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Civilization Recedes in Southern California

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It isn’t just in South Carolina that civilization cannot be taken for granted. The same goes for California. The New York Post reports:

Fourth of July descended into mayhem across parts of Southern California as unruly crowds overwhelmed packed-out fireworks displays, looted stores, ignited fires and saw cops charge on horseback.

It is safe to say that the hooligans were not celebrating American independence.

The worst unrest erupted in Newport Beach, where Independence Day revelers poured into Orange County, choking traffic and triggering a police response as disorder spread near the pier.

In the extended aftermath of the Black Lives Matter riots, police can barely maintain public order:

Officers were swarmed by hundreds of people who hurled bottles and other debris at them before the crowd turned on one another and began fighting.

Here’s an alarming scene:

Progressives will be delighted to see that those trying to run businesses are among the first victims as civilization collapses.

Video from the scene also appeared to show the aftermath of the reported looting of a Pavilions grocery store in Newport Beach, with merchandise strewn across the parking lot while groups of people lingered outside the business, laughing and joking.

Businesses had to be shut down from Newport Pier to the Pacific Coast Highway.

“Teens” were also at play in Long Beach:

The media will have no problem coming up with pretexts to mobilize these mobs as necessary to help Democrats achieve power. Even a Criminal of Color dying of a fentanyl overdose while in police custody could be enough.

On tips from DCGere and Tlabia Majora.

California: Home of the Worst-Run Cities

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According to Matthew 7:16, Ye shall know them by their fruits. In California, the fruits of moonbats are ruined cities.

From the New York Post:

WalletHub analyzed 148 of the biggest American metropolitan areas, trying to determine how efficiently the local governments run each city.

They developed a “Quality of Services” score based on 36 different metrics across six key areas – Financial Stability, Education, Health, Safety, Economy and Infrastructure & Pollution.

Don’t look in the top 25 for California cities; you won’t find any. Only one is in the top half. But there are six in the bottom 15.

San Francisco is the Mecca of Moonbattery, launching the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris, and Gavin Newsom toward power. Unsurprisingly, it ranks dead last for the second year in a row.

California used to be paradise on earth — the American Dream come true. Then came liberalism.

On a tip from abcanc.

How to Qualify for Homosexual Set-Asides in California

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In moonbat-ruled California, contracts are awarded not only on the basis of being non-white and/or female, but as a reward for engaging in homosexuality.

From City Journal:

The scheme operates through the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), which regulates privately owned utility companies. California utilities spent more than $43 billion in 2024 on contractors—fuel suppliers, surveyors, engineers, and others—whose work helps deliver water, gas, electricity, and internet service to California’s 39 million residents.

Back in the 1980s, CPUC established a Supplier Diversity Program to discriminate against white men. Like all things progressive, it progressed:

In September 2014, then-Governor Jerry Brown signed legislation requiring CPUC to recognize “LGBT-owned businesses” as eligible for supplier-diversity benefits. Five years later, Governor Gavin Newsom expanded the program further, “encouraging” other companies involved in the energy sector to award contracts to gay-owned firms.

CPUC now has quotas for how much business must go to firms owned by homosexuals. Here’s how bureaucrats ensure they deserve this privileged status:

Supplier Clearinghouse, a group that certifies firms for the CPUC program, features a list of qualifications linked on its website. Applicants can secure certification by providing a letter from an “LGBT organization” attesting to their sexual preferences; proof that a newspaper identified them as “LGBT”; or three letters from “personal contacts” written “on company letterhead” attesting to their homosexual orientation. Corporate officials who “falsely represent” their business as gay face up to a year in county jail.

Supplier Clearinghouse also accepts gay-certification letters from the National LGBTQ+ & Allied Chamber of Commerce. The chamber has its own list of accepted documents, including human resources complaints or police records claiming LGBT discrimination.

Just to be sure, maybe they should require business owners to submit homemade porno movies.

In California, preferential public contracting is technically illegal. In 1996, voters approved Proposition 209, which banned the state from granting preferential treatment based on race, sex, or ethnicity in public employment, education, and contracting. More than two decades later, in 2020, they rejected an effort to repeal the ban.

Sure, and in 2008, California voters passed Proposition 8, banning homosexual marriage. Where moonbattery prevails, voters only get what they want when they want what they are supposed to.

On a tip from R F.

Gavin Newsom Threatens to Imprison Trump Over California Election Fraud

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Democrats have not given up on their dream of throwing Donald Trump in prison:

By “politicians spreading election lies,” he means Trump.

