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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You Michael Verie show.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Is on the air readings and welcome. Great to have
you hearing. It's Rush limp body.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I mean hi, this is Amy from Ohio and I
want to give a shout out to my adoptive dad,
Rush Limbaugh. He taught me more about my civic duty
than anyone ever could, and for that I'm grateful.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Conservatives about opposed to regulation, but regulation has to be
based on the fact that the individual is best left
alone to take care of himself in the pursuit of
daily aspects of life, education, job, or whatever. We don't
make the assumption we look at some people because of
their race, sex, cret to what.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We don't say that.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Person can't do it, that person needs us, that person
needs a government program, that person needs somebody helping them,
because that's not really what those people are after. They're
after power and control over those people's lives, making them
as dependent as possible. The reason why this matters to
me is I want a greater country. A country is
made up in great people pursuing excellence, doing the best
they can. It is the people who makes the country work,
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not government programs.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Hey, Michael, this is Rusty from San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Out here.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
I'm a trucker with my German shepherd river Man.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I really love that guy and miss him, miss him steel,
and I'm glad that you get it, and I'm glad
that you honor him. I wish we could build a
statue or some kind of mindment to him.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
Ex cept accept the exception to the rule is what
American exceptionalism is.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And because of this liberty and freedom.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
That our country exists, because the founders recognized it comes
from God.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's part of the natural yearning of the human spirit.
It is not granted by a government.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
It's not granted by Pulltin, it's not granted by Obama
or any other human being.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
We are created with the natural yearning to be free,
and it is other men and leaders throughout.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Human history who have suppressed that and imprisoned people for
seeking it. The US is the first time in the
history of the world where a government was organized with
a constitution laying out the rules that the individual was
supreme and dominant, and that is what led to the
US becoming the greatest country ever because it unleashed people
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to be the best they could be.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Unlike it had ever happened.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
That's American exceptionalism.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Hey Michael, it's Michael in sayin Texas. I remember listening
to that final Christmas Eve of Russias, and I remember
the tears of faded now and I vacant this be
the last time I ever get the year degree Russians.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Has anybody ever heard of Barack Hussein?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Do you remember Russia?
Speaker 8 (03:00):
He used to call it.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
It's say, ladies and gentlemen, today we'll be talking about Barack,
who say Obama?
Speaker 8 (03:08):
That was Rush.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
We miss Rush, we miss Rush.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
We got the Presidential Medal of Freedom that beautiful night.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Do you remember that blooms Rush Rush? We need you
Rush folks, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
I wish there were a way to say it other
than thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You're just the best. My family is just the best.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (03:36):
Yesterday was Rush Hudson Limbaugh the Third's seventy fourth birthday,
And even though we lost Rush. February seventeenth, twenty twenty one.
I think an email I received from a listener named
Mark George after our morning show earlier today sums it up.
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Thank you for honoring the best friend I ever had
that I never met in my Greek Orthodox faith, we
recognize those not with us any longer with the phrase
may their memory be eternal, May their memory be eternal?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Like that, I like that.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
There would be no Am dial populated with powerful talk
radio in this country, but for Rush Limbaugh rest in peace.
Well here's a SoundBite that didn't age very well. This
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is Bill Gates saying that the government may not be
very good at handling epidemics, something that he has profited off,
mightily evil, evil man that he is. But at least
they're good at hand mindeling forest fires.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
Nobody I would say it's an aid on this flom. Sadly,
epidemics come along so rarely that it's easy to be incompetent.
You know, earthquakes, fires, they come more off of forms
and so governments, you know, they're pretty good on fires.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Are you putting farts in there or did Well? I
don't mind, but I really want to hear people.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
I really want people to hear Bill Gates saying the
government's not good at handling epidemics, but they are good
at handling fires. Fox Business is reporting that Gavin Newsom
cut one hundred million dollars in fire prevention spending while
at the same time allocating three billion dollars to give
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free healthcare to illegals. You see, folks, it's called opportunity cost.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
For all the.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
People who say, well, we should do this, it would
be nice, we should do this and this and this
for the illegals.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
When you do that, there is an opportunity cost.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
There are things that won't be done, that can't be
seen at that moment, but they will come do the
veteran who doesn't get proper health care, the road that
doesn't get built or paved, the bridge that collapses and
needed repair. Oh, but you gave to the illegal Alien
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health Care fund, didn't you.
Speaker 11 (06:36):
Well, the thing is for sanctuary cities and states. They
complain about the costs, so they continue to add services.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
They want to show you California.
Speaker 11 (06:42):
As of yesterday, California has added a healthcare.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Benefit for migrants.
Speaker 11 (06:46):
They are now going to extend free healthcare to migrants
between the ages.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Of twenty six and forty nine.
Speaker 11 (06:51):
That's going to cover seven hundred thousand additional people and
costs to seat two point six billion dollars each year.
Now that's added onto New York excuse me, that's added
on to California's deficit. We're thirty sixty eight billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Personnel and policies matter.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
It's a luxury that rich white liberals have to be
able to say, we're going to elect a mayor who's
going to travel the world, redistribute the wealth, do awful things,
and put awful people in office. Because we're so rich,
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we don't need good city government. We don't need police
and fire and roads and water.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Until you do. And isn't it interesting?
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Even the rich residents of Pacific Palisades of Brentwood, even
the rich residence in some of the richest communities in
California in the Los Angeles area, finally needed city services. See,
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they could make up for lack of security with their
own private security.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Right, they can have their own.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Private everything until the city's on fire and the terrible
city government can't handle it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Guitars, cigars, and a few thoughts from Bizar.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
I'm going to read to you an article that was
written an editorial about how you end up with mayors
like Kevin like Kevin Bass. Kevin Bass played center field
for the Houston Astros. It's a great baseball player for
the Houston Astros. Baseball squad of years ago. Karen Bass,
not Kevin Bass. Kevin Bass was great, Karen Bass. What
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he'd probably be a good mayor. He'd probably be a
good mayor. Come to think of it, he probably would.
How you end up with a Karen Bass as a mayor?
And it's about how David Axelrod used ad industry, advertising
industry tricks to convince rich white liberals to vote for
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black mayors across the country and to vote for Barack Obama.
