California is the blueprint for the rest of the country. Fuck everything up at the most basic levels, but continue funding as if it were all working perfectly.
And, in fact, the system IS working perfectly for the "leaders", they get to siphon BILLIONS AND BILLIONS from the taxpayers and direct it to their cronies scattered about the state. The homelessness issue is a perfect microcosm -- cities spend out the ass to 'fix' the problem, but instead only make it worse.......ensuring they get even more money next year. (See also: Portland, Seattle)
Sending thoughts and prayers to you from the great “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire, where we fled to from Malibu last year. I’m one of the 700,000 CA refugees. Life has never been better. I love it here.
We live in Volusia County, and one of the few seniors who are friends with my kid took his boyfriend to the prom. No fanfare; it was just what happened, and nobody blinked. I hear from friends in the North about the violent, extremist bigotry of FL, and I don't know where they're talking about. I have literally never lived anywhere as non-judgmental as FL, and I spent nearly a decade living in Manhattan.
I don't like to use the word "hate" but I hate Los Angeles and most of the people here. I came to CA in 1997 and really enjoyed life here until about 2012. Then the politics started getting all weird. We are the playground for awful communist ideas and the speed of deterioration is picking up steam. The part I hate most is that there are a lot of people here who are just willfully blind to what is going on. So I like to say almost everyone here is either a Monster or Sheep.
Gavin is loathsome. If you look up “sociopath” in the dictionary, his picture is right there.
Yes, all the clown talk is to distract from failures. Yet Gavin doesn’t seem troubled. Why should he be? There are no consequences for most Democrats who are colossal failures by any normal metrics. Do a terrible job, keep the job or get a promotion is how it works. Gavin is political royalty. The money keeps getting spent. Nobody stops them. I’m guessing your elections in Cali are rigged too. I mean why not? It’s not like the election fraud model they’ve worked out won’t work everywhere. In Cali most of the Uber wealthy will stay, at least for now. As the taxes get even more onerous, more will leave. They like having the biggest homeless population. They like having cities that don’t function. It’s a feature for the political elite, not a bug. If they wanted to fix shit, they’d fix it. They clearly don’t care. So...the question is only why most Californians don’t seem to care either. This is clearly a game of chicken. How badly can we treat you before you leave or revolt? They don’t care about retaining the middle class. The middle class is the only class questioning their activities. We work hard and expect performance. The poor get handouts, and so do the wealthiest tech lords and industrialists. So as long as the govt. money tap is open, they are drinking like a frat house on a Saturday night. Only the middle class is disturbed by things not working like street lights and schools. There is no politically powerful middle class in totalitarian societies. That’s why they are driving you out. You are in the way. Fiscal and infrastructure Collapse, debt, crime, depravity. They don’t care at the French Laundry. Join the cult or leave.
Societal collapse. The only question is, will it be just a steady deterioration like Rome's, or some black swan event, even a minor one, that pushes your state over the cliff? So sad, such a beautiful place, blessed with so much. But all the politicians that have done this were voted in by the proletariat. Remember De Maistre's observation of the the French Revolution: "People in democracies get the governments they deserve".
We'd love to have you in Texas. In my part, we're much muggier and hotter than along your coastal areas and mountains. But we have only two seasons: green, and less green.
Victor Davis Hanson has often written (and I paraphrase because I can't find the exact quote) that the more a state or local politician is incompetent to handle the state or local problems under his or purview, the more he will talk about and spend money on airy global issues that he has no ability to affect one way or the other.
It took me a while, but I eventually worked out why people get so upset about seeing stuff like "tens of billions of dollars for high-speed rail, and not a single mile of track after a decade".
Turns out that people think that this sort of thing reflects a FAILURE OF POLICY
(__FUCK SUBSTACK FOR THEIR RETARDED COMMENT SYSTEM__ btw)
It's nothing of the sort. The correct amount of money went into the correct pockets.
Robert Higgs wrote an extremely insightful piece in NINETEEN NINETY FIVE (1995). It's been freely available on Mises.org for at least a decade (it's been a bookmark of mine since 1:34pm on December 5th 2016, but I first read it almost a decade earlier).
