@@turbostatic1 oh my sweet summer child, xenophobia will get you nowhere. And although I am pro-immigration, how did you derive that argument from my comments?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Matthew 7:5
@Siicoris S'sarutu “Get your house in order before you criticize the world.” In case you’re tying to quote Dr. Peterson but that’s not who I was quoting. Regardless it’s basically the same idea that has existed throughout all of humanity.
Yes! From Bakersfield, central Ca. Oilfield and agriculture here. Just a hard working family and homeschool my kids trying to raise good hardworking smart people.
I lived there in the 80s when I was in the Marines. California in the 80s was magic. The best time of my life. California was safe and clean back then..
@@Chevelle602 When my daughter left for California to work in the movie industry I was telling her how fantastic California was. She called me about a week after she got there and said “Dad I thought you said this place was so great…Dad, It’s a shitshow”
I grew up in California, and it wasn't that safe or clean in the '80s. You probably saw the good parts. I still live here because I love the state and what it's given me. I just hate how it's being ran.
I live 2 blocks away from a homeless encampment. I just found a heroin vial in my back yard. My 3 year old nephew live next door. The young college kids voted for this. They think we are helping with free needles. We are a lost state. Lost to cultural and moral decay.
The further we stray from God and Biblical values the worse society gets. Don't mean to sound preachy but it's the truth. The Bible says, "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom". Fear meaning reverence. We as a society have lost our reverence.
I moved to California four years ago and I’m already looking to get out. It’s a beautiful state and I love it, but the politics and taxes are unbearable. It’s something that just can’t be sustained.
Looks like a awesome place to live on paper. Democrats turned that place into a mad house. New Hampshire is a great state, no sales tax. Motto is live free or die, says it on the license plates. Southern NH around port's out would be the place to go, 5 mins from the beach, great places to eat and a shopping district right down the street. Plus your on the border of Maine which is also a great state.
I hear you. I felt the same way but the straw that broke the camels back was being made into a criminal for owning an AR-15 I had to fight in court. Should’ve left sooner
@FRANK203CASTLE New Hampshire is a blue Democrat state too. The difference is it has enough of a Republican opposition that provides a counterbalance to the Democrat majority. In California, one party has monopolized power. Any state that has one party domination (Dem. or GOP) without an opposition and opposing viewpoint is pushed to extreme ideas. I live in a blue state that has a larger percentage of Democrats than California, but we have regularly elected Republicans to be governor (the last 2/4 governors were Republican) so our state has a decent blend of both left and right policies that doesn't let the dominant party become too powerful and carried away with their policies.
@@Intranetusa makes sense, most people I know honestly don't vote on anything. I think that's changed the past few years but the balance makes alot of sense. I think both parties can make it work so no really bad ideas get pushed through. I think the biggest issue is how far left some democrats have gone the past few years. I lean more left than right but they are heading down a bad path for their party and the people who have to deal with it. I just hope it gets sorted out before things get any worse for anyone. I just want a happy health country for all of us. Need that balance back!
Jocko, you speak the language of the people. The world needs people who genuinely care to get involved. Not people who view politics as a career. The world needs people like you, Jocko. Don’t be discouraged when you need to be strong.
Jocko, it has been said that great men don't seek power they have power thrust upon them. We need competent leadership from a man who loves America and has the ability to bring Americans closer together rather than make us more divided. I believe that man is you. Governor Jocko does have a nice ring to it. Or maybe even president Jocko?🤔 Please seriously consider it🙏🙏🙏
I think Mr. President sounds much better. I am one of those who pray Jocko Runs for President..... However, I get it. I completely understand the reservations.
Shout out Jocko. Appreciate that you understand the California Agriculture industry. A lot of people, working very hard to provide this country with the best food possible. Without appreciation or thanks given
I grew up in Orange County, CA. It was amazing growing up there. I’m only 26, but it has changed so much even just from when I was in elementary school. I left in 2019. I will NEVER go back. And now my family is moving to Texas too.
I am a 4th generation dairy farmer in imperial valley and I can verify everything you say about the California tax and business regulations is very true. We have the highest tax and strictest business, labor, and environmental regulations in the country and it is crazy knowing that 85% of winter crops in the us come from the imperial valley and politicians in LA and San Francisco want to take more water away from us despite our water conservation efforts. It is very hard to compete with the prices from china but we as a country are shooting ourselves in foot if we put so much reliance on other countries for food. Thank you for the shout out for our hard working people and the place we live.
I left California last year for a small central Nevada navy town. So happy for it! A lot friendlier and becoming a part of a real community is good for the soul!
I am one of those that has recently moved out of California. Just months ago from the Northern California valley. Lived there for 16 years and could not take any more of the way the state is run. I know of 3 other family’s that I am close to and they moved before me because of the same reason! It is a beautiful state but that wasn’t enough to keep me there. You may make good money but they are taking it right back from in either taxes, housing, or fuel. California gas prices have always been high even when the rest of the country was paying much less. I am much happy being out of that state.
5th generation Californian......it's rough. I remember my mother saying to me when my parents were buying their 2nd house in 1979, "If prices keep going up, I don't know how you'll ever afford it". I think they paid like $75k for a new 1600sqft rancher on a couple acres. That place is easily $1.5m now. But I think there are much larger problems, water being the first. Secondly, I'd say infrastructure, roads, etc. And we're currently being held hostage to a multi-billion dollar "high-speed" train, which keeps getting smaller in scope and larger in price, yeah we could use some big change here. I won't even mention the southern border, another whole can of worms. But the whole reason I commented was to say that I'd vote for Jocko for Governor. He'd run laps around that fool we have in there now.
