A rainbow over the ashes. San Francisco is even more insane than LA. The week Xi Jingping comes into town, his court eunuch gavin cleans it all up in days after letting it descend into mayhem for years.
I still don’t understand how they pulled off such an unprecedented feat in San Francisco. If you’ve been there, you know that there are huge crowds living in the streets. Was it mounted cops? Cattle prods? Gas vans?
That they did it unobserved is even more eerie than that they did it all.
I lived in the East Bay for 6 yrs and the storm sewer were labeled in blue “Flows to sea.” I suggest not checking the storm sewer outputs for the next couple of weeks. 🤣
And didn't they break some law that says that homeless cannot be made to move if there are no places for them to go? That's why this has grown so rapidly because of that ruling by the 9th Circuit. I'd love to see video of whoever removing those camps and people, and a time lapse video of them all coming back, if that happens.
My ability to disconnect has become unhealthy, its soooo easy to sit around and say "hmm, yeah that happens to empires" while I look for useless"kriff-krafts" on Amazon.
I don't think it's unhealthy. I used to follow the news constantly, along with social media, but I ended up in a constant state of rage, while being unable to do a damned thing to change anything that was happening. So I disconnected. I feel much better now. When I do see something and start to get angry, I just remind myself that I can't change it and I'm just hurting myself.
LOL! I had to quit Prime at the beginning of the year, or I was never gonna get my cards paid off. When I really need something for my preps, I can usually get a free 7 or 30 day trial.
I understand. There’s a point where you have to put YOUR energy into living as peaceful and positive as you can. All the energy we collectively put into sorrow and resentment affects everything around us-guilty.
It’s all local. Family. Friends. Community/church. County. State. Use the gifts that God has given us to spread His love.
One of my sources of encouragement is seeing the many people (at least on Substack) awakening to the actual evil all around us. I pray that we will have an Awakening that brings many to the Lord.
If it's the Lord you have faith in, isn't there something in the Word about you being given agency? Things are going to get WAY worse if you throw in the towel. We can beat these malfeasance-soaked imbeciles -- we only lack courage and conviction.
California is a giant pinata of rot, so it's hard to resist.
A few months ago I saw a homeless guy snoozing with his head on his backpack. This was at the corner of the Exxon where we get gas, and across the street from the grocery store. I was shocked and furious. That is NOT OK here in small town South Carolina.
The key to understanding all of this is understanding weaponized resentment.
Politicians know that they can get power and get RICH by appealing to the resentments of people who have failed in life, and being gay is a failure. No one was born gay. It is just a bad choice in life, albeit a choice often conditioned by having been sexually molested by a gay man as a boy. Most gay men were molested as boys, and they will admit it if pressed. It's an open secret among them.
BLM is weaponized resentment of the failure of blacks, due itself to resentful black culture.
Feminism is weaponized resentment of men for slights on the playground decades ago, and for their innate physical weakness relative to men.
Marxism is nothing but the resentment of the rich, a way to make everyone poor just to feel better about themselves. (Georgism is a truly practical answer, btw, because it would not impoverish or oppress anyone.)
All of the left's ideology is resentment alone, and those resentful people elect the most corrupt imaginable grifters as long as those grifters, like Newscum and Pelosi, say the right words to sooth the pain of their resentments.
"Man would fain be great and sees that he is little; would fain be happy and sees that he is miserable; would fain be perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections; would fain be the object of the love and esteem of men, and sees that his faults merit only their aversion and contempt. The embarrassment wherein he finds himself produces in him the most unjust and criminal passions imaginable, for he conceives a mortal hatred against that truth which blames him and convinces him of his faults." - Pascal
We can try to debate everything under the sun with leftists, but it will get nowhere because all they really want is to injure others as a revenge for their own perceived failures. That is the unspoken truth, and no one on the left can ever speak it.
Hard agree. Literal resentment, with avenues for expression provided by skilled manipulators. That is why politics is now about presentation and not policies as such. No one really debates policies.
That is the appeal of mass immigration of people we know will struggle to assimilate. The resentment is practically guaranteed. And it is generational. The gift that keeps on giving.
Although I see feminism is running aground as the widespread adoption of their worldview among young women is leading to mass singledom and childlessness as men are walking away.
I think the appeal of leftism is emotional. Logic doesn't get a look in. When you talk to former leftists it is almost always observation of reality and logic that leads them away from it. But as more seem to be stuck in a permanent adolescence the more they turn away from reality because it is harsh. Like your comment on homosexuality. That view was common only 30 years ago and is now unthinkable to most.
Yes, a comparison to permanent adolescence seems about right.
Adolescents typically develop a resentment of their own lack of power relative to adults. They grow out of it as they see that they can accomplish things on their own - or maybe they don't grow out of it if they become leftists.
I think it is a form of learned helplessness. This inculcates pessimism, and that is the hook for the leftists. After all their promised utopia is basically a kind of comeuppance mentality. Once we get power we'll kick the fat cats out etc. Revenge for the impotent who, deep down, know they are inadequates.
The cure is to convince them that they are not inadequate. They can each live a long and happy life with the right attitude and hard work. The first step in that cure is to turn off the fucking TV and to never listen to NPR or read the NY Times.
At this point, we should all be very tired of pretending that being gay is anything other than an ancient and self-destructive vice, similar to alcoholism in many ways.
That's all it is, a vice which spreads anal warts, shortens lives, and prevents family formation.
When I was in grad school during the AIDS excitement 3 decades ago, a histology professor showed the class slides of the cells lining the rectum and those lining the vagina. Clearly, only one of these was "designed" for intercourse. It's science! Real science!
Widespread homosexuality portends societal collapse. Lesbian Camille Paglia rightly pointed this out in an interview a few years ago.
- Semen contains an immune suppressant which evolved to get women's bodies to not kill off the sperm before it could fertilize an egg. If you inject that immune suppressant directly into the bloodstream via a torn rectum along with a virus like AIDS, the virus has an exceptionally easy time infecting the person. This is why gay men are most susceptible to AIDS, hetero women second, and straight men third.
- Semen contains some opioid proteins which evolved to get women to enjoy sex more. Injecting those proteins into a torn rectum may account for some of the obviously addict-like behavior among gay men.
I agree that widespread homosexuality portends societal collapse. The bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah makes sense as warnings about things people knew even back then.
I read Camille Paglia in my 30’s (I’m 60 now). She put the blame back on the women! In other words, she proclaimed SELF RESPONSIBILITY. I never forgot that.
I was raised in LA, in the bluest and leftest milieu you can imagine, where everyone eats, drinks, and breathes lifestyle tolerance from the earliest age. I’ve come around entirely to your point of view.
Thanks. It took me quite a while to change. I was a standard-issue liberal, but after working in San Francisco for 20 years, I lost all respect for gay men. They really are killing themselves with their lifestyles and I saw it myself. Lots of alcohol and hard drug use as well. Nothing to be proud of.
