One party rule sounds wonderful. What other countries take over a month to count the votes? California sounds more and more like China, which is also fond of mass abortions but doesn’t have all the drug and homeless issues.
Mao took care of it and they don't sell that ish at home. I feel bad for that guy. 100+ hours of OT that's ridiculous. Sleep deprivation isn't good for anyone. Who's running thier shifts to where they aren't staggered? Hey Planned Parenthood needs for tax dollars and they've always hated the poor. I was telling someone a few seconds ago. Those of you guys sticking it out in Cali and love liberty are soliders. Keep calling it out man!
At this point China would be a massive improvement over our shotshow here in the US. At least they don’t have multi-hued savages running around randomly killing people.
I'm not ashamed to admit I threw my absentee ballot straight into the trash (not even recycling!).
What ails California goes way beyond voting, as everyone in government from the Gov to the local Assemblyperson to our Tech and Hollywood aristocrats have the same ideas, beliefs, policies and our fate here is as fixed as the Titanic's.
California in the 21st century embodies one of its oddest sui generis creations: the child star. Shielded from consequence by a bottomless pit of wealth, existing in a delusional state where there's no border between fantasy and reality, always able to solve every problem through a combination of PR agents and lawyers with large checkbooks, not just rich but rich, famous and beautiful.
Nothing is changing here (to continue and belabor my metaphor) till our show gets cancelled and there's some bankruptcies and a few embarrassing brushes w the law, which in our case means: till the money runs out.
Cali has an over $300 billion state budget! That is a lot of graft and spoils to spread around to keep the one-party state on cruise control. Wake me when the money gets tight, when politics becomes real instead of symbolic.
it's never a bad thing to be a gentleman among savages.
a spicy Latin Idiocracy is our inevitable future here (as any brief interaction with anyone in a service or govt job shows), a Brazil but with better tech and streaming options, but like old Romans we at least can choose how we want to face our fate.
To add another viscous layer of irony, abortion has been codified into the California constitution, so abortion is always legal in California. Yet these vacuous fools running for office would have everyone believe abortion is somehow under threat in California. With all the problems in California that Chris described, I really am mystified why abortion is at the top of the Democrat’s priorities. Death seems to be their inspiration.
for our legislators now (esp in a state like Cali with so much wealth and celebrity) being just a legislator seems demeaning and beneath them (even if that's what they're ostensibly campaigning for)—but winning a virtual battle in the eternal culture war, maybe going viral or getting on MSNBC and becoming one of your tribe's heroes du jour, is what they fantasize.
anyone can respond to constituents or fix potholes, but these people really imagine themselves
Lots of states are like that. The Dems know their base is low information, easily persuaded voters. Abortion will always be issue #1, much like communists always talked about evil capitalists and the Mullahs talk about America.
Chris, I am disappointed in Barger with her preposterous “reproductive rights” flyer. I never got those out in East SG Valley. All of my Barger flyers(and there was a ton of them) were all pro law enforcement, and endorsements from police chiefs, etc. You must have more than your fair share of Democraps where you live.
South Pasadena is very, very, very, very left. Interesting that she had different messages for different parts of the district -- that's some expensive targeting.
There are a few “Thank you, Kathryn Barger” banners in San Dimas/La Verne, because she helped to stop the construction of a homeless apartment building in a residential neighborhood. But voting for her was never in question. That idiot Chris Holden who ran against her has been in one political office after another and needs to just go away.
Btw, was that you in Gus’s Barbecue on Fair Oaks the other day?
That’s right, I forgot about good ol’ Nate Holden. Thanks for the link.
True story: a million years ago, when I was a deputy sheriff in LA County, I worked with another of Nate Holden’s sons, who also was a deputy. After a few years I never saw him again. Maybe he changed his name to Chris and ran for political office…
The SEIU floods the convalescent hospitals at 7:00 am to vote all the dying and confused straight D. I know, I was there, I saw it with me own eyes. I can't out vote a convalescent hospital.
Don’t feel bad, Chris. I’m voting too, and even if it’s so corrupted that it’s only performance theatre viewed through one lense, my inherent freedom to cast my vote as I damn well please is not a meaningless act through a different lense. Just my take.
