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California Has Fallen | Ep 6

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elijah schaffer
California was once touted as the utopia of leftist ideology, social welfare programs, and an illegal alien sanctuary state.
But today, California is literally falling apart before our very eyes.
I'm Elijah Schaefer back with another episode of Slightly Offensive.
I'm representing my orange ribbon, which of course is raising awareness for TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, which is infecting children and millennials all across the country.
On behalf of the golden state that I call my home, I just want to apologize to all of you for everything that we've done to the country.
Remember that every time you think California doesn't affect you, just ask yourself, where does Kamala Harris, Maxine Waters, and Nancy Pelosi come from?
Yeah, exactly.
My backyard, basically.
And also, you know what else is in my backyard?
Human feces on the floor and open needles and also like over 100,000 homeless people.
Yes, California, with its beautiful sandy beaches, is totally falling apart due to insane political ideologies that are unsustainable and wrecking this entire state.
I want to begin with a list of facts to lean on as we discover the beauty of California.
Let's jump into Santa Monica here.
California remains the state with the highest homeless population, pretty much reveling New York, with over 100,000 homeless across the state, with 55,000 located just in Los Angeles.
Believe it or not, the city I grew up in had 90,000 people.
That means about half of my home city actually is just the homeless population here.
And if that's not bad enough, one fifth of the richest state in the union or whatever people call it these days is actually at the level of poverty.
It actually has the highest poverty rate in the nation.
Yet we've spent, guess what? Almost a trillion dollars combating the poverty.
And who would have known that throwing money onto people who don't know how to use it wouldn't actually work?
Yes, believe it or not, you can't spend your way out of problems.
It's people that you've got to teach and train.
But it gets better.
California starts correcting itself and I got to give it to it, right?
They're like, cool, they help the poverty.
No, what do they do?
They do what no one asked for.
They ban plastic straws.
They ban plastic bags.
And actually, they even fine waiters and waitresses for offering you a plastic straw.
Yes, in the tolerant leftist utopia of California, you can be fined by the government for actually offering somebody a straw.
Yet, hey, it gets better.
We pay 70% more on average for our energy prices.
The average housing median is $400,000 when you take farmlands into play.
But when you look at Los Angeles and San Francisco, two of the most populous places, you're looking at $694,000 for a house in LA.
That gets you basically a Cracker Jack's box with a door cut into it.
And that's even generous, okay?
Believe it or not, by my producer's house, he said there's like 15 people often living in a one to two bedroom apartment.
And they put up dividers with curtains.
Yes.
And that brings us into our next fact is that San Francisco is even worse at $1.6 million average housing prices.
Thank you, California, for being tolerant and making it so intolerable to live here that people can't even afford rent.
Yeah, if you want to get a crappy one-bedroom apartment here in Hollywood, you're looking at $2,200 to $2,500 starting.
And yes, if you want a decent one, you're looking at $4,000 plus.
But it gets crazier.
We have a failing infrastructure with no sustainable public transit systems.
Our bus systems are falling apart.
No sustainable underground railroad system simply because we're in an earthquake zone.
We can't build any more freeways or overpasses because, again, earthquake zone.
And some of the worst traffic in the country.
Yes, I have to put out at least one to two hours a day just to drive 4.5 miles and back to where my producer lives.
If you're wondering why I'm at my producer's house all the time, that's obviously because we do work and we got a lot of things to do, but you're not going to get them done very quickly in LA.
Yeah, hey guys, don't worry.
It gets better from here.
I'm going to cover you because California has a bunch of internal problems.
So luckily for us, they shut down the borders.
They started investing back into the state.
And of course not, right?
Because left-wing politicians never do that.
What they've done is they've opened up the floodgates.
They've actually returned National Guard back to President Trump.
And believe it or not, we contain 25% of the country's illegal immigrants.
And before you pander to me and say, oh, this is, you know, Islamophobia or you're a bigoted and you're a unicorn or whatever else names they call you for talking about illegals, you know, this is a huge deal.
