Remember when a white woman in a gorilla suit threw a banana at Larry Elder, the "black face of white supremacy" who was running as a Republican against Gavin in the recall election? She should be the mascot of California, not a bear. Will add book bans to the glossary of Leftist doublespeak - the real definition is removal of child pornography from school libraries: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-coin-a-term-part-2
I've just come to terms that I will be long dead before the voters in CA wake up.
I was in LA last week and I have to be honest, I never felt so unpatriotic.
It's almost like all the great memories I had growing up in CA weren't real...like they're "tainted".
It is beyond bizarre to see people I was close with just 5-10 years ago who have completely bought into the propaganda. They used to be moderates...now they're just hypnotized or have a near autistic level of selective amnesia.
I have a conservative friend (former Fortune 500 CFO) whose 3 adult children & their spouses have all eagerly drunk the Kool-Aid, which COVID brought boiling to the surface. They all have advanced degrees, but lack the ability to observe reality. I think this is a hard lesson for us conservatives, who thought that the playing out of liberal ideas into the degeneration of society would eventually lead to the light bulb going on, but clearly this is not to be. Liberalism is clearly a fatal disease. Let’s treat it with Remdesivir & a ventilator.
Hey RG ... I have UCLA alumni around my license plate , It’s from the early 80’s ... may be time to remove it . I’ve kept it on there to remind myself that 40 plus years ago things were so much different.
I stopped being friends with pod people because they stopped being able to say anything that wasn't a direct quote from an Expert sometime around 2021. I had several with very shiny degrees with whom I used to be able to have interesting conversations but they're all walking CNN syndicates now. Most of them are from or work somewhere in California. Sad.
Mostly they treat objective people (like me) as if we were children: "Oh yes, we respect your decision not to be vaccinated," while making a mental note to never get within six feet of me again. Common sense has become pitiable to them.
IMO its because they inhabit a world where "beliefs" are blurred with information.
How could it be a belief if I hold all the information?
Or how could someone else's belief be backed by information when I hold the universe of all information/knowledge?
And, even if someone had my information, how could someone possibly understand it when they don't have the "right" beliefs?!!!
The fact is, is that substituting beliefs for reality (the hard truth) would predispose a person to be indignant at the very thought of having to explain their "belief" to us.
Methinks, deep down inside most of them get annoyed with any nonconforming position because they're concerned their lack of curiosity will be exposed.
They just can't quite figure out that consuming "consensus" renders them low-information "believers".
But it definitely makes them nervous....and sometimes downright angry.
Everyday things used to work so well that they (and us) could afford to be lazy if one wanted to be. The world is running on fumes now, and at some point when the breakdown becomes noticable to them - they will blame everyone else for it…. and likely be grateful for AI to handle “stuff.”
I suspect that perhaps *they* are concerned that someone might discover that they haven't read a book since college, and that the total sum of their understanding of current affairs is based on yesterday's headlines.
Reminiscent of the anti-racist position that it’s not the “offended” individual’s job to educate us on the offensive speech/conduct, nor even to briefly tell us which speech/conduct was offensive. It’s OUR job to search the world blindly seeking enlightenment (akin to Diogenes).
I feel sorry for your friend. That's a nightmare and I've seen other parents whose kids are so whacked out with political indoctrination that they have no relationship. I think most of us on the Right ( meaning normal people) have experienced this phenomenon of alienation from some family and friends since the Trump era. It's an indication of how badly these folks are damaged. I know that they think it's the opposite case, but we aren't the ones with blue hair, nose rings and vagina hats.
Yes, it’s very troubling for him & their mother, as they were close growing up. It brings him profound sadness, and I never ask anymore how things are going on that front.
Separately, I find it interesting that the Left cannot conceive of the distinction we on the Right make that Trump is crude but has effective policies, and yet they’re sanguine with a guy who can’t make it thru “P-I-I-I.” Any current restiveness is about electability, not competence. It’s fascinating that they place supreme emphasis on getting the perfect answer, and yet are demonstrably wrong on almost everything.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is pervasive these days. Still it’s important to remember that the distinctions used to drive a wedge between us were carefully curated and cultivated for maximum damage and emotional effect. The propagandists behind the nonsense know what they are doing because they’ve done it all over the world for decades. We’re just in the latest places they’ve used the formula. It’s no accident that we’re at each other’s throats. It’s the desired outcome.
