WILL THE GOP FIGHT BACK? Dinesh D’Souza Podcast Ep646
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Coming up, will the GOP fight back?
The Democrats are certainly fighting.
I'll show you how the GOP can fight back, but I'm going to raise the question, will it?
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I was listening to an exchange involving the political strategist Dick Morris.
Dick Morris is a long-time Republican strategist, but he worked for Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton actually realized that Dick Morris is one of the savviest political observers and strategists in the country.
And Dick Morris sort of came to public attention through the Clinton campaigns, which were successful.
And now Dick Morris is talking about the Trump case.
And he said something that I think is probably true, but also very startling, if not dismaying.
He said Trump is quite likely going to be campaigning next year from jail.
And Eric Metaxas, who was talking to Dick Morris, was genuinely a little bit nonplussed or startled.
And he's like, are you saying that he's going to be issuing statements from jail?
And Dick Morris goes, yes.
He goes, this is what the Democrats are aiming for.
And the Democrats have adopted this shotgun strategy in which they have 91 charges.
What, do you think Trump is going to be exonerated on all of them?
No. He's likely to be convicted on at least some, if not many, and in multiple jurisdictions.
And then you have these judges.
Let's think about it. It's left-wing prosecutors, left-wing judges, a left-wing media celebrating the outcomes, and in many cases, left-wing juries.
Not all cases. Maybe in Florida, Trump will get a more balanced jury, but what about New York?
What about Fulton County, Georgia?
Georgia is a red state, but Fulton County is not a red county.
So, says Dick Morris, Trump is going to be convicted, and then the judge has the discretion to put Trump behind bars.
Now, you might say, wait a minute, what about his appeals?
What about the Supreme Court?
Didn't you yourself, Dinesh, talk about the logistical difficulties?
Well, yeah, there are logistical difficulties, but maybe the judge will say, all right, we'll create a special facility.
The Secret Service can protect Trump.
But the fact of the matter is, he does have to be confined.
And no, I'm not agreeing to home Or Trump in Mar-a-Lago, where he would be, after all, in his own zone and in his own element.
So all of this, I think, concentrates our mind.
It shows that the Democrats are doing everything they can to go after this guy and lock him up at At this point, it's not even enough to try to push him out, to impeach him.
They want to incarcerate him.
And this gives them glee.
They love the idea.
You can just sense their kind of salivation over the prospect.
So, what do Republicans do?
Republicans have a lot of ways to fight back.
Think about it. There's the Supreme Court.
But we also have the House GOP. We also have Republican governors.
We have DAs and secretaries of state in a number of places.
There are 27 Republican Attorneys General compared to 23 Democrats.
But let's ask yourself this.
The Democrats appear to be really active.
The Attorney General in New York, Letitia James, is going after Trump.
The Fannie Willis, the Fulton County DA, is going after Trump.
That's the Georgia case.
What are the 27 Republicans doing?
How many cases have they filed?
How many prominent Democrats have they indicted?
The answer is really none.
And going beyond these indictments, the left is going after conservative organizations.
In New York, for example, the DA has been going after the National Right to Life Association.
They've been trying to go after not just Trump, but Trumpsters.
And all of this has now reached a certain kind of climax.
And so, how do we fight back against this?
Well, you may say, what about the Constitution?
The Constitution should stop it.
Well, the Constitution doesn't stop it by itself.
Constitution is a document.
It's a piece of paper. Somebody has to implement the provisions of the Constitution.
Yes, that is the job of the Supreme Court, but it has to even get to the Supreme Court.
Very often, you need litigation to get to the Supreme Court.
The left does not have the fear that we will do to them what they have been doing to us, and that is an important check and balance.
When we look at our Constitution, it distributes power, separation of powers, checks and balances, but the distribution of power is based on the idea that one branch will not get too aggressive because of fear that there could be retaliation from a different branch.
And the Democrats right now don't have that kind of fear.
Why haven't we impeached Mayorkas?
Why haven't we impeached Merrick Garland?
Why haven't we gone after James Biden?
Now you might say, wait a minute, we're not going to be able to convict Joe Biden...
Even if we do impeach him, that's okay.
Why don't we make the process the punishment?
Why don't we humiliate him over the next year or so, whether or not we can eventually remove him out of office?
