News For Reasonable People

10/12/2026

AB 1608 passed without a single no vote, and Newsom vetoed it.

The inspector general's office was created in 2022 and three of its eight audit and review positions sat vacant last month. The bill would have let it hire skilled auditors and sign contracts under a million dollars. Newsom said the office should keep working through existing processes.

What should California do to keep watch over high-speed rail spending? 👇
Episode, article + discussion in the first comment.

02/07/2026

🏛️ WA DEMOCRATS PUSHING 9.9% MILLIONAIRE TAX SCAM!

They say it's only for millionaires, but married couples making $500K COMBINED get hit too.

"It's only a matter of time until that applies to folks with lower and lower incomes."

Translation: Start with millionaires, then come for YOUR paycheck next.

Is this happening in YOUR state?

Watch now to see how the slippery slope starts!

Washington state Democrats want to slap a 9.9% income tax on millionaires, and they swear—pinky promise—it won't trickle down to everyone else. Where have we...

02/07/2026

🤦‍♂️ CALIFORNIA HITS $8.43 PER GALLON AS REFINERIES FLEE

Valero just SHUT DOWN their billion-dollar refinery after California's insane regulations made it impossible to operate profitably.

"A massive industrial facility with existing infrastructure, a trained workforce... and no buyer on planet Earth wanted it."

Translation: When government makes business impossible, YOU pay the price at the pump.

Watch the full breakdown of this preventable disaster!

California just closed a functioning World War II-era refinery that nobody on planet Earth wanted to buy, and gas prices are already spiking 3.2% in one week...

02/06/2026

🤦‍♂️ SEATTLE'S SOCIALIST POLICIES ARE KILLING JOBS!

Amazon just axed 4,500 workers while Seattle pushes millionaire taxes and payroll hikes.

Translation: "We need employers to support workers" = We're driving businesses out with anti-business policies.

WAKE UP - This is what happens when you choose socialism over jobs!

Watch now to see how Seattle's leadership is destroying the tech industry that built their city.

Amazon just axed over 2,200 workers in Washington State—software engineers, product managers, the whole tech bro army—and guess what? More cuts are coming. S...

02/06/2026

🤦‍♂️ FOREIGN NATIONALS STEAL $10 BILLION FROM MEDICARE!

While you're working overtime to pay taxes, international fraudsters are buying luxury cars and resort properties with YOUR money.

One Kentucky company submitted $666 million in fake claims for glucose monitors in just 5 months - patients never received equipment they were billed for.

Translation: Zero oversight = billion-dollar theft spree funded by hardworking Americans.

Is this happening in YOUR state too?

Watch now to see how they're looting Medicare while officials look the other way.

They submitted $666 million in fake Medicare claims for glucose monitors and catheters in just five months—and that's just one operation. Federal prosecutors...

02/05/2026

🤦‍♂️ SEATTLE SPENDS $4 MILLION ON WHAT?!

Seattle's socialist mayor just announced $4 million for "legal defense and community assistance" while ordering police to INVESTIGATE ICE AGENTS doing their jobs.

Translation: Your tax dollars are now funding resistance to federal law enforcement.

• Police can't handle basic crime on Aurora Avenue or Pike Street
• Can't stop open-air drug markets downtown
• But somehow they'll track federal agents?

Even the Police Guild called it "political theater" and refused to make officers "pawns in conflict with federal agencies."

REALITY CHECK: Local mayors have ZERO power over federal operations. This is pure virtue signaling while your neighborhoods suffer.

Is this happening in YOUR city?

Watch now to see how this spectacular failure unfolds!

Seattle's socialist mayor just announced she's spending $4 million in taxpayer money to fight ICE and directing police to investigate federal agents—as if lo...

02/04/2026

🤦‍♂️ SEATTLE COMMITS ECONOMIC SU***DE WITH PERFECT TIMING

While Amazon announces 16,000 layoffs and Meta cuts 331 jobs, what's Seattle's brilliant response?

NEW MILLIONAIRE'S TAX and corporate payroll tax proposals.

Translation: "Let's chase away the remaining wealthy taxpayers while unemployment skyrockets."

21 out of 23 relocation clients are FLEEING Seattle - that's a 91% exodus rate from people who literally move others for a living.

Watch the full breakdown of how politicians are accelerating their own economic collapse.

Seattle just elected a socialist mayor while simultaneously pushing a statewide millionaire's tax AND a corporate payroll tax—as Amazon and Meta announce tho...

02/04/2026

🏛️ SEATTLE HITS RECORD 39% DOWNTOWN VACANCY RATE

Seattle's downtown office vacancy just hit a historic 39.1% - nearly 4 out of 10 spaces are EMPTY.

Translation: When even Amazon is moving employees to Bellevue to escape Seattle's anti-business policies, you know leadership has failed.

YOUR TAX DOLLARS are funding a mayor who's never run anything while businesses flee to Texas.

Watch the full breakdown of Seattle's business exodus ➡️

Seattle's downtown office vacancy just hit a record 39.1%—nearly four out of every ten commercial spaces are empty. But sure, let's keep blaming remote work ...

02/04/2026

🤦‍♂️ CALIFORNIA'S ENERGY DISASTER JUST GOT WORSE!

Two major refineries shutting down while Sacramento pretends everything's fine.

Phillips 66 already OFFLINE as of October. Valero closing by April. That's 900 workers gone and 42% of our gas now imported from overseas.

Translation: We're about to pay $8+ per gallon while depending on countries that hate us for fuel.

"We're on the edge of the cliff with no refineries to pull us back out" - refinery expert with 50+ years experience.

But Governor Newsom says "nothing to see here" as we become dangerously dependent on foreign oil shipped on the most polluting vessels imaginable.

Watch the full breakdown now!

https://www.wethepeopleradio.us/gas.htmlhttps://californiaglobe.com/articles/has-californias-oil-and-gas-industry-hit-the-point-of-no-return/California is ab...

02/04/2026

🤦‍♂️ RENT CONTROL "SUCCESS": SEATTLE HITS $3,695 A MONTH!

Democrats promised "affordability" but delivered exactly the OPPOSITE.

Housing permits crashed 27% while single-family rent spiked from $3,100 to $3,695. Meanwhile builders are fleeing to business-friendly states.

Translation: More government control = less housing supply = higher rents for working families.

Is this happening in YOUR neighborhood?

Watch now to see how "progressive" policies are crushing renters!

Seattle Democrats promised affordability and delivered the exact opposite—rents skyrocketing to $3,695 for a three-bedroom while housing permits hit their lo...