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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it's election day.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
If you're listening to this and you still haven't voted,
I think you might still have a little bit of time. Do,
in fact, go and vote.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I think the polls don't close in California for a
little while yet, unless you're listening on the podcast, in
which case, sorry you missed it, and I don't mean
to depress your vote. Go out and vote. But let's
be real.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Prop fifty is going to pass, and we're going to
do this redistricting, and the current California redistricting model for
congressional seats is going away. Why well, because it's not
just going to be a temporary measure. Basically, Republicans will
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continue to control the state houses of a lot of
states after the twenty thirty census. Those Republican controlled state
houses and lots of states throughout the country will draw
maps that are favorable to Republicans, and as a result,
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whoever is governor of California in twenty thirty will.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Say, this is terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We need to pass another version of Prop fifty to
allow for more aggressive lines drawn by Democrats because we
have to counteract whoever the next big bad is following
Donald Trump, whether that's JD Vance or just evil Republicans
in general.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
If the Democrats in the White.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
House, so we're going to lose out on So the
Independent Redistricting Commission will basically be restricted to drawing the
district lines for things that don't matter as much. For
the California State Assembly and for the California State Senate.
Why well, because Democrats already control three quarters of those seats,
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so they don't really care. They don't care if there's
a few Republican votes one way or another. They know
that they're going to control the state legislature in perpetuity.
Because that's the dirty little secret is that the existing
model we had with the California redistrict the independent so
called Independent re Districting Commission, it was already extremely biased
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in favor of Democrats. The California Independent Redistricting Commission was
composed of a certain number of Republicans, a certain number
of Democrats, and then a certain number of no party
preference people. And you can look up the bios of
the people who are the no party preference people, and
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it's blindingly.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Obvious that these people are.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Enormously partisan, and they have drawn maps where California is
about sixty to forty Democrats to Republicans, and they drew
a bunch of maps that are seventy five twenty five
to eighty five point fifteen in the democrats favor. So
they've drawn maps already that over represent Democrats throughout the state.
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That was what the Independent Redistricting Commission was already doing.
What the Democrats are doing now is not Jerry Manderin.
It's super duper Pooper Scooper Jerry Manderin. It's a big
win for Gavin Newsom. I'm not gonna lie. I think
Gavin Newsom starting this year was in a tough state.
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Donald Trump had just won. Everyone's turning to Newsom to think, well,
all right, you're up, buddy, what.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Do you got?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
And Newsom came into twenty twenty five about as terribly
as you could with the disaster of the LA wildfires.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
It's not a good look.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
He's overseeing a state he had the disaster of the
LA wildfires, he had the disaster of the budget where
he gives his initial budget, then he has to revise
the budget in May, which the governor does his budget
revision every May. The governor gives his initial budget at
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the start of the legislative year in January, after April fifteenth,
tax Day, the governor gives a revision to his budget,
which is based off of the actuals of what we've
actually received in revenue to the state from taxes, and
he revises it based on whatever has come in. And
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his May revision was revealed a disastrous budgetary situation where
we have a structure deficit. Basically, it's not that, oh,
we just had a one.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Off bad year. Year over year over year, our commitments.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Are going to outstrip our expected revenue somewhere to the
tune of about twenty billion dollars per year.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So he had the wildfires, he had structural deficits.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
He had stories come out about how the money that's
being spent on homelessness is not only not effective, it's
not even trackable, that there aren't even metrics to measure
whether it's done anything positive the fifteen billion dollars we've
blown on homelessness programs. Homelessness is bad. Wildfires are bad.
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The economy is not good. Gavin Newsom rushes to push
more regulations on oil refineries. Oil companies shut down their refineries.
Gas prices are on the verge of spiking Newsome looks terrible.
In early twenty he launches his podcast, which manages to
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anger everybody. Nobody likes it. Nobody likes Newsome as a
result of it. You know, he brings Charlie Kirk on
the first episode and sort of says that he thinks
boys playing girls' sports is deeply unfair, and everyone is
annoyed by it.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Liberals are annoyed that he flip flopped.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Liberals are annoyed that he has a podcast and he
keeps bringing on conservatives. Conservatives are annoyed that, well, this
is a very this is the most obviously convenient political
changing of views in human history. Why aren't you doing
anything about Why aren't you doing anything about this? If
you think it's so unfair for boys to play girls' sports,
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you know, you're the guy who signed into law not
just boys playing girls' sports, You signed into law biological
men being housed in women's prisons, you know, where they
have ample opportunity.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
To rape people. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So Newsom was just annoying everybody, ticking everybody off, and
just has he had problem after problem after problem, accomplishment
after non accomplishment after non accomplishment.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Where these weren't like things.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Newsom's record and why he's unpopular, it's not because he
does liberal things that liberals like and conservatives dislike. Newsom's
problem was that all of his failures were bipartisan recognizable
as failures. Wildfires are just bad, nobody likes them. Newsom
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had terrible wildfires in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty. He
clearly didn't do whatever was necessary to prevent them. We
have more wildfires in twenty twenty five. Has been a
problem for his entire duration of his governorship. It's still
a problem for his entire governorship. The high speed rail
has exactly as much operable track today zero point zero
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inches as it did when he started as governor. And
he had the opportunity to abandon the project when he started,
and he chose not to. It's still a disaster. There's
just issue after issue after issue where Newsom can be
ripped not just by conservatives but by liberals too, And
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that's the real threat to Newsom if he wants to
become president. Eventually, he has to go on a Democrat
primary debate stage with a bunch of other extremely ambitious
people who are going to look for reasons to tear
him down, and they're going to find ample opportunities to
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do so. What Newsom needed was a W. He needed
a W and he didn't have a lot of time left.
He only has about a year left is a year
in change left as governor. Yeah, he's only got like
a year and two month left. Boom Redistricting prop fifty.
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After stories came out about President Trump urging the Texas
State Legislature to redistrict mid year in order to draw
a more aggressively partisan map that favors Republicans, Gavin Newsom
found his issue. He could play into the Democrats whole
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defending democracy thing, and now he had a lot bigger
hurdles that he had to overcome, though much more so
than the Texas State Legislature. Unlike the Texas State legislature.
