January 27, 2025 • 36 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 1 (01/27) - Mayor Karen Bass and Pres. Trump verbally sparred on Friday over debris removal in Pacific Palisades. Pres. Trump called out Congressman Brad Sherman (D-CA) over the insurance companies leaving California. Previewing the interview with Joel Pollak from Breitbart News who will discuss his experience during the Palisades Fire as a resident of Pacific Palisades and why he asked Pres. Trump for a special 9/11 style commission to watch over federal spending of relief money.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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I want to start the show today with the last
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thing that happened right before we went off the air,
In fact, probably you know, an hour after we went
off the air on Friday. It was it was quite
a thing to watch and to listen to to watch
because you had to see the facial expressions in the
body language of Karen Bass and Donald Trump. They had
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a meeting in the Pacific Palisades. It was one of
those horseshoe shaped desks, and they had a number of
public officials, but at the center of the horseshoe was Trump,
and then just to his right Melodia, and next one
over is Karen Bass. And you talk about the opposite
ends of the competency.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Spectrum for something like this.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It was incredible, and so many things came to mind,
and I'm going to play you in just a moment
the three and a half minute clip, which really encapsulates
a lot about why people are attracted to Trump, what
executive strength is, why Karen Bass is such a miserable failure,
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and how there's such a huge gap between having executive
talents and experience and being someone who chairs meetings and
sits on commissions.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That is a.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Gap the size of our solar system. And Karen Bass
looked and sounded out of her depth, over her head,
out of her league, just just really like junior level.
If that I mean I she clearly you know one
thing I'm be You know how immune systems get bolstered
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based on how much how many germs your body encounters
when you're young. If you literally keep a kid in
a bubble protected from outside germs, he's going to get
whacked by the first germ that finds him, because the
immune system builds up its strength when it encounters germs.
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You have to have germs to survive long term. You
have mild reactions as a child and it keeps you
from being overwhelmed as an.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Adult, but you need to be exposed.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And it's the same way with your your emotional system,
your your your mental system, your brain. You have to
be exposed to criticism. You have to be exposed to
severe challenges. If you spend your life in a meeting
room with a bunch of sycophants, you don't have an
immune system to deal with an adversary, to deal with
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someone who's going to challenge you hard, to deal with
a news media if they're doing their job. And Karen
Bass has led this bubble life. She's always been predicted
by the demographics she represents, and nobody has ever dared
challenge her to see if she could perform under pressure,
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if she really has any depth to her She has
skated on her demographic makeup all her life, and in
the weird culture we're in, that provides a shield against criticism,
so nobody dared. But there's a reason LA was not prepared.
There's a reason that LA's five department was not given
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the tools to fight the fires. There's a reason that
the fire that fire officials didn't send out advanced teams
in advance. There's a reason the that the reservoir was empty,
And I can go on and on, and it's because
you did not have a battle hardened chief executive running
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Los Angeles. Haven't had one in many years who has
experience in what can go wrong in life and has
experienced challenges and criticism, and instead you get this defensive
week overmatched bureaucrat in Karen Bass and Trump exposed her.
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You're gonna play cut one. This is an exchange gets
a little tense between Bass and Trump. This is during
the meeting in the Palisades over the debris removal.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
We're bringing our city departments together so that people don't
get caught in the loop of going from one room
to the next. We want them all to be in
the same room so that you can get busy rebuilding asap. Absolutely, yes, yes,
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and we will clear the lots. Absolutely in the city
and in the county, we are working together. Both levels
of government are working in unity or.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Try eighty months not eighty months?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is it, like we That's the answer that we.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Got and that's where we're all hanging months.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
So if you're telling.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Us now, faster is it six months?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
I mean, all of our lives, rents, all this stuff
is weighing on this.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
And the number one thing that we are going to
do immediately and you will see this happen, is to
clear out the debris. And you know, we're concerned right
now over the weekend because of the potential rain, but
we are going to move as fast as we can.
But we want you to be safe and we want
you to be in your homes immediately.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But the people are willing.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
To clean out their own debris, it.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Doesn't cross, then.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
You should let them do it because another time you
entire contractors, it's going to be two years. If a
family people are willing to get a dumpster and do
it themselves and clean it out.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And they can not that much left.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
It's all incinerated, that's right, and you know it's just
going to take a long time. If you do, you
can do some of it, but a lot of these people,
I know that guy right there that's talking.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I know my people.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
You'll be in that thing tonight throwing the stuff away,
and your site will be it'll look perfect within twenty
four hours.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And that's what he wants to do.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
He doesn't want to wait around for seven months till
the city hires some demolition contract. It's going to charge
him twenty five thousand dollars to do his lot.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I think you have to.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
You have emergency powers just like I do, and I'm
exercising my emergency powers. You have to exercise them also.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I did exercise them.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Because I look, I mean, you have a very powerful
emergency power and you can do everything within twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yes, and if individuals want to clear out their property
they can we yes, but you know that you will
be able to go back soon.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
We think within a week.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Every that's a long time.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
A week, I'll be honest to me that everyone's standing
in front of the house. They want to go to
work and they're not allowed to do it. And the
most week is alone.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
People to be safe.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
This safe, this safe?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
You know what, They're not safe. They're not safe. Now
we're still going to be much.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I thought that such a key moment and the way
she articulated it, I want them to be safe, says
it in a school marmie voice.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We almost be safe here. She could have.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
She'd risen to the level of assistant principle at a
high school or maybe at most maybe an assistant HR director.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
But to be the.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Mayor and not to have people already it's been three
weeks cleaning up their lots because you want them to
be safe. Last time I heard that we want you
to be safe is when they locked down the city
for a year and a half for COVID and locked
down the schools and destroyed the childhoods of millions of children,
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and destroyed the businesses of tens of thousands of people
and their staff. That was we want everybody to be safe. Now,
what they want is to be able to control a situation.
And once you let the riff raff back onto their
lots to clear their rubble on their timeline, you're not
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controlling things anymore. And the all encompassing excuse for why
people like her justified control is well, I want them
to be safe. If she wanted the people of Palisades
to be safe, she would have filled up the damn
reservoir one hundred and seventeen million gallons of water would have.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Made people a lot more safe.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
She would have fully funded the fire department instead of
half funding it. She would have been in America, in
La not Africa, to direct the fire response if she
wanted us to be more safe. But she did not
stay in Los Angeles. She went to Africa. She did
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not have the reservoir filled up. It's still bone dry.
