L.A.'s mayoral race pits a black congresswoman endorsed by Obama against a billionaire developer. "I can’t tell you the number of people who tell me, 'I’m voting for him, but I'm not telling anyone.'"
It is hilarious to see the left hoisted on the petard of their own foolishness. The people on here complaining of the issues in LA directly contributed to the situation they find themselves in by the way they vote. I live in Northern California and watch all of this with anger and amusement. I like how they still talk crap about Republicans when there is hardly a Republican presence anywhere in the state or local government. California is a one party state and this is what you get when the politicians have no fear of ever being voted out of office. For all the people also screaming about term limits we have that here and it doesn't do anything. All they do is move from one office to another destroying everything they touch. You get what you vote for stop voting with your emotions and take a long hard look at what and who you are voting for. The Golden State is now the Turd State.
My father had a term for it. "Lip service". How many middle age and older white politicians, professors, journalists will step down and give up their place for a minority? None. They talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. It used to be called hypocrisy. What is it called now? Woke.
I have lately wondered if the only successful strategy for Republicans in California is to switch parties and run as Democrats with reasonable proposals to turn the state around. Too many people in California just won’t vote Republican and the media will not support a Republican. However that doesn’t mean that people (and maybe even media) won’t support reasonable charges to laws and regulations that are destroying the economy and the state.
Yes, I'm hearing all the same things from Westside liberal friends. They're smart people, but they've been useful idiots, giving unquestioning support to very questionable people like the BLM folks. Now they're turning to someone who might be able to fix things, but California elections are not decided by the middle-to-upper classes; they're decided by the great mass of obedient Democrat voters, both legal and illegal, that they've stashed in neighborhoods all over the city. If the Dem establishment wants Bass, they'll "find" the ballots to get her over the finish line. I'm totally in for Caruso, but unlike Democrats, I can only vote once.
Since you have no idea what I have written about guns over the decades, let alone how and when I believe their use and ownership can and should be regulated …
… I will dismiss your entire comment as thought-free drivel.
"The noise that our eyes perceive"?? So it's some kind of fiction that car theft is rampant in New Jersey? San Francisco? The news articles don't inform, the three car chases in one day in one of the nation's top towns are noise, nothing more. The hit and run by car thieves two blocks from my house was mere noise The mall is crawling with security and police. And shoppers arr not allowed in some stores without an appointment. This is affecting daily life. We're fed up.
"I really had to put my Trump PTSD aside and look at what was best for the city and what was best for my kids living in the city" ... I was waiting for Savodnik to get there and he held off 3/4 of the way through.
This is a great thread. Lots of thoughtful and informed comments. The best and most insightful and level-headed were from Lynne. She (I assume female) should have her own blog or podcast!
I guess it requires one's toes dipping into hell to decide that change is needed. But, egads, but does it have to be the guy who is a real estate developer like the orange man? “I really had to put my Trump PTSD aside and look at what was best for the city and what was best for my kids living in the city.”
What does Trump and your lame PTSD have to do with two Dems running for top spot in LA? He must have forgotten he wasn't writing a Hollywood script.
I do feel great empathy for Ms. Avant for the tragic and absolutely avoidable death of her 91 yo mother.
Why ask the question? The insinuation was that anyone concerned about the chaos that's unfolding would also have to be an extremist when in fact a majority is concerned about crime.
We split our time between Signal Hill, California which is in Los Angeles County and Longwood, Florida which is about a half an hour, during rush hour, north of Orlando. We have a condo in California because of children who in their idiocy, and guilt at living the good life moved to California so that they could experience the misery of their liberal brethren and grandchildren who were created there, and don't know any better. We have a ring doorbell on both residences. Ring has an app where people can post videos from their doorbells and inquiries about their respective communities. There are several hundred videos emanating from Signal Hill for each one coming from Longwood. There are multiple videos and complaints of porch pirates, carjackings, catalytic converted thieves, theft of and from cars. And these are only from people with Ring doorbells! The crime rate in California appears to be multiples of the crime rate here in backward, low taxes, safe Florida. If I had to live full time in California , I'd smuggle in my 9mm Sig-Sauer, but then again, not legal to carry in California. Don't need it in Florida
Cry me a river. The BLM-loving Hollywood limousine liberals finally notice urban blight and crime when it scales their security fences and smacks them right in the face. They threw their millions behind woke politicians who let it happen, and now they're griping about it? Let them lie in the bed they made. What a craven, out-of-touch, narcissistic culture. I knew all this was going to happen over two years ago. I enjoy a lot of the entertainment they produce but I thoroughly despise them as the useless human beings they are. Look at how they enabled Weinstein for decades. They are the absolute last people who qualify to get on a soapbox and preach to the rest of us, but that doesn't stop them.
The motive in Portland and other cities was violence for its own sake, and the cause of fighting injustice was not well served. Our government, the media, the liberals all tolerated and euphemised it, calling it the "summer of love", and saying things like "people do what they do". The injustice you refer to has been addressed for my entire life, and things have been getting better, gradually, all that time. You have a wonderful meme called the BIG LIE. But you also seem to be afflicted with TDS. Historically, every single election has been challenged by the losing party. Every single one! This time, so many voter fraud allegations went unexamined that what you call the BIG LIE cannot be eliminated. Full investigations have not been held - only declarations about how free and fair the election was, just hours after votes were counted, when such a declaration was impossible to make with any degree of certainty. Irregularities were never adequately addressed, just more assertions like yours. I am willing to move on from the election, but simple declarations don't do it for me. I want real investigations, at the federal level. I want proof. But the DOJ never did it and this one never will.
