I’ll start with the request: I would welcome discussion from any readers in Colorado, or readers who closely follow public lands legislation, about the Gunnison Outdoor Resources Protection (GORP) Act. It looks from here like an anti-grazing, anti-energy law that will sharply reduce the usefulness of public lands for anything that isn’t idealized and passive spectating — nature is for staring at — like the destruction of ranching at Point Reyes. But it also
It numbs me emotionally to think there could be an actual political debate over the legal mutilation of children's bodies. In one of the videos there is a gay male who says no one in the medical community asked him WHY he was thinking he was trans. Instead they simply put him in the pipeline for chemicals and irreversible mutilation. Anyone with logical thinking abilities can reach a reasonable conclusion as to the probable events that led this man to feel the way he did about his body and sexuality. The leap-frogging over the underlying causes is a feature, not a bug of the trans psyop. It has facilitated an army of soft minded accomplices self-righteously promoting "trans rights", all of whom should instead be decrying the sexual abuse of children on which much of the popular culture and the entire fake trans phenomenon is built.
This issue hurts my heart. I have grown so tired of people couching objection to this drug-to-mutilation pipeline as us hating trans kids. NO, I despise the adults who have led children down this path - the 'proud' parents who for the street cred, brag about having (and readily accepting) their trans children, and the despicable goblins in the medical-industrial complex who are more than happy to profit off of their delusions and inner turmoil. There has to be a special place in hell for those disgusting charlatans.
Side note: I looked up charlatan to make sure I was spelling it correctly. Here is the definition, along with a sample of use in a phrase, as found in the Mirriam-Webster online dictionary:
charlatan
noun
char·la·tan ˈshär-lə-tən
Synonyms of charlatan
Simple Definition
A Simple Definition is available from our Learner's Dictionary to help you understand the meaning faster.
1
: quack entry 4 sense 2
charlatans harming their patients with dubious procedures
"There has to be a special place in hell for those disgusting charlatans." Dante described nine circles. Seven -- violence (sin against others, and/or nature), eight--fraud, and nine--treachery all seem to cover it.
It’s not a “political debate.” This is just the latest “moral torpedo” the Left has launched into the hull of a (generally) moral Western society. We’ve seen nihilism before – 1919 saw a phenomenal number of bombings across Europe and the U.S. by people determined to destroy existing society. Their “intellectual” descendants resumed the effort in the 1970s and 80s. The U.S. saw 2,500+ bombings.
Children are being targeted because their destruction will emotionally crush parents as a whole. It’s equivalent to the use of rats in “1984” on Winston to get him to emotionally turn on his lover Julia, and permanently crush his soul.
Obviously, this is aided by the Left’s intolerance of dissent on any subject. You are worthless if there is even a glimmer of daylight between you and the ever molting group opinion. Failure to repeat your fealty daily is treason.
The key element IMHO is when money from Stryker Medical, Big Pharma and the Pritzker family combined to fund WPATH, whose standards of care specifically prohibit a counselor saying “no” to an individual with gender confusion. An equally important element is state medical boards accepting “standards of care” written by money-seeking witch doctors.
“Standards of care” written by subcommittees of medical speciality boards that are populated by trans/woke/insane doctors whose lives are devoted to implementing their personal sexual fetishes as “policy.” The mainstream doctors aren’t serving on these committees and don’t have time to even see what is going on.
Medical boards generally don’t write SOCs. They “incorporate by reference” the SOCs of professional organizations. The gold standard of these is the American College of Surgeons, which uses hard data from zillions of cases to evaluate the effectiveness of “competing” surgical procedures.
WPATH is open to ANYONE “involved” in the counseling profession and there is no case data supporting their policy decisions. The members vote on SOC based on how they “feel.” The idea of a state medical board enforcing this pseudo-scientific crap by threatening licenses is pre-Medieval.
I have personally found that those who choose a Major in the Psychological realm, tend themselves to have psychological issues in needs and project their new found power and skills on others'. The medical profession as a whole, and by design, each student of medicine, has been corrupted by big Pharma and Big Donor funding. We saw the evidence of this quite clearly during the Covid Plandemic!