We have 2.35 million illegals in this state with an average expenditure of $25 billion plus that could be going to citizens.
Yeah, I'm scared because my paychecks are leaving me and they're not going into the things that I want them to go to.
This is absolutely un-American.
On top of that, I want to let you know that we have some great laws here.
Like it's more illegal to misgender someone than to purposely infect them with HIV.
So it's like you could prick someone with a needle and be like, hi, you have AIDS.
And the police are like, I don't care.
You're like, sucks for you, sir.
And they're like, it's ma'am.
And you go to jail, not because you infected someone with HIV, but because your burn at the end of infecting them with HIV was the wrong gender.
That's where we live.
And even better than that, we're so tolerant that a quarter million of our citizens are actually behind bars.
We are the leader in divorce rates in Los Angeles.
It's so happy to live here.
And California is ranked worst quality of life by USA Today.
But hey, it has the largest economy and we're so liberal and all the gays love it here that we have such a high suicide rate.
Yeah, I'm sure California is so happy, so successful that even the USA Today ranked it high on its miserability index.
So I come down to this and I go, hey, Governor Newsom, my good old governor, if we're the leader of human rights and growing in activism with a new protest every Friday, I swear, it's like we have more protests than we have 7-Elevens.
And believe it or not, 7-Elevens are everywhere.
He fixes all of our problems by signing into petition, again, something that nobody asked for.
He stopped and put a moratorium on the death penalty.
Nobody asked him for this.
And the worst part is, is that he said that he could not morally allow executions in the golden state to go forward.
In this article by CNN, it goes on to say that Newsom said he could not count the odds of putting an innocent person to death.
And this is where we go backwards in California and we jump into today's show.
California is backwards because while having admitted problems in front of their eyes, they deny the problems and focus on non-issues.
Nobody is complaining about the 700 plus inmates that are on death row.
There are bigger things, maybe like the 55,000 that are on death row, which are called the everyday streets of America.
But at the same time, hey, Governor Newsom, I'll give it to you.
Maybe you're just a moral guy who cares about, you know, turtles with straws in their nose.
But the sad part is when I look at the truth, California doesn't care about the innocent because 157,000 abortions take place in California every year.
157,000 is more than 700.
On top of that, 24% of pregnancies in the state ended in abortion.
That means a quarter of our pregnancies end in murder.
17% of all abortions in the country took place in our state alone.
We count for almost one-fifth of the country's abortions.
California does not have any major state limitations on abortions and applies by federal law.
And overall, we have 512 abortion facilities that are operating successfully in the state, though the numbers may have fluctuated slightly.
All in all, I would like to say that California is not a golden state.
It is a red state and it's stained with the blood of innocent victims, with the blood of innocents on the streets, Vietnam vets, war vets everywhere, mentally ill, incapacitated, high drug usage.
And what do we get for this?
An increased tax rate, a guilt trip, and a virtue signal.
We're told that if we say anything's wrong, that we're evil, because it's better to ignore the problems than to confront them.
Believe it or not, this is as close to a socialist utopia as you might find.
And while the rich continue to get richer, the socialists continue to blame capitalism, and the feminists continue to blame patriarchy.
I blame the poor policies of this state, the brainwashing of its people, and the inability of us to unite together to actually make change.
In the mushpot today is California, and at its head is Governor Newsom.
And I want to warn you about this.
If these policies spread to other states, your state can become just like ours.
People are moving every day from California to other states and voting the same policies that made this state as bad as it is.
don't california your state and make sure that we change california into being a better one everything is racist Your mom's racist, your dinner's racist, and you actually might be racist too.
You just might not know it.
Today we have a very interesting story which you might have heard, but maybe not actually read.
And that's something new that I didn't think could be racist.
Yeah, we're heading to science to find out the fact.
