Joe Biden's Cancer

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fresh off the heels of the big Jake Tapper book
that's coming out talking about how, oh President Biden was
actually senile and everybody knew about it, and now we're
going to do this giant cya and we were all
deceived by this elaborate ruse, which, by the way, I

(00:21):
don't want to call whatever happened with basically the media
refusing to acknowledge that Biden was senile. I don't want
to call it a cover up. It was an emperor
has no clothes situation, and that's not a cover up.
Emperor has no closed situation is the emperor's in full
view of everybody with no clothes on. Everyone can see it.

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But everyone is too intimidated by the emperor, or I
don't know, wanting the emperor to remain in power or something,
to actually have the guts to stand there and say, hey,
the emperor has no clothes. Only in this context, sixty
percent of the country was acknowledging that the emperor had
no clothes. You have to reinforce this point. Before the

(01:12):
CNN debate, sixty percent of the country said Joe Biden
is too old to be president. Sixty percent of the
country had seen the video, the videos, multiple multiple videos.
Seen the guy talk where he kind of talks like

(01:32):
this and then he would kind of whisper for some
stupid reason, like he It was obvious. It was obvious
to anyone with eyes. And the only people who for
whom it was not obvious were Democrat partisans who had
to willfully blind themselves to this reality because the reality

(01:53):
was really politically disastrous for them. You have a senile
old man in the White House and he's trying to
run for president again. Well, now we've got on top
of it all this cancer diagnosis, and the media is
rushing to recreate all of the exact same, the exact

(02:16):
same sort of timetable of denials, giving way to be grudging. Okay,
yeah it was true. So what happened with Biden's sanility?
First it was the media saying anyone who thinks Biden
is senile is a conspiracy theorist engaging in an unfounded speculation.

(02:38):
Then Biden has the disastrous June debate and it's clear
he's more of a political liability than he is an asset,
and the media say, well, recent events have resulted in
calling into question whether President Biden's mental acuity. And then

(03:02):
finally we get the Jake Tapper book and there's like, okay,
well a re updated reporting has revealed as long as
there's reporting about it, you know, the reporting that they
the media failed to do initially that they the media
very easily could have done, should have done for years. Well,
updated reporting as indicated. But basically, the media tries to

(03:22):
take this attitude of you were Republicans, you conservatives who
thought he was senile, then you didn't have enough basis
to do it. Then you were still wrong for thinking that,
rather than saying, oh, well, you Republicans were right all along,
and you know, believing your lying eyes was actually the

(03:43):
right thing to do, believing your eyes when you would
watch Biden, you know, try to walk. I mean the
Biden's greatest enemy seemingly was having to depart from any
stage where he was talking, because it feels like fifty
percent of the time he would just walk. He's just
walking in any rate direction to get off of a
stage where he's talking, and God knows which direction he's

(04:05):
going in and whether it's the right one. So that
was the cycle. It was. Republicans are engaged in unfounded
speculation to updated reporting because maybe in light of recent events,
updated reporting is indicated that perhaps President Biden is blah
blah blah blah blah to begrudging acceptance. It seems like

(04:26):
the same thing is happening right now with this cancer diagnosis.
Biden is diagnosed over the weekend with horrible stage four
prostate cancer. It's really bad. Over the weekend, pretty much

(04:48):
all the talking points from elected Republicans from the president
down were just sympathy, sympathy directed to the Bidens themselves,
which is the right thing to do. As we come
out of the weekend into Monday Tuesday, the question then arises, Hey,

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you know, he's only been out of office for I
don't know, less than one hundred and fifty days. Did
he have cancer while he was president? Like and I
from what I have read and seen, it seems like
it's only a very small percentage of prostate cancer cases

(05:36):
can go from you know, zero to stage four within
that short of a timeframe. The overwhelming majority of cases
would indicate that actually, yeah, Biden probably had this while
he was president. And you've got people like you know.
There was a good piece in National Review about this,
written by Noah Rothman, who's one of their big writers,

