Detecting language using up to the first 30 seconds. Use `--language` to specify the language Detected language: English [00:00.000 --> 00:08.720] I'm Dave Champion. Nancy Pelosi's home in San Francisco was vandalized and I'm [00:08.720 --> 00:14.480] going to admit I've been shocked at how many people have expressed that that's [00:14.480 --> 00:20.560] completely appropriate because of their view of Nancy Pelosi's politics and if [00:20.560 --> 00:24.600] somebody says that they think vandalizing her private property is a [00:24.600 --> 00:29.700] good thing because of how they view her politics I probably agree with the second [00:29.700 --> 00:34.260] half. I'm no fan of Nancy Pelosi's politics. I used to live in California. I [00:34.260 --> 00:41.340] think she's reprehensible. However, vandalizing the personal property of [00:41.340 --> 00:46.140] elected officials is going down the wrong path. Oh by the way I should add [00:46.140 --> 00:53.380] that virtually nobody who said that it was cool that somebody vandalized Nancy [00:53.380 --> 00:57.940] Pelosi's property, virtually none of those people said that it was cool that [00:57.940 --> 01:01.500] Mitch McConnell's home was vandalized in the same manner. [01:01.500 --> 01:13.420] I'm baffled that anybody thinks vandalizing an elected official's [01:13.420 --> 01:17.300] private property is a cool or nifty thing to do or they deserve it or [01:17.300 --> 01:22.060] whatever the justification is. Let me explain why. The United States, whether [01:22.060 --> 01:23.980] we're talking about the federal government, whether we're talking about [01:23.980 --> 01:28.380] your state government, your county government, your city government, it is [01:28.380 --> 01:33.620] representative democracy and what that means is the people get together, they [01:33.620 --> 01:37.340] look at the candidates that are available to them, they decide which one [01:37.340 --> 01:44.220] they want to vote for and they send that representative to the legislature to [01:44.220 --> 01:52.700] speak on their behalf, to act on their behalf, to vote on their behalf. So the [01:52.700 --> 01:58.420] point being here, okay let's say you detest Mitch McConnell or you detest [01:58.420 --> 02:04.260] Nancy Pelosi, well guess what? The people who live in Mitch McConnell's state who [02:04.260 --> 02:09.140] voted for him, who the majority of people who voted for him, that's how you get [02:09.140 --> 02:12.540] elected right to the Senate, the majority vote, the majority of people who voted [02:12.540 --> 02:16.100] for Mitch McConnell, they don't think he's trash or at least they think he's [02:16.100 --> 02:21.620] the best trash available to them. The people in Nancy Pelosi's congressional [02:21.620 --> 02:27.260] district in California, they, you may disagree with what Nancy Pelosi does and [02:27.260 --> 02:31.100] says and I may too, but the people in her district don't, that's the people she [02:31.100 --> 02:38.020] represents. Now with that said, imagine that I was running for, I don't know, the [02:38.020 --> 02:42.260] House, yeah okay, so like yeah no Americans would never vote for me, just [02:42.260 --> 02:46.500] on appearance alone. If I had the best platform ever known in the history of [02:46.500 --> 02:50.020] the United States I would not get elected, but let's just fantasize for a [02:50.020 --> 02:54.420] while and say that I was running for Congress and let's say that you [02:54.420 --> 02:58.500] supported me, I was running in your district, you were aware of my politics, [02:58.500 --> 03:03.420] you're aware of my view of adherence to the Constitution and personal liberty [03:03.420 --> 03:09.700] and that government is overgrown and needs to be severely trimmed back and [03:09.700 --> 03:13.260] that we need, the government needs to be much more respectful of individual [03:14.260 --> 03:24.300] So you agree with my platform and then I say, but I'm not going to run, sorry, and I'm [03:24.300 --> 03:29.860] not going to run because I don't want my family threatened or I don't want my [03:29.860 --> 03:36.340] personal property vandalized. If I'm gonna represent you and of course [03:36.340 --> 03:39.700] somebody's gonna disagree with me, right, you may support me, but somebody's gonna [03:39.700 --> 03:45.580] disagree with me. So are we now sanctioning that politicians with whom [03:45.580 --> 03:49.660] we disagree should have their private property destroyed or damaged? Why would [03:49.660 --> 03:53.860] I run for office? Even if you thought I would make a fantastic candidate, [03:53.860 --> 03:59.300] but a fantastic representative if I won, why would I do that to myself if the [03:59.300 --> 04:07.700] ethos in America is because you support me and you don't like me, the don't like [04:07.700 --> 04:15.420] me crowd can go ahead and destroy or vandalize my property. This is why this [04:15.420 --> 04:21.260] this is just mind-boggling to me. It seems to me that the perspective that [04:21.260 --> 04:26.780] I'm seeing and hearing is basically this very