California has remained at the cutting edge of moonbattery by proclaiming that blacks should be handed massive cash payouts in honor of their position of privilege high in the cultural Marxist caste system. Estimated bill: $800 billion.

The $800 billion is more than 2.5 times California’s $300 billion annual budget and does not include a recommended $1 million per older Black resident for health disparities that have shortened their average life span. Nor does the figure count compensating people for property unjustly taken by the government or devaluing Black businesses, two other harms the task force says the state perpetuated.

To judge by liberal rhetoric, the main harm is slavery. But slavery was never legal in California. Nor was it legal anywhere in the USA during the lifetime of anyone alive today.

Handing out massive quantities of other people’s money is not the full extent of the nuttiness California kooks have planned in the name of racial preference:

Other proposals include paying incarcerated inmates market value for their labor, establishing free wellness centers and planting more trees in Black communities, banning cash bail, and adopting a K-12 Black studies curriculum.

Note that liberals conflate blacks with criminals.

The $800 billion estimate in California includes $246 billion to compensate eligible Black Californians whose neighborhoods were subjected to aggressive policing and prosecution in the “war on drugs” from 1970 to 2020.

Blacks are to be showered with money to compensate them for having been provided police protection.

To be a liberal is never to ask, “But how are we going to pay for this?” Someone else always pays.

California doesn’t have the cash to finance this looting spree. But lunacy hatched in California is eventually imposed at the federal level. The federal government doesn’t have the cash either. But it can print it.

If you think inflation is bad now, wait until Democrats have won another round of elections. We will be burning piles of hundred-dollar bills to keep warm.

On a tip from Chuck A.

In an attempt to gin up global warming hysteria, liberals have been shrieking for years that soon there will be no snow in California because carbon emissions. Meanwhile, snowpack in California has been setting all-time record highs.

Ellen DeGenerate has tried to spin all the precipitation in California as proof that primitive weather gods are angry with us for not kneeling at the altar of the global warming hoax. Leftist propaganda outlets like CNN and the US Government don’t even try to spin it; they just pretend it isn’t happening. There is still a drought in California, buried along with people’s houses beneath the white drifts.

Tony Heller dumps a shovel load of snow atop the dead credibility of the liberal establishment:

As soon as the snow melts California will be back in a drought emergency, thanks to moonbat rule, which in the name of minnows prevents the state from constructing sufficient reservoirs to store the water before it trickles wasted out into the ocean. We will be told that the endless drought is caused by our failure to drive electric cars.

On a tip from Lyle.

The maxim “Get woke, go broke” applies beyond corporations that put politically correct posturing ahead of the bottom line. It can apply to whole cities, like the moonbat Mecca, San Francisco, which may have to repeal its ban on doing business with states that do not sufficiently comply with leftist ideology:

The ordinance was passed in 2016. Chapter 12X was voted into existence in the wake of the Obergefell v. Hodges decision and it took aim at states that passed so-called anti-LGBTQ legislation. The boycott was amended twice in 2019 and 2021 to add additional states which passed restrictive abortion and voting rights legislation.

Allegedly restrictive voting rights legislation refers to attempts to prevent the election fraud Democrats rely on to win close elections.

Instead of forcing the rest of the country to become San Francisco, the ordinance blew up in moonbat bureaucrats’ slack-jawed faces.

City Administrator Carmen Chu’s office issued a report on February 10 that contended the law was costly and ineffective. …

“Since 12X became operative, the number of banned states has grown from 8 states in 2017 to 30 in 2022. This increase suggests that the city’s threat of boycott may not serve as a compelling deterrent to states considering restrictive policies,” the report stated.

Sometimes reality penetrates the insulation of solipsistic arrogance that allows left-wing kooks to believe the rest of the world will comply with their demands.

The report also found that the ban has caused San Francisco’s contracting costs to jump by approximately 10-20%.

The ban accomplishes nothing except to showcase the intolerant bullying that characterizes liberals and to drive up costs for taxpayers.