Unlike in Texas, where redistricting is just done by the
state legislature, which is the normal American systm, the California
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has a weird system.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
California has in its constitution that its procedure for drawing
new lines for redistricting is governed by the California Independent Redistricting.
The California Citizen Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. So Newsom can't
just you know, snap his fingers pass a bill through
the state legislature and get new district lines drawn. He's
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got to amend the state constitution to do it, and
he does. He moves incredibly quickly.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
He manages to have the state legislature pass you know,
procedure be damned. He manages to have the state legislature
pass a proposal for a new state constitutional amendment with
two thirds majorities in both houses of the state legislature.
He gets it on the ballot, not in spring of
twenty twenty six, he manages to get it in November
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of twenty twenty five. Does the necessary fundraising, doesn't necessary campaigning.
He's in all the commercials, but it being by to
bang by to boom Prop fifty and it's probably gonna pass.
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And finally Gavin Newsom has something. It's a clear Democrat
w something that puts him in with big time leadership
at the DNC, something that is going to be, you know,
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something that is going to gratify the big money Democrat
donors who look they want to give money to political
horses that are gonna win and here's Newsom giving them
five extra seats in the House of Representatives. That's worth supporting.
He's showing he can get something done. And again, it's
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a thing that Republicans don't like, but Democrats love this.
He finally will have something when he's on that debate
stage and he's staring down the barrel of AOC or
whoever else is running for president, where he can say, yeah,
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I accomplished this.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
The heck I saw one of the Prop fifty ads.
He put AOC in one of the ads. It was
an ad, it was AOC. Who else was in?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Alex Padilla, a couple of other folks,
big time Democrat heavy hitters from all over the country.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
He's got Obama doing all these ads. The really funny
thing with the Obama ads is that Obama cut ads
for Abigail Spanberger, the gal who's running for governor of Virginia, and.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
For Prop fifty, and he clearly recorded them in the
same sitting, because he's in the same room wearing the
same outfit. And my wife and I now have this
running joke that like Obama was trying to just knock
out all these commercial recording all these commercials before he
went out to go play golf or something, and so
we were joking, like after every cut back to Obama,
he should have been like dressed more casually and like
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by the end of it wearing like, you know, a
golf polo shirt and a titleist hat and you know,
a golf glove on one hand and holding a club
and the other as every cut back he's wearing another
additional piece of golf gear.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Anyway, that would have been funny. But this is this
is Gavin's moment. I mean, this is fine.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
This is like Gavin knew he only had after Trump
won and the table starts to get set for twenty
twenty eight. Newsom realize he's only got two more years
left as governor to accomplish anything, and his first six
years hadn't really accomplished much.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
This is big. It's big for him. It's big as
far now it's for moderates.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Maybe it's not so big, but Gavin Newsom needs to
win a Democrat nomination. He needs to win a Democrat
primary if he wants to be president. This helps him,
It does, It helps him. It makes him look like fighter,
It makes him look like someone who did his part,
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didn't sit around twiddling his thumbs. He can't be portrayed
as you know, rolling over and you know, not being
tough in fighting Trump. I mean, why is there a
government shut down on?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Still?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Right now there's a government shut down on because Chuck
Schumer doesn't want to get primary.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Really, that's fundamentally yet, I mean Chuck Schumer. Basically it's
the Republicans proposed.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
A clean what's called clean continuing resolution, Let's just continue,
Let's not have the government shut down, Let's continue to
fund the government at all of its continue at all
of its existing levels. Republicans of all supported it, and
the Democrats say no, we want X, Y and Z.
And Schumer is not bending on it because the last
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time he okayed because basically he has compromised before and
the far left just absolutely ripped him a new one.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And he's afraid that AOC is going.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
To challenge him in the primary for his New York
Senate seat and that she's going to beat him.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So he can't be viewed, he can't be perceived to
be weak, and so he's just going to keep on trucking.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Newsome is now no longer going to be hit with
that kind of Chuck Schumer, he didn't really stand up
to Trump label. So unfortunately, I hate to admit it,
but I think that Gavin Newsom is coming out of
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this with a real win.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And it changes the equation.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I think it makes it much more likely that he's
going to be the Democratic nominee for president in twenty
twenty eight. When we return the Republican opposition to Prop
fifty aka yet another example of California Republicans being completely incompetent.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
That's next on the John Girardi Show.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Prop fifty looks like it's going to pass, although again,
if you're listening to this live, like go vote, there's
still a little time, but Prop fifty looks like it's
going to passp Prop fifty looks like it's going to
pass and to allow the Democrats and their consultants to
draw our congressional district lines for the rest of the decade,
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and it's going to allow Democrats to pick up about
five seats in the House.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
A story was published at Axios written by Alex Eisenstadt.
The title of the story, GOP blame Game is on
as push to stop California redistricting fades Now this story
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is what it says on the tin. It talks about
how Republicans are all blaming each other for why Prop
fifty is going to pass. And the story seems to
focus on the different people who were funding sort of
different parallel efforts to defeat Prop fifty. Where you had
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Kevin McCarthy was very active, the former Speaker of the
House for congressman from a Bakersfield area, who he had
a bunch of money that he was raising to help
defeat Prop fifty. They were working quite Now this story
from Axios, I will say, I taking this with a
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grain of salt because it's portraying McCarthy and some of
his group and his ILK as the smart, competent, good
guys and this Trump aligned group as the bad guys.
So I think obviously the sourcing for this article, whoever
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is sourcing this article to provide this narrative to a reporter,
is trying to protect his faction or her affection against
some other faction. So take this with a grain of salt.
I'm not saying this is one hundred percent true, but
clearly there is a lack of court nation that's going
on here, and people at odds with each other. Now,
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the story talks about Ashley Hyak. Hyak she is the
president of the pro Trump group America First Works AFW.
Hyak met with about fifty major California donors at the
Willard Hotel in Washington, d C. During the run up
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to Prop fifty. She was asked by these donors about
whether the measure was going to pass. Hyack said it
appeared it would based on public polling. There's probably going
to be redistricting in California, she told the GOP donors.
