Message from the PIO for the Los Angeles County Coroner/Medical Examiner about the Metro station death: "The decedent is a male in his 30s." Cause of death and identity not available, pending notification of next of kin. LAPD investigating.
I'm remembering a TV program that I watched maybe 20 or 30 years ago. The subject was the L.A. County Coroner's Office. The take-away, for me, was that at any given time, the morgue there has 10 or 20 unidentified, - and unidentifiable & unclaimed, - BODIES....
Doesn't look like things are any better today.... HOW does somebody as pathological as Bass get elected in the first place?.... THANKS, Chris!
For the record, if you're a grown-ass man and you say on the Internet that you've been walking around MacArthur Park at night, your mother calls and yells at you.
Seriously Chris... you shouldn't even drive past that shit without a machine gunner manning the pintle mounted .40 cal. I hope your mother made that clear.
Karen Bass and the other apostles of Social Justice have given themselves an ideological lobotomy, which means that the only way they can process any information is through the simplistic sacred dogma of their faith, the oppressor/oppressed binary. Any other words, ideas or interpretations would strike them as ipso facto evil aka Hate Speech.
Thus Karen Bass, if we were to tour this filthy park with her, would claim that all the garbage and drug zombies and their trash and needles exist only and entirely because of the cruel, bigoted predations of white capitalism, so all moral (or political) responsibility for this sad state of affairs ultimately rests far away from the actual humans committing the actual acts, but instead with distant, evil and quasi-metaphysical abstractions like "capitalism" and "colonialism". And the only possible solution would be to give people just like her more power and more money.
And if anyone were to say that federal immigration officers have the right to arrest illegal aliens anywhere in America—even in LA!—she would say that her pristine values—Diversity Equity Justice Inclusion etc—exist on a higher moral plane than US federal law and that police cause crime just like firemen cause fires, so the best possible way to enforce the law is to abolish it. Police and federal agents are diabolic manifestations of White Supremacist Nazism, whereas street junkies and migrant criminals are sanctified victims of our oppressive System.
And there is zero chance she or her ilk could or will ever change their minds, regardless of how much wreckage their ideas leave behind, and there is zero chance that California will ever abandon the Social Justice faith, as this its Vatican, the place it was born and sent out to conquer the world.
Social Justice is just simple resentment and revenge drenched in white guilt and draped in egalitarian jargon and it means that everything that exists must be brought low and leveled, esp if it was made without the prior consent of the oppressed and marginalized. California is crumbling inside a spiral of sanctimony, but while the rest of us suffer, our political class and their donors and owners will die knowing they devoted their lives to Justice and that they weren't just aristocrats, but moral paragons who will live forever enshrined on the Right Side of History. Amen.
I agree, though I don’t think social justice is unassailable. It’s at the root of DEI, which Trump is dismantling. I think he sees the long-term political fight as being with the core concept of social justice, and I think he has a good chance of winning. As Hayek explained, social (group) justice contradicts real (individual) justice. Treating people differently based on race is not a popular concept, it violates federal law, and it’s intellectually incoherent because it’s impossible to fairly and objectively rank all the intersectional group identities. Social justice has hit its high water mark, and will recede as the Fourth Turning proceeds.
In the short term, that means Democrats are screwed. If they defend the likes of Bass and her street crime and disorder, they lose 2/3rds or more of the voters. If they abandon social justice ideology and start cleaning up the streets, they’ll be called “GOP Lite” (and worse) and lose a large chunk of their left wing. Once again, Trump is in a position to win either way.
That all may be true for the rest of America, but California is a very different place, the bluest of blue states, the home of the counterculture, the last and final outpost of Western Civ, the birthplace of almost every deranged cult and modern mass movement of "liberation", from the Black Panthers to EST to Jonestown to Scientology to the Self-Esteem Movement to the Marcuseans of Berkeley and Judy Butler's Gender Theory, etc etc.
California is postnational, a state (maybe a world) to itself, and all the values of the old world (family, faith, nation, God, sobriety and temperance etc) exist in upside-down mutated forms here, if at all. No gods, no masters, It's Forbidden to Forbid (which should be our state motto), and now comes the Social Justice revolution, which is essentially Brazilification but with Marxist morality and a commissar class to enforce it.
The counter-revolution won’t win everywhere anytime soon, but California will lose power and influence. Those in power will come under pressure from its own non-woke population, which is considerable.