It's not rocket surgery: simply start from the premise that politicians are parasitoid (parasitoid is different from parasitic, in that parasitoids invariably KILL THE HOST), and that everything they ever say or write is a lie - or at the very least is so rife with 'embedded asterisks' that it may as well be vapour.
NO EXCEPTIONS.
(__FUCK SUBSTACK FOR THEIR RETARDED COMMENT SYSTEM__ btw)
Amazing that Californians continue to vote for their own destruction. A secular humanist mindset is leading them down a path that is hopeless. Newsom claims he “owns” the homelessness problem. Yet he doesn’t understand the cause. He blames things like a “lack of affordable housing” as if that was the real culprit. The reason people are living on the street is so much deeper.
Gavin's boring old day job is Governor of California, but his real higher calling is his holy position as Pope of Social Justice, as Cali of course is the Vatican City of the Church of Social Justice.
And the first job of Pope as Defender of the Faith is to protect the flock of faithful and hunt down all heresies, which are the work of Satan aka Hate or (in this case) "heteronormativity".
The Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church has detected 556 (!) bans of sacred dogma, as every child has the god-given right to explore their sexuality, no matter how pre-pubescent they may be, and depriving one child anywhere of a BJ manual is an attack on all children everywhere. Haven't we all read in our Critical Bibles that removing graphic descriptions of sex from public schools is the literal equivalent of Nazi book burnings? Only heretics disagree!
"Grand Wizard" DeSantis, the Antichrist on Earth—anathema sint!—has declared war on the Church and all its works but Pope Gavin is preparing a new crusade where his righteous armies will rescue Florida from its "state of emergency" and deliver the benefits of sacred Social Justice to all its people. All for the glory of the New God. Praise be unto them/their name.
Whenever a politician says they’re going to do something in X number of years you know it’s bullshit. Promises promises.
And look at Gavin. Isn’t he cute? Such a little sparkle in his eyes. Why wouldn’t you believe everything that he says? I’ll bet he gets every single middle-class woman’s vote. Just like Bill Clinton did.
I'm interested to see what happens to California after the democrat mono-party is done sucking all the value out of it. The Chinese and Mexican people are serious about continuing their culture here. There are already millions of Chinese and millions of Mexicans. I know of a private school where all the kids are Chinese and they speak only Chinese in class. These schools are probably everywhere. There are so many advantages to non-citizenship here, that the Mexican people are thriving, and many other central and south American people are along for the ride. I recently bought pesos so I can trade with them when the dollar crashes, and I'm learning a little Spanish. I think the peso will have more buying power here than in Mexico, because they will be more scarce here, and I expect the dollar to come uncoupled from the peso, and the peso to float against the dollar. I believe Mexico will be the sixth BRICS nation because of their massive silver production.
The wealth is the land. Steinbeck was right about that even though he was a drunk lefty communist. If I learned one thing from reading Michener, it's that the wealth is the land.
You can blame Newsome and the Woke Democrats (AKA globalist feudalists) but the reality is this can only happen because the people want it to, and/or let it happen, whether wilfully or because they are submersed in propaganda and lack personal discipline to think for themselves. The Woke are useful idiots for the globalist elites like Newsome, who is part of an Oil family if I’m not mistaken, which is why he is anti nuclear and pro renewables - the former works the latter doesn’t so the former is a threat to oil and the latter isn’t, not hard to figure out when you stop listening to the propaganda noise...
So point out Newsome and the elites by all means but that will not wake people up. Rather focus on what impacts them directly, like you have been re infrastructure and crime and vagrancy etc but make it personal to the people with stories they can’t ignore. Only that has a chance to wake them up to all that is false: Covid policy, mRNA jabs and big Pharma and the health complex generally, propaganda and censorship; climate alarmism lies and the big lie of the Woke ideology.
California is the blueprint for the rest of the country. Fuck everything up at the most basic levels, but continue funding as if it were all working perfectly.
