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Political Matrix News: Political Incumbency, Spencer Pratt, and Karen Bass, Key Trends Politics · Palafox Media Network

• Scott Miller: Hi folks and welcome to the Political Matrix News. I'm Scott Miller and this is my partner, Greg Fink. We are the Political Matrix. Greg Fink: Hello. Yes, we are. How you doing tonight, Scott? It looks like we have a little bit to talk about. This is the day after the primaries in several different states where a lot of ⁓ incumbents got their buds handed to them, which once again, we've been saying numerously that if you're an incumbent, it does not mean you're secure. What means if you're secure is if you're on the right side of the party that you're in. That's really what secures you and whenever you start going against the party and going against the leadership of the party, good, bad or indifferent, this is what happens. Scott Miller: that is definitely the sort of thing that happens. But before we get into that, I really want to start really want to talk about Spencer Pratt. And I know the whole internet is abuzz about Spencer Pratt. And for those of who don't know, he was a back in God back in the 90s or the early 2000s, I think he was on a on a reality show called the hills. And for people and the reason I quote, air quote that is if you don't know it already, reality shows are so far from reality that they Greg Fink: We should. Scott Miller: are almost more fictional than actual fiction. every scene you've ever seen, while there wasn't a written script, there was a bunch of producers sitting in the back yard going, you go say this to him, and you go say this to him. So it ain't reality. And frankly, The Hills was probably the least... Greg Fink: Right. Scott Miller: I don't think there were very many people at all who believed that it wasn't scripted. And interestingly, yeah, hell yeah, yeah, yeah. This really felt more like a reality soap opera. Oh God, I never watched it either. You couldn't get away from it in the... Greg Fink: Right. I think they're all screws. From the Kardashian show to the... Okay. I never watch the shows. I'm not really familiar with it. Scott Miller: in the entertainment news, whenever the entertainment segment for the news would pop up, they'd be talking about what was going on on the hills. And it was always, and Spencer Pratt was the bad guy in there. And then he wound up marrying one of the girls on the show, Heidi Montauk, I think. And the Greg Fink: The Polk College, yeah. Right. Okay, and so I guess he lost his house in California during the fire last year. Scott Miller: Yeah. So, so the, the fire, fire comes in and, and not only, you and you and I have been talking about this for a while about how, know, you couldn't even get a permit to put your house back. Interestingly, you know, the local media was trying to, uh, know, to take him to task for claiming that he lived in an Airstream trailer trailer. there's, and there's, that's not really true is it? That's not really true. it? Greg Fink: Right, exactly. Scott Miller: And it was just shocking to me how, how tone deaf, not only the media, but, ⁓ you know, but, the, ⁓ Karen Bass's campaign is because. Yeah. Karen, Karen Bass is the current mayor of, ⁓ of LA and one of her deputies is also running, which is kind of interesting because usually, you know, it's not an uncommon move for a, ⁓ for an incumbent. Greg Fink: And so that's who's running against, right? Scott Miller: to get someone who's friendly to them to also run so they can split up the anti-vote. ⁓ and, and so it certainly happened in this case, but the problem is, is you all with three people in there, if you don't get a plurality of the vote, I think what they planned was, was that Spencer Pratt would get the last, we get the bottom third and, and he'd be eliminated. And then it'd just be Karen Bass versus her deputy and, and her, I would be, would have been surprised to see her, deputy bow out of the runoff. Greg Fink: Right. Right, most likely, yeah. Scott Miller: because that's the sort of thing, if you've never seen it, don't think that that sort of thing doesn't happen because we've literally watched it more times than I can count. Almost every cycle, there's something like that. Greg Fink: What we have? Yeah. Yeah, we've seen quite a bit. Yeah, we call them ghost candidates, but Spencer Pratt is actually a real candidate here who's really running for mayor of LA and he has quite the set of commercials you were telling me about earlier. Scott Miller: Yeah. Oh my God, the commercials are hilarious, but they all hit right on the bone, you know? Karen Bass has just been, has done a very poor job. She was out of town at some, what was it, Ghana or something like that for some sort of thing? And I, you know, I guess, I don't know, I kind of struggle. I'm not going to say there wasn't a reason in the world for her to be there. Cause I don't know what her agenda was there, but I don't understand why someone goes to celebrate in Ghana. If you're the, if you're the mayor, I mean, that's something that you do when you're a federal representative, not the mayor of LA. Greg Fink: Wish you might have family there. Or friends. Scott Miller: Maybe, maybe she did. But what she did do is while her town was burning, she didn't cut her trip short. She stayed for the next few days and just finished out her