The California Wildfires and the Scum That Allowed Them to Happen
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The House votes on the Lakin-Riley Act, a bill named after a nursing student who was murdered last year while she was out on a run on the University of Georgia campus, and a judge orders Donald Trump to appear for sentencing on January 10th. Meanwhile, the fires continue to rage in California, and the city of Los Angeles swore in a new fire chief.
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This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare.
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A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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Judge Juan Mershon just ordered Donald Trump to appear for sentencing on January 10th.
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The House expected to vote today on the Lakin-Riley Act.
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This bill is named after Lakin, a nursing student who was murdered last year while she was out on a run on the University of Georgia's campus.
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Jose Ibarra, who was in the country illegally at the time, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of a parole.
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Can you assure the world that, as you try to get control of these areas, you are not going to use military or economic coercion?
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And can you tell us a little bit about what your plan is?
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Are you going to ask the Canadians to hold a vote?
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Yeah, I can't assure you, you're talking about Panama and Greenland.
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At face value, some of this stuff is very troubling and dangerous.
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You know, suggesting that he would use military force to reclaim the Panama Canal, which, as we have been talking about for a week or more,
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President Carter signed a treaty to give back to Panama.
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Or Greenland, meanwhile, Greenland, part of Denmark, a NATO ally.
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You know, that would be an extraordinary step, were he to actually take any sort of moves there.
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The city of Los Angeles swore in a new fire chief.
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And for the first time in history of the department, she is a woman.
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She took time out of her already busy schedule to tell us about her vision for the department's future,
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one that includes a three-year strategic plan to increase diversity.
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You could revert water up into the hills where you have all the dead forests.
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It's not the firefighters' fault, but it's by the city.
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So if you look at your pictures, you don't see the firefighters there because there's nothing they can do.
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So we get water handers or the water system restored.
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For today's edition of Human Events Daily, today is January 8th, 2025, Anno Domini.
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When we look at these California wildfires and the abject horror that people are living through,
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you know, I've spoken to some people from California just within the last 12 hours, even earlier today.
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And they want you to believe that all of this comes from climate change.
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And yet it always seems to keep happening in the same areas in the last couple of years.
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And so that's gotten a lot of people asking questions.
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They say, you know, could it have been that eco-terrorists were involved here, as we've seen, by the way, in the past?
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Could it be that there are just homeless people doing this?
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Because there are these massive homeless camps all over Southern California.
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And what do you think happens when somebody, I don't know, sparks a bowl a little bit the wrong way?
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And the fact they've had a drought situation for so long has led it to be completely arid out there.
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And then you've got the billions of dollars spent by the state government, by Gavin Newsom, to run these ridiculous projects, which basically goes into the pockets.
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I want folks to understand that one of the things that we don't – I don't know if we say this as much as we should.
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You know how we talk about Ukraine is this huge corrupt system and they have oligarchs and they're taking all the wealth of the people?
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Understand, the United States is one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
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And it has been one of the most corrupt countries in the world.
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How does Florida spend – or excuse me, how does California spend $11 billion on a train to nowhere that never gets built, this high-speed rail, and yet the money all goes out into the system?
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It certainly didn't go to firefighter equipment or fire equipment because – and as we see here in the National Post, it has a story up – that it turns out that the firefighter excess equipment that California had was shipped to Ukraine.
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We've got Senator Mike Lee on a little bit here and he's going to talk to us about all this and more.
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But at the end of the day, this is what America First is all about, ladies and gentlemen.
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President Trump is out there talking about this.
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He's been talking about it, by the way, for years and we've got all the tweets up about it.
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And yes, I understand these are liberal areas and people want to talk – okay, I get it.
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These are influencers and they're friends of mine.
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Folks, are the globalists gearing up for a pandemic scare after failing at the ballot box in November?
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Well, just days before President Trump's inauguration, Governor Gavin Newsom has declared a bird flu state of emergency, granting himself sweeping powers reminiscent to COVID-19 policies.
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I wish that he were able to use any of that for the wildfires, but he doesn't seem interested.
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This comes after a severe case of H5N1 bird flu was reported in Louisiana.
