Congrats! CA now has at least another year of destructive Covid policies; out of control drought and wildfires; higher taxes; school and business shutdowns; homeless encampments; and government stupidity. Celebrate. You’ll get everything you wanted!
What is there to debate? It is hard to analyze what was actually said by the voters. The people I know are not happy with anything in California. The likely alternative candidate offered nothing. If you are a young couple who feels positive about your future in California, you're still wondering if your kids will be able to afford leisure travel with a middle class income.
We all see California falling apart before us. We have Hoovervilles. Our public safety staff is spending a huge amount of their time acting like Pinkertons who are managing the "undesirables." Our Model-A's with a house full of furniture tied to its exterior were replaced by a bicycle with multiple children's trailers and strollers tied to them. Our leadership was sad that the prison system were our only functional mental health system, so they kicked the dangerously unstable individuals to the street without a functional system to replace it(So the Pinkertons ask the ill to keep it moving while wondering when those social workers are going to arrive.) The other group of people they kicked out of the prisons were the firefighters, which while morally dubious, they were helpful. When we see clips of the white Bronco driving through Southern California, we are distracted by the lack of patches on the road and the clean shoulders. As the older generations age, the now middle aged adults realize that their parents have locked in their low taxes by imposing it on those who come after them. There are cities full of retired empty nesters living in a 3 bedroom home, in a development that was once full of kids. These grandparents resist new developments because they will change the character of the community. They never realize that their family friendly cul-de-sac has become a retirement community and a store of wealth. We want to welcome all of the rando's we can into the country because our cousins aren't having babies, but we don't have water storage. We can give randos licenses and state funded medical insurance, but we couldn't build a dam? I just came back from Hawaii, and it was cool to see that gas was cheaper in Hawaii than in California.
Newsom won. He beat a guy who said the slave owners deserved reparations. I am reminded of the late great Norm McDonald who said, "People hated Hillary Clinton so much that they voted for someone they hated more than Hillary Clinton in order to rub it in." Hillary=(Elder+hatred of mulligans).
Newsom should have the confidence of a man watching his wife beat up his mistress on the set of Jerry Springer. He is not going to have a fun flight home. Now that we aren't concerned about a troll running the state the press can ask him questions that may make him look human.
The media can ask about his relationship with the convicted felon PG&E, and why his friend from the French Laundry was paid by PG&E? They can ask why the original restrictions were put in place to prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed with a disease that may have killed 3% of the planet and could be spread via un-sanitized mail, but now the goal is unknown. The press can now make him define his targets, and ask follow up questions to see if the goal is scientifically possible/probable. They can ask why the term endemic hasn't been used? The vaccinated are protected to a level that makes their COVID outcomes similar to flu outcomes, are we going to mandate constant flu tests? When Newsom touts a lowered positivity rate, the press can point out that there are 238,176 state employees, and it is likely that 31% of them are not vaccinated. Which means there are 73,835 tests a week that are not a legitimate medical curiosity. These extra tests would allow the state to have an additional 2,436 positive tests and still show a decrease in the positivity rate. They can ask why we can't coerce those experiencing homelessness to seek help, but we can coerce vaccines. They can ask if creating more unemployment is the proper coercion hammer to use. They can ask him if he really intends on laying off EDD staff if they fail to abide? They can ask why he checked his wife's ballot? Does he think that behind closed doors people may be coerced to vote a specific way to maintain family harmony? Perhaps they didn't request an absentee ballot because they wanted to vote what they thought and not what they wanted the world to think they thought? The Press can ask how switching to coal powered cars is going to help the state's emissions?
I am a Northern Californian. I sometimes feel like I am a centrist/libertarian, but then I realize that I would be the most liberal person in most towns in America. Practically everyone I know expresses the same feeling. Many of us are very liberal but not very Left. We are against monopolies and big money, and we are against the social control that comes with socialism. We want you to let your freak flag fly, but we also don't want you to claim you're a victim when we acknowledge your freak flag. We understand that imperialism is bad, and we wonder why we celebrate the intentional refusal to assimilate. We were happy to hear about our Equity initiatives, until we realized that Equity is in no way related to Equality and that there is never a point where Equity is satisfactory achieved. As Northern Californians we were open to listening to, but we noticed that the old whites making these Equity announcements weren't willing to give up their seats. We believe in hate crimes, and we understand that without the freedom of speech the victims of hate crimes would likely be muzzled. We understand the economic need for randos and we wonder why we are prioritizing programs for people who arrived yesterday over funding accounts that our accountants are telling us are "unsustainable/unfunded." We voted for a bullet train, and we were delivered the empty box of a pellet train. Even if it is completed it will not be a fast train, just kinda faster. We voted for a train from LA to SF. We could have started with stretches from Modesto to a BART Station and Bakersfield to LA's Union Station, that way worker bees could move to kinda more affordabler homes in outer regions and then commute efficiently. Instead our Oligarchs utilized the sunk cost fallacy and connected a prison with staffing problems to an orchard that has replaced it's employees with automated tractors. We wonder why the media barely blinked when Elder was assaulted by a woman in a gorilla mask, it makes us sick. We're liberal and we can't vote to let a burn it down candidate win, but Newsom should be terrified of a liberal Republican winning the primary. Newsom will have a hard time if his next opponent isn't a troll, and can answer every question with, "If we can utilize mandates against you, we can mandate that tents can't be on sidewalks. and we can declare a public health emergency to build a dam."
Thank you, Mr. Nevius, for a thoughtful look at the events of the past few days. You took a very balanced approach which is appreciated.
