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Jan. 16, 2025 - Viva & Barnes
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Gavin Newsom's USELESS Executive Order! Pam "James" Bondi 007 Confirmation Highlights & MORE!
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The Liberals have forced the government to sell.
In addition, the Liberals want to win elections by dividing the provinces and the Canadians each one against each other.
At the maximum vulnerability, President Trump will see the weak that the Liberals have imposed on Canada.
That's enough.
Now we need a new government, a great good sense that will unite Canadians, which is quite strong for President Trump, who will bring production here in Canada and who will defend all Canadians. First Canada, first Canada.
Thank you.
Next question.
Hi, Monica Gould with City News.
Barring any last-minute changes, TikTok is said to be banned in the U.S. this weekend.
I'm curious what your thoughts are on a ban, and if you were to form government, if that is something you would pursue because of the national security concerns?
It's a good question.
I've already ordered all of our Conservative MPs, Senators, and our staff from...
To stay away from TikTok altogether, stop using it because it risks infiltration and espionage and manipulation by the hostile regime in Beijing.
I'll be following the decision in the United States very carefully.
I don't have anything to announce right now, but it's a very good question and we'll be following it.
Thank you.
Merci beaucoup, madame.
C'est une bonne question.
I'm going to try to translate again.
Let me see if I can hear myself.
Thank you.
This will be the final question.
Thank you, Brenna Owen, Canadian Press.
So just to clarify, do you support including oil and gas in any retaliatory tariffs?
We don't import almost any oil and gas from the Americans, at least raw oil and gas.
We mostly export it.
Have you tried plugging it in?
Tariffs on American oil and gas.
We don't import very much.
Unfortunately, what we do is we send them our raw materials.
They send it back refined.
We don't have the value-added jobs in Canada.
And that's because our very high taxes and heavy red tape made it impossible for us to expand our industrial base.
How is Pierre's French?
It's weaker than I thought it was going to be.
And make ourselves more self-reliant.
But what I will do is ask...
The Liberal Jobs Tax is going to milk that.
I will also be slashing corporate welfare.
That's the subsidies and the handouts we give to big businesses so that we can use those savings to make sure that getting rid of this tax hike does not add to our deficit.
I've committed to a dollar-for-dollar principle.
Every time I spend a dollar or lose a dollar in tax revenues, I will find the savings so that we reduce the deficit.
I'm going to repeat this in French.
He's going to reverse the capital gains tax.
We'll not add it to the deficit.
This is going to be the approach.
Thank you very much.
Well, I'm not going to be judgmental, because I thought he was native French.
Like, I thought his first language was French.
I wonder if I would be rustier than Pierre Poilievre was right there.
This is coming out of Canada, people?
That is the state of Canadian politics.
That is the man who, in all likelihood, will be not the next prime minister, but the one after the replacement for Justin Trudeau.
My French teacher used to drool when she talked back in seventh and eighth grade.
Well, that's very interesting.
I like that haircut that you got going on there.
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Canada's last hope, says Alexander, son of the Republic.
Certainly the last hope to stop the bleeding.
We'll see if it works.
But they're going hard.
They're prorogued.
Government is prorogued.
There's no session until March 24th.
While they have their leadership race within the party, that quite clearly Mark Carney is the one who's running for it, running hard, as we say in Canada.
Yeah, I had to unplug my mic because I'm using my built-in thing.
I don't know if now I'm thinking that this is stupid.
Do I give it one more try, people?
One more try.
Let's see this.
One more try.
This is not the mic anyhow.
We're going to go like this.
We're going to go in here.
Now we're going to go in here.
And then we're going to get into the show.
Now I've plugged it in.
I'm going to go listen to myself.
Default speaker.
Press play.
Check one, two.
Okay, now I hear myself, but it's like...
The audio interface I recommended would solve this.
Let me hear.
No, encrypt this.
We will talk.
Okay, we got the mic up now.
It's good and running.
And I'm going to go pause it in the back.
It'll be the running gag, people.
Even when things are working totally smoothly.
It's cutting out.
buddy. Okay.
We're just going to go with the native mic and that is it.
You sound fine.
It's this piece of crap.
This thing cost $69.
We went and invested in the big piece of crap that comes from Mike and Apple.
Doesn't work.
Doesn't work.
That's it.
It's all done.
We're going to have a native microphone today.
And I guess I'm going to get...
No, it's working now.
Thank you.
Well, you know what?
It could be worse, and it could be more boring, and it could be more frustrating.
We could be watching Lee Zeldin, who is the newly tapped head of the EPA, sitting down for confirmation hearings.
Today, and it's...
I have seen computer updates that are more exciting than Lee Zeldin's testimony before Congress.
We are going to go over the highlights of Pam Bondi yesterday, and I like to call her now Pam James Bondi, 007, because of her stealth ability to deal with bullshit.
Rapacious bullshit.
But good afternoon, everybody.
Before we get there, we'll make sure that I know we're live on VivaBarnesLaw.locals.com.
Oh, yes.
I Hate Death says, ooh, Viva, never buy the Apple adapters.
It costs $69 compared to the $15 knockoff.
And I was like, no, no, we'll go.
I don't have any problems.
People are making fun of me for not being able to...
Lee Zeldin is testifying.
He's being grilled.
And you know it's a boring, surefire, I say surefire appointment, when the best that the Democrats have by way of dirt, by way of smear, is...
All of this climate crisis nonsense.
And so they're...
How is Bond 59?
We're going to get there.
We're going to get there.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
It's nothing but Democrats coming in saying, you're going to respect the environment.
You're going to acknowledge climate crisis.
So you're not an anti-science, anti-vaxxer, anti-climate denialist.
Yes, I will work within the bounds of the law.
I think we should all have clean drinking water, yada, yada, yada.
The Republican side.
With Lee Zeldin, it's, you know, you're going to come meet with our constituents and assure them that the EPA is going to work with them hand in hand to make everybody a fruitful, prosperous nation.
All right.
What is interesting is Pam Bondi yesterday.
Let us address the elephant in the room when it comes to Pam James Bond Bondi, who's 59 years old.
I don't do these things.
I'm not sure that they're nice.
I just surveyed the internet and there could be a great many reasons why people look the way they do.
You could have face work.
You could have filters.
You could have a bad day.
You could have a pixelated capture of a television.
This is Vince Langman on the Twitterverse who says, Pam Bondi is older than Kirsten Gillibrand.
How is that possible?
It's an amazing thing.
There is something to be said about people who are healthy.
People who take care of their bodies and people who stay fit, eat healthy, take sun.
Pan Bondi lives in Florida.
It's a nice place to make sure that your skin is always toned and you have a nice tan and you don't get stuck.
Where's Kristin Gillibrand from?
I think she's from one of them states that actually goes through a winter.
But there is something to be said about people who take care of their bodies, take care of their health, and reflect that to the world.
Pam Bondi was fantastic.
I didn't listen to all of it.
I was listening in and out, and then I was pulling up some highlights.
She's fantastic.
It's interesting that you can divine more from the questions being asked than from the answers at times.
And so we're going to pull up some of those highlights.
We're going to get into Gavin Newsom's what I call a feckless, useless, and I dare say destructive executive order where he tries to fact-check our boy at Valuetainment, Vincent O'Shanna.
We'll get into that in a second.
But right now...
Florida Dad says, as a Stetson law grad, let me say, Pam is pretty standard for that school.
I called it Stetson School of Law and Modeling for a reason.
It's everywhere there.