(06:00):
And the title of it is simply, how dare they?
And it's basically all about this topic. Basically, he's saying,
how dare the media act like we are wild eyed
conspiracy theorists for asking the question about an administration that
the media themselves is admitting that the administration engaged in

(06:22):
a massive cover up of Biden's sinility. And now the
media is going to have the temerity to say of
conservatives asking did he have cancer while he was president,
they're going to say that we are wild conspiracy theorists.
There's an NBC News story about the Biden diagnosis and

(06:42):
Republicans speculating. Here's the quote from this NBC News story
about it, which which seems to be the going This
seems to be the line that the media is using
across a lot. Many media outlets are using this line.
This is an NBC News piece by Peter Nicholas and
the correci They write, the alarming news of Biden's illness,

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coupled with the damage to biden world's credibility when it
comes to his fitness, are the tender for unfounded speculation
that Biden knew he was sick. And concealed it until
he left office. Unfounded speculation. I'd say it's pretty well founded.
I didn't just come up with the idea on my own.

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They just announced he's got stage four cancer. I would
like to know when it was stage one and call
me crazy. I feel like that could very well have
been over a year ago, while he was still the

(07:48):
leading Democrat candidate for the presidency. I don't how is
that crazy? There are a million scenarios where that could
have been the case. In fact, there was a video
of Biden giving a speech back in twenty twenty two
where he made some We just chalked it up to
Biden being senile and doing one of his usual verbal

(08:08):
slips where he seemed to indicate that were where that
he and all of his family members have cancer or
a lot of family members have had cancer, and at
the time it was brushed off with, oh, well, you
know he's had skin cancer before. So they they're they're

(08:32):
redoing this whole same this, this whole same circus where
they start by saying, oh, this is just wild, unfounded speculation.
Then they will do any reporting, any investigation into it
at all, and they're going to come up with more
data that yeah, Biden knew about this for you know,
years and was getting treatment for it the whole time,

(08:52):
and lied to the American public, including like Biden was
getting regular checkups and was having the results of those
checkups be announced. Were we just being lied to? Because
that's the thing. If this is Vinnie Schmucatelli getting diagnosed

(09:17):
with stage four cancer, Joe Schmoe, who you know maybe
goes to the doctor once a year, you know, not
doing a full battery tests whatever. If it's if it's
my wife's Minnesotan relatives who lived in rural Minnesota, like
her grandpa and that that sort of generation who you know,

(09:41):
never wanted to go to a doctor ever for anything,
only go to the doctor like when you know, their
legs falling off after a you know, a combine accident. Okay,
I could believe that we only just learned that Grandpa
Kleisky has you know, stage four cancer, and that nobody

(10:02):
knew about it before. This is the President of the
United States. Nobody's health is being more closely and carefully
monitored than his nobody. And again, stage four colon cancer

(10:25):
usually just does not materialize that quickly. That oh yeah, Yeah,
he was totally healthy when he was in office, and
now he's Oh, now he's about to die. And even
liberals have admitted this. Z Commanuel, who the guy who
wrote Obamacare, who was a prominent advisor to the Obama
and Biden administrations on healthcare issues. Rama Manuel's brother wrote,

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he did not develop it in the last one hundred
two hundred days, said doctor z Commanuel, a former advisor
to the Obama administration. He had it while he was president,
probably had it at the start of his presidency. In
twenty twenty one. Urologist doctor David Schusterman agrees. This is
from Noah Rothman's piece in National Review. Doctor David Schusterman

(11:13):
eurologists agrees the fact that we just find it at
a Gleason nine level. So the Gleason scale, I guess,
is the scale which you use to determine, I guess
the severity of at least colon cancer. I'm not sure
if it's for other kinds of cancers. So it's a
scale one to nine. Excuse me, one to ten. Nine
is like almost the worst. That's where Biden is. Eurologist

