January 20, 2025 • 38 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (01/20) – John discusses all of Donald Trump executive order being passed on the first day. Biden pardons his associates moments before Trump is sworn in. Should the Palisades be broken up and secede like Malibu? John discusses EV vehicles and the downfalls of alternative fuel sources in the wake of the LA fires.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can if I am six forty you're listening to the
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome. This is some historic day, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We are going to be on from one until four,
and you're going to want to remember this day. This
is the day that life changed across America in a
lot of ways. And I am hoping we could get
that day here in California where things change permanently for
the better, because much of the rest of the country
is having a big party today and we're left out
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because we wake up here in Los Angeles and Karen
Bass is still the mayor, the city council is what
they are, Gavin Newsom is still the governor, and people
are feeling happy and optimistic, and there are new executive
orders being signed as we speak to radically change the
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way the federal government it runs in so many ways,
and yet we're stuck looking at and looking and smelling
the smoldering ruins of a once great section of Los
Angeles which was facilitated by gross incompetence and negligence. And
I can tell you this, if you're in Pacific Palisades
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we are never going to stop pursuing the people who
are responsible for that feeble almost non existent response and
feeble non existent preparation. And I'm targeting specifically the mayor,
the governor, upper management bureaucrats. I think what the fireman,
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firefighters and the police officers have done in Los Angeles
have been spectacular, and what they have to deal.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
With internally, you have no idea.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So it's time to demand that these bureaucrats, these political officials,
the whole sorry lot, well, first of all, they have
to go, but their performance has to be up to
the level of the firefighters and the police officers. And
I've got so much to say about that it's going
to take weeks and months to get it all out
of me. So we've got that front, and then we
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have what the rest of the country is going to
be enjoying. Do you know the borders already closed. Trump
was sworn into office a minute or two after nine o'clock,
and he has signed many, many executive orders. Here are
the ones that he's signing today related to the border.
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And of course some of these he had signed forty
eight years ago and then Biden reversed them and created
a disastrous situation which resulted in a lot of people dying,
a lot of damage to cities, huge financial drain, created
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a lot of mayhem in the streets.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Biden is, I never thought.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I never thought I'd see the day where there was
somebody worse than Jimmy Carter as a president, somebody worse
than George W.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Bush. Or We've had some beauties, huh, But.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
This guy by far, inner Circle Hall of Fame, worst president's,
worst president in US history, really just god awful and senile.
And here's some of the executive orders that Trump is
signing to try to clean up the mess. Now you
may wonder what an executive order specifically is. It's a
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signed statement about how the president wants the federal government
to be managed. Ultimately, the president is the chief executive officer,
and so these executive orders are instructions to his staff,
the people who work under him, and the president has
full authority over the border. The Supreme Court is upheld
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this several times. This has been litigated to death. There
are limitations. They have to adhere to the Constitution, but
the following things will be done. Trump has declared a
national emergency at the southern southern border, and so now
the Secretary of Defense can quickly and seamlessly deploy members
of the armed forces to the border and free up
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more federal resources. And that's something that's definitely going to happen.
You're going to see the military at the border. The
borders are tom Homan said. Trump is ending the federal
catch and release program, which allows immigrants who enter the
country illegally to remain here as long as they're in
the process for asylum. No more, Homan said, stay in
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your homeland, be safe. Crossing this country illegally is very dangerous.
Number Three, Trump's reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy, which
he had, which he had implemented back during his first term.
It requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico until their
claims are processed. That could take years. Biden reversed the policy.
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Trump has reinstated it. Number four. Trump is resuming border
wall construction. And that's another thing that Biden reversed. And
he was selling. He was selling the materials that we
had paid for. It was just auctioning them off. Trump
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is designated the cartels as global terrorists. And I watched
his speech and that was one of those moments that
really got me excited. The drug cartels are a terrorist organization,
and every year the drugs they bring here kill about
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seventy thousand people just through fentanyl alone, seventy thousand. And
I can't imagine in any other I mean, if you
had a traditional war where we were invaded by some
country and they managed to kill seventy thousand American citizens,
and then next year they invaded again and killed another
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seventy thousand, and then the next year they invaded a
third time and killed another seventy thousand. You know what
we would do. But for some reason, the drug cartels
smuggling in the fentanyl, sending distributing the fentinil caused little
to no reaction from the federal government. Biden and those
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idiots in his administration just stood there and watched it happen.
So it'll be global terrorists. And this again is going
to require the military. Next, Trump is going to suspend
refugee resettlement for four months, so nobody could claim refugee
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status anymore. For the next four months. You can't claim asylum.
You have to stay in Mexico. And there he's also
getting rid of that migrant entry app. You may have
heard of this. It's called CBP one. CBP one legalized
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legal aliens. If you filled out the form online on
your phone, then they would wave you in for asylum,
and it meant you had temporary protected status until you
were hearing, which would be years away. So they didn't
They weren't vetting people anymore at the border. They were
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allowing them to fill out a form and come in
and then they weren't counted as illegal aliens anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That was the trick.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Whenever you hear the media, the lying media report to
you that, well, you know, numbers are down at the border. Yeah,
they're down to the border because they were given an
app to download on their phones to cross the border
basically over their phone in advance, and since they've been
pre legalized, that wouldn't count as an illegal crossing.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Pretty clever.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Trump's gonna end birthright citizenship children born in the US,
but parents are here illegally right now, they automatically are citizens.
The fourteenth Amendment might be the stumbling block there. It
guarantees American citizenship to anyone born in the US. The
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language is a little bit murky, and that'll probably be
decided in court, and he may lose that one, but
this is he's laying down. He's laying down markers here.
