April Silverman: LA Mom Says California Has Collapsed: “We Had to Become Vigilantes” | DSH #1813

Summary

Episode Overview

Podcast: Digital Social Hour
Host: Sean Kelly
Guest: April Silverman
Episode: LA Mom Says California Has Collapsed: “We Had to Become Vigilantes” | DSH #1813
Date: February 6, 2026

Main Theme:
This episode features LA mother and activist April Silverman in a raw, unapologetic conversation about the collapse of public safety, rampant homelessness, and perceived breakdown in governance in Los Angeles. April shares firsthand accounts from one of LA’s most affluent neighborhoods, revealing how residents have felt compelled to take the law into their own hands amid government dysfunction. The dialogue spans public corruption, failed policies, political infighting, and the broader impact on both California and the rest of the United States, with commentary on 2028 presidential contenders and current conservative divisions.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

1. Public Safety & Vigilantism in LA

• Neighborhood Breakdown:
  • April describes living in an affluent neighborhood (where the Getty mansion is located – official residence of LA’s mayor) but feeling unsafe due to unchecked homelessness and crime.
  • Notable incident: April says she personally hired a security guard and organized construction crews to build a wall to remove a problematic squatter, because officials and police would not act ([03:23]).
    “We had to become vigilantes. Like full on vigilante if you want anything done.” — April ([03:32])
• Police & Emergency Response:
  • Police resources are depleted; officers are tasked with homeless crisis duties and often do not respond to calls, victims feel abandoned ([03:59]).
  • Psychiatric holds for dangerous individuals are extremely difficult to obtain due to legal loopholes ([04:54]).

2. Homelessness Crisis as a Central Issue

• Root Cause of Public Issues:
  • April asserts that virtually all local crises (fires, resource drains, crime) stem from unchecked homelessness, largely fueled by addiction and mental illness ([01:49], [02:05]).
• Government Negligence & Corruption:
  • Billions pledged for homelessness relief have “disappeared”; developers and officials are alleged to have embezzled funds.
  • April claims developers profit massively by “building empty homeless housing” with luxury amenities, while the intended residents are not required to live there ([07:02]).
  • Notable quote: “They just keep giving them debit cards. You don't want to get off the street, that’s fine. We just let them do whatever they want.” — April ([07:08])
• Animal Cruelty in Skid Row:
  • Claims of “genocide of animals” by homeless encampments in distressing conditions ([05:46]).

3. California Political Critique

• Mayor Karen Bass & Gavin Newsom:
  • April is sharply critical of Mayor Karen Bass, claiming political and racial double standards allow failures to persist ([05:18]).
  • Newsom is accused of running California “into the ground” and failing to account for missing homelessness funds ([06:13]).
  • Comments on Newsom’s public persona shift, team hiring, and progressive social media strategies (“the left can’t meme... just not landing”) ([22:54]).
  • Notable: April calls for a federal takeover or intervention in California’s governance ([21:17]).
• 2028 Presidential Race:
  • Host and guest express deep skepticism about Newsom and Kamala Harris’ presidential ambitions—regarding qualifications and electability ([11:27]).
  • Concerns that “if not for the Palisades [fire], nobody would have woken up” to the state’s dysfunction ([07:45]).

4. Broader Cultural & Political Commentary

• Right-Wing Infighting and Influencer Roles:
  • April criticizes conservative influencers (notably Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson) for divisiveness, distraction, and “not helping us win elections” ([14:25]).
  • She questions sensationalist commentary on stories like Epstein’s files: “It feels like porn a little bit. Like they're trying to, like, get all this attention, like fear mongering and just like, clickbait views.” ([15:10])
• Media, Information, and Public Manipulation:
  • The show discusses the rapid rise of political figures like Zoran Mamdani, speculating dark money, social media virality, and lack of opposition coordination ([19:00]).
  • April draws parallels between “grifting” among politicians and conservative influencers asking for donations ([18:30]).