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doctor David Schustman agrees the fact that we just find
it at a Gleason nine is just pretty much unheard
of in this day and age of medicine, he said,
of the curious extent of Biden's cancer. Of Biden's cancer's metastasis. Rather,
the president's condition is what a physician might encounter when
treating a patient who hasn't had medical attention in ten year. See,

(12:00):
that's what I'm talking about. This. This is like Grandpa
Kleisky living out in rural Minnesota who still has like
a rural like distrust of doctors. But he feels so
bad that finally his wife convinces him to go to
the doctor, and he hasn't been to the doctor in
you know, seven years. Yeah, you have stage four cancer. Like, Okay,

(12:22):
that's an outcome. We could that that that is understandable,
not you know, the president of the United States, who's
getting the best healthcare humanly possible. So unfounded speculation, bul bleep.

(12:47):
It is not unfounded. It is heavily founded, just on
the nature of what he had, of what he they're
telling us he has. It's one percent reasonable. And furthermore,
it's even more reasonable given that they lied to us.

(13:08):
They lied to us. We know that they lied to
us about his mental acuity. They lied to us while
we could see it. I mean, there's something particularly galling
about being lied to while you can see it in
front of your face, the telling you to not believe
your lying eyes aspect of it. And I think it's

(13:38):
this horrific danger to the whole structure of Republican governance
that we have the executive power vested in one person,
the executive He's the lynchpin for the whole executive branch. This,
by the way, is a quote from the Jake Tapper book.

(14:03):
And as much as I dislike Jake Tapper cynically like
cashing in on this after denying for years that Biden
had anything wrong with him, I mean this is a
telling quote because it's exactly what every Republican was saying,
what every conservative who was pretty sure that Biden was
seen al was saying. He has this quote from quote

(14:23):
a person familiar with the internal dynamic of the Biden
White House. And although I must say I hate the
cowardice of all these Biden people who are leaking these
anonymous quotes to Jake Tapper in this obvious c ya.
Now when it doesn't matter, when it doesn't actually when
you know, the country already went through the risk of
having basically an incompetent person at the head of the

(14:47):
executive branch. Anyway, this quote from a person familiar with
the internal dynamic of the Biden White House that is
in Tapper's book. This person said, quote, five people were
running the country and Joe Oh Biden was at best
a senior member of the board. Who were those five people?
That's what we all suspected all along. We suspected all

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along that there was a couple of people, a shadowy
group of people, really pulling the strings, and that Biden
was sort of with it, maybe with it, maybe part
of the decision making, but ultimately there were there were
power brokers pulling the strings. Who were they? I want
to know their five names? When we return. I ask

(15:35):
the question kui bono? Who benefits from all this? Next?
On the John Girardi Show. There's a Latin phrase, kui bono?
Who benefits? And it's a good question to answer to
ask yourself in politics, especially with the release when certain

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information gets released, Why certain information it's released? Who benefits?
Who benefits from all these different revelations we've had in
the last two weeks about Biden's mental health, now, Biden's
physical health, et cetera. So why do we learn now
about Biden's cancer? I mean, they covered it up this,

(16:22):
you know, assuming that they covered it up this whole time,
which frankly it seems implausible to think that they didn't
cover it up. Again, you don't. It's basically exceedingly rare
to go from no cancer while you're president to stage
four cancer you're going to die within I don't know
how how far out we are from January twentieth, about

(16:45):
you know, less than one hundred and fifty days. It's
just not plausible. This is the diagnosis you would find
in someone who hasn't been to the doctor in seven years.
Even hardcore left wing docs like Exekiel Emmanuel are saying
he probably had it the whole time he was president
and he didn't tell anybody, So why reveal it now. Well,

(17:12):
it may be that the Biden family thinks he's gonna
die this summer, so maybe they feel like they kind
of have to say something that they're you're not gonna
see Joe around it, or he's about to go into
super heavier treatment, or he's not going to be making
any more public appearances for the foreseeable future or something.

