Posted on 05/27/2025 7:39:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Ruin, accelerating, in an atmosphere of celebration.
We have two political futures to choose between, sadly, though I continue to argue that we need cultural reorientation before we can implement meaningful and sustainable course corrections through the instrument of politics. But, broadly, the choice is Trump or Newsom, MAGA or California. And California is doing its very best to show us how incredibly sad and shoddy the latter choice really is. The state is trapped in a long decline, the seriousness of which is not well understood.
My point isn’t to talk about California; my point is to discuss the effects of the 21st century American “progressive” worldview, a grab bag of moral and intellectual retardation that produces ruin with the efficiency of a bomb. If you see what California is doing, you’ll see what America looks like if we follow Rosa DeLauro and Hakeem Jeffries off the cliff.
the wisdom of the progressive mind
The Golden State is a harbinger, not an isolated case. Across the country in Massachusetts, a state senator is proposing to cap the number of miles that residents of the state will be allowed to drive every year, with financial penalties for travel that government officials regard as excessive. The progressive mind virus is everywhere. But single-party-rule California concentrates the dose of the poison, making its effects clearest. It’s a laboratory of woke policy.
My argument is not that the Republican Party is offering us a bright future against the dimming future offered by the functionally insane American left. With federal debt nearing $37 trillion, Congressional Republicans are running away in fear from a whopping $9 billion in proposed DOGE rescissions. Democrats are deranged, while Republicans are mostly a void. And I agree with the criticism that the Big Beautiful Bill creates way more debt, offsetting some spending cuts with big increases in military and border spending. We need to cut federal spending, and we’re not doing it.
Nevertheless, to borrow from Buck Turgidson, it is necessary now to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless distinguishable, post-MAGA environments. The California path, the progressive path, is unmistakably a path to the most dire state of ruin.
Think of California as a house, and you’re the inspector who’s been hired to check on its condition. Everywhere you look, everywhere, you find rot. The roof, the walls, the plumbing, the chimney, the HVAC, the wiring, the foundation: everything is failing. You can start analyzing the structure at any randomly chosen point, because every. single. thing. EVERY SINGLE THING. All of it, every part, is entering the condition of structural failure....SNIP
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I am so thankful that I don’t have to travel to California for business anymore.
I may have been born in California, but I’m glad my family moved away from it when I was one year old. Now I hope to see the day when Rhode Island will have a higher population than California.
Scared the life out of me with that picture
Everyone needs to read the second response. I cannot get it to copy.
Profound.
This is the plan of the leftists. What you can’t win at the ballot box, you destroy. Ploward-Piven discusses this in great detail. The plan is on target, too. One of the cornerstones is to not damage the institutions of government while the society implodes. Then those institutions rebuild the nation in their Marxist Utopian vision. That being a state with ultimate power over every aspect of people’s lives, and a ruling bureaucracy and political class that live like kings, rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies. There is no middle position for debate.
It is really irritating to hear people say they’ve never been to CA, have no plans to go there, glad they don’t live there but yet think they have great insight into what the state is. There’s no limit to those denigrating the state. I find it strange to put down a state or city that one has never experienced for themselves.
Lived there for 50 years - in both Northern and Southern CA. I moved from upstate NY in my 20’s and my husband was born in L. A. Retired and relocated out of state but not because it was a terrible place! Politicians made it bad...as they do every time and place. So it’s not what it used to be! Is any place? Is anything?
Loved CA and the post shows common sense still reigns!!! Huntington Beach is not alone!!!
Be hopeful that you also don’t have to travel to Colorado & other selected Democrat-heavy states for anything.
“Be hopeful that you also don’t have to travel to Colorado & other selected Democrat-heavy states for anything.”
Yeah, no kidding!
'Trump Train' Motorcade Cruises from Westminster, Calif. to Beverly Hills (posted by Durium)
Westminster: Statewide California Trump Train, 17-8-2024 (posted by IMovieLORD)
That thing is a she?!
Super..Thank you. Little Saigon? Never went there. We lived in Irvine and had relatives in Westminster but they’re all gone now...You’re in the video? Which “couple of shots?”
Remember this?
https://welovetrump.com/2020/09/08/watch-ricky-rebels-maga-dance-party-in-beverly-hills/
It’s easy to hate on California, I’ve done it myself, but the truth is most of the state, by county, is conservative. Even a lot of Dems here are closet Conservatives, but don’t know it because they are low information. The issue here is the third world level of corruption and the fact that labor unions control our politics. Pretty much labor unions and corruption go hand in hand. The people here - the legal citizens that work and pay their rent or mortgages are fine and really no different than anywhere else. The invaders and looters among us give the rest of us a bad name... And Hollywood - they don’t help our image at all.
Your right about moral and intellectual retardation here in California escaping it from it is a daily challenge $$$$$$$$$
I love that MAGA song.
Got it - Thanks... Yes, song will stay in your brain..so watch out!
DOGE Dance in Beverly Hills, California
DOGE
Look around, government is overspending
Nobody knows where it goes
(Where does it go?)
You will cry because the bills are never-ending,
They’ll tax you to the bone.
(Leave us alone!)
When government fails at efficiency,
Deficits get bigger every day.
I know some kids who want to save the day,
It’s called a task force, and here’s what it’s for:
So come on, DOGE, make our money go where we choose it.
(Go where we choose it.)
Come on, DOGE, make our money go where we know we can use it.
What we need is our own investigation.
Corruption’s to the core.
(There’s so much more.) They can’t hide from their own extermination.
It’s what we voted for.
(What we voted for.)
It makes no difference who you’re working for,
If you’re a temp or full-time,
If you waste tax money, you’ll be out the door.
You’ll be on the streets,
Control-alt-delete. You know it.
Come on, DOGE, (DOGE!) make our money go where we choose it. (Go where we choose it) Come on, DOGE, make our money go where we know we can use it.
Duty’s to your nation, not just to improve your station.
So if you are part of the swamp, DOGE is going to take a big
old chomp.
That’s not all to stop the sprawl; they’re sending in the big guns.
Come on, DOGE, (DOGE!) make our money go where we choose it.
(Go where we choose it.)
Come on, DOGE, make our money go where we know we can use it.
DOGE! Duty to the nation!
DOGE! Move to the music!
DOGE! Duty to the nation!
DOGE! Go with the flow!
USAID, Department of Ed, did you hear what Elon said?
Members of the Pentagon, your reckless spending days are gone.
FAA, NIH, time to end your overreach.
Treasury, CFPB, Elizabeth Warren weeps for thee.
You’re out of style. Out of loot. Donald Trump don’t give a hoot.
Robert, Pam, Peter, too,
Little Marco, we love you.
Patriots with an attitude,
Voters who are in the mood.
Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it.
Time for DOGE, there’s nothing to it.
DOGE! DOGE!
Move to the music!
DOGE! DOGE!
Go with the flow.
Oh, you’ve got to let your body move to the music.
Oh, you’ve got to just let your body go with the flow.
Oh, you‘ve got to just…
DOGE!
What energy!!! WOW! Hope that energy is spreading statewide. Tune reminds me some of this:
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