You are describing Justin Trudeau who also had nice hair but also the important leadership angle of “nice socks”.
People continue to vote for this.
If I was running for office there I would simply piece together all this footage and run it on a loop with “vote democrat?” superimposed over the whole thing.
In the movie American Psycho Bateman has a monologue in the beginning describing this entire phenomenon. I know, I know...it's cliche at this point to point out all the similarities but watching it the other day I couldn't stop thinking about it. A friend of mine was describing deep narcissism to me, and put it like this: "They are sociopaths who don't believe in physically murdering someone. They are fine with those people "murdering" themselves, but they would never actually be able to do it. The cowardice stops them. They get more relief and satisfaction from watching people destroy themselves." - Damn that hit hard.
Looking decent is all that matters. What's even more important is youth and having a dark complexion. Bonus points for being in a "victim" group even if raised in an upper-class household and neighborhood.
I grew up in Eureka. It was a great place to be a teen in the late ‘80s, and the high school was exceptional. Now my visits are fewer and farther between because it’s just too depressing to witness the continued decline.
I hear you, Heather. I used to live in Trinidad, just north of Eureka. I loved that whole area, but left when things started to really go downhill in 2021. I am sick about what has happened to Eureka.
Yes, I remember that very clearly, when weed shops opened up and delivered weed to your home. LOTS of people got really hooked on it. So sad what's happened to that area.
I like an edible once in a while along with music (full disclosure), but I have a number of friends who smoke it all day from when an eye opens to when the last eye closes.
I don't know what they would do if the supply dried up.
If memory serves (correct me if I’m wrong), before the media stopped being biased to the left and began actively protecting Dems—which is much more deleterious than being unduly harsh on the GOP—this sort of story would be the lead on 60 Minutes or a cover for a magazine and enter the national consciousness. Then would follow the reporting of the reporting, which would lead to follow up reporting at later times, in smaller items in newspapers and evening broadcasts, and create a smaller version of a media drumbeat (a media foot tap? metronome?).
Back then it’d be about one mid-sized city or something, because voters had self respect. But the thing that leads to the liberal conformity of unbroken dysfunctional Dem rule is the same thing that can drive change: they desperately care what other liberals think.
Now that 60 Minutes is in the grasp of a New York City lesbian and Columbia graduate (i.e. the archetypical arch-right-winger), and with the Olympics taking place in Los Angeles almost exclusively in 2 years, there’s a chance you could pitch it and be whatever the name is for the segment-Sherpa who gets asked the questions that layout the issue.
Perhaps this is all sleepless delusion but it seems at least plausible in my current state of mind.
Unfortunately, I have to disagree (sort of). Popular media has trended "left" for a couple of generations now -- well before the "orange man bad" political divide that has become increasingly pervasive over the past 15 years or so.
One of my most vivid memories (dating back about 50 years to around 1976-77) involved watching a 60 Minutes episode with my family while home from college during the Christmas holiday break. The piece dealt with the living conditions that welfare families were experiencing in New York City. It focused on a young black single mother with 3-4 children living in a small, filthy, squalid apartment. She had a litany of complaints related to the apartment -- "the city won't do this, the landlord won't do that" etc., etc. In the meantime, the 60 Minutes camera focused in on her kids crawling around on dirty floors, with junk and garbage strewn everywhere.
After the 60 Minutes piece was over I remember my mom - who took great pride on keeping our home and yard in tip-top condition despite working (primarily to help put us kids through college) - turning to us and saying something like "what the hell is wrong with that mom. She has running water and rags. She doesn't work, so she has plenty of time on her hands. It's her own damn fault that the apartment is a filthy, disgusting mess. Why didn't 60 Minutes say anything about THAT.".
That particular episode made a lasting impression on me as well! My Mum had a similar comment, numerous children and a kitchen floor so clean, one could eat off of it! She also volunteered at 2 schools, lead a Campfire Girls group, had a vegetable garden and fruit orchard that produced year round!
The lesson I learned from that 60 minutes episode, was to look at the surroundings of the person making the complaint before believing them! I always look at poor neighborhoods and see trash in the streets, overgrown lawns, debris, and abandoned cars, yet able bodied men hanging out on porches and street corners smoking cigarettes! If you have money for cigarettes, you have money for a broom and dust pan or a weed wacker!
I was unclear in my wording. I think the the transition in media started under Obama to being irredeemably *Partisan*.
They always were biased liberal, even the revered Kronkite days, and they were biased against the GOP, but they did not actively *cover up* for Democrats until Obama’s presidency when it could be seen as supporting the racist agenda of the GOP and the right against him.
This was when their morality shifted from “liberal and thus favoring Dems” to “don’t cover Democrat scandals”. Obama had them wrapped around his finger and the social pressure that they were doing something *immoral* by reporting the failures of Democrats took hold. With Trump in 2016, it validated all their beliefs on the racist country and the right, voting for that monster, and the ongoing “threat” he presented to the country, bolstered by fabrications that began before he won the nomination with Russiagate, made it positively taboo to report on him favorably, and the inverse, taboo to report on Democrats or any adversaries to Trump negatively.
Someone in the old days would pick up this story because the Democratic Party was a party of rivals and a failure of a Democratic mayor or Governor was their failure rather than an indictment of the party. Now the only time you get negative Dem news is when it helps other more powerful/favorable Dems or the party’s prospects improve (like throwing Platner overboard) or if the dysfunction negatively affects the media themselves or their friends especially if they’re in a leftist anointed class
This partisanship, as well as the Democratic Party being one thing from the local to national level, is what’s new IMO, and started with Obama but expanded (Blago in Chicago didn’t reflect on Dems nationwide, but in 2026 Pritzker does).
I watched the Summer Congressional Watergate hearings and read my local big city daily newspaper as a school kid. Decided then and there the majority of District of Columbus characters and major TV network talking heads where thuggee-idiot performance artistes with very few exceptions. A couple years later watched the last U.S. military helicopter on the TV news lifting off from Saigon after Congress and the U.S. President tire up the agreement to keep funding South Vietnam after a decade+ of “wishful” thinking by DC idiot bean counters and their mil/finance/ pharma-chem (Agent Orange) industrial complex enablers. Rinse and repeat until “they” hit rock bottom running out of liquidity and lives of “other” people. Is the scamdemic “it” or urban areas overrun with zombie vagrants? Nope, lots more people must die gruesomely, obviously, and needlessly for that to happen.
With all due respect and persmission to speak freely, as we say in bluewater households:
60 Minutes was always ratings-grabbing trash posing as authoritative oracular content in the "newz" genre. Any decent information they conveyed was entirely accidental.
Their real accomplishment was updating the Newz As Trooth (propaganda) genre in peacetime, especially for children of the "postwar" generation. And then adapting it for the cable TV era and beyond.
Thus it should hardly surprise that it would be garbage in the era of "social media."
I would want to know why so many drug zombies. Who are they, what age group, who are their parents, how did they get there. It seems to me like a generational holocaust.
Personalizing the stories would be interesting but the failure of the Dems at the state and local level is too massive.