LOL. Well, I can tell you, I assuredly have no idea what you're talking about because I went to Université Laval, à la ville de Québec, for my law school.
If Pam had work done, that's a good doctor.
I think the ultimate irony is that the people who don't have the work done end up looking healthier over time.
And they say that evil ages you prematurely.
That's why witches be ugly.
LOLs. You know what?
Actually, it was not on the menu for the day, but let me see if I can bring something up here.
It's quite astonishing.
Victoria Nuland before...
Oh, let's say then and now.
Then... And now.
It's people age, and it's part of life.
I don't know if I look as good as I did when I was 20, but they do also say that men sometimes mature like wine, but that might be a social double standard.
And then you have Victoria Nuland, before and after.
We're going to do a few of these.
And just so nobody accuses, well, I'm trying to think of...
Yeah, let's do a...
Barack Obama, so that nobody accuses us of being misogynist.
It's the death of a soul that comes with selling your soul to evil forces.
Who else?
Bill Clinton.
Bill Clinton, then and now.
That was still pretty early on.
Now! E.G.A.B.
Who's the one I'm looking for?
You know which one I'm looking for.
Jacien Ardern.
I'm going to screw up her name.
I mean, they might have, you know, might be going through some medical stuff that affects it.
And just one last one.
Chrystia Freeland.
These are amazing ones.
I mean, this was not even that long ago.
But there is something to be said about the forces of evil sucking the soul out of your body.
Viva, hope you're having a good week so far.
It's been interesting.
It's been interesting Twitter stuff, but it's fun.
Swamp sucks souls.
There is no question about that.
So Pam Bondy looks young and very good for her.
I don't know why people get work done, because the greatest sacrilege in the history of humanity is...
No, it's not even fair.
Meg Ryan.
My high school crush.
The love of my dreams when I was a kid.
And then they get work done.
And then the work doesn't look quite right.
So they get more work done.
And then it looks even worse.
And then they get more work done.
And then, bada-bing, bada-boom, you're Madonna.
And you actually look like that alien out of the fifth element.
And people should just stop freaking doing it.
Age gracefully.
God made you the way you are.
God aged you the way you will age.
And when you try to fight the natural evolution of life, my goodness, it has consequences.
Meg did not used to be very cute.
She was the most beautiful woman alive.
Along with, what's her name?
Gina Gershon, I want to say.
That doesn't really matter.
High school crush.
But Pam Bondi looks good, and that's fine, and that's all that's well.
Alright, Pam Bondi was grilled.
The highlights are amazing.
She thinks on her feet.
She should have reassured everybody that, you know, if anyone was afraid, at least of her composure...
I think we saw a composure that did surprise many people yesterday, especially because people have preconceived notions of a female who might think that they're docile or I don't know, whatever.
But we're going to pick on Adam Schiff today, among other things.
She was good.
And I just want to highlight some of the highlights so we can be assured.
And now it's going to be a question of witnessing over time whether or not she implements in policy.
What we will all have wanted to come from Matt Gaetz.
I'm asking you, sitting here today, whether you are aware of a factual predicate to investigate Liz Cheney.
Senator, no one has asked me to investigate Liz Cheney.
That is a hypothetical.
The president has called for it publicly.
You are aware of that, aren't you?
No one has asked me to investigate.
We're also worried about Liz Cheney, Senator.
You know what we should be worried about?
The crime rate in California right now is through the roof.
Your robberies are 87% higher than the national average.
That's what I want to be focused on, Senator.
Do you have the power to say no to the President?
Adam, shift for brains is the worst human on Earth tied with a number of other people.
I love it.
Like, you do know that, don't you?
It's the classic narcissist manipulative tactic.
You do know that.
Something which is disputed, but you do know that.
Whether you are aware of a factual predicate to investigate Liz Cheney.
Senator, no one has asked me to investigate Liz Cheney.
That is the hypothetical.
The president has called for it publicly.
You are aware of that, aren't you?
No one has asked me.
You are aware of it.
He's called for it.
What exactly did he call for publicly?
Shift, for brains to make shift.
What did he call for?
I can tell you one thing.
If I were there and everybody's got hindsight and it's always easy to play armchair or whatever quarterback, is there a factual basis to investigate Liz Cheney?
Well, there most certainly is, Mr. Schiff.
Have you read the subselect committee on the investigation into the January 6th investigative committee?
Did you read that?
It laid out the factual basis pretty clearly that there is grounds potentially to investigate Liz Warwhore Cheney.
For criminal activity, potentially unlawful activity, what would that be?
Suborning perjury, witness tampering.
Specifically, factual basis, Liz Cheney back-channeled communications with a witness before that January 6th committee, Hutchison, back-channeled communications with her, bypassing her counsel because she was represented by counsel Hutchison, the witness, which is illegal.
I mean, which is potential witness tampering.
To deliberately bypass counsel of an individual that you know to be represented.
That's one.
Potential suborning perjury because they got Hutchison to explain away why she didn't make certain statements and damning testimony the first time she testified.
That's a factual basis that is well documented.
Text messages using CNN correspondence.
I forget what the CNN journalist's name was.
To backchannel communications directly with someone they knew to be represented by counsel.
It's not just unethical for an attorney.
It's potentially unlawful.
So Mr. Schiffer brings McSchiff.
Yes, there is a factual basis for it.
Have I been asked to do it?
No, I haven't been asked to do it yet.
Will I do it if I'm asked?
I will follow the facts where the facts take me.
Liz Cheney violated her own 15-12-10.
Oh yeah, by the way, did they destroy evidence after the committee was done?
Because if they did, add it to the list.
Here, let me just bring this up here.
Seriously, Viva, Pam had plenty of Botox and feelers, says Jaiores.
Well, if that's the case, get her doctor's name because he did phenomenal work.
But she definitely looks like someone who maintains good physical health, which leads to good psychological health.
I pulled up a bunch of these highlights.
Let's just bring...
Oh, this is the entire...
Let's go through this.
Actually, it'll save a bunch of the other clips where we go through Adam Schiff.
The worst man in Congress.
Liar. Pathological liar.
Confirmed liar.
Comes out, talks about the smoking gun evidence about Russia collusion.
Never had it.
Lied. Knew that his lie couldn't be contradicted because anybody to contradict his lie would have to violate the confidentiality of the committee as relates to the 2016 Russiagate collusion hoax nonsense.
Let's just play this one through.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Ms. Bondi, as you know, the Supreme Court in Trump versus the United States held the president has absolute immunity to commit crimes in certain core areas of the president's responsibility.
One of those core areas is the Justice Department.
This is where I would not be able to shut my big mouth.
Schiff, you are a goddamn liar.
That's not what anything of the immunity said, that he has the absolute immunity to commit crimes.
In fact...
It's putting the carriage in front of the horse that he can do whatever is required within the constitutional core powers of the presidency.
Imagine if the president couldn't authorize people to kill.
On the one hand, you might like it, but you wouldn't have any wars.
If it is a core constitutional duty to lock people up, that would be a crime if it weren't authorized by...
The courts, the Constitution.
It would be a crime.
Deprivation of liberty.
Well, there's a good reason for it.
The person's a criminal.
The president has absolute immunity to commit crime.
Bullcrap. You're a liar.
You're lying again.
But go on, please.
In a breathtakingly dangerous and irresponsible decision, Justice Roberts and the majority held the president could commit crimes using the Department of Justice and be immune from prosecution.
Justice Sotomayor correctly said this new immunity lies about like a loaded weapon.
