Welcome back to The Kevin Jackson Show where common sense still rents property in America, though apparently not in California because the taxes are too high.

Folks, there is trouble in Leftist Paradise, and you can measure it the way archaeologists measure the collapse of ancient civilizations: abandoned structures, fleeing citizens, and governors standing in front of cameras insisting everything is “vibrant.”

After hearing Stuart Varney talking about the exodus from blue states, and it raises the most obvious question in modern politics: if Democrat policies are so magical, why are millions of people treating Democrat-run states like a house with a carbon monoxide leak?

Seriously. Democrats campaign like they invented happiness itself. They talk about “equity,” “compassion,” “community,” and “sustainability.” But apparently the most sustainable thing in California is the outbound lane on Interstate 10.

They estimate somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million people have left California in recent years. And remember, the official population decline looks smaller because babies are still being born there. In other words, California has become a state where the stork and the U-Haul are passing each other on the freeway like shift changes at a factory.

Think about that. California lost over 200,000 residents in 2019 alone. That’s not a migration pattern. That’s an evacuation with better coffee.

And businesses? Don’t even start. Estimates range from 300 to over 800 companies either relocating headquarters or moving major operations out of the state. Imagine building the most beautiful restaurant in town, then discovering every customer is sprinting toward the parking lot carrying to-go boxes.

Tesla left.

Oracle left.

Charles Schwab left.

Other companies quietly slipped out the back door like party guests who suddenly heard someone say, “Before dessert, let’s discuss reparations and new permit fees.”

And Democrats still talk like the midterms are going to be some giant awakening. Awakening to what?

The thrill of paying fourteen dollars for a kale wrap while stepping over a human landmine on the sidewalk?

People aren’t leaving red states to move into blue states anymore. They’re leaving blue states because the “progressive dream” started to resemble a luxury escape room where every clue costs another tax increase.

California remains economically gigantic, no question about it. It’s still a powerhouse. Silicon Valley alone can generate enough wealth to make smaller nations blush. But at the same time, California has turned daily life into what feels like the world’s most expensive loyalty test.

Can you survive the gas prices?

Can you survive the regulations?

Can you survive the crime?

Can you survive explaining to your child why math is now emotionally problematic?

[X] SB – Teacher Darren

Congratulations! You win the privilege of renting a one-bedroom apartment for the price of a liver transplant.

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We must discuss CA and LA. Talk about a whole lot of crazy.

When have we discussed a Republican-controlled city?

State? Florida.

DeSantis is doing his job.

Bought into the lie, told to him by rich fat cats.

Rubio is making a presidential bid.

CA taxing the heck out of you.

And let me provide credibility out of the gate.

Look at what the LA City Council has done.

https://x.com/Dapper_Det/status/2052198592769654809

The Woke LA City Council just passed a landmark motion (14-0) to ban police from making traffic stops—becoming the first legislative body in the U.S. to take such a dangerous step.

They passed this UNANIMOUSLY!

Do they have any idea what this will do?! One of the first steps to solving crimes comes with police traffic stops. Human, child-sex & narcotics trafficking. You could rob a bank and not get pulled over. Drunk drive. What about drive-by shootings.

A carjacker could not get pulled over? I’m just wondering. What is the role of traffic cops?

But it gets worse. Because remember, the “leadership” in LA can burn down houses with immunity. And then raise money to launder to their campaigns.

Rep Kevin Kiley spoke on how the fundraising to help people rebuild their homes has been squandered.

[X] SB – LA Fire Aid concert funds squandered

18,000 homes 30 dead

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Trump, China, and the Petrodollar: The Quiet Financial Ambush Nobody Saw Coming

I marvel at the genius of Donald Trump, and yes, I’m fully aware that saying this publicly causes certain people to react like Victorian women spotting an exposed ankle.

“We get it, Kevin. You like Trump.”

Correct.

And while the NeverTrump crowd continues fantasizing that I spend my evenings in a sequined MAGA marching-band uniform twirling pom-poms to Lee Greenwood songs, admiration becomes unavoidable when you watch a man repeatedly turn global power structures into IKEA furniture assembled without instructions, yet somehow sturdier than before.