(17:33):
So the Biden family kind of feels like they have
to give some kind of public explanation for that. Maybe
that's it. I could see though, this being a ham
fisted given you know, the brain trust running this at
this point, which is presumably now reduced to you know,
Jill and Joe and Hunter, and you know, they probably

(17:56):
don't have the the bevy of Democrat advisor and political
advisors and pr advisors around them. They assuredly they have some,
but they certainly don't have as many as he did
when he was still president. So maybe this was a
ham fisted attempt to deflect from the Jake Tapper book.

(18:21):
Here's the Jake Tapper book coming out. I'm going to
say President Biden was seen ale this whole time, and
there was this big cover up. So maybe the Biden
family thinks, why don't we release that he's got this
cancer diagnosis. Maybe that will stem the tide a little
bit and people will have sympathy for Joe and it'll

(18:41):
just make that story kind of it'll sort of deflate
the book, deflate that story and kind of make it
go away. Maybe they didn't account for the fact that
really all that revelation is going to do is make
people ask more questions that maybe they covered up more stuff,

(19:01):
specifically his cancer did Oh so, now not only were
you lying to the American public about the state of
his mental health, you are also lying to the American
public about the state of his physical health. That you know,
and what are we to think of all of these
releases from his doctors saying, Oh, he's in the greatest

(19:22):
health ever, He's super clean, Bill hillth Oh, this Joe Biden,
he's just an amazing guy. What are we supposed to
think of that? It seems kind of I mean, those
statements seem pretty implausible at this point. Now, let's go

(19:45):
to Jake Tapper's book Koi Bono. Who benefits well? Tapper benefits.
Tapper and Alex Thompson, the writers of the book, they
benefit because now they've got a number one New York
Times bestseller on their hands. They got the hottest book
in Washington, they got the book that's going to be
driving news coverage for the next month. They're going to

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make out like bandits financially. It also provides them and
maybe the media as a whole with cover, this cover
that they desperately need, and Tapper certainly feels himself a
member of this tribe and wanting to defend this tribe
of media hacks that we were deceived. They want to

(20:33):
create this landscape of it's not our fault that we
didn't investigate this, that we didn't report on it, and
that we called everyone who said it was happening conspiracy theorists.
They want to say that it's not their fault. It's
not their fault, even though again they didn't report on it,

(20:55):
they didn't investigate it, and they called all the Republicans
who were saying itnspiracy theorists. They want to have this
book out so that the party line is we were
deceived with an elaborate ruse, even though all you had
to do was look at the guy and you could

(21:15):
figure out that, yeah, probably everything's not quite right upstairs.
Like and that's the most galling part about this that
they dare call it a cover up. It's not a
cover up. It was happening right in front of everybody,
for all the world to see, on all the television
cameras that you guys were watching, just as well as
everyone else, and they didn't want to believe it because

(21:37):
if they accepted the reality that was in front of
them Joe Biden is senile, then it's a disaster for
their preferred politics. Their preferred politics was for Joe Biden
to win the twenty twenty four election so that Donald
Trump wouldn't And really that's the end goal of everything.
They just didn't want Donald Trump to win in twenty

(21:58):
twenty four, so they had to keep pretending like Joe
Biden was okay, and he wasn't okay, And so they
didn't investigate it, they didn't report on it, and they
called everyone who was a Republican who was saying that
there was a problem here conspiracy theorists. So now they
have to have some kind of way to cover their butts.

