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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't I Am six forty You're listening to the John
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show and also participate in the group chat which is
live as well. Everything is live. We've got an election
in November, all the statewide offices and running for Attorney General.
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We spent quite some time last hour talking about the idiot,
corrupt sleeves bag Rob Bonta, who now wants to block
the Paramount Warner Brothers merger as if he knows anything
about the entertainment industry, and there are people at Paramount
who says, oh yeah, we'll just leave the state. He
has done very little to go after the corruption in
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state government. We're centered around Newsom's office down the hall,
and he's done very little to go after the crime
and just all the law breaking that we all deal
with every day. But he's always willing to sue Trump,
and he's always willing to stick his nose in businesses
that he doesn't understand. Well. Michael Gates is running against him.
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Michael Gates is the former city attorney for Huntington Beach
and former Department of Justice in the Trump administration. Let's
get Michael on because he's got a big announcement. Welcome Michael.
How are you great? Great? How are you? I'm good.
Let's start with the big announcement first, and then we
could talk about all sorts of things. You're getting a
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major endorsement that you're ready to share.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yes, thank you so much, says We just had a
press conference today, a joint press const with former governor
candidate and current Sheriff of Riverside County, Chad Bianco, and
he announced at that press conference, which was his first
public statement since the June primary. By the way, at
that press conference, he announced that he's endorsing me for
attorney general, which is fantastic, It's awesome, and quite honestly,
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we are in such a state of lawlessness in California
and high crime that it is timely and I think
the people are looking for some solution to what's going
on in California, and I think Chad Bianco joining forces
with me as the attorney general candidate. As you know,
the attorney general is the top cop in the state,
and Rob BoNT has been an abject failure. I said
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at the press conference that he's an enemy of law enforcement,
he's an enemy of law and order, he's an enemy
of public safety. And so if we can replace him,
and I can get in there, I will make California
safe again. Just know this that Rob Bant's California is
ranked sixth highest in crime in the nation, at a
fifth fifty states, according to FBI data on violent crime.
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And if you look at the twenty twenty six Consumer
Affairs report that just come out, actually that report ranks
California as the second most dangerous state in the nation
out of fifty or forty ninth in safety. So Rob
Bonte's record on fighting crime and keeping us safe is
a disaster. He's out there reporting his own self gathered numbers,
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a lot of self reporting going on in his end
that crime is down and things are better. But he's
living in his own little bubble, his own little universe.
He's out of touch with every day Californians and we
are still suffering in our neighborhoods and in our business
districts from violent crime, high violent crime, unacceptable rates, smashing,
grabs and the like. So he's out of touch. I'm
glad to have Chad Bianco's endorsement, the sheriff's support, and
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we can win this state because people care about safety.
They want to keep their kids safe, they want to
keep their neighborhoods safe, they want to keep their business
districts and in their community safe. And so then we
go out and talk about law and order and public
safety and fighting crime and being serious about fighting crime,
we can win this election.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Those statistics are stunning, considering how much crime is unreported
and how much crime has been reclassified so it's not
a serious crime anymore, or it's it's just simply wiped
off the bucks, right.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
No, it's shocking. And what I think is is it's
really I hope the voters see through this. So Rob
Bant is out there, you know, and if you look
at his social media stuff, he's like saying, oh, crime's better,
it's down this time, or violent crime hasn't been better
in ten years than it is now. Yet this is
all self reporting. This is quite literally the person that
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he's putting together the data, like you said, there's underreporting,
but then his office is also assembling the data and
then reporting out on the data, and he is self reporting,
so he's giving himself an a right, So he's craading
his own paper and giving himself an a. But if
you look objectively at the FBI data, and like you said,
even on the FBI data, there's underreporting. But then the
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Consumer Affairs Report twenty twenty six Consumer Affairs Report, which
is We're new says California is the second most dangerous state.
That's shocking, second most dangerous state out of fifty state.
So crime is a serious issue, and everyday Californians feel it,
they know it, They don't feel safe. There are parts
even in Huntington Beach, where people are saying, like, you know,
like after dark, I don't want to go there, or
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you're like it is everywhere. And it's because our top
law enforcement ofster in the state, Rob Bonta, thinks that
fighting crime is a joke. He's not interested in fact.
He thinks he thinks criminals are the victims because they're
they only act out because they're a victim of their
circumstance or because they're a victim of you and I.