I think CP is closer to nailing it. My wife who lived in Hell A likes to say that what the Lord didn't nail down tight, slid into California with geographic uplifts in North America which is why untethered nutty crap is concentrated there.
There are we Californians who have been here a few generations at least, and we count! We are not dystopian, freaks, wackos, misfits, etc. We work, obey laws, pay for our food and other goods, don't trash our surroundings, show respect and civility, etc. Why the heck are we not celebrated and venerated instead of all the losers that trash this beautiful land? Sick of the rejects from the rest of the USA and beyond invading our beautiful state!!!!!!!! 😡
what if DEI is a straw man whose glorious dismantling could serve as a very useful distraction while palantir and the bitcoin bros continue to build out prison planet? and then ICE can come for us?
Agreed. But there are others in Silicon Valley that are opposed to this. They've been planning the NWO global Communism under the control of globalist masters in the WEF, UN et al for years. Agenda 21 was first introduced in '92 at the UN's meeting in Rio de Janeiro. It's buried deep in the NYC size phone book that most never read. It's all there, global communism through forcing the masses to move into urban setting, gov't takeover of farms and all food production, no cars and everyone forced to use public transit. Engineered mass illegal migration to overwhelm and destabilize free nations. And gov't decides which businesses it will support and reward and which should be taxed into bankruptcy. Total communist dystopian agenda.
Imho, the Biden regime's contemptuously named "Inflation Reduction Act" which they later admitted was the "green new deal" scam, was a pilot plan to enact this. Thankfully, it failed as people began to realize that the major driver behind rapid price increases on food and other goods was Biden's war on fossil fuels. Specifically, diesel fuel which most delivery trucks use. And many began to see that the massive influx of illegals was being encouraged and enabled by our own gov't. and financed with our tax dollars. The same was happening all over Western Europe, with a high number coming from hardcore Islamist nations. Most dependent on gov't handouts and unwilling to assimilate.
Powerful people are behind "Agenda 21". They like to masquerade as philanthropists but are very anti-humanity. If the "Green New Deal" had been implemented as intended, millions would've died. Anderson Cooper asked Gates about this on AC 360 and he never denied it. The Covid "vaccine" was largely financed by the same people that want "population control". Imho, Gates and Soros are behind much of this but there are many others too.
People need to remain vigilant as they have no intention of stopping their plans. They've merely been delayed.
Great job of setting out the doctrines and creed that Karen and her ilk live by.
Normal people like you, me, and Chris are the heretics that must be stamped out for questioning the holy precepts.
I don’t know what endpoint will remove these depraved parasites from the body of our culture, but I fear it will have to be a very strong dose of a dreadful tasting medecine. If you look at the fall of empires in history they don’t go peacefully. I’m not certain a peaceful yet just resolution will be found. I still pray that it can, despite my fears.
“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven.”
“Apostles of Social Justice” and its worshippers at all levels of government are in violation of the First Amendment — barring establishment of religion.
When Bass showed up to meet with "the leaders" she was immediately shouted down, threatened, and pushed out by the same people she claimed to be there to protect. It was hilariously ironic because ICE had to step in and escort her out of the area for her Own Safety. Clown World leaders never cease to amaze me and the fact that she's now performing more histrionics and telling lies is exactly what I would expect from her. Isaiah 3:12: "My people — infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths."
They(the Left) is spoiling for a conflict to raise a response from the normies to force a catastrophic event which they can then use to disarm the country. The pushing from all sides evermore aggressively wanting outrage. They want a crisis they can exploit.
I was convinced Biden was doing that, but despite repeated provocations they never got the violent backlash they wanted for an excuse to crack down. Now the tables are turned, and leftist violence gives Trump a chance to crack down, and with the approval of the majority of voters. Leftists are deluded if they think anti-ICE and anti-Trump violence is going to rally the masses to their cause. Again, Democrats face a dilemma: they either support their pro-violence activist base, oppose the majority of voters, and risk federal charges, or they give in to Trump. Neither position will win them national elections.
“Rallying the masses” seems of no interest to the leftists; creating chaos through violence & gaining control is what they’re about. Trump & ICE give them an excuse. Only one dem, Blumenthal, spoke up today & said hey maybe we should tone down the rhetoric. Too late I think. We’re in a war & most are unaware. Crazy.
Yes they do. It’s a big part of why the wheels of government spin uselessly above the ground. Accomplishing anything good makes it harder to incite the civil unrest they hunger for.
Very good CB…we have similar ‘photo opportunities’ down in Downtown San Diego and surrounding areas. Not as radical as LA, but equally disgusting,and proof of the scuzz of daily life on the street.