It's like letting everybody know that the days of open
borders are gone, the days of the drug cartels getting
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away with murdering seventy thousand are gone. He's also has
an order to clarify the military's role in protecting the
territorial integrity of the United States, saying this is a
national security issue. Military goes to the border Department of
Defense or ex barriers. They're going to use drones and
other surveillance, and there'll be more vetting and screening of
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illegal aliens entering the country. So that alone is a
day's work. And that's only a fraction of the orders
that he has announced. But this is going to drop,
obviously completely overturn all of the failed Biden policies, and
maybe we would have young girls getting raped by escapees
from Venezuelan prisons anymore. I think the Congress is going
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to pass the Lincoln Riley Act. Lincoln Riley was that
poor college girl who was jogging and she got raped
and killed by an illegal alien from Venezuela who'd been
caught a couple of times here, and it's going to
allow ICE to arrest and deport someone who gets who
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gets arrested on a crime like burglary or theft, because
had that been in existence a couple of years ago,
Laken Riley would not have been murdered. Once he got arrested,
let's say in New York City or in Athens, he
would have immediately been deported. And so that's going to
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empower the relevant agencies to do so. It's a huge change.
It when you read this stuff out loud and you
see how quickly it was implemented, it just makes you
sick that so many people had to suffer, that we
had to get overwhelmed with millions of illegal immigrants, that
cities had to be practically bankrupted with American tax dollars
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because of the huge costs.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I mean it was. It was a huge.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Mess, completely necessary, unwarranted. Nobody, none of the cities deserved this,
even if the idiot woke progressives declared that the sanctuary city,
the citizens didn't deserve this.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Most people don't want this.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
He's got huge I mean, he's got in some polls
over sixty percent support to deport everyone. You hear a
lot of people saying, well, not the hard working No,
not the women and children. No, really, go look around.
Over sixty percent of the country is ready to kick
everybody out. Now they're going to go after the criminals first,
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and you know, the prisoners and the gang members. So
it's going to take a long time before you get
to grandmother's.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
All right, I just told you about all the executive orders,
or most of them. There might be others I'm not
aware of yet that Trump is signing regarding illegal immigration.
The border right now is effectively closed at the ports
of entry, and the CBP one app that illegal aliens
were used were using to cross the border without harassment.
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Basically they could ask for asylum while standing in Mexico.
That that got shut down. That's not working anymore. It's
it's a total total demolition of the Biden's open border policies.
Nobody's getting in Joe Biden for his part. By the way,
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it looked like I thought during Trump's speed he passed away. Yeah,
did you see the speech the video I did. There
was a moment where it was like, what was the
speech we were watching where we thought he might have died.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
We were watching in here.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Oh right, that's when shoot, well it was was he
was being briefed. Was it he being briefed on the wildfire?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah? Maybe I don't know. Yeah, but he's.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, well said his eyes were closed.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
His eyes were closed, definitely, I'll testify in court. His
eyes were closed. And Kamala Harris was doing the talking
because he had fallen asleep, and he looked like rigor
mortis had set in next to Trump. And Trump is
wailing away about all the terrible things that's happened over
the last seven or eight years. I'm sorry for the
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last four years. And it was funny because Biden had
no reaction.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
His face was so rigid.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I because you know, if somebody had insulted me like that,
or anyone that everything you've done in the last four
years was a failure, you figure there'd be some involuntary
twitch on his face, right, grimace or something, maybe flash,
some anger in his eyes. Nothing flatlined. And I was
looking It's like, this is not bothering him at all.
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He must be dead now, Kna. She was stone faced.
She looked like she was being held hostage, but she was.
She's stuck on national television live and Trump is is
trashing all her work too the last four years.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
But they expected that, don't you think they They knew
what was in store for them. And I think they
controlled their reactions because I knew they knew that you
John coblt would be talking about it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh, I know, yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's still got to be tough to take, though, when
when you're being ridiculed and roasted the way Biden and
Harris were being roasted.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
And all your policies that you enacted over the four
years are gone.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
In an instant, everything reversed.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
She was, you know, she was the great borders are
And you're sitting there, You're you're you're the loser, and
you're you're attached to this dead weight Biden, and you're thinking,
what did I What did I do for the last
four years of my life?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
What was the point of all this? Now?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You know?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Always having a good time sitting behind them was Bill Clinton.
I saw him smiling and laughing, and I don't know
if he's going senile too, but he I think I
think actually Trump is like a kindred spirit in some
ways because the both of them just have they have
you know, they're they're both con men, they're both they're
both womanizers, they're both you know, a certain kind of guy.
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And you can tell that they used to be friends.
In fact, Hillary and Bill were at Melanie and Trump's
wedding years ago. There's a famous picture of them. So
Bill was having a good time, Biden was was disconnected,
and Kamala was I thought she was going to harden
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into stone and never never move again. Now, the last
thing Biden did, and I hear that he had this
about fifteen minutes before Trump's inauguration, he pardoned five members
of his family. Now, I always said, based on the
things I've read, that I believed is basically he had
a crime family where Hunter was the point man to
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shake down various government leaders in places like Ukraine and China,
or executives at that energy company in Ukraine and god
knows where else, and then he'd bring the money in
to provide access to Joe. Joe would get his cut,
and Hunter would also distribute the money to other members
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of the family. In fact, they found a money trail
where various family members were getting checks and it looked
for all the world like some kind of influence pedling,
money laundering operation that the Bidens were involved in. And
it must be that if you thought that, you were correct,
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because Joe Biden pardoned his brother James, James's wife Sarah.
Joe pardoned his sister Valerie, his brother in law, John,
Valerie's husband, and another brother, Francis So two brothers, a sister,
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a brother in law, and a sister in law. They
announced the pardons less than twenty minutes before Biden ceased
to be president. He'd already already walked into the rotunda
to get his seat to watch Trump. Literally, the last
thing he did is pardon all the members of his
crime family, which means it was all true.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It was all real.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Now, the funny thing that Trump did or is doing
with one of his executive orders is he's canceling the
security clearance for the fifty one intelligence officials and other
government officials who claimed that hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. Well,
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they very cleverly weez They used clever weasel words to
give the strong implication that they thought it was Russian disinformation.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And of course it was a complete lie. It was.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It was just to muck up that story. But all
fifty one are losing their security clearances. Also, Biden gave
a premptive pardon to Anthony Fauci. See that's another crime
that should be invested, should have been investigated, will not
be now. Fauci, of course, sent money from his National
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Institutes of Health to an agency called eco Health Alliance,
a research group, and eco Health was partnered with the
researchers in Wuhan to develop the COVID vaccine. You know
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what are they called the the enhancement of the COVID vaccine,
And that part is true. He did give money to
EcoHealth Alliance. Peter dan Zach was the director of that operation.