It's really surprising what living or working in a super-woke environment can do to a person's affiliations. I, too, was a good left-winger, living in rural Pennsylvania, listening to NPR, watching MSNBC, and voting for all the right candidates. Then a decade ago we moved to Vermont, hotbed of wokery, and within a year we all were listening to Tucker and voting conservative. Extended family are shocked at the change. Maybe it's that we got to see the fruits of Leftism up close.
I’m a 3rd generation SF native, born and raised. I haven’t been to that Soddom and Gemorrah for a few years. I want to keep SF in my memories when it was magnificent...especially at Christmas! Absolutely amazing!
Honestly, you sound so ignorant. Just stop. Reading your words are lowering my IQ. You don’t have to believe one way or the other about this, that, that’s fine, that’s you’re right— but what you said above is just so low vibrational and dumb. It’s pathetic— I may have gotten anal warts from your words.
I have no objection to anything that you have said, I only have a question. What does it mean to be ‘low vibrational’ because I honestly would like to know.
Rome is burning. Or if you prefer, this is really very 3rd world dictatorship. This is what you see in Venezuela or Cuba or any other dystopian hellhole. The ruling class and its activities are totally detached from the reality on the street. So you see fluffy stories about nonsense and hear happy talk while people starve and crime accelerates and dissidents are tossed in gulags or disappeared. One notable difference is that the citizens of those places know what’s going on and are either for the regime or against the regime. Whereas the unbelievable thing in America, at least in some areas, has been for the public to pretend that somehow everything is normal while clearly it’s on the skids, particularly in what used to be the richest, most cosmopolitan areas, which are now the Deep State prison cities. Life in America is very different culturally and on a practical level than it was only 5 years ago. Maybe this is a long reach, but it’s my impression that this phenomenon also dovetails with the incredible naïveté of the upper middle class nitwits marching for Hamas. It’s all of a piece as Antonio Garcia Martinez points out in one of the best pieces to date on the war in the ME:
“Contemporary society lives in a miasma of showy hypocrisy. Elites talk of diversity and inclusion and then send their kids to private schools. Everyone among a certain class tweeted out #BLM and “defund the police,” and then protected themselves from the resulting wave of urban violence, which impacted mostly minorities, by living in upscale neighborhoods. Similarly, Western political elites will clamor for a “two-state solution,” but it will be Jewish children whose heads will be bashed in if the approach fails (as indeed it did, and they were). The two-state solution is not the way out of the current situation: It’s how we got here.
Westerners view the Middle East with a new wokified Orientalism: It’s an exotic stage on which to project (if not enact) their own political dramas around identity and oppression. The problem is that the liberal mind cannot imagine what’s inside the illiberal mind; the entire thrust of a liberal education ensures that impossibility. So you have well-meaning (neo) liberals like Noah Smith who propose that simply lifting Gaza’s per capita GDP will pacify it forever. If only they had a bit more disposable income, they’d beat their swords into plowshares (to echo Isaiah), or their AK-47s into iPhones. The liberal who loves life inside our capitalist society of spectacle has a bit of trouble understanding a populace who’d really rather kill, rape, and plunder a sworn ethnic enemy while screaming “God is great!” at the top of their lungs than founding a Y Combinator startup.
Never mind that the United States’ own misguided attempt to turn Iraq into a Jeffersonian democracy caused more civilian deaths—roughly 200,000 by most accounts—than 10 Israels would cause in a decade. Why doesn’t everyone want what we want?, laments the well-meaning liberal, as yet another crusading liberal experiment abroad fails miserably.
Israel is now an outcast among nations for the same reason the Jew was an outcast among European peoples: a stubborn refusal to abandon his traditions and peoplehood, and an equally stubborn refusal to take up the universalist crusade of the Christian gospels and its secular descendents like liberalism and wokeness.”
Whether it’s the homeless guy down the road starting a massive blaze or the carnage in the ME, these folks will be living in LaLa Land, until the fire is upon them.
The world in which I was fortunate enough to be raised is no more.
We watched it happen. Hell, we made it happen. We deliberately, afflicted as we are with a generations long case of terminal complacency, set about destroying all of that which had made us great.
Now all that remains is to apathetically gaze at our collective navels, and watch what's left of the freest, richest society ever known swirl into the sewer that is socialism.
LA is a third world country no one is reporting on. I just checked the covers of WSJ, CNN, MSNBC and the fire and destruction is not a headline, so far. California may just be a failed state. I don’t know what’s working well there, the power grid? The freeway system? Crime? Drugs? Police? Last but not least public education?
Well the bright side is, it might not be too long before you don't have to circle the Von's parking lot for 45 minutes before finding a pigeon hole for a parking spot.
CA bureaucracy created the "pigeon hole" parking lot. The CA building code requires a certain number of spaces, based on occupancy load. New construction is squeezed into tighter and tighter spaces to produce more marginal profit to overcome the growing costs of doing business ( min wage mandates, ever increasing taxes on everything from rain water capture, to plastic bag use), and this is overcome with more consumer traffic. Push all that into the shrinking available land for parking, take up a certain share for chinese made solar arrays, dedicated spaces for "international laborers", hocking their wares snd services, and viola, pigeon hole parking spaces. Go to any non-coastal state, and notice the difference in parking lot layout and size.
And don’t worry, they cleaned up San Fran I hear for Xi to come visit with Newsom and even to meet with the demented Biden next week. Rest assured Californians - they’ll sell you all out. Lol.
It’s NOT Californians. It’s stupid lefties that don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. If you go toward the mountains and rural areas of CA, it’s all about freedom and ✝️.
Freedom? And lavender Jesus? Kewl. But...what if the problem is ignorant rightwing authoritarians? This may come as a surprise to you but your country has way too many of those, like DOUBLE the percentage of similar (ostensibly developed, lol) nations. NO WONDER someone thinks they need more guns than people (who could it be...not the authoritarians, Shirley ;)
I am conservative. There are many types of conservatives. We aren’t uniform in our thinking like lefties are. However if there is a thread that runs throughout all forms of conservativism it is none of us want others running our lives. We are all for government staying out of our lives. The conservative movement is characterized by being ANTI -Authoritarian.
c/p of a comment I made on SH's Stack: "I feel like I don't even live here anymore. I'm just observing life as it's happening around me... It's like I rented a movie that sucks, but there's nothing else to do so I let it play, not really watching it, with a faint hope that it'll somehow get better, even though I know it won't...."
Democracy is the system that mandates that the votes of those drug-addicted vagrants should count the same as those of productive citizens. Liberalism is the ideology whereby productive citizens vote like drug-addicted vagrants. Liberal democracy is functioning as it should. The fire is just nature’s thus far unsuccessful attempt to remove it. For the pride flag, the very banner of anti-nature, yet waves, over the land of the NPC, and the home of the slave.
no, people that pay no taxes should have zero vote, not 3/5's. People that cant pass a simple civic competency exam should have zero vote. Is that better?
Yes!!!! Skin in the game. Text, history and tradition could lead us back to sanity, instead of the left's desire to have gender confused 12 year olds voting to redistribute other people's money.
