134 Comments
Apr 19, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Here in California we always get to experience first what the rest of America experiences later, so get ready for the what's coming next in the 2020s: not just the collapse of all adult authority but a bad, most likely incurable, case of civilizational exhaustion.

See, "most children don't talk to their parents", it just requires too much effort to tear the phones out of their hands and make them sit up straight and look you in the eye, besides everyone knows we can't even raise a child or meet a spouse without the advice and approval of a team of qualified board-certified experts, and we outsource our dinners and shopping, so why not our most important personal relationships too?

And who are you gonna trust with your own children: you and your family or a freshly minted Gender Studies major who studied for years to learn that biology is an illusion but the feelings of a 10-yr-old are infallible?

My god, what a rogues' gallery of dimwitted mediocrities reign over us here in the state formerly known as Golden, if any of these people ever accidentally encounted an original thought, they'd die of shock.

Expand full comment
Apr 19, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

You need to move your family out of CA sooner rather than later. I loved there for 4 years in the 80s and couldn’t wait to get back to my beloved South - and this is when it was relatively sane! We homeschooled, we’re self employed, and we most decided did not have to worry about the state kidnapping our kids. This is batsh*t crazy.

Expand full comment

Anybody trying to remove my kids from my home without my consent in this manner would be catching some heavy minerals accelerated at high velocity.

Expand full comment
Apr 19, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

The true face of socialism revealed, again! The inevitable consequences of a centralised power that is convinced it knows best and demands an identikit approach to individual issues. This is the same method as deployed for the fake pandemic (not fake virus, although manmade so..., but fake PANdemic). How does socialism grab power? Either by force (like mandates) or by creating a crisis and enacting laws to “protect our democracy and protect our people”. Scare them and then dominate them. See the pattern?

Expand full comment
Apr 19, 2023·edited Apr 19, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

Washington state is just as insane, with a bill going through the works that allows non-parents to decide to transition kids with drugs and therapy........

https://trendingpoliticsnews.com/just-in-washington-passes-bill-allowing-children-to-legally-be-taken-from-parents-if-parents-dont-consent-to-gender-transition-mace/

Edit: Oh, and I forgot this one that mandates that state workers ignore violations of law .......... in violation of the law.

-------------------------

https://www.thecentersquare.com/washington/article_02bff5fc-d897-11ed-b5fa-1b9ae9914b78.html

The Washington Senate has passed a bill previously voted on by the House that would prohibit Washington law enforcement agencies or the courts from enforcing other states' laws regarding abortion or gender surgeries.

However, opponents warn that the legislation, which would take effect as soon as it's signed by Gov. Jay Inslee due to its emergency clause, could instigate retaliatory responses from those states.

Speaking on the Senate floor prior to the 29-20 vote, Sen. Jim McCune, R-Graham, warned that HB 1469 will lead to the "biggest lawsuit you will ever see in the state." The sponsor of a failed amendment restricting the bill's scope to those 18 years or older criticized it as "another bill in a long line that supports genital mutilation of children and erodes the family relationship. This bill is unnecessary and dangerous for children in the state of Washington and coming out of state. You will never change that DNA. They will always be women and men."

Under HB 1469, individuals seeking abortions or gender surgeries for underage children who live in states where it is illegal could take or bring the child into Washington for those services, and police and the courts would not be allowed to arrest them on an out-of-state warrant for violating that state's laws.

Washington businesses would also not be allowed to comply with out-of-state warrants or subpoenas for medical records or information related to underage abortions or gender surgeries.

If enacted along with SB 5499, runaway youths from other states would not have to be reported by shelters or "host homes" to the parents if the child is seeking an abortion or gender surgery.

----------------

In before every runaway in Washington claims to be trans to avoid the system.......

Expand full comment
Apr 19, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

i received this group email from my son's junior high the other day (seattle, wa).

https://share.peachjar.com/flyers/2452945/schools/201816

just soak it in for a minute...

an LGBT hangout for ages 11-22 "(below 12 needs parental permission)"?? seriously?? notice the photo shows some sort of dance or prom type deal. someone much smarter than me must explain what any college age kid would want to do with a 12 year old that ISN'T grooming?? can you even imagine the suggestion of 22 year old boys "hanging out" with 12 year old girls in a hetero situation- and how long that would be accepted? it is amazing we are encouraging kids to go here, they can change sexes, they can check themselves into mental counseling, they can make their own medical choices about vaccines/abortions/ et al.--ALL without parents, but they need parents to see a movie that shows tits or has an F-bomb in it until age 17?? unbelievable, but I'M the one whose a "domestic terrorist"...

notice the SPS disclaimer at the bottom, "...we dont endorse any of this...". riiiggght! except you sort of do when you send it to every parent in the district. for anyone curious, rest assured, i did NOT receive a similar flyer for my kid to drop-in to "NRA house" or "trump house" or the like...