I did a little ballot harvesting at my house. My kids just turned 18 and each got a mail-in ballot. They both said they didn’t know what or who to vote for and didn’t want to bother. I told them to sign their names on the envelope and I would take care of the rest. This is how Steve Garvey got 33% of the vote for senator.
Brian, I worked at the poles about a year ago to see what went on behind the scenes. When a voter drops off more than one ballot you are supposed to inspect the outside and have the vote dropper sign for it. But they don't do that. They have centralized all the voter roles in the state so any pol worker can see who voted everywhere. That's why it's taking a week to process. They are figuring out who to print new ballots for.
Remember at the peak of COVID-19, when things were most bleak for students, SFU spent all winter focused on renaming 44 schools, including those named for George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, etc.?
The Revolution is always the first priority (and always the issue), and the Revolution conquers much more territory during a "crisis"—that's what they were invented for!
Thanks Ryan. I think my own 'sanity self-preservation mode' kicked in and sent that little nugget to the memory hole. I just choked it down once again, and it tastes the same. Poo. Cat poo to be specific.
Along with that memory I am confronted with the CDC Tweeting that racism is more deadly than COVID.
That's exactly when I unplugged and went to the stacks. The BLM shit was nauseating as they tell me two things at once: "We're all in it together" AND that my business (my families livelihood) is NON-ESSENTIAL, while there's a 4 month "mostly peaceful" lootathon going on that's determined by the PHA'S as absolutely necessary for the health of the hoodlums
That ESSENTIAL VS NON-ESSENTIAL should have governors in prison awaiting their drop from the gallows. Our evil incompetent used the same language.
I still cannot get over the fact that we accepted the government telling some people their livelihood didn't matter. NOW if you're peddling weed, or liquor -- you get a police escort to work.
I don't think we should be changing the names of many Army bases either--but of course, I'm racist homophobe.
Child stars, from what I've read, also have...problematic, shall we say...childhoods and most end up following the Dana Plato route than the Shirley Temple.
It may sound hyperbolic, but the Democrats are in a death cult. Dead babies. Notice, almost all of the women in those ads are post menopausal--but boy of boy do they want their younger sisters to be able to kill their babies.
I'm surprised they didn't add the 'trans genocide' to some of the literature as well. Kill your babies in the womb--but if any escape, make sure to spay and neuter them!
The climate crisis is another anti-human, sacrificial religion to the God of Nature. Carbon, which we learned in high school chemistry, is the element of life (can bond with 4 other elements--here is where diversity is actually a strength) is now evil.
Here in the hellscape of Washington, our death cultists just passed HB 1589 which essentially outlaws natural gas. Of course. Why wouldn't they? Oh, and they are trying to destroy dams as well, because, well salmon salmon salmon salmon salmon. Make energy unaffordable for the lowly carbon makers so they die off, then we can Zoom all we want without their exhales ruining the planet.
Hey--isn't CO2 kinda like plant oxygen? SHUT UP YOU BIGOT!!!! WE KNOW WHAT IS BEST. NO MORE GAS POWERED LAWN EQUIPMENT EITHER YOU TRUMPIST!!!! SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE.
They hate themselves. They hate all that is good, true, and beautiful. I always find it funny when you see photos of conservative women vs leftists--of course the leftists are uglier--hate makes one ugly.
I forgot he was a big animal guy. I've thought a bumper sticker 'spay and neuter your pets, not your kids' is appropriate...but that would just incite more road rage among the hate-filled & fueled leftists Teslas & Prious on the highway.
Have you ever asked these abortion cultists how abortions give them cheap gasoline or lower food prices? Or how abortion can close the southern border? They truly are in a death cult.
You'll never convince me the timing of overturning Roe v. Wade wasn't a huge gift to Democrats -- it literally gave them something to run on. And know Biden (or his team) is saying that Roe v. Wade got it right -- but we know that if a bill suggested the exact same restrictions as Roe v. Wade, Democrats would say it's barbaric control over a woman's body.
I’ve been a proLife activist for a very long time now. As happy as I was at seeing Roe aborted, I knew it’s timing was more than mere coincidence.