She did not fully fund the fire department. It is
half funded, and that is true. She could have directed
the fire chief to send out the extra thousand firefighters
that morning with forty engines.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
She did not.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
She could have. She could have funded the fire department
and so they would have fixed the hundred fire trucks.
They're busted because we don't have mechanics. She did not
do that. Now, all of a sudden, she's worried about
us being safe. She is completely full of crap. All
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the important things that needed to be done months and
years in advance, she didn't do. But now when she
has the control to keep residents from entering their own lots,
their own properties cleaning up their rubble, they own that
rubble and they should have the right to clean it
up with their bare hands, or hire a cru or
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if they want to wait six, eight or eighteen months
on the city, Yeah, go ahead, your choice. But now
all of a sudden she's interested in safety. Really, there
wasn't a firefighter anywhere near.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
The Palisades, and she had.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
One, two, three, four days of warning. She didn't send
firefighters to the high the high risk zones. Nobody did
she put together. She put together this leadership staff. You know,
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mis equity lens denis Quinone is to run the DWP. Well,
they're worried about diversity and equity. They forgot to care
about water in a reservoir, fire engines and firefighters. She
want us to be safe, she wants to control. It's
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it's exactly the COVID mantra. As soon as I heard that,
very sensitized to that now, because that was that was
the shield they used.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh, we just want you to be sick. No, you don't.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Remember their idea of.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Safe was to police the beaches, was to chase a
guy down who's paddle boarding out in the ocean during COVID.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
They weren't trying to keep that guy out in the
ocean safe. They wanted to control them. We come back,
we'll play more of this. But here Trump declare it's like, no,
week's too much, we should go tonight. What do you
got to wait a week for? What in God's name
do you have to wait a week for the fire
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burned through? It's three weeks later. Let people go in
and do whatever they want to do. It's their property.
The ash and rubble is theirs.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
They own it.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
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Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, so we opened, we opened the show. Last segment,
we played about two minutes of this exchange between Karen
Bass and Donald Trump Friday afternoon. It was a it
was a collection of politicians and bureaucrats was televised and
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they were talking about what the response was going to be.
And a Palisades resident wanted to know when they could
get in and look at their properties and start cleaning up.
And Trump thought they could get there immediately, there was
no reason not to. And this guy said, well, we're
told seven months, eight months, and Karen Bass is trying
to claim no, no, no, you can go right away.
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And but you know, give us a week. Trump said
a week. Week's too long. I mean a week, and
she starts doing that thing. Oh, I want everyone to
be safe, everyone to be safe.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So let's pick it up there. We got another minute
of this.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Alone people.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
This if this safe, you know what, They're not safe.
They're not safe now, they were going to be much
safer a week.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
A week is actually a long.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Time the way I look at it. I watched hundreds
of people standing in front of their locks and they're
not allowed to go in. It's all burned, it's gone,
it's done. Nothing's going to happen to it's not going
to burn anymore. There's nothing to burn. There's almost nothing
to burn, and they want to go in there. The
people are all over the place, this standing and I say,
warren't you're going in. We're trying to get a permit.
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And the permit's going to take him. Everybody said eighteen months.
You said eighteen months. You said eighteen months, and.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
That was last night.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
We can't even see our homes right now. We are
blocked from entering our streets. We can't even because it
our first time we saw our house was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And this is the dichotomy. And if Trump isn't there,
what would happen? Bass would claim, Oh, I just want
you to be safe. We're going to get things done quickly.
But because Trump is there, he's going Well, these people
are saying it's eighteen months.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
You know, they're on the phone with.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Bass's bureaucrats and bureacrats are going on, it's eighteen months
for a permit, and then Trump is going eighteen months.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Now Bass is cornered.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
See if she was holding the press conference by herself,
she could shovel any kind of horse feces at the reporters,
and in this city, in this state, with very few exceptions,
the reporters eat the horse feces and then they dutifully broadcast. Well,
Karen Bass says, you agree that it'll be eighteen months,
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and nobody would question if that was just outrageous.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
What do we know? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Pretty bad fire, yeah, a lot of toxins there. Maybe
it is eighteen months, right, We wouldn't know. You gotta
have Trump sayings, Why does it have to be eighteen months?
Why can't they hire their own cruise? Why can't they
clean it up themselves? And enough with the safety. The
worst has happened. You spend a day cleaning your own property.
You're not going to die of anything. Wear one of
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those stupid N ninety five masks, Wear one of those
hasmat suits.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You'll live.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Because it's not about your safety. It's about them controlling
the process. They are born to control. Their control freaks.
They work. They could be your parents, they could be
your bosses. They specially middle managers. They like to control things.
Karen Bass is a classic control freak middle manager, loves
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the safety manual, loves to keep people in line, hold meetings,
blue ribbon commissions, special panels, the whole bit. That's her mindset.
Trump sees a plot of land and goes, how quickly can.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
We build a hotel? Here?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
He sees this rubb, He goes, how quickly can we
clear this out and start building new homes.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Karen Bass doesn't see that. She's not wired that way.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
She's not wired to say how quickly can we build
new homes?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
She's wired to say, well, not a son's time. We
gotta do testing.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
We gotta get you know, we got the EPA in here,
we gotta get the Department of Health in here, and
we got to make sure it goes to the proper
procedure and the front. No, you have to take Executives
are designed to take action, actual physical action. You know,
rent out a payloader and start scoop it up the dirt,
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rent out a dumpster, Dirt goes in the dumpster, dumpster
gets towed out. Then you repeat the process. And you've
got to do this thousands and thousands of times to
clean up the palisades. But you're not gonna sit around
and hold public hearings, public meetings, blue ribbon panels, safety
task forces. It's not the time the damage is done.
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She was interested in our safety. She would not have
been one of George Gascon's top supporters as Gascone was letting,
emptying out the prisons and refusing to refusing to prosecute anybody. Yeah,
give me a break on safety. Since when did she
care about safety? She wouldn't have half funded the fire department,
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for God's sake. She would have filled up the reservoir.