Nobody wants to touch it because the blue model is so similar across the country. Only swing state Democrats deviate from it, but blue states run basically the same playbook of soft on crime, sanctuary cities, drug zombies, etc. California is the apex though, resource cursed, across the country from New York & DC, paradise, and the home of Pelosi, Kamala, and Newsom. It’s untouched and it’s exactly what the new CBS would report on neutrally and dare the media and leftist talking heads to try and downplay the reality/attack CBS for showing the obvious.
childhood vaccine schedule is behind the druggie zombie apocalypse. 84 shots of aluminum by age 18 will stress you out and 84 shots of mercury will make you crazy. i used to see this as a moral failure but if you look at this from 5k feet, they're just desperate and medicating. and the criminality that comes with it is a feature not a bug
Sackler was referring to the non junkie injured people deliberately poisoned by using prescription drugs overprescribed by doctors in order to beef up sales. Once the authorities caught on to Sackler’s marketing methods of deliberately hooking injured people on his opioids to increase sales, he called his customers junkies. One of the biggest pos to walk the earth - right up there with Fauci.
In costal California and Oregon, it *is* a Generational Holocaust. If they didn't vote and private charity kept them alive (or not), I really wouldn't care.
Many have stories of 'parental woe'. Sucks you in at first. If you listen more and more, you suddenly decide that many of the 'evil parents' were Long Suffering Saints trying to keep their loser kids alive.
Where this pathetic softness comes from, I don't know. Some of it (just some) comes from variations of every one gets a trophy. Some of comes from no matter how pathetic you get, it is impossible to starve to day or (nowadays) overdose. Some of comes from e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y passes 5th Grade.
Do you remember in 1986 when 60 Minutes ganked up an Audi 5000 to create a spectacular transmission failure, to push the narrative that that vehicle was especially dangerous?
Remember in 1994 how Mike Wallace reported on "war hero" Joe Yandle, and got his first-degree murder sentence commuted in 1995...on entirely false information?
Remember in 2013 when 60 Minutes was forced to admit it had lied in its story on Benghazi?
C'mon. We have never had journalism in this republic except where people have stopped telling pretty stories--as you're doing here--and dug into the facts.
> before the media stopped being biased to the left and began actively protecting Dems
I'd quote George Washington Hayduke in reaction to that, but I don't cuss on Substack.
For views of wild California in The Before Times, I recommend The Rockford Files (a show I enjoyed with my grandparents when I was very young). Jim Rockford drives around a lot of beautiful Untouched Cali—the place the rest of us out here still think of when we think of California.
That set up still exists at Paradise cove in Malibu. The State tried a land grab for a state park by using the water quality board to try to get rid of the trailer park by forcing the owner to spend 15 million to upgrade and get rid of the cesspools and put in a mini sewerage plant. He spent the money and since then of course everyones rent has skyrocketed and no one who isnt really rich can afford the restaurant anymore who isnt a fabulously wealthy Persian. Its what Democrats call progress.
In 1987 I spent six weeks with a friend who delivered phone book covers (covered with ads for the businesses inside the phone books and sold by telemarketers) to small businesses throughout the state. Most of the places we visited were beautiful, innocent small towns, from north of San Fran into the NAPA valley. A different town nearly every day of the week, staying in motels generally owned by immigrants named Patel. The pools were sparkling, the sheets were clean and the diners and restaurants cozy. It was the best six weeks of my early twenties. I prefer to keep that as my memory of California. I’ll not be visiting again anytime soon.
Seriously, the Patel run hotels the “pools were sparkling and the sheets were clean”? My experience over the past ten years in accommodations run by Indians and Pakistanis that proliferate the SW now, is the exact opposite! ‘Got curry’ screams at you when you walk in the lobby! Some are a bit shabby and run down.
I chose my avatar to match the California theme of many of Chris's posts. It's of a rather uninteresting motel in rather interesting redwood country. Note the logs that dwarf the place. We (my parents and I) stayed in said motel in Myers Flat on the night of May 17, 1975 before visiting the Humboldt Redwoods State Park the following day. The towns were pretty, though remote, and I don't remember any evidence of the "unhoused." It's a tragedy that things have changed so much in half a century.
If you don’t live in Commifornia and rarely visit, it has changed and not for the better. As a native Californian of 73 years I can attest to that. There are “too many rats in the cage” here now. All up and down CA. And the state under Gavin Newscum’s tenure has become even worse.
I've only been in California a few times: 6 months in 1975 when my dad was on sabbatical at UC Davis, and then for a few 4-day business trips in the 90's. Ironically (and sadly) I didn't pay much attention to the natural beauty in '75. I was in 9th grade and had been yanked away from a developing social scene (rare for me) at my school in upstate NY. Chris's travelogue postings are reminding me of what I missed.
Yes the glory days of CA are over I feel. And the majority of the lefty liberals got the Covid vaxx out here, so a good portion of the boomer group (which I’m a part of but not a lefty liberal) are vaxxed up and not in good shape, physically and mentally. People have this semblance of zombie (IMO) about them, both young and old. When you speak to them they are on a bit of a delay.
I think there could be other reasons for that (sadly) but I wouldn't be surprised if the vaxx has something to do with it. I was VERY lucky to be able to remain unvaxxed. I'm in a high-risk group because of a prior heart attack, but I kept away from people (and medical facilities) as much as possible during the plandemic. My parents had both passed by that time, but if they'd still been alive and in assisted living, I would have been almost forced to get the jab in order to visit them.
If you really observe people now, especially the older ones that have got the Jabs, you’ll see their brains/cognitive skills are messed up. That is one on the myriad of side affects of the mRNA Covid jabs. Cognitive decline and memory issues. It’s also apparent in younger people as well. And out here in Commifornia where the majority of the people took the Jabs, you can see it.
I was thinking recreational and prescription drug use plus general enstupidation (due in large part to failure of the educational system and brainwashing from the mass culture out there, delivered by the mainstream media, social media, etc. via smartphones). These have a cumulative effect on the mentality of the average person.
That one's been out there for a while. I'm not one to use memes (I like to express my own ideas, for what they're worth) but with all that we've learned since 2020, I take it as a given that the pandemic was exploited by The Filth (I wish I could make THAT one a meme) to control us.
Little Lupe, I'm seeing that "bit of a delay" thing in Pugetopolis as well.
I know it comes as a surprise to some, but injecting people with neurotoxins has this odd and entirely unsuspected side effect of toxining their neuros.
"When you speak to them they are on a bit of a delay."
I've noticed that too. It's almost like they need to dial in to the Party's central computer to find out how they're supposed to respond. But first they have to work through all the prompts from the AI or solve one of those puzzles to prove they're a Member in Good Standing...
Interesting you should mention that. In conversations with my only liberal-leaning friend, I've noticed that when I make a point that's not in the leftist playbook, he seems to pause and sort of mentally scan for an answer, as though he's waiting for instructions from the mother ship. There are folks out there who have taken another look at Julian Jaynes' "bicameral mind" theory for this very reason; they suspect that we're actually cognitively regressing to a more primitive state.
Amén! I love that. Yes they need to refer to their ‘talking points memo’ before they can respond! And if you point that out they freak out! That can no longer “think for themselves”.