I agree the social issues tormenting us are intentional torpedoes aimed at strategically weakening our nation, likely originating w/ the PRC. But the creation of the attack is predicated on it getting traction. But the wildfire-like spread of these “ideas” within liberal circles is extraordinary. How did so many on the Left acquiesce to the idea that a 10 yr old’s genitalia belongs in a Cuisinart? My point is the vast receptiveness to these manifestly bizarre ideas is unbelievable.
The root of the transgender political movement is in academia going back 50-60 years. The Communism came first. The model applies the same principles to any perceived area of oppression and spits out the Communist position for it. The critical theorists are behind this gender stuff too.
My younger brother lives in Northern California. The other day when he was visiting me in Southern California , I uttered three words that nearly sent him into apoplexy:
Biden Crime Family.
I quickly changed the subject before he ran screaming from the house.
Such is the complete brainwashing of left-leaning Californians.
I hear my old hometown of Huntington Beach is still a small bastion of conservative (or at least moderately rational) thought but I haven't been back in over 15 years (after spending 30 in CA). I was in SD 2 years ago and sadly agree with you. What a mess! It's a zombie land downtown SD and they can't stop building office buildings for a non-existent business base.
My employer in northern CA moved to Houston in 1995. I’d worked in Houston for 10 yrs previously, and the 6 yrs in Walnut Creek were truly idyllic. I joked to ppl after the ‘95 move that they could still see the scratches I’d left in the I-80 pavement where it crossed into NV.
No more. I’ve commented to my wife that in retrospect, we were lucky the company pulled the ripcord when it did. It was a lesson that you should enjoy the good things as they’re happening, b/c they won’t last.
It does make me wonder how I thought these people were my friends. They are all totalitarians now. Maybe it's fear, but then I wonder, it seems so unreflective and immediate - they seem short circuited. How long before they start burning "conservatives" and "racists" at the stake? How long before our own version of the fire at the Odessa Trade Union Building?
Where does this come from? Could 5G be so weaponized, or the shots? Seems a bit much. Some sort of emergent biological property. It has to be biological, I guess, because it affects me so physically.
The parallels are uncanny because these are the "oldest" tricks in the book. They work.
All of the answers to your questions are examined there. It's chilling.
So yes, If the conditions were right, they would drive you to the furnace themselves and drive back home with a sense of relief that they had the courage to do the "right" thing.
I will also say that we have allowed the state to transmogrify the meaning of Patriot. That didn't happen through magic. It was a long deliberate march through the institutions, allowed by an indifferent public. The new meaning of patriot is now "love of government"....the exact opposite of what a true patriot is.
Their faith is in THE STATE, and we were in the way of that.
"I’ve thought for years that Justin Trudeau and Gavin Newsom are the same person with different quantities of hair gel, ... " Barely existing in CA, loved this comment. The latest irony is Newsom going after big oil--since that's pretty much why he exists. Increasing the HHS managerial medical/tech industrial complex is also one of his major hobbies (along with his buddy Mark Ghaly) and what employs the vast majority of who's left in the state.
Do you see any push-back ? from sane, normal working men and women with boys and girls? Are we so preoccupied with living that too many tolerate this insanity and 100% deflection from reality ?? California and Canada have seemingly won the war of deception to the point that voters believe they are siding with the good guys when all the evidence is to the contrary. People leaving to other states cannot be fudged (altough we're probably undercounting there also) Companies relocating there operations in other states also cannot be fudged - yet the evil conservative states that "ban" books (they don't) and disallow the word "gay" (they don't) and have balanced budgets without state income tax (how about that California and New York) - The constant drum beat never stops ! This cannot end well.
Given enough time, indifference makes the obvious illusory.
I think that's about 40% of people in CA.
