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Michael Pergola's avatar

I live in NYC . More people don’t care if they live in shit than you could ever believe .

25 year retiree of the NYC Sanitation Department here.

I could tell you stories that are unimaginable unless you had my first hand experience.

Please don’t forget that these people ALLOW drugs dealers to deal death right out of the apartment buildings their kids bounce a ball on the steps of .

I’m 64 years old , seen dozens of waves of immigrants from all over the the world and there’s one thing I know for sure …. they’re not all the same .

That’s a child’s dream . Some cultures are inherently inferior and will shit where they sleep , no problem.

On the other hand, I’ve watched the poorest of the poor , families with nothing , get off of airplanes in these same neighborhoods-different cultures however - with brown skin and in one generation raise doctors , nurses, architects, teachers ….. simply because they stressed the value of a education and the free public school education system in America .

Putting the liberal lie to rest once and forever about how the system doesn’t work.

Some cultures , black American culture for one , can’t get out of its own way .

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Chris Bray's avatar

Black ghetto culture. There's a black middle class that fled the shitholes.

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Michael Pergola's avatar

It’s the subcultures that Thomas Sowell has written so eloquently about.

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Sean's avatar

So did Chris rock.

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Van Ivey's avatar

Black rednecks and white liberals.

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

I’ll never forget a news story after the Rodney King riots (when MSM actually reported news) with a reporter that rode along with a black owner of a chain of fried chicken restaurants in LA. He told the reporter that despite his doing well (very well) that he never wanted to abandon his old neighborhood. He made it a point to keep a majority of his restaurants in black neighborhoods.

Then, he came upon one of his restaurants as it was being looted by some black thugs:

Owner: “WTF are you doing in my restaurant?”

Looters: “we thought this place was Korean owned!.”

Owner: “WTF difference does that make? GTF out of my restaurant!!” [the owner was a BIG DUDE!]

Reporter: Do you think you’ll rebuild here?

Owner: No f*ing way I’m done after this.

So much for affluent blacks feeling obligated to stay in their ‘hood. I wouldn’t either!!

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Michael Pergola's avatar

Indeed . 🎯

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Mitch's avatar

But they are no longer accepted by the black community. They are the black face of whiteness.

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E. Grogan's avatar

Only by black GHETTO community.

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Brandy's avatar

Yes! Our friends Bobby and Kim (black) bought this nice house in a pretty nice neighborhood in a cul de sac. We went over the other day and he was so freaking mad. Im not gonna repeat what he said, but "I moved out of the damn ghetto to get away from the hard r's. They better not bring all that loud music, messy yard, baybay kid over here. I'mma have to move again!" 😂 His words not mine. He says stuff like that All the time.

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Richard Parker's avatar

Only 160 years since the end of the Civil War. These things take time. <s>

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Will Martin's avatar

Say Nigger To Prove You’re Real.

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

It´s a magical power word, like "beaver". Never say it out loud.

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Mike Ware's avatar

😂

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Richard Parker's avatar

160 years since the end of the Civil War. These things take time. <s>

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Johnny Dollar's avatar

My wife is a teacher in an inner-city school in Montreal (my daughter's boyfriend is from San Diego. When he visited that part of the city and found out it's considered inner-city he said, 'THIS is your ghetto?' It's sublime next to what Chris showed here but Montreal is slowly getting worse. Wait until safe-supply really kicks in. I digress) and she observed the same thing. Southeast Asians take education and family very seriously and are out of the 'ghetto' real fast. But she also sees troubling rhetoric from some of her Muslim kids.

(Muslim) kids say the darnedest things should be a TV show.

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Michael Pergola's avatar

Thanks for the response . My city is about to elect a full-blown socialist . I’m a 1960’s civil rights liberal whose views haven’t changed, but compared to the illiberals running the DNC I’m suddenly a fascist, a Trumper .

What I am is a father of three, first and foremost.

The safety of my children is paramount to me. It’s sickening to watch as an entire party gets ideologically captured and surrender the safety of their children to their high priests and priestesses in literal blood sacrifices and excusing violent criminality .

I feel like I’m trapped in a lost episode of the Last of Us .

The Cordyceps virus is strong amongst today’s version of progressive and this zombie apocalypse isn’t going away any time soon.

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Johnny Dollar's avatar

Oh, I'm well aware of what's going on in NYC. Been visiting since the Dinkins/Koch/Giuliani years. Lost count how many times Upstate. That's why I keep an eye on I Love NY.