Dan zek In turned sent the money to Wuhan and
the money was spent on enhancing the coronavirus. And it worked,
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and somebody dropped a vial, somebody broke a glass, and
the virus got loose. The first victims were people who
worked in that laboratory, and then all hell broke loose
around the world for years. But Fauci's money helped finance
that particular research gain a function research, that's what.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
They called it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So Fauci's cleared retired General Mark mill cleared members of
the House Committee over January sixth. They've been pardoned as well.
What did they do illegal? Now, if I had done
nothing illegally, I would not accept the pardon. As far
as I know, they're all accepting the pardon, including the
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family members. Right, you're totally innocent. It's like, no, no, no,
I don't want to be stigmatized in this way. I
don't want my reputation stained that I got pardoned, pardon.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
For what what did I do?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And Biden wouldn't give them a pardon unless he wanted
to save their asses. Well, I am so glad this
era is coming to an end. We've closed a couple
of doors here in California with Prop thirty six winning,
with the Nathan Hawkman taking over as DA. But we've
got a lot of work to do here. They're working
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fast in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Now here.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I wake up this morning and it's still Biden and Newsom.
Did anyone hear Newsom's iHeartRadio press conference. It was a
Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I did.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I heard some of it, same old newsommer.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, okay, That's why I didn't bother.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Six forty people in la are in a really bad mood,
and don't you feel out of it? Aren't we missing
the fun, the parade, the possible good times in rest
of America? Right? Because action is going to be taken
to make life better? And here what are we saddled with?
These these uh sick oh progressives, this bass and Newsome
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team boy? Have you ever felt more pessimistic about life
in California than what's going on now?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Don't you wish there was a way out? Well?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
In Pacific Palisades, they're starting to think that maybe they
ought to secede. And this is something that their neighbors,
Malibu did thirty five plus years ago. Around then, and
the San Fernando Valley tried to secede. It was up
for a vote some years back, but the vote failed.
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And I think I don't I don't think people should
put up in the Palisades with paying the extreme amount
of tax that they pay. And when the big fire hits,
the Mayor's in Africa and there's no strike teams prepositioned
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in the Palisades and they hold on to one thousand
firefighters and forty engines, and they don't send any of
them in to where the fire is happening, where the
fire was likely to happen. I mean, what, you know what,
I was in a grocery store.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Near my house.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I was waiting for an order I'd made it the Delhi,
and I was listening to people talk. I was eavesdropping
and there was an older woman talking to a couple.
And this older woman had evacuated for five days. She'd
gone down to Orange County, I think, to stay with friends,
and then came back to stay at a hotel in
Santa Monica. And she said, you wouldn't believe it was
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a nice hotel. And she said in the bar lounge
area filled with mothers sobbing. Yeah, women were crying, the
children were playing on the floor with their pets, and
they were refugees, homeless refugees. And I just listened to
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the story for a little bit and it was just
so sad.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
We realized just how distraught, how broken up these these
families are now. And I you know, I mean, every
time I think about it, I get crazy mad. That's
why we're going to stay on this case. The rest
of the media is going to move on because they do,
there'll be another disaster. Trump is going to create all
kinds of distractions. But people in Los Angeles here a
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people in Altadena. This is the beginning of many years
of difficulty. And James Breslo wrote a piece for California
Globe and I believe he's an attorney. I don't have
his bio in front of me here. And he wrote,
should the same politicians responsible for LA's destruction oversee its rebuilding?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And Rick Cruso was on with us.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Right after the fire and we talked about this, what's
the point of this stupid Los Angeles two point zero
program that Newsome is touting? And Bass's l a strong slogan,
how are you going to have a new version of
the Palisades, a new version of Los Angeles? How do
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people rebuild when you have the same incompetent, woke, progressive
clowns that helped create the first disaster? Like what are
they gonna do? Like what does Karen Bass know about
building thousands of homes? She didn't know anything about that.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
James Bresla writes, virtually the entire town of Pacific Palisades
my home has been destroyed by the recent fire. That
is all one needs to know to conclude that Los
Angeles and California's leaders were grossly negligent. This simply cannot
happen in a modern, wealthy, highly taxed American city set
to host the Olympics the next Olympic Games.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Think about that, is there a well?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
There are a few areas more, few areas wealthier than
the Palisades. There are a few cities more modern than LA.
You're gonna have to go a long way to find
a tax rate that's higher. And yet we have half
a fire department and nobody was on firewatch. Not one
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person was on firewatch. They're fascinating. But again this is
directed at the management, at the fire chief and her assistance,
not at the firefighters.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Breslo writes.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Allowing the town's sole reservoir to sit empty, awaiting a
minor repair for close to a year is but one
of many examples of neglect already identified Genie Kinonyez. She
still has her job at three quarters of a million
dollars a year, reservoir is still not filled. I mean,
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that's the stunning thing. When I as I talked to
people over the last couple of weeks, the reservoir thing sticks,
and people says, how how do you let that? How
do you empty that and not refill it?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
There's no excuse. Took a month to fire. The cover.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Only costs one hundred thousand. They didn't do it, and
they're not explaining why they didn't do it. You noticed that,
he writes, Breslo a severely under resourced fire department, with
staffing at the same level as the nineteen sixties, yet
subjected to additional budget cuts. The question now is whether
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these same negligent leaders should be trusted with the rebuilding
of the town. The rebuilding will be extremely complex, he
writes about the taxation in addition to a half cent
sales tax, residents, let me see here, he's afraid that
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the city leaders are going to encourage low income housing
and homeless housing development in the Palisades. They have billions
to spend on such housing because of the new taxes
LA residents voted to impose on themselves. This was the
half sent sales tax, and that's what a lot of
people in the Palisades are afraid of. They're very worried
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about that. Suddenly low income, homeless shelters are going to
be sprung up, you know, in the name of equity,
and they should be terrified.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
This pass newsome crowd.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Believe me, behind closed doors, they think this is a great, woke,
progressive opportunity. It's what they've always wanted to do. And remember,
residents approved a mansion tax to fund homeless housing. This
is if your house is worth over five million, there's
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a five percent sales tax.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
And in the last two years there are areas in
LA that aren't going to.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Be developed because nobody wants to sell their building and
they the five percent tax. This is for new commercial
or high end residential development, which is the entire Palisades.
