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John Duarte: “Days after Kevin McCarthy was vacated, Israel was terrorized…”

Featuring: John Duarte, Republican | Former U.S. House, California, District 13

The 13th Congressional District w/ John Duarte

Published May 20, 2024 | Video Starts at 11:28

I mean, obviously, if a party wants to destroy himself, you really will sit back and let them if they're your opponent. But realize that right. Days after Kevin McCarthy was vacated, Israel was terrorized with the attacks from Hamas and America was rudderless. And we still haven't voted the aid package through for Israel to help our ally in this very difficult time. (11:28–11:38)

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Asserts that the attacks from Hamas on Israel occurred days after Kevin McCarthy was removed, leaving America rudderless.

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John Duarte

“Kevin McCarthy [was] installed as speaker [of the House].”
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“Kevin McCarthy [was] fairly tragic[ally] and incoherent[ly] remov[ed as Speaker of the House].”
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“Mike Johnson [is] doing a great job as a speaker [under current conditions].”
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“The Central Valley should be very proud that between David Valadeo and myself, the valley put in some very difficult districts, two…”
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“We currently employ several hundred [people].”
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“Our son Isaac just came out of Cal Poly with a crop science degree.”
The 13th Congressional District w/ John Duarte | Uploaded May 20, 2024 | 05:33-05:38
“There really was no credible [Republican candidate for] the 13th congressional district, in my opinion.”
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“I did not like the socialist agenda that was taking hold of America at the time in 2022.”
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“These fools, the eight republicans that took out Kevin McCarthy, robbed our country of a generational leader.”
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“He raised a half a billion dollars, I think he singularly stopped socialism in America.”
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“It was eight members of our party who did it, and they had no support from the rest of the conference.”
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“We still haven't voted the aid package through for Israel to help our ally in this very difficult time.”
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“We haven't helped Ukraine. We haven't helped Taiwan. We haven't helped Israel.”
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“California needs to watch Europe. The slaughtering and the reduction of their herds, of their animal protein systems, their farmers not…”
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“Women in Europe in the twenties and thirties reproductive age are by larger and larger numbers than we've ever seen before freezing their…”
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“We're not selling as many almonds as we used to. We're not seeing the growth in almond sales we used to. It's because it's a premium plant…”
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“We're seeing that in wine, cheese. We're seeing it in butter. We're seeing it across the spectrum in agricultural and food system is that…”
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“It's no water on the farms. It's not drilling american oil. I sit on energy and minerals subcommittee and natural resources. We're…”
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“Abandoning natural american oil and gas production is ridiculous. Even if we solve energy with nuclear, implementing nuclear technologies at…”
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“The environmental extremists and the ESG dei folks, the whole left wing, every acronym they throw out, nonsense, battalion of Alphabet soup…”
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“The local army corps of Engineers regulator, one guy in five counties drove by and from his windshield decided we deprived it for trees…”
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“It was four to seven inches. Their own government expert report literally said it was four to seven inch tillage.”
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“They said it might have been twelve inches, where we grabbed a chunk of hard pan that somebody else tilled up earlier and told it on its…”
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“They gave us a cease and desist order.”
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“We asked them to come out to the field and look at what we were doing. We asked them to give us a hearing. They kicked us up to enforcement…”
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“They'd never give us a hearing.”
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“The Pacific Legal foundation, which is a public interest law firm that I call them the American Civil Liberties Union for productive people…”
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“Once the government decided they couldn't get that kicked out of court, they countersued us. And they literally said, we're suing them…”
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“The original judge we had, Carlton, was an old Jimmy Carter appointee. Democrat, but a Jimmy Carter appointee. He retired and passed away…”
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“These agencies, these prosecutors, the Department of Justice wants America to see these unfounded prosecutions. This is part of fascism…”
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“The citizenry is the primus state of this constitutional republic. It's not the judiciary. It's not the presidency. It's not the legislator…”
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“Even the concept of settled science, if anything, we graduate and we educate PhDs every year at institutions all over the world, most of the…”
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“There's the tilt of this earth towards the sun. There's the orbit we're on. There's natural CO2 emissions, there's natural methane emissions…”
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“They've released grizzly bears into Yellowstone, and they told them once they got to a population of 800 bears, they'd start culling the…”
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“The fish and wildlife won't let any change come to the endangered species classification of the grizzly bears that allow them to be…”
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“We found wolves in Tulare county now all the way down from the Yellowstone wolf releases.”
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“A mountain lion attacked two brothers and killed one of them out hunting for antlers.”
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“When you stop hunting, these animals become more aggressive.”
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“Agriculture doesn't have a lot to do with water rights.”
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“The Natural Resources Committee has a lot to do with waters in terms of the Endangered Species act.”
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“The Sackett decision was a major wetlands jurisdiction Supreme Court case that came down earlier last year, late last year.”
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“The administration has completely ignored [the Sackett decision].”
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“The administration [has] told Twitter and Facebook what to say and what not to say about Hunter's laptop or any other issue in the last…”
