Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Fires Rage Across LA, How Dems Destroyed the Golden state, Live with Alex Marlow, John Phillips, and Joe Bastardi | TRIGGERED Ep.206

00:00:00.000 Thank you.

00:05:06.000 Hey guys, welcome to another huge episode of Triggered.

00:05:11.000 It's been one hell of a week.

00:05:13.000 I figured we'd spend most of today's show talking about my trip to Greenland.

00:05:17.000 That was pretty epic, actually.

00:05:19.000 And we'd be talking about the inauguration.

00:05:21.000 But honestly, these California fires are now at the top of everyone's minds.

00:05:27.000 And there is just so much to cover.

00:05:31.000 It's not a scene from some sort of Hollywood apocalyptic movie.

00:05:36.000 What we're seeing is real life as fires take out some of the most beautiful and affluent neighborhoods anywhere in America.

00:05:45.000 From Malibu to Pacific Palisades to Santa Monica, thousands and thousands of homes are gone overnight.

00:05:54.000 And the far-left leaders in LA and the state of California are simply and completely unfit for the moment.

00:06:03.000 This is something we are witnessing before our very eyes.

00:06:06.000 My father's been talking about these things for years.

00:06:09.000 He even spoke about the lack of preparedness on Joe Rogan's podcast before the election.

00:06:16.000 And as usual, he was right.

00:06:19.000 He sees it.

00:06:20.000 He calls it out.

00:06:22.000 But that's not where their focus is. 1.00

00:06:24.000 They are a disgrace. 0.98

00:06:25.000 And we are not letting them off the hook. 0.99

00:06:33.000 Destroying California, where woke policies come before competence, where inept leaders get positions because they check boxes.

00:06:42.000 That's what we're witnessing.

00:06:43.000 And unfortunately for so many in California, the consequences of that kind of insanity are playing out before our very eyes.

00:06:53.000 And we have a jam-packed show tonight.

00:06:55.000 We have reporters in California who have seen this destruction firsthand.

00:07:00.000 We're also going to be joined by weather forecast Joe Bastardi, who's been warning about this exact doomsday situation regarding high winds in Los Angeles for a long time.

00:07:11.000 Plus, we'll have actor Dean Cain, who will also stop by.

00:07:15.000 So this is going to be a fast-moving show, so get your best questions and comments in the chat.

00:07:20.000 I'll be paying attention to that right here as well, so I'll try to integrate that into some of them.

00:07:26.000 Can they be charged?

00:07:28.000 Jimmy Boom Boom.

00:07:29.000 Good question.

00:07:30.000 They should be charged.

00:07:32.000 Again, my father's been talking about this for years.

00:07:34.000 He talked about it last time California had wildfires.

00:07:37.000 But between the insane environmental regulations and trying to save a minnow that prevents them from filling up the reservoirs to actually fight fires where fire hydrants are totally empty to the slashing of fire department budgets in Los Angeles to hiring DEI-type candidates to lead these things.

00:07:59.000 It's a serious problem, folks.

00:08:01.000 So there should be liability.

00:08:03.000 There should be accountability.

00:08:05.000 But because of, again, one-party rule in California, there probably won't be.

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00:09:47.000 So, guys, with that, so much to discuss tonight.

00:09:50.000 Let's get into the top headlines.

00:09:53.000 Now, just before this show started, a woman who was impacted by the fire actually confronted Governor Gavin Newsom on camera.

00:10:03.000 And you have to see this.

00:10:05.000 Check this out.

00:10:10.000 I'm here, Governor.

00:10:11.000 That was my daughter's school, Governor.

00:10:13.000 Please tell me what you're going to do.

00:10:15.000 I'm not going to hurt him.

00:10:15.000 I promise.

00:10:16.000 I'm literally talking to the president right now to specifically answer the question of what we can do for you and your daughter.

00:10:23.000 Can I hear it?

00:10:24.000 Can I hear your call?

00:10:25.000 Because I don't believe it.

00:10:28.000 I'm sorry.

00:10:29.000 There's literally...

00:10:30.000 I've tried five times.

00:10:31.000 That's why I'm walking around to make the call.

00:10:32.000 Why is the president not taking your call?

00:10:35.000 Because it's not going through.

00:10:36.000 So I have to get self-service.

00:10:37.000 So let's get it.

00:10:38.000 Let's get it.

00:10:39.000 I want to be here when you call the president.

00:10:40.000 I appreciate it.

00:10:41.000 I'm doing that right now.

00:10:43.000 And it's to immediately get reimbursements, individual assistance, and to help you on a devastating point.

00:10:49.000 I'm so sorry.

00:10:49.000 Especially for your daughter.

00:10:51.000 I have four kids.

00:10:53.000 Losing the school.

00:10:54.000 Everyone who went to school there, they lost their homes.

00:10:57.000 They lost two homes because they were living in one building in another.

00:11:01.000 Governor, please tell me, tell me, what are you going to do with the president right now?

00:11:04.000 We're getting the resources to help rebuild.

00:11:07.000 Why was there no water in the hydrants, Governor?

00:11:11.000 That's all literally...

00:11:12.000 Is it going to be different next time?

00:11:13.000 It has to be.

00:11:15.000 Has to be.

00:11:16.000 Of course.

00:11:16.000 What are you going to do?

00:11:17.000 To fill the hydrants?

00:11:18.000 I would fill them up personally, you know that.

00:11:21.000 I would fill up the hydrants myself.

00:11:24.000 But would you do that?

00:11:26.000 I would do whatever I can.

00:11:27.000 But you're not!

00:11:28.000 I see the...

00:11:29.000 Do you know there's water dripping over there, Governor?

00:11:32.000 There's water coming out there.

00:11:33.000 You can use it.

00:11:34.000 I appreciate it.

00:11:35.000 I'm going to make the call to address everything I can right now, including making sure people are safe.

00:11:42.000 Can I have an opportunity to at least tell people you're doing what you're saying you're doing?

00:11:46.000 Could somebody have a contact?

00:11:48.000 Can I have your contact information?

00:11:51.000 Good for her.

00:11:53.000 It's about time these leaders face some actual tough questions, right? 0.98

00:11:57.000 They like to blame this stuff on climate change and all that other crap.

00:12:00.000 It has nothing to do with it. 0.94

00:12:03.000 Newsom deserves to be confronted like that.

00:12:05.000 He's been a disaster.

00:12:06.000 Back in 2021, he claimed that wildfire preparedness will be better now that Biden is in office instead of Trump.

00:12:13.000 Well, guys, let's just say that didn't age too well like all of the liberal takes that are out there about Trump.

00:12:22.000 Is we are committed as a team, as a partnership with the legislature and other state agencies, including now the federal government, no longer a sparring partner, but a working partner, federal government, where we're not addressing headwinds, but tailwinds in terms of the support, a memorandum of understanding doubling.

00:12:41.000 Our respective commitments to vegetation management and forest management have prescribed burns to support the Biden administration with resources, not just rhetoric, to help this collective cause.

00:12:53.000 It's a different paradigm.

00:12:54.000 It's a different framework.

00:12:56.000 Newsom is completely wrong, by the way.

00:12:58.000 During my father's first term, he tried to increase water diversions on federal land to help California's water supply.

00:13:06.000 California didn't accept the help and instead sued the federal government, putting petty politics above people's lives, as always.

00:13:16.000 Newsom's actually on the record at the time saying with my father when we were talking about COVID, hey, anything that we ask for from Trump, they got it the next day.

00:13:25.000 So the fact that they're trying to pretend that my father wasn't prepared or wasn't willing to do anything is a lie.

00:13:33.000 Just go back and find it for yourself.

00:13:35.000 The fact that Joe Biden is incompetent is a big part of this.

00:13:39.000 And again, liberal policies that place wokeness ahead of competency, ahead of people who are actually able to do the job, caused these problems.

00:13:48.000 It has nothing to do with climate change, and it has nothing to do with my father's administration.

00:13:53.000 It has everything to do with the inept policies of today's Democrat Party.

00:13:58.000 Will they ever just admit that my father is right and actually knows what he's talking about?

00:14:05.000 I mean, just think about it.

00:14:07.000 There wasn't even enough water in the fire hydrants.

00:14:12.000 You can take my word for it, or you can listen to this MSNBC clip.

00:14:18.000 They're not exactly fans.

00:14:20.000 Hear what they have to say.

00:14:22.000 An apartment building engulfed in flames.

00:14:25.000 I saw the fire engine pull up this afternoon.

00:14:27.000 A fire captain have one of his firefighters attach a hose to a hydrant.

00:14:31.000 And that hose didn't fill up, Alex.

00:14:34.000 And I asked the captain, out of every ten hydrants you attach to today, on average, how many are you getting full water from?

00:14:41.000 He says little to none.

00:14:43.000 And it was at that point that really the whole crew stopped, looked up at this apartment building, and they realized there was nothing they could do except...

00:14:52.000 The response to this fire, guys, has been atrocious.

00:14:55.000 There have been multiple reports of firefighters finding that there is no water in fire hydrants.

00:15:00.000 I mean, I don't know.

00:15:01.000 I'm not a fireman.

00:15:03.000 I have some friends that are firemen.

00:15:04.000 I imagine having water in fire hydrants is sort of the purpose of a fire hydrant.

00:15:09.000 If there's no water in them, what purpose do they serve?

00:15:13.000 The brush wasn't cleared out.

00:15:15.000 The city officials were barely communicating with residents.

00:15:18.000 Here's one man saying that he actually called 911 only to be told and I quote, there was no fire where he's talking about a fire.

00:15:28.000 I called 911, LAPD, they answered the phone and I said, you need to get some police officers down here because I'm a former journalist so I kind of know how to get things done.

00:15:42.000 I said, you need to get police down here to manage traffic.

00:15:45.000 And she said, why?

00:15:46.000 I said, because we're being evacuated from the Pacific Palisades.

00:15:50.000 She says, there's no evacuation out of the Pacific Palisades.

00:15:53.000 I said, oh really?

00:15:54.000 Is that why my phones were blowing up for 15 minutes?

00:15:56.000 I said, there's a fire.

00:15:58.000 She says, there's no fire there.

00:16:00.000 And we were literally gridlocked on sunset.

00:16:03.000 And that was after I waited for five minutes on hold.

00:16:06.000 So, you know, this city needs some work.

00:16:08.000 The response, guys, guys in these woke cities is so bad that 911 does not even know when and where there are fires while citizens are being alerted to the fires in the areas they're calling about.

00:16:26.000 Think about that That's insane as well.

00:16:29.000 And guys, you'll be shocked to find out, shocked I tell you, that DEI also played a role in the failed response.

00:16:38.000 Here's the LA Fire Department's Assistant Chief, Christine Larson, explaining how when you're struck or stuck in a burning building, you'll apparently be very concerned about diversity.