So he's got it all backwards and we're suffering.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Well, just with having tens of thousands of people living
in the streets in La City and County. Those people
are committing probably a dozen crimes a day because you know,
they're doing drugs openly, their stealing in order to facilitate
their drug purchases. They're threatening, menacing people, if not outright
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assaulting them. None of that gets reported, and if you
do report it, nobody shows up to do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Right, And to your point, on a slightly different topic,
the waste freaden abuse four hundred and twenty five billion
dollars has a mass over the same five years. W
Rob Bonta has been in office since he was appointed
in twenty twenty one, four hundred and twenty five billion
dollars of waste froad abuse of our taxpayer money. And John,
you know this. The state auditor came out with a
report a few weeks ago that said our top state
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officials knew about the waste froaden abuse for years and
did nothing about it. So we didn't really need Nick
Shirley actually to expose it all and doctor Oz to
expose it all. Although we do appreciate the work that
they did to introduce this to the public. Rob Bonta
and Gevin Newsom actually knew about the waste Broaden abuse
for years and did nothing about it. So this guy
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is a bad actor from top to bottom. He's a joke.
To me. It's hard to even think of him as
a lawyer. He's literally went to law school, but he's
never stepped foot in the court room. He's never taken
enforcing the law.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
He's been a career politician. He was in the legislature
for ten years and then appointed as our attorney General
by Newsom in twenty twenty one, and he's continued fact
as just a pure politician. And unlike me, I spent years.
I have tried many multimillion dollar cases. I reduced crime
in Huntington Beach by being tough on crime. Huntington Beach
is one of the safest cities in the entire city
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of California. I have been in the courtroom day in
and day out, fighting civil cases, fighting criminal cases, and
trying to make California great again from our small pocket,
our small corner in Huntington Beach, and yet this guy
has skated this entire time for five years, not having
to do his job or not doing his job and
just acting as a politician. It's shocking to me, John,
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that our leaders in Sacramento this is the way they are.
It's absolutely I think it's criminal.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Chad Bianco's endorsing you because you did run on with
Steve Hilton on his golden ticket. You were aligned with him,
and it was nice, nice to see that that Chad
is giving you his endorsement because he still has a
great loyal following and that's another surge of votes that
will help you out a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yes, all right, absolutely, and he knows how important it
is to rescue California right now, so he knows he
gets it. We're unified and we're fighting through this and
we can win California with the Attorney general seat. And
Chad Buncle made the point at the press conference the
best way to turn California around and return California to
law and order state is to defeat Rob Bonta at
the polls and to get me in as the New AG.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
All right, Michael Gates, we'll talk again soon. Thank you.
Good luck with the campaign. Michael Gates running for Attorney
General and got endorsed by Sheriff Chad Bianco. Today, We've
got more coming up. We can tell you the story
about that woman who saved her husband as he was
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getting sucked out of that airplane. We talked about this
the other day and uh, she she described in detail
what went on, and that's you know, that was a
moment of truth. Every marriage has a moment of truth.
That's when the husband found out because she easily could
have said, oh he just slipped. You know, I tried
and whooped there he went. Talk about that when we returned.
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I never sit by the window.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
You don't know. I always sit by the window.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Really well, look what happens.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
I know, and you know, and you have to read.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
You would have been in a blink.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
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Speaker 1 (09:46):
This story you probably heard. We we touched on it yesterday,
but there's more information coming out about it. Uh. Have
you ever taken Ryanair, especially traveling through Europe?
Speaker 5 (09:56):
I have?
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Where'd you think of Ryanair?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
It's very small, very small plane. But it was okay.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
Mine was not okay. I took Ryanair once from Barcelona
to Morocco or the other way around. The cabin was dirty, smelly,
and there were people from indeterminate cultures who we were
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very noisy and loud. We wearing bizarre clothings. And look,
I'm not insulting anybody by specifically, but it was just
it was just hot and dirty and you and and
I don't know, there's some cooking aromas going on. There
might app people cooking in the plane. Yeah, well, anyway,
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he's in a he's in a Ryanair plane. Uh well, uh,
this guy and his wife. The guy's in the window
seat and suddenly the window blows out and they're twenty
thousand feet in the air, and she instantly grabbed his legs.