Didn't the Clinton impeachment, for example, tarnish Clinton, even though Clinton was, in fact, he was able to stay in office and he was able to defeat it in the Senate?
Why aren't we going after, this is Charlie Kirk's point, Why don't we go after BLM? They've been taking donations around the country.
Surely they're taking donations in red states.
They've been misusing these donations.
Why aren't there investigations of BLM? Is it just because we are too cowardly to do that?
What about the Southern Poverty Law Center?
These guys have been raking in money.
They've been putting out a lot of these dubious and false reports.
Why aren't there investigations?
The Southern Poverty Law Center is headquartered in Alabama.
Alabama's a red state with a red state attorney general.
Why isn't he going after the Southern Poverty Law Center?
Why aren't we going after prominent Democratic officials looking at their tax returns, looking at their bank statements?
In other words, why don't we adopt the Democratic approach?
Investigate first. Define and come up with a crime later.
If you look hard enough, you're going to find something.
And apply the same level of mercilessness or ruthlessness to the Democrats, not because we are merciless and ruthless people, but we have to stop them.
And this is one way, perhaps the only way, to do it.
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I've been talking about ways in which Republicans need to strike back, to fight back against the legal aggression of the Democrats.
And yet, when we look at Georgia, we can begin to see that the situation there is very tricky.
And even though Georgia is a red state, With a Republican legislature and a Republican governor, no fighting back is really occurring.
And the reason is that there may well be a kind of mutual interest, both on the part of Governor Kemp And Fannie Willis to get Trump.
We know that Governor Kemp is kind of a sort of a longtime adversary of Trump.
Trump campaigned publicly against Governor Kemp and he won anyway.
And we see that Kemp and also his lieutenant governor, a guy named Duncan, These are guys who appear to have themselves a vendetta against Trump.
So right after the Georgia indictment, people read the indictment, they're like, this is just nonsensical, it's absurd, it's outrageous.
And here's Anthony Sabatini on X on Twitter.
The Republican Georgia legislature must step in immediately.
Well, they must and perhaps they should, but so far they haven't.
There's been almost a deafening silence on the part of Georgia legislators about the Trump case.
He goes on, defund the investigation and defund the entire office.
Again, the legislature in Georgia has the power to do that, but we see that they are showing no inclination to do it.
Remove and impeach the Fulton District Attorney and every other person involved in a position of authority immediately.
The circus has to end now.
And then here's Stephen Miller.
Republicans control the legislative and executive branches in Georgia.
They could stop this abomination instantly if they wished, just like they could have verified ballot signatures if they wished.
So here's Stephen Miller, and he's a little more savvy than the other guy.
Why? Because he's like, you know, I know that they can do it.
The problem is not that they lack the authority.
It's that they don't want to do it.
And... And other commentators looking down on this feed, Georgia Republican state legislature has done zero to protect their own elections.
And so, you seem to have a very odd situation in Georgia.
They not only have the power, but recently, and I didn't even know this, but Governor Kemp has just signed a bill just a few days ago, and the bill creates a new commission which can remove Wayward prosecutors.
And Governor Kemp said this will curb, quote, far-left prosecutors and, quote, make our communities less safe.
Now, interestingly, the genesis of this bill is, and it's following very much in the line of Ron DeSantis in Florida, because what Ron DeSantis did was he took the Tampa prosecutor, who had publicly said, hey, listen, I'm not going to enforce any of these abortion laws.
I'm not going to be doing it. I'm And when someone says that, they're in a sense saying, I'm not going to do my job.
If something is illegal and you don't bring charges just because it doesn't fit with your ideological predilections, well, that means you are basically a prosecutor in dereliction of duty.
And Ron DeSantis goes, okay, you're out of there.
And he's done that on more than one occasion.
And so I think Georgia decided, well, guess what?
We've got all these prosecutors here in Georgia.
And they don't go after crime.
They, in fact, declare that there are whole areas of crime that are completely off limits.
And so here's Governor Kemp and this part of Governor Kemp I support.
I'm not going to stand by idly as rogue or incompetent prosecutors refuse to uphold the law.
And he says, we are sending a message, we will not forfeit public safety for prosecutors to let criminals off the hook.
