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.
Hey, i live about 10 miles from the Pacific, so that might ruin my day, but if i can get Gavin in a headlock just as the tsunami crests, i'll be more than happy to take him to Hades w me.
Wrongthink 😝 I for one will be more than thermonuclear-grade unhappy to lose your clever-worded insightful takes. And what for, ffs? The gavin gel-guy is a mere placeholder to be instantly re-filled the moment he departures for searing pastures.
The political parasites know what is demanded of them: obey and propagate the sacred Trans dogma or be kicked off the team and forced to get a real job.
Thus they have to argue backwards, from conclusion to reasons, and end up vomiting brazen lies and brain-dead stupidity.
Seems like a degrading way to live, but I guess it beats workin'.
Three things. First, mental illness is a very real illness; An illness far more real than covid. More to the point, mental illness affects not only the victim but everyone who cares about the person afflicted. Another way to put that is that it nearly destroys everyone who cares about the person afflicted. 2nd, looking to government for the solution Is like looking for a snake to cure a snake bite. I don't think it is hyperbole to say what I think is obvious; most of the people in our government right now are among the most mentally ill on the planet. 3rd and finally, Most of the mentally ill persons in our government firmly believe that the family is the problem. As a person who lived in a dysfunctional family, I think I can say with some authority that even the most dysfunctional family is better than what these folks have planned for us.
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.
California, where I was born and have lived all my adult life, is much too valuable to surrender to these carpetbagging lunatics. They have far less popular support than they claim. Of my three children, the oldest is thirteen. We also homeschool and our community is growing. If they fight us, they will lose.
You say they will lose, but you might not realize how easily they can (even without this new law) take your child, and how long they can keep him, if they don't like you. https://www.rapierlawfirm.com/krueger-v-petrak
I shudder to think how much more child kidnaping by the state will happen if this law goes through.
No, they won't. They haven't lost anything in decades.
The "popular support" you claim matters doesn't matter. As we can all see. Because it's not enough, and you lot don't speak out enough.
We can all see California's terminal slide. I hope you'll be able to see it, too, but I doubt it. I think you're going to sink into the waves along with CA, shouting that it can be saved as the water closes over your head.
Better arm yourself to the teeth my friend. Soon homeschooling will be outlawed, since parents just aren’t experts in teaching school. One of your kids gets a wild hair up there ass and tells someone in authority about your backward ways, you’ll have California commie jack boots at your door taking her to get the mental health you won’t provide.
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?
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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........
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.
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In before every runaway in Washington claims to be trans to avoid the system.......
I don't ever want to encourage violence and I'm most definitely a man left behind from another time and place (Queens NY, 1970s), but when is someone's dad gonna come and punch one of these Gender bureaucrats in the nose?
Have we really reached the point where some agent of the state can encourage your kid to have a sex change and Pops doesn't show up after school looking to dish out a beatdown?
this is so bizarre to me...i remember dads showing up ready to brawl if their kid got suspended or in some other trouble. one time my friends and i hit a guy's car with a ball and the guy grabbed me by the lapels and started yelling, and my friend's dad appeared and decked him! (he did have to spend a night in jail for that tho)
the fact that men allow their children to be mutilated by the state and raise zero protest is one of the bleakest signs of the zeitgeist. we truly are a defeated people.
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...
I am firmly convinced that Lambert House convinced my Seattle 8th-grade daughter to declare herself trans.
In summer 2020, she came out to her mother (we're divorced) as gay. Okay, sure, maybe, even if actual child psychologists I know all told me it was too early and she couldn't really know yet.
Without any opportunities to see her friends or other people outside of me, her mother, and her stepdad, she was allowed to join the Lambert House online meetings.
Six weeks later, she declared that she was now non-binary and her pronouns were "xe/xer". This was too much even for her prog mother so we all settled on "they/them" (under protest on my part). Six weeks and more meetings after that she said she was a boy.
Fuck Lambert House. Fuck them all.
The only bright spot is that I voluntarily pay her mother tens of thousands a year in alimony, so that they can continue to live in Seattle and we don't have to deal with long-distance custody, but if I find out that she's been signed up for blockers or hormones then Mom is getting cut off without a penny.