She wouldn't have left this city at the mercy of
all those smash and grab robbers. She wouldn't be having
people getting lit on fire on the metro trains.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Safety.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Only time they bring up safety is when they're losing
control of the situation. And Trump called her on it,
and she didn't know what to do because if he
wasn't there, there would have been nobody in the media
who would have challenged her on it. And that power
dynamic jumped out at me in seconds. How how you
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know Gavin Newsom would not have done that because he
wants to control too. Remember he was the one I
think he closed a beach in Orange County during COVID
because he saw a photo taken from a funky angle
that made it looked like people were crowded together on
the beach. Remember that, And it turned out nobody was
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crowded together. It was just strange angle. The first thing
he did is he closed down the beats, like, what
are you insane? Yeah, he is insane, but that's their mentality,
and we got to fight that. The stuff they should control,
like criminal. Hey, look I just lived through a week
of intense looting on my block. She wasn't concerned about
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my safety, or she would. She would have had the
National Garden there, she would have had the police on
every corner. She wasn't concerned about anybody's safety on our block.
What they did is they shut They shut off all
the power and declared a curfew. So we were stuck
in our homes controlled. But the bad guys he didn't
listen to the curfew, and there weren't any police to
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arrest them for violating the curfew, so they stole our stuff.
I'm onto this game. Trump's onto this game. This is nonsense.
All right, we come back. I'm gonna play. Trump calling
out Brad Sherman Brad Sherman, excuse me, a phony baloney,
Democratic congressman from the San Fernando Valley on the insurance
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companies here in LA.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
That's another big scandal.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
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can follow us at John Cobelt Radio. All right, let's
continue with Trump's public appearance that he made in the
Palisades after landing late on Friday afternoon. We played you
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some of the clips with Karen Vass, who was overmatched
when Trump insisted that these people should be allowed to
in the Palisades to visit their properties immediately and start
the cleanup process immediately and not wait a week or
six months or eight months or whatever kakamamie bureaucratic tangle
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that she usually proposes.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Now in the same.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
In the same meeting, Trump called out on Congressman Brad Sherman,
who's Democrat in the valley, and I guess his district
may lop over into some of the area affected by
the fire. This is over the insurance companies leaving the
state of California. This is another huge scandal in this
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internally screwed up state play cut too a big.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Percentage, I would assume bred like that, what are they
going to do?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Go ahead, mister president, without your HILP, they're only going
to get forty three thousand dollars from the federal government
even if they have a you know, they'll take something
bread with.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Every insurance company in the country left California. That's why
you have no insurance because you made it so impossible.
People that think like you made it so impossible. And
at me, every insurance company, I don't know where you,
I'll tell you my thank you. I've never seen a
state where almost nobody has insurance.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And I said, what happened?
Speaker 7 (21:58):
And they said, like six months ago all left, and
two years ago they had different you know, quadrants, but
they left, and you have very little insurance here.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I mean, I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
We had a lot of insurance companies pull out, but
I have insurance.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Companies actually have been warning you. Now, I'm not a
big fan of insurance companies. Okay, they have their big
druwbacks too, but the insurance company I've been reading I
read the papers very well, and you know, they've been
warning California for a long time. They've also been saying,
we want water, you don't have water. You know, you're
supposed to get fire insurance, and the insurance company goes
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that you don't have any water in your fire hydrants.
So it's a tough.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Situation, absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And this is because and I don't know what this is.
I've never encountered the childish thinking that I have encountered
now living in California for thirty two years. I grew
up in the East Coast, and people in other parts
of the country don't think the way Californians traditionally do.
There's a childlike make believe quality about a lot of
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the thinking, just a wishfulness.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
This is the way I wish life to be.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Insurance companies are a huge pain in the ass, believe me.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You know this.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Okay, this is not a defense of the insurance companies, right,
It's a really irritating industry. But what nobody wants to
concede in California is insurance companies must make a profit
or they just won't do business here. And we have
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a silly man named Ricardo Lara, who's the insurance commissioner,
and Ken and I years ago called him cal fart Lara.
He was a legislator in Sacramento, and the only legislation
of any note was that he wanted to require and
I am not making this up, he wanted to require
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cows to wear a device on their backs with a
hose that led to their butts, and whenever the cows farted,
the gas would go through the hose and be captured
by this box that they carried on their backs. Seriously,
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and he wrote a law that that's with this provision.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
So for years we called them cow fart Larra.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And you had to wonder in what state, in what
country would you find a politician pushing legislation to try
to bottle up cow farts. And then, shock of all shocks,
he becomes the insurance commissioner, and I'm thinking, oh, this
is not going to go well. This guy is as dumb.
He's dumb, as dumb as a cow fart. Well, wouldn't
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you know it? A few years later, what happens. We
have a series of disasters and an insurance company like
State Farm says we can't afford this. This is crazy.
The state is run by lunatics. They will not thin
their forests, they will not clear their brush, they will
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not put their wires, their electrical wires underground. They will
not put away crazy people, homeless people, and arsonists. Those
are all the things that start fires. So I'll say,
why the people here insist on living in high profile,
high fire danger regions. They're simply not going to pay
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for it. They don't have to. No company is required
to write insurance policies. They'd rather pull out of the state.
Now can you imagine a state like California, forty million people,
the largest state in the country, and most insurers don't
want to do business here, at least not with home insurance,
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not in these high fire zone areas.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What does that tell you?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
When Trump was saying the insurance companies were warning you,
of course they were warning you by pulling out coverage.
State Farm pulled out of coverage in the Palisades Malibu
area last year.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I believe, just said we're not renewing any more policies.
That was it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
There was nowhere else to go because I know people
who are on State Farm and they had nowhere else
to go. You can go with the fair Plan, which
is a state run plan, and that's going to be
bankrupt in about five minutes. I saw their assets are
some tens of millions of dollars and their potential liabilities
could be hundreds of billions of dollars. Forget it. Fair
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Plan is another joke. So there's literally no insurance for people.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Maybe it's because Ricardo Lara and the rest of the
knuckleheads that run this place will not let insurance companies
price the insurance in order to make a profit. If
they yet to price the insurance in order to make
the profit, then they'll stay here. They are not allowed to,
so eventually they all leave. And then you have a
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big fire and we don't have water in the reservoir,
we don't have fire hydrants that work, we don't have
firefighters that are staffed, we don't have fire engines that
are fixed.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Just that alone.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
If you're running an insurance company and they know this,
would you ensure here and then everybody bitches and complains
about the insurance company. No, you run an insurance company
for a day, you'd look at California and say this
is nuts.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
We're all going to go bankrupt.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
You go bankrupt and there's no insurance for anybody, and
there's nobody with any jobs at the insurance company.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
See.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I mean it's so obvious here. But again, too many
people in California have been living in this alternate reality,
not facing some terribly destructive issues that we have here.