It was staged by TPTB just to incite the frenzy required to cover up the fraud of the November 2020 presidential election. And the shrieks of the Molechites are still reverberating as we head into the next one.
Their thirst for innocent blood is a bottomless pit, as all political strategists know. Abortionphiles know the sales mantra is correct: Always be closing.
Of course it was! There are idiots in charge of the Republican Party. They cannot let the abortion issue go and it costs them elections every single year. There is no learning happening, it is utterly maddening.
So protecting the life of the unborn, and being an 100% pro life advocate makes me an idiot. Thanks for clearing that up. I’d rather be an idiot than I guess.
No, making it a political issue does. If you can’t see that it is used to defeat the very candidates you’d like to see in office, then I don’t know what to tell you.
So similar to how rejecting the review of UN Resolution #1 violations, which clearly did occur, allowed Putin to make claims of a just war reason for invading Ukraine. What if the UN had acted on the biolab reports and denied Putin his “just cause”
They all do seem to work in unison, even when they pretend to be at odds. Curiouser and curiouser.
Charles Tilly's theory of state formation: a bunch of gangs and warlords produce peace and order, and the strongest warlord becomes the state. Maybe it also goes backward.
......thanks Chris, cheered me right up! Thank God I live in Canada, don't have to worry about any of that crap....it's. all against the law here......or if it isn't yet, Prime Minister Turdo is working on it.....
"Isn't this Nazi from Ukraine a great guy? Also, all those truckers who peacefully assembled and hugged each other a bunch are Nazis!" - Canadian Parliament
The nice thing about being a "single issue voter" is that you don't have to look around at what all else is plaguing your state. What a great state CA once was.
“Protecting Abortion” is the perfect issue to rally dem voters because the local elected officials don’t have to do anything and they can claim victory. Sort of a political covid mask that you know is working because nothing changed.
Sasha has to clarify she is only fighting to protect the right to make personal *reproductive* health care decisions. All other health care decisions subject to government mandate.
This is the inevitable result of giving women the right to vote: Every issue is an emotional ploy to garner votes from half of the electorate. It's just a numbers game.
I feel your pain, Chris, but I wish California would stop blazing a trail for the vile legislature here in Vermont to follow.
Vermont, being a small state with a small population and a small tax base, rushes headlong after anything that can be monetized; all that equity the state finances needs to be paid for somehow. Legalized pot, laws that make Vermont a destination state for transgender mutilation, creating a practically unlimited opportunity for abortions in the hope of drawing in 'pregnant people' from more restrictive states, and a whole host of other really bad ideas, are usually done with an eye to extracting as much money as possible through taxes and fees. This money is not used to make things better for Vermonters in general, it is directed to one or another woke program.
Sometimes, though, the ideas are also just plain evil. Because abortion is one of the most important sacraments in the new, woke, faith, the Vermont legislature passed, and Governor Scott (R) signed, SB37, which targets Crisis Pregnancy Centers, no doubt because they get in the way of unhindered child sacrifice. According to the Alliance Defending Freedom, now suing the state, "(the law) censors the centers’ ability to advertise their free services . . . it precludes centers from offering services, information, and counseling unless provided by a licensed health-care provider. . . the law is vague and explicitly targets pro-life pregnancy centers, applying only to facilities that do not perform or refer for abortions. It does not define what might violate the law and provides no guidance as to how that standard should be applied."
And the punishment for violating this law? Again the ADF: "if a pregnancy center were to advertise its services in a way Vermont’s pro-abortion attorney general says is “misleading,” the center would face fines of up to $10,000 for each violation. And if an individual who is not a state-licensed medical professional were to provide health information, services, or counseling, the medical doctors (M.D.s) at that facility could be fined up to $1,000, and other licensed health-care professionals could be fined up to $5,000." Obviously this is intended to close these centers, which depend on donations and volunteers to operate.
Naturally, abortion is only one issue near and dear to our state legislatures, albeit the most important. Trans stuff gets high priority around these parts as well. We are prohibited from using any common sense in such matters; the state demands that the feelings of the gender-confused take precedence over the needs of the non-mentally ill majority, especially in schools, and brings down the hammer on all who blaspheme.