It is hilarious to see the left hoisted on the petard of their own foolishness. The people on here complaining of the issues in LA directly contributed to the situation they find themselves in by the way they vote. I live in Northern California and watch all of this with anger and amusement. I like how they still talk crap about Republicans when there is hardly a Republican presence anywhere in the state or local government. California is a one party state and this is what you get when the politicians have no fear of ever being voted out of office. For all the people also screaming about term limits we have that here and it doesn't do anything. All they do is move from one office to another destroying everything they touch. You get what you vote for stop voting with your emotions and take a long hard look at what and who you are voting for. The Golden State is now the Turd State.
My father had a term for it. "Lip service". How many middle age and older white politicians, professors, journalists will step down and give up their place for a minority? None. They talk the talk, but don't walk the walk. It used to be called hypocrisy. What is it called now? Woke.
I have lately wondered if the only successful strategy for Republicans in California is to switch parties and run as Democrats with reasonable proposals to turn the state around. Too many people in California just won’t vote Republican and the media will not support a Republican. However that doesn’t mean that people (and maybe even media) won’t support reasonable charges to laws and regulations that are destroying the economy and the state.
Yes, I'm hearing all the same things from Westside liberal friends. They're smart people, but they've been useful idiots, giving unquestioning support to very questionable people like the BLM folks. Now they're turning to someone who might be able to fix things, but California elections are not decided by the middle-to-upper classes; they're decided by the great mass of obedient Democrat voters, both legal and illegal, that they've stashed in neighborhoods all over the city. If the Dem establishment wants Bass, they'll "find" the ballots to get her over the finish line. I'm totally in for Caruso, but unlike Democrats, I can only vote once.
Since you have no idea what I have written about guns over the decades, let alone how and when I believe their use and ownership can and should be regulated …
… I will dismiss your entire comment as thought-free drivel.
"The noise that our eyes perceive"?? So it's some kind of fiction that car theft is rampant in New Jersey? San Francisco? The news articles don't inform, the three car chases in one day in one of the nation's top towns are noise, nothing more. The hit and run by car thieves two blocks from my house was mere noise The mall is crawling with security and police. And shoppers arr not allowed in some stores without an appointment. This is affecting daily life. We're fed up.
"I really had to put my Trump PTSD aside and look at what was best for the city and what was best for my kids living in the city" ... I was waiting for Savodnik to get there and he held off 3/4 of the way through.
This is a great thread. Lots of thoughtful and informed comments. The best and most insightful and level-headed were from Lynne. She (I assume female) should have her own blog or podcast!
I guess it requires one's toes dipping into hell to decide that change is needed. But, egads, but does it have to be the guy who is a real estate developer like the orange man? “I really had to put my Trump PTSD aside and look at what was best for the city and what was best for my kids living in the city.”
What does Trump and your lame PTSD have to do with two Dems running for top spot in LA? He must have forgotten he wasn't writing a Hollywood script.
I do feel great empathy for Ms. Avant for the tragic and absolutely avoidable death of her 91 yo mother.
Well writtenn and spot on, Peter, Thank you
Why ask the question? The insinuation was that anyone concerned about the chaos that's unfolding would also have to be an extremist when in fact a majority is concerned about crime.
We split our time between Signal Hill, California which is in Los Angeles County and Longwood, Florida which is about a half an hour, during rush hour, north of Orlando. We have a condo in California because of children who in their idiocy, and guilt at living the good life moved to California so that they could experience the misery of their liberal brethren and grandchildren who were created there, and don't know any better. We have a ring doorbell on both residences. Ring has an app where people can post videos from their doorbells and inquiries about their respective communities. There are several hundred videos emanating from Signal Hill for each one coming from Longwood. There are multiple videos and complaints of porch pirates, carjackings, catalytic converted thieves, theft of and from cars. And these are only from people with Ring doorbells! The crime rate in California appears to be multiples of the crime rate here in backward, low taxes, safe Florida. If I had to live full time in California , I'd smuggle in my 9mm Sig-Sauer, but then again, not legal to carry in California. Don't need it in Florida
It's not our institutions that are broken, it's the people who run them.
Cry me a river. The BLM-loving Hollywood limousine liberals finally notice urban blight and crime when it scales their security fences and smacks them right in the face. They threw their millions behind woke politicians who let it happen, and now they're griping about it? Let them lie in the bed they made. What a craven, out-of-touch, narcissistic culture. I knew all this was going to happen over two years ago. I enjoy a lot of the entertainment they produce but I thoroughly despise them as the useless human beings they are. Look at how they enabled Weinstein for decades. They are the absolute last people who qualify to get on a soapbox and preach to the rest of us, but that doesn't stop them.
The motive in Portland and other cities was violence for its own sake, and the cause of fighting injustice was not well served. Our government, the media, the liberals all tolerated and euphemised it, calling it the "summer of love", and saying things like "people do what they do". The injustice you refer to has been addressed for my entire life, and things have been getting better, gradually, all that time. You have a wonderful meme called the BIG LIE. But you also seem to be afflicted with TDS. Historically, every single election has been challenged by the losing party. Every single one! This time, so many voter fraud allegations went unexamined that what you call the BIG LIE cannot be eliminated. Full investigations have not been held - only declarations about how free and fair the election was, just hours after votes were counted, when such a declaration was impossible to make with any degree of certainty. Irregularities were never adequately addressed, just more assertions like yours. I am willing to move on from the election, but simple declarations don't do it for me. I want real investigations, at the federal level. I want proof. But the DOJ never did it and this one never will.
I'm not Native American, but the most important place on a Totem Pole is most often at the bottom. ;)