California, the Nation’s Dumpster Fire | The Roundtable Ep. 31 Segment 1
The American Mind
The Claremont Institute
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🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Rolling blackouts are hitting hundreds of thousands of Californians during the worst heat wave since 2006. Wildfire is spreading across the state like…well, wildfire. And the state economy is in the tank. California is in trouble on all sides, all of which could have been avoided if Democrats weren’t such miserable incompetents. Is California’s meltdown a canary in the coal mine for Election 2020?
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| 0:00.0 | Just to hear them say, |
| 0:02.0 | welcome to the hotel California. |
| 0:07.0 | Such a lovely place, such a lovely place, such a lovely place, |
| 0:12.0 | such a lovely place, such a lovely place such a lovely place such a lovely face. |
| 0:15.0 | They're living it up at the hotel California. |
| 0:20.0 | What a nice surprise. |
| 0:23.0 | Nice surprise. |
| 0:25.0 | When you're alibis. |
| 0:29.0 | Hello again and welcome to the American Mind, |
| 0:32.2 | editors Roundtable Podcast episode 31, much as I will do very shortly. |
| 0:37.9 | We have entered our 30s here on this podcast and I am here with what maybe called our summer team a somewhat |
| 0:44.8 | reduced compliment but none the worse for where executive editor James |
| 0:50.0 | Pulos managing editor David Barr and myself, the humble assistant editor of both the |
| 0:56.4 | Claremont Review of Books and the American Mind. |
| 1:00.2 | We are very glad to be back with you. |
| 1:02.1 | I am once again hosting in lieu of Ryan Williams, |
| 1:04.8 | depressingly for all of you listeners, I am sure, but Ryan will be back just not this week or indeed next week. |
| 1:14.6 | We are delighted to launch in to a series of, I think particularly fascinating topics this |
| 1:21.0 | time around and we're going to start with our beloved home state at |
| 1:26.4 | least for me and James of California. California is a disaster. California is a disaster. |
| 1:34.0 | California is as our colleague Matt Peterson likes to say a failed state. |
| 1:39.5 | Never perhaps has that been more manifest in my lifetime than during this the late |
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