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“There are federal equip grants for on farm storage.”
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“We need to take the income limits off EQIP grants and other conservation programs so we can get the big farmers that really hold a lot of…”
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“One of my big initiatives to create more water in California is looking at our flood controlled dam capacities.”
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“We hold 600,000 acre feet, and new malones are of Don Pedro for flood control.”
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“If we dredge the rivers and drainages here, a few years ago, a little over a year ago, we were flushing 150,000 cubic feet per second out to…”
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“If we can dredge and we can get those flow rates up to 180,000 cubic feet per second.”
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“That's like creating a million acre feet of water just by dredging the waterways.”
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“The state won't get behind [dredging].”
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“The Democrats that run California and the Biden administration are choosing scarcity of water.”
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“They're not allowing America to be the best place to build a business and create jobs.”
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“We need to move people out of the federal government and into productive part of our economy.”
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“The only way we fight inflation is by having more people make more stuff.”
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“All the job growth of the Biden administration comes out and looks at job growth. A huge portion of it's in government.”
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“We're cutting the government the best we can right now with the current balance power we have in DC.”
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“The government's the biggest source of new jobs there is right now.”
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“It's very hard to get any net income operating your farm today.”
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“America has won a five year lawsuit against China for the retaliatory agricultural tariffs that were put in place.”
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“China still has retaliatory agricultural tariffs in place. They have ignored the World Trade Organization.”
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“American farmers still can't export to China on equal terms with brazilian soy producers or australian almond producers or european wine…”
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“We are seeing almost no leadership whatsoever from this administration on trade.”
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“There's a very large $450 million relief program nationwide to help growers get through those times.”
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“The relief program was sent through the USDA, as is what happens in the secretary Vilsack's folks put so many DeI ESG advantages for one…”
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“We're living under an outdated farm bill.”
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“We need to get the big farms engaged in water recharge basins and water sustainability.”
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“The market loan rates for a lot of the commodity crops are very low.”
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“We need to make crop insurance affordable and flexible.”
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“America was printing about a billion dollars, a trillion dollars a year.”
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“The Federal Reserve was just buying this debt and they were great.”
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“Today we've got quantitative tightening.”
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“We're also printing about $3 trillion in new debt a year from the federal government.”
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“We've gone from a half a trillion dollars in government debt a year from the US government to three and a half trillion dollars of…”
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“The government rates are higher because we simply have to attract seven times more customers to buy US sovereign debt.”
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“The US government is sucking $3.5 trillion out of the available capital markets in cash every year.”
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“All the major economies of the world are printing hoards of sovereign debt.”
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“This administration can get on the evening news and tell us every night how good things are, but we know better.”
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“You can tell everyone how great they're doing, but if they put dinner on their credit card last year, now their credit card's maxed out.”
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“The section 230 protections that these social media platforms get are there for bulletin boards where people don't control the content or…”
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“So far as social media controls its content, a section 230 protection shouldn't exist.”
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“Foreign ownership of American business, foreign ownership of farmland, foreign ownership of our media companies is always a concern.”
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“We had a hearing on [Chinese ownership of our food system] in the house just a week or two ago.”
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“The Chinese upper middle class is larger in number than America's working families today.”
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“India has an emerging upper middle class that simply dwarfs the spending of our working families.”
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“We were importing about 4 million tons of Mexican produce a year in 2000.”
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“We're importing about 20 million tons of Mexican produce here in 2022, 2023.”
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“A lot of the capitalized agriculture in Mexico is actually cartel dollars.”
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“We've got Chinese cooperating with Mexican drug cartels, controlling our border, controlling fentanyl flows into America.”
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“Fentanyl is the largest cause of death of young people, 18 to 40 right now in America.”
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“The blueberries, the strawberries, the cantaloupes have all moved to Mexico.”
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“Watching China partner up with some of our neighbors to relocate our food industries...is dangerous.”
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“China shouldn't be buying our farmland.”
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“We should be worried about China controlling our food system generally.”
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“They already own Syngenta.”
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“Syngenta is part of a Chinese food conglomerate now.”
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“They used to be an American company.”
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“We're seeing that more and more.”
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