August 21, 2026
Steve Hilton, the GOP nominee for Governor of California, talks to Joe Rogan.
Joe and Hilton are old friends, and this discussion goes on for 3 hours, so this should be a major boost for Hilton. I'll just jump in at the point where they are talking about the waste of money on nonprofits that deal with homelessness:
Steve Hilton: This woman runs a homeless nonprofit, 1.6 million dollar salary. Homeless nonprofit.... There's another one... 2.6 million a year....Joe Rogan: And here's the most important thing. The homelessness only got worse. Like if in the private sector, imagine if you were a CEO of a company that was just losing insane amounts of money and never completing its tasks, never doing the thing that it set out to do....Steve Hilton: The more I look at it, the more insane it is. And everyone just looks at it and no one's ever pointed this stuff out.... The government just makes everything so expensive in California. Everyone says, oh, it's so expensive. What are we going to do? We'd better give them more welfare benefits... we better have a billionaire wealth tax.... They don't have that mentality of cutting costs like every normal business.... And this is what happens, I think, when you've got this one party rule thing that's been going on for 16 years now. They've run everything. They don't care because they think they'll be in power forever and it just doesn't matter....
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Wondering if Hilton has a chance.
If you dump taxpayer dollars into something you will create an ecosystem that maximizes the amount of money that the government spends on it. Homelessness Industrial Complex participation is the biggest grift that an NGO can run and the most profitable.
Legit CEO pay at that level requires real work and measurable results.
So much of the energy of the left is driven by a core of hot Trump-hatred. He will be out of power in two years at the latest, and even if replaced by his acolyte Vance, the vacant space will be huge. It is only then that the emptiness of the Democratic party becomes impossible for even themselves to ignore.
The grift follows the graft in an Ouroboros process.
Money Manager - Many of us thought the same thing about the Democrat reaction to Ronald Reagan, and then came Bush Derangement, and McCain being a warmonger when he wasn't senile, and Romney was giving people cancer and putting blacks in chains .... Like the man said, things that can't go on forever usually stop but I dunno if we've seen the bottom of Democrat crazy.
The insanity of doing something over and over and expecting different results. Or the frog in the heating water syndrome. People don’t want to acknowledge that what they’re paying for is not working. That’s too shameful to admit. So they’ll go on doing it until there’s no room for themselves on the streets, in the environment or in the budget. They are actually purposefully paying tons of money to be overrun by filth, drugs, fires, and street vermin of all sorts.
Forget it, Jake. It's California.
The Democrats actually want this. It’s the logic of the New Deal at its epitome… government job creation. The government, in Democrat ideology, is the legitimate creator of the right kind of jobs. The massive salaries to NGO execs are what was envisioned and instituted.
The problem with NGOs is a problem that runs throughout government: there is no way to value what they do and no way determine the appropriate amount of money to spend.
Mix that with the mutual backscratching that goes on between NGOs and government bureaucrats spending other people’s money and you get a cadre of people absurdly overpaid for jobs that don’t seem to achieve much of anything.
Well, good morning from Calunicornia! Yes, it’s true… we are fucked.
Leaving California was the best move I ever made. The costs and regulations are crushing. I had a very high paying senior position at a company and was literally living paycheck to paycheck. And the lifestyle I had would be considered lower middle class in every other state. I have no idea how the blue collar workers survive there.
"It’s the logic of the New Deal at its epitome… government job creation. The government, in Democrat ideology, is the legitimate creator of the right kind of jobs. The massive salaries to NGO execs are what was envisioned and instituted."
This.
It existed long before Trump was on the scene politically. Our Democrat friends have been pulling this grafting billshit (yes, billshit) for a long time.
All with the approval of The Leftists here. Remember how cutting USAID was going to result in millions of deaths worldwide? Still waiting.
…the rest of us don’t get to abandon California. If Republicans in DC want to accomplish anything they need to negotiate with Michigan and New York and California and a few others unwilling to give up the corruption. The Republicans in turn are mire than happy to oblige- gosh darn it we just don’t have the one two however many votes we need to come up one short…meanwhile if you want the war budget you need to keep the trillion dollar fraud budget growing and we also need a few of your best heads to roll. You got it!
What's happening in California, or any blue state, is viewed by the Democratic office holders as success. As the example of homelessness getting worse, that's not failure. It's necessary. Once the problem is solved, the money stops. Can't have that. That's all that matters. The money. The power.
Funny how this gets posted along with the story of Harry and Meaghan leaving California. Even the royals can’t afford California once their grift came to an end.
Hey Dave, Hilton has no chance. Visit California and get to know the natives. They are like the meme of the dog in the burning bar saying everything is fine. They are fine with the train to nowhere that will cost billions and probably never get built. They are fine with making theft of less than $1000 a non-crime. They are fine with driving the billionaires who pay the bulk of the taxes out of the state. They are not rational.
The $1.6 Million Dollar Woman’s annual salary was actually in the $400K range. She got an extra $800K spread over two years for what is claimed to be “unused vacation” accrued over 40 years of service, which is certainly worthy of the California Attorney General seeking restitution.
