So go for it, Will.

Thank you.

So this gets back to the earlier ballot initiative that used veterans as a way of, you know, sort of grabbing people by the lapels and saying, we've got to help people who, you know, almost died in public service defending the United States.

Here, it's a—and I just love the title.

Again, thank you, Attorney General Rob Bonta.

It says under Proposition 37, the formal title, John— creates loan program for middle-income buyers of qualified new homes.

So many fascinating uses of the English language here.

do all

There's all th- there's this dilemma of-

Right.

I cut through that fact, 'cause I do have friends who are involved on the government election side.

You know, some of them are just sources for the stuff that I write, but some of them are friends.

And they tell me they feel like their systems are pretty secure.

And I ask them, "Tell me this.

Is your house...

... because of this title.

But like, are you are you scared?

No, scared is not the right word.

I think Mo's got it exactly right.

I think you guys would likely agree that we go through cycles in this country, cycles of populism, you know, which is what we're seeing here on the left.

And we saw it on the right.

And as for El-Said's bold initiatives, these are all things that have been tried and tested throughout the history of this country, certainly since Woodrow Wilson and especially since FDR.

These are not new.

Is Miller now becoming a distraction for Republicans who are, you know, hoping to hold on to their slim margins in the House?

So I think it's entirely within the realm of possibilities that those two, to maintain their lifestyle of having a bunch of kids in private school and going on lavish vacations, all of those things, that they would have to find some sort of way to make additional funds.

Yeah, I think, John, you're right on.

I think this is a feature of human character development.

You know, there's always been that old phrase, keeping up with the Joneses.

When rich people are around people who are richer, that sparks a kind of avarice, a kind of greed or ambition, a desire simply to be like those people.

And this is deep in human nature.

I'm not suggesting that, you know, the Newsoms are unique in this.

He is an establishment Democrat to his core.

So I think it's entirely within the realm of possibilities that those two, to maintain their lifestyle of having a bunch of kids in private school and going on lavish vacations, all of those things, that they would have to find some sort of way to make additional funds.

Yeah, I think, John, y- you're right on.

I, I, I think that this is a feature of, of human character development.

Uh, you know, we've, we've always...

You know, there's always been that old phrase, keeping up with the Joneses.

When, when rich people are around people who are richer, that sparks a kind of avarice, a kind of greed or ambition, a desire simply to be like those people, and this is, this is deep in human nature.

I, I'm not suggesting that, you know, the Newsoms are unique in this.

He is an establishment Democrat to his core.

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They, they do what they, they do frequently in, in Sacramento.

They just simply move the goalpost, so now it's not gonna be San Francisco to LA.

It's gonna be two farm towns connected.

It's not gonna be high-speed rail for most of that distance.

It's gonna actually be, like, sort of standard train service, and it's gonna cost...

It was supposed to cost $33 billion when completed six years ago.

Like, how, how, how complicated and fraught has that become in the Golden State?