So the fear and the concern we have is that the incoming president will use that loaded weapon, that immunity, to commit crimes through the Department of Justice.
And for that reason...
It's a very bad analogy to be harping on considering what was done to Trump recently, not once but twice.
But no, keep it up and say, oh yeah, no.
Remember when they said, well, Joe Biden, you can terminate your political rival if it's within your core constitutional duty, so go ahead and do it.
And you had people on the internet clamoring for that?
It is all the more important that we have an attorney general who has the independence, the strength, the intestinal fortitude to say no to the president when it is necessary.
So my first set of questions has to do whether you have the The independence to say no when you must say no.
And you can say this is hypothetical, but it is not hypothetical.
Very, very patronizing, but okay, I won't go there.
So let me start with one very specific non-hypothetical.
The president has said Jack Smith should go to jail.
Will you investigate Jack Smith?
Yeah, I will.
Of course.
Jack Smith is a political hack.
Senator, I haven't seen the file.
I haven't seen the investigation.
I haven't looked at anything.
It would be irresponsible of me.
To make a commitment regarding anything without...
You're a long-practicing attorney without looking at a file.
You would need a factual predicate to open an investigation of Jack Smith, is that right?
Not a summary by you sitting here.
Yes, sir.
And not a summary by the president either, right?
Absolutely. So a summary by the president or his desire to investigate Jack Smith would not be enough for you.
Did you not hear the words factual predicate?
I will look at the facts and evidence in any case.
You know, 72% of Americans have lost faith in the Department of Justice.
Sitting here today, are you aware of any factual predicate to investigate Jack Smith?
Yeah, apparently he was unlawfully appointed through whatever backdoor mechanisms Merrick Garland employed to appoint private citizen Jack Smith to participate in a prosecution, a wrongful prosecution of a president, potential deprivation of liberty, potential falsification of evidence when the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago and splayed out that evidence and falsified the nature of that evidence so they could get their snapshot.
Yeah, there's a predicate there.
Thank you for reminding me, actually.
It'll be number two on my to-do list.
Liz Cheney's number one.
Yes or no?
Senator, I will look at the facts and the circumstances.
You can't answer that question.
You're not a part of the department yet.
There's no worry about divulging law enforcement-sensitive information.
So just tell us, are you aware of a factual predicate to investigate Jack Smith?
Yes or no?
Senator, what I'm hearing on the news is horrible.
Do I know if he committed a crime?
I have not looked at it.
You seem reluctant to answer a simple question.
Look at that jackass.
Hold on.
Look at this guy right here.
Look at that guy's face.
Oh, yeah.
Testify, Schiff.
Senator, what I'm hearing on the news is horrible.
Do I know if he committed a crime?
I have not looked at it.
You seem reluctant to answer a simple question.
Let me ask you a different simple question.
The president also wants to jail Liz Cheney sitting here today.
Are you aware of any factual basis to investigate Liz Cheney?
Yes or no?
Senator, that's a hypothetical, and I'm not going to answer that question.
No, it's not a hypothetical.
I'm asking you, sitting here today, whether you are aware of a factual predicate to investigate Liz Cheney.
Senator, no one has asked me to investigate Liz Cheney.
That is a hypothetical.
The president has called for it publicly.
You are aware of that, aren't you?
You're not aware of that, aren't you?
No one has asked me to investigate Liz.
We're also worried about Liz Cheney, Senator.
You know what we should be worried about?
The crime rate in California right now is through the roof.
Your robberies are 87% higher than the national average.
That's what I want to be focused on, Senator.
Do you have the power to say no to the president?
And what you're suggesting today by your non-answer is you don't have the independence to say no to the president.
So let me ask you a different question.
It also requires you, if you're going to be a good attorney general, to be able to tell hard truths to the president.
So my questions now are, can you tell hard truths to the president?
So let me start with an easy truth that you could speak to the president.
Hold on, stop, stop.
Can you tell us?
Do we think this is going to be truth?
I'm betting no.
To the president.
Can you tell us, can you tell him that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election?
Can you say that?
I knew it was going to be that one.
He's got such a smug and disgusting face that you can't say what kind of face it is because you don't want anybody thinking you're suggesting anyone to actually do terrible things.
Scum of the earth.
Just like scum of the earth.
You have the gravitas, the stature, the intestinal fortitude to say, Donald Trump, you lost the 2020 election.
Can you tell us that here today?
He didn't, Schiff.
Where did the 7 million votes go?
What are we up to now?
It was 10 million until they kept counting in California.
Senator, what I can tell you is I will never play politics.
You're trying to engage me in a gotcha.
I won't play politics with any ongoing investigation, like you did leaking your colleague Devin Nunes' memo.
If you can't answer the question...
Let me ask you a different, what should be a simple truth, not a hard one.
Oh yeah, let's hear it.
Was there massive fraud affecting the result of the 2020 election?
Yes or no?
Yes. Senator.
If I were there, there's a reason why I'm not there.
Yes, Mr. Schiff.
Intelligence suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story.
Mr. Schiff, did you not read the article in Time magazine explaining how they fortified the election?
You might call that fortification.
I call that interference.
Massive. On a massive scale, that shifted the outcome of that election.
Pam can't say that.
Glad you asked that question, if you'll let me answer what I saw in Pennsylvania.
No, I asked a simple question about massive fraud.
I can only tell you what I saw in Pennsylvania.
I know you want to answer a different question, but my question is...
Can you tell us whether there was massive fraud affecting the results of the 2020 election?
Yes or no?
I can tell you what I saw when I went as an advocate to the campaign.
That's not my question.
So you can't answer that question.
You can't speak that even easy truth to us, let alone to the president.
So let me ask you a different question.
By the way, just so you understand, it's an easy truth.
They cloak lies in truth and repeat it over and over and over.
And so far, his two simple truths are hotly contested at the very least questions regarding the legitimacy and the constitutional validity of the 2020 election.
Worst person on earth.
He's a father.
He's a husband.
Maybe he's not still married.
I can't imagine going home.
And feeling good about yourself.
I just couldn't.
I have to assume in his heart of hearts, he knows that he is the biggest scumbag liar on earth.
It will also be important that you give good advice to the president.
Are you prepared to advise the president not to pardon people who beat police officers?
Your boy just pardoned murderers, you stupid sack of crap.
I don't know what our answer is going to be to this one.
I haven't seen this clip yet.
Your boy, Schiff, just pardoned, I believe there were cop killers.
I believe there were child killers.
I believe there were woman killers.
He just commuted their sentences from death row.
You lying sack of disgusting human waste.
Senator, as I said, the pardons are at the direction of the president.
We will look and we will advise.
I will look at every case on a case-by-case basis.
And I abhor violence to police officers.
Follow up with that.
So will it be your advice to the President?
Mr. President, I know you said you want to issue hundreds of pardons on day one.
Sorry, not hundreds, shift.
All of them.
Will it be your advice to the President?
No, Mr. President.
I need to go over them on a case-by-case basis.
Do not issue blanket pardons.
Will that be your advice to the President?
I'm sorry, Mr. Schiff.
My advice to the president doesn't override the president's executive constitutional powers of the party.
You think I'm going to tell the president how to exercise his core presidential executive constitutional powers as president?
Who the hell do you think I am?
I'm not above the law.
Senator, I have not looked at any of those files.
If confirmed, I will look at the files for the parties as well as the ongoing investigation.
I will look at every file I am asked to look at.
Of course you won't.
So will you advise the President?
Can I answer the question?