Senior Trump political advisors were infuriated by Hyek's remarks when
they caught wind of them because her organization as the
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impromater of White House support. Trump advisors worried that donors
were think they were bailing on California and close their wallets.
Also frustrating them was that Hyek's group wasn't involved with
the anti Prop fifty campaign and that she hadn't given
them a heads up about what she would say. Internal
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polling at the time showed that the anti Prop fifty
effort was still in striking distance of winning, The advisors say.
Hyek's comments also rankled top Republicans such as Kevin McCarthy
and California Representative Ken Calvert, a funder of the effort
who would lose his seat.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
If Newsom's redistricting plan goes through.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Charles Munger, the billionaire donor who gave a ton of
money to stop Prop fifty. His team was also angry
at Hyak. So basically, you had all these big money
Republican donors all gathered together in Washington, we want them
to give money for the no on Prop fifty campaign,
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and you have this gal who's the head of this
big pro Trump group telling them, yeah, it looks like
it's going to pass, and all these guys cooled off.
They didn't want to spend all the money that was necessary.
So maybe it's not quite as fast factional as it seems,
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because apparently the White House is furious at this, and
Kevin McCarthy is furious at this, and the Monger people
are furious at this. So you had some sort of
free radical, this Ashley Hayek gal depressing the enthusiasm of
all these big money donors, and it shows. I mean, guys,
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I've watched football the last couple of weekends. I've seen like,
I don't know seven Prop fifty seven yes on Prop
fifty ads for every no on Prop fifty AD. Maybe
it's more like ten to one.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
My wife and I.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Were laughing because we had sometimes in the evenings we
like watching Seinfeld reruns which are on TV Land, and
you know, we turn it on, there's Seinfeld and we're
just sitting left and on TV Land they've got a no.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
On fifty commercial. Right. Oh, okay, so we didn't have
a yes on fifty ad. You know, during Game seven
of the World Series with the Dodgers, you know, you're
pulling off the most one of the most dramatic wins
in the history of baseball, you know, with a huge,
you know, thirty million television rating. You know, we're not
seeing no on fifty ads on Sunday Night football. We're
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not seeing no on fifty ads during you know, big
time college football games. But yeah, we sure got the
no on fifty ads on TV Land for Seinfeld reruns.
Oh it's so flip and depressing.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
All right, When we return, I want to talk about
how genuinely insane the CSUS are, how insane Fresno State is.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Here's the preview teaser, A cross dressing Latino professor guy
who goes by. They them wearing a pro Palestinian keffia
is getting an award, and Presno State is celebrating this.
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We'll be back on the John Girardi Show.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
This story comes to me via a friend on Facebook
posting out a picture of this, and then I looked
on LinkedIn and found it. Fresno State published this on
their LinkedIn page. I am met with a picture. The
LinkedIn post presents a image of a Mexican man or
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a Latino man of some sort, clearly dressed as a woman,
but with a full beard and mustache, septum ring through
the nose, large like Spanish colorful tile style earrings like
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earrings with like hanging from it. Looks like a small
tile like painted with flowers, wearing what looks like a
red women's blazer, but with a Palestinian kefia, you know,
the blue and white kind of scarf or whatever that
pro Palestinian protesters wear, hair pulled back in It's a
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front center shot. Looks like his hair is pulled back
in a ponytail, with two big, long, strangling.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Do dads in the front.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
An obvious woman aping at pretending, an obvious man pretending
aping at sort of appearing like a woman but not
shaving his beard anyway, wearing bright red lipstick rainbow stickers
to systemic change, proclaims the President of State website professor
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among five to earn prestigious national fellowship, Doctor on held
de Jesus Gonzalez. You know, you know, it's bad when
they have to start with doctor, Like someone who has
a doctorate other than a medical doctorate, who insists on
going by doctor. It's always a sign. It's always a
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sign that you kind of got a Mickey Mouse doctorate. Anyway,
Doctor on, you know, like doctor Jill Biden, et cetera.
Doctor onhel de Jesus Gonzalez. I mean like I have
a doctorate.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I have a J. D.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Euris doctor. That's technically what it is. You don't hear
me going around, oh doctor John and Girardi anyway, Doctor
on heel de Jesus. Gonzalez was selected as a twenty
twenty five Equity and Inclusion Young Pro Professional Fellow. According
to the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, announced
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in August, only five fellowships are granted each year, and Gonzalez,
an assistant professor in the Kremen's School of Education, and
Human Development at Fresno State, joins scholars from UC Irvine
Rice University in Texas A and M. Gonzalez, who uses
the pronoun they.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Also.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
By the way, my wife pointed this out when she
read this last night. It notes at the start of
this big president, it's this big, long write up about
this professor at Fresnes State who is getting some kind
of fellowship and this is this guy is a complete wacko.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It notes early on that.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
This guy uses the pronoun they, But then the whole
story just keeps referring to as Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Gonzalez.
Even all these points where normally you would use a
pronoun to refer to someone, they just keep saying Gonzales,
probably because the author of the piece has some residual
shred of respect for the principles of English language grammar
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and they don't want to use a plural pronoun verbal
structure to refer to a person in the singular, because
what are you supposed to do, Because when you move
from singular a singular pronoun to a plural pronoun, that
changes the verb instead of he thinks it's they think.