Actually ironically my mother was in her late 80s during the Scamdemic. She was in assisted living out here in Commifornia. No one, vaxxed or not was allowed into her building.
I had POA for her and I declined the Covid shot for her. And I told them if they tried to give it to her I would sue the crap out of them!
She died of congestive heart failure on Mothers Day 2021. She was in a rehab facility after being in the hospital. We couldn’t go in that building either. Vaxxed or not. I talked with her through the sliding glass doors of her room outside in the phone. She died an hour after our conversation.
The Scamdemic required one to be proactive, and on top of what the public health authorities were pulling in people, especially if one was NOT a participant in the Modern Medical Sickcare System, as I was.
I asked Google why Bluefield, WV is so run down (where my parents grew up). This was the answer:
“Bluefield, West Virginia looks run down due to a prolonged economic collapse tied directly to the decline of the coal and railroad industries, which once made it a booming Appalachian hub.”
It all starts with shutting down basic industries. Either due to globalism (Appalachia) or climate doomerism (CA). Then the drug trade steps in.
My mother's side of the family were from N. CA: Truki, Lodi, Eureka, the Bay area. I spent spent much of my time over the years in S. CA, surfing/camping along the beaches primarily, in particular San Diego. Can't believe how much that area has deteriorated, with the beaches closed because of the sewage from Mexico.
I understand the Stalinists wanting to destroy the state, as that is what they do: degrade first, then destroy, then rebuild in their vision. Think Obama's library, which is built on a beautiful park with old growth trees, all of which had to be cut down. I can't believe so many people voted for this result.
Some of our best memories are of our road trips in Northern California in the late nineties - the scenery, the small towns, the wonderful B&Bs (and sometimes quite quirky motels), and especially the kind and funny people we encountered every day. We absolutely loved those holidays and are distressed to see this report, but are so grateful to have visited when we did.
What goes through the minds of do-gooders when they see stuff like this? Who in their right mind thinks that this is okay - for the people involved or for the rest of us?
Do they even see what they're looking at?
I've got some experience with that last point. My wonderful husband is totally incapable of seeing a mess. He can leave buckets of tools in the kitchen or a pile of clothes on the floor, WALK AROUND THEM, and when I ask him to move the stuff, he'll say "what buckets?" I think the same blindness has infected California libs, only on a much bigger scale.
I’ve known many Lib do-gooders, Farm Wife, and you have it exactly. They refuse to see the problem because they think that’s being mean. It is not that they are incapable. They are making a willful choice so they can send the correct signals to each other.
Your hubby is a whole other thing. I know that situation by heart.
Like Dr. Fauci, I plead the fifth on leaving tools in the kitchen or clothes on the floor while walking past them, however, when I need them. I know exactly where they are. When I place them in their assigned storage space, the tool or clothes moving monster has reared his/her (or whatever pronoun it prefers) ugly head and I can't find them. Try it the next time there the tools are left in the kitchen, go into another room and nonchalantly ask him where a specific tool ion the bucket is because you need it.... dollars to donuts, he finds it in 15 seconds.
My gripe is that tools in the kitchen, however organized he thinks it is, are in my way, especially this time of year when all the vegetables are rolling in, needing to be preserved. I can't be stepping around Home Depot buckets all day.
And when the tools are back where they belong, I can find them for him, for me, too. I locate everything around here; if I die, the whole place falls apart.
The memory thing: he worked as an electrician for years, industrial construction, so when a job was done, he'd move to another one with a new group of guys. I can throw out a date, say "August 1998" and he can tell me what job he was on, who the foreman was, the names of all the other electricians. Ask him what somebody just said to him and it's a blank, because he's really not listening. I love him despite all this.
To not notice the leftovers in the fridge so they can use the excuse of " oh, I didn't see it", when they want to go out to dinner in your absence. Lol
Especially if those leftovers are *right in the front* and they still can't find them.
I used to tell my husband that the reason he could never find stuff in the kitchen was that every day when he left for work, I'd go and move everything around in the cabinets.
I solved this issue by equating my kitchen to my husband's garage tool bench area!
Once you explain that your kitchen is a working/prep space and tools belong in categories within drawers ( things that cut) drawers, dishtowels, silver wear, pots and pans, etc, they begin to look at the kitchen, and your method of organization, need for organization, with more respect.
I've used that analogy, it hasn't worked with him. As much as it hurts me to do it, I may have to start leaving my kitchen tools in a bucket in his work area. That pressure canner weighs a ton and sure takes up a lot of room. ;)
My wife leaves me *lotsa* leftovers when she goes to visit the grandkids. But I can cook for myself and it is also my chance to have pizza and Taco Bell.
I think for many it's an actual mental illness, a form of psychotic delusion. They live in a highly insular, self-reinforcing emotional and psychological world that does not exist outside their own collective delusion, and they filter all perception of the real, physical world through that non-existent world. So, they can no longer see reality for what it is (they are typically privileged, educated, white collar professionals who grew up insulated by daddy's money, and so have had little feedback in life from bad ideas or decisions).
It's different from your example in that the lefties see the stuff, process it through their non-existent internal world, and then defend it angrily when it's called out. They know the mess is there, they have just reframed it as something good rather than something bad. As someone in these comments once termed it: they're morally insane.
(Note - I'm speaking of the [usually] highly educated useful idiots in the voting base, mostly high income white collar women and the alphabet crowd who are insulated from the effects of policies aligned with their insane worldview. There are others in the base who vote themselves other people's money in a transactional way; they're nothing more than thieves. The left's leaders are sociopathic and just don't care about the rot so long as they maintain power over others and can profit off that power. But the power is their primary motive; e.g., even the ones who made no money off covid loved that time. In fact, they seem to enjoy watching other people suffer, hence sociopathic.)
They like to "signal" caring, but that is all it is, a "signal". Help never really arrives! Enabling self-destructive behavior is not help, it is evil! California has it's priorities and care protocols backward! They have legislated these backward policies to such an extent, that those who actually suggest a path out of self-destruction, appear to be the evil, uncaring humans!
True! Some are making money, others' just buy into the idea that they are good people because they care.
As with parenting, it is not enough just to care!
Helpless people stay helpless and become manipulative when they are exempt from the consequences of breaking social and Civil rules.
When boundaries are not clearly established, communicated and agreed upon!
Prolonged adolescence happens when we do not teach the skills needed for independence of thought, skills mastery and expect a person to comply and contribute!
Democrat vote's continually vote for pacification and indoctrination over independent thought and merit based pay and reward systems.
They all can see the filth, the drug damage, the mental health crises, and the spiritual emptiness as well as you and I can, but their ability to face the reality of lives destroyed is subordinate to the ideology that allows this to continue. This is a choice. Those are the true believers.
The grifters are not an entirely separate group, but their motivation is financial. The result is still misery.
I think Chris touched on a key point, the destruction of the economy. And in Eureka's case, as with much of NorCal, the weed growers (and the meth cookers, the illegal/dreamer pimps, the gov't subsidized con artists, etc) gained a controlling share of the local economy when the timber industry was decimated by the spotted owl eco-fascist cult hoax. If one could time travel back in time to any Sierra, lower Cascade or coastal redwood small town to the mid seventies, they would see hard working men, supporting healthy families and towns where no one locked their house or cars doors.