I would have plenty of staff.
You said, of course you want?
You'll be able to review hundreds of cases in the first day?
I'm not going to mislead this body, nor you.
All right, let me ask another question.
You don't want to answer that.
Let me answer the question.
You were censured by Congress, Senator, for comments just like this that are so reckless.
It will also be important for you to be able to...
Preserve the records, the evidence of the department.
Are you ready to commit that none of the evidence in the January 6th investigation will be destroyed?
You already destroyed it, you sack of lying human waste.
Oh my...
You will not destroy the evidence that no longer exists, that we destroyed after we ended that unlawfully formed non-quorum respecting January 6th kangaroo court persecution?
It's beyond confession through projection.
This is evil materializing.
It's unreal that they can get up there and actually accuse their adversaries of doing what they themselves have done.
Say it.
I love Big Brother, Pam.
The elections were good.
The elections were clean.
The elections were kosher.
Very good.
Say it, Pam.
You're not going to pardon me.
You know, people who beat up cops.
Hey, you only commute the sentences of people who murder cops.
That's what Joe Biden just did.
You're probably not going to delete any evidence from that January 6th committee that we already deleted the evidence from.
I mean, it's absolute insanity.
Under your watch.
Senator, I will follow the law.
I will consult with ethical officials in the department.
Do you see any ethical basis to destroy evidence in the January 6th investigation?
Well, now that you mention it.
There is no lawful ethical basis to do it, so if anyone on the committee did it, like Liz Cheney, Benny Thompson, you might be setting up a factual predicates to go after them for destruction of evidence.
Thank you very much for this.
I don't even have to listen to Trump anymore.
Thanks for the recommendation, Schiff.
Then why can't you answer the question?
Why can't you say, I commit to this committee, we will never destroy the evidence in the January 6th investigation.
Why can't you give...
This committee and the American people, that assurance.
Are you frightened because evidence was destroyed against President Trump that was false?
Why do you have difficulty answering that question?
I can't believe you're asking such a question.
Why do you have difficulty promising to preserve evidence at the Department of Justice?
Why is that a difficult question?
I will follow the law.
It shouldn't be a difficult question.
Oh my goodness.
He's the worst person on earth.
It's actually, it's amazing that every one of their accusations underscores their own confession.
I mean, it sounds good, but the thing is, it's always easier to say, like, what would have happened if she had responded with those answers?
Is Schiffer brains like, you're going to not vote for her twice?
And it's such a partisan...
Dog and pony show.
They get up there, they all have the...
Schiff didn't even need to hear her answers.
It would have been the same performative nonsense.
She answers the question.
Why are you so...
Why can't you answer the question?
That's not the one I wanted to bring up.
There were no highlights from...
There were no highlights from...
From the Liesel.
Let me see if we got any more here.
Mike Lee.
I want to make sure I got other people than...
Okay, here we go.
We got the Adam Schiff.
That was the highlight.
Adam Schiff is...
I don't know.
There's so many people in competition for the worst Democrat senator.
Hirono, Duckworth, Gillibrand, Warren, Schiff.
Like, the worst people on Earth.
They cannot possibly be decent human beings on a personal level, given their propensity to be malicious, dishonest scoundrels at the most public of levels.
But here's another highlight.
Going after parents at a school board meeting has got to stop.
practicing your religion, sending informants in to Catholic churches.
We have seen over the last few years the weaponization of government, specifically within the Department of Justice, against law-abiding Americans.
Something along the lines of, you know, them exercising their constitutional rights, ranging from Catholics attempting to practice their faith, to parents showing up to school board meetings, to people showing up to engage in peaceful protesting outside of abortion clinics.
As Attorney General, how will you prevent the weaponization of the Department of Justice against Americans?
A friendly question with an open-ended answer to allow Pan Bondi to look good.
But underlying that open-ended friendly question are factual elements that are in fact facts, not lies that the grandstanding buffoon is trying to compel the witness or compel the candidate into acknowledging as truth.
So Mike Lee, good question.
Let's hear the answer.
And Senator, you just gave the classic example of what's been happening regarding the weaponization.
Going after parents at a school board meeting has got to stop.
For practicing your religion, sending informants in to Catholic churches must stop.
What about branding parents as domestic terrorists or trying to incarcerate one's political opponent as a sitting president of the United States?
Will stop.
Must stop.
That is exactly the sort of answer I was hoping and expecting to receive from you, and I look forward to doing everything I can to help get you confirmed.
I've been pleased with your answers thus far.
I've enjoyed knowing you, considering you a friend for many years, and look forward to the great things you will do as Attorney General of the United States.
You have my emphatic support and my vote.
Someone over in Rumble said, go look at Hirono's question.
So let's go hear Hirono's question.
We'll see if this is the right one.
As part of my responsibility to ensure the fitness of all nominees, I ask the following two initial questions.
First, since you became a legal adult, have you ever made unwanted requests for sexual favors or committed any verbal or physical harassment or assault of a sexual nature?
No, Senator.
Have you ever faced discipline or entered into a settlement relating to this kind of conduct?
No, Senator.
Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Isn't it incredible?
As part of my responsibility to ensure the fitness of all nominees, I ask that question to everybody.
Let's hear Rona on this one.
...
during the election, during the campaign.
First, are the felons convicted of breaking into the Capitol on January 6th hostages or patriots, quoting Trump, as President-elect Trump has said repeatedly?
Do you agree with his characterization?
Of the felons that I refer to?
Yes, I do.
I'm not familiar with that statement, Senator.
I just familiarized you with that statement.
Oh yeah, I'm sure there's no additional context.
I'm not familiar with it.
That crackling is not me, by the way.
He has also said, illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation.
He said that in December 2023.
Do you agree with that statement?
Senator, I am not familiar with that statement, but what I can tell you is I went to the border a few months ago.
I went to Yuma, Arizona, and what I saw at that border was horrific, Senator.
It was horrific.
I went to a rape crisis center.
That is not my question.
I went to a rape crisis center.
Well, I'm not familiar with the statement, but I went to a rape crisis center.
I met with Border Patrol agents.
I'm sure you've been to the border as well.
I want to get to my next question.
This one's going very well.
Just to address the poisoning, the blood of America, where they make it seem as though Trump said this about immigrants.
Let's hear, I believe this is the statement in its broader context, because there's no way Hirono would mislead the candidates during the questioning.
It was totally, totally...
It's true.
They're destroying the blood of our country.
That's what they're doing.
They're destroying our country.
They don't like it when I said that.
And I never read Mein Kampf.
They said, oh, Hitler said that in a much different way.
No, they're coming from all over the world, people all over the world.
We have no idea.
They could be healthy.
They could be very unhealthy.
They could bring in disease that's going to catch on in our country, but they do bring in crime.
But they have them coming from all over the world.
And they're destroying the blood of our country.
They're destroying the fabric of our country.
And we're going to have to get them out.
We're going to have to get mass numbers of these, especially the criminals.
They're coming from jails, prisons.
They're coming from mental institutions.
They say, please don't say the words insane asylum.
But I have to say, they're emptying out the insane asylums from all over the world.
Why wouldn't they?
I would do it if I were running.
Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico.
They're emptying out their prisons into our country.
How stupid are we to allow this to happen?
Well, there's that.
All righty.
Now, what's the next on the highlight list, people?
Let me get over here.
Hold on, hold on.
Share screen.
A couple more, then we're going to move on to the Rumble side of this and the Gavin Newsom executive order.