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And that's always the weird thing when people insist on
a they them pronoun is that it leads the reader
to think, wait, what's the group of people we're talking about?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
You know, only because.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
That's just how English works up until two minutes ago,
when all of a sudden you had androgynous people insisting
on using veg instead of he. This guy is like
every caricature of an insane left wing.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
LGBT.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
They then like every it checks every box, literally every
insane liberal trope of the twenty twenties is contained in
this person, and this story about this person.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Okay, this guy, so it gives his whole story. Gonzales
teaches in Fresno States Higher Education Administration and Leadership program
and what this guy seems to do is to teach
about college level administration and how important it is to
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have DEI programs.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He has bounced around from city college to city college
to city college, all up and down California to finally
he gets a gig at Fresno State.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Now he's going to get this fellowship thing. The first
in their family to go to college, Gonzales double majored
in environmental science and Spanish at Whittier College, a small,
private liberal arts institution just a few miles from southeast
Los Angeles, where they grew up. I wanted to work
for the US Geological Survey and do earthquake monitoring. As
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a student at Whittier College, Gonzal has discovered a passion
for advocacy and inclusion, helping lead initiatives that supported both
students and campus staff, including organizing efforts to improve working
conditions for housekeeping employees. So he starts out in college
wanting to do something real with his life and wanting
to study like an actual, real discipline. He was majoring
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environmental science and Spanish actual courses study. He wanted to
work for the US Geological Survey.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, you know, to each his own, it sounds like
a perfectly fine interest to pursue.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Wants to go do so, but instead he gets caught
up with liberal activism and it then continues to give
his This. This excruciatingly long article talks about how gonzales
because he's pursuing all these LGBT fashionable things, he basically
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goes from one Mickey Mouse program of study to another,
one Mickey Mouse job to another one Mickey Mouse fellowship
to another. He gets a grant that's funded by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he gets to go, he
goes from one community college to another. He's got all
this stuff talking about all.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
The scholarly work he has done. The three four scholarly
articles he's producer have been I did on Google scholar
more than about buddelg gazillion bajillion times.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So I actually go and pull up one of his
articles on Google scholar.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And it's this piece in which he's basically because he
did a ton of stuff at community colleges and a
lot of his research has focused on what kinds of
DEI inclusive materials.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
And messaging do colleges and community colleges have, And he
tisk tisks and shames them if they don't have enough
according to his standard, and he horay horay praises them
if they have tons and tons and tons and tons
of aggressive prologpt stuff. And what he seems to like
to do is and this seems to be the the
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attitude of a lot of these leftists is this sort
of attitude of resentment for the institution that educate and
foster and employ them by saying they're not doing enough
to be inclusive towards everyone in the alphabet alphabet spectrum
of minorityism, all the pyramid of intersectionality. So he said,
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I'm going to anonymize the results by looking at two
California community colleges that I will.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Refer to by and then he uses these fictitious names.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But I'm looking at I'm like, you could probably figure
out what these two community colleges are based on the
descriptions he gave of them. So it's not even like subtle,
like he's trying to be clever or something, but it's
like anyone who looks at this and like does a
bit of a Google search can figure out which community
colleges he's talking about, and then he publishes his quote.
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Research was basically looking at all of their promotional literature
and trying to find how many times they use this
arbitrary list of liberal buzzwords that he came up with
and using that as the metric for welcomingness. Or he's
some these like made up words to sort of discribe
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as if he's like doing something that's like rigorously empirical
when it isn't. And I read through one of his articles,
I was reading through this article and I realized it's
just miles of lefty academic jargon. And then anytime he
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has to actually write narrative on his own, it's just bad.
It's like bad grammar, poor writing. It's like, this is
what the left has spawned here and particularly the CSUS.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
I'm gonna say this. People think that you see Berkeley
is bad. People think U see Berkeley is radical and
liberal and bad, and it is. I'm not disputing that.
But if you want to find the true psychos on
California college campuses, the true hardcore left wing psychos, you
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don't go to the UC system. You go to the CSUS, buddy.
The CSUS is where it's at.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Because the CSUS, you know, the academic standards aren't quite
as high, they're not as highly rated schools.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
And that goes for the professors. That goes for it's
not just as far as you know, average undergrad set scores.
That also goes for the professors too. So what you've
got at the CSUS if the CSUS have to hire
people and they're being pushed from above all these requirements
for left wing crazy sinecure positions and DEI departments and
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teaching about DEI, this, that, and the other. All their
departments have been ideologically captured by the extreme left. They
got to fill these positions, and so what happens. You
get people who combine genuine left wing radicalism with a
total lack of actual academic achievement, and you get products
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like this. It's mind boggling. And this has happened. It's
not just at Fresno State.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
This is happening at every CSU across the country that
they've got total psychos like this. Who I mean his
academic work, a lot of his academic work seems to
just be it's good to have more DEI programs.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
He had one academic piece about how to basically hide
your continue doing DEI program when your DEI program gets
shut down. How to basically hide all your DEI employees
elsewhere in the administration and have them keep doing DEI
stuff and not have it say DEI stuff. It's it's
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incredible when we return why stuff like this is not
great for Fresno State specifically. Next on the John Girardi.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Show, Doctor Nhill DeJesus Gonzalez, a Fresno State assistant professor,
is being lauded heralded with big LinkedIn social media posts
and website pages at Fresno State for winning some kind
of fellowship on Heldajsus Gonzales, a man who dresses up
(36:43):
like a woman goes by they them wears a pro
Palestine kefia whose academic research seems to just be It's
good for colleges to employ more people like me. It's
good for colleges to have DEI programs. It's good for
community colleges to have de I program Here's why you
can keep why you should keep having DEI programs even
when the federal government says, hey, stop having DEI programs,
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et cetera, et cetera, etcetera, etcetera. And I gotta say,
Presno State, you do realize who your donors are, right,
A bunch of old farmers.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
They don't like this crap. And by the way, Fresno State,
if you're wondering, Goaly, why didn't everyone vote for Measure E?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Maybe this kind of crap had something to do with it,
Like why are you expecting people to pony up money
for this kind of stuff so this guy can have
a job. I understand Measurrey was gonna fund other things
blah blah blah blah blah. But you know what the
reality is, Money is fungible.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
You give money for one thing, freeze up money for this.
You know, if maybe a Fresno State wasn't hiring so
many of these guys, we could have more nurses and
an engineers and stuff. I mean, this is not helpful
for Fresno State in any way, shape and form. And
whoever decided this was the thing to trumpet from their
PR department needs their head examined.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
That'll do it. John Gilady shows you next time on
Power Talk
Well, it's election day.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
If you're listening to this and you still haven't voted,
I think you might still have a little bit of time. Do,
in fact, go and vote.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
I think the polls don't close in California for a
little while yet, unless you're listening on the podcast, in
which case, sorry you missed it, and I don't mean
to depress your vote. Go out and vote. But let's
be real.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Prop fifty is going to pass, and we're going to
do this redistricting, and the current California redistricting model for
congressional seats is going away. Why well, because it's not
just going to be a temporary measure. Basically, Republicans will
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continue to control the state houses of a lot of
states after the twenty thirty census. Those Republican controlled state
houses and lots of states throughout the country will draw
maps that are favorable to Republicans, and as a result,
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whoever is governor of California in twenty thirty will.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Say, this is terrible.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We need to pass another version of Prop fifty to
allow for more aggressive lines drawn by Democrats because we
have to counteract whoever the next big bad is following
Donald Trump, whether that's JD Vance or just evil Republicans
in general.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
If the Democrats in the White.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
House, so we're going to lose out on So the
Independent Redistricting Commission will basically be restricted to drawing the
district lines for things that don't matter as much. For
the California State Assembly and for the California State Senate.
