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Nov 05 2024

Last Election Unless America Wins

Elon Musk is the richest man in the world because he is a visionary genius. He understands the stakes today. So does Joe Rogan, another former Democrat who has endorsed Donald Trump.

Key quotes:

MUSK: “If Trump doesn’t win, this is the last election.”

ROGAN: “I think you’re right.”

MUSK: “Go out and vote. Vote like your life depends on it, vote like your future depends on it, because it does.”

Deliberate demographic displacement will remain in overdrive with Border Czar Kamala in control. Millions upon millions of illegal aliens will be legalized. The USA will become a single-party state like formerly conservative California — with the difference that Californians have the option of escaping to other states.

Legislation to facilitate election fraud like the Orwellian “For the People Act” will guarantee that voters don’t present any surprises.

On tips from Chas No and KirklesWorth. Hat tip: Whatfinger.

Oct 28 2024

Kamala’s California Power Trip

You might well ask how much worse Kamala Harris could be than the nasty, senile leftist tool Joe Biden. The answer: vastly.

Cackala’s combination of stupidity and viciousness would be unprecedented in the highest office. To give an idea of how foolish it would be to give this woman authority over us, consider how she misused her position as Attorney General of California.

Truancy is bad right? Not as bad as having Kamala Harris in a position to destroy people’s lives:

On tips from seaoh and Anonymous.

Sep 23 2024

How Lottery Tickets Are Acquired in California

If you are curious to see what the collapse of civilization looks like, turn to single-party California, where it is on display:

Via Lottery Post:

A San Francisco lottery retailer was left with thousands of dollars’ worth of property damage after a truck slammed through the building to steal lottery tickets.

Of course the thieves were driving someone else’s truck.

Even if suspects are sometimes arrested, as in this case, a climate of lawlessness prevails under Democrat rule; that’s why theft is ever more brazen and prevalent.

It could have been worse — and last time it was:

One year ago, a similar crime resulted in $10,000 worth of lottery tickets being stolen. [Store owner Nick Lawson] has since toughened up his lottery ticket area, which may have contributed to having lost only $350 in tickets this time around.

Let’s not forget the property damage. But it’s nothing compared to the damage that will be inflicted on the whole country if the same sort of people who have been running California in general and San Francisco in particular consolidate power at the national level.

Guess who was San Francisco district attorney before becoming California attorney general?

For the fist time ever, Tim Walz is right:

On a tip from R F.

Sep 23 2024

Squatters and Graffiti Vandals Hit Hollywood Hills

The pink elitists comprising our ruling class seem to believe they can destroy America for the little people without wrecking for themselves. Inner cities are hideous hellholes and normal people who can’t afford armed security are set upon by feral vermin as society collapses into lawlessness thanks to liberal policies, but places like Hollywood Hills remain immune. Or maybe not:

What was once a posh mansion in California’s Hollywood Hills section has turned into an eyesore after it was taken over by squatters and taggers.

Local police have been rendered largely irrelevant in liberal enclaves like Los Angeles.

One neighbor said 911 has been called several times just in the past week.

To no avail. Clear them out, back they come within an hour.

It’s worse than just an eyesore:

“Apparently, some squatters came and actually attacked one of the neighbors with steel rebar and [a] beer bottle,” the neighbor said.

In desperation, they are leaving no stone unturned:

Neighbors also say they’ve reached out to L.A. Councilwoman Nithya Raman’s office but haven’t had much luck with a resolution.

Raman identifies as a homelessness advocate. Like most Democrats in positions of power, she is unlikely to side with the law-abiding.

On tips from Wiggins and KirklesWorth.

Sep 21 2024

Rite Aid Forced to Lock Up Almost Everything

You can see why Californians have finally begun to push back against Democrats on crime. Businesses have been forced to close due to effectively legalized shoplifting. Those that remain will have to subject their customers to this:

[A] Rite Aid store in Compton … installed locked glass cases on every aisle, meaning a majority of items for sale apparently require the assistance of a store employee. …

“It feels weird when you walk in there,” customer Eduardo Ramirez said of the Compton Rite Aid store. “Really uncomfortable.”

“The only thing that’s not locked up is the drinks, but that’s it,” he added. “Everything else is locked up.”

You hear that, Compton residents? Free drinks at Rite Aid!

If Democrats remain in power much longer, every store will resemble an inner city liquor store, with purchases passed around a pane of bulletproof glass. The next step after that will be no stores at all.

On a tip from Steve T.

Sep 20 2024

Proper Response to California Banning Parody

As mentioned earlier,

Like other totalitarian ideologies, moonbattery cannot withstand humor and therefore cannot allow it.

Moonbats especially don’t like Mr. Reagan’s hilarious parody Kamala ad. Gavin Newsom & Co. responded to it by making “deceptive” memes illegal.

Mr. Reagan’s video was explicitly labeled “PARODY” in all caps. Who determines what is deceptive? The same people who determine what is “hate speech,” “misinformation,” et cetera.

Elon Musk’s response to Newsom’s response is appropriate:

Currently that has 192,000 retweets.