It's the far future: cancer is eliminated, Nepal is a global power, people live until 150, computers are now made of proteins that communicate in quantum levels, Mars has a permanent colony of 4 million inhabitants and bullet trains which in California is still in planning stage. I can imagine Cuckman Newsom's head kept alive in a jar like in Futurama and still campaigning desperately.
One thing to look out for, now that even the mainstream is starting to dare take a gander at California-as-it-is, is people who have been involved in leeching the state and its instutions dry; the clever ones will be starting to get out of their various grifts and suchlike about now, to avoid taking the heat.
Expect "whistleblower"-rewritings of history shortly, to the tune of "I tried my best to do the job right, and in earnest but insert-scapegoat-here just wouldn't listen".
When that happens, notice how the mainstream never asks "But you were perfectly fine with drawing a six-seven figure paycheck for ten years despite that?"
If'n I've seen that happen once over here, I've seen it a dozen times or more.
Ideally, we would make government fraud a capital crime with public executions. It would only take a couple for the attractiveness to wane. I’m not sure of its impact on bank robbery, but the 120 bullet holes in Bonnie & Clyde’s car could not have had a salubrious effect on bank robbery as a profession.
That impulse-driven crimes, as most robberies are, are punished much harsher than crimes that require aforethought, planning, study and knowledge... well, it's hard to explain without sounding like a Marxist trotting out the ole' class aspect-hobby horse.
AHAHA!! “I blame society, which is oppressing me. Not sure how, but obviously.” I’m 5.5 months pregnant with baby #6, thank you for giving me the words for when my brain is not functioning properly to homeschool and the wonderful California weather doesn’t break the funk. 😂🙌🏼
Iron Hill, the massive rare earth deposit, is in Gunnison County.
We obviously have a national interest and strategic need to break our dependence on China for rare earths. China demonstrated its willingness to use rare earths for coercive power over the U.S.
As we scramble to identify new sources of these minerals, there will likely be scrambles to protect known deposits from new mining.
I wonder if that could be part of what is driving this Act?
Chris, regarding GORP (almost rhymes with hork): well it’s being sponsored by Michael Bennett, so I’m already against it, just for that reason. And yeah, I live about 90 minutes from Gunnison.
Trying to be (somewhat) open minded, what is happening is a basically a conversion of land-use rights:
- From multi-use land (grazing, mining, logging, motorized recreation).
- Into restricted-use land (wilderness, conservation priority)
The problem is that the language being used is such that vast sections will be getting restricted to within a half-click of essentially being national parks, and in many respects, even MORE restricted than a national park. And those restrictions, once in place, will be nearly impossible to reverse.
Say critical rare-earth deposits are found there, in the future. Too bad so sad.
My gut is reacting to this bill the exact same way it reacted when Covid hit, and the (fucking) Feds said “not to worry, we have a safeandeffective vaccine, roll up your sleeve shithead, or lose your job. This is forthegreatergood.”
I have family in the town of Gunnison. They are liberals, one is a ‘college administrator’ at WSU. Been going to Gunnison in the summer since the early 70’s. It used to be conservative but then many people from the Front Range moved down to small town Gunnison & Crested Butte and it changed.
Crested Butte was basically taken over by wealthy developers from CA & TX now as well who aren’t conservative.
There is that ethos of cattle ranching that still exists in the Gunnison Valley, but it appears that this guy Bennett and many of the smaller towns on The Western Slope who have fallen in line with this measure, could put an end to that way of life in Gunnison County. Just like they did up in Pt. Reyes in NoCA!
Oh that explains it all. I won’t even try to get into a discussion with my liberal CO cousins about this.
They already think I am a total nut job, anti vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, but they are the kind of family members who never want to talk about “the elephant in the room”, like a person’s drug addiction or alcoholism or one’s crazy political views. 🤣
Yep! It is worse because Feminists are on the Protected Species List. They are free to enter any topic at full emotional, Tasmanian Devil like, whirlwind speed wreaking havoc and getting people killed, while squandering massive amounts of taxpayer dollars, yet suffering ZERO consequences!
The Republican Party at the state and local level are HOA Church going matrons who will screen out any balls or backbone because it might upset various local, state and Federally funded “arrangements.”