Why well, because Democrats already control three quarters of those seats,
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so they don't really care. They don't care if there's
a few Republican votes one way or another. They know
that they're going to control the state legislature in perpetuity.
Because that's the dirty little secret is that the existing
model we had with the California redistrict the independent so
called Independent re Districting Commission, it was already extremely biased
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in favor of Democrats. The California Independent Redistricting Commission was
composed of a certain number of Republicans, a certain number
of Democrats, and then a certain number of no party
preference people. And you can look up the bios of
the people who are the no party preference people, and
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it's blindingly.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Obvious that these people are.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Enormously partisan, and they have drawn maps where California is
about sixty to forty Democrats to Republicans, and they drew
a bunch of maps that are seventy five twenty five
to eighty five point fifteen in the democrats favor. So
they've drawn maps already that over represent Democrats throughout the state.
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That was what the Independent Redistricting Commission was already doing.
What the Democrats are doing now is not Jerry Manderin.
It's super duper Pooper Scooper Jerry Manderin. It's a big
win for Gavin Newsom. I'm not gonna lie. I think
Gavin Newsom starting this year was in a tough state.
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Donald Trump had just won. Everyone's turning to Newsom to think, well,
all right, you're up, buddy, what.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Do you got?
Speaker 2 (03:53):
And Newsom came into twenty twenty five about as terribly
as you could with the disaster of the LA wildfires.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
It's not a good look.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
He's overseeing a state he had the disaster of the
LA wildfires, he had the disaster of the budget where
he gives his initial budget, then he has to revise
the budget in May, which the governor does his budget
revision every May. The governor gives his initial budget at
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the start of the legislative year in January, after April fifteenth,
tax Day, the governor gives a revision to his budget,
which is based off of the actuals of what we've
actually received in revenue to the state from taxes, and
he revises it based on whatever has come in. And
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his May revision was revealed a disastrous budgetary situation where
we have a structure deficit. Basically, it's not that, oh,
we just had a one.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Off bad year. Year over year over year, our commitments.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Are going to outstrip our expected revenue somewhere to the
tune of about twenty billion dollars per year.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
So he had the wildfires, he had structural deficits.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
He had stories come out about how the money that's
being spent on homelessness is not only not effective, it's
not even trackable, that there aren't even metrics to measure
whether it's done anything positive the fifteen billion dollars we've
blown on homelessness programs. Homelessness is bad. Wildfires are bad.
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The economy is not good. Gavin Newsom rushes to push
more regulations on oil refineries. Oil companies shut down their refineries.
Gas prices are on the verge of spiking Newsome looks terrible.
In early twenty he launches his podcast, which manages to
(06:05):
anger everybody. Nobody likes it. Nobody likes Newsome as a
result of it. You know, he brings Charlie Kirk on
the first episode and sort of says that he thinks
boys playing girls' sports is deeply unfair, and everyone is
annoyed by it.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Liberals are annoyed that he flip flopped.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Liberals are annoyed that he has a podcast and he
keeps bringing on conservatives. Conservatives are annoyed that, well, this
is a very this is the most obviously convenient political
changing of views in human history. Why aren't you doing
anything about Why aren't you doing anything about this? If
you think it's so unfair for boys to play girls' sports,
(06:47):
you know, you're the guy who signed into law not
just boys playing girls' sports, You signed into law biological
men being housed in women's prisons, you know, where they
have ample opportunity.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
To rape people. What are you talking about?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
So Newsom was just annoying everybody, ticking everybody off, and
just has he had problem after problem after problem, accomplishment
after non accomplishment after non accomplishment.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Where these weren't like things.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Newsom's record and why he's unpopular, it's not because he
does liberal things that liberals like and conservatives dislike. Newsom's
problem was that all of his failures were bipartisan recognizable
as failures. Wildfires are just bad, nobody likes them. Newsom
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had terrible wildfires in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty. He
clearly didn't do whatever was necessary to prevent them. We
have more wildfires in twenty twenty five. Has been a
problem for his entire duration of his governorship. It's still
a problem for his entire governorship. The high speed rail
has exactly as much operable track today zero point zero
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inches as it did when he started as governor. And
he had the opportunity to abandon the project when he started,
and he chose not to. It's still a disaster. There's
just issue after issue after issue where Newsom can be
ripped not just by conservatives but by liberals too, And
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that's the real threat to Newsom if he wants to
become president. Eventually, he has to go on a Democrat
primary debate stage with a bunch of other extremely ambitious
people who are going to look for reasons to tear
him down, and they're going to find ample opportunities to
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do so. What Newsom needed was a W. He needed
a W and he didn't have a lot of time left.
He only has about a year left is a year
in change left as governor. Yeah, he's only got like
a year and two month left. Boom Redistricting prop fifty.
(09:19):
After stories came out about President Trump urging the Texas
State Legislature to redistrict mid year in order to draw
a more aggressively partisan map that favors Republicans, Gavin Newsom
found his issue. He could play into the Democrats whole
(09:39):
defending democracy thing, and now he had a lot bigger
hurdles that he had to overcome, though much more so
than the Texas State Legislature. Unlike the Texas State legislature.
Unlike in Texas, where redistricting is just done by the
state legislature, which is the normal American systm, the California
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has a weird system.
Speaker 1 (10:02):
California has in its constitution that its procedure for drawing
new lines for redistricting is governed by the California Independent Redistricting.