00:16:52.000 Yes?

00:16:53.000 You'll literally, when you're stuck in a burning building, guys, you're gonna be very concerned about diversity. 0.99

00:16:58.000 You can't make this crap up anymore. 0.98

00:17:02.000 Somebody that responds to your house, your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call, that looks like you. 0.99

00:17:09.000 It gives that person a little bit more ease, knowing that somebody might understand their situation better.

00:17:14.000 Is she strong enough to do this?

00:17:16.000 Or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire?

00:17:18.000 Which my response is, he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire.

00:17:27.000 Are you kidding me?

00:17:28.000 Can we rename DEI to DIE? Since that seems to be what happens when you place woke virtue signaling far above ability and competency.

00:17:41.000 It was just a year and a half ago when NPR published this very headline.

00:17:47.000 And I quote, firefighting is mostly white and male.

00:17:51.000 A California program aims to change that.

00:17:56.000 Guys, I have a question for you.

00:17:59.000 How'd that work out?

00:18:00.000 I don't know.

00:18:01.000 When there's a fire, if I had to be rescued, my kids had to be rescued, I don't care about someone's color.

00:18:06.000 I want someone who's actually able to do the job.

00:18:09.000 I want someone strong enough to actually carry me.

00:18:12.000 Not, well, if you got yourself in that situation, on your own, you're SOL, folks.

00:18:19.000 That doesn't work.

00:18:20.000 I think we're witnessing that before our very eyes.

00:18:22.000 Hopefully the people...

00:18:24.000 And the woke people of California are starting to understand that these policies are abject failures.

00:18:29.000 And speaking of complete failures, have you seen L.A. Mayor Karen Bass? 0.96

00:18:35.000 She was in Ghana.

00:18:36.000 She was in Africa when the fires first broke out.

00:18:40.000 You know, obviously, she needs to be there, not at home.

00:18:44.000 Who knows?

00:18:45.000 There were warnings.

00:18:46.000 Who cares?

00:18:47.000 There were warnings that a major fire could break out due to the winds, due to the dryness.

00:18:52.000 But, you know, whatever.

00:18:54.000 We're not going to interrupt our trip for these kinds of things.

00:18:56.000 Once she finally flew back to the US, she was confronted by a reporter. 0.70

00:19:01.000 And you have to see the response.

00:19:03.000 You'll probably believe it because it's about as incompetent as you'd imagine it to be.

00:19:09.000 Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars, Madam Mayor?

00:19:15.000 Have you nothing to say today?

00:19:18.000 Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? 0.90

00:19:23.000 Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent.

00:19:26.000 Are you considering your position?

00:19:30.000 Madam Mayor, have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today who are dealing with this disaster?

00:19:42.000 No apology for them?

00:19:45.000 Do you think you should have been visiting Ghana while this was unfolding back home?

00:19:50.000 What about her press conference today?

00:20:08.000 She told Los Angeles residents to visit, quote, the URL for help.

00:20:14.000 That's even worse than Joe Biden.

00:20:16.000 She's completely clueless. 0.96

00:20:18.000 She has no idea what these things are.

00:20:20.000 Visit a URL? Which one?

00:20:21.000 How about, like, maybe giving us the actual URL, not some sort of general ridiculous statement?

00:20:27.000 But she doesn't know.

00:20:29.000 BTW, by the way, she was on the shortlist to be Joe Biden's...

00:20:34.000 Just so we're clear, this is someone who was on Joe Biden's running mate shortlist.

00:20:42.000 So incompetent, but again, it doesn't matter.

00:20:45.000 If you check off a couple boxes, you too can do anything.

00:20:48.000 But Kamala got the job instead of her when it was uncovered that Bass was part of a pro-Fidel Castro, presumably communist, group.

00:20:58.000 I'm shocked to hear this, folks.

00:21:00.000 Again, the fact that this is happening...

00:21:03.000 And it keeps getting worse.

00:21:05.000 Doesn't surprise me even a little bit.

00:21:08.000 It turns out we're not just sending money to Ukraine.

00:21:12.000 California also sent them, wait for it, fire trucks.

00:21:18.000 Look at this tweet from June.

00:21:20.000 I wonder if they're perhaps regretting now sending all that incredible equipment that could be used to save Americans.

00:21:28.000 Paid for by American taxpayers.

00:21:31.000 Over to Vladimir Zelensky in the Ukraine.

00:21:35.000 They probably don't even care.

00:21:37.000 That's the reality of it.

00:21:39.000 And by the way, when we had Pretty Boy reporter David Muir from ABC News, who apparently wanted his fake tough guy firefighter jacket to fit a little bit better.

00:21:50.000 So what he actually did was put clothespins on the back of it.

00:21:56.000 You got to see this picture.

00:21:57.000 Imagine how vain you have to be.

00:22:00.000 To put clothespins on it so that it would fit better.

00:22:03.000 You can look sexy.

00:22:05.000 You know, because that's what matters.

00:22:06.000 Not just reporting the news.

00:22:08.000 We got to look like a sexy firefighter.

00:22:10.000 This is them.

00:22:11.000 It's all smoke and mirrors. 1.00

00:22:14.000 It's absolutely pathetic. 0.99

00:22:16.000 Now, all of this is the problem with far-left woke nonsense and the government that espouses these policies. 0.98

00:22:26.000 When times are tough, they can't even carry out the most basic tasks and the lives and property gets destroyed.

00:22:34.000 California is too worried about resisting my father than actually protecting its 40 plus million people and their property.

00:22:44.000 I mean, think about it.

00:22:45.000 They didn't even have water in the fire hydrants, folks.

00:22:50.000 It's a disgrace.

00:22:52.000 And now, some of the most beautiful Neighborhoods in America are completely gone.

00:22:59.000 They're destroyed.

00:23:01.000 They don't exist anymore.

00:23:03.000 It looks like a war zone or a scene from a movie, but it's real life, and it's Democrat destruction.

00:23:13.000 What's that?

00:23:15.000 We're going to take a couple questions first before we get to our first guest in a couple minutes, but was that the dude?

00:23:23.000 For Harris.

00:23:24.000 Yes, John Muir, the guy that did the clothespin thing, or David Muir, whatever his name is, David Muir was one of the, and I quote, moderators.

00:23:32.000 They called him a moderator, but he was really a participant on the team of the Democrats and Kamala Harris in my father's presidential debate with her.

00:23:42.000 That's the same guy.

00:23:43.000 So once he stopped being a Democrat participant, apparently he's trying to be a sexy firefighter on TV. It's bad.

00:23:54.000 It's so terrible for these people.

00:23:56.000 And again, these are not people necessarily.

00:23:59.000 I mean, I imagine this is a fairly liberal area, but it doesn't matter.

00:24:03.000 They're Americans.

00:24:04.000 They deserve competent leadership.

00:24:06.000 And hopefully they'll get that.

00:24:08.000 But again, so much of this stuff is done at the state level that they need to make a switch.

00:24:13.000 Guys, you don't have to vote.

00:24:17.000 For Democrats who are going to fail you.

00:24:19.000 You don't have to simply virtue signal and hire incompetent fire chiefs or otherwise.

00:24:25.000 You don't have to do that.

00:24:27.000 You can actually find people that are actually competent.

00:24:29.000 It's okay.

00:24:31.000 It sucks that lives had to be lost or homes had to be lost.

00:24:36.000 People's entire existence had to be lost to maybe get this message through.

00:24:42.000 But perhaps that's where we are.

00:24:46.000 What are the chances of resignations?

00:24:49.000 I'd say probably zero, because that's the reality.

00:24:52.000 Right now, in Democrat-run areas, despite what we see, there's been nothing but incompetence.

00:24:57.000 We've seen failure after failure, and yet we've seen no accountability.

00:25:02.000 So if you can get away with it, I guess you can get away with it.

00:25:05.000 How was Greenland?

00:25:07.000 Greenland was awesome.

00:25:08.000 Greenland was incredible.

00:25:10.000 I mean, so many people there, so excited about the visit.

00:25:14.000 Especially the youth.

00:25:15.000 It was interesting. 1.00

00:25:17.000 Over there, the Danes, Denmark treats them like crap. 0.99

00:25:21.000 If they go over to Copenhagen, they're told to, and I quote, go home Eskimo. 0.99

00:25:25.000 That's what they were telling me.

00:25:26.000 I mean, there's literally racism there.

00:25:27.000 Denmark won't let them utilize any of their incredible natural resources.

00:25:31.000 It's amazing.

00:25:32.000 But you would not be shocked to find out that all these people are saying that Danish television, which controls the television in Denmark, has basically been doing like an anti-America campaign because they understand that people, if they knew...

00:25:42.000 What they could actually have.

00:25:44.000 If they knew their full potential, they'd never stay in Denmark or with Denmark.

00:25:51.000 And so there's been an active media campaign basically crapping all over the United States so that that doesn't actually happen.

00:25:58.000 The stories are amazing.

00:26:01.000 But our first guests are here.

00:26:03.000 So let's get to that because obviously this fire is just such a huge thing.

00:26:07.000 So joining me now for a reaction.

00:26:10.000 To all of this, Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow, along with KABC radio host and LA Daily News columnist John Phillips.

00:26:19.000 Guys, great to have you on here.

00:26:22.000 Glad to be here, Don.

00:26:23.000 Thank you.

00:26:24.000 So, Alex, I know you were on just fairly recently.

00:26:27.000 What's the latest on the ground?

00:26:29.000 I know you're at Breitbart, but you actually live out there.

00:26:31.000 You see what's going on.

00:26:34.000 And just what went wrong with the response here?

00:26:37.000 I mean, it feels like it's...

00:26:38.000 So easy to have actually just preemptively taken care of many of these problems, but that clearly didn't happen.

00:26:45.000 Yeah, it's decades in the making.

00:26:47.000 It's one of these things where, and I'm sure John will agree with me on this, that this has always been bound to happen.

00:26:51.000 L.A. was always going to be lit on fire so long as we had a government that was more concerned with DEI and more concerned with abortions and more concerned with going to presidential inaugurations in Ghana rather than trying to actually take care of the citizenry here.

00:27:06.000 You can see it in the answers that Kieran Bass wouldn't give in some of her interviews that she's done since she arrived back from Africa to L.A. What's gone on in this state

00:27:36.000 is that people have allowed for things to depreciate for decades.

00:27:39.000 Don, your dad was talking about this, and he was entirely accurate about this.

00:27:44.000 Our entire scheme, the way we deal with water, was upended a couple decades ago to preserve the Delta smelt, a bait fish, because the salinity in the water was incringing upon their rights to exist at the expense of humans, and not just in terms of fire safety.

00:28:01.000 California used to feed the world, the central plains of this state.

00:28:05.000 It looks like a desert now.

00:28:06.000 It used to be lush and green, and it fed people all over the planet.