I would add immigrants too, to reduce the desire to import them. But I would extend the zero taxes thing. If you are a net contributor, you get to vote. If you are a net recipient, minus one. So if you have been on the dole for five years taking out the system it takes five working years to get back in.
I don't feel your comment was sensitive to the lived reality of the lives of marginalized people. The 3/5 clause of the Constitution was profoundly unjust in that it did not recognize the gender diversity present in the new nation. One way we can do better is to rectify that situation immediately. For example, if people have they/them pronouns, they should get 6/5 of a vote, or 1.2 votes per persyn. Headmates should be included in this as well, with specific provisions built into the law to allow alters to vote as each one fronts in turn on election night. People experiencing drug addiction, burglars, Bernie Sanders voters, people experiencing mental illness, and others in similar conditions should simply have their ballots pre-counted by election workers as Democrat votes, sparing them the stigma of having to leave home, and the ANTIFA Act, pending in the California legislature, should be passed immediately, as it will register any felony rioting conviction as a Democrat vote, with an immediate amnesty and payout. These changes and others will serve to ameliorate historical injustices visited on marginalized people.
Better idea: two years minimum of hard unpaid labour, living expenses paid out as lodging, food and appropriate clothing. Finish the term and you get franchise and may run for any office.
Don't finish or don't even start, you have full rights but no franchise and may not be elected - because you haven't shown you can take moral responsibility for the well-being of others or the community at large.
Cheers, California is quite literally a dumpster fire! Let’s also remember that California has the most rigid Building Codes in the country, I know because I’m a licensed architect in the state, though I no longer live there.
They are very Elitist about how difficult they make it to build anything there, and yet they allow a homeless shanty town to build up comprised of all wood pallet construction, minus the emergency sprinklers, minus the rated firewalls and occupancy separations designed to prevent fire and loss of life.... these people are clueless not to mention hypocrites. So much for virtue signaling your anti-civilizational ‘liberal’ values?!
So glad I got off that sinking ship years back, and to a nearby “flyover” state that is trying hard to emulate this sh88 show? Time to go back to Republican rule, unless you’re looking for a death wish?! Democrats seem to have a thing for causing destructive fires and then trying to blame it on “climate change,” that will be their next excuse -
When Alex Christoforou does his walk-around videos for The Duran, I see graffiti everywhere in Athens, a bit less in Cyprus, even less in Serbia, and virtually none in Moscow and St Petersburg. In the US, every freight train car is covered with it. It says something about the society and the civilization that tolerates such filth.
Here, back when mom and dad were young, property owners had the right (and obligation in some circumstances) to prevent vandalism.
No permits needed for a fence and watchdogs. Banning thieving scum from your store was fully legal. People caught in the act of vandalising something got prison-sentences, no matter their age.
And so on.
Therefore, vandalism et c was virtually non-existent.
A good society is built not based on who you let in, but on who you kick out.
A good society is built not based on who you let in, but on who you kick out.
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We have forgotten this. In the rush to maintain our consumer society we are unwisely importing tens of millions of unsuitable people to maintain numbers.
But you are correct. Our societies worked because we were selective. Branding, exile and hanging were only three methods widely used in Europe to maintain civilization.
Prior to the 2000 election, Clinton Curtis was hired by Florida Rep Tom Feeney to write a software program for flipping votes on electronic voting machines. Tom assured Clinton it was to train their people to recognize and prevent election rigging. When Clinton noticed in the 2000 presidential election in Florida his software was being used to actually rig the election he blew the whistle. Very few people took him seriously, the cover story became hanging chads, SCOTUS (with a couple of daddy’s appointees) stopped the audit before it was finished, and George W Bush fraudulently won the White House. Bush’s buddies publicly wished for a Pearl Harbor type catalyzing event to begin their insanely profitable conquest of the middle east and, abracadabra, neocon zionist actors within the US government, with the help of Israel, did 9/11. The rest, as they say, is history.
Clinton testified about this to Democrat John Conyers’ Judiciary Committee in 2006. You can still find it on YouTube. Again, very few took him seriously. Politicians, most of them already owned, didn’t care because they had found a way to make sure enough of their people would be elected to get the kinds of things done that they wanted. Those things had nothing to do with what was best for people and this country.
Fast forward 23 years and that software has evolved, improved, and spread over the entire planet. Anywhere there are electronic machines for casting or tabulating votes, those results cannot be trusted. These machines, now combined with the mail-in ballots enabled by a fake pandemic, mean we may never have actual representation again.
That’s where your story can begin. You want to know why that bridge burned like that? You want to know why the entire country…no, the entire world…is burning like that? You want to know how these pure idiots…these lobotomized stooges…are in office who will do nothing that makes any sense? Now you know.
And political party has NOTHING to do with it. BOTH parties benefit from rigged elections, which is why, I suppose, nothing is ever done about it. It’s not Democrat vs Republican. It’s Good vs Evil.
the "elections" form the first basis of our consent to brutal anti-human policies. The cabal need consent and they manipulate and control getting it from the masses all around the globe via every means at their deposal, including rigging, counting, and reporting on "elections." "Democracy" has become a myth we cling to, despite all evidence to the contrary, because we have so much pride around it. If we knew the full truth, we'd never consent.
I was trying to keep it short. This was just a comment on someone else’s article. How were those papers with hanging chads counted? Every precinct use the same exact system?
It is getting difficult to stay even remotely “lady-like” in my comments anymore. Oh, and yes, I was born with female genitalia, ovaries, developed my own breasts, and am heterosexual- a novelty at this point - but I am all that, OMG - AND white. Dear lord.... .
At any rate, I am so fucking tired of the hypocrisy these evil politicians shove down our throats! Homeless cause 87% of all fires - but the politicians pocket millions by always “trying” to end homelessness. The democrat politicians are the worst, but both parties do it. They don’t care how many lives they endanger, how environmentally damaging this shit is, or how much of our taxpayer dollars is wasted -
Newsom is a whore who will forsake his long term tax payer employers for a night with his highest paying client (Xi) while, again, wasting even more taxpayer dollars to clean up SF only to abandon the city once their “fun” is over. Then the homeless shit and needle pile will be allowed to return - fuck the taxpayers who have to live with it without any reprieve.
We are losing America, American values, our dignity, and our Allie’s. Oh, but thank goodness “they” can stack the bodies, the shit, the needles, the American flag, and anything else these tyrants want up high and tall and triumphantly place a rainbow flag and a pro Hamas flag (side by side) at the tippy top of the stench and shout “we won!!!”
God bless them for they know what they do .... and they don’t care.....
Family obligations, yes. If I was a completely independent person with no obligations or ties to anyone, I'd probably be in South Dakota by now.