The California Citizen Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. So Newsom can't
just you know, snap his fingers pass a bill through
the state legislature and get new district lines drawn. He's
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got to amend the state constitution to do it, and
he does. He moves incredibly quickly.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
He manages to have the state legislature pass you know,
procedure be damned. He manages to have the state legislature
pass a proposal for a new state constitutional amendment with
two thirds majorities in both houses of the state legislature.
He gets it on the ballot, not in spring of
twenty twenty six, he manages to get it in November
(10:57):
of twenty twenty five. Does the necessary fundraising, doesn't necessary campaigning.
He's in all the commercials, but it being by to
bang by to boom Prop fifty and it's probably gonna pass.
(11:17):
And finally Gavin Newsom has something. It's a clear Democrat
w something that puts him in with big time leadership
at the DNC, something that is going to be, you know,
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something that is going to gratify the big money Democrat
donors who look they want to give money to political
horses that are gonna win and here's Newsom giving them
five extra seats in the House of Representatives. That's worth supporting.
He's showing he can get something done. And again, it's
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a thing that Republicans don't like, but Democrats love this.
He finally will have something when he's on that debate
stage and he's staring down the barrel of AOC or
whoever else is running for president, where he can say, yeah,
(12:27):
I accomplished this.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
The heck I saw one of the Prop fifty ads.
He put AOC in one of the ads. It was
an ad, it was AOC. Who else was in?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Elizabeth Warren, AOC, Alex Padilla, a couple of other folks,
big time Democrat heavy hitters from all over the country.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
He's got Obama doing all these ads. The really funny
thing with the Obama ads is that Obama cut ads
for Abigail Spanberger, the gal who's running for governor of Virginia, and.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
For Prop fifty, and he clearly recorded them in the
same sitting, because he's in the same room wearing the
same outfit. And my wife and I now have this
running joke that like Obama was trying to just knock
out all these commercial recording all these commercials before he
went out to go play golf or something, and so
we were joking, like after every cut back to Obama,
he should have been like dressed more casually and like
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by the end of it wearing like, you know, a
golf polo shirt and a titleist hat and you know,
a golf glove on one hand and holding a club
and the other as every cut back he's wearing another
additional piece of golf gear.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Anyway, that would have been funny. But this is this
is Gavin's moment. I mean, this is fine.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
This is like Gavin knew he only had after Trump
won and the table starts to get set for twenty
twenty eight. Newsom realize he's only got two more years
left as governor to accomplish anything, and his first six
years hadn't really accomplished much.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
This is big. It's big for him. It's big as
far now it's for moderates.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Maybe it's not so big, but Gavin Newsom needs to
win a Democrat nomination. He needs to win a Democrat
primary if he wants to be president. This helps him,
It does, It helps him. It makes him look like fighter,
It makes him look like someone who did his part,
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didn't sit around twiddling his thumbs. He can't be portrayed
as you know, rolling over and you know, not being
tough in fighting Trump. I mean, why is there a
government shut down on?
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Still?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Right now there's a government shut down on because Chuck
Schumer doesn't want to get primary.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Really, that's fundamentally yet, I mean Chuck Schumer. Basically it's
the Republicans proposed.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
A clean what's called clean continuing resolution, Let's just continue,
Let's not have the government shut down, Let's continue to
fund the government at all of its continue at all
of its existing levels. Republicans of all supported it, and
the Democrats say no, we want X, Y and Z.
And Schumer is not bending on it because the last
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time he okayed because basically he has compromised before and
the far left just absolutely ripped him a new one.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
And he's afraid that AOC is going.
Speaker 2 (15:37):
To challenge him in the primary for his New York
Senate seat and that she's going to beat him.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
So he can't be viewed, he can't be perceived to
be weak, and so he's just going to keep on trucking.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Newsome is now no longer going to be hit with
that kind of Chuck Schumer, he didn't really stand up
to Trump label. So unfortunately, I hate to admit it,
but I think that Gavin Newsom is coming out of
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this with a real win.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
And it changes the equation.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
I think it makes it much more likely that he's
going to be the Democratic nominee for president in twenty
twenty eight. When we return the Republican opposition to Prop
fifty aka yet another example of California Republicans being completely incompetent.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
That's next on the John Girardi Show.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Prop fifty looks like it's going to pass, although again,
if you're listening to this live, like go vote, there's
still a little time, but Prop fifty looks like it's
going to passp Prop fifty looks like it's going to
pass and to allow the Democrats and their consultants to
draw our congressional district lines for the rest of the decade,
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and it's going to allow Democrats to pick up about
five seats in the House.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
A story was published at Axios written by Alex Eisenstadt.
The title of the story, GOP blame Game is on
as push to stop California redistricting fades Now this story
(17:34):
is what it says on the tin. It talks about
how Republicans are all blaming each other for why Prop
fifty is going to pass. And the story seems to
focus on the different people who were funding sort of
different parallel efforts to defeat Prop fifty. Where you had
(18:00):
Kevin McCarthy was very active, the former Speaker of the
House for congressman from a Bakersfield area, who he had
a bunch of money that he was raising to help
defeat Prop fifty. They were working quite Now this story
from Axios, I will say, I taking this with a
(18:22):
grain of salt because it's portraying McCarthy and some of
his group and his ILK as the smart, competent, good
guys and this Trump aligned group as the bad guys.
So I think obviously the sourcing for this article, whoever
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is sourcing this article to provide this narrative to a reporter,
is trying to protect his faction or her affection against
some other faction. So take this with a grain of salt.
I'm not saying this is one hundred percent true, but
clearly there is a lack of court nation that's going
on here, and people at odds with each other. Now,
(19:04):
the story talks about Ashley Hyak. Hyak she is the
president of the pro Trump group America First Works AFW.
Hyak met with about fifty major California donors at the
Willard Hotel in Washington, d C. During the run up
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to Prop fifty. She was asked by these donors about
whether the measure was going to pass. Hyack said it
appeared it would based on public polling. There's probably going
to be redistricting in California, she told the GOP donors.
Senior Trump political advisors were infuriated by Hyek's remarks when
they caught wind of them because her organization as the
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impromater of White House support. Trump advisors worried that donors
were think they were bailing on California and close their wallets.