This is what Abigail Shrier was saying, even very progressive parents were saying we're okay with gay but you being trans is coming from what you're picking up from outside influences.
Ummm...ages 11-22 seems miiiighty wide to me. Difference for me between 7th grade and graduating college. Pre-puberty vs way post-puberty. The 22 yr old should be babysitting the 11 yr old...not "hanging 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?
Excellent comment. The abused kids will indeed never be helped by anyone, even halfassedly. And it is amazing that utter laziness, breathtaking stupidity, and just general incompetence are considered GOOD traits for a parent to have. These dopes show less interest in their kids than a bored teenage babysitter, and this is not only accepted but encouraged.
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.
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.
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 “.
Thanks for the historical background, much appreciated! It makes sense now to find out that moonbeam et al. were virtue signaling supporters of Jim Jones.
I’m cursed with the weirdest memory of minutia. What never seemed important at the time or connected to anything, inevitably later tied into a much bigger picture. Hence, I no longer believe in coincidence. . There is no “ random”. Something always ignited a spark, but at the time, it may not have been known even to the instigator.
Have you read “ A Sound Of Thunder”? Gives meaning to the power of great short stories. A three page work of genius by Ray Bradbury. You’ll love it. Explains the Chaos Theory , also known as the Butterfly Effect.
Doesn’t it blow your mind? Jonestown was a major historical event and is a testament to the reality of socialism. Lies, propaganda, a charismatic sociopathic narcissistic grifter with the capacity to create a revolution by purveying “ tolerance and diversity” convincing minorities they are victims , promising utopia via isolation and dependency. Marx, Mao, Castro, Idi Amin, Mugabe, Kim,Chavez,… It never ends on a high note.
Of the Jim Jones acolytes, the only one who fell for it , seeing an opportunity for acceptance was Harvey Milk. He was duped. Pelosi, Feinstein, Moscone, Willie Brown knew better. Carter was a vile excuse for an American. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in his memoir, wrote that his greatest regret was campaigning for Carter.
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.
On the victimhood dominance hierarchy, LGBTQ+ outrank black and Latino now. The blacks and Latinos who voted for this are going to learn the hard way thay they were merely the useful idiots the Marxists used to take over. In reality, the Marxists don't care about anyone but themselves, and most of today's Marxists have joined the rainbow coalition. Oppose the rainbow mafia, and they crush you with whatever power they have available.
Also a cottage industry, pervs and pedos will be hanging a shingle to offer "residential therapeutic services" to children in need. Who are we to judge what counts as an "expert?"
And now you have the final piece of the puzzle. You know, I see people calling this "socialism," but this is capitalism, a twisted form, on steroids, but capitalism all the same, though the abuse is state sanctioned if not state encouraged.
Is there not a word that once was used to identify state capitalism? One of the definitions was something like, "a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls..." Now - what was that word?
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.
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.
"...a rogues' gallery of dimwitted mediocrities."
Legislators who can't form coherent sentences. Amazing to watch.
Maybe it's best for everyone, if everything west of I-5 tumbles into the sea and reattaches directly to China.
That'll be the day I go back to my home state.
Hey, i live about 10 miles from the Pacific, so that might ruin my day, but if i can get Gavin in a headlock just as the tsunami crests, i'll be more than happy to take him to Hades w me.
No. He would float with all those plastic parts and that hair gel.
You'd just use him to surf right over the pacific
lolol
Wrongthink 😝 I for one will be more than thermonuclear-grade unhappy to lose your clever-worded insightful takes. And what for, ffs? The gavin gel-guy is a mere placeholder to be instantly re-filled the moment he departures for searing pastures.
I like that!
Ha! The bonus would be quite a bit of new beachfront real estate!
Exactly. Maybe a nice beach home at the Sierra foothills!
Nothing like beach access out your front door and mountain at your back door
That line was so revealing. "Most children don't talk to their parents." Oh? These people are damaged.
This is your brain on ideological conformity.
The political parasites know what is demanded of them: obey and propagate the sacred Trans dogma or be kicked off the team and forced to get a real job.
Thus they have to argue backwards, from conclusion to reasons, and end up vomiting brazen lies and brain-dead stupidity.
Seems like a degrading way to live, but I guess it beats workin'.
