Caitlyn Jenner might be canvassing
soon, herself, as she has
officially announced her run for
Governor of California.
She's going to run that special
election, this coming up after
the effort to recall the Governor
Gavin Newsom in California.
So, from her campaign announcement,
she did say, I'm in!
California is worth fighting for.
That was the very beginning of
the statement.
It went on to say,
Californians want better and
deserve better from their governor.
This would be a campaign of
solutions, providing a roadmap back
to prosperity,
to turn the state around, and
finally clean up the damage Newsom
has done to this state.
This isn't the California we know,
this is Gavin Newsom's California,
where he orders us to stay home,
but then goes out to dinner with
his lobbyist friends.
Now, let's not forget that in 2016,
she also publicly supported Trump,
then also had some issues with
him once, I guess, late stage
discovered that he's Republican,
and that he's against trans issues
and trans rights.
Like, I think, just
about every other Republican, yes.
And she also mentioned before,
politics is something that I don't
talk about any longer, so,
she's not going to talk about it.
She's going to be about it, maybe
this is something good to come.
Lastly, she also had a bit of
a lack of voter participation in
the past.
It was remembered that, Jenner has
been an infrequent voter,
she cast ballots in just one of
California's 26 statewide elections
since 2000, according to LA County
voting records.
She did not vote in the historic
2003 recall that made actor
Arnold Schwarzenegger governor,
nor the 2016 primary and general
elections that Trump did win.
So, she's got a good
political resume, [LAUGH] but
maybe she's going to be really
good at canvassing.
Do you think she's going to
show the doors?
>> Yeah, no, so I, look,
in a sense I hesitated talking
about this story because that gives
her the one thing she wants, and
why she's running,
which is attention, money,
money, money, money, money, money.
But the reason to talk about it,
is because this is what politics is
these days, right?
A bunch of people trying to
get attention for themselves, and
see here,
I'll give you have an example.
So, again, when I ran in the 25th
district in California, another guy
who ran was George Papadopoulos.
So, he is one of the criminals that
worked with thug, Trump,
I call him Donald J Thug.
And he went to jail briefly, etc.,
and he's one of the guys who got
caught.
And so he ran,
never once came into the district,
as far as I could tell.
Even his filing,
he had a campaign manager,
whoever he was, do it for him,
because I happened to be there at
the same time that his manager was.
Never went to any events,
never went to any database,
never went to anything.
These guys, they just view it as
like a money making machine, right?
They'll just force people to say my
name in the press more and more.
And so, Caitlyn Jenner, of course,
comes from the family that
has perfected marketing and
substance-free stylish BS, right?
So, does she care about politics,
at all?
Only in how it affects her,
that's why she's a Republican.
So, I don't know if, technically,
she's still calling herself
a Republican, I couldn't care less.
She's a Republican all along
because she wanted lower
taxes because she's rich, so
that's what affected her.
Then she came out as trans,
I mean, I don't know if she's just
monumentally dumb and
has never heard of a Republican.
That was a surprise to you that
the Republican Party is
against trans rights?
That was a surprise to you.
Okay, that means that you don't
know anything, you're one of the
most ignorant people I've ever met.
So, she supports Trump and
then because, greed, greed, money,
money.
And then, of course, Trump does
things that are massively against
trans rights and tries to kick
people out of the military,
on and on.
The bathroom issue is a demagoguing
stake against,
not just against Democrats, but
against the trans right, anyway,
you know all that stuff.
And then Caitlyn Jenner is like,
that now also affects me, and
a lot of my money comes from other
trans people who I am pretending to
support.
So, now,
my financial interests are mixed.
And now that it has affected me,
I am against those things that
Donald Trump is saying, still give
me the tax cuts, please give me
the tax cuts, I need the tax cuts.
So, why is she running here?
Greed, the same reason as before.
So, look, part of the reason we
decided to do this story is
because, yeah, the mainstream press
is not bad on this,
they are terrible on other things,
but they'll make snide comments and
snarky and they're not taking her
too seriously.
But, overall, they're generally
very polite, especially,
because she's a celebrity and,
hence, in their minds powerful.
So they won't tell you that she's
a dirt bag who's doing this as
a marketing trick, because she's
obsessed with greed, that's our
job, so, I just told you.
>> [LAUGH] Good job.
>> Julie, what do you think?
>> I agree, I'm pretty incredibly
skeptical of this, and it reeks of
a reality television producer,
putting something together, filming
all of it and packaging it up for
some cable network.
And, again, to your point,
media is responsible for
what they're putting out there
in a public discourse.
And the fact that we're talking
about somebody who's probably not
a serious candidate for
Governor of California.
California is a huge economy,
it is a huge state,
and it has some diverse issues and
interests that needs some serious
candidates addressing them.
But this is what the media latches
onto, it's click bait material.
And every time that Donald Trump,
put his thumb on a screen and
tweeted something,
that's what they covered.
But there are some real issues in
our world that do need covering,
and we never hear
about those because it's
not click bait material.
But Caitlyn Jenner deciding that
she's going to run for
governor, it is.
And so, I'm grateful that you're
holding media accountable because
this is a real problem in America.
>> Yeah and Julie, I mean,
you ran for Congress,
how much trouble did you have,
especially in the beginning,
getting attention?
Meanwhile this clown, I mean,
literal reality show clown,
is covered by every media outlet
in the country and, fairly,
unskeptically.
>> We couldn't even get people
to cover my opponent's
corruption in Congress.
We could not get media to cover it,
whatsoever.
The fact that he used his
position of power to benefit one of
his donors couldn't get any media
coverage.
And yet, Caitlyn Jenner,
announces a potential run, and look
at the media is drooling over it,
they're salivating,
it's ridiculous.
I mean it just shows you the lack
of seriousness in media.
And god, I mean, I'm a mother,
my gosh, y'all I found out about
three weeks ago that I'm going to
be a grandmother, and I'm just so
worried [LAUGH] what this
little kid is going to come into?
This world that we're leaving
behind, and I gotta keep fighting
y'all, I just gotta keep fighting.
[LAUGH] >> Yeah, so, Julie,
first off,
congrats [LAUGH] good news.
But the last thing I wanted to
say is just that point
you made about the lack of
seriousness of the media.
It's pretty devastating, it's true,
I mean, I could name you dozens of
progressive candidates who
were like,
will you please cover something of
substance in this race, right?
Just policy or, yes, the outward
obvious over the top corruption of
my opponent,
even if just don't take my word for
it, just investigate it,
is it true, is it not true?
Just, can you do your job, at all,
please?
Nope, nope, nope, nope, I had an LA
Times reporter tell me in my race,
I asked them, you're covering some
sensationalistic crap right now.
Are you ever going to actually talk
about the policies in this race?
And he literally said, no,
we probably won't have time for it.
I gave him points for
honesty, right?
But if Caitlyn Jenner runs,
they're all over it.
No, our media, honestly, it's way
worse than people acknowledge.
>> And, by the way, if so,
someone like Caitlyn Jenner,
if she doesn't have policies set to
talk about, they're okay with it
because they're like, good,
gentleman's agreement, we're not
going to talk about it, anyway.
Good stuff, you don't want to, and
I don't want to hear it.
[LAUGH], so.
>> Yeah. >> So it works.
>> Yeah, I mean,
any article should have at a bare
minimum called out her unbelievable
hypocrisy on trans issues, right?
But they barely graze on it, and
eventually she gets the millions of
dollars of media coverage that she
was seeking, in the first place.