The Tucker Carlson Show - Chris Moritz： How Kamala Gave California to the Cartels, & the Psychopaths Ruling the Democrat Party

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00:00:25.140 I got to say, it is a little bit astounding to those of us from California to see a politician from that state run for president because in the back of your mind, you wonder, like, when's someone going to ask her about the state she's from, which is, like, the greatest disaster in the history of the United States, probably the greatest disaster since the fall of Rome, I would say.

00:00:48.460 It went from the greatest place, I think it's fair to say, on planet Earth when I grew up in the 70s and 80s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, to a place that people are fleeing.

00:00:59.240 And so without, you know, blaming Kamala Harris for all of it, it's not all her fault, but someone should have to answer for that.

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00:01:32.840 Here's the episode.

00:01:33.520 And you've just written a book on this.

00:01:35.940 Bless you for doing that.

00:01:37.800 Are we taping right now?

00:01:39.220 Yeah, we're live, baby.

00:01:40.720 Oh, sorry.

00:01:42.060 Oh, my gosh.

00:01:42.160 Everything you say can will be suggested.

00:01:44.220 I had a Ron Burgundy moment. 1.00

00:01:46.940 Fuck you, San Diego. 1.00

00:01:48.740 Excuse me. 1.00

00:01:49.820 So, as a San Diegan, I've never forgotten that.

00:01:53.660 So, what happened to California?

00:01:56.620 Well, you know, there's a lot of reasons as to how we ended up in a one-party state, how we ended up in a state of decrepitude, and frankly, with elements of criminality that are so depraved and savage and dark that they are really unseen outside of the worst conflict zones in the world.

00:02:22.900 And that is characterized by, let's say, for instance, the rise of child soldiers.

00:02:30.240 It's juveniles committing a lot of crime.

00:02:33.960 In fact, maybe driving the crime surge in the state, and certainly in Los Angeles.

00:02:39.960 Children.

00:02:40.240 Children as young as 10 being recruited by gangs to commit armed robbery, hijackings, and even murder.

00:02:48.200 Okay, so now we're just in Mexico.

00:02:51.380 You're basically describing—

00:02:52.280 Worse than Mexico. 1.00

00:02:52.780 Worse than Mexico. 1.00

00:02:53.840 So, there are a million authors of this tragedy, but if you were to point to two or three big facts, big changes, big trends that created the dystopia you're describing, what would they be?

00:03:08.520 Well, so there's a legislative angle to this, and I think that's a really, really important part of the history and the pathway to destruction.

00:03:20.920 And that started—well, that was influenced by a number of factors.

00:03:26.720 Principally, there was an important Supreme Court case in 2011 called Brown v. Plata.

00:03:32.900 And in this decision, which was a 5-4 split, Kennedy was the deciding factor on the liberal side and wrote the opinion, it was determined that the California state prison system was in violation of the Eighth Amendment, which is a cruel, unusual punishment.

00:03:51.180 And this was owing to the fact that prisons were operating at 200% capacity at that time.

00:03:57.240 And according to this ruling, California had to conform to a very arbitrary capacity ratio that was established by a federal bureaucracy of 137.5%.

00:04:13.740 So if you were at 137.5%, you were no longer in violation of the Eighth Amendment.

00:04:20.360 So as a result of this ruling, California did have to find ways to comply and took a number of steps to do so, a number of laws that I'll discuss.

00:04:32.980 But coinciding with this ruling and going back further is the emergence of the criminal justice reform movement.

00:04:43.660 Principally, it was principally coming out of places like Stanford Law School and some particular individuals like a gentleman named Mike Romano, who was able to influence the legislature and executive level officers in the state to embrace policies that were part of the criminal justice reform movement.

00:05:08.860 So this meant that there was a force coming from the Supreme Court that was motivating this and also ideological activist elements that pushed for these same reforms at the same time.

00:05:31.000 So as the formulation there, which I've never thought about until now, mass incarceration, which I don't think any normal person would be in favor of mass incarceration, but that's, you're only describing one side of the coin.

00:05:44.220 The other way to describe it would be the, you know, the crime wave that we're living through that results, I mean, that results in people going to prison.

00:05:51.420 Yeah.

00:05:52.140 No one thought to address crime.

00:05:54.380 Well, so California had up until, let's say, 2011, one of the most stringent criminal justice systems in the entire country.

00:06:07.060 We, of course, like were the force behind the three strikes law.

00:06:14.660 Yeah.

00:06:14.980 And three strikes put a lot of bad people away for forever.

00:06:19.900 Um, but it had problems too, to be, to be honest, like there were, there were problems and there were reforms applied to it, um, to reduce, you know, potential injustices.

00:06:31.800 Um, and, and, and I, I support those, but nevertheless, three strikes and, um, and also the, uh, introduction of what are called enhancements.

00:06:44.100 Uh, so special circumstance enhancements in which, let's say you use a gun in a crime, um, you use a gun that adds 10 years additionally to your conviction.

00:06:56.360 If you use a gun and you shoot someone, that's 20 years.

00:07:01.000 If you use a gun and kill someone, it's life. 0.88

00:07:04.260 So that's an enhancement.

00:07:05.660 If you're a gang member and engage in, you know, whatever crime, um, gang enhancements would apply and those would add to the sentencing.

00:07:16.760 These things were all eliminated and obliterated, um, in big parts by, uh, directives that came from the so-called Soros DAs, the progressive DAs in 2020.

00:07:30.320 But the dismantling, you know, started really, um, following this Supreme Court case.

00:07:37.980 So the first law that was, um, a big problem, uh, and put us on this path was called AB 109.

00:07:46.720 It's called the Public Safety Realignment Act.

00:07:49.120 And the idea was that to reduce the, the, the, the numbers of prisoners in the state system, you would transfer so-called nonviolent, non-sexual, low-risk offenders to county jails.

00:08:07.720 Um, there's a problem though.

00:08:10.320 And the problem and the, the sort of poison pill within it was the issue of what classified nonviolent, non-sexual, um, low-risk offenders.

00:08:21.340 Because under AB 109, the only offense that would be considered was the last offense for which you were convicted.

00:08:31.760 So in other words, uh, inmates with long and violent criminal histories who happened to be in jail and say prison because of a nonviolent offense were eligible for this system.

00:08:47.920 And they were transferred out 27,000.

00:08:51.780 It didn't even, even with that, we still didn't meet the, the capacity threshold 137.5, but this was one of the steps to do so.

00:09:00.260 So here's the, the other.

00:09:01.960 Do you even think of building more prisons?

00:09:03.960 Um, well, you know, we don't have the, we don't have the money.

00:09:07.220 You can't build anything in California.

00:09:08.180 California was bankrupt at that time.

00:09:10.420 Yeah.

00:09:10.820 Right.

00:09:11.120 And actually like Jerry Brown, to his credit, like did, did a lot and like earnestly to try and like, uh, straighten the, you know, the, the, right, the ship of California's, um, fiscal situation.

00:09:24.720 But these kinds of policies specific to jailing, um, were totally ill-conceived.

00:09:33.860 And, um, so with AB 109, all of these prisoners get, go into county jails, but the county jails don't have the resources to, to, to house them.

00:09:41.960 They don't have the, the funds, um, to staff them.

00:09:45.920 And, uh, so the outcome is that many are just released into the communities.

00:09:53.520 Kamala Harris, um, is elected attorney general, uh, in 2010, narrowly beating, um, Dick, uh, Steve Cooley, uh, who is the, probably the last great district attorney of Los Angeles, a Republican.

00:10:08.240 By the way, he's the only, he's the only Republican she's ever run against other than Trump.

00:10:15.180 And she lost to him or he, he lost to her by just a few thousand votes, which I, and just, this is kind of an interesting coda is that there were also kind of odd circumstances around that election.

00:10:28.660 Steve was ahead and then, you know, kind of in 2020 fashion, um, uh, there was a surge of her votes.

00:10:36.060 But anyway, she's elected to California attorney general in 2010 and her first, um, big task is administering, uh, AB 109 because as the head of the California justice department, um, she really has, uh, the most, um, you know, um, highest level of presence in for sure understanding the budgetary constraints of the counties and the, and what everyone was warning her.

00:11:05.920 Including the California district attorney's association, um, uh, police unions, this law was going to be a big problem and she supported it.

00:11:17.160 She did nothing to try and like, uh, bring more resources to these county jails. 1.00

00:11:21.860 And this is a theme actually we'll see over and over again in California where the state has, uh, some failure, some bureaucratic, um, uh, you know, uh, incompetency or shortfall in the budget or some issue.

00:11:37.280 And the, and the, and the, and the, the, the, the, the strategy at Sacramento is to simply move that problem, shift it to localities, to counties, to manage, which are also struggling.

00:11:50.680 So it's kind of robbing Peter to pay Paul and nothing changes.

00:11:55.540 So after AB 109 went into effect, the next year property crimes went up 9%.

00:12:01.440 Um, and, uh, moreover, uh, 61% of those offenders who were eligible for this program.

00:12:11.020 And, uh, and by the way, it's retroactive, um, 61% are arrested within, um, a year and, uh, 41% are convicted again.

00:12:23.640 So, um, clearly, um, the recidivism rate, uh, uh, created by this law was a major problem.

00:12:31.560 Fast forward to 2014 and the worst of them all, um, comes out of strategy, uh, political strategy consultant firms in San Francisco, who, by the way, backed Kamala Harris and to great, great extent.

00:12:47.840 Uh, and this is called Prop 47.

00:12:50.760 Yes.

00:12:51.020 So Prop 47 was marketed to Californians.

00:12:58.940 And I should say for, you know, people don't understand California politics, we have this, um, you know, a system that allows for, you know, really important legislation to be put forward directly to the voters.

00:13:10.960 Um, and, um, uh, that's how a lot of very, very big laws in California have like-

00:13:17.620 The initiative system.

00:13:18.600 Yeah.

00:13:18.820 Like Prop 13.

00:13:19.860 Exactly.

00:13:20.560 And Prop 17, um.

00:13:22.300 Exactly.

00:13:22.860 Which we can talk about.

00:13:23.980 But Prop 47, excuse me, Prop 47.

00:13:29.180 This was the stealing legalization.

00:13:30.740 It's called, it was called, uh, just, you know, euphemistically, the Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.

00:13:40.020 And the idea behind it was we would, again, address the mass incarceration problem, reduce, uh, the prison capacity by shifting, uh, again, nonviolent offenders, um, uh, you know, out of state prisons and treating, um, uh, thefts under $950 as misdemeanors.

00:14:05.880 Prior to this law, prior to this law, thefts at $400 would, um, be felony grand larceny.

00:14:13.440 And this law changed it such that it would have to be above $950 to become a felony.

00:14:19.560 So, um, as, as a consequence of this, uh, oh, there was also, um, as a, as another, another factor of, uh, Prop 47 was that drug possession would, um, would not, would no longer be a, uh, a felony.

00:14:36.880 It would be treated as a misdemeanor, um, and, uh, this has also exacerbated the drug and homeless problem.

00:14:44.340 In fact, I think in the years after, right after Prop 47 went into effect, the number of, uh, ER overdose cases was up 25%.

00:14:54.480 So this is the law that legalized stealing and drug use.

00:14:57.540 Correct.

00:14:57.920 Effectively.

00:14:58.200 So I remember this very well.

00:15:00.220 And I think I remember Rob Reiner, who's an enemy of civilization, being one of the many celebrity backers of this, but it was quite popular.

00:15:10.040 I mean, like a lot of famous people were behind this.

00:15:12.340 Oh yeah.

00:15:12.680 Well, Kamala Harris wrote the, uh, wrote the law that appeared on the ballot. 0.99

00:15:19.060 Kamala Harris did? 0.78

00:15:19.740 Yes, because in California, the attorney general of the state will write the language and the title for every proposition put before.

00:15:28.280 Harris is the one who wrote the legalized stealing act.

00:15:31.000 Yes.

00:15:31.300 And, uh, I will tell you, Steve Cooley calls it fraud by misrepresentation.

00:15:36.020 And there is a poison pill within Prop 47 that is quite shocking.

00:15:40.840 And she was actually called out for it by the Sacramento Bee.

00:15:43.900 And that is that these reclassified offenders would no longer be subject to mandatory and standard DNA testing.

00:15:55.760 As a result, DNA testing for across the state went from 15,000 a month to 5,000 a month.

00:16:04.480 And DNA testing is super, super critical for the solving of cold case homicides, rapes, and other violent crimes that, you know, are typically associated with people with track records of crime.

00:16:21.300 So these nonviolent, uh, you know, uh, larceny type offenders are, you know, are very likely, or, you know, or at least, you know, it should be investigated whether they have, um, some kind of connection to other crimes as we've seen, you know, everywhere.

00:16:40.120 A small number of people commit the overwhelming majority of crime in every society.

00:16:44.360 So Kamala Harris's, uh, description in the ballot, uh, for 47 basically obfuscated this issue of the DNA testing.

00:16:54.920 And the Sacramento Bee called her out on it and said that this was effectively, uh, uh, a misrepresentation and a failure on her part to omit this information from the voters.

00:17:05.360 So she's, or the authors of this are, like, taking the side of rapists over the population.

00:17:11.580 Oh, yeah. And, and, well, I will tell you also, uh, she was not alone in writing this, the, the, the language.

00:17:19.920 I mean, Kamala Harris doesn't do anything, right? 0.81

00:17:22.100 Right.

00:17:22.280 She does, she, she's a facilitator, uh, and, and an opportunist and everything, every action really she has taken in California has been on the basis of what is good for Kamala Harris.

00:17:34.140 Right.

00:17:34.340 But what I have heard from, from my sources, um, who, who are certainly would know with Prop 47, it was significantly influenced in terms of the language by, um, prominent figures from the, uh, criminal justice reform movement.

00:17:50.820 Um, and even entities affiliated with, uh, George Soros, who's always been a, a funder of criminal justice reform.

00:17:58.760 So they sold this as, like, good for the California budget, good for the safety of your neighborhood, sort of the opposite of the truth, well, literally the opposite of the truth.

00:18:08.800 Um, and people bought it.

00:18:10.360 What, what was the margin?

00:18:11.320 60%.

00:18:12.220 60%.

00:18:13.740 Yes.

00:18:14.920 Committed civilizational suicide without knowing it. 0.62

00:18:17.340 Yes.

00:18:18.060 They, we sowed our own demise. 0.98

00:18:20.440 Yes.

00:18:20.940 And we did so because our leaders manipulate language.

00:18:27.240 Nonviolent offender, for instance, is not nonviolent offender.

00:18:32.160 Um, in fact, in the next law that came about, that was, again, on our pathway to destruction, Prop 57, which passed in 2016.

00:18:41.080 That law, again, which Kamala Harris, uh, wrote the language for, um, and which she was excoriated by, uh, other Democrats when she was running for, um, higher office, particularly Loretta Sanchez. 1.00

00:18:56.320 Prop 57, uh, was, again, to address mass incarceration and would offer additional parole opportunities for offenders that were deemed to be, quote, nonviolent.

00:19:12.040 But, uh, what is nonviolent under Prop 57?

00:19:15.740 It is anything that is not one of 23 specific crimes that is in a obscure section of the penal code.

00:19:23.420 So, nonviolent could be drug trafficking, human trafficking, rape by intoxication, some forms of assault, uh, financial crimes, serious financial crimes.

00:19:37.220 Um, and basically, uh, these, these offenders under this provision would, uh, would have opportunities for parole and also parole, uh, administration would, was also passed down to the county levels.

00:19:53.420 Who, again, didn't have the resources to handle this new, um, uh, burden.

00:20:01.760 So, there's a striking example of—

00:20:05.140 This was a ballot initiative also.

00:20:06.600 Ballot initiative also.

00:20:07.440 Passed, uh, again, I think by a pretty good margin.

00:20:11.340 And not as, not as famous, uh, infamous as, as 47, but, you know, very destructive.

00:20:17.840 There's a case of a, of a offender released under this, um, who went on to, uh, uh, kill, like, four or five people in a mass shooting gang-related, um, like, within two years of get, of release.

00:20:35.800 Because, of course, when they would go into the parole system, um, uh, the parole system is, is completely incompetent at those, at the local levels.

00:20:45.680 They, again, they do not have the resources, um, and there was a participation rate of offenders of 9% in rehabilitation programs.

00:20:54.580 And the, and the cornerstone of 57 was, we are taking these, you know, people that, you know, they, they are nonviolent and they can be redeemed, right?

00:21:04.460 But it's really just a gimmick, um, that is driven by, again, this, this, this mandate by the Supreme Court, but also by the influence of criminal justice reform advocates.

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00:26:14.380 So now is the time to get to motive.

00:26:20.560 What would be the motive of a so-called criminal justice reformer of George Soros?

00:26:27.940 Kamala Harris's motives are always political, so we already answered that question.

00:26:30.800 But of the sincere believers in this stuff, the idea that the criminals are the real victims,

00:26:35.860 free them, stealing should be legal, et cetera, et cetera.

00:26:38.320 Like, what's driving them?

00:26:41.680 Well, I think there are those who are pushed for these initiatives who are just pure sociopaths,

00:26:49.120 and they are not really committed ideologically.

00:26:51.540 They galvanize around it because it's in vogue, and it allows them access to money like Soros money.

00:26:59.120 George Gascon is probably the greatest example of this. 0.99

00:27:02.220 Not an ideologue, by the way, a very bad, stupid lawyer, from what everyone says, 0.99

00:27:10.140 but not an ideologue, a sociopath, is how he's been described to me, 0.99

00:27:14.700 as have some of these other rogue prosecutors.

00:27:16.840 But then there's the true believers.

00:27:19.200 And within criminal justice reform, I think that it's fair to say there's a spectrum of radicalism.

00:27:26.760 You know, some initiatives, I think, have, like, good intentions.

00:27:34.300 You know, we do want rehabilitation in society.

00:27:38.060 We do want the opportunity to build one's life back by a bad choice.

00:27:45.460 Like, that's a Christian value.

00:27:47.520 Of course.

00:27:47.860 But it goes much, much deeper than that.

00:27:52.060 And I think that as you peel back the layers of criminal justice reform and look at what they're specifically advocating for,

00:28:00.100 it ranges not only from mass incarceration solutions, but also, frankly, defunding the police,

00:28:09.540 pacifying the police through, you know, ideas like community policing,

00:28:17.280 in which police are sort of characterized now as social workers rather than law enforcement.

00:28:23.400 Emasculating them, turning them into women. 1.00

00:28:24.380 Of course, emasculating them. 0.98

00:28:25.300 Well, literally emasculating them.

00:28:27.220 Literally.

00:28:27.960 I mean, women now make a huge portion of overall cops. 1.00

00:28:31.920 And, you know, there's—the cops I've talked to who are, like, you know, serious, serious, like, threatening figures, but good guys,

00:28:44.720 they see the police today as an absolute joke.

00:28:47.880 And I can tell you, and I'll get into it, about how bad it's getting at the LAPD and other law enforcement agencies,

00:28:55.940 but through erosion because of these policies and morale erosion.

00:28:59.880 But back to criminal justice reform, I think that it's really important to strip away euphemisms.

00:29:07.780 And if—when I was evaluating, you know, the tenets of this movement,

00:29:15.820 it became apparent to me that not only did it place the offender above victim,

00:29:23.160 it fundamentally resulted in the diffusion of crime and the spreading of suffering as a policy choice.

00:29:38.800 So, as laws like—

00:29:41.020 So, trying to wreck other people's neighborhoods, safe neighborhoods, affluent neighborhoods—

00:29:45.900 Yes, correct.

00:29:46.340 —with crime on purpose because they were orderly, affluent, and white.

00:29:52.220 That's right.

00:29:52.860 And I can tell you, like, for instance, the—

00:29:56.400 So, that's not a figment of the imagination.

00:29:58.420 That's an actual choice, you think?

00:30:00.160 Well, I can—for sure, BLM activists say that stealing, mass stealing of retail stores is a form of reparation. 0.84

00:30:08.920 This is crime—I call this crime equity, this concept.

00:30:15.240 And it's not even something said, like, in jest or flippantly.

00:30:20.500 It's actually a very deep and dark idea with historical analogs.

00:30:26.640 I think particularly pertinent would be what happened in Rhodesia,

00:30:32.960 where criminals are released from prisons en masse and sent on essentially government-sanctioned theft

00:30:42.040 of white farmer land and other property.

00:30:47.280 And this is a form of, you know, kind of anarchic tyranny.

00:30:52.460 Right.

00:30:52.600 So, this is crime as a means of totalitarian control and as a tool of racial grievance.

00:31:04.600 It is a crime as a means to redress historical grievances through collective punishment. 1.00

00:31:13.240 So, we're mad about what your ancestors did, so we hope your daughter gets raped. 1.00

00:31:17.320 Correct. 1.00

00:31:18.180 Yeah.

00:31:18.680 That's about as evil as it gets.

00:31:20.400 Yeah.

00:31:20.580 And I will give you some example.

00:31:24.820 The second in charge at the L.A. County District Attorney's Office, the chief of staff, a woman named Tiffany Blacknell,

00:31:34.340 who, you know, is proud to have been a rioter and looter in the 1992 Rodney King—

00:31:42.820 Was a prosecutor?