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Critics warn that pandemic fears may be weaponized to challenge President Trump's mandate, including the nomination of RFK to lead HHS.
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All right, as we watch these Florida, or I keep saying Florida, I don't know why I keep wanting to do that.
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It's in my head for some reason I want to keep saying Florida.
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These California wildfires, and we're dealing with that.
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We're going to have someone on who is affected by that here in a couple of minutes later in the show.
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But first, we have Senator Mike Lee joining us from the great state of Utah.
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And, Senator, you and I have talked many times about the need for the American people to,
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or the American government, to put the American people first.
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And I can't think of a greater example of that than when I'm reading this National Pulse headline that says
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that California was taking excess firefighting equipment,
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which could be used potentially to help with these horrendous fires that are going on right now,
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and they were sending them to Ukraine along with these massive spending packages.
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Meanwhile, they don't have basic resources for this, et cetera, et cetera.
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It seems completely ridiculous to me, but that really is the state of our government now, isn't it?
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Government is there to serve the people, not the other way around.
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It's certainly not there to serve somebody else half a world away when the government at issue
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can't even do its own job and protect its own people.
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So I hope everybody watching and listening will join me and so many others in praying for these poor families
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in Southern California and the communities around Los Angeles that destruction is truly difficult to watch.
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One of the things that's most painful about it is that California's own leadership hasn't prepared for fires like this,
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which is stunning, in addition to sending fire equipment to Ukraine, for example.
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They've done other things that have left them vulnerable.
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Now, these fires, like this one, these are things that happen every few years.
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This isn't news to them that wildfires happen in Southern California.
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And then the fact that the so-called delta smelt, this tiny fish, I'm sure it's lovely, but it is a tiny fish.
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The delta smelt is standing in the way of getting really desperately needed water to a number of parts of California.
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And the fact that California's own leadership is steadfast in protecting the delta smelt above everything else
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shows just how ridiculous their priorities are.
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Look, there are three major facilities on the Sacramento River.
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All of them can hold back a combined 9 million acre feet of water, and that's a lot of water.
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But, you know, it's not enough to hold the excess water in wet years when it instead drains into the ocean.
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We've got to make sure that the radical environmentalists aren't sabotaging vital infrastructure,
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like what I've just described, and water sources that human beings need to live and thrive.
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Sure, it's a nice goal to worry about the delta smelt, but don't do it at the expense of actual human beings.
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And I think it really is as simple as that, because when we're talking about putting American first,
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we're always talking about putting the American people first.
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And, yes, that does mean there are going to be those times where you've got to balance.
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Of course, we all want – that's something that – and I've spoken to Nicole Shanahan and others from the Maha movement.
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We would love to have cleaner food and cleaner air and – believe me, there's a lot of people on the right who talk about having cleaner water as well
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But the idea that the Maha movement is not in alignment with MAGA or America First – no, it's actually quite different.
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It just means that we're going to be putting people first and having that balance between what's best for people
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and also keeping lives, keeping enough people – again, making sure that we have the power that we need,
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making sure that we have the energy that we need, but also making sure in cases like this that states like California
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and like Utah, by the way, have the water that they need.
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Don't put other species against us, whether it's the delta smelt or otherwise.
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Senator, I had to ask you before we realized that this was going to be going on so much in California
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that really the big thing that was on everyone's mind lately has been this question of expansionism, America First.
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Now, we're talking about our contiguous borders, but at the same time,
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when we're looking at the interests of the American people, there's these huge questions about the Panama Canal,
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questions about Canada becoming a state, and then even Greenland with Donald Trump Jr.
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I've got to ask you, Senator, what is your take on all of this?
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Well, first of all, it's kind of amusing in a schadenfreude sort of way to watch liberals
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who are absolutely losing their minds over Trump flirting with the idea of buying Greenland
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or annexing Canada or taking back the Panama Canal.
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First of all, whether or not the United States goes through with any of this,
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the idea of territorial expansion in our country is not new.
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It's as old as the country itself, from the Louisiana Purchase to buying Alaska from Russia.
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The purchase of Alaska was referred to as Seward's Folly at the time it happened.
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And this was from people who were mocking then-Secretary of State William Seward.
