Buck Brief - Who Will Win the California Governor Race?
4/23/202624 mincomplete
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0:43your podcasts. Back by popular demand, Priya Patel, and we're going to talk about Kami
0:49Mamdani here for a second because he's running around, he's causing problems for New York.
0:54Similar problems, I know you're a Californian, similar problems to what is happening on California,
1:01particularly on the housing side of things.
1:04But, I mean, let's start with this.
1:06Democratic socialism. Now we have Mamdani, who is an open democratic socialist.
1:12In California, how far are we from, I don't know, the mayor of Los Angeles,
1:19maybe whoever's going to be the next governor of California, just going with the truth,
1:24which is that it's a Democrat socialist government in California.
1:27Like, why don't they just say it?
1:28Why don't they just admit it?
1:30Well, because I think they're still trying to pander to the large, to be honest
1:34with you, moderate Democrats that just kind of believe everything that they hear in the
1:39media. But if they come out and start throwing around words like socialism, that's definitely
1:43going to scare off a lot of their base.
1:46But that's exactly what it is in reality.
1:49I mean, that's what they advocate for constantly when it comes to housing, when it
1:51comes to government subsidies, everything.
1:54So I don't know why they just can't be honest with themselves.
1:56It would do us a large favor.
1:58So that's probably why. Yeah, it would be way better if they would just, I
2:02think, come. That's one thing I will say about Bernie Sanders.
2:04I mean, he's laughable in that he's a millionaire socialist with three houses, who's always
2:10talking about the rich. You got to get the rich.
2:12You notice he also now no longer says millionaires and billionaires because he only hits
2:17the billionaires because people point out, they're like, hey, Bernie, you're a millionaire.
2:20You know, he's worth like 10, 15 million bucks himself.
2:23So that's like a tough thing to be like, those evil millionaires.
2:26Like, wait a second. But in California, I do think there's an opportunity here to
2:32at least have more and more open discussion now that Swalwell is out.
2:38By the way, who do you think takes over?
2:40Like, who is now the Democrat to beat in California's governor's race?
2:45Yeah, you know, I think they're still trying to figure that out, to be honest,
2:48because the top two Democrats now that Swalwell is out have been Tom Steyer, who's
2:54essentially just trying to buy himself the election by spending hundreds of millions of dollars
2:59of his own money to win the election.
3:01Him and Katie Porter. But since the Swalwell dropout, Xavier Becerra has gained a lot
3:09in the polls. I think we call him, by the way, he prefers the Espanol
3:13of Javier. Javier. There you go.
3:16Javier Becerra. I'm not excited to indulge in his desire.
3:20You're going to call him Xavier?
3:21Yeah, Professor X from X -Men.
3:23It all works. Same thing.
3:26Yeah. No, I bet he's been gaining quite a bit, so I don't know.
3:30I think the Swalwell vote is probably going to be split between him and Steyer,
3:35and it's going to be, you know, top two.
3:38We'll see if it's Katie Porter or Xavier.
3:40Do you think Katie Porter is just, and I know you don't want to be
3:43mean, so I'm trying to set this question up so that you're not having to
3:47say something about a lady about a lady who is less fortunate than you in
3:53this regard, that she is not screen ready, you know, that she is unappealing personally
4:05and in two dimensions. Like, basically, she's just too gross in general to be governor
4:11of California, because, you know, it is a superficial state.
4:13It may be poorly run, but I do think there are a lot of people
4:17that are very, like, look at Gavin Newsom.
4:19He's like, his handsomeness and his lack of buttoned -up shirt is like 80 %
4:25of his political appeal. It really is, aside from the fact that I don't think
4:29he's hit a gym in about 15 years.
4:32But, yeah, I would like to think that Katie Porter is, you know, too unattractive
4:37in all the ways, physically and personality, to be governor of California.
4:42But, I don't know, the polls aren't really reflecting that quite as much.
4:46I mean, we saw so many scandals come out about her in the last probably
4:50six months or so and failed interviews that just show her poor character.
4:56And it hits her in the immediate, but it doesn't seem to translate long -term
5:00in the polling. But I wish that it did, because I can't imagine a more
5:04uncouth and unattractive and just unladylike person to represent women in general.
5:11But, I mean, particularly the Democrat Party, who is just all about female empowerment.
5:15You'd think they'd have somebody better to throw out there.
5:17Do you think there's a real shot of making things a little too uncomfortable for
5:24Democrats? with a Republican breaking out like a Steve Hilton insurgency campaign for the governor's
5:31race? Or how do you assess that part of it?
5:33I think we already have.
5:35I mean, in all the credible polling, Steve is pulling ahead by a good margin,
5:39at least two points in most of them.
5:41And in some, he's polling, you know, 10, 15 points ahead of the next candidate,
5:47which is most likely Tom Steyer in a lot of the polls.