00:31:44.040 She came from the Public Defender's Office.

00:31:46.960 Gascon has filled the—

00:31:48.740 Wait, but she is currently a prosecutor? 1.00

00:31:50.580 She is Gascon's chief of staff.

00:31:54.120 Wow.

00:31:55.280 She was a rioter? 0.98

00:31:56.860 Yeah.

00:31:57.840 She's written about this.

00:31:58.780 During the race riots of 92.

00:32:00.440 Correct.

00:32:01.280 Yeah.

00:32:01.420 Where people were murdered for their skin color.

00:32:03.520 Yeah.

00:32:03.760 Asians in particular.

00:32:04.760 Yeah.

00:32:05.060 And whites. 0.64

00:32:05.860 Yeah.

00:32:06.040 Yeah.

00:32:06.300 But lots of Koreans.

00:32:07.720 Yeah.

00:32:08.040 Yeah.

00:32:08.220 Well, we'll get to the issue of Asians being targeted because that's another phenomenon that's taking place. 0.80

00:32:16.780 But Tiffany Blacknell is a vowed racist. 1.00

00:32:22.800 She wears a T-shirt that's—she's posted on Instagram that says, like, police are trained to kill us. 1.00

00:32:32.000 Right?

00:32:32.660 And she is effectively number two at the DA's office.

00:32:36.220 When Santa Monica and the west side of Los Angeles was being firebombed during the George Floyd riots and citizens were bemoaning this—

00:32:46.500 That's the white part of town, just for those who weren't from it.

00:32:48.900 That's the white part of town.

00:32:50.560 Tiffany Blacknell said, oh, go cry me a river. 0.98

00:32:53.980 Out loud?

00:32:57.200 She put—she posted on, like, Twitter or Facebook.

00:33:03.440 Wow, that's really scary.

00:33:05.360 Well, I mean, this is—this is who Gascon has surrounded himself with.

00:33:09.000 So Tiffany Blacknell is a great example of, like, a true believer. 1.00

00:33:13.220 Gascon—no, he's too stupid to be a believer. 1.00

00:33:16.340 Like Kamala Harris. 1.00

00:33:17.960 I find it very ridiculous when people say Kamala Harris is a Bolshevik.

00:33:21.560 Because to be a Bolshevik, you actually have to know about philosophy. 0.78

00:33:24.360 You have to know about dialectics.

00:33:26.960 You have to make it through Das Kapital.

00:33:29.140 Kamala Harris only knows Kamala Harris, although she doesn't even know that because we can't figure out what her name is. 1.00

00:33:34.740 She's a child, obviously.

00:33:35.980 She's a tool of greater power, obviously. 0.63

00:33:39.100 I mean, she went up there by accident because of her skin color.

00:33:41.720 So the laws continue to get worse from there.

00:33:44.900 And in 2020, that was the catalyst.

00:33:48.220 So the George Floyd—

00:33:49.400 But just to be clear, I just want to linger on this for one second.

00:33:51.460 Yeah, of course.

00:33:51.760 Just to be clear, you believe that crime is not an accident.

00:33:56.200 Crime is a result of intentional policy.

00:33:58.100 Crime is the point of the policy.

00:34:00.020 And part of the aim is to punish people for their skin color with crime.

00:34:05.120 Of course.

00:34:06.340 Well, not of course.

00:34:06.880 That's the sickest thing I've heard this year.

00:34:08.620 Well, it's extremely evil, and it is demonstrably the case because these laws were so—they were so obviously negligent and reckless.

00:34:23.260 Everyone knew, all the law enforcement agencies, all the district attorneys came out against these kinds of initiatives, saying that the result is going to be dangerous criminals on the street.

00:34:37.160 Dangerous criminals on the street.

00:34:38.820 This is our future.

00:34:40.480 And they passed it anyway.

00:34:42.200 The voters passed it.

00:34:44.100 Kamala Harris wrote the language.

00:34:45.600 You know, and again, Prop 47 is called the Safe Schools and Neighborhoods Act, right?

00:34:52.560 So the idea is that the funding budget savings from moving—from not classifying these larcenies as felonies and thereby being misdemeanors, which are not ever, ever enforced or prosecuted, would save millions of dollars that would then be redirected to schools.

00:35:15.840 Did the schools get great in California?

00:35:17.660 The schools are worse than ever.

00:35:19.740 Are the neighborhoods safer?

00:35:22.560 No, of course not.

00:35:23.700 Like, LA is as—LA is not quite as violent as it was during the 1990s, which was at the peak of the drug war between the Bloods and the Crips.

00:35:37.580 However, we're getting there, and the difference between now and then is that back then, gangsters were killing each other.

00:35:46.880 They were killing each other for, you know, who owned what street corner to sell drugs.

00:35:54.000 Right.

00:35:54.720 Now the violence is turned against all of us.

00:35:58.260 The taxpayers, the people who created the society and sustain it with their labor.

00:36:03.720 So that is how I sort of—

00:36:06.020 Because the gangs did not create Los Angeles or the United States or anything of value in this country at all.

00:36:11.900 They create nothing.

00:36:12.920 They only destroy, just to be clear.

00:36:15.120 And so while all of us are equal in the eyes of God and all of us are equal as American citizens, we're not all equal in our effect.

00:36:21.500 Some of us are creators and others are destroyers.

00:36:23.160 And you're saying that the destroyers are now killing the creators.

00:36:26.380 I'm saying that destroyers run California.

00:36:30.260 Man.

00:36:31.720 And I can tell you that's not hyperbole.

00:36:37.220 And really, in many ways, California is actually under the sovereignty of the Mexican drug cartels.

00:36:46.180 And this happened primarily—

00:36:50.340 California is under the sovereignty of the Mexican drug cartels.

00:36:52.520 Suzerainty.

00:36:53.120 Suzerainty is this idea that one power exerts influence on another and allows some autonomy of the subordinate power.

00:37:05.780 It's often been used in geopolitical analysis to, for instance, describe how Rome, a Roman Empire, administered—

00:37:14.200 Gaul.

00:37:14.800 Right.

00:37:15.280 Exactly.

00:37:15.600 So there's a semblance of autonomy, but there is still ultimately a power that is answered to.

00:37:23.980 And the reason that the Mexican drug cartels, I think, qualify for that is because sometime around 2010, all this bad stuff happened in 2010.

00:37:34.580 And if I may even say, like, you know, when we last spoke about the trans issue, that also really got into effect in 2010.

00:37:43.960 It's peak Obamaism is what it is.

00:37:46.800 But in any event—

00:37:48.360 So I think in retrospect, we can say that Obama was a destroyer, that the intent was to subvert and destroy the United States, and that some people called that early. 0.96

00:37:55.920 They were derided as crazy or racist. 0.90

00:37:58.120 They weren't either one of those things. 0.96

00:37:59.720 They were prescient.

00:38:00.360 I always took him completely deadly serious when he said he was going to change America, and he did.

00:38:07.340 Yes.

00:38:07.740 Maybe forever.

00:38:09.720 But in any event, around 2010, there was a hostile takeover of the narcotics distribution market in California, which had been otherwise the domain of black gangs. 0.98

00:38:27.020 Native-born black people. 0.95

00:38:28.160 Legacy black gangs had run narcotics and dope trade. 0.97

00:38:32.840 Can I just say, at least, you know, even if they're drug dealers or gang members, they're still Americans.

00:38:37.480 Oh, let me tell you something.

00:38:38.380 And we share a common history, and I want—

00:38:39.880 Actually, actually, they're—they have principles.

00:38:45.720 That's kind of the point I was making.

00:38:47.520 At least they're part of this country, for sure.

00:38:49.740 I'll tell you in a minute how principled they are.

00:38:52.740 And maybe we even agree with them on some things because—

00:38:56.160 I suspect we're voting the same way this November.

00:38:58.560 Just throwing that out there.

00:38:59.440 Well, so when the cartels moved into California, they said to all the black gangs, 1.00

00:39:05.780 If you sell dope without our permission, we will, quote, cut your head off. 0.99

00:39:10.060 And they meant that literally. 1.00

00:39:12.480 They meant that literally. 0.93

00:39:13.520 So every black gang had to then find an alternative revenue stream or get their dope supply from the cartels, from Hispanic gangs. 1.00

00:39:22.600 Because all Hispanic gangs in California kind of operate as a extension of gangs above them, which is—which are based in prison. 0.72

00:39:35.580 And that's another issue.

00:39:38.240 But the, you know, the highest level gang in California is called the Mexican Mafia, and it's a prison—it's a prison gang.

00:39:46.540 But this—and this gang is the ultimate authority, really, on all Latino gangs in the state.

00:39:54.500 There are 200,000 to 300,000 gang members in California.

00:39:58.560 63 percent.

00:39:59.600 200,000 to 300,000?

00:40:00.520 Yes.

00:40:01.740 For reference, the U.S. National Guard has 250,000 members.

00:40:07.660 There's 1.2 million gang members in the United States.

00:40:11.220 And in California, 63 percent.

00:40:13.020 So that's bigger than the active-duty U.S. military.

00:40:15.400 Yeah.

00:40:17.060 I think so.

00:40:20.340 Oh, wow.

00:40:21.120 And 63 percent are Latino.

00:40:24.320 So as a result of this volume and numerical advantage, they control the prisons.

00:40:31.820 So the Mexican Mafia, which is actually, like, you know, a legacy organization.

00:40:37.200 It has a long history.

00:40:38.300 Oh, a long history.

00:40:39.480 Right.

00:40:39.820 50 years, anyway.

00:40:40.940 And they are incredibly powerful.

00:40:44.560 And as it was told to me by this incredible L.A. County Sheriff sergeant who—and I'm not going to mention the names of any of my sources for their protection and safety.

00:40:59.080 But this gentleman said to me that he was head of Major Crimes Bureau for the L.A. County Sheriff's and 25-year veteran of the force, now in private security.

00:41:12.280 And he said to me that the prisons rule the street.

00:41:17.920 So effectively, the criminal economy of California, which is in the tens of billions, maybe 100 billion, passes through California state prisons.

00:41:31.940 So that is a prima facie indictment of the failure of our prisons because from prison, the Mexican Mafia is ordering hits, running drug trades, human trafficking, you name it. 0.83

00:41:48.980 And they do so as proxies of the Mexican drug cartels.

00:41:54.600 In Mexico.

00:41:55.360 Yes.

00:41:56.920 So this is—

00:41:57.900 Well, they're not in Mexico.

00:41:58.740 They're in California.

00:41:59.900 But this is exactly what destroyed El Salvador and has wrecked Mexico and Guatemala is drug gangs operating—their leaders operating from prison.

00:42:09.960 With impunity.

00:42:10.800 With impunity.

00:42:11.720 So let's ask you just a side note because I can't resist.

00:42:13.600 So in those—in Mexico, Guatemala, and Salvador, and probably other countries as well, the drug gangs are effectively religious organizations based on Satanism.

00:42:23.060 Oh, absolutely.

00:42:24.000 Is that true in California as well?

00:42:25.240 Well, I will tell you that the law enforcement and prosecutors that I've talked to would say that the illegal alien gang element is characterized by extreme violence.

00:42:37.760 Right.

00:42:38.060 Like extreme.

00:42:38.980 Like—

00:42:39.340 Like ISIS violence.

00:42:40.640 Right.

00:42:41.500 Unnecessary violence. 1.00

00:42:42.520 Not just shooting people to death as the black gangs historically do. 1.00

00:42:45.280 Well, look, there's a lot of reasons for that. 0.79

00:42:46.560 I mean, I—in my—in my research, I couldn't help but sort of trace, like, the anthropological and historical basis for this extreme violence.

00:42:58.660 And—

00:42:58.860 We're back to the Aztecs, aren't we?

00:43:00.480 Well, of course.

00:43:01.340 Yeah, of course.

00:43:01.800 Of course.

00:43:02.100 Because you have to consider the fact that we've seen so-called narco-terrorists, narco-empires many, many times since the 70s. 0.90

00:43:12.360 Yeah.

00:43:13.140 And, yeah, they killed a lot of people, but they shot them, or they used car bombs, or basic kind of mafia-style hits.

00:43:22.360 Right.

00:43:23.420 And that is also the case for the Italian mafia.

00:43:26.680 The Genoveses sold heroin.

00:43:28.000 They didn't behead anyone.

00:43:28.960 And that's the case for the triads.

00:43:31.480 Exactly.

00:43:31.980 It's the case for the Russians, even. 0.91

00:43:34.280 Yes.

00:43:34.580 But in Mexico and in Central America, what we see is what I call cultural atavism.

00:43:42.720 And it's the notion that there are certain cultural traits and practices that survive the generations and are amalgamated into a new society.

00:43:55.040 And Mexico is a very—I mean, it's a wonderful place in many, many ways.

00:43:59.800 I agree.

00:44:00.100 I love it, but it is a fusion of indigenous, you know, indigenous people and Spanish Catholics.

00:44:10.800 And European.

00:44:11.500 Right.

00:44:12.040 And many of those traits that survived the Aztec period, and I will tell you, the level of brutality of the Aztecs is beyond belief.

00:44:25.460 Yes.

00:44:25.720 They killed 200,000 people a year, at least, in sacrifice.

00:44:30.580 The Aztecs were so committed to human sacrifice, and not just sacrifice, but the torture of living people unto death. 0.83

00:44:37.040 And children, by the way.

00:44:38.160 Oh, of course.

00:44:39.440 And not just the Aztecs, but the Maya and the Inca also, that it does, in the end, as much as you sort of hate the conquistadors because they were brutal and all that, you root for the conquistadors with everything you have.

00:44:50.360 Of course.

00:44:50.820 I will tell you, the Aztecs worshipped a lightning and rain god called Tlaloc.

00:44:57.500 And when there were droughts, they would sacrifice their children, and they believed that the tears of their children, as they walked up the steps of the pyramid to have their hearts ripped out, would be taken by the gods and transformed, transmogrified into rain.

00:45:18.500 Yeah.

00:45:22.240 So, this is the culture.

00:45:23.560 You see this with some Native American cultures in North America as well, where it's not simply a matter of killing people, but of prolonging their suffering as an offering to the spirit world. 0.99

00:45:35.720 There's not a guess, by the way.

00:45:37.340 So, the cartels emerge from this kind of amalgamation culture, and they have alters.

00:45:44.840 They have alters with human skulls and other kind of icons that are indigenous to Mesoamerica.

00:45:52.580 There's even a cartel icon, or idol, I should say, called Santa Muerte, which is, you know, you see on a lot of cartel tattoos and so forth.

00:46:05.160 And, you know, MS-13 is even more demonic, although that was born in California, in Los Angeles, by the way.

00:46:13.420 Like, it came from Los Angeles, San El Salvador, and destroyed El Salvador. 0.98

00:46:17.540 Exactly.

00:46:18.440 So, but witchcraft is at the heart of this.

00:46:21.080 And I don't think that's incidental.

00:46:22.640 It's not…

00:46:23.100 Animism.

00:46:24.120 Yeah, that's right.

00:46:24.920 Or, exactly.

00:46:26.420 But it's a religious cult as well as a business organization.

00:46:30.580 Exactly.

00:46:30.940 And that's why I feel it's so critical to understand this dynamic.

00:46:34.720 It's not just a historically interesting facet, but the fact is that we have brought in millions, 12 million migrants, many of them coming from this triangle, right, in Central America.

00:46:49.500 And it's really important to understand who are these people, and especially, let's say, the 2 million gotaways, which is often cited as the pure criminal element amongst the migrant invasion.

00:47:09.400 And because there was all migrants that are looking for economic benefits or whatever, they turned themselves into ICE.

00:47:17.820 And Tom Homan told me this directly.

00:47:20.440 They turned themselves into ICE.

00:47:21.860 And under the Biden administration, ICE, as Homan put it, has been reduced to, instead of enforcement, changing diapers and making sandwiches.

00:47:31.720 But for those 2 million that evade ICE, they are doing so that they are not put into the system, and they are pure gangsters.

00:47:41.660 And they're coming from cultures that display heads on bridges and skin people alive and boil people in acid. 1.00

00:47:54.940 And this is part of their sport.

00:47:59.060 And it is seeping into California.

00:48:02.180 We've traveled to an awful lot of countries on this show, to some free countries, the dwindling number, and a lot of not very free countries, places famous for government censorship.

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00:52:06.980 So you said, before I sidetracked you into a really interesting cul-de-sac, thank you for that,

00:52:18.620 but that they're the single most powerful force in the state of California, Mexican drug cartels.

00:52:23.640 They, insofar as that they control, ultimately, through proxies, the entire criminal economy of California.

00:52:31.420 Amazing.

00:52:32.000 Now there's another factor of this.

00:52:33.320 So it displaced, so black crime that people fretted about for years is like not a thing anymore.

00:52:39.240 Well, no, it went somewhere else.

00:52:41.260 Huh.

00:52:41.460 They had to find other alternative revenue streams, other verticals.

00:52:44.880 And what was the safest alternative and also highly lucrative?

00:52:50.440 Residential burglaries and retail theft.

00:52:52.520 So all of the retail theft that you see, that we see in the media of these, you know, Nordstrom's being-

00:52:59.820 Right, looted.

00:53:00.740 Yeah, by hordes of thieves.

00:53:03.400 That's not just like incidental individual acts of like larceny.

00:53:10.100 Right.

00:53:10.660 That is all organized by gangs.

00:53:12.720 And the market for the resale, the fencing it's called, for in California, maybe just even Los Angeles, is like $10 billion.

00:53:26.240 Nationwide retail thefts are $100 billion.

00:53:31.700 Where's it resold?

00:53:33.840 It's resold through fencers and-

00:53:38.180 eBay.

00:53:38.400 Yeah, eBay, it's, you know, like pawn shops, like, but I think primarily on the internet or to, you know, even perhaps other companies for, you know, it's go, it's a, it's a, it's, it passes through multiple layers, right?

00:53:54.940 And, you know, so these fencing operations are extremely lucrative.

00:54:00.440 So, so there's that angle to it, and it's resulted in the emergence of trends within these kinds of burglaries called flocking or jugging or knock-knock burglaries or follow-home burglaries.

00:54:18.800 And basically, it's, you know, flocking is a term that refers to penetrating like a safe neighborhood, blending into that neighborhood, targeting a particular person that they've perhaps, through social media, identified as potentially wealthy.

00:54:43.020 And then going on missions into these neighborhoods to, to rob them, tie them up, home invasions, whatever.

00:54:52.460 But what's quite interesting is that there are some gangs that have become so good at it that they now actually act as consultants to other gangs to teach them how to flock.

00:55:04.780 So what does that look like from the victim's perspective?

00:55:06.680 Well, it could look like getting tied up.

00:55:09.320 It could look like you, you're not home and everything's, you come home and everything's gone.

00:55:14.600 A knock-knock burglary is just like what it sounds like.

00:55:20.220 Criminals will, you know, knock-knock on a door if someone's home.

00:55:25.340 Maybe they don't proceed with a crime, but sometimes they do.

00:55:28.720 And I can tell you a story that I heard that really, truly shocked me.

00:55:34.800 It took place also in Santa Monica, which is where I'm from, that there was a case of a single woman in her home.

00:55:44.360 It's in a nice part of Santa Monica.

00:55:45.820 And these two guys, gangsters attempt to knock-knock on her and they breach the door and her dogs attack these guys so badly that they, the altercation moves into the street and they are wounded by the dogs.

00:56:07.460 She calls the police, police show up and the gangsters claim that their dogs attacked them and the cops called animal control and she moved out to Texas after that.

00:56:25.540 That's crazy.

00:56:26.820 But it's also a kind of in miniature, the bigger problem, which is in California, the state is on the side of the criminal against the citizens.

00:56:37.380 So if I, if I can turn it to like a personal anecdote, about a year ago, my home in Santa Monica, which it's an affluent neighborhood, but like my house is for sure the most dilapidated on, on the block it's been in my family, you know, through my great grandparents.

00:56:56.800 Um, my brother and I, uh, live there and own it.

00:57:01.400 And, um, in September of last year, we were subject to, um, two home invasion robberies in a row.

00:57:10.140 Although I should say, technically, these are what's called a hot prowl burglary, which means that residents are in the, in the property when, uh, the burglary takes place, but don't necessarily confront the burglar.

00:57:23.780 If it, if they confront them, it's like a home invasion.

00:57:27.220 So there's a little distinction.

00:57:29.180 Wait, there was someone home when the.

00:57:30.580 My brother and I were home asleep in the house when, when the burglar, uh, came in and, uh, through, uh, brazenly through an, uh, you know, and we were kind of naive because we thought California, Santa Monica is the greatest place in the world.

00:57:43.180 Right.

00:57:43.500 So like we had, um, a, uh, our alarm system was not, was not like on and the back, you know, back patio door was unlocked.

00:57:51.880 So how he knew that, I don't know.

00:57:54.600 Um, but it was a well-lit house.

00:57:57.220 You know, there's, there's houses on either side, signs indicating like alarm system.

00:58:04.240 Um, and yet that did not stop him.

00:58:07.680 And so we woke up the next day, um, and, uh, my brother was in the main house.