And the thesis if you can't hang around to hear that,
was that you so, why do rich white liberals in
places like Los Angeles and for that matter, of Chicago,
New York, you name it, why do they vote for
a black mayor seemingly only because that person is black
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when that person's agenda is the destruction of the city. Well,
it became the case that he was able to convince
people it's not about voting for that person based on
what they can do, or have done or will do
as mayor. It's about how how good you look as
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a person you individually for voting for that person for mayor.
Rather than in say Los Angeles, Rick Caruso, who could
have been a good mayor. So by voting for Karen
bass I voted for the black woman. I'm a good person.
And part and parcel of that is saying and you're
a bad person if you didn't vote the way I did.
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It did there's a lot of the why people. Same
group of people were very vocal about having received the
clot shot. Oh look at this, I got the clot shot.
Did you get it? Because if you didn't, look at me?
Virtue signal. Rich white liberals love the virtue signal, and
rich white liberals love a Gavin Newsom. In Texas, we
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got another Gavin Newsom. His name is Beto o'rour. We've
seen this type before. California's governor, Gavin Newsom was asked
if the city would be ready to host the big
sporting events scheduled in Los Angeles. They are going to
be hosting the World Cup. That's a big internet, I
mean it is. It is the biggest thing in the
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world for soccer. They've got a Super Bowl coming up,
they got the Olympics coming up. Youavin Newsom said that
they will have a Marshall Plan to rebuild the city.
Of course, you remember the Marshall Plan. Was the rebuilding
of Europe after World War Two, So we're going to
have a Marshall plan to rebuild the city. And then
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he's asked, Okay, what does that plan look like? And
he has this tones says, well, I don't know yet.
We haven't even started to think about it. Well, then
why did you say you were going to have one over?
Speaker 12 (11:41):
Of course, the next several years, Los Angeles will be
host to the World Cup and then the Super Bowl
and then the Olympics. With this rebuilding effort needing to
take place, is l A going to be ready for
all of those global events?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
My humble position, and it's it's it's it's not just
being naively optimistic. That only reinforces the imperative moving quickly
doing in this spirit of collaboration, cooperation. President of the
United States Donald Trump, to his credit, was helpful in
getting the Olympics to the United States of America to
get it down here in LA and we thank him
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for that.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
This is an opportunity for him.
Speaker 13 (12:18):
To shine, for this country, to shine, for California and
this community to shine. The opportunity with all of that
and all that opportunity and that pride and spirit, that
comes from not just hosting those three iconic games and venues,
but also the opportunity, I think, to rebuild at the
same time. And that's why we're already organizing a Marshall plan.
We already have a team of looking and reimagining LA
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two point zero, and we're making sure everyone's included, not
just the folks on the coast, people here that were
ravaged by this disaster.
Speaker 12 (12:47):
You just said you're organizing a Marshall plan for the
rebuilding of California.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
What is that marshall for this marriages.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Starting to lay out.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I mean, we're still fighting these fires. So we're already
talking to city leaders. We're already talking to civic leader,
We're already talking to business leaders and nonprofits, we're talking
to labor leaders.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
We're starting to.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Organize how we can put together a collection of individuals
on philanthropy for recovery, how we can organize the region,
how we can make sure that we are seeking federal
assistance for the Olympics more broadly, but also federal assistance
for the recovery efforts, and how we can galvanize the
community with folks that love this community to really develop
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a mindset so that at scale, we're dealing with the
scope of this tragedy and responding to it at scale
with efficiency. Like the executive order, I talked about time
value of delivering projects, addressing building codes, addressing permitting issues,
and moving forward to rebuilding and being more resilient.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
You hear that, We're gonna have a lot of meetings
with all of the stakeholders. We're going to move forward,
never backward. We're going to lean into it. We're going
to be inclusive, We're going to be collaborative. You know,
over the years, I had a number of friends who
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created businesses, whether it be in technology, biomedical, or for
that matter, manufacturing a lot in the oil and gas industry,
the oilfield services equipment. And what's interesting is they will
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be bought out by a big company. Buddy of mine
had had a computer technology company, and I think it
was Sprint back then twenty five years ago. Sprint wanted
to enter into that space, but they couldn't create the
technology that his little company had, so they just paid
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him a couple hundred million dollars to buy his company,
and he would have to come to one meeting per week.
Let's say he said he would go to the meeting
and nothing would get done. It was just meeting after
meeting after meeting, and it was collaboration and stakeholders and
nobody could make a decision. Everything was wrong with it,
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and they ended up folding that company that they'd paid
him a couple hundred million dollars for. Of course he
got all his money, but he made the point that
big companies can't be lean, they can't make decisions, they
can't be innovative, and government is that times ten. You
ever wonder, I mean, the best way to get rich
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in this country is to start a company that sells
out to an Apple or a Google or you know,
Microsoft or one of these big companies. And the reason
is because big companies don't innovate. Big companies aren't accountable.
Big companies are populated by people, and government is even
more so. That's what we're seeing here that talk in circles.
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It's all about cya. It's all about having meetings, going
to meetings, talking about the meetings, reports on the meetings,
creating reports that are never read. And this is why
nothing gets done, and this is how you end up
as a failure as a city, as the city of
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Los Angeles with terms like collaboration and stakeholders in equity
and inclusion.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The czar of talk radio The Michael Verie Show. While
fires in Los Angeles.
Speaker 14 (16:29):
Didn't creep up on them.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
This has been a problem for a very long time.
It's a problem that has occupied the time of people
who've been paid a lot of money over the years
to sit in a lot of meetings and create reports.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And then outside.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
Engineers and planners and fire experts created reports, and water
experts and infrastructure experts created reports, and money was raised,
and taxes were raised, and money was diverted and supposedly spent.
This didn't sneak up on Los Angeles. They were supposed
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to be prepared.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
But they weren't. We'll get into why they weren't.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Here is their governor saying that the state reservoirs are
full and don't believe this information. This is classic Democrats.
There's no accountability, there's no leadership. Everything is designed to
control the narrative. This is how for the last four
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years they've told us that Joe Biden as sharp as attack.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Joe Biden boy, world leaders respect him.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Man.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
I've been in meetings with Joe Biden I was in
a meeting with him this week, and man, he's got
it together. He is respected and admired. Boy, he's quick.