Reparations to BIPOCs is also super important here, even though Vermont outlawed slavery in the state constitution in the 1790's. Nonetheless, because we are an overwhelmingly White state, we are racist by definition. All of us. So our moral betters in Montpelier have no end of schemes to relieve White Vermonters of their money and transfer it to more deserving people.
Every time I think our state government can't get any more stupid and useless, they up the ante.
There are no such things as "progressive solutions" to...anything...unless prosperity and cultural cohesion are...problems. They don't "work" for anyone, not Los Angeles, not Mars.
Abortion aside, California is looking a lot like the Argentina my parents fled - yes, I use that term - in 1968.
You know what's really crazy - abortions totaled just under a million for 2018 and 2019 - not a lot. But our mouth-frothing politicians act like it's the first line of birth control options - fucking ridiculous. So, are middle-aged liberal women the enemy? Maybe - psychotic for sure.
I got into a debate with someone on X who stated Abortion was their number one priority to ensure their granddaughter had access to it and called it Healthcare.
This was on a thread for WA State.
I was, really? It's not even under threat in WA State, and still that's your number one?
Asked them if they realized all the bad policies that get attached to that vote. Still better than Republican values was their reply.
I tried to keep it civil as it was more about her sacrificing all other common sense policies for her one main issue, that wasn't even an issue in our State. I tried to convince her she was being manipulated and driven by fear over an issue that didn't apply to her.
It would have been more simple to tell her to teach her granddaughter not to be a whore? It would have been a shorter exchange, that's for sure.
There are three little dots on the bottom right of the comment -- if you click on that, you can find "edit," and make that whole the whore she was born to be. But I think there may be a time limit on it.
One party rule sounds wonderful. What other countries take over a month to count the votes? California sounds more and more like China, which is also fond of mass abortions but doesn’t have all the drug and homeless issues.
Mao took care of it and they don't sell that ish at home. I feel bad for that guy. 100+ hours of OT that's ridiculous. Sleep deprivation isn't good for anyone. Who's running thier shifts to where they aren't staggered? Hey Planned Parenthood needs for tax dollars and they've always hated the poor. I was telling someone a few seconds ago. Those of you guys sticking it out in Cali and love liberty are soliders. Keep calling it out man!
I'd trade permissive abortion policy for ending drug cartels and housing the homeless (in asylums if necessary).
Make abortion race-based. Encourage black abortion.
At this point China would be a massive improvement over our shotshow here in the US. At least they don’t have multi-hued savages running around randomly killing people.
Fallen world. Child sacrifice
This is The End, my only friend, The End - Jim Morrison.
Prophetic in his way, wasn't he?
"this is the strangest life I've ever known"....works too!
To switch gears to B. Wilson: "They come on like they're peaceful,
but inside they're so uptight."
Their lord and master 👹 gets very upset if the blood sacrifices don’t continue and increase.
I'm not ashamed to admit I threw my absentee ballot straight into the trash (not even recycling!).
What ails California goes way beyond voting, as everyone in government from the Gov to the local Assemblyperson to our Tech and Hollywood aristocrats have the same ideas, beliefs, policies and our fate here is as fixed as the Titanic's.
California in the 21st century embodies one of its oddest sui generis creations: the child star. Shielded from consequence by a bottomless pit of wealth, existing in a delusional state where there's no border between fantasy and reality, always able to solve every problem through a combination of PR agents and lawyers with large checkbooks, not just rich but rich, famous and beautiful.
Nothing is changing here (to continue and belabor my metaphor) till our show gets cancelled and there's some bankruptcies and a few embarrassing brushes w the law, which in our case means: till the money runs out.
Cali has an over $300 billion state budget! That is a lot of graft and spoils to spread around to keep the one-party state on cruise control. Wake me when the money gets tight, when politics becomes real instead of symbolic.
I voted, and felt like an idiot doing it.
i still respect you in the morning ;))
it's never a bad thing to be a gentleman among savages.
a spicy Latin Idiocracy is our inevitable future here (as any brief interaction with anyone in a service or govt job shows), a Brazil but with better tech and streaming options, but like old Romans we at least can choose how we want to face our fate.