Palisades is all high end residential development. We're stuck here.
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People of Palisades are stuck because even though the fire
is a shock to the system, news politics, whatever politics
it carries around in his head hasn't changed a bit.
And the politics inside Bass's head or those destructive clowns
of the city council, that hasn't changed. Do you know
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how badly they've wanted to infiltrate wealthy neighborhoods and impose
their homeless quotas and their affordable housing quotas. The there's
going to be a huge fight, and the Palisades maybe
should go way of Malibu, And well, I'd like my
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ten to get in on that too. I think LA
should be broken up into pieces. I talk about this
with people all the time. Why do we put up
on a city that's ungovernable at four hundred and sixty
seven square miles Because it is ungovernable, police are way underfunded, understaffed,
the fire department way underfunded, understaffed. Billions are spent on homelessness,
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Billions are spent on illegal alien programs and excessive union
contracts for do nothing jobs.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I nobody wants to be a part of this anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And the rest of the country, the rest of the
country is going to get their taxes lowered, their industry
is deregulated, They're going to be producing new supplies of energy,
so their gas prices go even lower. They're already two
bucks cheaper than we are in a lot of places. Meantime,
what are we doing. We're banning gas powered cars here.
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Oh my god, that's a whole other thing. I think
I'll talk about that next. The evs that are burning
on the West Side. That you know, if an EV
gets set on fire, there's no way to put out
the fire, wa or doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
We're going to talk with Susan Shelley from the Howard
Jarvis Taxpayers Association to talk about homeowners who are rebuilding.
You still are protected by Prop thirteen. You may have
maybe building a new home where the assessment will be
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for much more than what it used to be worth. Well,
that doesn't matter. You're protected by Prop thirteen. And regardless
of the increase in market value of your lot and
what's left of your property, a huge tax increases are
against the laws. So she's going to sort that out
for you. Coming up, I mentioned evs. Apparently people with
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evs in the Palisades, Altadena, they waited in long lines
to recharge their electric cars and one of the dangers
was these lithium ion batteries which burn extremely hot and
water doesn't put out the fire. They don't know yet
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what effect that had on the fire. They've had no
time to separate the interaction of the EV batteries with
everything else that was going on. But these fires burn
up to five thousand degrees, and one expert says it's
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exponentially more difficult to extinguish than a conventional car fire.
An EV can take many thousands of gallons of water
to put out, and they sometimes reignite days or weeks later.
Here's some examples of these kind of EV fires in
San Ramon, California. A few years ago, one couple was
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burned when they had two teslas in a garage that
caught fire while they slept. One of the vehicles had
been left on a charger, and there was either a
faulty battery or a faulty electrical system. And if we'd
lived upstairs, we'd be dead. According to the homeowner. Thousands
of gallons of water were needed to extinguish the flames.
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There was a woman in twenty twenty three. She and
her daughter eyed when their tesla hit a tree exploded
in flames near their home. The husband said they wouldn't
let me near the scene, and because they didn't want
him to see what had happened to his wife and
daughter in that kind of fire. You may have heard
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three young people in Piedmont California died. Their Tesla Cybertark
crashed into an embankment, burst into flames. They could not
put out the fire and they burned to death inside
the car. These evy batteries are extremely dangerous. The latest
story was there's an evy battery storage facility in Moss
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Landing up in the Monterey area. And fact, there's a
story here that the Moss Landing fire could turn back
the clock on battery storage in California. This is a
whole separate fire. It's between Santa Cruz and Monterey, and
they say it could be a major setback for battery storage.
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The fire went off, and let me give you a
rundown of this. It stores electricity for the power grid,
and they had to evacuate two thousand people from Moss Landing,
which is south of San Jose. So one of the
largest battery storage sites in the world hosts tens of
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thousands of lithium ion batteries that store electricity for the
power grid. They don't know what started the fire. They
had to evacuate for roughly eight square mile area around
the plant. Everyone had to close their windows and doors,
turn off their ventilation systems avoid outdoor exposure. The Newsom
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was trying to sell us on this clean energy nonsense,
and one of the one aspect is that if we
use wind and solar, is there a way to store
the energy because the wind doesn't blow always blow and
the sun doesn't always shine. And they say, wow, you
know battery technology. You're gonna be held. We're going to
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build these huge battery storage plants, so wind and solar
create energy, and the energy can be sent into these
batteries and they'll have these massive storage systems. Well, now
they're seeing this fire, how much damage it's done, and
how difficult it was to put out, and they're thinking, huh,
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didn't expect that, which is why we have to go
back to gas and oil for the foreseeable future, or
build some nuclear plants, which would be the best answer
of all.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
But Newsom's vision is a bust.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
It's not going to work the vision Trump laid out
where we're just going to start drilling like crazy and
get all the oil natural gas that we could find
because we're sitting on a lot of it. We're sitting
on a huge mount in California. Ultimately, that's the way
we're going to go because we have to all this
other stuff is not ready. Wonderful idea can work in
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limited ways, but it's not ready. The solar energy system
nowhere dear reliable, and it's very expensive. Same thing with wind,
and same thing with this battery storage stuff. It's just
not there. In the meantime, we're paying, you know, double
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the electric electricity rates of other states, double the gasoline
rates of the other states for what. Oh, but it's
having no effect on the climate. That's that's a complete fallacy.
It's just fanaticism, religious fanaticism. For more coming up, Susan Shelley.
Susan Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association will be
on next. If you're rebuilding after a wildfire, you are
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protected by Prop thirteen when it comes to future property taxes.