30 years of indifference has literally changed how they interpret reality. After awhile their reality becomes a before/after event...but they can't seem to recall the before. Life becomes just the "after" and they couldn't tell you exactly when/how "before" became after.
They've lost reference to "why". Why died a slow death with prolonged indifference....which led to a quick and silent death of "before".
Very few will wake up. In their reality there is no reason to ask why.
If you want to test this postulate, just ask them if they can explain WHY we may view things differently. BLANK STARE .
It does not occur to them to ask themselves why they have a different view than us. Heck, they can't even muster indifference as to why we view things differently.
Here's the bizarre irony:
Why waste your time with indifference if you forgot that differences were accepted (often valued) before they lost "before" in the fog of indifference?
It seems bizarre that more people don’t question Californias failures while suffering that dem supermajority. That legislature works year round and never solves anything, and it’s arguably our most important state. Does it seem like more and more issues are just IQ tests? Is their a better term for this phenomena?
The HIDING is more and more an IQ test. When you're driving on a freeway that rattles your teeth, but "news radio" tells you that the state is fighting hard for trans kids and working against the mean Republican book bans, do you notice that they're changing the subject? My impression is that most of the state still doesn't notice, and is very angry at the mean Republicans in the mean red states for banning those wonderful books about blowjobs from the elementary schools.
The liberals and liberal leaders in CA like California just fine like it is, they actually think they are headed in the right direction they just need to speed up.
Just like liberal Mayors all over the country. They will tell you if you don't like it leave.
They don't won't your kind anyway. They only want the beholden ones. Beholden to them. They had rather be a king of a shithole than a prince of wonder land.
I don’t think there’s a single Democrat in academia or elsewhere who can see the irony of claiming to be intelligentsia while not seeing Milton so obviously in their work product.
Most important state. NOT! Most influential, because people are infatuated with it. Yes. It's the state that causes the most damage to all the rest due to that infatuation.
A friend told me about his trip from Taiwan with a layover in LA.
He lives in Arkansas. A big football fan, Razorbacks all the way.
Not having seen LA, he rented a car and proceeded to drive around the city. He was amazed by the homeless, how many there was, everywhere. Finally, before heading back to the airport for his connecting flight, he found a spot to park in, and proceeded behind some dumpsters to take a leak. He was arrested immediately. Handcuffed, and put in the back of a patrol car and immediately off to jail. There, he was able to get the injustice corrected for the $117 in his pocket.
The car he rented was untouched, after a cab ride back to it, and he returned to the airport just in time to catch his flight back to home.
I have watched homeless people shit and masturbate on the sidewalk, openly, without ducking behind something, and without the slightest fear of consequences.
I'm guessing they took it under "civil forfeiture," and would have taken the car, too, if it had been his. That is one of the worst civil rights abuses that nobody knows about.
I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that human beings and societies are not capable of overcoming inherent flaws, regardless of the consequences. We've simply continued an arc that has existed from primitive man, passing through Gutenberg, Bell, Marconi, Farnsworth, DARPA, fiber optics and satellites, to speed the way in which we show ourselves to be helplessly mired by our flaws. Each evolution in communication efficiency has acted as a larger megaphone for the worst impulses of the human soul.
Individual humans are marvelous. Put them in groups, ante up some amount of social welfare, and the marvel disappears, replaced by malevolence.
You may have a right to say it, but not all speech deserves to be heard. Back in the day of paper & stamps, newspaper editors would screen out crackpot letters-to-the-editor. It was a matter of pride that I had 3 letters to the WSJ printed. Now bizarre comments are posted instantly to attract moths to the flame of stupidity.
Posted instantly, oh yes. And just as instantly "deboosted" or perhaps even shadowbanned.
"Freedom of speech, not reach." That's the Twitter slogan, both before and after Musk. Facebook, same. Google, same but so much more so! The power to promote favored and to suppress disfavored discourse, that never changed. The new automated tools are commensurate with the scale of the peanut gallery.
Just how free is your speech, if I don't have a right to hear it?
My comment was in-artfully expressed. I did not mean to suggest that speech should be suppressed, but only that most speech is crap and is not worthy of attention.