So, there have been bids to do something like this.
Well, I mentioned Florida, but there's also bids to do it in Indiana, Missouri, Pennsylvania.
But Georgia has now given itself through the legislative process, the lawful power to do this.
One of the targets is a woman named Deborah Gonzalez, Democratic District Attorney for Athens-Clarke and Oconee counties.
And apparently this Fannie Willis is also in Fulton County under fire for not prosecuting certain types of crimes, going easy and sometimes deciding, we just won't show up in court And by missing the deadline, the guy goes free.
So it seems to be a combination.
I won't say it's really, it's laziness because they don't care about this stuff.
They don't care about going after crime.
What they care about is going after Trump.
And so to Trump's unbelievable bad luck, the Georgia case is in a state where the political establishment, although Republican, is We're good to go.
Even appointing electors is not illegal because that's contingent upon lawsuits that are going on in Georgia that could go either way.
Maybe the Trump position is going to lose, but if it prevails, you need electors.
And that's what the Georgia team was trying to do, is to create an alternative slate of electors.
So, in Georgia, to sum up, you have the power on the part of Republicans to do something but not the desire.
And this shows the way in which the Republican Party is divided and therefore weakened by the fact that we can't even count on people, supposedly, on our own team.
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Debbie and I are here for our Friday roundup.
And you know what's kind of funny is that normally when we have our lattes in the morning, We have discussions about all kinds of stuff, but politics is quite often the centerpiece for commenting on things that you've seen in the news and so on.
These days, we spend a lot of time talking about Marigold.
We get daily photos.
I love how cute she is.
She looks like a little baby doll.
Oh, she's adorable.
Well, actually, Danielle got some professional photos taken, and she looks like a cherub.
I mean, so we don't have these things in the morning.
We do talk about Marigold quite a bit.
Not to mention close analysis of her features and then comparisons, not just with her parents, but also with, like, does she look like her grandfather?
There were some comments, actually, on social media saying that she resembles me.
Now, I think this is a little far-fetched, to be honest, but she is a very cute baby.
And her mannerisms and so on are just starting to...
Well, she's almost a month old.
And actually, she's four weeks old today.
Yesterday. But you don't count weeks anymore.
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You go to monthly counts.
All right. Well, let's talk about politics here.
And I thought we'd start by talking about...
Well, the Trump case, Fannie Willis wants it to go to trial in Georgia in March.
And what's interesting is, and perhaps not insignificant, March is also the date of the primary.
So when people say this is election interference, yeah, it is.
Fannie Willis has nothing to do with that.
No, it has nothing to do with the elections.
In fact, that was not even a consideration.
It's not about politics.
Yeah. Well, you know, what is really quite ironic is that in Fulton County, there were so many shenanigans pulled in the 2020 election that it almost seems like they're trying to even hide that fact by saying, Saying that Trump, you know, is wrong about it because they want to prove once and for all that they didn't cheat like everybody knows they did.
This is a really interesting point.
They said it was the most secure election in history.
And for a while, they could kind of get away with that because everyone was echoing that.
And there were no clear indications to the contrary.
Then I think after 2000 Mules came out, that became really hard to say.
And I noticed that they've stopped saying it.
But this is a kind of, what you're saying is this is a backdoor way of them, in a sense, protecting the steel.
Exactly. Shutting it down, shutting that debate down.
And almost criminalizing.
Criminalizing the very daring of saying that it was a stolen election in Fulton County.
Because of all the places in Georgia, why Fulton County?
Right? Well, the Democrats are smart.
They file the suits where they have power and where they can count on a hospitable judge and a hospitable jury.
Now, you showed me this about the judge.
Very interesting. I mean, this dude is 34 years old, and he's only been a judge for six months.
He went to Emory and...
And apparently Kemp, Governor Kemp, named him to the Fulton County Superior Court bench last year.
So he worked as a prosecutor before.
So in a sense, he worked for Fannie Willis.
And then Kemp appointed him as a judge.
So he has ties both to Fannie Willis and to Kemp.
But this shouldn't be thought of as, hey, listen, that means the guy is a moderate.
We don't know if he is or not, because Kemp is also anti-Trump.
