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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
We don't really want to market natalism to the progressive feminists. The people maxing out their fertility should be people, ideally, who won't raise their children to be gender-neutral furries who want to join Antifa one day.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Hey, Charlie, how are you? This is so crazy because I grew up in the Palisades Village. and the Palisades Riviera. And now I live in the Pasadena and Altadena area. So I'm being hit. Everyone I know right now is basically under evacuation. Two of my husband's cousins in the Palisades village, their houses, their homes are burned to the ground. Their children's schools burned to the ground.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Pali High, Pali High School is gone. Flat stones, all these iconic restaurants in the Palisades I grew up going to, gone. The Real Inn, my mother, you know, I grew up in the Palisades. My mother lived in Malibu. Those neighborhoods are now destroyed. And here I am now really on the border of Pasadena and Altadena. My house is still standing. We're okay, thank God.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Unfortunately, we have several friends now whose homes, they just found out this morning, are gone here in Altadena. And this is not where celebrities live. This is not millionaires. These are like families who have been here for 30, 40 years. My son, who's here... Hey, Charlie. He's a student at Hillsdale. He is home for Christmas break.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
And I'm glad he was because he was helping carry all of our things to our car last night. We got our little kids out. And here's the sad thing is that the kind of local hardware store, which is like a famous many year run family business, Altina Hardware. We found out this morning that that burned to the ground. And both of my sons have worked there.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
And my son was working there last night, selling emergency supplies to people. And now that's gone. So this is just traumatic. I just walked up two blocks. You can see behind me, this whole neighborhood here above New York Avenue, which is like a main east-west thoroughfare, dividing Altadena and Pasadena, is completely engulfed.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
I was standing in front of homes that were just burnt just to the ground, to the foundation. And it's just absolutely apocalyptic is the right word.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Yeah, apparently Mayor Karen Bass defunded the fire, the LAFD, by something like $20 million or something. You know, we can't even get the homeless junkies, which are literally in Pasadena now, we can't get them to come clean up the tents to get these people out of there. And every year, it's always the homeless camps in these mountains behind me and in the Santa Monica Mountains.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
They're the ones who start the fire. I don't know if you remember three or four years ago, Bel Air burned down, where the 405 comes through by the Getty Center. That almost burned down because of a homeless encampment right there in that valley. And so it's just these stupid policies. They don't clear the brush.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Having no water in Pacific Palisades, which is one of the most expensive zip codes in the world, is actually like, that's criminal. That's attempted murder, to be frank.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Yeah, that's what Rick Caruso said. He lives in Brentwood, which I think his daughter in the Palisades lost her home. You know, he's the one who ran for mayor in L.A. And he was ahead on election night. I don't know if you recall a couple of years ago. And then miraculously, lo and behold, at one in the morning, Karen Bass squeaked in a victory ahead of him. Oh, I wonder how that happened.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
And so he's really the only guy talking sense here. Yeah. And he said last night that there was no water in the fire hydrants. Civic Palisades, you know, entry level starting home, the Palisades, you know, three, four million dollars. So, you know, you expect like what do we pay our property taxes to? We can't go to the schools here. The fire departments don't have water.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Like what exactly what exactly are we paying for? It's really hard to justify even paying one more dollar of property tax.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Third-world country. Mm-hmm. I mean, you know, usually the fires are like an encampment under the freeway. And so it's actually hard to know is something that's burnt out in L.A. actually, you know, a fire or is it just like another junkie? you know, lighting his crack pipe or whatever. It's just it's just a travesty. And I can't I keep thinking every year I've looked at my whole life.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
One day people are going to stop voting for these people. One day, you know, they're going to recall Gavin Newsom. He beat his recall. He got reelected. Like, it's just what will it take to wake up people in Los Angeles? Maybe this is it. Maybe this is finally it.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Yeah, apparently there's the environmental lobby is so strong and they don't want you to like hurt, you know, some chaparral bush that's, you know, endangered or like some endangered lizard. You're not allowed to do anything. You can endanger millions of people's lives and their children and their businesses, but you can't hurt the like nesting ground squirrel or whatever it is.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
But the other thing is we get these torrential rainfalls. We get these horrible storms once a year. Of course, we haven't had one yet, not one drop of rain yet. We have so much water comes down into the city, so much water, billions of tons of water, and it all goes right into the ocean. It just goes right into the ocean.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
And everyone's always wondering like, why don't they just like build, you know, big reservoirs? Why can't you capture this water, have all this water? You could have locally stored water tanks. You could have neighbors fighting their own fires in the Palisades, in Malibu. Malibu's burned down like 10 times in my lifetime and they've never once organized this.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
We have the water, you know, we live next to an ocean, but somehow the water that God gives us in rain never quite makes it to the fires.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
I mean, maybe FEMA would help this area because these are Biden voters. We know FEMA doesn't want to help you if you're a Trump voter. They're not going to help my house. I mean, I guess they just have to work on whoever manages these mountains. I mean, these mountains keep burning and displacing all these people. But I just wanted to show you where I am. I walked up a little bit.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
I'm at Lake Avenue, the main north-south thoroughfare of Pasadena and Atchison. And you can see it's been, like, totally blocked off. And behind me is this beautiful church, Westminster Presbyterian. And behind me is completely blocked, black smoke. All these homes here in Altadena, along Lake Avenue, all the businesses are just going. And honestly, it's, like, really heartbreaking for me.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
I have... I know a family. My friend has 10 children. Her husband recently died of cancer. And they live up that street in a beautiful old home. And that's the only memory all her children have of their father in that home. And I really have no idea what the fate of her home is. I know that the family is safe, but... So many friends in this neighborhood do not know what's happened to their house.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
Another family at our school, their house was spared, but the neighbors next door up here, their home is gone. And I'm just seeing... from all over the state coming down here. Thank goodness. I just, I mean, up there, just a block ahead of me, Woodbury, New York, is just, you know, so many cops, black smoke billowing from these beautiful old homes.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
And like I said, these are not, you know, billionaires. These are not celebrities. These homes are, you know, 120-year-old craftsmen homes. They're so beautiful. And families have been in here for decades. And it's just a real nightmare.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
I have no insight into that. I know that California makes it very difficult to get homeowners insurance. You have to, if you want earthquake insurance, it's like so exorbitant that most people don't even bother with earthquake insurance. And homeowners insurance is so expensive. I mean, the cost of living here, as you know, is already so high.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
I don't know anything about people's policies being canceled. If that's the case, that feels like a lawsuit ready to happen.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
The neighborhood behind it I think might be in danger. The smoke, this is just a couple blocks north of it, is on fire. I think this church is stone. This church has been here since 1910 probably. And, you know, I think it'll be okay. But up the street, the dry cleaner that we go to is gone. Luckily, none of my husband's shirts were in the dry cleaner.
The Charlie Kirk Show
California Burns While Its Leaders Vanish
The hardware, the local hardware store, all these family businesses that have been here for decades, like cornerstones of this community. And it really is a community. I mean, it's a lot of liberals, but, you know, these are good people. And it's just, I'm just in total shock.