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Meanwhile, in the People’s Republic of California
The Governor of the one-party state of California has designs on running for president in 2024. Newsom claims to be a big proponent of ‘freedom.’ And touts his state’s efforts to protect the freedom to kill unborn babies up until the minute of birth. But his California is also a place where one has the freedom to loot a local business without consequences. Californians have the freedom to defecate in the street of any major city. Thanks to the ruling party’s reforms, people with HIV have the freedom to spread the virus to others. California, it seems, is just bursting with freedom.
Oh, but you won’t have the freedom to buy a gasoline-powered car. That will be illegal as of 2035. Oh, and if you own a hotel, the city of Los Angeles may soon force you to put up vagrants in any vacant room.
Under the proposal, hotels would be required to regularly report the number of vacant rooms they have to the city’s housing department. A program run through the department would then make referrals and pay “fair market rate” for the lodging using prepaid vouchers. Hotels would be prohibited from discriminating against homeless Angelenos “for their participation in this program, or the fact or perception, that they are unhoused.”
So, what do you think? Do you look forward to President Newsom taking his ‘freedom’ policies national? (Or whoever the Democrats run since they all more or less support these policies, and the alternative might be the mean tweets guy.)
Published in General
-Half the people want what the Dems are selling
-Dems elected and love an incompetent dementia patient.
-Repubs don’t vote when their tender sensibilities are hurt
So, this isn’t a joke of a candidate but a real Dem threat.
Another of them there “existential threat” things?
It is a joke of a candidate, and a joke of an opposition party. And not a laugh to be found.
I ask people at random what they think of Newsom, and usually get snickers and a reply of: “Don’t look at me. I voted for his recall, and so did everyone else I know.”
I thought asking people of the LGBT persuasion would offer up some solidarity for the governor, but they were as mystified as everyone else as to who might have voted for him.
So, democrat donors in California own car dealerships in Nevada and BnB stock?
Hotel != BnB.
California has for the last several years been known to pass some pretty idiotic legislation. But the concentration of idiocy just in the last few days is mind-boggling. Besides the above-mentioned new government bureaucracy to dictate workers’ pay, hours, and other terms of employment, and the severe limit on the ability of residents to choose the vehicles that work best for them in their individual circumstances, I read this morning that the California legislature has also passed legislation:
To prevent medical advances by banning the questioning of bureaucratic “consensus” on medical topics (specifically Covid, by stripping medical doctors who dare to question conventional thinking);
To limit employment choices by requiring job postings to include specific pay, and requiring employers to report to the state pay data by race, ethnicity, and gender (all creating their own divisiveness);
To push up the costs of “public works” projects by increasing the number of jobs required to pay “prevailing wages” (a phrase that actually means “much higher than prevailing wages”).
These laws show a level of crazy that even I didn’t think California’s legislature would get to. Yet here we are. Does becoming a member of California’s legislature induce idiocy, or have California’s voters become so stoned and disconnected from reality that they actually elect crazy people to office?
If only crazy people are running, then only crazy people can be elected.
Dominion Election System Voting Machines.
Election integrity investigators determined over 15 years ago that in all but two counties in Calif, the re-vamp of the older voting machines to newer Dominion Election Systems’ voting machinery means the elections can be programmed to carry the selected candidate.
Of course there is also the very real factor that The Woke tend to vote for women candidates, without even reading the voter guides that publish the candidates’ bios.
My count now has this “wonderful Woke” candidate who ran on her gender, her “desire to devote her life” to the needs of the community and her announced statements regarding support for the environment via Global Crisis approved programs.
Many Woke voters are now depressed as they found out that even turning to her en masse to ask for her help, especially concerning water issues, her reply would be a cheerful “I suggest you get your group a lobbyist.”
@fullsizetabby
From today’s article at:
https://californiaglobe.com/articles/how-many-california-counties-use-glitchy-dominion-voting-system/
California Globe re-published this earlier article:
How Many California Counties Use ‘Glitchy’ Dominion Voting System?
Do the 40 California counties which use Dominion software need to be audited?
By Katy Grimes, November 16, 2020 7:20 am
Across the country, recounts and legal challenges to vote results from November 3, 2020 Presidential Election are taking place in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada and Arizona.
At issue in several states is the “glitchy” computer program in Michigan which turned 6,000 Trump votes into Biden votes in just one county, and was discovered in use in 47 Michigan counties.
That same computer system used in Michigan is also used in Georgia, in which the Secretary of State finally agreed to a hand recount after voting anomalies were discovered in the voting system.
Full article at link above. (Pertinent info – Calif has either 55 or 58 counties. I never can remember which it is.)
It’s easier to launder money from lobbyists.
Hand recounts don’t really help if what are being recounted by hand are ballots produced by the machines, not ballots produced by the people voting.
Yes exactly.
Obstacles abound, even though people concerned about election integrity understand what you are stating.
Some 15 years ago, two recounts insisted on by voters in Riverside and voters in Marin County had two different outcomes.
In Riverside, the voters wanted a recount. They were told it would happen, but it would happen according to the protocols of the County’s registrar of Voters.
So the ballots in the election voters were concerned over were then processed by the same electronic machinery that had initially assembled the election’s final vote count. So the end result was of course the same.
In Marin County, the voters and the losing candidate insisted on a hand count of the ballots. Michael Smith, the Registrar of Voters’ head honcho for that county, said: “Fine. As long as the voters who are concerned come up with the $ 1.06 per ballot.” This amounted to almost 100K dollars. The position itself paid nothing except an expense account.
The candidate and the voters wanting the recount dropped the matter. (In Marin, I think if there is a 1.5% margin of error, and so if a candidate loses by that amount, the recount is automatic and the candidate can insist it be done by hand. in this case, the candidate lost by 1.75%.)
That’s pretty common too, which means that the cheaters only need to cheat enough to win by maybe 2%, it doesn’t have to be overwhelming.
I knew a Filipino who hated Ferdinand Marcos. He said that he and everyone in his village voted against Marcos. Oddly enough, Marcos won 100% of the vote in that village and with a massive turnout. Kinda like being a Republican in Philadelphia or Milwaukee. It won’t be enough to just win– mandates will need to be manufactured.