The GOP apparatus is a filter that only allows cowards- or occasionally MTG women who will flame out - to run.
To remedy this in small part Trump is top down endorsing and denouncing GOP candidates, especially GOP Indiana (which has drawn a vendetta sustained several months). This of course is limited but is a good start.
Look if you need serious no girls allowed, nor men whose wives have any control over their wealth.
"Socially conservative Republican elected officials: Um, I know that not everyone agrees with this, but, um, and this is just my own opinion, and, um, maybe not everyone thinks this, so I’m sorry, but, um, maybe we shouldn’t castrate children?"
Maybe some of these stinger-less ball-less jellyfish legislative "Republicans" should take a long, hard look at this guy, Dr. Michael Laidlaw, endocrinologist. Here he is, about seven years ago, boldly testifying about "transgender" treatment horrors with plain and simple facts. He was all but ignored. All the CA Dem (and some Repub) legislators hate him. All of his endocrinologist colleagues hate him. He is one in a million. A hero.
Nick Freitas, former Virginia Legislator and former Special Forces, now Podcaster "Making the Argument", explains how Republicans have to grovel and jump through hoops, set up by the established Republicans, in order to even get one of their bills to be heard by a committee! Then you have the Donors that want special favours. Part of why he retired was that he was not willing to go against his core principles.
YES, thank you Lisa. I will check out Nick Freitas. I've actually seen this myself, with my own two eyes, at the city council level, at the school board level, and at the state level. The super-majority Dem legislature (in CA for example) makes it nearly impossible for Repubs to prevail, but many fine and tenacious legislators do sometimes manage to move the ball forward, even if slowly, especially if Repubs act as a team, which as you and Nick Freitas have pointed out they very often do not do. Because of the good guys integrity, though, they are beloved by constituents and other observers. This will serve them well once out of the legislature. Making their constituents their #1 priority is a common theme with the best of them. And it's also voters' responsibility to support and back such politicians in their efforts. Publicizing the nonsense that goes on to educate the public, as then-CA-Assemblyman-now-Asst.-U.S.-Attorney Bill Essayli used to do (with videos on X), was like a "show-and-tell" for voters, which was a very effective teaching tool. Nothing like SEEING that stuff. Occasionally he made a huge stink in the legislative chambers as a result of legitimate outrage, which drew additional attention to the issue and to the slimy-souled knucklehead Dem legislators. All of this is helpful when you're in the minority, and with clean elections would more often result in wins and progress, although it's a long game in a cheating state like CA. I get it that the Dems can move your office to the "broom closet" to punish you and they will do it and have done it. Note that Bill Essayli's integrity, smarts, and talent led to his being appointed Asst U.S. Atty in CA, and that's not nothing as far as power to do good things for the state is concerned.
Lived in CA 1979-1998. Loved it during the 80s. It dove off a cliff in the 90s and kept falling. Moved to live near Mom in New Mexico. It's even worse! We call it North Mexico. Dems own and run this state. They can't run it into the ground because they already did that. Our idiot governor wants to turn us (state's economy is dependent on oil & gas) into a solar/EV paradise. So far, no good. But as bad as it is here, I'd never go back to pedoland. At least you'll never need to look far for stuff to write about, Chris!
Moved to East Bay in ‘89, and employer moved to Houston in ‘95. 6 wonderful years. I desperately missed it, until I realized that I’d avoided it jumping off a cliff. Every one of our friends moved out of CA when they retired.
That’s why I noted which ‘side of the hill’ I was referring to. Walnut Creek and Concord have always been nice suburban areas of mostly white people I would imagine back then. But now I’m sure there are wealthy Asians and Indians (from India) living there as well.
But the 680 corridor is a bitch to travel in the morning and in the afternoon. I used to drive it on road trips up the 101, to NoCA from SoCA to visit a friend in Napa!
Oh and a PS: when I lived in Santa Fe I went to a full moon gathering at a turquoise mine south of Santa Fe which a local guy from Santa Fe owned. Everyone was smoking dope and or getting high.