To add another viscous layer of irony, abortion has been codified into the California constitution, so abortion is always legal in California. Yet these vacuous fools running for office would have everyone believe abortion is somehow under threat in California. With all the problems in California that Chris described, I really am mystified why abortion is at the top of the Democrat’s priorities. Death seems to be their inspiration.
you're right, i didn't even think of that.
for our legislators now (esp in a state like Cali with so much wealth and celebrity) being just a legislator seems demeaning and beneath them (even if that's what they're ostensibly campaigning for)—but winning a virtual battle in the eternal culture war, maybe going viral or getting on MSNBC and becoming one of your tribe's heroes du jour, is what they fantasize.
anyone can respond to constituents or fix potholes, but these people really imagine themselves
as noble brave fighters for Justice.
so they're not only fools, they're deluded fools.
Lots of states are like that. The Dems know their base is low information, easily persuaded voters. Abortion will always be issue #1, much like communists always talked about evil capitalists and the Mullahs talk about America.
So that’s where Macron got the idea! He’s a California Politician at heart.
Macron means 'mark'. Possible mark of the beast.
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2021/04/14/mark-of-the-beast/
"...why abortion is at the top of the Democrat’s priorities"
They get paid for it.
Did any of your votes win?
This is what I've been saying. We will become Brazil. Good-bye Surfin' USA.
Chris, I am disappointed in Barger with her preposterous “reproductive rights” flyer. I never got those out in East SG Valley. All of my Barger flyers(and there was a ton of them) were all pro law enforcement, and endorsements from police chiefs, etc. You must have more than your fair share of Democraps where you live.
South Pasadena is very, very, very, very left. Interesting that she had different messages for different parts of the district -- that's some expensive targeting.
There are a few “Thank you, Kathryn Barger” banners in San Dimas/La Verne, because she helped to stop the construction of a homeless apartment building in a residential neighborhood. But voting for her was never in question. That idiot Chris Holden who ran against her has been in one political office after another and needs to just go away.
Btw, was that you in Gus’s Barbecue on Fair Oaks the other day?
And Chris Holden, btw, is Nate Holden's son, so he's the second generation of useless.
https://www.pasadenanow.com/main/legacy-of-nate-holden-father-of-assemblymember-and-former-pasadena-councilmember-chris-holden-honored-by-la-city-council
That’s right, I forgot about good ol’ Nate Holden. Thanks for the link.
True story: a million years ago, when I was a deputy sheriff in LA County, I worked with another of Nate Holden’s sons, who also was a deputy. After a few years I never saw him again. Maybe he changed his name to Chris and ran for political office…
I haven't been in Gus's for a few weeks, but depending on how far back the "other day" was....
Maybe your doppelgänger?
Rich people are so dumb.
I wonder how many of those unfortunate homeless people just happened to vote D in key races?
You have to wonder.....
The SEIU floods the convalescent hospitals at 7:00 am to vote all the dying and confused straight D. I know, I was there, I saw it with me own eyes. I can't out vote a convalescent hospital.
I've heard all dead people are D's
Well, yeah. Dead, Democrap. Both start with D. See what they did there?
nice Bandit. you always give me a good laugh!
You voted for classes in Black Finger Painting.
lmao!
Don’t feel bad, Chris. I’m voting too, and even if it’s so corrupted that it’s only performance theatre viewed through one lense, my inherent freedom to cast my vote as I damn well please is not a meaningless act through a different lense. Just my take.
I did a little ballot harvesting at my house. My kids just turned 18 and each got a mail-in ballot. They both said they didn’t know what or who to vote for and didn’t want to bother. I told them to sign their names on the envelope and I would take care of the rest. This is how Steve Garvey got 33% of the vote for senator.
Brian, I worked at the poles about a year ago to see what went on behind the scenes. When a voter drops off more than one ballot you are supposed to inspect the outside and have the vote dropper sign for it. But they don't do that. They have centralized all the voter roles in the state so any pol worker can see who voted everywhere. That's why it's taking a week to process. They are figuring out who to print new ballots for.
Remember at the peak of COVID-19, when things were most bleak for students, SFU spent all winter focused on renaming 44 schools, including those named for George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, etc.?
Priorities CP!
The Revolution is always the first priority (and always the issue), and the Revolution conquers much more territory during a "crisis"—that's what they were invented for!