Also frustrating them was that Hyek's group wasn't involved with
the anti Prop fifty campaign and that she hadn't given
them a heads up about what she would say. Internal
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polling at the time showed that the anti Prop fifty
effort was still in striking distance of winning, The advisors say.
Hyek's comments also rankled top Republicans such as Kevin McCarthy
and California Representative Ken Calvert, a funder of the effort
who would lose his seat.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
If Newsom's redistricting plan goes through.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Charles Munger, the billionaire donor who gave a ton of
money to stop Prop fifty. His team was also angry
at Hyak. So basically, you had all these big money
Republican donors all gathered together in Washington, we want them
to give money for the no on Prop fifty campaign,
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and you have this gal who's the head of this
big pro Trump group telling them, yeah, it looks like
it's going to pass, and all these guys cooled off.
They didn't want to spend all the money that was necessary.
So maybe it's not quite as fast factional as it seems,
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because apparently the White House is furious at this, and
Kevin McCarthy is furious at this, and the Monger people
are furious at this. So you had some sort of
free radical, this Ashley Hayek gal depressing the enthusiasm of
all these big money donors, and it shows. I mean, guys,
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I've watched football the last couple of weekends. I've seen like,
I don't know seven Prop fifty seven yes on Prop
fifty ads for every no on Prop fifty AD. Maybe
it's more like ten to one.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
My wife and I.
Speaker 2 (21:52):
Were laughing because we had sometimes in the evenings we
like watching Seinfeld reruns which are on TV Land, and
you know, we turn it on, there's Seinfeld and we're
just sitting left and on TV Land they've got a no.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
On fifty commercial. Right. Oh, okay, so we didn't have
a yes on fifty ad. You know, during Game seven
of the World Series with the Dodgers, you know, you're
pulling off the most one of the most dramatic wins
in the history of baseball, you know, with a huge,
you know, thirty million television rating. You know, we're not
seeing no on fifty ads on Sunday Night football. We're
(22:29):
not seeing no on fifty ads during you know, big
time college football games. But yeah, we sure got the
no on fifty ads on TV Land for Seinfeld reruns.
Oh it's so flip and depressing.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
All right, When we return, I want to talk about
how genuinely insane the CSUS are, how insane Fresno State is.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
Here's the preview teaser, A cross dressing Latino professor guy
who goes by. They them wearing a pro Palestinian keffia
is getting an award, and Presno State is celebrating this.
(23:18):
We'll be back on the John Girardi Show.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
This story comes to me via a friend on Facebook
posting out a picture of this, and then I looked
on LinkedIn and found it. Fresno State published this on
their LinkedIn page. I am met with a picture. The
LinkedIn post presents a image of a Mexican man or
(23:47):
a Latino man of some sort, clearly dressed as a woman,
but with a full beard and mustache, septum ring through
the nose, large like Spanish colorful tile style earrings like
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earrings with like hanging from it. Looks like a small
tile like painted with flowers, wearing what looks like a
red women's blazer, but with a Palestinian kefia, you know,
the blue and white kind of scarf or whatever that
pro Palestinian protesters wear, hair pulled back in It's a
(24:37):
front center shot. Looks like his hair is pulled back
in a ponytail, with two big, long, strangling.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Do dads in the front.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
An obvious woman aping at pretending, an obvious man pretending
aping at sort of appearing like a woman but not
shaving his beard anyway, wearing bright red lipstick rainbow stickers
to systemic change, proclaims the President of State website professor
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among five to earn prestigious national fellowship, Doctor on held
de Jesus Gonzalez. You know, you know, it's bad when
they have to start with doctor, Like someone who has
a doctorate other than a medical doctorate, who insists on
going by doctor. It's always a sign. It's always a
(25:32):
sign that you kind of got a Mickey Mouse doctorate. Anyway,
Doctor on, you know, like doctor Jill Biden, et cetera.
Doctor onhel de Jesus Gonzalez. I mean like I have
a doctorate.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I have a J. D.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
Euris doctor. That's technically what it is. You don't hear
me going around, oh doctor John and Girardi anyway, Doctor
on heel de Jesus. Gonzalez was selected as a twenty
twenty five Equity and Inclusion Young Pro Professional Fellow. According
to the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, announced
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in August, only five fellowships are granted each year, and Gonzalez,
an assistant professor in the Kremen's School of Education, and
Human Development at Fresno State, joins scholars from UC Irvine
Rice University in Texas A and M. Gonzalez, who uses
the pronoun they.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Also.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
By the way, my wife pointed this out when she
read this last night. It notes at the start of
this big president, it's this big, long write up about
this professor at Fresnes State who is getting some kind
of fellowship and this is this guy is a complete wacko.
Speaker 1 (26:51):
It notes early on that.
Speaker 2 (26:53):
This guy uses the pronoun they, But then the whole
story just keeps referring to as Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzales, Gonzalez, Gonzalez, Gonzalez.
Even all these points where normally you would use a
pronoun to refer to someone, they just keep saying Gonzales,
probably because the author of the piece has some residual
shred of respect for the principles of English language grammar
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and they don't want to use a plural pronoun verbal
structure to refer to a person in the singular, because
what are you supposed to do, Because when you move
from singular a singular pronoun to a plural pronoun, that
changes the verb instead of he thinks it's they think.
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And that's always the weird thing when people insist on
a they them pronoun is that it leads the reader
to think, wait, what's the group of people we're talking about?
Speaker 1 (27:46):
You know, only because.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
That's just how English works up until two minutes ago,
when all of a sudden you had androgynous people insisting
on using veg instead of he. This guy is like
every caricature of an insane left wing.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
LGBT.
Speaker 3 (28:13):
They then like every it checks every box, literally every
insane liberal trope of the twenty twenties is contained in
this person, and this story about this person.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
Okay, this guy, so it gives his whole story. Gonzales
teaches in Fresno States Higher Education Administration and Leadership program
and what this guy seems to do is to teach
about college level administration and how important it is to
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have DEI programs.
Speaker 1 (28:56):
He has bounced around from city college to city college
to city college, all up and down California to finally
he gets a gig at Fresno State.