The governor at the time was Gary Johnson. I stood in a big circle of people around a big bonfire and watched Governor Johnson smoke a joint with his buddies! I kid you not!
Actually it’s better they don’t legalize it. The taxes for buying any ‘product’ with THC or THC/CBD in a ‘dispensary’ in CA are around 30%. They include a local tax, a state tax, and an excise tax. And how that ‘pot’ is processed it has a lot of bad chemicals in it. (Like the liquid vapes).
NM has its own flavor of corruption and a ‘patronage’ system in the State Government.
I lived in Santa Fe for 16 months in late 1999-2001. What a cliquey town and state. People are fake and phony and not particularly friendly and extending of themselves, if you’re not in their Group.
I came back to CA in spring of 2001. Now even though I am a ‘native Californian’ I’m ready to pack up and head out of CA. This place is but a shadow of it’s former beautiful self. 😒
If you are not familiar with Kara Dansky, you should be. She is a Democrat and has been raising the alarm about the trans movement for years. She has a Substack, as does Genevieve Gluck of Reduxx.
There is no such state as "Colorado" That state is dead, ruined, gone. It's been conquered and is now referred to as "Eastern California"
please update your style book.
Such a beautiful state. My dad grew up there, and I love hiking and skiing there. But it’s been Californicated.
Kommifornia is Kalifornicating all the red states. No one is safe. New Yawk is in on it, too.
It numbs me emotionally to think there could be an actual political debate over the legal mutilation of children's bodies. In one of the videos there is a gay male who says no one in the medical community asked him WHY he was thinking he was trans. Instead they simply put him in the pipeline for chemicals and irreversible mutilation. Anyone with logical thinking abilities can reach a reasonable conclusion as to the probable events that led this man to feel the way he did about his body and sexuality. The leap-frogging over the underlying causes is a feature, not a bug of the trans psyop. It has facilitated an army of soft minded accomplices self-righteously promoting "trans rights", all of whom should instead be decrying the sexual abuse of children on which much of the popular culture and the entire fake trans phenomenon is built.
Massive cultural failure that it ever rose to the level of political debate.
This issue hurts my heart. I have grown so tired of people couching objection to this drug-to-mutilation pipeline as us hating trans kids. NO, I despise the adults who have led children down this path - the 'proud' parents who for the street cred, brag about having (and readily accepting) their trans children, and the despicable goblins in the medical-industrial complex who are more than happy to profit off of their delusions and inner turmoil. There has to be a special place in hell for those disgusting charlatans.
Side note: I looked up charlatan to make sure I was spelling it correctly. Here is the definition, along with a sample of use in a phrase, as found in the Mirriam-Webster online dictionary:
charlatan
noun
char·la·tan ˈshär-lə-tən
Synonyms of charlatan
Simple Definition
A Simple Definition is available from our Learner's Dictionary to help you understand the meaning faster.
1
: quack entry 4 sense 2
charlatans harming their patients with dubious procedures
Now is that not apropos this conversation?
"There has to be a special place in hell for those disgusting charlatans." Dante described nine circles. Seven -- violence (sin against others, and/or nature), eight--fraud, and nine--treachery all seem to cover it.
When you have celebrity woke Moms with 4 kids and all of them tranny proudly walking their kids like parade animals ….. woke love that shit
It’s not a “political debate.” This is just the latest “moral torpedo” the Left has launched into the hull of a (generally) moral Western society. We’ve seen nihilism before – 1919 saw a phenomenal number of bombings across Europe and the U.S. by people determined to destroy existing society. Their “intellectual” descendants resumed the effort in the 1970s and 80s. The U.S. saw 2,500+ bombings.
Children are being targeted because their destruction will emotionally crush parents as a whole. It’s equivalent to the use of rats in “1984” on Winston to get him to emotionally turn on his lover Julia, and permanently crush his soul.
Obviously, this is aided by the Left’s intolerance of dissent on any subject. You are worthless if there is even a glimmer of daylight between you and the ever molting group opinion. Failure to repeat your fealty daily is treason.
As I said elsewhere, there’s money to be made in this chemical and surgical butchery. It’s been an industry.
And regarding this:
“Like trans kids, Republican legislators have had their balls removed.”