Supervisor Rafael Mandelman also told the San Francisco Chronicle that he will introduce legislation to repeal the ordinance entirely.

Maybe California won’t be able to impose itself on the rest of the country after all.

On tips from Franco, Georgi A, and Bluto.

The future of law enforcement under liberal rule unfolds in Los Angeles:

[C]ity officials announced a new public safety initiative which implements yoga, meditation and healing circles to communities as an alternative form of unarmed policing. The initiative’s launch cost the city of Los Angeles $2.2 million in city funding.

No worries, taxpayers. In the end there will be a net savings, because in liberal utopia you won’t have to pay for police or prisons.

At a briefing on Monday, Councilwoman Monica Rodriguez, who chairs the City Council’s public safety committee, announced the Project TURN initiative-which stands for Therapeutic Unarmed Response for Neighborhoods.

The only response to watching the Land of Fruits and Nuts plunge off a cliff into an abyss of self-parody is to move at top speed in the opposite direction.

Project TURN hopes that therapy, yoga, meditation, and healing circle will reduce the need for officers to engage in neighborhoods in Los Angeles.

If California takes over the federal government via Gavin Newsom or Kamala “Heartbeat Away” Harris, we will learn how well these techniques work at staving off the communist Chinese.

In other news from La-La Land,

Throughout 2022, the Los Angeles Police Department reported 229,584 crimes, an 11.6% increase over the previous year.

Los Angeles could get that number down to zero. All it has to do is cut to the chase and move beyond defunding the police. Disband the department altogether, as the city council promised to do in Minneapolis at the height of Black Lives Matter violence, and it won’t report any crime at all.

On tips from ABC of the ANC and KirklesWorth.

Inflation is worse that I realized, to judge by how much they are planning to pay people to be black in San Francisco, where slavery was never legal:

Several weeks ago, in early December, the number was around $200,000 per resident.

Two weeks ago, the number jumped to $1 million each.

Now it’s $5 million.

That’s right. $5 million per black:

San Francisco’s reparations committee will propose paying $5million to each longtime black resident of the city in a reparations plan this spring. …

It is unclear exactly how many people would qualify should the proposal pass, but if just 10,000 people qualified it would cost at least $50billion.

The $5 million handout won’t be the only benefit of being “oppressed” according to liberal ideology:

The proposal also offers a number of other requirements to be handed out to qualifiers, including the creation of a ‘comprehensive debt forgiveness program’ which would eliminate credit card and other debts, along with student and housing loans.

As for 6 months from now, when the $5 million apiece has gone up in smoke:

The proposal also says qualifying low-income households should have their income supplemented to match the city’s median income – $97,000 in 2022 – for the next 250 years.

This is so that “Black people can better afford housing and achieve a better quality of life.”

California is drowning in debt. No matter. One question looters never ask is, “Can this be sustained?” They just grab all they can.

That is the mentality of our ruling party, from Black Lives Matter scumbags pillaging the corner grocery in the name of racial justice all the way up to Joe Biden signing grotesquely extravagant spending bills knowing future generations will be stuck with the bill.

However many $millions San Francisco ends up handing out to blacks, Gavin Newsom will top it at the state level. Then Democrats will top California at the national level, as soon as they have the political leverage.

The looting will continue until there is nothing left to steal, or until Democrats are decisively removed from power, whichever comes first.

On tips from Wiggins, Ed McAninch, and Varla.

Normalizing homosexuality is so 2015. That hill has been taken. Progressives need to keep progressing:

A “non-binary queer” artist has been arrested after attempting to meet a 9-year-old child for sex. Efrem Zelony-Mindell, 35, was arrested in Manhattan, New York on December 16.

Call the thought police. Someone forgot to use Zelony-Mindell’s preferred pronouns (they/them):

According to the Department of Justice, Zelony-Mindell had begun communicating with an undercover FBI agent earlier this year after meeting him on Scruff, a hook-up application for homosexual men. During these conversations, Zelony-Mindell slowly eased into asking the agent if he was “into taboo,” and expressed an interest in “yng incest dad son.” He then repeatedly and graphically stated his desire to sexually abuse children, and sent the undercover agent child sexual abuse material.