Those are cheap fakes. They show you him stumbling, bumbling,
falling down. That's all a cheap fake. None of that
is real. This guy is on top of it. Oh
you think there's inflation. Oh no, no, no, there's no inflation.
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That's just that's right wing conspiracy theories. That's disinformation. None
of that is true. Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I called for him to come out take a look
for himself. We want to do in the spirit of
an open hand, not a close fist. He's the president elect.
I respect the office. We have a president of the
United States that within thirty six hours provided a major
disaster declaration over a text. We had support from the
President of the United States, Joe Biden, with one hundred
percent reimbursement, all the resources.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
That you could hope for.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Imagine constant communication. I'd like to extend that to the
President elect. I don't know what he's referring to when
he talks about the Delta smelt and reservoirs. The reservoirs
are completely full of the state reservoirs here in southern California.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
That missing disinformation.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I don't think advantages or aids any of us responding
to Donald Trump's insults, We would spend another month.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
I'm very familiar with them.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Every elected official that he disagrees with, very familiar with them.
Speaker 12 (19:12):
We do know, though, from reporting here locally, that that
one reservoir that serves the Palace aids was not full.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
And that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the
investigation to understand what was happening with that local reservoir
that was not a state system reservoir which the President
elect was referring to as it relates to the Delta,
and somehow connecting the delta smelt to this fire, which
is inexcusable because it's inaccurate, also incomprehensible to anyone that
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understands water policy in the state.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Yes see, that's always the thrust. Donald Trump is not nice.
You must be nice well. And by the way, anybody
who points out the failures of the City of Los
Angeles in the government of California and the United States
government under Biden, that's disinformation. You just call it disinformation.
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I mean Jimmy Carter said that Donald Trump was elected
because of Russian disinformation. This is their talking point. Don't
believe your eyes, believe what I'm telling you. Gavin Newsom,
the governor of California, was on a call with Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris when he lamented that people were
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literally burning to death in California and it was it
was so painful. I'm sorry, No, he didn't. He lamented
the disinformation that he has to deal with.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Well, I asked you, We've got to deal with this misinformation.
There were hurricane force who wins miss and disinformation lies.
People want to divide this country and we're gonna have
to address that as well. And it breaks my heart
as people are suffering and struggling, that we're up against
those hurricane force forces.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Is up And that's just a point of personal privilege
that I share that with you, because it.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Infects real people that are out there, people I meet
every single day, people the mayor has been meeting with,
and they're having conversations that are not the typical conversations
you'd have at this time, and you wonder where this
stuff comes from.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And it's very damaging as well. But we're here to
get the job done. Uh, to be here for folks.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yep, Russell, we're here. We're gonna roll up our sleeves.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
That's always doing. We're gonna roll up our sleeves and
get to work. And Donald Trump is not helping. A
boy sitting out there and pointing out what we're doing
wrong with his disinformation, he's not helping.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
He needs to get in here and roll his leaves
up like I'm doing.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
Gavin Newsom said he would like Donald Trump to approach
the wildfires with the same spirit as Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
See Biden.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Donald Trump is not a nice man. How many times
have I told you the nice neighbor is killing America.
The idea that you can't point out that Karen Bass
absolutely blew it.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Because she's a black woman.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
The idea that you shouldn't talk about what's going wrong
in California because the fires are happening. The idea that
you can't point out that Jimmy Carter was the ultimate
election denier, calling Donald Trump an illegitimate president.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Because he just died. We have to be nice, That's
just it.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
See, they've scared too many people into believing that we
have to be nice because they're so nice supposedly, but
they're not.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
They're evil.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Don't question whether they stuffed the ballots even as you
watch them stuff the ballots.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Be nice.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Don't question doctor Fauci, he's the expert.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Be nice.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Listen to Gavin Newsom saying Donald Trump should approach the
wildfires with the same.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Spirit in which the Great Joe Biden does.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Do the right thing. This is an emergency.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
We can do all this nance and we have differences
of opinion as it relays to all kinds of issues
and values, and you know, and that's the fair game,
and that's important.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
That dialectic is important.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
But having this kind of friction when it comes to
an emergency response with emergency responders, these heroes twelve thousand
that are on the front lines right now taking care
of people, making sure people are still alive. We're still
doing mercy and maintenance, evacuation. We're still concerned about flare
ups and spotting. You got kids right now, they don't
have money for baby formula, and we're trying to get
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them disaster assistance. You have folks in hotel rooms that
have money only for tonight and don't know what's going
to happen having even a chance to see their homes
here it's standing, or it's here and it's not standing.
You want to get them emergency assistants over the course
the next eighteen months. That's why I was with the
FEMA director today. That's what the President United States and
I are talking about. And I'd like to have that
conversation with the next president the United States. So let's
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turn the page as relates to the incoming president. We'd
like him to have the spirit of the current president
and have the backs of people so we can recover.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I want them to visit and understand.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
The magnitude of the scope of what happened to the
American people that happened to reside here in California. I'm
not interested in politicizing event like this. I don't like
the menality of it. I don't like the inhumanity of that.
I would like people to focus on a collaboration between
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the executive in Washington, d C. And in the state
of California to help rebuild a community that's been completely ravaged.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Ramone, a King of Ding, and.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
This other guy, Michael Barry, you know, Goebels was the man.
Speaker 14 (24:50):
For Hitler, who manage the propaganda in the Nazi regime,
did something that the world hadn't seen in the modern era,
and that was the use of this new thing called film,
the moving camera to tell stories.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And so.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
They were constantly telling stories to their people that reinforced
the agenda that they were speaking about in public and
teaching in the schools and speaking about in political gatherings.
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That propaganda, shameless as it was, was very effective. And
goebels knew that as long as he could control the narrative,
it didn't matter what was actually happening in Germany. As
long as he convinced people that what was happening was
what he claimed. If he could get people to believe it,
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the truth didn't really mean matter. That's why you see
the revolving door of the George Stephanopoulos's going from being
Bill Clinton's henchman to being a major anchor on a
major network. That's why when Trump sued him and won,
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it was devastating because if they're not allowed to lie
on behalf of Donald Trump, that takes an arrow out
of their quiver. Well, Jim Psaki is another one of those.