I would submit that most GOP lawmakers fall into the Ghostbusters category:
https://youtu.be/-0i4H45KVf4
The key element IMHO is when money from Stryker Medical, Big Pharma and the Pritzker family combined to fund WPATH, whose standards of care specifically prohibit a counselor saying “no” to an individual with gender confusion. An equally important element is state medical boards accepting “standards of care” written by money-seeking witch doctors.
“Standards of care” written by subcommittees of medical speciality boards that are populated by trans/woke/insane doctors whose lives are devoted to implementing their personal sexual fetishes as “policy.” The mainstream doctors aren’t serving on these committees and don’t have time to even see what is going on.
Medical boards generally don’t write SOCs. They “incorporate by reference” the SOCs of professional organizations. The gold standard of these is the American College of Surgeons, which uses hard data from zillions of cases to evaluate the effectiveness of “competing” surgical procedures.
WPATH is open to ANYONE “involved” in the counseling profession and there is no case data supporting their policy decisions. The members vote on SOC based on how they “feel.” The idea of a state medical board enforcing this pseudo-scientific crap by threatening licenses is pre-Medieval.
I have personally found that those who choose a Major in the Psychological realm, tend themselves to have psychological issues in needs and project their new found power and skills on others'. The medical profession as a whole, and by design, each student of medicine, has been corrupted by big Pharma and Big Donor funding. We saw the evidence of this quite clearly during the Covid Plandemic!
It's the far future: cancer is eliminated, Nepal is a global power, people live until 150, computers are now made of proteins that communicate in quantum levels, Mars has a permanent colony of 4 million inhabitants and bullet trains which in California is still in planning stage. I can imagine Cuckman Newsom's head kept alive in a jar like in Futurama and still campaigning desperately.
One thing to look out for, now that even the mainstream is starting to dare take a gander at California-as-it-is, is people who have been involved in leeching the state and its instutions dry; the clever ones will be starting to get out of their various grifts and suchlike about now, to avoid taking the heat.
Expect "whistleblower"-rewritings of history shortly, to the tune of "I tried my best to do the job right, and in earnest but insert-scapegoat-here just wouldn't listen".
When that happens, notice how the mainstream never asks "But you were perfectly fine with drawing a six-seven figure paycheck for ten years despite that?"
If'n I've seen that happen once over here, I've seen it a dozen times or more.
and no one will ever go to jail or even be perp walked
Ideally, we would make government fraud a capital crime with public executions. It would only take a couple for the attractiveness to wane. I’m not sure of its impact on bank robbery, but the 120 bullet holes in Bonnie & Clyde’s car could not have had a salubrious effect on bank robbery as a profession.
Agree all the way to the bank, pardon the joke.
That impulse-driven crimes, as most robberies are, are punished much harsher than crimes that require aforethought, planning, study and knowledge... well, it's hard to explain without sounding like a Marxist trotting out the ole' class aspect-hobby horse.
Skin in the game, as they say.
AHAHA!! “I blame society, which is oppressing me. Not sure how, but obviously.” I’m 5.5 months pregnant with baby #6, thank you for giving me the words for when my brain is not functioning properly to homeschool and the wonderful California weather doesn’t break the funk. 😂🙌🏼
BABY NUMBER SIX
Congratulations!
A one woman attack on our anemic fertility rate!
You deserve some kind of medal.
She has (will soon have) six medals. Bless you all Lilia!
I apologize for oppressing your ability to publish your planned article. I'll try not to be such a bigot next week. It's up to all of us to Be Better.
Chris Bray Justice is just social justice by a different name
Live your truth. <3
... and flush your poop.
Iron Hill, the massive rare earth deposit, is in Gunnison County.
We obviously have a national interest and strategic need to break our dependence on China for rare earths. China demonstrated its willingness to use rare earths for coercive power over the U.S.
As we scramble to identify new sources of these minerals, there will likely be scrambles to protect known deposits from new mining.
I wonder if that could be part of what is driving this Act?
Just speculation…
Interesting.
Absolutely.
