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00:08:33.000I mean, I guess I'd ask, you know, for viewers who aren't really familiar, what is Burna and why are so many Americans Sure, it's anyone that's concerned about the personal safety.
00:08:46.000You know, America is getting more dangerous by the second.
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00:12:41.000So looking ahead, what's the most exciting development you guys have for areas of growth, et cetera, for Burna in the near future?
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00:13:40.000Yeah, I mean, I think that's pretty important, actually.
00:13:41.000I saw the Supreme Court, you know, basically stayed the New York, you know, ridiculous restrictions on firearms.
00:13:47.000I mean, it was really almost impossible, especially with your New York City limits.
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00:14:29.000Awesome. I mean, the regions, excuse me.
00:16:34.000And I think that right now what's going on is it's very sweet because we've never seen a president actually keep his promises that he makes to people.
00:16:41.000And you talk about issues for 30 years, and then you run on those issues, and then you do these issues, and then everyone acts like they're surprised that you're doing the things that you promised to do.
00:16:49.000It shows you how broken our system is that we actually don't anticipate the politicians do what they're supposed to do.
00:16:56.000One of our top stories right now is, as we're having this conversation, Don, Is Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania who campaigned on school choice, and then he's just completely buckling the teachers' unions and doing everything they say and not doing school choice.
00:17:07.000And it's just one of these things where it just shows you, of course, who all these guys are.
00:17:11.000They don't put their money where their mouth is.
00:17:15.000Yeah, I mean, you guys have been really, at Breitbart, relentlessly exposing how failed, you know, let's call it free trade in very broad air quotes, policies have really hollowed out American cities and town.
00:17:28.000Alex, from your perspective, why do you think the legacy media seems so determined to downplay or ignore the real scope of what's actually happening?
00:17:35.000They didn't panic when the Rust Belt was decimated, but they're panicking now.
00:18:55.000You had Warren Buffett writing an article about how this is the way to, frankly, the only way to save America.
00:19:01.000And now they've forgotten all about this.
00:19:03.000But, you know, John, you're a fourth-generation Californian.
00:19:07.000How does this economic debate about tariffs parallel to what we've seen in California over the last 40 years, in the sense that if you don't address problems that is right in front of your face, it only continues to get worse?
00:19:20.000Well, we've seen that with immigration here, certainly.
00:19:23.000We've seen that with what we do with fires and water policy, and we had to live that here in Los Angeles recently.
00:19:30.000But I think that what's going on right now is such a shock to the system.
00:19:35.000To Alex's point, because they love to call your dad a liar.
00:19:39.000They call him a liar on a regular basis because he said, well, you know, The Apprentice had X ratings and they say, oh, it was really Y. Well, it was the number one show on NBC and the centerpiece of the primetime lineup for years.
00:19:55.000Yet he ran on this platform and he's actually following through with it.
00:20:00.000The big ticket items, something that none of these politicians in either party ever do.
00:20:05.000And they're acting like it's some sort of massively shocking thing.
00:20:10.000Right. Yeah, you know, you're supposed to tell your constituents that you're going to do something and then you get to D.C. and you do the opposite and you're supposed to keep getting reelected for lying to your people.
00:20:20.000I mean, it certainly hasn't worked in the past.
00:20:22.000So, I mean, at least we're trying something new.
00:20:25.000I feel like for the last few decades, we've been living Einstein's definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
00:20:31.000Well, because I think what they want to do is they want to run on these issues.
00:20:35.000If every cycle you know you can run on immigration or you can run on abortion or you can run on any of these subjects, and it's going to pay off, it's going to result in you making campaign dollars or you filling up a room full of people or whatever, you benefit from that.
00:20:50.000And the fact that someone's actually trying to fix a big, major problem is just something they fundamentally don't understand.
00:20:57.000They don't ever want to fix these things.
00:20:59.000They want them to exist forever so they can continue to benefit from them.
00:21:03.000And then you have this guy who's coming in who's just trying to fix all of these long-term structural problems, and they just don't understand it.