You know, we've agreed to let criminals run amuck, We've
agreed to let mental patients and drug addicts run amuck,
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and they start more than half the fires. We underfund
the fire department by fifty percent. We defunded the police department.
What do you think is going to happen if you
don't fund the fire department, you don't do brush clearing?
Remember what I told you last week or a couple
of weeks ago. DWP wanted to put in a fire
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road north of the Palisades. Pave a fire road they
wanted to put up I think it was steel poles
instead of wooden electric poles for the transmission lines. And
then some idiot botanist amateur botanist noticed that the milk
vetch plants were getting trampled by the DWP. Workers complained
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to the state and the Coastal Commission. Find the DWP
two million dollars for stomping on the milk vetch plants,
which are endangered. Seriously, this happened so they couldn't build
the road, so they couldn't put in the steel poles
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or concrete poles whatever they were going to do for
the electrical wires because of the milk fitch pan. And
guess what, we had a really bad fire. Now the
ole milk vetched plants are gone. Now they aren't. They've
got extinct up there.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Stupid, So of course this is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I was thinking about this so much over the weekend,
and it's horrible and tragic. But I'm telling you, everybody
in the state has got to take a hard look
at themselves and your voting patterns and the things you
believe in, because you're living in some weird, childish fantasy world.
In the adult world, you have to fully fund the police,
fully fund the fire department, put criminals in prison and
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keep them there. You don't let homeless people run around
starting fires. You allow insurance companies to charge a high
enough amount to earn a profit, or otherwise you have this. Now,
you tell me which is better, the progressive dream bubble.
I hope this is burst once and for all. Well,
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but you cannot do that many stupid things that long
and not have this be the outcome.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
This was destined to happen, and more coming up.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
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Speaker 1 (30:43):
After two o'clock, we're going to talk with Joel Pollock.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
He is not only a Palisades resident, he's also the
senior editor at large for Breitbartnews Breitbart dot com. And
since he has a home that he saved the Palisades,
he was at President Trump's appearance on Friday not only
as an interested citizen, as a journalist though. His idea
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that he asked Trump about is to create a nine
to eleven style commission to watch over the federal spending
of all the money that's going to be dumped into
southern California. Let's play a clip of Joel Pollock.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Many of my neighbors lost their fire insurance in the
days before the blaze. So I asked my neighbors what
would they want to know? If I could ask the
President a question, and the number one thing was insurance.
Can you work with the insurance companies to get people
back to where they were before they lost the coverage
because of California's regulations? And can you make California change
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its rules so that when we build again, we can
get fire insurance and we don't have to worry. And
there's one other point I want to make. I really
appreciate my Congressman a vocating for money. We need the
money from the federal government, but I also understand Americans
who are tired of spending money on California and disasters happen,
and the California government passes fifty million dollars to oppose
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your policy, so they have fifty million for that, but
not for moving people into rental homes or helping people
relocate or rebuild. I would like to ask you to
follow the nine to eleven Commission precedent and appoint a
special Master to watch the money to make sure that
every federal dollar that gets spent here is spent on
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fire relief and rebuilding and not on everything else.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Good idea.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, it's a great idea, and it's something like that
has to be necessary because we've been telling you. You
look at the history of Gavin Newsom blowing federal money
that sent his way. He was given fifty billion dollars. Well,
he's given a lot more than that, but he got
fifty billion dollars for the for the COVID unemployment fund
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that we had, and that fifty billion dollars was consumed
by the fraudsters all over the world. Eighty five percent
of the money accessed for COVID unemployment insurance went to
people out of the country, criminal gangs, and criminal organizations
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from around the world. Fifty billion dollars of fraud, and
Newsom did nothing to stop it, not to mention ten
to fifteen billion dollars, and a lot of that was
federal money too, for high speed rail. He has no
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record of where the fifty billion went to the fraudsters.
He has no record of where the ten to fifteen
billion dollars went for high speed rail that's never been built. Oh,
and then twenty four billion dollars on state homeless programs.
He has no record where much of that money has
gone and no evidence that any of it worked. You
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add all that up together, you're getting close to one
hundred billion dollars and there's no there's no receipts, no invoices, no,
no nothing. Somebody I know was always saying, why isn't
there forensic accounting on this? You can't do forensic accounting
if there aren't any records. There are no records.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
They don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Oh, by the way, I know somebody whose place was
damaged by the fire, they filed for FEMA AID.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
You know what they found out.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Somebody had already filed using their stolen Social Security number.
How about that palisadess resident happened to So the fraud's
already begun. So yeah, there ought to be a commission
to track this money. You give it to news, you
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give it to Karen Bass. Karen Bass has spent billions
on homeless. She doesn't know where it went either. And
because there isn't an adversary political party in the state,
and because there isn't an adversarial media in the state,
nobody questions them. They never feel like they have to
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explain or respond. And finally, when they're put on the
spot in a tragedy like Trump did to Karen Bass,
it's deer in the headlights time. They've never experienced this
she's what, she's around seventy years old. She's not going
to figure out how to manage a large scale repair
operation at seventy. She doesn't have the scale, she doesn't
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have the experience, none of that. Not capable, Not capable.
Bad bad choice for mayor, very bad choice, especially now
with this disaster going on.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
So when we come back.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Anyway, the man you heard asking the question was bright
Bart News Senior editor at large Joel Pollock, also a
resident there. We will talk to him and expand on
all this when we come back. Debora Mark is off
Brigida Diega Cio is live in the CAFI twenty four
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Show podcast. You can always hear the show live on
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Welcome.