It's wld how anyone could believe that commie and his free shit. My sister is a 60s old world bleeding heart liberal. And she's infuriated with what happened to the left. She cried for two days after Kirk's assassination.

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spingerah's avatar

Vancouver used to be nice, with the drug infected criminal element confined to a few square blocks. Now it's most of the city.

Stanly park is overrun with the walking dead of the addicted.

Safe injection sites is their solution.

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Richard Parker's avatar

Sad, but predictable, about Stanley Park. Spent my time in the park with my Canadian cousins.

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Johnny Dollar's avatar

Wow. I stayed in North Vancouver with a friend when I visited in the 90s. Stanley Park was so pretty and pristine. Shame.

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

If you have a municipal pension and if it is underwritten by current revenues, then you a part of the problem.

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Susan's avatar

Every time I see that lying Karen Bass' name, never mind hear her voice, or God forbid see her image with her idiot's smile and fake cheeriness (when she's not doing her fake angry ranting act), I remember the sick, sinking feeling I had when my husband and I were evacuated from the January fires and I saw her peddling her piles of horse$%@# to L.A. residents on the local TV news. I knew NOTHING good would come from her being mayor for L.A. residents who had lost everything and who only wanted desperately to GO HOME, as we did. She and her minions are useless, money-grubbing, power-mad bottom-feeders. Calling them communists almost gives them too much credit.

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Chris Bray's avatar

The bizarre smile. It's like a warning beacon.

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Isaiah Antares's avatar

That hard, plastic smile. Nothing in the eyes.

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Susan's avatar

Exactly.

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Dena's avatar

People who smile as they talk cannot be trusted. Bass & Newsom cases in point.

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Chris Bray's avatar

People who ALWAYS smile, no matter the topic or circumstances. Creeeepy.

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gadflybytes's avatar

Love that Joker™️

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Skenny's avatar

A la Obama.

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ASoldier'sDaughter's avatar

I'm so sorry for what Bass and her comrades have subjected you to. I remember reading after the LA fires that more than 50% of all fires there are caused by homeless. She doesn't want to solve any problems, nor do I believe she's capable of it. This is the woman that eulogized Castro as "Commander-in-Chief" and did the same when the head of the CPUSA died.

She put her good friend in charge of homelessness in LA on a high 6 figure salary. They want to keep the drug addicted and mentally ill homeless. Pays very well for them and is so much easier than actually working at putting people in rehab, jail or mandating psychiatric care. Leftist ideology on full display in LA. I pray it gets better for you.

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Brian DeLeon's avatar

She’s a shoe-in to be re-elected mayor because no one is running against her. What does that say about Los Angeles and the people who live there? They’re happy to give that grinning clown four more years to finish destroying LA.

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joe's avatar

voter fraud.

The results we see in every (D)bag managed area only make sense with lots of voter fraud.

The refusal to have basic ballot integrity is another sure sign.

Maybe I'm wrong, but it's the best place to start. The cost would be trivial.

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Bandit's avatar

"...minions...useless, money-grubbing, power-mad bottom-feeders." The best description of dems I've ever read.

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joe's avatar

too kind. Their leadership is evil, their voters are stupid.

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Bandit's avatar

All true. Demons, all.

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Name Invalid's avatar

We all get the government the communists deserve.

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Odysseus's avatar

Communists were serious people. The Soviet Union became an industrial powerhouse within a generation and reached the space not long after.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

You have a lot of leeway for accomplishments once you murder, imprison or exile all your political opponents. But then again, not all 5-Year Plans are created equal.

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Timothy Rutt's avatar

You can’t have a Holodomor unless you really try!

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OregonB's avatar

It takes a village!

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Richard Parker's avatar

The Communist were good at some things for periods of times at the cost of staggering human suffering. There are better ways to progress.

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joe's avatar
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When they come to power, they soon start culling the lunatics who got them there.

Those types are useful for causing chaos, and creating a demand for totalitarian government.

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Patricia Russell's avatar

How was she voted into office? Is it cheating? Or do people just vote for her because she has a "D" after her name? Do people not see the decay all around them? Or do they just accept this as "the way things are" and not connect this to who they are voting for? I guess my question is rhetorical - I see the less than mediocre people in Washington DC & I can barely believe such mediocrities are in the seats of power. Chris Bray is correct. This is performative virtue signaling emptiness. But so many people seem to be okay with this.