Spot on!
thanks!
You gotta watch a few of this guys stand ups.
Especially the TSA one.
He loves making fun of buttercups:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eA35NY8dOtg
Here's the TSA one:
https://youtu.be/ysGGVNIG4nE?si=-iGNOn2IkCWuFzh-
Lolol
Thanks Ryan. I think my own 'sanity self-preservation mode' kicked in and sent that little nugget to the memory hole. I just choked it down once again, and it tastes the same. Poo. Cat poo to be specific.
Along with that memory I am confronted with the CDC Tweeting that racism is more deadly than COVID.
bsn
I'm sorry buddy.
That's exactly when I unplugged and went to the stacks. The BLM shit was nauseating as they tell me two things at once: "We're all in it together" AND that my business (my families livelihood) is NON-ESSENTIAL, while there's a 4 month "mostly peaceful" lootathon going on that's determined by the PHA'S as absolutely necessary for the health of the hoodlums
That ESSENTIAL VS NON-ESSENTIAL should have governors in prison awaiting their drop from the gallows. Our evil incompetent used the same language.
I still cannot get over the fact that we accepted the government telling some people their livelihood didn't matter. NOW if you're peddling weed, or liquor -- you get a police escort to work.
I don't think we should be changing the names of many Army bases either--but of course, I'm racist homophobe.
bsn
or the mf'ers that would buy a carton of cigarettes and a 12 pack every night....
Walmart and Target never closed. They were COVID-Immune somehow.
Costco, Home Depot, Lowe’s…
bsn
Child stars, from what I've read, also have...problematic, shall we say...childhoods and most end up following the Dana Plato route than the Shirley Temple.
i said it was a metaphor
anyway, better to be queen for a day than a schmuck for a lifetime...
Yeah. It's more me thinking which way California will go: Justin Timberlake or Corey Feldman.
im going w Todd Bridges
Corey Haim
Whatchoo talking about, Willis?
Probably shoulda put it in the shredder unless you intended to vote D.
Lol...so true
It may sound hyperbolic, but the Democrats are in a death cult. Dead babies. Notice, almost all of the women in those ads are post menopausal--but boy of boy do they want their younger sisters to be able to kill their babies.
I'm surprised they didn't add the 'trans genocide' to some of the literature as well. Kill your babies in the womb--but if any escape, make sure to spay and neuter them!
The climate crisis is another anti-human, sacrificial religion to the God of Nature. Carbon, which we learned in high school chemistry, is the element of life (can bond with 4 other elements--here is where diversity is actually a strength) is now evil.
Here in the hellscape of Washington, our death cultists just passed HB 1589 which essentially outlaws natural gas. Of course. Why wouldn't they? Oh, and they are trying to destroy dams as well, because, well salmon salmon salmon salmon salmon. Make energy unaffordable for the lowly carbon makers so they die off, then we can Zoom all we want without their exhales ruining the planet.
Hey--isn't CO2 kinda like plant oxygen? SHUT UP YOU BIGOT!!!! WE KNOW WHAT IS BEST. NO MORE GAS POWERED LAWN EQUIPMENT EITHER YOU TRUMPIST!!!! SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE SCIENCE.
They hate themselves. They hate all that is good, true, and beautiful. I always find it funny when you see photos of conservative women vs leftists--of course the leftists are uglier--hate makes one ugly.
I feel the same lethargy to vote myself.
bsn
"make sure to spay and neuter them!"
You've just placed a demonic Bob Barker in my head.
I forgot he was a big animal guy. I've thought a bumper sticker 'spay and neuter your pets, not your kids' is appropriate...but that would just incite more road rage among the hate-filled & fueled leftists Teslas & Prious on the highway.
bsn
Have you ever asked these abortion cultists how abortions give them cheap gasoline or lower food prices? Or how abortion can close the southern border? They truly are in a death cult.
You'll never convince me the timing of overturning Roe v. Wade wasn't a huge gift to Democrats -- it literally gave them something to run on. And know Biden (or his team) is saying that Roe v. Wade got it right -- but we know that if a bill suggested the exact same restrictions as Roe v. Wade, Democrats would say it's barbaric control over a woman's body.