5. Personal Impacts and Activism

• April’s Social Media Activism:
  • April shares her growth as a political commentator on Instagram, aiming to make politics “exciting and funny” and engage a non-political audience ([24:48]).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Taking the Law Into Their Own Hands:
  “We've had to become vigilantes. Like full on vigilante if you want anything done.” — April ([03:32])

• On Public Accountability:
  “You're paying the most state tax by far in the country. You're getting 25 billion to fix homelessness. Disappeared.” — Sean ([06:08])
  “It's like the wild, wild West. Everybody else is the priority, and then the taxpayers, the good Samaritans, the good citizens, we're, like, screwed, basically, for all the taxes we pay. It's unbelievable.” — April ([05:56])

• On Corruption and Misallocation:
  “Tons of developers... are having crazy weddings, bar mitzvahs for their families, new cars... private jets, you name it. Now, because Trump appointed a U.S. attorney... he started investigating it, and there's tons more indictments to come. He got two so far.” — April ([06:16])

• On Conservative Influencers:
  “If you're going to be a conservative influencer, you need to help us win elections... Between her and Tucker, they're not helping us win elections... If you're not going to help us, as Republicans, and win elections, I don't know what your purpose is anymore. Just go into something else.” — April ([14:25], [15:53])

• On California’s Decline and National Implications:
  “He ran one state into the ground. You can't let him run another 49. It's just not possible.” — April on Newsom ([07:36])

• On Public Safety Nationwide:
  “The homeless... are not the homeless of back in the day. These are people who ... know all the loopholes of the system. They’re like lawyers. They’re junkies. Yeah. Squat. They’re. They’re masters at this.” — April ([08:46])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Homelessness as the Central Civic Crisis – [01:49]
• Neighborhood Vigilantism, Building a Wall – [03:23]
• Failures in Police/Emergency Response – [03:59]
• Corruption: Missing Homelessness Billions – [06:08]
• Newsom and Mayoral Critique – [06:13], [07:36], [22:54]
• Animal Cruelty in Skid Row – [05:46]
• 2028 Presidential Prospects (Kamala/Newsom) – [11:27]
• Critique of Right-Wing Influencers – [14:25], [15:53]
• Broader Public Safety Concerns (NYC, national) – [08:12], [08:46]
• Federal Intervention in CA Affairs – [21:17]
• April’s Social Media Activism – [24:48]

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Overall Tone & Final Takeaways

• Blunt, urgent, and confrontational. April and Sean explicitly reject “polite” discourse in favor of naming individuals and issues outright. The conversation is marked by a combination of personal frustration, political skepticism, and a call to action for conservative unity and more direct intervention.
• The discussion captures not just one mother’s frustration, but a broader disaffection among Californians who feel left behind by both local government and national political movements.
• It ends with a sense of exhausted hope: April growing her own platform to bring humor and engagement to politics, believing the solution will not come from politicians, but from direct community organization and wider public awareness.

Transcript

[Host]

When you think of the biggest threat to America, would you put the spread of Islam to the west in that discussion?

[April Silverman]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Host]

How come?

[April Silverman]

I don't think they're compatible with the West. And the fact that they're able to lie, that's part of their religion, that they're able to lie to like spread whatever it is, tell you whatever you need to hear. Like that's very scary. Look at Zora and Mamdani. None of the stuff that the progressive stuff that he's been pushing is compatible with Sharia law. So how exactly can you be devout?

[Host]

Okay, guys, here at Amfest with April Silverman. Thanks for joining the show today.

[April Silverman]

Thanks for having me.

[Host]

All the way from la.

[April Silverman]

Yep. A long flight.

[Host]

A lot going on over there.

[April Silverman]

Yes.

[Host]

Man, it must be tough living out there as a conservative.

[April Silverman]

Definitely tough. But I feel like there's some changes happening, especially after the Palisades fire. I think people have started to. Woke up to wake up a little bit about the, you know, horrible, corrupt government that we have.

[Host]

Yeah. That felt like a major wake up call. Not just for Cali, but for the whole country. 100 just to see how things were handled there.