Yeah, exactly. And so it kind of makes you think, hmm, this guy's going to be a little hostile to Trump because of the two hostile people that he's linked to, right?
What do you think about, you know, I mentioned the statement by Dick Morris that it is possible, not out of the question, that Trump will be campaigning from jail. And that's looking ahead, but it's looking ahead I think in a realistic way.
Because it's wishful thinking to feel that all of this will go away.
So, you know, there are some Trumpsters.
Trump is playing 4D chess.
The Supreme Court will throw it all out.
The Supreme Court itself has to operate according to procedure.
And by the way, the Supreme Court doesn't deal with state cases, by and large.
Right. So, what's going on here?
Yeah. Well, I think it's going to be a case where they really are trying to just throw everything but the kitchen sink, you know?
And they're going at it in a very...
It's almost a very coordinated way because, as you notice, all of these indictments have happened very close to each other.
So, they are kind of all winking at each other going, okay, you go.
You You go first. Okay.
Not going to stay. Okay. You go.
You go. And so they are really trying to take him out of the playing field.
It's coordinated, but still in my opinion, and I think you agree, it's reckless.
And it's reckless because this could, I mean, think about it.
I hope it backfires.
I hope it backfires. But usually when the left does something, it doesn't backfire.
So I'm just, I'm throwing that out there.
Well, it's partly our job to be able to expose to the American people so that they go, listen, not only is this unprecedented, because it could be unprecedented because he committed unprecedented crimes, but it's unprecedented because this is a kind of political targeting of a kind that we've never seen before.
And if the American people don't step in and say enough, who will?
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Feel the difference. There continue to be reports and data about the surge of illegals coming through the border.
I think what's really significant is that these are not illegals coming across the border from Mexico.
These are illegals coming from all over the place.
They're coming from Central America, Honduras, El Salvador.
They're coming from further into South America, not just Venezuela, but then China, India.
I mean, it's almost like the word has gotten out worldwide.
The world is... Is immigrating to America illegally.
But that is the route.
I mean, you can't go to Canada and do it from the other side.
You do it through the Mexican border.
Well, you can't get into Canada. Well, there you go.
They have a really strong border policy.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So this is this is something that that the Biden people are pushing They always make a pretense that they are maintaining some order at the border But if you read carefully what they say what they mean is we're not stopping the illegals. We're processing them We're giving them court dates and the giving of the court dates as you know is a is a sham Because often the court date does not come back on tuesday.
It's like come back a year and a half from now And in the meantime, goodbye.
You know, give us a phone number and, you know, you can give probably a made-up phone number if you want.
We'll never be able to find you again.
You're now inside the United States.
So, you know, again...
It's such a joke.
And you know what makes me really especially mad is when we travel...
When we travel, not just within the United States, but when we travel abroad, and it's such a sham, we're coming in and we're getting processed and all of that, they actually go through more trouble to do that even with U.S. passports than they're doing with these people crossing over.
I mean, it's just such a joke.
And every time that I'm asked to take my shoes off or whatever...
You know, I look at them like, really?
Come on now. Well, think about the legals.
I mean, think about the fact, I mean, when I applied for immigration status, I hired an attorney.
It took me a couple of years. And that was not to get citizenship.
That was just to get a green card, which allowed me to work in the country.
You have to go through a five-year naturalization process.
Yeah. It is an elaborate system.
And if you go through it, you now feel like a sucker because you feel like, wow, this is another way to come in.
You can jump the line, in effect.
So there's a kind of abuse of the process of law.
Absolutely. And, you know, I just got a WhatsApp from my cousin who, you know, we've been trying to bring him to America legally.
He's an engineer and he, you know, he's not going to I mean, he's the kind of immigrant we need.
He likes America.
He's a hardworking guy.
He brings scientific credentials that are useful to this country.
He's a really smart guy. He's using all this time to learn English really well, which is great.
But... All that being said, the process started in November, and he hasn't gotten any word that any of it has been processed.
And here we are. In fact, the other day, Debbie goes, she goes, do you think it's because of his link to us?
And I'm like, even the link to us is not even all that obvious.
I guess it's obvious that we talk about it on the podcast.
But she's like, do you think that's why they're not responding to him?
And I'm like, I don't know. I mean, the process is glacial.