She is a hired hitman for the Obama mindset. That's
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how she goes from being the person who lied to
the press every day behind the lectern I guess technically
was a podium because it was elevated on behalf of
the evil Democrat president. She went so far on her
show as to say that Donald Trump and Elon Musk
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are lying about the Los Angeles fires to score political points. Now,
why are they worried about Donald Trump while people are
burning to death and the city is burning to the ground.
They're worried because Trump is saying what no one else
will say. This was avoidable. This is what you should
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be doing. This is the reason they don't want. You're
supposed to say, let's keep everyone in our prayers.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You're supposed to.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Read off the script like they did at the NFL
games this weekend. We here at the NFL feel very bad.
Our hearts are broken, and if you watched all the games,
you know they read from the same script. Our hearts
are broken for the people of Los Angeles. So please
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join us in a moment of reflection. In fact, we're
going to go to such an extreme that we're even
going to air the singing of the national anthem.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
What will the players be taking a knee this time.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
I can't believe just the one, just the white people's
national anthem, not the black one. Today.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
The only reason Donald Trump and Elon Musk and all
the rest of us for.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
That matter, are pointing out all of this is we
want to score political points. It isn't because we care
about the people who are our fellow Americans.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
No, no, no, only they care.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
The only reason we're complaining, only reason is to score
political points. And what might those points be? You mean
people might realize that not having water in your hydrants
is a problem and that people should be blamed. You mean,
people might realize that having a bunch of dei hire
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fat lesbian women that can't do anything except complain up
and down the chain of the fire department might not
be the best approach when the inevitable wildfire breaks out.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Those are the are.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
The points we're scoring, because you wouldn't be scoring points
unless what you're saying is popular, unless what you're saying
is received by an audience that says, ah, that's interesting.
Because you see, Trump has access to information and perspective
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that the average person doesn't and that the media won't
share it, and Elon is.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
A problem solver, whatever one may think of him. He
made electric vehicles mainstream.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
He created a company and a stock that was the
largest thing on the stock market. He created wealth like
you wouldn't believe. He can send people to space when
our government can't. He can bore underground in a way
that no company before that could. He's created this starling
that there's internet service when our government couldn't. You know
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how big our government is. He's kind of a problem
solving dude. But yeah, he's just trying to score political points.
Speaker 15 (30:11):
And with these fires still burning, we were facing important
questions about how to mitigate and prevent disasters like this
in the future. Fact is, leaders will need to confront
a very complicated and challenging reality moving forward.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
But right now that is.
Speaker 15 (30:26):
Not exactly what is happening. Instead, Donald Trump and his
allies are injecting half truth and misinformation and flat out
lies in some cases in order to score a version
of political points. I suppose we saw something similar play
out just this past October and the aftermath of Hurricanes
Helene and Milton, when Trump repeatedly lied about femas spending
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disaster relief funds on migrants which didn't happen, also basically
claiming that the Biden administration was absent and incompetent in
delivering aid despite what elected officials of both parties.
Speaker 8 (30:57):
On the ground said.
Speaker 15 (30:58):
Those lives were then and amplified by the richest man
in the world on the social media.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Site that he owns. So I guess some of us
should have been shocked this week.
Speaker 15 (31:07):
When Elon Musk posted that the Los Angeles Fire Department
prioritize dei over saving lives and homes. That's an exact
quote that appeared to be a disgusting dig at the
city's fire chief, Kristin Crowley, who has served in the
department for decades, rising through the ranks to become the
first female and LGBTQ chief in LA's history. Musk also
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amplified a post this week from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Yes that guy, he's still around. Alex Jones wrote that
Los Angeles fires are part of a larger globalist plot
to wage economic warfare and the industrialized the United States
before triggering total collapse.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
I mean not sure that guy's okay.
Speaker 15 (31:48):
Musk responded by to that post by writing true, Yes,
just to repeat here, that's just the richest man in
the world and the best friend of the incoming president,
confirming to his two hundred million followers that he thinks
that devastating wildfires are a part of a globalist plot.
And so now we're back in this vicious cycle where
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Trump and his new best he push lies about a
natural disaster, and then right when media runs with him, I'll.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Fade out law.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
They have no intention of putting off these fires.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
All these people were focused on pronouns shish you kenny,
you know, scrubbing white people from the fire department.
Speaker 15 (32:28):
Dei, as Elon Musk said, can actually mean dee.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
In the events like this, you sort of look home.
Is it on purpose?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I can make all kinds of horrible theories up in
my head, conspiracy theories and everything else.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
But it just seemed a little convenient that there was
no water, and.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
That the wind conditions were right, and that there are
people ready and willing and able to start fires.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And are they commissioned to do.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So or are they just acting on their own volition?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (32:58):
That's a conspiracy theorist all out on TV and nobody
questioning him.
Speaker 9 (33:02):
How about that conspiracy theorist lady who ran up to
Governor Newsom and he claimed he was on the phone
when he wasn't because her house burned down and she
was furious.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Is she a conspiracy theorist too?
Speaker 13 (33:13):
Jen
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
You Michael Verie show.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Is on the air readings and welcome. Great to have
you hearing. It's Rush limp body.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I mean hi, this is Amy from Ohio and I
want to give a shout out to my adoptive dad,
Rush Limbaugh. He taught me more about my civic duty
than anyone ever could, and for that I'm grateful.
Speaker 4 (00:40):
Conservatives about opposed to regulation, but regulation has to be
based on the fact that the individual is best left
alone to take care of himself in the pursuit of
daily aspects of life, education, job, or whatever. We don't
make the assumption we look at some people because of
their race, sex, cret to what.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We don't say that.
Speaker 4 (00:56):
Person can't do it, that person needs us, that person
needs a government program, that person needs somebody helping them,
because that's not really what those people are after. They're
after power and control over those people's lives, making them
as dependent as possible. The reason why this matters to
me is I want a greater country. A country is
made up in great people pursuing excellence, doing the best
they can. It is the people who makes the country work,
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not government programs.
Speaker 5 (01:18):
Hey, Michael, this is Rusty from San Antonio.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Out here.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
I'm a trucker with my German shepherd river Man.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
I really love that guy and miss him, miss him steel,
and I'm glad that you get it, and I'm glad
that you honor him. I wish we could build a
statue or some kind of mindment to him.