00:21:12.000It's like he's speaking a different language.
00:21:14.000Yeah, I mean, Alex, we're seeing my father actually do what he said he was going to do.
00:21:18.000And this time around, he's got a cabinet that will actually back him, not the guys just kicking the can down the road trying to wait him out, the unelected bureaucrats just being the guys in charge.
00:21:29.000Based on Breitbart's reporting, what are the most dishonest narratives that the established media is pushing right now that the people need to be aware of?
00:21:37.000I mean, there's such a different dichotomy between what I read in the press and what I see in real life.
00:21:42.000Yeah, so the first one is, just to emphasize it because it is the big story this week, is the tariffs that the economy is crumbling.
00:21:49.000No, the stock market's down a little bit, but again, as we're having this conversation, Don, it's up year over year.
00:21:55.000The way I phrase it is we had a Biden sugar high at the end of his presidency where he tried to pump all this money into the economy, which artificially juiced it, and that sold off, but it is not the end of the world for the economy because we saw a roaring jobs report for this month.
00:22:20.000These aren't government bureaucrats that are getting paid a lot of money probably to do nothing.
00:22:25.000Yeah, and so the latest polling in his approval numbers are he's at 54% in one poll.
00:22:29.000I mean, these are monster numbers, especially after SignalGate, where we were all told that he'd compromised national security because Jeffrey Goldberg got put on one signal text chain.
00:22:37.000The public is not buying it, which is such a relief, because it is nice to actually talk about the issues and not just complain about the media.
00:22:44.000Because when we're talking about these tariff policies, they're actually pretty nuanced and really interesting.
00:22:48.000There's a lot of different elements to them.
00:23:04.000And that's from the people that are talking about free trade endlessly.
00:23:07.000They're talking about free trade endlessly, but there's nothing free trade about them putting a 90% tariff on our stuff but not doing anything back.
00:23:14.000Exactly. And so that's why I've called for equitable trade.
00:23:17.000Like, I think we've got to rebrand reciprocal equitable because we could use the last favorite word for it.
00:23:21.000And it's just, like, that's what we need.
00:23:23.000And here's the thing, is that the way we've readjusted the tariffs is we're still getting rolled.
00:23:28.000We're just getting rolled a little less.
00:24:08.000It's the guy who is just fearlessly standing up against.
00:24:14.000Yeah, and that doesn't mean there's not some short-term pain, but we live in this instant gratification society where we expect everything to be great in the short term and also work out in the long term, and that doesn't work out well.
00:24:26.000I think for the average American right now, listen, if your 401k takes a 5%, 10% hit for a few weeks...
00:24:33.000That's probably less important to a lot of Americans because it's going to come back than oil prices going below 60 for the first time in years.
00:24:41.000We got a little test run in the first two months of the presidency, which was the egg prices, which were artificially inflated because of a bird flu.
00:24:50.000And we were told it was because Trump's terrible.
00:24:52.000And then when the chickens got caught up, the industry got caught up, now egg prices fell off a table.
00:24:59.000Was there a single person in the media who apologized for freaking out about the egg prices?
00:25:13.000It's like just getting into office actually can magically somehow undo four years of disastrous decisions, killing of millions of chickens unnecessarily.
00:25:23.000I mean, it was all on purpose, but they expect the instant gratification.
00:25:28.000Exactly. And that's exactly the message, that just to remind everyone, if you're insecure, if you're not thrilled about what's going on for whatever reason, and you think the media might be getting a foothold, remember the egg prices.
00:25:48.000John, we also got some new data points after the 2024 election, showing some of the biggest shifts right.
00:25:54.000We're actually in California among working class Latino men.
00:25:58.000What do you think the significance of that and, you know, can that be sustained?
00:26:04.000Well, the biggest gains that you saw were in places that weren't even really contested.
00:26:09.000They were in these deep blue districts that are primarily Latino districts, places like L.A. County, the Inland Empire.
00:26:16.000And those races ended up being so tight.