The Babylon Bee responds appropriately too:

Democrats don’t want to ban videos like that because they are deceptive, but because they ring true.

On tips from Varla, Chris Neilson, and Anonymous.

Sep 19 2024

Californians Push Back Against Democrats on Crime

Continuing with today’s theme of the Grand Canyon–sized disconnect between the moonbat ruling class and the rest of us, let’s move on from the Teamsters, the MSM, and Covid tyrants to the kooks like Gavin Newsom who have turned California over to criminals:

Newsom and Democratic legislative leaders vehemently oppose an anti-retail theft measure on the November ballot.

In stark contrast, among the people they supposedly represent,

The support numbers are stunning for Proposition 36, sponsored by the California District Attorneys Assn. It would increase punishment for theft and hard drug offenses and impose required treatment for repetitive criminal addicts.

The initiative is ahead by an astonishing 45 percentage points, according to a new poll of likely voters by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California: 71% to 26%, with only 3% undecided.

Prop 36 would undo some of the damage inflicted when California moonbats effectively legalized shoplifting by making any theft under $950 a misdemeanor.

Misdemeanor arrests are harder to make because a cop must witness a crime or possess a judge’s warrant. Anyway, judges began freeing petty thieves. So, cops stopped responding to shoplifting complaints. Merchants ceased bothering to report the crimes. And smash-and-grab thefts increased.

Consequently, stores closed and the quality of life declined, as can be expected under the rule of libs like Newsom, who barks:

“Mass incarceration has been proven ineffective and is not the answer.”

Then what is the answer?

Newsom’s initial answer included trying to strongarm Proposition 36 off the ballot. It failed awkwardly, leaving legislative leaders perturbed at the governor.

Newsom can console himself that after Proposition 8 passed in 2008, defending marriage from desecration, homosexual judge Vaughn Walker decreed it null and void. Maybe he can find a drug-addled shoplifting judge to do the same with Prop 36.

On a tip from Anonymous.

Sep 14 2024

Taxpayers to Provide Illegal Alien Phone Discounts

Since American taxpayers apparently don’t mind buying homes for the illegal aliens imported from the Third World to displace them, why shouldn’t we pay their phone bills too?

The latest proposal [from the moonbats running the erstwhile Golden State] would eliminate requiring social security numbers for the California LifeLine program, which provides phone bill discounts for low-income residents. …

“If an undocumented Californian falls on hard times, they should benefit from this program, just like every other Californian,” said utilities commission President Alice Reynolds.

By “undocumented Californian,” she means someone who is not a Californian or even an American but a foreign invader who is in the country illegally.

Providing illegal aliens with subsidized phone service is particularly important because as Director of Policy and Administrative Advocacy for Neighborhood Legal Services Los Angeles Lena Silver observes, it helps them to acquire more public benefits at our expense.

On a tip from WDS 2.0.

Aug 02 2024

Free Phones for Illegal Aliens

Let’s see, what else can we do to encourage parasites from every corner of the world to flood across the undefended border so as to suck our blood and displace us from our country? California has the answer — give them free phones:

The California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposed decision last week that all Californians should have access to a state cell phone service subsidy program, even if they don’t have a Social Security number…

Some illegal aliens have not bothered to illicitly acquire other people’s Social Security numbers. It would be racist and xenophobic to deny them phones paid for by someone else on that basis.

Privileged identity groups whose interests come before ours and who have been oppressed by the need to have a Social Security number to get a free phone include not only illegal aliens but also “unhoused individuals who might have had their documents taken during an encampment sweep.”

Applicants will also be able to submit current foreign government identification documents.

Why bother expropriating wealth from US taxpayers if you’re only going to give it to Americans?

It is particularly important to give moochers free phones, because it allows them to access still more free money, according to Lena Silver, director of policy and administrative advocacy for Neighborhood Legal Services Los Angeles:

“Having a phone is so crucial to gaining access to all the other public benefits. … If you don’t have a phone, it’s going to be really difficult to access WIC, CalFresh and other services,” Silver said.

Get to work, taxpayers. Someone has to generate wealth to pay for all this.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Jul 11 2024

Stores Threatened With Fine for Reporting Crime

Due to the woke policies of letting criminals run free, effectively legalizing shoplifting, and marginalizing police, shoplifting is out of control in California. For every problem created by liberals, there is a liberal solution:

The Sacramento City Attorney’s Office warned a chain retail store that it could face a public nuisance charge due to a large number of phone calls placed to police when thieves repeatedly stole from its Land Park location.

This particular store is a Target.

The alleged warning issued by Sacramento city officials — and similar actions by other cities across the state — prompted lawmakers to add an amendment to a retail theft bill that would outlaw such threats made by authorities. Pursuing legal actions against businesses for reporting crime brought heavy criticism from law enforcement.

No doubt this criticism constitutes evidence of systemic racism, for reasons of disparate impact.

The alleged warnings by city officials statewide may affect what crime data is reported as businesses contend with the potential of facing legal action for reporting retail theft…

Threaten to fine people for reporting crime and presto: lower official crime rate. No wonder liberals regard themselves as so much smarter than the law-abiding little people they rule over.