It is a beautiful town. But our woke, progressive lefty, and “gay” Mayor Todd Gloria along with his cronies, have run the City of San Diego into the ground. He and fellow city council members have spent excessive amounts of the taxpayers money creating these “bike lanes” all over the City, and eliminated much needed street parking in the densely populated urban areas of The City. And who is in these Bike Lanes? NO ONE!
He’s allowed multi unit ADU’s to be built on larger residential lots in single family residential neighborhoods. And required no parking for that as well.
On every corner of downtown and adjacent neighborhoods to downtown they have torn down blocks of buildings and built these multi storied massive buildings. With retail on the street level and high rises above. Some of the units are for sale, most are for rent. Who is moving into these places I keep wondering?
Morning and afternoon commute traffic starts early, there’s a few hour window of less traffic and it starts up again around 2 PM. And moves at the pace of Los Angeles traffic.
I’m so feeling…there are just too many rats in the cage here now. Time to get outta Dodge.
You could easily be talking about Portland, part of the west coast trifecta of socialist injustice (and, to borrow a phrase) post-national states, where power and collusion and vote harvesting and bike lanes and carbon taxes and preordained oppression take precedence over all inferior existence. In short, it’s an all encompassing, intentional anti-everything-ism here, too, what with our having our own Karen Basses and Gavin Newsoms to blow up all traces of brotherhood, promoted competence and non-state economic activity.
They did the same in south Florida, a place where it’s 90 degrees and humid 9-10 months a year. Thunderstorms all summer in afternoons. Combine that with some of the worst driving in the country. So, Nobody in the right mind uses a bicycle as normal transportation here. So the bike lanes eat up traffic lanes and the traffic congestion swells. That’s government for you, solving problems that don’t exist.
They've been constructed in Kansas City, Missouri too and no bicyclists are to be found. No longer anything like "the buckle of the bible belt," KCMO is as blue as LA. And my red-purple town just to its east , Independence, is also inching toward Gomorrah. Even though the scum of East KC comes here to prey or to flee KCMO police chases.
those wretched traffic-snarling bike lanes are part and parcel of the UN2030 sustainable development goals. same with the pack-em-and-stack-ems. you vill eat zee bugs in zee highrise
LA and San Diego used to trade off the so-called homeless, so each city would get a respite, but now someone has figured out how to profit off the misery, so it’s a competition to see who can bring in the biggest numbers. Bass is an expert at this new game.
You’re the real thing Chris Bray ..thanks for the truth . Be careful, after hours reporting is dangerous, but I get the feeling you’re beyond fed up . Thank you again , be safe .
I asked ChatGPT if Karen Bass received social justice training in Cuba. It sounded kind of offended on her behalf, but then had to admit:
In the 1970s, she participated in multiple solidarity trips to Cuba through the Venceremos Brigade, where U.S. volunteers helped with construction and community organizing . She traveled there eight times in the ’70s during her early activism
Had to look up the word 'sylvan'. We had a "Sylvan Elementary" school in Modesto--certainly not 'abounding in woods or trees', flat, California Central Valley HEAT makes for few wooded areas.
When will we, as a people, demand Karen Bass and her ilk be arrested and tried for criminal negligence?
I'm learning to build a house at a local tech college. Great fun--but, like nearly every single public institution--they totally suck in execution. The kind of suck that eventually drove me to OCS thinking, "If these fucking clowns can do it--I know I can at least run a range better than these idiots."
I confront my instructor end of last quarter. "Hey bro--this was a lot of wasted time. 3 weeks out of 10 we did not learn anything, nor swing a hammer. I need repetitions. Lots of repetitions. I did not pay to sit or not show up."
He allows me 'independent study', and I tell him I want to build 'tiny homes'. He's cool with it, but, "If students use our materials, you need to tear down everything afterwards...but if you find someone to pay for materials, you can donate them to anyone."
In two days I had money for 20 homes (about $150K) lined up, and our entire program would shift to building homes (1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th quarter classes).
I meet with buddy (now THE senior O6) at an organization--this org owns tons of property in our state, and much of it is unused. Seems like a good place for possible tiny home encampment.
Another guy is in meeting. He worked state gov for last admin for 7+ years on homeless program.
The red tape involved makes me want to sob uncontrollably. These people think they know better, have the solution, and don't EVER think to do something outside of their well-designed plans.