Her nonprofit focuses on domestic violence victims. The CEO of a similar nonprofit that I have donated to in Massachusetts makes $200K a year, so the CAG should claw back some of the $400K salary too.
I haven’t been able to find the details on the 2.6 Million Dollar Person, but I imagine they won’t quite match Steve and Joe’s story either.
Is the Democrat party a scam? YEP
…USAID was long known to be a government clearing house for graft, somewhere there’s a 20/20 or some such from the 90s about it…unfortunately USAID is the crummy appendix attached to a government colon full of shitty entitlement fraud…
Shorter Left Bank: “They’re not stealing as much as is claimed.”
CA citizens voted by a large majority to roll back the ridiculous soft on crime policies. Becerra’s election as governor will continue the mismanaged decline. If the billionaire’s tax passes the decline will accelerate-anyone with more assets than the average assembly member is at risk of having assets confiscated. Often I wonder while I am still here. But the cycling is fantastic so I stay…
the D in the race (Becerra) is a fraud.
Becerra lost 400,000 illegal children. Under Crook Joe's and Becerra's failed installation as Biden's sec of health and human services.
I''ve heard it's up to 400,000 children lost to the dark underground sex and exploitation rings.
sort of like when dems don't care about tortured beagles or Hasan Piker's and El-Sayed;'s open dog abuse. sort of - except it's actual humans - children.
Becerra’s lost kids scandal deepens with claims 130,000 still missing as governor bid comes under fire
Even ignorant farm kids know that pigs love the slop they roll in. Same deal with ignorant urban kids knowing that Democrats LOVE the crime, homelessness, drugs, and graft. To them, it really is "normal".
Don't get in the mud with NGOs. You get dirty. the NGOs are dirty, and the NGOs love it.
"Wondering if Hilton has a chance."
Fran Hong's pollsters say "no"...so maybe.
Dems win in CA - due to cheating.
Here is a great movie showcasing the wonderous delights of a Bernie Sanders future.
A great many NGOs become non-profit by paying enormous salaries so that all the money is gone by the end of each year. Tax benefits and prestige accrue from this simple maneuver. The elite, who sold all our manufacturing to China and thereby impoverished towns and cities all across America, make sure their useless children are employed at top salaries by means of this simple device. Trump is taking on this whole situation in all its varied manifestations - exposing the fake news that hides it, the DEI-rotted universities that credential it, the corrupted social sciences that observe and record the situation with eyes wide shut. He will be known as one of the greatest of Americans. The measure of the hatred directed at him is the measure of his greatness because that hatred flows from fear of exposure by the elites and from fear of a painful reality by the TDSers. Our country is in danger and the one confronting that danger is the one most hated - today. Today, blindness and blind cowardice are much admired but it will not be so in the future, no matter how this all comes out.
"no one's ever pointed this stuff out"
People have been pointing this stuff out my whole life. I mean, come on...Ronald Reagan?
Obviously pointing it out didn't solve the problem. Republicans have talked about this stuff endlessly for decades, but never did anything. It has gotten much worse. That's why Trump was elected. And still...
Will Hilton solve it if he gets elected? Pardon my skepticism.
There are wars needin' a fightin' in that thar Middle East. Of course pointing stuff out but doing nuthin' will continue.
Hilton has no chance. California is the perfect example of what happens when the recipients of government benefits outnumber those who are paying for them.
16 years? What timeline is this?
“A democracy [in California] cannot exist as a permanent form of government. *It can only exist until [California] voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the [California] treasury.* From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy..."
― Alexander Fraser Tytler
Homelessness is a very lucrative business. Those who are in the business are cynical enough to call it what it is in private, "junkie ranching". They work to increase the size of their herds.
"They don't care because they think they'll be in power forever and it just doesn't matter...." An easy conclusion to come to if you know you've erected the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics, and on a national level you've planted someone like Thune in a position to protect it. Being so blatantly uncaring as to the opinion or reaction of the voters makes no sense unless you know they've been cut out of the equation altogether.
wildswan,
"A great many NGOs become non-profit by paying enormous salaries so that all the money is gone by the end of each year."
How to say **I have no idea what the term non-profit means** without having to actually say it.
Freddie Prinze would call Steve Hilton a Hungalishmerican.
Hilton would have to be better than anyone else California has to offer, but I still chuckle or wince at the "Big Society" slogan he thought up for PM David Cameron.
Our sons, daughters and grandchildren live here, so we will stay in Calunicornia.
Bernie Sanders - champion of the working class!
LBC @ 7:11
I laughed out loud because you think that is a flex.
"You're not getting fucked over for 1.6 million. That's not true. You're only getting fucked over for 400,000."
As if that fixes anything.
Breezy.
All of this is by design. It is why nobody leaves politics broke.
In a just world AOC would be turning tricks off the main drag in Las Vegas and Burnies Sanders would be living in a carboard box under a freeway overpass.
They can waste billions in graft, waste, and corruption because they have mail-in voting and an army of illegal aliens, non-English speaking citizens, blacks, and deadhead libtards who will go to the polls and vote (D) no matter what.