very childish perspective and that [04:26.780 --> 04:33.300] is, well, I don't like government or I don't like that person in government and [04:33.300 --> 04:40.220] because, well, goddammit, I don't like it, now we can go fuck with their shit. So [04:40.220 --> 04:45.220] that's what children say. That's not what adults say. It's not what responsible [04:45.220 --> 04:50.260] citizens say. It's just, as I said at the beginning, it's just mind-boggling to [04:50.260 --> 04:54.380] me that we've reached that point. Now I do want to draw a distinction. This is a [04:54.380 --> 04:59.580] very important distinction that I think exists in America. It existed in 2020 and [04:59.580 --> 05:04.140] it exists now that we're in 2021 and that is there's been people that have [05:04.140 --> 05:11.740] stepped down who were government health officials and they have stepped down [05:11.740 --> 05:15.540] because their property has been vandalized or they felt their family was [05:15.540 --> 05:20.620] at risk. That I don't have a problem with because, number one, they're not elected [05:20.620 --> 05:23.740] officials and, number two, they were functioning on dictatorial emergency [05:24.500 --> 05:32.700] They were acting basically as kings, as potentates, as tyrants. They are not elected officials. [05:32.700 --> 05:38.220] They don't represent you and I, but yet they had the powers of a king and when the [05:38.220 --> 05:44.340] citizens got upset with that, they were like, whoa, I'm out. I support that. When [05:44.340 --> 05:49.340] somebody has dictatorial powers, when somebody has tyrannical powers, when they [05:49.340 --> 05:56.140] are appointed bureaucrats with the power of a king, yeah, I don't care if they get [05:56.140 --> 05:59.980] threatened and run out of office. That's an entirely different dynamic. So I want [05:59.980 --> 06:05.020] to share with you, if I was a director of health for a county, I want to share with [06:05.020 --> 06:11.180] you what I would in my very first press conference, if we could go back to the [06:11.180 --> 06:15.340] beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 incident, I want to go back to the very beginning and [06:15.420 --> 06:21.900] read to you a statement as I would present it to the public if I was a county health [06:21.900 --> 06:27.420] director. As county health director, I am establishing the following emergency order [06:27.420 --> 06:33.900] to address the current contagion. However, before I detail those measures, I want you [06:33.900 --> 06:43.500] to know that this order expires in 30 days and will not be renewed thereafter. The [06:43.500 --> 06:50.540] reason for the 30 day expiration and my unwillingness to renew it is that the [06:50.540 --> 06:56.860] county board comprised of your elected representatives is able to meet and make [06:56.860 --> 07:04.060] future decisions based on the will of the people of this county. I am not an elected [07:04.060 --> 07:11.420] official. They are. I do not represent the people of this county. The commissioners do. [07:12.380 --> 07:17.820] I am an appointed bureaucrat, recognizing there is a vast difference between a [07:17.820 --> 07:24.060] bureaucrat acting essentially as a dictator under the authority of an emergency decree [07:24.060 --> 07:29.260] and the will of the people as expressed through their elected representatives. I cannot, [07:29.260 --> 07:35.500] in good conscience, continue to act unilaterally when your county legislature is capable of [07:35.500 --> 07:40.060] meeting and voting for the measures best suited for the people who elected them. [07:41.020 --> 07:47.580] For that reason, the order I am about to discuss includes a provision expressly stating it can be [07:47.580 --> 07:54.300] terminated prior to 30 days by a simple majority vote of the county board. Whether the order [07:54.300 --> 08:01.660] terminates in 30 days or sooner, I will continue to provide needed input to our county's elected [08:01.660 --> 08:07.420] representatives so they may be as well informed as possible regarding the situation we face. [08:08.220 --> 08:14.460] Because there are considerations beyond that which my office exists to address, I encourage [08:14.460 --> 08:21.100] our community members to share your thoughts and concerns with your elected county representatives. [08:22.060 --> 08:27.100] I think you can see a pretty huge distinction in what I would do if I was a county health director [08:27.100 --> 08:31.820] and what we've seen governors do, state health directors, county health directors do across [08:31.820 --> 08:38.140] the nation. But I did want to draw this distinction between the fact that it is, [08:38.140 --> 08:43.660] in my opinion, completely off the rails, completely inappropriate for the reasons I stated earlier, [08:44.380 --> 08:48.780] to threaten the safety of or to vandalize the property of [08:49.260 --> 08:53.100] elected representatives versus, [08:53.740 --> 09:06.620] ah yeah, I don't have the same feelings about people who are exercising dictatorial powers.