00:28:10.000 We don't do that because of the smelt.

00:28:12.000 And no one in state government cared.

00:28:14.000 No one cared.

00:28:15.000 They weren't clearing out brush.

00:28:17.000 They weren't making sure our reservoirs were filled.

00:28:19.000 They weren't making sure infrastructure was up to date.

00:28:20.000 They weren't making sure enough first responders were ready and trained.

00:28:23.000 And there's no culture in the citizenry in terms of fire preparedness.

00:28:28.000 No one was aware that all these insurers got out of the business of insuring people for fire because the Democrat governance of this state.

00:28:36.000 Half the amount of money insurance companies could make on these transactions.

00:28:40.000 That was a socialist communist plan and it led to a bunch of people now who are going to have to pick up the pieces and rebuild with nothing.

00:28:47.000 They have nothing because they weren't insured for this stuff.

00:28:49.000 The list goes on.

00:28:50.000 We could go on for hours about this.

00:28:52.000 It is a true 360 degree failure of what happens when you have a socialist state that's single party.

00:28:58.000 Yeah, I mean, my father spoke about this almost, you know, prophetically on Rogan just a few months ago, a couple weeks before the election, talking about that because he was out there the last time they had disastrous fires trying to give, you know, whatever aid.

00:29:12.000 But it's not like this is a surprise.

00:29:14.000 I mean, this is...

00:29:15.000 You know, common knowledge, you know, John, you know, from the governor to the mayor of L.A., we see nothing but failure.

00:29:22.000 Is that ultimately what one party Democrat rule does to a state?

00:29:26.000 There's been little sense of urgency even to protect residents like I will get to it.

00:29:31.000 I mean, who cares?

00:29:32.000 You saw maybe the lady in the intro, you know, asking, you know, arguably the most basic questions and they have no answers whatsoever. 0.71

00:29:42.000 Well, the one-party aspect of it is certainly a key component.

00:29:45.000 But you also have people like Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass, who are state elected officials, but they see themselves as national thinkers.

00:29:55.000 Gavin Newsom thought when Grampy Joe was on the ropes that it would be him and not Kamala Harris that would be the Democratic nominee.

00:30:02.000 That didn't happen.

00:30:03.000 Karen Bass, of course, was on Rampy Joe's shortlist to be vice president, and it wasn't until Kamala Harris and her aides here in California kneecapped Karen Bass so that she could be the vice president. 0.99

00:30:17.000 And when you see yourself as a national figure, you see these sorts of state and local issues as being beneath you.

00:30:24.000 So Gavin Newsom has no interest in fire.

00:30:27.000 He has no interest in water policy.

00:30:30.000 Neither does Karen Bass.

00:30:31.000 So we have these absentee landlords that are gallivanting all around the globe trying to...

00:30:38.000 Put themselves on the same stage as all of these heads of state because that's where they think they belong.

00:30:44.000 And then we're just left on our own.

00:30:46.000 This is not like an earthquake where it just happens in the middle of the night.

00:30:50.000 You don't know when the earthquake is going to hit.

00:30:53.000 She knew a week ahead of time that we had these severe winds and this extreme fire risk, and she decided to go to Africa anyway.

00:31:03.000 And what was the first thing that Gavin Newsom did when the fires broke out?

00:31:07.000 He blamed your dad.

00:31:08.000 Your dad hasn't even put his hand on the Bible yet this time around.

00:31:13.000 He had nothing to do with the fires.

00:31:15.000 He had nothing to do with the response to the fires.

00:31:17.000 But Trump derangement syndrome is real, and all of these people suffer from it.

00:31:23.000 It impacts virtually everything that they do.

00:31:26.000 Every decision that they make is through the prism of what can get them national attention and what gives them an opportunity to go after your dad.

00:31:35.000 And ultimately, the people who are suffering are the people of California because we have to live with their incompetence.

00:31:41.000 Yeah, I mean, I think that's a really good point when you think about it.

00:31:44.000 I mean, Karen Bass was going to be, you know, possibly a VP contender. 1.00

00:31:47.000 She was certainly on that shortlist for Joe Biden.

00:31:50.000 You know, Gavin Newsom, definitely, you know, one of the top guys in the Democrat, let's call it the bench for 2028. And yet here they are, just abject incompetence.

00:32:03.000 I mean, is there even...

00:32:05.000 I mean, do they even face any real questioning later on?

00:32:09.000 I mean, is this even penal to them in those future prospects?

00:32:12.000 Or is it just like, it doesn't matter.

00:32:14.000 If you're a Democrat royalty, you can kind of get away with murder, so to speak, and maybe perhaps in this case, quite literally, without a consequence or accountability. 0.98

00:32:22.000 Well, for Gavin Newsom, he's a lame duck. 0.99

00:32:25.000 In fact, he's such a lame duck, I think some Haitians just ate him. 1.00

00:32:28.000 But Gavin Newsom, if he's going to do... 0.98

00:32:30.000 I like that.

00:32:33.000 Anything in the future, it's going to have to be president.

00:32:36.000 He's gone as far as he could go in California.

00:32:39.000 So it's the White House or bus.

00:32:42.000 But, you know, here's the problem for him.

00:32:44.000 Some issues in politics are really complicated, and it's hard for the average Joe to understand.

00:32:51.000 Everyone understands there's a horrible fire.

00:32:54.000 The firefighters go to the fire hydrant.

00:32:56.000 No water comes out.

00:32:57.000 That is a total failure of government, and he's the guy in charge.

00:33:01.000 I don't see how he gets past that.

00:33:03.000 Yeah, and these are also his donors.

00:33:06.000 You know, I mean, I know I saw James Woods lost his house, but I imagine he's one of the few remaining conservatives in a lot of these areas.

00:33:13.000 I mean, these are the people that have been supporting that machine.

00:33:16.000 I would hope that if you lose your house, maybe you rethink your thoughts.

00:33:20.000 But, you know, Alex...

00:33:21.000 I mean, you've talked about this sort of at length about just how toxic sort of the anti-Trump resistance culture in California is.

00:33:31.000 And again, I think we're seeing the consequences of that.

00:33:34.000 Even the most basic functions of government break down.

00:33:37.000 What does it tell you about all that?

00:33:38.000 Yeah, it really does.

00:33:39.000 And I think that a lot of people who think of themselves as independent and free thinkers are going to start reappraising whether or not, if Donald Trump said it, it must be wrong.

00:33:48.000 Because they've had this approach for eight years.

00:33:49.000 If Trump holds this position, I must hold the opposite position.

00:33:53.000 What other explanation, Don, is there that they elevated Liz Cheney?

00:33:56.000 Liz Cheney stood for everything the Democrats opposed for the first three quarters of my life. 1.00

00:34:01.000 She was a warmonger and a war criminal, and so was her father, according to them, for 30 years.

00:34:06.000 I mean, it's not like it was new.

00:34:09.000 I grew up in LA. I went to Berkeley.

00:34:11.000 Dick Cheney was the devil. 0.99

00:34:13.000 He was the literal devil. 0.99

00:34:14.000 And now all of a sudden he's a star in the Democrat Party.

00:34:17.000 Why?

00:34:18.000 Because he's opposed to Trump.

00:34:19.000 So there's going to be a huge reappraisal of that.

00:34:21.000 I will tell you my sleeper story of the day is this actress, Sarah Foster.

00:34:26.000 Who wrote a beautiful, incredible tweet summarizing all the arguments that I talked about just now, just in a much more concise way.

00:34:33.000 This is a person who's Hollywood royalty.

00:34:35.000 Her dad, David Foster, wrote almost every song you've ever heard.

00:34:39.000 She's got a Netflix show.

00:34:40.000 She's a fashion designer. 1.00

00:34:42.000 She's got a hot podcast.

00:34:43.000 She's at the height of her power. 1.00

00:34:44.000 She's in her early 40s.

00:34:45.000 This is someone who's going to be a Hollywood star.

00:34:47.000 She's currently a Hollywood star. 1.00

00:34:48.000 She's going to be a Hollywood star for decades. 1.00

00:34:50.000 And she's out there saying that everyone needs to go.

00:34:54.000 Full resignations.

00:34:55.000 Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom.

00:34:57.000 The water is warm.

00:34:58.000 It is now time for us not just to be angry.

00:35:00.000 Of course, I'm angry.

00:35:01.000 I'm angry for my friends.

00:35:02.000 My friends lost their homes.

00:35:03.000 I'm sure John feels the same way.

00:35:04.000 But it is also time to be recruiting.

00:35:07.000 We need to be using this as an opportunity to say, it is time to leave the Democrat Party.

00:35:12.000 They failed you.

00:35:13.000 It's their fault.

00:35:14.000 And it's a political statement not to call them out.

00:35:18.000 The political move is to refrain from the judgment that they all deserve.

00:35:23.000 Yeah, well, I mean, I saw a tweet from Rick Grinnell, who's a friend, but, you know, lives in California and sort of understands.

00:35:28.000 And when you think about it, I mean, this fire is within, like, inches of the ocean.

00:35:35.000 You have water.

00:35:36.000 You have options.

00:35:37.000 If you don't want to deal with the river, like, there's other ways to do it.

00:35:40.000 Like, how do you not have water when you live literally on the Pacific Ocean?

00:35:45.000 I mean, that seems like a big deal that's not even being talked about.

00:35:48.000 I mean, maybe they want to redirect fresh water, but, like...

00:35:50.000 There has to be ways to deal with this, especially since people have known for years that this is basically a tinderbox waiting to happen.

00:35:56.000 I mean, we saw the California wildfires a few years ago.

00:35:58.000 That was further from the ocean.

00:36:02.000 But I mean, this is oceanfront property that's burning down and they don't have water.

00:36:06.000 I mean, that's special.

00:36:11.000 Well, go back to your initial point of it being a one-party state.

00:36:15.000 We had a water bond on the ballot in 2014. And in a one-party state, whenever you have a bond on the ballot, you're going to spend a lot of money.

00:36:24.000 That's when it's Christmas Day.

00:36:25.000 They get to be Santa Claus.

00:36:26.000 They get to take care of all of their left-wing friends.

00:36:30.000 They get to take care of their political benefactors.

00:36:32.000 And they just do essentially what Joe Biden did with the infrastructure bill, which is you call everything that you want to spend money on infrastructure, and you load it up with pork.

00:36:43.000 None of the money is actually going for things that people assume it's going for.

00:36:47.000 So in this water bond that we passed in 2014, voters were told that it would go to collect water.

00:36:55.000 None of those reservoirs have been built.

00:36:57.000 None of them.

00:36:58.000 But Karen Bass, who was the Speaker of the Assembly at the time, put money in that bond for a park in her district in Los Angeles.

00:37:06.000 Warren Buffett, a billionaire, got a $250 million bailout from the people of California.

