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Jun 22Liked by Chris Bray

Of course other blue states will now incorporate the CA plan to keep democracy on the ballot. You’re absolutely right Chris, there’s no release valve built into these tyrannical decisions from the elites in power. Just a matter of time…

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I hate this f**king state.

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I only hate our "leaders".

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It's just a testing ground, and the same sentiments are nationwide.

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Woke supremacy is the geatest danger to our republic.

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Yup...and to think we are ruled by these MORONS.

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Jun 22·edited Jun 22Liked by Chris Bray

I'm glad I left CA 5 years ago for TX. The politics are beyond comprehension as these tyrannical buffoons methodically destroy the most beautiful state in the Union through their anti-democratic laws and fiats.

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Unfortunately, if you're in Houston, at least, you have discovered why I have long thought of that city as extremely East Los Angeles.

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Bobby, in the early 80's I'd visit my girlfriend in Sybil Brand, a women's prison in East LA, back when East LA was distinctive for its homogenous population cruising to the song "Low Rider". These days the distinctive population are those who haven't hit the road, many nights spent listening to 911 voice mail menu options.

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You got a problem with East Los?

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Si, Senor.

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Democracy is using your voted in Crocodiles to eat your neighbors then are surprised when it turns to you … insatiable… as you the voters are until afraid.

And now you are…

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Wow. Just wow. Galactic Stupidity.

I used to think reality batted last on planet earth.

But I think we should start entertaining the idea it gave up and is on a search for a new galaxy.

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The state is "fixed" by the big state labor unions. We are ruled by nurses and elementary school teachers.

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And police unions and ff unions and SEIU, and UFW, and IBEW, and PG&E and SCE, and ... who all donate 100's of millions of $$ to get these asshats elected so they can take more from those not in their cool kids clique.

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Nurses, schoolteachers, LE and the prison guard's union. Yoop. The grrls eff 'em up, and the cops 'n courts 'n prisons gobble up the wreckage, urp! Tidy! All at the public trough, too.

Now, folks wouldn't think those three would make natural allies, but they'd be wrong. It's actually quite a profitable loop for all concerned, and deeply entrenched.

Destroying the NEA and AFT would be requisite for any reformed U.S. Along with the credentialism that supports them, and the pathetic college programs that join in the grift.

The cops and the prison guard's union would be tougher because those systems/cultures are such closed and insulated entities. That'd require a firm hand. Doable though.

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you wish

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So desperately thatvit renders My Sweet Heart! Blessings to You, Dear Sweet Soul!

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Newsom literally can't read. Check his Wikipedia article. His aides read to him.

He had great difficulty in graduating from the University of Santa Clara because he could not pass a required math class. Substantial donations by his parents helped resolve the issue.

He is literally all hat.

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Jun 27Liked by Chris Bray

The biggest take away in this article for me is that pretty boy Newsom is no longer the governor. Not paying attention that’s for sure. Sounds like the new guy is just as bad though.

Love your metaphors Chris.

I think Covid drew clear distinctions across the country. ‘Free states’ vs the Chinese approach - lock ‘em up and chain the doors. Fault lines indeed.

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All Hat? C’mon now. Cut the guy some slack. He’s part of California Camelot… the West Coast Kennedys… that Getty money means something.

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All shite.

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The homelessness industrial complex. A lot of money trading hands. Infuriating.

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Such a slap in the face.

I am Joe Biden; its a pandemic of the unvaccinated....er....and a winter of severe illness and death....Merry Christmas! I let tens thousands of people lose their jobs so millions of illegals didn’t have to get vaccinated.

Joe Biden 2024!

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Scum all of them and all who’s part of Biden Inc.

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Satan?

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Not even that old devil would let something like Newsom in.

There's got to be some standards kept up, you know.

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Goodness no. Tater Joe can't even decide if he's having a b.m., even while . . . well you know.

Certainly, the operation of D.C. in general is satanic, sometimes overtly but mostly covertly. Tends to happen when you plan and name your ruling District after a goddess.

We can see the demonic elements in the u.s. and in the world becoming more numerous, undisguised and emboldened, however. That much is obvious.

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Like!

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This is going to be a great circus to watch. Let that reporter go back in 6 months to a year and see what that place has become. Those two towers will be the head quarters for the gangs, drug traffickers and pimps. I guess you could give them credit for making room on the streets for the millions of illegals, who need a sidewalk plot, but that's about it.

But as the original post points out, this is on par for the "leftist ideas incubator" that is Califukya. The thing is, this syphilis ridden, political whore spreads her necrotic liberal mucilage to the rest of the country, through incrementalism and the export of it's "Manchurian candidate" citizenry, to other states.

They keep proving me right, when I say: "When you allow a system, government, bureaucracy or tyranny to grow beyond your ability to control or kill it, you effectively sign your own death warrant".

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Well stated … all of it .