Not only is it apparently not racist to compare humans to monkeys, I never knew a point in history where it was a bad thing to compare people like, I don't know, certain groups of people and say, hey, you guys kind of look like monkeys.
You came from monkeys.
I wouldn't go there.
But scientists in their pandering to try to find redemption from the racist evolutionary principles of telling communities that they're just animals have come up with a way to spin the story and now blame white people for the problems in our world.
Yes, guys, today air has become racist.
The air you breathe is now against blacks and Hispanics.
You, by what you consume, are the major addition to the problems we're facing in climate change.
See, I know AOC said that, like, you know, children were the problem with climate change.
And, oh, hey, maybe it's cow farts or planes.
And while Leonardo DiCaprio was landing his helicopter on his private yacht on his way to a UN sanctioned event to let us know how we all need to change our lifestyles, I was finding out that breathing the air is bad enough to make you a bigot and an intolerant xenophobe.
We bring you an article that I can't believe I'm admitting is real, and it's called Pollution, much like wealth, is not distributed equally in the United States.
Studies finding that a racial gap between who causes air pollution and who breathes it.
This is like whoever smelt it dealt it, and then whoever breathed it felt it kind of idea.
I'm going to tell you this, okay?
Researchers found that air pollution is disproportionately caused by white Americans.
Okay, so first of all, this is NPR.
This is like, this is a national state-sponsored study that found that white people are screwing with the air.
And what is weird about this is that there's 60 to 72%, if you include non-Hispanic whites, so like three quarters of the country are white people.
And somehow it's like, it's a shock that we produce like three-fourths of the air pollution, which is like, I'm not even that much of a mathematician, but you tell me three-fourths of the people are causing about three-fourths of the air pollution.
That would not be something statistically insignificant or significant, I should say.
But it says here that by the consumption of goods and services, these are disproportionately inhaled by black and Hispanic Americans.
Now, I love this because Asians are not inhaling the pollution, right?
Because Asians already figured it out.
They just moved to their own places.
They open up their ramen shops, right?
They open up their weird, you know, 99 cent markets and they just do their thing.
And no one asks anything.
I don't even know what Asian communities do, okay?
They're even smart.
They don't even put English on their signs so that no one shops it.
It's like, if you don't want to deal with white people, then just don't put it in English and then boom, you're good.
But this article is saying that white people cause air pollution.
It goes on to say that whites experience 17% less air pollution than they produce through consumption, while blacks and Hispanics bear 56 and 63% more air.
Pollution.
So what this does is it literally is a study out of a college that's saying that your existence is creating a bad existence for Hispanics, not even putting into the point the fact that when you go into the middle of the city, there's going to be more pollution.
And that's where a lot of minorities live.
And also, before we blame whites for the air, why don't we blame Hispanics for gastrointestinal diseases that come from eating their lard-soaked food?
Okay, I love tortilla chips and I'm not bashing Hispanic food, but if we want to talk about disproportionality of diarrhea inflicted on whites, I would say that both blacks and whites are equally affected by enchiladas, okay, made by Abolita herself.
So let's push it there.
Now, this goes on to say, and you go, okay, this sounds almost like an anti-white article.
And of course, minorities go, well, no, you're just attacking, you know, you're just playing victim.
What it literally says here, we're not saying that we should take away white people's money or that white people shouldn't spend money on resources that they're consuming.
If you have to clarify, hey guys, just letting you know, like, I really need to clarify, I'm not trying to take the money of white people, you're probably insinuating that you're trying to take the money of white people.
It's the idea of, oh, I'm not trying, you always like start out, I don't mean to be offensive when you're about to be completely offensive.
That's the whole point.
But I want to say that in the end of all this, it says, we may need to rethink how we build our cities and how they grow, which is an insinuation, how we rebuild our cities and how we grow.
I'll translate that.
How much white people we allow into our cities.
And it's talking and insinuating about white population control.
So before we look at this at any point, I wanted to let you know that there's just somebody out there with a book that is flipping pages.