These are the Karen Basses of the world. They are, simply, evil. A host of other terrible adjectives: incompetent, dumb, ugly, immoral, buffoonish, clownish, rotten, etc, etc--but in the end, it is simply evil. They must be stopped.
Good on you for doing real things, and pulling in others! Setting an example right there.
"He worked state gov for last admin for 7+ years on homeless program.
The red tape involved makes me want to sob uncontrollably."
(Wish I has some positive anecdote to share, but on the topic of homelessness, it's all pitch black.)
I feel it all the way here. In the 1990s, I was tangentially involved with trying to count the no. of homeless in the city I lived in (we differentiate between "uteliggare" - people living outdoors, and "hemlösa" - people who do not have a home of their own nor a contract for a lease; what we were doing was tracking "uteliggare").
While chatting in the team, as one does, we asked ourselves:
"Hey, know what? Why don't the city just rent/buy a couple of hundred of construction worker huts and put them up in an enclosed surveiled area? We could arrange for a doc and nurse to come by weekly for check-ups too, and we could have a couple of security guards patrolling the grounds. Let's do a hanky-calculation on the cost!"
[time lapse]
"Hey, uhm, guys? Ladies? This is... this is embarassing. The initial and running cost of our off-the-cuff idea? Yeah, it's less than half as expensive as what the city is doing without any effect."
Need I say that the city was less than interested. No wonder why, the people handling homelessness would have lost 90% of their jobs. There's a couple of choice terms for people like that, and I say people because "subhuman" has a bad rep as a term.
In 1991, an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air aired titled “72 hours”. In this episode, Will Smith bets his cousin Carlton that he wouldn’t last 72 hours in a neighbourhood in Compton. During Carlton’s stay in Compton he decides to go to MacArthur Park at night, at which point Will begs him to reconsider and abandon the dare/bet due to the real dangers of that park.
Even in 1991 MacArthur Park had a reputation of being a gangster infested shit hole. Who the @&$# would ever believe it’s now some family picnic hotspot full of playing children and loving attentive parents?
I would like to point out that I’m a Canadian who’s never been to MP and even I know of its reputation of being a dangerous no-go zone full of elicit drugs and violence.
Chris, I sometimes drive through Alvarado/Wilshire on my way to jobs in LA, but I’ve never been crazy enough to stop and walk around MacArthur Park. I’ve viewed it from the relative safety of my car, and I’m always reminded of Mad Max movies. The guy with the zip gun sounds like he’s looking for a lost touristy-type to victimize. Be careful!
And you’re right: the local LAPD station is nearby, but I’ve never seen any cops anywhere near this festering wound of a park.
Seattle are is much the same. Yestwrday, just a half hour north, I had to navigate around four street people to get into a Papa Murphy's to pick up a pizza. Then out in the parking lot, I see a man and woman washing the wheels of a Chev Tahoe with only a jug of water and a soapy rag. The vehicle was filthy but their rims were going to look good.
Message from the PIO for the Los Angeles County Coroner/Medical Examiner about the Metro station death: "The decedent is a male in his 30s." Cause of death and identity not available, pending notification of next of kin. LAPD investigating.
I'm remembering a TV program that I watched maybe 20 or 30 years ago. The subject was the L.A. County Coroner's Office. The take-away, for me, was that at any given time, the morgue there has 10 or 20 unidentified, - and unidentifiable & unclaimed, - BODIES....
Doesn't look like things are any better today.... HOW does somebody as pathological as Bass get elected in the first place?.... THANKS, Chris!
Ten bucks on OD or killed by another homeless person or gang violence.
For the record, if you're a grown-ass man and you say on the Internet that you've been walking around MacArthur Park at night, your mother calls and yells at you.
That’s actually very sweet. As a mother of two grown-ass men, I approve.
You are right to document the madness, and Mom is right to be concerned as you do. Carry on.
Seriously Chris... you shouldn't even drive past that shit without a machine gunner manning the pintle mounted .40 cal. I hope your mother made that clear.
.50 cal <pushes up glasses> and it sure looks like he'd need that extra .10 around there.
Nice.
Karen Bass and the other apostles of Social Justice have given themselves an ideological lobotomy, which means that the only way they can process any information is through the simplistic sacred dogma of their faith, the oppressor/oppressed binary. Any other words, ideas or interpretations would strike them as ipso facto evil aka Hate Speech.