And now she's explaining the story of what went on, right,
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because she held on to him so tightly because he
was like flapping in the wind.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
That's a nice wife.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
That's a nice wife. Her name is Lubisa Karravich, sixty
one years old. She's from Serbia. And the window was
shattered by engine debris. I guess something that processed through
the engine and maybe birds. And it was just thirty
minutes into the flight. That's why they weren't higher up,
because you know, I had forty thousand feet where a
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lot of planes fly. There's virtually no air up there.
They had just taken off from Greece, and the pressure well, actually,
the guy's name is Lubisa Karravic, and the pressure pulled Lubisa.
And his wife's name is Setlana, And she said, luckily
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he was strapped in, but half his body was sticking
out of the plane. Reacted immediately and grabbed his legs. Yes,
and here's that. And this is the sweetest thing, she said.
I thought, if we die, we die together.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yes, oh that is very sweet.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
I'm not sure i'd get that treatment.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I don't think you would.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
I have a feeling.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
I'm glad you're up to the life insurance.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Yeah, that's what I hear. Several times. Here she goes,
look I I I paid all the insurance policies. So
see you later. She said. Her husband lost consciousness several times.
She and a fellow traveler held his legs together as
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the plane was diverted back to where it had taken
off from. So he had to stay hanging out the
window floor a while.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
No, I can't.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
You're twenty thousand feet in the air. Now it's going
to turn around and try to land again. And that's
your view. You see the runway coming closer and closer
and closer. You're flapping in the wind. And that's a
Serbian people are tough though. Yes, that's not that far
from Poland. This is a tough crowd.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
I'm never sitting by a window again.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
He was left seriously injured and in shock. Yeah, I
bet his hand is particularly badly injured. He's got burns.
He's not able to communicate. Yeah, he's probably like a stock.
He's not gonna talk for a while, and he doesn't
remember the whole event, but it's important that he's alive.
Kravich had blood on his head and kept passing out.
According to one witnesses of apparently one of the protective
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pods in the engine, I don't know what that is
shredded and there was an engine blade missing, so I
guess a piece of the engine got loose, got into
the rotors and one of the blades broke and I
hit the wind. The window shatters, and uh, all the
other passengers thought the plane was going to crash because
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the oxygen masks all came down, and Ryan Air says
the window did dislodge in flight, dislog dislodge.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
You know, I'm impressed that another passenger helped the wife
because he could he put himself in danger.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
Yeah, that was yeah, because I mean they all could have.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Been Yes, I could have flown out of the window but.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
Didn't. What was that? What was that story a couple
a few years ago, right with a Boeing?
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, I don't remember the details of that.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Didn one guy actually get sucked out or he came
close to getting sucked out?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
I'd have to google it.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
See. I never used to think that was possible, I know,
but apparently it is. No, I don't sit next to windows.
And actually it's not because I'm afraid of being sucked out.
It's because I don't want to climb over people when
I want to go to the restroom, because you know
how yes, over people are right and and they're you know,
they're leaning back and they're snoring, and I don't want
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to have to like poke their falls and try to
wake them up. It takes them a long time to
get up and hoist themselves up and squeeze out. It's like, yeah,
I'll just take the air. I'll just take the aisle.
It's just so foul being on planes with people. I
would love to fly if I didn't.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
Have to, you will absolutely hate flying.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Well, I mean if if the planes were completely empty,
it would be great flying.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Forget the weirdos.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
On the Now you got another thing to be scared of.
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and participate in the rolling chat on the side of
the screen. Uh, yesterday, there's there's new information on the
Boyle Heights situation, and it's not good information. You are
seeing again in real time, just like with the ballast
AIDS fire. Just how utterly incompetent. All the departments, all
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levels of government are when when an emergency, a terrible emergency,
happens and there's nobody to turn to, nobody does their
job correctly or quickly, and nobody cares. And uh, let's
start by playing the worst mayor in Los Angeles history,
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worst mayor in the United States, stupidest politician you'll find.
Karen Bass as she gets introduced at a Boyle House
town hall meeting last week. All right, now, we are
going to go ahead and have Mayor Karen Bass come
to the.
Speaker 7 (17:06):
Stage, leaving everyone.
Speaker 5 (17:22):
Good, leaving everyone good, evening everyone, Thank you everyone for coming.
Speaker 7 (17:33):
Thank you very much for coming. I appreciate everybody for.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
Being all right to stop stop. I can't take the
sound of her waist neither. Good day. What's with the
smattering of a plaus What are they plotting? Exactly? Well,
here's why people booed so loudly and longley. Thank you everyone, Okay,
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good response. There's still millions of tons of rotted food there. Now.
