May 14, 2025 • 29 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (05/14) - State Senator Tony Strickland joins John to expose how Governor Newsom’s reckless policies have pushed California into financial collapse—complete with rising gas taxes, bloated spending, and a mass exodus of residents. John then dismantles Newsom’s press conference line-by-line, torches the Governor’s bogus “Trump slump” excuse, and slams his delusional refusal to take responsibility for the state’s deficit and crumbling infrastructure.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:00):
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because we first of all, we had Michael Sellenberger on
(00:22):
to talk about Gavin Newsom's disastrous homeless policy, and we
also just had lor Angel on to talk about the
Diddy trial and all the heinous things he did to
his girlfriend. Michael Monks came on to talk about the
Menendez brothers maybe setting free, and that's just part of
(00:42):
what we've done. When in our next segment, we have
this clip of Gavin Newsom getting exasperated, emotional, angry with
all the homeless people in California. He's in his seventh
year as governor and now he's upset with the homeless
people and he actually says, how do these people keep
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getting reelected? That is a great question. Also, thank you
to Desiree and Gary Matthias in Oklahoma. They sit in
a photo the new lowest temperature Noah's the new lowest
gas price that we know of, two dollars and thirty
six cents, two thirty six. In Oklahoma, it is about
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five bucks a gallon. Here in California headed for nine
dollars a gallon. See if Newsom survives that, Let's get
Tony Strickland on state senator from Huntington Beach. Newsom released
a new version of the budget today, and Strickland has
a lot to say about that. Tony welcome, How are.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You, John? Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Tony?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
How are you welcome?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I'm good? Can you hear me? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I can hear you now clearly? All right? What is
this new budget about that he's got Because I'm looking
at a headline where a Newsom says there there's another
twelve billion dollars missing, but all the money he's given
to illegal alien healthcare is about twelve billion dollars. So
I think there's a connection there. You tell me, yeah, No.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The California doesn't have a revenue problem. It has a
wasteful spending problem. The governor just again you said it
before I came on. He wants to blame everybody only
in politics. Can you do a bad job and try
to blame everybody else. He blamed the homeless situation on
local cities and counties. Now he's trying to blame the
budget on the federal government. He just needs to look
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in the mirror and look at the watefile spending. He
put another billion dollars into the high speed rail. This
is a project that everybody knows is never going to
be built as proposed. He's wasting billions of dollars on
healthcare for our legals in his new proposed boat budget.
He now is spending over five billion to do that.
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And you know he has this slush fund of fifty
million dollars to the Attorney General Bonta to quote unquote
trump proof to do furthest lawsuits that he knows are
going to lose in federal court. But the one thing
he didn't John fund is Proposition thirty six. This is
an initiative that passed seventy percent of the vote in
all fifty eight counties across the state of California voted
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for this initiative. Public safety should be the number one
thing that we should fund. The most central role of
government is public safety, and he has yet to fund
an initiative. I can't think of many initiatives the past,
all fifty eight counties, even though those liberal counties San
Francisco and Marine voted an affirmative of Top thirty six.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Right, and as makes theft a crime again, makes drug
addiction a crime again in a public correct use, and
gives people the choice of either going to jail or
going to get treatment for their drug problems. But you
need money to provide the treatment.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Right exactly, and so he's not funding that. And then
let's talk about homeless again. I have a unique perspective
that you know, John, I served in the legislature in
twenty twelve. That budget ten years ago, a little over
ten years ago, was ninety eight billion. Now it's over
three hundred billion dollars. In fact, we've increased the government
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spending triple in the last ten years, and population has
gone away from California. We don't have triple the better services.
In fact, things are worse than ever before. Crime is
on the rise, Homelessness is everywhere, and we have a
crumbling infrastructures far.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Dollars is the money just getting stolen? Because I'm starting
to think, like you know, between the.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Nonprofit go ahead, go ahead. No, I'm sorry, sir, go
ahead No.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The nonprofit homeless industry, I think are a bunch of thieves.
I think all the people connected high speed rail are
a bunch of thieves. You know that billions were stolen
for during COVID, for the unemployment funds, and now this
homeless thing. I mean, Michael Schellenberger said he thinks it's
up to thirty seven billion that Newsom has spent since
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twenty nineteen. It's just got to be politically connected parasites
and thieves that have taken the money and not produced
any anything of any good for anyone.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well, I couldn't agree with you more. And my dad
always taught me, if you dig a hole for yourself,
the best way you got that hole of stop digging.
Stop wasting billions of dollars. And at the same time, John,
he keeps increasing every single year for the last four years,
he's increased the gas tax. And the projection now is
next year the gas price is gonna be eight dollars
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a gallon. You know this is a governor. When Prop
thirty six is not funded, when he continues to you know,
hurt people at the pomp the people who least can
afford it, who are living paycheck to paycheck. This fall
is disproportioning on those hard working California families. This legislature
and this governor are so out of touch with everyday
citizens across the state.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So we got two listeners send us photographic proof. They're
paying two dollars thirty six cents a gallon for gas
in Oklahoma two thirty six and here it's an average
of five bucks headed to eight eight fifty and beyond.
Is there anything any of us can do to stop this,
because this is really psycho.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Stop sending these people who are there who are voting
for this stuff. And I do believe people are starting
to wake up here in the state of California, the
mismanagement of the fires in southern California. I do think
people are starting to wake up with the billions of
dollars that are wasteful spending. John this is the first
time in California history since the Gold Rush, more people
are leaving California than are coming in. Since the gold Rush.
