Bravo, Andy. The people who are trying to attack Tesla cars and destroy Tesla are probably getting paid. The people who aren't throwing the Molotov Cocktails but still think Musk and Trump are destroying Democracy and should be stopped by any means are both narcissistic and masochistic - which is a psychological Molotov Cocktail.
It's easy to be a narcissist in California because of the emphasis here on feeling good about yourself at all cost to any reality. And it's also easy for people here to be masochists because deep down these people know feel unworthy of what they have. I've never known a narcissist who wasn't full of self hatred that they projected onto other people.
In addition to everything you list, one of the most disturbing recent examples of this is the fires in Altadena and Pacific Palisades. I spent the first fifteen years of my life in Altadena before my parents moved to Santa Barbara. The beautiful house and neighborhood I lived in has been destroyed, as though a bomb was dropped on it. And I want answers from the Green, go electric people of the Democratic Party - why they have destroyed forest management in the name of saving the planet. And I want to know why the people suffered from the fires are talking about saving Democracy from Trump. One Altadena woman told me how upset she is by Trump's tariff policy, how evil it is. She's upset by this over her beloved town being destroyed?
Narcissism and masochism. It's a lethal combination.
How much money is being stolen from US taxpayers to fund the rent-a-mobs? How much from foreign entities? Looking forward to the first arrests of a few higher ranking street mob organizers… https://x.com/c_3c_3/status/1908523456628466132?s=61
I'm a passionate home cook and for decades have bought as many ingredients as possible from small farms and small businesses. I've learned that these places are often run by libtards. It's like the arts, another world I've been in for years. They don't think rationally about politics or really much of anything but they are often brilliant creators. They get all swept up in political nonsense. Until very recently I'd try to talk to them. I no longer try. It's pointless. Just now I got an email from a company I buy spices from and it was about how awful Trump is with his tariff policies and how awful Elon is, etc. etc., and here's what I sent them back. It's my form letter for dealing with such people now:
Dear (name of small business owner),
I love your products - thank you for enriching the dishes I make! I'm just a home cook, but for several decades I have bought as many of my cooking ingredients from small farmers and small business owners as possible. Among the ones I buy from: Rancho Gordo, Burlap & Barrel, Anson Mills, Maureen Abood, Porter Road, Heritage Pork, Get Hooked Seafood, The Date Lady, NY Shuk and local farms and businesses in my city, Santa Barbara. While I respect your right to express your political views, I don't share them. Please keep politics out of what you do. I don't cook with politics, I cook with love.
Perfect response Polly, love your Spirit & thanks for the good recommendations/list of local & other small farm businesses…I’ll check it out
PS…I spend a lot of time online attempting to turn the heads of those that are still lost in the mind warp…don’t give up, we are at the tipping point — The Great Awakening! The Best Is Yet To Come…
They're free to express their opinions and I'm free to tell them I'm interested in their products not their politics. I'm not boycotting or censoring them or throwing Molotov Cocktails at their businesses. You just like to pick fights, David,
Hmm. I am accused of picking fights . . . Are you incapable of seeing the irony of your post that I responded to? Never let the irony slap you in the face.
Are you incapable of seeing the difference between boycotting or throwing Molotov Cocktails at someone you disagree politically with and simply saying as I did that I love their products and don't want to listen to their politics?
Grow up and read the dictionary. There is no picking a fight occurring here.
The facts are the facts. The land above Altadena that YOU are whining about not being managed is $%@% FEDERAL land. The state can NOT touch it, nor is it responsible for the land. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is. You know, the same buffoon who screamed about raking forests has no clue that the land he was talking about is land that he controls.
The fact that you are tying things together that are not related should embarrass you. You seem so hell bent on blaming a group of people for something that you have neglected to realize that they have NOTHING TO DO with it at all. NOTHING.
And to make matters worse, you have no CLUE if the forest was managed or not. You just want to blame a group of people instead of looking at who controls it.
In regards to regulations, are you OK if they forced all the homeowners to level their houses to replace them with flame resistant materials? Are you OK with the government mandating metal roofs instead of wood? Or are you going to scream, "FREEDOM! This is 'merica."