I'm forgiving on these things, but apparently Adam Schiff got so tired out from his grilling.
This is from Ivan Raikland, who I had on the channel a while back.
Falling asleep.
He was very tired.
It is an existential threat, Senator.
And also, I have not seen it yet, but from what I've heard about former FBI Director Ray's comments on 60 Minutes regarding...
He's either tired out or he's resting up for his spot.
...
infiltrating our water systems, our natural gas lines, telecommunications.
There's the sleeper cell.
A very, very...
Yeah, so that's funny.
All right.
Ivan Raiklund, by the way, guys, if you don't know him, check him out.
Very cool.
What else do we got here?
And that is it for the Pan Bondi review.
For those who missed or did not catch Bourbon with Barnes the last night or the night before, Barnes is optimistic on Bondi.
I know some people were disappointed that Matt Gaetz had to get withdrawn himself because of some scandals, but things are looking good.
You got Bondi, RFK Jr. coming up.
Tulsi Gabbard coming up.
Bhattacharya coming up.
I think he's coming up soon.
Marco Rubio did very well.
Marco Rubio will be very good, even though some people think he's a bit of a war whore himself, but he will be good.
And that is it.
Now let me give everybody a link to come on over to Rumble, where we're going to talk about Gavin Newsom's executive order that not only does nothing to protect the people, the victims of his incompetence, I think...
It actually makes them even more vulnerable.
Link to rumble.
And pin.
Okay. Bada bing, bada boom.
Let's go over to locals and see what's going on in here.
Locals. Tip questions we got.
Encryptus says, Focusrite USB interface.
We're getting that after this, and I'm calling you right after this show.
And then we got Encryptus says, Nobody actually read the weaponization of government report.
They need my tool to find the information in it.
I looked through the weaponization.
That was investigating the January 6th committee.
And there is a factual basis, a factual predicate basis to go after Liz Cheney, Benny Thompson, and there's a reason why, as far as I'm concerned, there's a reason why Adam Schifferbrains is making such a big deal of this publicly, so that Joe Biden has the cover that he needs in order to issue those pardons.
And that's it.
A man's face is an autobiography.
A woman's face is a work of fiction.
Hold on.
Let me see if that is.
A man's face is his autobiography.
A woman's face.
I'm going to say that that was Mark Twain.
It's Oscar Wilde.
Close enough.
Close enough, people.
Good writers.
Literally no one watches these hearings.
Literally no one in these hearings ever answers a question.
Ever. It is true.
It's about deflection.
It's about projection.
It's about cramming down your soundbite into their time so that you can run with it.
But Adam Schiff is terrible.
Viva, did you see the Newsome dance?
Is that the...
No, no, no, no, no.
He's playing the drums.
I think I saw that.
All right.
Well, that's it.
Now what we're going to do is we're going to pull this from...
We're going to end on YouTube.
Come on over to Rumble.
Oh, you know what I'll do?
Actually, hold on.
Here. Come on over to Rumble.
But come on over to Locals as well because it will not be supporters-only after party.
It will be for everyone who wants to come and see.
There's the link to Locals.
Come and see it.
And right now we are going to end Executive Order as useless as Newsom.
What a bum.
We're getting there.
We're getting there.
But hold on.
There was a segue that I had.
Getting into, oh, the pardons to be continued over on Rumble.
Ending on YouTube now.
So Adam Schiff up there, manufacturing.
You know, I should say that.
He's not manufacturing a concern for Liz Cheney.
There's real concern that Liz Cheney could be investigated and prosecuted.
I mean, if they investigated and prosecuted Trump, Bannon, all of his lawyers, Navarro, there's a basis and there's precedent to do it.
And there's an actual legal and factual basis to do it with Liz Cheney.
Why is Adam Schiff using his five minutes to raise these prospects of retribution against...
What's her face?
What's her face?
Liz Cheney?
Well, there's a reason.
They need to create the smokescreen.
They need to create the public sentiment justification to pardon all of them.
And I thoroughly believe if it's not all of the January 6th committee, at least it's going to be Kinzinger.
Cheney and Benny Thompson.
But they make this such a big deal.
That's interesting.
So that they can manufacture the consent that they need to convince the public that Biden's pardons upcoming are necessary.
And it's not an accident either.
If you hadn't seen this article in the New York Times, this is what we call the astroturfing, persuasion, predictive programming, whatever you want to call it.
That way down.
Why is this taking so long?
Let me see if I have this in another link.
The reason why they do this is so that by the time they do it, nobody can say we're outraged.
They're going to say, oh, it was totally necessary because he was going to go after our lady Liz Cheney.
And Schiff said it very publicly.
Here, check this out.
Okay, boom.
This is it.
This was archived a week ago.
Biden says he's considering preemptive pardons for potential Trump targets.
The president hasn't yet decided what he will do.
He said, acknowledging that the makeup of Trump's new administration could influence his decision.
Well, you heard the question now, Biden.
Schiff got it out there.
Oh, and who's in that picture?
Is that?
Oh, that's Liz Cheney!
President Biden was asked whether he would pardon Liz Cheney preemptively before President-elect Donald Trump took office.
Biden said in an interview on Wednesday that he was considering preemptive pardons for people.
President-elect Donald Trump considered his political enemies.
It's amazing.
Not considered criminals.
Considered his political enemies.
They're all his political enemies.
He's not going to go after all his political enemies.
He's just going to go after the criminal ones.
He added that he had not yet decided what to do.
A little bit depends on who he puts in what positions, Biden told USA Today in the interview, which was conducted Sunday.
Mr. Biden was asked whether he would pardon Liz Cheney, the former Republican representative, frequently targeted by Trump and his supporters for her role investigating the January 6th mob attack.
As of the New York Times finally corrected Brian Sicknick murdered by Trump supporters with a fire extinguisher story, I think it's still up there.
I think there are certain people like, if he were to, I don't want to name their names, Mr. Biden said, before asking to speak off the record.
How does a president speak off the record?
Mr. Biden said that he had appealed to President-elect Donald in a two-hour Oval Office meeting.
I tried to make it clear that there was no need, and it was counterintuitive to go back and try to settle scores, Biden said.
He didn't reinforce it.
He just basically listened, Biden said.
You know what you got to do, Biden?
Pardon everybody.
Liz Cheney, Barack, Bush, Hillary, and Trump, and Liz Cheney, Benny Thompson, the entire January 6th committee, all of the FBI who carried out your crimes for you.
Who else?
Some members of Secret Service, potentially.
Since last year, Biden's staff has considered what the pardons might look like were Mr. Biden to pursue them, including how to extend executive clemency to a list of current and former government officials for any possible crimes over a period of years.
Trump told NBC recently that he would like to jail members of the congressional panel that investigated the January 6th attack.
No, jail the ones that destroyed evidence and tampered with witnesses in the context of the January 6th investigation could have been very, very useful.
If they investigated, you know, the pipe bombs.
Find the pipe bomber.
He doesn't get it.
No pardon for him.
Ms. Cheney served on the panel.
At least two of its members, Senator Schiff and Adam Kinzinger, the former Republican, has said they do not want pardons, arguing that accepting one would falsely suggest they had committed crimes.
I'm sure if they investigate hard enough, they'll actually find those crimes.
It would be the wrong precedent to set, Mr. Schiff told earlier this week.
I don't want to see each president hereafter on their way out.
The door giving a broad category of pardons.
What could be broader than what Biden just did?
1,500 pardons and commutations in one day?
But they're gonna, I mean, I'll be flabbergasted if they don't.