Thus Karen Bass, if we were to tour this filthy park with her, would claim that all the garbage and drug zombies and their trash and needles exist only and entirely because of the cruel, bigoted predations of white capitalism, so all moral (or political) responsibility for this sad state of affairs ultimately rests far away from the actual humans committing the actual acts, but instead with distant, evil and quasi-metaphysical abstractions like "capitalism" and "colonialism". And the only possible solution would be to give people just like her more power and more money.
And if anyone were to say that federal immigration officers have the right to arrest illegal aliens anywhere in America—even in LA!—she would say that her pristine values—Diversity Equity Justice Inclusion etc—exist on a higher moral plane than US federal law and that police cause crime just like firemen cause fires, so the best possible way to enforce the law is to abolish it. Police and federal agents are diabolic manifestations of White Supremacist Nazism, whereas street junkies and migrant criminals are sanctified victims of our oppressive System.
And there is zero chance she or her ilk could or will ever change their minds, regardless of how much wreckage their ideas leave behind, and there is zero chance that California will ever abandon the Social Justice faith, as this its Vatican, the place it was born and sent out to conquer the world.
Social Justice is just simple resentment and revenge drenched in white guilt and draped in egalitarian jargon and it means that everything that exists must be brought low and leveled, esp if it was made without the prior consent of the oppressed and marginalized. California is crumbling inside a spiral of sanctimony, but while the rest of us suffer, our political class and their donors and owners will die knowing they devoted their lives to Justice and that they weren't just aristocrats, but moral paragons who will live forever enshrined on the Right Side of History. Amen.
I agree, though I don’t think social justice is unassailable. It’s at the root of DEI, which Trump is dismantling. I think he sees the long-term political fight as being with the core concept of social justice, and I think he has a good chance of winning. As Hayek explained, social (group) justice contradicts real (individual) justice. Treating people differently based on race is not a popular concept, it violates federal law, and it’s intellectually incoherent because it’s impossible to fairly and objectively rank all the intersectional group identities. Social justice has hit its high water mark, and will recede as the Fourth Turning proceeds.
In the short term, that means Democrats are screwed. If they defend the likes of Bass and her street crime and disorder, they lose 2/3rds or more of the voters. If they abandon social justice ideology and start cleaning up the streets, they’ll be called “GOP Lite” (and worse) and lose a large chunk of their left wing. Once again, Trump is in a position to win either way.
That all may be true for the rest of America, but California is a very different place, the bluest of blue states, the home of the counterculture, the last and final outpost of Western Civ, the birthplace of almost every deranged cult and modern mass movement of "liberation", from the Black Panthers to EST to Jonestown to Scientology to the Self-Esteem Movement to the Marcuseans of Berkeley and Judy Butler's Gender Theory, etc etc.
California is postnational, a state (maybe a world) to itself, and all the values of the old world (family, faith, nation, God, sobriety and temperance etc) exist in upside-down mutated forms here, if at all. No gods, no masters, It's Forbidden to Forbid (which should be our state motto), and now comes the Social Justice revolution, which is essentially Brazilification but with Marxist morality and a commissar class to enforce it.
Cheers
The counter-revolution won’t win everywhere anytime soon, but California will lose power and influence. Those in power will come under pressure from its own non-woke population, which is considerable.
We can hope.
we shall see...
Bravo
I think CP is closer to nailing it. My wife who lived in Hell A likes to say that what the Lord didn't nail down tight, slid into California with geographic uplifts in North America which is why untethered nutty crap is concentrated there.
Oh yes, this is the land of lost souls, for better or worse.
Outcasts, drop-outs, burnouts, castaways, runaways, misfits, exiles (by choice or otherwise), utopians, dystopians, every sort of freak comes to Cali.
Myself included!
There are we Californians who have been here a few generations at least, and we count! We are not dystopian, freaks, wackos, misfits, etc. We work, obey laws, pay for our food and other goods, don't trash our surroundings, show respect and civility, etc. Why the heck are we not celebrated and venerated instead of all the losers that trash this beautiful land? Sick of the rejects from the rest of the USA and beyond invading our beautiful state!!!!!!!! 😡
what if DEI is a straw man whose glorious dismantling could serve as a very useful distraction while palantir and the bitcoin bros continue to build out prison planet? and then ICE can come for us?
DEI is quite real and a core power of the left. I don’t believe the predictions of a techno dystopia.
