Posted on 09/24/2025 2:11:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
hen President Joe Biden visited Santa Cruz County following the 2023 winter storms, residents responded with pure fanfare. People skipped work and lined the streets with thank-you signs, and parents took their children out of school just for a chance to see the presidential motorcade speed down Highway 1. Amid the wreckage of natural disasters that reshaped swaths of the county, enthusiasm followed Biden from his steps off Air Force One at the Watsonville airport, to the Capitola wharf and back again.
In the nearly three years since, the Biden aura has shifted — dramatically. People have increasingly laid the blame for President Donald Trump’s second term at the feet of Biden and his decision to seek reelection despite his advanced age and mental decline. Books, including a recent memoir by former vice president Kamala Harris, have also criticized Biden’s inner circle, including his wife, Jill, for trying to hide the reality of his health from the American people and other political leaders.
Given all of this, I was curious to see how our community would receive Jill Biden during her scheduled appearance at Santa Cruz’s Kaiser Permanente Arena this Saturday. Resentment? Contempt? Reverence? Forgiveness?
We will never know.
“An Evening with Dr. Jill Biden” has been canceled, and the reason why remains a mystery. The Santa Cruz Warriors basketball organization, host of the appearance, billed Jill’s speaking appearance as a “historic event” and began selling tickets in July.
Rumors have swirled. One solid source told me low ticket sales were to blame; others wondered whether the abrupt cancellation had to do with increased security concerns. The event was canceled one day after the public assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
Chris Murphy, president of the Santa Cruz Warriors, denied that security concerns were to blame. He told Lookout “there were some unforeseen circumstances,” but declined to offer more detail.
“I’m not going to get into why,” Murphy said on the phone last week. “We don’t have to go into details with the public on every decision we make as an organization.”
Peggy Flynn, co-president of the Democratic Women’s Club of Santa Cruz County, said she had also reached out to Murphy after she fielded several confused calls and emails about the cancellation. Murphy told Flynn he “wasn’t sharing details at the request of the Biden relationship.”
But I found that in another publication, Good Times Santa Cruz, the editor Brad Kava, in his editor's column revealed the reason:
So, just because not enough tickets were sold, she will cancel? Why won't she go see the supporters she does have?
Couldn't they give free tickets to UCSC students or homeless people to flesh out the audience?
Ping
When President Joe Biden visited Santa Cruz County. People skipped work and lined the streets with thank-you signs,”
BS I do not believe it.
Who else was visiting Santa Cruz that day?
Poor-Mouth Jill.
I am being totaly serious. Who would PAY to see Jill Biden?
Some of the has been aging pop singers cancel future dates when the venues didn’t get enough advance sales to show the place would break even.
But for the iconic and truly historic feminist hero Dr. Jill Biden it must have been because the fast and enormous surge in ticket sales showed there would be fights over trying to bust through the police lines to get in and the crowd control would be a nightmare for security./S
Santa Cruz is dinky.
And predominantly lunatic lefty .
What, she couldn’t sell out a what ?
20 seat venue?
So not even the old hippie crowd wants to be seen near her, regardless of what they say otherwise.
Illuminating.
What’s to see? An old worthless hag? You got to be crazy to pay for that.
Serious or not, it’s funny.
In What’s New, Pussycat? (1965) the nebbish Woody Allen character tells someone he has a job at the Paris strip club, helping the women with their costumes. He says it’s 25 sous a week.
“That’s not much money.”
Allen: “It’s all I can afford to pay.”
,,, Jill Biden has zero value but one of the tickets could be worth having as a collectable. I visualize a ticket appearing on t-shirts and even billboards. No event, just the tickets. What an exceptional opportunity to highlight emptiness.
Deep, deep blue bay area of CA....completely believable.
“...billed Jill’s speaking appearance as a “historic event”.
The radio station there has a contest for $10,000 to the first person to correctly tell the total number of Jill’s wrinkles. 📻 💰💰💰💰
There’s no USAID money, anymore.
Kaiser Permanente Arena hold 2,505. It's where the Santa Cruz Warriors play.
BS I do not believe it.
What they left out is those in 2023 who "skipped work" to view the the Biden human vegetable, those folks have 'skipped' working at all. Whether you are hanging 10 on a great wave, or just hanging out on the street, life in Santa Cruz is mellow, dude.
“Couldn’t they give free tickets to UCSC students or homeless people to flesh out the audience?”
Sarcasm? overhead costs go up, gate receipts go down. IOW it doesn’t pay the costs let alone put money in the corrupt Bidens bank account. Now, if they could sell booze and merchandise......
Maybe back then these people were being paid..... by USAID maybe... or Soros?
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