And, in fact, the system IS working perfectly for the "leaders", they get to siphon BILLIONS AND BILLIONS from the taxpayers and direct it to their cronies scattered about the state. The homelessness issue is a perfect microcosm -- cities spend out the ass to 'fix' the problem, but instead only make it worse.......ensuring they get even more money next year. (See also: Portland, Seattle)
You, sir, are a gift in my email inbox.
Dare I say, a national treasure.
Sending thoughts and prayers to you from the great “Live Free or Die” state of New Hampshire, where we fled to from Malibu last year. I’m one of the 700,000 CA refugees. Life has never been better. I love it here.
Join me?
We live in Volusia County, and one of the few seniors who are friends with my kid took his boyfriend to the prom. No fanfare; it was just what happened, and nobody blinked. I hear from friends in the North about the violent, extremist bigotry of FL, and I don't know where they're talking about. I have literally never lived anywhere as non-judgmental as FL, and I spent nearly a decade living in Manhattan.
Gavin Newsom is the Jim Jones of our time. Unfortunately the body count will far outnumber the ones discovered in Jonestown Guyana in 1978.
He’s chomping at the bit to run for Prez. Would probably slip Dementia Joe a drano daiquiri if he had the chance
I don't like to use the word "hate" but I hate Los Angeles and most of the people here. I came to CA in 1997 and really enjoyed life here until about 2012. Then the politics started getting all weird. We are the playground for awful communist ideas and the speed of deterioration is picking up steam. The part I hate most is that there are a lot of people here who are just willfully blind to what is going on. So I like to say almost everyone here is either a Monster or Sheep.
Gavin is loathsome. If you look up “sociopath” in the dictionary, his picture is right there.
Yes, all the clown talk is to distract from failures. Yet Gavin doesn’t seem troubled. Why should he be? There are no consequences for most Democrats who are colossal failures by any normal metrics. Do a terrible job, keep the job or get a promotion is how it works. Gavin is political royalty. The money keeps getting spent. Nobody stops them. I’m guessing your elections in Cali are rigged too. I mean why not? It’s not like the election fraud model they’ve worked out won’t work everywhere. In Cali most of the Uber wealthy will stay, at least for now. As the taxes get even more onerous, more will leave. They like having the biggest homeless population. They like having cities that don’t function. It’s a feature for the political elite, not a bug. If they wanted to fix shit, they’d fix it. They clearly don’t care. So...the question is only why most Californians don’t seem to care either. This is clearly a game of chicken. How badly can we treat you before you leave or revolt? They don’t care about retaining the middle class. The middle class is the only class questioning their activities. We work hard and expect performance. The poor get handouts, and so do the wealthiest tech lords and industrialists. So as long as the govt. money tap is open, they are drinking like a frat house on a Saturday night. Only the middle class is disturbed by things not working like street lights and schools. There is no politically powerful middle class in totalitarian societies. That’s why they are driving you out. You are in the way. Fiscal and infrastructure Collapse, debt, crime, depravity. They don’t care at the French Laundry. Join the cult or leave.
Societal collapse. The only question is, will it be just a steady deterioration like Rome's, or some black swan event, even a minor one, that pushes your state over the cliff? So sad, such a beautiful place, blessed with so much. But all the politicians that have done this were voted in by the proletariat. Remember De Maistre's observation of the the French Revolution: "People in democracies get the governments they deserve".
We'd love to have you in Texas. In my part, we're much muggier and hotter than along your coastal areas and mountains. But we have only two seasons: green, and less green.
Danny Huckabee
Victor Davis Hanson has often written (and I paraphrase because I can't find the exact quote) that the more a state or local politician is incompetent to handle the state or local problems under his or purview, the more he will talk about and spend money on airy global issues that he has no ability to affect one way or the other.
It took me a while, but I eventually worked out why people get so upset about seeing stuff like "tens of billions of dollars for high-speed rail, and not a single mile of track after a decade".
Turns out that people think that this sort of thing reflects a FAILURE OF POLICY
(__FUCK SUBSTACK FOR THEIR RETARDED COMMENT SYSTEM__ btw)
It's nothing of the sort. The correct amount of money went into the correct pockets.