You just don't like spectacle. You hate it. You quote Debord's text only to "spread disinformation about the spectacle", just like he predicted you would. Your disinformation is "harmful to democracy". He's talking about you, Bray.
Like any Nazi, like Hitler, you just loathe spectacle. Rather than good hair and huge rallies, you want to focus on pragmatic governance. But let me tell you something: NOT ON MY WATCH!!!
Are there any WWII nazis left? It looks like Trudeau beat Newsom by getting the last one. I guess he will to have to do with the black face of white supremacy, Elder.
There’s another likely reason Newsom keeps tilting at Republican windmills, and it’s even worse - he’s thinking of running for President. (Credit where credit’s due to Peachy Keenan pointing out that the governor of California was spending an awful lot of his summer touring civil rights landmarks in the Deep South.)
Of course he is. That’s also why he actually vetoed one of those horrible pro-trans bills, undoubtedly knowing that the CA legislature has the votes to override the veto but allowing him to try to signal that he’s NOT crazy-woke.
You noticed and wrote about it, thank you. Trudeau and Newsome are indeed the same CREEPY, anti-human, coke snorting bots who exude fakery from every pore. I despise them both.🤮🤮
If he's not literally a bastard child of a love affair between a 3rd world communist and a whore, then he's at least ideologically a bastard child of a love affair between a 3rd world communist and a whore. But literally is a pretty good bet.
Sucks that I can't find the video (Tried on YouTube but they NO DOUBT deleted it) but I recall a TV news magazine (I'm pretty sure it was 60 minutes) did a segment in Chicago in the 1980's (where that city has continuously been a mess under Democrat governance) interviewing a Black man living on the south side talking about the upcoming city elections. The interviewer, die hard lefty of course, was blaming the city blithe on the Republicans. The Black man in utter disbelief and contempt looked at the interviewer and went off! "What Republicans? Do you see a damn Republican anywhere within 50 miles of this place. This city is 100% Democrat and has been for years"! He went on a rant for the next 5 minutes tearing the interviewer clown a new one! DANG I wish I could find that video. I'll keep looking.
Remember when a white woman in a gorilla suit threw a banana at Larry Elder, the "black face of white supremacy" who was running as a Republican against Gavin in the recall election? She should be the mascot of California, not a bear. Will add book bans to the glossary of Leftist doublespeak - the real definition is removal of child pornography from school libraries: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/how-to-coin-a-term-part-2
I've just come to terms that I will be long dead before the voters in CA wake up.
I was in LA last week and I have to be honest, I never felt so unpatriotic.
It's almost like all the great memories I had growing up in CA weren't real...like they're "tainted".
It is beyond bizarre to see people I was close with just 5-10 years ago who have completely bought into the propaganda. They used to be moderates...now they're just hypnotized or have a near autistic level of selective amnesia.
I have a conservative friend (former Fortune 500 CFO) whose 3 adult children & their spouses have all eagerly drunk the Kool-Aid, which COVID brought boiling to the surface. They all have advanced degrees, but lack the ability to observe reality. I think this is a hard lesson for us conservatives, who thought that the playing out of liberal ideas into the degeneration of society would eventually lead to the light bulb going on, but clearly this is not to be. Liberalism is clearly a fatal disease. Let’s treat it with Remdesivir & a ventilator.
Agree 100%
Half my family and just about all my friends in CA are more or less alien-like to me.
It's not even worth trying to understand anymore.
What's the point? They don't care if we're trying to understand their viewpoint.
In fact, they interpret us trying to understand their viewpoint as an insult, combative or "put-off", unworthy of entertaining.
They're too important to be burdened with explaining the "obvious" to us...
It's all so bizarre.
Hey RG ... I have UCLA alumni around my license plate , It’s from the early 80’s ... may be time to remove it . I’ve kept it on there to remind myself that 40 plus years ago things were so much different.
Lolol.
I still have my first drivers license.
I keep it to remind myself mullets are one of the few things in my life I'd prefer to forget about.
NEVER AGAIN!