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People are leaving the oasis and the beautiful weather. We
have go to the middle of the desert in Arizona
to go to the humidity in Florida, go to the
cold weather in Idaho, all because the policies of Gavin
Dusom and the super Majority. I do believe people are
waking up when Prop thirty six gets seventy percent of
the vote and fifty eight counties going the firm. I
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think people are waking up to the mismanagement, and I'm
hopeful that we turn the state around and make it
golden again.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Did you hear his his rant today at a press conference?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I did. It is pathetic. I mean, again, here's a
guy that isn't Governor John. I've started with four other governors,
and this is the most detached governor I've ever seen.
He doesn't weigh in on any of these issues. He really,
really really wants to be President of the United States,
but he's not, and he's worried about running for president
instead of being governor and doing the job that people
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elected him to do.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I We're gonna play play the whole clip in the
next segment because I want to go through the whole
thing lined by line. It's crazy. I mean, he's he's
losing it's losing.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Touch, got to touch. He's almost like the Marie Antoinette
let him eat cake. He just doesn't. He just doesn't
understand what average hard working families across the state are
living through. Again, just look at the gas prices.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
How does a how does like a working class family
deal with eight nine dollars a gallon gas? That's not possible.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You can't do it. How do you? How do you?
How do you vote for these folks who who are
increasing the gases to this price where they just can't
afford it, and they they're living paycheck to paycheck. He said,
keep putting these people in office.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
He says in this clip that we're going to play.
How do these people keep getting re elected? They're all
his party? We have one party rule. They're all his party.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And these mandate, these mandates to eliminate gas power of
cars is ridiculous, these ev mandates that they're pushing down. Uh,
not everybody can afford a fifty thousand dollars car. One
and two. The worst thing you can do in California, John,
is everybody plug in an electric car. At the same time,
we don't have enough energy to do that. We have
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really blackouts like we had in the early two thousands.
We just don't have enough power supply. We don't have
enough infrastructure. And there there. You know, these people who
are doing this in the legislature. They're driving cars into
the legislature, but they're trying to outlock cars for everybody else.
It's almost like what we had in terms of the shutdown. Uh,
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you know with Gavin Newsom went the French laundry and
had dinner, but he didn't want anybody else to have
to go to dinner. Yeah, his kids got to go
in person school, but he didn't want anybody else to do. So.
So these these members of these legislators are all driving cars,
but they want to outlock cars for everybody else.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Tony Strickland, thank you for coming on, California State Senator
out of Huntington Beach. We will talk again soon. When
we come back. We will play you to the clip
of Gavin Newsom going on his ranch during the press conference.
This this requires one of these line by line analysis
that we'll get into you not if you haven't heard this,
you're not just not gonna believe it.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
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Speaker 2 (09:53):
Now, this is gonna take us a little while to
go through. Uh. I'm so glad. Eric Sclar saw this
press conference the budget knew some went off on a rant,
and he was very heartfelt and impassioned, and you would
think that some alien took over his body and his
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brain because suddenly he noticed he's in year seven of
being the governor. You know, he has been in office
either in San Francisco or Sacramento since nineteen ninety seven.
We're talking twenty eight years of being in office, and
he suddenly discovered there's a lot of homeless people laying
on the ground. Let's play this. It probably take us
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a little while to go through its because we've got
to stop and start this because you know, we can't
let anything go by. Go ahead, begin.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I'm not trying to point fingers, but my gosh, the
state has never done more in its history. We flooded
the zone. It's time to move on from the stale
talking points and step up. There are counties that are
doing credible work. We applaud them. There are many cities
doing sut ordinary work. I applaud them. There are many
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cities that are not in many counties that are not.
They just have to do their job.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Stop there he's talking about flooding the zone with money.
Michael Sellenberger says, thirty seven billion dollars has been spent
on homeless money from the state. This doesn't even count
the billion spent by the county and the city. You know,
proposition H and HHH. And you agreed to double the
homeless tax in La City last year. Remember all that
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in La County doesn't even count that. This is thirty
seven billion dollars from the state. So they flooded the zone.
And he says many counties haven't stepped up and done
the job. Well, was there any oversight from you since
you're the one sending out the thirty seven billion dollars?
What do you How could some how could counties and
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cities be getting money for seven years and not do
anything productive? And only now on what May the fourteenth
to twenty you're speaking out And he sounds all righteous
and indignant as if he just discovered this today.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Play some more and I am just on behalf of
the taxpayers of the state and the spirit.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh stop there on behalf of the taxpayers. You've done
nothing on behalf of the taxpayers. What did you do?
You shut our kids out of school? For a year
and a half. You closed thousands and thousands of businesses permanently.
While you were running off to rich restaurants and your
kids were going to private school. You gave us the
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highest tax rates ever in America. Here for a state,
we're paying five bucks for gas in Oklahoma, they're paying
two thirty six on behalf of the taxpayer. Look if
I accidentally throw up in the middle of this, I apologize.
In advance play some more of Ashley's question.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I'm not interested. I'm just not as a taxpayer, not
just governing. I'm not interested in finding failure anymore. I'm not.