[April Silverman]

Yeah. Because if you just allow things to fester and go on for so long, just one day, it's just going to explode, you know, and people like me, we could see it happening. Like every. People are all shocked about this fight. Sorry. Shocked about fires. But there are fires every single day that are happening because of the homeless. They say like, I don't know, 90 something percent of them are due to the homeless. They call it like I get, you know, the citizen app. So I get an alert. Trash fire. Trash fire is a code for a homeless fire because they're either doing drugs, like lighting up, or they're so cold that they're, you know, taking a little bonfire.

[Host]

Wow. So they don't give a shit.

[April Silverman]

They don't give a shit about what's going on. All the fire departments begging for help, they're saying we can't get to anything because the homeless are just, they're just draining their resources. And on the police. So everything boils down to the homeless. And that's the real issue here.

[Host]

Do you see the homelessness issue as the biggest issue in California right now?

[April Silverman]

Yes. Hands down. Like that's how I got involved into politics. We had a homeless. I live in a great neighborhood where the Getty Mansion is where the neighbor, where the mayor gets to live on our dime. And it's like $3 million for a.

[Host]

Tear down that's where Karen Bass lives?

[April Silverman]

Yes. Just so you understand how expensive it is to live there.

[Host]

How is she affording that?

[April Silverman]

Oh, she. We're paying for that.

[Host]

The mayor.

[April Silverman]

The mayor gets to go to the mansion that the Gettys make.

[Host]

Wow.

[April Silverman]

Every for every, you know, every new term, that's where the mayor gets to live in the residence. So they take, like she takes over. But in our neighborhood. But if you go, you can't dare go to where she lives and like encamp there. God forbid.

[Host]

Yeah, she won't allow that.

[April Silverman]

She won't allow that. Like they'll be there in five seconds. But we started to get a guy that I was convinced was a drug dealer and he had dogs and he took over a whole block. Yeah. And they didn't listen to me. Council kept like gaslighting me, telling me everything's fine. And he was verbally abusive, screaming at all our kids, like, who are trying to ride their scooters. Like, this is a good neighborhood. It's like one of the. It's the original Beverly Hills Hancock Park. And they all just don't listen. And one day I just decided to hire a security guard and. And we took over in the middle of the night and we had. I brought construction workers and we built up a wall and he couldn't come back. I did like a hostile.

[Host]

You had to take action into your own hands.

[April Silverman]

Yeah. And that's what I've been doing all over the city.

[Host]

And you're there paying millions for your house, trying to have a safe neighborhood for your kids. Yeah, yeah. That's allowed.

[April Silverman]

But we've had to become vigilantes. Like full on vigilante if you want anything done. Because the police will not come. That's why you're like about to die.

[Host]

I was in Woodland Hills. I couldn't do it.

[April Silverman]

You can't do it.

[Host]

During the pandemic.

[April Silverman]

Wow.

[Host]

My car got broken into. They didn't care. My apartment didn't care. I asked for the footage, cuz obviously they had it. But they don't want to be liable.

[April Silverman]

So they don't want to give you the footage.

[Host]

They never gave me the footage, so I just moved out. The store across the street from our apartment got broken into and robbed. Cops never came.

[April Silverman]

They just don't come.

[Host]

Yeah, they don't come.

[April Silverman]

They. They can't. Look, I don't blame the police. I'm, you know, I back the blue and everything. Their resources are depleted. No one. It's unbelievable to me because they don't. They don't have, like, any support from. From these politicians. They degrade the police, yet they need them for everything. So the police are literally having to deal with, like, cleanup, like, dirty homeless people and, like, feces and all these horrible things. Like, they have to deal with this. I've had to be involved in 5150 getting a 5150 psychiatric hold for. For mental patients that were homeless. Do you know how hard it is to get them arrested? We had to. I had to learn all the loopholes on what to say. She said, I'm gonna kill you to some. To a neighbor of mine. And that's not enough. We had to get her to walk into the. Into the street and then shout it. So she's endangering herself and others. Like, it's just like mental gymnastics. You know what they're able to rationalize?