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I want to start the show today with the last
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thing that happened right before we went off the air,
In fact, probably you know, an hour after we went
off the air on Friday. It was it was quite
a thing to watch and to listen to to watch
because you had to see the facial expressions in the
body language of Karen Bass and Donald Trump. They had
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a meeting in the Pacific Palisades. It was one of
those horseshoe shaped desks, and they had a number of
public officials, but at the center of the horseshoe was Trump,
and then just to his right Melodia, and next one
over is Karen Bass. And you talk about the opposite
ends of the competency.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Spectrum for something like this.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It was incredible, and so many things came to mind,
and I'm going to play you in just a moment
the three and a half minute clip, which really encapsulates
a lot about why people are attracted to Trump, what
executive strength is, why Karen Bass is such a miserable failure,
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and how there's such a huge gap between having executive
talents and experience and being someone who chairs meetings and
sits on commissions.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
That is a.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Gap the size of our solar system. And Karen Bass
looked and sounded out of her depth, over her head,
out of her league, just just really like junior level.
If that I mean I she clearly you know one
thing I'm be You know how immune systems get bolstered
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based on how much how many germs your body encounters
when you're young. If you literally keep a kid in
a bubble protected from outside germs, he's going to get
whacked by the first germ that finds him, because the
immune system builds up its strength when it encounters germs.
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You have to have germs to survive long term. You
have mild reactions as a child and it keeps you
from being overwhelmed as an.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Adult, but you need to be exposed.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And it's the same way with your your emotional system,
your your your mental system, your brain. You have to
be exposed to criticism. You have to be exposed to
severe challenges. If you spend your life in a meeting
room with a bunch of sycophants, you don't have an
immune system to deal with an adversary, to deal with
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someone who's going to challenge you hard, to deal with
a news media if they're doing their job. And Karen
Bass has led this bubble life. She's always been predicted
by the demographics she represents, and nobody has ever dared
challenge her to see if she could perform under pressure,
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if she really has any depth to her She has
skated on her demographic makeup all her life, and in
the weird culture we're in, that provides a shield against criticism,
so nobody dared. But there's a reason LA was not prepared.
There's a reason that LA's five department was not given
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the tools to fight the fires. There's a reason that
the fire that fire officials didn't send out advanced teams
in advance. There's a reason the that the reservoir was empty,
And I can go on and on, and it's because
you did not have a battle hardened chief executive running
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Los Angeles. Haven't had one in many years who has
experience in what can go wrong in life and has
experienced challenges and criticism, and instead you get this defensive
week overmatched bureaucrat in Karen Bass and Trump exposed her.
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You're gonna play cut one. This is an exchange gets
a little tense between Bass and Trump. This is during
the meeting in the Palisades over the debris removal.
Speaker 4 (04:54):
We're bringing our city departments together so that people don't
get caught in the loop of going from one room
to the next. We want them all to be in
the same room so that you can get busy rebuilding asap. Absolutely, yes, yes,
(05:14):
and we will clear the lots. Absolutely in the city
and in the county, we are working together. Both levels
of government are working in unity or.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
Try eighty months not eighty months?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Is it, like we That's the answer that we.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Got and that's where we're all hanging months.
Speaker 5 (05:32):
So if you're telling.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
Us now, faster is it six months?
Speaker 6 (05:35):
Is it?
Speaker 5 (05:35):
I mean, all of our lives, rents, all this stuff
is weighing on this.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
And the number one thing that we are going to
do immediately and you will see this happen, is to
clear out the debris. And you know, we're concerned right
now over the weekend because of the potential rain, but
we are going to move as fast as we can.
But we want you to be safe and we want
you to be in your homes immediately.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
But the people are willing.
Speaker 7 (06:03):
To clean out their own debris, it.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
Doesn't cross, then.
Speaker 7 (06:06):
You should let them do it because another time you
entire contractors, it's going to be two years. If a
family people are willing to get a dumpster and do
it themselves and clean it out.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
And they can not that much left.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
It's all incinerated, that's right, and you know it's just
going to take a long time. If you do, you
can do some of it, but a lot of these people,
I know that guy right there that's talking.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
I know my people.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
You'll be in that thing tonight throwing the stuff away,
and your site will be it'll look perfect within twenty
four hours.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
And that's what he wants to do.
Speaker 7 (06:37):
He doesn't want to wait around for seven months till
the city hires some demolition contract. It's going to charge
him twenty five thousand dollars to do his lot.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
I think you have to.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
You have emergency powers just like I do, and I'm
exercising my emergency powers. You have to exercise them also.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
I did exercise them.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
Because I look, I mean, you have a very powerful
emergency power and you can do everything within twenty four hours.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yes, and if individuals want to clear out their property
they can we yes, but you know that you will
be able to go back soon.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
We think within a week.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Every that's a long time.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
A week, I'll be honest to me that everyone's standing
in front of the house. They want to go to
work and they're not allowed to do it. And the
most week is alone.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
People to be safe.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
This safe, this safe?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
You know what, They're not safe. They're not safe. Now
we're still going to be much.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I thought that such a key moment and the way
she articulated it, I want them to be safe, says
it in a school marmie voice.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
We almost be safe here. She could have.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
She'd risen to the level of assistant principle at a
high school or maybe at most maybe an assistant HR director.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
But to be the.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Mayor and not to have people already it's been three
weeks cleaning up their lots because you want them to
be safe. Last time I heard that we want you
to be safe is when they locked down the city
for a year and a half for COVID and locked
down the schools and destroyed the childhoods of millions of children,
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and destroyed the businesses of tens of thousands of people
and their staff. That was we want everybody to be safe. Now,
what they want is to be able to control a situation.
And once you let the riff raff back onto their
lots to clear their rubble on their timeline, you're not
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controlling things anymore. And the all encompassing excuse for why
people like her justified control is well, I want them
to be safe. If she wanted the people of Palisades
to be safe, she would have filled up the damn
reservoir one hundred and seventeen million gallons of water would have.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Made people a lot more safe.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
She would have fully funded the fire department instead of
half funding it. She would have been in America, in
La not Africa, to direct the fire response if she
wanted us to be more safe. But she did not
stay in Los Angeles. She went to Africa. She did
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not have the reservoir filled up. It's still bone dry.
She did not fully fund the fire department. It is
half funded, and that is true. She could have directed
the fire chief to send out the extra thousand firefighters
that morning with forty engines.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
She did not.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
She could have. She could have funded the fire department
and so they would have fixed the hundred fire trucks.