00:58:14.000 We have a little casita, um, kind of converted garage where I happened to be, um, during when this took place and I came into the house and, uh, the door, back door was wide open.

00:58:24.660 And, um, I went up to my room and my, my entire room was destroyed.

00:58:30.340 Every, every, every valuable item I've ever had in my life was taken, heirlooms from my grandparents, uh, gifts from my parents for graduation.

00:58:39.440 Um, um, really just like, really like token memories, you know?

00:58:46.560 Um, and so it was pretty devastating and we called the police and my police, they showed up 12 hours later.

00:58:55.380 Um, they said that when they finally came, that the delay was due to the fact that they're dealing with so many homeless overdoses.

00:59:04.220 So, um, they dust for fingerprints and say, yeah, this is going to be, this is a serious crime and we will take it seriously.

00:59:11.480 And don't worry.

00:59:13.320 Well, the next night, um, it happens again.

00:59:18.220 The next night?

00:59:19.120 The next night.

00:59:19.980 Yeah.

00:59:20.440 The next night he dismantles a window in our dining room, um, which is also my office.

00:59:27.300 And he, uh, he took whatever was left, which was nothing.

00:59:32.200 There was nothing left.

00:59:33.020 He can't, he, I mean, the guy would steal things like Easter eggs, like sunglasses, like a letter opener.

00:59:39.080 Um, in addition to really valuable stuff.

00:59:43.740 Um, and, uh, I believe he came back a third night, um, because, uh, I saw a car, um, lurking in the middle of the night outside of our house.

00:59:55.820 Um, and I saw a figure in this vehicle that ultimately matched the description of, of the perpetrator who was caught, um, about a month, about a month later.

01:00:06.700 And the story behind this is, is, I think, really quite interesting.

01:00:11.580 And was the reason why I undertook the research that I've done because the guy who did this to us was an illegal alien, a dreamer, actually.

01:00:21.500 An MS-13 gang member with a, uh, a convicted felon who had done seven years in prison, in California state prison for violent crimes.

01:00:32.180 He was deported by Trump administration, Homeland Security immediately after, uh, after getting out of prison.

01:00:39.600 In fact, he notes, uh, I've, I read the whole police report of this, um, in the course of like my trying to understand what took place.

01:00:47.380 And, uh, it's, it's funny, he comments to the, to the cops during his interrogation that, uh, as soon as he was released from, uh, state prison, ICE immediately picked him up and deported him back to El Salvador.

01:01:02.360 Immediately.

01:01:02.940 And while he was in El Salvador, he had his, um, uh, MS-13 face tattoo removed and he was in El Salvador for about a year or so.

01:01:15.140 And then went back, then traveled to France, I don't, for some, whatever reason, the guy had a, his, his, his day job was as a carpenter.

01:01:24.420 Um, and, uh, you know, actually his primary language was English.

01:01:29.200 So I guess we can be thankful for that.

01:01:31.940 Um, thank you, Lindsey Graham and the Dream Act.

01:01:35.320 Um, but he, uh, he sneaks back into the U.S. in 2021 under, during the Biden wave of, of migration.

01:01:45.480 And he proceeds to go on a rampage.

01:01:48.320 He, he does have a kid too at this time.

01:01:50.620 So we now have a U.S. citizen, um, to deal with, uh, and, um, he, he robs a dozen houses in the same manor all over L.A. County, but also in Ventura County.

01:02:03.260 He robs the home of a judge, a very, like, well-respected criminal judge who presided over the Michael Jackson death trial.

01:02:12.640 Um, it's funny, the police report notes that he took the judge's small-wristed, uh, Seiko watch, um, and, like, just, like, the guy would took anything and everything.

01:02:26.700 He took, you know, I saw the police reports and he was taking wedding rings.

01:02:30.960 He took a Catholic rosary box.

01:02:33.380 Like, there was nothing that was above limits.

01:02:38.520 He, he, you know, uh, again, like, he stole memories from people and he did so callously and with impunity.

01:02:46.820 And he was eventually, uh, arrested in, uh, Simi Valley, which is in Ventura County, which is tougher on crime overall than in L.A. County, but not by much.

01:03:00.600 And when he was arrested, um, by, uh, a joint task force, um, in the middle of the day, he was in his vehicle with his wife and child in the back seat.

01:03:13.680 Um, the police found on him a loaded, uh, stolen Kimber handgun with hollow point bullets.

01:03:21.160 Uh, they found body armor, which, by the way, is a federal crime because he's a convicted felon.

01:03:27.300 You cannot have body armor as convicted felons of federal crime.

01:03:31.540 They, he found, they found strange things like a bachelor's degree diploma from Armenia, um, currency, foreign currency, um, uh, knives.

01:03:44.660 Like, it went on and on and on and like, he was clearly, clearly a violent person.

01:03:49.500 And when he was brought into interrogation, the officer, uh, assigned to him started by saying, thank you for not opening fire on us.

01:03:58.920 We really appreciate that.

01:04:00.160 And he said, don't thank me because I was planning on killing you and for sure, quote, going Eric's on you, whatever that means, and taking my last stand, had it not been for the fact that my wife and kids were in the car because he said, I'm never going back to jail.

01:04:16.760 So, fast forward to his, uh, his arraignment, uh, in Ventura County, um, he's convicted on one count of one of these charges, maybe two counts.

01:04:27.520 But in any event, he's sentenced to two years in jail and a $300 fine, and he'll probably serve less than that.

01:04:34.800 $300 fine?

01:04:35.700 Yeah.

01:04:36.060 Did you get any of your stolen goods back?

01:04:37.720 No, no, no, the, the way I was notified was because he had my, uh, my driver's license and credit cards, um, and so, uh, as part of the investigation, they called all the other victims.

01:04:49.940 They also relayed this information to Santa Monica police.

01:04:53.980 Santa Monica police, despite the fact that they had a forensics team come in and swab and, you know, take this really seriously, like CSI style stuff.

01:05:04.240 Um, the assigned detective on my case has still a year, more than a year later, not even called me or attempted to interview me.

01:05:13.100 They have no interest.

01:05:14.360 And I've followed up many, many, many times.

01:05:16.160 They just don't care.

01:05:16.820 They don't care because there's no incentive to care because these crimes are considered property crimes in Los Angeles County.

01:05:23.560 Even though you were asleep in your home when this guy with a history of violence enters your home with you in it.

01:05:30.120 And if, if my brother had been awake and woken up, I think there's a high chance of a violent interaction that would have taken place.

01:05:37.080 I mean, I'm sure he was, had a, had a gun or a weapon on him when he did this.

01:05:40.840 There's no re there's absolutely no reason to doubt that.

01:05:43.420 So it's a miracle actually that, that, that we're okay.

01:05:48.380 Um, but I was so shocked by, by what happened.

01:05:51.900 And, and of course, after the second night, you just lose sense of like reality, like, how is this happening?

01:05:59.740 Like this can't, am I being targeted?

01:06:02.460 Like, and the cops really had no explanation for this.

01:06:06.960 Um, I think that this guy thought we were an easy mark because it was, it's an old house.

01:06:12.560 There's, there's still a handicapped parking sign in front of, uh, the house, you know, it's a, from my grandparents' time.

01:06:19.000 So he probably presumed there were old people living in the house, you know, and predators go for the week.

01:06:25.860 And, um, so, um, I, uh, in an attempt to try and like intellectualize and frame this experience, um, which still haunts us to this day.

01:06:39.960 I mean, you never feel quite the same in the home, you know, and that's a terrible thing when like a home that's been in your family for almost like four generations is stained and violated.

01:06:52.740 It's almost feels like an assault, like a sexual assault, even like it's, it's a very, very strange feeling.

01:06:59.220 I mean, burglary's gut you and, um, and it's made all the worse by the fact that victims are re-victimized by the justice system in California.

01:07:13.880 And so as I started to talk to, um, prosecutors and law enforcement agents, law enforcement officers about how this could have happened, what is going on in the state?

01:07:27.860 Is this common?

01:07:29.540 Like, how could it be common?

01:07:31.540 I spoke to a, uh, very, very well-respected victims' rights advocate and veteran deputy district attorney for LA County, um, a liberal, by the way, named Kathleen Cady.

01:07:45.520 And in the course of my interview and telling this story, she said, what's, what's so important about your story is that it's so relatable.

01:07:56.300 And I said, relatable, like, how is this in any way relatable that an MS-13 gang member, convicted felon, dreamer, illegal alien could break into your house brazenly two nights in a row, probably armed, threatened to kill police officers, um, and get two years in prison.

01:08:20.000 And this is relatable.

01:08:23.120 So if that is the case, then the system is fundamentally broken.

01:08:30.080 And in fact, I would go so far as to say that the entire, look, civilization is based around the social contract.

01:08:37.360 And the, the, the, the tenets of the social contract is that we set, we, we surrender certain freedoms to the government, to the state, which is supposed to have a monopoly on violence.

01:08:51.920 And the state in turn provides protection to us from the anarchic state of nature, as Hobbes put it.

01:09:01.120 So, right.

01:09:01.500 And not just in turn, but in exchange for.

01:09:03.900 Yes.

01:09:04.100 It's a transaction.

01:09:04.900 It's a transaction.

01:09:05.540 That's exactly right.

01:09:06.140 We're, we're buying safety and peace of mind in exchange for our money and some of our autonomy.

01:09:15.160 Exactly.

01:09:15.740 And when, and when, and that contract has been breached and broken in California.

01:09:20.520 So at that point, it's just, it's just theft.

01:09:22.560 Well, it negates, it negates the entire legitimacy of the government.

01:09:26.460 Well, that's exactly right.

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01:12:17.160 Ready for you.

01:12:21.620 So let me just now maybe

01:12:23.360 a time to ask a question about like

01:12:27.160 just the change in who lives in California.

01:12:29.160 So I lived in LA as a kid.

01:12:31.100 I think it was overwhelmingly white, the city.

01:12:33.240 And now it's overwhelmingly non-white.

01:12:36.600 That's not a racist statement to acknowledge.

01:12:39.940 It's a fact.

01:12:40.880 And as taken by the Department of Census every 10 years.

01:12:45.340 And it's a massive change.

01:12:46.960 It's an incredibly abrupt change.

01:12:49.120 In fact, it's a bigger change than probably any civilization

01:12:52.000 ever in history has experienced except during war,

01:12:57.020 except during invasion.

01:12:57.820 So like, that's a meaningful fact.

01:13:02.380 And how'd that happen?

01:13:03.440 Well, I'll give you a statistic.

01:13:06.580 In the LA school district, LAUSD,

01:13:13.420 195,000 students are English learners.

01:13:17.440 There's 90 languages officially spoken in LAUSD.

01:13:21.100 27% of California is foreign-born.

01:13:26.020 Of the whole 27%? 0.74

01:13:27.980 Of the entire state is foreign-born, mind you. 0.82

01:13:30.980 That doesn't mean like, you know, first generation,

01:13:34.160 which adds, probably makes a majority at that point.

01:13:38.120 In 1990, it was 20%, which is still high.

01:13:43.260 That was very much because of the Reagan amnesty

01:13:47.100 from the 80s.

01:13:48.540 86.

01:13:48.880 86.

01:13:49.080 86.

01:13:50.540 But today it's 27%.

01:13:52.840 And the national average, I think, is like 13%,

01:13:56.520 something like that.

01:13:58.060 Maybe a little higher.

01:13:59.240 Much higher now.

01:14:00.180 Much higher now.

01:14:00.560 Because they're illegals. 1.00

01:14:01.620 But California is by far,

01:14:03.720 has the greatest foreign, you know,

01:14:05.920 presence in the state.

01:14:08.020 And I think that, you know,

01:14:11.660 the reason for this is that we,

01:14:16.020 we long ago, you know,

01:14:17.620 and long before these laws that I've been discussing

01:14:20.560 and will discuss,

01:14:21.780 enacted policies that incentivized illegal aliens

01:14:26.380 to come into the state

01:14:27.400 because they would get welfare benefits.

01:14:30.540 They would get, basically,

01:14:33.120 more rights than the citizens.

01:14:34.680 In fact, I will tell you,

01:14:36.720 the junior prosecutors I talked to for this research

01:14:41.580 say that under George Gaston,

01:14:44.460 and this also is applied to other, you know,

01:14:48.560 other jurisdictions,

01:14:49.820 including, actually, under Kamala's policies,

01:14:53.880 but in L.A. County,

01:14:58.020 illegal aliens who commit certain crimes 0.90

01:15:01.500 are given special plea deals

01:15:03.100 that would never, ever, ever be given to a U.S. citizen

01:15:06.200 for the specific purpose of protecting them from ICE.

01:15:12.260 So, to me, that's a due process violation.

01:15:14.640 So, I do think anybody who advocates for

01:15:17.120 not just illegal immigration or mass immigration,

01:15:20.200 but any immigration of any kind

01:15:22.900 has to account first for California.

01:15:25.900 So, here's a state in which it's been tried

01:15:28.260 to the greatest possible extent,

01:15:30.020 and it went from the best state to the worst state.

01:15:32.380 Now, maybe you could say immigration

01:15:33.680 had nothing to do with that,

01:15:34.800 but you can't say immigration didn't change California,

01:15:37.420 and the fact is California's become

01:15:39.060 a much worse place to live,

01:15:40.480 and the immigration numbers from California prove that.

01:15:43.320 Six million have left California in the last 10 years.

01:15:46.080 Okay, so these are-

01:15:47.320 Seven million billion dollars in revenue

01:15:49.500 the state has lost as a result of that.

01:15:51.100 Right, so these are not, like, opinions.

01:15:54.440 This is not, you know, crazed right-wing ideology.

01:15:57.940 These are just numbers about our biggest

01:16:00.600 and most important state,

01:16:01.560 the biggest economy in the United States.

01:16:02.820 So, or was-

01:16:04.020 Part of that also, Tucker,

01:16:05.300 is the de-industrialization of California.

01:16:07.980 For sure.

01:16:08.520 There are lots of factors.

01:16:09.760 I'm just saying, if immigration is good, 0.97

01:16:12.060 then how about you explain California

01:16:13.920 before you impose any more of it on me?

01:16:15.520 Of course.

01:16:16.040 Well, California is a warning,

01:16:19.840 not just to the nation, but to civilization.

01:16:24.140 And what's the warning?

01:16:25.880 The warning is that oligarchy

01:16:29.000 is always at your doorstep and in reach,

01:16:35.360 and if it's not vigilantly guarded against,

01:16:38.660 it will consume you, it will terrorize you,

01:16:41.480 it will control every aspect of your life

01:16:44.360 and reduce you to a state of misery.

01:16:47.180 Because California has now stratified

01:16:49.820 between, into something that, you know,

01:16:53.000 I think Victor Davis Hanson

01:16:55.180 has very eloquently discussed that,

01:16:58.120 you know, over the years,

01:17:00.100 which is that California has actually regressed

01:17:02.520 into some kind of political economy

01:17:05.860 that is reflecting neo-feudalism even,

01:17:10.500 where you have a very small,

01:17:13.940 extremely rich,

01:17:15.120 the most powerful, super rich in the world

01:17:20.100 and an underclass of serfs.

01:17:23.520 And the middle class have left 0.97

01:17:27.260 and are leaving more and more

01:17:28.820 costs of living, other reasons,

01:17:31.200 de-industrialization,

01:17:33.660 you know, the overall disintegration of the state,

01:17:37.380 which the elites are insulated from, of course.

01:17:41.160 They have private security.

01:17:42.900 Of course.

01:17:43.520 And private schools or tutors.

01:17:45.340 Everything.

01:17:46.020 And so the aristocracy rules the state

01:17:49.660 and yet in California,

01:17:52.480 because language is manipulated

01:17:54.120 in almost Orwellian fashion,

01:17:57.000 oligarchy has become to mean progressive.

01:18:02.240 Yeah, or quote, democracy.

01:18:03.880 Or democracy.

01:18:04.700 I guess what,

01:18:05.500 and I've heard Victor say that thing

01:18:07.280 and I've nodded along as he said it

01:18:09.060 and not to be picky about it,

01:18:11.700 but if I could just defend feudalism

01:18:14.040 against what we're seeing in California right now,

01:18:15.820 the idea of feudalism,

01:18:17.880 while repugnant to the American mind,

01:18:20.220 in my mind,

01:18:21.400 was still based on mutual need.

01:18:25.880 The guy who owned the property,

01:18:28.180 the lord of, you know,

01:18:31.420 of the manor,

01:18:32.500 was dependent upon his serfs

01:18:34.760 as they were dependent upon him.

01:18:37.640 I mean, it was a symbiotic relationship.

01:18:39.420 For sure.

01:18:39.860 So if the serfs died,

01:18:41.800 he became impoverished.

01:18:43.540 Well, the symbiotic relationship here

01:18:45.400 is that the serfs provide electoral hegemony.

01:18:49.540 For sure.

01:18:50.920 But I guess what I'm saying is

01:18:53.500 over time,

01:18:55.100 a feudal family had a built-in incentive

01:18:57.220 to, at the bare minimum,

01:18:59.140 make sure that their serfs

01:19:01.060 weren't dying of fentanyl ODs.

01:19:03.700 Oh, yeah.

01:19:04.020 Whereas I don't see that happening

01:19:05.800 in California, doesn't it?

01:19:06.760 They have no skin in the game.

01:19:07.640 2022 to 2023,

01:19:09.660 there were 11,400 fentanyl overdests,

01:19:13.540 the highest in the country.

01:19:15.660 In California.

01:19:16.520 California.

01:19:17.580 So, yeah,

01:19:19.380 I guess they don't,

01:19:20.460 maybe to put a finer point on it,

01:19:22.280 the people who,

01:19:23.100 whereas the lord in feudalism

01:19:25.360 needed the labor of the serfs, 0.77

01:19:27.860 the lords of California

01:19:29.160 do not need the labor of their serfs.

01:19:29.940 Of course not.

01:19:30.340 Because the industries

01:19:32.120 are service industries

01:19:33.940 or they're tech

01:19:34.720 and they require

01:19:35.540 a very, very small number

01:19:36.760 of people to do it.

01:19:37.440 Exactly.

01:19:38.020 Right?

01:19:38.300 And that's part of the

01:19:39.480 deindustrialization,

01:19:41.220 financialization

01:19:42.280 of the state

01:19:43.720 that,

01:19:44.380 which provided for

01:19:46.260 middle-class jobs

01:19:48.180 and opportunity

01:19:49.040 that is increasingly fleeting

01:19:51.600 and fleeing

01:19:53.120 in the state

01:19:55.000 and especially

01:19:56.240 in Southern California.

01:19:58.040 And as a result of that,

01:19:59.880 especially the exodus

01:20:00.980 of aerospace

01:20:01.780 and defense industries

01:20:02.980 from the state,

01:20:04.820 we have,

01:20:05.680 you know,

01:20:07.700 Republican voters

01:20:08.740 have left.

01:20:10.320 And LA County,

01:20:11.400 which used to be

01:20:12.080 a Republican stronghold,

01:20:14.280 became a blue stronghold.

01:20:16.420 And at that point,

01:20:17.600 California became

01:20:18.440 a one-party state.

01:20:19.380 And one-party states

01:20:20.560 are characterized

01:20:23.240 by corruption.

01:20:24.940 Yes.

01:20:25.600 Inefficiency,

01:20:27.300 psychosis,

01:20:28.860 I would argue,

01:20:30.540 and all sorts of evils.

01:20:33.480 And ultimately,

01:20:36.740 it is the antithesis

01:20:39.440 of democracy.

01:20:40.480 And of course,

01:20:41.180 that is exactly

01:20:43.360 what these people

01:20:44.940 claim that they are defending.

01:20:46.360 Democracy!

01:20:47.120 Exclamation point.

01:20:47.740 Yeah, no,

01:20:48.240 the ironies are manifold.

01:20:50.080 Can you just back up

01:20:50.780 one moment?

01:20:51.580 Of course.

01:20:51.600 I never thought about that.

01:20:52.520 So you said

01:20:53.120 one-party states

01:20:54.920 abet corruption,

01:20:56.180 of course,

01:20:56.820 inefficiency,

01:20:58.380 all true,

01:20:59.440 psychosis.

01:21:00.560 Yeah.

01:21:01.300 Why do you say that?

01:21:02.120 Well, I think because

01:21:03.200 of the laws

01:21:04.000 that we've seen

01:21:04.900 put into effect,

01:21:06.280 the laws

01:21:07.500 were so obviously

01:21:08.800 going to

01:21:10.680 engender

01:21:12.440 criminality

01:21:14.280 across the state.

01:21:15.640 Yeah.

01:21:15.940 Right?

01:21:17.160 It's like in law,

01:21:19.160 you know,

01:21:19.460 in torts,

01:21:20.780 we,

01:21:21.280 you know,

01:21:21.560 the idea of negligence

01:21:22.940 is the foreseeability

01:21:24.760 of harm.

01:21:25.780 Right.

01:21:26.520 And that is what

01:21:27.720 really triggers

01:21:28.840 a liability.

01:21:30.260 You knew this could happen,

01:21:31.340 but you let it happen anyway.