Speaker 7 (01:35):
Ex cept accept the exception to the rule is what
American exceptionalism is.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
And because of this liberty and freedom.
Speaker 7 (01:48):
That our country exists, because the founders recognized it comes
from God.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
It's part of the natural yearning of the human spirit.
It is not granted by a government.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
It's not granted by Pulltin, it's not granted by Obama
or any other human being.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
We are created with the natural yearning to be free,
and it is other men and leaders throughout.
Speaker 7 (02:09):
Human history who have suppressed that and imprisoned people for
seeking it. The US is the first time in the
history of the world where a government was organized with
a constitution laying out the rules that the individual was
supreme and dominant, and that is what led to the
US becoming the greatest country ever because it unleashed people
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to be the best they could be.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Unlike it had ever happened.
Speaker 7 (02:34):
That's American exceptionalism.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
Hey Michael, it's Michael in sayin Texas. I remember listening
to that final Christmas Eve of Russias, and I remember
the tears of faded now and I vacant this be
the last time I ever get the year degree Russians.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Has anybody ever heard of Barack Hussein?
Speaker 6 (02:58):
Do you remember Russia?
Speaker 8 (03:00):
He used to call it.
Speaker 7 (03:02):
It's say, ladies and gentlemen, today we'll be talking about Barack,
who say Obama?
Speaker 8 (03:08):
That was Rush.
Speaker 6 (03:09):
We miss Rush, we miss Rush.
Speaker 9 (03:13):
We got the Presidential Medal of Freedom that beautiful night.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
Do you remember that blooms Rush Rush? We need you
Rush folks, thank you so much.
Speaker 7 (03:23):
I wish there were a way to say it other
than thank you.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
You're just the best. My family is just the best.
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 9 (03:36):
Yesterday was Rush Hudson Limbaugh the Third's seventy fourth birthday,
And even though we lost Rush. February seventeenth, twenty twenty one.
I think an email I received from a listener named
Mark George after our morning show earlier today sums it up.
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Thank you for honoring the best friend I ever had
that I never met in my Greek Orthodox faith, we
recognize those not with us any longer with the phrase
may their memory be eternal, May their memory be eternal?
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Like that, I like that.
Speaker 9 (04:25):
There would be no Am dial populated with powerful talk
radio in this country, but for Rush Limbaugh rest in peace.
Well here's a SoundBite that didn't age very well. This
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is Bill Gates saying that the government may not be
very good at handling epidemics, something that he has profited off,
mightily evil, evil man that he is. But at least
they're good at hand mindeling forest fires.
Speaker 10 (05:02):
Nobody I would say it's an aid on this flom. Sadly,
epidemics come along so rarely that it's easy to be incompetent.
You know, earthquakes, fires, they come more off of forms
and so governments, you know, they're pretty good on fires.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Are you putting farts in there or did Well? I
don't mind, but I really want to hear people.
Speaker 9 (05:30):
I really want people to hear Bill Gates saying the
government's not good at handling epidemics, but they are good
at handling fires. Fox Business is reporting that Gavin Newsom
cut one hundred million dollars in fire prevention spending while
at the same time allocating three billion dollars to give
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free healthcare to illegals. You see, folks, it's called opportunity cost.
Speaker 8 (06:00):
For all the.
Speaker 9 (06:01):
People who say, well, we should do this, it would
be nice, we should do this and this and this
for the illegals.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
When you do that, there is an opportunity cost.
Speaker 9 (06:12):
There are things that won't be done, that can't be
seen at that moment, but they will come do the
veteran who doesn't get proper health care, the road that
doesn't get built or paved, the bridge that collapses and
needed repair. Oh, but you gave to the illegal Alien
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health Care fund, didn't you.
Speaker 11 (06:36):
Well, the thing is for sanctuary cities and states. They
complain about the costs, so they continue to add services.
Speaker 8 (06:41):
They want to show you California.
Speaker 11 (06:42):
As of yesterday, California has added a healthcare.
Speaker 8 (06:45):
Benefit for migrants.
Speaker 11 (06:46):
They are now going to extend free healthcare to migrants
between the ages.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Of twenty six and forty nine.
Speaker 11 (06:51):
That's going to cover seven hundred thousand additional people and
costs to seat two point six billion dollars each year.
Now that's added onto New York excuse me, that's added
on to California's deficit. We're thirty sixty eight billion dollars.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Personnel and policies matter.
Speaker 9 (07:09):
It's a luxury that rich white liberals have to be
able to say, we're going to elect a mayor who's
going to travel the world, redistribute the wealth, do awful things,
and put awful people in office. Because we're so rich,
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we don't need good city government. We don't need police
and fire and roads and water.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Until you do. And isn't it interesting?
Speaker 9 (07:46):
Even the rich residents of Pacific Palisades of Brentwood, even
the rich residence in some of the richest communities in
California in the Los Angeles area, finally needed city services. See,
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they could make up for lack of security with their
own private security.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
Right, they can have their own.
Speaker 9 (08:13):
Private everything until the city's on fire and the terrible
city government can't handle it.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
Guitars, cigars, and a few thoughts from Bizar.
Speaker 9 (08:29):
I'm going to read to you an article that was
written an editorial about how you end up with mayors
like Kevin like Kevin Bass. Kevin Bass played center field
for the Houston Astros. It's a great baseball player for
the Houston Astros. Baseball squad of years ago. Karen Bass,
not Kevin Bass. Kevin Bass was great, Karen Bass. What
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he'd probably be a good mayor. He'd probably be a
good mayor. Come to think of it, he probably would.
How you end up with a Karen Bass as a mayor?
And it's about how David Axelrod used ad industry, advertising
industry tricks to convince rich white liberals to vote for
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black mayors across the country and to vote for Barack Obama.
And the thesis if you can't hang around to hear that,
was that you so, why do rich white liberals in
places like Los Angeles and for that matter, of Chicago,
New York, you name it, why do they vote for
a black mayor seemingly only because that person is black
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when that person's agenda is the destruction of the city. Well,
it became the case that he was able to convince
people it's not about voting for that person based on
what they can do, or have done or will do
as mayor. It's about how how good you look as
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a person you individually for voting for that person for mayor.