But beyond that, a bunch of Californians got tired of the leftist shithole and fled to Arizona –– where the current toddler-voiced socialist governor issued an executive order, shortly after her inauguration, requiring public schools to honor the preferred pronouns of their transgender first-graders. I don't think running away works. Here's a story about deep red Oklahoma:
Aside from my family roots here going back to gold mining days, California remains a beautiful place. A couple hours drive to skiing or the beach, wineries and excellent food everywhere. If you can live outside the cities and avoid dealing with any gov't it's nice. Very few flying insects. That's no small thing.
The key is disengaging from the madness they want you to consume. They want us divided. They want race wars. They want religious wars. They want political wars. This is how they want to depose America and usher in a WEF future. The biggest middle finger you can give is being happy and making friends of your neighbors.
But I do have family in AZ if the shit hits the fan.
I had the opportunity to escape LA and move to Ireland to take my dream job.
It would have meant leaving my two young sons behind in the custody of my ex-wife. So I turned the job down and never regretted it. Since then, I fortified my position and even had another child. She is pureblood, homeschooled and growing tall and strong in our world-famous climate.
Why should any of us surrender our homelands to death cultists, anyway?
They don’t produce children and they are committing suicide as fast as they can. Their degenerate culture, however ascendant it is right now, will in a few years be consigned to the dustbin of history.
However grim it may appear, this is what it looks like when the problem is solving itself.
I agree. I understand why people run. And it even makes sense if your neighborhood goes to hell and you have young kids to protect. But as a principle? I think some use it as a rebuke. If you don't like it you can always move.
We have one thing up our sleeve as you mentioned, their entire philosophy is nihilistic. People who celebrate abortion as the pinnacle of healthcare are not civilization builders.
We probably won't leave California till we have to and we live in one of the worst cities—but crime and disorder never really reach our neighborhood. It's just a fact. I have a like-minded neighbor across the street but I know the rest would be glad to see us naked and bleeding in the street. Our doors are always locked. We're well armed. Retired, we never go out except for food shopping. We have looked for property in other states, but prices are inflated, and no one seems eager to have us move into their state. We have a rustic cabin in the mountains where we spend a lot of spring, summer, and fall, and the people up there are all Trump people. We feel at home up there, but it's still California.
"I have a like-minded neighbor across the street but I know the rest would be glad to see us naked and bleeding in the street."
You may not feel that people are eager for you to move into their state, but there's gotta be a better way to live than holed up, hiding from people who want to see you dead!
There are plenty of places in the USA where your neighbors do NOT want you dead.
What would it take to convince you that you "have to" leave California? Sure sounds like you have to right now.
Thanks. I'm not holed up and I don't hide. I get to hike several days a week, and I don't have the interests of a younger person—that restlessness to go out into the world. I don't drink and don't like eating out. I'm actually pretty lucky. Democrats within a stone's throw are pretty irrational, but I'm probably more dangerous than the ones on my street. Have you ever checked out any of the strictly democrat sites of Substack? If you can believe it, they hate us more than we hate them.
Anyway, my wife just isn't ready to leave. If unrest or crime started washing over our neighborhood, then we'd probably go. When we're in the mountains, we help our neighbors and they help us, and I really like that. That's why we're up there a lot.
No, I avoid Politically Correct Progressive babblings. I'm completely aware of their beliefs, and their desire for us Normals to be dead and gone. I stay as far away from them as possible, including their speech and writing.
A rainbow over the ashes. San Francisco is even more insane than LA. The week Xi Jingping comes into town, his court eunuch gavin cleans it all up in days after letting it descend into mayhem for years.
It's important to put on a good show for a major communist
Gotta please the boss. Recently having received in person his orders regarding conditions for the visit.
Wouldn't want to go the way of Mayor Adams
lol
Just in case you didn't see it, Newsom admits it's true they only cleaned it up because of the leaders:
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/monday-comes-around (first video, not too far down the page)
Hi Chris - finally saw this article in the WSJ today. You’ll be glad to know Pete Buttigieg has offered assistance...https://www.wsj.com/us-news/los-angeles-i-10-freeway-shutdown-expected-to-snarl-traffic-75cac141?st=01z52b2krq0rscu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Well they are butthole buddies.
Xi only gives and Newsom only receives (at either end).
Yep
I still don’t understand how they pulled off such an unprecedented feat in San Francisco. If you’ve been there, you know that there are huge crowds living in the streets. Was it mounted cops? Cattle prods? Gas vans?
That they did it unobserved is even more eerie than that they did it all.
Yeah - just what did SF do with all the homeless? Is anybody there asking?
I lived in the East Bay for 6 yrs and the storm sewer were labeled in blue “Flows to sea.” I suggest not checking the storm sewer outputs for the next couple of weeks. 🤣
And didn't they break some law that says that homeless cannot be made to move if there are no places for them to go? That's why this has grown so rapidly because of that ruling by the 9th Circuit. I'd love to see video of whoever removing those camps and people, and a time lapse video of them all coming back, if that happens.
I’m surprised they didn’t imprison all the dissidents
demoralization is too mild a word Yuri. Yeshua did a much better job with describing end times
My ability to disconnect has become unhealthy, its soooo easy to sit around and say "hmm, yeah that happens to empires" while I look for useless"kriff-krafts" on Amazon.
I don't think it's unhealthy. I used to follow the news constantly, along with social media, but I ended up in a constant state of rage, while being unable to do a damned thing to change anything that was happening. So I disconnected. I feel much better now. When I do see something and start to get angry, I just remind myself that I can't change it and I'm just hurting myself.
Yeah, but I buy too many damn kriff-krafts!....:)
What are kriff-krafts?
I just made it up. Sounded silly enough for the stacks
LOL! I had to quit Prime at the beginning of the year, or I was never gonna get my cards paid off. When I really need something for my preps, I can usually get a free 7 or 30 day trial.
You wanted to know what kriff-krafts were because of "buying" FOMO....LOLOL...JJ....:)
Unnecessary ‘Stuff’, probably 😂
I’m with you Ryan. I’m trying to figure out how to convince my wife that I need a new 1x6x24 ‘Kriff-Kraft’ so I can ‘see’ better...
You deserve it!
Where I’m at. Lord’s will, whatever happens now.
I understand. There’s a point where you have to put YOUR energy into living as peaceful and positive as you can. All the energy we collectively put into sorrow and resentment affects everything around us-guilty.
God holds me up and strengthens me.
It’s all local. Family. Friends. Community/church. County. State. Use the gifts that God has given us to spread His love.
One of my sources of encouragement is seeing the many people (at least on Substack) awakening to the actual evil all around us. I pray that we will have an Awakening that brings many to the Lord.
I think this awakening is helped by the dysfunction most cannot ignore. Many have no mental framework yet to process it, but it starts with noticing.
So many facts. Get together with the like-minded people in your area (or out of it!)
Being able to speak freely is incredibly liberating.
https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/santa-fe-a-snowy-screaming-success
If it's the Lord you have faith in, isn't there something in the Word about you being given agency? Things are going to get WAY worse if you throw in the towel. We can beat these malfeasance-soaked imbeciles -- we only lack courage and conviction.
At this point, the most important thing we can do is try to become as self-sufficient as possible. It's really the only way to fight back.