01:21:32.620 And so,

01:21:33.360 California's government

01:21:35.300 and frankly,

01:21:36.880 uneducated voters

01:21:37.900 have inflicted

01:21:40.600 a grievous tort

01:21:42.240 upon the state.

01:21:43.560 And I think that

01:21:44.560 it is so reckless

01:21:46.060 that to me

01:21:47.720 it is psychotic.

01:21:49.560 It is a form

01:21:50.540 of psychotic, 0.73

01:21:51.600 sociopathic behavior.

01:21:53.200 And certainly

01:21:53.900 many of the people

01:21:54.840 implementing these policies 0.99

01:21:56.660 are raving psychopaths. 0.96

01:21:59.380 A really impressive 0.96

01:22:02.220 young deputy district attorney

01:22:06.140 in Alameda County

01:22:07.040 said to me

01:22:07.780 with respect to

01:22:09.280 the kind of

01:22:10.880 progressive

01:22:11.580 DA of that

01:22:13.340 county

01:22:14.440 named Pamela Price

01:22:15.800 that she's,

01:22:17.180 quote, 1.00

01:22:17.260 a raging psychopath 0.99

01:22:18.620 who wants to 1.00

01:22:19.600 burn down civilization.

01:22:20.880 And I will tell you

01:22:22.480 that every prosecutor

01:22:23.720 that I spoke to

01:22:24.780 and I spoke to

01:22:25.740 10

01:22:26.740 over the course

01:22:28.260 of

01:22:28.600 30 hours

01:22:30.280 of interviews

01:22:30.940 and I also spoke to

01:22:33.240 you know,

01:22:33.860 equal number of cops.

01:22:35.440 But the

01:22:36.380 one commonality

01:22:37.980 that

01:22:38.380 every single prosecutor

01:22:40.320 I talked to

01:22:40.940 mentioned

01:22:41.240 was that

01:22:41.840 there seems to be

01:22:42.980 a motivation

01:22:43.640 by the true believers

01:22:44.820 of burning

01:22:45.920 the system down.

01:22:47.060 They are Jacobins. 1.00

01:22:48.660 They are radical anarchists.

01:22:50.180 They want 0.98

01:22:50.820 to hurt you.

01:22:52.120 They want 1.00

01:22:52.760 to kill you. 1.00

01:22:56.660 I mean, 1.00

01:22:57.260 I'm going right

01:22:57.780 to the spiritual

01:22:58.360 explanation for that

01:22:59.340 but is there another?

01:23:00.740 Like,

01:23:01.000 what could motivate that?

01:23:03.620 I mean,

01:23:04.100 look,

01:23:05.100 if you're asking,

01:23:07.220 I mean,

01:23:07.520 of course,

01:23:08.000 like personal power,

01:23:09.120 right?

01:23:09.420 So like George Gascon

01:23:10.620 is not,

01:23:12.360 you know,

01:23:12.760 it's been told

01:23:13.800 to me by people

01:23:14.640 who would know him

01:23:15.280 that he's not

01:23:15.800 particularly ideological.

01:23:18.540 He was a,

01:23:19.460 he was a, 1.00

01:23:19.920 he was a lousy 0.86

01:23:21.120 LAPD cop

01:23:22.300 that apparently

01:23:23.040 everyone hated.

01:23:25.120 He moved to Arizona

01:23:26.440 at some point,

01:23:28.340 got a law degree

01:23:30.620 in an unaccredited

01:23:32.420 law school.

01:23:34.540 And through the,

01:23:36.140 you know,

01:23:36.460 the machinations

01:23:37.380 of the one-party state,

01:23:39.420 which of course

01:23:39.940 elevates people

01:23:41.200 based entirely on,

01:23:43.040 do you,

01:23:43.360 you know,

01:23:43.840 has this identity

01:23:44.940 check mark

01:23:45.660 been met or not?

01:23:46.880 Like,

01:23:47.120 Kamala's the avatar

01:23:48.120 of that.

01:23:49.080 But he ends up

01:23:50.340 as district attorney

01:23:52.860 of San Francisco

01:23:54.200 and appointed

01:23:55.560 by Gavin Newsom

01:23:56.440 and mayor,

01:23:57.580 succeeding Kamala Harris.

01:23:59.780 And he follows

01:24:00.520 the money,

01:24:02.280 you know,

01:24:02.480 Steve Cooley puts this

01:24:03.320 very eloquently,

01:24:04.240 he follows the money,

01:24:05.120 the Soros money

01:24:05.800 down to LA

01:24:06.500 to run for,

01:24:07.500 for,

01:24:08.220 for a district attorney

01:24:09.980 in 2020.

01:24:10.600 And it just so happened

01:24:11.800 that,

01:24:12.620 you know,

01:24:13.660 this was the perfect

01:24:16.220 ripe opportunity

01:24:17.420 given the riots

01:24:19.160 of the George Floyd

01:24:20.940 incident

01:24:21.960 and the mood

01:24:24.140 of the nation

01:24:24.740 at the time,

01:24:25.460 particularly in California,

01:24:26.540 when the most radical

01:24:28.540 policies and people

01:24:30.300 could rise

01:24:32.540 to positions

01:24:33.540 that was otherwise

01:24:34.700 unimaginable.

01:24:38.400 Gascon has,

01:24:39.660 has absolutely decimated

01:24:41.880 Los Angeles.

01:24:43.020 He has stacked

01:24:44.380 his office

01:24:46.000 with public defenders.

01:24:48.120 He has,

01:24:49.300 he has put in directives

01:24:51.040 the first day

01:24:52.060 of,

01:24:52.480 of,

01:24:53.060 of his tenure

01:24:54.060 that include,

01:24:55.360 of course,

01:24:55.620 no cash bail,

01:24:57.340 no enhancements,

01:24:59.520 no,

01:24:59.820 no juveniles tried

01:25:01.400 at adult court.

01:25:03.640 Obviously,

01:25:04.540 no death penalty.

01:25:06.760 And he,

01:25:08.580 he has also,

01:25:09.880 there's,

01:25:10.280 this is particularly insidious.

01:25:11.860 There is a parole

01:25:13.860 committee called

01:25:14.920 JACE.

01:25:16.520 What,

01:25:16.960 I forget exactly

01:25:17.700 what that stands for,

01:25:18.860 but basically,

01:25:19.880 it's an opportunity

01:25:20.900 for victims

01:25:23.020 to appear

01:25:24.640 with their

01:25:26.120 offenders

01:25:27.080 who are up for parole

01:25:29.200 and to make a statement,

01:25:31.060 you know,

01:25:31.560 what,

01:25:31.960 and then this committee

01:25:33.040 will decide

01:25:34.000 on whether or not

01:25:35.780 to grant parole.

01:25:37.320 and under Gascon,

01:25:41.020 prosecutors

01:25:41.740 who typically

01:25:42.980 would,

01:25:43.400 would accompany

01:25:44.480 these victims

01:25:46.120 for this,

01:25:47.920 you know,

01:25:48.580 frankly,

01:25:49.040 an ordeal,

01:25:49.860 they're,

01:25:50.300 you know,

01:25:51.020 seeing your perpetrator again

01:25:52.720 is,

01:25:53.220 in a rape case,

01:25:54.260 you can imagine

01:25:54.680 what a trauma that is.

01:25:56.880 Well,

01:25:57.320 Gascon said,

01:25:58.540 prosecutors are no longer

01:25:59.600 allowed to accompany victims.

01:26:01.860 And in fact,

01:26:02.680 what they are now,

01:26:03.880 the victims are now required

01:26:05.000 to do

01:26:05.440 is to write

01:26:06.700 a persuasive essay

01:26:08.080 submitted to the committee

01:26:09.580 and the committee

01:26:10.720 is stacked entirely

01:26:11.920 of public defenders.

01:26:14.040 Come on.

01:26:15.260 Seriously.

01:26:17.820 That's grotesque.

01:26:19.120 Can I ask something

01:26:19.620 that occurs

01:26:20.240 as you're speaking

01:26:20.800 about Gascon?

01:26:21.540 So,

01:26:22.320 you've said that

01:26:23.740 all organized

01:26:25.900 criminal activity

01:26:26.960 in the state

01:26:27.560 of California

01:26:28.060 is run in effect

01:26:29.140 by the Mexican drug cartels

01:26:30.400 through prisons.

01:26:31.240 And I've heard people

01:26:31.920 mention that before.

01:26:35.380 So,

01:26:35.820 let's just assume

01:26:36.420 that's true.

01:26:37.040 Sounds like it is true. 0.99

01:26:38.480 You just wrote a book on it.

01:26:40.200 How could Gascon

01:26:40.980 not know that?

01:26:42.560 I mean,

01:26:43.060 Gascon,

01:26:44.020 it's not clear

01:26:45.140 what Gascon knows

01:26:46.020 of anything.

01:26:46.880 But I'm just saying,

01:26:47.620 so,

01:26:48.000 in places

01:26:48.460 where drug cartels

01:26:50.220 run things,

01:26:51.760 which is a lot

01:26:52.500 of Latin America,

01:26:53.660 they also run

01:26:54.320 the politics.

01:26:54.940 Well,

01:26:55.460 let me put it this way.

01:26:57.240 Even more,

01:26:58.380 maybe,

01:26:58.620 relevant

01:27:01.320 to the time

01:27:01.960 that we're in,

01:27:03.060 I would say,

01:27:03.760 how did Kamala Harris

01:27:05.020 not know that?

01:27:06.220 Because Kamala Harris

01:27:07.380 as Attorney General

01:27:09.060 of California

01:27:09.780 in 2012,

01:27:12.500 under the auspices

01:27:13.340 of so-called

01:27:13.880 budget cutting,

01:27:15.040 budget reform,

01:27:16.580 eliminated

01:27:17.220 a 100-year-old agency

01:27:19.280 called the Bureau

01:27:20.020 of Narcotic Enforcement.

01:27:22.200 And it is

01:27:23.440 widely held

01:27:24.740 amongst law enforcement

01:27:25.760 officers

01:27:26.280 and on the

01:27:27.480 prosecution side

01:27:28.280 that this

01:27:28.720 was a very

01:27:29.580 important task

01:27:30.400 force

01:27:30.660 for fighting

01:27:31.380 organized crime

01:27:32.140 and had been

01:27:32.460 doing so

01:27:32.900 since Prohibition

01:27:33.860 and then

01:27:34.740 became a

01:27:35.280 major force

01:27:36.080 in disrupting

01:27:36.720 narcotics trade

01:27:37.500 in the state,

01:27:38.720 she disbanded it.

01:27:40.080 Well,

01:27:40.120 because she's

01:27:40.420 for narcotics.

01:27:41.500 She wants 0.85

01:27:42.240 a drug-addicted

01:27:42.780 population,

01:27:43.520 obviously.

01:27:43.700 she does whatever

01:27:44.860 she's told.

01:27:46.640 But I'm just

01:27:47.020 saying,

01:27:47.460 these drug cartels

01:27:49.360 are powerful

01:27:50.120 because they're

01:27:51.000 ruthless,

01:27:52.640 they're a cult 1.00

01:27:53.920 based on witchcraft,

01:27:55.360 but they're also

01:27:56.000 really rich.

01:27:57.220 Of course,

01:27:57.800 they're Fortune 500

01:27:58.800 companies.

01:27:59.200 Exactly.

01:28:00.000 So,

01:28:00.960 at some point,

01:28:01.880 like in Mexico,

01:28:03.000 they're in control

01:28:03.960 still because

01:28:04.940 they've paid off

01:28:06.540 all the politicians.

01:28:07.460 Well,

01:28:07.800 is that happening

01:28:08.440 in California yet?

01:28:10.240 No,

01:28:10.760 it's not clear to me

01:28:11.800 whether that's

01:28:12.580 happening to the extent

01:28:13.520 I'm certainly,

01:28:14.380 as expressed by

01:28:15.940 Tom Homan

01:28:16.880 when I spoke to him,

01:28:18.520 he says that

01:28:19.560 it's very hard

01:28:21.260 often to distinguish

01:28:22.440 the Mexican elite

01:28:23.540 from the Mexican

01:28:24.240 drug cartels.

01:28:25.360 Like,

01:28:26.160 there's an

01:28:27.740 interwoven

01:28:28.980 nexus.

01:28:30.000 Yeah.

01:28:31.420 And,

01:28:32.220 of course,

01:28:33.040 like in parts of Mexico,

01:28:34.500 the cartels

01:28:35.760 exert

01:28:36.180 actual

01:28:37.000 like authority

01:28:38.120 and governance

01:28:39.160 over certain regions.

01:28:40.420 In the Sierra Madre,

01:28:41.160 yeah,

01:28:41.300 for example.

01:28:42.520 But,

01:28:43.260 it's not really clear

01:28:44.400 to me

01:28:44.880 if they are

01:28:46.120 influencing

01:28:46.860 politicians

01:28:47.700 or,

01:28:48.520 you know,

01:28:49.060 through,

01:28:49.600 you know,

01:28:51.900 grift

01:28:52.300 or through

01:28:53.200 bribes

01:28:53.720 or anything.

01:28:54.180 I'm not clear

01:28:55.100 on that.

01:28:55.780 Yeah.

01:28:56.020 Well,

01:28:56.320 if not,

01:28:57.180 it's just a matter of time.

01:28:57.920 But I will tell you

01:28:58.440 that the

01:28:59.500 director of the

01:29:01.560 LAPD union

01:29:02.940 said to me

01:29:05.020 that

01:29:05.360 the cartels

01:29:07.040 are increasingly

01:29:07.900 committing

01:29:08.580 ransom

01:29:09.740 attacks

01:29:10.960 in San Diego

01:29:11.920 of high-profile

01:29:14.140 families

01:29:14.660 and this is not

01:29:15.480 getting reported.

01:29:16.980 Kidnapping,

01:29:17.520 as is so common

01:29:18.380 in Latin America.

01:29:18.900 Exactly.

01:29:19.440 Yeah.

01:29:19.720 They take him

01:29:20.220 across the border

01:29:20.900 and

01:29:21.960 so special

01:29:23.580 like

01:29:24.020 security forces

01:29:25.400 made up of

01:29:26.300 X

01:29:26.700 seals

01:29:29.040 and whatnot

01:29:29.720 have to go

01:29:30.520 into Mexico

01:29:31.060 and extract them.

01:29:32.900 This is now

01:29:33.800 apparently rampant.

01:29:34.840 It's insane,

01:29:35.820 but it shouldn't

01:29:36.300 surprise us.

01:29:36.860 That's a fact

01:29:37.360 of life

01:29:37.680 in Mexico City.

01:29:38.360 I mean,

01:29:38.640 human trafficking

01:29:39.580 is also

01:29:40.500 a very

01:29:41.820 like

01:29:42.240 serious

01:29:43.180 problem

01:29:43.700 in the state

01:29:44.520 and it's

01:29:46.200 of course

01:29:46.700 more lucrative

01:29:47.340 in some ways

01:29:48.240 than the drugs

01:29:48.940 because they can

01:29:49.780 be used

01:29:50.340 over and over

01:29:51.240 and over again 1.00

01:29:51.780 as sex slaves, 1.00

01:29:52.740 right? 0.99

01:29:52.940 So it's like

01:29:53.380 a recurring

01:29:54.580 revenue stream.

01:29:56.260 Although

01:29:56.540 fentanyl

01:29:57.380 should not be

01:29:58.240 underplayed

01:30:01.260 in any way.

01:30:03.740 Fentanyl

01:30:04.400 produces

01:30:05.240 like

01:30:05.580 200,000%

01:30:06.900 margin

01:30:07.460 and

01:30:08.920 fentanyl

01:30:09.680 according to

01:30:11.120 one of the

01:30:12.940 top gang

01:30:13.600 enforcement

01:30:14.180 detectives

01:30:15.020 in LA County

01:30:16.880 based out of

01:30:17.960 Compton,

01:30:19.880 ex-special forces

01:30:20.920 guy,

01:30:21.480 black guy,

01:30:22.280 incredible man,

01:30:24.120 he said to me,

01:30:25.660 fentanyl,

01:30:26.440 it's so ubiquitous,

01:30:28.200 it's like salt

01:30:29.140 and if you

01:30:30.520 buy a pill

01:30:31.060 off the street

01:30:31.760 it has

01:30:32.700 fentanyl in it

01:30:33.600 and that's

01:30:34.600 why,

01:30:35.080 you know,

01:30:35.960 in fact,

01:30:36.700 it's so deadly

01:30:37.660 and so dangerous

01:30:38.460 that even the

01:30:39.480 cartels are thinking

01:30:40.280 that maybe we

01:30:41.000 need to come up

01:30:41.780 with something

01:30:42.160 not quite as

01:30:42.840 lethal

01:30:43.220 because we're

01:30:44.020 killing our

01:30:44.420 customers. 0.97

01:30:45.780 Can I just ask

01:30:46.520 since you

01:30:46.880 mentioned Compton,

01:30:47.760 so Compton

01:30:48.300 was the largest

01:30:49.420 black population

01:30:50.920 west of the 0.70

01:30:52.440 Mississippi

01:30:52.920 since the

01:30:53.700 Second World War.

01:30:55.100 I was just

01:30:55.960 there.

01:30:56.900 It's Spanish

01:30:57.460 speaking.

01:30:57.880 So you've

01:30:59.120 had,

01:30:59.940 you know, 0.68

01:31:00.280 the black 0.77

01:31:00.840 population

01:31:01.420 of huge

01:31:01.880 parts of

01:31:02.260 LA

01:31:02.560 moved east

01:31:03.760 into the

01:31:04.680 Inland Empire,

01:31:06.060 murdered in

01:31:07.040 huge numbers

01:31:07.860 by newcomers

01:31:09.500 and I've

01:31:10.020 never heard,

01:31:10.800 and Maxine

01:31:11.280 Waters

01:31:11.560 supposedly

01:31:12.140 represents

01:31:12.680 Compton

01:31:13.080 though she

01:31:13.340 doesn't live

01:31:13.700 there,

01:31:14.200 but I've

01:31:14.680 never heard

01:31:14.980 a single

01:31:15.340 black

01:31:15.560 politician

01:31:16.020 in

01:31:16.240 California

01:31:16.620 mention

01:31:17.200 the fact

01:31:17.720 that illegal

01:31:18.180 immigration

01:31:18.720 has like

01:31:19.180 completely

01:31:19.580 overturned

01:31:20.480 life for

01:31:21.100 a lot of 0.54

01:31:21.600 black people

01:31:21.980 in California. 0.61

01:31:22.540 Not one

01:31:22.920 time have I

01:31:23.320 heard anybody

01:31:23.880 say that.

01:31:24.420 Why?

01:31:24.660 What about 0.95

01:31:27.920 your corrupt 1.00

01:31:28.360 pigs? 1.00

01:31:28.980 Yeah,

01:31:29.220 I mean,

01:31:29.600 obviously,

01:31:30.360 but I

01:31:30.780 think it's

01:31:32.380 due to the

01:31:33.360 fact that

01:31:33.940 the power

01:31:35.200 is now,

01:31:36.400 the locus

01:31:36.920 of power

01:31:37.380 is with

01:31:37.960 the newcomers.

01:31:39.420 Of course!

01:31:40.400 So it's not

01:31:41.420 in their

01:31:41.720 interest to

01:31:42.200 ever comment

01:31:42.640 on these

01:31:43.020 things.

01:31:43.420 But if

01:31:43.600 your job

01:31:43.980 is to

01:31:44.240 represent

01:31:44.560 your constituents

01:31:45.600 or your

01:31:46.180 people...

01:31:47.320 When have

01:31:47.560 Democrats

01:31:48.000 ever

01:31:48.340 represented

01:31:48.840 black

01:31:49.280 people?

01:31:49.940 Fair,

01:31:50.920 fair.

01:31:51.400 I know,

01:31:51.860 it's just,

01:31:52.240 it's like

01:31:53.220 shocking this

01:31:53.980 could happen

01:31:54.580 and everyone's

01:31:55.840 watching it

01:31:56.360 or people

01:31:56.620 are paying

01:31:56.900 attention

01:31:57.220 or seeing

01:31:57.680 it,

01:31:58.220 especially

01:31:58.460 if you're

01:31:58.740 from California,

01:31:59.400 you're like,

01:31:59.620 well,

01:31:59.700 this is very

01:32:00.160 different from

01:32:00.800 what it was

01:32:01.280 10 years ago

01:32:01.800 and nobody

01:32:02.600 says a word.

01:32:03.540 You know,

01:32:03.740 it's interesting.

01:32:04.640 So in prison,

01:32:06.040 the prison system, 0.99

01:32:07.040 the black gangs, 0.99

01:32:08.460 every, 0.99

01:32:09.020 it's all obviously

01:32:09.820 racially segregated, 0.98

01:32:10.960 but the black gang 0.93

01:32:12.220 is called 0.99

01:32:12.980 the black

01:32:14.540 guerrilla family

01:32:15.460 and again,

01:32:18.160 according to this

01:32:18.900 gang enforcement

01:32:19.980 specialist that I

01:32:21.520 spoke to,

01:32:22.820 he said like,

01:32:23.500 well,

01:32:23.840 for the Mexicans,

01:32:24.640 it's about money,

01:32:25.680 money and power. 0.98

01:32:27.060 For the black

01:32:27.660 guerrilla family, 0.99

01:32:29.160 their enemy is the

01:32:30.060 government and like

01:32:32.340 they're political.