I won't time to do your job. People are dying
on their watch, dying on their watch.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Stop stop. Do you know how many people die every
week just in Los Angeles on the streets, homeless people
overdosing or dying of some you know, terrible disease they caught.
There's about three well, there's about three thousand a year.
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I mean, I'm I'm just I'm utterly flumboxed by how
he because there's there's there's at least I think six
to seven people dying on the streets every day, which
would get up. It's about the two thousand and three
thousand range. I've seen different estimates just in LA not
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counting San Francisco or San Jose or San die don't
And now you've noticed the death in the streets. How
many people you think have died in San Francisco since
you became a supervisor there in nineteen ninety seven? Can
you imagine how many people died? How many people died
while you're mayor? He killed off thirty people that he
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released from prison during COVID. He gave him a COVID
leave and thirty of them committed murder are now back
in prison. Can we count those two? How many times
is he elected? He's elected twice as the supervisor, twice
as mayor, twice as lieutenant governor, twice as governor. He's
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been elected eight times. And you'll hear him later in
this piece, go how do these people keep getting reelected?
He got elected eight times? And what has he brought us?
By time he leaves in a year and a half,
we're looking at eight to nine dollars a gallon for gas?
And then and then what and then he goes running
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for president? And I guess when he's running for president
we're paying nine dollars gas. He's gonna be blaming on
whoever the new governor is. We'll continue with this coming up.
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For Friday. All right, we were playing this clip from
Gavin Newsom had a press conference about the budget, and
so I'm walking to the lunch room to get a
soda and I see Channel five is summarizing Newsom's press conference.
Now he has a twelve billion dollar budget deficit. He's
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claiming it's gonna rise another sixteen billion dollars because of
what he calls the Trump slump. And they had a
slide up on the screen the Trump slump. What the
hell is he talking about? There is no Trump slump.
He's blaming it on the tariffs. The tariffs haven't kicked
in yet to do any damage. I mean, I don't
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know what he's trying. He's lying. He's the one who's
blown all the money. It's easily proven. Do you know
the last year of Jerry Brown as governor in twenty eleven,
he his budget was ninety eight billion dollars. Newsom blew
it up to three hundred and thirty billion. Ninety eight
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billion to three hundred and thirty billion, more than triple
the budget. He claims he's got another twelve billion dollar
in deficit and another sixteen billion coming because of Trump.
It's fascinating. This is what a narcissistic sociopath does. Always
blames everybody else. He's blaming local governments for the homeless
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people laying in the street. He's blaming Trump for the
budget shortfall. It's him. It's him. He's the one who
shoveled out thirty seven billion dollars and didn't hold anyone
to account and by his own admission, he doesn't know
where it went, the Trump slump and actually put Newsom
slide up on Channel five like it's a real thing
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of the Trump slump. You got the audio? Yeah, yeah,
play that.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Best to describe. This is a Trump slump all across
the United States. It's reflected in adjustments by every independent economist,
by leading banks.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Oh forgot, stop that. Stop for god's sakes, you have
the highest the highest income tax in the nation, the
highest sales tax in the nation, the highest gas tax
in the nation. Okay, the property taxes are not the
highest on a percentage basis, but we have the wealthiest property,
we have the most expensive property, so you're getting an
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enormous amount of money from that. Anyway, even with Prop thirteen,
that he's such a liar, I there's got to be
another word besides liar. End up using that thirty times
a day. Is he fooling anybody? And how about the
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twelve billion for legal alien healthcare? Anybody challenge him on
that twelve billion legal alien health and his original deficit
just happened to be twelve billion. These are people ought
to be deported, and he's giving him free money. Why
do you think they show up in California? You get
health care for the rest of your life guaranteed. Somewhere
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on TikTok in Spanish and maybe one hundred and seventy
other languages, is a message that if you come to California,
you get free health care for the rest of your
freaking life. All right, let's pick up on his press
conference here New some getting upset over the homeless situation.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
How do people get reelected? Look at these encampments. They're disgrace.
They've been there years and years and years and years.
I've heard that same rhetoric for years. People are dying,
kids are being born.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Stop stop stop, and he goes, how do they get reelected?
We have one party rule, how do we get how
do they get reelected? Is he recommending that people vote Republican? Yeah,
there's a lot of areas where there aren't any Republicans running,
Like in a lot of the LA elections, you have
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a choice between one Democrat who's nuts and one Democrat
who's nuts. And socialists in San Francisco. Who are you
gonna vote for there? They don't have any Republicans running,
they don't have any independence running. They don't have anybody
running but left wing progressives. And then they have thousands
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of homeless people in the streets and he'll blame Trump.
How do they get reelected? I can't believe he said.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
That, Well, how do people get reelected?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And there's homeless encampments everywhere? Canon, I did a show
from a massive homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River.
I believe it was in twenty seventeen. We did it.
That was the first big homeless show we did. It
was eight years ago. Did one from skid Row shortly thereafter. Yeah,
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it was in the second term of Garcetti. When well, no,
it's at the towards the end of the first term
of GARSEETI everything. I'm in completely Haywar. I play some
more overdoses.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I met a young man literally was out there doing
Project Homeless Connect, reaching out in the four or five freeway.
I found out the next day he was dead in
this name of compassion. Because we had a notice I
could have helped him. That night, I felt like a fraud.
I felt like I let him down.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Wait, hold on a second, We gotta be more. I
felt like a fraud. I felt like a fraud. Doesn't
he know here in La between two and three thousand
people die every year, mostly of overdoses in the streets.