This material was graphic in the extreme, depicting sexual crimes committed against small children for which any punishment short of execution would be a travesty of justice. The morbidly curious can click through for details.

[T]he undercover agent offered to introduce Zelony-Mindell to another agent posing as a father of a 9-year-old boy willing to allow him to rape his son. The predator immediately jumped at the opportunity, and advised the second agent of his desire to sexually abuse the 9-year-old.

The accused monster has been a member in good standing of the liberal cultural establishment:

Zelony-Mindell has a history of painting and curating several “queer” art shows as well as being a former writing contributor to VICE.

In 2016, VICE published a piece by Zelony-Mindell in which he gushed about photographer Mary Ellen Mark and her “iconic” photos of a 13-year-old sexually trafficked child named Erin Charles. …

On his website, Zelony-Mindell lists over one dozen shows he has curated…

Zelony-Mindell’s book Witness was praised in Vogue in an article which appears to have been hastily deleted following the announcement of his charges. The Vogue profile praised Witness as “a resource” on the “intricacies of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists.”

Although not a BIPOC, Zelony-Mindell puts the plus in LGBTQIA+, and has served as a voice of liberal righteousness:

“After the murder of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor there was this collective specter hanging over the United States and the human species, really. A huge part of that violent weight was what role did photography and video play on us as individuals and communities. How do we collectively speak up and speak out?” Zelony-Mindell was quoted as saying. “How do we need to learn to listen and re-educate? How has silence and supremacy laid a pathway for complacency and white solidarity to racism, bigotry, and death?”

To get an idea where complacency regarding the mainstreaming of sexual perversion and its increasing focus on children are taking us, look to the tip of the liberal spear, California:

An analysis of a government database of California sex offenders reveals that almost 2,000 convicted pedophiles are living together in groups of three or more at 442 locations across the state.

Some of the ‘pedophile dens’ are a little more than a block away from schools. …

‘It’s terrifying. Your numbers truly, truly frighten me,’ said former Deputy District Attorney Sam Dordulian, who prosecuted sex crimes in the LA DA’s office.

Unfortunately, that office is now run by aggressively pro-criminal Soros-installed DA George Gascon, who is unlikely to share his concern.

‘If they’re all congregating with each other, it’s just creating the environment for more of these crimes to occur.

‘Even if they’re trying to stay clean, they’re in an environment where they’re around other pedophiles. They’re gonna be talking about children, having child porn available. And it’s just creating a situation where you’re almost sure there’s going to be another offense.’

Dordulian had better watch his language. Before long, referring to sexual abuse of children as “offenses” will be regarded as offensive to the oppressed MAP community.

Speaking of California databases,

Analysis of a California database of sex offenders shows thousands of child molesters are being let out after just a few months, despite sentencing guidelines.

Current and former sex crime prosecutors said the figures are ‘terrifying’ and ‘shameful’.

More than 7,000 sex offenders were convicted of ‘lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age’ but were let out of prison the same year they were incarcerated, data from the California Megan’s Law database says.

A society that condones crime, denigrates decency, and extolls degeneracy and deviancy will not end well.

On tips from Ed McAninch and R F.

Ever since the dead helped JFK get elected in 1960, they have been known as the Democratic Party’s most loyal constituency. At last they are getting the representation they deserve. From California:

The late Simon Silva, who passed away from cancer unexpectedly in September, beat out his opponent Dan Smith in the race for Chula Vista [pop. 281,801] city attorney.

You have to hand it to Democrats; they never give up on their candidates:

In September after Silva died, Chula Vista Mayor Mary Salas and other Democratic party members came under fire for backing Silva’s run, after his death.

If the cognitively incapacitated Joe Biden and John Fetterman could be elected, why not a corpse?

Silva can’t be seated, since he would just fall out of the chair, so they are declaring the seat vacant, to Smith’s chagrin.