I cannot believe what has happened to the once great state of CALIFORNIA. A lot of these so called LIBERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS should be IMPEACHED AND MADE TO STAND TRAIL FOR DESTROYING THE STATE AND PUTTING IN A STATE OF EXTREMELY UNSAFE CONDITIONS FOR IT'S CITIES AND POPULATION. CALIFORNIA IS IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY.
My father, a Marine, went into local politics after he retired. I was shocked because he’d never shown any inclinations to even pay attention to politics, much less participate. But the town in which he lives had a bunch of typical BS going on in the town council, and he ran for office because, as he saw it, if there’s a problem somewhere and he knows about it, he’s obligated to do something. He won a seat and spent the next few years as a Jocko-like voice and influence in the circus side-show. Not long after he got in office, a close friend running for state office asked me to manage his campaign. Despite the fact that I, like my father, had no inclinations to participate in the shit show, I took the job out of respect for my friend and based on my father’s example. I can tell you that experience proved to me what Eli is saying here - if more sane, logical, thoughtful people don’t get involved then we can’t complain becaose the monkeys are running the zoo.
I go from Oakland to stockton to Sacramento on a regular basis, they are horribly underestimating the population of homeless. X2.5 would be appropriate Please run, we need someone.
You be moveing before it ever fixed and you can always surf the great lakes. Especially in the Winter and your a Badass and would enjoy it. 😉 Thank You Sir and you're Brothers for keeping my Family Free. Much Respect!
WE NEED OUR GREATEST WARRIORS LIKE YOU TO RUN FOR OFFICE! Your values and accountability are inspiring virtues and our nation is falling apart . 🍻🇺🇸 Much love from 805 California 🤙🏼
Hey *Jocko* I just came across your video and hit that SUB button. Love the fact that you said "California is the Imperial Valley". I agree, we need new leadership and direction in this state. I appreciate your perspective. Thank you sir.
I recently moved to Alabama from California because AL is a state that does not tax retired military. We just got tired living penny to penny. Seeing our neighbors water their lawns when there is no water because L.A. stole it back in the 70's. Seeing helicopters and fire fighters parked in the school parking lots the entire summer. Having to purchase an RV so we can evacuate with our dogs. The rivers and lakes are all dried up there is no fishing to be done. I desperately hope to go back "home" in a few years. When you grow up near the Pacific Ocean it becomes part of you.
Jocko please run for CA governor! You don't have to stay in politics you just have to get the state back on track. Show the people what needs to be done and the benefits of getting out of this downward spiral, then get back out put your flip flops on and start the pocasts again!
There is a Communist super-majority in Occupied Californiastan. It would make ABSOLUTELY no difference if JW was elected Governor. The Communists would steam-roll anything that JW tried to set straight. We need to let it fail so it can restart. I left Occupied Californiastan in the summer of 2021. I was 7th generation. The state is lost to the Communists. And no, I am not trying to be funny. The Communists have completely taken over. JW talked about the farmers in this video. The water has already been cut off for 2022. There will be virtually no farming in California during the growing season of 2022. The Communists are fully in charge.
@@mattphillips1910 Yup, let California become the flaming dumpster heap, I mean shining, example of godless failed progressivism. And it let it become a warning for generations to come.
So much truth for too many deaf ears who will never even hear this message because their owners perceive you as an enemy. You are under no obligation to serve your country any further, but know that you already have the support of millions who think, feel, and believe the same things you do.
Don't overestimate the ability of one man in politics and underestimate his ability with a podcast. Thinking that getting your guy in charge will fix the problem, when the problem is much larger than the individual players, is naive. Jocko is doing far more good in his current role than he could do elsewhere. However, the benefits will take decades to realize, when the kids who watch him now become tomorrow's leaders. Let Jocko do what he does best, attack from the flank.
The comment I was searching for. Exactly THIS! People think that the only way you can change things is through direct politics. Many don’t understand that culture is the real game. The ideas dominating the public debate, the mind and the heart of the people. Jocko is already doing the best thing he can do. The ideas he is bringing in his podcast have a much more deep impact that he could ever do as an congressman.
That’s an interesting perspective, and I hadn’t thought of it that way. The only counter I have to that is to say that we need real leadership both on a state level and a national level. Without a strong and competent leader who possesses integrity, people are lost and easily deceived and misled. But maybe you are correct. It’s not always best to lead from the front.
I grew up on Coronado with a pilot step dad. We would fly all over Cali. I got to see the "Imperial Valley" beauty from the air and ground. Surfing and skiing in the same day, yep, you can. California is a beautiful magical place that's being destroyed and it really saddens me. My heart was left in Coronado in the 80's.
I used to get mad about what they've done to such a great place but now it's just depressing. I've worked for a lot of bosses that refuse to stop for a second and rethink and sometimes the best thing to do is to let it blow up in their faces.
I love California, enough to stay and fight for it. Sure it has a ton of downfalls but I refuse to take the easy road out and just move somewhere my heart doesn’t belong. Like Jocko says, California isn’t LA and SF. People have a hard time grasping that.
Exactly. Running away is not a solution. It is the 5th largest economy on the world. The country needs California. If we let it fall apart, we damage the whole country.
@@Dude-mz8su Running away from this problem is like putting a bandage on a wound that needs surgery. These problems will follow us to the other states, just like the gun control they want to try grafting to the rest of our country and various other failing policies.
Is that why over 75% of the state live in these areas? So we, the central driver of the State's GDP don't matter unless we live in the sticks? Wow... What a unifying message from Republicans. The Democrats are incompetent and yet you offer nothing to counter.