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And, of course, Alaska would go on to become one of America's greatest assets for all kinds of things.
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For geopolitical strength, natural resources, oil and gas, say nothing of its stunning natural beauty
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and the fact that it's a beautiful place where a lot of Americans now live and others visit.
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But, you know, people forget that Seward also thought that purchasing Greenland
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was an idea worthy of serious consideration, as he put it.
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He even commissioned something that he called a report on the resources of Iceland and Greenland
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for that very purpose, although we never made an offer.
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When it comes to Canada, I wonder if we should consider,
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It might be like our own little frozen Texas of the north.
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But quite frankly, one way or another, I think this is mostly just about President Trump trolling
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Justin Trudeau for his terrible, embarrassing mismanagement of the country from the most
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insane COVID lockdowns, as if they could get any more insane than what we saw in parts of
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this country, to flooding the country with foreigners, just like Joe Biden has done in
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the United States, to apologizing for Canada's success and rich history, to allowing an evil
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Look, you know, Canadians, they stormed Normandy Beach with us in World War II.
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They're our cousins in freedom, in the English tradition, in English language, even if our
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paths separated during the Revolutionary War and later in the War of 1812.
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And they deserve a lot better than disgraceful censorship and authoritarian laws and pretty
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boy socialism that Justin Trudeau has provided.
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And I hope they choose strong conservative patriots to lead them after his departure, when it goes
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You know, it'll be interesting to see where he ends up going.
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Actually, we have I have some colleagues up in Canada who say that they think that he might
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not actually be fleeing, that he's going to attempt to stay in Parliament and then use that
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as a way to launch another bid for the prime ministership, which is apparently and I'm not
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But again, a few of my colleagues are apparently his father pulled a similar move during one
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of the times when he had a break in the prime ministership.
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So he could be could be using the same strategy that his dear old dad did at one point when he
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But look, when it really comes down to it, I agree with you.
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I mean, yeah, there's there's obviously lots of talk about the U.S.-Canada relationship,
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and I certainly think that natural resources need to be at the forefront of that.
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Clearly, we have to have a close trade relationship with our our Canadian cousins.
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And at the same token, a military relationship makes sense as well.
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But then as you look further north, where do we get to?
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That's where the shared mutual interests, which, by the way, are in the interests of
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the Canadian people and in the interests of the American people.
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And we went through I kind of went down the entire rabbit hole yesterday.
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I went full full Navy officer on everybody on explaining the sea routes and the Bering
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Strait and how all of these different things are going to be opening up in the next couple
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of years and why this is so important to compete with China and Russia, who, by the way,
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are already sending ice cutter fleets up there to do the same.
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If the United States wants to wants to get in on the game, we should do so and we should
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We've got another segment with Senator Mike Lee.
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I'm always listening to human events with Jack Posobiec.
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We are on with Senator Mike Lee of the great state of Utah and Senator, I we've been talking
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about this, this Manifest Destiny 2.0 Monroe Doctrine 2.0.
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We're not entirely sure what what what the relationship with Canada will be.
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I think I think Greenland makes a lot of sense.
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This is something that President Trump, I would say, really kicked off this whole new round
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The fact that the Panama Canal has, number one, been essentially taken over, at least
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And then number two also serves as a conduit for all of the illegals coming up from South
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I don't know if people understand how they're how the the maps work there.
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But yes, all the illegals coming from South America do cross the Panama Canal.
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It is a strategic choke point, not only from a maritime perspective, but also from a physical
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And if the Panamanians wanted to shut down those bridges, they could in a second.
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Senator Lee, should we take back the Panama Canal?
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Look, among the territorial acquisitions that President Trump has talked about making, reasserting
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our control over over the Panama Canal may well be the most realistic and quite possibly
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the most important of the proposals that he's discussed.
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Look, the Panama Canal was built by the United States of America.
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We lost tens of thousands of of American lives, mostly to malaria from people who built it.
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And then the late Jimmy Carter, God rest his soul and may peace be with his family this
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Now, for years, China's investments in infrastructure projects in the Western Hemisphere and elsewhere,
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but especially in the Western Hemisphere, and increasingly their access to, their incremental
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access to and control over parts of the Panama Canal, it's been steadily increasing.