schedule. then, you know, and she had already previously drained reservoirs. She had denied funding to the fire department for more equipment. mean, just things over and over and over again. Almost everything that she did since taking office, almost Greg Fink: Right. Scott Miller: Well, I mean, literally just about made the fire worse. Everything she had to do with anything that had to do with the fire. And, and so, so between her abdication of a responsibility for the fire and her treatment of, of homeless people and, illegal aliens, so basically abandoning law enforcement so that the crime's way up. It's not safe. It's not safe to go out to. places like MacArthur Park, places that are iconic in LA. There's human feces all over the sidewalks. There's drug addicts and criminals everywhere. you have people with families that just want to live their life in peace, and they gotta put up with this stuff because otherwise they're intolerant. Greg Fink: Do you want to take a look at the commercial real quick and show everybody what we're talking about? Scott Miller: Yeah, let's play that commercial real quick. I love this commercial. Greg Fink: go ahead and find it here real quick. One second. Okay. Scott Miller: I'm full screen at night. Greg Fink: We will put together. Scott Miller: It's so good. could watch this every day. what I love about Karen Bass in this part right here where they're throwing the tomatoes at them, she said that that was promoting violence against her campaign. Promoting violence. If you can't take a little bit of good natured ribbing and criticism and stuff like that, maybe you shouldn't be the mayor. Greg Fink: Really? Well, I think her probably, I mean, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, maybe it should have been. mean, the entire reality here is that for those who have been living underneath a rock and might have a little bit of amnesia because we've had a pretty busy year. But yeah, we had a big fire in LA last year. A lot of people burned and lost their homes and lost their lives. And the mayor did nothing at all to stop it from the beginning and did very little to stop it during it. mean, pretty much only nature and God took care of most of it. The firefighters did a great job, but they did a great job in spite of the mayor trying to do everything they could to block her, to block their efforts. the fact that, I mean, this whole commercial here is about reality. ⁓ we always say elections have consequences, but what else? It's consequences of truth. And that's the thing is that whenever you have been so blatantly, blatantly in the face of the best, you know, Scott Miller: Mm-hmm. Greg Fink: the best needs of your citizens in such manner with the drug dealing and the drugs all over the place and the homelessness and the fires and the putting everybody out the way they put everybody out. And then you're wondering how come somebody is going to jump up and go after this and talk about it. mean, and like you said earlier, that the media was daring to ⁓ to challenge him for living in a a air-shooting trailer because, know, he lived Yeah, the trailer was on the property of the house. It got burned down because they haven't been able to build anything back yet. Scott Miller: Well, what's really great about that trailer is that, you know, they were saying that he was claiming that he was living in the trailer so that it was a stunt so that he could, he could, ⁓ you know, promote his campaign. And, and, but they had video of him going in and out of the Beverly Hilton. And, ⁓ and I love that they call him out on it. was TMZ that called him out. I love that they call him out on it because his response was to point out that. Greg Fink: It's living. So. Scott Miller: Only a week and now they called him out on this last week and he said, yeah, well, I only got electricity and water there this week. So, I mean, yeah, he's, you was he necessarily living in that? No, but was he doing his best to? Yes, he was. Was he doing best to live somewhere on the property that he paid, I'm sure, in the Palisades? Probably a million dollars for, easy. And... Greg Fink: Yeah, well the whole point is that he was homeless and they should get over it. Scott Miller: It's... ⁓ and they tried to say that he couldn't run there because he didn't live in the Palisades anymore. Greg Fink: Well, yeah, Karen Bass burned them out. mean, exactly. I mean, if you don't want somebody to run for office, you make sure their house burns down. And then you say, ⁓ yeah, they can't use that address. I mean, come on, get over it. Get real, guys. I mean, this is politics. I mean, you guys keep on telling everybody that they can go ahead and fund, you know, transgender surgeries and fund abortions and fund illegals and fund all the stuff who Scott Miller: They burned out of his house! Yeah! ⁓ Greg Fink: is basically at odds with the common good of the ⁓ normalcy of the left of California. ⁓ I mean, actually in our reality, there's a lot of people in California that's not as blue as the district say it is. And I mean, it's a very purple state in a lot of different areas of the state. And LA alone, I mean, the fact that Mr. Pratt is so close to Karen Bass and the surveys. shows that even the liberal, liberal city of LA is willing to have a little bit of a reality wake-up call here to see the fact that progressives or Democrats, actually regardless of your