And we continue at 205 in the afternoon on the John Phillips show. Mr. Randy Wings in Culver city. Well, I guess he finished thinking about it. This is a quick turnaround. Rick Caruso just told the LA times. He is definitely not running for LA mayor. Quite frankly, why in the world would you tease that you were running for mayor and then change your mind that fast? He likes being a tease. This is the thing he did all year long. Did you see that Kamala did the same thing yesterday? Oh, where the Kamala HQ Twitter account, which was the campaign account when she was running for president, puts out this video that it's like big announcement tomorrow. And it was that they changed the name of the Twitter handle to just headquarters. And it's a place where you can get updates on. I have no idea what. What's the point of doing that? I don't get it. 802 225 222 is telephone number 1 800 222 5 222. Here's something I've learned working my entire life in news and radio. If there is a big story, if something big is going to happen, it just leaks out. They don't tease it. It just happens because someone is going to scoop you. If you sit on it too long, then someone else will find the same information out and then they'll get credit for breaking the story. And people are in a race to get it out. It's not like they have it and you have to tune in to 9 at 11 to find out Donald Trump's tax returns. Let's find out what's in Al Capone's vault. It doesn't work like that. If you're constantly teasing people to tune in, that's just a device to generate viewers or listeners or whatever. If you have it, you just produce it. Look what happened with Monica Lewinsky. Newsweek had it. They waited too long. So Drudge beat him to it. And the rest is history. That's how it works. All right, it is our pleasure to welcome our next guest to the program. You can get her online at inculter.substack.com and follow her on exit and culture and culture. Welcome. Good to be here, John Phillips. Glad you're back from vacation. Well, thank you so much for stopping by today. We appreciate it. All right, let's start out with a column that you wrote about a couple of weeks ago because I think it's a good one. And so much of it relates to a book that you wrote previously, bestseller available at amazon.com, mugged, where you talk about mob violence and you talk about the psychology behind dealing with mob violence and what has worked throughout history and what doesn't work and how we're constantly reminded that really it doesn't change how you have to deal with the mob. I think your exact language was you can never overreact enough to a mob because if you let it get out of control, guess what? It's going to take over the city. It's going to spread. It's going to spread to other cities and you cannot allow that to happen. And what we've seen happen recently in Minneapolis and what we saw with the BLM riots is we saw mob violence where the cops were just told to stand by and watch it. And for whatever reason, the left seems to believe that violence is an acceptable form of speech. So they don't want to do anything about it. And it just spreads and spreads and spreads. And if you let it happen, you're just going to end up with more of it. Yes, yes. Although actually at this point with Minneapolis is like a mecca for every anarchist and antifa in the entire nation, what I think you should do is make it like Weir's Waldo where suddenly they pop up in Chicago and then they're in LA and then San Francisco and then back to Minneapolis. The blue states that are quote sanctuary cities, New York, oh, I forgot New York, spend a couple of weeks, maybe a week in each city and then just quickly, secretly move them to the next city so that antifa never knows where to go. I know they have local antifa every place, but right now the entire chaotic hate America crowd is just descending on on Minneapolis. It sounds like a big party for them. A one of their usual Bacchanals of violence. But the main point, I just remain utterly baffled why I'm seem to be the only person who remembers American history. I've lived in this country for a while. This happened long before I was born. But it is described as probably the most heroic act of president when President Dwight Eisenhower sent the 101st airborne to walk children to school. And now the governor was Yeah. And this is not working out. There is a bad telephone line here. Why don't we hang up and then call you right back and try to get a cleaner line because I feel like I'm having a stroke every time you're making a point. I get one sentence and then you go out for two and then you're back for one. And I don't know what mom bells up to. Well, and then you got to be extra pen at you like, wait, is it her? Is it me? Why can't I hear anything? I know. You know what I was thinking? The first thing that popped into my mind was, I know I took my blood pressure medication today. So it's not that because some days I forget and then you get to the late afternoon and you're not a hundred percent right. Sometimes this radio show is the ultimate example of how the phone is just never getting better. It's only getting worse. Every other piece of technology has improved, but phone calls are getting to the point where it's almost useless. Damn that Alexander Graham bell. I don't know why everything else is crystal clear. You