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Now, from the $900 million acquisition of the Margarita, of this entity known as Margarita
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Island for the Panama Cologne Container Port, and then a $1.5 billion contract for the canal's
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fourth bridge to Chinese operations of major ports at the canal's Pacific and Atlantic outlets
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to investments in energy facilities, such as natural gas plants and water management initiatives,
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It's been deepening its foothold in Panama and strengthening its position as a strategic
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economic partner in the region, in this region, in our hemisphere.
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Now, this is where it gets interesting, though, because we have to remember our neutrality
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treaty between Panama and the United States from 1977 guarantees the Panama Canal's permanent
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neutrality and fair access to the canal for all nations as, quote, in the International
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And it prohibits foreign military presence in Panamanian territory.
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The United States reserves the right in that treaty to use military force to defend that
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Now, remember the Monroe Doctrine, named after the fifth U.S. president, James Monroe, established
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an American policy prohibiting any further meddling or additional colonialism in the Americas as
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a threat to our national interests and sovereignty.
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We recognized all the way back then what a great blessing, what a supreme advantage we
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enjoyed by having these two vast oceans separating us from other parts of the world, from other
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Now, at the time, James Monroe probably could not have foreseen that China would one day become
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arguably our biggest, most menacing global adversary.
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But it's long past time that we started enforcing the Monroe Doctrine against the Chinese Communist
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And this is one way that we consider going about that.
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I'm sure George Washington and up to Monroe weren't too worried about the Qing Empire's
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And of course, by the way, we didn't have relations with the Qing Empire when it came to infrastructure,
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because that's how a lot of the railroads were built.
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So certainly there were and always have been these these imperial relations.
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I've spoken a lot that I have this, I guess, tweet that went pretty viral where I said, you
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know, in 1776, the United States, the colonies, which became the 13 states, was surrounded by
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You had the French Empire in what is now the Midwest, all the way down, of course, to
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Louisiana, the Spanish Empire to the south and to the west.
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And then Alaska was controlled by the Russian Empire.
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So the United States of America was born surrounded by empires, born in obviously in battle with
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And so the idea that the founding fathers didn't understand these complex geopolitics is laughable
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to me because they had to understand them quite well if they ever wanted to build their own
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company or country and establish their own country without having one of those empires
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come in and decide to take over their new country, which, of course, happened in 1812.
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And by 1814, with the burning of the White House, you know, certainly certainly the situation
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But at the end of the day, Senator, when Teddy Roosevelt was the president who was most famously
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associated with the Panama Canal, began construction during his presidency, he was an absolute champion
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What is the difference between the sort of neoconservative school of thought and the Teddy Roosevelt
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Well, look, Teddy Roosevelt's idea there really was a natural outgrowth of the Monroe Doctrine.
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Obviously, the term didn't exist then, but it was different.
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It was about securing freedom of navigation and making sure that we ourselves were dominant
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And just as it was important and understood, as you pointed out, in 1776 at the time of
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our founding, that we needed to protect our hemisphere, it was also understood more than
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a century later when Teddy Roosevelt had the foresight and the vision to build the Panama
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Well, it has become infinitely more important, not less important, that we adhered to basic
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Monroe Doctrine principles today with a global integrated economy.
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You have a lot of people, leftists, and unfortunately some, even in the Republican Party, are sometimes
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apologetic about things like that, and they're wanting to not go back to the Monroe Doctrine,
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and they want to say, well, we have a global economy now, and we're much more integrated
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Look, that makes it more important, not less, to stick to our Monroe Doctrine principles.
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That makes it more important, not less, to have the Chinese Communist Party not interfering
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with, meddling with, owning parts of, or controlling access to any aspect of the Panama Canal.
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Now more than ever before, we need to not have China running that show.
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And to the extent that that treaty gives us rights, then President Trump is well within
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He's looking out for our interests and making sure that we're safe and secure.