Expand full comment

So here's how this plays out:

The children who really need help, those in truly abusive homes, won't get help. They never do.

Parents with disfavored views (like, oh say, you're born with a penis so why not try just accepting being a boy) or parents that actually *gasp* discipline their kids and tell them no about commonsense things (like, no, you're thirteen; you can't date yet or stay out after midnight) will have children end up in resident homes, totally unprotected by the only people with an actual interest in their welfare versus a financial interest in making them commodities to prove how valuable these services are.

And then in about ten to twenty years we will be subjected to endless handwringing about how this could have gone so wrong and how did so many children end up abused and neglected in these residence homes. And we'll be subjected to quivering lips and articles wanting "amnesty" because How. Could. We Know? Right, how could we know that taking away the rights of the people who actually have an emotional investment in the well-being of these children and giving their control to a Machine that runs on profit, politics, and performative virtue would end so, so badly. How could anyone have seen that coming?

Final question, when did "I don't have common sense or any healthy relationship with my child so I can't help them" become a badge of honor as a parent?

Expand full comment

If I were a parent in California, I'd move over this immediately.

Expand full comment

We recently experienced a tragic death in our family. I interviewed therapists/psychiatrists/counselors looking for grief counseling for my sister, my son and myself. I learned that all of the experienced, intelligent ones are retiring. The rest are booked solid because of COVID (?) and substance abuse. If you look on some of the online therapy sites, you will most likely only find very young 20 somethings probably indoctrinated into the current dysfunctional and irrational paradigm.

Expand full comment
Apr 19, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

All part of the Purge laws. Commies and fascists always purge. The plebs will have a hard time leaving, though. But if they bother to vote, they usually vote for this crap anyway so they can take their medicine. My compassion fuel tank is pretty much empty these days. If people haven’t woken up at this point, there is very little hope for them.

Expand full comment
Apr 19, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

The Left is really saying the “quiet parts” louder and louder these days.

Expand full comment

California created and funded Jonestown. The “ Multiracial Socialist Agrarian Utopia”. Jerry Brown, George Moscone, Willy Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, Harvey Milk, Rockefeller, Peggy Guggenheim, the Hollywood glitterati and drumroll…. Jimmy and Roslyn Carter we’re all slavishly devoted and instrumental.

Most disturbing is Congresswoman Jackie Speier, who flew to Guyana with Senator Ryan to investigate reports of horrific abuse seeping out. Ryan was murdered along with members of the flight crew and Speier survived five gunshot wounds. Yet she dutifully pushes the now blatantly socialist agenda that has become the Now Democrat Party and Feinstein, Pelosi have also suffered a remark memory lapse.Pelosi loves children and is a capitalist, y’know. Kamala Harris, who slept her way to the top with Willy Brown and beats the “ America is a nation of entrenched racism and White Supremacy is married to a white man and the progeny of slave owners. Meanwhile, the Republicans are either too obtuse, too cowardly or too corrupt to say a goddamned thing.

I have a very dear friend here in Miami, Mike Singh, who’s father was the lead prosecutor in Guyana handling the Jonestown atrocity. He is sickened by the silence, describing the goings on at the time as unconscionable. Because “ America knew and covered it up “.

Expand full comment
founding

So, what kids are they separating from their parents? Minority children or upper middle class, affluent, families? Somehow I don’t think Black and Latino families are letting the state near their kids. We are over-educated and truly destructive.

Expand full comment
Apr 19, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

well, what can you say. But California doesn't have enough of these residential treatment centers, anyway, right?

Expand full comment
Apr 19, 2023Liked by Chris Bray

A sanctuary state, indeed.

Expand full comment

This is 💯 contrary to what I learned in college in the 1990s which was that family preservation was a top priority and in the best interest of children except for in cases where children were being abused or neglected. It’s horrifying to see this being turned upside down.

Expand full comment