The city said the special election could cost up to $2 million and would be held in either April, May or November 2024.

By then, Democrats should be able to find a livelier candidate.

On a tip from Wiggins.

If you take up armed robbery as a profession, do it in California. That way, if a clerk gives you trouble and you have to kill him, you won’t be charged with murder.

Gas station clerk James Williams, age 36, was shot and killed in a holdup in Antioch in the wee hours of Saturday morning.

[A] man with a gun confronted Williams, who then pulled out a weapon of his own.

Authorities say the suspect ran out of the store – dropping stolen cigar packages – and was a good distance away when Williams shot and wounded the suspect.

That suspect, Ronald Jackson Jr., 20, fell to the ground. Williams continued shooting and that’s when Jackson allegedly returned fire, killing Williams.

Jackson is not being charged with murder because under the law, the killing could be considered self-defense.

Only in a world run by moonbats can you plead self-defense after pulling a gun to commit a robbery.

In contrast, if you pull a gun because a burglar is trying to kill you by bashing your head against the sidewalk, liberals will screech that you are not entitled to defend yourself because you are a racist white Hispanic. George Zimmerman can provide details.

Jackson should have robbed an Apple store instead. He wouldn’t have needed a gun. Elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area, a few hours earlier,

Employees at an Apple store in Palo Alto, California stood and watched while two masked thieves casually ransacked the outlet, stealing $35,000 in iPhones, iPads, and laptops on Black Friday while shoving startled customers out of the way.

The employees moved customers aside and told them not to interfere. Apple employees are a woker breed than clerks at the Extra Mile mini-mart in Antioch.

Will we get enough of this and stand up like James Williams? Or will we stand by like Apple employees as we watch looters (especially the elected kind) strip civilization bare?

On a tip from Wiggins.

There is no limiting principle to moonbattery. Consequently, there is no limit to the percentage of our money liberals will pass out to favored identity groups that they demand we pretend are oppressed. Once again, California is the tip of the spear, as it prepares to pay people nearly a quarter $million apiece to win the Cultural Marxist lottery jackpot by being born black:

A California task force studying the long-term effects of slavery and systemic racism on black residents in the state has estimated a whopping $569 billion in reparations is owed to the descendants of enslaved people, according to a report.

The nine-member panel concluded that black Californians whose ancestors were in the US in the 19th century are due $223,200 each due to housing discrimination practices utilized from 1933 to 1977, the New York Times reported.

It pays to be oppressed. Hiring preferences and immunity from criticism are nice, but direct free cash is better still.

The work of the Reparations Task Force, which was created by legislation Gov. Gavin Newsom signed in 2020 — and the potential payouts –represent the largest reparations effort in recent history.

Given the conspicuous incompetence and pronounced unlikability of his Affirmative Action VP, and Biden’s own rapidly advancing state of senility, Newsom is likely to be the next president, should Republicans opt to nominate someone unelectable.

Eventually, California taxpayers will have nothing left to hand out to the most loyal Democrat constituency. That won’t be the case when these same kooks run the federal government, because the US dollar is the world reserve currency. As Biden has already been demonstrating, the plan is to print and spend until runaway inflation causes total economic collapse. At that point, progressives will be in a position to impose the Great Reset.

Never mind that Newsom says he won’t challenge Biden in 2024. By then, Biden will to be brain dead. Those who installed him in power will force him to step aside.

On a tip from Jack D.

Belligerently homosexual California State Senator Scott Weiner is known for introducing the bill that made California a sanctuary state for the sexual mutilation of children and another that reduced the crime of knowingly infecting others with HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor, as well as for suggesting that drag queen story hours should be a mandatory part of K-12 education. Add to his list of misdeeds a hate hoax:

On Tuesday, conservative pundit Charlie Kirk made a Twitter thread pointing the finger at Weiner for contributing to the release of “thousands of pedophiles” in California “after just a few months in jail.”