5:49So we are seeing that.
5:51And I think a lot of that is the Democrats don't have a strong candidate.
5:54And they're splitting the vote so much.
5:56And I mean, I've seen in a lot of polls recently that who's winning in
6:00the polling is actually undecided.
6:02So I think that a lot of Democrats in California are not sure who they're
6:06going to vote for, and are probably pretty unhappy with the Democrat Party as a
6:09whole. Because I mean, I've lived in California for my entire life and talking to
6:14people of all walks of life and all sides of the political spectrum.
6:17Nobody's particularly happy unless they are just incredibly well to do.
6:21And even so they're hit by a bunch of taxes and regulations that obviously don't
6:25make them particularly happy. You know, I just talked to a ultra high end realtor
6:31here in Miami, who is a friend of mine, and I just bumped into him
6:35on the street a few days ago.
6:36And he told me, he said, he said, the there's the California billionaires that you're
6:40hearing about. But he says, there are some California centimillionaires, you know, incredibly rich people
6:46who are also coming down to Florida and buying homes that they are quietly, much
6:51more quietly changing their permanent residence to because of the tax situation.
6:56I mean, the tax burden, people are catching on to this.
6:59It's not just the tax burden, I think, too.
7:01It's they're already paying very high taxes.
7:04And then the cheapest, the cheapest way to get applause as a politician in in
7:09California is to talk about how the rich need to pay more.
7:11And I think people are just tired of that attitude.
7:14Yeah, of course. Well, and look, I mean, you look at the millionaires, the billionaires
7:18and the and anybody above that, to be honest with you, those are the job
7:21creators here in California. I mean, we've had a mass exodus of people, residents leaving
7:26California over the last 10, 15 years.
7:28But particularly, we're seeing jobs flee or sorry, not jobs, but, you know, actually jobs,
7:34but companies flee California and they're taking those jobs that they create with them.
7:38So we're going to see, we already have skyrocketing unemployment rates, but that's going to
7:43go up the more jobs that flee the state.
7:45And that's going to, of course, hit the middle class, the working class really, really
7:50hard. And I think that's that's something that people don't think through long term when
7:55they sit here and they vote for these politicians because they're shouting tax the rich.
7:59But it's going to trickle down to them one way or another and probably faster
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9:11our friend Priya Patel and Kami Mamdani in New York.
9:15This guy is able to continue to make all of these silver -tongued promises.
9:20But I feel like at some point in time, the grocery store thing has got
9:26to just catch on with people.
9:27You see this? It's going to cost 30 million dollars and over I think it
9:33was three years to build a government grocery store in New York City at the
9:38mayor's behest. Yeah, I think that's right.
9:41And people don't realize that that's going to come out of their pocketbooks one way
9:44or another, regardless of how they think.
9:46I mean, Kami Mamdani is going to sit here in a shop from the rooftops,
9:49free buses and free grocery stores.
9:51But it's never going to actually come to fruition.
9:54And again, where's the money going to come from?
9:57If you're chasing out all the people that essentially fund all of the budget and
10:02the taxes of the city, I don't know where that's going to come from.
10:05That's going to come from the working class and the middle class at some point
10:08or another. And they're not going to be particularly happy with Kami Mamdani when that
10:12day hits. You would think so.
10:14You know, he's here. He talks about the buses.
10:19He says we're already delivering on on free buses in that we're I'm sorry, on
10:26the fast part of it, putting six minutes back into New Yorkers lives.
10:30But I sit here and I just want to say to people, the idea of
10:34free buses is actually, first of all, it's a huge expense.
10:39But one of the problems you have is that every public space now in places
10:44like New York, and I'm sure in Los Angeles, too, you know, Los Angeles super
10:47well is a place where you have to do with crazy homeless people because there's.
10:52Yeah. The more you make free and open and you can't tell anyone to leave,
10:55you're the crazy homeless people and the needles and all the bad stuff.
10:59Oh, yeah. I mean, just in just in L .A.
11:01very recently, they opened up a free public restroom and you're seeing that thing get
11:07flooded with home. It's for homeless people.
11:10But I'm like, that seems like a very large safety hazard for children that are
11:15stuck on the streets and women that are stuck on the streets.
11:18Obviously, we see a lot of sexual assault come with people that are homeless against
11:24women. That seems like a major safety hazard.
11:27But yeah, exactly. We're seeing with the buses and with the subway stations and all
11:32these things, when you open that up to the public without any sort of barrier
11:36in terms of cost, you're going to see more crazy homeless people show up and
11:41shoving people onto the subway tracks, lighting women on fire.
11:45I mean, we're seeing this in a lot of parts in the country, and I
11:47don't understand why any of these Democrat leaders in these large Democrat cities are learning
11:51their lesson yet. It's pretty remarkable.