I'm sure you looked great in a mullet.
** snickers, rolls on floor**
I stopped being friends with pod people because they stopped being able to say anything that wasn't a direct quote from an Expert sometime around 2021. I had several with very shiny degrees with whom I used to be able to have interesting conversations but they're all walking CNN syndicates now. Most of them are from or work somewhere in California. Sad.
Mostly they treat objective people (like me) as if we were children: "Oh yes, we respect your decision not to be vaccinated," while making a mental note to never get within six feet of me again. Common sense has become pitiable to them.
This exactly.
IMO its because they inhabit a world where "beliefs" are blurred with information.
How could it be a belief if I hold all the information?
Or how could someone else's belief be backed by information when I hold the universe of all information/knowledge?
And, even if someone had my information, how could someone possibly understand it when they don't have the "right" beliefs?!!!
The fact is, is that substituting beliefs for reality (the hard truth) would predispose a person to be indignant at the very thought of having to explain their "belief" to us.
Methinks, deep down inside most of them get annoyed with any nonconforming position because they're concerned their lack of curiosity will be exposed.
They just can't quite figure out that consuming "consensus" renders them low-information "believers".
But it definitely makes them nervous....and sometimes downright angry.
"... deep down inside most of them get annoyed with any nonconforming position because they're concerned their lack of curiosity will be exposed."
Exactly. Someone compared them with dementia patients, how they get angry when not understanding something.
Or as Paul put it, "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?" (Galatians 4:16)
Sometimes I think they're just lazy.
Everyday things used to work so well that they (and us) could afford to be lazy if one wanted to be. The world is running on fumes now, and at some point when the breakdown becomes noticable to them - they will blame everyone else for it…. and likely be grateful for AI to handle “stuff.”
I suspect that perhaps *they* are concerned that someone might discover that they haven't read a book since college, and that the total sum of their understanding of current affairs is based on yesterday's headlines.
Nailed it Andy!
Hope you've been doing well
Bingo!
Reminiscent of the anti-racist position that it’s not the “offended” individual’s job to educate us on the offensive speech/conduct, nor even to briefly tell us which speech/conduct was offensive. It’s OUR job to search the world blindly seeking enlightenment (akin to Diogenes).
"Hey, I recently found a statistic while attempting to educate myself on racism. Did you know that despite making up only 13 percent of the..."
"NO, NOT THAT KIND OF EDUCATING YOURSELF!"
I feel sorry for your friend. That's a nightmare and I've seen other parents whose kids are so whacked out with political indoctrination that they have no relationship. I think most of us on the Right ( meaning normal people) have experienced this phenomenon of alienation from some family and friends since the Trump era. It's an indication of how badly these folks are damaged. I know that they think it's the opposite case, but we aren't the ones with blue hair, nose rings and vagina hats.
Yes, it’s very troubling for him & their mother, as they were close growing up. It brings him profound sadness, and I never ask anymore how things are going on that front.
Separately, I find it interesting that the Left cannot conceive of the distinction we on the Right make that Trump is crude but has effective policies, and yet they’re sanguine with a guy who can’t make it thru “P-I-I-I.” Any current restiveness is about electability, not competence. It’s fascinating that they place supreme emphasis on getting the perfect answer, and yet are demonstrably wrong on almost everything.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is pervasive these days. Still it’s important to remember that the distinctions used to drive a wedge between us were carefully curated and cultivated for maximum damage and emotional effect. The propagandists behind the nonsense know what they are doing because they’ve done it all over the world for decades. We’re just in the latest places they’ve used the formula. It’s no accident that we’re at each other’s throats. It’s the desired outcome.
I agree the social issues tormenting us are intentional torpedoes aimed at strategically weakening our nation, likely originating w/ the PRC. But the creation of the attack is predicated on it getting traction. But the wildfire-like spread of these “ideas” within liberal circles is extraordinary. How did so many on the Left acquiesce to the idea that a 10 yr old’s genitalia belongs in a Cuisinart? My point is the vast receptiveness to these manifestly bizarre ideas is unbelievable.