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I spent from 5th - 13th (junior college) grades in central California. Big into almonds, Ernest & Julio Gallo, home of George Lucas...suburban city made from the brilliance of our forebears canal & irrigation system to turn desert into farmland. VDH writes about the bounty of what California was, what we were given by men of vision 50-150 years ago--and we've just cratered it.

Left in 1988 for the loving arms of Uncle Sam. Spent a year in Monterey at a government school, but other than occasional conferences, weddings/funerals--haven't been back.

I was proud to be a Californian. Now it is a Scarlet Letter. "I'm from California" is a shameful admission instead of a golden privilege.

Washington State isn't much better ideologically, but we haven't yet gutted everything that is good. Boeing read the tea-leaves 20 years ago.

I tip between deep sadness and white-hot rage as those who did it...then slowly understand that I'm part of the problem. We all are. We have opted for comfort and security over truth for so long that this is what we asked for...whether we knew it or not.

bsn

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The refrain on many of our lips is “how bad is this going to get?”

Apparently, really f’ing bad.

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Jun 22·edited Jun 22Liked by Chris Bray

The nearest I've ever been to California was reading Joan Didion's essays about the place....which made me love it - vicariously.

California had so much energy. Surely someday - if there is any place in the West - to rise up and shuffle off the dreary snake oil salesmen of 'progress' blah blah it ought to be here? Rise up and send them off to the desert where they can transgender themselves and play victim to their heart's content.

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very sadly all those people, Chris virtually the sole exception, have already high-tailed it out of there.

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Oh Well that's that then, I guess.

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lol yup. It's going to be the small towns in the rest of the country that will save us, I think.

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Northern California was Little Eden in the Fifties and Sixties. Back then, the working men ran the small and midsize towns, men strong, resolute, shaped by wars and travail. The Democratic Party was the party of the workingman. Until the Great Society scam rolled out.

Christianity was embraced, masculine culture. Fed influence was minimal until later in the Sixties (after CRA '64 passed) and local authorities didn't get outta line because, see strong and resolute men above.

My brother and I loved the Bay Area but finally fled in the early Nineties for the PNW. Writing already was on the wall for takeover by the Woke-Fem Politburo.

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Slouching Toward Bethlehem by Joan Didiom captured California in the 70's

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Haven't read any Didiom, but shouldn't today's rewrite be Sprinting Toward Gomorrah?

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LOL

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Jun 22Liked by Chris Bray

Leftists always want their form of government to only apply on their enemies. What's good for the goose is not good for the gander.

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Right, and that street fight at the bus stop this morning was for real, and the fact your wallet was missing when the bus arrived is a coincidence.

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Switch out “the people” and replace with “your betters” and then say it out loud.

“ government of the people, by the people, for the people”

Now switch out “the people” and replace with “lawyers”.

Your visceral reaction?

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Wow. What a trick. It really does result in a feeling of visceral disgust.

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well, at least assholes like Kagan and Tom Nichols are ditching all the bullshit rhetoric about disinformation and the internet and finally admitting that they hate half of the country and blame them for fucking up their Utopia of Experts.

I mean, I can work with that…

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Yeah. They are trailblazers in the wilderness of ambiguity. Here’s what you missed… the two neo-lib D’s you mentioned were neo-con R’s until the Overton window took that hard Larry… which only matters to peeps who still can’t seem to recognize the uniparty in control. The conductors of the Iraq and Afghanistan war symphonies have us all dancing to their newest compositions in Ukraine and Palestine or whatever they call that land nowadays since the Balfour Declaration. I’m going so far off on tangents I almost forgot the reason for my unsolicited commentary…

Oh I remember now.

It would be a mistake to assume those clowns only hate half the population of the US for thwarting their Utopian fantasy plans for two reasons… the true number is a lot closer to 90% and those crazy fawks are steering this big ship directly into uncharted waters sans lifeboats.

And now I’m all out of metaphors.

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The deepest despair I reach is reading through the comments on articles like this one and seeing people still yakking about Left and Right. That shit's been over since Kennedy's head exploded.

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That was the real American coup, and a silent one at that. Aside from rifle reports.

The Exec branch has been compromised ever since. Quite the show they made out of our incremental enslavement!

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I was in fourth grade. I remember feeling like it was all over. A terrible day.

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Jun 22Liked by Chris Bray

Currently there is no statute providing for the bankruptcy and adjustment of government debts at the level of a state. Municipalities - yes - we have Chapter 9. And Congress bodged something together for Porto Rico back in 2016, which proceeding finally wrapped up in 2022.

(The Feds don't really need a bankruptcy law for themselves anyway. They're perfectly entitled to money print / inflate their way out of a sovereign debt crisis, which is what is presently happening in slow motion.)

But Illinois, California and possibly New York seem poised to provide a reason to make new law. Fun times ahead.

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