Peter Hamby
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144 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 24 Jun
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Ask these people who lost their homes, hey, the government is saying you might not get aid to recover and rebuild your house because the Speaker of the House doesn't like Gavin Newsom. What do you think about that? I would love to see a reporter ask a person who lost their house that.
Let me say one more thing on that point. Elon Musk, one of his tweets during the fires, while babies' cribs were burning and people's lifelong memories were being incinerated, Elon Musk said, was blaming Gavin Newsom and saying there's too much, too much government regulation that prevented the clearing of brush and vegetation. So this is the thing.
A lot of the solves that these MAGA people are calling for would require more federal money, more state money, more government intervention. The LA County and the Los Angeles fire department require we Angelenos to
to pay for our own brush clearing if you live in an area and you've got to keep a certain amount of footage on each side of your house clear, especially if you're up there in the hills and canyons, so that not only will it prevent things from burning, but so firefighters can move and fight them and be mobile and help put out these fires. So that isn't too much government regulation.
Government isn't doing enough to help clear areas. some of these spaces and that would require more money and more regulation. And again, there are a lot of Republicans in California and there are a lot of Republicans in Los Angeles.
And in the Valley and, you know, there's even more of them now after this last election and you go tell them that you go tell them, hey, you need to do better to like clear up all the shopper all outside of your outside of your beautiful house. And if you don't, we're going to fine you. That's what Elon Musk is asking for. Do you think Republicans want that?
People like federal money. People like federal money during COVID. They like the Trump checks. People in Boone, North Carolina, like the FEMA money. Like people like federal money when it suits them. People like money.
Yeah, the cultural vibe shift away from a certain kind of blue state, blue city politics culturally is real, I think. I thought about this one. I thought this was silly, by the way. Eric Garcetti was thinking about running for president in 2019. And Ron DeSantis, by the way, did this against Newsom at one point a couple years ago.
All you have to do, if you're an opponent, is send some cameras out to Skid Row and just take a video of... This is what Los Angeles looks like. And that's unfair in a lot of ways. But it's an astute political attack. And Gavin has also passed... There's just a lot of stuff out there to run against him on. And this is beyond his time as mayor and beyond his French laundry thing.
And he's the California privilege. I saw this clip of Gavin being confronted by, I think, a Palisades resident the other day. I think a lot of people saw it. And he's like... He's not like a huggy guy. He's good in certain ways, but he doesn't like sort of uncontrolled situations, you know, which is why, you know, he went to our pal Jon Favreau. And Jon asked him real questions, good questions.
But he like, you know, instead of going straight to the local news, he went to a place that's a little more of a safe space for him. Anyway, this woman comes up to him. Tuesday or Wednesday. What are you doing? What are you doing to help? And he's got his phone. He's got his Panerai, by the way. And he's got his shades on. He's like, I'm doing my best. I'm doing my best.
And he's doing his best in that moment. He's saying, I'm talking to the president right now. And he gets in his black SUV. But he does reek of a kind of privilege that I think is hard in an era where People are concerned about prices and like it or not, the attacks on elites, they're potent. People hate the elites, Hamby.
I'm with you on that. By the way, I will say Gavin has been tested at the national level. There were wildfires in California in 2019, and he dealt with Trump. He had a line in the White House, line in the White House during COVID. Somehow was able to work with the president despite their verbal jousting.
I don't know if they respect each other, but they are larger than life political figures at this point. And so you asked me to point out the criticisms of Gavin. The upside are really smart guy, reads a lot, cares about policy. Governs one of the biggest economies in the world. Has really, I think, for all the dart throwing at him on Twitter, responded to this pretty well.
He expanded Cal Fire's budget. We have a literal army in this state. I think it's the biggest in the world of firefighters and firefighting vehicles, aerial and otherwise. He can also bro out. We need Democrats who can fucking bro out. And he's got a podcast with Marshawn Lynch. They talk about football. I'm not sure he's going to talk about... I forgot he's a competitor. Yeah.
I don't know if he can talk about Jaden Daniels running the option and stuff, but I think he'd be better than Tim Walls not knowing what a punt is on Madden.
company retreats at the dural club to get into his good graces that could be fun i don't know what what do you think about the uh about social media leaders getting up in trump's butt let me stand up for my company real quick and my boss evan uh evan and bobby founders and ceo of snapchat have already donated and distributed five million dollars to the fires in los angeles this is an la company oh i thought you're gonna say to the inaugural no but no um
To his credit, Evan has been very consistent about our values and our terms of service over the years. And we have been proactive also about challenges on our platform with fentanyl, for example. We're out there saying we have this issue and we're fighting it.
We've helped, I think, message that and brought down... Not brought down, we're not taking credit for it, but fentanyl deaths from press pills have plateaued in this country and we have been part of that campaign. Also, like... We fact check our ads at Snapchat. Donald Trump was removed from the platform back in 2020.
Snap has been pretty consistent about our values around politics and news and content, etc. Let me say this. I think, first of all, Mark Zuckerberg does not look like a St. Bart's DJ. Mark Zuckerberg looks like a guy. He looks like a DJ at the University of Illinois, Champaign, wanting to be a DJ.
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