00:26:20.000I assume that many of those seats will be targeted seats next time around.
00:26:24.000And I think that obviously the wokeism upset a lot of these working-class Latinos, the same things that upset the working-class whites.
00:26:32.000But I think that the COVID-19 shutdowns, everything that we experienced here under Gavin Newsom, where the schools were shut down, the economy was shut down.
00:26:43.000at one point they were arresting people if they were out on the beach, because, of course, you know, that's what spreads COVID.
00:26:49.000And there is residual anger that exists, particularly in those communities.
00:26:54.000And then when you throw in crime and homelessness and everything on top of that, what you're what you're ending up with is a group of people who the Democrats took for granted for decades and decades and decades, who now are looking at someone like your dad and his message
00:27:31.000Because as we saw during COVID, if you don't make anything, if you don't manufacture drugs, if you don't manufacture things that you might need in a crisis, you're dependent on people who may not be your friend to provide you with those goods and services.
00:27:46.000And the next time the boys in Wuhan cook up another virus that gets us all in trouble, if we don't fix this trade imbalance, your drugs might be on the other side of the Great Wall.
00:27:57.000They did that with a lot of the PPE equipment.
00:27:59.000You know, if we accuse them of doing what obviously they were doing and did, you know, I think everyone now realizes that, of course, you know, the COVID, you know, Wuhan flu started in the lab that studies the exact virus in question at ground zero of the outbreak.
00:28:13.000I mean, it was always the most plausible, but that didn't matter.
00:28:16.000But I think it's a really bad tactic to be entirely dependent on your enemies for all of the things that you need in a time of crisis.
00:28:24.000Don, can I identify a pattern here that I'm seeing with some of President Trump's moves in the first couple months here?
00:28:29.000Is that he's really looking down the field.
00:29:02.000So even with our best efforts, I mean, you know, even with a better military, even with a better whatever it may be, and that's not that easy to defend.
00:29:10.000Exactly. OK, so and then how about Greenland?
00:29:13.000So Greenland, so Russia's encroaching into Europe a little bit.
00:29:44.000The president's someone who has a vision looking at this country over a hundred-year time horizon and thinking, how do we put America in the best position for the whole century?
00:30:38.000The stock market as high as possible today, you allow many of these problems to fester, whether it is immigration, trade, any of those subjects that deal with what's going on here in the Western Hemisphere or beyond.
00:30:53.000You know, those subjects have been neglected.
00:30:56.000And they've been neglected by members of both parties.
00:30:58.000And it's also, by the way, it foreshadows, I think, future fights that your dad's going to have with even Republicans in Congress, because many of them still look at the world in very short-term ways because they have an election coming up or they're worried about losing their committee chairmanship if they don't continue to keep control of whatever house they happen to be in.
00:31:20.000And I think the fact that your dad has stood so firm and has not blinked and has not flinched, and at this point they should be aware of that, you know, is going to help him with these negotiations and help him to move Congress and to get them to fundamentally do things that they do not want to do,
00:31:38.000which we have to do if we're going to be healthy in the long term.
00:31:45.000I think, first of all, when it comes to economics, I think that what The gambit Trump is making with our trade right now, it's all China-focused.
00:31:53.000I think my unified field theory right now is everything he's doing is about China, and I could...
00:31:58.000I'll walk you through that, but it would take a little while.
00:32:00.000But I think he sees it as a win-win when it comes to China, which is either we decouple from them entirely or they're just a lot better to work with and we have more reinforcements and more assurances and guarantees.
00:32:12.000But if decoupling is where it goes, then he's developing these relationships with Mexico, with people in Central and South America.
00:32:20.000These countries really want to play ball with America, and you can see this wave of conservative Trumpian figures who are winning elections.
00:32:44.000And I think they're going to figure out a way to cooperate.
00:32:47.000And that includes with immigration policy because that's one thing.
00:32:50.000If they want to get back in the United States with lower tariffs or no tariffs, then they're going to have to help us not have caravans come up.