party, but individuals who basically put their woke agendas ahead of the livelihoods and the necessities of their own citizens, is going to pay a price. I mean, you just cannot do that. And win a re-election, I mean, I guess you can, but, and people, they've been snowballing everybody and gaslighting everybody for years and years, but I think there's about, all the gas is out of the gaslighting. And I think they're running out of it. That's just fine. Scott Miller: Yeah, well, you know, the real interesting part about this was, was, you know, TMZ goes out there and they're basically victim shaming. You know, they're, they're saying, you know, oh, you're claiming that you live here, but you, but you don't really, and you're only trying to, you know, what's the man supposed to do? You know, and I think the reason that we are so empathetic to this is that, you know, is that we live in, have lived in disaster areas ourselves. We've had a number of hurricanes that we've had to live through. Greg Fink: Right. ⁓ yeah, definitely. BP oil spill. Scott Miller: And the BP oil spill didn't devastate people's homes. It devastated the economy, but it didn't make a lot of people homeless, like the LA fires did, or the Palisades fires certainly did. But what they did do is we were able to reconstruct all of our homes, and it was a lot of money, but we were able to do it. Greg Fink: I know it ain't no- That's true, yeah. Scott Miller: The Palisades, as far as I know, they haven't issued a single building permit because they have a board down there that wants to protect the Palisades. And by that, mean create a situation where all these people who live actually on the coast will move out because they're not going to get a building permit to do anything. Greg Fink: Right. They wouldn't have a park there. Scott Miller: Yeah, they want to literally convert everyone's private property into a park. You since you're home burned down and you're even using it anymore, why don't we just turn it into a park? Wouldn't that be nice? Greg Fink: or a condo complex, which of them makes more money than the other cake blacks. Scott Miller: Oh no, no no, no no, they don't want that, they want to turn it into, they want to turn it into a part. Greg Fink: Well, I'm sure somebody does. Yeah, and... Scott Miller: And they don't want to compensate you for it. They want you to donate it because it's the right thing to do. Greg Fink: Exactly. Yeah, because everywhere else in the country, do M &M domain. People don't realize what M &M domain is. That's when the government comes in and they ask you to go ahead and leave so they can get the right of way or some sort of property that they need to expand the roads or put a bridge or some government reason. But they give you a fair market value for your property. Here, they're just wanting them to leave for free. Scott Miller: I think even in California, they realized that the domain for a park would be kind a long stretch. Greg Fink: It will be. I imminent domain for anything that was by an act of God and the neglect of the government is a stretch. mean, the entire reason why they have the houses that are burned down and gone is because they know, they have water and a lot of fire hydrants. They had a lot of dried up areas here to where they couldn't even get the water out. In fact, they're having these environmental regulations here on these ⁓ plumes of water that they would not access. to put the fire out until Trump went over there and strong-armed him to do it. Scott Miller: ⁓ no! So in the 50s, they built a series of reservoirs over and around LA that's express purpose was fire safety. then, and then early last year or like probably six months before the Palisades fire, they drained these, these reservoirs cause they wanted to convert them into potable water. And, and, and there's some other infrastructure that they got to do with that. Well, if they weren't always, if they weren't. Greg Fink: Mm-hmm. Correct. Right. Yeah. Scott Miller: draining the water supply, they could do that. How about you just build another reservoir for potable water and we keep the fire safety? Greg Fink: Right, that would be good idea. Scott Miller: Yeah, because those reservoirs over there were the reservoirs are talking about not only did they feed directly feed the fire suppression hydrants and stuff like that, but they also were specially constructed so that helicopters can come in there and land and pick up a load of water and go dumping the fire. So they're all they're all about fire safety. But now all they can talk about is potable water. Greg Fink: but. Yeah, because they need the portable water to take care of all the homeless, all the illegals down there, know? They're carrying water out there. Who knows what the heck they need it for? I mean, come on. Scott Miller: But I love these campaign ads. There's a Lego one. He's done a few of these things. And he just about comes out with a new one every day or every other day. And they're all clearly AI generated. But they're well done. Greg Fink: Thanks for watching. Yeah. Well, Yeah. I mean, he's definitely figured it out pretty well. And that's good. mean, us being in the consulting world, we're happy to see people who are doing innovative campaign techniques like that and gives a new, fresh approach. And also kind of solidifies the fact that what you and I have been saying, that AI is here to