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E. Grogan's avatar

I'm from California originally, lived there most of my 70 yrs and grew up in L.A. Elections have been stolen in Calif for decades. Gov. Gruesome had a recall election about 2 yrs ago and 93% of Californians voted to kick him out of office. This info comes from 2 different people who worked the polls, counting the votes. Gruesome refused to leave office and is still there, illegally. The fires that were there a few months ago were started on purpose, there is photo evidence and I've seen lots of it. Reservoir in Pacific Palisades had been totally dry for 6 months to a year and no one did anything about it. They let that beautiful, million-dollar area burn to the ground and now those people, whose insurance had been cancelled a couple months beforehand, are either homeless, living in their cars, or are living in very cheap places. This was PLANNED.

So no, most folks are NOT OK with what is going on in California or L.A.

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Susan's avatar

Oh, they're not above election cheating, believe me. Also, unfortunately, "engineered" low voter turnout is and has been a huge problem in City of L.A., with special interests (e.g. public employee unions, bad-guy non-profits, and others with a "stake" in corruption) filling in the gap. With every cycle this nonsense has increasingly suffocated voter motivation. If the new and old blocs of angry voters actually vote there is always the possibility of overwhelming "the cheat." We'll see what happens in 2026. Fingers crossed.

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E. Grogan's avatar

I feel the same way you do. Karen Bass is horrendous and I can't stand to watch her. Every time she opens her mouth she lies. Another angry lesbian with way too much power. I don't have a problem with gay/lesbian but there are lesbians who are WAY angry and hate men, yet they still try to act like men and I see Bass as one of them. Insanity on steroids.

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joe's avatar

My experiences with homosexuals is that they are sex-crazed lunatics who would f_ck anything that doesn't run fast enough.

They want to be loved, but won't stoop to decent behavior, or even just not proselytizing the vulnerable.

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SamizBOT's avatar

They used to say that all politics is local and I wish that were true! I live in California and all politics is Trump. You'd think an argument over high density subsidized housing staining our already full to bursting infrastructure would be about local concerns, but you'd be wrong! No, it's actually about being the kind of people that oppose the dehumanizing rhetoric of the Trump administration. Multiply this times infinity.

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Chris Bray's avatar

WE OPPOSE THE DEHUMANIZING RHETORIC OF THE TR-- hold on a minute, I have to step over this overdose death

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ASoldier'sDaughter's avatar

Thank you for taking the time to include the footage of Koreatown. Leftist ineptitude always allows ideology to override any concern for humanity. Truly gut-wrenching.

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

I hope you wore steel soled shoes ( notice I didn’t say steel toes). Steel soles would prevent needle pokes that might otherwise occur though rubber soles.

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Leonard's avatar

Every politician blames someone else. The difference now is that Bass et al don’t even care if their next schme fails - they practically expect it to fail. Success would scare the shit out of them because it would only increase expectations.

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SamizBOT's avatar

I'm flabbergasted that you misread my comment this badly

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Jeff's avatar

My mistake! I read it quite literally. Comment deleted.

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Jerri Hinojosa's avatar

Hugh, I read the comment by Samiz as sarcasm, but I could be wrong

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Brettsky's avatar

Unhoused annoys me as much as Latinx.

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Chris Bray's avatar

It's as pointless as Latinx, a change in noise without a meaningful intervention in language. It's just a compliance-generating maneuver. A thing to force people to do for the sake of forcing people to show that they'll do it if forced.

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kapock's avatar

So that we think of ourselves as slaves … I mean, enslaved persons

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Chris Bray's avatar

Persons who are experiencing enslavement

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Leonard's avatar

Involuntarily employed.

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

Add fake pronouns to that list. I swear to God that if anyone corrects me on their pronouns, they’ll get the biggest “fuck off” they’ve ever been subjected to.

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Richard Parker's avatar

I demand respect! My personal pronoun is 'Living Tsar-God'.

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okboomer's avatar

They're just undocumented Latinx immigrants of color experiencing unhousedness.

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

Any more than “undocumented immigrants”? That one makes my blood boil! 🤬🤯

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mileytheduchess's avatar

"They’re useless, or worse than useless and on into the category of being actual agents of ruin."

Agents of Ruin would be a great name for a band.

But yes, the Democrat Party is all about ruin - maiming children permanently, turning young women into nose-ringed harpies, turning young and old men into grotesque parodies of womanhood, turning cities into hellholes.