DEI is evil AF and a central part of the dystopic plot. but it's only part of the problem. boy do we have our work cut out for us https://escapekey.substack.com/p/kunming-montreal-global-biodiversity
Agreed. But there are others in Silicon Valley that are opposed to this. They've been planning the NWO global Communism under the control of globalist masters in the WEF, UN et al for years. Agenda 21 was first introduced in '92 at the UN's meeting in Rio de Janeiro. It's buried deep in the NYC size phone book that most never read. It's all there, global communism through forcing the masses to move into urban setting, gov't takeover of farms and all food production, no cars and everyone forced to use public transit. Engineered mass illegal migration to overwhelm and destabilize free nations. And gov't decides which businesses it will support and reward and which should be taxed into bankruptcy. Total communist dystopian agenda.
Imho, the Biden regime's contemptuously named "Inflation Reduction Act" which they later admitted was the "green new deal" scam, was a pilot plan to enact this. Thankfully, it failed as people began to realize that the major driver behind rapid price increases on food and other goods was Biden's war on fossil fuels. Specifically, diesel fuel which most delivery trucks use. And many began to see that the massive influx of illegals was being encouraged and enabled by our own gov't. and financed with our tax dollars. The same was happening all over Western Europe, with a high number coming from hardcore Islamist nations. Most dependent on gov't handouts and unwilling to assimilate.
Powerful people are behind "Agenda 21". They like to masquerade as philanthropists but are very anti-humanity. If the "Green New Deal" had been implemented as intended, millions would've died. Anderson Cooper asked Gates about this on AC 360 and he never denied it. The Covid "vaccine" was largely financed by the same people that want "population control". Imho, Gates and Soros are behind much of this but there are many others too.
People need to remain vigilant as they have no intention of stopping their plans. They've merely been delayed.
there are others in Silicon Valley that are opposed to this? would love to know who they are
All must be level but some on a higher level than others.
Four legs good, two legs better!
Someone read Animal Farm! 👍🏻
We can’t use it directly
TBH nothing will convince NapoleonZ in Drag, but some normies might awaken to their plight
Great job of setting out the doctrines and creed that Karen and her ilk live by.
Normal people like you, me, and Chris are the heretics that must be stamped out for questioning the holy precepts.
I don’t know what endpoint will remove these depraved parasites from the body of our culture, but I fear it will have to be a very strong dose of a dreadful tasting medecine. If you look at the fall of empires in history they don’t go peacefully. I’m not certain a peaceful yet just resolution will be found. I still pray that it can, despite my fears.
“Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done; on earth as it is in heaven.”
“Apostles of Social Justice” and its worshippers at all levels of government are in violation of the First Amendment — barring establishment of religion.
Thanks for the great reporting, Chris.
Now that we have no one in the MSM in war zones anymore, you have the most dangerous job in journalism. Respect.
Agree. Citizen journalism is the only thing preventing us from becoming mushrooms.
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When Bass showed up to meet with "the leaders" she was immediately shouted down, threatened, and pushed out by the same people she claimed to be there to protect. It was hilariously ironic because ICE had to step in and escort her out of the area for her Own Safety. Clown World leaders never cease to amaze me and the fact that she's now performing more histrionics and telling lies is exactly what I would expect from her. Isaiah 3:12: "My people — infants are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, your guides mislead you and they have swallowed up the course of your paths."
ICE made a mistake. They shouldn’t have saved her.
They(the Left) is spoiling for a conflict to raise a response from the normies to force a catastrophic event which they can then use to disarm the country. The pushing from all sides evermore aggressively wanting outrage. They want a crisis they can exploit.
I was convinced Biden was doing that, but despite repeated provocations they never got the violent backlash they wanted for an excuse to crack down. Now the tables are turned, and leftist violence gives Trump a chance to crack down, and with the approval of the majority of voters. Leftists are deluded if they think anti-ICE and anti-Trump violence is going to rally the masses to their cause. Again, Democrats face a dilemma: they either support their pro-violence activist base, oppose the majority of voters, and risk federal charges, or they give in to Trump. Neither position will win them national elections.
“Rallying the masses” seems of no interest to the leftists; creating chaos through violence & gaining control is what they’re about. Trump & ICE give them an excuse. Only one dem, Blumenthal, spoke up today & said hey maybe we should tone down the rhetoric. Too late I think. We’re in a war & most are unaware. Crazy.
You're not wrong.
Yes they do. It’s a big part of why the wheels of government spin uselessly above the ground. Accomplishing anything good makes it harder to incite the civil unrest they hunger for.
Very good CB…we have similar ‘photo opportunities’ down in Downtown San Diego and surrounding areas. Not as radical as LA, but equally disgusting,and proof of the scuzz of daily life on the street.