[Host]

Are the jail still overcrowded there?

[April Silverman]

Yeah.

[Host]

So even if you want to get them arrested.

[April Silverman]

Doesn't matter.

[Host]

Doesn't matter. They'll get released the next day.

[April Silverman]

Yeah, they'll get released if they go at all. Like, it's just. It's a terrible system. I don't know how it can continue like this, but we need somebody to jump in the mayor's race because we're running out of time.

[Host]

So is anyone challenging Karen on. On it?

[April Silverman]

Not yet.

[Host]

I wish she could still marry. That blows my mind.

[April Silverman]

I. To me. I think that if she want. If she. If she was white, there's no way she would get away with this. She would have to resign. I'm sorry. It's Di. Nobody wants to admit it, but she gets away with murder. Like, do you know what's going on in skid row where there's like, some whole thing going on with animals where animals. Because of the homeless. They're literally abusing animals, like, on another level. Yeah. Only now dogs and horrible.

[Host]

So they're just killing them. Like.

[April Silverman]

Like there's like, a genocide of animals going on.

[Host]

Holy. So if someone's dog gets out the house, they're just killing them?

[April Silverman]

Yeah, I guess.

[Host]

They got no food. Right. So they gotta kill it and eat it.

[April Silverman]

It's just. It's like the wild, wild West. Everybody else is the priority, and then the taxpayers, the. The good Samaritans, the good citizens, we're, like, screwed, basically, for all the taxes we pay. It's unbelievable.

[Host]

You're paying the most state tax by far in the country. You're getting 25 billion to fix homelessness. Disappeared.

[April Silverman]

It's gone. He doesn't know where it is.

[Host]

Yeah. Newsom doesn't know where it is, but.

[April Silverman]

I know where it is. Basically, there's tons of developers that are literally now becoming. I've been saying this for years. All of a sudden, they're having crazy weddings, bar mitzvahs for their families, new cars. Crazy. They're not buying homes, they're renting homes. But, like, paying. You're like, why would anyone pay that much rent? Just buy something, right? They're getting mansions, fancy cars, vacations, private jets, you name it. Now, because Trump appointed a U.S. attorney bill as sale, he started investigating it, and he's like, there's tons more indictments to come. He got two so far.

[Host]

Wow.

[April Silverman]

Coachella tickets, Birkin bags. He's paying $45,000 a month at a mansion on our dime. $2 million a.m. like, crazy stuff.

[Host]

Holy crap.

[April Silverman]

And I think it's just all over the place, because why? They don't force the homeless to get the help. They just keep giving them debit cards. You don't want to get off the street, that's fine. We just let them do whatever they want. And they just keep building more housing. So they're paying all these developers more money, but the housing is all empty. Nobody's going there because no one's forcing them to go. They made them, like, a building with, like, vegan food, a gym, like art classes. Like, it's a joke. Do you think anyone's there? No. And it's millions and millions and millions of dollars. It's like bananas.

[Host]

So if he's doing this on the state level, imagine what he does if he becomes president in 2028.

[April Silverman]

You can't do it. He ran once. It's just math. He ran one state into the ground. You can't let him run another 49. It's just not possible.

[Host]

We know that, but this average person.

[April Silverman]

I really hope so. I think that if not for the Palisades, nobody would be like, that's a good point. There's no way. Because the Palisades, those were his donors. That was his base, you know?

[Host]

Yeah.

[April Silverman]

So if he, like, finally, people are starting to wake up and thank God for Spencer Pratt and people like that starting to just use their platform and just, aw, you know, awaken everybody to what's going on there.

[Host]

That's going on in Cali and then on the other side of the country, New York City.

[April Silverman]

Yeah.

[Host]

You worried about that?

[April Silverman]

Very, very worried about that. Because in LA, you know, there's like, a song in the 80s. Nobody walks in LA. We're all in Our cars. Right. So as dangerous as it is, like, I park, I either valet or wherever I'm going, I'm like, right there. And I'm not, like, walking on my phone, walking around distracted. In New York, they're all in public transportation. Even the rich people, they're all exp. They're walking everywhere. They're all exposed. So the buses and the trains, everything's going to become homeless shelters. And you're going to have stabbings. Like, what do you think's going to happen? It's literally a mental institution.

