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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Wait till the Midterms...People on this site are still in denial of what awaits if the Democrats take everything back.
President Trump just absolutely TORCHED Newscum the Clown on Truth Social…whose State is hosting the 2028 Olympics.
California is a third-world disgrace on steroids.
Newsome turned the City of Angels into Gotham City…a literal open-air sewer as filth piles up everywhere.
Democrats are not “taking everything back” at midterms.
>> Wait till the Midterms...People on this site are still in denial of what awaits if the Democrats take everything back.
So what’s your prescription or suggestion for us? Or are you simply awash in negativity, you have no prescription or suggestion, you just want company for your misery?
What is your message?
Don’t listen to RINO fear merchants..
“...Democrats are not “taking everything back” at midterms...”
The Communist Party USA! is not “taking everything back” at the midterms..
Fixed it.
Wrong link. Sorry.
Trump won’t be President forever. So it’s important to understand every consequential decision he makes, every political risk he takes, every economic downturn in light of this reality.
Trump couldn’t have won unless a lot of “atypical” voters showed up to the polls on his and Republicans behalf. And to just dismiss THEIR concerns, THEIR doubts, THEIR worries will be poison at the ballot box.
Democrats are flailing, but their base shows up when it counts.
Pride cometh before a fall.
“..Watch video of fat homeless woman in LA using water from fire hydrant to wash her clothes in streets...”
Penty of water out of the hydrant to wash clothes, but there was NONE to fight the fire... Got it.
>> Don’t listen to RINO fear merchants.
No worries — I don’t listen. I DO call them out.
Denial? How so? Almost everyone on this site is a gloomy pessimist.
Yeah, but you have to use a 1.6 gal flush toilet.
>> Trump couldn’t have won unless a lot of “atypical” voters showed up to the polls on his and Republicans behalf. And to just dismiss THEIR concerns, THEIR doubts, THEIR worries will be poison at the ballot box.
Oh. In other words, YOU aren’t getting YOUR way on something or other, so you’re projecting YOUR childishness on “a lot” of “atypical” voters just like YOU.
Stop dancing around it! SPELL IT OUT. What’s your beef?
1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
(If your butthurt needs more than five categories to express, use as many pages as necessary for your reply.)
The Pride Cometh nonsense is telling.
You’re right ... the butthurt is strong, with that.
>> The Pride Cometh nonsense is telling.
Yup.
Every time any inconvenient development - or “special election” where a Democrat wins a red Trump district - is published on the site: the denial is off the chains.
Some patterns:
- Criticize the source “Oh it’s the NY Slimes...” (which broke Pam Bondi’s firing a day before the White House announced, among others.)
- Shooting (figuratively) the messenger. Oh you’re just a “RINO concern-troll.” Or regarding someone in the media: “Tucker is just a Qatar troll...”
Well guess what, even if that’s true: he’s influential. It mattered what a whole slew of those podcasters said for 2024...And without them, it’s an uphill climb for 2026 and beyond...
John Stewart Mill said, “ So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in feelings it gains rather than loses in stability when it is subjected to strong factual arguments in opposition. For if it were accepted as a result of argument, the refutation of the argument might shake the solidarity of the conviction; but when it rests solely on feelings, the worse it fares in argumentative contest, the more persuaded it adherents are that their feelings must have some deeper ground, which the contrary arguments do not reach; and while the feeling remains, it is always throwing up fresh entrenchments of argument to repair any breach made in the old.”
I think it’s ‘pride GOETH before the fall’.
(And you still haven’t given us your prescription for avoiding the disaster you predict. You just increasingly seem to enjoy dwelling on gloom and doom.)
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