A top California Democrat has just praised President Trump for his new policy to clean up the streets, help the homeless, stop them from sleeping on the streets, and to make our cities great and beautiful again!
Yes, I said a top California Democrat.
Let me break that all down for you….
We’ve covered Kevin “MeetKevin” Paffrath on WLT Report many times before.
I think he provides some great analysis, especially when the worlds of finance and politics merge.
He is a self-described 51/49 Democrat, meaning he views himself as extremely centrist with the slightest nod towards Democrat.
My take?
I’ve listened to Kevin for a long time, and his policies to meet seem to fall much closer to a 70/30 Republican, but he is married to what sounds like a fairly liberal wife and he lives in California, hence….51/49D.
Just my POV, don’t sue me bro!
Anyway, why do I call him a “Top California Democrat”?
Because it’s accurate.
In 2021, when Gavin Newsom was facing a recall election, Kevin jumped into the race (as a Democrat, now does it all make sense?) and emerged as the top Democrat in the entire race to challenge Newsom for his Governorship:
In 2021, Kevin Paffrath, a YouTuber and real estate investor, launched an ambitious campaign as a Democratic candidate in the California recall election against Governor Gavin Newsom. Despite being a political newcomer, Paffrath’s innovative campaign drew significant media attention and connected with many younger voters, partly due to his fresh perspective and social media savvy. Although he ultimately did not defeat Newsom, who survived the recall by a significant margin, Paffrath performed impressively, emerging as the highest-ranking Democratic alternative candidate in the field.
In terms of fellow Democratic candidates, Paffrath’s campaign surpassed several more established figures in the final standings, highlighting the reach and impact of his platform. His finish placed him ahead of other Democrats who were part of the recall race, showing the surprising resonance of his campaign message among voters looking for new leadership in California.
Paffrath secured approximately 9.6% of the vote on the replacement ballot, placing him second overall behind Republican Larry Elder, who received about 48.4%.
Paffrath outperformed several other Democratic candidates in the recall election, including:
- Jacqueline McGowan: A cannabis policy advisor who ran as a Democrat.
- Holly L. Baade: A businesswoman and spiritual teacher who also ran as a Democrat.
- Patrick Kilpatrick: An actor and screenwriter who entered the race as a Democratic candidate.
These candidates, along with others, did not garner as much support as Paffrath, underscoring his significant impact in the recall election despite his relative political inexperience.
In the end, Kevin lost to Larry Elder, who in turn lost to Gavin Newsom and here we are today.
But with all of that history in mind, now you’re up to speed and this latest video will make a lot more sense.
Watch here as Kevin (a self-described Democrat, who was only a few steps away from being California Governor) praises President Trump and his policies for cleaning up our streets and making our cities beautiful again:
FULL TRANSCRIPT:
MeetKevin
Oh man, Donald Trump just stole my plan, and I could not be happier! This is great news. This is news that, by the way, I got ridiculed for. Here was me on the Patrick Bet-David show. Reaction to Meet Kevin’s plan to tackle homelessness. I had people talking about it at CalMatters, The Washington Post, the Associated Press—they even called me at The Verge the “gamest YouTuber.” “How a GameStop YouTuber is shaking up the California recall.” And, of course, they quote you in funny ways. They say, “He explained he wants to end homelessness in 60 days by tasking the National Guard with compassionately serving the homeless community and moving them into vacant buildings.” Well, it’s a lot more detailed than that, but on the right, there are his proposals: to make all coronavirus safety measures optional, to ditch the income tax for anyone making less than $250,000, and to use the National Guard to get all unhoused Californians off the streets and give trained gun owners more rights.
Here’s the Associated Press: Paffrath said he’d use his emergency powers to build 80 shelters that would provide substance abuse help, mental health treatment, and educational support on-site, as well as meals and showers. While they’re under construction, he’d dispatch the National Guard to help homeless people in the streets by passing out supplies and building temporary bathrooms.
Now, I’m not going to show you my full plan—you can see that yourself. In fact, I wrote here: “I’m officially running for governor. Here’s my 20-part plan.” I went through this entire 20-part plan in May of 2021. And regarding homelessness, I’ll give you a quick summary of it: Day one, you deploy the National Guard by declaring a state of emergency. Then what you do is take over vacant buildings that are empty anyway—because office space is missing, or it’s not being used, or they’re vacant malls or whatever—and you turn them into rehabilitation centers. Not every homeless person is going to be rehabilitated, but at least you can concentrate your efforts. Nobody sleeps on the streets, because people don’t just sleep on the streets; they die on the streets. That’s a big deal. Instead, you have to stay in one of these places. Unless you can stay awake, you just can’t sleep on the streets. It’s that simple.
But that way, you can concentrate your efforts for helping people find a job, get the drug support they need, or the medical support they need. Everything’s at one place. People who need workers can come there and find, hopefully, some people who are still savable and able to work. I know not everybody’s going to be savable, but at least you have a safe space. It’s ridiculous that people have to step over homeless people on the streets.
Listen to what Donald Trump says, and then I want you to see how close it is, or how similar it is, to some of the things that I’ve just mentioned here, which, again, you can see in my full 20-part plan. You saw it in the articles over here, and it’s worth listening just to this. I would say right here, “Governor to deploy National Guard to end homelessness, May 21, 2021.” Just listen to about five seconds of this, and then we’ll get into Trump.
On day one in office as Governor, I’m going to declare a state of emergency, and we will deploy the National Guard everywhere there are homeless people in California. And guess what we’re going to do? For the first 30 days, we are going to provide three meals a day, clothing—feed them, clothe them—to be able to reintegrate people. Like, how are you supposed to get a job if you smell like urine because you haven’t showered? It’s crazy.