can do a video call with anyone and it looks like they're right there in the room with you. But when it comes to a telephone, Oh boy, is it a game of craps every single time. Okay. And says she's calling back and no one's answering. I think he just picked up. Okay. So now I'm waiting for him to put her on and then I'll let you know. Here we go. I think once a week this happens to us now. All right. And his back fingers crossed and are you there? Yes. Can you hear me now? I could hear you. I thought I was having a stroke before because I got about every other line and I thought to myself, okay, terrible. This is very important. What I have to say. The most heroic action taken by a president when President Dwight Eisenhower sent the hundred and first airborne to walk nine black children to school in Little Rock because the governor of Arkansas or Wolf Abbas was not abiding by a single Supreme Court decision. It's not like there had been, oh, say a dozen of them as there have been on finding that immigration is the sole province of the federal government. States cannot interfere with it. The decision, the famous one, separate but equal schools are inherently unconstitutional, are inherently unequal, which, you know, it's not that obvious a conclusion. It was a novel decision. It's highly questionable. Clarence Thomas is constantly pointing out, no, black children don't need to be sitting next to white children in order to learn the issue, the real issue with the segregated southern schools was they weren't remotely equal. Be that as it may, it was a single Supreme Court decision. Governor Orville Fawbas, Bill Clinton's mentor, he actually had a very interesting plan but put a pin in that, was not going to allow black students to enter schools. And so, instantly, the president, you know, Marshall's, the federal government, the military, not even, you know, regular, I don't know, INS agents, to walk nine black children to school and remain there for the entire school year to make sure they continued to, he invoked his power as president. He invoked the supremacy clause and he invoked the insurrection act. So this idea that we keep hearing and including from all these liberal federal district court judges that, well, this isn't an insurrection. You can't send federal agents to enforce immigration law. And apart from the fact that governors and mayors are declaring them sanctuaries from federal law and island, Governor Waltz said, yeah, well, that's what the Southern segregationists wanted to do. No, you can't do that, not contrary to the single ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, as I indicated before. There have been at least a dozen decisions from the Supreme Court saying, no, federal government rules. They have total control over immigration, Congress writes the law, the law is on the books, determine what the law is. States have no say in this. The president enforces them. And in fact, you probably remember when the great Chris Coback wrote that, I think it was SB 1070, but it doesn't matter. The Arizona law that was being denounced right and left is the Papers, Please law. All that law did, it was state law. It didn't try to contradict federal law. It certainly didn't defy federal law. It allowed state officials to comply with federal immigration law. We're offering to help. We will follow federal immigration law. Obama appealed it to the Supreme Court, no, this is outrageous because it's up to me whether to enforce immigration law or not, and I don't want to enforce it. He didn't say that across the board, but he wanted to enforce it his own way, which meant minimal enforcement. I don't know if Arizona might be enforcing it a little bit more. It went all the way to the Supreme Court and Obama won on almost everything, except the one thing liberals were most hysterical about, which I'm only pointing out not really relevant to the story. I'm telling it other than liberals are always wrong about everything. The Papers, Please portion of it was upheld. Well, here's something that I'm following up on Eisenhower. I mean, JFK followed him and did the same thing to a few other states, but it was Eisenhower, and he was going against, I mean, also this idea that the president can't nationalize the federal guard unless the governor invites him in. No, Eisenhower against Arkansas, it had originally been the National Guard had been put under the Democratic governor's control in order to prevent black children from attending public schools, and the Republican president said, uh-uh, I'm taking the National Guard out of your hands. I am nationalizing it. JFK did the same thing Democrat on Democrat this time, George Wallace in Alabama. He nationalized the Federal Guard and JFK, or rather, tried to take it under his control to prevent black kids from going to the all white public schools. JFK said, no, I'm nationalizing the Federal Guard, and they will be walking in, you know, these various students to school here, there, and and beyond. And what I tell people frequently is when you look at the problems in these areas, you look at the images that you're seeing on television, to my eye, 90 plus percent of it is a direct result of the mayors in these cities, in this particular case, fry in Minneapolis, and then the DAs, we have so many Soros DAs or Soros like DAs all over the country, where