Do it Jocko, you will be supported. Moving to California for my education this fall and am desperate to have some form of representation and you would be the freaking dude!
I was a born and raised Californian. In January of 2022 I finally left. I never thought I would. California left me long before I left it. I am now a Florida citizen, and love it. The only thing that could possibly make me consider coming back would be Jocko as Governor.
Having bought a house in California a year ago and now again this month, there are a TON of people trying to buy here. The competition to buy here is higher than ever.
I am currently a new California political refugee. I work 4/10s in a burn unit, and my other three days I’m building a house in a red state, for my family who are still in California because the economic hostility toward the citizens there doesn’t permit a smooth way for us to fully pull stakes until we have a roof on this end. I lived in cali for 21 years in the Central Valley ( go Fresno state bulldogs!), my wife was born and raised in coastal wine country; it deeply saddens us both what has happened to such a beautiful state that was once a bastion of economic success.
I am on a month long road trip (from England) and Fresno was suprisingly run-down although people had talked highly of it. Stockton looked great on the pictures so I stayed a night but jeez. Apart from a soulless recently updated downtown its really deprived. LA was dirty outside and the food joints were dirty too both chains and independent places. Im glad I am seeing all the shades of California, it is my intention to. But holy shit some parts of the urban areas are fucked. I wouldnt raise a family in California. Im considering migrating to the USA as I love the people in the small towns and cities so much but the large metropolises are to be frank, overated, and mostly shitholes except for the tourist trap areas.
@@thechongwolla oh yeah, Fresno is a total shithole, especially where highway 99 cuts runs through it; meth city all the way and teeming with illegals and the black market crime that comes with it. I lived in a smaller city to the northeast called Clovis, which votes red all the way and was really nice until the state government under our previous moronic governor and our current purely evil governor signed into law and sued clovis for not having enough high density/low income housing called section 8 (government subsidized rent). Our schools went from ranking of 9/10 to 6/10 average in 3 years, litter began showing up all along the highway, graffiti on the signage and buildings, sirens at night as Fresno began coming to Clovis. It’s a sad truth but when you import the ghetto or third world into the non-ghetto/first world you don’t elevate the ghetto/third world, you just get more ghetto/third world. Stockton got a huge taxpayer funded grant to revitalize downtown, same as Fresno, just made fresh new surfaces for the ghetto to spray paint, the homeless to shit on and the addicts to throw needles on. California is doomed and yes it’s a complete shithole, as are all the major cities. They also have one thing in common, they’re run by the same political party with a jackass for its mascot.
The weather keeps me here. But! I'm selling my house in Yosemite. Driving from Nor Cal to SO Cal and seeing the devastating dust bowl that once fed the world? The water has been cut off from all the farmers. Our taxes, our laws, the idiots. I'm looking elsewhere.
That's when I'll be returning. When the homes are cheap after the self destruction. It's gonna be like Detroit. Hopefully it can recover, if so, I'm there.
@@byrdmain7511 ...interesting. I wasn't expecting that response. Or is it that the gangs are just less obvious today? Like the mafia changed from the 30s to the 70s. It's easier to run an organized crime family when you do not invite unwanted attention. I doubt the gangs have not gone away. They haven't elsewhere in the country. Nor has their drug and human trafficking. Also, I would be surprised if these crimes have not been enhanced by the invasion of Ukrainifornia from the south and the idiocy of defunding the police.
love how he says L.A. and San Francisco and Silicon Valley is "NOT" California. This is true and the same for Denver and the rest of Colorado. The two largest cities in a state think they speak for the rest of the state. The imperial valley feeds the world and the rest of the country. Also Salinas Valley feeds the world. I live in the Netherlands and I see food being sold here in Europe from the Salinas valley. I am originally from the Silicon Valley born and raised then lived in Santa Cruz for 12 years now living in europe and truly hate how the media and politicians only speak in terms of San Francisco and L.A. as if those two cities speak for the entire state of California. Also California has lost its mind allowing Gaven to ruin the state even further and line his pockets and his family's also with the help of his Aunt Polosi....
The two largest cities in CO are Denver and the Springs. These are two very different places. Judging by the increasingly stupid laws, one would be inclined to think it's Denver and Boulder.
Agree, but it sure seems like sf and la drive the rest of the state's direction, unfortunately. Another reason why we need to turn the top-heavy .gov back over to an individual's liberty being the only thing that matters (with extremely limited exceptions) - kind of like the founding fathers envisioned and set up.
Except it is because those concrete shit holes can just print votes and bury the rest of the state. Until you can break the tyranny of the cities, California is and will continue to be fucked.
@@philipnilsen7171 Your welcome enjoy a good taco or fresh burrito on me as I envy you right now. I been living in Europe for the past 4 years and miss good fresh food. The only thing we got are fresh strawberries here and cherries. The rest of the food lacks luster and flavor and freshness. I was spoiled back home from Santa Cruz. I miss the foggy salty air.
Jocko , Jocko , Jocko , thank you for announcing what California truly is! Always has been and will always be! Magnificent! Every word you spoke is 💯% true 👍🏻 🇺🇸"JOCKO FOR PRESIDENT"🇺🇸
Jocko, CA does need you, and I think you could get elected. Your success is that position would be contingent on also having hundreds of others like you to run for local and regional offices to support you. Let’s organize that!
