I need liberals in California to leave me alone and to leave all of us alone.
And what I mean by that specifically is,
the vast majority of water used in California.
And yes, we are dealing with yet another historic drought,
is not used by ordinary people like us.
It's actually overwhelmingly used by the agriculture industry,
particularly, farms for almonds, which we then export to Asia.
And it is making me furious every time I hear a goddamn lib,
with the help of progressives, by the way.
Talk about how we need to take shorter showers, stop watering your roses,
okay, do the drought resistant landscaping get off our balls?
Okay, no, I'm not going to take a shorter shower, let me give you the details here.
Okay, I'm so sick of this, I can't take it anymore
because it reminds me of the plastic recycling BS, right?
Which everyone fell for, everyone's like, so the plastics industry is like,
man, people are onto us, plastics are really, really bad for the environment.
So let's do this like tricky Kazoku thing,
where we make Americans think they can recycle the plastic and
they're actually helping the environment, it turns out it's all BS.
>> Can I just tell you real quick on that?
>> All Bs. >> And Anna's gonna give you the receipts
on the water, and you'll see why she's saying what she's saying but
on the plastics, I knew it all along.
I did, and when and I remember thinking I know this is BS, but fine,
I'll put it in the recycling, okay, cuz it makes me feel a tiny bit.
>> You know what?
No, but it's not that it makes you feel a tiny bit better.
It's because the BS that people fall for also makes way for
all the busybodies, all the scolds who are like, they can't wait.
Like their entire life is sitting around waiting for
someone to do something that they perceive is wrong.
So you can be like, nah, nah, nah, that's a plastic,
you need to put it in that and like go away, go away.
So here's the thing, okay, yes, there is drought,
there's a serious historic drought happening.
I acknowledge that but I'm so sick of,
anyone who wants to do anything about climate change or droughts.
Or any extreme weather condition that's fueled by climate change,
stop focusing on individuals.
Focus on the businesses that are making this problem even worse, so
there have been multiple studies on water usage in California, okay?
So this is directly from the New York times,
half of California's annual water usage is considered environmental water.
Meaning it flows through protected rivers or supports wetlands in wildland
preserves, according to Public Policy Institute of California.
Now here's where it gets good, the other 50% is for human use.
Human use, okay, that must mean that half of the water in
California is used by ordinary residents, right?
Wrong, okay, wrong, 40% for agriculture and
just 10% for urban use, just 10% for urban use.
And these mother keep telling us about how, you need to take shorter showers.
Water from your showerhead should just sprinkle on you,
it should just sprinkle on you, okay?
So you still have product and and and freaking conditioner in your hair, and
you're trying to get it out but you can't, cuz it's just sprinkling on you.
Just sprinkling on you, okay, I want to take a normal shower,
why don't you deal with the freaking agriculture industry?
Particularly the almond industry, that like,
did you know that the almond agriculture in California consumes more
water than everyone in San Francisco and everyone in California combined?
>> San Francisco and LA.
>> And LA, yeah, sorry, my bad, and by the way, they export the almonds.
>> They export them, they're gone, they're not even here, the almonds gone.
>> In Asia, they're like yo we like those almonds, what up?
>> Yeah, so in Asia, they're like, no, no, keep sending the almonds,
make sure Anna doesn't take any showers though, okay?
>> No, I'm done, I'm done with it, you guys, you guys,
I need progressives to be smart, okay?
And understand that sometimes you're just taking what the Libs,
the corporate Libs say at face value, stop it, okay?
Stop focusing on scolding individuals over things they have no control over, okay?
Me just sucking down my coke from a freaking dissolvable straw
is not going to save the planet.
>> [LAUGH] Now you got me on your side, okay.
>> You should have been on my side from the get go, I gave you seats,
what the hell?
>> The receipts are there.
>> I'm so tired, our lives are miserable enough,
can you guys please stop making it even more miserable?
Okay, they want to take the showers away from us, Jane?
No, I'm done, I'm done, you're not taking my showers away from me.
>> Here's what you don't want to do, take showers away from me, okay,
[LAUGH] You don't want that.
No, seriously, [LAUGH] so look, first of all,
your shower as you just learned is 0.000001% of the issue.