The root of the transgender political movement is in academia going back 50-60 years. The Communism came first. The model applies the same principles to any perceived area of oppression and spits out the Communist position for it. The critical theorists are behind this gender stuff too.
^^^This!!^^^
My younger brother lives in Northern California. The other day when he was visiting me in Southern California , I uttered three words that nearly sent him into apoplexy:
Biden Crime Family.
I quickly changed the subject before he ran screaming from the house.
Such is the complete brainwashing of left-leaning Californians.
I hear my old hometown of Huntington Beach is still a small bastion of conservative (or at least moderately rational) thought but I haven't been back in over 15 years (after spending 30 in CA). I was in SD 2 years ago and sadly agree with you. What a mess! It's a zombie land downtown SD and they can't stop building office buildings for a non-existent business base.
After San Diego and The OC went off the cliff I had to get out in 2009.
I grew up in SD and I don't recognize it anymore.
My employer in northern CA moved to Houston in 1995. I’d worked in Houston for 10 yrs previously, and the 6 yrs in Walnut Creek were truly idyllic. I joked to ppl after the ‘95 move that they could still see the scratches I’d left in the I-80 pavement where it crossed into NV.
No more. I’ve commented to my wife that in retrospect, we were lucky the company pulled the ripcord when it did. It was a lesson that you should enjoy the good things as they’re happening, b/c they won’t last.
We are getting diminishing returns; our society must suffer ever greater pains to "wake" ever fewer up.
Do you know many times a normie will shoot itself in the foot? How many bullets does it have?
It does make me wonder how I thought these people were my friends. They are all totalitarians now. Maybe it's fear, but then I wonder, it seems so unreflective and immediate - they seem short circuited. How long before they start burning "conservatives" and "racists" at the stake? How long before our own version of the fire at the Odessa Trade Union Building?
Where does this come from? Could 5G be so weaponized, or the shots? Seems a bit much. Some sort of emergent biological property. It has to be biological, I guess, because it affects me so physically.
I know. It's actually heartbreaking because they were "broken" by the very system they think is helping them.
If you have not seen this, I highly recommend it:
https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81672035?s=a&trkid=13747225&trg=cp&vlang=en&clip=81684799
The parallels are uncanny because these are the "oldest" tricks in the book. They work.
All of the answers to your questions are examined there. It's chilling.
So yes, If the conditions were right, they would drive you to the furnace themselves and drive back home with a sense of relief that they had the courage to do the "right" thing.
I will also say that we have allowed the state to transmogrify the meaning of Patriot. That didn't happen through magic. It was a long deliberate march through the institutions, allowed by an indifferent public. The new meaning of patriot is now "love of government"....the exact opposite of what a true patriot is.
Their faith is in THE STATE, and we were in the way of that.
It is . so . freakin . painful .
"I’ve thought for years that Justin Trudeau and Gavin Newsom are the same person with different quantities of hair gel, ... " Barely existing in CA, loved this comment. The latest irony is Newsom going after big oil--since that's pretty much why he exists. Increasing the HHS managerial medical/tech industrial complex is also one of his major hobbies (along with his buddy Mark Ghaly) and what employs the vast majority of who's left in the state.
Do you see any push-back ? from sane, normal working men and women with boys and girls? Are we so preoccupied with living that too many tolerate this insanity and 100% deflection from reality ?? California and Canada have seemingly won the war of deception to the point that voters believe they are siding with the good guys when all the evidence is to the contrary. People leaving to other states cannot be fudged (altough we're probably undercounting there also) Companies relocating there operations in other states also cannot be fudged - yet the evil conservative states that "ban" books (they don't) and disallow the word "gay" (they don't) and have balanced budgets without state income tax (how about that California and New York) - The constant drum beat never stops ! This cannot end well.
Given enough time, indifference makes the obvious illusory.
I think that's about 40% of people in CA.
30 years of indifference has literally changed how they interpret reality. After awhile their reality becomes a before/after event...but they can't seem to recall the before. Life becomes just the "after" and they couldn't tell you exactly when/how "before" became after.