Sorry to see Eureka's death spiral accelerate. Samoa Cookhouse (which is now apparently closed) was a found memory from Eureka's better days.
The weed growers were filling the job gap created when the Timber industry was shutdown by the Eco Nazi Lobby!
The real question is who funds and runs the Eco Nazi Lobby? Who benefits fom the drug trade? Who looks the others way?
And on and on!
It takes a village full of College Educated idiots, lawyers, environmentalists, legislators, local politicians, sheriff's deputies, to shutdown an industry!
Good job--you managed to work Godwin's Law AND...whatever that other thing is...verdiphobia...into six deft syllables!
The "weed" (I think you mean "cannabis" or "marijuana") "growers" were, and remain, the project of Wall Street hedge funds.
Among my and my late darling's circles were a significant number of large infra contractors who made out like bandits on building "grow operations." Discussion of who the investors were constituted many an hours of post-archery-tournament campfires.
This had nothing to do with ecology, and, good lord, nothing to do with the German National Socialist Workers Party of 100 years ago.
It had to do with Wall Street doing the bidding of the City of London as it has since 1971.
Kindly stop running cover for them and start discussing facts.
The Tech people are not the problem! They don't run the California Legislature, the people that create the laws and mandates!
The Tech companies pay to get along with those in Government, because they want to stay in business!
The Unions actually run California! They are the Mob bosses, but by all means, go after those who pay most of the taxes and hire most of the people that keep the small businesses, hospitals, grocery and hardware stores in business. Lol
Your have vs. have not argument just revealed your Socialist/ Communist leanings!
Maybe but the contrast in living conditions can’t be laid at the feet of the successful. But you might ask how many of their friends chose to do nothing with their lives except drugs and why they made a different choice. How about a sincere effort to understand rather than the usual villain-victim trope?
How about if the successful are totalitarian depopulationists that have dumbed down the schools, pushed highly processed glyphosate-soaked carbs and toxic vaccines, offshored industry, and moved their yacht armadas to the Southern Hemisphere in advance of the coming world war, while financing candidates like Gruesom and Trump?
And this has been happening in bigger, nicer, better funded cities and towns up and down the west coast. The climate is mostly hospitable to living outside and the Dems are the boatmen on the money river over there.
Lib voters live in nice places and never have to see this. But they feel good about the progressive policies that sustain the rot.
Not even close! They build and rejuvinate, they don't destroy the community and they do not litter the waterways.
We may not appreciate the abundance of population that their companies created, but they are not the enablers of the hoards of zombie invaders, that belongs to our Socialist Virtue signaling Legislature and Governor, with the help of their Cronies in the Environmental industry!
Wow, yall! That’s quite a thread right there! 😂 I just want to say, I have NOTHING against the tech bros. Hats off to them for their success. No jealousy here at all. But with great wealth comes great responsibility. And these folks live in a bubble to the point I expect few are even aware of places like Eureka. They simply never go to places where society has collapsed. That said, they are not absolved of their responsibility to use their great wealth to do something about such places. With great wealth comes great power. Power to influence politicians and power to take direct action. Elon Musk is the perfect example of what I’m talking about. Get out of your bubbles people and DO SOMETHING about places like Eureka. And I don’t mean buy it all up and make it your own private paradise. I mean, start funding candidates running for city council and mayor who want to really fix the problems. Do it town by town until people see what a difference great leadership can make and then the movement becomes organic as it builds! From what I can tell, most tech bros are libs and clueless about this stuff. Think Zuckerberg and Bezos. Bezos owns The WashPo for crying out loud. 🙄 Zuck gave $400M to swing the vote for Biden in 2020! Meanwhile their State, the Great State of California, is going to hell in handbasket. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 😘
If you have two barrels, one filled with wine and one filled with shit and you take one drop of wine and add it to the shit, you still have a barrel of shit and a barrel of wine. If you take one drop of shit and add it to the wine, you have two barrels of shit. Sums up California for me; it only takes a little bit of shit to fuck up something nice.
If the Republicans and like minded PACs don’t run video loops of these places as campaign ads, really starting NOW, they are missing the political opportunity of a lifetime. If President Trump made a few visits to these blighted places and said, “This is what your community faces if you don’t vote out the leftists, etc., etc..” he’s wasting what would be a terrific photo op. Until your post, Chris, I never would have thought Northern California was as bad as LA. It’s criminal what Newsom has NOT done to fix these places. Here’s just one idea: deploy the California National Guard to just one of these areas, as the president has done in DC, and protect city workers while they actually clean up some of the mess. I’m guessing it could be an instant quality of life improvement.
The Republican Party is not a serious opposition party. The leadership is content with the handful of seats they are allowed to retain in the state legislature.
Think of the CA Republican party like the small captive party's that always had a handful of seats guaranteed in the East German Diet.
'functionally retarded'
He can't read. I don't mean slowly or poorly. He can't read period.
He hires aides to read to him.
But he looks good in a suit and has a nice head of hair.
He looks exactly like the guy you wouldn't buy a used car from. And you would be correct.
Reminds me of Dilbert's boss introducing the new guy-- "we think he'll go far-- he has executive style hair"
Gavin fancies himself The Hair Apparent.
A haircut in search of a brain. (Wish I could claim the credit for this remark.)
You are describing Justin Trudeau who also had nice hair but also the important leadership angle of “nice socks”.
People continue to vote for this.
If I was running for office there I would simply piece together all this footage and run it on a loop with “vote democrat?” superimposed over the whole thing.
Has to get through to some?
And he’s empty.
In the movie American Psycho Bateman has a monologue in the beginning describing this entire phenomenon. I know, I know...it's cliche at this point to point out all the similarities but watching it the other day I couldn't stop thinking about it. A friend of mine was describing deep narcissism to me, and put it like this: "They are sociopaths who don't believe in physically murdering someone. They are fine with those people "murdering" themselves, but they would never actually be able to do it. The cowardice stops them. They get more relief and satisfaction from watching people destroy themselves." - Damn that hit hard.
Looking decent is all that matters. What's even more important is youth and having a dark complexion. Bonus points for being in a "victim" group even if raised in an upper-class household and neighborhood.
And he crosses his legs like a chick!
I grew up in Eureka. It was a great place to be a teen in the late ‘80s, and the high school was exceptional. Now my visits are fewer and farther between because it’s just too depressing to witness the continued decline.
I hear you, Heather. I used to live in Trinidad, just north of Eureka. I loved that whole area, but left when things started to really go downhill in 2021. I am sick about what has happened to Eureka.
Weed legalization ruined that area. It's turning into a redwood Afghanistan.
Yes, I remember that very clearly, when weed shops opened up and delivered weed to your home. LOTS of people got really hooked on it. So sad what's happened to that area.
I like an edible once in a while along with music (full disclosure), but I have a number of friends who smoke it all day from when an eye opens to when the last eye closes.
I don't know what they would do if the supply dried up.