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So the Jake Tapper book comes out saying what an
elaborate ruse was played on us, the poor innocent media.
All right, when we return, we'll talk about a couple
of different California things. Poor old Gavin Newsom, He's made
everybody angry and he still hasn't really fixed the budget.
That's next on the John Girardi Show. Poor Gavin Newsom,

(22:42):
I'm willing to say, poor Gavin Newsom, because I think
his whole political house of cards, his ambitions of running
for president, I think they're all kind of falling apart
right now. The high speed rail continues to be a disaster.
He's facing another huge hole with the state's budget, and

(23:05):
just basically this assessment that we're going to just chronically
chronically face billions of dollars in deficits, tens of billions
of dollars in deficits year over year over year. He's
trying to do some cuts as best he can, and
it's really ticking off his own allies. Planned parenthood of

(23:26):
all people is furious at him. He you know, one
of the centerpieces of his campaigning for governor in twenty
eighteen was single healthcare for all, single payer healthcare for all,
and he's had to roll that. Well, he never actually
pursued single payer health care. That was, you know, one
of the big sleazy lies of his or I guess

(23:50):
baiton switches whatever. Instead of going for single payer healthcare,
which he realized would have required enormous tax increases and
you know, politically was not feasible for him, he instead
just massively increased medical eligibility and capped it off by
offering medical eligibility to illegal aliens. And he now has
to roll that back because it costs billions and billions

(24:12):
of dollars more than he anticipated it would, So he
has to retreat even from that one of his signature
policy quote achievements, and he's left with nothing. He said
he would try to do stuff to fix wildfires all throughout,
and then we had the worst wildfires ever in January
of twenty twenty five. He said he would do stuff

(24:33):
to fix almostness. Holmelessness is still a terrible problem. He
said he do stuff to help fix, help build more
housing and housing affordability. Nothing has happened to improve that situation.
An issue after issue after issue he has failed. He
has no real successes to hang his hat on other

(24:54):
than a couple of pot shots at Ron DeSantis and
Donald Trump and suing Donald Trump a lot. That's his
only success that he can claim. And so as a result,
I sort of look at him like a wounded I mean,
maybe he doesn't see how wounded he is, and maybe

(25:15):
he's still mister confident or something, but I just don't
feel like he's got a shot. I feel like on
any debate stage, if there's any Democrat ambitious enough to
really go at him for his record, he has nothing.
He has nothing to hang his hat on. He has
no real accomplishments to hang his hat on, other than
expanding medical eligibility I guess which he's now had to

(25:38):
roll back in shameful embarrassment. So Dan Walters is always
a good read, writes for Calmutters dot org. He's writing
about how basically news and this often is a dynamic
and sacramento. The governor has to be the adult in
the room. Sometimes the members of the state legislator legislature,

(26:01):
the Democrat state legislators and the Assembly and the state Senate,
they're able to act like unaccountable left wing babies and
pass wild bills that are totally unaccountable, that aren't really responsible,
that refuse to look at the big picture, and that
look at the narrow picture of this pet cause that

(26:23):
they have without acknowledging that, hey, we have a whole
budget that we have to take care of. If we
spend a lot of money on every single thing in
the budget, the budget's going to be too bloated. We
have to cut things, we have to reduce spending on
certain things. A state budget like California's cannot permanently spend
in the red the way that the federal government can.

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The federal government can just keep printing money. State government
can't do that. So as a result, the governor and
I don't care how liberal your governor is, Newsom has
had to do this multiple multiple times over the course
of his term. Governor Jerry Brown had to do it
over his eight years as governor. They have to be
the adult in the room and they have to say

(27:06):
we're gonna cut this, we're gonna cut that, and we're
not going to pass this bill because it spends too
much money or that bill, and it's always kind of
angry Democrats. But this year, boy, there, I feel like
maybe the liberals in California are just like, look, he's
a lame duck. After this year, we don't have to
listen to him anymore. We don't care about alienating him anymore,
we don't have to work for him. You know, We've

(27:27):
got one more year with this guy and then we're
done with him. They just don't care as much about
alienating him again. Like I read the Planned Parenthood Federation
of California press release about some of Newsom's budget cuts,
which they say are going to result in a one
third cut of all California state funding that goes to
Planned parenthood. And their attitude was outrage. We are outraged

(27:54):
at Governor Newsom. At Governor Newsom, they're not even talking
about like, oh, well, we look for you know, we're
concerned about this and we want to work with the
governor in order to help see if we can fix this. No,
they're like, we are outraged. We look forward to working
with the legislature to see if we can fix it.
Not working with Newsom anyway. Here's Dan Walter's writing about this.