They've lost reference to "why". Why died a slow death with prolonged indifference....which led to a quick and silent death of "before".
Very few will wake up. In their reality there is no reason to ask why.
If you want to test this postulate, just ask them if they can explain WHY we may view things differently. BLANK STARE .
It does not occur to them to ask themselves why they have a different view than us. Heck, they can't even muster indifference as to why we view things differently.
Here's the bizarre irony:
Why waste your time with indifference if you forgot that differences were accepted (often valued) before they lost "before" in the fog of indifference?
BLANK STARE...
Indifference is key. They are comfortably numb.
add several covid shots for extra blankness.
“ Given enough time, indifference makes the obvious illusory. “ Superb phrasa! Bravo!
Thx!
It seems bizarre that more people don’t question Californias failures while suffering that dem supermajority. That legislature works year round and never solves anything, and it’s arguably our most important state. Does it seem like more and more issues are just IQ tests? Is their a better term for this phenomena?
The HIDING is more and more an IQ test. When you're driving on a freeway that rattles your teeth, but "news radio" tells you that the state is fighting hard for trans kids and working against the mean Republican book bans, do you notice that they're changing the subject? My impression is that most of the state still doesn't notice, and is very angry at the mean Republicans in the mean red states for banning those wonderful books about blowjobs from the elementary schools.
This election, like all of the recent ones, will have 2 voters, those who can think vs those who obey.
But it will be determined by those who count the “votes”
Yes, Democrats prove out Stalin’s adage every cycle.
The liberals and liberal leaders in CA like California just fine like it is, they actually think they are headed in the right direction they just need to speed up.
Just like liberal Mayors all over the country. They will tell you if you don't like it leave.
They don't won't your kind anyway. They only want the beholden ones. Beholden to them. They had rather be a king of a shithole than a prince of wonder land.
I don’t think there’s a single Democrat in academia or elsewhere who can see the irony of claiming to be intelligentsia while not seeing Milton so obviously in their work product.
Most important state. NOT! Most influential, because people are infatuated with it. Yes. It's the state that causes the most damage to all the rest due to that infatuation.
A friend told me about his trip from Taiwan with a layover in LA.
He lives in Arkansas. A big football fan, Razorbacks all the way.
Not having seen LA, he rented a car and proceeded to drive around the city. He was amazed by the homeless, how many there was, everywhere. Finally, before heading back to the airport for his connecting flight, he found a spot to park in, and proceeded behind some dumpsters to take a leak. He was arrested immediately. Handcuffed, and put in the back of a patrol car and immediately off to jail. There, he was able to get the injustice corrected for the $117 in his pocket.
The car he rented was untouched, after a cab ride back to it, and he returned to the airport just in time to catch his flight back to home.
I have watched homeless people shit and masturbate on the sidewalk, openly, without ducking behind something, and without the slightest fear of consequences.
Yes, they are homeless, he obviously wasn't.
See, that was his one big mistake.
So the "fine" just happened to be the exact amount he had in his pocket?
He said he's glad he didn't tell them about the $60 he had in the hidden compartment.
He should file a complaint. Or perhaps better, send the precinct info and any names he recalls to James O'Keefe.
I'm guessing they took it under "civil forfeiture," and would have taken the car, too, if it had been his. That is one of the worst civil rights abuses that nobody knows about.
In other news from the world of functionally identical sociopaths, Dan Andrews has resigned. Wonder if we'll ever find out the backstory.
Whatever it is, the important thing is that we fight back against Russian Disinformation.
I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that human beings and societies are not capable of overcoming inherent flaws, regardless of the consequences. We've simply continued an arc that has existed from primitive man, passing through Gutenberg, Bell, Marconi, Farnsworth, DARPA, fiber optics and satellites, to speed the way in which we show ourselves to be helplessly mired by our flaws. Each evolution in communication efficiency has acted as a larger megaphone for the worst impulses of the human soul.
Individual humans are marvelous. Put them in groups, ante up some amount of social welfare, and the marvel disappears, replaced by malevolence.
