James Woods (13:34)

I said, do you have a drought? No, we don't have a drought. I said, why don't you have no water? Because the water isn't allowed to flow down. It's got a natural flow from Canada all the way up north of water. More water than they could ever use. And in order to protect a tiny little fish the water up north gets routed into the Pacific Ocean. Millions and millions of gallons of water gets poured. I could have water for all of that land. Water for your forests. You know, your forests are dry as a bone. Yeah, okay.

Charlie Kirk (14:05)

Dangerous.

James Woods (14:06)

That water could be routed. You know, you could have everything. Not only dangerous, billions of dollars a year they spend on. And, you know, there's a case with the environment. They're not allowed to rake their forest because you're not allowed to touch it. And all they have to do is clean their forest, meaning rake it up, get rid of the leaves. Get rid of, you know, leaves that are sitting there for five years. And they will certainly get rid of the dead fall and get rid of the trees that have fallen.

Charlie Kirk (14:32)

You know, you can't clean up the trees or the brush. Everybody in LA knows it. But because you might upset the natural habitat of the grasshoppers. Donald Trump is running on America first and Americans First. The Democrats run on delta smelt first and grasshoppers First. It is tempting to want to implement diversity, equity, inclusion. Oh, we must be very equitable. However, when there's just a little stress test, things start to fall apart. In 10 days and 23 hours, President Trump becomes president. Just imagine how unfit our military is right now. We've been warning about that for quite some time. This feckless response that we are seeing on the ground in the Palisades and all across California is a microcosm of a larger cancer and a tumor that President Trump is going to have to take a scalpel and remove. Environmentalists have weaponized the Endangered Species Act. They basically invented subspecies that are actually part of a much more common one so they can justify blocking development. Environmentalists are earth worshippers. They're inherently anti progress, anti growth. They're inherently against human flourishing. To them, this fire is just karma for all of modernity's development against them. Just the other day, the New York Times admitted that the snail darter wasn't even a real species and it blocked development for years. The New York Times wrote, this tiny fish mistaken identity halted a dam's construction. Scientists say the snail darter, whose endangered species status delayed the building of a dam in Tennessee, is a genetic match of a different fish. So they just invent subspecies to. They invent subspecies to prevent development. I want to hear from you. Freedom. Charliekirk.com There needs to start to be investigations of public officials, by the way. Look, let's just get the record straight. If Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, is under multiple federal indictments for taking Free flights on Turkish Airlines. It's not too much to say that Karen Bass, the mayor of Los Angeles, should face federal charges for letting her city burn. They tried to put Donald Trump in prison for paying some business expense. I think Karen Bass can face federal charges. Hey, everybody. Charlie Kirk here with New Year's resolutions. Many of us will vow to eat healthier, and that's a good thing. But what about your beloved pets and their nutrition? Naturopathic doctor Dennis Black is on a mission to provide better nutrition for cats and dogs. Because truthfully, it's not what you are feeding your pet, it's what you are not. Which is why he created Rough Greens and Meow Greens in the first place. Bring their dead food back to life with live vitamins, minerals, probiotics, enzymes, omega oils, antioxidants, and so much more. All in their tasty formula your dog or cat will love. Improve your pet's coat, digestion and energy and have less vet bills. Let 2025 bring a new year and a new pet. Try it. Get a Jumpstart trial bag, normally $20 free, with promo code Charlie. Just cover shipping. Resolve to provide what your pet's food has been missing with Ruff Greens. To get your free Jumpstart trial bag, go to roughgreens.com use promo code Charlie. So good your pet will ask for it by name. Roughgreens.com Charlie. Hey, the Palisades are gone, but the grasshoppers. Ironically, the grasshoppers probably all died too. This is tragic stuff. And the lack of leadership from Gavin Newsom and Karen Bass. We have this piece of tape. We'll play it in a second. Karen Bass doesn't even know how to answer. Did anyone check the water levels? This is not complicated stuff. You do not need a PhD in astrophysics to figure this out. Do we have water levels? Do we have firefighters that aren't lesbian by the name of Kristen? Do we have the ability to respond to tragedy? Did we clean up the brush? When you start focusing on the distant and the ideological and you don't understand, the immediate civilization ends. This is Mayor Karen Bass, who is a DEI mayor. Let's just be very clear. She is a black woman. I'm not sure if she's lesbian. I don't know if she is or not. Probably not. But she's a black mayor who's there just because of diversity, equity, inclusion. She ran up against Caruso, who's a very well developer, well known developer, very qualified, and she beat her in a incredibly sneaky, suspicious election. And the mayor of Los Angeles. Karen Bass was an organizer for the Marxist Venceremos Brigade who supported Fidel Castro. She visited Cuba eight times as a young woman. Outside of politics, her main job was a community organizer. This is the embodiment of left wing ideology. This is the manifestation of the woke. You can't put out fires. You got a black woman mayor in Ghana. You got three lesbian fire chiefs on the name of Kristen. It does. This is Peak Woke Playcott125.