[Host]

Jeez.

[April Silverman]

Yeah. These people are crazy. The homeless. Now, this is not the homeless of, like, back in the day, people that actually wanted the help. These are people who are. They know all the loopholes of the system. They're like lawyers. They're junkies. Yeah. Squat. They're. They're masters at this.

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[April Silverman]

The squatting problem's a major, major problem.

[Host]

Also, you know, especially in Cali.

[April Silverman]

Yeah. Because there's no rights. Basically, we're just all on our own. And it's literally like the Purge, that horror movie. That's just what I feel like.

[Host]

Yeah, it's. It's a shame, I think, because a drug problem, too, it's made the homeless problem worse. I used to be pretty. Giving to homeless people. I used to, like, give them food and stuff, but now it's almost a risk if I want to go out and give. Give them stuff, you know, they could.

[April Silverman]

Do something to you.

[Host]

Yeah, I don't know. Like, I don't feel safe anymore. No, It's a shame to say that because I want to help. But.

[April Silverman]

But you know why? You know why I don't feel bad? Because the amount of resources they have, if they want to accept the help, it's unbelievable what they give them things that you and me would never get.

[Host]

Really. Cell phones, right?

[April Silverman]

Everything, you name it. They'll. They'll give them whatever they. They decide they want some. They want to get the help, they'll give them whatever it is with no requirements whatsoever. You don't have to get sober. You don't have to leave the spot. Nothing. It's just. It's mind blowing. So of course the problem's never going to get solved like this. So I just am waiting to see, like, what. When is it going to. Like, when is it going to burst, you know, because we just can't keep going like this.

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[Host]

Sean, there's rumors Kamala wants to run again in 28. Did you see that?

[April Silverman]

Yeah, I'm very excited about that.

[Host]

Her and Noosa might be on a safe ticket. Imagine that.

[April Silverman]

I mean, talk about math. Like, she couldn't even run for governor because she was scared she wouldn't get support. That's one state. That's your home state. Right. You would think everyone would vote for her. Why would you think that you'd be able to get all 50 states? You already crashed. Like, what's, what's new?

[Host]

She already tried With a billion dollars.

[April Silverman]

Yeah. And everybody also bashed her this whole time. Like since this past year. All the whistleblowers, everybody came out to bash her. Like, I think she, she committed career suicide. But she doesn't stop the sweat. She's like the thickest skin I've ever seen in my life.

[Host]

Her book was a tough read.

[April Silverman]

Oh, yeah.

[Host]

I couldn't get through it. Yeah, I tried. I tried my hardest. I could not get through it. And I try to be objective. I try to have both sides on the show, but God damn. Wow, that was a tough read.

[April Silverman]

Yeah.

[Host]

And if she has to go through the primary this time, actually. Yeah, I just can't see it.

[April Silverman]

I don't think there's any way, you know, I mean, she got. She was the first one to get out last time. Now so what's going to change now? I don't understand what she's.

[Host]

What do you think with all the, about all the Candace stuff? I know she met with Erica. Hopefully things are good now. But what do you think about it?

[April Silverman]

I don't know. I think I heard she's doubling down on Erica.

[Host]

Oh, she's doubling down now? No way.

[April Silverman]

Yeah.

[Host]

I've been filming all day, so I.

[April Silverman]

Know I haven't had a chance either because. But I heard she's literally going hard.

[Host]

So the meeting did not go well?

[April Silverman]

I guess not. It's. But she's so like all over the place. One day she's this one day she's. That. It's just, it's out of control, you know, and it's not even just the Israel issue. It's just like personality. You can't just start throwing out names every second and changing your mind. Did you see the clip yesterday of Pierce Morgan with her?

[Host]

I saw her interview.

[April Silverman]

She changed what she said within five minutes.

[Host]

Yeah.