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CB's avatar

Dems and their globalist bosses favor ruin (just for the joy of it) and depopulation (for the climate scientism and pristine country estates). Speaking of country estates, why is Trump in England cavorting with the rotting corpse of "British" (i.e., transylvanian) "royalty"?

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mileytheduchess's avatar

It's a state visit. It happens.

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Larry Bailey's avatar

I thought Newsom promised to have homelessness eliminated by now. This and the monorail are almost unimaginable failures. CA needs to bring in Buttigieg to right the ship.

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Bandit's avatar

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

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Richard Parker's avatar

Another $4 or $8 billion should do the trick.

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Ripple's avatar

High speed rail. Massive clusterf**k.

Booty judge is just the guy. He doesn't even know where to stick it in.

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CB's avatar

Isn't Booty still nursing?

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mileytheduchess's avatar

That's a BRILLIANT idea!

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Cindi Good's avatar

Thank you Chris for your great work! We are far, far away in NE California, although we do have our small share of the homeless in late spring, thru fall (they don't like the snow), they go to Redding for the winter. But we don't have them on the streets, or in visible encampments (they do house at the river), but our law enforcement does try and keep them cleaned out. I'm so sorry for your big cities, as I know it's a real problem. We have conservative leaders, the big cities in CA have radical leaders.

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Alan's avatar

I can't help but believe it is by design. No government is that incompetent. Bass, Newsom, Waters, Pelosi, Schiff. They are paid by their masters to run California into the ground. Traitors to America, all of them.

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Kimberly Kinser's avatar

1000 percent correct.

The sooner we understand this is the Marxist plan, the sooner we can stop wasting our energy trying to convince ourselves it’s just naive incompetence and get busy reclaiming our neighborhoods.

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Alan's avatar

All roads lead to London. I think Trump and some in his cabinet understand this. He’s just letting the Marxists unmask themselves until enough Americans see the light.

Where is John Brennan? Has he fled the country? He had a State Dept. underling delete Obama’s State Dept. passport file. The young man was cooperating with investigators, and when called to testify before Congress in 2010, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the back of his head, execution style. Hmmm.

His name was Lt. Quarles Harris, Jr., 24 years old.

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Rikard's avatar

I think that by now, there's no plan beyond "Do whatever the enemy opposes/objects to".

And calling them Marxists is being charitable. Venal scum without any moral or ethics beoynd "Does this profit me here and now?", like some parasitoid slowly killing the host.

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Throgmorton's avatar

That is an accurate description of a Marxist.

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Kimberly Kinser's avatar

I think Marxism is vastly misunderstood and/or underestimated in terms of just how diseased and malignant a cancer it is. Karl Marx wasn’t merely wrong-headed; he was Luciferian. In his private life, he destroyed everyone and everything he touched. In his public life, he expounded a demonic system of destruction and despair.

Now, most of our universities are Marxist education institutes, tax payer funded, and we allow this outrageousness.

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Throgmorton's avatar

Marx liked to quote Mephistopheles from Goethe's Faust "Everything that exists deserves to perish." He meant it. Marxists are driven by the frustrated pride of those unable to create, so they can only corrupt and destroy. You are correct - it is Luciferian!

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Kimberly Kinser's avatar

If it’s seen as a charitable description, it’s further proof that Marxism is not well understood and has been successfully white washed.

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Zorost's avatar

100%

Robert Conquest's Third Law of Politics + Hegelian Dialectics

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PapayaSF's avatar

It’s now 10 months since Trump won, and Democrats seem paralyzed, stuck on repeating their old scripts. I suspect their bigwigs are secretly panicked. They know Trump has the goods on them, with Trump people at the top of the DOJ, FBI, etc and with DOGE sysadmin access to official systems. They know Trump intends to spend the next three years doing a controlled demolition of not just the Democratic Party, but the entire left, especially after the Kirk assassination. Patel tearing Schiff a new one looks like foreshadowing: he’ll be one of the first to go down, for mortgage fraud and possibly more.

I’ve tried to think of a way for Democrats to avoid catastrophe, but I can’t. I think they’re trapped. If they stay the course or double down, they'll continue to lose moderates and make MAGA look good. If they try to move to the center, they’ll enrage their left wing and fracture their party, and probably not gain enough swing voters to compensate. I see no potential 2028 candidates with national appeal. (Newsom? LOL.) It looks like Democrats are on the wrong side of the Fourth Turning.

