As a paid subscriber on my IPhone I have needed to put in a code that is texted to me in order to comment. It’s a small inconvenience and I don’t mean to be whining, but I don’t need to do it on other stacks to which I am a paid subscriber. Any ideas?
I have the same issue working from the email. If you go into the sub stack app and read the comments there you’ll be able to write to your heart’s content without need for any passcodes
How do you keep your sanity digging up these insane gems? Lisa Murkowski finds Hung Cao unqualified because he is an unrepentant and experienced fighter!! Exposing her, what can only be seen as unadulterated stupidity. Gavin Newsom, free speech champion, don’t you know, will allow censorship to become law – par for the course. Why not, he has sidestepped the districting commission. An illegal gun toting alien with fake credential becomes school superintendent in conservative Iowa, this is the stuff of nightmarish fairy tales. Finally, the one that takes the cake: standing up for personal freedoms and free markets is fascism – No! it gets worse : California wants to adopt South Africa style land distribution to previously disadvantaged non-farmers in order to preserve precious farmland! How do you keep your sanity when digging up this unbelievable muck. Thanks for doing it for us.
Chris, my son just finished USMC recon training and is now headed off to dive school. Their recon class started with 230 people and finished with 42. So yeah, not a lot of DEI going on there. I asked him about what he thought about Hegseth’s speech. His reply “it’s about time”. He is a certified badass and hangs out with the same. They don’t have a lot of time or interest in anyone’s feelings.
And some of the brass told the media the event "could have been done in an email." That's how little they value submitting to the authority they themselves expect from those below them. They are Hollywood-level villains.
Reading all the crazy things you report on here (in our wonderful California paradise) makes me feel like one of those Monty Python Gumby characters (sorry to date myself): “My brain hurts!”
I learn something new all the time from the comments here. I never realised those characters had a name, “Gumby”, and I watched the M.P. series from the outset. And I’m English; I have no excuse.
It's always the *kulaks* and *wreckers* who prevent the commie utopia from arriving, Randy! And semper fidelis to your son and your whole Marine family. YUUT!
I can’t even keep partial track of the all looney toons ambitions and actions of what used to be called the Golden State. Second gen Californian, and feel like I am fighting to maintain sanity.
Land distribution from whites who grow and produce to groups that have the correct skin color but don't know how to do the same. I think that's been tried in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), South Africa, and Uganda, just to name a few. How'd that work out?
Yeah Gavin Newsom has turned into a real tough guy, signing a law to outlaw ICE agents from wearing masks in California, as if the fed will pay his law any mind, he wants to gerrymander the rest of the state by fighting authoritarianism with authoritarianism. Not a peep from the populace. Too busy trying to afford groceries and gas.
I’m always amazed at what you are able to read/listen to/look at in order to keep us informed Chris. It is so appreciated. It makes sense though that a Chelsea Clinton podcast is a bridge too far. Dear lord. Kudos for even attempting.
Chris, followed the links on Ian Andre Roberts. What a hoot. Those inflated salaries he’s enjoyed have given him a wardrobe full of fancy clothes that would be the envy of Beau Brummell. This is one of the most entertaining news stories in ages, and that’s saying something.
What a cowardly way of doing business. The governor doesn't have to take a stand either way, just conveniently miss the deadline and the bill becomes law. How perfect for a slimy pos like newsome.
The comment thread is somehow only open to paid subscribers, and I don't know how to fix that. Sorry for the hassle.
I read elsewhere that is now across Substack
Not a bad thing in my opinion, pay to play
Will cut down on troll slime
It would cut down on trolls, and I've thought about it, but I plan to fix the comment rules to return to open threads with the next post.
Because we all know the only people with opinions worth listening to can afford to buy their own media, right, Mr. Citizens United?
Citizens United?
Not sure what that means.
Substack is a subscriber based model.
Chris is free to leave his open to all to comment whereby others are free to decide otherwise.
As a paid subscriber on my IPhone I have needed to put in a code that is texted to me in order to comment. It’s a small inconvenience and I don’t mean to be whining, but I don’t need to do it on other stacks to which I am a paid subscriber. Any ideas?
I just screwed up the settings, and they apparently can't be fixed once the post is up. Should be back to open threads with the next post.
So you're human?
I have the same issue working from the email. If you go into the sub stack app and read the comments there you’ll be able to write to your heart’s content without need for any passcodes
How do you keep your sanity digging up these insane gems? Lisa Murkowski finds Hung Cao unqualified because he is an unrepentant and experienced fighter!! Exposing her, what can only be seen as unadulterated stupidity. Gavin Newsom, free speech champion, don’t you know, will allow censorship to become law – par for the course. Why not, he has sidestepped the districting commission. An illegal gun toting alien with fake credential becomes school superintendent in conservative Iowa, this is the stuff of nightmarish fairy tales. Finally, the one that takes the cake: standing up for personal freedoms and free markets is fascism – No! it gets worse : California wants to adopt South Africa style land distribution to previously disadvantaged non-farmers in order to preserve precious farmland! How do you keep your sanity when digging up this unbelievable muck. Thanks for doing it for us.