Steve Hilton (19:58)

Do you owe citizens an apology for being absent while their homes were burning? Do you regret cutting the fire department budget by millions of dollars? Madam, may have you nothing to say today? Have you absolutely nothing to say to the citizens today? Elon Musk says that you're utterly incompetent. Are you considering your position?

Charlie Kirk (20:25)

That's the first time I saw that piece of clip. Does she not hear the question, what's the. It looks like she was on some sort of plane, gate, terminal. Is that right? Half a billion dollar budget deficit. When these fires broke out, Bass was on a pleasure trip all the way in Ghana, in Africa to visit the inauguration of the country's new president. That visit was paid for with taxpayer funds. Los Angeles has a budget deficit of almost half a billion dollars. If your city doesn't have a balanced budget, the number of diplomatic trips should go to zero. I live in Phoenix, by the way. I was just talking to a realtor. He said he is getting inundated with calls right now. People from California that say, we're done, we're leaving, we're done. And I do not wish harm on anybody because of their politics. I don't. However, for every person that has advocated raised money, bundled and donated to Democrats, you are living in the tragedy of your own making. And you guys were told by the New York Times, Washington Post, right wing people like Elon Musk and right wing people like Charlie Kirk are making it seem like woke ideologies doesn't harm you. And now you don't have a driveway. And now everything you own is gone. We were fear mongering. We were pouncing. Republicans pounce. We're too divisive. Turns out we were right. It turns out all of you in this audience were right. It turns out that every single one of us. And I gotta be honest though, there's a lot of American first and patriots that no longer have homes too. I know of 15 conservative people, some of which that work on our team that I mentioned yesterday. Their entire home is gone. And again, I do not take delight in anybody's suffering. I do not take joy in people's misery. But the Democrat Party has been wanting America to commit suicide over the last decade and now they don't have a home. And I do feel sorry for them. But I hope some of these Democrats that now everything they own is gone. Look at that. And look, I don't want to overly politicize this. Blake, can you pull up the precinct map of how Pacific Palisades voted? Let's just go, let's just go straight at the third rail of this whole thing. It's 80, 20 Democrat, am I right? Let's get, let's get the precinct map. Let's make sure we get it right. I want the New York Times precinct map. No one deserves to suffer because of their politics. However, if you have voted a certain way, this is what you wanted. This used to be a conservative area back in the 1950s. Eight out of ten of those houses you're seeing are left wing Democrats. Eight out of ten. And that's a tragedy. They don't deserve it. They're American citizens. They deserve help. But they advocated for this. They donated to Joe Biden, they raised money for Kamala Harris. And this is why politics matters. And this is why when these pastors and these good for nothing people will come up to me, oh, Charlie, I'm tired of politics. Well, if you don't get politics right, you don't have a home. This is 100% a byproduct of your willingness or your unwillingness to engage in the political arena. And when California in a couple of weeks comes crawling back for federal assistance, Trump should say, listen, I'm not going to give you a dime unless you fire the lesbian Christians, you mandate the proper forest management and stop controlled burns that Newsom has stopped. You cut it out with California's failed diversity, equity, inclusion, homeless spending. You require water capture instead of flushing it into the ocean. We're not going to pay for this anymore. This is your own making. When Florida gets hurt by a hurricane, hit by a hurricane, FPL Florida Power and Light has power coming back in a couple days. They also build their homes in a certain way to be hurricane proof. California, they're so left wing, they're so liberal, they're so out of touch, they're so earth worshipping. And now entire neighborhoods are gone as if an atomic bomb was dropped. In 2020, Pacific Palisades voted 70% for Joe Biden. So it's 70, 30. This looks like Ukraine, not our own country. Oh, but it's funny you mentioned that. Because Joe Biden and Senate Republicans have sent a lot of money to Ukraine. A lot. In fact, we just, we spent $250 billion to Ukraine. This is the current ruling class regime. And just. Oh, by the way, didn't you know this? The Los Angeles Fire Department just donated surplus supplies to Ukraine. Don't take my word for it. James woods, who has become a really good friend, said, hey, the fire truck pulled up to try to put out the fire in front of his home. Turns out there is no water. But there is a lesbian fire chief. Which one would you rather have? Water. Lesbian fire chief, Lesbian fire chief, water. Play cut 124.