Jacko, please do a refresher on the history of George Washington. The reason he was the right man at the right time is because he had zero desire to engage in politics. He wanted nothing more than to retire and live out his life at Valley Forge with Martha. Like you, he was needed. His countrymen called upon him to lead and once he forged the path for the future of our once great republic, he willingly laid down the reins of power and walked away. If any man has the leadership ability to lead us out of our current death spiral and the discipline to walk away once the mission is accomplished, it is you!
Jocko for GOVERNOR step up and run brother California needs you and yes I agree California is an amazing beautiful state and it needs amazing beautiful people to save it
I am what I am. A Conservative. BUT when this Earth blows up and returns to the Space we came from, my ashes will come from here. California is MY home. It is MY place. And YEAH!!!! I am from the Imperial Valley.
California native here, if things don't change I will be gone come come november as I will be vested in my pension. Heck I should leave now as that pension might be squander away by our leaders here. They don't care about the minorities unless it comes election time and they sure as hell don't give a shit about individual rights. Please run for governor.
I would leave ASAP if I were you. Don't let them hold onto your pension any longer than you have to. A lot of people have already lost their money with this Ukraine situation.
I was born and raised in CA. I literally grew up on a surfboard. Spent my whole career working for the state fire department and risking my life for the people of California. But after having a little girl and seeing where California is and where it’s going…. We bailed out. I retired a little early, sold our Northern San Diego home (a home I thought was our forever home), and moved our family to an undisclosed state in the Rockies. As a family we’ve never been happier. My daughter is much happier and will not be indoctrinated it that school system. It’s sad, but liberal politicians have ruined California, and I’m not sure it will ever come back I feel like California left me before I left it Jocko, if you are going to do it go big. California is fucked and will vote for an idiot vs a real leader. Run for President
Here's some food for thought Jocko: I live in the MIdwest and have for my entire life and California and New York are the only States I could never live in. I am independent politically, In California and New York I am a conservative.
Too many issues that need dealt with Jocko. TBH we need a swell of people to get into politics and run for office. There’s a disease of a very high degree that’s involved in our political system. We need good people to run for office at the same time in order to have a chance at making this right for future generations here and all over the world. Who you are, what you believe and how you interact in the world around you matters. Values and integrity are needed
I loved San Diego, O’side and all the way up to OC as a Marine in the late 80s early 90s. I’d hate to see it now. I hope California politics can change for the good of the people!
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
-Plato
Might still be better than having to govern your inferiors tho. Some people simply don’t want to become a nanny
Someones never heard of armed neutrality.
@@fatboyRAY24 someone doesn't understand "import the 3rd world, become the 3rd world."
@@turbostatic1 oh my sweet summer child, xenophobia will get you nowhere. And although I am pro-immigration, how did you derive that argument from my comments?
@@fatboyRAY24 xenophobia? Oh ...leftists shots fired...and like any good leftist argument...you completely missedthe mark...
A wise man once said, “Save your community before you save the world.”
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye;
and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Matthew 7:5
Was that man you?
@Siicoris S'sarutu That's right bucko
@Siicoris S'sarutu “Get your house in order before you criticize the world.” In case you’re tying to quote Dr. Peterson but that’s not who I was quoting. Regardless it’s basically the same idea that has existed throughout all of humanity.
Goblin Slayer?
Yes! From Bakersfield, central Ca. Oilfield and agriculture here. Just a hard working family and homeschool my kids trying to raise good hardworking smart people.
Good on you dude.
BHS Drillers
Never thought I’d see another Bakersfieldian on a Jocko video. Hiiii
I’m from Bakersfield too, lived there 45 years. I sold my company about a year ago and left.
KK's diner is dope
As a California business owner...Jocko, if you ran for Governor I would volunteer all of my time and energy to help get you elected.
Amen
Not a bad thought
As a California business owner, I second this
We need Jocko everywhere. Skip governor, we need him as President
Barring any complications
I'd vote for Jocko against anybody. He is not infallible nor without flaws or failures, but he's an honorable, humble man.
Shoutout to Jocko for mentioning the Imperial Valley! Born and raised!
Venereal Valley is definitely left out of CA's identity. Its a beautiful area.
That’s right that’s right god bless! Holtville right here born and raised.
@@dan.Jay067 holtville representing brotha 💪🏼
Holtville here!
Brawley here, born and raised.
I lived there in the 80s when I was in the Marines. California in the 80s was magic. The best time of my life. California was safe and clean back then..
A lot of places were safe and clean in the 80s that are no longer that way. US culture and society is on a very rapid decline.
@@Chevelle602 When my daughter left for California to work in the movie industry I was telling her how fantastic California was. She called me about a week after she got there and said “Dad I thought you said this place was so great…Dad, It’s a shitshow”
I grew up in California, and it wasn't that safe or clean in the '80s. You probably saw the good parts.
I still live here because I love the state and what it's given me. I just hate how it's being ran.
I live 2 blocks away from a homeless encampment. I just found a heroin vial in my back yard. My 3 year old nephew live next door. The young college kids voted for this. They think we are helping with free needles. We are a lost state. Lost to cultural and moral decay.
The further we stray from God and Biblical values the worse society gets. Don't mean to sound preachy but it's the truth.
The Bible says, "The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom". Fear meaning reverence. We as a society have lost our reverence.
Thank you for mentioning The Imperial Valley Jocko and showing it some love. El Centro is my hometown and my grandparents lived in Calexico.
I moved to California four years ago and I’m already looking to get out. It’s a beautiful state and I love it, but the politics and taxes are unbearable. It’s something that just can’t be sustained.
Looks like a awesome place to live on paper. Democrats turned that place into a mad house. New Hampshire is a great state, no sales tax. Motto is live free or die, says it on the license plates. Southern NH around port's out would be the place to go, 5 mins from the beach, great places to eat and a shopping district right down the street. Plus your on the border of Maine which is also a great state.