He found one kid. I feel like a fraud because
I didn't help him. He didn't help anybody. You enriched
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all your politically connected parasite buddies in the fake homeless industry.
You big stupid fraud. You you could have helped him.
What were you gonna do? I feel like a fraud.
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You know, you could really design like a graduate course
for maybe a for psychiatric students in identifying a narcissistic,
sociopathic or maybe psychopathic lunatic. How do you identify the
science and just run videos and audios and avenues them.
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It's like when you hear people talking like this, play
some more.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I felt like a fraud. I felt like I let
him down. We got to be more aggressive. I saw
a young child, a young kid in San Diego is
with the Mayor of San Diego right before a State
of the state. This poor kid was addicted to meth.
He was a wonderful kid, and he said, I'm really
glad you came. He goes, I'm struggling, and there in
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the tent with his wife was a newborn baby. He said,
thank you for coming.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Stop this in a second kind of throw it. Michael
Sellenberger we had him on in the first hour. You
go to the podcast be posted after four o'clock. Listen
to Michael Sellenberger. He was on in the first hour
between one thirty and two. He had a story at
his website public dot News. He wrote, nobody has done
more to increase homelessness than Gavin Newsom. He spent an
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astonishing thirty seven billion dollars to increase homelessness by twenty
four percent, allowing outdoor he emptied jails and prisons during COVID,
allowed outdoor fentanyl markets to flourish, decriminalized hard drug use
in shoplifting, giving addicts cash and unconditional free housing, and
opposing demands by Republicans and others over the last twenty
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years that Newsom reverse course all the problems he either
made worse or failed to fix. He refused to enforce
standards or demand outcomes. Mental health treatment depends on chronically
underfunded county systems, burdened with overlapping responsibilities, drug addiction services
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are fragmented, among other things. US just didn't fail to
fix the system. He implemented and entrenched it. And now
he's looking around in shock, trying to play the role
of an outraged taxpayer and citizen, feeling like he failed
these dead homeless men. Well, how many thousands of homeless
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people you think died under his watch? If it's two
to three thousand a year in LA alone, we're talking
tens of thousands of people over the seven years.
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Sixty moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six, eight seven
seven Moist eighty six, and after four o'clock we post
the podcast. We've got a half hour with Michael Schellenberger
in our number one talking about why Gavin Newsom is
the worst governor in America, focusing on the homelessness. We
had Lore Angle on covering the the ditty, disgusting sexual
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mess that trial in New York City and Michael Monks
on about the Menendez brothers maybe getting out early, which
is another disgusting mess at a lot of disgusting stories. Today,
a lot of like a lot of psychopaths, recovered the
gas prices today. I mentioned before we had two listeners,
Desiree and Gary, send us from Oklahoma two dollars and
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thirty six cents for regular with a photograph to prove it.
So I looked up the prices and on trip La,
the cheapest average price is two sixty five Mississippi. In
Oklahoma it's two seventy nine. So they got a deal there.
I mean they got forty cents cheaper than the average price.
Uh so Mississippi average two sixty five, Tennessee two seventy one,
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Louisiana two seventy two, Alabama two seventy five, Texas to
seventy eight, and it goes on and uh you know
other big time Democratic states with high taxes are much
cheaper than California and New Jerseys at two ninety eight
a gallon Massachusetts two ninety seven. New York is three ten.
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There is no excuse for this. And then you get
to California, it's four ninety one. That's the average. And
I'm telling you, Michael Miche from USC is right is
is math makes sense? You were going to end up
paying eight dollars eight fifty maybe nine dollars a gallon,
because there's two big refineries that are closing in the
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next year and a half, and there's also a huge
sixty five cent price increase coming from the California Air
Resources Board. Other states are pulling out of electric vehicle mandates.
Virginia just did and Maryland just did, and both of
them were tied to California. They had adopted a law
that says, whatever deadlines California sets on EV's, then we
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have them too. Well, they have reversed that course, they
have cut their connections to California. I can't imagine why
anybody would do that to begin with. So where well,
you know, let's hear that. Let's hear that he's getting
rid of this stupid EV mandate. Let's hear that he's,
you know, he cancel all the taxes, both on the
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refineries and on us, and they'll knock a dollar fifty
off the price of gas right off the bat. Let's
hear that his reboot here as some kind of moderate
person is complete and total bull crap, horse species sense lies,
psychopathic behavior, and his imitation of a outraged, exasperated concerned
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citizen was just total theatrics and nonsense. Why don't you
cut a dollar fifty from the I think it's more
than a dollar fifty. Got that from the price. Let's
start opening that. Let's open with that first, and then
we got a whole other list of things that you
got to do. He went from ninety eight billion a
three hundred and thirty billion for a state budget, ninety
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eight billion a three hundred and thirty billion. It's not
the local government's fault. It's not Trump's fault. It's his fault.
It's his legislature. How did these people get reelected? One
party rule? We've got you have one party rule. This
has to happen, and it has, and everything's in collapse.
