urbo? How are we going to survive it? How are we going to fix the things that need to get fixed? We're already paying the highest taxes, and it feels like the lowest level of service in return. So now if you think we're just going to rebuild, you don't know California. That might be just empty land for the rest of my life. I don't know that it's, I just don't see a path where that quickly gets fixed. I don't know.

Here's what I think. I think this has been such a black eye for the management of the state that for the first time recently I can say it's possible to have a Republican governor. Now it would take a special character. It would take a Reagan-type character who was a Republican. And I don't know anybody in the state who would fit that Reaganesque thing and would also have experience managing something. Because you don't want somebody who's never managed anything because the state is as much management as politics. So it's not exactly like other jobs. You need to manage. So we need a DeSantis-type of governor. So if somebody like DeSantis became available to run for governor, it's the best time now.

Other people are going to say, Scott, Scott, Scott, I think you don't realize that the blue team has California all wrapped up. And no, no, nobody but a Democrat could win. And it's not just because of the voters. It's because the Democrat machine controls too much, and they can rig any vote to go the way they want because they just control too much. Now that might be true. However, I think that the opening is now if it's ever going to happen. I saw some people suggest this, that maybe a smart independent like Nicole Shanahan would be a possibility. Now I like everything about Nicole Shanahan, but I don't know that she has exactly the right background for managing because whoever takes this job has to dig into the whole water thing, the forest thing. Yeah, it's really a management thing. So as high quality and as much as I would trust Nicole Shanahan, I like everything about her basically. I don't know if she has the exact background that fits this slot. But maybe somebody will emerge. And then as people have noted, the legislature would probably still stay blue, and so even the governor couldn't get anything done.

So I saw some, related to this, I saw a Bill Maher video, and he was talking to Stephen A. Smith, and Maher said this that really caught my attention. He said, quote, I've been out with every type of celebrity, you know, meaning just having fun. And he says they don't say the things they say to me to other celebrities. There it is. Now you probably said to yourself, Scott, you can't get a Republican governor because the state is filled with so many Democrat voters. You're never going to get over the hump. I don't think they're Democrats. I think they're literally pretending to be Democrats. I think that every one of these people who may have been seeming like political enemies are now seeing that the thing we need to get together on is common sense stuff. I don't believe there's a Democrat who wanted less forest management. Well, there's some crazy ones who want to preserve everything natural, but not really. I don't think there's any Democrats who say I'm sure glad we didn't have enough water. Right? I don't think there are any Democrats who said sure is a good thing there were not enough escape routes from a place that is an obvious fire risk. These are all so clearly and cleanly common sense issues that I don't think anybody's going to give a shit about the smelt going forward. Try stopping us from fixing the state because of a smelt. Yeah, because I don't think that works anymore.

So of course I'm speaking for my own little bubble because I'm very influenced by how I personally feel about this, which is some intense feelings in many directions. I'm pretty sure that this is the wakeup call that tells everybody in the South, you know, the Republicans don't hate you. You get that right? We really, I'm going to say we because I caucus with the Republicans even though I'm a Democrat by registration. I think maybe it will be a little better understood that Trump was on California's side, and whatever the Democrats running things were doing may have been for their own benefit or may have been just pure incompetence. We don't know what it was, but we know that Trump had exactly the right solution at exactly the right time early. And we know that the Democrats failed just in performance. The exact reasons hard to know, but they certainly failed.

Hunter Biden's rental burned up. And the thing that bothered me the most about that was that it was a rental. It's bad enough if you're the landlord for Hunter Biden. Because remember, we heard the story that he had rented someplace and didn't pay in the past, a different place. But he had been renting a place and didn't pay the rent. And then he used the Secret Service to keep the landlord from getting to him to ask for the rent. That is like the most effed up thing you're going to hear. He didn't pay the rent, and he used his Secret Service protection to make sure that nobody would come bug him to get the rent. That actually happened. Was it Sean Maguire, I think, was the landlord there? So he's, I don't think he's in that house anymore. But I just feel sorry, doubly sorry for whoever owned it because they lost their house that was a rental, but also they had Hunter Biden as a resident. I mean, I don't know if you could even clean it after that.

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend and their kids are in a hotel. Henry Winkler said some angry, drunk-looking things. He's affected. I have mixed feelings talking about the celebrities involved. On one hand, I don't think this is a story about celebrities, and so it's just gross and icky that they're even part of the story. Like why do we care about them more? Does it matter more to you that Henry Winkler is safe than Henry Winkler's not-famous neighbor? I mean, there's something creepy about it. But at the same time, the politics of it is that these are, some of them are conservative, but a number of other ones are outspoken Democrats. And I would love to know how Chrissy Teigen and John Legend feel about their team after losing their house to their team. Does that change how you feel? What else could? I mean, if you're going to change somebody's mind, having a debate with them, maybe, usually not. Having really good points, yeah, might work, but probably not. Really being good at persuasion, it might help, but probably not. People are pretty set in their ways. You burn down somebody's house, you have their attention. Everybody who lost the house is now open to a better argument. A lot of minds open up. So I think California is in play.

Anyway, in related but other news, because we can't spend all our time talking about this. It's just too hard. Trump is, as other people have noted, flooding the zone. So he's completely controlling the news. Even the fire, which you would think is not directly a Trump topic, he's still the top of the news because he said the right things and did the right things, and it stands in contrast to what happened. So not only that, but apparently there's a report from Steph Knight, I think she's from Axios, saying that there's some knowledge that Trump plans to flood the zone with a hundred executive orders like his first day or first week or something. Now so we've got Trump talking about Greenland, Panama, Canada. He's talking about the fire. He might have a hundred executive orders. Every day three new things. This is the only way to defeat the fake news.

And you know, he's always done this thing where he keeps the Overton window, so to speak, keeps the action going, and it keeps the attention on him. But I think I just realized the other hidden benefit of this. As we've often said, Republicans can be right and they can be wrong. They can have wrong facts and often do. They might believe in some conspiracy theories that don't prove out. But that's normal, sort of normal human beings. On the Democrat side, there's an organized hoax creation machine for the Democrats. They'll create a hoax about the other side, and then they'll use their news, their media, and their talking heads to say the same things over and over again. Right? How many times have you seen that? Well, he's a convicted felon. You know, that's just the talking point. And if they say convicted felon a million times, it's going to stick in your hea