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California, There it Goes
The American Mind ^ | 11/24/20 | Peachy Keenan

Posted on 11/24/2020 2:05:08 PM PST by PoliticallyShort

California may be we may be hitting rock bottom sooner than I thought, thanks to Newsom, Mayor Garcetti, and L.A.’s newly elected district attorney, George Gascón. George Gascón is a proud supporter of both BLM and Antifa. He is a far-left progressive and one of many District Attorneys who has enjoyed the generous patronage of George Soros. He thinks looting is reparations. His policies are a complete enshrinement of BLM demands: defund police, stop arresting criminals, and close down the jails, because they’re racist. The only people he plans to target for arrest are cops, of course, and innocent people guilty of things like home self-defense, white privilege, and insufficient public wokeness.

In other words, George Gascón is the disease—and the cure. Once he takes a wrecking ball to public safety, Lord help us all. The popsicle sticks and chewing gum holding this place together won’t stand a chance. It is about to get real ugly, real fast.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanmind.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bloggers; california; garcetti; georgegascn; newsom

1 posted on 11/24/2020 2:05:08 PM PST by PoliticallyShort
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To: PoliticallyShort

I voted for Jackie Lacy, and wonder if there was something funny going on.


2 posted on 11/24/2020 2:17:41 PM PST by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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To: PoliticallyShort
It is about to get real ugly, real fast.

If even part of this story is really happening, then that line is accurate. The Old West had vigilante justice and family vengeance for crime until stabilized by relatively equal justice and sheriffs. We are now going quickly in the other direction. The New Old West.

3 posted on 11/24/2020 2:22:31 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Yeah, but whitey....

Democrat policies kill black people and destroy the inner cities and beyond.

It’s hard to understand the black adherence to voting Democrat, but then again maybe I do.

Some of it results from race baiting, but I have a relative who cares deeply about her investments, tax policy,etc. She thinks lots of leftist policies are “crazy” - her own words. But every election, she finds a reason to vote democrat. It’s like a religion.


4 posted on 11/24/2020 2:22:46 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: PoliticallyShort

At least someone else shares my belief that Californians should now be allowed to spread their cancerous politics outside our state.


5 posted on 11/24/2020 2:22:47 PM PST by Intar
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To: frank ballenger

It’s the Wild West but the sheriff only disarms the good guys. Just like in many movies about the old West.

This is all being done for drug cartels. Follow the drug money, there’s a lot of it.


6 posted on 11/24/2020 2:24:57 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: PoliticallyShort
California may be we may be hitting rock bottom sooner...

Proofreading is our friend.

7 posted on 11/24/2020 2:26:29 PM PST by Veggie Todd (Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts. )
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To: PoliticallyShort
Nice fantasy about people having had enough. It never happens: the mass of people, as Machiavelli pointed out 500 years ago, mainly want one thing, to be left alone. They just go along to get along, adapting to every pathology.

You don't get a revolution until a non-trivial part of the elite decide they've had enough, and take the side of the enough ordinary people, providing the organization and the coordinated wealth the people lack.

If His Fraudulency is allowed to take the oath of office, what should happen is that state governments need to be pressured in no uncertain terms to start nullifying the one-party state's edicts. We already see that with some sheriffs or counties refusing to enforce despotic COVID lockdowns. That needs to spread. And when the business elites start pressing the state governments to leave or go along with the Party, they need serious pushback, as in being arrested for extortion if they threaten economic retaliation for states that won't knuckle under. Make Harris have to try calling out the army to get his edicts enforced.

The only alternative is a campaign of targeted violence to heat up the repression to the point that it triggers open, violent rebellion, such as Interior Department and FBI offices and vehicles being burned.

8 posted on 11/24/2020 2:26:31 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Williams

Yup—LA is going to be Juarez West.


9 posted on 11/24/2020 2:27:22 PM PST by cgbg ( Remember 1876--we _can_ do this!--Biden--Office of the Prisoner-Elect)
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To: PoliticallyShort

I’m so glad I got out of California.


10 posted on 11/24/2020 3:03:43 PM PST by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: Williams
But every election, she finds a reason to vote democrat. It’s like a religion.

I have a good friend who is against abortion, against gay marriage, and goes to a Baptist church, but he still votes Democrat almost always. Sigh.

11 posted on 11/24/2020 3:11:10 PM PST by libertylover (Election 2020: Make America Great Again or Burn it to the Ground. Choose one. Voter fraud is treason)
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To: libertylover

They can no longer blame orange man bad. Now it’s white man bad.


12 posted on 11/24/2020 3:40:03 PM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
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To: PoliticallyShort

Peachy, when u say “I hate guns”, that says sumpthin about you to the vast majority of real Texans. Speaking as just one, I invite you to stay in Kalifornia because Texas already has to many of you guys!


13 posted on 11/24/2020 3:41:17 PM PST by Cen-Tejas
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To: Williams
It’s the Wild West but the sheriff only disarms the good guys. Just like in many movies about the old West.

In the Sacketts movie Tom Selleck was pressured by the actor who played Animal House's Dean Wormer to go along with his rampant corruption and marry his daughter, running for office as a bought candidate under the boss's thumb. Bullets finally settled it instead of ballots.

14 posted on 11/24/2020 4:06:04 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: PoliticallyShort

[He thinks looting is reparations]

That should work really well after the stores are emptied, boarded-up, no new businesses open due to the crime, all while the COVID thing ravages retail.

Yeah, this will end well. Really, really well.


15 posted on 11/24/2020 8:42:26 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Williams

[But every election, she finds a reason to vote democrat. It’s like a religion.]

Or cult?


16 posted on 11/24/2020 8:43:29 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Williams
This is all being done for drug cartels. Follow the drug money, there’s a lot of it.

A truth that is not pointed out often enough. Imagine the cartels’ dream government for the land where they make most of their sales and it looks just about exactly like the Deep State’s vision for America. They already have a significant number of Senators on both sides bought and paid for.

17 posted on 11/24/2020 8:50:01 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: PoliticallyShort

I escaped last year. And will be bringing a UHaul with me when I finally get the last of the stuff that was put in storage. I am so happy to be gone.

So far at least 5 of my friends have actually moved this year, with many more actively talking about leaving.

For years my tagline was “Will the last responsible person to leave California please turn out the lights.”
Ironically PG & E has been doing just that and giving much more incentive to those that are considering an exit plan.


18 posted on 11/24/2020 9:16:25 PM PST by notpoliticallycorewrecked (I thank the good Lord everyday that I no longer live in CA. )
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To: pierrem15
"You don't get a revolution until a non-trivial part of the elite decide they've had enough, and take the side of the enough ordinary people"

I see you've been reading up on Moldbug.

The masses never revolt, only the disaffected elites... with the help of the masses.

I noticed this with the Net Neutrality issue. It was one of the few issues that actually stayed around for a while. And this was only because there were elites on both sides and not just piled up on one side as is normally the case. The distributors on one side and the content providers on the other. That's the only reason why there ever was a debate... to which the masses were invited to chime in so as to join forces under one of the groups of elites.

If/when they decide to impose carbon taxes, or the even more asinine idea of a market in carbon credits, there will be no debate as all of the elites will be piled up on one side.

19 posted on 11/24/2020 11:23:19 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not my current tagline.)
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