00:37:12.000 And ultimately, we're left with a situation where we have very dangerous fire conditions and no water comes out of the fire hydrants.

00:37:21.000 We did that to ourselves.

00:37:22.000 Yeah, well, John, we've also seen LA leadership prioritize DEI, or as I want to rename it, D-I-E, at the fire department over actually fighting fires.

00:37:33.000 We saw very disturbing parallels during COVID where it was all about diversity instead of actual health policy.

00:37:41.000 Just how destructive is this social justice agenda?

00:37:45.000 And why do Californians keep voting for it?

00:37:48.000 Well, the fire chief was told that her first priority is to diversify the fire department.

00:37:53.000 And it looks like it should have been to make sure there's water in the fire hydrants.

00:37:57.000 But that wasn't number one.

00:37:59.000 And we're paying for it because of that.

00:38:02.000 This is something that's not just an L.A. thing.

00:38:04.000 It's not just a California thing.

00:38:06.000 This is emblematic of what the left wants to do.

00:38:10.000 The diversity and the racial and gender makeup and sexual orientation makeup of the fire department is more important than their ability to carry out their duties.

00:38:20.000 And once you get to that point, once you get to the point to where these organizations are for the people who work there and not for the people who are supposed to be getting the services, that's when everything goes down the tubes.

00:38:33.000 And I'll say this, as much as they proclaim to hate your father and as much as all of them have Trump derangement syndrome, the odd thing is, is he's going to be the one that's going to end up saving their bacon because he's a builder.

00:38:46.000 He knows how to rebuild these things.

00:38:48.000 He knows how to do these tasks that need to be done that they're incapable of doing.

00:38:54.000 They'll benefit from him going into office, but they'll give him zero thanks and continue to attack them.

00:39:01.000 Well, I put out a tweet earlier today saying basically that, which is if they spent half the time actually trying to prepare for these things that they do trying to, you know, fake dunk on my father, these issues wouldn't persist.

00:39:14.000 So I guess, Alex, you know, for this, what does recovery even look like?

00:39:20.000 You know, again, you have a lot of people, I mean, you know, I guess, hey, if you don't have insurance on your car and you total your car, you can come back from that.

00:39:28.000 If you don't have insurance on your home, you know, that's most of people's worth.

00:39:34.000 You know, their net worth is tied up into their home.

00:39:36.000 Will the California Coastal Commission, you know, we've dealt with them in the past.

00:39:40.000 We've seen what they've done to Elon Musk.

00:39:42.000 I've dealt with them because we own a golf course in Rancho Palos Verdes just south of you guys.

00:39:47.000 Will they even let residents rebuild or will it just be endless red tape to try to create an unpopulated area because whatever environmental agenda they're pushing?

00:40:00.000 Yeah, a few points here.

00:40:02.000 First of all, we're...

00:40:03.000 Talking about this as if it's past tense in some ways, and it's very much present tense.

00:40:07.000 We're seeing 0% containment for the Palisades Fire.

00:40:10.000 We're seeing 0% containment for the fire in Pasadena, and we're seeing 10% containment for the Hearst Fire just north of LA in the Sylmar area.

00:40:18.000 All this stuff is still going on.

00:40:20.000 We were at the beginning of the windy season.

00:40:21.000 We don't know if there's clearly arsonists that are starting some of these, if not all of them.

00:40:26.000 We don't know for sure where they're coming from.

00:40:28.000 We know there's irresponsible people who are not literate in terms of fire safety.

00:40:32.000 The image in the destruction is so bad.

00:40:34.000 Don, the the Bel Air fires from the 1960s were world famous, and people who are literate in LA history are aware of these things.

00:40:43.000 500 structures were destroyed.

00:40:44.000 We were at a thousand structures within 24 hours of this fire, and we're just beginning to understand the level of the devastation.

00:40:51.000 So it starts from there.

00:40:53.000 So what does it look like rebuilding the way the permitting?

00:40:56.000 Process works in California.

00:40:58.000 It's almost impossible to get a wall built on your property because there are so many hoops you have to jump through.

00:41:04.000 Now imagine thousands upon thousands of people trying to build at the same time with a government that is not prepared to process all of this.

00:41:12.000 There's going to have to be wholesale reappraisals of what regulatory processes Go into being able to rebuild.

00:41:20.000 And it's a historic opportunity to your dad because the Democrats who are here are not up for reelection for at least a couple of years, and they're not going to show leadership.

00:41:29.000 So hopefully President Trump comes in.

00:41:31.000 And he takes the reins on this thing and he's able to start getting people back on track.

00:41:35.000 But even best case scenario, we're talking years upon years of rebuilding.

00:41:39.000 The insurance companies are going to take an absolute bath on this.

00:41:42.000 A lot of them are going to probably go bankrupt.

00:41:44.000 If not, they're going to stop insuring certain homes in certain places.

00:41:48.000 The ripple effect is going to be so deep.

00:41:51.000 We're going to need a full scale reset in terms of what happens in the city of L.A. It will never be the same.

00:41:56.000 It will never be the same after this.

00:41:58.000 John, you know, what are you hearing from your listeners to your radio show?

00:42:03.000 Just how pissed off are they?

00:42:05.000 Will more people keep leaving the state of California and the city of LA? Oh, yeah.

00:42:12.000 I mean, pissed off is a polite way of saying it.

00:42:15.000 I mean, every caller, I feel like is going to turn into Andrew Dice Clay at a certain point with the swearing.

00:42:20.000 But they have every right to be angry because we pay a fortune to live here.

00:42:25.000 You expect the government to throw the ball, catch the ball, hit the ball, do the basics of government, police, fire, those sorts of things.

00:42:33.000 And they spend the money on everything but that.

00:42:37.000 Karen Bass defunded the LA Fire Department by $17 million.

00:42:41.000 We don't have money for that.

00:42:42.000 We have money for health care for illegal aliens. 0.99

00:42:45.000 We have money to give needles to drug addicts.

00:42:48.000 We have money for every pet project that they want to have money for, but we don't have the money to fully fund the fire department.

00:42:55.000 Yeah, well, they have money for transgender surgeries for illegal alien criminals in prison. 0.88

00:43:00.000 I mean, they got that, but they don't have water in the fire hydrants.

00:43:04.000 Hey, Ukrainian fire departments.

00:43:04.000 We got Ukrainian fire departments.

00:43:06.000 We got to fund those first.

00:43:08.000 Yeah, no, I mean, it's...

00:43:11.000 Listen, I mean, it's terrible.

00:43:12.000 I feel so badly for all of these people.

00:43:14.000 But I mean, if South Park were to do an episode on incompetence, it's like you really couldn't add much.

00:43:21.000 I don't think they could up the ante even a little bit.

00:43:25.000 Oh, yeah.

00:43:27.000 Yeah, John, go ahead.

00:43:29.000 With the state on fire.

00:43:31.000 And all these images on TV, oh, we don't have money to make sure that there's water in the fire hydrant, but if your 15-year-old wants to go to the chop shop for a sex change, then go right ahead.

00:43:43.000 And at a certain point, people say, well, you know, why am I paying this?

00:43:47.000 And the grass is greener in Arizona or Nevada or other places.

00:43:51.000 And there is a reason why our population is in decline, and I expect it to continue.

00:43:56.000 Yeah, I mean, Alex, talk a little bit more about that, you know, in terms of sort of the You know, the flight out of California and out of these blue states.

00:44:05.000 I know Breitbart's been covering this for years.

00:44:09.000 You know, it's interesting.

00:44:10.000 I deal with it a lot here in Florida.

00:44:12.000 And yet, strangely enough, it's becoming more red.

00:44:15.000 Initially, the concern was, hey, all these New Yorkers, me being one of them.

00:44:18.000 But, you know, I think my conservative bona fides are pretty solid.

00:44:22.000 But it does feel like the concern of people bringing their crappy politics with them.

00:44:29.000 As it escalates, as it keeps getting worse, as the Democrat Party has just totally lost its way, it doesn't seem like the people that are fleeing are actually bringing that stuff with them nearly as much as people were concerned about.

00:44:42.000 No, and if you look at the Palisades area, the Palisades area voted for Rick Caruso, who was kind of a fake Democrat.

00:44:49.000 He's mostly a Republican, but he would talk crap about your dad just to score some points, and he claims he was pro-abortion.

00:44:57.000 But he's a builder and otherwise is a more conservative guy. 0.92

00:45:00.000 The Palisades wanted him for mayor.

00:45:01.000 So a lot of the people who are going to be displaced here, if they end up leaving the state, then they're not – don't be too afraid.

00:45:08.000 They might not bring terrible politics with them.

00:45:10.000 But hopefully this is a – Moment where Californians can mature a little bit and understand that the promise of the DEI and the wokeness and the infinite abortions did not keep you safe and it did not protect what's most important to you, which is your home and your friends and your family.

00:45:24.000 So I'm optimistic that the result of this will be a huge surge in Republican MAGA voters and will bring that to those who stay and rebuild.

00:45:35.000 And when there are people displaced and they move, I'm hoping that they're going to.

00:45:39.000 See the Democrat failures clearly enough that they're not going to infect any of your states, those of you who are watching.

00:45:45.000 Yeah, I mean, you know, you're right.

00:45:47.000 I mean, the focus on being able to get a drive-through abortion probably shouldn't have been, you know, the number one policy.

00:45:53.000 You know, making sure that three-year-olds should be able to get, you know, gender-affirming care without parental consent.

00:45:59.000 You know, probably not a big one when you lose your house.

00:46:03.000 Due to a fire that could have easily been preventable.

00:46:05.000 I guess a question for both of you.

00:46:08.000 Maybe we'll start with John and then, you know, then go to Alex.

00:46:10.000 But how do you think the new Trump administration will engage with California?

00:46:16.000 You know, again, Gavin Newsom is on the record during COVID saying, hey, anything we needed from the Trump administration, we got it the next day.

00:46:22.000 I'll give them, you know, I'll give them a couple points there for at least being honest about that.

00:46:27.000 Will they be as eager to help if they're going to get sued at every turn?

00:46:32.000 You know, what does that look like?

00:46:35.000 I mean, the radicals that still control the legislature, you know, how do you help someone that doesn't seemingly want to be helped?

00:46:42.000 What does that all look like to you?

00:46:43.000 Maybe, like I said, start with John, and then I'd like to hear Alex.

00:46:46.000 Well, I don't think their behavior is going to change until they feel like they might lose re-election.

00:46:53.000 And even though Kamala Harris won the state statewide, if you look at the margins of the states from 2016 to this last election, California moved farther to the right in the direction of your father more than any other state in the union.

00:47:10.000 We didn't move enough to give our electoral votes to him, but there was a lot of movement.

00:47:16.000 And I think that once these guys start to think that going after your dad nonstop is not going to pay off for them, that's when they'll change their behavior.