Because what Trump is doing with Venezuela, Iran, and China isn’t random. It isn’t improvisation. It isn’t “orange-man chaos.”

It’s leverage.

And the frightening part for Democrats is this: they still think politics operates entirely inside press conferences, polling data, and emotionally manipulative TikTok videos featuring women crying in parked Subarus.

Trump understands something far older and far more brutal.

Civilizations run on energy.

Empires run on currency.

And the nation controlling both gets to write history in ink while everybody else scribbles in pencil.

For years China believed America had grown too decadent, too distracted, and too apologetic to defend the dollar’s dominance. Beijing watched Democrats transform the United States into a country increasingly governed by HR departments, pharmaceutical jingles, and people who put pronouns in email signatures longer than the emails themselves.

China saw weakness.

Frankly, who wouldn’t?

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Wars age people. Not just soldiers. Everybody.

They age taxpayers who never asked to finance them. They age mothers refreshing news feeds at 2 a.m. They age nations that slowly begin measuring normal life by the intervals between explosions. Even television anchors begin to look like casino dealers who’ve spent too many years under fluorescent lights pushing geopolitical roulette chips around a spinning table labeled “Democracy.”

Which is why President Donald Trump announcing a cease fire between Russia and Ukraine lands with the force of a cold glass of water thrown into a burning kitchen.

Perfect timing, too.

Barely had the smoke started clearing from tensions involving Iran before Trump reminded the world of something Washington’s permanent war mascots desperately try to suppress: the man they compared to Hitler for a decade keeps preventing wars instead of starting them.

That creates a branding problem.

After all, how are media executives supposed to maintain their emotional support apocalypse if peace keeps breaking out like an unsupervised prison riot? CNN practically operates like a 24-hour haunted house attraction where every hallway contains Wolf Blitzer whispering, “This could escalate.” MSNBC analysts look emotionally bereaved anytime missiles stop flying. Somewhere inside the Pentagon, an intern probably fainted into a Raytheon brochure.

Meanwhile, ordinary people around the world are quietly asking a forbidden question:

What if Trump was right about all this?

Because despite years of propaganda portraying him as an unstable orange wrecking ball with Wi-Fi access, Trump’s foreign policy record increasingly resembles that one mechanic everybody mocked until their own car burst into flames on the interstate. Suddenly the loudmouth guy nobody respected is standing there with jumper cables and a functioning engine.

And the numbers matter.

Nobody in corporate media wants to discuss how many lives are saved every single day a cease fire holds. Dead civilians do not return from the grave because a New York Times columnist finally feels “morally satisfied.” Children do not regrow limbs because some NATO bureaucrat delivered a speech using the phrase “rules-based international order” seventeen times in one paragraph.

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Alright folks, welcome to The Kevin Jackson Show, where we don’t just connect dots… we tell you who drew the map, then who tried to redistrict you out of it.

Because Leftists want us ERASED. From history.

I heard that while we are looking to negotiate with Iran, they attacked one of our ships and Trump responded with a “love tap”.

I use that term when I was fighting competitively…

But I smell a rat here. Every time negotiations get close, something suddenly happens. A ship gets hit. A militia wakes up feeling spicy. Somebody fires a missile like they’re trying to impress girls at a regional warlord mixer.

Part of it may be the chaos inside Iran right now. Power struggles, factions, instability.

Or maybe this is just how Iran negotiates: “Before we discuss peace terms, we’d first like to set something on fire.”

And I actually appreciate Trump’s measured response. Because Democrats desperately want him to overreact. They want mushroom clouds so they can run on, “See?! He’s insane!”

But instead Trump treats Iran like a drunk cousin at a barbecue.

“You calm down or I’m gonna have to thump you in front of everybody.”

A couple strategic swats. A little reminder. Nothing theatrical.

And that drives the Left CRAZY because restraint ruins their screenplay.

Every time Trump appears on camera looking calm and competent, Democrats react like vampires hearing a church bell.

Because they remember Biden.

Good grief. Biden shuffled around like a Roomba searching for a docking station.