Seriously?
There's not a person here that ain't going down swinging.
Just commiserating.
It's ok; nobody here is gonna wait for the jack boots to show up at the door.
Ryan, I've sometimes wondered if Substack was developed as a convenient source for aggregating the identities of those who would "go down swinging."
It is. It's like a box canyon.
Oh well, we'll just have to scale the walls
Count me in.
This 100%. Can’t muster the effort to care. Like trying to bail out the Titanic.
Make sure you pay close attention to your own hometown first before bashing beyond-your-backyard...
We're all on the same team man.
We'll be in the foxhole with you.
Hold your fire for the enemy.
If we’re all on the same team...who is the enemy? Maybe Walt Kelly was right....
You're either for totalitarianism or your not.
How about those teams.
Are job is to wake up those who can't distinguish the two.
The totalitarians are gone; their contempt for us measures their purity.
California is a giant pinata of rot, so it's hard to resist.
A few months ago I saw a homeless guy snoozing with his head on his backpack. This was at the corner of the Exxon where we get gas, and across the street from the grocery store. I was shocked and furious. That is NOT OK here in small town South Carolina.
The Amazon effect, the results of combining bread AND the circus, on a CCP redistribution platform.
No doubt, right?!
Me toooo Ryan Gardner .
The key to understanding all of this is understanding weaponized resentment.
Politicians know that they can get power and get RICH by appealing to the resentments of people who have failed in life, and being gay is a failure. No one was born gay. It is just a bad choice in life, albeit a choice often conditioned by having been sexually molested by a gay man as a boy. Most gay men were molested as boys, and they will admit it if pressed. It's an open secret among them.
BLM is weaponized resentment of the failure of blacks, due itself to resentful black culture.
Feminism is weaponized resentment of men for slights on the playground decades ago, and for their innate physical weakness relative to men.
Marxism is nothing but the resentment of the rich, a way to make everyone poor just to feel better about themselves. (Georgism is a truly practical answer, btw, because it would not impoverish or oppress anyone.)
All of the left's ideology is resentment alone, and those resentful people elect the most corrupt imaginable grifters as long as those grifters, like Newscum and Pelosi, say the right words to sooth the pain of their resentments.
"Man would fain be great and sees that he is little; would fain be happy and sees that he is miserable; would fain be perfect and sees that he is full of imperfections; would fain be the object of the love and esteem of men, and sees that his faults merit only their aversion and contempt. The embarrassment wherein he finds himself produces in him the most unjust and criminal passions imaginable, for he conceives a mortal hatred against that truth which blames him and convinces him of his faults." - Pascal
We can try to debate everything under the sun with leftists, but it will get nowhere because all they really want is to injure others as a revenge for their own perceived failures. That is the unspoken truth, and no one on the left can ever speak it.
Resentment and hatred.
Packaged as love, kindness, and tolerance.
Whoa to those who call evil, good…
Woe.
Sorry. Sometimes, I just can't not do it.
Maybe I meant to right it that way…
Write.
Wright!
I too would like it to stop.
You can edit comments.
You can't edit someone else's comments.
True.
Hard agree. Literal resentment, with avenues for expression provided by skilled manipulators. That is why politics is now about presentation and not policies as such. No one really debates policies.
That is the appeal of mass immigration of people we know will struggle to assimilate. The resentment is practically guaranteed. And it is generational. The gift that keeps on giving.
Although I see feminism is running aground as the widespread adoption of their worldview among young women is leading to mass singledom and childlessness as men are walking away.
Yes, every single leftist policy results in suffering for the many while shoveling more money up to the very rich.
Eventually you'd think leftists would want to stop hurting themselves. Maybe the pleasure of hurting others outweighs the pain.
I also see young women turning away from militant feminism as they see those older feminists now becoming childless cat ladies.
I think the appeal of leftism is emotional. Logic doesn't get a look in. When you talk to former leftists it is almost always observation of reality and logic that leads them away from it. But as more seem to be stuck in a permanent adolescence the more they turn away from reality because it is harsh. Like your comment on homosexuality. That view was common only 30 years ago and is now unthinkable to most.
Yes, a comparison to permanent adolescence seems about right.
Adolescents typically develop a resentment of their own lack of power relative to adults. They grow out of it as they see that they can accomplish things on their own - or maybe they don't grow out of it if they become leftists.
I think it is a form of learned helplessness. This inculcates pessimism, and that is the hook for the leftists. After all their promised utopia is basically a kind of comeuppance mentality. Once we get power we'll kick the fat cats out etc. Revenge for the impotent who, deep down, know they are inadequates.
I agree.
The cure is to convince them that they are not inadequate. They can each live a long and happy life with the right attitude and hard work. The first step in that cure is to turn off the fucking TV and to never listen to NPR or read the NY Times.
Being gay is literally not a failure— it’s just being gay. Don’t be a moron. You came across very intelligent… until not
At this point, we should all be very tired of pretending that being gay is anything other than an ancient and self-destructive vice, similar to alcoholism in many ways.
That's all it is, a vice which spreads anal warts, shortens lives, and prevents family formation.
Let's stop lying about it.
When I was in grad school during the AIDS excitement 3 decades ago, a histology professor showed the class slides of the cells lining the rectum and those lining the vagina. Clearly, only one of these was "designed" for intercourse. It's science! Real science!
Widespread homosexuality portends societal collapse. Lesbian Camille Paglia rightly pointed this out in an interview a few years ago.
Some more weird biology facts about anal sex:
- Semen contains an immune suppressant which evolved to get women's bodies to not kill off the sperm before it could fertilize an egg. If you inject that immune suppressant directly into the bloodstream via a torn rectum along with a virus like AIDS, the virus has an exceptionally easy time infecting the person. This is why gay men are most susceptible to AIDS, hetero women second, and straight men third.
- Semen contains some opioid proteins which evolved to get women to enjoy sex more. Injecting those proteins into a torn rectum may account for some of the obviously addict-like behavior among gay men.
I agree that widespread homosexuality portends societal collapse. The bible story of Sodom and Gomorrah makes sense as warnings about things people knew even back then.
I read Camille Paglia in my 30’s (I’m 60 now). She put the blame back on the women! In other words, she proclaimed SELF RESPONSIBILITY. I never forgot that.
I was raised in LA, in the bluest and leftest milieu you can imagine, where everyone eats, drinks, and breathes lifestyle tolerance from the earliest age. I’ve come around entirely to your point of view.
Thanks. It took me quite a while to change. I was a standard-issue liberal, but after working in San Francisco for 20 years, I lost all respect for gay men. They really are killing themselves with their lifestyles and I saw it myself. Lots of alcohol and hard drug use as well. Nothing to be proud of.
It's really surprising what living or working in a super-woke environment can do to a person's affiliations. I, too, was a good left-winger, living in rural Pennsylvania, listening to NPR, watching MSNBC, and voting for all the right candidates. Then a decade ago we moved to Vermont, hotbed of wokery, and within a year we all were listening to Tucker and voting conservative. Extended family are shocked at the change. Maybe it's that we got to see the fruits of Leftism up close.
