They think if they do some really insane stuff and set us against each other, maybe start a nice civil war, we'll forget all about them and their bug lunch plans.
Don't fall for it. Time to fill the streets with peaceful feet (if you go violent it gives them the excuse to simply mow you all down). It's actually helpful to SIT in the streets and chant something, sing something, keep it really happy and stuff... they hate that.
i guess it is only applicable at the federal level, but we need to redevelop and legislate the ethos that elected officials are accountable to their voters (what a concept) and should not be allowed to delegate their powers of governance to bureaucrats who are NOT elected to office.
Isn't that already part of the Constitution? I know something else that is part of the Constitution, and that is that when the Citizenry discover the government is corrupt, it has a DUTY to shut it down and get a new one. Might be time for that right about now!
I’m in Commifornia as well. Have you seen New California? It’s suppose to become the 51st state, minus SF, LA, Sacramento, Sillycon Valley. For CA, that’s where ALL the problems are coming from. Us sane Californians want OUT! And no, we aren’t blue, we’re red. We always have been. That pesky cheating always gets in the way.
And believe me. cops don’t want to drives Teslas. “Sorry Captain, I was in hot pursuit of the rapist, kidnapper, serial killer...but my patrol unit died. I guess there was no juice left from the charge. My bad!”
Cop cars DON’T run out of fuel-lol! Officers always check the gas gauge before going on patrol. And they don’t leave empty patrol vehicles for the next shift-that’s a no no-lol!
Red and blue, it doesn't really matter, it's just another ploy to make us think we're not ONE PEOPLE, getting screwed over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over....
UNITY is the thing that will bring us the power to stop these globby psycho rat bastards!! UNITY. Common goals, like FREEDOM.
I agree 100%! When you see how the USA was before the great takeover of the Federal Reserve in 1913, it’s CRAZY…all planned by power hungry, greedy families and bankers! We’ve all been slaves to these fuckers (excuse my French)!
No excuse necessary. Fuck is the most beautiful word in the English language. It is the perfect word. It will suit perfectly within every rule of English grammar.
But of course, you're right. And it goes all the way back to the beginning... We ALWAYS have had the rich lording over the rest of us... We need to start thinking about how this needs to CHANGE. That, I think, will be the biggest question... Wealth, and how to have it.
Today I built a fire on the corner of my property and threw old batteries into it in between grilling steaks. We were going to pour gasoline on it at the end as a kind of closing ceremony but it's honestly still a little too expensive to waste on pageantry, for now.
Actually really great. I firmly expect at least one litter before winter and I'm hopeful it will be two. It will be at least second-time births for both respective sows which will mean larger litters (7-10 for this breed) and I've learned a lot about managing them since the first.
They are about to expand into a huge new pasture area where they will have at least another month or two of very dense wild forage, so whatever slaughtering I do in December is likely to be very high quality. I'm quite excited about the pigs this year. :)
Save those lithium batteries! They will have a second life as fuel for the EU this winter. Finally, all those spent Teslas will have resale value above salvage.
It seems that you live in a community of people that refuse to grow up. Both the state and local governments appear to think that they are working on high school projects. Hey, it will look good on their college applications.
That is an excellent point. What a colossal embarrassment. I had to stop talking to my lib friends because they just parrot back what their college age children (still living in the basement) are screeching at them.
I have moments of despair that NY state (and especially NYC) is the worst and then I read about California and am humbled to realize we are in second place. For how long, if Hochul is re-elected and gets to live her totalitarian dream, is still uncertain. The competition continues.
Very very hard to measure. Every local government -- 58 counties, 400 cities -- has unfunded pension liabilities, and a market collapse will harm CalPERS in deep ways. The number is certainly much bigger than any public representation of it. See, for example....
One problem that seems to elude the estimators is that if you are promising people a huge fraction of their working pay in retirement and their prospect of bring “retired” collecting funds is close to the 20 years of their working life to fest in the pension fund, eventually you will be paying more for your retirees than your full workforce. Moreover, as the tax base shrinks as conditions deteriorate, who is going to pay those retirees and with what money?
The only people with really good pensions are *surprise*: teachers! Teacher's Unions are quite well funded, and not just here in NM. Almost everyone else is nervous about their pensions. Most of the state is on Medicaid, which helps with Medicare expenses for patients but not with the cost to the state of Medicaid. NM is a really weird place. We always rate worst in education and very high in crime. We're so proud!! And crooked, too.