(28:15):
When Governor Newsom unveiled a revised state budget last week,
he irritated and perhaps alienated major interest groups allied with
his Democratic Party. They flooded reporters email inboxes with critical
reaction statements, demanding that spending reductions he said were necessary
to cover a substantial deficit in other aspects of the
budget be blocked. The loudest reactions came from advocates for

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the poor and elderly. They decried Newsom's planned to scale
back an expansion of medical health care to undocumented immigrants
that he had championed last year, as well as his
imposition of one hundred dollars monthly premiums, elimination of some benefits,
limits on at home care, and tighter qualifications for benefits.
The twenty twenty five budget proposal fails tomorrow marshall the

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resources needed to help vulnerable Californians meet basic needs like
health care, housing, and food assistants. The left leaning California
Budget and Policy Center said it also falls short in
delivering the bold response needed from California's leaders amid unprecedented
federal threats and economic uncertainty. However, there were also adverse
reactions from public employee unions over Newsom's intention to hold

(29:22):
down state worker raises, from city and county officials over
a lack of grants for homelessness. Newsom intends to crack
down on local governments. He deems to be negligent. Boy,
if he's upsetting the public sector unions, that is big
me jumping in here. Look the one group. If you

(29:46):
keep public sector unions happy in California, teachers' unions, other
public employees, you've got it pretty good as a Democrat.
All right, they're the most important power brokers in Democrat politics,
in California politics. So and here's Newsom saying, hey, I
Newsom is facing a bigger problem, which is that he

(30:08):
authorized gazillions of dollars to be spent statewide on homelessness
and it's not doing jack. So he's trying to shift
the blame somehow. He's trying to shift the blame to
these local governments. And that's the line that the pro
Newsom side has been pushing out. It's not Newsom's fault.
It's not Newsom's fault. Homelessness is a local government problem.
He can't help it if these local well maybe he's

(30:29):
going to try to help it now, he's going to
try to have greater accountability for local governments if they
don't spend the money. Right, So, here's Newsom trying to
fix trying to shift the blame away from himself on
the homelessness problem to local governments. And local governments are
staffed by member of public sector employee unions, so they're

(30:49):
not happy about that. Medicare provider. Medical care providers dislike
both Newsom's medical restrictions and his diversion of fund uns
from a special tax on healthcare approved by voters last year,
meant to increase payments for treatment. Environmentalists are angered by
Newsom's declared intent to fast track a tunnel beneath the

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Sacramento San Joaquin Delta to increase water deliveries to southern California.
So the environmentalists are. Environmentalists are mad at anything. You
can do anything. If you move a muscle in California,
there's going to be an environmentalist wacko who is gonna
just flip out because somehow it's harming something environmental. So

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he's ticking off the environmentalist And the thing is, nobody
actually cares about ticking off the environmentalist groups. What they
care about is ticking off the billionaires who give to
environmentalist groups. That's what they're concerned about. Advocates of Proposition
thirty six, a voter approved measure to crack down on
some crimes that Newsom opposed, decried his failure to include

(32:01):
funds for its implementation. Oh so we all voted for
Prop thirty six and now we have no funds to
implement it. Great. The wave of criticism and opposition puts
the legislature on the spot. Those who dislike the budget
are demanding that legislators compel Newsom to scale back his
proposals as they negotiate a semi final version of the
spending plan over the next four weeks to meet a
June fifteenth deadline. Many legislators owe their careers to the

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budget critics, particularly unions and environmentalists, and they don't want
to alienate them. See this is what I say. This
is why you get the Dan Walters is saying, and
you're getting the best political commentary in all California on
this show. Unions and environmental groups they run the state.
The state lawmakers, a lot of them owe their careers