Read more on California releasing child rapists after only token jail time here. This tweet leads to Kirk’s thread:

Weiner responded to the thread with a screen cap of a threat he claimed it inspired…

Except, there’s a cursor at the bottom of the message, and grammar suggestions are underlined – leading many to accuse the California lawmaker of faking the entire thing.

Point and laugh at the egg running down the hate hoaxer’s face:

Caught with his limp-wristed hand in the cookie jar, Weiner then claimed that he received the threat as a phone message and typed it. However, no one could hear his explanation above the laughter.

Once again, we see that the victimhood of militant sexual deviants is fake, and that it is a cudgel with which they attempt to beat others into submission.

On a tip from StephaneDumas.

Democrats love nothing more than to spend other people’s money. Naturally, their favorite people to spend it on is themselves. In 101% Democrat Oakland, the city government is sending all residents — illegal aliens included — $100 vouchers to donate to the moonbats comprising the city government.

Their witless constituents are fine with it:

Nearly 74% of the city’s voters approved Measure W, mandating that the city biannually send four $25 dollar vouchers to residents 18 years of age and older for donations to mayoral, City Council or school board candidates, the [San Francisco Chronical] reported.

The free money comes out of taxpayers’ pockets. Further up the Left Coast, Seattle enacted something similar in 2017.

Like most outrages inflicted by progressives, it is said to benefit preferred racial groups.

Oakland Rising Executive Director Liz Suk, whose organization co-sponsored Measure W, argued the Seattle program had “increased … voter turnout from communities of color,” the Chronicle reported. However, opposing Alameda County Taxpayers Association President Marcus Crawley contended the Oakland measure was “biased toward incumbents,” deeming it a waste of money.

Oakland voters also moved in favor of a ballot measure to allow non-citizen public school parents to vote for school board directors.

Not only do people who are in the country illegally get to educate their kids at our extravagant expense, they get to pick who teaches them. This could backfire on moonbats, as invaders from anywhere would be less likely than Americans to support LGBT indoctrination.

Another free money program in Oakland pays lucky recipients $500 per month not to be Caucasians.

If the decay continues, as goes California, so goes the nation. As goes Oakland, so goes California.

On a tip from Franco.

There is only one group that benefits from degenerate lowlifes having control of the system — namely, degenerate lowlifes. We see it in Democrat-ruled New York, where thanks to “bail reform,” violent criminals rule the streets (and subways). We also see it in Democrat-ruled California.

From the UK’s Daily Mail:

• An analysis of a California sex offenders database shows thousands of child molesters are being let out of prison after just a few months

• DailyMail.com’s investigation reveals more than 7,000 sex offenders were convicted of ‘lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age’

• Those 7,000 pedophiles were released the same year they were convicted

• Others who committed some of the worst child sex crimes, including sodomy and rape of children, served similarly short sentences

• Current and former Los Angeles sex crime prosecutors tell DailyMail.com that the figures are ‘terrifying’ and ‘shameful’

• Deputy DA Jon Hatami blames Proposition 57, a 2016 bill allowing early parole for nonviolent felons which was supported by his boss, LA DA George Gascón

• ‘Thousands of child victims are being denied justice and George Gascón and his group of radical prosecutors can care less,’ Hatami said.

We need to rely on the foreign press to break these stories because our own mainstream media is run by the same liberal Borg that controls the justice system in New York and California.

George Gascon is no lone wolf. He was placed in office by Democratic Party megadonor George Soros — just like other maniacally pro-criminal prosecutors including Alvin Bragg (New York), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Kim Ogg (Houston), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia), Chesa Boudin (San Francisco), and Kim Gardner (St Louis).

This lends further support to the suspicion that normalizing pedophilia will be the next major social engineering project for liberals, now that the homosexuality hill has been taken.