No government at any level should be able to make future commitments without present funding. And none of the fool funding through crazy optimistic future growth.
This reminds me of a quote that's stayed w me from an interview w Simone de Beauvoir about all the political crusades she and her beau JP Sartre supported, which basically included any and every Leftist dictatorship and terrorist group, from Stalin to Mao to Castro etc.
When asked about their preference for "Revolutionary" ideas she said something like, "We're just not temperamentally suited to reform." (Meaning small practical steps to help people were not romantic or dramatic enough for the Left Bank radical philosophers.)
And this I think is where we've arrived at in the one-party Cali state, the Vatican City of Social Justice: not a single elected official in any capacity, from school board to mayor to legislator, has any interest in doing the actual hard work of helping people in a smart, sane and responsible way. It is more important for them to pose as radical and be seen playing their part in the great struggle to the Promised Land of DEI.
Governing is dull, democracy may mean talking to people who didnt go to the right schools (ewwww), but being a soldier in the Revolution provides glorious meaning and purpose.
But the results are always the same: a tremendous amount of social wreckage with the True Believers still fixing their gaze on the Utopia inside their heads, which certainly would have arrived if only it hadn't been sabotaged by their greatest enemy: Reality.
Watching the idiocracy in California self-immolate is one for the ages. Never have so many idiots been given so much and squandered it in such a grotesque manner.
Sadly, people get exactly what they vote for! If they elect incompetent, agenda driven, virtue signaling clowns, they get 2 million dollars worth of Teslas and potholes. They will continue to experience the consequences of the choices they make until they decide that streets without potholes are more important to them than a police force driving Teslas.
This insanity is why we left Malibu after almost two decades there. The local Maxfield’s—home to $500 t-shirts— was looted to the tune of more than $1MM by one of those smash-and-grab gangs right after we moved away. I was still on the neighborhood online chat forum at the time, and most of the posts were of the “what-the-hell-is-happening-this-can’t-happen-here-can-it?” variety. The one that stood out and, I think, perfectly encapsulates the lunacy at the core of California’s politics, was from a local who whined, “if everyone who is SO worried about a little shoplifting theft would spend as much effort worried about climate change—which is the REAL threat we’re facing—then we could actually get somewhere” or some such crap. A “little” shoplifting. It is Malibu, after all.
I can tell you that after living in small town New England for a few months now, the general consensus here is that anyone who still lives in L.A. or San Francisco is nuts. Having fled myself, I’m inclined to agree. I can’t wait to tell my neighbors about police in Teslas. What a hoot!
Their policies will burn Malibu down before it’s ruined by crime. Homeless encampments + Santa Anas will be its ruin. The city couldn’t possibly do something about clearing out all the encampments for the safety of the residents, because that would be mean. 😡
My husband is a SoCal native. With the exception of med school and residency, he lived his entire life there, and for the past 5 years or so, I wondered if I would ever get him to leave.
But it got so bad he couldn’t wait to get out when we finally closed escrow in New England. He has to go back to LA occasionally for work, and it sickens him. The contrast between here and there is so stark; he can’t believe we waited so long to leave.
it’s a joke. in oakland, the last straw for me: the COVID emergency fund for single mothers that explicitly excluded white women.
FUCK THAT RACIST SHIT.
The Bad Guys are in a panic.
They think if they do some really insane stuff and set us against each other, maybe start a nice civil war, we'll forget all about them and their bug lunch plans.
Don't fall for it. Time to fill the streets with peaceful feet (if you go violent it gives them the excuse to simply mow you all down). It's actually helpful to SIT in the streets and chant something, sing something, keep it really happy and stuff... they hate that.
ARTICLE V!!!!!!!
Yes! To do what, tho?
i guess it is only applicable at the federal level, but we need to redevelop and legislate the ethos that elected officials are accountable to their voters (what a concept) and should not be allowed to delegate their powers of governance to bureaucrats who are NOT elected to office.
Isn't that already part of the Constitution? I know something else that is part of the Constitution, and that is that when the Citizenry discover the government is corrupt, it has a DUTY to shut it down and get a new one. Might be time for that right about now!
Will they be allowed to charge the Tesla’s between 4 pm and 9 pm or does the flex alert not apply to police?