00:32:59.000If we're on the track we're on now, if Trump holds the line, if we all hold the line, I think we might never see another caravan again come into the country.
00:33:07.000So I do think that a lot of it is trying to insulate ourselves from, I think, you know, China in particular, but really the rest of the world.
00:33:16.000And if we could have more dominance in North America, in this hemisphere, I think it could be really, really productive, again, for, as John said, for people not even born yet.
00:33:25.000How do you stop China from sort of just, you know, shipping their stuff to Mexico and then they use USMCA to ship their, you know, they throw a sticker on it saying, eh, kind of made in Mexico, you know, over here.
00:33:36.000Because, you know, the one thing you do have to stop is sort of the bad actors from, you know, playing those kinds of games.
00:33:43.000I talked to the president about this when I got to see him a few weeks ago, and he was talking about this exact thing.
00:33:48.000He was talking about how you actually have to tariff certain things because, not because of where they're coming from, but from where they originated to begin.
00:33:55.000So this is where it's really kind of fun and wonky, and we go through this a lot at brightboard.com.
00:34:00.000We have a guy, John Carney, who's just, I think he's the best at understanding the magnomics and the tariffs of anyone.
00:34:06.000And he explains all this stuff to me, and it's really a delight to hear about it because it shows you there is a lot of nuance and sophistication because it's not one blanket tariff policy.
00:34:14.000There's going to be probably hundreds, if not thousands, of various policies around the world because so many things need to be tariffed in different ways.
00:34:23.000So, you know, both of you guys run media operations where you're mostly, you know, the counterweight to traditional, you know, DC talking points.
00:34:31.000You know, how does Breitbart, how does talk radio continue to break through that noise, John?
00:35:00.000I mean, you look at them, you look at these programs, you look at The View or MSNBC or any of those channels or programs, and they act like they won the election.
00:35:10.000And they act like the voters signed up for the platform that Kamala ran on, and we have this occupying force that just took over the country and is taking us in all these directions that no one signed up for.
00:35:21.000Well, did you pay attention to any of his rallies?
00:35:36.000No one should be surprised at anything going on right now.
00:35:39.000But you look at the mainstream media and it's like they're living in a completely alternate reality.
00:35:45.000So for people like us at Breitbart or in talk radio or on the internet or doing what you do with this program, we are kind of the sunlight, the reality.
00:36:54.000And you do not need the filter of anyone in the establishment media.
00:36:57.000And a lot of people in the establishment media seem to be getting it.
00:37:00.000You see Jeff Bezos basically coming out against his own – The Washington Post, the LA Times, which is just an absolute, not worthy of birdcage lining, but still the guy runs it there.
00:37:22.000One of the reasons why Donald Trump won is because he had that brilliant podcasting strategy at the very end where he went on all these shows and spoke to all these people who not only had never been spoken to, but you could not speak to them.
00:37:33.000Kamala Harris could not do a three-hour podcast where she holds court on all sorts of topics.
00:37:50.000He loves, and people love hearing about it.
00:37:52.000It's a huge advantage for him and for our movement, which is much more depth of thought.
00:37:56.000Yeah, and now that you have, you know, X, at least allowing for free speech, you know, true social, you know, even to your point, some of the other guys, you know, Patrick Suncheon over at, you know, the LA Times just being like, well, we're not going to just blindly endorse Kamala Harris anymore.
00:38:12.000But now that our ideas actually have a chance to get out in the ether and they're not just censored, suppressed, smothered entirely while just sort of pushing the narrative, all of a sudden we have a chance at actually winning these arguments because other people actually see the other side for the first time ever.
00:38:51.000They can't do this stuff because their arguments are paper thin, and they're all political, and they're about short-term political gains.
00:38:59.000And this is one thing where they've gotten away with it for so long, because they're so organized.
00:39:04.000Their community organizing is so good.
00:39:05.000They're so well-funded by the George Soros's of the world, the Lorene Powell Jobs's of the world, that they could basically just bully you into submission with raw organizing power.