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Chris Bray's avatar

I regard the Democratic Party as a near-dead thing, worthless and meaningless and generally screwed. Congressional Republicans can give up the victory by sitting there doing nothing, and they might.

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Bandit's avatar

That's what they usually do.

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jewel's avatar

yes like the vote to not censure Ilhan - unbelievable

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PapayaSF's avatar

Yes, they need to find their spines and go for the kill (metaphorically and legally).

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Lorenzo Warby's avatar

That is what status quo conservatism does. Slow down a bit the progressive direction of travel.

https://www.lorenzofromoz.net/p/which-conservatism

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Throgmorton's avatar

A lot of bad actors revealed to be engaged in mortgage fraud lately. Perhaps it is a means of laundering corruption. Instead of handing over a suitcase full of loot, the state just looks the other way, and the end result is the same. Just like exorbitant book-deals for print-to-pulp literary disasterpieces nobody buys or reads, and Gofraudme collections, where a lump-sum is channelled through a swarm of small 'donors' who may not even be aware that a donation has been made in their name. The West is being destroyed by means of large cash-flows, moved via unconventional means.

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CB's avatar

I read that Biden, pinched for pennies, has a $10 million book deal coming. He should write it on the same drugs he used for his debate with Trump. But where are his Ukrainian billionaire friends? Couldn't they at least put him on the board at Burisma and pay for his library?

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PapayaSF's avatar

We know it’ll be ghostwritten and have more lies than truthful revelations.

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CB's avatar

Maybe autopen!

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Leonard's avatar

If you could save the Dem party, they’d kill you. All they want is affirmation.

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Randy Farnum's avatar

“We have met the enemy and he is us.”

So our politicians are incompetent and useless but yet continue getting re-elected to office. The American citizens are the ones who are failing. Too many of us are lazy and indifferent to the decay.

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Chris Bray's avatar

The deeply troubled neighborhood around MacArthur Park has elected...this:

https://cd1.lacity.gov/councilmember-hernandez

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Brian DeLeon's avatar

“Since taking office in December 2022, Councilmember Hernandez has prioritized a Care First agenda that focuses on investing in community care, workforce development, social services, and harm-reduction programs that help make our neighborhoods safer and healthier places for all Angelenos.”

Chris, you found evidence there is an alternate universe!

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nymusicdaily's avatar

it gets better. "After a successful career leading campaigns, coalitions, and commissions that transformed local and statewide policy, Eunisses felt it was time to fight for a new vision for District 1. One where we center community and invest in systemic change that meets the needs of our people—needs like deeply affordable housing, structurally supported alternatives to incarceration, and expanded social protections that protect Angelenos from the violence of poverty."

"deeply affordable housing:" does that mean i get to live in the sub-basement, councilor?

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FuriousIT's avatar

I looked all this up in my Antifa Quick Reference Dictionary of Marxisms:

"systemic change" = Marxist tyranny

"need of our people" = needs of the elite

"deeply affordable housing" = your front lawn

"structurally supported alternatives to incarceration" = your front lawn

"expanded social protections" = your tax dollars

"violence of poverty" = your guilt

Hope this was helpful.

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Susan's avatar

It means you get to live in (non-burned) beachfront property in Malibu.

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nymusicdaily's avatar

the new politically correct doll from mattel: malibu Eunisses

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Susan's avatar

HA HA

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ASoldier'sDaughter's avatar

Insanity.

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ZuZu’s Petals's avatar

She’s described as a “community organiser”, a term I’m not familiar with in England. I looked it up and am still perplexed. Is it as much of a non-job as I think?

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nymusicdaily's avatar

career bureaucrat on the soros payroll. obama is the most famous one

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Susan's avatar

YES.

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Bandit's avatar

Going in Obummer's footsteps...a community organizer. 🤢🤮

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Kimberly Kinser's avatar

Are we certain he was legally elected?

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CB's avatar

Structurally elected.

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Throgmorton's avatar

Of course he wasn't.

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William Hunter Duncan's avatar

Hopefully the right can just let the Dems destroy themselves, with a little help. No need to get violent in the streets. Dems are dying in the gutters they left to the homeless.

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Zorost's avatar

The problem is they don't stay there and die conveniently, they move out to where we live to leach off of us even more directly. Every place that is now a shitty leftist hole was once a thriving community.