stay. It's not going to be going anywhere. And it's going to be around for at least a decade worth of politics and messaging for... in projects and nonprofits and everything else. It's just going to get better and better. And ⁓ it's more affordable than people using cruise and everything. And so, I mean, it has its problems, as you and I all know. AI has a lot of problems out there. But at the same time, you know, the ⁓ enhancement of it and the use of it in a commercial like this is just going to continue to evolve rapidly over the next year. Scott Miller: Well, the thing I like about these is you don't really have to explain to the market that they're targeted for. You don't have to explain a lot. know, traditionally in political ads and stuff like that, you got to talk about, he's soft on crime. He's this, he's that, whatever. There ain't a whole lot of explaining here. Your house burnt down and because of the mayor and her crappy policies, you can't recover. They're literally stalling most of the recovery from a wildfire. Greg Fink: ⁓ yeah. Right. Scott Miller: You know, they exacerbated it because of things that they did before it. And then, you know, instead of making up for their goofs, you know, not only is Karen Bass, but Gavin Newsom is not doing anything to help people who truly need their homes put back together. Greg Fink: You're sick. Right. Well, it's not part of the whole Trump derangement syndrome thing here that just basically they are so willing to hurt their own people just to counter anything Trump could give credit for or his policies could get credit for or just anybody who's different from them. I mean, that's how narcissistic they are. If it's not their idea, they don't give a damn about it. They're doing every single thing they can to go ahead and squash anything that's coming out. that's going to help the people because you know their whole idea is laughing at people and I mean the whole part of the commercial where everybody's in these wigs and they're laughing and drinking and being merry while everybody else is suffering. Yeah, that's actually what we see in polls that we do and we've read actually a lot of the surveys that we've been engaged in. That's what we're seeing is a lack of the frustration here with the public for the lack of engagement from the incumbents. ⁓ You know, we saw that yesterday in a lot of the prime raise. We're going to probably see it in the upcoming prime raise. We've seen that in the Democrat prime raise and Republican prime raise. mean, people are sick and tired of the status quo. And that being said, it's kind of ironic that they're sick and tired of the status quo, but they're okay with the incumbent president endorsing somebody, which would be kind of like endorsing a source or a status quo. But that's a whole different conversation we'll get into later in the show. But you know, the reality here is that people want to feel an engagement with people who care about them. And once you just start worrying about these individual issues or become single issue representatives or single issue elected officials and you're forgetting about the entire broad spectrum of kitchen table topics that we are all talking about and facing daily, you know, that's a frustration. That's what this commercial really points out. I like whenever the lady was saying, there's drugs by our schools and the fact that it takes a commercial like this to get their attention, to get it out there. And that should be looked at definitely. Scott Miller: Yeah, but I think it's an interesting trend. anyone that thinks that there's not some sort of a Republican resurgence coming on, I don't know if I'm going to call it a red wave, but it's certainly heading that direction. And I mean, around the country, know, the people who have been actively, and frankly, even Republicans, who have been actively working against Donald Trump are really starting to pay the price now. Greg Fink: Right. Yeah, because if you actually look at the Republicans who lost in the incumbents, ⁓ her, you know, again, their buds handed to them, they're the one, and you're right, Thomas Massey, I think, was a great congressman. But at some point, when he, you know, starts working with the F-scene files and working on these issues, or single issues and stuff like that, which I'll agree, you know, the F-scene files and everything, that's a big deal. But, you know, whenever you start just, that's your only gig. It can't be your only gig. mean, you you're public servant. You're in the people's house. There are a lot more issues on the table. It just says one or two issues. And that's actually what Trump is talking about. mean, Graham, I'm sure he has one of you picked on or his friend. I mean, there's lots of reasons that I'm not really privy to about the whole Epstein thing and Trump and everything else. I really, frankly, just don't care at the moment. What I do care about is taxes going down. about jobs being created, about energy being ⁓ created here in America, and our dependency being off foreign ⁓ sources of oil like it is getting off, about us creating peace, about us deregulating. There's a big spectrum of issues here that all these single issue Republicans and Democrats both are losing. mean, you look at Crockett. She lost in her primary. And the other... crazy guy and the democratic side in Texas. lost in his primary. I mean... ⁓ Scott Miller: Well, to be fair, Crockett was due to lose, but she lost... Well, I guess it was a primary, so she was going to lose. You can't even blame the redistricting because she lost in the primary. Greg Fink: Brush it. Exactly. No, you can't. But she lost for the same, she lost on her primary, the same reason why Thomas Massey lost in his primary, because they, they got bottled tunnel vision on these single issues and not the issues about their district. And that's the thing that we see so many times in campaigns over the last 30 years. You got to really care about your district. I mean, and that's the, that's the topic that I think we saw yesterday. Scott Miller: Well, you know what they did, and we've seen a number of politicians do this, know, frankly, ones that have represented districts we've lived in, where they will basically give up on the possibility that they're going to actually accomplish anything or move forward any legislation and stuff like that. ⁓ I mean, so they just start dropping these crazy talking points. Greg Fink: Exactly. Scott Miller: And, and, and, know, do they play well in the district? Are they popular with people in the district? Sure they are. But the problem is, is, you know, you got a whole bunch of other legislators who have their own interests and you start stepping on everything that they're doing to try to move things forward. Then you're not going to get anyone to work with you. And, and, and I, I've seen people keep their, you know, keep their seats doing that. Although one of them, were able to unseat one of them. Greg Fink: Right. Scott Miller: But I've seen, but the problem becomes if you do it, so you're basically working against leadership and you're working, you're not doing anything for your district and you work against the executive. Well, now you've got nobody to help you. And in this case, you know, when you've got a powerful executive like Donald Trump, then all it's going to take is a few, a few of the right words and him just basically saying. Greg Fink: Right. Yeah. Scott Miller: You are a bad representative, you need to go and your people are gonna oblige you. Greg Fink: Yeah, and also, I I'm not a big fan of, actually I'm totally against endorsing anybody during primaries, but that being said, that's where we're at now. And I mean, we've had other Republican presidents and they always used to just stay away from endorsing anybody during primaries. But you know, we're in a different time. mean, I don't like it, but it is what it is. And if the endorsement works, I mean, granted, I do wish that... the parties and everybody would just let the primaries be the primaries and everybody just fight it out on their good graces of campaigning and good hard campaigning and messaging and talking to people and knocking on doors and not depending on an endorsement from somebody which blows out everybody else. Yeah, I don't like that either. But it's reality that we have and if you can't figure out a way to overcome it, maybe you might not want to be in the game. Scott Miller: Well, this is how tone deaf these people are. I'm gonna play this little ⁓ snippet for you. Let's see, is it here, I think? Greg Fink: So, I mean, it's going to be a very interesting election year. We got several more primaries here coming up. We got the Texas primary coming up. We got a South Carolina primary coming up. We got Florida. Quite a few. mean, California coming up. mean, it's going to be interesting to see, you know, I mean, it was very shocking yesterday. I mean, it was a slam dunk that vote against Massey with the, I don't even know who the guy who beat him, his name was. But he was endorsed by Trump. It's kind of weird. Everybody just talks about the candidate endorsed by Trump beating ⁓ Thomas Massie. But nobody is really even talking about the guy's name. Just the guy endorsed by Trump. And that's kind of weird. Scott Miller: Well, I mean, you know, outside the outside the district, I doubt anyone really knows has heard the guy's name, but I'll go with you that it's interesting that they do that. All right. So here I think I've got this thing now. Greg Fink: Who cares? Yeah. Scott Miller: um, you know, thanks to Dan Bongino for, you know, for, posting this, but, you know, let's back it up a little bit here. Cause I want to get this. I want to get every bit of this. So here is the important part. So this is, this is supposed to be an attack. This is Karen Bass attacking Spencer Pratt. Greg Fink: Pretty weak. Scott Miller: I mean, not only is it weak, but it's not even, mean, I don't know how they believe that's going to connect with voters. I mean, yeah, and I mean, you look at the two side by side and you understand that's how out of touch they are, is they think that that's a good ad. Greg Fink: ⁓ it's not. That's a bad commercial. It's horrible. Exactly. Yeah, and there's like zero engagement value there or possibility there whatsoever. And that is not an ad that anybody's going to watch more than five seconds. Scott Miller: I can't bl- I don't know who did the ad or who they paid to do the ad, but they must be like kinfolk or something like that because- Greg Fink: This will be fired. Yes. That was done in AI probably for sure. I don't think anybody, don't think, I think the AI, the lower version of AI actually made that one or a little bit of Canva there. I no, I mean, seriously guys, I mean, that was a very