Posted on 04/05/2026 7:17:35 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
My jaw dropped watching this
Reporter Matt Seedorff asks Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass about the homeless numbers, he says people don’t trust the data because they can see the growing number of encampments in LA
She literally says not to trust what you’re seeing, trust her
Reporter “There's just overall a lack of trust with these numbers. It's not what people see”
Mayor Karen Bass “I will tell you something. It is absolutely what you see”
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The trick is to make the midterms about being AGAINST democrats.
The negative response is stronger than the positive.
So if the midterms are about supporting Trump, that’s good, but its even better if we make sure people think is is about VOTING AGAINST democrat takeover.
That’s how Trump won the first time. A lot of people were AGAINST hilLIARy,
There’s a real simple way to get people off the streets:
Only provide subsidized housing above average national HUD fair market cost to those who spent the most time in shelters.
Romney favored the longest time in shelter folks. The Massachusetts(?) homeless problem vanished.
A point system might also be used based on unemployment tax receipts for a person plus time in shelters.
It makes me very sad when I think about The San-Francisco of 40 years ago. It was a beautiful city. Fine restaurants everywhere. San-Francisco was world class in just about everything they did. It was not cheap even 40 years ago but you did get value for your money. I loved the place.
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I heard about the place you described. Never got to see it. My first trip to SF was in 2017 and it was too late. My hotel was very near the financial district which I thought was the nice part of town. Wow was I wrong. The needles, the feces, the bums in the street. I could not believe what I was seeing. I could not get out of there fast enough.
“average joes associate the current party in power with TSA shutdown, gas prices, sky high healthcare premiums...”
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The TSA problems are due to Democrats.
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The “sky high healthcare premiums” is due to the lack of cost-control mechanisms in the PPACA.
As I have posted many times, for health care, bring on market force:
1. Break most hospitals into two highly competitive entities
2. Convert other hospitals into real estate leasing entities with competing surgical suites and nursing wings
3. Separate out drug coverage so hospital systems can run care coverage systems and cut out insurance company overhead and meddlers.
4. Create interstate drug plans that don’t have to pay what the drugmaker wants for every drug. To qualify for exchange listing and federal subsidies, they would have to most (~80% or more) in all important types (large volume recombinant, small volume recombinant, breakthroughs under patent, etc.). Group and exchange plans to offer time-limited vouchers at plan set amounts for out-of-formulary drugs. Voucher plans would have variable premiums. Plans without minimums (or vouchers) could be vended directly to individuals and families.
5. These plans would be all the doctors (and AI) prescribe for formulary drugs with co-pays equal to manufacturing cost
6. Have drug patents limited by government sourced product revenue and overall domestic government health care spending and not by time [so drug companies have an incentive to minimize government health care funding]
7. Require Kirchoff patent collapse to a single entity upon FDA marketing approval of a covered entity
8. reform medical education, breaking down medicine and dentistry into simpler chunks and start it in the first year of college
9. replace most primary care doctoring with AI
(Insurers would pay human doctors to confirm AI diagnosis, orders for expensive tests[MRI, genetic], prescribe radiation imaging[CT, PET, X-ray]/treatment, and voucher/government co-pay drugs. Other human doctor care would be private pay.)
10. Radioisotope-related care would be at international airport centers
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“gas prices”
The federal government is spending about $40,000/year/road vehicle. That $40,000 would allow people to buy 9,500 gallons of gas in my area.
If you drive 250 miles in a week and you get 25 miles per gallon, that’s 10 gallons a week. A $1.20 increase per gallon means $12/week, for maybe a dozen weeks.
Condoleezza Rice as far as I know kept a grip on herself and gave reasoned advice to George Bush, Jr.
“Farmers are struggling...”
Farmers have been struggling since the hoe was invented, and probably long before that.
“I will tell you something. It is absolutely what you see”
In her defense, this is false. Selective editing. She said it is what you see IF you are a merchant who no longer sees the encampments and homeless hanging out in front of their stores. Her answers to all were fine. Typical politician answers, but nothing "jaw-dropping".
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The Condoleezza entity seems to be a fuzzy-headed flibbertigibbet...
I’ve been watching YouTubes and this comes up a lot versus wax;
7530 - BETTER THAN WAX™ WAX-FREE TOILET SEAL
Well it turned out to be pointless.
When they threw it outside they broke the tank.
It was not a cheap toilet.
So I got a wooden seat at Lowe’s tonight.
At least it won’t feel like it’s gonna break and impale my arse.
Now gotta figure out how to change them.
Blast if I can see how the “ hidden” bolts come out.
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