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Throgmorton's avatar

It is literally how a virus reproduces. The parasitised cell bursts, releasing a swarm of infectious virus particles.

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Bandit's avatar

Very true!

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nymusicdaily's avatar

liberal uptake of the covid jab was very high

they bear the seeds of their own destruction

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Bandit's avatar

🤞

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Maria's avatar

While people are abandoned. Abandoned, can I say one more time these people are abandoned and the Democratic Party proliferates it. One more time, ABANDONED. Can you imagine being homeless in Oklahoma during January? Or, maybe Southern Indiana where 40,000 Haitians have been relocated?

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Susan's avatar

Even worse, in many cities the politicians and their joined-at-the-hip bad-actor non-profits actually MAKE MONEY off of the backs of the mentally ill drug addicts who live in their own filth and misery on the streets. These politicians and their friends seek to GROW homeless-vagrancy, not fix it. See "The Homeless Industrial Complex" by Edward Ring

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ASoldier'sDaughter's avatar

Bingo!

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Throgmorton's avatar

And they if you go after their exploitation of the homeless, then can screech "why do you hate the homeless, you monster!!!" It's the Devil's Alibi!

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Susan's avatar

Screeching such things was in Phase 1. We're in Phase 98 or so now.

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I’m A Nobody, Cogito, Ergo Sum's avatar

Not being from CA or the LA area, but it seems like some enterprising Asian American should call the Mayor of LA’s office and pretend to be the Chairman of the CCP and is planning a trip to LA and wants to visit Koreatown. Worked in SAn Fran. Wouldn’t hurt to try.

Very sad situation in all major US cities run by dems. We see it here in Texas. Our great Republican governor, not, sees it all over the Portland of the South, also known as Austin, TX.

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Chris Bray's avatar

FAKE XI VISITS

This is absolutely brilliant

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okboomer's avatar

It will take more than 11 visits to clean up LA.

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Throgmorton's avatar

Maybe his successor, Chairman XII, will finally do the job!

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

In Brazilian Portuguese, the word XIXI means pee.

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Susan's avatar

If ONLY we could have some laughs in the midst of our misery with OUR OWN fake theatrical presentations.

Hoping this suggestion will put a bug in someone's ear.

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VeryVer's avatar

nobody knows what to do with these homeless drug addicts. dems are stuck in NGO grift "help" mode and conservatives don't want to pay for prisons and nut houses. i think what surprises both sides is how the homeless population keeps growing and not somehow dying.

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SSBN734's avatar

I think you'll find that conservatives consider paying for nuthouses and prisons one of the only things the govt should do with our taxes.

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Susan's avatar

I think you're right about that. More and more as time goes on and the chaos continues.

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Kathleen Lowrey's avatar

This is true. I do think if either side really knew precisely how to humanely and effectively deal with drug addled people they would be doing it. No one has crankish theories of consumption anymore, we just treat TB with antibiotics. No competing schools of ideological thought, no romanticizing of it, no policy fights. Treatment that works ended all that. No one knows what to do to really turn life around for hardcore addicts.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

More normalization of mental illness and addiction…. Every time I read your stack … I say to myself “ it’s not sustainable and will not end well . “

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

It will end in a stable pile, like a collapsed building. You can then point to it and say, "look, a pile of stability! Success!"

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Artemus Gordon's avatar

The offer is valid here in Spokane and that's less than 30 miles from Coeur d'Alene! We went to dinner last week downtown Spokane. We arrived to see 3 squad cars and about 6 cops standing around a covered (completely) body across the street from the restaurant and a crew of "unhoused" watching the scene. It's alive and (not so) well in Spokane..

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Chris Bray's avatar

Was there this summer. Impressed by how thoroughly Spokane has pursued ruin.

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Artemus Gordon's avatar

It's interesting how an area which appears to be conservative generally allows (votes) for liberals in the city government. The current mayor is a democrat, and of the seven city council members, 4 are "progressive". Happily I don't live in Spokane, but about 20 miles north in farm country...

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Richard Parker's avatar

Unions can easily dominate city elections.

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Throgmorton's avatar

Do they have any real choice in who they can vote for? Or is it just a choice between Tweedle-dumb and Tweedle-dumber?

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Artemus Gordon's avatar

not that I've noticed.

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OregonB's avatar

Only an hour east of C'DA...world of difference. Something in the water, surely, nothing to do with the WA leadership.

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