They're busted because we don't have mechanics. She did not
do that. Now, all of a sudden, she's worried about
us being safe. She is completely full of crap. All
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the important things that needed to be done months and
years in advance, she didn't do. But now when she
has the control to keep residents from entering their own lots,
their own properties cleaning up their rubble, they own that
rubble and they should have the right to clean it
up with their bare hands, or hire a cru or
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if they want to wait six, eight or eighteen months
on the city, Yeah, go ahead, your choice. But now
all of a sudden she's interested in safety. Really, there
wasn't a firefighter anywhere near.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
The Palisades, and she had.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
One, two, three, four days of warning. She didn't send
firefighters to the high the high risk zones. Nobody did
she put together. She put together this leadership staff. You know,
(11:22):
mis equity lens denis Quinone is to run the DWP. Well,
they're worried about diversity and equity. They forgot to care
about water in a reservoir, fire engines and firefighters. She
want us to be safe, she wants to control. It's
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it's exactly the COVID mantra. As soon as I heard that,
very sensitized to that now, because that was that was
the shield they used.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh, we just want you to be sick. No, you don't.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
No.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Remember their idea of.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Safe was to police the beaches, was to chase a
guy down who's paddle boarding out in the ocean during COVID.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
Remember that.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
They weren't trying to keep that guy out in the
ocean safe. They wanted to control them. We come back,
we'll play more of this. But here Trump declare it's like, no,
week's too much, we should go tonight. What do you
got to wait a week for? What in God's name
do you have to wait a week for the fire
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burned through? It's three weeks later. Let people go in
and do whatever they want to do. It's their property.
The ash and rubble is theirs.
Speaker 1 (12:36):
They own it.
Speaker 6 (12:38):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
Well, so we opened, we opened the show. Last segment,
we played about two minutes of this exchange between Karen
Bass and Donald Trump Friday afternoon. It was a it
was a collection of politicians and bureaucrats was televised and
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they were talking about what the response was going to be.
And a Palisades resident wanted to know when they could
get in and look at their properties and start cleaning up.
And Trump thought they could get there immediately, there was
no reason not to. And this guy said, well, we're
told seven months, eight months, and Karen Bass is trying
to claim no, no, no, you can go right away.
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And but you know, give us a week. Trump said
a week. Week's too long. I mean a week, and
she starts doing that thing. Oh, I want everyone to
be safe, everyone to be safe.
Speaker 1 (13:36):
So let's pick it up there. We got another minute
of this.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
Alone people.
Speaker 7 (13:42):
This if this safe, you know what, They're not safe.
They're not safe now, they were going to be much
safer a week.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
A week is actually a long.
Speaker 7 (13:51):
Time the way I look at it. I watched hundreds
of people standing in front of their locks and they're
not allowed to go in. It's all burned, it's gone,
it's done. Nothing's going to happen to it's not going
to burn anymore. There's nothing to burn. There's almost nothing
to burn, and they want to go in there. The
people are all over the place, this standing and I say,
warren't you're going in. We're trying to get a permit.
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And the permit's going to take him. Everybody said eighteen months.
You said eighteen months. You said eighteen months, and.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
That was last night.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
We can't even see our homes right now. We are
blocked from entering our streets. We can't even because it
our first time we saw our house was yesterday.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
And this is the dichotomy. And if Trump isn't there,
what would happen? Bass would claim, Oh, I just want
you to be safe. We're going to get things done quickly.
But because Trump is there, he's going Well, these people
are saying it's eighteen months.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
You know, they're on the phone with.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Bass's bureaucrats and bureacrats are going on, it's eighteen months
for a permit, and then Trump is going eighteen months.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Now Bass is cornered.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
See if she was holding the press conference by herself,
she could shovel any kind of horse feces at the reporters,
and in this city, in this state, with very few exceptions,
the reporters eat the horse feces and then they dutifully broadcast. Well,
Karen Bass says, you agree that it'll be eighteen months,
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and nobody would question if that was just outrageous.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
What do we know? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
Pretty bad fire, yeah, a lot of toxins there. Maybe
it is eighteen months, right, We wouldn't know. You gotta
have Trump sayings, Why does it have to be eighteen months?
Why can't they hire their own cruise? Why can't they
clean it up themselves? And enough with the safety. The
worst has happened. You spend a day cleaning your own property.
You're not going to die of anything. Wear one of
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those stupid N ninety five masks, Wear one of those
hasmat suits.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
You'll live.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Because it's not about your safety. It's about them controlling
the process. They are born to control. Their control freaks.
They work. They could be your parents, they could be
your bosses. They specially middle managers. They like to control things.
Karen Bass is a classic control freak middle manager, loves
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the safety manual, loves to keep people in line, hold meetings,
blue ribbon commissions, special panels, the whole bit. That's her mindset.
Trump sees a plot of land and goes, how quickly can.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
We build a hotel? Here?
Speaker 2 (16:37):
He sees this rubb, He goes, how quickly can we
clear this out and start building new homes.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Karen Bass doesn't see that. She's not wired that way.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
She's not wired to say how quickly can we build
new homes?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
She's wired to say, well, not a son's time. We
gotta do testing.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
We gotta get you know, we got the EPA in here,
we gotta get the Department of Health in here, and
we got to make sure it goes to the proper
procedure and the front. No, you have to take Executives
are designed to take action, actual physical action. You know,
rent out a payloader and start scoop it up the dirt,
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rent out a dumpster, Dirt goes in the dumpster, dumpster
gets towed out. Then you repeat the process. And you've
got to do this thousands and thousands of times to
clean up the palisades. But you're not gonna sit around
and hold public hearings, public meetings, blue ribbon panels, safety
task forces. It's not the time the damage is done.
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She was interested in our safety. She would not have
been one of George Gascon's top supporters as Gascone was letting,
emptying out the prisons and refusing to refusing to prosecute anybody. Yeah,
give me a break on safety. Since when did she
care about safety? She wouldn't have half funded the fire department,
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for God's sake. She would have filled up the reservoir.