The context is the farce unfolding in California, where Spencer Pratt is getting knocked off the ballot by a dubious avalanche of mail-in votes for the absurd Nithya Ramen, and votes for Governor are nowhere near counted more than a week after the election.

Via Western Journal:

This banana republic-like method of conducting an election has raised suspicions, notably from Trump. The president, of course, has always maintained that Democrats used mail-in ballots to cheat him out of the 2020 election.

“FAFO, Donald,” snarls Newsom to underscore his threat. That’s how he talks to the President of the United States.

In a May 27 news release, Newsom’s office announced that the governor had signed Senate Bill 73.

As the release makes clear, the bill is aimed at “growing threats of election interference and intimidation, including efforts by allies of President Donald Trump to undermine confidence in elections and disrupt lawful election administration.”

That is, California is attempting to criminalize objections to election fraud by Democrats. This calls to mind the Stop Nick Shirley Act, intended to shut down independent investigative journalists who dig where Democrats don’t want them to.

If California were its own country, it would be Venezuela. This will go for the USA as a whole if Democrats like Newsom take power at the national level. As his threat reminds us,

The anti-Trump lawfare of the Biden years is on the agenda if he gets into the White House.

Democrats probably really will throw Trump in prison on one trumped-up charge or another the moment they are able. That’s what happens to opponents in banana republics.

On a tip from patthedog.

Minimum Wage Wipes Out Jobs in California

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Not everything Democrats do is ineffectual. Consider minimum wage hikes — via Yahoo Finance:

Carl’s Jr. is staring down the potential loss of dozens of California locations after a franchisee and its affiliates filed for bankruptcy protection — blaming the state’s staggering minimum wage. …

Friendly Franchisees Corporation CEO and Founder Harshad Dharod said the state’s $20 minimum wage in the fast-food sector contributes to the chain’s financial distress ahead of bankruptcy filing under subsidiary Sun Gir, according to Restaurant Dive.

Fast food franchises cannot stay solvent while paying teenagers $20/hour to flip hamburgers. No one expects them to. The objective of ever higher minimum wage is to saw off the bottom rung of the ladder, resulting in more government dependence and thereby more votes for Democrats.

Carl’s Jr. isn’t the only victim:

California’s high fast-food minimum wage has spelled trouble for other fast-food operators…

Researchers found that the minimum wage hike has cost the fast-food sector 18,000 jobs since it went into effect in April 2024, representing a 3.2% decline in that sector compared to fast-food sectors in other parts of the country.

Imagine how many jobs Gavin Newsom et al. could wipe out if given power at the national level.

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Gavin Newsom Introduces 100% Taxation

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One of Obama’s several autobiographies is entitled Dreams from My Father. His father floated the idea of 100% taxation. This dream could come true in Democrat-dominated California.

The Hill reports:

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Wednesday said he will impose a 100 percent tax on state residents who receive money from the Trump administration’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund meant to compensate those who feel they were wrongfully prosecuted by the government.

Governor Greasy will confiscate the money with relish:

“One thing that I think we’re going to try to do … is tax 100 percent. Anyone from California that receives any of those funds, we want to tax 100 percent of those proceeds. And that’s an action the state of California can take,” Newsom said. “It’s an action we look forward to taking.”

Democrats object to the fund on the grounds that it could compensate those unjustly persecuted following January 6. They call it a “slush fund” — which is rich coming from Newsom, who has his own controversial funds.

Via Fox News:

Among the programs that faced scrutiny was a $25 million California legal fund created to combat what Newsom described as “legal warfare” from the Trump administration. California Republican Senate Minority Leader Brian Jones later deemed the fund a “slush fund.”

Newsom also faced scrutiny during California’s 2021 recall campaign over the state’s use of no-bid COVID-19 contracts. A Kaiser Health News investigation found California awarded billions of dollars in emergency contracts to firms tied to donors, political allies and well-connected insiders.

Taxing at the rate of 100% is an idea sure to catch on among other Democrats. Being progressives, they will progressively apply it more broadly. At least it is better than executing CEOs.

As for what Newsom et al. would do with the loot, City Journal offers a possibility:

California is spending millions of dollars on a program that provides free solar panels, refrigerators, and windows to “low-income” farmworkers, including illegal immigrants.

It is believed that providing illegal aliens with free solar panels will please leftist weather gods.

Meanwhile, California faces a $2.9 billion budget shortfall that is predicted to rise, despite the highest income taxes in the nation. Not even 100% taxation could keep up with Democrats’ profligate waste of other people’s money.

On tips from abcanc.