Yes, San Francisco has literally turned to shit under the far left. Sad, because the location cannot be beat, one of the best on earth.
I’m a 3rd generation SF native, born and raised. I haven’t been to that Soddom and Gemorrah for a few years. I want to keep SF in my memories when it was magnificent...especially at Christmas! Absolutely amazing!
Marxists have destroyed SF.
I'm also sad because it's a really beautiful location. I don't go there anymore either.
Honestly, you sound so ignorant. Just stop. Reading your words are lowering my IQ. You don’t have to believe one way or the other about this, that, that’s fine, that’s you’re right— but what you said above is just so low vibrational and dumb. It’s pathetic— I may have gotten anal warts from your words.
Truth is hard for some people 😉.
I have no objection to anything that you have said, I only have a question. What does it mean to be ‘low vibrational’ because I honestly would like to know.
Please and thank you.
Explain it too us.
Why do you insult these people?
The truth is not an insult. It may be tactless to speak the truth, but it remains the truth.
Gayness is just the same ancient vice it ever was, spread primarily through homo-pedophilia, which is a horrible crime.
I speaking to JG
Your eyes are brown, hater.
Rome is burning. Or if you prefer, this is really very 3rd world dictatorship. This is what you see in Venezuela or Cuba or any other dystopian hellhole. The ruling class and its activities are totally detached from the reality on the street. So you see fluffy stories about nonsense and hear happy talk while people starve and crime accelerates and dissidents are tossed in gulags or disappeared. One notable difference is that the citizens of those places know what’s going on and are either for the regime or against the regime. Whereas the unbelievable thing in America, at least in some areas, has been for the public to pretend that somehow everything is normal while clearly it’s on the skids, particularly in what used to be the richest, most cosmopolitan areas, which are now the Deep State prison cities. Life in America is very different culturally and on a practical level than it was only 5 years ago. Maybe this is a long reach, but it’s my impression that this phenomenon also dovetails with the incredible naïveté of the upper middle class nitwits marching for Hamas. It’s all of a piece as Antonio Garcia Martinez points out in one of the best pieces to date on the war in the ME:
“Contemporary society lives in a miasma of showy hypocrisy. Elites talk of diversity and inclusion and then send their kids to private schools. Everyone among a certain class tweeted out #BLM and “defund the police,” and then protected themselves from the resulting wave of urban violence, which impacted mostly minorities, by living in upscale neighborhoods. Similarly, Western political elites will clamor for a “two-state solution,” but it will be Jewish children whose heads will be bashed in if the approach fails (as indeed it did, and they were). The two-state solution is not the way out of the current situation: It’s how we got here.
Westerners view the Middle East with a new wokified Orientalism: It’s an exotic stage on which to project (if not enact) their own political dramas around identity and oppression. The problem is that the liberal mind cannot imagine what’s inside the illiberal mind; the entire thrust of a liberal education ensures that impossibility. So you have well-meaning (neo) liberals like Noah Smith who propose that simply lifting Gaza’s per capita GDP will pacify it forever. If only they had a bit more disposable income, they’d beat their swords into plowshares (to echo Isaiah), or their AK-47s into iPhones. The liberal who loves life inside our capitalist society of spectacle has a bit of trouble understanding a populace who’d really rather kill, rape, and plunder a sworn ethnic enemy while screaming “God is great!” at the top of their lungs than founding a Y Combinator startup.
Never mind that the United States’ own misguided attempt to turn Iraq into a Jeffersonian democracy caused more civilian deaths—roughly 200,000 by most accounts—than 10 Israels would cause in a decade. Why doesn’t everyone want what we want?, laments the well-meaning liberal, as yet another crusading liberal experiment abroad fails miserably.
Israel is now an outcast among nations for the same reason the Jew was an outcast among European peoples: a stubborn refusal to abandon his traditions and peoplehood, and an equally stubborn refusal to take up the universalist crusade of the Christian gospels and its secular descendents like liberalism and wokeness.”
Whether it’s the homeless guy down the road starting a massive blaze or the carnage in the ME, these folks will be living in LaLa Land, until the fire is upon them.
Very well summarized Sir!
The world in which I was fortunate enough to be raised is no more.
We watched it happen. Hell, we made it happen. We deliberately, afflicted as we are with a generations long case of terminal complacency, set about destroying all of that which had made us great.
Now all that remains is to apathetically gaze at our collective navels, and watch what's left of the freest, richest society ever known swirl into the sewer that is socialism.
Chin up and fight back however you can. Don’t roll over for the morons and sadists.
LA is a third world country no one is reporting on. I just checked the covers of WSJ, CNN, MSNBC and the fire and destruction is not a headline, so far. California may just be a failed state. I don’t know what’s working well there, the power grid? The freeway system? Crime? Drugs? Police? Last but not least public education?
Well the bright side is, it might not be too long before you don't have to circle the Von's parking lot for 45 minutes before finding a pigeon hole for a parking spot.
CA bureaucracy created the "pigeon hole" parking lot. The CA building code requires a certain number of spaces, based on occupancy load. New construction is squeezed into tighter and tighter spaces to produce more marginal profit to overcome the growing costs of doing business ( min wage mandates, ever increasing taxes on everything from rain water capture, to plastic bag use), and this is overcome with more consumer traffic. Push all that into the shrinking available land for parking, take up a certain share for chinese made solar arrays, dedicated spaces for "international laborers", hocking their wares snd services, and viola, pigeon hole parking spaces. Go to any non-coastal state, and notice the difference in parking lot layout and size.
And don’t worry, they cleaned up San Fran I hear for Xi to come visit with Newsom and even to meet with the demented Biden next week. Rest assured Californians - they’ll sell you all out. Lol.
It’s NOT Californians. It’s stupid lefties that don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. If you go toward the mountains and rural areas of CA, it’s all about freedom and ✝️.
Sanity starts twenty miles away from the ocean.
Lol! I’m 3 blocks from the ocean. Nature has been my savior, besides God/Creator. But nature is God.
I need to make peace WHEREVER I am. That is the key, in my opinion.
Freedom? And lavender Jesus? Kewl. But...what if the problem is ignorant rightwing authoritarians? This may come as a surprise to you but your country has way too many of those, like DOUBLE the percentage of similar (ostensibly developed, lol) nations. NO WONDER someone thinks they need more guns than people (who could it be...not the authoritarians, Shirley ;)
I’m basically an anarchist. Unfortunately, people don’t live by natural law or a moral code. I do.
So, I have guns to protect myself, and that’s my right.
I’m the gal who just wants to be left alone.
Said this to swedish feminists, and they let out a mighty reet:
"Nothing has made women more equal than the right to own and carry guns"
Any woman should ask why male feminists wants to deny women the opportunity to carry weapons.
That’s why firearms are called, “the great equalizer”, for all.
Right wing authoritarians?