As goes California, so goes the country — unless we push back hard and relentlessly.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

At the top of the Cultural Marxist pecking order sits the most oppressed identity group in what’s left of America. Transsexuals are so put upon that San Francisco will pay them $1,200 per month to be who they are:

The Guaranteed Income for Trans People (GIFT) Program will provide low-income transgender residents with $1,200 each month, up to 18 months to help address financial insecurity within the community. …

The city also said that the new pilot program is the first guaranteed income initiative to focus solely on transgender people and will provide 55 eligible participants with temporary income.

The first? What about Palm Springs? In any case, we can be sure that it won’t be the last.

Taxpayers owe oppressed transsexuals a lot more than $1,200/month:

Additionally, the city said it will provide the same individuals with “wrap-around” direct services, such as gender-affirming medical and mental health care, case management, specialty care services and financial coaching.

When it comes to mental health care, the transgender community really is in need.

SF Mayor London Breed presents the pretext for the handouts:

“We know that our trans communities experience much higher rates of poverty and discrimination, so this program will target support to lift individuals in this community up.”

The notion that there is discrimination against rather than in favor of hyperprivileged transsexuals in the gay/liberal mecca San Francisco doesn’t pass the laugh test. If poverty were the real issue, they would just give the money to the poor, even if there is a link between mental illness and poverty.

A study from 2015 managed to find that 33% of California transsexuals were living in poverty, according to a bureauweenie in the San Francisco Office of Transgender Initiatives. Surprisingly, Biden’s handlers have not yet created a similar department at the cabinet level to help spend our money.

The city also noted that the percentage among transgender people who are also Black, Indigenous and People of Color is even higher.

Liberals love the idea of paying people not to be white, with money confiscated mainly from whites. Those who complain are “racists,” just as those who complain about programs that pay people to be transsexual are “transphobes.”

On a tip from Mr. Freemarket.

The lunatic left authoritarianism that has come to define California does not stop at the state line. Militant flakes in the Land of Fruits and Nuts are coming after pork — nationwide:

California voters in 2018 approved a ballot initiative that established minimum confinement standards for farm animals sold as meat in the state. The law effectively requires that adult female pigs be housed in large group pens even though nearly all hog farmers keep them in individual pens, in part to prevent disease from spreading.

Moonbat activists don’t know much about pig farming. Yet they will tell pig farmers how to do their job. If it drives the farmers out of business, so much the better, because meat is hurtful to animals and offensive to the climate.

That’s the problem of those who haven’t figured out how to escape California, right? Wrong. Left Coast tyranny is the whole country’s problem.

About 99.9% of the nation’s pigs are born and raised outside California. The law is an attempt to regulate out-of-state farms, and it imposes costs on farmers that raise prices for consumers across the U.S. Slaughterhouses process hogs from different sources together, and there’s no practical way to separate pigs raised for consumers in California’s market.

Farms across the country are faced with an ultimatum: let leftist screwballs who hate you dictate how you run your business, or lose the nation’s most populous state as a market.

Fortunately, the last major institution not under leftist control may intervene.

Pork producers say California’s law violates the so-called dormant Commerce Clause, which is the constitutional doctrine that prohibits states from imposing excessive burdens on interstate commerce.

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to California’s attack on pork tomorrow. The stakes are high:

If [California’s] regulations are allowed to stand, why couldn’t it also prohibit the sale of goods from companies that don’t comply with its CO2 emissions caps?

The mere size of its population could allow California to impose all manner of moonbattery on the rest of the country.

Meanwhile, other authoritarian kooks want to take away our bacon on an international basis in the form of the Plant Based Treaty:

The adoption of a Plant Based Treaty as a companion to the UNFCCC/Paris Agreement will put food systems at the heart of combating the climate crisis. The Treaty aims to halt the widespread degradation of critical ecosystems caused by animal agriculture, to promote a shift to more healthy, sustainable plant-based diets and to actively reverse damage done to planetary functions, ecosystem services and biodiversity.

Leftism is inherently totalitarian. It demands that everyone everywhere conform to it in everything. Consequently, no freedom — not even the freedom to eat a normal human diet — is safe so long as moonbattery festers anywhere.

On tips from Varla and Dragon’s Lair.