I actually think. And this is, you know, he's like, there are so many people that still haven't gotten called.
And I think it's because they are so busy at the border trying to stop people, at least, you know, the optics of it, trying to stop people from coming in.
Because just yesterday or the day before, it was like 4,000 people a day are coming through the border.
Yeah. And so they can't stop all those people.
You know, they just can't.
They don't have enough manpower to do that.
And so I think that they're just too busy trying to stop illegals that they just don't have enough manpower to bring in the legals.
So... Well, if you think government functions badly, and it generally does, I mean, try places like the DMV and so on.
But the immigration office is at a whole different level.
You try calling them right now, you find they won't even call you back.
They don't have a way to call you back.
Yeah, it's difficult to even check.
In fact, you can keep calling.
You know how you call an airline sometimes and you have to wait for 30 minutes?
Unhold. Yeah, here you can call and wait for hours to no effect.
So this is a completely like non-functioning agency per se.
You can send them paperwork.
It may or may not come back.
And this is the legal process.
I have a little bit of...
Is this a first in the podcast?
They're not really bad hiccups.
They're almost like tiny little hiccups.
And when I had the first one, I wasn't even sure it was a hiccup.
Well, last time before you did an interview, you had hiccups and I scared you.
And then I told you to hold your breath and they seemed to stop.
But we've never actually had it where we're talking about something together.
But yes, this is a very, very troubling case.
I really hope that this becomes an issue come election time for people that are independent, that they don't know whether to vote for Democrats or Republicans.
This is a really good issue for you to learn that if you vote Democrat, we're gonna have a collapse of our society because these people not only are allowing the illegals to come in, but they're encouraging them to come in.
So just think about that next time you go vote.
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And ultimately, we put these issues before the American people and go, which way do you want to go?
Do you want to have a country that has a legal immigration policy and it's actually enforced?
Or do you want to just let the border be porous, let anyone kind of come over, whether they be criminals or whether they be drug dealers or whether they be...
These unaccompanied minors who often find themselves being sexually trafficked.
If you want to be that kind of country, well, you know which party to vote for to make that happen.
Another issue I think is equally dramatic is crime in the cities.
Because if you want to have cities that are destroyed, depredation, looting, people going into Nordstrom's.
Urban decay. Yeah, collecting huge amounts of stuff and just walking out the door.
The management is powerless.
The police decide we can't do anything.
The district attorney says, I'm not prosecuting those kinds of cases.
And now, as it turns out, in Minnesota, there is a town, a small city, it's called Good Hue, Minnesota, where the entire police force has quit.
And the mayor goes, the mayor is Ellen Anderson.
She goes, I think we're a little blindsided by it, but we're resilient.
We're going to move forward.
We're going to move forward. This is the kind of empty rhetoric that always causes me to kind of quiver because it doesn't mean anything.
How do you move forward without a police force?
Is there no crime in your city?
Do you have other people in mind?
In fact, she doesn't.
And the reason we know that, Police Chief Josh Smith...
Who will continue to serve in his position until August 24th.
He's resigning too. He's out.
He told city officials he could not find anyone to sign up to join the police force.
He says, quote, And of course, the interesting question is...
Why? And it's not really, like, this is not a trade secret.
We know why. It's not rocket science.
The why is basically Minnesota.
It's nearby Minneapolis.
It is the attitude toward the police that's cultivated by the left and in some ways ratified by the citizens.
Yeah, it's the ground zero of the Defund the Police movement.
So here you go. What do you expect?
You know, why would anybody...
Why would anybody want to be a police officer in Minnesota?
I mean, think about it. Well, I mean, look, here, I think it was just a few days ago, they hauled up the guy.
This was one of the police officers.
It was the last police officer who was present at the scene when you had the George Floyd.
He was the Asian guy, right?
He was the Asian guy. Now, if you look at what he's doing, and remember, when you have a bunch of policemen doing something and one guy takes an action, other people often don't intervene.
Because it's sort of like, listen, this is being taken care of.
So you have Derek Chauvin, and he's restraining George Floyd.
And all that the other policemen are doing, which you can see police doing in any other similar incident, is kind of keeping people away and sort of allowing the arrest to take place.
So this guy just stood there.