No crimes allowed between the hours of 4PM and 9PM. Offenders will be subject to arrest if our bicycle patrol can catch up with them.
I would say something glib. But, alas, all that comes to mind are streams and streams of the most profane profanities ever to be heard.
I’m in Commifornia as well. Have you seen New California? It’s suppose to become the 51st state, minus SF, LA, Sacramento, Sillycon Valley. For CA, that’s where ALL the problems are coming from. Us sane Californians want OUT! And no, we aren’t blue, we’re red. We always have been. That pesky cheating always gets in the way.
And believe me. cops don’t want to drives Teslas. “Sorry Captain, I was in hot pursuit of the rapist, kidnapper, serial killer...but my patrol unit died. I guess there was no juice left from the charge. My bad!”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/tesla-police-car-nearly-runs-out-power-during-chase-california-n1058881
Cop cars DON’T run out of fuel-lol! Officers always check the gas gauge before going on patrol. And they don’t leave empty patrol vehicles for the next shift-that’s a no no-lol!
Teslas don't run on gas.
You can’t make this $h!t up!
Red and blue, it doesn't really matter, it's just another ploy to make us think we're not ONE PEOPLE, getting screwed over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over....
UNITY is the thing that will bring us the power to stop these globby psycho rat bastards!! UNITY. Common goals, like FREEDOM.
I agree 100%! When you see how the USA was before the great takeover of the Federal Reserve in 1913, it’s CRAZY…all planned by power hungry, greedy families and bankers! We’ve all been slaves to these fuckers (excuse my French)!
No excuse necessary. Fuck is the most beautiful word in the English language. It is the perfect word. It will suit perfectly within every rule of English grammar.
You are fucking right!
Fuckin' A. Potty Mouths Unite! ;)
But of course, you're right. And it goes all the way back to the beginning... We ALWAYS have had the rich lording over the rest of us... We need to start thinking about how this needs to CHANGE. That, I think, will be the biggest question... Wealth, and how to have it.
Oh, and FOOD.
Common language doesn't hurt
Today I built a fire on the corner of my property and threw old batteries into it in between grilling steaks. We were going to pour gasoline on it at the end as a kind of closing ceremony but it's honestly still a little too expensive to waste on pageantry, for now.
How are the pigs G?
Actually really great. I firmly expect at least one litter before winter and I'm hopeful it will be two. It will be at least second-time births for both respective sows which will mean larger litters (7-10 for this breed) and I've learned a lot about managing them since the first.
They are about to expand into a huge new pasture area where they will have at least another month or two of very dense wild forage, so whatever slaughtering I do in December is likely to be very high quality. I'm quite excited about the pigs this year. :)
Save those lithium batteries! They will have a second life as fuel for the EU this winter. Finally, all those spent Teslas will have resale value above salvage.
These are all NiCa batteries that I've kept in my fridge for years rubbed in coal dust and beef tallow.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 😂😂💯
It seems that you live in a community of people that refuse to grow up. Both the state and local governments appear to think that they are working on high school projects. Hey, it will look good on their college applications.
That is an excellent point. What a colossal embarrassment. I had to stop talking to my lib friends because they just parrot back what their college age children (still living in the basement) are screeching at them.
Last few years my operating plan is move to the second or third State that secedes from the Union. Good to have choices.
The rot is too deep here in CA. Providing power and water are bedrock functions of gov't but the virtue signallers cannot even do that right. Sheesh.
I have moments of despair that NY state (and especially NYC) is the worst and then I read about California and am humbled to realize we are in second place. For how long, if Hochul is re-elected and gets to live her totalitarian dream, is still uncertain. The competition continues.
What percent of current tax revenues is funding pensions and benefits? How large are the unfunded commitments to future retirees?
Very very hard to measure. Every local government -- 58 counties, 400 cities -- has unfunded pension liabilities, and a market collapse will harm CalPERS in deep ways. The number is certainly much bigger than any public representation of it. See, for example....
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4279
One problem that seems to elude the estimators is that if you are promising people a huge fraction of their working pay in retirement and their prospect of bring “retired” collecting funds is close to the 20 years of their working life to fest in the pension fund, eventually you will be paying more for your retirees than your full workforce. Moreover, as the tax base shrinks as conditions deteriorate, who is going to pay those retirees and with what money?