She wouldn't have left this city at the mercy of
all those smash and grab robbers. She wouldn't be having
people getting lit on fire on the metro trains.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Safety.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Only time they bring up safety is when they're losing
control of the situation. And Trump called her on it,
and she didn't know what to do because if he
wasn't there, there would have been nobody in the media
who would have challenged her on it. And that power
dynamic jumped out at me in seconds. How how you
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know Gavin Newsom would not have done that because he
wants to control too. Remember he was the one I
think he closed a beach in Orange County during COVID
because he saw a photo taken from a funky angle
that made it looked like people were crowded together on
the beach. Remember that, And it turned out nobody was
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crowded together. It was just strange angle. The first thing
he did is he closed down the beats, like, what
are you insane? Yeah, he is insane, but that's their mentality,
and we got to fight that. The stuff they should control,
like criminal. Hey, look I just lived through a week
of intense looting on my block. She wasn't concerned about
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my safety, or she would. She would have had the
National Garden there, she would have had the police on
every corner. She wasn't concerned about anybody's safety on our block.
What they did is they shut They shut off all
the power and declared a curfew. So we were stuck
in our homes controlled. But the bad guys he didn't
listen to the curfew, and there weren't any police to
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arrest them for violating the curfew, so they stole our stuff.
I'm onto this game. Trump's onto this game. This is nonsense.
All right, we come back. I'm gonna play. Trump calling
out Brad Sherman Brad Sherman, excuse me, a phony baloney,
Democratic congressman from the San Fernando Valley on the insurance
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companies here in LA.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
That's another big scandal.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
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can follow us at John Cobelt Radio. All right, let's
continue with Trump's public appearance that he made in the
Palisades after landing late on Friday afternoon. We played you
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some of the clips with Karen Vass, who was overmatched
when Trump insisted that these people should be allowed to
in the Palisades to visit their properties immediately and start
the cleanup process immediately and not wait a week or
six months or eight months or whatever kakamamie bureaucratic tangle
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that she usually proposes.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Now in the same.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
In the same meeting, Trump called out on Congressman Brad Sherman,
who's Democrat in the valley, and I guess his district
may lop over into some of the area affected by
the fire. This is over the insurance companies leaving the
state of California. This is another huge scandal in this
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internally screwed up state play cut too a big.
Speaker 7 (21:22):
Percentage, I would assume bred like that, what are they
going to do?
Speaker 5 (21:26):
Go ahead, mister president, without your HILP, they're only going
to get forty three thousand dollars from the federal government
even if they have a you know, they'll take something
bread with.
Speaker 7 (21:37):
Every insurance company in the country left California. That's why
you have no insurance because you made it so impossible.
People that think like you made it so impossible. And
at me, every insurance company, I don't know where you,
I'll tell you my thank you. I've never seen a
state where almost nobody has insurance.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
And I said, what happened?
Speaker 7 (21:58):
And they said, like six months ago all left, and
two years ago they had different you know, quadrants, but
they left, and you have very little insurance here.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
I mean, I've never seen anything like it.
Speaker 5 (22:09):
We had a lot of insurance companies pull out, but
I have insurance.
Speaker 7 (22:12):
Companies actually have been warning you. Now, I'm not a
big fan of insurance companies. Okay, they have their big
druwbacks too, but the insurance company I've been reading I
read the papers very well, and you know, they've been
warning California for a long time. They've also been saying,
we want water, you don't have water. You know, you're
supposed to get fire insurance, and the insurance company goes
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that you don't have any water in your fire hydrants.
So it's a tough.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Situation, absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (22:40):
And this is because and I don't know what this is.
I've never encountered the childish thinking that I have encountered
now living in California for thirty two years. I grew
up in the East Coast, and people in other parts
of the country don't think the way Californians traditionally do.
There's a childlike make believe quality about a lot of
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the thinking, just a wishfulness.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
This is the way I wish life to be.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
Insurance companies are a huge pain in the ass, believe me.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
You know this.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Okay, this is not a defense of the insurance companies, right,
It's a really irritating industry. But what nobody wants to
concede in California is insurance companies must make a profit
or they just won't do business here. And we have
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a silly man named Ricardo Lara, who's the insurance commissioner,
and Ken and I years ago called him cal fart Lara.
He was a legislator in Sacramento, and the only legislation
of any note was that he wanted to require and
I am not making this up, he wanted to require
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cows to wear a device on their backs with a
hose that led to their butts, and whenever the cows farted,
the gas would go through the hose and be captured
by this box that they carried on their backs. Seriously,
(24:20):
and he wrote a law that that's with this provision.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
So for years we called them cow fart Larra.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
And you had to wonder in what state, in what
country would you find a politician pushing legislation to try
to bottle up cow farts. And then, shock of all shocks,
he becomes the insurance commissioner, and I'm thinking, oh, this
is not going to go well. This guy is as dumb.
He's dumb, as dumb as a cow fart. Well, wouldn't
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you know it? A few years later, what happens. We
have a series of disasters and an insurance company like
State Farm says we can't afford this. This is crazy.
The state is run by lunatics. They will not thin
their forests, they will not clear their brush, they will
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not put their wires, their electrical wires underground. They will
not put away crazy people, homeless people, and arsonists. Those
are all the things that start fires. So I'll say,
why the people here insist on living in high profile,
high fire danger regions. They're simply not going to pay
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for it. They don't have to. No company is required
to write insurance policies. They'd rather pull out of the state.
Now can you imagine a state like California, forty million people,
the largest state in the country, and most insurers don't
want to do business here, at least not with home insurance,
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not in these high fire zone areas.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
What does that tell you?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
When Trump was saying the insurance companies were warning you,
of course they were warning you by pulling out coverage.
State Farm pulled out of coverage in the Palisades Malibu
area last year.
Speaker 1 (26:14):
I believe, just said we're not renewing any more policies.
That was it.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
There was nowhere else to go because I know people
who are on State Farm and they had nowhere else
to go. You can go with the fair Plan, which
is a state run plan, and that's going to be
bankrupt in about five minutes. I saw their assets are
some tens of millions of dollars and their potential liabilities
could be hundreds of billions of dollars. Forget it. Fair
(26:43):
Plan is another joke. So there's literally no insurance for people.