It's like, what's racist today?
They put their finger down.
Ah, the air.
And that's where we get to today.
When you can't even breathe without being racist, then I guess you shouldn't be afraid when someone calls you one.
Orange Man is bad.
See, we all know the truth is that whether it's the Trumptity Dumpty balloon or it's people somehow thinking that it's a negative comment to compare your skin to Cheeto dust, which by the way, Cheetos are one of the most delicious chips in the country.
And so to compare someone's skin to Cheeto dust is actually a compliment.
I will say though that the blonde hair color, the Tommy Larin blonde, is not exactly the most suiting.
But what am I to say?
When I'm his age, I might not even be alive.
So, I mean, why am I bagging on an old man's hair?
Either way, people love to bag on him.
Because if there's nothing better to make yourself feel good than making fun of an old man, then I don't know what would do.
Because here in the state of California, people love bagging on Trump.
I was just walking down the street today, and it basically said, not our president, which is kind of sad because what if a Democrat comes in next cycle?
Then we're going to have to repaint the building, talk about carbon emissions, drain contamination, the oceans being poisoned.
Yeah, California doesn't practice what they preach.
But we have this crazy video by a YouTuber and social media content creator named Fog City Midge, where she actually just did something so daring and I would say possibly evil.
She actually took out a MAGA hat in California cities, specifically in San Francisco, and asked people what they thought.
Let's watch the clip.
maggie vandenberghe
Hey, I'm Midge and today I'm in San Francisco to see what people think about this hat.
Doesn't like it.
Hi.
Do you want to be in a video about my hat?
unidentified
Thank you.
maggie vandenberghe
All right, have a great day.
People want nothing to do with me.
They won't even make eye contact.
I think we got to go for the element of surprise here.
So I'm going to put on a garment and I want to just ask you about it.
unidentified
Yeah.
What you got?
What you got for me?
maggie vandenberghe
All right.
Here we go.
unidentified
Oh, God.
Make America great again.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Oh, I didn't expect that.
Oh, no.
I think they shouldn't wear that hat in San Francisco.
That's not a fashion statement.
That's a racist, bigoted butthole statement.
elijah schaffer
All right, let's pause that there for a second.
Okay, so first of all, it's like 30 seconds into this video.
We're already being told, I wouldn't wear that hat.
Well, sorry, lady, welcome to America.
I don't care what you would or wouldn't wear.
If I don't want to wear underwear for a day, it might not be good for the inlining of my jeans or even for the washer that I share with unsuspecting patrons of the same apartment building, but I have the right to do so.
And it's not up to you whether or not I wear a hat.
But people in these, you know, white savior cities, you know what I'm talking about?
Where it's all these white people who seem to like they want to police society so that all the minorities can feel better about themselves come in and say, yeah, you can't wear this.
And this one guy who has pink hair.
Now, I'm not one to comment on hair.
If you've seen a lot of my looks, I have some pretty terrible looks in my life.
But at the same time, this man's hair is like the color of cotton candy.
unidentified
He literally has sugar air hair.
elijah schaffer
And he thinks that his comments about a butthole, and I'm not going to say that this man is into those buttholes, but I'm just going to say if there's anyone in this video that was looked at buttholes in a positive way, it would be him.
Let's keep watching this.
Okay.
Rocking the MAGA?
unidentified
All right.
elijah schaffer
Super dope?
unidentified
Really?
That's your reaction?
Yeah, sure.
Why not?
I do kind of love it just because it's so horrible.
maggie vandenberghe
So what would you think if you saw somebody out and about wearing this hat?
unidentified
Oh, God.
I don't want to talk to that person.
You're definitely a groupie of that.
You're ignorant.
You're an asshole.
You're ignorant of the fact that Donald Trump and his administration are targeting minorities, people of color, queer people, trans people.
Did I say immigrants yet?
Yeah.
Women, anyone?
Yeah.