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to unions and environmentalist groups. So if the unions are
unhappy with this budget and the environmental groups are unhappy
with this budget, Newsom's alienated them all. I don't know
who's whom he's got left. Newsom, on the other hand,

(33:08):
is approaching lame duck's status with his gubernatorial career, having
just nineteen months remaining. We're counting down. We're counting down
bad nineteen months. That's like when parents say that their
kid is like, oh, he's twenty seven months old, Just
just say he's two. But boy, the countdown is bad

(33:28):
when people really want to get rid of this guy.
If they're starting to countdown at like twenty months nineteen months, politically,
Newsom can afford to. Politically, Newsom can afford to irritate
those groups. However, his relatively brief remaining tenure also means
he is beginning to lose his sway over legislators, particularly
those who will still be in office after Newsom is gone. Yeah,

(33:52):
so they're not as eager to listen to him now.
Maybe Newsom thinks will to run for present. I don't
actually care about whether I tick off California state public
workers unions. Okay, fair environmental groups though I don't know

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environmental groups that can be dicey because a lot of
their big time donors can also be big time donors
for national Democrat politics too. Newsom is obviously hoping that
by making budget cuts now to narrow the state's chronic
gap between income and outgo, he can avoid joining the
list of ex governors who left the state's finances in
disarray for their successors. Newsom inherited a state budget from

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predecessor Jerry Brown that was in pretty good condition, but
over the last six plus years which included a pandemic.
Spending growth has outpaced revenue increases. The legislature's budget analyst
recently cited an average nine percent annual increase in outlays
since Newsom became governor, but just six percent in average
revenue growth. So our revenue has grown by an average

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of six percent every year, and we've been spending an
average of nine percent more per year. That's not going
to work. That has left the state with what budget
maven's call a substantial structural deficit that the analyst gave
PETEC and Newsom's own budget staff estimate to be fifteen
billion to twenty billion dollars annually. If it went unaddressed,

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it would total forty two billion through twenty twenty eight
twenty twenty nine. Even with the reductions Newsom proposes projected
twenty twenty five twenty twenty six general revenue General fund
revenues of two hundred and seven billion dollars are still
nineteen billion dollars short of the two hundred and twenty
six billion dollars in spending that he proposes. The gap

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will be covered by loans and transfers from special funds,
shifting spending to the other pots of money and various
bookkeeping gimmicks when we return, how can Newsom really run
for president? With this? Next on The John Drurdy Show,
Poor Gavin Newsom, I really I got to ask this question,

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how does he think he can win the presidency? I
really can't understand it because the failures that Newsom has
racked up over his you know, almost six and a
half years now in office. It's been in office six

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and a half years. The failures he've racked up a
lot of them are not necessarily partisan coded failures. We've
continued to have tons of wildfires. That's bad. Whether you're
a liberal or a conservative, you haven't fixed the problem.

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That's not a liberal or a conservative critique. It's not
like Newsome, you know, introduce single payer health care and
some people like it, some people don't, and Republicans say, oh,
liberal Newsome introduce single payer health care. Well, like a
Republican might criticize that, But on a Democrat primary debate stage,
Newsom having done. If he had done something like that,

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Newsom would look like a million bucks on a Democrat
debate stage. Other Democrats would have to acknowledge he accomplished
a big liberal priority. But the problem is Newsom's failures
are all not really partis encoded wildfires, having to roll
back his own policies because it costs too much, massive
budget deficits, structural budget deficits year over year, homelessness, spending

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gazillions of dollars in homelessness and the homeless levels aren't changing.
This is all stuff where he's open to criticism from
other Democrats. I don't understand how he's gonna get on
a debate stage with other Democrats and with his record
not have them tear him limb from limb. The high

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speed rail is still not operational. Democrat is going to
be on that debate stage and be the Tulsa Gabbard
to his Kamala Harris and just rip him apart because
his failures are not necessarily partisan, They're just failures that'll
do it. John Girardi Show, See you next time on
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