Speaker 2 (29:06):
Now he's going to get this fellowship thing. The first
in their family to go to college, Gonzales double majored
in environmental science and Spanish at Whittier College, a small,
private liberal arts institution just a few miles from southeast
Los Angeles, where they grew up. I wanted to work
for the US Geological Survey and do earthquake monitoring. As
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a student at Whittier College, Gonzal has discovered a passion
for advocacy and inclusion, helping lead initiatives that supported both
students and campus staff, including organizing efforts to improve working
conditions for housekeeping employees. So he starts out in college
wanting to do something real with his life and wanting
to study like an actual, real discipline. He was majoring
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environmental science and Spanish actual courses study. He wanted to
work for the US Geological Survey.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
Okay, you know, to each his own, it sounds like
a perfectly fine interest to pursue.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Wants to go do so, but instead he gets caught
up with liberal activism and it then continues to give
his This. This excruciatingly long article talks about how gonzales
because he's pursuing all these LGBT fashionable things, he basically
(30:34):
goes from one Mickey Mouse program of study to another,
one Mickey Mouse job to another one Mickey Mouse fellowship
to another. He gets a grant that's funded by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he gets to go, he
goes from one community college to another. He's got all
this stuff talking about all.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
The scholarly work he has done. The three four scholarly
articles he's producer have been I did on Google scholar
more than about buddelg gazillion bajillion times.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So I actually go and pull up one of his
articles on Google scholar.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
And it's this piece in which he's basically because he
did a ton of stuff at community colleges and a
lot of his research has focused on what kinds of
DEI inclusive materials.
Speaker 2 (31:32):
And messaging do colleges and community colleges have, And he
tisk tisks and shames them if they don't have enough
according to his standard, and he horay horay praises them
if they have tons and tons and tons and tons
of aggressive prologpt stuff. And what he seems to like
to do is and this seems to be the the
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attitude of a lot of these leftists is this sort
of attitude of resentment for the institution that educate and
foster and employ them by saying they're not doing enough
to be inclusive towards everyone in the alphabet alphabet spectrum
of minorityism, all the pyramid of intersectionality. So he said,
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I'm going to anonymize the results by looking at two
California community colleges that I will.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Refer to by and then he uses these fictitious names.
Speaker 2 (32:25):
But I'm looking at I'm like, you could probably figure
out what these two community colleges are based on the
descriptions he gave of them. So it's not even like subtle,
like he's trying to be clever or something, but it's
like anyone who looks at this and like does a
bit of a Google search can figure out which community
colleges he's talking about, and then he publishes his quote.
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Research was basically looking at all of their promotional literature
and trying to find how many times they use this
arbitrary list of liberal buzzwords that he came up with
and using that as the metric for welcomingness. Or he's
some these like made up words to sort of discribe
(33:17):
as if he's like doing something that's like rigorously empirical
when it isn't. And I read through one of his articles,
I was reading through this article and I realized it's
just miles of lefty academic jargon. And then anytime he
(33:37):
has to actually write narrative on his own, it's just bad.
It's like bad grammar, poor writing. It's like, this is
what the left has spawned here and particularly the CSUS.
Speaker 1 (33:55):
I'm gonna say this. People think that you see Berkeley
is bad. People think U see Berkeley is radical and
liberal and bad, and it is. I'm not disputing that.
But if you want to find the true psychos on
California college campuses, the true hardcore left wing psychos, you
(34:21):
don't go to the UC system. You go to the CSUS, buddy.
The CSUS is where it's at.
Speaker 2 (34:29):
Because the CSUS, you know, the academic standards aren't quite
as high, they're not as highly rated schools.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
And that goes for the professors. That goes for it's
not just as far as you know, average undergrad set scores.
That also goes for the professors too. So what you've
got at the CSUS if the CSUS have to hire
people and they're being pushed from above all these requirements
for left wing crazy sinecure positions and DEI departments and
(35:01):
teaching about DEI, this, that, and the other. All their
departments have been ideologically captured by the extreme left. They
got to fill these positions, and so what happens. You
get people who combine genuine left wing radicalism with a
total lack of actual academic achievement, and you get products
(35:25):
like this. It's mind boggling. And this has happened. It's
not just at Fresno State.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
This is happening at every CSU across the country that
they've got total psychos like this. Who I mean his
academic work, a lot of his academic work seems to
just be it's good to have more DEI programs.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
He had one academic piece about how to basically hide
your continue doing DEI program when your DEI program gets
shut down. How to basically hide all your DEI employees
elsewhere in the administration and have them keep doing DEI
stuff and not have it say DEI stuff. It's it's
(36:14):
incredible when we return why stuff like this is not
great for Fresno State specifically. Next on the John Girardi.
Speaker 2 (36:21):
Show, Doctor Nhill DeJesus Gonzalez, a Fresno State assistant professor,
is being lauded heralded with big LinkedIn social media posts
and website pages at Fresno State for winning some kind
of fellowship on Heldajsus Gonzales, a man who dresses up
(36:43):
like a woman goes by they them wears a pro
Palestine kefia whose academic research seems to just be It's
good for colleges to employ more people like me. It's
good for colleges to have DEI programs. It's good for
community colleges to have de I program Here's why you
can keep why you should keep having DEI programs even
when the federal government says, hey, stop having DEI programs,
(37:06):
et cetera, et cetera, etcetera, etcetera. And I gotta say,
Presno State, you do realize who your donors are, right,
A bunch of old farmers.
Speaker 1 (37:20):
They don't like this crap. And by the way, Fresno State,
if you're wondering, Goaly, why didn't everyone vote for Measure E?
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Maybe this kind of crap had something to do with it,
Like why are you expecting people to pony up money
for this kind of stuff so this guy can have
a job. I understand Measurrey was gonna fund other things
blah blah blah blah blah. But you know what the
reality is, Money is fungible.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Man.
Speaker 2 (37:52):
You give money for one thing, freeze up money for this.
You know, if maybe a Fresno State wasn't hiring so
many of these guys, we could have more nurses and
an engineers and stuff. I mean, this is not helpful
for Fresno State in any way, shape and form. And
whoever decided this was the thing to trumpet from their
PR department needs their head examined.
Speaker 1 (38:11):
That'll do it. John Gilady shows you next time on
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