Karen Bass (25:14)

Laura, with all due respect, if it is true that things were handled this way, if it is true that Gavin Newsom is the absolute blithering idiot that I believe he is in the way he has handled fire management in this state again and again and again and again. This isn't a wake up call. This is the kind of thing they have tribunals for where they try people and say you had an oath of office to perform certain duties. When you're the fire chief, this isn't a social justice exercise that you're in charge of. This is you getting water to areas that need water because there are fires in hundred mile an hour winds, burning houses to the ground. I watched on a ring camera a guy have to sit and watch his pet burn to death. You know, those things are issues of the heart when you watch a cherished little pet or you know, look, my home is a building. It was our. We worked three years putting the home together. We loved our little house, but it means nothing compared to the five people who lost their lives.

Charlie Kirk (26:22)

James woods is an American hero, by the way. He went to mit. He's brilliant. Let's put that up on screen here. I want you just to see this. No one deserves the tragedy, but they did invite tragedy to their home. This is how the precincts of Palisades and California voted. There is not a single red precinct in sight. Do you see that? There is not a single red. In fact, it's as blue as it gets. Oh yeah, sure. We don't care if we have water. Black lives matter. Oh yeah, yeah. We don't shirt. We don't care if that. We don't clean up the brush. Diversity is our strength. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. We don't care if we have a fire chief that knows how to turn on the fire truck in this house. We believe these are the same people that were chasing you through the street because you decided to go for a walk in the park without a mask on. That right there is how all of these neighborhoods voted. And I don't take delight in it. In fact, I take sadness when I see this. You should be sad looking at that. Cuz what you have seen right there is entire neighborhoods commit suicide. They committed suicide with their vote over a long period of time. And suicide's sad. Suicide is objectively a tragedy. It is not something to celebrate. I'm not rubbing it in their face. I'm not saying, oh, you deserve this. No, you guys decided to slit the throat of your own driveways. And yes, there are a lot of exceptions to people. 20 to 30% of those neighborhoods are people that I know. As I mentioned, our dear friend Stacy, her home is just gone. I have other friends. I'm not going to say on air, entire homes gone. Other family people that I know, family members, entire homes gone, gone. So there's exceptions. But the majority, the vast majority, 7 out of 10 of the people in those neighborhoods, they said bring it on. The question has always been when will people in California wake up? We thought it would be when a homeless man is taking a crap in your front yard. Maybe now the wake up call will be when you don't have a front yard. You know that that sign, is that in house. We, in this house, we believe black lives matter and women's rights are human rights and no human is illegal. And science is real. Love is love and kindness is everything. Let's put this up. The dark, dark truth and humor of that sign is that that sign means nothing if you don't have a house. Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here. If pain is affecting your life, I have the perfect New Year's resolution for you. Make 2025 the year of feeling good again. The year of moving better, sleeping better, feeling more alive. And do it with Relief Factor. Relief Factor is a daily supplement that fights pain. Naturally developed by doctors. It doesn't just mask pain temporarily helps reduce or eliminate pain. Over a million people have turned to Relief Factor and feel the difference it can make in your Life. Give their three week quick start a try. It's only $19.95, less than a dollar a day. And it just takes a phone call. 1, 800, for relief. That is the number. 1, 800 for relief. And you could start feeling better in three weeks or less. And every day you feel better is a day you live better. Whether you're hurting back, neck, joints or muscles. Make 2025 the year of feeling good again. Try Relief Factor's. Three week quick start today. Visit relieffactor.com or call 1-800-for- relief. That is 1-800-for relief. So check it out right now, relieffactor.com the Dark Truth about these Los Angeles fires, it is not an act of God. It is a lack of action from man. They're trying to frame it in the media. Oh, we've never seen winds like this. Look, of course it is a perfect storm and the winds are going the right way. But there's acts of God that happen all the time. We have hurricanes, we have tsunamis, we have earthquakes. And then you use your agency as a human being. And this is not the first fire. We had the 2018 fires. We had the 2020 fires. And they just kind of live in Los Angeles with this sword of Damocles above them. All right. Joining us now is Steve Hilton. Steve Hilton is Mr. California, great American and great friend. Steve, welcome to the program. I wish it was, but under better circumstances. I know. Please give us your analysis of what led to this. Our take here on this program is that this is largely preventable and the politics of California got in the way. Steve, your thoughts?