[April Silverman]

And he, like, it's all on video. How can you say that? She said they're complicit in the murder and then she's like, no, I didn't say that. They were complicit in a cover up. That's. You cannot just throw out words like this.

[Host]

I think they debunked the flights from Egypt or something. A lot of stuff's getting debunked lately.

[April Silverman]

Yeah.

[Host]

I don't know. She's gone off the deep end, huh?

[April Silverman]

Yeah, big time.

[Host]

I used to. Really.

[April Silverman]

I loved her personally.

[Host]

I used to love her. Yeah, I know. She has like a big female audience too.

[April Silverman]

Yeah.

[Host]

So.

[April Silverman]

But I think after this week, I think she lost a lot of her audience. I think people are starting to wake up. But I just, my issue with all of it is besides for the fact that we're going after a widow and, you know, after all that she's gone through and going through like, this is the last thing she needed. But if you're going to be a conservative influencer, you need to help us win elections. And right now, between her and Tucker, like, they're not helping us win elections. Like, I feel like I'm doing more. I worked on, I don't know, I think it was like five elections before November with the states. Like, I was busy promoting, promoting all these other states non stop talking about them and, and dissecting them. And the Cuomo campaign asked me to help and like all these campaigns reached out and I did it on my own also. But I'M saying, like, they have these massive platforms, and if we don't retain, like, leadership, what's going to happen then? We're not here to solve, you know, murder cases. This isn't like a murder mystery, you know, I don't know. I don't know. It's like a true crime podcast. I don't know what it is, but it's just not helpful anymore.

[Host]

Tucker just spoke here. Were you surprised he was still allowed here?

[April Silverman]

Yes. I know he was very close with Charlie, and I was a very big fan of Tucker also, but I didn't appreciate what he did yesterday. I'm shocked.

[Host]

What'd he do?

[April Silverman]

He basically warned everybody that they were going to World War II, I think. Yes. World War III. Sorry. With Venezuela. That, that's what.

[Host]

Oh, I saw that.

[April Silverman]

I saw that. And, well, that didn't happen. It was about the economy. So it's just like, if you're not here to be, you know, helpful and I just don't know what the point of anyone's platform is right now.

[Host]

Yeah. Did you start losing support for him with his Israel take, or when did you start kind of not supporting Tucker as much?

[April Silverman]

I get. I'm, I'm an Orthodox Jew, and I, I'm very like my own person. I formulate my own opinions. I do my own research. I don't just, I'm not a sheep. I don't just blindly find, follow anybody, so. I always loved him and I gave him a lot. Ann. Tucker. Even though everybody gave me so much backlash for it, I gave it a lot of time and I just started to see all these things and all this. It feels like, like porn a little bit. Like they're trying to, like, get all this attention, like fear mongering and just like, clickbait views. Like, I don't know what they're trying to gain. But if you're not going to help us, you know, as Republicans and win elections, I don't know what your purpose is anymore. Just go into something else.

[Host]

It does feel like the right is more divided than ever right now.

[April Silverman]

Yeah.

[Host]

I think it's the Israel issue and the files, I think those two are just, and the Fuentes.

[April Silverman]

Okay, the files were totally mishandled. I don't know what's going on. And I'm also even more alarmed that Dan Bongino quit.

[Host]

Yeah, he just resigned.

[April Silverman]

I, I, I think it's because he didn't like what he saw there. Probably a very, you know, moral person. So it's making me a little bit nervous. What like, what happened there.

[Host]

Yeah.

[April Silverman]

And I don't think he's gonna be able to tell us much anyway.

[Host]

Probably not. So I don't know if those will ever get released. No, There might be a good reason, but I think people just are very divided with it.

[April Silverman]

Yeah, I know that it's just gonna. But I think it's. We're having it worse now because all these little information that we're getting. Oh, a picture of Trump again, A picture of this one. Bill Clinton. Like, I need the facts.

[Host]

Yeah, yeah. They'll give little teasers once a month.