Nobody snatches defeat from the jaws of victory like Republicans
Chris, regarding GORP (almost rhymes with hork): well it’s being sponsored by Michael Bennett, so I’m already against it, just for that reason. And yeah, I live about 90 minutes from Gunnison.
Trying to be (somewhat) open minded, what is happening is a basically a conversion of land-use rights:
- From multi-use land (grazing, mining, logging, motorized recreation).
- Into restricted-use land (wilderness, conservation priority)
The problem is that the language being used is such that vast sections will be getting restricted to within a half-click of essentially being national parks, and in many respects, even MORE restricted than a national park. And those restrictions, once in place, will be nearly impossible to reverse.
Say critical rare-earth deposits are found there, in the future. Too bad so sad.
My gut is reacting to this bill the exact same way it reacted when Covid hit, and the (fucking) Feds said “not to worry, we have a safeandeffective vaccine, roll up your sleeve shithead, or lose your job. This is forthegreatergood.”
For the record, I didn’t roll up my sleeve, I told my company they could fire me. They didn’t.
Who is this guy ‘Michael Bennett?
I have family in the town of Gunnison. They are liberals, one is a ‘college administrator’ at WSU. Been going to Gunnison in the summer since the early 70’s. It used to be conservative but then many people from the Front Range moved down to small town Gunnison & Crested Butte and it changed.
Crested Butte was basically taken over by wealthy developers from CA & TX now as well who aren’t conservative.
There is that ethos of cattle ranching that still exists in the Gunnison Valley, but it appears that this guy Bennett and many of the smaller towns on The Western Slope who have fallen in line with this measure, could put an end to that way of life in Gunnison County. Just like they did up in Pt. Reyes in NoCA!
He’s one of Colorado’s two woke-ass senators
Oh that explains it all. I won’t even try to get into a discussion with my liberal CO cousins about this.
They already think I am a total nut job, anti vaxxer, conspiracy theorist, but they are the kind of family members who never want to talk about “the elephant in the room”, like a person’s drug addiction or alcoholism or one’s crazy political views. 🤣
After many years, I´ve finally figured it out: Feminism is Patriarchy with tits.
I think it's a little worse. 🫤
Yep! It is worse because Feminists are on the Protected Species List. They are free to enter any topic at full emotional, Tasmanian Devil like, whirlwind speed wreaking havoc and getting people killed, while squandering massive amounts of taxpayer dollars, yet suffering ZERO consequences!
The Republican Party at the state and local level are HOA Church going matrons who will screen out any balls or backbone because it might upset various local, state and Federally funded “arrangements.”
The GOP apparatus is a filter that only allows cowards- or occasionally MTG women who will flame out - to run.
To remedy this in small part Trump is top down endorsing and denouncing GOP candidates, especially GOP Indiana (which has drawn a vendetta sustained several months). This of course is limited but is a good start.
Look if you need serious no girls allowed, nor men whose wives have any control over their wealth.
Not that democracy or voting can fix California.
"Socially conservative Republican elected officials: Um, I know that not everyone agrees with this, but, um, and this is just my own opinion, and, um, maybe not everyone thinks this, so I’m sorry, but, um, maybe we shouldn’t castrate children?"
Maybe some of these stinger-less ball-less jellyfish legislative "Republicans" should take a long, hard look at this guy, Dr. Michael Laidlaw, endocrinologist. Here he is, about seven years ago, boldly testifying about "transgender" treatment horrors with plain and simple facts. He was all but ignored. All the CA Dem (and some Repub) legislators hate him. All of his endocrinologist colleagues hate him. He is one in a million. A hero.
"AB 2119 Foster Care Gender Bill"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lu1r1pyGFc
Nick Freitas, former Virginia Legislator and former Special Forces, now Podcaster "Making the Argument", explains how Republicans have to grovel and jump through hoops, set up by the established Republicans, in order to even get one of their bills to be heard by a committee! Then you have the Donors that want special favours. Part of why he retired was that he was not willing to go against his core principles.