Kid of like the parents who take their kids to the drag shows, These parents are the ones who need mental health care.
Actually, that shows remarkably good judgement on the part of children given the level of casual discourse in California
Three things. First, mental illness is a very real illness; An illness far more real than covid. More to the point, mental illness affects not only the victim but everyone who cares about the person afflicted. Another way to put that is that it nearly destroys everyone who cares about the person afflicted. 2nd, looking to government for the solution Is like looking for a snake to cure a snake bite. I don't think it is hyperbole to say what I think is obvious; most of the people in our government right now are among the most mentally ill on the planet. 3rd and finally, Most of the mentally ill persons in our government firmly believe that the family is the problem. As a person who lived in a dysfunctional family, I think I can say with some authority that even the most dysfunctional family is better than what these folks have planned for us.
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‘Tis equal parts scary and entertaining to be trapped living through The Decline of the West—can't really decide either way 🤪😱
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.
California, where I was born and have lived all my adult life, is much too valuable to surrender to these carpetbagging lunatics. They have far less popular support than they claim. Of my three children, the oldest is thirteen. We also homeschool and our community is growing. If they fight us, they will lose.
You say they will lose, but you might not realize how easily they can (even without this new law) take your child, and how long they can keep him, if they don't like you. https://www.rapierlawfirm.com/krueger-v-petrak
I shudder to think how much more child kidnaping by the state will happen if this law goes through.
No, they won't. They haven't lost anything in decades.
The "popular support" you claim matters doesn't matter. As we can all see. Because it's not enough, and you lot don't speak out enough.
We can all see California's terminal slide. I hope you'll be able to see it, too, but I doubt it. I think you're going to sink into the waves along with CA, shouting that it can be saved as the water closes over your head.
Better arm yourself to the teeth my friend. Soon homeschooling will be outlawed, since parents just aren’t experts in teaching school. One of your kids gets a wild hair up there ass and tells someone in authority about your backward ways, you’ll have California commie jack boots at your door taking her to get the mental health you won’t provide.
So is this “New California” a thing or just BS?
AB 665 passed in the California Assembly 57
Cliven Bundy, Robert Finicum, Ruby Ridge, and of course, Waco....
Just sayin'.
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.
You'd....throw zinc at them?
I could be wrong but he might be referring to Pb.
It may involve a handful of Fe.
“Fill yer hands you sunnuva bitch!” - Rooster Cogburn.
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?
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.
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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.
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In before every runaway in Washington claims to be trans to avoid the system.......
I don't ever want to encourage violence and I'm most definitely a man left behind from another time and place (Queens NY, 1970s), but when is someone's dad gonna come and punch one of these Gender bureaucrats in the nose?
Have we really reached the point where some agent of the state can encourage your kid to have a sex change and Pops doesn't show up after school looking to dish out a beatdown?
What happened to standards!!?
Right?! There's no question what parents would do in the 70's.
You and I would be up there together "cleaning clocks".
Bunch of soy boys.
this is so bizarre to me...i remember dads showing up ready to brawl if their kid got suspended or in some other trouble. one time my friends and i hit a guy's car with a ball and the guy grabbed me by the lapels and started yelling, and my friend's dad appeared and decked him! (he did have to spend a night in jail for that tho)
the fact that men allow their children to be mutilated by the state and raise zero protest is one of the bleakest signs of the zeitgeist. we truly are a defeated people.
Low testosterone and too many quinoa burgers.
Emasculation complete
BOOM!!!!💥
Where are the MEN??!!
Hitler was more tame than these scoundrels.
"The state must declare the child
to be the most precious treasure
of the people. As long as the
government is perceived as
working for the benefit of the
children, the people will happily
endure almost any curtailment of
liberty and almost any
deprivation."
People actually think this shit benefits children!
It is mind boggling to think of how fast we've fallen.
Name me one good thing the Washington State legislature has done in the last 20 years...I'll wait...
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...
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am firmly convinced that Lambert House convinced my Seattle 8th-grade daughter to declare herself trans.
In summer 2020, she came out to her mother (we're divorced) as gay. Okay, sure, maybe, even if actual child psychologists I know all told me it was too early and she couldn't really know yet.