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All right. We got Michael Krozer with the news. Conway
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podcast later. All right, Yeah, you have to be on
because we first of all, we had Michael Sellenberger on
(00:22):
to talk about Gavin Newsom's disastrous homeless policy, and we
also just had lor Angel on to talk about the
Diddy trial and all the heinous things he did to
his girlfriend. Michael Monks came on to talk about the
Menendez brothers maybe setting free, and that's just part of
(00:42):
what we've done. When in our next segment, we have
this clip of Gavin Newsom getting exasperated, emotional, angry with
all the homeless people in California. He's in his seventh
year as governor and now he's upset with the homeless
people and he actually says, how do these people keep
(01:05):
getting reelected? That is a great question. Also, thank you
to Desiree and Gary Matthias in Oklahoma. They sit in
a photo the new lowest temperature Noah's the new lowest
gas price that we know of, two dollars and thirty
six cents, two thirty six. In Oklahoma, it is about
(01:27):
five bucks a gallon. Here in California headed for nine
dollars a gallon. See if Newsom survives that, Let's get
Tony Strickland on state senator from Huntington Beach. Newsom released
a new version of the budget today, and Strickland has
a lot to say about that. Tony welcome, How are.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
You, John? Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Tony?
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:48):
How are you welcome?
Speaker 1 (01:50):
I'm good? Can you hear me? Yes?
Speaker 2 (01:51):
I can hear you now clearly? All right? What is
this new budget about that he's got Because I'm looking
at a headline where a Newsom says there there's another
twelve billion dollars missing, but all the money he's given
to illegal alien healthcare is about twelve billion dollars. So
I think there's a connection there. You tell me, yeah, No.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The California doesn't have a revenue problem. It has a
wasteful spending problem. The governor just again you said it
before I came on. He wants to blame everybody only
in politics. Can you do a bad job and try
to blame everybody else. He blamed the homeless situation on
local cities and counties. Now he's trying to blame the
budget on the federal government. He just needs to look
(02:35):
in the mirror and look at the watefile spending. He
put another billion dollars into the high speed rail. This
is a project that everybody knows is never going to
be built as proposed. He's wasting billions of dollars on
healthcare for our legals in his new proposed boat budget.
He now is spending over five billion to do that.
(02:57):
And you know he has this slush fund of fifty
million dollars to the Attorney General Bonta to quote unquote
trump proof to do furthest lawsuits that he knows are
going to lose in federal court. But the one thing
he didn't John fund is Proposition thirty six. This is
an initiative that passed seventy percent of the vote in
all fifty eight counties across the state of California voted
(03:21):
for this initiative. Public safety should be the number one
thing that we should fund. The most central role of
government is public safety, and he has yet to fund
an initiative. I can't think of many initiatives the past,
all fifty eight counties, even though those liberal counties San
Francisco and Marine voted an affirmative of Top thirty six.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Right, and as makes theft a crime again, makes drug
addiction a crime again in a public correct use, and
gives people the choice of either going to jail or
going to get treatment for their drug problems. But you
need money to provide the treatment.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Right exactly, and so he's not funding that. And then
let's talk about homeless again. I have a unique perspective
that you know, John, I served in the legislature in
twenty twelve. That budget ten years ago, a little over
ten years ago, was ninety eight billion. Now it's over
three hundred billion dollars. In fact, we've increased the government
(04:16):
spending triple in the last ten years, and population has
gone away from California. We don't have triple the better services.
In fact, things are worse than ever before. Crime is
on the rise, Homelessness is everywhere, and we have a
crumbling infrastructures far.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Dollars is the money just getting stolen? Because I'm starting
to think, like you know, between the.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Nonprofit go ahead, go ahead. No, I'm sorry, sir, go
ahead No.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
The nonprofit homeless industry, I think are a bunch of thieves.
I think all the people connected high speed rail are
a bunch of thieves. You know that billions were stolen
for during COVID, for the unemployment funds, and now this
homeless thing. I mean, Michael Schellenberger said he thinks it's
up to thirty seven billion that Newsom has spent since
(05:03):
twenty nineteen. It's just got to be politically connected parasites
and thieves that have taken the money and not produced
any anything of any good for anyone.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Well, I couldn't agree with you more. And my dad
always taught me, if you dig a hole for yourself,
the best way you got that hole of stop digging.
Stop wasting billions of dollars. And at the same time, John,
he keeps increasing every single year for the last four years,
he's increased the gas tax. And the projection now is
next year the gas price is gonna be eight dollars
(05:34):
a gallon. You know this is a governor. When Prop
thirty six is not funded, when he continues to you know,
hurt people at the pomp the people who least can
afford it, who are living paycheck to paycheck. This fall
is disproportioning on those hard working California families. This legislature
and this governor are so out of touch with everyday
citizens across the state.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So we got two listeners send us photographic proof. They're
paying two dollars thirty six cents a gallon for gas
in Oklahoma two thirty six and here it's an average
of five bucks headed to eight eight fifty and beyond.
Is there anything any of us can do to stop this,
because this is really psycho.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Stop sending these people who are there who are voting
for this stuff. And I do believe people are starting
to wake up here in the state of California, the
mismanagement of the fires in southern California. I do think
people are starting to wake up with the billions of
dollars that are wasteful spending. John this is the first
time in California history since the Gold Rush, more people
are leaving California than are coming in. Since the gold Rush.
(06:41):
People are leaving the oasis and the beautiful weather. We
have go to the middle of the desert in Arizona
to go to the humidity in Florida, go to the
cold weather in Idaho, all because the policies of Gavin
Dusom and the super Majority. I do believe people are
waking up when Prop thirty six gets seventy percent of
the vote and fifty eight counties going the firm. I
(07:01):
think people are waking up to the mismanagement, and I'm
hopeful that we turn the state around and make it
golden again.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Did you hear his his rant today at a press conference?