Okay, pause it.
Pause.
Pause it.
elijah schaffer
All right, you have this guy, right?
He's like, oh, if you wear the hat, you're targeting.
And like, he pulls it as a little, like, he breaks open his fortune cookie, you know, like from Panda Express and just goes, racist, sexist, transphobic.
And like a script, I swear, these people are scripted.
He goes, did I say immigrants yet?
No, you didn't say immigrants yet.
You missed line three, Mr. Cotton Candy Hairman.
This man didn't even get his own script right.
He had one job, and that was just to be a clone and to repeat blindly ideas that people hold all across the state.
And he couldn't even be a blind clone.
But I'll tell you what he could be.
He definitely could be a blind on the eyes.
That hair, still not filling it.
It's the second time we've been introduced to it.
I'm still just as uncomfortable as watching Pee Wee Herman live on TV.
Keep going.
unidentified
I'm worried about who else might be seeing me here.
I would say for your safety, you should take it off before I throw it in the trash can.
elijah schaffer
First of all, what is up with like these thin people, like these thin women, suddenly like smashing the patriarchy and like, hey, watch out, I'm going to smash.
I happen to know the videographer for this YouTuber, and he's a huge guy.
I mean, he is buff.
Why would you try to assault a woman?
Right?
So much for feminism.
Hey, if you're a woman, I like you as long as you don't wear a red hat.
How pathetic are you?
And number one, she also has collarbone tattoos.
Collarbone tattoos should be illegal.
If there's anything that you shouldn't have on, it's collarbone tattoos.
I would more listen to someone with a hat than a woman who has like sparrows right on her clavicle.
I'll tell you what, there's like two reasons why I wouldn't trust you.
Number one, if your name is Kim Jong-un, you're probably already on my radar.
And number two, you have collarbone tattoos.
unidentified
It might be a little dangerous to wear in San Francisco.
I have like some Trump supporters in my family.
It's different.
maggie vandenberghe
Have you ever seen anyone in San Francisco wearing this hat?
unidentified
You're the second.
You're the second.
I've actually never seen that hat in real life.
Only pictures of it?
elijah schaffer
It's kind of amazing.
Really?
This hat isn't like the Holocaust, right?
It's like, wow, I've never seen it in real life.
Like, it's like, this isn't shamu.
You know, you didn't have to pay a ticket to see this.
It's just a hat.
I've seen it in like pictures.
Like, it's like a fantasy.
This is the world that we live in in California.
People are absolutely thinking that Trump supporters are like a mythical character.
And in reality, it's true.
The Trump supporters that are put off in the news are actually not real Trump supporters.
It's like this mythological creature that comes out of the cave at night and is like, make America great again.
When in reality, it's just this like nice looking young lady who's just wearing a hat because she loves her country.
And this guy has blue hair.
Just pointing that out.
We got the second flavor of cotton candy in one video.
It's like a bonus night.
unidentified
No, I haven't.
I have not.
maggie vandenberghe
And that's why I'm out here today.
unidentified
You're the only person in San Francisco with that hat on.
I think it's bad.
I think you shouldn't wear that.
That particular phrase is associated with a particular president who happens to be in office right now that not a lot of people in San Francisco, I would wager, are not super fond of.
There's a whole bunch of baristas out there that are currently watching me do an interview with somebody in a MAGA hat and like...
This coffee shop?
Yeah.
maggie vandenberghe
I was going to go in there.
elijah schaffer
It's a really great place.
unidentified
I wouldn't wear that hat in it.
They probably won't serve you.
And supporting that, I think, is really f ⁇ ed up.
Do you?
Do I want?
elijah schaffer
Hey, listen.
I'll tell you what's really effed up.
Your choice of hair color.
The fact that you paid for that.
Now, again, like, you paid for that.
You have to live with the fact that you spent money that you earned on that hair color.
And you're never going to live that one down.
On top of that, I like the fact that they're open about, number one, that that hat could lead towards people being violent against you.