11:55There's some places that are actually seeing huge crime reductions because of the Trump policy
12:04of working with using federal resources to help the local and also the prosecutors being
12:09willing to. Now, federal prosecutors obviously are working for Trump's DOJ, but even some of
12:14the local prosecutors have been willing to work with these law enforcement initiatives.
12:17I'm sure you've seen it.
12:18Memphis, murder rates down like 40, 50 percent year over, which is massive, right?
12:23I mean, these are people usually like a mayor running for re -election because I'm
12:27a murder rates down 10 or 15 percent.
12:29Everybody's like, oh, look at that.
12:30It's down 50 percent year over year.
12:32D .C., I think it's down 40 percent year over year.
12:35It's the lowest it's been, I think, in my lifetime, the murder rate in D
12:38.C. Los Angeles, I know, has a low murder rate, but it doesn't have a
12:42low crime rate. I mean, the murder rate, relatively speaking, is low, but the crime
12:46rate is not low. Is there any effort or any push to do things, to
12:53really clean things up now, or are they still just like, nah, because Trump wants
12:57it, we'd rather people just live in filth and misery?
13:00You know, I think that a lot of these Democrat leaders, particularly with these large
13:05cities, are just so rebellious when it comes to going along with anything that the
13:09Trump administration suggests or wants to do, that they are just willing to let their
13:13cities go and decay and fall completely into chaos and endanger the citizens of their
13:20cities in spite of the administration, which is really, really ridiculous.
13:23I mean, we, this last election in November of 2024, we elected a Republican in
13:31the DA's office in L .A., but unfortunately, he has a lot of a difficult
13:35time getting anything done because, of course, he has to deal with all of the
13:39Democrats that surround him, that kind of hold him hostage.
13:43And, of course, like that's something that's so terrible.
13:46You're not able to get in the agenda that people actually voted on.
13:50And, of course, we're seeing that with the administration.
13:52People largely voted for President Trump on crime, on immigration, and we're seeing these Democrat
13:58-run cities and states not allow them to get that agenda done.
14:02And that's a real shame.
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14:45Okay. We're going to just, like, mix things up here at the end.
14:51And I was going to usually, we'll have you back, and we'll talk about some
14:54pop culture and some fun stuff.
14:55Because you've got to tell me, like, I'm learning with the cool kids.
14:58You're one of the cool kids.
14:59I learned these things like mogging.
15:01And, you know, actually, actually, well, you're a lady, but the fame and attention that
15:08this clavicular guy gets, who apparently lives, I think, in Florida.
15:12So he's a fellow of Florida.
15:13Can you explain this? Like, what is this?
15:16Why is it that I'm seeing this guy everywhere?
15:18Explain. You're an internet. You're young.
15:20What is clavicular? I'm going full old man.
15:23Get off my lawn. What is going on here?
15:26You know, I think there's a bit of an age gap between the group that
15:30is really watching clavicular in terms of a fandom and myself.
15:34But I think the reason clavicular is.
15:36Wait, really? Oh, like they're 18, 19 -year -old guys, basically?
15:40Yeah, yeah. I think these are, like, kids still in their teens for the most
15:45part. Because I don't really know anybody in their 20s and 30s that is into
15:50bone smashing and taking a hammer to your jawline to sharpen or anything of that
15:55sort. Or injecting your face with peptides that dissolve fat and all these things that
16:00are overall very detrimental to your health in the long term and seem really unsafe.
16:05I mean, the kid just overdosed or allegedly overdosed or something like that on, I
16:11think, heroin is what he uses on a very frequent basis.
16:14He says that he doesn't drink.
16:15He does heroin as his drug of choice.
16:20because it makes him skinny, I guess, or something of that sort.
16:23So I can't sit here and empathize with Clavicular or his fan base, per se.
16:28But I think the reason it's hitting mine in your timelines is just because this
16:34is relatively outrageous. And the culture is really catching on to this.
16:38And of course, we observe politics and culture comes along with that.
16:42And I think the ridiculous nature of what Clavicular says and does in terms of
16:47his streams and his behaviors.
16:49I mean, the kid is 20, and I think he goes to nightclubs regularly out
16:53in Miami, which I don't know how that works in terms of legality and how
17:00he keeps getting in, considering he's a very well -known individual and it's public knowledge
17:04that he is supposedly underage.
17:07So I don't know how he's getting into all these nightclubs without a hitch.
17:11But yeah, I think just the ridiculous nature of it is why it's hitting our
17:14timelines in particular. Yeah, I see this kid.
17:18And also, the idea that for men, an obsession with physical appearance is a...
17:24I think that it's just...
17:26I'm going to say this.
17:27I actually saw Andrew Tate speaking about the Clavicular thing.
17:32And I thought he could be quite eloquent and insightful on something.