If memory serves (correct me if I’m wrong), before the media stopped being biased to the left and began actively protecting Dems—which is much more deleterious than being unduly harsh on the GOP—this sort of story would be the lead on 60 Minutes or a cover for a magazine and enter the national consciousness. Then would follow the reporting of the reporting, which would lead to follow up reporting at later times, in smaller items in newspapers and evening broadcasts, and create a smaller version of a media drumbeat (a media foot tap? metronome?).
Back then it’d be about one mid-sized city or something, because voters had self respect. But the thing that leads to the liberal conformity of unbroken dysfunctional Dem rule is the same thing that can drive change: they desperately care what other liberals think.
Now that 60 Minutes is in the grasp of a New York City lesbian and Columbia graduate (i.e. the archetypical arch-right-winger), and with the Olympics taking place in Los Angeles almost exclusively in 2 years, there’s a chance you could pitch it and be whatever the name is for the segment-Sherpa who gets asked the questions that layout the issue.
Perhaps this is all sleepless delusion but it seems at least plausible in my current state of mind.
Unfortunately, I have to disagree (sort of). Popular media has trended "left" for a couple of generations now -- well before the "orange man bad" political divide that has become increasingly pervasive over the past 15 years or so.
One of my most vivid memories (dating back about 50 years to around 1976-77) involved watching a 60 Minutes episode with my family while home from college during the Christmas holiday break. The piece dealt with the living conditions that welfare families were experiencing in New York City. It focused on a young black single mother with 3-4 children living in a small, filthy, squalid apartment. She had a litany of complaints related to the apartment -- "the city won't do this, the landlord won't do that" etc., etc. In the meantime, the 60 Minutes camera focused in on her kids crawling around on dirty floors, with junk and garbage strewn everywhere.
After the 60 Minutes piece was over I remember my mom - who took great pride on keeping our home and yard in tip-top condition despite working (primarily to help put us kids through college) - turning to us and saying something like "what the hell is wrong with that mom. She has running water and rags. She doesn't work, so she has plenty of time on her hands. It's her own damn fault that the apartment is a filthy, disgusting mess. Why didn't 60 Minutes say anything about THAT.".
as they might say at the Smithsonian, personal responsibility is a white supremacy thing
You know: “The Institutional Racism/Systemic Racism “ rap….
That particular episode made a lasting impression on me as well! My Mum had a similar comment, numerous children and a kitchen floor so clean, one could eat off of it! She also volunteered at 2 schools, lead a Campfire Girls group, had a vegetable garden and fruit orchard that produced year round!
The lesson I learned from that 60 minutes episode, was to look at the surroundings of the person making the complaint before believing them! I always look at poor neighborhoods and see trash in the streets, overgrown lawns, debris, and abandoned cars, yet able bodied men hanging out on porches and street corners smoking cigarettes! If you have money for cigarettes, you have money for a broom and dust pan or a weed wacker!
I was unclear in my wording. I think the the transition in media started under Obama to being irredeemably *Partisan*.
They always were biased liberal, even the revered Kronkite days, and they were biased against the GOP, but they did not actively *cover up* for Democrats until Obama’s presidency when it could be seen as supporting the racist agenda of the GOP and the right against him.
This was when their morality shifted from “liberal and thus favoring Dems” to “don’t cover Democrat scandals”. Obama had them wrapped around his finger and the social pressure that they were doing something *immoral* by reporting the failures of Democrats took hold. With Trump in 2016, it validated all their beliefs on the racist country and the right, voting for that monster, and the ongoing “threat” he presented to the country, bolstered by fabrications that began before he won the nomination with Russiagate, made it positively taboo to report on him favorably, and the inverse, taboo to report on Democrats or any adversaries to Trump negatively.
Someone in the old days would pick up this story because the Democratic Party was a party of rivals and a failure of a Democratic mayor or Governor was their failure rather than an indictment of the party. Now the only time you get negative Dem news is when it helps other more powerful/favorable Dems or the party’s prospects improve (like throwing Platner overboard) or if the dysfunction negatively affects the media themselves or their friends especially if they’re in a leftist anointed class
This partisanship, as well as the Democratic Party being one thing from the local to national level, is what’s new IMO, and started with Obama but expanded (Blago in Chicago didn’t reflect on Dems nationwide, but in 2026 Pritzker does).
I watched the Summer Congressional Watergate hearings and read my local big city daily newspaper as a school kid. Decided then and there the majority of District of Columbus characters and major TV network talking heads where thuggee-idiot performance artistes with very few exceptions. A couple years later watched the last U.S. military helicopter on the TV news lifting off from Saigon after Congress and the U.S. President tire up the agreement to keep funding South Vietnam after a decade+ of “wishful” thinking by DC idiot bean counters and their mil/finance/ pharma-chem (Agent Orange) industrial complex enablers. Rinse and repeat until “they” hit rock bottom running out of liquidity and lives of “other” people. Is the scamdemic “it” or urban areas overrun with zombie vagrants? Nope, lots more people must die gruesomely, obviously, and needlessly for that to happen.
I strongly agree with your disagreement.
With all due respect and persmission to speak freely, as we say in bluewater households:
60 Minutes was always ratings-grabbing trash posing as authoritative oracular content in the "newz" genre. Any decent information they conveyed was entirely accidental.
Their real accomplishment was updating the Newz As Trooth (propaganda) genre in peacetime, especially for children of the "postwar" generation. And then adapting it for the cable TV era and beyond.
Thus it should hardly surprise that it would be garbage in the era of "social media."
Good gravy, look at its origin!
I would want to know why so many drug zombies. Who are they, what age group, who are their parents, how did they get there. It seems to me like a generational holocaust.
Personalizing the stories would be interesting but the failure of the Dems at the state and local level is too massive.
Nobody wants to touch it because the blue model is so similar across the country. Only swing state Democrats deviate from it, but blue states run basically the same playbook of soft on crime, sanctuary cities, drug zombies, etc. California is the apex though, resource cursed, across the country from New York & DC, paradise, and the home of Pelosi, Kamala, and Newsom. It’s untouched and it’s exactly what the new CBS would report on neutrally and dare the media and leftist talking heads to try and downplay the reality/attack CBS for showing the obvious.
childhood vaccine schedule is behind the druggie zombie apocalypse. 84 shots of aluminum by age 18 will stress you out and 84 shots of mercury will make you crazy. i used to see this as a moral failure but if you look at this from 5k feet, they're just desperate and medicating. and the criminality that comes with it is a feature not a bug
You have to wonder.
Well, Richard Sackler said it's all their own fault for being so weak and stupid, and also THEY are the criminals. You can look that up.
Sackler was referring to the non junkie injured people deliberately poisoned by using prescription drugs overprescribed by doctors in order to beef up sales. Once the authorities caught on to Sackler’s marketing methods of deliberately hooking injured people on his opioids to increase sales, he called his customers junkies. One of the biggest pos to walk the earth - right up there with Fauci.
It is demonic to its core. Look to the demonicRAT Party.
In costal California and Oregon, it *is* a Generational Holocaust. If they didn't vote and private charity kept them alive (or not), I really wouldn't care.