Debora Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Welcome. This is some historic day, isn't it.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We are going to be on from one until four,
and you're going to want to remember this day. This
is the day that life changed across America in a
lot of ways. And I am hoping we could get
that day here in California where things change permanently for
the better, because much of the rest of the country
is having a big party today and we're left out
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because we wake up here in Los Angeles and Karen
Bass is still the mayor, the city council is what
they are, Gavin Newsom is still the governor, and people
are feeling happy and optimistic, and there are new executive
orders being signed as we speak to radically change the
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way the federal government it runs in so many ways,
and yet we're stuck looking at and looking and smelling
the smoldering ruins of a once great section of Los
Angeles which was facilitated by gross incompetence and negligence. And
I can tell you this, if you're in Pacific Palisades
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we are never going to stop pursuing the people who
are responsible for that feeble almost non existent response and
feeble non existent preparation. And I'm targeting specifically the mayor,
the governor, upper management bureaucrats. I think what the fireman,
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firefighters and the police officers have done in Los Angeles
have been spectacular, and what they have to deal.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
With internally, you have no idea.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
So it's time to demand that these bureaucrats, these political officials,
the whole sorry lot, well, first of all, they have
to go, but their performance has to be up to
the level of the firefighters and the police officers. And
I've got so much to say about that it's going
to take weeks and months to get it all out
of me. So we've got that front, and then we
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have what the rest of the country is going to
be enjoying. Do you know the borders already closed. Trump
was sworn into office a minute or two after nine o'clock,
and he has signed many, many executive orders. Here are
the ones that he's signing today related to the border.
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And of course some of these he had signed forty
eight years ago and then Biden reversed them and created
a disastrous situation which resulted in a lot of people dying,
a lot of damage to cities, huge financial drain, created
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a lot of mayhem in the streets.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Biden is, I never thought.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I never thought I'd see the day where there was
somebody worse than Jimmy Carter as a president, somebody worse
than George W.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Bush. Or We've had some beauties, huh, But.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
This guy by far, inner Circle Hall of Fame, worst president's,
worst president in US history, really just god awful and senile.
And here's some of the executive orders that Trump is
signing to try to clean up the mess. Now you
may wonder what an executive order specifically is. It's a
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signed statement about how the president wants the federal government
to be managed. Ultimately, the president is the chief executive officer,
and so these executive orders are instructions to his staff,
the people who work under him, and the president has
full authority over the border. The Supreme Court is upheld
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this several times. This has been litigated to death. There
are limitations. They have to adhere to the Constitution, but
the following things will be done. Trump has declared a
national emergency at the southern southern border, and so now
the Secretary of Defense can quickly and seamlessly deploy members
of the armed forces to the border and free up
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more federal resources. And that's something that's definitely going to happen.
You're going to see the military at the border. The
borders are tom Homan said. Trump is ending the federal
catch and release program, which allows immigrants who enter the
country illegally to remain here as long as they're in
the process for asylum. No more, Homan said, stay in
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your homeland, be safe. Crossing this country illegally is very dangerous.
Number Three, Trump's reinstating the Remain in Mexico policy, which
he had, which he had implemented back during his first term.
It requires asylum seekers to stay in Mexico until their
claims are processed. That could take years. Biden reversed the policy.
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Trump has reinstated it. Number four. Trump is resuming border
wall construction. And that's another thing that Biden reversed. And
he was selling. He was selling the materials that we
had paid for. It was just auctioning them off. Trump
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is designated the cartels as global terrorists. And I watched
his speech and that was one of those moments that
really got me excited. The drug cartels are a terrorist organization,
and every year the drugs they bring here kill about
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seventy thousand people just through fentanyl alone, seventy thousand. And
I can't imagine in any other I mean, if you
had a traditional war where we were invaded by some
country and they managed to kill seventy thousand American citizens,
and then next year they invaded again and killed another
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seventy thousand, and then the next year they invaded a
third time and killed another seventy thousand. You know what
we would do. But for some reason, the drug cartels
smuggling in the fentanyl, sending distributing the fentinil caused little
to no reaction from the federal government. Biden and those
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idiots in his administration just stood there and watched it happen.
So it'll be global terrorists. And this again is going
to require the military. Next, Trump is going to suspend
refugee resettlement for four months, so nobody could claim refugee
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status anymore. For the next four months. You can't claim asylum.
You have to stay in Mexico. And there he's also
getting rid of that migrant entry app. You may have
heard of this. It's called CBP one. CBP one legalized
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legal aliens. If you filled out the form online on
your phone, then they would wave you in for asylum,
and it meant you had temporary protected status until you
were hearing, which would be years away. So they didn't
They weren't vetting people anymore at the border. They were
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allowing them to fill out a form and come in
and then they weren't counted as illegal aliens anymore.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
That was the trick.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Whenever you hear the media, the lying media report to
you that, well, you know, numbers are down at the border. Yeah,
they're down to the border because they were given an
app to download on their phones to cross the border
basically over their phone in advance, and since they've been
pre legalized, that wouldn't count as an illegal crossing.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Pretty clever.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Trump's gonna end birthright citizenship children born in the US,
but parents are here illegally right now, they automatically are citizens.
The fourteenth Amendment might be the stumbling block there. It
guarantees American citizenship to anyone born in the US. The
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language is a little bit murky, and that'll probably be
decided in court, and he may lose that one, but
this is he's laying down. He's laying down markers here.
It's like letting everybody know that the days of open
borders are gone, the days of the drug cartels getting
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away with murdering seventy thousand are gone. He's also has
an order to clarify the military's role in protecting the
territorial integrity of the United States, saying this is a
national security issue. Military goes to the border Department of
Defense or ex barriers. They're going to use drones and
other surveillance, and there'll be more vetting and screening of
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illegal aliens entering the country. So that alone is a
day's work. And that's only a fraction of the orders
that he has announced. But this is going to drop,
obviously completely overturn all of the failed Biden policies, and
maybe we would have young girls getting raped by escapees
from Venezuelan prisons anymore. I think the Congress is going
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to pass the Lincoln Riley Act. Lincoln Riley was that
poor college girl who was jogging and she got raped
and killed by an illegal alien from Venezuela who'd been
caught a couple of times here, and it's going to
allow ICE to arrest and deport someone who gets who
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gets arrested on a crime like burglary or theft, because
had that been in existence a couple of years ago,
Laken Riley would not have been murdered. Once he got arrested,
let's say in New York City or in Athens, he
would have immediately been deported. And so that's going to
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empower the relevant agencies to do so. It's a huge change.