00:39:39.000He went on the successful podcast that had their own social network, and he took his message to a social network that may not be a social network that was really paying attention to him in any sort of close way.
00:39:52.000He did it with Rogan, did it with Undertaker, did it with all of those.
00:40:09.000You mean he didn't change his accent depending on who he was talking to to try to sound more like the base of listener?
00:40:14.000Oh, but look at Gavin Newsom and look at how he's doing it.
00:40:18.000Instead of going on other podcasts where they're the ones asking the questions, he figures if I start my own podcasts, then people will pay attention to me the same way they paid attention to Trump.
00:40:29.000So he does one with Marshawn Lynch and he goes out there with this like Amos and Andy Droll because I guess that's supposed to speak to an urban audience.
00:41:07.000You were kind of the original Scott Jennings, who seems to be going out there and committing homicide almost on a daily basis.
00:41:13.000I'm actually shocked they still let him go on the air, because it's him versus four or five people half the time, and he's just murdering them, and they allow it to continue.
00:41:29.000Cable news changed between then and now.
00:41:32.000Yeah, he is the blonde girl on the Munsters over there, but he's doing a great job.
00:41:36.000And every day, it's just he's racking up the W's.
00:41:41.000It's an interesting role to play where you know you're the heel, where you know that you're there to give an unpopular position in a shop where the gravitational pull certainly goes the other way.
00:41:53.000And part of what you see when you have a dynamic like that is you have people who start out with really, you know, the right ideas, and then they get sucked into these shops where you get rewarded if you go the other way.
00:42:08.000So you had a lot of people who work at CNN or MSNBC who started out at Fox and you saw them and you go, okay, that's a reasonable person.
00:42:15.000That's a person with their head screwed on straight.
00:42:17.000And then they go over there and they sound like these Lincoln Project people all of a sudden.
00:42:22.000And you go, okay, what happened to this person?
00:42:27.000And the answer is you get rewarded in those shops when you go ahead and do that.
00:42:32.000For someone like Scott Jennings to just dig in his heels and to just hit them with facts day after day after day after day, I can only imagine how icy those green rooms are and how much they must hate his guts.
00:42:46.000I hope he's got a food tester in the cafeteria.
00:42:49.000I hope they're filming all of that because one day they should air it.
00:42:52.000And I imagine the ratings would actually go through the roof for them, although it probably wouldn't be their traditional base of viewership.
00:43:01.000And this is why I'm loving this so much.
00:43:02.000And I really admire what Scott Jennings is doing.
00:43:04.000He really takes the persona that I try to take whenever I get invited to hostile media is just politely explain our positions, ask them to defend their positions.
00:43:15.000He knows exactly what he's doing and he's doing a great job.
00:43:17.000But the most delicious part about this for me is that the ratings are still bad.
00:43:22.000So all of us, we just wait for the clips online of Scott Jennings demolishing people.
00:43:26.000And then we get to see the clips and we have a great time watching them.
00:43:30.000But CNN is not really making any money off of it, which is really great because no one's tuning into Abby Phillips' show, which is too late and no one cares.
00:43:37.000We just wait for the three-minute viral Scott Jennings clip.
00:43:40.000And so it's just a perfect world for us because we get all of the glory without CNN actually doing well.
00:43:49.000I've got to ask you guys both, since you're both such California experts, what's going on with the fire cleanup and the insurance crisis there?
00:43:58.000Have elected leaders learned anything?
00:44:00.000I mean, it seems like the story has just gone by the wayside, and yet people are told they can't build back what they had.
00:44:43.000Even people like Gavin Newsom don't want to be photographed with her.
00:44:46.000When he comes down and he talks about the fires, you usually see him in Altadena because that's not in the city of L.A. and he's not going to be photographed with her.
00:45:21.000The state legislature did the same thing.
00:45:24.000And these people right now are failing in a very public way.
00:45:29.000And it'll be interesting to see how Gavin Newsom tries to get around this when he runs for president.