This is five hundred thousand square feet, this warehouse, this
refrigeration warehouse. This is from the La Times, which remember
endorsed her twice from Ayre in the primary in the
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general election over Rick Ruso. Well, the Times is now
reporting that rancid odors have attracted You were asking about this,
throngs of rats, swarms of flies, and here's something new.
A foul smelling brownish liquid is pouring from the seams
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of the building. Obviously they don't know what that is.
It's pouring that is from the scene. Foul smelling brownish liquid.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Well, it's poop, it has to be.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
Residents are expecting the odor to get worse with the
heat wave and it's going to be perhaps one hundred
degrees and the residents are calling air quality regulators to complain. Now,
shouldn't they have been there within the first hour of
the fire because the air quality was disgusting when all
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the smoke was in the air, and it's still disgusting.
I mentioned as Sunday Sunday afternoon, we were driving back
from the lake and we went down the ten and
it was overwhelming the rancid stink. So what are the
air quality people doing. Environmental groups are accusing the company,
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Lineage and emergency responders of downplaying the risks posed by
the chemicals, with famously saying the air is not dangerous
now today. Senator Alex Padia last scene on his stomach
after security threw him to the ground during the illegal
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alien riots. He was seen waddling to the warehouse along
with Jamie Moore. Uh, he's the guy who covered up
the investigation into the Palisades fire. Also the duds from
the South Coast Air Quality Management District and other environmental organizations. Well,
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what are they standing around saying? Ah, it smells really
bad here? Time for lunch? Adam Schiff showed up. What's
he gonna do? Oh? And and Padia and Schiff. I
don't know if Shift showed up. Oh, I see Padia
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and Schiff and a Congressman Jimmy Gomez. They wrote a
letter to the EPA. Well that'll get rid of the odor.
Oh what did you do, Senator? I wrote a letter.
And they're asking that the EPA come back to the
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cleanup zone. Why'd they leave? They left? And now it
was by the way to these guys. These guys aware
of the telephone that everybody's carrying phones in their in
their pockets. Actually most people are carrying in their hands.
Probably if you looked online, you could get a phone
number for the EPA real fast, and you think Chiff
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and Padilla would would know somebody, right, Uh, they want
them to They want the EPA to return to the
cleanup zone to monitor the air and water quality. So
nobody is that thing is stinking for ten miles. The
letter says, we're concerned about the long term health and
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environmental impacts.
Speaker 3 (22:00):
They tell me or Bass that.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Apparently she didn't tell them that it's not danger it's not.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Dangerous, So everybody's everybody's scared for nothing.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Yeah. John Lou is president of the Coalition for Clean Air,
and he told us Padilla that he's heard of people
becoming sick in the weeks after the event.
Speaker 6 (22:20):
Yeah, well, a lot of people went to the er
when you were gone. That's something John, that happened when
you were gone. A lot of people went to the
er in height.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Yeah. Because yeah, because this is like unknown toxic heavy
metal smoke and all kinds of ammonia and arsenic. I mean,
we went through the whole list yesterday and and Lou said,
I think that pointed to a problem with the messaging
when the event first happened. The messaging, Oh, is that
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the problem? Yeah, I guess Bass's declaration that it's not dangerous.
That's a messaging problem. No, that's a stupidity problem. That's
a lack of intelligence. That's a low IQ problem. It
wasn't consistent with if you smell smoke and see ash,
to get out and protect yourself. Look, we've gone through
this twice now, actually three times, Palisades, the Altadena fire,
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and now this. You are on your own. When you
have a bad fire and there's all the smoke and
the ash and the stink, get in your car and
drive as quickly as you can, as far as you can,
and max out the credit cards, whatever you have to do.
Pitch a tent, get out of there, get out and
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stay out for a while. Because these government officials are
too stupid to live. Do not believe anything they say.
They're not that you have to ask the EPA to
come back. You do? Huh? And what's there? What's the
They show up at the warehouse and they're standing there
and go, oh, that's that's pretty bad, Ralph, isn't it?