Stores themselves aren’t the only victims:

Land Park Community Association members said the frequent criminal activity at the Target has prompted residents to record instances of crime, according one report by Ch. 13, the Sacramento CBS affiliate. Kristina Rogers, president of the association, also complained in the report about how the crime hitting the business bleeds into the neighborhood.

A rising tide lifts all boats. Moonbattery has the opposite effect.

On tips from Wiggins and Ed McAninch.

Jul 09 2024

California Star Chamber for Transsexualizing Children

If it would please you to sexually mutilate your child but the other parent objects, head to the erstwhile Golden State. Authorities will go to extremes to take you side:

“My ex-wife, Anne Georgulas, wants to castrate my son, James,” Jeff Younger, the father, told The Daily Signal in a statement Wednesday. James is 12 years old. “Judge Michelle Kazadi denied me access to my own case records. She illegally sealed my case with no public access.”

The trial has been made secret à la Star Chamber. The process is so rigged that Younger can’t even get an independent medical examination of his son.

Normally the moving vans go from California to Texas. But sometimes people have reason to move the other way:

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an official opinion on Feb. 18, 2022, stating that performing any sterilizing medical procedure on a child constitutes felony child abuse. Georgulas later described Texas as having a “dangerous political climate,” and she moved to California in November 2022. Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., had signed state Senate Bill 107, turning California into a “sanctuary state” for “gender-affirming care.”

“Bottom surgery” may be the fate awaiting the 12-year-old boy whose mother evidently decided he wants to be a girl at least 8 years ago. It would be difficult to overstate the evil of inflicting the LGBT agenda on children.

On a tip from R F.

Jul 08 2024

Running a Business in Our Democrat Future

No need to wonder what America will look like if Democrats achieve their demographic and political objectives; 68% nonwhite, 80% Democrat Oakland is already there:

An Oakland gas station manager [was] expressing anger and frustration Friday after dozens of people ransacked his business overnight – and to make matters worse, he says police never showed up after he called for help. …

Station manager Sam Mardaie believes some 80 to 100 people took part – apparently unhappy that they weren’t allowed inside the station and only offering window service which was normal for that time of night.

The looting started around 4:30 a.m. and went on for 40 minutes.

Mardaie estimates that the damage and theft totals are more than $100,000.

A small price to pay for social justice.

Mardaie and his family took over the business less than a year ago.

The marginalized police did finally show up:

It was only after a video of the mass looting was shared with the department that it was raised to a Priority 1 and an officer was sent to the store nine hours after the robbery began…

Liberal readers will be pleased to note that none of the looters appeared to be worried about the police inflicting systemic racism.

On tips from Wiggins and WDS 2.0.

Jun 28 2024

Running a Business Under Democrat Anarchotyranny

Where Democrat anarchotyranny has been established as in San Francisco, running a business is challenging:

Cigarettes Cheaper, a family-owned small business […] has been broken into and ransacked on four different occasions, according to Bashir, the store’s owner. …

“How many times do we have to go through this? I get it (if it’s) once or twice, but it just continues to happen,” Bashir said. “I think we’re at the verge to just completely close our shop because the profit is not that great. All we’re trying to do is maintain. Everything’s expensive. The rent is up, employee (costs) are high, and on top, (we have) to deal with this.”

Welcome to California now that Democrats have consolidated control.

The store is walled with interior fencing because of previous break-ins, but Bashier said the thieves used a car to ram through it […]

Disposable cars are easy to come by in California. Just steal one. In the name of Critical Race Theory, police have been marginalized to the point of irrelevance.

Costs are estimated to be in the tens of thousands from stolen items […] and the damage to the storefront.

Another benefit of living in Gavin Newsom Land:

“There’s no insurance. State Farm has completely kicked us out because they call the state of California a hot spot,” Bashir said. “I don’t blame them because they’re here for business, not to just continue to give you money. So, there’s chaos going on here (and) they cancelled everybody’s policy. They won’t give insurance because they know the outcome.”

See here for more on State Farm giving up on the erstwhile Golden State.

The police did chase the criminals. But then they crashed into a police car and ran away. At last word, no arrests had been made.

Municipal bureaurats realized Bashir had not been sufficiently punished for trying to run a business, so…

Want to turn the whole country into this? Vote Democrat.

On a tip from seaoh.

Jun 21 2024

Free Luxury Housing for Bums

These days the American dream of owning their own home is beyond the reach of many young people, mainly due to the crushing burden of excessive government, which has driven up interest rates and the cost of housing. Their problem is, they are going about it the wrong way. Instead of getting a job and working hard so they can afford a mortgage, they should quit their jobs, blow their money on fentanyl, and spend their time defecating on the sidewalk. That would earn them the reverence of the liberal establishment, which bestows extravagant privileges on those it adores — including luxury housing. No need to own a home when Big Government provides for you:

It would be nice to think that at some point, the people who are effectively enslaved through taxation so as to pay for this will push back. But apparently it is too late for that to happen in California.

On tips from WDS 2.0, Franco, and Wiggins.

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