[artichokegrower]

About half of eligible Shasta County residents chose to get vaccinated, 30 percentage points below the state average. The county never truly enforced the state-mandated business lockdowns and, Moty said, never cited a single business for staying open against the rules.

Shasta County stays open during COVID 493 deaths 180080 population 0.002% death rate

Los Angeles County shuts down during COVID 30759 deaths 9934710 population 0.003% death rate

[eyeamok]

To a Presstitute from San Francisco, anyone to the right of Josef Stalin is a Far Right Extremist.

[BenLurkin]

Only in the fevered brains of Bay Areas pinkos is the pursuit of liberty considerd “far-right.”

[rktman]

Weird. No mention of the far left extremist movement huh?

[Roman_War_Criminal]

How many of them are waving Blue & Yellow Ukrainian flags?

[glorgau]

They’ve just go to have a bogeyman, any bogeyman so as not to focus on leftist failures.

[Flick Lives]

The gains it has achieved have come at the expense of moderate Republicans, who for generations fit the small-government, light-regulation ethic that guided political life here.

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This is the leftist’s second favorite kind of Republican, their favorite being dead Republicans.

[Born in 1950]

“far-right militia group”

Can't fathom why this should be tossed around as a disparagement.

[ConservativeInPA]

Are we to believe a single word printed in the Chronicle?

[Navy Patriot]

You know the Ruling Elite, Know-It-All Homosexuals in San Fagcisco have found that if you roll the Cornholicle up real tight you can shove it up ...

Darn, my keyboard ribbon just broke.

[ThunderSleeps]

...using special elections and veiled intimidation to spread...

I've never been there, but I'll bet you the so-called or claimed "veiled intimidation" is so well veiled, so subtle, it probably goes un-noticed by everyone. Not very effective intimidation if the target doesn't even know they're being intimidated... One could speculate it is likely said intimidation is solely in the imagination of the writer.

[Chgogal]

Anyone who picks up garbage in front of their house is considered to be far right by these demented Dummycrats.

[BobL]

“How far-right militia groups found a foothold in deep-blue California”

Sounds like Ukraine.

[Rusty0604]

There are good conservatives in California, in most populous areas they are just outnumbered.

[JennysCool]

It's become quite obvious that the media's new criteria for "far right" now includes "doesn't particularly like Democrats."

Although they claimed Joe Biden got 81 million votes in the 2020 election (har), I think most everyone has noticed by now that Democrats have since been acting like a downtrodden, put-upon minority group, not a powerful political party. It's to the point where Nancy Pelosi felt obligated to attempt to raise their spirits during the State of the Union by pretending to be a demented junior high cheerleader.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Another wild article of imagination

[unixfox]

Those aren’t far right militia groups. Those are drug cartels.

[Michael.SF.]

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’m guessing conservatives are banding together because, once again, the GOPee won’t stand up for them.

[Blood of Tyrants]

If you are a militia member, look at the people on your right and left, one or both of them is an FIB informant.

[euram]

almost everyone mentioned in this article is in their 50s, 60s, or 70s. Many are business or ranch owners. They engaged in the recall Newsom effort and efforts to recall others as well, all perfectly legal. The “leader” of this bunch of desperados is described as a retired Marine who is Peruvian-American.