It when you read this stuff out loud and you
see how quickly it was implemented, it just makes you
sick that so many people had to suffer, that we
had to get overwhelmed with millions of illegal immigrants, that
cities had to be practically bankrupted with American tax dollars
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because of the huge costs.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
I mean it was. It was a huge.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Mess, completely necessary, unwarranted. Nobody, none of the cities deserved this,
even if the idiot woke progressives declared that the sanctuary city,
the citizens didn't deserve this.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Most people don't want this.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
He's got huge I mean, he's got in some polls
over sixty percent support to deport everyone. You hear a
lot of people saying, well, not the hard working No,
not the women and children. No, really, go look around.
Over sixty percent of the country is ready to kick
everybody out. Now they're going to go after the criminals first,
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and you know, the prisoners and the gang members. So
it's going to take a long time before you get
to grandmother's.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
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Speaker 1 (11:58):
All right, I just told you about all the executive orders,
or most of them. There might be others I'm not
aware of yet that Trump is signing regarding illegal immigration.
The border right now is effectively closed at the ports
of entry, and the CBP one app that illegal aliens
were used were using to cross the border without harassment.
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Basically they could ask for asylum while standing in Mexico.
That that got shut down. That's not working anymore. It's
it's a total total demolition of the Biden's open border policies.
Nobody's getting in Joe Biden for his part. By the way,
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it looked like I thought during Trump's speed he passed away. Yeah,
did you see the speech the video I did. There
was a moment where it was like, what was the
speech we were watching where we thought he might have died.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
We were watching in here.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
Oh right, that's when shoot, well it was was he
was being briefed. Was it he being briefed on the wildfire?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Yeah? Maybe I don't know. Yeah, but he's.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
Yeah, yeah, well said his eyes were closed.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
His eyes were closed, definitely, I'll testify in court. His
eyes were closed. And Kamala Harris was doing the talking
because he had fallen asleep, and he looked like rigor
mortis had set in next to Trump. And Trump is
wailing away about all the terrible things that's happened over
the last seven or eight years. I'm sorry for the
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last four years. And it was funny because Biden had
no reaction.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
His face was so rigid.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
I because you know, if somebody had insulted me like that,
or anyone that everything you've done in the last four
years was a failure, you figure there'd be some involuntary
twitch on his face, right, grimace or something, maybe flash,
some anger in his eyes. Nothing flatlined. And I was
looking It's like, this is not bothering him at all.
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He must be dead now, Kna. She was stone faced.
She looked like she was being held hostage, but she was.
She's stuck on national television live and Trump is is
trashing all her work too the last four years.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
But they expected that, don't you think they They knew
what was in store for them. And I think they
controlled their reactions because I knew they knew that you
John coblt would be talking about it.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Oh, I know, yes, you're right.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
That's still got to be tough to take, though, when
when you're being ridiculed and roasted the way Biden and
Harris were being roasted.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
And all your policies that you enacted over the four
years are gone.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
In an instant, everything reversed.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
She was, you know, she was the great borders are
And you're sitting there, You're you're you're the loser, and
you're you're attached to this dead weight Biden, and you're thinking,
what did I What did I do for the last
four years of my life?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
What was the point of all this? Now?
Speaker 3 (15:10):
You know?
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Always having a good time sitting behind them was Bill Clinton.
I saw him smiling and laughing, and I don't know
if he's going senile too, but he I think I
think actually Trump is like a kindred spirit in some
ways because the both of them just have they have
you know, they're they're both con men, they're both they're
both womanizers, they're both you know, a certain kind of guy.
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And you can tell that they used to be friends.
In fact, Hillary and Bill were at Melanie and Trump's
wedding years ago. There's a famous picture of them. So
Bill was having a good time, Biden was was disconnected,
and Kamala was I thought she was going to harden
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into stone and never never move again. Now, the last
thing Biden did, and I hear that he had this
about fifteen minutes before Trump's inauguration, he pardoned five members
of his family. Now, I always said, based on the
things I've read, that I believed is basically he had
a crime family where Hunter was the point man to
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shake down various government leaders in places like Ukraine and China,
or executives at that energy company in Ukraine and god
knows where else, and then he'd bring the money in
to provide access to Joe. Joe would get his cut,
and Hunter would also distribute the money to other members
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of the family. In fact, they found a money trail
where various family members were getting checks and it looked
for all the world like some kind of influence pedling,
money laundering operation that the Bidens were involved in. And
it must be that if you thought that, you were correct,
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because Joe Biden pardoned his brother James, James's wife Sarah.
Joe pardoned his sister Valerie, his brother in law, John,
Valerie's husband, and another brother, Francis So two brothers, a sister,
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a brother in law, and a sister in law. They
announced the pardons less than twenty minutes before Biden ceased
to be president. He'd already already walked into the rotunda
to get his seat to watch Trump. Literally, the last
thing he did is pardon all the members of his
crime family, which means it was all true.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
It was all real.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Now, the funny thing that Trump did or is doing
with one of his executive orders is he's canceling the
security clearance for the fifty one intelligence officials and other
government officials who claimed that hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. Well,
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they very cleverly weez They used clever weasel words to
give the strong implication that they thought it was Russian disinformation.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
And of course it was a complete lie. It was.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
It was just to muck up that story. But all
fifty one are losing their security clearances. Also, Biden gave
a premptive pardon to Anthony Fauci. See that's another crime
that should be invested, should have been investigated, will not
be now. Fauci, of course, sent money from his National
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Institutes of Health to an agency called eco Health Alliance,
a research group, and eco Health was partnered with the
researchers in Wuhan to develop the COVID vaccine. You know
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what are they called the the enhancement of the COVID vaccine,
And that part is true. He did give money to
EcoHealth Alliance. Peter dan Zach was the director of that operation.