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I did. It is pathetic. I mean, again, here's a
guy that isn't Governor John. I've started with four other governors,
and this is the most detached governor I've ever seen.
He doesn't weigh in on any of these issues. He really,
really really wants to be President of the United States,
but he's not, and he's worried about running for president
instead of being governor and doing the job that people
(07:33):
elected him to do.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
I We're gonna play play the whole clip in the
next segment because I want to go through the whole
thing lined by line. It's crazy. I mean, he's he's
losing it's losing.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Touch, got to touch. He's almost like the Marie Antoinette
let him eat cake. He just doesn't. He just doesn't
understand what average hard working families across the state are
living through. Again, just look at the gas prices.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
How does a how does like a working class family
deal with eight nine dollars a gallon gas? That's not possible.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
You can't do it. How do you? How do you?
How do you vote for these folks who who are
increasing the gases to this price where they just can't
afford it, and they they're living paycheck to paycheck. He said,
keep putting these people in office.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
He says in this clip that we're going to play.
How do these people keep getting re elected? They're all
his party? We have one party rule. They're all his party.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
And these mandate, these mandates to eliminate gas power of
cars is ridiculous, these ev mandates that they're pushing down. Uh,
not everybody can afford a fifty thousand dollars car. One
and two. The worst thing you can do in California, John,
is everybody plug in an electric car. At the same time,
we don't have enough energy to do that. We have
(08:52):
really blackouts like we had in the early two thousands.
We just don't have enough power supply. We don't have
enough infrastructure. And there there. You know, these people who
are doing this in the legislature. They're driving cars into
the legislature, but they're trying to outlock cars for everybody else.
It's almost like what we had in terms of the shutdown. Uh,
(09:13):
you know with Gavin Newsom went the French laundry and
had dinner, but he didn't want anybody else to have
to go to dinner. Yeah, his kids got to go
in person school, but he didn't want anybody else to do. So.
So these these members of these legislators are all driving cars,
but they want to outlock cars for everybody else.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
Tony Strickland, thank you for coming on, California State Senator
out of Huntington Beach. We will talk again soon. When
we come back. We will play you to the clip
of Gavin Newsom going on his ranch during the press conference.
This this requires one of these line by line analysis
that we'll get into you not if you haven't heard this,
you're not just not gonna believe it.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI A
M six forty.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Now, this is gonna take us a little while to
go through. Uh. I'm so glad. Eric Sclar saw this
press conference the budget knew some went off on a rant,
and he was very heartfelt and impassioned, and you would
think that some alien took over his body and his
(10:13):
brain because suddenly he noticed he's in year seven of
being the governor. You know, he has been in office
either in San Francisco or Sacramento since nineteen ninety seven.
We're talking twenty eight years of being in office, and
he suddenly discovered there's a lot of homeless people laying
on the ground. Let's play this. It probably take us
(10:35):
a little while to go through its because we've got
to stop and start this because you know, we can't
let anything go by. Go ahead, begin.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I'm not trying to point fingers, but my gosh, the
state has never done more in its history. We flooded
the zone. It's time to move on from the stale
talking points and step up. There are counties that are
doing credible work. We applaud them. There are many cities
doing sut ordinary work. I applaud them. There are many
(11:03):
cities that are not in many counties that are not.
They just have to do their job.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Stop there he's talking about flooding the zone with money.
Michael Sellenberger says, thirty seven billion dollars has been spent
on homeless money from the state. This doesn't even count
the billion spent by the county and the city. You know,
proposition H and HHH. And you agreed to double the
homeless tax in La City last year. Remember all that
(11:28):
in La County doesn't even count that. This is thirty
seven billion dollars from the state. So they flooded the zone.
And he says many counties haven't stepped up and done
the job. Well, was there any oversight from you since
you're the one sending out the thirty seven billion dollars?
What do you How could some how could counties and
(11:49):
cities be getting money for seven years and not do
anything productive? And only now on what May the fourteenth
to twenty you're speaking out And he sounds all righteous
and indignant as if he just discovered this today.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Play some more and I am just on behalf of
the taxpayers of the state and the spirit.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Oh stop there on behalf of the taxpayers. You've done
nothing on behalf of the taxpayers. What did you do?
You shut our kids out of school? For a year
and a half. You closed thousands and thousands of businesses permanently.
While you were running off to rich restaurants and your
kids were going to private school. You gave us the
(12:36):
highest tax rates ever in America. Here for a state,
we're paying five bucks for gas in Oklahoma, they're paying
two thirty six on behalf of the taxpayer. Look if
I accidentally throw up in the middle of this, I apologize.
In advance play some more of Ashley's question.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
I'm not interested. I'm just not as a taxpayer, not
just governing. I'm not interested in finding failure anymore. I'm not.
I won't time to do your job. People are dying
on their watch, dying on their watch.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Stop stop. Do you know how many people die every
week just in Los Angeles on the streets, homeless people
overdosing or dying of some you know, terrible disease they caught.
There's about three well, there's about three thousand a year.