01:32:33.820 And I was,

01:32:34.480 and I thought to

01:32:34.880 myself,

01:32:35.200 well,

01:32:35.460 at least they have

01:32:36.020 an ethos.

01:32:37.960 No,

01:32:38.500 I agree.

01:32:39.460 It's just interesting.

01:32:40.400 You know,

01:32:40.600 California state

01:32:41.140 prisons are totally

01:32:41.940 racially segregated.

01:32:43.080 In fact,

01:32:43.380 they were ordered

01:32:43.920 desegregated at one

01:32:45.200 point and then the

01:32:45.940 prisoners complained, 0.70

01:32:47.260 the black prisoners 0.70

01:32:47.860 complained because 0.93

01:32:48.360 there's so many

01:32:49.200 that were getting

01:32:49.520 killed.

01:32:50.100 Yeah.

01:32:50.240 I mean,

01:32:51.100 look,

01:32:51.280 the fact that

01:32:51.940 this sort of

01:32:52.500 level of criminality

01:32:53.520 can exist within

01:32:54.480 the prisons,

01:32:55.160 it's such an

01:32:55.720 indictment of,

01:32:57.580 of the system

01:32:58.340 overall.

01:32:59.080 I mean,

01:32:59.400 it's a,

01:32:59.720 it's a joke.

01:33:00.520 And in fact,

01:33:01.200 all these cops I

01:33:02.080 talked to say,

01:33:02.860 the gangsters

01:33:04.020 laugh at us.

01:33:04.900 They have no fear

01:33:06.600 of us.

01:33:07.340 They do not fear

01:33:08.300 the state.

01:33:09.380 Then how are the

01:33:09.840 prison guards the

01:33:10.520 highest paid state

01:33:11.460 employees in

01:33:12.060 California?

01:33:13.180 Because public

01:33:14.000 sector unions have

01:33:14.940 enormous power in

01:33:15.880 Sacramento.

01:33:16.240 But I mean,

01:33:18.160 if,

01:33:19.020 and I think that

01:33:19.580 that was always

01:33:20.200 true,

01:33:20.420 prison guards are

01:33:20.900 always the highest

01:33:21.560 paid.

01:33:22.460 I mean,

01:33:22.740 it's a dangerous

01:33:23.200 job.

01:33:23.640 I agree.

01:33:24.640 I'm not,

01:33:25.200 I know prison

01:33:26.140 guards,

01:33:26.440 I've always liked

01:33:27.140 them.

01:33:27.400 But on the other

01:33:27.880 hand,

01:33:28.640 if your job is to

01:33:29.540 guard the prison

01:33:30.260 and you're getting

01:33:31.040 paid more than

01:33:31.620 anybody else working

01:33:32.560 for the state in

01:33:33.120 California and the

01:33:34.960 gangs run the 0.99

01:33:35.780 prisons and that's

01:33:36.880 like,

01:33:37.180 there's something

01:33:37.520 wrong with that.

01:33:38.100 Look,

01:33:38.320 obviously there's

01:33:39.060 enormous corruption

01:33:40.000 such that phones

01:33:41.540 are smuggled in.

01:33:43.100 A communication

01:33:43.860 network obviously

01:33:45.020 exists because how

01:33:46.220 are you able to

01:33:46.980 manage a criminal

01:33:47.680 empire for them

01:33:48.580 within jail?

01:33:49.520 How are you able

01:33:50.260 to order executions

01:33:51.860 and hits within

01:33:52.980 jail?

01:33:54.340 So there,

01:33:55.360 it's porous,

01:33:56.380 but I think the

01:33:57.480 bigger issue

01:33:58.340 ultimately,

01:33:59.020 and this is why I

01:33:59.560 don't think it's

01:33:59.920 the prison guards

01:34:00.700 fault,

01:34:01.140 it's the state's

01:34:01.920 fault.

01:34:03.900 Gangsters do not 1.00

01:34:04.820 fear the law.

01:34:07.060 They do not fear

01:34:07.820 the law and they

01:34:09.060 commit crimes with

01:34:10.300 impunity.

01:34:11.320 They're committing

01:34:11.880 increasingly gun

01:34:12.880 crimes with impunity

01:34:15.060 because gun

01:34:16.400 enhancements,

01:34:17.320 as we talked

01:34:17.820 about,

01:34:18.400 no longer

01:34:18.900 apply in many

01:34:20.000 cases.

01:34:20.820 So gun violence

01:34:21.620 has gone way

01:34:22.280 up.

01:34:22.860 Like,

01:34:23.220 number of,

01:34:23.740 I think,

01:34:24.340 gun victims in

01:34:25.760 the last three

01:34:26.380 years has shot

01:34:27.800 up in L.A.

01:34:28.500 County like 63%.

01:34:30.060 But you've got

01:34:32.420 very strict gun

01:34:33.280 control in this

01:34:33.920 state.

01:34:34.040 Exactly,

01:34:34.580 right?

01:34:35.820 How hard is it

01:34:36.780 for you to own a

01:34:37.340 gun in California?

01:34:38.580 So I don't own a

01:34:39.520 gun.

01:34:40.480 I should at this

01:34:42.800 point,

01:34:43.240 but I understand

01:34:46.060 like it's quite,

01:34:46.960 it's quite,

01:34:47.620 you know,

01:34:48.180 a difficult process.

01:34:50.260 And a lot of the

01:34:51.700 guns that the 0.97

01:34:52.700 criminals are using

01:34:53.440 are all stolen.

01:34:55.400 They're not like

01:34:56.220 going to,

01:34:56.960 you know,

01:34:57.660 a sports shop and

01:34:58.540 buying a rifle.

01:34:59.920 You can get a 12

01:35:00.560 gauge for like 400

01:35:01.660 bucks.

01:35:02.360 Yeah.

01:35:02.800 Mossberg.

01:35:03.520 But like,

01:35:04.280 have you thought

01:35:04.980 about that?

01:35:05.900 I mean,

01:35:06.460 I'd love like one

01:35:07.560 of your like beautiful

01:35:08.360 hunting rifles.

01:35:10.000 I think you're

01:35:10.660 better off with a

01:35:11.320 12 gauge.

01:35:12.020 Hard to miss in

01:35:13.080 close quarters.

01:35:13.980 Yeah.

01:35:14.420 Yeah.

01:35:14.760 Easy to operate.

01:35:15.860 Well,

01:35:15.980 you know,

01:35:16.220 actually they say

01:35:17.060 the cops say the

01:35:17.940 best defense against

01:35:19.700 these kinds of

01:35:20.420 crimes is a,

01:35:21.340 is a big dog.

01:35:23.760 I have a cat.

01:35:25.320 Yeah.

01:35:25.720 I think,

01:35:26.340 I think the cops

01:35:28.260 lie a lot about

01:35:29.060 guns.

01:35:29.800 Sorry,

01:35:30.280 with respect to

01:35:30.900 cops,

01:35:31.180 they don't want

01:35:31.740 any competition.

01:35:32.540 They want to be

01:35:32.860 the only armed

01:35:33.340 people on the

01:35:33.880 scene.

01:35:33.980 Well,

01:35:34.160 they're getting

01:35:34.500 competition.

01:35:35.500 Well,

01:35:35.660 I'm very aware

01:35:36.300 of that.

01:35:36.860 Cops tend in 0.85

01:35:37.680 general to be

01:35:38.420 against an armed

01:35:39.180 citizenry.

01:35:40.880 I like cops.

01:35:41.840 I always defend

01:35:42.340 cops,

01:35:42.800 but on this one

01:35:43.300 question,

01:35:43.960 you know,

01:35:44.120 there are employees

01:35:44.900 that can keep 1.00

01:35:45.400 their dumb opinions 1.00

01:35:46.060 about guns to 1.00

01:35:46.620 themselves as far

01:35:47.260 as I'm concerned.

01:35:47.800 I agree.

01:35:48.060 And you have a

01:35:48.640 right to have a

01:35:49.140 gun and,

01:35:49.520 and I have a lot

01:35:50.860 of dogs.

01:35:51.240 I love dogs,

01:35:51.860 but a 12 gauge is

01:35:53.360 more effective than

01:35:54.040 a dog.

01:35:54.480 I'm just telling you

01:35:55.060 that.

01:35:55.180 Oh,

01:35:55.700 for sure.

01:35:56.480 Yeah.

01:35:56.880 For sure.

01:35:58.280 I will tell you,

01:35:59.240 you know,

01:35:59.420 on the cop issue,

01:36:00.780 another factor of

01:36:02.840 this story is the

01:36:04.040 erosion of the

01:36:04.940 quality of cops.

01:36:06.180 Yeah.

01:36:06.780 So what about

01:36:07.300 that?

01:36:07.500 Who'd be a cop

01:36:08.160 in L.A.?

01:36:08.820 Well,

01:36:09.160 right now we're

01:36:09.900 recruiting DACA,

01:36:11.320 you know,

01:36:12.300 illegal aliens

01:36:13.020 into the LAPD.

01:36:14.620 Actually?

01:36:15.220 Yes.

01:36:16.040 There's been five

01:36:17.080 so far and a

01:36:19.220 scandal actually.

01:36:20.020 Illegal aliens? 0.98

01:36:21.200 Yeah.

01:36:21.520 They're not allowed

01:36:22.160 to own firearms,

01:36:23.440 right?

01:36:23.740 They cannot have a

01:36:24.740 firearm when they're

01:36:27.140 off duty.

01:36:28.520 You have illegal

01:36:29.900 alien cops?

01:36:31.140 Yes.

01:36:31.400 So if we import

01:36:33.120 seven million

01:36:34.380 military-age men

01:36:36.620 into the United

01:36:37.240 States illegally,

01:36:38.160 which the Biden

01:36:38.680 administration has

01:36:39.440 done,

01:36:40.060 it does raise the

01:36:41.200 obvious question,

01:36:43.220 what is this?

01:36:44.440 Exactly.

01:36:44.920 Is this a mercenary

01:36:45.860 army for the ruling

01:36:47.940 class?

01:36:48.400 It certainly seems

01:36:49.160 like one.

01:36:49.760 And if they're

01:36:50.100 making them cops,

01:36:51.100 then it kind of...

01:36:52.000 Well,

01:36:52.420 let me tell you

01:36:53.300 a story that's

01:36:55.440 not been reported.

01:36:57.000 It's a cover-up.

01:36:58.400 And it was conveyed

01:36:59.580 to me by a senior

01:37:00.980 director of the

01:37:03.380 LAPD union.

01:37:04.660 It's called the

01:37:05.420 LA Police

01:37:06.060 Protective League.

01:37:07.260 And this is also

01:37:08.080 a 25-plus-year

01:37:11.240 veteran of the

01:37:12.280 LAPD and a

01:37:13.080 detective.

01:37:13.800 Both his daughters

01:37:14.880 are in the LAPD.

01:37:16.100 It's like he is as

01:37:18.960 plugged into this

01:37:20.080 world as anyone.

01:37:21.080 In fact, he said

01:37:22.680 to me in our

01:37:23.360 interview, he says,

01:37:24.780 I tell everyone,

01:37:26.060 don't come to LA.

01:37:27.320 We cannot

01:37:28.340 protect you.

01:37:30.400 But on the

01:37:32.100 DACA issue,

01:37:33.920 apparently in

01:37:34.800 February of...

01:37:37.800 Yeah, this last

01:37:38.880 February,

01:37:40.280 an off-duty

01:37:41.680 LAPD detective

01:37:42.840 encountered two

01:37:44.080 members of the

01:37:45.000 Serenio gang,

01:37:46.600 which is a very

01:37:47.260 violent, powerful 0.89

01:37:48.720 Latino gang in 0.80

01:37:50.360 Southern California.

01:37:52.100 They were

01:37:53.080 attempting to

01:37:54.300 rob a

01:37:55.960 steel's car.

01:37:57.320 So, there was

01:37:58.520 an exchange of

01:37:59.140 gunfire, and

01:38:00.460 the gangsters

01:38:02.020 got away in

01:38:02.940 their getaway

01:38:03.720 car.

01:38:04.480 They were

01:38:05.360 apprehended the

01:38:06.940 next day, and

01:38:08.100 it turns out that

01:38:09.540 the car was

01:38:10.240 registered to a

01:38:12.300 DACA cadet in

01:38:13.760 the LAPD.

01:38:15.300 And the LAPD

01:38:17.340 quietly shuffled

01:38:18.540 her either out of

01:38:19.800 the program or

01:38:21.640 just covered it up

01:38:22.880 entirely.

01:38:23.580 But the LA Times

01:38:24.340 did report on this

01:38:25.380 incident.

01:38:25.620 Wait, so they're

01:38:26.140 hiring illegal,

01:38:28.240 female illegal 1.00

01:38:29.680 aliens to be 0.92

01:38:30.820 copped.

01:38:31.220 With gang ties.

01:38:32.120 So, at that

01:38:32.520 point, it's just

01:38:33.100 they're, I mean,

01:38:35.240 it's not a

01:38:36.320 legitimate guy.

01:38:36.960 I mean, at that

01:38:37.420 point, you're just

01:38:37.900 like, you're begging

01:38:38.660 to be overthrown.

01:38:39.800 Of course.

01:38:40.360 Right?

01:38:41.020 Of course.

01:38:41.520 Do you know how many...

01:38:42.260 They have no

01:38:42.640 legitimacy at all.

01:38:43.380 Cops are 0.93

01:38:43.960 increasingly finding

01:38:45.720 alternative revenue

01:38:46.740 streams by becoming

01:38:47.740 private security

01:38:48.700 officers for the

01:38:50.720 elite.

01:38:50.960 And a lot of

01:38:52.360 the officers that

01:38:53.060 I've talked to

01:38:53.620 are doing that

01:38:54.320 because it's so

01:38:54.940 lucrative.

01:38:55.740 California has the

01:38:56.660 highest pay rates

01:38:59.360 for private security

01:39:00.760 and the highest

01:39:01.220 demand for private

01:39:02.100 security in the

01:39:02.720 nation.

01:39:03.800 And in fact,

01:39:04.540 like, I'll just

01:39:05.320 tell you, and

01:39:05.760 this is a difficult

01:39:07.220 thing to substantiate

01:39:08.640 for a variety of

01:39:10.760 reasons.

01:39:11.120 But I think it's

01:39:11.900 interesting, which

01:39:14.140 is that I heard

01:39:14.920 from, you know,

01:39:15.640 this LA County

01:39:16.940 Sheriff, former

01:39:19.160 like Major Crimes

01:39:20.120 Bureau lead, and

01:39:21.720 now in private

01:39:22.240 security, that he

01:39:25.520 believed it was

01:39:26.500 quite, you know,

01:39:28.060 well-known but

01:39:28.860 quietly known in

01:39:31.240 the private security

01:39:32.620 industry that George

01:39:34.040 Soros or his

01:39:35.540 proxies were

01:39:37.380 investing significantly

01:39:38.620 in private security

01:39:39.780 businesses.

01:39:40.960 This was also

01:39:41.960 confirmed to me by

01:39:43.300 a former head of

01:39:44.920 federal security

01:39:46.120 for LAX and

01:39:48.120 one of the top

01:39:49.140 traders on Wall

01:39:50.700 Street.

01:39:52.000 So, you know,

01:39:53.320 again, George

01:39:54.500 Soros' portfolio

01:39:56.120 and transactions

01:39:57.880 are private.

01:39:59.320 It's a family

01:39:59.860 office.

01:40:00.720 We really don't

01:40:01.580 know where the

01:40:02.660 investments are

01:40:03.380 going, but I

01:40:05.660 think it's

01:40:06.200 quite striking

01:40:09.580 to think that

01:40:10.460 there may be

01:40:11.160 other incentives

01:40:12.040 beyond simply

01:40:13.820 undermining the

01:40:15.340 law for some

01:40:16.440 kind of sake

01:40:17.660 of, you know,

01:40:19.060 creating a new

01:40:19.820 world, a

01:40:20.920 dystopia, of

01:40:21.760 course, but

01:40:22.400 nevertheless.

01:40:23.800 I don't think a

01:40:24.780 trader, a

01:40:26.140 financial trader,

01:40:27.400 maybe one of the

01:40:27.880 greatest in the

01:40:28.540 world, stops

01:40:29.740 becoming a

01:40:30.640 trader, right?

01:40:32.400 No, the worship

01:40:33.040 of money is a

01:40:33.760 disease, and it's...

01:40:34.760 Yeah.

01:40:35.400 So, I guess you

01:40:36.400 go back just a

01:40:38.020 couple minutes.

01:40:38.500 So, you said

01:40:39.540 that Kamala

01:40:40.980 Harris dismantled

01:40:42.480 the anti-narcotics

01:40:44.020 task force that

01:40:45.040 had been around

01:40:45.540 since Prohibition.

01:40:47.920 I'm wondering,

01:40:48.880 though, she has

01:40:50.080 bragged publicly

01:40:51.020 about dismantling

01:40:52.260 the cartels.

01:40:53.120 That doesn't seem

01:40:53.620 like the behavior

01:40:54.180 of someone who's

01:40:55.040 dismantling cartels.

01:40:55.900 How could she

01:40:56.340 dismantle the

01:40:56.940 cartels?

01:40:57.500 I just explained

01:40:58.860 that the cartels

01:40:59.620 run the state.

01:41:00.640 Right, that's

01:41:01.300 right.

01:41:01.500 So, when she

01:41:02.020 says that, I

01:41:03.280 mean, there's no

01:41:03.740 truth in that at

01:41:04.360 all.

01:41:04.720 There's no truth

01:41:05.280 in anything that

01:41:06.020 she says.

01:41:06.620 I mean, she is

01:41:07.920 the avatar of

01:41:09.960 moral bankruptcy

01:41:10.760 that represents

01:41:11.420 the state of

01:41:11.900 California.

01:41:12.820 Yeah.

01:41:13.160 Hollow, superficial, 1.00

01:41:15.980 stupid, sociopathic, 1.00

01:41:18.240 and I will tell you, 1.00

01:41:19.140 everyone that I know

01:41:20.660 who, Democrats,

01:41:21.980 who have worked

01:41:22.520 with her, including

01:41:23.300 like a very elite

01:41:24.360 consulting firm that

01:41:25.460 tried to manage her

01:41:26.220 campaign at one

01:41:26.860 point, they say

01:41:27.940 that she is lazy.

01:41:29.720 Steve Cooley also

01:41:30.440 says that, by the

01:41:31.100 way. 0.95

01:41:31.380 She was a lazy 1.00

01:41:31.920 prosecutor, and she 1.00

01:41:33.740 is vicious, and when

01:41:35.400 she doesn't do her 1.00

01:41:37.080 homework and gets

01:41:38.900 caught in, you 0.93

01:41:40.320 know, word salads

01:41:41.200 because she doesn't

01:41:41.820 know what she's

01:41:42.360 talking about, she

01:41:43.560 then lashes out on

01:41:44.580 her staff.

01:41:45.440 So, she's kind of

01:41:46.540 like an even 0.99

01:41:48.080 dumber version of 1.00

01:41:49.020 Hillary Clinton, and 1.00

01:41:51.640 I think, fortunately,

01:41:54.300 like, she's so 0.99

01:41:55.200 inept that the 1.00

01:41:56.540 country is starting

01:41:57.340 to see that, I

01:41:58.180 pray to God, because

01:41:59.560 if Kamala Harris

01:42:01.720 rises to the level

01:42:02.700 of the presidency, we

01:42:04.240 now have basically

01:42:05.300 exported California

01:42:07.580 nationwide, and as

01:42:11.420 I told you, and

01:42:12.440 it's the name of my

01:42:13.220 book, it is called

01:42:14.100 Failed State, a

01:42:16.420 portrait of

01:42:17.120 California in the

01:42:18.160 twilight of

01:42:18.700 empire.

01:42:20.480 I can't think of a

01:42:21.580 sadder title or a

01:42:22.600 more accurate one, and

01:42:23.480 I just refer back to

01:42:24.600 my own childhood in

01:42:25.600 that state.

01:42:26.860 I mean, the

01:42:27.220 distressing thing is

01:42:28.000 it's not like wrecking,

01:42:29.720 you know, I don't know,

01:42:30.420 I don't want to be

01:42:30.740 mean, but I can think

01:42:31.440 of a couple states

01:42:32.200 that, you know,

01:42:32.920 whatever, who cares?

01:42:34.320 California was the

01:42:34.980 greatest place on

01:42:35.880 planet Earth.

01:42:36.460 Of course.

01:42:37.080 Yeah.

01:42:37.800 So, but you know,

01:42:39.020 it's interesting about

01:42:39.560 Kamala, she actually

01:42:40.780 did go after, you

01:42:43.020 know, drug crimes, but

01:42:44.740 she went after people 1.00

01:42:45.600 who were smoking weed.

01:42:47.560 Yeah.

01:42:48.220 The easy ones.

01:42:48.840 The easy ones.