I hear you. I felt the same way but the straw that broke the camels back was being made into a criminal for owning an AR-15 I had to fight in court. Should’ve left sooner
@FRANK203CASTLE New Hampshire is a blue Democrat state too. The difference is it has enough of a Republican opposition that provides a counterbalance to the Democrat majority. In California, one party has monopolized power. Any state that has one party domination (Dem. or GOP) without an opposition and opposing viewpoint is pushed to extreme ideas. I live in a blue state that has a larger percentage of Democrats than California, but we have regularly elected Republicans to be governor (the last 2/4 governors were Republican) so our state has a decent blend of both left and right policies that doesn't let the dominant party become too powerful and carried away with their policies.
Right nextdoor in Arizona. Come on over
@@Intranetusa makes sense, most people I know honestly don't vote on anything. I think that's changed the past few years but the balance makes alot of sense. I think both parties can make it work so no really bad ideas get pushed through. I think the biggest issue is how far left some democrats have gone the past few years. I lean more left than right but they are heading down a bad path for their party and the people who have to deal with it. I just hope it gets sorted out before things get any worse for anyone. I just want a happy health country for all of us. Need that balance back!
Born...raised and still living in the IMPERIAL VALLEY ✌👍🏽
Jocko, you speak the language of the people. The world needs people who genuinely care to get involved. Not people who view politics as a career. The world needs people like you, Jocko. Don’t be discouraged when you need to be strong.
Well put.
Thank sir for mentioning my home. I was born and raised in the Imperial Valley. California needs people like you run and put these tyrants on notice!
Represent that’s right. Holtville born and raised.
Jocko, it has been said that great men don't seek power they have power thrust upon them. We need competent leadership from a man who loves America and has the ability to bring Americans closer together rather than make us more divided. I believe that man is you. Governor Jocko does have a nice ring to it. Or maybe even president Jocko?🤔 Please seriously consider it🙏🙏🙏
He is rejecting the call to adventure like a typical hero’s journey…
@@End_Zionism where's Mithrandir when you need him
I'd probably move back if Jocko was governor
Get off his nuts dude.
I think Mr. President sounds much better. I am one of those who pray Jocko Runs for President..... However, I get it. I completely understand the reservations.
Shout out Jocko. Appreciate that you understand the California Agriculture industry. A lot of people, working very hard to provide this country with the best food possible.
Without appreciation or thanks given
Imperial valley is home!!
I grew up in Orange County, CA. It was amazing growing up there. I’m only 26, but it has changed so much even just from when I was in elementary school. I left in 2019. I will NEVER go back. And now my family is moving to Texas too.
America needs you Jacko...and people like you...who have a platform and who have the balls and can step up and make changes that are best for 🇺🇸
I am a 4th generation dairy farmer in imperial valley and I can verify everything you say about the California tax and business regulations is very true. We have the highest tax and strictest business, labor, and environmental regulations in the country and it is crazy knowing that 85% of winter crops in the us come from the imperial valley and politicians in LA and San Francisco want to take more water away from us despite our water conservation efforts. It is very hard to compete with the prices from china but we as a country are shooting ourselves in foot if we put so much reliance on other countries for food. Thank you for the shout out for our hard working people and the place we live.
I left California last year for a small central Nevada navy town. So happy for it! A lot friendlier and becoming a part of a real community is good for the soul!
I am one of those that has recently moved out of California. Just months ago from the Northern California valley. Lived there for 16 years and could not take any more of the way the state is run. I know of 3 other family’s that I am close to and they moved before me because of the same reason! It is a beautiful state but that wasn’t enough to keep me there. You may make good money but they are taking it right back from in either taxes, housing, or fuel. California gas prices have always been high even when the rest of the country was paying much less. I am much happy being out of that state.
5th generation Californian......it's rough. I remember my mother saying to me when my parents were buying their 2nd house in 1979, "If prices keep going up, I don't know how you'll ever afford it". I think they paid like $75k for a new 1600sqft rancher on a couple acres. That place is easily $1.5m now. But I think there are much larger problems, water being the first. Secondly, I'd say infrastructure, roads, etc. And we're currently being held hostage to a multi-billion dollar "high-speed" train, which keeps getting smaller in scope and larger in price, yeah we could use some big change here. I won't even mention the southern border, another whole can of worms.
But the whole reason I commented was to say that I'd vote for Jocko for Governor. He'd run laps around that fool we have in there now.
75000 in 1979 was an very expensive house back then
lol whyd you put high speed in quotes?
@@groovy3443 Because they call it that, but it really isn't.
I cannot believe what has happened to the once great state of CALIFORNIA. A lot of these so called LIBERAL ELECTED OFFICIALS should be IMPEACHED AND MADE TO STAND TRAIL FOR DESTROYING THE STATE AND PUTTING IN A STATE OF EXTREMELY UNSAFE CONDITIONS FOR IT'S CITIES AND POPULATION. CALIFORNIA IS IN A STATE OF EMERGENCY.
I live in California, I love California but yeah- it can use some improvements just like many of us humans. You got my vote sir !