Congrats! CA now has at least another year of destructive Covid policies; out of control drought and wildfires; higher taxes; school and business shutdowns; homeless encampments; and government stupidity. Celebrate. You’ll get everything you wanted!
George I keep thinking you are going to kick off a raging comments debate. But not yet. :(
What is there to debate? It is hard to analyze what was actually said by the voters. The people I know are not happy with anything in California. The likely alternative candidate offered nothing. If you are a young couple who feels positive about your future in California, you're still wondering if your kids will be able to afford leisure travel with a middle class income.
We all see California falling apart before us. We have Hoovervilles. Our public safety staff is spending a huge amount of their time acting like Pinkertons who are managing the "undesirables." Our Model-A's with a house full of furniture tied to its exterior were replaced by a bicycle with multiple children's trailers and strollers tied to them. Our leadership was sad that the prison system were our only functional mental health system, so they kicked the dangerously unstable individuals to the street without a functional system to replace it(So the Pinkertons ask the ill to keep it moving while wondering when those social workers are going to arrive.) The other group of people they kicked out of the prisons were the firefighters, which while morally dubious, they were helpful. When we see clips of the white Bronco driving through Southern California, we are distracted by the lack of patches on the road and the clean shoulders. As the older generations age, the now middle aged adults realize that their parents have locked in their low taxes by imposing it on those who come after them. There are cities full of retired empty nesters living in a 3 bedroom home, in a development that was once full of kids. These grandparents resist new developments because they will change the character of the community. They never realize that their family friendly cul-de-sac has become a retirement community and a store of wealth. We want to welcome all of the rando's we can into the country because our cousins aren't having babies, but we don't have water storage. We can give randos licenses and state funded medical insurance, but we couldn't build a dam? I just came back from Hawaii, and it was cool to see that gas was cheaper in Hawaii than in California.
Newsom won. He beat a guy who said the slave owners deserved reparations. I am reminded of the late great Norm McDonald who said, "People hated Hillary Clinton so much that they voted for someone they hated more than Hillary Clinton in order to rub it in." Hillary=(Elder+hatred of mulligans).
Newsom should have the confidence of a man watching his wife beat up his mistress on the set of Jerry Springer. He is not going to have a fun flight home. Now that we aren't concerned about a troll running the state the press can ask him questions that may make him look human.
The media can ask about his relationship with the convicted felon PG&E, and why his friend from the French Laundry was paid by PG&E? They can ask why the original restrictions were put in place to prevent the hospitals from being overwhelmed with a disease that may have killed 3% of the planet and could be spread via un-sanitized mail, but now the goal is unknown. The press can now make him define his targets, and ask follow up questions to see if the goal is scientifically possible/probable. They can ask why the term endemic hasn't been used? The vaccinated are protected to a level that makes their COVID outcomes similar to flu outcomes, are we going to mandate constant flu tests? When Newsom touts a lowered positivity rate, the press can point out that there are 238,176 state employees, and it is likely that 31% of them are not vaccinated. Which means there are 73,835 tests a week that are not a legitimate medical curiosity. These extra tests would allow the state to have an additional 2,436 positive tests and still show a decrease in the positivity rate. They can ask why we can't coerce those experiencing homelessness to seek help, but we can coerce vaccines. They can ask if creating more unemployment is the proper coercion hammer to use. They can ask him if he really intends on laying off EDD staff if they fail to abide? They can ask why he checked his wife's ballot? Does he think that behind closed doors people may be coerced to vote a specific way to maintain family harmony? Perhaps they didn't request an absentee ballot because they wanted to vote what they thought and not what they wanted the world to think they thought? The Press can ask how switching to coal powered cars is going to help the state's emissions?
I am a Northern Californian. I sometimes feel like I am a centrist/libertarian, but then I realize that I would be the most liberal person in most towns in America. Practically everyone I know expresses the same feeling. Many of us are very liberal but not very Left. We are against monopolies and big money, and we are against the social control that comes with socialism. We want you to let your freak flag fly, but we also don't want you to claim you're a victim when we acknowledge your freak flag. We understand that imperialism is bad, and we wonder why we celebrate the intentional refusal to assimilate. We were happy to hear about our Equity initiatives, until we realized that Equity is in no way related to Equality and that there is never a point where Equity is satisfactory achieved. As Northern Californians we were open to listening to, but we noticed that the old whites making these Equity announcements weren't willing to give up their seats. We believe in hate crimes, and we understand that without the freedom of speech the victims of hate crimes would likely be muzzled. We understand the economic need for randos and we wonder why we are prioritizing programs for people who arrived yesterday over funding accounts that our accountants are telling us are "unsustainable/unfunded." We voted for a bullet train, and we were delivered the empty box of a pellet train. Even if it is completed it will not be a fast train, just kinda faster. We voted for a train from LA to SF. We could have started with stretches from Modesto to a BART Station and Bakersfield to LA's Union Station, that way worker bees could move to kinda more affordabler homes in outer regions and then commute efficiently. Instead our Oligarchs utilized the sunk cost fallacy and connected a prison with staffing problems to an orchard that has replaced it's employees with automated tractors. We wonder why the media barely blinked when Elder was assaulted by a woman in a gorilla mask, it makes us sick. We're liberal and we can't vote to let a burn it down candidate win, but Newsom should be terrified of a liberal Republican winning the primary. Newsom will have a hard time if his next opponent isn't a troll, and can answer every question with, "If we can utilize mandates against you, we can mandate that tents can't be on sidewalks. and we can declare a public health emergency to build a dam."