Without any opportunities to see her friends or other people outside of me, her mother, and her stepdad, she was allowed to join the Lambert House online meetings.
Six weeks later, she declared that she was now non-binary and her pronouns were "xe/xer". This was too much even for her prog mother so we all settled on "they/them" (under protest on my part). Six weeks and more meetings after that she said she was a boy.
Fuck Lambert House. Fuck them all.
The only bright spot is that I voluntarily pay her mother tens of thousands a year in alimony, so that they can continue to live in Seattle and we don't have to deal with long-distance custody, but if I find out that she's been signed up for blockers or hormones then Mom is getting cut off without a penny.
This is what Abigail Shrier was saying, even very progressive parents were saying we're okay with gay but you being trans is coming from what you're picking up from outside influences.
Ummm...ages 11-22 seems miiiighty wide to me. Difference for me between 7th grade and graduating college. Pre-puberty vs way post-puberty. The 22 yr old should be babysitting the 11 yr old...not "hanging out."
From. The. School.
That leaves me completely speechless
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?
"And then in about ten to twenty years...."
Yep.
Excellent comment. The abused kids will indeed never be helped by anyone, even halfassedly. And it is amazing that utter laziness, breathtaking stupidity, and just general incompetence are considered GOOD traits for a parent to have. These dopes show less interest in their kids than a bored teenage babysitter, and this is not only accepted but encouraged.
If I were a parent in California, I'd move over this immediately.
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.
I’m sorry for your loss🙏🏻💔
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.
The Left is really saying the “quiet parts” louder and louder these days.
And all they hear from us is crickets and computer keys tapping.
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 “.
Thanks for the historical background, much appreciated! It makes sense now to find out that moonbeam et al. were virtue signaling supporters of Jim Jones.
I’m cursed with the weirdest memory of minutia. What never seemed important at the time or connected to anything, inevitably later tied into a much bigger picture. Hence, I no longer believe in coincidence. . There is no “ random”. Something always ignited a spark, but at the time, it may not have been known even to the instigator.
Have you read “ A Sound Of Thunder”? Gives meaning to the power of great short stories. A three page work of genius by Ray Bradbury. You’ll love it. Explains the Chaos Theory , also known as the Butterfly Effect.
I can confirm everything that Gail says is true, I grew up in Ryan/Speier's district during that era, and followed those events closely
Doesn’t it blow your mind? Jonestown was a major historical event and is a testament to the reality of socialism. Lies, propaganda, a charismatic sociopathic narcissistic grifter with the capacity to create a revolution by purveying “ tolerance and diversity” convincing minorities they are victims , promising utopia via isolation and dependency. Marx, Mao, Castro, Idi Amin, Mugabe, Kim,Chavez,… It never ends on a high note.
Of the Jim Jones acolytes, the only one who fell for it , seeing an opportunity for acceptance was Harvey Milk. He was duped. Pelosi, Feinstein, Moscone, Willie Brown knew better. Carter was a vile excuse for an American. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, in his memoir, wrote that his greatest regret was campaigning for Carter.
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.
On the victimhood dominance hierarchy, LGBTQ+ outrank black and Latino now. The blacks and Latinos who voted for this are going to learn the hard way thay they were merely the useful idiots the Marxists used to take over. In reality, the Marxists don't care about anyone but themselves, and most of today's Marxists have joined the rainbow coalition. Oppose the rainbow mafia, and they crush you with whatever power they have available.
well, what can you say. But California doesn't have enough of these residential treatment centers, anyway, right?
It appears that they're about to become a growth industry.
Also a cottage industry, pervs and pedos will be hanging a shingle to offer "residential therapeutic services" to children in need. Who are we to judge what counts as an "expert?"
And now you have the final piece of the puzzle. You know, I see people calling this "socialism," but this is capitalism, a twisted form, on steroids, but capitalism all the same, though the abuse is state sanctioned if not state encouraged.
Is there not a word that once was used to identify state capitalism? One of the definitions was something like, "a system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, a capitalist economy subject to stringent governmental controls..." Now - what was that word?
Hmmm....
Nope, can't think of it.
An acquaintance, (who recently moved to a much saner state), claims that California IS a "residential treatment center".
YES
A sanctuary state, indeed.
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.