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Whoa whoa? That smells like eighty five million pounds or
rodded food. Why are they so dumb? Now, somebody had
an idea here a community group called protect LA now
says this has been going on almost a month and
officials have refused to issue a mandatory evacuation. Now, you
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don't need the government to tell you to evacuate, but
if they issued an official mandatory evacuation, you can get
money to cover your expenses, because right now, everybody's got
to pay their own way out. So the people who
can't afford to are trapped in, as they say, the
gases and the toxins that no agency will name. So
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welcome Bass or the county supervisors or Newsom hasn't declared
some kind of mandatory evacuation so that these people are
eligible for reimbursement so they can get to a hotel somewhere.
They're asking you sent to declare a mandatory evacuation. Not
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only Basquet booed, but according to his story, the crowd
got louder when the Lineage Chief operating Officer, Jeff Rivera
took to the stage and everybody started shouting liar, liar.
And of course Lineage hired Karen Bass's top advisor to
handle the PR. I mean she had a PR advisor
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named Yusef rob The guy left Bass's office and signed
up with Lineage, and then he was caught, and now
he left Lineage, and his job, of course, was to
keep Bass's name out of the story. Hey, but I
am sure Boyle Heights. I mean, I'm not going to
be cruel here and look up what the actual voting
numbers were. But I bet you that was like eighty
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percent Bass territory. So you vote for that, that's what
you get. I'll tell you. She's showing a lot more
interest in the UH in the Boyle Heights fire than
she ever did in Palisades. Infect Spencer Pratt wrote something
about that, I should I should read that shet. He
posted it online. He noticed the difference in her energy,
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or at least the fake energy.
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the iHeartRadio app. We were just looking at an LA
Times report on how and I think on TV today
they showed Alex Paedia and the fire chief and bureaucratic
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heads from the Air Quality Management District, all standing and
staring at the warehouse where this horrible odor is hanging
in the air for miles and now they have armies
of rats, huge swarms of flies, some foul smelling brown
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liquid pouring from the building. People are getting sick. Most
people in that immediate neighborhood don't have a lot of
money and they can't afford to get out, so they're
just they're just inhaling all this filth now for several weeks,
and Spencer Pratt he posted a video of Bass you know,
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actively involved in the scene, and Pratt wrote, nobody died,
nobody lost their home. Yet she's more engaged here than
she was at any time in the last eighteen months
in the Palisades, where a dozen people died, and there's
been an excess of four hundred plus deaths afterwards, six
thousand homes plus burned up. Why is that? Why is
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she more engaged in Boyle Heights than the Palisades. Well,
he knows the answer to that. We've talked about it.
It was richer, white people that lost their homes and died,
and she doesn't feel any connection there. She's constantly pandered
to Hispanics, but they are finding out now that that
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was Tony as well. She got really worked up over,
you know, the illegal alien ice situation. But now you
have people, many of them legal residents, who find it
very difficult to live in their homes. They find it
difficult to breathe, not to mention their children, their pets.
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I haven't seen her standing up and saying she should
be demanding that the governor declare a mandatory evacuation zone.
And then, according to what I'm reading in the Times,
the residents there didn't have access for reimbursements to move
out of town. Now she's not leading that charge in
any way. She's doing all this performative stuff for the cameras,
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and of course nobody in the media is holding to her,
holding her to anything beyond that. But really, I maybe
she has no juice. Maybe everybody in government thinks she's
a joke. They would be correct, but still, Knewsome absolutely
should have declared this an evacuation zone because the people
had nothing to do and they couldn't see this one coming.
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I mean the palace sage. You had the fire warnings
that Bass ignored when she flew to Africa, But here
there's no warning for something like this. And there's something
wrong with that Lineage company. You don't get two of
these in two years. They had one in Washington State
and it burned for sixty days, same thing. So there's
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something wrong in the company there. And there's something wrong
with Bass's PR guru, her quitting her office and moving
to lineage. And the only reason he left lineage is
because the reporters caught him. So I think she's walking
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around shouting and waving her arms in the air. But
maybe she's too tied to Lineage. Maybe she doesn't really care.
She looks like it may look like she favors Hispanic
residence over the Palisade residence, But I holy she cares
about Hispanic residence because they should have had them mandatorily
evacuated immediately. I mean, there should have been some kind
of an emergency fund using city tax money to give
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these people some temporary shelter, pay for some hotels. But
she's done nothing. Nobody's done anything, but everybody's standing around
today for the TV cameras. All right, more coming up,
Debora Mark live in the CAFI twenty for our newsroom.
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