00:47:25.000 But as of now, I mean, you look at the legislature, they met today to find different ways to sue your dad's administration.

00:47:31.000 The Attorney General of California, Rob Bonta, is going to try to run for governor on the platform of filing as many nuisance lawsuits against the federal government as humanly possible.

00:47:43.000 If he doesn't make it out of that primary and the legislature ends up with egg on their face, which is exactly what's happening.

00:47:49.000 I mean, the Speaker of the Assembly just got absolutely obliterated by the press court today because they were so tone deaf going after your dad instead of dealing with the fires in Southern California.

00:48:01.000 When they start to feel the heat, I think that's when their behavior will change.

00:48:05.000 But unless they feel the heat, I think they're just going to keep doing what they're doing.

00:48:08.000 So we obviously just got through an election, John.

00:48:10.000 When does that happen in California?

00:48:13.000 Is this something that's two years from now where, again, I have a hard time believing people forget about their house going up in flames, but is that the kind of thing that maybe they can just forget about this and the media, I'm sure, will run cover for them?

00:48:28.000 Well, two years from now, we have the governor's seat up.

00:48:32.000 And Gavin Newsom will be turned out, so it'll be an open seat.

00:48:35.000 And you'll have a huge field of candidates.

00:48:38.000 And if you have a lot of Democrats who are credible candidates who can raise money and have some degree of name ID, then a Republican should be able to make it on the November ballot with our top two primary system.

00:48:51.000 And then you'll have a real debate.

00:48:53.000 If you just have two Democrats whose politics are the same, but their race is different or gender is different or whatever, then it doesn't matter.

00:49:02.000 But if you can get a Republican on that November ballot and you can re-litigate all of their issues, all these issues, all these failures that we've all lived with, I don't see how they have any answers for that.

00:49:14.000 Alex, what about you?

00:49:15.000 Yeah, so I look at California and I feel like we're a little bit...

00:49:19.000 Misunderstood by the rest of the country.

00:49:23.000 And there's huge problems with the state. 0.95

00:49:24.000 The taxes are ridiculous. 0.99

00:49:26.000 And the priorities of our elected leaders are ridiculous. 0.85

00:49:28.000 But keep in mind, the most conservative voters, the most Republican voters of any state in the country is California.

00:49:34.000 Now, I know it's the most populous state, so it's not the most by percentage, obviously.

00:49:37.000 But the most quantity of Republicans who are here and the Hall of Fame.

00:49:41.000 Of California Republicans is the best of all time.

00:49:44.000 I mean, think about Andrew Breitbart, Rick Grinnell.

00:49:47.000 Steve Bannon was an executive out here.

00:49:49.000 The Daily Wire was started out here.

00:49:51.000 Dennis Prager and PragerU started out here.

00:49:53.000 Leary Elder, Michael Savage.

00:49:54.000 I've been listening to John on the radio and KBC for 20 years.

00:49:57.000 I mean, it's one of these things where...

00:49:59.000 People forget how it is an incubator for conservative thought and MAGA thought in particular.

00:50:05.000 And so I'm eternally optimistic that California will wake up and turn around one day.

00:50:09.000 But there are some real headwinds.

00:50:11.000 The Democrats are, they put their head in the sand and they like to pretend certain negative things like crime and homelessness going on around them.

00:50:18.000 Illegal aliens have ruined the state in a lot of ways, particularly the education system. 1.00

00:50:22.000 And that's not discussed.

00:50:23.000 So we got to break through to those people.

00:50:25.000 But the Republican Party is completely disorganized in the state. 1.00

00:50:29.000 It's kind of pathetic. 0.96

00:50:30.000 And I'm sure there's good people there. 0.98

00:50:32.000 I don't know many of them, but I'm sure there's good people.

00:50:34.000 There needs to be at a party level, at an organizational level, at a grassroots level, a real effort to take this opportunity to re-engage with the state because the water is warm.

00:50:45.000 You can see it with all these people turning on Democrats now.

00:50:48.000 The woke era is ending.

00:50:49.000 Cancel culture is ending.

00:50:51.000 People want free speech again.

00:50:52.000 We've got to take advantage of that.

00:50:53.000 Silicon Valley is showing some leadership.

00:50:56.000 A lot of Silicon Valley executives saying they support your father now.

00:50:59.000 Don, that's wonderful stuff.

00:51:00.000 We've got to ride that momentum because it's an uphill But I think it's winnable.

00:51:06.000 Yeah, I mean, California.

00:51:07.000 I mean, you also have Richard Nixon, who, while he's been sort of lambasted in the press.

00:51:11.000 Ronald Reagan.

00:51:12.000 And Ronald Reagan, obviously, the other part of that California bench.

00:51:15.000 So maybe there is still hope.

00:51:19.000 God knows the people need it, and God knows they deserve it.

00:51:22.000 So hopefully we can make something happen there.

00:51:25.000 So Alex Marlowe, John Phillips, thank you so much both for joining tonight.

00:51:30.000 I really appreciate it and look forward to hearing more.

00:51:33.000 Hopefully some good news.

00:51:35.000 In the next couple of days.

00:51:36.000 Thanks, Don.

00:51:38.000 Thank you.

00:51:39.000 Be well, guys.

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00:52:31.000 Again, text Don Jr., D-O-N-J-R, to the number 989898. And joining me now, the founder of weatherbell.com, author of The Weaponization of the Weather in the Phony Climate War, weather forecaster and meteorologist Joe Bastardi.

00:52:51.000 Joe, thank you so much for joining us today.

00:52:53.000 I think we got to get Joe to unmute.

00:53:04.000 We'll work on that.

00:53:06.000 That's been a consistent theme this week.

00:53:08.000 Maybe I'll take a question or two while we're figuring that out.

00:53:13.000 Let's see.

00:53:15.000 Oh, we there?

00:53:17.000 Maybe not.

00:53:18.000 Give me the live chat and we'll...

00:53:20.000 Let's see.

00:53:25.000 Bribing.

00:53:25.000 Just announced dispatching eight C-130s to the fire.

00:53:30.000 Yeah, well, hopefully it does something.

00:53:32.000 I mean, it's interesting.

00:53:33.000 I mean, the people of North Carolina got $700 after losing their homes.

00:53:37.000 You know, that was a slap in the face.

00:53:39.000 You saw the lackluster response to the fires at Maui.

00:53:45.000 Hopefully it's better in California, and hopefully they make it right to all of those people, not just in California because that, you know, funds the Democrat regime, which controls so much.

00:53:55.000 We shall see.

00:53:56.000 So, let's see.

00:53:59.000 Let's see.

00:54:01.000 No mercy to the deep state.

00:54:03.000 I agree.

00:54:06.000 Someone just said they just opened their window.

00:54:08.000 It smells like smoke.

00:54:09.000 Well, if you're in California, I would imagine that's the case.

00:54:12.000 I know in areas, when I've been up in, sometimes in the woods, you see some of these forest fires.

00:54:18.000 You can smell them.

00:54:19.000 You can breathe it.

00:54:20.000 You can see the sort of...

00:54:22.000 Smut and be a part of it, even if you're miles and miles away.

00:54:26.000 So hopefully we can stop that.

00:54:29.000 Have you spoken to LAFD arson investigators?

00:54:32.000 You should.

00:54:33.000 That's CKN fun.

00:54:36.000 That's a big one.

00:54:37.000 That's actually a good idea because it wouldn't surprise me at all if other people are starting some of these things.

00:54:46.000 It wouldn't surprise me at all, but it also could be just high winds and fire.

00:54:50.000 I mean, that sort of happens, especially when you don't do any kind of management of the woods when it's dry.

00:54:56.000 We see this all across the West.

00:54:58.000 The left woke gets in there.

00:55:00.000 You can't cut down a dead tree that's been standing there for 20 years dead.

00:55:05.000 You can't create those jobs.

00:55:06.000 You can't utilize it as a natural resources.

00:55:08.000 You can't allow the new growth forest to come up in, which helps not just The fauna, but also the flora.

00:55:15.000 And instead, you end up with a matchbox up there.

00:55:19.000 So that's pretty problematic.

00:55:20.000 But, you know, maybe one day we'll learn, folks.

00:55:23.000 Hopefully we can have a little push from the federal government, my father's administration, but you never know.

00:55:29.000 But I think we have Joe.

00:55:30.000 Joe, are you there?

00:55:31.000 Yes, I'm here.

00:55:32.000 Thanks for having me on, Don.

00:55:33.000 Well, I appreciate you joining.

00:55:35.000 So, Joe, you've actually been sounding the alarm about this exact situation.

00:55:40.000 And California's lack of planning and prevention.

00:55:44.000 What did you see?

00:55:45.000 What went so wrong here?

00:55:47.000 If you've been sounding that alarm, you clearly have a big voice there.

00:55:51.000 How come no one's listening?

00:55:54.000 Well, I think there's been a concerted effort to silence people.

00:55:58.000 I call it Hunter Biden laptop meteorology and climatology, where they don't want to confront the situation because if you actually knew the situation, you wouldn't be able to buy into the climate missive anymore.

00:56:10.000 And it's strictly a political-type situation.

00:56:13.000 In fact, I have ideas on how we can counter these people once and for all, and sometime I'll talk to you about them, because what you have to do is get out in front of the situation.

00:56:24.000 Let people know with a big bullhorn two, three weeks away that we've got a situation setting up, and then you start telling people it's similar to this year, this year, this year, years in the past, and they understand that it's not some magic CO2 fairy that's decided to light up the Southwest.

00:56:43.000 And the policies of these people are depraved in difference.

00:56:48.000 This is the third big event besides the hurricanes.

00:56:51.000 You know, last year on December 7th, we put out a hurricane forecast from Weather Bell for the United States to have a hurricane season from hell targeting where these things were going to go a year in advance.

00:57:04.000 So there are times when you can see it, and if you can see it, you can war plan or battle plan for the situation, have people in place.

00:57:13.000 Now, here's an interesting question, folks.

00:57:15.000 How did the Romans know? 0.97

00:57:18.000 To build aqueducts, to get water to roam, and California doesn't seem to understand that with the increased three-fold increase in population and also in the whole infrastructure of the area, that you can have the same rain amounts that you had in the 1950s, and the demand would be so great, it would be draining your resources.

00:57:42.000 And your father is exactly spot on right.

00:57:45.000 When he says this stuff, it's common sense.

00:57:48.000 He told Newsom back in 2018, this type of thing, you cannot prevent things like wildfires completely.

00:57:57.000 But we're burning less than one-fifth.

00:58:00.000 Of what we used to burn in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s.

00:58:04.000 The situations are predictable, but you have to have the resources in place to fight them.

00:58:10.000 And you can't just, oh my gosh, it popped up overnight.

00:58:13.000 Where did this come from?