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And this is the biggest difference, because in the school of thought that's been running
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Washington, D.C., and it's not just Republicans, or just not just Democrats, I should say,
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You hear these people again and again and again that will be so concerned with, you know, who
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is the next leader of some province of the Ukraine or Afghanistan and Iraq, and of course,
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But the question is, they're so far away from any direct impact on the American people that
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the question is, of course, as we're so worried and concerned and focused on things that are
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thousands of miles away from our shores, what, how much time are we spending on things that
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Like, oh, by the way, the Chinese taking over the Panama Canal, not just the Panama Canal,
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by the way, but putting their investments all throughout the Caribbean.
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Again, they're practically owned the island of Jamaica at this point with debt trap diplomacy,
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And I'm sitting there with just, you know, as a prior Navy officer saying, what will it
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Does the PLAN have to start building Navy bases in the Atlantic before anybody realizes this
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I mean, it's just basic, just basic great power strategy.
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And it seems like we've completely abrogated it for a long time.
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Remember, China has a base in, in Argentina, a military installation in Argentina was built
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Um, and the, the, the Chinese Communist Party has made inroads, not only in Panama, not only
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in Argentina and Brazil and Colombia, really all over Latin America.
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There's not just a looming threat that they might arrive there in the Americas.
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And, uh, it's, uh, important now more than ever that we start paying attention to our
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own hemisphere as much fun as it is for people to, uh, talk about, uh, uh, political disputes
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and wars, uh, half a world away when it comes to our hemisphere, we've got to be especially
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And of course, and this ties right back into the cartels and to everything that everyone's
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been talking about, about our border, uh, when it comes to, and this is something that
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I think that, that people misunderstand about, uh, some of the things that president Trump
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is at this, oh, he wants to pull back from the Ukraine war.
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Is he, is he, you know, is he terrified of using military?
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It's just that he wants to use it where he wants to use the military force where appropriate.
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And certainly when it comes to defending our own borders and defending our own people
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against these transnational organizations, that should be the first priority of our armed
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If we're ever going to be using them, as far as I'm concerned.
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Should be the first priority, priority number one.
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And sometimes you get the sense that our own hemisphere is dead last in priority.
00:29:08.060
Um, uh, again, we've got this blessing of having these two vast oceans, uh, the Atlantic
00:29:13.940
that separates us from Europe and the Pacific ocean that separates us from Asia.
00:29:19.840
And we've got to take full advantage of that, but we lose that advantage and it becomes almost
00:29:26.580
If we rely too much on the security that that has long provided us to the point that we neglect
00:29:31.720
our own hemisphere, we'd neglect the Americas, uh, then we've got them at our door.
00:29:37.180
It's exacerbated further when you've got the Biden administration over the last four
00:29:40.940
years, enriching international drug cartels to the tune of tens of billions of dollars.
00:29:47.840
These guys are practically printing money with human trafficking and smuggling.
00:29:55.820
Where can people go to get more from your office?
00:29:57.600
Uh, you can, you can go to lee.senate.gov, uh, uh, find out more information from my office
00:30:06.860
and, um, look forward to more conversations like this one.
00:30:35.760
We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys and these are the
00:30:43.740
We're back live human events daily, Washington, DC.
00:30:46.640
We're very, uh, very pleased that we can now bring you Peachy Keenan, who is there in Southern
00:30:53.120
California, in the area that's been directly affected by the wildfires.
00:31:02.360
So tell me, tell me what the current situation is for you and, and just what the last 24 hours
00:31:11.100
I mean, um, some people know this, but I grew up in Pacific Palisades in the Palisades village.
00:31:15.720
Um, my, all of our family, my husband and I are both from that area, the Palisades, Santa
00:31:20.940
Everyone we know over there has now been evacuated.
00:31:22.960
And my husband's two cousins just lost their homes, uh, last night, his aunt's house right
00:31:36.840
And the other half is here in the kind of Pasadena, Altadena area.
00:31:40.200
I live sort of in the border and this whole place is now on fire.
00:31:47.640
Um, my, my, my, my children's classmates, their homes are right now on fire.
00:31:56.960
This is like families who have been here for 30, 40 years and these beautiful old craftsmen.
00:32:02.240
Um, and it's just, it's actually heartbreaking.
