 The UC Berkeley Institute of governmental studies along with the Los Angeles Times conducted a poll to gauge the level of support for the recall effort against Governor Gavin Newsom, and more importantly for purposes of this video, gauged the level of support for celebrity Katelyn Jenner. And I've got to say that the results of this poll might have single-handedly restored a little bit of my faith and humanity. So as Phil Wilson of the LA Times explains, the campaign to recall Governor Gavin Newsom has failed to gain momentum in recent months as significantly more California voters favor keeping him in office and only anemic support has surfaced for reality TV star Katelyn Jenner, while other Republican candidates hoping to take the governor's place have little backing according to a new UC Berkeley Institute of governmental studies poll that was co-sponsored by the LA Times. The survey's results were especially bleak for retired Olympic gold medalist Jenner as just 6% of Californians who took part in the survey said they would vote to have her replace Newsom. A vast majority of Democrats, Republicans, and unaffiliated or independent voters said they would not be inclined to support her candidacy. Ouch, that has got to hurt. And look, I've got to admit, I'm taking a little bit of a breather. I thought that she actually had a chance. And I say this not because I don't have faith in my fellow Californians, even though they're a deep blue state. Look, you all don't really get a pass from me after voting to elect Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan. After that, we can never trust you all again. I'm so sorry. I know that you're my neighbors and I don't want to start beef with you as an Oregonian and it's not like, you know, those of us in Oregon having elected idiotic lawmakers. But Reagan, Schwarzenegger, yeah, after you elected those two, I could see how it's possible that you might vote for a reality TV star. Sorry, not sorry. Shots fired. No, but in all seriousness, I honestly thought she had a shot, but you can see how there were so many missteps in her campaign right off the start. I mean, she immediately face planted by coming out against trans rights. She knew that it was going to be hard as a trans woman to run in the Republican Party who is currently running a nationwide campaign to vilify transgender people with bills in multiple states. Cracking down on trans athletes in high school. Bathroom panic is a thing that still exists and even trying to ban gender affirming care for youth in some states criminalizing it. So she knew that if she wanted to have any room to grow within this party that she had to be anti trans or at least support anti trans policies and legitimize transphobia as a trans woman. But that didn't really work because people didn't take her seriously. So when she said, oh, it's a matter of fairness and we shouldn't have trans high schoolers, you know, who are female compete with cisgender females. Well, people very quickly pointed out that she participated in a women's golf tournament. What a fucking hypocrite. In other words, she threw her entire community under a bus and she didn't even believe what she had to say. That is craven. That's just disgusting. And on top of that, she very clearly tried to go for the populist Trump style of Republican Party politics. And what she did was she tried to appeal to anti elitism and that sentiment, the anti establishment sentiment in the country. But the optics of her campaign were awful. So in her Sean Hannity interview, they literally conducted the interview in her hangar. And in that interview, she complained about all of the homeless people that are in California and her rich friends who also have private jets. They are frustrated with all of the icky poor people and homeless people in California. And as she's talking, you can hear the private jets taking off. The optics couldn't be worse. But I mean, this is a very, very rich person. And, you know, when rich people get bored, they tend to get involved in politics. Doesn't mean they actually care about the issues. No, but Caitlyn Jenner, you know, as a wealthy person, she couldn't do the things that she really enjoyed doing. She couldn't even go out to dinner because of the lockdown in California. You know, and as a rich person, you want to eat at all of the fancy restaurants. I'm sure you want caviar with all of your rich celebrity friends. And she didn't like that there's a lockdown. So she just thought, well, look, I'm bored. There's a pandemic going on and I don't like this. There's a lockdown. So I guess I'll run as the anti-lockdown candidate. You kind of need more than that, right? When so much is at stake, when we have less than 10 years to save the planet and you want to be the governor of one of the largest economies in the world, I think you have to offer a little bit more substance. Perhaps in the 1990s, you could have made it as a reality television show star, probably not as a transgender person, because there's, you know, if you thought that transphobia was bad now, I mean, you don't even look back to the sentiment in the 1990s. But I mean, like this type of candidate, the rich, elitist celebrity, they could have probably made it in California in the 1990s or early 2000s, but nowadays when people are dying due to a pandemic and when we are facing catastrophic levels of climate change, you just have to offer up more. You can't just say, hi, I'm rich and I'm a celebrity. Have you seen my show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians? Do you love it? Well, vote for me because you'll get more of that. No, that's not going to cut it, Caitlin. But congratulations exposing yourself like a dumbass throwing the entire trans community under a bus using your identity to legitimize transphobic policies for a party that doesn't like you because they're still rejecting you even after you threw your entire community under a bus. I mean, you should feel very foolish right now for doing that because you did something that's disgusting and graven and it didn't even pay off. It doesn't look like it's going to pay off. Now, you know, there's still time left. Perhaps she gains momentum. But if you want a chance, stop being so terrible. And it's just stay the fuck out of politics altogether. That's that's the preferable option. We don't need more rich people and reality television shows stars getting involved in American politics. The people who are in power currently are stupid enough. We don't need bottom feeders who are stars of reality television shows to join politics and further dumb down our already idiotic fucking system. Stay out. Good. I'm glad that you're pulling at 6%. That's too high as it is, but I'm not going to lie. I'm relieved because I thought she had a chance. That's how little my faith is in the American people and humanity more broadly speaking. But 6%. Oof. That's got to hurt.