Brawley CA Stand up!!!
stand up out yo car this is a robbery ! lol
The people who don’t want to get into politics are the exact type of people that need to be in politics
Resident of calexico, el centro, seeley, and imperial throughout my life
My father, a Marine, went into local politics after he retired. I was shocked because he’d never shown any inclinations to even pay attention to politics, much less participate. But the town in which he lives had a bunch of typical BS going on in the town council, and he ran for office because, as he saw it, if there’s a problem somewhere and he knows about it, he’s obligated to do something. He won a seat and spent the next few years as a Jocko-like voice and influence in the circus side-show. Not long after he got in office, a close friend running for state office asked me to manage his campaign. Despite the fact that I, like my father, had no inclinations to participate in the shit show, I took the job out of respect for my friend and based on my father’s example. I can tell you that experience proved to me what Eli is saying here - if more sane, logical, thoughtful people don’t get involved then we can’t complain becaose the monkeys are running the zoo.
I go from Oakland to stockton to Sacramento on a regular basis, they are horribly underestimating the population of homeless. X2.5 would be appropriate
Please run, we need someone.
Oakland is absolutely out of control in terms of homelessness and crime
@@townbythetown it's an entire separate town at this point
@@zacharyennen5802 absolutely. One positive is that most of the bullshit is concentrated in the cities. Up north past sac there’s still some hope
You be moveing before it ever fixed and you can always surf the great lakes. Especially in the Winter and your a Badass and would enjoy it. 😉
Thank You Sir and you're Brothers for keeping my Family Free.
Much Respect!
I was born and raised in Imperial Valley, kinda cool to see us recognized by Jocko.
It would be a breath of fresh air to have leadership that didn't seek power but instead were sought by power.
WE NEED OUR GREATEST WARRIORS LIKE YOU TO RUN FOR OFFICE! Your values and accountability are inspiring virtues and our nation is falling apart .
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Much love from 805 California 🤙🏼
Hey *Jocko* I just came across your video and hit that SUB button. Love the fact that you said "California is the Imperial Valley". I agree, we need new leadership and direction in this state. I appreciate your perspective. Thank you sir.
I’m from the Imperial Valley! Jacko knows who we are!!!! Thanks for the love tho man.
California needs you brotha. Do it.
If you're rich then Cali is awesome. If you are middle class or poor you'll suffer
Maybe in the cities. But up north in the sticks there’s some nice places that aren’t too bad
I recently moved to Alabama from California because AL is a state that does not tax retired military. We just got tired living penny to penny. Seeing our neighbors water their lawns when there is no water because L.A. stole it back in the 70's. Seeing helicopters and fire fighters parked in the school parking lots the entire summer. Having to purchase an RV so we can evacuate with our dogs. The rivers and lakes are all dried up there is no fishing to be done. I desperately hope to go back "home" in a few years. When you grow up near the Pacific Ocean it becomes part of you.
Jocko please run for CA governor! You don't have to stay in politics you just have to get the state back on track. Show the people what needs to be done and the benefits of getting out of this downward spiral, then get back out put your flip flops on and start the pocasts again!
I can’t even imagine something better!
Yeah Jocko, you should become a politician except just don't get involved in politics.
There is a Communist super-majority in Occupied Californiastan. It would make ABSOLUTELY no difference if JW was elected Governor. The Communists would steam-roll anything that JW tried to set straight. We need to let it fail so it can restart. I left Occupied Californiastan in the summer of 2021. I was 7th generation. The state is lost to the Communists. And no, I am not trying to be funny. The Communists have completely taken over. JW talked about the farmers in this video. The water has already been cut off for 2022. There will be virtually no farming in California during the growing season of 2022. The Communists are fully in charge.
@@mattphillips1910 Yup, let California become the flaming dumpster heap, I mean shining, example of godless failed progressivism. And it let it become a warning for generations to come.
@@mattphillips1910 Never give in to our enemies this is our nation all of it. Even the states run by psychopaths from the left.
BORN N RAISED BUT ...... THE CHAIN OF COMMAND IS FAILING US
So much truth for too many deaf ears who will never even hear this message because their owners perceive you as an enemy.
You are under no obligation to serve your country any further, but know that you already have the support of millions who think, feel, and believe the same things you do.
It’s not even that we believe or think the same, it’s that we want someone who is honorable and trustworthy.
Don't overestimate the ability of one man in politics and underestimate his ability with a podcast. Thinking that getting your guy in charge will fix the problem, when the problem is much larger than the individual players, is naive. Jocko is doing far more good in his current role than he could do elsewhere. However, the benefits will take decades to realize, when the kids who watch him now become tomorrow's leaders. Let Jocko do what he does best, attack from the flank.
Well Said Sir 👏🏽 👍🏾
Wise words Mr. Shepardson...
The comment I was searching for. Exactly THIS!
People think that the only way you can change things is through direct politics. Many don’t understand that culture is the real game. The ideas dominating the public debate, the mind and the heart of the people.
Jocko is already doing the best thing he can do. The ideas he is bringing in his podcast have a much more deep impact that he could ever do as an congressman.
That’s an interesting perspective, and I hadn’t thought of it that way. The only counter I have to that is to say that we need real leadership both on a state level and a national level. Without a strong and competent leader who possesses integrity, people are lost and easily deceived and misled.
But maybe you are correct. It’s not always best to lead from the front.
I love California Jocko we need you please run for office!!!! Bro!!!!!
Heartbroken.
Thank you jocko.. northern cali resident here not leaving until they burry me! Please please run for president we need you brother.
Susan & Tony here, Run Jocko Run, Run for Governor. We need you man, the country needs you!
Jocko 4 Governor!
I Love Jocko. I'm a Michigander, but Love, Love, Love me some Jocko! I would love to vote for him.
I grew up on Coronado with a pilot step dad. We would fly all over Cali. I got to see the "Imperial Valley" beauty from the air and ground. Surfing and skiing in the same day, yep, you can. California is a beautiful magical place that's being destroyed and it really saddens me. My heart was left in Coronado in the 80's.