01:42:50.480 Right. 0.99

01:42:51.100 A lot of black 0.98

01:42:51.700 people.

01:42:52.660 Yeah, but she did not 0.98

01:42:53.540 go after the cartels

01:42:55.020 bringing in the drugs.

01:42:56.940 No, of course not.

01:42:57.240 No.

01:42:57.360 So, um, let's talk

01:43:00.280 for a minute about

01:43:01.040 who runs California.

01:43:02.080 So you're from

01:43:02.560 Southern California

01:43:03.140 and I'm, as am I,

01:43:04.240 I spent most of my

01:43:04.840 childhood in Southern

01:43:05.400 California, um, which

01:43:08.140 was, you know, by far

01:43:09.380 the most dynamic,

01:43:10.340 prosperous part of the

01:43:11.160 state, by far.

01:43:12.200 For sure.

01:43:12.660 Aerospace, you had

01:43:14.220 some ag, obviously

01:43:15.540 tourism, and then you

01:43:16.540 had the creative

01:43:17.040 industries, the movie

01:43:17.880 business, the record

01:43:19.040 business, both

01:43:20.100 headquartered there.

01:43:20.880 It's all gone except

01:43:22.040 the ag.

01:43:22.920 Yeah.

01:43:23.100 Um, but that's not

01:43:25.160 the part of the

01:43:25.740 state that runs

01:43:26.700 everything.

01:43:27.260 No, no.

01:43:28.060 And it hasn't for

01:43:29.240 some time.

01:43:30.560 Um, we haven't

01:43:31.600 really had a true

01:43:32.280 Republican governor,

01:43:33.160 uh, since like the

01:43:35.080 mid-90s with Pete

01:43:36.300 Wilson.

01:43:37.080 Yep.

01:43:37.560 Pete Wilson put

01:43:38.700 forward a, a very,

01:43:40.560 very famous, uh,

01:43:41.620 proposition called

01:43:42.500 187, which was

01:43:44.260 vote, supported by

01:43:45.440 voters by over 60%.

01:43:47.380 And it effectively

01:43:49.660 was to, um,

01:43:51.780 restrict any sort

01:43:53.960 of social services

01:43:55.180 except like non-emergency.

01:43:56.860 So we've still, you

01:43:58.420 know, allowed for

01:43:59.180 that, um, to

01:44:00.000 illegal aliens.

01:44:01.460 And, um, you

01:44:03.000 can't reward people

01:44:04.000 who are here

01:44:04.460 illegally with your

01:44:05.280 money.

01:44:05.660 So, right, exactly.

01:44:06.800 So we've, we went

01:44:07.660 from that to, let's

01:44:10.040 say, like, I think a

01:44:11.420 month or so ago, this,

01:44:12.840 the legislature put

01:44:14.140 forward a bill that

01:44:15.460 would give illegal

01:44:16.900 aliens, um,

01:44:18.120 preferential

01:44:18.640 mortgages.

01:44:19.840 Gavin Newsom, to

01:44:20.540 his credit, vetoed

01:44:21.560 that.

01:44:22.720 Preferential

01:44:23.160 mortgages?

01:44:23.860 They were, they

01:44:24.740 were very sweetheart

01:44:25.680 deals, like.

01:44:26.700 Can I just say,

01:44:27.580 because I can't

01:44:29.120 contain my

01:44:29.780 resentment, so

01:44:31.440 ever since Prop

01:44:32.400 187 passed, and

01:44:33.760 that was invalidated

01:44:34.580 by a judge, because

01:44:35.380 it's a democracy

01:44:36.200 where some judge

01:44:37.040 gets to, you

01:44:37.740 know, override

01:44:38.280 the will of

01:44:38.640 people, um, it's

01:44:40.040 also fake.

01:44:40.840 But ever since

01:44:41.920 then, a certain

01:44:42.820 kind of Republican

01:44:43.740 consultant, and

01:44:44.480 that would be the 1.00

01:44:45.340 dumbest people I've 1.00

01:44:46.200 ever met, and I'm 1.00

01:44:46.820 speaking specifically

01:44:47.580 of Frank Luntz, the

01:44:48.480 guy with the

01:44:48.800 hairpiece, but there

01:44:49.520 could be many

01:44:50.060 others, um, they've

01:44:51.980 lectured Republicans

01:44:53.060 about how 187 lost

01:44:54.620 California.

01:44:55.180 It was a

01:44:55.600 Republican, oh, I

01:44:56.360 know, it's such a

01:44:57.360 lie, but it's a

01:44:58.560 Republican state, and

01:44:59.540 Prop 187, which

01:45:00.740 should deny

01:45:01.240 welfare benefits to

01:45:02.800 illegal aliens, that 0.99

01:45:03.900 was hate, that was 0.99

01:45:05.080 racism.

01:45:06.100 Republican

01:45:06.540 consultants, and

01:45:07.580 guys like Mitch

01:45:08.100 McConnell and all the 1.00

01:45:08.840 dumb people in the 1.00

01:45:09.420 party bought that. 1.00

01:45:10.440 Well, and of

01:45:11.240 course, because

01:45:11.720 they're funded by

01:45:12.280 the Koch brothers, and

01:45:13.160 the Koch brothers want

01:45:14.060 to bring in cheap

01:45:15.140 illegal alien labor.

01:45:16.200 Yeah.

01:45:17.000 Simple as that.

01:45:17.880 I mean, I think it

01:45:18.980 was Lennon said that

01:45:19.860 the capitalists will

01:45:21.160 sell you the rope that 0.97

01:45:22.260 we'll use to hang 1.00

01:45:22.980 you. 1.00

01:45:23.220 Of course, that's

01:45:24.160 right.

01:45:24.480 So, sorry, I just

01:45:25.220 can't, um, but back

01:45:27.040 to your question.

01:45:27.520 We forget how

01:45:27.900 reasonable that is.

01:45:29.180 It's not, oh, it's

01:45:30.240 beyond reasonable, and

01:45:31.340 California used to be a

01:45:32.680 reasonable, safe, secure

01:45:34.380 state with really tough

01:45:36.100 laws that put gangsters

01:45:37.680 away, and, and, and

01:45:39.060 following, uh, the

01:45:40.800 three strikes law and

01:45:42.200 other reforms that came

01:45:43.580 at the late nineties

01:45:45.100 and into the early

01:45:45.760 two thousands, between

01:45:46.700 2000 and 2010, roughly, 0.94

01:45:49.420 it was a pretty damn

01:45:51.140 good place.

01:45:51.840 Like, Steve Cooley in

01:45:53.400 Los Angeles, uh, you

01:45:55.880 know, cleaned up a lot

01:45:56.940 of the mess.

01:45:57.560 Even his predecessor,

01:45:58.760 Jackie Lacey, did a,

01:45:59.740 did a relatively good

01:46:00.740 job, although she was 0.73

01:46:01.920 chased out of office

01:46:02.940 by, um, BLM, she's 0.97

01:46:04.780 black, she was chased 0.86

01:46:05.800 out of office by, and 0.98

01:46:06.880 literally harassed her

01:46:08.000 home by BLM activists

01:46:09.920 because she was not,

01:46:10.740 you know, um, in line

01:46:13.020 with their anti-police,

01:46:14.440 uh, anti-incarceration

01:46:15.800 agenda enough.

01:46:17.340 Um, and, um, so we

01:46:19.940 then have George

01:46:21.060 Gascon, uh, who

01:46:22.900 received two million

01:46:23.820 dollars from George

01:46:24.960 Soros. 0.78

01:46:25.680 Um, that was enough,

01:46:27.000 uh, it was, uh, for a

01:46:29.520 DA race, that actually 0.89

01:46:30.900 was extraordinary amount

01:46:31.880 of money.

01:46:32.620 Um, it's interesting

01:46:33.800 because Soros played

01:46:35.760 money ball with, uh,

01:46:38.200 these DA races all over

01:46:39.560 the country because he

01:46:40.600 realized that the

01:46:42.500 district attorneys have

01:46:43.740 enormous power because

01:46:45.280 they can set policy about

01:46:47.480 what crimes are going to

01:46:48.440 be prosecuted, which

01:46:49.400 are not, um, some of

01:46:51.620 these other directives

01:46:52.560 that I mentioned earlier

01:46:53.800 about cash bail and, and

01:46:55.300 so forth, although

01:46:56.280 George Soros is

01:46:57.080 actively, excuse me,

01:46:58.680 George Gascon is

01:46:59.720 actively in violation

01:47:01.040 of state law and just

01:47:03.140 operates, you know,

01:47:04.720 nonetheless.

01:47:06.280 Um, but Soros understood

01:47:08.500 understood that with a few

01:47:10.000 million bucks, you could

01:47:12.140 change a DA race.

01:47:14.800 Why would you want to?

01:47:15.740 Why would Soros, who's a

01:47:16.900 foreigner, I beg your

01:47:19.640 pardon, from Hungary, not

01:47:21.040 from here, why would you

01:47:21.960 want to wreck someone else's

01:47:22.960 country?

01:47:23.600 I don't understand that.

01:47:25.280 Soros DAs have 1.00

01:47:26.640 jurisdiction over like 75

01:47:28.700 million Americans.

01:47:29.980 Like, it's crazy.

01:47:32.620 What's the motive?

01:47:33.720 Like, why would you want

01:47:34.680 your George Soros, you

01:47:35.580 grew up in war-torn

01:47:36.460 Europe, then you go to

01:47:37.760 England, you help destroy 0.96

01:47:38.700 their economy, right?

01:47:40.240 Which he did.

01:47:41.540 And then you come to the

01:47:42.160 United States, which is like 0.66

01:47:42.960 the nicest country in the

01:47:43.780 history of the world, and

01:47:44.720 you decide you want to take

01:47:45.960 your ill-gotten gains and

01:47:47.300 use those funds to wreck

01:47:49.400 someone else's country?

01:47:50.680 Like, what is, what's the

01:47:52.180 motive here?

01:47:53.620 I talked to a lot of

01:47:55.200 people about this and, you

01:47:58.020 know, initially, again, I

01:47:59.440 didn't want to even go

01:48:00.420 down the Soros, you

01:48:02.780 know, rabbit hole, because

01:48:04.820 I...

01:48:05.400 Oh, you're not allowed.

01:48:06.380 You're not allowed, but

01:48:07.200 also, like, it's cliche at

01:48:09.760 this point.

01:48:10.220 It is.

01:48:10.240 It is cliche.

01:48:11.040 I agree.

01:48:11.420 But the fact is that it's

01:48:12.860 real.

01:48:13.800 It's real.

01:48:14.920 And it begs the question

01:48:18.020 of why.

01:48:19.060 Is it simply he is an

01:48:21.080 anarchist?

01:48:21.940 You know, anarchist?

01:48:23.680 Is he a financial

01:48:25.300 terrorist?

01:48:25.920 I would say yes.

01:48:27.700 But what is the

01:48:30.020 motivation?

01:48:32.080 I think, again, you

01:48:34.080 know, it...

01:48:35.040 I do not believe a

01:48:36.540 world-class, you know,

01:48:40.060 arbitrager, trader, ever

01:48:43.080 kind of leaves that

01:48:44.120 mindset.

01:48:44.760 There's always...

01:48:45.920 It's always money that

01:48:47.340 motivates.

01:48:48.440 So I think it is...

01:48:49.640 It's, you know, again,

01:48:50.360 this is entirely

01:48:51.280 speculation, but I would be

01:48:52.940 very interested to see what

01:48:54.460 is the portfolio of the

01:48:55.820 family office of George

01:48:56.900 Soros. 0.78

01:48:57.560 Is it real estate?

01:48:58.800 Because certainly the

01:49:00.000 crimes surge in cities like

01:49:03.460 San Francisco and Los

01:49:04.660 Angeles have depressed

01:49:06.620 real estate in these

01:49:08.460 downtown districts by 25%

01:49:10.440 at least.

01:49:11.700 And insurance premiums

01:49:12.960 have gone way up.

01:49:14.560 So is there a trade there?

01:49:17.840 Maybe.

01:49:18.420 I don't know.

01:49:19.080 But as I said, there's

01:49:21.640 a, you know, there's

01:49:22.600 people that I trust and

01:49:24.660 who would be in a

01:49:26.000 position to know that

01:49:26.920 indicate that there is

01:49:28.480 potentially other

01:49:30.580 motivating factors, at

01:49:32.180 least with respect to

01:49:33.240 Soros. 0.78

01:49:34.140 So that being said, you

01:49:35.640 know...

01:49:35.880 It's just crazy how

01:49:36.980 little defense the

01:49:38.500 United States has.

01:49:40.140 Like, we don't have

01:49:40.900 moral defenses.

01:49:41.960 We build this amazing

01:49:42.960 thing.

01:49:43.460 Amazing.

01:49:44.080 Greatest thing that's

01:49:44.660 ever been built by any

01:49:45.980 people in all of

01:49:47.480 history.

01:49:47.880 and then a few, I

01:49:50.660 don't know, evil

01:49:51.300 figures like Soros

01:49:52.340 roll in and we're

01:49:54.400 totally incapable of

01:49:55.340 saying, hey, Foreigner, 0.99

01:49:56.080 go away. 0.82

01:49:56.680 You're not allowed to

01:49:57.180 do that.

01:49:57.800 You can't do that to

01:49:58.760 us.

01:49:59.600 And by the way, we'll 1.00

01:50:00.240 like execute you if you 1.00

01:50:01.280 try to do that. 0.98

01:50:02.120 I mean, a normal society

01:50:03.000 would say, you know, we

01:50:04.200 built this, you can't

01:50:05.220 wreck it, but we're

01:50:06.020 totally incapable of

01:50:07.100 doing that.

01:50:07.220 A normal society, okay,

01:50:09.460 would have, given the

01:50:10.860 kind of violent

01:50:11.580 criminals that are

01:50:12.860 endemic in California

01:50:14.300 and that run prisons, 0.95

01:50:16.660 right, and commit

01:50:17.600 murders in prison,

01:50:19.300 literally, against

01:50:20.740 guards even.

01:50:22.020 A normal prison, I

01:50:23.020 think, would have

01:50:25.160 capital punishment

01:50:26.680 applied to these

01:50:27.480 prisoners, you know,

01:50:29.840 in the prison yard,

01:50:31.340 hangings, right?

01:50:32.460 Something, whatever it

01:50:33.920 takes to bring fear

01:50:36.480 of the law and of the

01:50:38.100 state to those who fear

01:50:39.880 only the justice of the

01:50:41.980 Mexican mafia.

01:50:43.100 That is who they fear 0.98

01:50:44.320 when they go to prison.

01:50:45.420 It's not the state.

01:50:46.560 It's a joke.

01:50:48.700 So then the Mexican 0.96

01:50:49.880 mafia is the state,

01:50:50.840 then, in effect.

01:50:52.160 In effect, yeah.

01:50:53.620 It's the final word.

01:50:55.680 If it is actually, yeah,

01:50:57.660 yeah, they are the final

01:50:58.440 arbiters.

01:50:59.400 Yeah.

01:50:59.580 They are the final

01:51:00.140 arbiters.

01:51:01.340 So then they're above

01:51:02.600 the state.

01:51:03.700 Yeah, they are.

01:51:08.180 So, I'm sorry I keep

01:51:09.640 interrupting you just

01:51:10.400 because it's an emotional

01:51:11.780 subject.

01:51:12.320 I think it's a really

01:51:12.760 important subject.

01:51:13.460 It's really,

01:51:14.640 it's really, really

01:51:15.760 upsetting.

01:51:16.240 We used to live there.

01:51:17.280 Yeah.

01:51:18.080 Yeah, it's deeply

01:51:18.900 upsetting to see your

01:51:19.780 home vandalized and,

01:51:22.740 you know, just literally

01:51:23.560 my home, but just my,

01:51:24.680 my, my hometown.

01:51:26.020 Yeah.

01:51:27.320 But you're saying that

01:51:29.180 Los Angeles is not where

01:51:30.720 the decisions are made.

01:51:31.520 Where are the decisions

01:51:32.160 made in California?

01:51:32.640 The decisions, the locus

01:51:34.620 of power in California

01:51:36.420 is centers around a

01:51:38.520 very elite and small

01:51:41.620 milieu in San Francisco,

01:51:44.400 largely around an area

01:51:46.260 called Pacific Heights.

01:51:47.280 Ah, that's where I'm

01:51:48.120 from.

01:51:48.840 Oh, nice.

01:51:50.420 Originally.

01:51:51.260 Oh, that's so funny.

01:51:52.080 Pacific, Pacific Heights is

01:51:53.500 the center of evil.

01:51:54.380 Well, and.

01:51:56.080 Pretty neighborhood

01:51:56.700 though.

01:51:57.680 Well, San Francisco is

01:51:58.820 one of the most beautiful

01:51:59.900 cities in the world.

01:52:01.080 It used to be.

01:52:01.680 Um, you know, like much

01:52:04.000 of California, um, but in

01:52:06.080 any event, um, the

01:52:08.020 oligarchy, uh, that has 1.00

01:52:10.220 been really in, in place

01:52:12.680 for almost a hundred

01:52:13.920 years, starting with the

01:52:16.440 Getty's involvement, um,

01:52:18.800 with, uh, the Newsom

01:52:20.780 family and the Newsom's

01:52:22.580 family involvement with

01:52:23.960 Jerry Brown goes back to

01:52:25.740 the 1940s and fifties.

01:52:27.660 And, um, the scions of

01:52:30.600 each of these, um,

01:52:31.680 uh, these dynasties, um,

01:52:34.600 all, you know, inter,

01:52:36.280 intermarried, they were

01:52:37.540 into business together.

01:52:38.920 Gavin Newsom's first, um,

01:52:41.120 you know, big kind of, you

01:52:43.160 know, entrance into the

01:52:44.440 scene was forming a

01:52:45.500 restaurant group called

01:52:46.540 Plump Jack, which he,

01:52:48.340 which was seeded by the

01:52:49.380 Getty family, uh, and was,

01:52:51.760 um, also co-founded with,

01:52:53.960 uh, uh, Billy Getty, who is

01:52:56.080 the son of Gordon Getty, who

01:52:57.680 is the son of J.

01:52:58.760 Paul Getty, um, and, uh,

01:53:01.460 the Eddies have funded

01:53:02.740 Gavin's entire political

01:53:04.360 career, and they've made

01:53:05.420 that possible, um, in the,

01:53:08.040 uh, the, the winery and

01:53:09.680 restaurant group.

01:53:10.740 The success of that became a

01:53:12.700 launching board into San

01:53:14.220 Francisco city politics.

01:53:15.720 Um, I think he was on the

01:53:17.440 board of supervisors and then

01:53:18.800 became mayor, um, and, uh,

01:53:21.860 but always there was this,

01:53:23.300 this, uh, commonality and,

01:53:25.760 um, nexus, uh, between, um,

01:53:29.640 Pelosi's family, Pelosi's

01:53:31.560 husband, the Getty's, uh, the

01:53:34.380 Browns and the Newsom's. 0.80

01:53:36.600 Um, so they're the old money

01:53:38.240 elite that have been running

01:53:40.260 the state for, you know, on or

01:53:43.640 off since the 1940s.

01:53:45.580 I mean, of course, there have

01:53:46.560 been Republican governors

01:53:47.560 here and there, and it used

01:53:48.800 to be, as we've talked about,

01:53:50.400 like a, um, uh, sort of

01:53:52.540 moderate state, you know,

01:53:53.640 sometimes you voted for

01:53:54.520 Democrats, sometimes voted

01:53:55.520 Republican, usually you voted

01:53:56.820 for Republican candidates,

01:53:58.380 presidential candidates.

01:53:59.660 Last one was George H.W.

01:54:01.400 Bush.

01:54:02.420 But, um, you know, the, the,

01:54:04.760 the accumulation of power

01:54:07.380 amongst this circle really

01:54:09.040 took hold after these changes

01:54:11.640 that, uh, that we've talked

01:54:12.780 about in Southern California,

01:54:14.620 the de-industrialization of

01:54:16.280 Southern California, the, the

01:54:18.440 exodus of, uh, at least six

01:54:21.200 million, um, uh, middle-class

01:54:23.680 Californians in the last decade,

01:54:25.760 and, um, and the, and the airspace

01:54:28.760 and defense leaving, leaving, uh,

01:54:30.780 Southern California.

01:54:31.460 Yeah, so L.A. then became a

01:54:33.620 Democrat, uh, a stronghold when

01:54:36.180 it was once a Republican

01:54:37.340 stronghold, and power shifted

01:54:39.800 to San Francisco.

01:54:41.020 And the other reason power

01:54:42.480 shifted to San Francisco is

01:54:44.460 because of the presence of tech,

01:54:46.820 big tech.

01:54:48.120 Yeah.

01:54:48.280 Big tech is the new money, and

01:54:50.460 the new money, uh, interweaves

01:54:52.800 with the old money through VC

01:54:55.100 investments and private placements

01:54:57.520 and other sorts of, um, you

01:54:59.680 know, uh, just kind of social

01:55:01.280 circles and Bohemian Grove, like

01:55:04.440 you name it.