Dan zek In turned sent the money to Wuhan and
the money was spent on enhancing the coronavirus. And it worked,
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and somebody dropped a vial, somebody broke a glass, and
the virus got loose. The first victims were people who
worked in that laboratory, and then all hell broke loose
around the world for years. But Fauci's money helped finance
that particular research gain a function research, that's what.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
They called it.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
So Fauci's cleared retired General Mark mill cleared members of
the House Committee over January sixth. They've been pardoned as well.
What did they do illegal? Now, if I had done
nothing illegally, I would not accept the pardon. As far
as I know, they're all accepting the pardon, including the
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family members. Right, you're totally innocent. It's like, no, no, no,
I don't want to be stigmatized in this way. I
don't want my reputation stained that I got pardoned, pardon.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
For what what did I do?
Speaker 1 (20:29):
And Biden wouldn't give them a pardon unless he wanted
to save their asses. Well, I am so glad this
era is coming to an end. We've closed a couple
of doors here in California with Prop thirty six winning,
with the Nathan Hawkman taking over as DA. But we've
got a lot of work to do here. They're working
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fast in Washington, d C.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Now here.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
I wake up this morning and it's still Biden and Newsom.
Did anyone hear Newsom's iHeartRadio press conference. It was a
Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
I did.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
I heard some of it, same old newsommer.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Yeah, yeah, okay, That's why I didn't bother.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
You're listening to John Cobel's on demand from KFI AM.
Speaker 1 (21:15):
Six forty people in la are in a really bad mood,
and don't you feel out of it? Aren't we missing
the fun, the parade, the possible good times in rest
of America? Right? Because action is going to be taken
to make life better? And here what are we saddled with?
These these uh sick oh progressives, this bass and Newsome
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team boy? Have you ever felt more pessimistic about life
in California than what's going on now?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Don't you wish there was a way out? Well?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
In Pacific Palisades, they're starting to think that maybe they
ought to secede. And this is something that their neighbors,
Malibu did thirty five plus years ago. Around then, and
the San Fernando Valley tried to secede. It was up
for a vote some years back, but the vote failed.
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And I think I don't I don't think people should
put up in the Palisades with paying the extreme amount
of tax that they pay. And when the big fire hits,
the Mayor's in Africa and there's no strike teams prepositioned
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in the Palisades and they hold on to one thousand
firefighters and forty engines, and they don't send any of
them in to where the fire is happening, where the
fire was likely to happen. I mean, what, you know what,
I was in a grocery store.
Speaker 2 (22:52):
Near my house.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I was waiting for an order I'd made it the Delhi,
and I was listening to people talk. I was eavesdropping
and there was an older woman talking to a couple.
And this older woman had evacuated for five days. She'd
gone down to Orange County, I think, to stay with friends,
and then came back to stay at a hotel in
Santa Monica. And she said, you wouldn't believe it was
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a nice hotel. And she said in the bar lounge
area filled with mothers sobbing. Yeah, women were crying, the
children were playing on the floor with their pets, and
they were refugees, homeless refugees. And I just listened to
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the story for a little bit and it was just
so sad.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
We realized just how distraught, how broken up these these
families are now. And I you know, I mean, every
time I think about it, I get crazy mad. That's
why we're going to stay on this case. The rest
of the media is going to move on because they do,
there'll be another disaster. Trump is going to create all
kinds of distractions. But people in Los Angeles here a
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people in Altadena. This is the beginning of many years
of difficulty. And James Breslo wrote a piece for California
Globe and I believe he's an attorney. I don't have
his bio in front of me here. And he wrote,
should the same politicians responsible for LA's destruction oversee its rebuilding?
Speaker 2 (24:28):
And Rick Cruso was on with us.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Right after the fire and we talked about this, what's
the point of this stupid Los Angeles two point zero
program that Newsome is touting? And Bass's l a strong slogan,
how are you going to have a new version of
the Palisades, a new version of Los Angeles? How do
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people rebuild when you have the same incompetent, woke, progressive
clowns that helped create the first disaster? Like what are
they gonna do? Like what does Karen Bass know about
building thousands of homes? She didn't know anything about that.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
James Bresla writes, virtually the entire town of Pacific Palisades
my home has been destroyed by the recent fire. That
is all one needs to know to conclude that Los
Angeles and California's leaders were grossly negligent. This simply cannot
happen in a modern, wealthy, highly taxed American city set
to host the Olympics the next Olympic Games.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Think about that, is there a well?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
There are a few areas more, few areas wealthier than
the Palisades. There are a few cities more modern than LA.
You're gonna have to go a long way to find
a tax rate that's higher. And yet we have half
a fire department and nobody was on firewatch. Not one
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person was on firewatch. They're fascinating. But again this is
directed at the management, at the fire chief and her assistance,
not at the firefighters.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Breslo writes.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Allowing the town's sole reservoir to sit empty, awaiting a
minor repair for close to a year is but one
of many examples of neglect already identified Genie Kinonyez. She
still has her job at three quarters of a million
dollars a year, reservoir is still not filled. I mean,
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that's the stunning thing. When I as I talked to
people over the last couple of weeks, the reservoir thing sticks,
and people says, how how do you let that? How
do you empty that and not refill it?
Speaker 2 (26:55):
There's no excuse. Took a month to fire. The cover.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
Only costs one hundred thousand. They didn't do it, and
they're not explaining why they didn't do it. You noticed that,
he writes, Breslo a severely under resourced fire department, with
staffing at the same level as the nineteen sixties, yet
subjected to additional budget cuts. The question now is whether
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these same negligent leaders should be trusted with the rebuilding
of the town. The rebuilding will be extremely complex, he
writes about the taxation in addition to a half cent
sales tax, residents, let me see here, he's afraid that
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the city leaders are going to encourage low income housing
and homeless housing development in the Palisades. They have billions
to spend on such housing because of the new taxes
LA residents voted to impose on themselves. This was the
half sent sales tax, and that's what a lot of
people in the Palisades are afraid of. They're very worried
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about that. Suddenly low income, homeless shelters are going to
be sprung up, you know, in the name of equity,
and they should be terrified.
Speaker 2 (28:17):
This pass newsome crowd.