It's pretty clear he had no idea that this guy was going to die.
Well, first of all, he had no idea that this guy's body was full of drugs.
I think he thought that the other guy was doing his job.
And guess what? He now gets a sentence of four years and nine months.
Again, if you're supposed to be a cop, you want to be a cop, think about it.
You're not paid all that well.
It's a dangerous job.
You have the risk you're not going to come home to your family.
And then on top, if the criminals don't get you, the system will.
No, and the criminals are going to win in Minnesota.
And that's the really sad thing of all of this is that yes, you're, you know, they're crying out, oh yeah, defund the police, defund the police. So the police officers are like, okay, fine, I'm not going to be a police officer. I'm going to go, I'm going to go into something else, right? But I'm not going to go into law enforcement because there is no law enforcement in Minnesota. If you are a criminal, you get, you get off, right?
I mean, the criminal has a legal edge over the cop because if the criminal brutalizes the cop, No big deal.
If the cop brutalizes the criminal, the cop is going to be held up on charges.
And so there's something off here.
And, you know, again, Minnesota is kind of a progressive state.
And I don't...
But you can assume...
I mean, here's the question.
You have citizens living in places like Minneapolis and they vote for these kinds of policies.
At least they vote indirectly.
They can't be that stupid that they don't know that they're gonna get more liberal prosecutors who don't care about prosecuting certain crimes.
Criminals are gonna be on the rampage.
You're gonna have a prosecutorial establishment more interested in going after the cops.
And like you say, the citizens are going to bear the burden.
And then you might think, okay, the citizens are all going to arm themselves and protect themselves.
But then they're like, we can't do that either.
So you don't have the cops to protect you and you can't protect yourself.
Well, good luck living in those jurisdictions because, I mean, you ask, can you even feel sorry for people?
I don't. And I have a cousin that lives in Minnesota and I don't feel sorry for her.
Well, you know, there was a social media video, but this actually pivots to San Francisco, and we're going to talk about San Francisco.
But she was talking about how horrible it is, how you get hassled when you're on the subway, you get hassled on the street, people come up to you and insult you, make sexual remarks against you.
But if you look at the woman, she's kind of bohemian, and you get the feeling that she's the type of person who would support defund the police.
I'm on board with George Floyd, you know, BLM all the way, and so on.
And so you're like that.
You vote for that.
You get it. And then you complain, man, I can't believe what it's like in San Francisco.
Yeah. And being hassled all the time.
Good luck in this city.
What is it called? Good Hugh?
It's going to be called Bad Hugh after a while because they're going to see what it's like to live without the police.
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San Francisco is a once great city that has been destroyed by the left-wing Democrats who run the place.
The Atlantic recently dubbed it a failed city.
It is, Elon Musk has tweeted, it feels post-apocalyptic.
And, you know, Elon Musk knows what he's talking about, because where is Twitter?
Where is X based? San Francisco.
In fact, I think Elon Musk, being kind of a good-hearted guy, is like, I'm going to try to stay and make the place better.
I don't think he should stay.
I think he should move Twitter out of San Francisco, let the place go down the tubes, because, hey, when you have policies that are doing this to the town, to the city, there's not a whole lot that people can do.
Mm-hmm. But, and it's very difficult to find amusement, if you will, over San Francisco's because you have, as I say, one of the great cities of the world.
In some ways, a city that is sort of the New York of the West Coast, but with charm that even New York doesn't always have.
So it's a more fun city.
As you know, it's got the hills, the up and down.
Aesthetically, it's beautiful, right?
So it's got the beautiful mountains in the background.
The Bay Bridge. Absolutely.
And it had wonderful restaurants.
I lived in San Francisco for a couple of months.
This is right before I joined the Hoover Institution.
It was really fun. And I would drive to Hoover, which is at Stanford University, about 45 minutes away.
In any event, here's what we want to talk about.
Apparently, someone has been running ads and put up an event on Eventbrite.
And it's essentially called the downtown doom loop walking tour.
So it's kind of like if you live elsewhere in San Francisco or in the suburbs, and you sort of want to become a tourist and check out the degradation of San Francisco.
In other words, look how disgusting it is.
The idea is not to see the best of San Francisco but the worst of San Francisco.
You want to see the open-air drug market?