00:32:05.300
I, I literally keep getting text messages like, oh, you know, this family's house, they're
00:32:10.580
Um, we have a friends who live just off the street from me.
00:32:20.140
Um, I'm looking, I just came home to grab some toilet paper and some of my daughter's
00:32:25.980
And I'm just looking outside and like, you know, the light is orange and, um, you can
00:32:34.000
Um, my husband took this this morning and just black smoke pouring down.
00:32:41.160
My house seems, uh, to be, you know, maybe it's okay, but you can't really, can't really
00:32:46.340
So we're not going to stay here tonight, but it's just, I mean, I can't even tell you the
00:32:50.620
devastation, like all of the Palisades where I grew up is basically burned to the ground.
00:32:54.620
Now, now I've got to ask you, and by the way, thank God you're okay.
00:33:03.200
If, if there's anything that people can do to help once things get set up, I know that
00:33:08.220
that's usually something that takes a little bit of time to get going, but I've got to
00:33:12.500
ask you as well about some of these questions that people have come up with.
00:33:15.600
I mean, these wildfires, I just spoke with someone, uh, before the show and I'll ask
00:33:20.680
I mean, did you see wildfires like this and all these years that you've been talking about
00:33:27.820
I've only lived here like seven or eight years, but I grew up on the West side.
00:33:33.220
Um, and actually my mother, um, sorry, hold on.
00:33:42.580
She just sold her house, uh, a few months ago and left for a red state.
00:33:52.960
So her timing, these boomers have great timing, right?
00:33:55.440
Um, so every few years, every five years, Malibu would burn down.
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It was periodical, but the Pacific Palisades has never burned down.
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I can't even believe that a fire that started up in the Palisades highlands, which is pretty
00:34:06.100
far up the mountains, got down to the ocean and burned all of Malibu.
00:34:10.300
I mean, these classic Palisades, Malibu restaurants, Gladstones, which the former mayor, Richard
00:34:16.640
Reardon owns, um, the real in, if you've ever been to the West side, these are just, you
00:34:21.080
know, Palisades high school, which is like this West side institution, public high school.
00:34:30.140
And so it would happen periodically, but it's, I've never seen it here in Pasadena.
00:34:33.900
I don't think this area has ever burned like this.
00:34:35.780
And especially the Palisades village that has never burned.
00:34:42.600
And so one of the questions, I think that it's on a lot of people's minds, certainly
00:34:48.160
with president Trump, he's getting into the politics of it.
00:34:51.200
He says basically squarely putting this on the shoulders of Gavin Newsom saying, look,
00:34:56.660
this is something that we've talked about again and again and again, the water management,
00:35:00.960
the fire hydrants, the, uh, the timber management, the wildfire management, all of these things
00:35:07.600
And yet you guys are putting either environmental concerns or, or other concerns, you know, ahead
00:35:21.020
They won't clear the brush apparently because of the environmental activists.
00:35:24.600
But meanwhile, these mountains, these hillsides in Santa Monica and above Altadena, they're
00:35:31.200
And a lot of times this is how the fires start where like a cooking stove goes wrong with
00:35:34.660
the wind or someone's, you know, lights their crack, drops their crack pipe.
00:35:38.100
I mean, this is often arson because these people are just up here in the, in the hills and no
00:35:43.960
But the other thing that's really shocking to me is that, you know, we were hearing about
00:35:46.760
there's no water in the fire hydrants in Pacific Palisades, even though those people
00:35:50.600
pay, you know, a hundred grand a year in property tax, but there's also no water.
00:35:54.380
Someone told me this morning that a fireman, a firefighter, a few blocks from me, they
00:36:00.040
had to break open a fire hydrant in Altadena and there was no water.
00:36:04.560
And I did see, I did witness fires, houses fully engulfed with water going on the fires,
00:36:12.320
I am not seeing like a lot of like water coming down on these, on these homes.
00:36:20.620
They, it really does feel like we're, we're abandoned.
00:36:23.040
I mean, the fire department is doing the best they can.
00:36:25.220
I see a lot of out of town, a million out of town, uh, fire trucks went by me today,
00:36:35.760
And, and, and this is what I, I don't understand.