San Diego is such a beautiful town. A miracle to make it turn to shit.
It is a beautiful town. But our woke, progressive lefty, and “gay” Mayor Todd Gloria along with his cronies, have run the City of San Diego into the ground. He and fellow city council members have spent excessive amounts of the taxpayers money creating these “bike lanes” all over the City, and eliminated much needed street parking in the densely populated urban areas of The City. And who is in these Bike Lanes? NO ONE!
He’s allowed multi unit ADU’s to be built on larger residential lots in single family residential neighborhoods. And required no parking for that as well.
On every corner of downtown and adjacent neighborhoods to downtown they have torn down blocks of buildings and built these multi storied massive buildings. With retail on the street level and high rises above. Some of the units are for sale, most are for rent. Who is moving into these places I keep wondering?
Morning and afternoon commute traffic starts early, there’s a few hour window of less traffic and it starts up again around 2 PM. And moves at the pace of Los Angeles traffic.
I’m so feeling…there are just too many rats in the cage here now. Time to get outta Dodge.
You could easily be talking about Portland, part of the west coast trifecta of socialist injustice (and, to borrow a phrase) post-national states, where power and collusion and vote harvesting and bike lanes and carbon taxes and preordained oppression take precedence over all inferior existence. In short, it’s an all encompassing, intentional anti-everything-ism here, too, what with our having our own Karen Basses and Gavin Newsoms to blow up all traces of brotherhood, promoted competence and non-state economic activity.
Those narly green wide bike lanes are popping up all over California. They have been designed by someone with no practical experience.
I suspect federal grants that are quitely approved by city councils.
They did the same in south Florida, a place where it’s 90 degrees and humid 9-10 months a year. Thunderstorms all summer in afternoons. Combine that with some of the worst driving in the country. So, Nobody in the right mind uses a bicycle as normal transportation here. So the bike lanes eat up traffic lanes and the traffic congestion swells. That’s government for you, solving problems that don’t exist.
It’s what they do best…or worst, as the case may be.
As an occasional cyclist in the LA area myself, I say thanks but no thanks to those lanes. And the green paint just makes them slick when wet.
They've been constructed in Kansas City, Missouri too and no bicyclists are to be found. No longer anything like "the buckle of the bible belt," KCMO is as blue as LA. And my red-purple town just to its east , Independence, is also inching toward Gomorrah. Even though the scum of East KC comes here to prey or to flee KCMO police chases.
those wretched traffic-snarling bike lanes are part and parcel of the UN2030 sustainable development goals. same with the pack-em-and-stack-ems. you vill eat zee bugs in zee highrise
CA, and particularly SD, should be paradise on earth, and these ideologue mediocrities can't help themselves in trying to ruin it all.
And they have ruined this town.
San Fran used to be.
Not a miracle. Just two carrier battle groups from the 1980's full of horny squids.
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MacArthur Park was quite lovely once upon a time, when I was a small child. My parents would take us there. Now look at it.
LA and San Diego used to trade off the so-called homeless, so each city would get a respite, but now someone has figured out how to profit off the misery, so it’s a competition to see who can bring in the biggest numbers. Bass is an expert at this new game.
You’re the real thing Chris Bray ..thanks for the truth . Be careful, after hours reporting is dangerous, but I get the feeling you’re beyond fed up . Thank you again , be safe .
I asked ChatGPT if Karen Bass received social justice training in Cuba. It sounded kind of offended on her behalf, but then had to admit:
In the 1970s, she participated in multiple solidarity trips to Cuba through the Venceremos Brigade, where U.S. volunteers helped with construction and community organizing . She traveled there eight times in the ’70s during her early activism
Had to look up the word 'sylvan'. We had a "Sylvan Elementary" school in Modesto--certainly not 'abounding in woods or trees', flat, California Central Valley HEAT makes for few wooded areas.
When will we, as a people, demand Karen Bass and her ilk be arrested and tried for criminal negligence?
I'm learning to build a house at a local tech college. Great fun--but, like nearly every single public institution--they totally suck in execution. The kind of suck that eventually drove me to OCS thinking, "If these fucking clowns can do it--I know I can at least run a range better than these idiots."
I confront my instructor end of last quarter. "Hey bro--this was a lot of wasted time. 3 weeks out of 10 we did not learn anything, nor swing a hammer. I need repetitions. Lots of repetitions. I did not pay to sit or not show up."