00:45:35.000My guess is what they're going to do is they're going to place all of the blame on the mayor of L.A. and potentially the insurance commissioner for screwing that up because there's no good look for any of them out of this.
00:45:48.000Yeah, I mean, they can try to do that, but I mean...
00:46:08.000Yeah, he can't, and he absolutely can't, because there was no preparedness that was done, because we spent so much time on trout runs and the Delta smell.
00:46:17.000Don, I think we talked about this last time we were on together, is that your dad was totally right about this, that we really did ruin everything for the Delta smell.
00:46:24.000He's like, hey guys, this is going to get worse.
00:46:26.000This was a little bit more of a remote fire.
00:46:28.000It did a lot of damage, but the same, you know, tinder exists in these much more residential areas, and if and when that happens and you're not prepared.
00:46:38.000Six years later, Trump was right about everything as usual.
00:46:43.000Yeah, so there's so much that can be done on this, but this latest report, an economic recovery report that we covered at Breitbart, shows that we're basically on track for recovery by 2029.
00:46:55.000So we're talking four years, and so this is a huge opportunity if...
00:47:00.000Rick Grinnell and Lee Zeldin and the people from Trump's team who are tasked with this, if they do a good job and can accelerate this a little bit, it could be a really big win for Republicans and President Trump long term.
00:47:12.000But it's very tough when you've got such an intransigent government that's not used to doing anything productive.
00:47:18.000There's one lawsuit suggesting that the fire or at least a secondary blaze that hurt in the Palisades was from power lines.
00:47:25.000So it was from infrastructure that should have been rebuilt with all that money that Joe Biden had and all the money in the California surplus.
00:47:33.000And so we just wasted it on a bunch of DEI and woke stuff, a bunch of trans sports stuff that Gavin Newsom was really into until he started podcasting and then says he doesn't like it anymore.
00:47:45.000It's tough with the insurance because why, if you're an insurance company, would you want to insure people in a state like this when it is basically a desert, it's a tinderbox, and the government doesn't maintain stuff in a way that protects them?
00:47:59.000So it really is a catch-22, and there needs to be so much done, but an overhaul in leadership is step one, which is why you're seeing people.
00:48:11.000Now, can we keep them as permanent Republicans and conservatives?
00:48:37.000I think that – but you have to reinforce it.
00:48:40.000You have to make the points, and that's where it's so – it's great that new media is ascendant because – You know that when Gavin Newsom does a podcast and he sounds pretty good, you know what he's saying is not true, but it is then on us to break it down and say, okay, well, here's why it's not true.
00:48:55.000So he says that he's opposed to men playing women's sports, but he actually signed a bill suggesting that schools get punished and they lose funding if they don't allow men to play women's sports.
00:49:06.000And he was one of the first states to have such a bill.
00:49:09.000But you have to have us, we have to do the legwork and keep doing that, and then we have to relentlessly tell our friends.
00:49:16.000I recommend shows like this one, recommend shows like my show or John's show to people so that people get those arguments and that we're speaking to people in our respective audiences, but then it's on our audiences to go out and take those messages to voters who are gettable now, who might be reconsidering things because of the nature of how Democrats have let them down over the previous years.
00:49:37.000Yeah, it'd be nice if there was this overarching profession that, I don't know, reported on these kinds of things.
00:49:46.000That's why I always tell everyone, like, share, subscribe, get it out there, because there are people having these conversations, but there's a trillion-dollar mainstream media complex that's just going to sweep it under the rug, or they're going to do whatever they can to lie, cheat, distort the truth so that you don't have that change to people.
00:50:03.000You know, who even while affected still may not be paying attention to politics because they're trying to rebuild a home.
00:50:08.000You know, they may not be as in the weeds.
00:50:10.000Yeah, they don't have the time to do it, but that's why the Scott Jennings stuff is so great because he's like, he's basically functioning as an ombudsman.
00:50:16.000Where these papers used to have an editor who would look at the mistakes the paper would make, then would write about the mistakes.
00:50:55.000You try to buy some shampoo, it's behind bulletproof glass, and you need the assistance of an associate.