the cops are told to back off. They don't want negative interactions between the cops and the quote unquote protesters, and I throw it in quotes because violence is not acceptable speech, which is frequently what's going on at many of these protests. And so they just pretend like they don't see anything. They're like professional wrestling referees, and you know, I didn't see anyone get hit over the head with a steel chair. I know everyone, the top of everyone's head smells like ass, but I didn't see it happen, so I can't call it. And yeah, and you look at the nurse that got shot by ICE, and people are screaming and yelling about that. And frequently people will bring that up to me and say, well, you're responsible for that because you support what ICE is doing. And I say, no, if John were in charge, the moment that this guy demonstrated that he was a psycho, and he assaulted the cops, and he spit on the ICE agents, and he kicked in their tail lights, he would have been arrested because that's against the law. And you know what else would have happened? His concealed carry permit would have been pulled too. And he would have either been in jail or without a gun, and the guy would be alive today if you simply enforced the law. But they don't do it as a point of policy. And then they blame ICE when ICE has to be the one to fix the mess that they created. Yes, yes. And also by not turning over arrested illegal aliens. It reminds me of, you know, and the big thing for liberals to get to get to show us the feeling that is overwhelming the country. Look, these kids are staging walkouts on school. Yeah, it's really hard to get to get kids to leave school. And similarly, sorry to say it, I mean, cops are brave. I think I think they should be the ones to board airplanes first. Certainly the policemen in in our in cities in America, they are facing more risk than 90% of our military in any event. Having said that, as we saw during George Floyd, if you're going to yell and harass the police and say, no, don't bother. Don't put your life and reputation at risk. Just hang out in your police car. Yeah, it's easy to get people not to do their jobs. That's much easier than doing your job. But what you say is exactly right. The mayor is saying, and I assume the police chiefs don't do your job. We're a sanctuary city. You can't be a sanctuary city from federal law, as was proved in in much more striking cases. Disproving everything liberals are saying about this. Oh, it's not an insurrection yet. They're not overturning the actual federal government. Okay, well, you know, in Arkansas, there were nine sad black people and Dwight Eisenhower sent in the 101st airborne because the state was violating a Supreme Court ruling federal federal law rules on on on well on thing on civil rights and on immigration. Last question and we have a couple of minutes left here. Do you believe at the result of all of this will be that the moderate position in the Democratic party, we've already seen this floated by John Fetterman and Dean Phillips in Minnesota and others, is that okay, maybe we should allow ICE to have contact with people in our jails and prisons. And maybe that is an unreasonable thing to prohibit from happening. Do you think that the Democratic Party could be moved in that direction as a result of all of this? No, not a chance. No, they do not want any illegal aliens deported. They want to keep bringing them in. I mean, they've shown it by their actions. When when when Democrats had the White House, fully open borders incentivize here, well, to give you medical care and housing and health care, on here's your free phone and where would you like transportation to? They hysterically wanted to actually lock that into law. As you and your listeners probably know, that was against federal law. The president of the United States and his Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, they were they were directly violating federal law. They're willing to do that in order to incentivize illegals to come to this country. Democrats do not want the worst of the worst. They keep acting like, oh, no, we'd be fine with it if you were only deporting criminals. Oh, no, they would not. Oh, they absolutely would not. They don't care about this. Most of the ones that are throwing fits over it's when ICE is going in and trying to arrest someone who's who's killed an American who came in under Biden illegally with with the Democrats waving them through. They they they pay for all these NGOs to hand out the scripts as they're coming coming toward the border. Okay, as soon as you step across the line, say asylum. We'll take it. We'll take it from there. That is why they're all screaming about they're legal. They're legal. No, they're not legal. They're not legal. All 10 million who had contact with Border Patrol were were advised by the well funded lawyers and NGOs to say asylum. That doesn't none of them are true with asylees, not one. All right, and we're gonna have to leave it there. You can read her online at andcoulter.substack.com. She also produces great interviews with people like Ryan Gordusky and Mickey Kaus and others. They're all worth watching. You can follow her on exit and culture. And thanks so much for stopping by. Good to talk to you, John Phillips. Bye bye. 800-222-5222 is a telephone number 1-800-222-5222. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at johnny.don't-like-show at gmail.com. That's Johnny. Don't like show at gmail.com. And if you want to see us in Long Beach tomorrow, Randy, that's easy to do. We're going to be broadcasting live from Gladstone's in Long Beach tomorrow from noon to three. Come enjoy the great food, good vibes and a fun afternoon by the water. We'll have special guests like Susan Shelley from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer Association. She'll tell you more about your taxpayer rights and protecting prop 13 because the courts have made it easier to raise your taxes. We need you to come by and sign the petition to save and strengthen prop 13. The deadline is coming fast February 17th. So go to the website, save prop 13.com. Coming out with us, grab a bite and be part of the broadcast. The John Phillips show live at Gladstone's in Long Beach tomorrow from noon to three. 800-222-5222 is telephone number 1-800-222-5222. If you'd like to email the show, you can do so at johnny.don't-like-show at gmail.com. Let's go to Ed in Lake County. Ed, hello. Gentlemen, just speaking with you, I wanted to broach that garbage off it because I don't like my city to be dumpy either. But clearly, California, you can dump your mattresses, your appliances, your tires, those sort of things. No charge. Washers, dryers, fridges. And you know, it's not the most wealthy community, but you don't see a lot of debris on the side of the road. And I wanted to ask you guys, if you remember a game called Sim City, did you ever play that video game? Oh, I did. Yeah. And so my mom used to love that I would play that game. She said, he's learning so much about how a government should be run. He's learning about budgeting. And if you don't pay the fire department and everything starts just popping on fire, you just go click more money in that little budget, right? Same thing with the police, same sort of stuff, right? And the other thing that I was speaking to a client, Well, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. What did she say when she saw you play in street fighter too? Well, no comment, but that wasn't, that wasn't a wonderful part of life. The early Mario days were fantastic, obviously, but, but off that topic, I asked a Cal who was in her mid forties, who's a client of mine the other day, if she understood what civics classes were, because she explained she didn't know anything about government on any level. And she said, no. And I said, so you took social studies? She said, yes. I said, well, there used to be a thing called civics. And it brings back to that topic that I'm always broaching about language and teaching people how to speak and identify things. And if someone was taking a civics class, they would understand these fundamentals that all of these people are lacking, that are going to again vote for a Karen Bass or one of these other, you know, Katie Porter, one of these monsters, because they don't understand the basic fundamental principles of our government are found in. And that's not something they teach in social studies. They teach that in civics. So to say that we need to we need to re institute a civics education in a classroom. So children understand why it's so important that citizens vote. And the turnout we have being so pathetic on a federal level, regardless of the state level, that we could get a true red wave if we really let people understand how valuable their participation is to make this country run. And that's why, you know, you guys are phenomenal for that. And I try and tell everyone I can to listen to your show because it's it's a great fun way to teach people about, you know, local government. And I really appreciate you guys for that. Well, thank you so much for the call. And you raise an interesting point. And it's a point that I was actually kind of thinking of not long ago. In the old days, you're right, they used to call it civics. That's what it would say on the card that they would give you on your first day of class. And, you know, at fifth period, you had civics, and that's where you go. When I was in high school, I think they called it government. I don't think they called it civics. They called it government. So it had already changed at that point. When I went to Cal State Fullerton as an undergraduate, I took my courses in the political science department. And my bachelor's degree says political science on it. And then I went to graduate school. And my master's degree, I assumed was in political science, because that was the department where I took all of my classes. But when you look at my degree, it says politics, it doesn't say political science. It says politics. And I'm sure there's a reason why they're changing the term, because there's always a reason, because language, I guess, determines how people think. And I don't know the reason behind that. I don't know why they do it. I don't know if they're trying to push us away from having a positive attitude about American history, American government, American tradition, those sorts of things or not. But it's certainly something I'm going to look into, especially after this call. Thank you for the call. I appreciate it. All right. We mentioned at the top of the show that LA Mayor Karen Bass is in the middle of a great big scandal. The LA Times finally