And now I'm just trying to see what shifts.
Shift might be begging for his own pardon publicly.
Let me see what his odds are at.
Pardons. Schiff is at 18%, up 5% since his speech yesterday.
Interesting. So yeah, that's it.
They're quite clearly scared of not getting pardoned and scared of what's going to happen under a Trump administration, under Pam Bondi, under Kash Patel.
Fun times ahead, people.
All right, now, speaking of the times that are not so fun, California.
It's more of the same.
It's an absolutely stunning thing, by the way.
I'll pull this up because...
They try to make truth out of lies, and they try to make lies out of truth.
That's what they do.
The they being, I was going to make a terrible joke, the media.
Let me pull this one up here.
It was an article from NBC.
Okay, here we go.
No, no, no.
Oh, son of a beast.
And there was an article from NBC.
Here it is, here it is, here it is.
Check this out.
And you gotta, like, really, really focus on the wording.
NBC Los Angeles, from dry hydrants to empty water reservoirs.
See, I thought the next sentence was gonna be, should Gavin Newsom go to jail?
From dry hydrants to empty reservoirs, misinformation about Los Angeles wildfires has spread as fast as the flames.
did you know the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles fire prepare enough for the Palisades fire?
Did you know, did the city prepare enough?
Okay. No, sorry, sorry.
I said both of those facts, the dry fire hydrants and empty reservoirs, are confirmed facts.
How is that misinformation?
Not worth asking these questions to a news source.
Let's just get the article.
I want to pull up the article.
What should have been dry fire hydrants and empty reservoirs, who's to blame?
Misinformation and disinformation for two things which are confirmed.
Indisputable facts.
Okay, so let's see this.
We're going to see how they spin this misinformation.
A few false or misleading claims have emerged since the Eaton and Palisades fire.
You know what they're going to say?
I want to just show you how I can think like a scoundrel, but I just have a conscience and a fear of God.
They're going to say there were water issues, but there were three 1 million gallon reservoirs to combat the fire.
I guarantee you that's what they're gonna say.
Billionaire couple was accused of withholding water.
That's the Resnix.
Democrat leadership was blamed for hydrants running dry.
Firefighters who were criticized for allegedly using That one was certifiable misinformation.
These are just a few of the false or misleading claims.
I'm sorry.
Thus far, only one was misleading.
It wasn't women's handbags.
They were...
Emergency bags, if they have, when they don't want to roll out their fire hose, or in the case where they have no water, where they don't need to roll out their fire hoses.
So these are just a few.
But the lingering questions about whether the city of Los Angeles and its fire department did enough to prepare, yada, yada, yada.
Okay, the fire department did not hold over its firefighters, who had...
The Fire Department did not hold over its firefighters who had worked the day before to increase staffing during the wind event.
There are a number of decisions that will need to be scrutinized, people at the L.A. Hill.
Okay. Elected officials and other city government were clearly very wary about leveling criticism after this happened, but they agree a number of decisions that will need to be scrutinized.
Among them, why it appears extra engines had not been positioned in the Palisades and why more firefighters hadn't been ordered to stay on duty.
Eh, duty.
Fire officials...
Yada, yada, yada.
Okay, fine.
We'll skip this.
Here are some of the other issues that have been raised.
Attacks on a water bank.
Social media users have claimed the Resnix, co-owners of a massive agricultural company, Palmer or Wonder, has a majority stake in the current water bank that they control the water and refuse to lend enough to firefighting efforts.
The water bank stores up to 1.5 million acre feet of water underground for agricultural municipal they use during dry years.
The water gets used by the Resnix company, the wonderful company known as Brands Feed You Water, yadda yadda.
It also serves Bakersfield and other farmers.
Okay, fine.
Zero truth behind the fact that they had anything to do with what happened in Los Angeles.
Fine. The wonderful company has faced criticism over its extensive...
Yeah, so that, you know, could be fair.
The issue there was how this family owns a substantial portion of the water, and why, you know, something hasn't been set up, in any event, to access that reservoir of water.
So that, they didn't have any means to necessarily divert it to LA for the fire, sort of ignores the actual question to it as to why they control that much of fresh water, what are they using it for, and why isn't it being used to...
Back up for natural events like this or unnatural events as far as I'm concerned.
Okay. Why were the fire hydrants and reservoirs dry?
That's funny.
That's really funny because right in the header you said that it was misinformation that they were dry.
Oh no.
Why were they dry?
Some fire hydrants ran dry in early efforts to fight the fires, prompting a swirl of criticism on social media, including Trump.
Against the water management policies of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bayes and Governor Gavin Newsom.
State and local officials and experts said critics were connecting unrelated issues.
Oh, thanks.
Did they have water?
No? Why?
Let's hear why.
State water distribution choices were not behind the hydrant problems, they said, nor was a lack of overall supply in the region.
Oh, it's interesting.
Let me hear this.
Officials said the hydrants were overstressed for hours as aerial firefighters...
As aerial firefighting wasn't possible because of the winds.
The Los Angeles Department of Water said they were pumping plenty of water into the system, but demand was so high that it wasn't enough to fill the three million gallon.
Can I think like a dirty rotten scoundrel if I had to?
Three one million gallon reservoirs, which are what the firetrucks access.
The Santa Inez 117 million gallons.
So, yeah, we had enough to refill the three, one million.
That's not enough.
Period. That would, like, go out.
That would put one house out.
That would be done for putting one house out in a few hours.
Janis Quinones, head of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said at a news conference that three million gallons of water were available.
Okay, yeah, we heard that.
And you ran out.
Hydrants are designed for fighting fires at one or two houses at a time, not hundreds.
I'm still not seeing the misinformation.
Kinona said refilling the tanks also requires asking fire departments to pause firefighting, but Bass said 20% of hydrants went dry.
Critics also questioned why the Santa Ynez Reservoir, the 117 million gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir that contributes water for the drinking and firefighting in Palisades, were empty.
Some social media users said they should be jailed over the empty reservoir, like me, or alleged that the officials view diversity, equity, and inclusion policies as more important than getting things done, like me.
The reservoir of the Palisades has been closed for repairs after a covering designed to preserve water quality tour.
Yeah, you really need the highest quality water when you're putting on fires.
According to the law set, Marty Adams, who retired last spring, was the general manager and chief engineer of LAD, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, when the reservoir was drained.
He said it was difficult to see the full scope of the damage without draining the reservoir.
It was on the...
The cover on the top.
And once that was done, officials realized repairs would be a bigger job than expected.
Adam said the reservoir likely could have been refilled fast enough.
Adam said the reservoir likely could not have been refilled fast enough to be of much use.
Oh, that's nice.
So don't worry.
We didn't do anything wrong and we couldn't have done anything different anyhow.
And even if we had done something differently, it wouldn't have been any different because it wouldn't have filled up.
It's nice.
Newsom is called for an independent investigation to the hydrants and the reservoir.
At least one lawsuit has already been fired.
Fighting flames with purses.
We don't need to read that one.
That was just emergency bags.
But why didn't the trucks have their hoses connected?
Because they probably didn't have water.
Nothing to see here, people.
So, yeah, it's misinformation, disinformation, even though two of the three were accurate.
And the third one is irrelevant in terms of where it was sort of inaccurate.
What was relevant was not that they were...
Not using women's handbags to put out forest fires, but that they were using bags, emergency bags, because they didn't or couldn't unravel the fire hoses to use them efficiently.
So... Morons.
Criminal morons who, after a fair trial, I predict, would be convicted.