Many have stories of 'parental woe'. Sucks you in at first. If you listen more and more, you suddenly decide that many of the 'evil parents' were Long Suffering Saints trying to keep their loser kids alive.
Where this pathetic softness comes from, I don't know. Some of it (just some) comes from variations of every one gets a trophy. Some of comes from no matter how pathetic you get, it is impossible to starve to day or (nowadays) overdose. Some of comes from e-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y passes 5th Grade.
I am having a really bad moment right now.
Oh for the love of lefse.
Where are you getting this nonsense?
Do you remember in 1986 when 60 Minutes ganked up an Audi 5000 to create a spectacular transmission failure, to push the narrative that that vehicle was especially dangerous?
Remember in 1994 how Mike Wallace reported on "war hero" Joe Yandle, and got his first-degree murder sentence commuted in 1995...on entirely false information?
Remember in 2013 when 60 Minutes was forced to admit it had lied in its story on Benghazi?
C'mon. We have never had journalism in this republic except where people have stopped telling pretty stories--as you're doing here--and dug into the facts.
> before the media stopped being biased to the left and began actively protecting Dems
I'd quote George Washington Hayduke in reaction to that, but I don't cuss on Substack.
And Superman worked at the Daily Planet. What brilliant self-serving propaganda!
NO KINGS! Screams his press corp as they add a crown to his avatar.
Hubris coupled with Dunning-Krueger is a combination running amok in California (and to be fair all major blue cities) among the political set.
Nice catch!
For views of wild California in The Before Times, I recommend The Rockford Files (a show I enjoyed with my grandparents when I was very young). Jim Rockford drives around a lot of beautiful Untouched Cali—the place the rest of us out here still think of when we think of California.
One of my very favorite shows. Plus, he was allowed to park his trailer home right in a parking lot on the beach….imagine that setup now.
That set up still exists at Paradise cove in Malibu. The State tried a land grab for a state park by using the water quality board to try to get rid of the trailer park by forcing the owner to spend 15 million to upgrade and get rid of the cesspools and put in a mini sewerage plant. He spent the money and since then of course everyones rent has skyrocketed and no one who isnt really rich can afford the restaurant anymore who isnt a fabulously wealthy Persian. Its what Democrats call progress.
And Jim Rockkfords trailer was filmed about 200 feet away from the trailer park
Interesting—thank you
In MALIBU!
I always laugh about that aspect.
I grew up in Southern California, watching James Garner in Maverick. So later on, I really enjoyed the Rockford files.
one of the alltime best tv themes too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnphBr5c61w
Twangy!
I’d forgotten how much he looked like my dad.
In 1987 I spent six weeks with a friend who delivered phone book covers (covered with ads for the businesses inside the phone books and sold by telemarketers) to small businesses throughout the state. Most of the places we visited were beautiful, innocent small towns, from north of San Fran into the NAPA valley. A different town nearly every day of the week, staying in motels generally owned by immigrants named Patel. The pools were sparkling, the sheets were clean and the diners and restaurants cozy. It was the best six weeks of my early twenties. I prefer to keep that as my memory of California. I’ll not be visiting again anytime soon.
Seriously, the Patel run hotels the “pools were sparkling and the sheets were clean”? My experience over the past ten years in accommodations run by Indians and Pakistanis that proliferate the SW now, is the exact opposite! ‘Got curry’ screams at you when you walk in the lobby! Some are a bit shabby and run down.
What a difference 38 years makes!
I chose my avatar to match the California theme of many of Chris's posts. It's of a rather uninteresting motel in rather interesting redwood country. Note the logs that dwarf the place. We (my parents and I) stayed in said motel in Myers Flat on the night of May 17, 1975 before visiting the Humboldt Redwoods State Park the following day. The towns were pretty, though remote, and I don't remember any evidence of the "unhoused." It's a tragedy that things have changed so much in half a century.
If you don’t live in Commifornia and rarely visit, it has changed and not for the better. As a native Californian of 73 years I can attest to that. There are “too many rats in the cage” here now. All up and down CA. And the state under Gavin Newscum’s tenure has become even worse.
I've only been in California a few times: 6 months in 1975 when my dad was on sabbatical at UC Davis, and then for a few 4-day business trips in the 90's. Ironically (and sadly) I didn't pay much attention to the natural beauty in '75. I was in 9th grade and had been yanked away from a developing social scene (rare for me) at my school in upstate NY. Chris's travelogue postings are reminding me of what I missed.
Yes the glory days of CA are over I feel. And the majority of the lefty liberals got the Covid vaxx out here, so a good portion of the boomer group (which I’m a part of but not a lefty liberal) are vaxxed up and not in good shape, physically and mentally. People have this semblance of zombie (IMO) about them, both young and old. When you speak to them they are on a bit of a delay.
I think there could be other reasons for that (sadly) but I wouldn't be surprised if the vaxx has something to do with it. I was VERY lucky to be able to remain unvaxxed. I'm in a high-risk group because of a prior heart attack, but I kept away from people (and medical facilities) as much as possible during the plandemic. My parents had both passed by that time, but if they'd still been alive and in assisted living, I would have been almost forced to get the jab in order to visit them.
What could the other reasons be in your opinion?
If you really observe people now, especially the older ones that have got the Jabs, you’ll see their brains/cognitive skills are messed up. That is one on the myriad of side affects of the mRNA Covid jabs. Cognitive decline and memory issues. It’s also apparent in younger people as well. And out here in Commifornia where the majority of the people took the Jabs, you can see it.
I was thinking recreational and prescription drug use plus general enstupidation (due in large part to failure of the educational system and brainwashing from the mass culture out there, delivered by the mainstream media, social media, etc. via smartphones). These have a cumulative effect on the mentality of the average person.
'plandemic' was deliberate or an happy accident?
That one's been out there for a while. I'm not one to use memes (I like to express my own ideas, for what they're worth) but with all that we've learned since 2020, I take it as a given that the pandemic was exploited by The Filth (I wish I could make THAT one a meme) to control us.
I took the initial vaxx, but none of the updates. What sort of vaccine do you have to take over and over?
So fare, I am gub. Mentslly sharpe and fully whale.
Little Lupe, I'm seeing that "bit of a delay" thing in Pugetopolis as well.
I know it comes as a surprise to some, but injecting people with neurotoxins has this odd and entirely unsuspected side effect of toxining their neuros.
Especially in the ‘aging brain’ cohort!
"When you speak to them they are on a bit of a delay."
I've noticed that too. It's almost like they need to dial in to the Party's central computer to find out how they're supposed to respond. But first they have to work through all the prompts from the AI or solve one of those puzzles to prove they're a Member in Good Standing...
Interesting you should mention that. In conversations with my only liberal-leaning friend, I've noticed that when I make a point that's not in the leftist playbook, he seems to pause and sort of mentally scan for an answer, as though he's waiting for instructions from the mother ship. There are folks out there who have taken another look at Julian Jaynes' "bicameral mind" theory for this very reason; they suspect that we're actually cognitively regressing to a more primitive state.
Amén! I love that. Yes they need to refer to their ‘talking points memo’ before they can respond! And if you point that out they freak out! That can no longer “think for themselves”.