I’ve been a proLife activist for a very long time now. As happy as I was at seeing Roe aborted, I knew it’s timing was more than mere coincidence.
It was staged by TPTB just to incite the frenzy required to cover up the fraud of the November 2020 presidential election. And the shrieks of the Molechites are still reverberating as we head into the next one.
Their thirst for innocent blood is a bottomless pit, as all political strategists know. Abortionphiles know the sales mantra is correct: Always be closing.
Of course it was! There are idiots in charge of the Republican Party. They cannot let the abortion issue go and it costs them elections every single year. There is no learning happening, it is utterly maddening.
So protecting the life of the unborn, and being an 100% pro life advocate makes me an idiot. Thanks for clearing that up. I’d rather be an idiot than I guess.
No, making it a political issue does. If you can’t see that it is used to defeat the very candidates you’d like to see in office, then I don’t know what to tell you.
some things are above politics. If protecting life is a losing hand, than thats what it must be.
Respect to you, but it is an unwinnable issue.
A righteous cause is always winnable and should be progressed for as long as it takes. Quitters never win.
I'll stand for life every time, even if I'm all alone screaming at clouds.
Yes, Richard, those slaveholders of old oft reminded us of such.
So similar to how rejecting the review of UN Resolution #1 violations, which clearly did occur, allowed Putin to make claims of a just war reason for invading Ukraine. What if the UN had acted on the biolab reports and denied Putin his “just cause”
They all do seem to work in unison, even when they pretend to be at odds. Curiouser and curiouser.
Sort of like the Nordstream pipelines, they know what they would find if they started asking questions -- so no questions, it is.
How long before actual gangs or cartels are deputised to keep the peace in return for the right to rax the people in the areas they control?
I'm not joking, it's a realistic option given the trajectory of California in particular and USA in genera.
It's a very bad option, and it won't be sold using those words, of course.
Charles Tilly's theory of state formation: a bunch of gangs and warlords produce peace and order, and the strongest warlord becomes the state. Maybe it also goes backward.
Usually, it goes bang, crash, argh.
It will be a new experience for many in the West to experience live and first-hand.
Don't mean to sound flippant, and I'll be happy to be wrong.
You tracking Haiti?
Vaguely.
Interesting times. Not that I think that can come to these shores, but.......
Also, I think there are 30,000 Haitians that have crossed our southern border so there is that.
I heard one city was already recruiting mercenaries.
......thanks Chris, cheered me right up! Thank God I live in Canada, don't have to worry about any of that crap....it's. all against the law here......or if it isn't yet, Prime Minister Turdo is working on it.....
"You make me laugh -- go to gulag!"
-- Justin Trudeau
"He needs more re-education, for his own good!"
- Chrystia Freeland
"Isn't this Nazi from Ukraine a great guy? Also, all those truckers who peacefully assembled and hugged each other a bunch are Nazis!" - Canadian Parliament
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/silly-saturday-sovietk-turdo-the
The nice thing about being a "single issue voter" is that you don't have to look around at what all else is plaguing your state. What a great state CA once was.
“Protecting Abortion” is the perfect issue to rally dem voters because the local elected officials don’t have to do anything and they can claim victory. Sort of a political covid mask that you know is working because nothing changed.
perfect way of putting it.
'bent corporation git' is one anagram of “Protecting Abortion”. Seems more apt.
However 'aborting protection' might be punchier. Aborting protection for the unborn that is.
Sasha has to clarify she is only fighting to protect the right to make personal *reproductive* health care decisions. All other health care decisions subject to government mandate.
This is the inevitable result of giving women the right to vote: Every issue is an emotional ploy to garner votes from half of the electorate. It's just a numbers game.
Even Rosanne Barr said (seriously) on her podcast it was a mistake.
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True but irreversible.
Entirely reversible. Total collapse will reverse it instantly.
I feel your pain, Chris, but I wish California would stop blazing a trail for the vile legislature here in Vermont to follow.