So why don't they actually go after the lion's share of the issue?
>> Because we live under corporate rule, that's right.
>> So if for example, Gavin Newsom or any other democrat say, and I say democrats,
because republicans say.
I think all the showers you want and make twice as much almonds,
we'll run out of water, who cares?
The rituals still have water and the rest of you will fight to the death, okay, but
for democrats, they pretend, right?
So if democrats were to say, hey, listen, here's my long term plans for
fighting climate change.
It involves just getting to renewable energies, ending the fossil fuels and
here's my plans for how we're, when we're in a drought.
I'm going to also cut down on almond production or
agriculture is gonna have to chip in in this way, and then ask us to chip in.
Okay, yeah, that makes sense, right saying, no,
I'm not gonna touch the business interests cuz they fund my campaigns.
And I'm gonna make you suffer like 10 times as much for
a fraction of the results.
And I'm not gonna do anything about climate change in the long run cuz I also
get money from PG and E and fossil fuel companies, etc.
And so I'm just gonna make you suffer more, and then feel more guilty
as if the drought is your fault, then I'm with Anna, no deal.
>> No, I'm not going to curb any of my behavior.
>> Yeah, why don't [CROSSTALK] the behavior of corporations that make 10,
20 times the impact that we do all collectively combined?
The almond industry in California is more than every person living in
San Francisco and every person living in LA, what do you want to ask for?
Why don't you just tweak them 1% and the problem with people way better solved?
But no, no, no, no, no, God forbid anybody touched the money.
>> By the way, the other thing that they're doing is,
now I think there's gonna be a lot more disagreement about what I'm about to say,
come at me, it's fine.
The next thing they're doing is, no more gas fired appliances,
no more gas fired stoves, everything needs to be electric.
Have you ever tried cooking on electric stove?
Garbage, just garbage, I like food that tastes good, I like to cook,
they want to take everything away from us.
And look, this is why republicans are actually pretty successful in their
messaging, because these corporate dems focus on the individual.
Let's make everyone's lives a lot more difficult, a lot less enjoyable,
let's take away the things that they like about living, okay?
And avoid doing anything about the corporate interests that pay us.
>> That's the most important part, guys, look,
you want to have a conversation about cooking on gas versus electric, etc.
I only start that conversation, the minute you take away the billions in
subsidies you give to oil companies every year.
The number ranges from, because they've lost track of how much we're taking
taxpayer money and funneling it to oil companies.
That are the richest companies in the world, right now,
they're the most profitable.
And the number ranges from 14 to over $100 billion that we give to
fossil-fuel companies.
Oil and gas companies every year, taxpayer money that we give to them in subsidies.
No, until you touch that, I'm not having a goddamn conversation about showers or
cooking with gas or worst of all the goddamn paper straws, okay?
I draw the line on paper straws, no way.
>> Look, the straws are terrible, I could live with it, right,
you don't have to drink through a straw.
It's not the end of the world, but like the shower, the shower, it's sacred to me.
Cuz there's nothing better than a hot high water pressure shower, right?
>> And it's like solace for people.
>> So it's like your escape, it's like a special little escape,
no one can get to you there.
Maybe your husband, if you know [CROSSTALK]
>> So stay away from the showers, okay,
but look, last thing is, this is the problem with corporate rule.
It needs a loyal opposition, like democrats to pretend there's a democracy
and then to help corporations anyway.
But the real extra kicker here is, the democrats then are the ones that
look like they're inflicting misery upon the people.
So then it makes people go towards the republicans that are even more in favor of
corporate rule.
So you see how that shell game is played, and that's why we're so
furious at democratic leadership and the democratic establishment.
Cuz they're the ones who play those games, they're the ones who trick you,
they're the ones who are part of the the entire enterprise.
It's a good cop, bad cop, and they're supposed to be the good cops and
other poems, we're the bad cops, we push for corporations.
But the good cops are, in a sense, bigger liars and worse cops.
So we gotta get rid of the system entirely in the way you do that, of course,
to get money out of politics.
Otherwise, we're all working for all almond farmers at the end,
[LAUGH] you know who wins?
Big almond.
>> Yeah, no, totally.