17:36He was completely correct, which is that for guys, it's actually about being a badass
17:41who is successful and has status, status among men, status among women.
17:47Basically, being an important man of action and accomplishment is far more appealing to women.
17:54And I think that Tate was actually 100 % correct in this and that Clavicular
18:00being like having a super tight jawline and all this stuff.
18:04I mean, that doesn't... That's not...
18:05I mean, correct me if I'm wrong.
18:06You're a 26 -year -old lady.
18:08I don't think that women care that much.
18:10I don't think women care that much.
18:11I could be wrong. I mean, you know...
18:13No, I mean, of course...
18:14My wife is much better looking than me.
18:16And I think it's because she likes the whole package.
18:18I think this is the deal.
18:20Of course. Yeah, I mean, I think taking care of yourself, obviously, hygienically and in
18:25terms of physical fitness, is important for your overall health, but also for your appearance.
18:29But yeah, I'm not particularly concerned over the jawline of any potential male suitor.
18:36And to put such an emphasis on that, like I saw a clip of Clavicular
18:40basically saying he doesn't care about getting women.
18:43He just cares about mogging.
18:44And I just can't imagine a world in which men are more attracted to the
18:52idea of looking like a pretty boy than actually having interactions with women, whether that
18:58be romantic or sexually or anything of that sort.
19:01Yeah, it actually sounds not very...
19:03His positions on this sounds not very heterosexual.
19:06I mean, quite honestly. That's like a guy who's obsessed with like his appearance at
19:12this level is not something that straight guys that I know at least are usually
19:16talking about at all. One more for you before we...
19:20Have you seen this thing now that tattoos are now on the way out and
19:27that celebrities... Yeah, this is a thing.
19:29Celebrities are starting to get tattoo removal done because they want to be at the
19:33early phase. So essentially, we're in a...
19:36Speaking of the cultural stuff, being not tattooed is the new, oh, you're cool, you
19:42have tattoos. That's big. Have you seen this at all or am I totally blowing
19:45your mind even bringing this up?
19:46You are absolutely blowing my mind, but it sounds like I'm winning because I have
19:50no tattoos. So I'm ahead of the curve here.
19:53Do you have tattoos, Buck?
19:54No, no, no, no. I'm not.
19:56Look at us. Look at us.
19:57We're just winning in life.
19:59We're the hot new thing.
20:01There was a time when tattoos were military, biker gang, like prison, prisoner of something,
20:11somebody who goes to jail.
20:12Like those are kind of the only people and all of a sudden, I'll tell
20:15you, you're in California. California, it's true in Miami here too.
20:19All these women in their 30s have these like little things, these little tiny tattoo
20:25on the wrist. I'm like, this is, I'm sorry.
20:28I know they'll say, oh, it's so aesthetic.
20:29No, it's not. I think it's ridiculous looking and it's finally starting.
20:32The culture is shifting away from this.
20:35So you have to go talk to all of your cool friends in California and
20:37be like, hey guys, you starting to see this too?
20:39Because I'm hearing about this.
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20:45I was just going to say, I guess I'm ahead of the curve.
20:48I mean, I have a few friends that have some tattoos, mostly small dainty ones.
20:53I'm not a man and I'm not attracted to women.
20:56So I can't speak on that side of things, but they don't strike me as
20:59feminine or anything of that sort.
21:01I think tattoos are inherently a masculine thing.
21:03So I've never understood the appeal to women for getting tattoos on themselves.
21:09But I just, I don't understand it, but I'm glad that the trend is shifting
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22:03Priya, before we let you go, what's next on the agenda for you?
22:07Are you working on anything to announce, or should we just have you back later
22:10to announce things? Anything going on?
22:12Nothing crazy to report. Yeah, you can find me on all the social media platforms.
22:18And on YouTube and Rumble, and thanks for having me on.
22:20Yeah, absolutely. Last one real quick.
22:23See, I know Priya would be a South Asian extraction and not, but do you
22:27get people that assume, because I'm sure you're talking about Iran stuff, like on Fox
22:30and places, do people think that you're Persian because LA, you know, the whole thing.
22:35I get Persian quite a bit.
22:38I get Persian, and then I get French and Italian, the most of any guesses
22:42as far as my ethnicity goes.
22:44I mean, my last name's Patel, so that's a dead giveaway.
22:46But I think just because I'm half Indian on my dad's side and then half
22:51white on my mom's side, so the blue eyes and the lighter complexion throw people
22:55off. But I do get Persian quite a bit.
22:56My niece and nephew are half Indian, half white.
22:59So there you go. Oh!
23:00This is a fantastic combo.
23:02Yeah, my little niece, my little nephew, half Indian, half white.
23:05So there you go. Priya, great to have you with me.
23:07Thanks so much for hanging out.
23:08Good to see you. Thanks for having me.
23:10Good to see you too.
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