Robert Higgs wrote an extremely insightful piece in NINETEEN NINETY FIVE (1995). It's been freely available on Mises.org for at least a decade (it's been a bookmark of mine since 1:34pm on December 5th 2016, but I first read it almost a decade earlier).
It's called "The Myth of 'Failed' Policies".
https://mises.org/library/myth-failed-policies
It's not rocket surgery: simply start from the premise that politicians are parasitoid (parasitoid is different from parasitic, in that parasitoids invariably KILL THE HOST), and that everything they ever say or write is a lie - or at the very least is so rife with 'embedded asterisks' that it may as well be vapour.
NO EXCEPTIONS.
(__FUCK SUBSTACK FOR THEIR RETARDED COMMENT SYSTEM__ btw)
Amazing that Californians continue to vote for their own destruction. A secular humanist mindset is leading them down a path that is hopeless. Newsom claims he “owns” the homelessness problem. Yet he doesn’t understand the cause. He blames things like a “lack of affordable housing” as if that was the real culprit. The reason people are living on the street is so much deeper.
Gavin's boring old day job is Governor of California, but his real higher calling is his holy position as Pope of Social Justice, as Cali of course is the Vatican City of the Church of Social Justice.
And the first job of Pope as Defender of the Faith is to protect the flock of faithful and hunt down all heresies, which are the work of Satan aka Hate or (in this case) "heteronormativity".
The Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church has detected 556 (!) bans of sacred dogma, as every child has the god-given right to explore their sexuality, no matter how pre-pubescent they may be, and depriving one child anywhere of a BJ manual is an attack on all children everywhere. Haven't we all read in our Critical Bibles that removing graphic descriptions of sex from public schools is the literal equivalent of Nazi book burnings? Only heretics disagree!
"Grand Wizard" DeSantis, the Antichrist on Earth—anathema sint!—has declared war on the Church and all its works but Pope Gavin is preparing a new crusade where his righteous armies will rescue Florida from its "state of emergency" and deliver the benefits of sacred Social Justice to all its people. All for the glory of the New God. Praise be unto them/their name.
Whenever a politician says they’re going to do something in X number of years you know it’s bullshit. Promises promises.
And look at Gavin. Isn’t he cute? Such a little sparkle in his eyes. Why wouldn’t you believe everything that he says? I’ll bet he gets every single middle-class woman’s vote. Just like Bill Clinton did.
I'm interested to see what happens to California after the democrat mono-party is done sucking all the value out of it. The Chinese and Mexican people are serious about continuing their culture here. There are already millions of Chinese and millions of Mexicans. I know of a private school where all the kids are Chinese and they speak only Chinese in class. These schools are probably everywhere. There are so many advantages to non-citizenship here, that the Mexican people are thriving, and many other central and south American people are along for the ride. I recently bought pesos so I can trade with them when the dollar crashes, and I'm learning a little Spanish. I think the peso will have more buying power here than in Mexico, because they will be more scarce here, and I expect the dollar to come uncoupled from the peso, and the peso to float against the dollar. I believe Mexico will be the sixth BRICS nation because of their massive silver production.
The wealth is the land. Steinbeck was right about that even though he was a drunk lefty communist. If I learned one thing from reading Michener, it's that the wealth is the land.
You can blame Newsome and the Woke Democrats (AKA globalist feudalists) but the reality is this can only happen because the people want it to, and/or let it happen, whether wilfully or because they are submersed in propaganda and lack personal discipline to think for themselves. The Woke are useful idiots for the globalist elites like Newsome, who is part of an Oil family if I’m not mistaken, which is why he is anti nuclear and pro renewables - the former works the latter doesn’t so the former is a threat to oil and the latter isn’t, not hard to figure out when you stop listening to the propaganda noise...
So point out Newsome and the elites by all means but that will not wake people up. Rather focus on what impacts them directly, like you have been re infrastructure and crime and vagrancy etc but make it personal to the people with stories they can’t ignore. Only that has a chance to wake them up to all that is false: Covid policy, mRNA jabs and big Pharma and the health complex generally, propaganda and censorship; climate alarmism lies and the big lie of the Woke ideology.
The solution to California's problems is simple and obvious: Send more weapons to Ukraine.