Number two, wearing that hat could cause you to not be served inside of a restaurant.
And third, I just want to bring this up.
Why does this man care about what baristas think?
Okay, I understand why.
It's because most of those baristas probably graduated with him and his friends from an Ivy League college with their fine arts degrees.
So I understand that this is like the privy, right?
I mean, you go to school and the highest you get is that you make a latte with a heart in the foam.
And you know what?
I appreciate it.
But the fact that you can make more off of being a YouTuber, making videos that are obviously demonetized like 75% of the time than being a barista, I'd say that this guy has his priorities wrong.
And also, no wonder why everyone's single.
You have a nice looking girl in front of you and the first thing you're going to do is talk to her about how she should dress.
What are you gay?
unidentified
Support Trump?
maggie vandenberghe
I do, actually.
unidentified
Oh.
Xenophobic, homophobic, more or less, yeah.
I just think like that's a it's a f up thing to wear.
I think it's f up to support.
Freedom of expression, freedom of belief.
That's what it's supposed to be about, right?
elijah schaffer
All right, so of course we have our brother is the one who's the cool guy who's like, yeah, I don't really care.
And I love it.
It's always white people like, you know, black people are so offended.
And the black guy's like, yeah, brother, I'm literally just chilling, just trying to do what you told me I'm supposed to do, which is just be a normal citizen.
And like, you know, it's nothing that black people do.
Like, I'm literally just a person just walking, probably going to the grocery store.
Don't really care about what your hat color is.
And white people are busy.
Like, you know, when they're not making their hair look like flavors of candy, they're out there saying things like, you can't wear that.
I think it's just really effed up.
I just really think that everyone's offended.
When in reality, nobody's really offended.
To talk about this video and the ridiculous trend of MAGA phobia, we brought on the YouTuber content creator Fog City Midge from this video, who's going to be with us here in just a moment.
unidentified
Hey, actually, I'm interviewing people about their reaction.
maggie vandenberghe
Could I interview you?
unidentified
I would love to have that reaction on camera.
maggie vandenberghe
I just got some hate.
There you go.
elijah schaffer
All right, with us here today is our guest.
Her name is Fog City Midge.
You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter on the links below.
Welcome to the show, Midge.
Thank you so much for joining us.
Yes, so obviously our viewers or our listeners just tuned in and pretty much watched something that I thought was kind of crazy.
You went out and did something seamless.
You took a hat and you basically just asked people's reactions.
So kind of track with me.
What sort of gave you the idea that this was going to be something good to do in probably the most Trump intolerant city in America?
maggie vandenberghe
Yeah, so living in San Francisco, I realized that I have basically never seen anyone out and about wearing this hat aside from maybe a friend who knew they were coming to meet me who might put it on.
So yeah, I wanted to see what people's reactions would be.
There is a lot of MAGA phobia happening right now.
And I see it every day online that there are reports of people being attacked for wearing a MAGA hat or showing open support for President Trump.
So I sort of wanted to see, is this really the case?
And what's interesting is no one would talk to me initially.
If you watch the full-length version of the video on YouTube, I show the beginning sort of intro where initially we were trying to speak with people and no one would even make eye contact with me.
They wanted nothing to do with me.
So we sort of had to do a social experiment where we put the hat in the bag and then had the reveal to sort of get them to agree to have that reaction on camera.
elijah schaffer
Right.
And that's pretty crazy because if I actually track with you, you know, I've worn a MAGA hat twice out in public in serious ways.
I know the first time that I wore a MAGA hat in public, I was publicly assaulted.
That one went viral.
But there's one that people don't notice.
One time I was at a bar or like a brewery, right?
It's supposed to be like family-friendly, even underage people could go in there.
And I remember actually getting assaulted, people telling me that I was a disgrace for wearing it.
So I know you're kind of obviously maybe even pushing some buttons, but some people might say instigating.