elementary, very school and very beginning type of ad. That's something that you and I would have done like 20 years ago. Scott Miller: I mean, I don't know why you would pay someone to make an ad like that. Yeah, well, I'll tell you what, I don't know if we'd ever done something that dumb because it flies in the face. ⁓ okay, well, the graphics were good. Well, I'll tell you what, if Spencer Pratt's was done with AI, artificial intelligence, Karen Bass's was done with FI, which is intelligence. Greg Fink: The graphics were good. Yeah, but the writing was horrible. The script had zero sense whatsoever to it and zero credibility. Scott Miller: Ain't no but, I mean, I defy you to point out a good part of the ad. Greg Fink: I mean, the biggest part of the eyes, they're actually talking about Pratt as if he's a public official. He's made all these comments on the record and they have all this here, you know, information that everybody already knows. He said that they already know he's done that and blah, blah, blah. As if, know, they're talking about something that's weighted in his common knowledge that he did this. It's not, he's just a guy running for mayor. Now his commercial, everything he talked about. is more than public knowledge, more than just innuendo, it is all fact that has been documented in media outlets, liberal and conservative, in every type of media outlet for over a year, several years, especially with regards to the fire at a very hypersensitive, hyperactive rate for at least six or seven months straight. Everybody knows about all this stuff. There's no... Equivocation, there's no debate about any of his commercial, his rhetoric or his words in it. None. Scott Miller: Well, you do notice that the ad doesn't even start to address anything that he talked about. Like every now and again, he'll talk about something and then they'll go and try, like he was talking about firing the entire board, you know, that regulates fire suppression over there, all the fire departments and things like that. He was talking about firing all of them. And, know, because of how poor of a job that they did. And what does Karen Bass do? Greg Fink: No, nothing. Yeah. Scott Miller: ⁓ she, you three or four of them resign a few days later. Like she starts cleaning house because it's become politically damaging for her. That's for me, that's the thing. You look at her, you know, her talking points and these are just the classic Democrat blue talking points that, they literally use, you know, nationwide, although they haven't used the homeless one in quite a while because they don't really care about the homeless one. The homeless one kind of stopped ringing the cash register as well. Greg Fink: No sacrificial lambs. Right. Scott Miller: So they set that aside, but now they're gonna revise it because it means something to them. But everything in Spencer Pratt's is something that people can viscerally connect to. It's something that's about their daily life, that they understand that struggle. Those struggles he talks about in his ad are easy for, I don't care how uneducated you are. That talks about your life in Los Angeles. Greg Fink: Yeah. I think, ⁓ Scott Miller: and it's easy for you to relate and connect to. Greg Fink: Well basically, I mean, I'd actually take it one step further. It's not really woke or blue or Democrat ⁓ messaging or talking points like Karen Bass is doing. It's more or less just covering her ass. And that's all she's doing. mean, it's a pure CYA. It goes back to just roots and narcissism and corruption and basically not giving a damn about any of your people at all, which once again goes back to his commercial. I mean, they're all like just... you know, filling on the roof, mean, and they don't give a damn. Scott Miller: Well, they would rather, you know, and honestly, I think this really illustrates how they don't really care about, for example, homeless people. you know, what they're doing is they're playing on people's, you know, tendency to feel empathy for people that are downtrodden and are struggling, but they don't care about them. They're nothing more than just a prop that they trot out when they want votes. And it's glaring. Greg Fink: No, don't. They don't. Scott Miller: the difference, how different their approaches are between Pratt and her because Pratt is a real lived experience. Bass is just some kind of guilt complex you're supposed to feel for people whose predicament you have no part in. Greg Fink: Thank you. Now you and I both know progressive people, we both know Democrats. We know people who actually really do care about those issues, who really do care about the left-wing issues and stuff like that, and they actually really do believe in it. And I give them all the credit in the world for having a good heart and a bleeding heart and all that, that's wonderful. But these politicians are just using it to ring the cash registers. They don't believe in any of it. We don't know if they're really liberal or conservative or anything except for Scott Miller: ⁓ yeah! Greg Fink: looking out for their family and their pocketbooks. And that's really, you know, pathetic. And that's what's being demonstrated in Pratt's commercial and hopefully in several other commercials coming out in the next few months all across the country is that this current Democrat party is not the Democrat party from yesteryear. I mean, they're