01:55:05.100 And, um, so we then have a power

01:55:09.280 structure of, uh, an industry that

01:55:12.500 high, that is made up of very few

01:55:14.760 people, a lot of foreigners, by the 0.61

01:55:16.780 way, um, of course, and, um, the,

01:55:20.980 these kind of dynastic, almost like

01:55:24.260 ancient aristocrats in their, in

01:55:27.080 the manner of patron-client

01:55:28.880 relationships that define, um, uh,

01:55:32.980 this paradigm.

01:55:34.580 And, and they have, uh, you know,

01:55:37.980 formed an enormous, um, uh, let's

01:55:42.100 say, power block, um, with tech.

01:55:45.200 And, and through that, um,

01:55:47.680 connection, uh, California has been

01:55:51.120 ruled by this oligarchy.

01:55:52.660 But it's just weird in the

01:55:54.400 physical effects.

01:55:56.080 I mean, my mom's family got to

01:55:57.120 California in the 1850s from Maine

01:55:58.940 to find their, you know, fortune

01:56:01.420 and they did.

01:56:02.780 And so I've sort of gone there.

01:56:03.920 My whole life was born there.

01:56:05.560 Um, and it was, you know, I thought

01:56:07.860 a nice city, liberal in some ways,

01:56:10.160 very traditional in other ways, but

01:56:12.400 kind of the same, like the city that

01:56:14.220 saw the least amount of change.

01:56:15.880 And then after, during the tech boom,

01:56:19.520 99, 98, 99, all this money came in,

01:56:22.180 not just the South Bay renamed Silicon

01:56:24.520 Valley, but into the city, particularly

01:56:26.520 after 2000.

01:56:28.320 And I thought, well, okay, San Francisco

01:56:30.440 is really rich now.

01:56:31.860 Yeah.

01:56:32.500 It'll get better.

01:56:33.580 Right.

01:56:34.080 It was, it was pretty nice.

01:56:35.040 I thought, but it will get better.

01:56:36.860 The richer the city got, the dirtier

01:56:40.580 it got, the more dangerous it got,

01:56:42.620 the more chaotic it became.

01:56:44.380 Yeah.

01:56:44.980 The money made it way poorer.

01:56:47.480 Yeah.

01:56:47.900 What is that?

01:56:48.940 It's a paradox.

01:56:49.660 And it's very interesting.

01:56:50.820 Well, it's bizarre when Twitter moved

01:56:52.200 its head, cause there were, you know,

01:56:53.500 all tech was again, south of the city.

01:56:55.580 But then when the tech companies

01:56:56.780 started moving into city, like, oh,

01:56:58.240 it's this beautiful city.

01:56:58.940 It's our Cape town.

01:56:59.520 And then it became like such a rich

01:57:02.360 city, richest city in the United States.

01:57:05.300 It instantly became dirty.

01:57:07.700 Like, what is that?

01:57:08.520 This is happening in Southern

01:57:09.620 California too.

01:57:10.580 So in Venice, California, Google has,

01:57:13.460 has established a big office and Venice

01:57:17.520 is marred by just tragic levels of

01:57:22.900 homelessness that are shocking, shocking.

01:57:25.920 And sites that I had only seen when

01:57:29.360 traveling like to, you know, the poorest

01:57:32.500 parts of Guatemala, maybe worse in some

01:57:36.320 ways, but right around the corner from the

01:57:39.880 Google office in Venice is a, let's call it a

01:57:45.980 shanty town, a favela even maybe, but tent

01:57:50.000 after tent after tent.

01:57:51.260 And right next to Google, it's a fascinating

01:57:55.640 dichotomy.

01:57:56.920 And I was told by someone who would know in

01:58:01.220 the private security sector and a former,

01:58:03.120 former cop that he has observed, because he

01:58:06.580 has done work for Google, that gang members,

01:58:11.380 local gangs extract tribute from each homeless

01:58:17.160 tent every single day, 20 to $50 a day.

01:58:21.260 And this is happening, he claims across the

01:58:25.000 city, there's 75,000 homeless in Los

01:58:28.240 Angeles.

01:58:29.640 And if they cannot meet the tribute, they are

01:58:32.760 forced to sell drugs or other crimes.

01:58:35.840 And by the way, thanks to, I believe this

01:58:39.420 was a Newsom policy.

01:58:43.300 Cops require, I have to get search warrants 0.50

01:58:46.140 to enter any tents.

01:58:47.340 So the tents have become denizens of, of, uh, dens

01:58:52.080 rather, of murder, of rape, of drug, the worst

01:58:56.320 kind of drug trade, um, and other forms of

01:58:59.640 depravity that shock the senses.

01:59:02.260 And it's right next to Google.

01:59:03.820 Right next to Google, yeah.

01:59:04.720 So I don't, I don't know.

01:59:05.900 I think obviously I'm too simple to understand the

01:59:08.120 modern world, but I always thought that the

01:59:09.640 problem was poverty and that people committed

01:59:12.460 crimes because they were poor and the richer

01:59:14.860 your society became the safer and more orderly

01:59:17.860 it became, but the exact opposite has been

01:59:20.960 true.

01:59:21.360 And it makes you wonder, like, is there some

01:59:23.840 evil emanating from these tech companies?

01:59:26.320 Answer, obviously yes.

01:59:28.320 That inspires chaos, depravity, crime, violence,

01:59:32.520 and filth. 0.84

01:59:33.300 Well, I think that the answer is, is also, uh,

01:59:36.400 structural and economic because tech is not

01:59:39.700 based upon, um, employing vast numbers of

01:59:44.600 people.

01:59:45.260 It's right.

01:59:45.620 Right.

01:59:45.800 It's, it's not productive labor.

01:59:48.260 Of course.

01:59:48.780 No, I get it.

01:59:49.520 I mean, it's like nine guys from India writing

01:59:52.000 code.

01:59:52.420 Exactly.

01:59:52.640 And so when, when, when that becomes the

01:59:55.300 dominant economic power in the state and, and

02:00:00.040 manufacturing leaves the state and there's

02:00:03.760 where do the, where, where do people, where

02:00:05.820 do the poor, poor working class people turn 0.96

02:00:08.180 to?

02:00:08.360 Okay.

02:00:08.640 But here's the housing crisis is, is also

02:00:11.060 part of it.

02:00:11.400 I get it.

02:00:11.820 I mean, it, it drops the value of labor to

02:00:13.980 zero.

02:00:14.260 So for the rich people, I just reply to your

02:00:17.460 point about what is getting richer and yet

02:00:19.260 worse.

02:00:20.060 Yeah, it's getting richer.

02:00:21.980 Uh, and, but the areas where the rich people

02:00:24.780 live, like Atherton are looking real nice

02:00:26.740 these days.

02:00:28.120 I was just in Atherton.

02:00:29.280 And Atherton's great.

02:00:30.320 Atherton at Malibu is great.

02:00:32.000 There are pockets of, I think Malibu still

02:00:34.180 is great.

02:00:34.600 Yeah, it is.

02:00:35.500 Um, it's so far away, you know, that, um,

02:00:37.820 it can be great, but, but I wonder if the

02:00:40.660 city of San Francisco though is such a

02:00:42.500 great example of the failure of leadership

02:00:45.060 and the failure of the ruling class to be

02:00:47.260 vested in the society from which they're

02:00:48.920 taking their riches in a normal society,

02:00:51.540 the rich people would say, Hey, I live

02:00:53.300 here.

02:00:53.460 My kids live here. 1.00

02:00:54.140 You can't do that shit. 1.00

02:00:55.140 You know, get off the sidewalk. 1.00

02:00:56.540 We're going to pay.

02:00:57.160 Hey, we're going to make the San Francisco

02:00:58.760 police department, the most efficient and

02:01:01.160 highly endowed police department in the

02:01:02.480 world.

02:01:02.800 We're going to have no crime.

02:01:03.800 Exactly.

02:01:04.320 The Saudis did that. 0.95

02:01:05.380 Why can't, why don't the tech barons do 0.99

02:01:07.340 that?

02:01:07.460 Well, because we became a one party state,

02:01:09.360 right?

02:01:09.820 So when Steve Cooley was DA of Los Angeles, uh,

02:01:15.160 you know, he was not about politics.

02:01:17.700 It, the, in fact, he says the, the, the job

02:01:20.820 of a DA is not to, you know, uh, kind of bring

02:01:26.780 politics into the, into the administration of

02:01:29.860 justice.

02:01:30.300 It is to go after bad guys and prosecute bad

02:01:32.660 guys and send them away and make the city 0.98

02:01:34.460 safer.

02:01:34.880 Yeah.

02:01:35.140 Using the laws, the elected legislators, right.

02:01:37.480 And in fact, at a local, you know, this was

02:01:41.400 also the case, even in San Francisco, back in

02:01:43.940 like the two thousands and the predecessor to

02:01:46.900 Kamala Harris, a guy named, um, Talanan, who, uh,

02:01:50.480 Terrence Talanan.

02:01:51.900 Yeah.

02:01:52.060 Right.

02:01:52.360 And he, he was a liberal, but also like one with a

02:01:55.800 sense of like duty to do the job.

02:01:58.500 But I think what happened is sometime around, like

02:02:01.380 again, around the 2000, late two thousands, when

02:02:03.860 Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris really came into, into

02:02:07.840 their, um, you know, to their, to their power

02:02:10.500 structures, um, and it's especially San Francisco, uh,

02:02:14.260 it became not about let's make this city better.

02:02:17.880 Let's make this safer.

02:02:19.600 It's about how do I get my next promotion?

02:02:24.460 You know, term limits in California were, which I

02:02:27.120 supported were supposed to fix all this and they

02:02:31.440 seem to have made it worse.

02:02:32.720 Do you understand what, again, this is one of

02:02:34.900 those paradoxes that I don't fully understand.

02:02:36.760 I've just noticed.

02:02:38.420 I don't know.

02:02:40.780 I mean, I, they didn't work.

02:02:42.120 I think we can say that.

02:02:42.960 Right.

02:02:43.320 I mean, clearly it's clearly something's not

02:02:45.740 working.

02:02:47.040 Right.

02:02:47.700 Again.

02:02:48.780 Yeah.

02:02:49.780 Could you remember that?

02:02:50.660 Maybe you don't remember, but maybe you're too

02:02:51.980 young, but like term limits came to California and

02:02:53.540 you're like, okay, this is going to make

02:02:55.600 legislators much more responsive. 0.99

02:02:57.940 They can't live forever in these dumb jobs, but 0.99

02:03:00.460 it seems like they have lived forever in these 1.00

02:03:03.500 dumb jobs. 1.00

02:03:04.000 They've just traded up jobs. 1.00

02:03:05.320 They just keep moving around.

02:03:06.520 You know, I've also heard it's compared to like

02:03:08.500 the fact that we have a full-time legislature

02:03:10.600 versus Texas that has a part-time legislator and

02:03:14.020 that has a moderating effect.

02:03:16.980 Um, I think, I think that's like a good analog, um,

02:03:20.160 for comparison.

02:03:20.980 I mean, Sacramento is out of control.

02:03:23.220 Um, we, there's super majorities, Democrat

02:03:25.960 super majorities in both houses.

02:03:27.620 There's not a single Republican at any, any, uh,

02:03:31.080 administrative, um, you know, uh, officer level

02:03:34.380 position in the state.

02:03:35.560 I think the last one was maybe insurance

02:03:38.280 commissioner.

02:03:39.400 Right.

02:03:40.000 And there are no statewide Republican.

02:03:42.440 Correct.

02:03:43.080 Office holders.

02:03:43.740 That's right.

02:03:44.680 Yeah.

02:03:44.900 There haven't been for years.

02:03:47.240 And the minority, Republican minority is so small in

02:03:50.780 the legislature, legislative bodies that they're

02:03:52.880 irrelevant.

02:03:53.520 And our Republicans are weak. 1.00

02:03:55.660 I mean, Meg Whitman was pathetic. 1.00

02:03:58.580 She ran, uh, she spent $150 million of her own money 1.00

02:04:02.160 to run for governor in 2010.

02:04:04.580 And she lost overwhelmingly to Jerry Brown.

02:04:08.460 Yeah.

02:04:09.000 I went to a, I went to her house in Atherton,

02:04:11.440 speaking of Atherton at that time.

02:04:13.520 Um, what is it you would think that the Republican

02:04:17.040 office holders in the state, the few who remain would

02:04:19.160 be even clearer eyed and more resolute, but they

02:04:23.000 seemed even more cucked than they were.

02:04:25.360 Yes.

02:04:25.820 I would say, I would say so.

02:04:27.360 I mean, the California Republican party basically

02:04:29.060 doesn't exist.

02:04:29.820 If you want to run, uh, as a, as, as you cannot run as 0.77

02:04:33.820 a Republican.

02:04:34.360 I mean, for instance, uh, uh, Rick Caruso ran for mayor,

02:04:40.240 uh, recently.

02:04:41.740 Um, he was, you know, well-known Republican, um, but he

02:04:45.700 had to switch in Los Angeles against Karen Bass. 1.00

02:04:48.680 Yeah.

02:04:48.920 Against Karen Bass.

02:04:49.840 And, uh, he switched to the Democrats, uh, party, uh, for

02:04:55.320 to facilitate, you know, the, the run and give him a

02:04:57.800 chance.

02:04:58.060 He still lost, um, and there's Karen Bass been a

02:05:02.240 pretty great mayor.

02:05:04.200 I mean, this, the board of supervisors, uh, in LA have,

02:05:09.180 you know, a lot more power in some ways, um, than the, um,

02:05:13.380 than, than the mayor itself.

02:05:15.260 Um, you know, it's kind of, it's the mayor of Los Angeles

02:05:17.980 does not have the power of like the mayor of New York

02:05:20.560 City.

02:05:21.800 Um, but you know, I mean, Karen Bass did what she, uh, 1.00

02:05:27.400 she, she has done the job she was tasked for, which is to

02:05:31.540 have a black woman as mayor and fulfill an identity politics, 0.94

02:05:36.460 um, quota, in my opinion.

02:05:40.820 Um, is Gavin Newsom who survived a recall effort, pretty

02:05:46.200 serious, look like pretty serious recall effort, at least two

02:05:50.240 terms now, governor.

02:05:51.140 Um, is he popular?

02:05:54.480 You know, I'm not sure.

02:05:55.560 I haven't seen like, uh, any, any recent like polling on that.

02:06:00.340 Have you ever been at dinner and heard someone say, man, I'm

02:06:02.940 just glad Gavin Newsom runs our state.

02:06:05.000 No, no.

02:06:06.220 So in a one party state, it doesn't really matter.

02:06:08.280 Like everyone's Brezhnev at a certain point.

02:06:10.200 It doesn't really matter.

02:06:11.280 Exactly.

02:06:11.720 Yeah.

02:06:12.040 Whether people like what they're getting, they're getting it.

02:06:14.460 Yeah.

02:06:15.380 Yeah.

02:06:15.680 The only thing that matters is the democratic primary, of

02:06:18.560 course.

02:06:19.580 And there is like internecine divisions within the party, just

02:06:24.360 like in China.

02:06:25.260 Oh, big time.

02:06:25.840 Right.

02:06:26.200 And in fact, it's kind of interesting that, um, you know,

02:06:29.480 Gavin is not like on the hard left of the democratic party in

02:06:32.560 California.

02:06:33.020 Um, I, I actually, in some ways think he's probably much more

02:06:39.500 reasonable and moderate than, than he, you know, has portrayed

02:06:44.120 himself to be.

02:06:45.520 Um, I, I can, as someone who knows him, I can confirm that.

02:06:48.520 Yeah.

02:06:48.660 That is true.

02:06:49.220 Yeah.

02:06:49.720 He's Gavin Newsom is, I think responsible in large part for

02:06:53.900 what's happening in California.

02:06:55.240 There's no excuse for that.

02:06:56.620 He'll be held, you know, he'll be held accountable for that on

02:07:00.380 some level in some life.

02:07:01.600 Um, however, just in point of fact, he is not some crazy left

02:07:05.560 winger.

02:07:06.000 No, look, I'll be honest with you.

02:07:07.160 I like him personally.

02:07:08.320 Yeah.

02:07:08.340 Everyone does.

02:07:09.000 Yeah, I really do.

02:07:10.200 And I, I, I really wish, you know, he was a phenomenal

02:07:14.280 governor.

02:07:14.940 I think, you know, if, if we do have to live in a one party

02:07:18.380 state, at least our leaders should be, you know, really

02:07:21.460 competent, um, within the machine.

02:07:23.860 Um, and I think he had a lot of potential, um, and certainly,

02:07:29.700 um, you know, but.

02:07:31.600 But he's also a slave and captured by, by this movement and

02:07:36.020 this, this leftism, um, that has, has, has cast this pal over

02:07:41.640 California.

02:07:42.780 He's weak inside.

02:07:43.780 There's no doubt.

02:07:44.600 Yeah.

02:07:44.800 So can I ask, like what the, there are still very powerful

02:07:47.520 business interests, mostly the people making AI planning our

02:07:51.340 enslavement.

02:07:52.440 Um, why don't those people get together and just like pay for a

02:07:56.340 good government?

02:07:56.860 Well, I will tell you that I have heard at least from folks in

02:08:01.440 the VC world that, um, there is a lot of, um, quiet support

02:08:10.240 even in this cycle for, for Trump.

02:08:12.860 Well, that's true.

02:08:14.740 There is.

02:08:15.540 And there's some loud support.

02:08:16.780 I mean, Mark Andreessen, who's the biggest VC in the state, um, has

02:08:20.540 come out for Trump publicly.

02:08:22.420 So that's good.

02:08:23.400 But I just mean within the state of California, why don't they get, as

02:08:27.420 long as you're going to have a corrupt one party state, as long as it's

02:08:29.500 going to be Guatemala.

02:08:30.240 Okay, fine.

02:08:30.740 That's what we are now.

02:08:32.360 Why don't the oligarchs get together and just say, well, we're at least 0.84

02:08:35.660 going to have, I don't know, nice roads and functional schools. 0.77

02:08:40.580 And your daughter's not going to get raped on the way to CVS.

02:08:43.960 Like, why not just do that?

02:08:44.700 I think it's not, it's because, it's because these nobles do not have

02:08:48.280 noblesse oblige.

02:08:51.460 Now we're cooking with gas.

02:08:53.420 That's exact.

02:08:54.000 Okay.

02:08:54.420 Can you expand on that?

02:08:55.360 Yeah.

02:08:56.120 So, so the idea, you know, for societies that are stratified by class and

02:09:04.460 where there is especially, um, you know, an aristocracy that has a

02:09:08.820 political, you know, hegemony, um, as well as social power, uh, there was a

02:09:14.380 sense, I think, um, in, in those kind of societies in the past, even, even

02:09:18.600 frankly, you know, within the United States that there were certain

02:09:21.720 responsibilities as a noble to your, your county, to your, to your city, to

02:09:30.080 your, to your, you know, land, uh, and so forth.

02:09:33.840 To your nation.

02:09:34.420 To your nation, of course.

02:09:35.600 Um, but, uh, today we have a situation where, um, there's a disconnect from

02:09:42.820 that and it's entirely about the self and it's nihilism.

02:09:47.120 They all wear t-shirts and live on boats.

02:09:48.800 Right.

02:09:49.300 They're totally disconnected.

02:09:50.280 They're completely removed from the, the bad schools, from the bad roads, um,

02:09:56.980 from the crime.

02:09:58.660 They have private police force, basically.

02:10:01.540 Because they're not Christians. 1.00

02:10:02.540 That's the actual difference.

02:10:03.620 Yeah.

02:10:03.900 They're not Christians. 1.00

02:10:04.560 They're not believing Christians. 1.00

02:10:05.960 And a believing Christian feels a sense of obligation to the poor and the people over 0.98

02:10:12.040 whom he exerts authority to the people below him.

02:10:15.020 I mean, that's just part of the religion.

02:10:16.500 Well, right.

02:10:17.120 So like when we talk about neo-feudalism and maybe how that's not a perfect analog, I would

02:10:21.800 add in support of your approach is, well, at least in feudalism, they believed in God.

02:10:27.620 Well, and that had certain obligations.

02:10:29.120 It actually structured the entire society.

02:10:31.780 Right.

02:10:32.060 Well, this is a separate conversation, but I was probably 40 years old before I'm interested

02:10:35.840 in history.

02:10:36.320 I realized that the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance were

02:10:41.100 referred to as, quote, the dark ages.

02:10:42.680 And there's sort of very little conversation about that among people who specialize in European

02:10:47.440 history.

02:10:47.760 And it's like, why?

02:10:48.740 Why are we dismissing a thousand-year period as the dark ages?

02:10:51.400 Because actually, it wasn't that dark.

02:10:52.920 Because actually, these were not societies built on, you know, debt slavery.

02:10:58.600 These were societies built on Christianity. 0.86

02:11:01.840 And that's kind of why they've been dismissed as dark and unworthy of further study or, you

02:11:08.700 know, conversation.

02:11:10.220 We have nothing to learn from the dark ages.

02:11:12.000 And that's all like a huge lie.

02:11:14.540 Actually, they had a much more enlightened ruling class than we have.