[April Silverman]

Or something, but those don't prove anything. I need to know who. What. Because I've already seen the flight logs. I went down the rabbit hole, like, five years ago. So I already. I need to know for a fact who was on the island and who did what with children. That's it. To me, I already know. They were all friends with him. They were friends. Everybody knows that. That's not a secret. So some of them had falling outs with them because they didn't want to be associated anymore like Trump was. So I'm not harping on it because, you know, I get that it's complicated, but I think it's doing more damage now because I know they're scared to release it, to, like, damage people's careers and stuff, but people's careers are in the toilet as it is, so I don't know that. You got to pick a lane sometimes.

[Host]

Yeah. When you think of the biggest threat to America, would you put the spread of Islam to the west in that discussion?

[April Silverman]

Yeah, absolutely.

[Host]

How come?

[April Silverman]

I don't think they're compatible with the West. And the fact that they're able to lie, that's part of their religion that they're able to lie to, like, spread whatever it is, tell you whatever you need to hear. Like, that's very scary. Look at Zoran Mandani. None of the stuff that. The progressive stuff that he's been pushing is compatible with Sharia law. So how exactly can you be devout? Like, then you find out he takes pictures with this mayor from Uganda who I think was, like, killing gay people or something. It just doesn't make any. But he wants to, like, allow. Legalize prostitution. Like, none of this makes any sense. The same way he kept saying, I'm going to give all. I'm just going after the 1%. I'm going after the billionaires. And then now he's begging for money. And. And they're so stupid that they gave him all this money. They're just. The people are just so dumb. And they just this. And I. And I connected what they did with him to, like, the Candace thing. People are literally donating to her.

[Host]

Really?

[April Silverman]

Yeah.

[Host]

Oh, for the McCrone legal fund.

[April Silverman]

No, she's literally doing an Instagram live. She was so desperate after the Erica Kirk meeting, she went on Instagram live because she started to lose support and people are giving out. And I took a screenshot. I took a video of this. Badges. They're literally paying on Instagram like, likes. And these are not rich people that are doing this. So I just found it so similar to, like, what's going on with Zoran Mamdani. The people who just don't want to pay for anything are the ones who are now donating to pay for his transition fund.

[Host]

Like, interesting.

[April Silverman]

It's very interesting.

[Host]

Mamdani's rise was very fishy to me. The way he went about, like, got famous quick.

[April Silverman]

Well, because he wasn't doing well months before.

[Host]

Yeah.

[April Silverman]

All of a sudden. I mean, look, there's a lot of dark money behind.

[Host]

You need serious money to go that viral that quick.

[April Silverman]

Yeah. You know, they also took advantage of the fact that they were not united in New York.

[Host]

That's true.

[April Silverman]

About a. About a.

[Host]

No one was willing to drop out.

[April Silverman]

No one was willing to look. And Eric Adams, I heard, did get money and I think threats from Trump. Yeah.

[Host]

Whoa.

[April Silverman]

Yes.

[Host]

Wow.

[April Silverman]

And Curtis Sliwa wasn't listening, so. Because he was. Because there's like a loophole in the law where if he didn't drop out by January, now he gets to keep all the campaign. Funny. He didn't spend any money. The account was full. Why would you be doing that? Wouldn't you want to use every tool at your disposal to win wild? Isn't that crazy?

[Host]

That's crazy.

[April Silverman]

So you just basically sacrificed New York. Awful.

[Host]

What do you think Trump's going to have to do for us to win 2028? Do you think he'll have to end the. The Israel war? Do you think he'll have to do something crazy?

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[April Silverman]

I would like to see from him before that. I would like to see from him do like take care more of like like a fed some sort. I don't know the legal law for it but like maybe like a crime bill or like a federal laws to start going after all the, sorry all the stuff we're dealing with in the blue states.

[Host]

Yeah.

[April Silverman]

Basically what we see in the blue states and cities we don't get to get a lot of like reap the benefits of the Trump presidency like the gas, any of the homelessness. All these things that like other states have no problem with. We are just suffering here, you know. So I'd like to see him get more involved in taking maybe like a federal takeover of California. Just something because we're all drowning in some of these states.