just out there to rake it in. Scott Miller: Yeah, it's really nothing. Like you said, mean, these guys, these homeless people are props. They don't care about them. They don't care about them anymore. They care about the transgendered people. They're just something that they can use to pull at people's heartstrings and try to affect a result. I'm surprised they're not showing, you know, Greg Fink: Yeah, they don't. Scott Miller: You know, small black kids with flies coming off of their, you know, flying off of their face because they're starving to death in LA and it's all because of Spencer Pratt. You know, that's the funny, that's the real funny part about this is that they're trying to, trying to get something to blame him for, but he doesn't have a record for them to attack. Greg Fink: Yeah. He's never been elected yet. Scott Miller: No, and the way Spencer Pratt got this thing started, the way this thing blew up for him was when his house burned down, he went to his property immediately and tried to go there every day. And while he was on his way there, he would live stream his journey through that, trying to really give people an opportunity. He wasn't even really marketing himself to the people at large. He was just trying to give people who Greg Fink: Right. Scott Miller: may not have the access to get back to their property for whatever reason, like don't have the resources to move across the country or move far away, just to kind of keep up with the status of their property in their neighborhood. And so he was doing that and it became, blew up so big and know, and Karen Bass made so many errors that, you know, that he just started kind of calling her out on it and you know, one thing led to another. I don't know if he's going to win. Frankly, the thing that scares me the most about his ability to win is the fact that, you know, that the Democrats are in charge of the supervisor of elections there. Greg Fink: You're not saying that it might not be a fair election. Scott Miller: I will tell you this, I don't know if it's truly happening or not, but if it is, it is the most hilarious things. It's even funnier than the ads, but they say that they have a lot of people who are driving to LA to vote in the election because you don't need IDs. Greg Fink: No. ⁓ of course you don't need ideas. California! Scott Miller: You don't have to prove that you're a Los Angeles citizen. You just got to go show up at the polls and say that you are. And if that's actually, if that's truly happening and there's a whole bunch of Republicans coming into LA just to get it pratt like that, I think it's hilarious. Greg Fink: Exactly, I mean... Yeah, hey, we should go there. Scott Miller: We should go there. should go over there. You know, I would love to go over there and then, you know, not actually vote because, you know, I mean, it is illegal, but go up there and get them to give us a ballot. Greg Fink: Yes. No. Maybe you're wrong. ⁓ that'd be great. If anybody wants to, exactly, if anybody wants to us an address here to where to go to, that'd be great. Now, I mean, in our reality, mean, this campaign here, this little mayor's race is sucking up all the oxygen here. Just kind like the mayor's race in New York, sucking up all the oxygen. And New Yorkers realizing how wonderful Mandani is and how much they love him and how much they invested in him. And it was awesome. Scott Miller: That would be fantastic. Mm-hmm. Greg Fink: Well, you know, the election result, what the heck ever. Scott Miller: Well, just like we said, the minute he won, they deserve everything they get. And we said that from the beginning, and I maintain that position. They deserve everything that they get. Greg Fink: They do. And that election had a lot of consequences. Definitely. And ⁓ it's sad. Hey, I think it's interesting. Real quick, I know we're going to be wrapping up here soon, but I guess the US Department of Justice is prosecuting ⁓ Raul Castro from Cuba, the former leader of Cuba, guess Fidel's brother. And ⁓ what takes it along? I mean, Scott Miller: That one's definitely gonna have a lot of consequences. Roel Castro, yes. Well, here's the thing, and I actually was talking about this with some of my Venezuelan friends today. And I don't think they have any real intention of prosecuting him. I mean, they will, if he makes them do it, he will. But I think what they're trying to do is really kind of send a message, you know, that with Maduro, you know, he had a warrant out for his arrest, and now we've got Castro indicted. Greg Fink: nepotism? Why not? Well yeah. Scott Miller: And look, it's either time for you guys to do what we tell you to do, or maybe the same thing that happened to Maduro happens to the Castros. Right now, the agreement is that they're going to let the Castros stay, but they can't be involved in the government at all. They got to be completely divested from the government and they can stay in Cuba where they feel safe. But I don't know why on earth they would feel safe in Cuba once they're not in control. Greg Fink: Oh, I doubt they would. Yeah. Yeah. Once Raul Kasha or any of the cash shows are out of control and Akiba, I do not think that they will be safe there more than 48, 72 hours. I think the people there are ready. I mean, I had a talk with another podcast and they kept on saying that if the people of Cuba went to uprise against the government, then