YES, thank you Lisa. I will check out Nick Freitas. I've actually seen this myself, with my own two eyes, at the city council level, at the school board level, and at the state level. The super-majority Dem legislature (in CA for example) makes it nearly impossible for Repubs to prevail, but many fine and tenacious legislators do sometimes manage to move the ball forward, even if slowly, especially if Repubs act as a team, which as you and Nick Freitas have pointed out they very often do not do. Because of the good guys integrity, though, they are beloved by constituents and other observers. This will serve them well once out of the legislature. Making their constituents their #1 priority is a common theme with the best of them. And it's also voters' responsibility to support and back such politicians in their efforts. Publicizing the nonsense that goes on to educate the public, as then-CA-Assemblyman-now-Asst.-U.S.-Attorney Bill Essayli used to do (with videos on X), was like a "show-and-tell" for voters, which was a very effective teaching tool. Nothing like SEEING that stuff. Occasionally he made a huge stink in the legislative chambers as a result of legitimate outrage, which drew additional attention to the issue and to the slimy-souled knucklehead Dem legislators. All of this is helpful when you're in the minority, and with clean elections would more often result in wins and progress, although it's a long game in a cheating state like CA. I get it that the Dems can move your office to the "broom closet" to punish you and they will do it and have done it. Note that Bill Essayli's integrity, smarts, and talent led to his being appointed Asst U.S. Atty in CA, and that's not nothing as far as power to do good things for the state is concerned.
Living in CO, I’d argue that it is more liberal and batsh*t crazy than Cali. We call it Cali-lite here. 🤣
Lived in CA 1979-1998. Loved it during the 80s. It dove off a cliff in the 90s and kept falling. Moved to live near Mom in New Mexico. It's even worse! We call it North Mexico. Dems own and run this state. They can't run it into the ground because they already did that. Our idiot governor wants to turn us (state's economy is dependent on oil & gas) into a solar/EV paradise. So far, no good. But as bad as it is here, I'd never go back to pedoland. At least you'll never need to look far for stuff to write about, Chris!
Moved to East Bay in ‘89, and employer moved to Houston in ‘95. 6 wonderful years. I desperately missed it, until I realized that I’d avoided it jumping off a cliff. Every one of our friends moved out of CA when they retired.
The East Bay is The Worst! That side of the bay all along Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley are total shit holes!
We lived in a really nice area of Concord.
That’s why I noted which ‘side of the hill’ I was referring to. Walnut Creek and Concord have always been nice suburban areas of mostly white people I would imagine back then. But now I’m sure there are wealthy Asians and Indians (from India) living there as well.
The whole 680 corridor in Contra Costa was nice – direct correlation between “niceness” & price. 😄
Indeed…more affluent and tidy communities, and the RE prices reflect that!
But the 680 corridor is a bitch to travel in the morning and in the afternoon. I used to drive it on road trips up the 101, to NoCA from SoCA to visit a friend in Napa!
Oh and a PS: when I lived in Santa Fe I went to a full moon gathering at a turquoise mine south of Santa Fe which a local guy from Santa Fe owned. Everyone was smoking dope and or getting high.
The governor at the time was Gary Johnson. I stood in a big circle of people around a big bonfire and watched Governor Johnson smoke a joint with his buddies! I kid you not!
He has wanted weed legalized for a long time.
Actually it’s better they don’t legalize it. The taxes for buying any ‘product’ with THC or THC/CBD in a ‘dispensary’ in CA are around 30%. They include a local tax, a state tax, and an excise tax. And how that ‘pot’ is processed it has a lot of bad chemicals in it. (Like the liquid vapes).
NM has its own flavor of corruption and a ‘patronage’ system in the State Government.
I lived in Santa Fe for 16 months in late 1999-2001. What a cliquey town and state. People are fake and phony and not particularly friendly and extending of themselves, if you’re not in their Group.
I came back to CA in spring of 2001. Now even though I am a ‘native Californian’ I’m ready to pack up and head out of CA. This place is but a shadow of it’s former beautiful self. 😒
If you are not familiar with Kara Dansky, you should be. She is a Democrat and has been raising the alarm about the trans movement for years. She has a Substack, as does Genevieve Gluck of Reduxx.
Her book hit my doorstep this week.
https://youtu.be/m3b5Q7b8YXo?si=64MajDr3sZ03WVXb
“You’re a white suburban punk just like me!”
Glorious