No Frigging Chance

And it was all going so well.

I was reading an article at American Greatness which shows in detail how California has screwed things up,whether by Net Zero foolishness, taxation, over-regulation and so on, e.g.

If the builder [Gov.] Pat Brown was an exemplar of “Responsible Liberalism,” California’s government today has been ranked by Wallet Hub as the least efficient in delivering services relative to the tax burden. Pat Brown’s son Jerry – who was governor from 1975-1983 and then again from 2011-2019 – and his successor, Newsom, epitomize the triumph of ideology over effectiveness. Theirs is a kind of performative progressivism that shrugs about things like roads that are now among the nation’s worst, a high-speed bullet train plagued with endless delays and massive cost overruns, and a failure to boost critical water systems in a perennially drought-threatened state.
In exchange for all this, the progressive regime has stuck ordinary Californians and businesses with some of the nation’s highest taxes and greatest regulatory burdens.

So far, so good, and the article goes on to show exactly how, why and to what extent California is doomed.  Then, in the very last paragraph, this:

Yet, for all its problems, California is far from hopeless, and its promise is not extinguished. It remains uniquely gifted in terms of climate, innovation, and entrepreneurial verve. Sitting at the juncture of Asia, Latin America, and North America, it can once again become, as Kevin Starr noted, America’s “final frontier: of geography and of expectation.”

Nope.  Unless the CalGov is purged by a mini-DOGE — or maybe even a greater DOGE, given its entrenched Marxism — as well as a 180-degree change in voting patterns, there is no way for the Golden Shower State to survive.  None.

It is a hopeless state, and the mass exodus of Californians to other states over the past ten years reflects just that.

Wallpaper

This one got my attention, so up it goes:

It’s funny:  you think it’s just a rendition, and then you go to London’s King’s Cross or the Gare du Nord in Paris on a chilly misty morning… and it looks almost exactly like that.

News Roundup

…and in even more disturbing news:


...and pretty much to all other kinds of attacks, e.g. illegal immigration, but we won’t go there.


...well, if the Swiss are getting alarmed


...are these the same as the Covid vaccine scientists, Michael Mann, and the “scientists” who designed the Food Pyramid?

But wait!  Stop panicking!


...no kidding.  Never mind:  next week, another group of scientists will call bullshit on this report.  “Ignore all of them,” you say?  Indeed.


...yeah, and fewer children drown in a world without oceans, lakes, floods, swimming pools and bathtubs.  What’s your point?

In International News:


...”until we decide to invade and occupy Siberia, of course.”


...said link is only worth following for a good look at WH Spokeschick Karoline Leavitt’s rather impressive superstructure.

Now we look at a fresh topic:  States Behaving Not-So Badly:


...works for me.


...welcome to the club, guys. But wait till you see what the Mormons are doing:


...excellent.  No freak flags on government property.


...oh stop it, now I’m giggling.


...I like the sentiment behind this one.  It feeds my inner libertarian.
#ScrewBigGummintMandates

And in Sex Wars:


...well, duh, dude — oh wait, “Chapell” is a lesbianist.  Never mind.

In Vigilante News:


...I’ve heard of protective parents before, but damn.

The hills are alive:


...oh FFS, Neil;  like Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg, you’re not important enough for Trump to worry about.

Now it’s time for the “I don’t really care, Margaret” news, a.k.a.

 

...no, I don’t know who any of these people are, either.

And in our weekly stroll through the streets of :


...damn, Roller Girl honey;  you definitely need a few more pasta dinners in your life.

Same bikini, seven years ago:

Back to the present:

We should all age so wonderfully.  And that’s all the news worth (un-)covering.

LOL Krauts

I see that Krautland politicians are trying to rebuild old habits (dating back to Bismarck’s time):

Since the war in Ukraine began, the German establishment has sought to reintroduce conscription. A year ago, under the previous coalition, a defence ministry document given to Der Spiegel presented ‘options for a German military service model’. Defence minister Boris Pistorius of the Social Democratic Party wanted to make the country ‘fit for war’.

Sehr gut.  However, there are a few snags:

The traditional motive of patriotism will not be needed. Indeed, German politicians do not want nationalist AfD supporters signing up. The Bundeswehr will be filled with modern diverse youth, as urged by a recent article in Stern magazine. This latest media support for conscription was inspired by author Tilmun Gerwien, who tells younger compatriots (he being too old for active service) that they must ‘grow up’.

Okay, quit that unseemly sniggering, you lot, because it gets better:

The marketing is aimed at woke youngsters. Females will be encouraged to fight for gender equality, homosexuals for LGBT rights, and brown-skinned incomers for a multicultural Germany.

Yeah, that’s gonna work really well.  And guess who they’re going to rely on the most for their recruits?

The front cover of Stern, however, features a white boy. As Remix website observed, when the duty to defend and die for your country arises, suddenly white men are prominent rather than women, Arabs, Blacks or Turks.

Just not the AfD whitebois.

Fucking idiots.