they would. I'm like, no, they can't. They don't have the means. They don't have the ability. They don't have the resources because the dictator government is making sure there is no ability for any type of uprising whatsoever. It's not, you know, I don't know what movie everybody's watching. Scott Miller: You mean like kind of the part where they burned the Communist Party headquarters to the ground the other day? Greg Fink: Exactly. Scott Miller: That sort of thing. Yeah. I mean, the Cubans aren't happy. I'll tell you what, what I would think would be the most probable scenario is about, you know, a hundred or so Cubans who were recently exiled from there would return to Cuba just to go hunt him down. And I'm not advocating for any of that. I'm just saying that there's that much animosity toward, toward those people. Greg Fink: Exactly. mean, no, we're not. But also what I'm saying is that the whole idea that you think they can just do it on their own without American support is just asinine. mean, know, they're going to need help. And it's not a big, to me it's not a problem at all for America to go in there and to get rid of, you know, Castro and make Cuba a free country. The people of Cuba want freedom. They love freedom. They hate this ⁓ terrorist dictatorship, communist dictatorship. that has been going on since the fifties. you know, I mean, if you actually look at the decade of when all these crazy people started taking over, it's all around the fifties and sixties, all the hippie generation, the flower of love and the decades of love and everything else where we kept on having all these here liberals and progressives who are endorsing all these people here to go in there and, you know, give everybody everything and socialism and government control. And it's not, it doesn't work. And the people of Cuba realize it doesn't work. They want freedom. They want economic opportunities. I mean, basically, I think what Cascio has done to Cuba is economic genocide. I mean, because he's done every single thing he could to make sure they do not have the resources or the ability to do anything to rise up. And we need to help. Scott Miller: It's far, far worse than that. It's far, far worse than that. There's a corporation that the leadership in Cuba has ownership of. And all of the economic power of Cuba goes into that corporation. And then the elites, they benefit from the spoils of that. And then the Cuban people get nothing, any kind of aid or anything that they get or any kind of international benefit they get, gets filtered through that corporation and they only give out enough to make sure that the people are just barely surviving. And then they blame the imperialistic West on it. Greg Fink: Exactly. Right. Exactly. Exactly. real quick before we go, I just want to let everybody know we have Memorial Day weekend coming up this weekend here. And so we want to pay tribute to everybody who's fallen and basically sacrificed their lives for our freedoms. The military does not get enough credit by anybody anymore. I don't think anybody even know what Memorial Day means anymore. People will say a happy Memorial Day and a happy day when that party's in. It should be a time of remembrance. the sacrifices that our fallen leaders and our fallen heroes have made for us. Scott Miller: Absolutely. You remember everyone deployed and everyone who's made the ultimate sacrifice. Greg Fink: Exactly. I come from a military family, city, you. And so I mean, it's a, I mean, it's very close to both of our hearts and, and people need to start realizing the importance of the military. And it's not just a slush fund for Donald Trump, like all the Democrats are saying. And they all just want to keep unfunding the military and unfunding security and homeland security and the Department of Defense. And they just keep on thinking of it as a political, you know, basically, they just keep beating them up and try to keep unfunding them and not realizing that these guys, they're incredible heroes and you know, make sure you remember that on Memorial Day. Scott Miller: Yeah, the Democrats are happy to defund everyone except for the contractors. Greg Fink: Exactly, well the contractors need work too. Scott Miller: Well, I'm not, I'm not, you know, ⁓ saying that they don't, what I'm saying is, is that they will give them money that they don't need just because they know that that money is going to come back to them through the back door. Greg Fink: Yeah, exactly. in their defense, a lot of the contractors are former military, so you know. They know the game. Scott Miller: I'm just saying that just means they know how to manipulate the system. Greg Fink: Yeah, so which is the way the government contractual does a lot of times nowadays. Scott Miller: you know, ⁓ back to old thing, ⁓ like, and so we can get, we keep bringing it, bringing this analysis to you that election season is heating up and, and we're going to have a lot of opportunities to talk about a lot of campaigns. Greg Fink: ⁓ yeah. Yeah, we're going to be breaking out a lot of polls and lot of these commercials like we did today. We're going to be breaking that out a lot more and giving our insight on them because some of them are just hokey as heck. Scott Miller: pathetic. All right. Thank you guys for watching and following. We'll see you on the next one. See you later. Greg Fink: Fab! See you later, Scott.