Steve Hilton (30:34)

Charlie, you're totally right. I just want to. I'm sorry I'm running around today. I'm here in la. It's kind of chaotic. I wanted to be with you earlier, but I was listening to what you're saying and you're completely right. This is what you get when Democrats get everything that they want. That's what's happened in California for more than a decade. They've had complete control and every single aspect of this crisis, the problems, the long term problems caused by this terrible combination of incompetence and ideological extremism. So exactly as you've been laying out on the water situation, we can have all the water we need in California. My policy organization, Golden Together, we've been putting out policy reports month after month. One of them called water abundance, but they haven't done it. We could be keeping the forest not just in the Sierras and where all the mountains are. And that point's been made that this is not a forest, this is la. This is a city. Yeah, but it's the same principle, the chaparral, the conditions on those hillsides, they've been prevented. I know people personally who've tried to clear the brush on their property and have been prevented by officials and bureaucrats captured by this ideological extremism. And here's another point that people aren't talking about enough, Charlie. The short term Point, the devastating fear that people have because of the insurance crisis. So people have been saying, well, the insurance companies have pulled out of California. All these people aren't insured. What are they going to do? Yeah, but why have they pulled out? That also is the result of Democrat policy. Why? Because it costs so much money to build anything here because of the environmental regulations, the labor regulations. So rebuilding costs are so high. That's why insurance companies have pulled out. And on top of that, they have capped, artificially capped the rates that insurers can charge. That's Democrat policy as well. So every single aspect of this. And you know, one last point, right? They say Gavin Newsom used to be waving his arms around and saying, you can't politicize this. Well, hang on a second. What did they do? The second that there's one of these dreadful mass shootings, they are right in there before the bodies are even buried. Blaming Republicans, demanding policy change. So we're not going to take any of this crap from them. This is exactly the right time to point out that their failures have made this crisis immeasurably worse for millions of people.

Charlie Kirk (33:01)

So, Steve, the tragedy is unspeakable. I don't want to go into any of the detail of that, but you have a whole book here. California Reversing the Ruin of America's Worst Run State. Steve, is in your political calculus, which I hate, going there too quickly. Do you think this could be the beginning of the end of the Democrat monopoly of America's most beautiful state?

Steve Hilton (33:21)

Well, it has to be, Charlie, because we have to have change in California. Anyone who didn't realize that before this surely must now realize this. And it's interesting to me that people are not holding back. They're not saying, well, let's talk about all this after the event. There's so much anchor here because these points have been made for years now. This is not some new discovery that we need to manage our forest better or that we need to capture the abundant water we have and collect it and store it and get it to where it's needed. None of this is new. We've been going on about it for years. And so this is a wake up moment because we've got to make sure nothing like this happens again and put in place the common sense policies that will build up our infrastructure, prepare us for natural disasters. Like disasters happen everywhere, but in places that are bad, badly run, the impact is far worse. And there is nowhere worse run than California. You just compare it to the kind of response you get in well run states like Florida. I mean there's just no comparison. And so yes this is the moment to say we badly need change in California. We need common sense change and we got to fight for it.

Charlie Kirk (34:29)

Steve, Steve, you know I have a heart for California. I spend the most, the second most time of any state I spend is in California. Arizona number one. Well Florida is now rising but California be number two. Steve you should run for office. Think about it. We need new leadership there. Steve, thanks.

Steve Hilton (34:45)

Thank you Charlie.

Charlie Kirk (34:46)

Oh is it official now you are going to run for something. We'll have to have you back on because California anytime. Steve, we're behind you. Thanks so much for listening everybody. Text this episode to a couple friends and donate to turningpoint USA@tpusa.com thanks so much for listening and God bless.

James Woods (35:04)

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