00:58:14.000 And that's the attitude that these politicians have.

00:58:17.000 Like I said before, folks, think about climate change this way.

00:58:22.000 If you go bowling and you put three times the amount of pins on the lane, The same bowling balls go and knock down more pins.

00:58:32.000 We have so many more people living there, and we have so much more infrastructure, and the shame is that this country is more than capable of adapting to whatever weather challenges that come at us, and that's what's really going on here.

00:58:50.000 People don't want to do that.

00:58:52.000 You know why?

00:58:52.000 They could turn around and blame climate change and then demand money.

00:58:57.000 It's fascinating watching this stuff.

00:59:00.000 It doesn't seem like money solves all these other problems around the world.

00:59:05.000 Everyone wants more money to fix problems they can't fix it.

00:59:07.000 The statistics, you'd know better than me, but if I recall, I think the statistics over the last 75 years, the average climate has gone up 0.2 degrees.

00:59:18.000 I don't think that's a changing thing.

00:59:20.000 I don't think that's enough to create these headaches.

00:59:24.000 And yet, we think we could spend trillions of dollars to alleviate a problem that, statistically, probably speaking, is not a problem at all.

00:59:33.000 And this is from government statistics.

00:59:35.000 Well, the problem is that people don't understand that it's water vapor that's driving the whole chute match.

00:59:40.000 And if the oceans are going to warm...

00:59:42.000 Then guess what?

00:59:43.000 There's going to be more water vapor in the air.

00:59:45.000 The oceans can't warm from the so-called back radiation of CO2. They warm from the sun and they warm from geothermal impact.

00:59:55.000 And believe me, I think I've shown people this many times on Twitter.

00:59:59.000 There is an outstanding causation, correlation type of situation going on now between the increase in geothermal input into the oceans.

01:00:10.000 That's strictly natural.

01:00:12.000 So what happens is, it's like this Don Quixote over here chasing windmills, and then these people try to tell you they're your heroes.

01:00:24.000 We're going to save you from the very problem they create themselves.

01:00:29.000 It's really a very, very fascinating situation that sociologists should be studying, and hopefully someday they will to find out.

01:00:39.000 What kind of mass insanity took over that almost drove our country to the ground?

01:00:44.000 If your father was not elected in 2024, I don't know what would have happened.

01:00:51.000 Well, we always see this sort of reflexive response from the left to just shout climate change, blame everyone but themselves.

01:00:58.000 I'm sure you'll see a lot more of that coming in the coming days as people start asking more questions.

01:01:04.000 How do you respond to that?

01:01:07.000 There's a problem.

01:01:08.000 What's fact and what's fiction?

01:01:10.000 There's a problem.

01:01:12.000 We should be setting the playing field before.

01:01:15.000 You had a lot of great people helping your dad in the first administration, but there were no weather forecasters.

01:01:23.000 50 years I'm in the private sector.

01:01:25.000 I have to be right or I'm going to get fired.

01:01:29.000 I used to wrestle at Penn State.

01:01:31.000 The weather to me is a wrestling match every single day.

01:01:34.000 So there's a bottom line.

01:01:35.000 So what happens is you have to be proactive.

01:01:38.000 You have to get out in front, explain to people, like on September 8th, I tweeted the last week of September and the first week of October, major hurricane situation for Florida and the southeast part of the United States.

01:01:51.000 You could see it coming.

01:01:52.000 So here's what you do.

01:01:54.000 You get out in front two to three weeks away.

01:01:57.000 You explain what's coming.

01:01:59.000 You line it up against things in the past, and then they walk into your trap.

01:02:04.000 All we do is we sit there and wait for something to happen, and it's very frustrating.

01:02:09.000 You can tell I'm frustrated. 0.99

01:02:10.000 We sit there and we wait for something to happen, and then, okay, we'll punch them back.

01:02:14.000 In the meantime, they've got the media. 0.57

01:02:16.000 They've got this whole false missive that they've been spreading in our schools and throughout for the last 25 or 30 years.

01:02:23.000 So you have to go on the attack with this, and you have to have someone willing to stand up and do that.

01:02:29.000 And let me tell you the problem that they have with me.

01:02:32.000 I'll tell you, I could pull, every time they say something's going on, I could pull out five storms off the top of my head.

01:02:40.000 And it's because my father was a meteorologist and taught me, hey, if you want to know the future, try to figure out the past.

01:02:47.000 And if you see something coming along, you've seen it before.

01:02:50.000 Chances are you'll be able to forecast it.

01:02:52.000 So it's a simple matter of common sense.

01:02:55.000 But we've got to get aggressive.

01:02:57.000 We can't just keep being a bunch of punching bags with this situation.

01:03:01.000 They're already trying to cost us $93 trillion.

01:03:04.000 I'm sorry.

01:03:05.000 Ben out of shape about this stuff.

01:03:07.000 But there's no reason.

01:03:08.000 You should be.

01:03:09.000 I mean, I didn't realize, you know, I'm aware, hey, every 10 years you have an El Nino cycle and that leads to X or a La Nina cycle.

01:03:16.000 But you're saying that I imagine there's more like you in your field of expertise that say, hey, here are the stats.

01:03:24.000 Here's what's going on based in the past.

01:03:26.000 You're saying this is actually more common knowledge to a lot of people that you could expect and forecast even these regulars that are, say, you know, off those majors.

01:03:37.000 Well, I'm not sure.

01:03:40.000 You know why?

01:03:40.000 People are so addicted to the climate models.

01:03:43.000 They've become their gods.

01:03:46.000 For instance, on December 20th, I have to forecast for energy companies.

01:03:50.000 And by the way, what's odd is solar and wind power are first derivative profit centers for me.

01:03:57.000 In other words, they have to know the weather every day.

01:03:59.000 An energy company has to know two, three, four weeks away down the road.

01:04:03.000 But our climate model, the CFSV2, had one of the warmest Januaries on record predicted for the United States seven, eight days ago.

01:04:12.000 It's going to turn out to be the exact opposite.

01:04:15.000 So what happens is you have a lot of very brilliant people that are working in the weather today, but they're all into the modeling.

01:04:24.000 And not looking at what happened yesterday.

01:04:26.000 And if you don't know what happened yesterday, you're going to repeat that mistake tomorrow.

01:04:30.000 We all know that.

01:04:32.000 It's common sense.

01:04:33.000 Well, you talk about that a lot, how the left sort of weaponizes weather.

01:04:38.000 Greta Thunberg became the high priestess of climate change.

01:04:41.000 It's sort of one of their deities.

01:04:43.000 And now we're seeing just how dangerous it is to put radical ideology over basic tasks about making sure we have water to fight fires.

01:04:51.000 I mean, this seems like really basic stuff, and yet it's totally neglected.

01:04:55.000 What more can we do?

01:04:57.000 To try to make sure our country is actually better prepared.

01:04:59.000 Is it just a matter of better leadership?

01:05:02.000 Can it be that simple?

01:05:04.000 Yes, it could be that simple.

01:05:06.000 And it could also be getting out in front of the situation.

01:05:09.000 We have a spokesperson come out.

01:05:11.000 It's not afraid.

01:05:12.000 He's going to take some hits from people.

01:05:14.000 All right.

01:05:16.000 I volunteer to come out and say, listen, in three weeks, this is going on.

01:05:21.000 This happened.

01:05:22.000 And this year, this year, this year, back in the past, it's similar to that.

01:05:26.000 It's not going to be climate change.

01:05:28.000 And what it's going to be is the weather doing what the weather's supposed to do.

01:05:32.000 You know what? 0.92

01:05:33.000 These people are narcissistic. 0.95

01:05:35.000 I guess that's the word to use. 0.99

01:05:37.000 They're egomaniacs their whole life.

01:05:40.000 Is climate, climate, climate, right?

01:05:42.000 Now you say to me, well, Joe, you talk about the climate all the time.

01:05:45.000 It's because I need it for what God made me to do, which is the forecast, the weather.

01:05:51.000 If the climate fight went away tomorrow, it doesn't hurt me.

01:05:54.000 I still have to get up and unwrap that Christmas gift, which is the weather, which I absolutely love, the next morning and forecast and go to battle.

01:06:02.000 So every single day, the weather is going to challenge me.

01:06:06.000 But we've just sat back and taken it.

01:06:09.000 And it's been so frustrating because I've tried to get in contact with people and say, listen, we've got to get out front of this stuff instead of just letting them do it.

01:06:19.000 They will respond, no, it's not climate change.

01:06:21.000 Let me show you this.

01:06:22.000 By that time, the horse is out of the barn and all the way down the street, and we're sitting here holding the bag.

01:06:28.000 So, Joe, before we roll, are there others that sort of have your capabilities that are just simply unwilling to say, The truth or say what you're saying, meaning they know it, they're just unwilling to say it because there is a social consequence to that.

01:06:45.000 There are penalties.

01:06:46.000 If you're perhaps getting government money and you don't espouse to the beliefs of climate change, you're just out, sort of like what we saw with COVID. If you said, of course it came from the lab that studies the exact virus in question at ground zero in Wuhan.

01:07:01.000 Of course it did.

01:07:02.000 You lost your government grants.

01:07:03.000 You were thrown out of academia.

01:07:06.000 Even though it was always the right answer, it was always the most plausible answer.

01:07:11.000 It was just basic common sense.

01:07:13.000 Yeah, my book in 2020, The Weaponization of Weather and the Phony Climate War, there were two chapters on how COVID was a warm-up for climate, and I wrote it in April of 2020. You can see as plain as the nose in my Italian face what was going.

01:07:28.000 I think there are going to be people that are going to be speaking up that know about this.

01:07:32.000 What we've got to do is we've got to get the meteorological community to sit there and look at it and go, wait a minute, wait a minute.

01:07:38.000 How come water vapor is directly linked to temperature?

01:07:42.000 We have to use what we call saturation mixing ratios, but how come there's nothing for CO2, right?

01:07:48.000 And I feel bad for the young meteorologists that are under this whole spell today because they have no choice.

01:07:56.000 What are you going to do?

01:07:57.000 If you sit there and stand up, you're going to get fired.

01:07:59.000 And if you're like me, if this is all you ever wanted to do since you were two or three years old, boy, that's a tough thing.

01:08:05.000 That's a tough thing to do.

01:08:07.000 For me, hey, listen, I know what God made me to do, and I'm going to do it as hard as I can until I leave the playing field to forecast the weather.

01:08:15.000 But climate and knowing what happened before is essential.

01:08:20.000 And because it's essential, when someone, as the great Clint Eastwood used to say, Pardon my French.

01:08:27.000 Don't pee down my back and tell me it's raining because that's exactly what these people are doing in this situation.

01:08:33.000 So that's about sums it up, brother.

01:08:36.000 Well, I really appreciate it, guys.