Actually ironically my mother was in her late 80s during the Scamdemic. She was in assisted living out here in Commifornia. No one, vaxxed or not was allowed into her building.
I had POA for her and I declined the Covid shot for her. And I told them if they tried to give it to her I would sue the crap out of them!
She died of congestive heart failure on Mothers Day 2021. She was in a rehab facility after being in the hospital. We couldn’t go in that building either. Vaxxed or not. I talked with her through the sliding glass doors of her room outside in the phone. She died an hour after our conversation.
The Scamdemic required one to be proactive, and on top of what the public health authorities were pulling in people, especially if one was NOT a participant in the Modern Medical Sickcare System, as I was.
People should be in jail for what happened to your mother.
I asked Google why Bluefield, WV is so run down (where my parents grew up). This was the answer:
“Bluefield, West Virginia looks run down due to a prolonged economic collapse tied directly to the decline of the coal and railroad industries, which once made it a booming Appalachian hub.”
It all starts with shutting down basic industries. Either due to globalism (Appalachia) or climate doomerism (CA). Then the drug trade steps in.
"The drug trade" in WV was largely run by the Sacklers, and produced feeder streams into the other kind.
Nothing says that you're sticking it to Orange Hitler and building paradise on earth quite like fentanyl addicts zombying around your downtown.
My mother's side of the family were from N. CA: Truki, Lodi, Eureka, the Bay area. I spent spent much of my time over the years in S. CA, surfing/camping along the beaches primarily, in particular San Diego. Can't believe how much that area has deteriorated, with the beaches closed because of the sewage from Mexico.
I understand the Stalinists wanting to destroy the state, as that is what they do: degrade first, then destroy, then rebuild in their vision. Think Obama's library, which is built on a beautiful park with old growth trees, all of which had to be cut down. I can't believe so many people voted for this result.
Some of our best memories are of our road trips in Northern California in the late nineties - the scenery, the small towns, the wonderful B&Bs (and sometimes quite quirky motels), and especially the kind and funny people we encountered every day. We absolutely loved those holidays and are distressed to see this report, but are so grateful to have visited when we did.
Keep this memories. There’s few pockets now in Commifornia like that.
This is heartbreaking.
What goes through the minds of do-gooders when they see stuff like this? Who in their right mind thinks that this is okay - for the people involved or for the rest of us?
Do they even see what they're looking at?
I've got some experience with that last point. My wonderful husband is totally incapable of seeing a mess. He can leave buckets of tools in the kitchen or a pile of clothes on the floor, WALK AROUND THEM, and when I ask him to move the stuff, he'll say "what buckets?" I think the same blindness has infected California libs, only on a much bigger scale.
I’ve known many Lib do-gooders, Farm Wife, and you have it exactly. They refuse to see the problem because they think that’s being mean. It is not that they are incapable. They are making a willful choice so they can send the correct signals to each other.
Your hubby is a whole other thing. I know that situation by heart.
Like Dr. Fauci, I plead the fifth on leaving tools in the kitchen or clothes on the floor while walking past them, however, when I need them. I know exactly where they are. When I place them in their assigned storage space, the tool or clothes moving monster has reared his/her (or whatever pronoun it prefers) ugly head and I can't find them. Try it the next time there the tools are left in the kitchen, go into another room and nonchalantly ask him where a specific tool ion the bucket is because you need it.... dollars to donuts, he finds it in 15 seconds.
My gripe is that tools in the kitchen, however organized he thinks it is, are in my way, especially this time of year when all the vegetables are rolling in, needing to be preserved. I can't be stepping around Home Depot buckets all day.
And when the tools are back where they belong, I can find them for him, for me, too. I locate everything around here; if I die, the whole place falls apart.
The memory thing: he worked as an electrician for years, industrial construction, so when a job was done, he'd move to another one with a new group of guys. I can throw out a date, say "August 1998" and he can tell me what job he was on, who the foreman was, the names of all the other electricians. Ask him what somebody just said to him and it's a blank, because he's really not listening. I love him despite all this.
This capacity for "not seeing" allows several good husbands of my acquaintance to deliberately "not notice"
...to not notice their wives' faults.
To not notice the leftovers in the fridge so they can use the excuse of " oh, I didn't see it", when they want to go out to dinner in your absence. Lol
Especially if those leftovers are *right in the front* and they still can't find them.
I used to tell my husband that the reason he could never find stuff in the kitchen was that every day when he left for work, I'd go and move everything around in the cabinets.
I solved this issue by equating my kitchen to my husband's garage tool bench area!
Once you explain that your kitchen is a working/prep space and tools belong in categories within drawers ( things that cut) drawers, dishtowels, silver wear, pots and pans, etc, they begin to look at the kitchen, and your method of organization, need for organization, with more respect.
I've used that analogy, it hasn't worked with him. As much as it hurts me to do it, I may have to start leaving my kitchen tools in a bucket in his work area. That pressure canner weighs a ton and sure takes up a lot of room. ;)
You are a dear sweet wife! 💓
Yup. Love him, FW. Good plan.
But can he find the left over dinner in the fridge?
My wife leaves me *lotsa* leftovers when she goes to visit the grandkids. But I can cook for myself and it is also my chance to have pizza and Taco Bell.
It's a continuing conversation . . .
I think for many it's an actual mental illness, a form of psychotic delusion. They live in a highly insular, self-reinforcing emotional and psychological world that does not exist outside their own collective delusion, and they filter all perception of the real, physical world through that non-existent world. So, they can no longer see reality for what it is (they are typically privileged, educated, white collar professionals who grew up insulated by daddy's money, and so have had little feedback in life from bad ideas or decisions).
It's different from your example in that the lefties see the stuff, process it through their non-existent internal world, and then defend it angrily when it's called out. They know the mess is there, they have just reframed it as something good rather than something bad. As someone in these comments once termed it: they're morally insane.
(Note - I'm speaking of the [usually] highly educated useful idiots in the voting base, mostly high income white collar women and the alphabet crowd who are insulated from the effects of policies aligned with their insane worldview. There are others in the base who vote themselves other people's money in a transactional way; they're nothing more than thieves. The left's leaders are sociopathic and just don't care about the rot so long as they maintain power over others and can profit off that power. But the power is their primary motive; e.g., even the ones who made no money off covid loved that time. In fact, they seem to enjoy watching other people suffer, hence sociopathic.)
They like to "signal" caring, but that is all it is, a "signal". Help never really arrives! Enabling self-destructive behavior is not help, it is evil! California has it's priorities and care protocols backward! They have legislated these backward policies to such an extent, that those who actually suggest a path out of self-destruction, appear to be the evil, uncaring humans!
Indeed it has. ☹️
No its totally different. The lefties are making money on the mess.
True! Some are making money, others' just buy into the idea that they are good people because they care.
As with parenting, it is not enough just to care!
Helpless people stay helpless and become manipulative when they are exempt from the consequences of breaking social and Civil rules.
When boundaries are not clearly established, communicated and agreed upon!
Prolonged adolescence happens when we do not teach the skills needed for independence of thought, skills mastery and expect a person to comply and contribute!