Love California!! Moving there soon!
Do it for us there are so many people who won’t stand up. We have to act United and that’s where we start. If there was anything I could do I’d do it.
Being a felon has its limitations so I’ve been working on personal development. I think once I have communication down I can rally masses
I'm down to vote for you brother. Texas support!
People like you jocko give the rest of us hope for America. We need your leadership in office. You'd get my vote in a second.
Do it!!! DO IT NOW!!! Leaders lead!!!
I used to get mad about what they've done to such a great place but now it's just depressing. I've worked for a lot of bosses that refuse to stop for a second and rethink and sometimes the best thing to do is to let it blow up in their faces.
“Is it time yet?” Yes, it is….you have my support!
I love California, enough to stay and fight for it. Sure it has a ton of downfalls but I refuse to take the easy road out and just move somewhere my heart doesn’t belong. Like Jocko says, California isn’t LA and SF. People have a hard time grasping that.
Exactly. Running away is not a solution. It is the 5th largest economy on the world. The country needs California. If we let it fall apart, we damage the whole country.
@@Dude-mz8su Running away from this problem is like putting a bandage on a wound that needs surgery. These problems will follow us to the other states, just like the gun control they want to try grafting to the rest of our country and various other failing policies.
Is that why over 75% of the state live in these areas? So we, the central driver of the State's GDP don't matter unless we live in the sticks? Wow... What a unifying message from Republicans. The Democrats are incompetent and yet you offer nothing to counter.
Do it Jocko, you will be supported. Moving to California for my education this fall and am desperate to have some form of representation and you would be the freaking dude!
California is a great place to BE from 🇺🇸💪
God bless you Jocko. 🙏🏼🇺🇸✌🏽
I was a born and raised Californian. In January of 2022 I finally left. I never thought I would. California left me long before I left it.
I am now a Florida citizen, and love it. The only thing that could possibly make me consider coming back would be Jocko as Governor.
Having bought a house in California a year ago and now again this month, there are a TON of people trying to buy here. The competition to buy here is higher than ever.
I am currently a new California political refugee. I work 4/10s in a burn unit, and my other three days I’m building a house in a red state, for my family who are still in California because the economic hostility toward the citizens there doesn’t permit a smooth way for us to fully pull stakes until we have a roof on this end. I lived in cali for 21 years in the Central Valley ( go Fresno state bulldogs!), my wife was born and raised in coastal wine country; it deeply saddens us both what has happened to such a beautiful state that was once a bastion of economic success.
I am on a month long road trip (from England) and Fresno was suprisingly run-down although people had talked highly of it.
Stockton looked great on the pictures so I stayed a night but jeez. Apart from a soulless recently updated downtown its really deprived.
LA was dirty outside and the food joints were dirty too both chains and independent places.
Im glad I am seeing all the shades of California, it is my intention to. But holy shit some parts of the urban areas are fucked.
I wouldnt raise a family in California. Im considering migrating to the USA as I love the people in the small towns and cities so much but the large metropolises are to be frank, overated, and mostly shitholes except for the tourist trap areas.
@@thechongwolla oh yeah, Fresno is a total shithole, especially where highway 99 cuts runs through it; meth city all the way and teeming with illegals and the black market crime that comes with it. I lived in a smaller city to the northeast called Clovis, which votes red all the way and was really nice until the state government under our previous moronic governor and our current purely evil governor signed into law and sued clovis for not having enough high density/low income housing called section 8 (government subsidized rent). Our schools went from ranking of 9/10 to 6/10 average in 3 years, litter began showing up all along the highway, graffiti on the signage and buildings, sirens at night as Fresno began coming to Clovis. It’s a sad truth but when you import the ghetto or third world into the non-ghetto/first world you don’t elevate the ghetto/third world, you just get more ghetto/third world.
Stockton got a huge taxpayer funded grant to revitalize downtown, same as Fresno, just made fresh new surfaces for the ghetto to spray paint, the homeless to shit on and the addicts to throw needles on. California is doomed and yes it’s a complete shithole, as are all the major cities. They also have one thing in common, they’re run by the same political party with a jackass for its mascot.
Were here with ya Brother, Were falling ...could use a hand to hold & be held.
The weather keeps me here. But! I'm selling my house in Yosemite. Driving from Nor Cal to SO Cal and seeing the devastating dust bowl that once fed the world? The water has been cut off from all the farmers.
Our taxes, our laws, the idiots. I'm looking elsewhere.
Cali will just turn back into the 80s or 90s version of itself
Was there something wrong or right about 80s-90s California?
@@tmcche7881 gangs?
That's when I'll be returning. When the homes are cheap after the self destruction. It's gonna be like Detroit. Hopefully it can recover, if so, I'm there.
@@byrdmain7511 ...interesting. I wasn't expecting that response. Or is it that the gangs are just less obvious today? Like the mafia changed from the 30s to the 70s. It's easier to run an organized crime family when you do not invite unwanted attention.
I doubt the gangs have not gone away. They haven't elsewhere in the country. Nor has their drug and human trafficking. Also, I would be surprised if these crimes have not been enhanced by the invasion of Ukrainifornia from the south and the idiocy of defunding the police.
Thank you joko!!!
I would campaign for Jocko!
$6 per gallon.
This is the declaration of Jocko for governor, I hope - or at least a vision statement!