00:51:01.000You go rent a car in Oakland, and they give you a list of places you can't go because the odds of you getting the car broken into are so high, they won't insure you if you go to those certain establishments or there's certain neighborhoods.
00:51:15.000Then you go, okay, even if you don't read the paper, Even if you're just completely unaware of what's going on in the world around you, you know this place doesn't function.
00:51:25.000So it feels like despite all of that, in Washington, D.C., the Democrat California delegation still holds a massive amount of power.
00:51:37.000Again, despite failure, despite seemingly a collapsing economy, despite no results, where does that come from?
00:51:43.000You know, what's the inside baseball on how, you know, the San Francisco machine maintains that kind of power and hegemony in the swamp?
00:51:55.000Yeah, I mean, in San Francisco, there was a political machine that ended up being very successful.
00:52:01.000And San Francisco is a tiny little city.
00:52:04.000You know, even in California, San Diego is bigger, San Jose is bigger.
00:52:08.000But that's the political epicenter of the state.
00:52:11.000And there was a guy by the name of Phil Burton, who was actually really the leader of that machine.
00:52:17.000And he was the guy who was going to be the Speaker of the House, and he was the guy that was going to have all of this power.
00:52:23.000He ended up dying a very young man and never achieved that power.
00:52:44.000And all of these people whose names that we're familiar with, whether it's Nancy Pelosi, Willie Brown, Gavin Newsom, Kamala Harris, they all come from the same machine that produced these people and produced this extremely successful operation of accumulating and distributing power.
00:53:02.000And they took over the state of California.
00:53:04.000And then after that, they took over essentially the National Democratic Party.
00:53:12.000And so even though the rest of the country looks at San Francisco and looks at California and they say, oh my God, you know, that's a state that's going to fall into the ocean if they don't figure out a way to fix it, because they're so good at this Machiavellian game of power, they're still in charge.
00:53:28.000And I don't see that changing anytime soon.
00:53:30.000Alex? Yeah, I think that's a really good summary.
00:53:33.000And it is, the one thing I would add is...
00:53:37.000And I think this is something that we can emulate on the right, that they do very well, is that this San Francisco Mafia, which, you know, Willie Brown was sort of the main fixture in it because he had the longevity.
00:53:49.000Recall, he was the guy who was dating Kamala Harris when she was 29 and he was 60 years old.
00:53:54.000And he bought her a BMW 7 Series and all this stuff.
00:55:34.000And so what I'm concerned about is we're now in this AI arms race where people are going to be reliant on AI for research, they're going to be reliant on AI for their information, that when people have questions that are going to Google, they're going to be going to their favorite AI search engine.
00:55:49.000And what's going to end up happening is that all of the left-wing media The crap is going to be what is populating the AI.
00:55:56.000Garbage in, garbage out, as the expression goes.
00:55:58.000And so I'm concerned that over the next few years, as AI becomes normalized and people start using AI to answer more of their queries in life, that they're going to be just getting that same left-wing media that we are beating currently.
00:56:16.000The AI is only sucking in the left-wing media into their algorithm, then we're going to have big problems.
00:56:22.000And we do not have a plan on this yet.
00:56:25.000And that's what I'm concerned about over that sort of four-year horizon.
00:56:54.000But I think that Elon buying X and allowing that to really be an open town square was probably, outside of maybe the podcasts, the most important media story.
00:57:08.000for the last election because information that would have been suppressed, like the Hunter Biden laptop, and it was successfully suppressed the last time around, could not be hidden this time.
00:57:19.000We had access to information that would have been denied to us in the cycle before that, or the cycle before that, or the cycle before that.
00:57:32.000And as long as that stays firm, as long as he's in charge of that platform, and he keeps it as an open platform where people can share information, I don't see how the left-wing narratives can overcome the truth.
00:57:46.000I think the truth is going to get out there, and as long as people have access to the truth, that's going to make it real hard for them to win elections.
00:57:54.000Well, Alex, John, thank you guys so much.
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