acknowledged the obvious, which was that she was the one who directed the fire department to water down the report, the after action report on just exactly what caused the Pacific Palisades fire to be as devastating as it was. She, of course, is denying all of this, but the truth makes it obvious that she certainly meddled in that report to save her own bacon as she seeks another four year term as mayor of Los Angeles. Earlier today, we said that Rick Caruso was again flirting with the idea of running for mayor. After the show started, he announced that he would not, in fact, be running for mayor. So far, Spencer Pratt, who was a fire victim himself, has announced that he would be running for mayor. We know that Lindsey Horvath and others are also looking at the race, but they're not official candidates yet. Spencer Pratt is. He had a big event where he outlined just exactly why he's getting involved in this race. Here was Spencer Pratt last night at his campaign launch party. I was hoping someone else would step up and fix this mess, but now you can trust it needed to do the job. And I take that responsibility seriously. I'm going to make sure we do this right. The city doesn't. Someone didn't silence their phone. No one ever does that. The city doesn't need another. Also, they have like the original ringtone. People, by the way, don't even do that on planes anymore. And you're not even supposed to have it on. The city doesn't need another politician, roghering deals and trading favors. We need leadership that shows up, takes responsibility and delivers results. No more coverups and corruption. No more self dealing and incompetence. No, I mean, we got to get rid of the whole city council. Or at least I don't know, 12 of them. No more back room deals and special interests. We are done with all of it. When I'm there, I will serve all the people of Los Angeles, not the insiders and political machines. Our city government will meet its most basic responsibilities again, protecting lives, preparing for disasters and delivering real recovery when crises hit. Well, what about the other 30 departments that don't do any of that? Oh yes. They're very close to Karen Bass too. And they would be very upset if you were to be elected. We will expose and eliminate the waste. Do you think a mayor, Spencer Pratt would give raises to the ex-gang member of violence interrupters that if we don't pay them, are going to go back to a life of crime? I think those people wouldn't be able to afford any more face tattoos. We will expose and eliminate the waste and corruption that have turned city hall into a black hole for taxpayer dollars. Every department will be accountable. Every dollar will have a purpose and every budget will answer to you, the taxpayer. Public safety will be restored as a core function of government. What a novel concept. Wait, so you're not going to spend money on worthless social programs. What are we to do? I will fully support our law enforcement officers and our first responders and demand elite performance from our public safety agencies. But support... I mean, we're not just going to not fire any of the leadership when they make disastrous mistakes. And it sounds like he'd make sure that they had working trucks too. But support will not mean blind loyalty. It will mean high standards. Corruption and incompetence will be confronted, not covered up. Our homelessness, we are ending the scam. Oh boy. Oh, Bass is not going to want to hear that. I will dismantle the homeless industrial complex that is... I just want one debate, one debate between this guy and Bass. Can you imagine what that would look like if they actually had an honest audit about where we're spending the money on the homeless? It would make all the Somalis in Minneapolis look like small potatoes. I will dismantle the homeless industrial complex that has swallowed billions by leaving people trapped on the streets. We will be honest about the real crisis of mental illness and drug addiction. Oh, we're not allowed to say that in California. Oh no, it's the high cost of living that's causing all these people to scream at telephone poles. And we will replace decades of failure with a treatment first recovery driven system focused on outcomes, accountability, and real second chances. You know, if you only heard, if you only read the transcript of this and you didn't hear the voice and recognize the voice from either this last year on social media or back in his reality days, if you just read that transcript, you'd think that was Matt Mahan. Oh yeah. No, you'd think it would be a reformer, someone on the city council who's running against the system. He's an outsider, but it sounds like he's taken a crash course on city government. And he has learned a lot about how they're failing this beyond what happened in the Palisades with the fire. Your tax dollars will go back where they belong infrastructure and quality of life, streets, sidewalks, lighting, lighting. We can't do that. Oh no, because then that's criminalizing our communities. Does Anithia want a new tax hike to pay for all the street lights? We'll have to get to that tomorrow. Cleanliness and public spaces are the clearest measure of leadership. And right now, Karen Basura has failed. They like the Basura. Well, now that I know what it means, I like it too. Tu quieres? Los