Democrat vote's continually vote for pacification and indoctrination over independent thought and merit based pay and reward systems.
Of course they are, that's a given.
They all can see the filth, the drug damage, the mental health crises, and the spiritual emptiness as well as you and I can, but their ability to face the reality of lives destroyed is subordinate to the ideology that allows this to continue. This is a choice. Those are the true believers.
The grifters are not an entirely separate group, but their motivation is financial. The result is still misery.
Insightful
My condolences!
Humboldt county was such a neat place before the weed growers took over.
Greatly in evidence on the Lost Coast this week.
On its way to Weed Afghanistan.
I think Chris touched on a key point, the destruction of the economy. And in Eureka's case, as with much of NorCal, the weed growers (and the meth cookers, the illegal/dreamer pimps, the gov't subsidized con artists, etc) gained a controlling share of the local economy when the timber industry was decimated by the spotted owl eco-fascist cult hoax. If one could time travel back in time to any Sierra, lower Cascade or coastal redwood small town to the mid seventies, they would see hard working men, supporting healthy families and towns where no one locked their house or cars doors.
Sorry to see Eureka's death spiral accelerate. Samoa Cookhouse (which is now apparently closed) was a found memory from Eureka's better days.
BINGO! Planned obsolescence for an entire region! A drugged electorate is very controllable, because they cannot organize against their captors!
> the spotted owl eco-fascist cult hoax.
DUDE, step away from the Fox News!
The weed growers were filling the job gap created when the Timber industry was shutdown by the Eco Nazi Lobby!
The real question is who funds and runs the Eco Nazi Lobby? Who benefits fom the drug trade? Who looks the others way?
And on and on!
It takes a village full of College Educated idiots, lawyers, environmentalists, legislators, local politicians, sheriff's deputies, to shutdown an industry!
> Eco Nazi Lobby!
Good job--you managed to work Godwin's Law AND...whatever that other thing is...verdiphobia...into six deft syllables!
The "weed" (I think you mean "cannabis" or "marijuana") "growers" were, and remain, the project of Wall Street hedge funds.
Among my and my late darling's circles were a significant number of large infra contractors who made out like bandits on building "grow operations." Discussion of who the investors were constituted many an hours of post-archery-tournament campfires.
This had nothing to do with ecology, and, good lord, nothing to do with the German National Socialist Workers Party of 100 years ago.
It had to do with Wall Street doing the bidding of the City of London as it has since 1971.
Kindly stop running cover for them and start discussing facts.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
Now do a companion story on how the tech bros in Ca live.
Would be a nice bookend: "My week with 3 different Tech Bro families in Tiburon."
The Tech people are not the problem! They don't run the California Legislature, the people that create the laws and mandates!
The Tech companies pay to get along with those in Government, because they want to stay in business!
The Unions actually run California! They are the Mob bosses, but by all means, go after those who pay most of the taxes and hire most of the people that keep the small businesses, hospitals, grocery and hardware stores in business. Lol
Your have vs. have not argument just revealed your Socialist/ Communist leanings!
The teachers union, the nurses union, and SEIU run California.
Maybe but the contrast in living conditions can’t be laid at the feet of the successful. But you might ask how many of their friends chose to do nothing with their lives except drugs and why they made a different choice. How about a sincere effort to understand rather than the usual villain-victim trope?
How about if the successful are totalitarian depopulationists that have dumbed down the schools, pushed highly processed glyphosate-soaked carbs and toxic vaccines, offshored industry, and moved their yacht armadas to the Southern Hemisphere in advance of the coming world war, while financing candidates like Gruesom and Trump?
Oh please.
Are they self destructing and taking the community with them?
Yes, that is exactly what they’re doing, Jason.
And this has been happening in bigger, nicer, better funded cities and towns up and down the west coast. The climate is mostly hospitable to living outside and the Dems are the boatmen on the money river over there.
Lib voters live in nice places and never have to see this. But they feel good about the progressive policies that sustain the rot.
I fully agree with your last paragraph; liberal voters generally don’t pay the price of their perfidious policies.
I think you paint with too broad a brush on the silicon valley entrepreneurs; many of them actively oppose what the progressive party sells.
Got it Jason, I was talking about junkies, not silicon valley entrepreneurs.
I lost the thread. it gets confusing out here.
Not even close! They build and rejuvinate, they don't destroy the community and they do not litter the waterways.
We may not appreciate the abundance of population that their companies created, but they are not the enablers of the hoards of zombie invaders, that belongs to our Socialist Virtue signaling Legislature and Governor, with the help of their Cronies in the Environmental industry!
Silicon Valley, like most places, is not a monolith.
Yes, it can on longer threads!
Wow, yall! That’s quite a thread right there! 😂 I just want to say, I have NOTHING against the tech bros. Hats off to them for their success. No jealousy here at all. But with great wealth comes great responsibility. And these folks live in a bubble to the point I expect few are even aware of places like Eureka. They simply never go to places where society has collapsed. That said, they are not absolved of their responsibility to use their great wealth to do something about such places. With great wealth comes great power. Power to influence politicians and power to take direct action. Elon Musk is the perfect example of what I’m talking about. Get out of your bubbles people and DO SOMETHING about places like Eureka. And I don’t mean buy it all up and make it your own private paradise. I mean, start funding candidates running for city council and mayor who want to really fix the problems. Do it town by town until people see what a difference great leadership can make and then the movement becomes organic as it builds! From what I can tell, most tech bros are libs and clueless about this stuff. Think Zuckerberg and Bezos. Bezos owns The WashPo for crying out loud. 🙄 Zuck gave $400M to swing the vote for Biden in 2020! Meanwhile their State, the Great State of California, is going to hell in handbasket. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 😘
By Tech Bro's are you referring to a few successful entrepreneurs or anyone who works in the technology sector?
Exactly. "Tech Bro" is being used as a caricature here.
Yes all 150 of them. Thats the "progressive" Democrat party base.
If you have two barrels, one filled with wine and one filled with shit and you take one drop of wine and add it to the shit, you still have a barrel of shit and a barrel of wine. If you take one drop of shit and add it to the wine, you have two barrels of shit. Sums up California for me; it only takes a little bit of shit to fuck up something nice.
Yes, yes, yes, yes. Nailed it.
well said
If the Republicans and like minded PACs don’t run video loops of these places as campaign ads, really starting NOW, they are missing the political opportunity of a lifetime. If President Trump made a few visits to these blighted places and said, “This is what your community faces if you don’t vote out the leftists, etc., etc..” he’s wasting what would be a terrific photo op. Until your post, Chris, I never would have thought Northern California was as bad as LA. It’s criminal what Newsom has NOT done to fix these places. Here’s just one idea: deploy the California National Guard to just one of these areas, as the president has done in DC, and protect city workers while they actually clean up some of the mess. I’m guessing it could be an instant quality of life improvement.
It’s the fraudulent voting and ballot harvesting… that’s what keeps this going!!
The Republican Party is not a serious opposition party. The leadership is content with the handful of seats they are allowed to retain in the state legislature.
Think of the CA Republican party like the small captive party's that always had a handful of seats guaranteed in the East German Diet.