January 12 2026
- First ever ad read - Paypal Open by Friedberg
- Palisades fire recap
- 1 year ago
- 6837 structures destroyed - ~5000 homes
- As of Nov 2025 only 1 home has been rebuilt
- Carolla lives in Malibu - saw the fire breakout as it happened - evacuated later that night
- Early life in construction - familiar with the issue
- Has encountered a lot of bureaucracy over the years
- California Coastal Commission and other departments make it hard to build - permitting process is insane
- Diagnosis
- Blames what he calls Gyno fascism - safetyism and environmentalism
- They hide behind the shield of safety and don’t think about the second order effects of making everything “safer”
- Blames Barbara Ferrer for shutdown
- Shows how teachers unions are very powerful
- Rochelle Walensky had to walk back her covid shutdown comments
- Why are they allowed to elect politicians?
- Shows how absurd it is that the LA Times would endorse a political candidate - then how can you trust their reporting on either candidate?
- Blames women and their mindset in general for safety-ism and leftist media takes - casting a wide net
- See how a year later houses haven’t been built - episode a year ago of Trump and Bass joint conference showing contrast between their view points
- Explains how he has seen examples of favoring minorities that hurt the majority group
- Safe spaces vs Octagon
- Safe spaces don’t work - free food, free money, needles and drugs have all not worked
- Octagon approach is better - survival of the fittest
- CA
- $18B budget deficit in CA 26-27 cycle
- $600B pension obligations for CA public sector employees
- Orange County is well run so even in CA there is a safe haven
- Billionaire tax act proposal
- $50M net worth tax act proposal
- 53% for highest tax bracket
- Taking more than half your money is ultimate government overreach
- Homelessness out of control
- Woke elites having to confront the realities of their vote - so maybe their minds are changing
- Anti tech sentiment
- A lot of it is society needing a convenient villain
- Mid terms could go any way if Trump’s policies don’t kick in
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