What do we got here?
Happy Squared says...
I can't read too good.
Is that...
Okay, hold on.
That says, we have a new word to describe Congress.
Zwak begavt.
Zwak begavt.
Let me see what that, let me see.
Oh, which is a politically correct Dutch way of saying they have low IQs.
Look up the ruling in the death of Jimmy Shepard for clarification.
Well, that's because I'm very curious now.
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Oh, I just found out Pam Bondi.
This is an old question.
59. Holy cow, she looks like 40. 45. She looks like the mother from Modern Family.
Or Billy Madison's girlfriend from Happy Gilmore.
Why the hell would I say Happy Gilmore's girlfriend from Happy Gilmore?
Beautiful woman.
Okay. Anyways, all that to say now, that was the cleansing of the palate before we get into Gavin Newsom's executive order of rubbish.
Vinny Oceana, you know him from The Unusual Suspects, where I have a pro bono attendance on The Unusuals because I love them.
I like getting out of the house.
I like talking to people.
Despite talking to many people through this camera, it's actually nice to do it in person.
And we talked about this issue earlier this week, but I'm going to go get the actual tweet because I want to show the video first.
Gavin Newsom, there was a video that went viral of Gruesome Newsom.
Gruesome Newsom talking about having called Green.
The governor of Hawaii and talking about the land development, the land grabs, what to do with all of this destroyed land now that's prime real estate right on the ocean.
It's unusable.
It's waste.
This is what Vinny said on a podcast with Valuetainment where Newsom is talking about calling Josh Green.
The Maui fires.
They exposed the same stuff that's happening right now.
Government failure, delayed response, ignored warnings, and all these priorities.
He says something about reimagining California where he calls the Maui guy, and this is what bothers me, Tom, those people that you're talking about now that have nothing, that the house was worth, let's say, $10 million in regard to insurance.
Now, if somebody comes and wants to buy up the land, Tom, they can offer them way less and say, listen, everything's gone.
You didn't have the right insurance.
We're going to give you this much money, cash, Tom.
Go about your business.
Am I right?
People that had their house paid off, that, for some of them that don't have the resources and were underinsured, that is their only choice.
To sell the land to tomorrow's developer and go somewhere.
So when he says this, Pat, isn't this a worrisome thing where he says he called him and look at his face.
Is this about insurance?
It's about grabbing the land.
Okay, play this clip, Rob.
We're dealing with a myriad of issues.
I was just talking to Josh Green, the governor down in Hawaii.
You had some ideas about some land use concerns he has around speculators coming in, buying up properties and the like.
So we're already working with our legal teams to move those things forward.
And we'll be presenting those in a matter of days, not just weeks.
Now, I understand the argument here.
And it would be nice to see this in a fuller context that he might be saying.
People have concerns about land developers coming in, and I talked to Green, Governor Green from Hawaii, because that's what happened in Hawaii, in Lahaina.
And then he's not talking about how to do it, he's talking about how to fight it.
And this is what, so the Wall Street Apes posts this.
California Governor Gavin Newsom officially setting the stage for developers to come in and buy devastated land after the fires.
Gavin Newsom said on TV, another conspiracy theory proven true.
Okay. The fire was not an accident.
There's no way this is just a coincidence.
And then it gets a community note which says, Governor Newsom issued an executive order barring opportunist and predatory investments from making unsolicited, undervalued offers to families impacted by the firestorms to buy their land, taking advantage by offering fast cash for destroyed property.
Okay. Because I'm reasonably diligent in whatever I do.
I went to pull up the executive order.
I actually asked, you know, how long is the executive order in effect for?
Which was the first question.
And then I went to pull it up and read it.
You see, it's a little pixelated here.
You understand why the world needs lawyers.
It doesn't.
It needs lawyers because they draft shit in ways that normal people don't understand because it's not a normal way of talking, writing, conveying ideas.
Executive Order N70.
Whereas on January 7th, I proclaimed a state of emergency to exist in Los Angeles and Ventura counties due to fire and windstorm conditions that have now caused multiple fires, including the yada, yada, yada.
And whereas these fires have devastated community...
Okay, whatever.
This is the whereas of an incompetent criminal who deserves to be locked up behind bars after a fair trial.
These fires have devastated the communities.
Whereas these fires have destroyed entire neighborhoods.
Whereas... How?
Whereas these fires had no water to put them out.
Whereas the diverse and vibrant community of Altadino has been especially hard hit.
Whereas recovery from this disaster requires more than just rebuilding home structures, etc., and physical infrastructure that has been lost, but also entails preservation of community ties and the culture that grew and flourished in neighborhoods.
What the hell are you talking about?
It actually sounds like there's a lot more going on here than just rebuilding your right.
Appropriation, eminent domain, reshaping.
Build back better.
Agenda 2030, 15-minute cities.
That's what it sounds like is happening here.
Whereas I have personally heard firsthand from owners, faith leaders, and business property owners who, while these fires still burn, receive unsolicited offers to buy their property, which in many instances represent their life savings and family legacies for amounts less than fair market value prior to this emergency.
impacted fires," yeah, especially, it doesn't matter, "whereas pursuant to government code, any person who violates or refuses to willfully enact them," eh, okay, fine.
"Now, therefore, I, Gavin Newsom, got a All right, let's go.
So here, Dubai issued the following executive order.
So that's all preamble, just highlighting their criminal negligence.
And this is the material part of the executive order.
It's hereby ordered that...
And you've got to appreciate the qualifiers in here.
Appreciate the qualifiers and appreciate the conjunctions, disjunctions, or alternative possibilities.
Making any unsolicited offer to an owner of real property located in the areas encompassed by whatever to purchase Or otherwise acquire any interest in the real property for an amount less than the fair market value of the property or interest in the property on January 6th.
2025 is prohibited for three months from the date of this order.
Now I'm reading it out loud and now I'm thinking maybe to purchase it for an amount less than the fair market value of the property or interest in the property on January 6th.
The question is...
One question.
The date, the limiting date, does it apply to the interest in the property or the value of the property or interest on January 6th?
Is January 6th the official cutoff date or is it fair market value or the interest in the property on January 6th, 2025?
I can see how it's maybe more this than an alternative, as in you can do fair market value or the value of the interest in the property on January 6th, 2025.
This is interesting also.
What the value of the interest in the property is on a given date is not necessarily even the fair market value.
Okay, thinking out loud doesn't matter.
It's prohibited for three months from the date of this order.
So three months.
The Department of Real Estate, this is number two, in consultation with other agencies and departments, as appropriate, shall expeditiously determine the nature and scope of any unlawful, unfair or fraudulent practices employed by any individual, yada, yada, yada, and shall provide notice to the public of the nature of these practices, their rights of law.
I further direct them as soon as possible, the order be filed in the office.
Okay, that's it.
This is not intended to and does not create any rights or benefits substantive or procedure at law against the state of California.
This is the important part that I actually missed the first time.
This order is not intended to and does not create any rights or benefits, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, against the state of California, its agencies, department entities, officers, employees, or other person in witness whereof.
Okay, so we got it.
The offer has to be unsolicited in order to be unlawful.
It has to be less than the market value of the property or interest in the property.
On January 6th.
Whether that applies to both, I think it probably does now.
For three months.
Escape. Let's go up here.
It's only enforced for three months.
This is the question, and I had to double-check this because, I mean, this is absolutely the most important thing.
Are they still bound to make mortgage payments, to pay taxes, any other amounts that are owing on properties?