02:11:18.480 I would say that, you know, if you're going to make historical comparisons to, like, let's

02:11:23.740 say, are we in a new dark age, you could argue that, you know, the so-called dark ages

02:11:30.000 was characterized by a separation from Hellenism and classical ideas and literacy, right?

02:11:41.620 And so, I think you could argue, frankly, that modern America, actually, modern society as

02:11:49.540 a whole, and this is especially true in California, is also disconnected from its history.

02:11:55.660 It is forgetting its history, purposefully.

02:11:58.040 Oh, I know.

02:11:58.780 And we're also becoming, ironically, we are subject to more information than we can absorb.

02:12:06.060 And so, we absorb nothing.

02:12:08.160 And maybe that's a kind of new illiteracy.

02:12:10.100 I think that's exactly right.

02:12:12.760 And I think good weather plays a huge role in this.

02:12:14.940 Places with really good weather, you see this on Australia as well, allow people to sort

02:12:20.860 of drift along in a state of content numbness.

02:12:25.240 Yeah.

02:12:25.860 And they don't ever, they're sort of content with, you know, an ever-declining standard of

02:12:32.700 living and an ever-shrinking basket of freedoms.

02:12:35.740 At this point in California, you have the right to have an abortion. 0.99

02:12:37.920 That's kind of your only right.

02:12:38.820 And they just, they're so, because it's 75 and sunny, they don't complain.

02:12:44.580 You know what I mean?

02:12:45.420 Whereas in, say, Romania, they might complain.

02:12:49.680 Yeah.

02:12:49.840 You know, it'll be very interesting to see if there are ever, if things get so bad that

02:12:54.780 it catalyzes action by the voters.

02:13:00.440 One of these prosecutors I talked to from Alameda counties, we were discussing the broader

02:13:06.760 implications of how we got to the place that we did.

02:13:10.060 And she says, she said to me, she said, I blame you.

02:13:15.440 And I said, what?

02:13:17.080 She said, I blame, and when she said, you, I mean the uneducated voter, right?

02:13:22.400 The voters that are susceptible to the marketing gimmicks of our politicians that reframe legalizing

02:13:36.260 theft as Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act.

02:13:39.860 And this kind of complacency has resulted, you know, in a significant way to the degradation

02:13:48.640 of the state.

02:13:49.760 Well, it's just, look, this is just a dot on a continuum.

02:13:52.920 This is a moment in time.

02:13:53.980 And all, every bad thing that you described has been made possible by liberal whites. 0.58

02:14:00.840 Yes. 0.97

02:14:01.260 And their bad, their decadent attitudes.

02:14:04.400 And California is a Latin American country basically now with some recognizable Latin

02:14:08.980 America country problems like rule by cartel and corrupt politics and the rest, one party

02:14:12.820 state.

02:14:13.480 But at some point, it's going to be characterized by another feature of Latin American society,

02:14:17.560 which is fascist interludes, where you're going to have like a military junta or some strong

02:14:21.460 man take over California and all these new immigrants, they're not rich white liberals, 0.99

02:14:26.980 actually.

02:14:27.520 They probably don't think theft should be legal.

02:14:30.020 Right.

02:14:30.460 And you're going to get some Caudillo in charge of that state. 0.92

02:14:33.800 He's going to put an end to all this nonsense.

02:14:35.280 You know, and maybe that would not be so bad.

02:14:37.860 I mean, it's preferable to what we have now.

02:14:39.860 I mean, would you rather have Gavin Newsom or Buckelly?

02:14:43.000 Or Buckelly.

02:14:43.600 Exactly.

02:14:44.260 That's not a hard choice.

02:14:45.800 Exactly.

02:14:46.600 It's not a hard choice.

02:14:47.200 So that's very different from the state that you and I grew up in, completely different,

02:14:50.900 which was basically an egalitarian state where even rich people, like I grew up in a rich

02:14:55.860 part of the state, and we didn't feel like we were a class apart, that everyone else was

02:15:01.360 a serf.

02:15:02.040 You know what I mean?

02:15:02.600 I didn't drive through the Central Valley feeling like I have nothing in common with

02:15:05.580 these people.

02:15:06.320 I feel like, well, they're Californians just like me.

02:15:08.640 That's over.

02:15:09.960 You know, I wanted to mention something.

02:15:11.920 But don't you think we're in the chaotic middle period between one system and a new system?

02:15:17.240 Oh, yes, for sure.

02:15:18.580 In fact, Victor Davis Hanson, who was very kind in helping me with some of the research

02:15:28.640 for my book, made some incredible insights on the comparison of the late Roman Empire,

02:15:38.360 really the period between 376 AD and 476 AD, and what we're experiencing now in California.

02:15:44.400 And that period—

02:15:45.760 Can I just say, thank you for saying that, because the fifth century is when we think

02:15:51.140 of the end of Rome, but we forget that there was at least a century preceding that where

02:15:55.040 it was like on the way to the fall.

02:15:56.460 Of course.

02:15:57.100 Yeah.

02:15:57.400 And it was characterized by things that are eerily similar to what we're seeing in California.

02:16:02.900 So, of course, there is the erosion of borders.

02:16:06.880 There is the influx of migrants about, I think, like one or two million from Germanic and Huns

02:16:14.640 into Rome, not assimilated, breakdown of law at the county levels, a disconnect from the

02:16:24.580 capital.

02:16:26.660 And a lot of those immigrants in Rome went into law enforcement, went into the legions.

02:16:30.660 That's right.

02:16:31.940 That's right.

02:16:33.640 And there was also cultural factors where the elite were—Hansen calls this—it's called

02:16:43.640 luxus.

02:16:44.780 And it was this notion that the elite at that time were embracing decadence, cult religions,

02:16:56.280 hello trans, right? 0.91

02:16:58.100 Of course.

02:16:58.480 And other sort of values that were antithetical to the martial values that built the Roman

02:17:07.040 Republic and the Roman Empire.

02:17:08.540 Decadent narcissism and Carmela Harris, whatever the hell she's calling herself now, is just 1.00

02:17:14.580 the poster girl for that.

02:17:16.480 She is the personification of everything that is bad about California.

02:17:20.740 And it's not because she did all that awful of things in California.

02:17:25.300 She actually doesn't have that much of a track record in California. 0.98

02:17:29.460 But that's the point, isn't it? 0.97

02:17:31.260 She is a—she is just a husk. 0.97

02:17:34.080 She is a face.

02:17:35.640 And she is the right face that qualified for, you know, hit the quotas that are necessary 0.73

02:17:44.700 in California to advance.

02:17:46.620 And therefore, we see in her this shell of a person.

02:17:53.820 Always talking about herself.

02:17:55.480 Of course.

02:17:56.060 That's all she—it's the only thing she thinks about.

02:17:58.660 Right.

02:17:59.000 But it's always—

02:17:59.880 Do you know her book's called Smart Crime?

02:18:03.280 No.

02:18:04.440 Can you please use air quotes around the word book?

02:18:06.660 Yeah.

02:18:07.000 Yeah, yeah.

02:18:07.480 Well, it was actually ghostwritten.

02:18:09.240 Of course.

02:18:09.920 You think?

02:18:11.420 And plagiarized.

02:18:13.800 I'm sure.

02:18:17.400 Both ghostwritten and plagiarized.

02:18:19.840 So even her ghostwriter was lazy.

02:18:21.500 Yeah.

02:18:22.540 Amazing.

02:18:22.860 No, but it's so perfect.

02:18:26.180 It's just this Vesuvius of banalities about herself and me, me, me, I this, I that.

02:18:33.580 It's like, you know, if you're going to talk about yourself, there should be some requirement

02:18:36.560 to be interesting.

02:18:37.720 Yeah, yeah.

02:18:38.620 But it's never interesting.

02:18:39.820 Do you know what I mean?

02:18:40.400 It's always whining about microaggressions and I, you know, freedom and all.

02:18:46.180 It's just like it's so banal.

02:18:48.300 You can just barely stand it.

02:18:49.980 I would rather have an interesting dictator, you know?

02:18:53.520 The chapter in my book on her, I call the banality of evil.

02:18:57.560 Yeah.

02:18:58.020 Well, it's perfect.

02:18:59.400 And it's the sense that these, like, these actions or inactions, rather, over time that

02:19:07.700 seem incremental lead to outcomes that actually produce incredible evil and violence.

02:19:15.560 Exactly.

02:19:16.700 And though she is not pulling the trigger, right, she's not even passing some of the

02:19:21.760 laws, I hope I can get to, which are even more insane than what I've already told you.

02:19:28.320 But she nevertheless is part of this machine.

02:19:31.240 And she's also tied to the Gettys, by the way, just incidentally.

02:19:36.340 They all are Pelosi's, Gettys, Newsom, Brown's, like, it's all the same. 0.76

02:19:41.660 Willie Brown, too, of course.

02:19:44.760 And so there's nothing, there are no accomplishments to speak of.

02:19:49.440 And nothing changed when she was vice president.

02:19:52.020 No, but this is what happens when girls become dictators. 1.00

02:19:54.660 Right.

02:19:54.820 They build nothing, they create nothing, you don't even get, like, big, pretty buildings

02:20:00.100 out of it.

02:20:00.680 And then they kill you by passive aggression. 0.99

02:20:03.280 Exactly. 0.91

02:20:03.960 Yeah.

02:20:04.360 Exactly.

02:20:05.420 I'd much rather, yeah, I'm not to make a gender thing out of it, but if we're going to have 0.96

02:20:09.060 a dictator, at least, you know, he should be wearing a cape.

02:20:11.840 Yeah.

02:20:12.200 And building, you know, a coliseum or something, I don't know.

02:20:16.240 They can't even build light rail. 0.99

02:20:17.840 I'm trying not to use the F word in that darn state. 0.99

02:20:20.740 So, okay, let's get to the laws. 0.99

02:20:23.180 Yeah.

02:20:23.680 I've got to stop.

02:20:24.480 So, after Prop 57, 2016, that passes, we jump ahead to 2020, where I think everything

02:20:34.480 broke down across the world, but especially in the United States and especially in California.

02:20:40.860 And as a result of the George Floyd riots, which, by the way, all of the law enforcement

02:20:47.980 officers I've talked to who were there and were there for the 1992 riots say, these two

02:20:53.500 cannot even be closely compared, gangsters in LA during the George Floyd riots were laughing 0.99

02:20:59.020 their asses off because they didn't give a, excuse me, a shit about George Floyd at all. 0.97

02:21:04.920 Everyone knew he was just a... 1.00

02:21:06.500 Some armed robber dies with fentanyl.

02:21:09.020 Exactly.

02:21:09.380 They need a revolution.

02:21:10.340 Okay.

02:21:10.600 Exactly.

02:21:11.300 And, oh, by the way, the guy who robbed us on the police report, it says like, any drugs,

02:21:17.860 are you on any drugs?

02:21:18.540 And he writes in like crayon, fentanyl.

02:21:22.220 He's on fentanyl?

02:21:23.260 Yeah.

02:21:23.800 Yeah.

02:21:24.120 He's on fentanyl.

02:21:24.620 Everyone's on fentanyl.

02:21:26.620 In the criminal world.

02:21:27.980 It's like salt.

02:21:28.720 They're on fentanyl?

02:21:29.660 Yeah.

02:21:29.840 It's like salt.

02:21:30.600 Well, he was taking it because he had been stabbed like a year or two before.

02:21:35.880 And so he takes it for the pain and to stay level when he's doing carpentry and not...

02:21:41.040 It's so soul killing.

02:21:42.400 Have you ever taken opioids like after a surgery or something?

02:21:45.680 I mean, I love laughing gas.

02:21:47.100 I had that once.

02:21:47.960 Laughing gas is a totally different thing.

02:21:50.300 I'm not defending nitrous, but I will say it's a totally different gig.

02:21:53.240 But, you know, any opioid drug has the same...

02:21:56.840 It just takes your soul away.

02:21:58.160 Yeah.

02:21:58.440 Well, that's what we see.

02:21:59.520 That's why it's the zombie apocalypse, right?

02:22:01.740 Yes, that's it.

02:22:02.320 But so after the riots and there was a momentous push for, again, I call it crime equity legislation.

02:22:14.820 And this took the form of two laws that have been absolutely devastating.

02:22:20.500 And I think that they probably will ultimately get thrown out by the Supreme Court because they're so egregious.

02:22:26.360 The first is called the Racial Justice Act of 2020.

02:22:29.860 And the Racial Justice Act of 2020 allows defendants, and it's retroactive, to challenge their convictions based on the presence of bias or racial animus by, let's say, anyone involved in the trial or on the police side.

02:22:53.040 Now, that doesn't have to have any bearing on whether or not the evidence supports their guilt at all.

02:23:00.980 These can be guilty people.

02:23:02.640 The evidence proved beyond a doubt.

02:23:04.180 But if there was a white racist involved at any level...

02:23:07.040 They can get their convictions thrown out under the Racial Justice Act or reduced significantly.

02:23:12.180 And this happened in the city of Antioch.

02:23:14.840 It's called the Antioch texting scandal.

02:23:17.540 Four young black gang members were on trial for attempted murder and murder, and very clear that they did it.

02:23:27.040 Gang enhancements were applied to them, which would mean that they were going to face a lot more jail time.

02:23:35.360 But at the same time, it came out that the police officers in Antioch were texting racist, so-called racist messages to each other in private, not as part of the job, not relating to even their involvement in the case, but just about these defendants.

02:23:58.580 And when this came out, the judge presiding over the case utilized the Racial Justice Act and threw out all the gang enhancements against these guys.

02:24:10.000 So they had no longer killed anybody because the cops were mean?

02:24:13.080 Let me tell you how much worse it gets.

02:24:15.040 Defense attorneys can use statistical evidence, nebulous statistical evidence of racial disparity to support the case and satisfy their burden of proof.

02:24:28.580 That there is racial injustice.

02:24:31.240 So, for instance, if a jurisdiction is applying gang enhancements in greater proportion to black gang members than to some other group.

02:24:41.240 White gang members? 0.55

02:24:42.920 Yeah, whatever those are.

02:24:44.420 And under the Racial Justice Act, these statistical differences can be entered into consideration by the judge and whether or not to apply the RJA.

02:25:03.360 That's just like the end of civilization.

02:25:05.980 It gets worse.

02:25:06.700 The same year they, the Sacramento passed AB 3070, AB 3070 took away the ability of prosecutors to apply peremptory challenges to prospective jurors on the basis of bias.

02:25:31.400 So, for instance, up until AB 3070, you could, if a juror would say, you know, my son was, had been involved with, had been arrested or I have a negative opinion of police, so on and so forth.

02:25:49.760 This would be a cause by which a prosecutor could use a peremptory challenge to remove the juror.

02:25:57.440 Well, under AB 3070, if this juror is a member of a protected group, which, by the way, includes gender identity.

02:26:09.320 So, like, training criminals?

02:26:11.200 Yeah.

02:26:11.580 Well, no, no.

02:26:12.460 Training jurors.

02:26:13.780 Oh, okay.

02:26:14.460 Yeah.

02:26:14.640 They can no longer use peremptory challenges against them, even if they say, I hate cops because they're a protected group.

02:26:25.340 So, the result of this is, as one of the top prosecutors in the entire state told me, is the proliferation of OJ juries.

02:26:35.340 And the OJ jury, by the way, never got the credit.

02:26:40.360 We never learned a single thing from that.

02:26:42.480 We spent our entire lives hearing about all-white juries being bad, but here we had a jury that just let a guy get away with murdering two people because those people were a skin color that was fine for them to be murdered. 0.98

02:26:54.360 Another gang prosecutor in Alameda County told me that jurors have come up to her and said to her face, I will not convict a black man.

02:27:05.340 So, okay.

02:27:10.340 Well, now I'm officially depressed and just sad about the state.

02:27:14.420 So, let's just end on a happy note if it's possible.

02:27:18.260 Of course.

02:27:19.300 Do you see California getting better?

02:27:22.540 I mean, is this like a low point or is this just like, is it going to—

02:27:26.760 You know, some of the cops I talked to say that they think this is cyclical and things will come back into some level of normalcy.

02:27:37.060 You know, there's—

02:27:38.120 Detroit never came back.

02:27:39.720 Exactly, yeah.

02:27:41.280 Neither did Rome after 476.

02:27:43.520 It's still a crappy place as far as I can tell.

02:27:45.980 I mean, you know, I don't know.

02:27:49.240 I think that there are some problems that become so embedded and given the multifaceted nature of this dysfunction and the complexity of the problems and the entrenched interest groups that do not have any incentive to modify a system that has enriched them, I don't know how, you will.

02:28:13.380 So, I think maybe the lesson for me just as a listener to this incredible story that you've just told, the main lesson is that civilization is really fragile.

02:28:23.100 You don't maintain it without continuous effort and vigilance.

02:28:28.060 And you really have to be radical in preserving it.

02:28:32.560 Yeah.

02:28:32.820 And once it goes away, it doesn't necessarily come back.

02:28:35.220 And you should not participate at all in unjust systems at all.

02:28:38.760 And you should fight like a wombat.

02:28:40.480 Yeah.

02:28:40.660 I mean, like, look, if we're talking about solutions, for me, for one thing, it is revoking these terrible laws that I've talked about.

02:28:51.320 Like, that has to happen.

02:28:52.740 But how about shaming the people who supported them?

02:28:54.900 It's totally unacceptable.

02:28:56.420 I mean—

02:28:56.760 Yeah, well—

02:28:57.300 I don't know anything about Bull Connor, but, like, I'm sure his descendants all changed their names.

02:29:02.960 I'm not defending Bull Connor, trust me.

02:29:04.340 But there is a useful thing that culture does, which is demonizes demons.

02:29:09.220 I would go further.

02:29:10.320 You should do that.

02:29:10.860 I would go further.

02:29:11.620 I think it's more than simply shaming.

02:29:13.680 I think if there is a way to hold these people liable for negligence, gross negligence—

02:29:20.240 Criminally liable.

02:29:21.060 Criminally liable.

02:29:21.680 So why should George Gascon be able to, like, move to Tempe and just live out on retirement?

02:29:26.160 I don't think he should be allowed to.

02:29:27.460 Why should the politicians in Europe and in this country who facilitated the invasion of their countries and displacement and diffusion of their native indigenous populations as a form of, let's face it, a form of ethnic cleansing,

02:29:45.100 why should those politicians who enacted those laws not be subject to the same kind of standard that was applied in the Nuremberg trials?

02:29:54.420 Or how about as recently as the Yugoslav wars, the NATO's war in Yugoslavia?

02:29:59.580 I think Slobodan Milosevic died in prison for ethnic cleansing. 0.60

02:30:03.140 So Angela Merkel gets away with it? 0.99

02:30:04.880 How is that?

02:30:05.620 Look, the international laws related to these issues are not robust enough to address this modern form of demographic inversion, demographic engineering.

02:30:17.100 But really, when I was thinking about this as a whole, is it really all that different from what the Chinese are doing in Xinjiang?

02:30:25.540 Like, yes, we don't have re-education camps yet.

02:30:29.020 Because we're not as straightforward as the Chinese.

02:30:30.680 But the idea of bringing the Han Chinese into Xinjiang to effectively erase those people, is that really any different than what's happening when 7 million people have come across the U.S. southern border with impunity and are going to most likely probably become citizens unless Trump, God willing, wins and reverses that? 0.75

02:30:58.640 I mean, times are very dark, Tucker.

02:31:01.580 And I don't know if there is a positive message to be made, except I pray that our leadership at least the federal level will right the ship.

02:31:13.940 And perhaps California over time can come back to some semblance of what it once was.

02:31:20.260 Because it is the defacement of a grand work of art.

02:31:23.080 It is a work of art.

02:31:24.780 In Los Angeles and San Francisco, two of the prettiest cities, in fact, I would say the prettiest cities we have by far, both of them, and they're very different ways.

02:31:32.640 But it is destroying art and irreplaceable art.

02:31:36.640 And as a birthright Californian who's living in his great-grandparents' house, you're one of the few in L.A. who can say that.

02:31:45.480 Like, what's your plan?

02:31:46.920 Are you going to stay?

02:31:47.680 You know, like, you've been asked this question, right?

02:31:52.000 And you've said, like, America's my home.

02:31:55.140 Like, I'm not leaving it.

02:31:56.460 I feel that way back in California.

02:31:59.740 They're not your stand.

02:32:01.240 I mean, unless I get, like, another home invasion, that might, like, catalyze it.

02:32:06.720 But I feel very tied to the land.

02:32:11.520 Good.

02:32:12.360 You should. 0.98

02:32:13.020 And I don't feel like it should be just surrendered because some assholes in San Francisco have decided to spread crime equity across the state, you know? 0.98

02:32:28.780 It's like, we'll defend our home. 0.98

02:32:31.700 We'll defend our castle.

02:32:33.220 And that is, I think, you know, what one duty is to your ancestors.

02:32:40.500 Who had guns, so please buy one.

02:32:43.860 Yes.

02:32:44.480 Good.

02:32:44.800 Call me.

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02:32:46.700 Of course.

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The Tucker Carlson Show - November 03, 2024

Chris Moritz： How Kamala Gave California to the Cartels, & the Psychopaths Ruling the Democrat Party

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