00:36:39.440
Have you seen the national guard coming out or anything like that?
00:36:47.960
And I asked him, I'm trying to find out from my friends who live, they live, they fled
00:36:54.260
And I'm trying to find out is their house on fire.
00:36:56.300
And he said, yeah, a lot of houses up there are, are, are, are in flames, but there's not
00:37:05.220
Now, maybe there's water drops up on the hills right now.
00:37:08.380
I've not seen, I was not seeing any, but there is an enormous police presence.
00:37:27.680
He was at work, you know, selling flashlights and batteries to people.
00:37:33.280
And this is a local mom and pop and just all the mom and pop stores up and down Lake Avenue
00:37:41.560
It's just, it's honestly like, I don't even know when we'll go back to school.
00:37:53.840
Well, well this, and, and certainly please let me know when something is set up for our
00:37:59.680
audience and for my audience and me personally to be able to help.
00:38:03.940
I've been getting messages from people who are, are out there as well saying that, you
00:38:09.440
know, the, the, you know, senior fire officials out of LA and, and other areas saying that,
00:38:14.460
that Newsom and Biden are not operating at a hundred percent to contain this.
00:38:19.600
And if there's any manpower that can be brought in from neighboring States, I mean, Nevada's
00:38:25.920
Other parts of California, even, even Washington state.
00:38:31.060
Uh, you need the command and control, get the military and get the national guard.
00:38:35.880
It's ridiculous to me to think that there's American people and we have all of these resources,
00:38:42.000
And it reminds me of when the, uh, the 82nd airborne was sitting on Fort Bragg while the
00:38:47.820
hurricane was hitting in, you know, Western North Carolina.
00:38:54.060
And they like posted one video of them doing a supply drop.
00:39:01.560
I'm sorry, PG, but that's, you know, that's the way I look at this because it's like, you're,
00:39:05.520
you're losing your home and you've got Americans, their homes are burning down.
00:39:09.680
They've got like dogs and these crazy videos that are coming out.
00:39:12.380
And then I'll, I'll walk down to Washington DC and hear another a hundred billion is going
00:39:20.520
Uh, and our, and the LA mayor, uh, Karen Bass was on some like, you know, stupid trip.
00:39:32.820
She's not really my mayor, but she is for all intents and purposes, like the mayor of
00:39:37.680
Um, and I just read somewhere she gave 20 million.
00:39:40.820
She defunded the fire department, LA fire department, 20 million to divert to who knows
00:39:47.000
And I mean, clearly these people cannot manage this.
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I, I just, I just can't believe that they let the Palisade village burn to the ground.
00:39:55.160
I, I, you know, this is the library I grew up going to the Gelson's.
00:40:00.340
And I, I, I don't even, I honestly, it's devastating and I, I'm angry and people should be enraged.
00:40:05.480
And I keep thinking, Jack, like, what will it take for people in LA to finally vote out
00:40:15.940
Although Rick Caruso, I think he did beat Karen, Karen Bass.
00:40:19.700
I mean, um, the mayor, the mayor, and they cheated the last minute.
00:40:26.540
PG, we're, we're, we're coming up on a, on a hard break, but let's stay in touch as
00:40:34.140
Our thoughts and prayers absolutely are with you.
00:40:36.100
And to any additional resources, manpower and national guard, I don't care if it's active
00:40:40.260
duty, just get the people help, get the water drops going.
00:40:57.880
And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
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And we're going to turn it around and make our country great to get to you.
00:41:05.400
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So I want to bring on now Daniel Turner from Power of the Future.
00:42:34.220
We're watching these wildfires, these horrific fires.
00:42:36.860
You said a guest on who said that it felt like their childhoods are burning down.
00:42:40.960
And I just wanted to, and because I know you've done a lot of work on this, to explain how
00:42:44.780
all of this really is being caused by climate change, of course.
00:42:52.900
You know, these people live in their minds and they want things to be a certain way.
00:42:57.760
They want things to be a certain way about the climate, about nature.
00:43:01.520
But reality is, is that when their policies are implemented, you get death and destruction.