Nuthin' like a good ol Ponzi scheme to "fund" yer retirement :-)
From what I hear in NM they are all under funded, much like SS and MediCare.
The only people with really good pensions are *surprise*: teachers! Teacher's Unions are quite well funded, and not just here in NM. Almost everyone else is nervous about their pensions. Most of the state is on Medicaid, which helps with Medicare expenses for patients but not with the cost to the state of Medicaid. NM is a really weird place. We always rate worst in education and very high in crime. We're so proud!! And crooked, too.
No government at any level should be able to make future commitments without present funding. And none of the fool funding through crazy optimistic future growth.
MMP.
Exactly. So the nightmare will become real life collapse! Should be fun!
Follow the MONEY! Who’s getting the kick back?!
No shit! Same thing with covid.
This reminds me of a quote that's stayed w me from an interview w Simone de Beauvoir about all the political crusades she and her beau JP Sartre supported, which basically included any and every Leftist dictatorship and terrorist group, from Stalin to Mao to Castro etc.
When asked about their preference for "Revolutionary" ideas she said something like, "We're just not temperamentally suited to reform." (Meaning small practical steps to help people were not romantic or dramatic enough for the Left Bank radical philosophers.)
And this I think is where we've arrived at in the one-party Cali state, the Vatican City of Social Justice: not a single elected official in any capacity, from school board to mayor to legislator, has any interest in doing the actual hard work of helping people in a smart, sane and responsible way. It is more important for them to pose as radical and be seen playing their part in the great struggle to the Promised Land of DEI.
Governing is dull, democracy may mean talking to people who didnt go to the right schools (ewwww), but being a soldier in the Revolution provides glorious meaning and purpose.
But the results are always the same: a tremendous amount of social wreckage with the True Believers still fixing their gaze on the Utopia inside their heads, which certainly would have arrived if only it hadn't been sabotaged by their greatest enemy: Reality.
Watching the idiocracy in California self-immolate is one for the ages. Never have so many idiots been given so much and squandered it in such a grotesque manner.
Blue state is dying and planning to take as many of us with them as possible.
Sadly, people get exactly what they vote for! If they elect incompetent, agenda driven, virtue signaling clowns, they get 2 million dollars worth of Teslas and potholes. They will continue to experience the consequences of the choices they make until they decide that streets without potholes are more important to them than a police force driving Teslas.
We need to copy Texas and limit our legislature to 140 days per year. Then they go home and to do something useful.
They do something useful, maybe.
Yeah, they campaign for their next reelection run.
This insanity is why we left Malibu after almost two decades there. The local Maxfield’s—home to $500 t-shirts— was looted to the tune of more than $1MM by one of those smash-and-grab gangs right after we moved away. I was still on the neighborhood online chat forum at the time, and most of the posts were of the “what-the-hell-is-happening-this-can’t-happen-here-can-it?” variety. The one that stood out and, I think, perfectly encapsulates the lunacy at the core of California’s politics, was from a local who whined, “if everyone who is SO worried about a little shoplifting theft would spend as much effort worried about climate change—which is the REAL threat we’re facing—then we could actually get somewhere” or some such crap. A “little” shoplifting. It is Malibu, after all.
I can tell you that after living in small town New England for a few months now, the general consensus here is that anyone who still lives in L.A. or San Francisco is nuts. Having fled myself, I’m inclined to agree. I can’t wait to tell my neighbors about police in Teslas. What a hoot!
Same for us. Left San Diego in 08'.
Freak show!. Dems are trying to ruin one of the best cities in the US.
They're almost done with the job in SD.
Their policies will burn Malibu down before it’s ruined by crime. Homeless encampments + Santa Anas will be its ruin. The city couldn’t possibly do something about clearing out all the encampments for the safety of the residents, because that would be mean. 😡
It's hard to watch. I grew up in SoCal.
My wife and I just couldn't take it and didn't want our children subjected to the crazies...
Good on you, and even better for your kids.
My husband is a SoCal native. With the exception of med school and residency, he lived his entire life there, and for the past 5 years or so, I wondered if I would ever get him to leave.
But it got so bad he couldn’t wait to get out when we finally closed escrow in New England. He has to go back to LA occasionally for work, and it sickens him. The contrast between here and there is so stark; he can’t believe we waited so long to leave.