He has a target saturated environment. California isn't real. It's a South Park script that was deemed too absurd to use.
It wasn't supposed to escape the lab!
Chris, my son just finished USMC recon training and is now headed off to dive school. Their recon class started with 230 people and finished with 42. So yeah, not a lot of DEI going on there. I asked him about what he thought about Hegseth’s speech. His reply “it’s about time”. He is a certified badass and hangs out with the same. They don’t have a lot of time or interest in anyone’s feelings.
Respect!
Hegseth's speech wasn't really to the assembled brass. It was to all the officers and NCO's underneath them. "We have your back. Silly time is over.'
A lot of that auidence needs to leave active duty.
And some of the brass told the media the event "could have been done in an email." That's how little they value submitting to the authority they themselves expect from those below them. They are Hollywood-level villains.
My lefty daughter said the same thing.
Reading all the crazy things you report on here (in our wonderful California paradise) makes me feel like one of those Monty Python Gumby characters (sorry to date myself): “My brain hurts!”
I learn something new all the time from the comments here. I never realised those characters had a name, “Gumby”, and I watched the M.P. series from the outset. And I’m English; I have no excuse.
They were the village idiots. They got together to complain . . . "I hit my head on the table!"
IT'LL HAVE TO COME OUT
“Too many white farmers own farms, so farms should be bought by the state so they can be redistributed to “priority producers.””
Americas version of “kill the Boer”.
It's always the *kulaks* and *wreckers* who prevent the commie utopia from arriving, Randy! And semper fidelis to your son and your whole Marine family. YUUT!
USMC '91-2018 (Ret).
TL;DR: “California is run by people who have never even tripped over a history book.”
Nailed it.
I can’t even keep partial track of the all looney toons ambitions and actions of what used to be called the Golden State. Second gen Californian, and feel like I am fighting to maintain sanity.
Land distribution from whites who grow and produce to groups that have the correct skin color but don't know how to do the same. I think that's been tried in Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), South Africa, and Uganda, just to name a few. How'd that work out?
If I was a farmer forced to "sell"
I would salt the land.
Concur.
(And love the handle, btw.)
I got that one in Afghanistan
(I used to habarikawam a bit puh pakhto) Back then, however, I was a toragerah, with some soragerah mixed in.
I mostly remember swear words
Do you recall what a "cheska" is?
No. I tried to intentionally not learn the bad words to help keep myself alive.
Yeah Gavin Newsom has turned into a real tough guy, signing a law to outlaw ICE agents from wearing masks in California, as if the fed will pay his law any mind, he wants to gerrymander the rest of the state by fighting authoritarianism with authoritarianism. Not a peep from the populace. Too busy trying to afford groceries and gas.
Land and food are the next battlefields. As in, who owns it and who produces what on it. Nearly all famines are government-induced.
I’m always amazed at what you are able to read/listen to/look at in order to keep us informed Chris. It is so appreciated. It makes sense though that a Chelsea Clinton podcast is a bridge too far. Dear lord. Kudos for even attempting.
Chris, followed the links on Ian Andre Roberts. What a hoot. Those inflated salaries he’s enjoyed have given him a wardrobe full of fancy clothes that would be the envy of Beau Brummell. This is one of the most entertaining news stories in ages, and that’s saying something.
What a cowardly way of doing business. The governor doesn't have to take a stand either way, just conveniently miss the deadline and the bill becomes law. How perfect for a slimy pos like newsome.
So, now after Chelsea’s endorsement, I will start avoiding seed oils. Good to know.
The Holodomor in 21st Century California. That’s so damn predictable and insane one couldn’t make a movie about it—too unbelievable.
bsn
He has until October 12 to sign the bill, or to veto it. In the absence of action by that date, the bill becomes law without his signature.
Really if he does nothing the default is to become law?
Is this common for states or just a California thing?
Pretty common, I think -- full and very dull list of state-by-state rules here:
https://www.ncsl.org/about-state-legislatures/separation-of-powers-executive-veto-powers
Here's Florida, for example:
"The Governor can sign the bill, allow it to become a law without his signature or veto the bill."
https://www.flfamily.org/issues-research/legislative-update/how-a-bill-becomes-a-florida-law/
Thanks!
Some light reading before bed-
Nah, Ill take your word for it.
Learned something...
That's how they claim ignorance of obviously stupid legislation that they have to go along with as some kind of favor or trade
It's a Texas thing, too.