I am conservative. There are many types of conservatives. We aren’t uniform in our thinking like lefties are. However if there is a thread that runs throughout all forms of conservativism it is none of us want others running our lives. We are all for government staying out of our lives. The conservative movement is characterized by being ANTI -Authoritarian.
Totally agree. It is tiresome seeing people with a fully-approved downloaded version of conservatism that is basically Nazis minus the uniforms.
Indeed, the great criticism of modern conservatives is how much they are willing to let slip so as not to intrude in others lives.
I too am driven by a desire to keep people out of my life. But as we now know our enemies will come at us 24/7.
c/p of a comment I made on SH's Stack: "I feel like I don't even live here anymore. I'm just observing life as it's happening around me... It's like I rented a movie that sucks, but there's nothing else to do so I let it play, not really watching it, with a faint hope that it'll somehow get better, even though I know it won't...."
Epic. Perfect way to encapture the "feeling"
The movie doesn’t get better, but it does end, and then we go outside.
Why do I suspect most people ain't gonna like the ending?
Democracy is the system that mandates that the votes of those drug-addicted vagrants should count the same as those of productive citizens. Liberalism is the ideology whereby productive citizens vote like drug-addicted vagrants. Liberal democracy is functioning as it should. The fire is just nature’s thus far unsuccessful attempt to remove it. For the pride flag, the very banner of anti-nature, yet waves, over the land of the NPC, and the home of the slave.
What's the phrase the students used?
"All the yes!", I think it was.
Maybe you think some people’s votes should only count 3/5?
Here’s one: every year from age 50 to age 75 your vote is worth 2% less.
no, people that pay no taxes should have zero vote, not 3/5's. People that cant pass a simple civic competency exam should have zero vote. Is that better?
Yes!!!! Skin in the game. Text, history and tradition could lead us back to sanity, instead of the left's desire to have gender confused 12 year olds voting to redistribute other people's money.
I would add immigrants too, to reduce the desire to import them. But I would extend the zero taxes thing. If you are a net contributor, you get to vote. If you are a net recipient, minus one. So if you have been on the dole for five years taking out the system it takes five working years to get back in.
I don't feel your comment was sensitive to the lived reality of the lives of marginalized people. The 3/5 clause of the Constitution was profoundly unjust in that it did not recognize the gender diversity present in the new nation. One way we can do better is to rectify that situation immediately. For example, if people have they/them pronouns, they should get 6/5 of a vote, or 1.2 votes per persyn. Headmates should be included in this as well, with specific provisions built into the law to allow alters to vote as each one fronts in turn on election night. People experiencing drug addiction, burglars, Bernie Sanders voters, people experiencing mental illness, and others in similar conditions should simply have their ballots pre-counted by election workers as Democrat votes, sparing them the stigma of having to leave home, and the ANTIFA Act, pending in the California legislature, should be passed immediately, as it will register any felony rioting conviction as a Democrat vote, with an immediate amnesty and payout. These changes and others will serve to ameliorate historical injustices visited on marginalized people.
Always fun to see a Canadian dip their toe into American politics.
Hey c'mon, they're under the .. thumb .. of Justin Turd'eau. Boy prolly needs to vent in a way what doesn't get him signed up for "voluntary" MAID.
Better idea: two years minimum of hard unpaid labour, living expenses paid out as lodging, food and appropriate clothing. Finish the term and you get franchise and may run for any office.
Don't finish or don't even start, you have full rights but no franchise and may not be elected - because you haven't shown you can take moral responsibility for the well-being of others or the community at large.
Cheers, California is quite literally a dumpster fire! Let’s also remember that California has the most rigid Building Codes in the country, I know because I’m a licensed architect in the state, though I no longer live there.
They are very Elitist about how difficult they make it to build anything there, and yet they allow a homeless shanty town to build up comprised of all wood pallet construction, minus the emergency sprinklers, minus the rated firewalls and occupancy separations designed to prevent fire and loss of life.... these people are clueless not to mention hypocrites. So much for virtue signaling your anti-civilizational ‘liberal’ values?!
So glad I got off that sinking ship years back, and to a nearby “flyover” state that is trying hard to emulate this sh88 show? Time to go back to Republican rule, unless you’re looking for a death wish?! Democrats seem to have a thing for causing destructive fires and then trying to blame it on “climate change,” that will be their next excuse -
Get out while you can.
The incompetence and corruption are rotting this country to the core.
This is just more proof of it.
But don’t come to Canada.
No freedom loving person has any desire to go to Canada.
Canada must split up. The West has to go it alone. We will never be free of Justin. The elections are cooked.
Sane people leave Canada for nations with greater freedom such as Singapore.
Darn, high on my list as it seems like such a sane place. 🥴 https://reduxx.info/canada-female-powerlifter-facing-two-year-ban-for-criticizing-trans-identified-males-in-womens-sports/
When Alex Christoforou does his walk-around videos for The Duran, I see graffiti everywhere in Athens, a bit less in Cyprus, even less in Serbia, and virtually none in Moscow and St Petersburg. In the US, every freight train car is covered with it. It says something about the society and the civilization that tolerates such filth.
Some people actually love their countries
Here, back when mom and dad were young, property owners had the right (and obligation in some circumstances) to prevent vandalism.
No permits needed for a fence and watchdogs. Banning thieving scum from your store was fully legal. People caught in the act of vandalising something got prison-sentences, no matter their age.
And so on.
Therefore, vandalism et c was virtually non-existent.
A good society is built not based on who you let in, but on who you kick out.
A good society is built not based on who you let in, but on who you kick out.
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We have forgotten this. In the rush to maintain our consumer society we are unwisely importing tens of millions of unsuitable people to maintain numbers.
But you are correct. Our societies worked because we were selective. Branding, exile and hanging were only three methods widely used in Europe to maintain civilization.
If you guys have never restacked an article before, this is the time to start.
This is very wise
Prior to the 2000 election, Clinton Curtis was hired by Florida Rep Tom Feeney to write a software program for flipping votes on electronic voting machines. Tom assured Clinton it was to train their people to recognize and prevent election rigging. When Clinton noticed in the 2000 presidential election in Florida his software was being used to actually rig the election he blew the whistle. Very few people took him seriously, the cover story became hanging chads, SCOTUS (with a couple of daddy’s appointees) stopped the audit before it was finished, and George W Bush fraudulently won the White House. Bush’s buddies publicly wished for a Pearl Harbor type catalyzing event to begin their insanely profitable conquest of the middle east and, abracadabra, neocon zionist actors within the US government, with the help of Israel, did 9/11. The rest, as they say, is history.
Clinton testified about this to Democrat John Conyers’ Judiciary Committee in 2006. You can still find it on YouTube. Again, very few took him seriously. Politicians, most of them already owned, didn’t care because they had found a way to make sure enough of their people would be elected to get the kinds of things done that they wanted. Those things had nothing to do with what was best for people and this country.