You may have a right to say it, but not all speech deserves to be heard. Back in the day of paper & stamps, newspaper editors would screen out crackpot letters-to-the-editor. It was a matter of pride that I had 3 letters to the WSJ printed. Now bizarre comments are posted instantly to attract moths to the flame of stupidity.
OK flame. Here's a moth:
Posted instantly, oh yes. And just as instantly "deboosted" or perhaps even shadowbanned.
"Freedom of speech, not reach." That's the Twitter slogan, both before and after Musk. Facebook, same. Google, same but so much more so! The power to promote favored and to suppress disfavored discourse, that never changed. The new automated tools are commensurate with the scale of the peanut gallery.
Just how free is your speech, if I don't have a right to hear it?
My comment was in-artfully expressed. I did not mean to suggest that speech should be suppressed, but only that most speech is crap and is not worthy of attention.
Indeed Sturgeon’s Law applies to everything.
BTW, this was solid gold:
"It’s like watching Jim Bouton make the Hall of Fame on the first ballot"
Silver medal to:
"The thing you’re talking about exists for the purpose of keeping you from talking about something else."
Agree. Lol...I had a hard time making up my mind between the two!
But Bouton did have 2 really good seasons:
https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/B/Pboutj101.htm
10 shutouts and 39 wins in 1963+1964.
And he was a funny writer, so all the rest is forgiven.
Yeah he was somewhere between the "Mendoza Line" and the Hall of Fame.
If Jim Bouton were here he’d have gotten as good a chuckle with that line as I did.
i had to look up to see if he was in there. not yet anyway.
he would have had a career winning record if not for that comeback stunt
Yeah. He was up 5 times and you have to wait 5 years if you were not elected.
I think the rule is no more than 5 votes every 5 years
You just don't like spectacle. You hate it. You quote Debord's text only to "spread disinformation about the spectacle", just like he predicted you would. Your disinformation is "harmful to democracy". He's talking about you, Bray.
Like any Nazi, like Hitler, you just loathe spectacle. Rather than good hair and huge rallies, you want to focus on pragmatic governance. But let me tell you something: NOT ON MY WATCH!!!
We're onto you.
Spectacular!
Are there any WWII nazis left? It looks like Trudeau beat Newsom by getting the last one. I guess he will to have to do with the black face of white supremacy, Elder.
There’s another likely reason Newsom keeps tilting at Republican windmills, and it’s even worse - he’s thinking of running for President. (Credit where credit’s due to Peachy Keenan pointing out that the governor of California was spending an awful lot of his summer touring civil rights landmarks in the Deep South.)
Of course he is. That’s also why he actually vetoed one of those horrible pro-trans bills, undoubtedly knowing that the CA legislature has the votes to override the veto but allowing him to try to signal that he’s NOT crazy-woke.
You noticed and wrote about it, thank you. Trudeau and Newsome are indeed the same CREEPY, anti-human, coke snorting bots who exude fakery from every pore. I despise them both.🤮🤮
Is Gavin also a bastard child of a love affair between a 3rd world communist and a whore?
If so, maybe him and Trudeau are brothers?
If he's not literally a bastard child of a love affair between a 3rd world communist and a whore, then he's at least ideologically a bastard child of a love affair between a 3rd world communist and a whore. But literally is a pretty good bet.
Sucks that I can't find the video (Tried on YouTube but they NO DOUBT deleted it) but I recall a TV news magazine (I'm pretty sure it was 60 minutes) did a segment in Chicago in the 1980's (where that city has continuously been a mess under Democrat governance) interviewing a Black man living on the south side talking about the upcoming city elections. The interviewer, die hard lefty of course, was blaming the city blithe on the Republicans. The Black man in utter disbelief and contempt looked at the interviewer and went off! "What Republicans? Do you see a damn Republican anywhere within 50 miles of this place. This city is 100% Democrat and has been for years"! He went on a rant for the next 5 minutes tearing the interviewer clown a new one! DANG I wish I could find that video. I'll keep looking.
As much as I loathe Biden, I fear the Newsom Presdiency will make the fictional place in Kurt Schlichter's novels look like paradise.