From what I can tell...
All of the homeowners, if they have a mortgage, are still going to be bound to pay.
They might be getting some form of compensation.
I don't know.
But they're bound to pay property taxes still.
They're bound to pay mortgage if they still have one.
On the value of a property, that's probably worth very little now.
And so the idea, first of all, I don't believe that anybody should be prevented from doing what they want with their property whenever they want.
Sell it for whatever price you think is fair.
Donate it to a reserve if you want.
It's not a question of that.
The question is, does this executive order actually do anything to protect the homeowners, or is it actually going to only exacerbate their hardship?
They can't sell for three months, or they're not allowed to, you know, there's no predatory solicitation for three months.
In that three months, they still have to pay mortgages, other bills, payments, etc.
They're going to be even more distressed in three months to predatory conduct.
So, as far as I'm concerned, three months.
You know what would have been a better executive order?
Any and all amounts owing to the government financial institutions on the destroyed damaged properties are suspended until further notice.
That would have been better.
Okay, so three months only allows people to get further into the financial hole such that they're going to be even more vulnerable in three months' time.
It prohibits unsolicited offers.
So I guess the people can still go out on their own and ask to sell their property to developers.
But what it actually feels like it's doing more than anything is just limiting the developers that can actually get interested in acquiring the properties.
And so it doesn't look like it's actually preventing anyone from really doing anything to protect themselves from predatory practices.
It just seems like it's limiting and reducing to an exclusive membership, an exclusive club, the developers that can partake in this property acquisition.
But the most important part, as far as I'm concerned, is that it does nothing to suggest that the government is not going to come in and claim this land.
Write it off as disaster, eminent domain, fair market value.
If they have the fair market value prior to the fires, that'll be one hell of a bailout for everybody there, if money can compensate for the loss.
But something tells me, and it's quite obvious from the wording of this, that the only people this doesn't bind or protect from Is the government and the banks.
So in the meantime, the banks can probably foreclose if there's no pause or compensation.
In due time, as Barnes and I talked about, the government can come in and claim this land for eminent domain.
And so this bullshit piece of paper does nothing to protect anybody and sure as hell does even less to right the wrong that they had been the victim of as it relates to the criminal negligence and incompetence of the Gavin Newsom regime.
And I'm curious to know what people think of that thought process.
That's the executive order.
And I don't believe that that community...
Yeah, he signed an executive order.
That does nothing.
It does nothing to protect against the predatory practices that Vincent O'Shanna was raising the alarm on.
Vinny and everybody else.
I mean, it's not an unknown thing.
It's actually the first reflexive fear of citizens.
Lehena, incompetence, borderline criminality, if not outright criminality, destroys valuable land.
Government comes and says, we'll buy that up.
We'll not even buy that up.
We'll take that from you.
North Carolina, Lord knows what they're doing in North Carolina now.
East Palestine, the government's like, hell, we ain't touching that with a 10-foot pole.
That's so bad, we're not even going to go visit it for another year if you're Joe Biden.
And now California, Maui, Palisades, the most prime real estate on earth, destroyed because there was no water, no water in the reservoir, fire trucks, not enough apparently, not enough planes to put it out.
And now the government is, they're protected from themselves, from nobody else as far as land developers go, and certainly even less so from the government, which is the most predatory actor in all of this.
That's all I have to say about that.
Let me see what the chat says here.
Just clean up alone will take a year, says Moms for Force.
Mad Lad says housing for illegals, Soviet block housing even.
Lemon Zinger says daughter, been there, done that.
You know the skeevy.
And then we got the NeuroDivergent.
How'd you get the animated icon for your handle?
Then we got Kids Today says socialism inflated living in California.
Property owners need to drill their own wells.
No, it's an abject disaster.
Okay. I'm going to play something in a bit.
Let me just go to vivabarneslaw.locals.com and see what they say.
It only works when other people do it, says rakasha72.
Okay, I don't know what's going on in here, but someone said, okay, guys, get a room.
Viva, says roosting.
In a tipped question, is it possible you can highlight, circle, or underline pertinent sections of legal documents like Robert Govea does?
Makes it much easier for the reviewer to follow your discussion.
Thanks. There are improvements that I need to do.
I'm going to start with freaking audio.
When this show's over, I'm going to smash my Behringer Cloudlifter.
I'm going to smash it.
Oh, shit.
Sorry. I got a second screen, so we're going to be able to hook that up.
I will do that.
I will see if I can.
Ordinarily, I should just pre-highlight it before I post it to Twitter, because that's where I pulled it from.
So, yes, I will do that.
I didn't do that earlier today, so.
Viva, can I mail you a cooler microphone for you to use?
Says L. Captain Beefheart.
Well, I'll give you the address.
We have a P.O. box, but...
What I was going to say is...
What's better than...
I mean, it's a sure microphone.
I just have to unplug it, clean it out properly, and get it going.
Did I miss any part of the news before we head on over to vivabarnslaw.locals.com?
Oh, yes.
Now we'll talk about that over there.
Attorney General Moody is going to be Senator Moody for Florida because...
DeSantis appointed Ashley Moody to replace Marco Rubio, and I like it, and I want to know what our community thinks of it, because I've seen some people being critical.
You will never please everybody, but I want to know what the nay arguments are.
And we'll do that.
And now let me go over here to our generalized questions.
Antonius707 says, Viva Frye.
The EPA or California equivalent has rules or laws either you cannot drill for water or tax per well on private property.
All that I know is that the restrictions are so bloody stringent on California properties that some people, the restrictions are stringent.
Taxes are out the wazoo.
The risks of forest fire are so great that if you could get insurance, it's out the wazoo, but some people couldn't even.
And people who wanted to sell their properties were unable to do so.
So you have people trying to sell properties because of the cost of living, maintenance, repairs, you can't even do them.
Land management is prohibitive.
And you can't get fire insurance.
They couldn't even sell their properties and now they're destroyed.
So it's an abject disaster.
Okay, here's what we're doing.
Rumble. Here's a link to Locals.
Come on over to Locals.
It's a non...
We even need to give, send, go.
I am David.
No, I don't.
Sign of Jonas says, sure, microphones are all really, but heck, you can spend $2,000 on a German-made microphone.
Sure, microphones are really, but heck, you can spend $2,000 on a microphone.
Yeah, this sure is just the one that everybody says to use.
I use sure at home, says hyphen.
Kids today, right on.
Okay. They are going to take the property.
Don't care what they call it, says C.R. Davis.
Well, notably absent from that executive order was anything prohibiting the government from doing anything.
And noticeably included in that was not creating any rights or privileges or whatever against the state.
So up a creek without a paddle, and that is it.
All right, what we're going to do is we're going to end this on Twitter.
Come on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
Bada bing.
And we're going to end this on Rumble as well and have our after party.
Talk about Pan Bondi.
Take questions.
And a little AMA, AQA, or ask questions all.
Tomorrow is Friday.
I have...
Well, we'll have a show.
It'll be fun.
There are a lot of sure mics.
They are not all appropriate for the job, says ShivX.
Sanjana says, okay, fine.
Prayers for all.
See ya.
It says, I am David.
And we are going to end it on Rumble.
And come on over to make sure I don't end the wrong one.
I'm going to end it on Rumble so that I don't accidentally end it on Viva Barnes.
So, ending the live stream on Rumble.
Come on over to vivabarneslaw.locals.com.
Now, see you all tomorrow.
Peace. Okay.
Did I do it?
We're still live here.
Let me go over here.
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