[Host]

Part of me wonders because she has beef with Newsom if he, if he's letting that get in the way of that. You know, probably. He probably doesn't want to help him.

[April Silverman]

No.

[Host]

You know what I mean?

[April Silverman]

Yeah.

[Host]

He's sending the garden. He's. Yeah. I don't know. They got major beef.

[April Silverman]

So they got major beef. I liked more back in the day. Newsom and him were like working in unison in the first term. Yeah.

[Host]

Yeah.

[April Silverman]

And it was better for us because like Newsom, I don't know what happened with him. He, he did a 180 a few months when he interviewed Charlie. Charlie he was a different man. He was more moderate basically. He seemed more moderate a few months ago. Like remember he's like. I never said Latinx and I never. I don't believe that it's fair to have TR the trans men in sports, all that stuff and all of a sudden I don't know why, somebody must have told him to just go the full blown liberal crazy. Like he's just a different person. And he hired, have you heard about the tweets that he has from his press office? He hired this like woke gay Jewish guy And some Latina girl, super progressive, crazy. And they think they're so funny. They're doing what Trump does with the mean tweets.

[Host]

Yeah.

[April Silverman]

But it's not funny because the left can't meme. Like, they're not remotely funny. And they do the cringiest things, like the crossing of the legs. They embraced it and they made him, like, cross his legs, that he lifted his legs up. It looked like a sexual position. And they're like, democracy is protecting democracy. Have to be very flexible. Like, well, you guys are weird. Like, they just make him, like, gay. Like, I don't know what they're doing with it. It's just, like, not landing. And they're also super anti Semitic. They go after Stephen Miller 24 7.

[Host]

Really?

[April Silverman]

They. Yeah, they made it. Like, I thought news.

[Host]

Is he not Jewish or.

[April Silverman]

No.

[Host]

Oh, he's not.

[April Silverman]

All his donors are Jewish, by the way. And he made it like a. The day before Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year. He did, like, a 1930s Nazi propaganda cartoon of Stephen Miller, elongated his nose and did Trump like a dog. Like, he's literally, like, he's the master. So, like, the Jew, like, the. The trope. The anti Semitic trope. Like, I am not a sensitive person, but this was, like, so obvious. It's, like, wild how he got away with, like, he just gets away with everything.

[Host]

This time. You got to go on his podcast and. Oh, yeah, speak your mind. I. I don't know if he still.

[April Silverman]

Films it, but he doesn't he. Because no one's watching.

[Host]

Yeah. I think he took a break. Yeah, I think it was smart to start one, but he just wasn't consistent, I guess.

[April Silverman]

No, he wasn't consistent.

[Host]

He probably got a call to start acting a certain way.

[April Silverman]

Even Bannon, I was excited about him, but he didn't hit him. Thank you so much. He didn't hit him hard enough. Nobody's been hitting him hard enough. And that's the problem we're having. I feel like people like me know all his inside and out. Like, all the problems with his policies.

[Host]

Yeah. Because you're experiencing it living there.

[April Silverman]

Yes. In real time. So, like, I just think that it's such a waste when we don't have people who know it well enough to go after them hard.

[Host]

It's the classic situation where you lose touch with your. You get to a certain level, the DC Bubble or whatever, and you lose touch with the people you. That got you there.

[April Silverman]

Right, Exactly.

[Host]

Well, what's next for you? Do you have your own show? Do you have anything you want to promote?

[April Silverman]

So I have an Instagram that's growing really fast where I post. It's just. It started out just LA stuff, and then, like, I got followers from all over the place. And so I'm just really tackling everything, politics, pop culture stuff, like making the bridge between the two. And I try to make politics exciting and funny for people and entertaining. So a lot of people tell me, like, they never were interested till they started following me. They love it, so.

[Host]

Well, we'll link it in the video. Thanks for coming on today.

[April Silverman]

Yes. Thank you so much for having me.

[Host]

Yeah, check her out, guys. Check out the Instagram. Peace.

[April Silverman]

Thanks.

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