effort to keep the public safe,
including from those who violate their duty to uphold the law.
(34:45):
The deputy mayor is calling in bomb threats allegedly, well,
he's making a plea deal. Now he's admitting it. Williams
supposedly made the call last October to LAPD Deputy Chief
Scott Harrelson, who was chief of staff for dominic Joi,
(35:08):
the interim police chief that we had on of the
show where he gave us all those phony crime statistics.
About ten minutes after placing the fake bomb threat, Brian
Williams sent a text message to Karen Bass and other
officials saying bomb threat. I received a phone call on
(35:29):
my city Seal at ten forty eight this morning. The
mail caller said he was tired of the city supporting
Israel and he's decided to place a bomb in city Hall.
It might be in the rotunda. I immediately contacted the
chief of staff at LAPD. They're going to send a
number of officers over to do a search of the building.
So he sent He sent a text to Karen Bass
(35:53):
saying somebody's threatening to blow up city Hall when he
was the one. He was the one who called in
the bomb threat. Then he followed up with other texts
saying there was no need to evacuate City Hall. Then
he wrote a meeting with threat management officers within the
(36:14):
next ten minutes. In light of the Jewish holidays, We're
taking this threat a little more seriously. I'll keep you posted.
What a nut. What a nut? And Bass hired him.
What's with all these crazy people? He spent two years
(36:35):
as a deputy mayor in her office. Two years he
worked on police hiring, public safety spending. He worked on
the search for a new police chief. This can't be.
He was also a deputy mayor for James Hahn twenty
years ago. He was executive director of the Sheriff's Civilian
(36:59):
Oversight Commission. Working in Bass's office, he oversaw the police Department,
the Fire Department, the Port Police, the Airport Police, and
the city's Emergency Management Agency. He was a member of
the Mayor's inner circle when Nathan Hockman was sworn in
last year. Williams was the city official who addressed the
(37:23):
audience on behalf of the mayor calling in fake bomb
threats over Israel, and wasn't available the day of the
fire when Bass ran off to Africa. Have you ever
seen a worse crew than this? This is just all
this is impossible, This just can't be true. All right,
(37:48):
we'll have more coming up. Deborah Mark is lied in
the KFI twenty four hour newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
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