Dennis Prager Show - Newsom Lied About the Smelt Fish
Aired: 2025-01-21
Duration: 02:47


=== California's Loony Laws (02:14) ===

[00:00:00]  Let's get to the Delta smelt.
[00:00:02]  And also, Rick Lowkey shares with me, apparently, in California, environmentalists won't allow sea lions to be removed, even though the beach gives them a fatal disease.
[00:00:17]  The people in California are just loony.
[00:00:19]  And this has to be busted up because so goes California, so goes the nation.
[00:00:24]  If you want to care about the people in North Carolina, you have to make sure if you want to see the government, all right, people within government, I should say, all right, but people within government care about the people in North Carolina, whether it's a Democrat or Republican, you want to make sure that left-wing crazy policies like California go bye-bye and that you impose some common sense or implement, I'm sorry, some common sense there where you...
[00:00:49]  You actually care about people, policies that are concerned about the livelihoods, the safety of people.
[00:00:55]  Because if Democrats understand or are concerned about people, then all of a sudden that filters out throughout the entire country.
[00:01:04]  California has a major influence.
[00:01:07]  New York and all these, I think there's 12 other states that were following California's emission standards.
[00:01:13]  California was literally destroying the car industry in the United States of America, allowing China to grow their car industry by mandating these EVs.
[00:01:24]  Just hooking up our adversary.
[00:01:27]  And 12 moronic states followed suit.
[00:01:31]  You cannot leave leftism alone in California.
[00:01:35]  Let's get to the Delta smelt for those of you that have heard about this.
[00:01:39]  So, runoff from the mountains in Northern California, the Wall Street Journal columnist writes, feeds into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which is connected to the San Francisco Bay.
[00:01:49]  Pumps at the south push water to forms in California's Central Valley and Southern California cities.
[00:01:55]  But because the smelt sometimes gets trapped in the pumps, federal and state officials...

=== Smelt Population Decline (00:48) ===

[00:02:00]  Have restricted how hard those pumps can run.
[00:02:04]  Billions of gallons of water flow into the Pacific as a result, instead of Californians catching them in the reservoirs, which was the problem with these L.A. wildfires.
[00:02:14]  Yet the smelt population, listen to this, has declined, owing to non-native predator fish and other Delta denizens that out-competed for food.
[00:02:27]  The smelt actually appeared to have gone extinct in 2020, but scientists at UC Davis raised a refugee population in a lab.
[00:02:36]  In 2021, they released more than 12,000 smelt, delta smelt, perpetuating the excuse to limit water flows to farmers.
[00:02:44]  So they used this fish that was a common fish.