What is your response to those people that say that you're just baiting for a reaction?
Why are you trying to get people's responses to MAGA phobia and to the red MAGA hat?
maggie vandenberghe
I wouldn't say I'm trying to get reactions.
I'd say what I'm looking for is I'd like to understand where this hate comes from.
And I really think that it's been drummed up by the mainstream media.
They've pushed this narrative that Donald Trump and anyone who supports him is a racist and a bigot and a homophobe and X, Y, and Z.
And the reality is, is that's not the case.
Most people that I have met who wear MAGA hats are amazing patriots.
They love their country.
They love their president.
And to me, it is a symbol that's a very positive one.
And I think that it's a symbol of unity.
So if anything, I would love to see more people wearing MAGA hats so that we can kind of confront that stereotype.
elijah schaffer
I want to look at some quotes here from your video, which really shocked me because I think that the weird message is that people on the right are intolerant.
But what's so interesting is that, you know, from the Covington, whether we're talking about the smirk on the poor guy's face or we talk about the fact that someone just wears a hat, what they call aggression is simply just people existing.
And as you know, and we talked about earlier in the show, obviously recently NPR said that the air in California is racist against minorities.
So looking at this, right, you picked it out.
People said things like, I'm worried about who might be seeing me here.
Take it off before I throw it in a trash can.
I've never even seen this in real life.
This shows that this person has not really seen a Trump supporter before.
What are the dangers of people living in an echo chamber where they have an idea of what Trump supporters are, but they don't actually know any?
maggie vandenberghe
Yeah, I mean, it's a great question.
And I think this is something that if some of these people maybe took a moment to sort of self-reflect or maybe actually look into things, they might realize sort of that there's a gap in their knowledge.
But part of the problem is that we have a media that has pushed this idea so extremely that they just accept it as truth.
Most of these people haven't taken the time to look into the facts for themselves.
They haven't, you know, thought, okay, they just say Donald Trump's a racist, but they've never said to themselves, well, why is he a racist?
And none of them could answer that question.
So, you know, this is part of the problem about with living in an echo chamber.
San Francisco has had, you know, Democrat leadership going back 50 years.
California is now a super majority of Democrats in office.
And basically, there's no one to sort of challenge them or challenge their ideas.
So, I mean, basically, it's a big mess.
And I would say to these people, you know, maybe you should sort of look into things a little bit more.
And for the people who did take the moment to ask me, are you a Trump supporter?
I answered them, yes, I am.
And most of them wanted to sort of end the conversation there.
And I sort of would follow up.
And most of them were then not really willing to complete the interview, which is unfortunate.
unidentified
Right.
elijah schaffer
And I think something that a lot of Americans realize is for one reason, I'm not afraid of what people are going to say, but I don't wear a MAGA hat everywhere just because you know in California, you are going to be harassed.
Like you cannot wear a MAGA hat without being harassed.
And an example being just last night, I was walking with a friend down the streets of LA and there were two black women who yelled like, I hate white people.
And I thought, no, they're just messing around.
And then they said, yeah, we're talking about you two across the street.
And I mean, the thing is, I don't care if people say I hate white people.
Fine.
If you don't like me for the color of my skin, I'm not going to blame your color of your skin and people who are like that.
You're just individuals who are full of hate and/or ignorance.
And that's not a big deal.
But I'm not going to write you off or say, hey, all black people hate white people.
No, that's two women walking down the street making a choice.
And they might not have even understood the ramifications of what that means.
But obviously, when you put on a red MAGA hat, people, one of the people you talked to was saying that it sort of is like a racist, bigoted butthole statement.
And they look at the MAGA hat to exemplify and resemble pretty much a swastika at this point.
What do you think are the dangers of equating that with a swastika?
maggie vandenberghe
I mean, it's completely dangerous and it's completely negligent.
And again, I go back to the mainstream media for pushing this narrative.