00:43:12.060
Even though the drought ended, they didn't rescind the order because somehow the progressive
00:43:21.320
It's illegal to do forest management because the environmental left will contend that fallen
00:43:31.500
But they're just also kindling that destroys forests and destroys neighborhoods.
00:43:37.780
When the environmental left talks about animals or nature or how they only do this to protect
00:43:49.420
They hide behind the green agenda to bring about a genuinely evil, misanthropic communist
00:43:57.320
When you have water mitigation policies that are illegal, when you have forest management
00:44:01.960
policies that are ignored, Gavin Newsom now, the coward that he is, will get the point
00:44:07.360
fingers at the right, at MAGA, at you, and say, see, this is climate change.
00:44:13.280
Because now they don't have to do the difficult job of running the state.
00:44:22.780
You get to wash your hands of all responsibility.
00:44:27.000
You wash your hands of the hard part of being a governor and you just blame climate change.
00:44:34.620
Let me, let me ask you, let me, let me ask you to, let me ask you to unpack something
00:44:38.840
you just said there that you said the true face is myth misanthropic.
00:44:43.220
I mean, that's another way of saying they're anti human, isn't it?
00:44:48.980
You know, I tweeted a lot over the weekend about Jane Goodall when she received the
00:44:53.520
And I said, don't let the old lady act fool you.
00:44:56.960
Jane Goodall, her philosophy is genuinely evil.
00:45:00.480
She talks about policies to eradicate 80% of the population because of monkeys, because
00:45:06.680
of, of, of primates, because not humans, right?
00:45:10.880
And she advocates, willingly advocates for the eradication of 80% of the world population
00:45:20.520
She will just say certain people should not live and we'll do that by denying them fossil
00:45:25.380
fuels, denying them electricity, denying them power.
00:45:31.260
And she got a presidential medal of freedom for a truly evil, evil philosophy.
00:45:39.600
When you put this, this genuine communist agenda in action, you get destruction and death.
00:45:49.740
It is humans that, that allow us to overcome nature, whether it's surviving, freezing cold
00:45:55.540
as, as we've done in Alaska, right on the North Slope, whether it's surviving and controlling
00:46:00.860
fire, whether it's controlling the tides and all of that, it comes with, with freedom and
00:46:08.040
And we're denying humanity, the ability to, to overcome the destruction of nature.
00:46:21.820
And it's deliberately evil because that is the green agenda.
00:46:25.040
Well, and it's, and it's deliberately evil because they see these homes being burned
00:46:30.620
They hear people die and they say, good, we want this to go back to nature.
00:46:37.940
And if you really dig down, by the way, I was, I actually had a tweet up last night where
00:46:42.240
I was talking about how, you know, in the nineties, you used to see this as, as a character, like
00:46:46.920
a terrorist type character in, in a lot of movies, because it was very obvious that they
00:46:53.120
clearly wanted to kill all the humanity, or at least a vast majority of humanity because
00:46:59.800
they wanted nature to take back over the planet.
00:47:02.420
Yet somehow in the intervening years, that's gone from a position that's mocked and derided
00:47:08.360
to one that's actually taken seriously by some of our top leaders.
00:47:15.240
And that, and that's, uh, there's a reason why the Nazis were, were huge environmentalists,
00:47:20.240
It's a deeply anti-human misanthropic agenda and, and it's something I've been talking
00:47:24.200
about and I'll share with you and your audience, uh, you know, prediction.
00:47:28.860
Climate change is going to have a huge resurgence because it does galvanize and unite the left.
00:47:36.440
It raises them a lot of money and it gets their activists going.
00:47:44.120
They've gotten destroyed in elections nationwide, but climate can bring them together.
00:47:50.080
So watch the Democrats in Congress, watch people like Gavin Newsom, watch the mayor of
00:48:00.120
Daniel, we are, we're just about out of time here on the program.
00:48:20.120
I pray for everyone who are victims of this horrific agenda.
00:48:21.120
Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.
00:48:25.120
Jacob Leck face saying it this expression of nobody to sin.
00:48:27.120
They actually started out of time and he said rights solidarity and we'reask that much
00:48:29.120
We're just about out of time here on the program.
00:48:37.740
Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.