01:08:38.000 WeatherBell.com, Chief Meteorologist Joe Bestardi.

01:08:41.000 Joe, thanks so much.

01:08:43.000 I'm sure we got to have you on for a longer period of time.

01:08:46.000 The comments love it.

01:08:48.000 I think we want to get into this in greater detail.

01:08:49.000 So we'll be in touch and we'll have to do that again.

01:08:51.000 Thank you.

01:08:52.000 Well, God bless you.

01:08:53.000 Enjoy the weather.

01:08:54.000 It's the only weather you got.

01:08:56.000 Exactly.

01:08:56.000 Well, I'm living in Florida.

01:08:57.000 It's like 50 degrees, which means I have to put on like a flannel when I go outside.

01:09:01.000 So that's pretty rough.

01:09:02.000 But, you know, everything's relative.

01:09:04.000 Everything's relative.

01:09:06.000 Well, thank you.

01:09:07.000 Okay, guys.

01:09:08.000 Actor Dean Cain will join us in just a few moments.

01:09:12.000 But first, I'll take one or two questions from the live chat.

01:09:16.000 We'll do a little talking.

01:09:19.000 Oh, I need to pull up the live chat.

01:09:22.000 A lot of guys like Joe on there.

01:09:24.000 So yeah, I like the passion, man.

01:09:27.000 That's amazing.

01:09:28.000 Foxy Moab forestry.

01:09:29.000 Yeah, that's what I was talking about earlier.

01:09:31.000 We don't do any kind of forestry management because they don't want to go in and allow people to bring in machines to cut down dead trees.

01:09:38.000 You know, that's better for new growth.

01:09:40.000 That's better for the animals because, you know, there's nothing worse than sort of dead old growth forest.

01:09:43.000 No light gets to the ground.

01:09:44.000 Nothing.

01:09:45.000 Doesn't create any other food.

01:09:47.000 It's a real problem.

01:09:49.000 And it's also a matchstick waiting to happen.

01:09:51.000 That's bad policy from governments.

01:09:55.000 All that stuff also doesn't get decided locally.

01:09:58.000 The environmental people, they sue in D.C. where they can go and they can play on the heartstrings of some liberal judge rather than people who are actually affected, rather than people who actually understand the real problems.

01:10:10.000 And that's an issue.

01:10:12.000 I got more questions on Greenland.

01:10:15.000 Greenland was awesome.

01:10:16.000 An incredible trip.

01:10:18.000 What a beautiful country.

01:10:20.000 Such a great strategic asset for so many people.

01:10:23.000 So I had an awesome time there.

01:10:24.000 We got him.

01:10:25.000 So guys, joining me now, actor, patriot, all-around good guy, Superman, many would say, the one and only Dean Cain.

01:10:36.000 Dean, good to have you with us, buddy.

01:10:38.000 Good to be here with you, brother.

01:10:40.000 Wow, what a time.

01:10:42.000 Well, so you actually, Dean, you left Malibu a few years back, literally over this exact issue of mismanagement, and you were worried something like this was going to happen.

01:10:53.000 How do you digest what you're seeing?

01:10:56.000 I imagine many of your friends, perhaps family, are still there living through this dystopian mess.

01:11:03.000 Dystopian is right. 0.88

01:11:04.000 I mean, it looks like the Pacific Palisades looked like someone dropped a nuclear bomb on it.

01:11:09.000 It's just gone.

01:11:10.000 I left there like 19 months ago, moved here to Henderson, Nevada, because it was getting insane, and I could see the writing on the wall.

01:11:18.000 There had been fires before, burned all up to my house, all around it.

01:11:23.000 Great firefighters saved my house.

01:11:25.000 I appreciate that.

01:11:27.000 They're superheroes.

01:11:28.000 They're fantastic.

01:11:29.000 I love them.

01:11:30.000 But then shortly after, My fire insurance canceled me.

01:11:34.000 You could just see all of the bad policies, all of the failure of leadership.

01:11:38.000 I say this was a perfect storm of mismanagement and a failure of leadership.

01:11:42.000 We saw it coming, so I got out of there.

01:11:44.000 I was fortunate enough to have the means to get out of there.

01:11:48.000 Saw this coming.

01:11:49.000 I mean, everybody with any foresight whatsoever could see.

01:11:53.000 All the terrible policies, the forest mismanagement, the water that we voted on in 2014 to bring all these reservoirs on, none of them built.

01:12:00.000 You could just see it coming, so I was able to get out of there.

01:12:04.000 But everybody who can prepare, like I mean, the stuff that you know, like if you were in charge of the forest management in California, I would have probably stayed.

01:12:14.000 I mean, it's so different what they've done.

01:12:17.000 It's crazy.

01:12:18.000 When your biggest concern is being misgendered or, you know, DIE, I call them DIE policies, when that's your biggest concern, you know you're in very, very good times. 1.00

01:12:30.000 But there's that saying, you know, weak men create hard times.

01:12:34.000 Well, we're in the hard times now, my friend.

01:12:37.000 Well, yeah.

01:12:37.000 And hard times create strong men.

01:12:39.000 So hopefully someone steps up and does something about California.

01:12:44.000 I mean, you grew up in L.A. The houses you lived in, they're seemingly all gone.

01:12:49.000 I mean, some of these pictures I'm seeing, I mean, it's like the villain in some of the movies you've been in was able to get away with it.

01:12:58.000 I mean, they're torched.

01:13:00.000 Entire swaths of cities.

01:13:04.000 You know, where does Malibu go from here?

01:13:07.000 Does this spark a real pushback against the leadership or do they just continue the same old ways?

01:13:12.000 You know, I think everybody can talk about the things like, you know, like I said, DEI and D.I.E. or whatever that is, and words being violence and all that stuff until it hits home.

01:13:23.000 Lack of preparedness and stuff.

01:13:25.000 So there's so many people, you know, I'm hoping and praying that California turns red fast.

01:13:32.000 Because it's all gone.

01:13:33.000 I mean, I know that stretch of land so well that we're looking at right now.

01:13:37.000 I lived in a house right there.

01:13:39.000 Six houses that I previously lived in and two that I used to own are gone.

01:13:44.000 Just completely gone.

01:13:47.000 And it's surreal to see it.

01:13:50.000 You'd think it couldn't happen.

01:13:51.000 So I think that people, oftentimes it takes some crazy giant event like this for people to wake up and go, maybe I was making a mistake.

01:14:00.000 And you're seeing it.

01:14:01.000 I mean, thank God President Trump is coming in in two weeks.

01:14:06.000 Again, we talked about that.

01:14:07.000 You know, weak men create hard times.

01:14:10.000 Hard times create strong men.

01:14:11.000 We got a strong man coming in.

01:14:13.000 It's about time.

01:14:14.000 Your dad was dead right on this before.

01:14:16.000 Talked about it.

01:14:17.000 They mocked him. 1.00

01:14:18.000 They said stupid things. 1.00

01:14:20.000 That's just the same old story. 1.00

01:14:21.000 But here we are looking like California, looking like someone dropped a nuclear weapon on top of it.

01:14:27.000 It's devastation.

01:14:28.000 People need to wake up and start.

01:14:33.000 Yeah.

01:14:34.000 I mean, I guess I'd ask you, I mean, you're one of the few people in Hollywood, you sort of became outspoken against some of this insanity, whether it's the climate change, whether it's some of your commentary about the transgender nonsense for minors, just legendary stuff. 1.00

01:14:54.000 Are some of your friends coming to that same realization?

01:14:57.000 I mean, there used to be such a consequence.

01:15:00.000 I'm sure you've faced plenty of hardship due to it.

01:15:04.000 I'm sure you lost acting gigs or jobs, probably even friends, because of the things that you're saying.

01:15:12.000 But do you see people finally coming to their senses a little bit?

01:15:16.000 I'm sure you have conservative friends too, but more on the people who aren't.

01:15:19.000 Are they waking up and saying, you know what, maybe we don't need to go all in on all of the insanity all of the time?

01:15:26.000 Yeah, when it hits home like this, Don, people wake up.

01:15:30.000 And look at the people.

01:15:31.000 Look at the list of celebrities and types who've lost their homes.

01:15:35.000 You have lost your homes.

01:15:38.000 Very blue voting people, very outspoken people.

01:15:40.000 You have lost your homes because of mismanagement and a failure of leadership.

01:15:46.000 Period.

01:15:46.000 There are people to blame for this.

01:15:49.000 So it will wake people up.

01:15:51.000 I mean, you look no further than, you know, like...

01:15:53.000 The young Turks, Anna Kasparian, and people like that going, wait a minute, this doesn't make sense, because they're starting to see the results of these horrible policies.

01:16:02.000 Look, I saw the writing on the wall, and I bolted as fast as possible.

01:16:05.000 You know, they make fun of preppers and, you know, have your things together.

01:16:09.000 Look, we just got an alert moments ago.

01:16:12.000 My son's mother, you know, is in that area, and suddenly the alert pops up, and I hear my son on the phone, because I've taught him while he's 24 years old.

01:16:20.000 He's like, get your car packed, get all the things that you need, make sure you have enough water, you have an escape plant.

01:16:25.000 These are the things that I know you take care of because you're an outdoorsman, you're a hunter, you understand it all, you're a shooter.

01:16:32.000 I'm a shooter, but probably not as good as you, especially from distance.

01:16:36.000 But these things are hugely important.

01:16:39.000 And people just think, oh, electricity will always be there.

01:16:42.000 Oh, water's fine.

01:16:43.000 Everything's great.

01:16:44.000 And it's not.

01:16:45.000 And you have to be prepared.

01:16:47.000 And they're not prepared.

01:16:48.000 So we were just getting her prepared and her two kids in order for them to be able to get out of there. 0.70

01:16:54.000 And a lot of people didn't have that.

01:16:55.000 I think we're going to find a lot more bodies.

01:16:57.000 I think we're going to find a lot more, you know, these.

01:17:00.000 Who knows what the, quote, investigations will show because they have an ability to, you know, hide things like they've been doing for the last few years.

01:17:08.000 But anybody with common sense realizes that they've been voting the wrong things.

01:17:13.000 You know, Billy Crystal losing his home and how many celebrities that have voted for these policies that cost them their home.

01:17:19.000 This should be a wake-up call for common sense governance and real competent governance.

01:17:25.000 So, I mean, I know the firemen, the guys on the ground, those guys are real heroes.

01:17:29.000 Those guys are great.

01:17:30.000 I've been crapping all over leadership and there is always a distinction.

01:17:33.000 No different than when I crap all over the leadership at the FBI, knowing that the door kickers are still with us in most cases. 0.94

01:17:40.000 Same thing with the military.

01:17:41.000 Leadership has gotten politicized.

01:17:43.000 You know, the operators are still, you know, home team.

01:17:46.000 I know you've played roles.