Speaker 1 (26:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (26:48):
Maybe it's because Ricardo Lara and the rest of the
knuckleheads that run this place will not let insurance companies
price the insurance in order to make a profit. If
they yet to price the insurance in order to make
the profit, then they'll stay here. They are not allowed to,
so eventually they all leave. And then you have a
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big fire and we don't have water in the reservoir,
we don't have fire hydrants that work, we don't have
firefighters that are staffed, we don't have fire engines that
are fixed.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Just that alone.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
If you're running an insurance company and they know this,
would you ensure here and then everybody bitches and complains
about the insurance company. No, you run an insurance company
for a day, you'd look at California and say this
is nuts.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
We're all going to go bankrupt.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
You go bankrupt and there's no insurance for anybody, and
there's nobody with any jobs at the insurance company.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
See.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
I mean it's so obvious here. But again, too many
people in California have been living in this alternate reality,
not facing some terribly destructive issues that we have here.
You know, we've agreed to let criminals run amuck, We've
agreed to let mental patients and drug addicts run amuck,
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and they start more than half the fires. We underfund
the fire department by fifty percent. We defunded the police department.
What do you think is going to happen if you
don't fund the fire department, you don't do brush clearing?
Remember what I told you last week or a couple
of weeks ago. DWP wanted to put in a fire
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road north of the Palisades. Pave a fire road they
wanted to put up I think it was steel poles
instead of wooden electric poles for the transmission lines. And
then some idiot botanist amateur botanist noticed that the milk
vetch plants were getting trampled by the DWP. Workers complained
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to the state and the Coastal Commission. Find the DWP
two million dollars for stomping on the milk vetch plants,
which are endangered. Seriously, this happened so they couldn't build
the road, so they couldn't put in the steel poles
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or concrete poles whatever they were going to do for
the electrical wires because of the milk fitch pan. And
guess what, we had a really bad fire. Now the
ole milk vetched plants are gone. Now they aren't. They've
got extinct up there.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Stupid, So of course this is going to happen.
Speaker 2 (29:37):
I was thinking about this so much over the weekend,
and it's horrible and tragic. But I'm telling you, everybody
in the state has got to take a hard look
at themselves and your voting patterns and the things you
believe in, because you're living in some weird, childish fantasy world.
In the adult world, you have to fully fund the police,
fully fund the fire department, put criminals in prison and
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keep them there. You don't let homeless people run around
starting fires. You allow insurance companies to charge a high
enough amount to earn a profit, or otherwise you have this. Now,
you tell me which is better, the progressive dream bubble.
I hope this is burst once and for all. Well,
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but you cannot do that many stupid things that long
and not have this be the outcome.
Speaker 1 (30:29):
This was destined to happen, and more coming up.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
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Speaker 2 (30:38):
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Speaker 1 (30:43):
After two o'clock, we're going to talk with Joel Pollock.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
He is not only a Palisades resident, he's also the
senior editor at large for Breitbartnews Breitbart dot com. And
since he has a home that he saved the Palisades,
he was at President Trump's appearance on Friday not only
as an interested citizen, as a journalist though. His idea
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that he asked Trump about is to create a nine
to eleven style commission to watch over the federal spending
of all the money that's going to be dumped into
southern California. Let's play a clip of Joel Pollock.
Speaker 3 (31:25):
Many of my neighbors lost their fire insurance in the
days before the blaze. So I asked my neighbors what
would they want to know? If I could ask the
President a question, and the number one thing was insurance.
Can you work with the insurance companies to get people
back to where they were before they lost the coverage
because of California's regulations? And can you make California change
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its rules so that when we build again, we can
get fire insurance and we don't have to worry. And
there's one other point I want to make. I really
appreciate my Congressman a vocating for money. We need the
money from the federal government, but I also understand Americans
who are tired of spending money on California and disasters happen,
and the California government passes fifty million dollars to oppose
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your policy, so they have fifty million for that, but
not for moving people into rental homes or helping people
relocate or rebuild. I would like to ask you to
follow the nine to eleven Commission precedent and appoint a
special Master to watch the money to make sure that
every federal dollar that gets spent here is spent on
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fire relief and rebuilding and not on everything else.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Good idea.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Yeah, it's a great idea, and it's something like that
has to be necessary because we've been telling you. You
look at the history of Gavin Newsom blowing federal money
that sent his way. He was given fifty billion dollars. Well,
he's given a lot more than that, but he got
fifty billion dollars for the for the COVID unemployment fund
(33:09):
that we had, and that fifty billion dollars was consumed
by the fraudsters all over the world. Eighty five percent
of the money accessed for COVID unemployment insurance went to
people out of the country, criminal gangs, and criminal organizations
(33:31):
from around the world. Fifty billion dollars of fraud, and
Newsom did nothing to stop it, not to mention ten
to fifteen billion dollars, and a lot of that was
federal money too, for high speed rail. He has no
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record of where the fifty billion went to the fraudsters.
He has no record of where the ten to fifteen
billion dollars went for high speed rail that's never been built. Oh,
and then twenty four billion dollars on state homeless programs.
He has no record where much of that money has
gone and no evidence that any of it worked. You
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add all that up together, you're getting close to one
hundred billion dollars and there's no there's no receipts, no invoices, no,
no nothing. Somebody I know was always saying, why isn't
there forensic accounting on this? You can't do forensic accounting
if there aren't any records. There are no records.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
They don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Oh, by the way, I know somebody whose place was
damaged by the fire, they filed for FEMA AID.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
You know what they found out.
Speaker 2 (34:46):
Somebody had already filed using their stolen Social Security number.
How about that palisadess resident happened to So the fraud's
already begun. So yeah, there ought to be a commission
to track this money. You give it to news, you
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give it to Karen Bass. Karen Bass has spent billions
on homeless. She doesn't know where it went either. And
because there isn't an adversary political party in the state,
and because there isn't an adversarial media in the state,
nobody questions them. They never feel like they have to
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explain or respond. And finally, when they're put on the
spot in a tragedy like Trump did to Karen Bass,
it's deer in the headlights time. They've never experienced this
she's what, she's around seventy years old. She's not going
to figure out how to manage a large scale repair
operation at seventy. She doesn't have the scale, she doesn't
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have the experience, none of that. Not capable, Not capable.
Bad bad choice for mayor, very bad choice, especially now
with this disaster going on.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
So when we come back.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Anyway, the man you heard asking the question was bright
Bart News Senior editor at large Joel Pollock, also a
resident there. We will talk to him and expand on
all this when we come back. Debora Mark is off
Brigida Diega Cio is live in the CAFI twenty four
our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening to the John Cobalt
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