Fast forward 23 years and that software has evolved, improved, and spread over the entire planet. Anywhere there are electronic machines for casting or tabulating votes, those results cannot be trusted. These machines, now combined with the mail-in ballots enabled by a fake pandemic, mean we may never have actual representation again.
That’s where your story can begin. You want to know why that bridge burned like that? You want to know why the entire country…no, the entire world…is burning like that? You want to know how these pure idiots…these lobotomized stooges…are in office who will do nothing that makes any sense? Now you know.
And political party has NOTHING to do with it. BOTH parties benefit from rigged elections, which is why, I suppose, nothing is ever done about it. It’s not Democrat vs Republican. It’s Good vs Evil.
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mark crispin miller's book, fooled again, has a lot of great documentation
the "elections" form the first basis of our consent to brutal anti-human policies. The cabal need consent and they manipulate and control getting it from the masses all around the globe via every means at their deposal, including rigging, counting, and reporting on "elections." "Democracy" has become a myth we cling to, despite all evidence to the contrary, because we have so much pride around it. If we knew the full truth, we'd never consent.
meanwhile, we used paper ballots in 2000 in florida, remember the "hanging chads"??? there werent electronic voting yet. Nice story though.
I was trying to keep it short. This was just a comment on someone else’s article. How were those papers with hanging chads counted? Every precinct use the same exact system?
Oh, and, I’ll look forward to you debunking this…
https://rumble.com/vn6fil-clint-curtis-2000-congressional-testimony.-rigged-election-machine-virtuall.html
And I didn’t even mention journalist Greg Palast’s work on the subject. Nice try though.
“They’ve Failed At Every Single Thing They’re Supposed To Do”
But equally true, perhaps in greater measure:
THEY ARE succeeding at every single thing they are actually THERE TO Do..
It is getting difficult to stay even remotely “lady-like” in my comments anymore. Oh, and yes, I was born with female genitalia, ovaries, developed my own breasts, and am heterosexual- a novelty at this point - but I am all that, OMG - AND white. Dear lord.... .
At any rate, I am so fucking tired of the hypocrisy these evil politicians shove down our throats! Homeless cause 87% of all fires - but the politicians pocket millions by always “trying” to end homelessness. The democrat politicians are the worst, but both parties do it. They don’t care how many lives they endanger, how environmentally damaging this shit is, or how much of our taxpayer dollars is wasted -
Newsom is a whore who will forsake his long term tax payer employers for a night with his highest paying client (Xi) while, again, wasting even more taxpayer dollars to clean up SF only to abandon the city once their “fun” is over. Then the homeless shit and needle pile will be allowed to return - fuck the taxpayers who have to live with it without any reprieve.
We are losing America, American values, our dignity, and our Allie’s. Oh, but thank goodness “they” can stack the bodies, the shit, the needles, the American flag, and anything else these tyrants want up high and tall and triumphantly place a rainbow flag and a pro Hamas flag (side by side) at the tippy top of the stench and shout “we won!!!”
God bless them for they know what they do .... and they don’t care.....
Oh, I am catholic too.....
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Could you please explain why you live, work, and pay taxes there?
Are they forcing you to stay?
It's a big country, and a big world.
Take away some of their tax revenue.
Get the hell out!
Family obligations, yes. If I was a completely independent person with no obligations or ties to anyone, I'd probably be in South Dakota by now.
But beyond that, a bunch of Californians got tired of the leftist shithole and fled to Arizona –– where the current toddler-voiced socialist governor issued an executive order, shortly after her inauguration, requiring public schools to honor the preferred pronouns of their transgender first-graders. I don't think running away works. Here's a story about deep red Oklahoma:
https://wpde.com/news/nation-world/oklahoma-elementary-school-principal-hired-despite-known-history-of-child-porn-allegations-western-heights-school-district-oklahoma-city-okc-shane-murnan-shantel-mandalay
Aside from my family roots here going back to gold mining days, California remains a beautiful place. A couple hours drive to skiing or the beach, wineries and excellent food everywhere. If you can live outside the cities and avoid dealing with any gov't it's nice. Very few flying insects. That's no small thing.
The key is disengaging from the madness they want you to consume. They want us divided. They want race wars. They want religious wars. They want political wars. This is how they want to depose America and usher in a WEF future. The biggest middle finger you can give is being happy and making friends of your neighbors.
But I do have family in AZ if the shit hits the fan.
Embedded
I had the opportunity to escape LA and move to Ireland to take my dream job.
It would have meant leaving my two young sons behind in the custody of my ex-wife. So I turned the job down and never regretted it. Since then, I fortified my position and even had another child. She is pureblood, homeschooled and growing tall and strong in our world-famous climate.
Why should any of us surrender our homelands to death cultists, anyway?
They don’t produce children and they are committing suicide as fast as they can. Their degenerate culture, however ascendant it is right now, will in a few years be consigned to the dustbin of history.
However grim it may appear, this is what it looks like when the problem is solving itself.
I agree. I understand why people run. And it even makes sense if your neighborhood goes to hell and you have young kids to protect. But as a principle? I think some use it as a rebuke. If you don't like it you can always move.
We have one thing up our sleeve as you mentioned, their entire philosophy is nihilistic. People who celebrate abortion as the pinnacle of healthcare are not civilization builders.
We probably won't leave California till we have to and we live in one of the worst cities—but crime and disorder never really reach our neighborhood. It's just a fact. I have a like-minded neighbor across the street but I know the rest would be glad to see us naked and bleeding in the street. Our doors are always locked. We're well armed. Retired, we never go out except for food shopping. We have looked for property in other states, but prices are inflated, and no one seems eager to have us move into their state. We have a rustic cabin in the mountains where we spend a lot of spring, summer, and fall, and the people up there are all Trump people. We feel at home up there, but it's still California.
"I have a like-minded neighbor across the street but I know the rest would be glad to see us naked and bleeding in the street."
You may not feel that people are eager for you to move into their state, but there's gotta be a better way to live than holed up, hiding from people who want to see you dead!
There are plenty of places in the USA where your neighbors do NOT want you dead.
What would it take to convince you that you "have to" leave California? Sure sounds like you have to right now.
Thanks. I'm not holed up and I don't hide. I get to hike several days a week, and I don't have the interests of a younger person—that restlessness to go out into the world. I don't drink and don't like eating out. I'm actually pretty lucky. Democrats within a stone's throw are pretty irrational, but I'm probably more dangerous than the ones on my street. Have you ever checked out any of the strictly democrat sites of Substack? If you can believe it, they hate us more than we hate them.
Anyway, my wife just isn't ready to leave. If unrest or crime started washing over our neighborhood, then we'd probably go. When we're in the mountains, we help our neighbors and they help us, and I really like that. That's why we're up there a lot.
Please be careful.
It only takes one incident and it's all over.
No, I avoid Politically Correct Progressive babblings. I'm completely aware of their beliefs, and their desire for us Normals to be dead and gone. I stay as far away from them as possible, including their speech and writing.
Sounds like the mountains are a good place.
Good luck, and think positive!
I think he has family obligations.