01:17:48.000 Where you've been a firefighter in those roles, I imagine, in the training for that.

01:17:53.000 What did you learn from those?

01:17:55.000 Just how tough is that job?

01:17:57.000 And just how bad are some of these policies?

01:17:59.000 You saw the thing just a few weeks ago.

01:18:02.000 The firefighters in LA, they're mostly white and they're male.

01:18:05.000 It's like, we've got to change that.

01:18:07.000 I mean, is there anything wrong with just wanting capable and competent firefighters?

01:18:11.000 Firemen, I know that's going to brand me racist or misogynist or one of the ists. 0.98

01:18:16.000 Who the hell cares anymore? 0.96

01:18:17.000 Who knows?

01:18:19.000 What have you learned from doing that in your role?

01:18:23.000 First of all, I'd say that would brand you common-sensist.

01:18:27.000 It's meritocracy.

01:18:29.000 United States is a meritocracy.

01:18:31.000 Firefighters, meritocracy.

01:18:33.000 Police officers, meritocracy.

01:18:34.000 Football players that I played forever, meritocracy.

01:18:37.000 The military, police should be meritocracy.

01:18:40.000 You get the best people.

01:18:41.000 Who cares what color they are, what their sexual preclusions are? 0.93

01:18:46.000 I mean, nobody cares.

01:18:48.000 Just be good.

01:18:49.000 at your job and that's it's insane when you see oh my our our focus you know our singular focus is on DEI and we want someone to come in to uh when you when you see someone show up at your house when there's a fire you want someone that looks like you I don't care What you look like. 0.99

01:19:07.000 If you can carry my ass out of the fire.

01:19:10.000 To be clear, if you're green and can carry me and or my kids out of a fire, if I'm incapable of doing it myself, I'm totally fine with that. 0.99

01:19:16.000 Everyone can be green.

01:19:18.000 It means nothing to me. 1.00

01:19:19.000 I don't want someone who weighs 92 pounds that cannot pick up my rather chunky ass. 0.99

01:19:25.000 That doesn't help me or anyone as far as I'm concerned. 0.99

01:19:28.000 100% true.

01:19:29.000 And nobody cares.

01:19:31.000 And see, I'm a sworn deputy sheriff in Virginia and a reserve police officer in Pocatello, Idaho.

01:19:37.000 I know what these people go through, the training that they do.

01:19:40.000 And if you're not good at it, if you can't do it, you're gone.

01:19:45.000 When police get called in and then there's an emergency situation, your life is on the line, firefighters, this is when they shine.

01:19:53.000 EMTs, all these first responders.

01:19:55.000 You don't care.

01:19:56.000 It doesn't matter to you if they're black, white, green, yellow, especially, you know, especially green.

01:20:00.000 It just makes no difference.

01:20:02.000 You want somebody and you and you see them as the heroes they are because they trained for this.

01:20:07.000 They're competent.

01:20:08.000 They can carry you out.

01:20:10.000 That's what you want.

01:20:11.000 And the same thing with the military.

01:20:12.000 You want door kickers. 1.00

01:20:14.000 You want guys that are trigger pullers.

01:20:16.000 You know, I know we're called triggered right here and there's a lot.

01:20:18.000 That's a good double entendre because that's the kind of people you need.

01:20:22.000 That's why.

01:20:23.000 You know, I can't wait for, you know, January 20th that the world, not just the United States, but the world is going to change.

01:20:30.000 A guy like Pete Hegseth in charge of the DOD changes everything. 0.92

01:20:35.000 And I love it because these people, all of this woke garbage, I don't know who said it. 0.99

01:20:41.000 I think it was President Trump said anything woke turns to shit and he's dead right. 1.00

01:20:48.000 Listen, that's the sad part. 0.99

01:20:49.000 I mean, he's been right about so many of these things.

01:20:51.000 Earlier in the show, we're talking about, I mean, just a few weeks ago, a few months ago, on the Joe Rogan podcast, he was talking about it.

01:20:56.000 In 2018, when these fires ravaged California the last time, you know, not as populated an area, he was talking about all of these issues.

01:21:03.000 It's not like it's unknown and people are surprised.

01:21:06.000 I mean, it seems like it's common knowledge, even for people who aren't there.

01:21:11.000 And yet it's still allowed to happen, which is truly a travesty.

01:21:14.000 Yeah, no question about it.

01:21:16.000 It boggles the mind.

01:21:17.000 I think we're going to look back at this time and say, it's the same thing when the Nazis took over in the 30s in Germany.

01:21:24.000 Everyone goes, well, that could never happen here.

01:21:26.000 How did it happen?

01:21:27.000 It's pernicious.

01:21:28.000 It happens slowly.

01:21:29.000 It happens with the Soros prosecutors coming in and not prosecuting crimes.

01:21:33.000 It happens with lawmakers coming in more concerned about misgendering somebody than again.

01:21:39.000 Crime or life-threatening situations, building reservoirs.

01:21:43.000 It's time for common sense.

01:21:45.000 It's time to make this stuff happen because everybody, because they're living now in California.

01:21:51.000 So many of my friends and so many people that I know and family members are affected by this.

01:21:56.000 So many people lost houses and homes and everything.

01:22:00.000 It's hard for me to even wrap my head.

01:22:02.000 I mean, looking at that is just insane and heartbreaking when you know that it could have been prevented.

01:22:08.000 By good policy, good forest management, good water management.

01:22:14.000 I mean, just everything that your father talked about, everything that was there is just total common sense and people scoffed at it, laughed at it, and now they're reaping what they sowed.

01:22:23.000 Of the people that you know that have been affected by this, lost homes, are they staying there and rebuilding or are they just leaving and fleeing?

01:22:31.000 You know, fortunately, a lot of people I know are very wealthy and they can have other homes and they can do things.

01:22:37.000 Their idea right now is to rebuild.

01:22:39.000 But then you get into this.

01:22:41.000 And this is one of the things that Adam Carolla did a great job of discussing.

01:22:45.000 You know, even from the Woolsey fire back in 2018. Such a small percentage of the homes that were burned have been rebuilt.

01:22:53.000 Something like some tiny, I don't even want to pick a number, but it's tiny, way less than 50% of the homes.

01:22:58.000 So what these people are going to find now is the California Coastal Commission, all the bureaucratic regulations, all that ridiculousness.

01:23:05.000 Go ahead and try to pull a permit to rebuild your house.

01:23:08.000 Go ahead and try and get fire insurance.

01:23:10.000 Mine got canceled after it burned up in my backyard and I filed a claim.

01:23:14.000 California insurance companies are going to go possibly bankrupt.

01:23:17.000 They're going to not give any fire insurance anymore.

01:23:19.000 It's going to be insane.

01:23:20.000 Try to pull a permit to build something there.

01:23:23.000 You are not, the backlog is going to be insane.

01:23:26.000 And all of a sudden, you're going to be, those people will be concerned about the bureaucratic mess, the red tape that President Trump talks about all the time and that anybody with any sense who has dealt with it.

01:23:37.000 Understands it's ridiculous and things aren't going to get done and they're going to turn that blue state red.

01:23:43.000 That would be the silver lining in my book is if people realized the idiocy of what they've been voting for and they turn that blue state red and vote for common sense and things that make California great again. 0.90

01:23:57.000 So you've been very vocal for quite some time. 0.50

01:24:00.000 You're one of the few guys to really start.

01:24:01.000 I think you brought a lot of people with you.

01:24:04.000 Any chance you ever get into politics, Dean?

01:24:09.000 You and I can talk about this quietly on the side, and I will listen to you.

01:24:13.000 You'll probably quietly tell me not to do it, because when I watched it, look at the, I mean, I don't have to tell you anything, but the stuff that comes out, the way they attack everybody, if I ever did...

01:24:26.000 It's only because I want to do good for my state, my country, and the citizens of the United States.

01:24:33.000 I would go there to serve, very much like the 47th incoming president.

01:24:38.000 I would go to serve.

01:24:39.000 I would go there to do the job and get out.

01:24:42.000 I don't ever want to be a career politician, but I would do it if I thought I could be effective.

01:24:47.000 An effective leader.

01:24:48.000 But I'll tell you this, I would do it for the right reasons.

01:24:50.000 How many politicians, and you don't have to answer this, but I know it's going to be a big number.

01:24:55.000 Well, the number will probably be close to zero.

01:24:56.000 How many people do it for the right reasons?

01:24:58.000 I'd say the number is close to zero.

01:25:00.000 And you look at some of these people, I've met many of them, even on our side, and I'm like, wow, they wouldn't be good at anything else.

01:25:05.000 They're just good at being bureaucrats, but they're good at that.

01:25:08.000 And, you know, they're able to hold those positions and they do what needs to be done to keep that position to get reelected every two years, even if it means making bad decisions for short-term gain.

01:25:17.000 That's 100% it.

01:25:18.000 They're doing it to get reelected.

01:25:20.000 I would be there to do the job of representing the people and trying to put common sense back into our government to help the people of the United States, which is what they're really supposed to be doing.

01:25:31.000 I mean, when we were founded, we weren't supposed to be in session all the time.

01:25:34.000 They would come in, do a couple weeks, and get out.

01:25:36.000 People thought that, you know, the founders thought that people wouldn't want to be politicians, and that makes sense.

01:25:42.000 So go have a regular job.

01:25:44.000 Don't just be the governing.

01:25:46.000 Go back and be governed and see how you like all the red tape and not being on the inside, so to speak.

01:25:53.000 And things would change.

01:25:54.000 So, yeah, I would be a true citizen politician if I did it.

01:25:57.000 The people who are in, I mean, some of the people who are in office, when I sit down with them personally, and you hit the nail on the head, I'm like, how in the world can you, I wouldn't hire you to run my, you know, my pool in the back of my house because you're. 0.83

01:26:12.000 Inept.

01:26:13.000 And your thought processes are completely wrong.

01:26:15.000 I wouldn't even do it.

01:26:17.000 So, yeah, it is shocking.

01:26:19.000 Well, I always say, if Joe Biden pulled up in an Uber and your kid was getting in the car, you would definitely cancel that ride.

01:26:25.000 Even if it was a self-driven Tesla, cancel.

01:26:29.000 If he's in the driver's seat, out.

01:26:31.000 Well, Dean, thank you so much.

01:26:33.000 Really appreciate you being an incredible voice.

01:26:35.000 It takes guts and there are consequences.

01:26:37.000 We appreciate you doing that.

01:26:40.000 That's absolutely awesome.

01:26:41.000 I look forward to seeing you soon, buddy.

01:26:42.000 Thank you.

01:26:43.000 Likewise.

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Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - January 09, 2025

Fires Rage Across LA, How Dems Destroyed the Golden state, Live with Alex Marlow, John Phillips, and Joe Bastardi | TRIGGERED Ep.206

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