Please Jocko, we need you
love how he says L.A. and San Francisco and Silicon Valley is "NOT" California. This is true and the same for Denver and the rest of Colorado. The two largest cities in a state think they speak for the rest of the state. The imperial valley feeds the world and the rest of the country. Also Salinas Valley feeds the world. I live in the Netherlands and I see food being sold here in Europe from the Salinas valley. I am originally from the Silicon Valley born and raised then lived in Santa Cruz for 12 years now living in europe and truly hate how the media and politicians only speak in terms of San Francisco and L.A. as if those two cities speak for the entire state of California. Also California has lost its mind allowing Gaven to ruin the state even further and line his pockets and his family's also with the help of his Aunt Polosi....
The two largest cities in CO are Denver and the Springs. These are two very different places. Judging by the increasingly stupid laws, one would be inclined to think it's Denver and Boulder.
Agree, but it sure seems like sf and la drive the rest of the state's direction, unfortunately. Another reason why we need to turn the top-heavy .gov back over to an individual's liberty being the only thing that matters (with extremely limited exceptions) - kind of like the founding fathers envisioned and set up.
Love the Salinas shout out. Born and raised.
Except it is because those concrete shit holes can just print votes and bury the rest of the state. Until you can break the tyranny of the cities, California is and will continue to be fucked.
@@philipnilsen7171 Your welcome enjoy a good taco or fresh burrito on me as I envy you right now. I been living in Europe for the past 4 years and miss good fresh food. The only thing we got are fresh strawberries here and cherries. The rest of the food lacks luster and flavor and freshness. I was spoiled back home from Santa Cruz. I miss the foggy salty air.
Jocko , Jocko , Jocko , thank you for announcing what California truly is! Always has been and will always be! Magnificent! Every word you spoke is 💯% true 👍🏻
🇺🇸"JOCKO FOR PRESIDENT"🇺🇸
Jocko, CA does need you, and I think you could get elected. Your success is that position would be contingent on also having hundreds of others like you to run for local and regional offices to support you. Let’s organize that!
Jocko run for office brother. We need you sir.
Totally understand but would vote for you in a second.
I would move to california just to vote for this legend 🇺🇸🤙
i couldn't get to the precinct quick enough if a leader like Jocko were on the ticket.
Jacko, please do a refresher on the history of George Washington. The reason he was the right man at the right time is because he had zero desire to engage in politics. He wanted nothing more than to retire and live out his life at Valley Forge with Martha. Like you, he was needed. His countrymen called upon him to lead and once he forged the path for the future of our once great republic, he willingly laid down the reins of power and walked away. If any man has the leadership ability to lead us out of our current death spiral and the discipline to walk away once the mission is accomplished, it is you!
Also a business owner here in California and the hostility towards us is definitely real lol that's putting it lightly
Jocko for GOVERNOR step up and run brother California needs you and yes I agree California is an amazing beautiful state and it needs amazing beautiful people to save it
I am what I am. A Conservative. BUT when this Earth blows up and returns to the Space we came from, my ashes will come from here. California is MY home. It is MY place. And YEAH!!!! I am from the Imperial Valley.
Jocko for president
Jocko for POTUS!!
Brawley California born and raised
Grew up SoCal. Lived there for 30+ years. Saw the sh*tshow coming. Moved to Osaka, Japan about 5 years ago. One of the best decisions I've ever made.
God I Wish. California is home.
I’d vote for Jocko and Tulsi! Hands down!!
Tulsi is WEF GLOBALIST
California native here, if things don't change I will be gone come come november as I will be vested in my pension. Heck I should leave now as that pension might be squander away by our leaders here. They don't care about the minorities unless it comes election time and they sure as hell don't give a shit about individual rights. Please run for governor.
I would leave ASAP if I were you. Don't let them hold onto your pension any longer than you have to. A lot of people have already lost their money with this Ukraine situation.
Can you imagine the campaign videos with Echo Charles behind the sticks? Dang
President Jocko. Save the country we love!
I was born and raised in CA. I literally grew up on a surfboard. Spent my whole career working for the state fire department and risking my life for the people of California. But after having a little girl and seeing where California is and where it’s going…. We bailed out.
I retired a little early, sold our Northern San Diego home (a home I thought was our forever home), and moved our family to an undisclosed state in the Rockies. As a family we’ve never been happier. My daughter is much happier and will not be indoctrinated it that school system.
It’s sad, but liberal politicians have ruined California, and I’m not sure it will ever come back
I feel like California left me before I left it
Jocko, if you are going to do it go big. California is fucked and will vote for an idiot vs a real leader. Run for President
Here's some food for thought Jocko: I live in the MIdwest and have for my entire life and California and New York are the only States I could never live in. I am independent politically, In California and New York I am a conservative.
JOCKO 2024. C’mon man, you know the thing.
Jocko really said I might have to get involved
Come on Jocko we need you.
Too many issues that need dealt with Jocko. TBH we need a swell of people to get into politics and run for office. There’s a disease of a very high degree that’s involved in our political system. We need good people to run for office at the same time in order to have a chance at making this right for future generations here and all over the world. Who you are, what you believe and how you interact in the world around you matters. Values and integrity are needed
I punched out last year to another state, refugee status. I love and miss my home state but she was scuttled with years of mismanagement
Born and raised here left 6 years ago.
I just want salute you by presenting both arms when you enter and exit Air force one .. and speak to the press when your are extremely busy...
I loved San Diego, O’side and all the way up to OC as a Marine in the late 80s early 90s. I’d hate to see it now. I hope California politics can change for the good of the people!
jocko doesn't know if he can handle politics? GOOD
Jocko doesn't know if politics can handle him...
🇺🇸 🇺🇲 💪🏼💪🏼
@@faith4freedom76 even better