(13:33):
I mean, I'm I'm just I'm utterly flumboxed by how
he because there's there's there's at least I think six
to seven people dying on the streets every day, which
would get up. It's about the two thousand and three
thousand range. I've seen different estimates just in LA not
(13:57):
counting San Francisco or San Jose or San die don't
And now you've noticed the death in the streets. How
many people you think have died in San Francisco since
you became a supervisor there in nineteen ninety seven? Can
you imagine how many people died? How many people died
while you're mayor? He killed off thirty people that he
(14:19):
released from prison during COVID. He gave him a COVID
leave and thirty of them committed murder are now back
in prison. Can we count those two? How many times
is he elected? He's elected twice as the supervisor, twice
as mayor, twice as lieutenant governor, twice as governor. He's
(14:40):
been elected eight times. And you'll hear him later in
this piece, go how do these people keep getting reelected?
He got elected eight times? And what has he brought us?
By time he leaves in a year and a half,
we're looking at eight to nine dollars a gallon for gas?
And then and then what and then he goes running
(15:02):
for president? And I guess when he's running for president
we're paying nine dollars gas. He's gonna be blaming on
whoever the new governor is. We'll continue with this coming up.
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For Friday. All right, we were playing this clip from
Gavin Newsom had a press conference about the budget, and
so I'm walking to the lunch room to get a
soda and I see Channel five is summarizing Newsom's press conference.
Now he has a twelve billion dollar budget deficit. He's
(16:26):
claiming it's gonna rise another sixteen billion dollars because of
what he calls the Trump slump. And they had a
slide up on the screen the Trump slump. What the
hell is he talking about? There is no Trump slump.
He's blaming it on the tariffs. The tariffs haven't kicked
in yet to do any damage. I mean, I don't
(16:49):
know what he's trying. He's lying. He's the one who's
blown all the money. It's easily proven. Do you know
the last year of Jerry Brown as governor in twenty eleven,
he his budget was ninety eight billion dollars. Newsom blew
it up to three hundred and thirty billion. Ninety eight
(17:10):
billion to three hundred and thirty billion, more than triple
the budget. He claims he's got another twelve billion dollar
in deficit and another sixteen billion coming because of Trump.
It's fascinating. This is what a narcissistic sociopath does. Always
blames everybody else. He's blaming local governments for the homeless
(17:31):
people laying in the street. He's blaming Trump for the
budget shortfall. It's him. It's him. He's the one who
shoveled out thirty seven billion dollars and didn't hold anyone
to account and by his own admission, he doesn't know
where it went, the Trump slump and actually put Newsom
slide up on Channel five like it's a real thing
(17:55):
of the Trump slump. You got the audio? Yeah, yeah,
play that.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Best to describe. This is a Trump slump all across
the United States. It's reflected in adjustments by every independent economist,
by leading banks.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
Oh forgot, stop that. Stop for god's sakes, you have
the highest the highest income tax in the nation, the
highest sales tax in the nation, the highest gas tax
in the nation. Okay, the property taxes are not the
highest on a percentage basis, but we have the wealthiest property,
we have the most expensive property, so you're getting an
(18:31):
enormous amount of money from that. Anyway, even with Prop thirteen,
that he's such a liar, I there's got to be
another word besides liar. End up using that thirty times
a day. Is he fooling anybody? And how about the
(18:53):
twelve billion for legal alien healthcare? Anybody challenge him on
that twelve billion legal alien health and his original deficit
just happened to be twelve billion. These are people ought
to be deported, and he's giving him free money. Why
do you think they show up in California? You get
health care for the rest of your life guaranteed. Somewhere
(19:15):
on TikTok in Spanish and maybe one hundred and seventy
other languages, is a message that if you come to California,
you get free health care for the rest of your
freaking life. All right, let's pick up on his press
conference here New some getting upset over the homeless situation.
Speaker 4 (19:33):
How do people get reelected? Look at these encampments. They're disgrace.
They've been there years and years and years and years.
I've heard that same rhetoric for years. People are dying,
kids are being born.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Stop stop stop, and he goes, how do they get reelected?
We have one party rule, how do we get how
do they get reelected? Is he recommending that people vote Republican? Yeah,
there's a lot of areas where there aren't any Republicans running,
Like in a lot of the LA elections, you have
(20:07):
a choice between one Democrat who's nuts and one Democrat
who's nuts. And socialists in San Francisco. Who are you
gonna vote for there? They don't have any Republicans running,
they don't have any independence running. They don't have anybody
running but left wing progressives. And then they have thousands
(20:29):
of homeless people in the streets and he'll blame Trump.
How do they get reelected? I can't believe he said.
Speaker 4 (20:36):
That, Well, how do people get reelected?
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And there's homeless encampments everywhere? Canon, I did a show
from a massive homeless encampment along the Santa Ana River.
I believe it was in twenty seventeen. We did it.
That was the first big homeless show we did. It
was eight years ago. Did one from skid Row shortly thereafter. Yeah,
(21:07):
it was in the second term of Garcetti. When well, no,
it's at the towards the end of the first term
of GARSEETI everything. I'm in completely Haywar. I play some
more overdoses.
Speaker 4 (21:20):
I met a young man literally was out there doing
Project Homeless Connect, reaching out in the four or five freeway.
I found out the next day he was dead in
this name of compassion. Because we had a notice I
could have helped him. That night, I felt like a fraud.
I felt like I let him down.
Speaker 2 (21:35):
Wait, hold on a second, We gotta be more. I
felt like a fraud. I felt like a fraud. Doesn't
he know here in La between two and three thousand
people die every year, mostly of overdoses in the streets.