Rather than in say Los Angeles, Rick Caruso, who could
have been a good mayor. So by voting for Karen
bass I voted for the black woman. I'm a good person.
And part and parcel of that is saying and you're
a bad person if you didn't vote the way I did.
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It did there's a lot of the why people. Same
group of people were very vocal about having received the
clot shot. Oh look at this, I got the clot shot.
Did you get it? Because if you didn't, look at me?
Virtue signal. Rich white liberals love the virtue signal, and
rich white liberals love a Gavin Newsom. In Texas, we
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got another Gavin Newsom. His name is Beto o'rour. We've
seen this type before. California's governor, Gavin Newsom was asked
if the city would be ready to host the big
sporting events scheduled in Los Angeles. They are going to
be hosting the World Cup. That's a big internet, I
mean it is. It is the biggest thing in the
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world for soccer. They've got a Super Bowl coming up,
they got the Olympics coming up. Youavin Newsom said that
they will have a Marshall Plan to rebuild the city.
Of course, you remember the Marshall Plan. Was the rebuilding
of Europe after World War Two, So we're going to
have a Marshall plan to rebuild the city. And then
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he's asked, Okay, what does that plan look like? And
he has this tones says, well, I don't know yet.
We haven't even started to think about it. Well, then
why did you say you were going to have one over?
Speaker 12 (11:41):
Of course, the next several years, Los Angeles will be
host to the World Cup and then the Super Bowl
and then the Olympics. With this rebuilding effort needing to
take place, is l A going to be ready for
all of those global events?
Speaker 5 (11:54):
My humble position, and it's it's it's it's not just
being naively optimistic. That only reinforces the imperative moving quickly
doing in this spirit of collaboration, cooperation. President of the
United States Donald Trump, to his credit, was helpful in
getting the Olympics to the United States of America to
get it down here in LA and we thank him
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for that.
Speaker 8 (12:16):
This is an opportunity for him.
Speaker 13 (12:18):
To shine, for this country, to shine, for California and
this community to shine. The opportunity with all of that
and all that opportunity and that pride and spirit, that
comes from not just hosting those three iconic games and venues,
but also the opportunity, I think, to rebuild at the
same time. And that's why we're already organizing a Marshall plan.
We already have a team of looking and reimagining LA
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two point zero, and we're making sure everyone's included, not
just the folks on the coast, people here that were
ravaged by this disaster.
Speaker 12 (12:47):
You just said you're organizing a Marshall plan for the
rebuilding of California.
Speaker 8 (12:51):
What is that marshall for this marriages.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
Starting to lay out.
Speaker 5 (12:54):
I mean, we're still fighting these fires. So we're already
talking to city leaders. We're already talking to civic leader,
We're already talking to business leaders and nonprofits, we're talking
to labor leaders.
Speaker 8 (13:05):
We're starting to.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Organize how we can put together a collection of individuals
on philanthropy for recovery, how we can organize the region,
how we can make sure that we are seeking federal
assistance for the Olympics more broadly, but also federal assistance
for the recovery efforts, and how we can galvanize the
community with folks that love this community to really develop
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a mindset so that at scale, we're dealing with the
scope of this tragedy and responding to it at scale
with efficiency. Like the executive order, I talked about time
value of delivering projects, addressing building codes, addressing permitting issues,
and moving forward to rebuilding and being more resilient.
Speaker 9 (13:48):
You hear that, We're gonna have a lot of meetings
with all of the stakeholders. We're going to move forward,
never backward. We're going to lean into it. We're going
to be inclusive, We're going to be collaborative. You know,
over the years, I had a number of friends who
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created businesses, whether it be in technology, biomedical, or for
that matter, manufacturing a lot in the oil and gas industry,
the oilfield services equipment. And what's interesting is they will
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be bought out by a big company. Buddy of mine
had had a computer technology company, and I think it
was Sprint back then twenty five years ago. Sprint wanted
to enter into that space, but they couldn't create the
technology that his little company had, so they just paid
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him a couple hundred million dollars to buy his company,
and he would have to come to one meeting per week.
Let's say he said he would go to the meeting
and nothing would get done. It was just meeting after
meeting after meeting, and it was collaboration and stakeholders and
nobody could make a decision. Everything was wrong with it,
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and they ended up folding that company that they'd paid
him a couple hundred million dollars for. Of course he
got all his money, but he made the point that
big companies can't be lean, they can't make decisions, they
can't be innovative, and government is that times ten. You
ever wonder, I mean, the best way to get rich
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in this country is to start a company that sells
out to an Apple or a Google or you know,
Microsoft or one of these big companies. And the reason
is because big companies don't innovate. Big companies aren't accountable.
Big companies are populated by people, and government is even
more so. That's what we're seeing here that talk in circles.
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It's all about cya. It's all about having meetings, going
to meetings, talking about the meetings, reports on the meetings,
creating reports that are never read. And this is why
nothing gets done, and this is how you end up
as a failure as a city, as the city of
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Los Angeles with terms like collaboration and stakeholders in equity
and inclusion.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
The czar of talk radio The Michael Verie Show. While
fires in Los Angeles.
Speaker 14 (16:29):
Didn't creep up on them.
Speaker 9 (16:32):
This has been a problem for a very long time.
It's a problem that has occupied the time of people
who've been paid a lot of money over the years
to sit in a lot of meetings and create reports.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And then outside.
Speaker 9 (16:49):
Engineers and planners and fire experts created reports, and water
experts and infrastructure experts created reports, and money was raised,
and taxes were raised, and money was diverted and supposedly spent.
This didn't sneak up on Los Angeles. They were supposed
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to be prepared.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
But they weren't. We'll get into why they weren't.
Speaker 9 (17:19):
Here is their governor saying that the state reservoirs are
full and don't believe this information. This is classic Democrats.
There's no accountability, there's no leadership. Everything is designed to
control the narrative. This is how for the last four
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years they've told us that Joe Biden as sharp as attack.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
Joe Biden boy, world leaders respect him.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
Man.
Speaker 9 (17:51):
I've been in meetings with Joe Biden I was in
a meeting with him this week, and man, he's got
it together. He is respected and admired. Boy, he's quick.