Speaker 1 (28:20):
Believe me, behind closed doors, they think this is a great, woke,
progressive opportunity. It's what they've always wanted to do. And remember,
residents approved a mansion tax to fund homeless housing. This
is if your house is worth over five million, there's
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a five percent sales tax.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
And in the last two years there are areas in
LA that aren't going to.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Be developed because nobody wants to sell their building and
they the five percent tax. This is for new commercial
or high end residential development, which is the entire Palisades.
Palisades is all high end residential development. We're stuck here.
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People of Palisades are stuck because even though the fire
is a shock to the system, news politics, whatever politics
it carries around in his head hasn't changed a bit.
And the politics inside Bass's head or those destructive clowns
of the city council, that hasn't changed. Do you know
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how badly they've wanted to infiltrate wealthy neighborhoods and impose
their homeless quotas and their affordable housing quotas. The there's
going to be a huge fight, and the Palisades maybe
should go way of Malibu, And well, I'd like my
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ten to get in on that too. I think LA
should be broken up into pieces. I talk about this
with people all the time. Why do we put up
on a city that's ungovernable at four hundred and sixty
seven square miles Because it is ungovernable, police are way underfunded, understaffed,
the fire department way underfunded, understaffed. Billions are spent on homelessness,
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Billions are spent on illegal alien programs and excessive union
contracts for do nothing jobs.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
I nobody wants to be a part of this anymore.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
And the rest of the country, the rest of the
country is going to get their taxes lowered, their industry
is deregulated, They're going to be producing new supplies of energy,
so their gas prices go even lower. They're already two
bucks cheaper than we are in a lot of places. Meantime,
what are we doing. We're banning gas powered cars here.
(31:00):
Oh my god, that's a whole other thing. I think
I'll talk about that next. The evs that are burning
on the West Side. That you know, if an EV
gets set on fire, there's no way to put out
the fire, wa or doesn't work.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Tell you about that when we come back.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
We're going to talk with Susan Shelley from the Howard
Jarvis Taxpayers Association to talk about homeowners who are rebuilding.
You still are protected by Prop thirteen. You may have
maybe building a new home where the assessment will be
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for much more than what it used to be worth. Well,
that doesn't matter. You're protected by Prop thirteen. And regardless
of the increase in market value of your lot and
what's left of your property, a huge tax increases are
against the laws. So she's going to sort that out
for you. Coming up, I mentioned evs. Apparently people with
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evs in the Palisades, Altadena, they waited in long lines
to recharge their electric cars and one of the dangers
was these lithium ion batteries which burn extremely hot and
water doesn't put out the fire. They don't know yet
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what effect that had on the fire. They've had no
time to separate the interaction of the EV batteries with
everything else that was going on. But these fires burn
up to five thousand degrees, and one expert says it's
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exponentially more difficult to extinguish than a conventional car fire.
An EV can take many thousands of gallons of water
to put out, and they sometimes reignite days or weeks later.
Here's some examples of these kind of EV fires in
San Ramon, California. A few years ago, one couple was
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burned when they had two teslas in a garage that
caught fire while they slept. One of the vehicles had
been left on a charger, and there was either a
faulty battery or a faulty electrical system. And if we'd
lived upstairs, we'd be dead. According to the homeowner. Thousands
of gallons of water were needed to extinguish the flames.
(33:57):
There was a woman in twenty twenty three. She and
her daughter eyed when their tesla hit a tree exploded
in flames near their home. The husband said they wouldn't
let me near the scene, and because they didn't want
him to see what had happened to his wife and
daughter in that kind of fire. You may have heard
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three young people in Piedmont California died. Their Tesla Cybertark
crashed into an embankment, burst into flames. They could not
put out the fire and they burned to death inside
the car. These evy batteries are extremely dangerous. The latest
story was there's an evy battery storage facility in Moss
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Landing up in the Monterey area. And fact, there's a
story here that the Moss Landing fire could turn back
the clock on battery storage in California. This is a
whole separate fire. It's between Santa Cruz and Monterey, and
they say it could be a major setback for battery storage.
(35:09):
The fire went off, and let me give you a
rundown of this. It stores electricity for the power grid,
and they had to evacuate two thousand people from Moss Landing,
which is south of San Jose. So one of the
largest battery storage sites in the world hosts tens of
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thousands of lithium ion batteries that store electricity for the
power grid. They don't know what started the fire. They
had to evacuate for roughly eight square mile area around
the plant. Everyone had to close their windows and doors,
turn off their ventilation systems avoid outdoor exposure. The Newsom
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was trying to sell us on this clean energy nonsense,
and one of the one aspect is that if we
use wind and solar, is there a way to store
the energy because the wind doesn't blow always blow and
the sun doesn't always shine. And they say, wow, you
know battery technology. You're gonna be held. We're going to
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build these huge battery storage plants, so wind and solar
create energy, and the energy can be sent into these
batteries and they'll have these massive storage systems. Well, now
they're seeing this fire, how much damage it's done, and
how difficult it was to put out, and they're thinking, huh,
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didn't expect that, which is why we have to go
back to gas and oil for the foreseeable future, or
build some nuclear plants, which would be the best answer
of all.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
But Newsom's vision is a bust.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
It's not going to work the vision Trump laid out
where we're just going to start drilling like crazy and
get all the oil natural gas that we could find
because we're sitting on a lot of it. We're sitting
on a huge mount in California. Ultimately, that's the way
we're going to go because we have to all this
other stuff is not ready. Wonderful idea can work in
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limited ways, but it's not ready. The solar energy system
nowhere dear reliable, and it's very expensive. Same thing with wind,
and same thing with this battery storage stuff. It's just
not there. In the meantime, we're paying, you know, double
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the electric electricity rates of other states, double the gasoline
rates of the other states for what. Oh, but it's
having no effect on the climate. That's that's a complete fallacy.
It's just fanaticism, religious fanaticism. For more coming up, Susan Shelley.
Susan Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association will be
on next. If you're rebuilding after a wildfire, you are
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protected by Prop thirteen when it comes to future property taxes.
Debora Mark Live in the KFI twenty four hour Newsroom. Hey,
you've been listening to the John Covelt Show podcast. You
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