Angeles will be camera. I think I do this. Tu quieres el nombre es basura. They like the name basura. Okay. I'm learning. I want to go back to Spain and talk to people. No, you want to go back to Santa Fe and go to the taquerias. They speak English there. When I'm there, Los Angeles will be camera ready, not just for the Olympics, but for the people who live here. And when it comes to ice, the problem isn't enforcement. It's defiance. Karen Bass is open to finance a federal law for political gain as created confusion, tension and instability. You mean like telling people that we're a sanctuary city, even though that means nothing? She is digging in her heels on that one because she thinks if she makes herself the opposition to ice, that the democratic majority in Los Angeles will rally the wagons behind her, even if they're not happy with her performance. When I'm there, I will work directly with the federal government to enforce the law in a firm but humane way. Oh, you better watch out. Unissi's is going to want to throw down with you. With a clear focus on public safety, violent criminals will be removed from our streets. And a lot about... Well, looks like he's going to MacArthur Park. By the way, if he and Unissi's end up in a cage match, I have 10 Gs on her. Are we going to get it? And a lot about hardworking families will live without fear. This approach is not... This approach is not extreme. It is responsible. In so many ways, I'm going to do what Karen Bass can't do because she answers to the political machine and I answer to the moral compass inside of me that tells me what's right. Thank you. The moral compass that says she burned my house down. I love the fact that things in city government are so bad. We're having to turn to reality show people for moral clarity. Well, you know, it's interesting too. I don't follow his social media too heavily. So I know, obviously he lost his house and that his parents lost their house. One thing that I didn't know when he started going on this book tour, he sat down with entertainment tonight and talked about the fact, and they literally did the interview from the burned down property, that he cannot rebuild because the city wants him to pay it $1.2 million before he can even get a permit. No, I'm telling you, for the fire victims, they're living a nightmare and it's never going to end. Thank you for all the support I can't pay as we take on the good luck known as City Hall. Karen Bass may have all the unions and special interests, but I have all of you and that I'm deeply grateful for. We don't get on the ballot unless we collect 1000 signatures. So I'm going to need everyone's help bring every registered Los Angeles voter, you know, down to Perry's Beach Club on Valentine's Day and show us some love two to 4pm. Thank you so much for being here. That's right. You got to actually fill out a whole bunch of signatures if you want someone to run for mayor. So he'll be at Perry's Beach Club on Valentine's Day. Oh boy. Yeah, it sounds like he's going to be there for happy hour too. Maybe Dana Williamson will be there. Are you allowed to drink with a new liver? I mean, what's the point of getting one if you can? Well, there you go. Spencer Pratt has officially launched his campaign for mayor of Los Angeles. And now that Buteners out and Caruso's not running, he's pretty much LA's only hope unless Horvath runs, but that is not necessarily a better ending to this story. Well, we're going to have probably Lindsay Horvath getting in this race who is going to be the, what was the name of Ryan Felipe's wife? Oh, I don't know. She got the DUI too. Where she ran for student body government president. I don't know. Quite frankly, here's the thing about Horvath running. If Horvath gets in there and she's been very openly critical of Karen Bass calling her a straight up liar on social media. It makes it a lot more possible that this race doesn't end in June, that Karen Bass doesn't get at least 50% support and this thing can go till November. That would be great. If we could at least drag this thing out longer and force her to go to debates and sit in front of newspaper editorial boards and attend public forums. It's going to be the most miserable part of her life. And no one deserves that more than her. So we at least have to drag this out until November. I mean, you could see a situation. The latest polling that came out last week, the one that I guess Lindsey Horvath is looking at is that Karen Bass has a approval rating in the city of LA in the thirties. So if there are alternative choices, you could potentially see a situation. It's not likely, but it's also not improbable that if it's Horvath, Pratt and Bass on the ballot, and then all the 26 other Gad flies, it's possible that Karen Bass doesn't even make the top two. Okay. I was thinking about Reese Witherspoon in the movie was legally blonde. Okay, then. I had no idea you're going with that. That's who Lindsey Horvath would be in this race. She would be the chick from legally blonde. It's funny. I couldn't remember the name of the movie, but I did remember she got a DUI. This is how I think she was super belligerent with the cops too. I think this is how your brain works. It's not the movie they were in. It's how they were on TMZ. What are you going to do? All right. It's the John Phillips show.