He found one kid. I feel like a fraud because
I didn't help him. He didn't help anybody. You enriched
(21:59):
all your politically connected parasite buddies in the fake homeless industry.
You big stupid fraud. You you could have helped him.
What were you gonna do? I feel like a fraud.
(22:20):
You know, you could really design like a graduate course
for maybe a for psychiatric students in identifying a narcissistic,
sociopathic or maybe psychopathic lunatic. How do you identify the
science and just run videos and audios and avenues them.
(22:42):
It's like when you hear people talking like this, play
some more.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
I felt like a fraud. I felt like I let
him down. We got to be more aggressive. I saw
a young child, a young kid in San Diego is
with the Mayor of San Diego right before a State
of the state. This poor kid was addicted to meth.
He was a wonderful kid, and he said, I'm really
glad you came. He goes, I'm struggling, and there in
(23:07):
the tent with his wife was a newborn baby. He said,
thank you for coming.
Speaker 2 (23:12):
Stop this in a second kind of throw it. Michael
Sellenberger we had him on in the first hour. You
go to the podcast be posted after four o'clock. Listen
to Michael Sellenberger. He was on in the first hour
between one thirty and two. He had a story at
his website public dot News. He wrote, nobody has done
more to increase homelessness than Gavin Newsom. He spent an
(23:34):
astonishing thirty seven billion dollars to increase homelessness by twenty
four percent, allowing outdoor he emptied jails and prisons during COVID,
allowed outdoor fentanyl markets to flourish, decriminalized hard drug use
in shoplifting, giving addicts cash and unconditional free housing, and
opposing demands by Republicans and others over the last twenty
(23:57):
years that Newsom reverse course all the problems he either
made worse or failed to fix. He refused to enforce
standards or demand outcomes. Mental health treatment depends on chronically
underfunded county systems, burdened with overlapping responsibilities, drug addiction services
(24:21):
are fragmented, among other things. US just didn't fail to
fix the system. He implemented and entrenched it. And now
he's looking around in shock, trying to play the role
of an outraged taxpayer and citizen, feeling like he failed
these dead homeless men. Well, how many thousands of homeless
(24:49):
people you think died under his watch? If it's two
to three thousand a year in LA alone, we're talking
tens of thousands of people over the seven years.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
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Sixty moistline eight seven seven Moist eighty six, eight seven
seven Moist eighty six, and after four o'clock we post
the podcast. We've got a half hour with Michael Schellenberger
in our number one talking about why Gavin Newsom is
the worst governor in America, focusing on the homelessness. We
had Lore Angle on covering the the ditty, disgusting sexual
(25:27):
mess that trial in New York City and Michael Monks
on about the Menendez brothers maybe getting out early, which
is another disgusting mess at a lot of disgusting stories. Today,
a lot of like a lot of psychopaths, recovered the
gas prices today. I mentioned before we had two listeners,
Desiree and Gary, send us from Oklahoma two dollars and
(25:49):
thirty six cents for regular with a photograph to prove it.
So I looked up the prices and on trip La,
the cheapest average price is two sixty five Mississippi. In
Oklahoma it's two seventy nine. So they got a deal there.
I mean they got forty cents cheaper than the average price.
Uh so Mississippi average two sixty five, Tennessee two seventy one,
(26:13):
Louisiana two seventy two, Alabama two seventy five, Texas to
seventy eight, and it goes on and uh you know
other big time Democratic states with high taxes are much
cheaper than California and New Jerseys at two ninety eight
a gallon Massachusetts two ninety seven. New York is three ten.
(26:34):
There is no excuse for this. And then you get
to California, it's four ninety one. That's the average. And
I'm telling you, Michael Miche from USC is right is
is math makes sense? You were going to end up
paying eight dollars eight fifty maybe nine dollars a gallon,
because there's two big refineries that are closing in the
(26:57):
next year and a half, and there's also a huge
sixty five cent price increase coming from the California Air
Resources Board. Other states are pulling out of electric vehicle mandates.
Virginia just did and Maryland just did, and both of
them were tied to California. They had adopted a law
that says, whatever deadlines California sets on EV's, then we
(27:21):
have them too. Well, they have reversed that course, they
have cut their connections to California. I can't imagine why
anybody would do that to begin with. So where well,
you know, let's hear that. Let's hear that he's getting
rid of this stupid EV mandate. Let's hear that he's,
you know, he cancel all the taxes, both on the
(27:43):
refineries and on us, and they'll knock a dollar fifty
off the price of gas right off the bat. Let's
hear that his reboot here as some kind of moderate
person is complete and total bull crap, horse species sense lies,
psychopathic behavior, and his imitation of a outraged, exasperated concerned
(28:09):
citizen was just total theatrics and nonsense. Why don't you
cut a dollar fifty from the I think it's more
than a dollar fifty. Got that from the price. Let's
start opening that. Let's open with that first, and then
we got a whole other list of things that you
got to do. He went from ninety eight billion a
three hundred and thirty billion for a state budget, ninety
(28:31):
eight billion a three hundred and thirty billion. It's not
the local government's fault. It's not Trump's fault. It's his fault.
It's his legislature. How did these people get reelected? One
party rule? We've got you have one party rule. This
has to happen, and it has, and everything's in collapse.
(28:52):
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