We're gonna go see it. You want to see abandoned office buildings and tech offices?
We're gonna show you that. You want to see deserted stores that have been looted and robbed until the management has decided to close the store down?
So it says, you've read the headlines, you've seen the tweets, now get close and personal to the doom and squalor of downtown San Francisco.
That's great. It costs you $30 for the tour, guys.
And I'm tempted to go on this myself, but I don't live nearby.
It starts at City Hall.
It's August 26th.
It's a one and a half mile walk.
You know, these used to be nice areas.
The Midmarket, the Tenderloin District, and Union Square.
It says, wear sneakers because we're going to be doing some walking.
And the guy who's running it says he's, quote, a SF native, a San Francisco native, a political junkie, an opinionated loudmouthed.
And he's going to help people understand, quote, the policy choices that made America's wealthiest city the nation's innovative leader of housing crisis, addiction crisis, mental health crisis, and unrepentant crime crisis.
So you've got a long-term San Franciscan and he's like, listen, I'm not just going to show you as if like this is amusing.
Everybody wants to know who this person is, but no one does.
They think he's male, right?
They think he's a man. They think he's a commissioner, mind you.
They think he's a city commissioner, but San Francisco has hundreds of city commissioners, so they can't find out which one he is.
And he goes, listen, we spend $776 million a year on police, but we have no rule of law.
We spend all this money on the homeless, but we've been condemned by the U.N. for having this homeless crisis all over the city.
And so... Apparently, the media, which is like, what is this?
You know, this guy is like, you know, crapping all over, to use a San Francisco term, a progressive city, and they're trying to kind of out him.
But they can't out him because they can't find out who he is.
And then here's a local community leader.
He tells the San Francisco Chronicle, quote, the tour is not really productive.
It's harmful to walk around showing all the bad without any proposed solution.
Come on. It's not exactly as if solutions aren't available.
Yeah, it's not as if like, wow, we don't know how to fix this one.
This is a really tough one, guys.
We really don't know how to bring crime down.
Well, how about prosecuting shoplifters?
Prosecute looters? Simple things that every other city is doing.
It also goes to the heart of the whole defund the police movement.
Because, again, this was another town where that was very popular.
And remember, the DA that was in San Francisco that got booted out because of crime.
He wasn't actually doing anything against crime and was actually not promoting crime, but allowing it to happen, right?
And letting the criminals get off.
So this happens in places like this.
I mean, what do they expect?
It's very sad, I think, because, you know, I like cities for the most part, and you do too.
I mean, we live outside a city, but we're city people in the sense that sometimes when we're driving way through the country, we look around, there's like one grocery store, there are like two restaurants, and we ask ourselves, like, you know, do you think, could we live here?
Would we want to live out of here? It's not as if we can't do it.
It's just that we like the, I mean, for example, I like culinary diversity.
I would have to become a chef.
I like seven different types of restaurants and I like ethnic restaurants.
So you don't find those very easily except in a city.
So, to me, it's a real tragedy that these cities have fallen under the leadership, Democratic leadership.
Now, you go to Republican cities, and there aren't as many, but there are Republican cities.
And whenever we're there, we actually notice a refreshing contrast.
You pointed out to me. You're like, look under that bridge.
You see any homeless guys? No, you don't.
Why? Because Chattanooga is a Republican city, and so it goes.
Ultimately, the ideological divide helps to explain cities that are livable and cities that are not.
We will close out for the weekend and for today by talking about the politics of Houston, Texas, where two really old guys, in fact, septogenarians, the word septogenarians is a cool word.
It means people in their 70s.
People in their 80s, by the way, are octogenarians, and people who are in their 90s are nonogenarians.
So we'd like to at some point maybe live to be nonogenarians.
Oh, I want to live to be a centurion.
There you go.
Well, two old guys, State Senator John Whitmire and U.S. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee.
Now, I think they're probably a bunch of people who know Sheila Jackson Lee.
She's the woman who's known for these kind of absurdly over-the-top hairdos and also big hats.
She has the big bun that looks like a cinnamon roll or giant cinnamon roll over her head.
And she likes to go to funerals of famous black rappers or singers and kind of like, you know.
So she's a social presence all over Houston.