Those are cheap fakes. They show you him stumbling, bumbling,
falling down. That's all a cheap fake. None of that
is real. This guy is on top of it. Oh
you think there's inflation. Oh no, no, no, there's no inflation.
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That's just that's right wing conspiracy theories. That's disinformation. None
of that is true. Listen to this.
Speaker 5 (18:24):
I called for him to come out take a look
for himself. We want to do in the spirit of
an open hand, not a close fist. He's the president elect.
I respect the office. We have a president of the
United States that within thirty six hours provided a major
disaster declaration over a text. We had support from the
President of the United States, Joe Biden, with one hundred
percent reimbursement, all the resources.
Speaker 8 (18:44):
That you could hope for.
Speaker 5 (18:45):
Imagine constant communication. I'd like to extend that to the
President elect. I don't know what he's referring to when
he talks about the Delta smelt and reservoirs. The reservoirs
are completely full of the state reservoirs here in southern California.
Speaker 8 (18:59):
That missing disinformation.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
I don't think advantages or aids any of us responding
to Donald Trump's insults, We would spend another month.
Speaker 8 (19:08):
I'm very familiar with them.
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Every elected official that he disagrees with, very familiar with them.
Speaker 12 (19:12):
We do know, though, from reporting here locally, that that
one reservoir that serves the Palace aids was not full.
Speaker 5 (19:17):
And that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the
investigation to understand what was happening with that local reservoir
that was not a state system reservoir which the President
elect was referring to as it relates to the Delta,
and somehow connecting the delta smelt to this fire, which
is inexcusable because it's inaccurate, also incomprehensible to anyone that
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understands water policy in the state.
Speaker 9 (19:41):
Yes see, that's always the thrust. Donald Trump is not nice.
You must be nice well. And by the way, anybody
who points out the failures of the City of Los
Angeles in the government of California and the United States
government under Biden, that's disinformation. You just call it disinformation.
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I mean Jimmy Carter said that Donald Trump was elected
because of Russian disinformation. This is their talking point. Don't
believe your eyes, believe what I'm telling you. Gavin Newsom,
the governor of California, was on a call with Joe
Biden and Kamala Harris when he lamented that people were
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literally burning to death in California and it was it
was so painful. I'm sorry, No, he didn't. He lamented
the disinformation that he has to deal with.
Speaker 5 (20:38):
Well, I asked you, We've got to deal with this misinformation.
There were hurricane force who wins miss and disinformation lies.
People want to divide this country and we're gonna have
to address that as well. And it breaks my heart
as people are suffering and struggling, that we're up against
those hurricane force forces.
Speaker 2 (20:59):
Is up And that's just a point of personal privilege
that I share that with you, because it.
Speaker 5 (21:04):
Infects real people that are out there, people I meet
every single day, people the mayor has been meeting with,
and they're having conversations that are not the typical conversations
you'd have at this time, and you wonder where this
stuff comes from.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
And it's very damaging as well. But we're here to
get the job done. Uh, to be here for folks.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Yep, Russell, we're here. We're gonna roll up our sleeves.
Speaker 9 (21:29):
That's always doing. We're gonna roll up our sleeves and
get to work. And Donald Trump is not helping. A
boy sitting out there and pointing out what we're doing
wrong with his disinformation, he's not helping.
Speaker 1 (21:40):
He needs to get in here and roll his leaves
up like I'm doing.
Speaker 9 (21:45):
Gavin Newsom said he would like Donald Trump to approach
the wildfires with the same spirit as Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
See Biden.
Speaker 9 (21:52):
Donald Trump is not a nice man. How many times
have I told you the nice neighbor is killing America.
The idea that you can't point out that Karen Bass
absolutely blew it.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Because she's a black woman.
Speaker 9 (22:11):
The idea that you shouldn't talk about what's going wrong
in California because the fires are happening. The idea that
you can't point out that Jimmy Carter was the ultimate
election denier, calling Donald Trump an illegitimate president.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Because he just died. We have to be nice, That's
just it.
Speaker 9 (22:32):
See, they've scared too many people into believing that we
have to be nice because they're so nice supposedly, but
they're not.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
They're evil.
Speaker 9 (22:45):
Don't question whether they stuffed the ballots even as you
watch them stuff the ballots.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Be nice.
Speaker 9 (22:52):
Don't question doctor Fauci, he's the expert.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Be nice.
Speaker 9 (22:58):
Listen to Gavin Newsom saying Donald Trump should approach the
wildfires with the same.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Spirit in which the Great Joe Biden does.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Do the right thing. This is an emergency.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
We can do all this nance and we have differences
of opinion as it relays to all kinds of issues
and values, and you know, and that's the fair game,
and that's important.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
That dialectic is important.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
But having this kind of friction when it comes to
an emergency response with emergency responders, these heroes twelve thousand
that are on the front lines right now taking care
of people, making sure people are still alive. We're still
doing mercy and maintenance, evacuation. We're still concerned about flare
ups and spotting. You got kids right now, they don't
have money for baby formula, and we're trying to get
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them disaster assistance. You have folks in hotel rooms that
have money only for tonight and don't know what's going
to happen having even a chance to see their homes
here it's standing, or it's here and it's not standing.
You want to get them emergency assistants over the course
the next eighteen months. That's why I was with the
FEMA director today. That's what the President United States and
I are talking about. And I'd like to have that
conversation with the next president the United States. So let's
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turn the page as relates to the incoming president. We'd
like him to have the spirit of the current president
and have the backs of people so we can recover.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
I want them to visit and understand.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
The magnitude of the scope of what happened to the
American people that happened to reside here in California. I'm
not interested in politicizing event like this. I don't like
the menality of it. I don't like the inhumanity of that.
I would like people to focus on a collaboration between
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the executive in Washington, d C. And in the state
of California to help rebuild a community that's been completely ravaged.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Ramone, a King of Ding, and.
Speaker 9 (24:43):
This other guy, Michael Barry, you know, Goebels was the man.
Speaker 14 (24:50):
For Hitler, who manage the propaganda in the Nazi regime,
did something that the world hadn't seen in the modern era,
and that was the use of this new thing called film,
the moving camera to tell stories.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
And so.