The man would start a sentence in Ohio and finish it emotionally in Brussels.

And I’ll get deeper into Iran later because this situation still needs to play out. Geopolitics is like crockpot cooking. You can’t keep lifting the lid every seven minutes screaming, “IS FREEDOM READY YET?!”

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I have another great show for you today, and I will tell you now that it’s impossible to keep up with the news cycle, so I give you what matters most to me.

The other day I shared my insights on a comment made by John Brennan.

He exposed that our votes haven’t counted in decades. Presidents are supposed to be figureheads, and not activists for the people.

[X] SB – Brennan 1

Brennan was taken aback that Trump would dare implement HIS agenda.

Brennan bragged that he worked for 6 presidents and he had never seen one of them do that.

[X] SB – AOC on it’s not possible to earn $1B

$1B is unearned.

That’s right. Exactly correct.

Market power. Break rules. Abuse labor laws. Pay people less. Can’t earn that. Create a myth.

AOC says it’s impossible to earn a billion dollars. Impossible. Which tells you less about economics than it does about the size of her mental studio apartment.

That’s the Left’s whole philosophy now: if they can’t imagine it, it must be evil.

These are people who think gender is a watercolor painting but success is somehow rigidly capped at “assistant manager at a vegan co-op.”

And what a confession this is. Think about it. She’s essentially saying:

“No human being could possibly create THAT much value.”

Really? So what’s the value of a cure for polio? What’s the value of electricity? Air conditioning in Phoenix alone should make somebody a trillionaire by August.

Imagine saying this to history’s innovators.

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It’s like the boy who cried wolf… except now the wolf shows up… and people are like, “Let’s hear the wolf’s side.”

Meanwhile, Donald Trump gets called a Nazi so often, you’d think it was on his business cards.

“Nazi.”

“Fascist.”

“Threat to democracy.”

Over and over and over.

And yet somehow… none of the investigations, indictments, media deep-dives, or political witch hunts have produced… you know… a swastika tattoo.

Not one.

But here we are… in this upside-down carnival… where imaginary offenses get maximum outrage… and actual, visible, undeniable ones get a sympathy tour.

It’s not just hypocrisy. Hypocrisy at least tries to hide. This is performance hypocrisy.

This is Broadway-level. Costumes, lighting, choreography.

They don’t even care that you see it anymore. In fact, I think they assume you won’t.

Or worse… that you’ll notice… and just accept it.

And that’s where the real punchline lands.

Because the message isn’t subtle. It’s actually very clear:

There are two standards.

Two sets of rules.

Two entirely different definitions of outrage.

And the dividing line isn’t what you did…

It’s who you are… and whose team you’re on.

So yeah… it turns out you can survive just about anything in modern politics…

Even the most radioactive symbol in modern history…

As long as the right people are willing to say,

“He had a rough period.”

And apparently… that’s all it takes.

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Why can’t politicians just tell the truth? Particularly Leftists?

And I know for a fact they lie. Almost all the time.

I’m replaying a clip from this woman who want Smith-Mundt back. And with good reason.

[X] SB – Woman wants Smith-Mundt back…

Passed in 1948, the law governed how the U.S. government could conduct public diplomacy abroad. Think Cold War messaging like Voice of America beaming into Eastern Europe.

One key restriction:

The government wasn’t supposed to aim those materials at domestic audiences. The idea was to prevent Uncle Sam from running a propaganda loop on its own citizens.

Lying has become second-nature for Leftist politicians and the media.

They are philosophically tied to lying.

I speak of Contrarians often and have recently, because I’m sick of them.

I hate Trump!

Why? Because of inflation.

He didn’t cause it.

Why? Because of the deficit.

He didn’t cause it.

Why? Because I just do and I’ve run out of excuses to rationalize being a LEMMING.

People hate to be wrong. It causes physical and psychological pain with the latter being the worst.

What does it say about a person unwilling to admit he or she is wrong? I know the answer, but will leave it for others to ponder.

I know this, I hate being ignorant, which is why I detest the ignorant who won’t admit it.

I’m dumb in so many things. And I freely acknowledge it.

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