Yeah, she's a little bit of a race baiter.
Now, there's an article in the Texas Monthly which talks about the fact that this is very ironic because Houston is apparently one of the youngest cities in the country.
In other words, the average age of people who live in Houston is like 33, so 34 years old.
Young people, it's a young city, and there's a vibrancy in Houston.
I mean, it's got a lot of problems with crime, but it's also got some good things.
In fact, it's one of the culinary capitals of America.
It's one of the few cities that can give New York a run for its money.
But I will tell you this, having lived in the Houston area, Houston for six years, but the Houston area for 34 years, I can tell you that I can tell a big difference between being in a red suburb and going into a blue city because Houston is a bit dirty and It does have a lot of homeless people.
We talked about the homeless encampments and all of that.
It does have that.
It does have very, very high crime.
In fact, you know, I hate going into Houston, especially in the evening, because the chances of being carjacked or being, you know, like hit by a stray bullet are pretty high.
So it is a definite blue city, and you can tell.
The two guys running for mayor are Democrats.
They're blue. But they're not blue.
They're not the same kind of blue.
Apparently, the state senator, this John Whitmire guy, who, by the way, has served in Texas government since 1973.
Oh, yeah. He's an old relic.
Yeah. And then Sheila Jackson Lee has represented her district in Houston for at least two decades.
Yeah. And so...
They quote a political science guy from Rice University.
He says, these are two people who have been in politics longer than most people, most Houstonians have been alive.
So you've got these two old geezers who are running.
Apparently the Republicans in Houston, and there are some, Houston has a Republican presence and also Republican money.
It's apparently backing Whitmire.
Yes, because he is a more moderate Democrat.
He's not a...
Well, Sheila Jackson Lee, as I said, is a race baiter, so she's not a really good person.
And she has never done anything for her constituents, who keep voting her in year after year after year, you know, election after election.
Well, it's almost as if she relies on radical rhetoric.
At one point, she compared the Tea Party to the Ku Klux Plan.
So I think what she does is she keeps her constituents in a perpetual state of fear and dependency.
And the kind of the big bad Republicans are right at our doorstep waiting to get us.
And I will stand between you and them.
I mean, the whole thing is a fiction and a myth.
But it's a myth rooted in the history of the South.
And she's able to tap into this vein of fear.
And people are like, yeah, we better, you know, she's a fighter, man.
But if she's a fighter, she hasn't done anything for her constituency at all.
In fact, all of the inner city in Houston, the black inner city in Houston looks horrific.
And Sheila, where are you?
Where have you been all these years?
You know, multiple decades of doing what?
And so they want her to be mayor?
Are you kidding me? I mean, it's like such a joke.
And it's almost like we could call it the Peter principle where you move up to your to your level of incompetence.
I mean, she's horrible for a district.
And you might think that that would mean, listen, first of all, you're going to be thrown out of the district that you represent.
But no, she's reelected and reelected and reelected.
And now she wants a bigger job where she can bring her in action, you might say, to the whole That would be one big joke if she was elected mayor.
But I do think he's a little bit ahead.
Yeah, the voting is really close.
But I mean, not by a big difference.
It's something like he's got 35 and she's got 33.
So the polls are running pretty close.
My guess is that by and large, if you take the moderate Democrats, and Texas does have a lot of moderate Democrats, and you add Republicans, he should be able to pull it off.
I think he has a good chance.
Yeah, but the fact that she's even competitive really makes you throw up your hands as if to say again, what are you voting for?
What are you trying to do to a city that still has a lot of good things going for it?
I mean, Houston hasn't gone, it's gone down perhaps, but it's not down and out.
There are nice areas in Houston.
I mean, you're right. Some of the areas we even drive by and we won't drive through them because we'll go around them.
That's scary. But yeah, I mean, you're right.
And Houston has so much diversity.
I mean, talk about a multicultural city.
And because of it, all the great restaurants Houston has, I mean, it's amazing.
And it's got a lot of cultural life.
It's got a lot of concerts.
It's got a very high-quality art center.
They have very good ballets.
And they have a lot of good things in the city.
The rodeo. There's a cultural life in Houston and an intellectual life.
And it's got a bunch of universities in the Houston area.
Rice University, for example, the University of Houston.