Anyway, now listen to Donald Trump’s plan, and I have to say, I couldn’t be happier to see a politician actually utilize this idea. Now, there are some differences. Donald Trump talks about tent cities as opposed to using vacant buildings. I prefer vacant buildings because, quite frankly, it’s easier to air-condition those in especially hot areas like Arizona. That’s not supposed to sound like a luxury, but in Arizona, if it’s 100° outside, you’ve got to have air conditioning for every freaking tent, whereas you could more easily do this in some existing buildings with existing HVAC systems that are already there and not being used.
But anyway, let’s listen to Donald Trump.
Donald Trump
Cities have become unlivable, unsanitary nightmares surrendered to the homeless, the drug-addicted, and the violent and dangerously deranged. We’re making many suffer for the whims of a deeply unwell few, and they are unwell indeed. The homeless have no right to turn every park and sidewalk into a place for them to squat and do drugs. Americans should not have to step over piles of needles and waste as they walk down a street in our once-beautiful cities because they’ve changed so much over the last ten years.
Our first consideration should be the right and safety of the hardworking, law-abiding citizens who make our society function. When I’m back in the White House, we will use every tool, lever, and authority to get the homeless off our streets. We want to take care of them, but they have to be off our streets. There is nothing compassionate about letting these individuals live in filth and squalor rather than getting them the help that they need. We need professionals to help them.
For a small fraction of what we spend upon Ukraine, we could take care of every homeless veteran in America. Our veterans are being treated horribly. Likewise, with all the money we will save by ending mass unskilled migration, we will have a huge dividend to address this crisis in our own country. Under my strategy, working with states, we will ban urban camping wherever possible. Violators of these bans will be arrested, but they will be given the option to accept treatment and services if they’re willing to be rehabilitated—many of them don’t want that.
MeetKevin
Yep, we’ll give them the option. We’ll then open up large parcels of inexpensive land, bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, and drug rehab specialists, and create tent cities where the homeless can be rehabilitated. Just mentioning this, I’m sure in Donald Trump’s plan here he could also utilize vacant buildings. Maybe that’s what they’ll end up doing—I predict that’s what they’ll end up doing. Because these tent cities look really beautiful, but, again, you’ve got to run utilities and everything to these, so you may as well just use existing vacant buildings where people already are.
That was one of the problems, right? Homeless are in many different areas. So, you’ve got homeless in Santa Monica, for example. You know, California’s got a lot of problems. Are you going to ship them all to the desert outside of Bakersfield or Nevada? Well, you know, people in Bakersfield, or people in Nevada, they don’t want the homeless folks in their community until they’ve been rehabilitated.
So one of the ways that we found that you could potentially solve this is just use the existing vacant spaces that are already in those areas. And then anytime you have a homeless person who falls asleep or camps out on a street, you can bring them to a local place. It’s not like you’re shipping them on a truck and sending them like freight hours away. Instead, it’s like, “Hey, we’re going to take you five minutes to here, and then you could shower, go to the bathroom, clean up, have some food.” But talk about getting rehabilitated, get the medical help or support you need, and then if you want, you can just go walk back outside when you’re done. It’s not like you’re trapped there or you’re a prisoner. You have an opportunity to reintegrate into the environment that you came from.
So, I think there’s some use to that and the problems identified, but we’ll open up our cities again, make them livable and beautiful. For those who are just temporarily down on their luck, we will work to help them quickly reintegrate into a normal life. For those who have addictions, substance abuse, and common mental health problems, we will get them into treatment. And for those who are severely mentally ill and deeply disturbed, we will bring them back to mental institutions where they belong, with the goal of reintegrating them back into society once they are well enough to manage.
It’s a tough task, a very tough task, with so much taking place on the streets, with so many taking drugs. But the fact is, we’re going to try. This strategy will be far better and also far less expensive than spending vast sums of taxpayer money to house the homeless in luxury hotels without addressing their underlying issues.
Thank you, Trump. Thank you! Like, these are things that—again, the title of the video is like “Donald Trump Stole My Plan,” but actually, I’m so grateful to see these similar ideas out there. Whether it came from me or someone else, I’m not trying to say that, like, “Oh, when I ran for governor, these ideas were adopted by everyone,” although we saw a lot of these ideas adopted in other political campaigns. Political ideas that are good start circulating around the world, really.
And that was one of the big things when I ran for governor. California needs a new governor—this is a freaking disaster out here. But when I ran for governor during the California recall, I said, “Look, I recognize this is a long shot. I’m a YouTuber,” that’s what everybody called me, “Oh, YouTuber.” And they talk down to that. The best I could hope for is obviously winning, but if we lose, the next best thing is that my ideas win and live on. This makes me so, so freaking happy.
These underlying issues—they have so many of these underlying issues and needs. This is how I will end the scourge of homelessness and make our cities clean and safe and beautiful once again. We will do it. We will bring back America.
Thank you! This is exactly what you’ve got to do in California too. Like, you’ve got another chance in 2026. Whenever somebody else runs for governor, they could do it as well. It ain’t going to be Gavin “Gruesome” anymore because he’s finally at his term limit. I’m so grateful to know he’s at his term limit and out of here. I can’t wait for him to be out of here. Tired of this guy.
Anyway, thank you so very much for watching, folks. If you want to see any more about the Meet Kevin governor campaign from 2021, there’s plenty of stuff out there and news coverage on it. Anyway, if you found this sort of breakdown helpful, consider subscribing to the channel, share the video, and we’ll see you in the next one. Goodbye and good luck.
Thank you Kevin!
Good video, good analysis, and good plans.
The future looks bright my friend….
I look forward to California turning red after the next 4 years of Trump and you running for Governor as a 51/49 R.
Let’s make it happen!
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