They now have made it so that when people see someone in a MAGA hat or even just a picture of a MAGA hat, most of these people, like they said in the video, had never even seen one in real life.
To them, it's the equivalent of putting on a KKK cloak.
And that's a massive problem because it's really just a symbol of patriotism for most Americans who support Donald Trump.
You know, it's a very dangerous place that we're living in.
And I do blame the media, but I also blame individuals for not taking the time to sort of, you know, look into things for themselves.
And most people who I spoke with, most of them said that they knew a Trump supporter, at least one.
Some of them said they had never even met one, which I was like, that's crazy.
Most of them said, oh, I know a Trump supporter or I have one in my family.
But then they would still continue with this narrative that Trump supporters are this or this or this.
And I'm like, well, you just said your dad's a wonderful person, but he supports Trump.
So I think it's sort of a disconnect where they just blindly believe what they've been told by the media.
And that's a very dangerous place to be.
unidentified
Yeah.
elijah schaffer
And something you might not actually even know is that your videos under our segment Orange Man Bad.
And the reason why this episode, obviously, you're on California Has Fallen.
You live in San Francisco.
So you know what it's like to deal with human feces on the floor because I know San Francisco has a huge human fecal problem.
You actually have a few videos out about that.
And so I know that you're very familiar with the fact.
And so it's interesting, though, that the left has complete control of California.
They have serious problems, which we've already mentioned here today.
But of course, perhaps, maybe some of the answers to those solutions might be found on the right.
But if people are even too scared to openly express themselves as being right wing, then it looks like the right wing is going to still be silenced, even if they're gaining a voice around the country as a populace is uprising, I would say, and learning to speak for themselves.
In places like California, where one-third of the state did vote for Donald Trump, we know that that one-third is still being pressured into silence in threat, honestly, of losing their jobs or of just social repercussion.
And so, what kind of encouragement do you have for viewers who live in blue states who basically don't have the privilege of having a YouTube channel or social media influence?
And, you know, they just want to keep their jobs, but they want to support the president.
What can they do?
maggie vandenberghe
Yeah, I think it's a challenging question and it's definitely an uphill battle.
But, you know, this is part of the problem with being the silent majority.
When you're the silent majority, at a point, you're going to lose your country because we've already lost control of academia, the media, Hollywood, all of these institutions, which just push their narrative.
And we always think, well, we can go vote, you know, vote our values, right?
That's how we can sort of speak up.
But sort of the problem is that now we aren't even free to express our opinions openly.
You are, you know, potentially going to lose your job.
But for me, I think that the answer is in more people wearing this hat.
It's going to reveal the hate of the left and it's going to have to shed some light on what reality, on what the reality about this symbolism is.
You know, to me, this is a positive symbol.
I've been to Trump rallies and I can honestly tell you it is one of the most positive experiences I've ever had in my entire life.
That room was filled with so much love, so much patriotism, so much camaraderie.
Nobody saw their differences.
People just saw what united everyone there.
And we're united under, you know, the values of America and what makes America great and why we are so blessed to live here in this land of liberty with so many freedoms that we enjoy.
So to me, I would love to see more people wearing a MAGA hat.
Obviously, you have to be safe.
You have to be smart.
You have to be in a group.
But I would say, I mean, maybe we put together a challenge.
Maybe we say, you know, like, let's all go out in a group one night and wear them and just see what happens.
Make sure you have your phones with you, you know, so you can record anything that happens.
Now, I encourage people to be safe, but let's also show pride in our country and stand up for what we believe in.
Because otherwise, you know, fast forward, we all stay quiet 20 years, we might not have a country, you know, to stand up for.
elijah schaffer
Right.
That's so awesome.
Thank you so much, Fog City Midge, previously known as MAGA Midge.
Awesome.
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We appreciate it.
Thank you again.
maggie vandenberghe
Well, thank you, Elijah.
All right.
Take care.
elijah schaffer
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unidentified
I don't care what they say about me now.
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