You also have a lot of immigrants in California who come from India and other places that have graft and corruption 10x worse than the state. California seems like a well run state to them.
To all those who think the democrats win in California because of cheating, LMAO. They do not need to cheat in California. There are very few republicans and independents in California. The vast majority of voters will vote democrat no matter what. It’s like the vast majority of commentators here who vote republican no matter what. At most the voters in California wish there were candidates even more to the left than democrats that they could choose. The things we criticize California politics for, they see as virtues.
I'm a native Californian (for 84 years) and Steve Hilton is no more than a foreign born carpetbagger who, if elected, will be a not so innocent bystander as the Democrats continue or their mission to destroy the state.
Been here in Cali since ‘56. I’ll take Hilton over the douchebagger Becerra - the man with the Stimpy smile - any flippin’ day of the week and twice on Sunday.
The rules:
All dems are allowed a life-pass to be as creepy corrupt and horrid as possible.
The GOP candidate will be picked and pulled apart with any microscopic teeny tiny meaningless thread.
It's a PSA. Donors be wary of virtuous intentions with liberal compensation and progressive problems. People also donate to Planned Parenthood, to perform human rites, a wicked solution.
As long as people feed the California economy, the non-profits, as long as the military finds safe harbor, la la land will remain viable.
Great to see Britain exporting its surplus of political chancers abroad.
Hilton captured about 80% of the natural republican voters, who are about 35% of the state's electorate. He only made the runoff because the democrat candidates were split more that two ways. He has zero change in the general election.
California could do with a more competitive political landscape but as long as the Republicans stay on the MAGA train the less likely they are to get anywhere. More competitive seats would be nice but not likely.
" The vast majority of voters will vote democrat no matter what" You only believe this because of vote totals from the last 30 years. California voted for Reagan. California voted to ban gay marriage by a healthy margin in 2008 (one supposes they didn't feel a need to try to steal that one). Arguing that there isn't voter fraud because of an impression 100% generated by historic vote totals is kinda the definition of begging the question.
“I had a very high paying senior position at a company and was literally living paycheck to paycheck. And the lifestyle I had would be considered lower middle class in every other state. I have no idea how the blue collar workers survive there.”
As in most blue states, I imagine the amount of Irish Democracy going on is in direct proportion to the intrusiveness and greed of the government. I live in a part of Washington State where following the edicts of Olympia seems to be considered optional.
While that’s fun and gratifying, I don’t think it’s a good thing in the long run. Far better to have responsible, competent, government that respects the liberties of citizens and isn’t merely an engine for graft.
Reagan was governor, what 60 years ago! That version of California is long gone with the aerospace and military people. Californians banned gay marriage at a time when leading democrats like Clinton and Obama were on record as being against gay marriage. Try again. Thanks for playing but you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about.
I donate to a non-profit called Water is Basic. Focuses on training, educating, and enabling people in one specific country to install and maintain clean operating wells. Their mission is simple - solve the water availability issues of that country by 2030. Their stance is this issue isn't permanent - we have a clear plan, scalable model, and timeline. Once we accomplish it, we'll expand to other countries/regions but until then you know exactly where and to what your money is going towards and you can measure whether we succeed in the short/medium term.
It's refreshing in a non-profit. Like a cool glass of water.
''Bob Boyd said...
"no one's ever pointed this stuff out"
People have been pointing this stuff out my whole life. I mean, come on...Ronald Reagan?
Obviously pointing it out didn't solve the problem. Republicans have talked about this stuff endlessly for decades, but never did anything. It has gotten much worse. That's why Trump was elected. And still...
Will Hilton solve it if he gets elected? Pardon my skepticism.
8/21/26, 8:38 AM''
Same here. California is a rich state. Pointing out the grift doesn't matter to democrats, but a homeless person on the street, the people who can't afford houses, or eat - the train which isn't being built - it's all Trumps fault
We are crossing Canada, and I am an hour into this. Hilton seems like an intelligent, driven man, with a good head on his shoulders and good ideas. Too bad he doesn’t stand a chance against hoods Hispanic, democrat opponent.
Left Bank of the Charles said...
The $1.6 Million Dollar Woman’s annual salary was actually in the $400K range. She got an extra $800K spread over two years for what is claimed to be “unused vacation” accrued over 40 years of service, which is certainly worthy of the California Attorney General seeking restitution.
Her nonprofit focuses on domestic violence victims. The CEO of a similar nonprofit that I have donated to in Massachusetts makes $200K a year, so the CAG should claw back some of the $400K salary too.
I haven’t been able to find the details on the 2.6 Million Dollar Person, but I imagine they won’t quite match Steve and Joe’s story either.
This is how stupid you have to be to vote for democrats.
"Visit California and get to know the natives. They are like the meme of the dog in the burning bar saying everything is fine."
I'm from California and I have family and friends there. They're not all like the dog in the burning bar but unfortunately, the ones that aren't are vastly outnumbered.
Do you like this $1.6 million dollar gig?
- Who wouldn't?
Bet it makes you work especially hard to eliminate homelessness.
- Good one.
This is how stupid you have to be to vote for democrats.
He's the people the party counts on.
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