He allows me 'independent study', and I tell him I want to build 'tiny homes'. He's cool with it, but, "If students use our materials, you need to tear down everything afterwards...but if you find someone to pay for materials, you can donate them to anyone."
In two days I had money for 20 homes (about $150K) lined up, and our entire program would shift to building homes (1st, 2nd, 4th, 6th quarter classes).
I meet with buddy (now THE senior O6) at an organization--this org owns tons of property in our state, and much of it is unused. Seems like a good place for possible tiny home encampment.
Another guy is in meeting. He worked state gov for last admin for 7+ years on homeless program.
The red tape involved makes me want to sob uncontrollably. These people think they know better, have the solution, and don't EVER think to do something outside of their well-designed plans.
These are the Karen Basses of the world. They are, simply, evil. A host of other terrible adjectives: incompetent, dumb, ugly, immoral, buffoonish, clownish, rotten, etc, etc--but in the end, it is simply evil. They must be stopped.
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Good on you for doing real things, and pulling in others! Setting an example right there.
"He worked state gov for last admin for 7+ years on homeless program.
The red tape involved makes me want to sob uncontrollably."
(Wish I has some positive anecdote to share, but on the topic of homelessness, it's all pitch black.)
I feel it all the way here. In the 1990s, I was tangentially involved with trying to count the no. of homeless in the city I lived in (we differentiate between "uteliggare" - people living outdoors, and "hemlösa" - people who do not have a home of their own nor a contract for a lease; what we were doing was tracking "uteliggare").
While chatting in the team, as one does, we asked ourselves:
"Hey, know what? Why don't the city just rent/buy a couple of hundred of construction worker huts and put them up in an enclosed surveiled area? We could arrange for a doc and nurse to come by weekly for check-ups too, and we could have a couple of security guards patrolling the grounds. Let's do a hanky-calculation on the cost!"
[time lapse]
"Hey, uhm, guys? Ladies? This is... this is embarassing. The initial and running cost of our off-the-cuff idea? Yeah, it's less than half as expensive as what the city is doing without any effect."
Need I say that the city was less than interested. No wonder why, the people handling homelessness would have lost 90% of their jobs. There's a couple of choice terms for people like that, and I say people because "subhuman" has a bad rep as a term.
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Hey Brian - Precisely.
In 1991, an episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air aired titled “72 hours”. In this episode, Will Smith bets his cousin Carlton that he wouldn’t last 72 hours in a neighbourhood in Compton. During Carlton’s stay in Compton he decides to go to MacArthur Park at night, at which point Will begs him to reconsider and abandon the dare/bet due to the real dangers of that park.
Even in 1991 MacArthur Park had a reputation of being a gangster infested shit hole. Who the @&$# would ever believe it’s now some family picnic hotspot full of playing children and loving attentive parents?
I would like to point out that I’m a Canadian who’s never been to MP and even I know of its reputation of being a dangerous no-go zone full of elicit drugs and violence.
Basically like the Downtown East Side in Vancouver or the Sherbourne Street corridor in Toronto.
Hell, the cops had their hands full with Buster Keaton there in 1921
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_Luck_(1921_film)
In a couple of years that Froot Loop next to the syringes won’t contain any petroleum-based artificial coloring. Things are looking up!
Chris, I sometimes drive through Alvarado/Wilshire on my way to jobs in LA, but I’ve never been crazy enough to stop and walk around MacArthur Park. I’ve viewed it from the relative safety of my car, and I’m always reminded of Mad Max movies. The guy with the zip gun sounds like he’s looking for a lost touristy-type to victimize. Be careful!
And you’re right: the local LAPD station is nearby, but I’ve never seen any cops anywhere near this festering wound of a park.
Very nice police station, surrounded by encampments, with the burned out shell of a ruined building across the street from it.
Seattle are is much the same. Yestwrday, just a half hour north, I had to navigate around four street people to get into a Papa Murphy's to pick up a pizza. Then out in the parking lot, I see a man and woman washing the wheels of a Chev Tahoe with only a jug of water and a soapy rag. The vehicle was filthy but their rims were going to look good.
She is there intentionally. To destroy the city
I'm trying to figure out the degree of stupid and the degree of calculated evil, and it's not easy.
Maybe the guy who did the Hot/Crazy x/y graph can provide some inspiration! Lol
It seems a useful formula.
The essence of Communism, in a nutshell.
Yikes. You went at night. ???? Holy hell. Stay at home and watch The Walking Dead. Safer and you can eat popcorn. Be careful Chris