Vermont, being a small state with a small population and a small tax base, rushes headlong after anything that can be monetized; all that equity the state finances needs to be paid for somehow. Legalized pot, laws that make Vermont a destination state for transgender mutilation, creating a practically unlimited opportunity for abortions in the hope of drawing in 'pregnant people' from more restrictive states, and a whole host of other really bad ideas, are usually done with an eye to extracting as much money as possible through taxes and fees. This money is not used to make things better for Vermonters in general, it is directed to one or another woke program.
Sometimes, though, the ideas are also just plain evil. Because abortion is one of the most important sacraments in the new, woke, faith, the Vermont legislature passed, and Governor Scott (R) signed, SB37, which targets Crisis Pregnancy Centers, no doubt because they get in the way of unhindered child sacrifice. According to the Alliance Defending Freedom, now suing the state, "(the law) censors the centers’ ability to advertise their free services . . . it precludes centers from offering services, information, and counseling unless provided by a licensed health-care provider. . . the law is vague and explicitly targets pro-life pregnancy centers, applying only to facilities that do not perform or refer for abortions. It does not define what might violate the law and provides no guidance as to how that standard should be applied."
And the punishment for violating this law? Again the ADF: "if a pregnancy center were to advertise its services in a way Vermont’s pro-abortion attorney general says is “misleading,” the center would face fines of up to $10,000 for each violation. And if an individual who is not a state-licensed medical professional were to provide health information, services, or counseling, the medical doctors (M.D.s) at that facility could be fined up to $1,000, and other licensed health-care professionals could be fined up to $5,000." Obviously this is intended to close these centers, which depend on donations and volunteers to operate.
Naturally, abortion is only one issue near and dear to our state legislatures, albeit the most important. Trans stuff gets high priority around these parts as well. We are prohibited from using any common sense in such matters; the state demands that the feelings of the gender-confused take precedence over the needs of the non-mentally ill majority, especially in schools, and brings down the hammer on all who blaspheme.
Reparations to BIPOCs is also super important here, even though Vermont outlawed slavery in the state constitution in the 1790's. Nonetheless, because we are an overwhelmingly White state, we are racist by definition. All of us. So our moral betters in Montpelier have no end of schemes to relieve White Vermonters of their money and transfer it to more deserving people.
Every time I think our state government can't get any more stupid and useless, they up the ante.
That is some sick shit right there…morally and financially.
There are no such things as "progressive solutions" to...anything...unless prosperity and cultural cohesion are...problems. They don't "work" for anyone, not Los Angeles, not Mars.
Abortion aside, California is looking a lot like the Argentina my parents fled - yes, I use that term - in 1968.
You know what's really crazy - abortions totaled just under a million for 2018 and 2019 - not a lot. But our mouth-frothing politicians act like it's the first line of birth control options - fucking ridiculous. So, are middle-aged liberal women the enemy? Maybe - psychotic for sure.
Middle-aged liberal (white) women were the main perpetuators of Covid panic, so yeah, kinda.
The women most pro-abortion probably never had one because they used birth control and deliberately made the choice to not have unplanned children.
Rather than educating about how to do that, they just encourage abortion as the "responsible" choice.
Meanwhile, they throw every crumb and cracker at single moms with room temperature IQs who raise young boys to be felons, junkies, and murderers.
Like a fetus, my body is their choice, too.
I got into a debate with someone on X who stated Abortion was their number one priority to ensure their granddaughter had access to it and called it Healthcare.
This was on a thread for WA State.
I was, really? It's not even under threat in WA State, and still that's your number one?
Asked them if they realized all the bad policies that get attached to that vote. Still better than Republican values was their reply.
I said OK. Things aren't bad enough for you yet.
What do you mean, they asked.
You know when you know, I said.
Did she consider any other possible ways her granddaughter might avoid an unwanted pregnancy?
I tried to keep it civil as it was more about her sacrificing all other common sense policies for her one main issue, that wasn't even an issue in our State. I tried to convince her she was being manipulated and driven by fear over an issue that didn't apply to her.
It would have been more simple to tell her to teach her granddaughter not to be a whore? It would have been a shorter exchange, that's for sure.
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There are three little dots on the bottom right of the comment -- if you click on that, you can find "edit," and make that whole the whore she was born to be. But I think there may be a time limit on it.
Thanks I was able to Edit using PC, but not sure I could at the time using the phone App. I need to test that out.