The Ledger
Every statement that passed quotation and attribution checks. Mix any filter with any other: certainty 1/5, debate potential 5/5, or both at once.
why aren't all 17 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 2 checkable ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't; assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card: ▮▮▮▮▮ certainty · ▮▮▮▮▮ debate potential. speakers are clickable
Carolla blames California overregulation on "gyno-fascism" and female leaders
“This is, what I'm starting to learn is basically what people are calling gyno-fascism, which is way too many women in positions of power with an eye on safety.”
Carolla claims California Governor Gavin Newsom thinks like a woman
“Gavin Newsom who crosses his legs like he's trying to dislocate his hip. That guy thinks like a woman.”
Carolla: Eric Swalwell, Kamala Harris, and Karen Bass are intellectual "dopes"
“Eric Swallow is a dope. Kamala Harris is a dope. Karen Bass is a dope. These are dumb people who shouldn't be in charge of things because they don't have the intellectual capacity for it.”
Carolla calls Gavin Newsom a "sociopath" who does not think clearly
“Now, Gavin Newsom's a sociopath, but he's not a dope, but there's something wrong with him, clearly wrong, and he doesn't think clearly, and he's not linear at all, and I've interviewed him for an hour, and he's, there's something wrong with him, but I don't l…”
Carolla: Los Angeles homeless housing units cost $900,000 to build
“When they build homeless units that are 400 square feet, they're 900,000 dollars a unit.”
Carolla: No Malibu structures rebuilt one year after Pacific Palisades fire
“And that's what I said eight hours after the fire, and it's been a year, and there's I'm in Malibu. There's nothing rebuilt in Malibu.”
Carolla asserts COVID-19 was never dangerous to healthy young children
“Shutting schools down for COVID may be the safest thing to do, but you damage kids, you cause a lot of collateral damage, and it was never dangerous to healthy young kids in the first place.”
Carolla notes LA County Health Director Barbara Ferrer is not a doctor
“They hired some dumb witch named Barbara Ferrer, who's not even a doctor, and she just makes the declaration to shut everything down.”
Carolla: Union pressure forced Rochelle Walensky to walk back school reopening comments
“At some point, Rochelle Walensky of the CDC announces they should open schools, but that gets shut down. Really quickly by the school unions. And then she announces that she was not speaking officially. That was just sort of her opinion off the record.”
Carolla: Megyn Kelly is more masculine in her thinking than any man
“Megyn Kelly has the brain of a cage fighter. Like, she is more masculine than any dude I know in how she thinks.”
Carolla predicts progressive cities will collapse while freedom-focused states thrive
“All the people that are tired of living in a nanny state, being told we're going to get rid of your internal combustion engine and replace it with an electric car and all that kind of stuff, they're just going to, they're going to self-segregate. They're going…”
Carolla: Newspaper candidate endorsements destroy editorial credibility like umpires picking teams
“The LA Times shouldn't announce an endorsement every year because now I don't believe you when you write the crappy article about the guy you didn't endorse and you write the glowing article about Kamala Harris. You've made a fool of yourself by announcing wha…”
Carolla discloses his wife vaccinated their 14-year-old son against his wishes
“My son was 14 when he got vaccinated. I didn't want him to get vaccinated. He was a healthy, Young guy with no pre-existing conditions. My wife took him to get vaccinated because she's watching the TV.”
Carolla predicts proposed wealth taxes will increase California outward migration
“Yes, it's definitely going to drive migration up”
Carolla predicts Trump economic gains will deliver a conservative 2028 victory
“I think Trump's fiscal stuff is going to kick in in the new year, and I think people are going to start reaping the benefits of that, and I think if that happens, and gas is cheap, and interest rates are down, and home ownership is up, and employment is up, th…”