Speaker 9 (25:14):
They were constantly telling stories to their people that reinforced
the agenda that they were speaking about in public and
teaching in the schools and speaking about in political gatherings.
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That propaganda, shameless as it was, was very effective. And
goebels knew that as long as he could control the narrative,
it didn't matter what was actually happening in Germany. As
long as he convinced people that what was happening was
what he claimed. If he could get people to believe it,
(25:58):
the truth didn't really mean matter. That's why you see
the revolving door of the George Stephanopoulos's going from being
Bill Clinton's henchman to being a major anchor on a
major network. That's why when Trump sued him and won,
(26:21):
it was devastating because if they're not allowed to lie
on behalf of Donald Trump, that takes an arrow out
of their quiver. Well, Jim Psaki is another one of those.
She is a hired hitman for the Obama mindset. That's
(26:42):
how she goes from being the person who lied to
the press every day behind the lectern I guess technically
was a podium because it was elevated on behalf of
the evil Democrat president. She went so far on her
show as to say that Donald Trump and Elon Musk
(27:03):
are lying about the Los Angeles fires to score political points. Now,
why are they worried about Donald Trump while people are
burning to death and the city is burning to the ground.
They're worried because Trump is saying what no one else
will say. This was avoidable. This is what you should
(27:25):
be doing. This is the reason they don't want. You're
supposed to say, let's keep everyone in our prayers.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
You're supposed to.
Speaker 9 (27:32):
Read off the script like they did at the NFL
games this weekend. We here at the NFL feel very bad.
Our hearts are broken, and if you watched all the games,
you know they read from the same script. Our hearts
are broken for the people of Los Angeles. So please
(27:53):
join us in a moment of reflection. In fact, we're
going to go to such an extreme that we're even
going to air the singing of the national anthem.
Speaker 1 (28:02):
What will the players be taking a knee this time.
Speaker 9 (28:07):
I can't believe just the one, just the white people's
national anthem, not the black one. Today.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
The only reason Donald Trump and Elon Musk and all
the rest of us for.
Speaker 9 (28:18):
That matter, are pointing out all of this is we
want to score political points. It isn't because we care
about the people who are our fellow Americans.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
No, no, no, only they care.
Speaker 9 (28:31):
The only reason we're complaining, only reason is to score
political points. And what might those points be? You mean
people might realize that not having water in your hydrants
is a problem and that people should be blamed. You mean,
people might realize that having a bunch of dei hire
(28:52):
fat lesbian women that can't do anything except complain up
and down the chain of the fire department might not
be the best approach when the inevitable wildfire breaks out.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Those are the are.
Speaker 9 (29:04):
The points we're scoring, because you wouldn't be scoring points
unless what you're saying is popular, unless what you're saying
is received by an audience that says, ah, that's interesting.
Because you see, Trump has access to information and perspective
(29:29):
that the average person doesn't and that the media won't
share it, and Elon is.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
A problem solver, whatever one may think of him. He
made electric vehicles mainstream.
Speaker 9 (29:41):
He created a company and a stock that was the
largest thing on the stock market. He created wealth like
you wouldn't believe. He can send people to space when
our government can't. He can bore underground in a way
that no company before that could. He's created this starling
that there's internet service when our government couldn't. You know
(30:02):
how big our government is. He's kind of a problem
solving dude. But yeah, he's just trying to score political points.
Speaker 15 (30:11):
And with these fires still burning, we were facing important
questions about how to mitigate and prevent disasters like this
in the future. Fact is, leaders will need to confront
a very complicated and challenging reality moving forward.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
But right now that is.
Speaker 15 (30:26):
Not exactly what is happening. Instead, Donald Trump and his
allies are injecting half truth and misinformation and flat out
lies in some cases in order to score a version
of political points. I suppose we saw something similar play
out just this past October and the aftermath of Hurricanes
Helene and Milton, when Trump repeatedly lied about femas spending
(30:46):
disaster relief funds on migrants which didn't happen, also basically
claiming that the Biden administration was absent and incompetent in
delivering aid despite what elected officials of both parties.
Speaker 8 (30:57):
On the ground said.
Speaker 15 (30:58):
Those lives were then and amplified by the richest man
in the world on the social media.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Site that he owns. So I guess some of us
should have been shocked this week.
Speaker 15 (31:07):
When Elon Musk posted that the Los Angeles Fire Department
prioritize dei over saving lives and homes. That's an exact
quote that appeared to be a disgusting dig at the
city's fire chief, Kristin Crowley, who has served in the
department for decades, rising through the ranks to become the
first female and LGBTQ chief in LA's history. Musk also
(31:28):
amplified a post this week from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
Yes that guy, he's still around. Alex Jones wrote that
Los Angeles fires are part of a larger globalist plot
to wage economic warfare and the industrialized the United States
before triggering total collapse.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
I mean not sure that guy's okay.
Speaker 15 (31:48):
Musk responded by to that post by writing true, Yes,
just to repeat here, that's just the richest man in
the world and the best friend of the incoming president,
confirming to his two hundred million followers that he thinks
that devastating wildfires are a part of a globalist plot.
And so now we're back in this vicious cycle where
(32:09):
Trump and his new best he push lies about a
natural disaster, and then right when media runs with him, I'll.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
Fade out law.
Speaker 7 (32:16):
They have no intention of putting off these fires.
Speaker 5 (32:19):
All these people were focused on pronouns shish you kenny,
you know, scrubbing white people from the fire department.
Speaker 15 (32:28):
Dei, as Elon Musk said, can actually mean dee.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
In the events like this, you sort of look home.
Is it on purpose?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I can make all kinds of horrible theories up in
my head, conspiracy theories and everything else.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
But it just seemed a little convenient that there was
no water, and.
Speaker 5 (32:47):
That the wind conditions were right, and that there are
people ready and willing and able to start fires.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
And are they commissioned to do.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
So or are they just acting on their own volition?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 15 (32:58):
That's a conspiracy theorist all out on TV and nobody
questioning him.
Speaker 9 (33:02):
How about that conspiracy theorist lady who ran up to
Governor Newsom and he claimed he was on the phone
when he wasn't because her house burned down and she
was furious.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
Is she a conspiracy theorist too?
Speaker 13 (33:13):
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