When I mentioned above that I’m sick of writing about politics, I should have mentioned that chief among these are articles describing how California has fucked up and how terrible things are going to be.
Yawn.
Even articles by brilliant writers (Jennifer Hernandez, Victor Davis Hanson, Heather Mac Donald etc.) get short shrift from me when the topic is Fucked-Up California.
We all know how the Golden Shower State is in thrall to Lefties, race hustlers, criminal apologists and other such filth. We all know that California’s heading down the tubes to such a degree that The Big One is more likely to be a blessed relief than a catastrophe. And we all know that Californian cities have become dystopian pits, drowning in shit, needles, crime and rampant homelessness, almost all of which can be ascribed to their insane laws and regulations. It’s all going to crash and burn, and California will end up worse off than New Mexico, and become America’s Greatest African Paradise.
And I, for one, no longer care enough to write about it.
The sad truth about California is that with the exception of earthquakes, their growing laundry list of troubles is of their own choosing. Every one of the super-moronic politicians who are proposing and passing these idiotic laws has been ELECTED to their assorted offices. Very few have been appointed. None have stormed gates and kicked down doors to force their way into positions of leadership.
You Californiacs have done this to yourselves. I don’t know if it’s something in the water over there or whatever you’re smoking, you have the government the majority of you actively chose. Conservatives and Right-Wingers are packing up and leaving and taking their money, business, and jobs with them. They have given up the sham of even trying to make reasonable change. My only hope for the Golden State is that I live long enough to watch the Left finally come to their senses. It will make January 6th look like a charm school social.
This Native Californian started looking elsewhere in the 90’s, and finally settled on rural NV as the place to go, buying dirt there in ’16, and making the final haul-out the same week that the CA homestead closed to a new owner in ’18. Even going “over the line” to shop in a rural CA city is done only in emergency situations.
I used to listen to talk radio on the commute or listen to their shows via podcast. I have pretty much given up on all of them.
California needs to be broken up into a couple of smaller states. That way the liberal areas can continue their march to oblivion with minimal impact to the rural areas.
Kim and Murph, you’re both right. Much of California’s problems are completely self inflicted.
JQ
My wife and I took a few cruises and got on to cruise line email lists. Lately I’m getting a lot of ‘super deal’ emails for cruises along the American west coast, some as low as 150.00 per person per night for a balcony cabin with food, the transportation and beer and wine. I spoke to a “cruise consultant” aka high pressure telephone salesman to ask if there was one originating in Vancouver but skipping Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles and continuing on to Mexico and points south. We had a discussion about why. It seems most cruisers have the same concerns, violence, disorder and filth, and will either stay on the ship or take a bus tour directly from the pier to the remaining high points and back. And he said a lot of us just pass on the whole idea, which is what we’ve done.
The big danger is that if Commiefornia has an Armageddon earthquake or total financial collapse, Braindead Biden & Co. will bail out the Lefties, race hustlers, criminal apologists and other such filth with our money. Whether it’s an increase in taxes (Emergency, one-time assessment, just this once, I promise) or speed up the printing presses (easy, had lots of practice already), we’re gonna be screwed for their greed and stupidity.
I wish Arizona and other states bordering CA would cut off the sale of electricity and water to the loonies and hasten the reckoning for all to see before the 2024 elections.
The only non-civil war cure for the Woke is associative and sudden painful, really painful, consequences for their actions.
A while back, I did some research as to where Cali gets their electricity. They get hydroelectric from the Pacific Northwest, Nuke electric from Palo Verde NGS west of Phoenix, and coal or petroleum electric from whoever will sell it to them. They won’t build their own power plants (Ick!) but they’ll let us build those terrible things here and sell them out dirty power. As to water, the move is already underway to again steal water from the other Colorado River basin states and Native American tribes. (They could build their own desalination plants, but that would spoil their beaches.) “Oh, we have such a terrible drought, we need your water for our woke cities and handout recipients.”
Living in Arizona, we already know about the increasing flow of refugees from the political foolishness west of us. Luckily, most of them are headed for Colorado and New Mexico, sone for the blue neighborhoods of Texas. Sadly, they are contagious and some of their germs are infecting people here, which explains our sickening turn to the blue side.
Honestly, the greater danger to the free people of the world is if California *doesn’t* sink. Limping along forever half broken and half collapsed will be sufficient evidence for the true believers as to the adequacy of their regime.
Even after the Soviet Union fell, a much harder crash than anything Cali ever experienced, I saw forlorn true believers singing their old songs in Red Square, pining for the good old days, paving the path for Putin & co.
As it stands today, Cali hasn’t sunk far enough that their failure is unambiguous. It has to sink below the level of even the worst cognitive dissonance deniability.
I care. We still have family and friends in that Fifth-World Shithole.
I tell them about the joys of freedom, rational government, low(er) taxes and 30 round AR mags. They all say they’re going to move, just not tomorrow.
History shows Kalifornia will slide over the edge very quickly after its long, steady decline.