How dumb, Barton. Benedict Donald is only here to shrink your 401(k) and pollute our air with massive deregulation. If you had kids and grandkids, you might be more concerned with what they have to breathe under Republican regimes.
I admit that the maggot deregulation agenda is not as bad as their lawlessness and unconstitutional activity, especially surrounding their January 6 insurrection into our capital where the mini assholes who raided our symbol of democracy wanted to hang Mike Pence, murder Nancy Pelosi, injure or kill as many police officers as was necessary to gain entrance into the voting arena, steal an election that was won by Joe Biden, and lost by the loser Donald Jessica Trump, cause as much damage as possible, and smear their feces all over the walls of the halls of Congress.
Gosh… MAGATS must be so proud.
Once again, I suggest you stop taking your daily disinfectant injection and stop watching videos of Donald Trump giving microphones blowjobs… Are we clear?
Thanks moron....you are right...teachers do tend to tell the truth whereas MAGATs thrive on trumpian lies. Just hope you got your lazy ass out on April 5th with the rest of the country in protest over the traitor you voted in. Barton, get your butt over here and give me 5 minutes of the Orange Turd's freak show double fisted masterbation dance....now!
Unfortunately, the hundreds of protesters in De La Guerra Plaza (and millions across the country), are either to dense to understand or blinded by their ideology and will never acknowledge the truth.
Mike, you can engage them on NextDoor right now. Just like Polly setting the example - speak your piece, so others can consider something other than only their canned messages.
Oh gosh, Mike how right you are. We must be so blinded as we watch our 401(k)s go deeper and deeper into the red and as we watch American citizens being sent to mega MAGAT prisons in El Salvador on a (oops) Trumpian administrative error.
How do you support a disgusting, detestable, rapist, racist, serial lying, PUtin loving, Kim Jong Un loving, Victor Orban loving, ANY dictator loving, Ukraine hating, ANY ally hating, trans hating, gay hating, ANY minority hating, democracy hating, America hating, sociopathic dog and cat eating, disinfectant injecting, utter moron piece of shit traitor?
As old as Biden was getting, he never took a sharpie to a weather map to make a hurricane go in the direction he wanted. He never thought that putting UV lights up your butt and taking disinfectant injections along with some hydroxychloroquine could cure your Covid, he never looked directly at the sun like the Orange dipshit, he never thought windmills caused cancer, he never had to make the decision on whether to jump in and let a shark eat him or die by electrocution in his sinking boat, never boasted to passing a dementia test with “flying colors“, never touted the late great Hannibal Lecter, never even mentioned the stupid idea of making Canada bow down to us both in the arena of tariffs and with the idea of making them become our 51sr state, never tossed out the idea of buying Greenland, or taking over the Panama Canal, never thought that dropping a nuke in the middle of a hurricane would take care of the problem, never thought of nuking Mexico to get rid of the cartels, never thought to put kids in cages, never had an ego so fragile that he had to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America (what freak would spend even a nickel on that lame ass idea?), never gave a microphone a blowjob, never embarrassingly performed the double fisted masturbation freak dance, never had one scandal in his administration, like, for example, stealing DOZENS AND DOZENS of classified and
top secret documents from the White House and storing them in his golden bathroom after showing them to strangers and not giving them up despite multiple requests, or trying to stay in power by inciting an insurrection into our Capitol to hang Mike Pence, murder Nancy Pelosi, injure or kill police officers, and shit all over the walls, never was impeached like the twice impeached piece of shit who was convicted of 34 felonies, never phoned any Secretary of State demanding 11,780 votes so he could win the election, never sent fake electors to Washington in a desperate effort to win the election, never lied thousands upon thousands upon thousands of times like Trump did to his shameless, spineless MAGAT supporters, never called an insurrectionist a very special person, never expressed his love for an insurrectionist, never thought an insurrectionist was a patriot, and later a hostage of all things, never got thrown out of 62 courtrooms for having zero evidence that the election was stolen, never selected a cabinet of billionaires that were so unqualified for the job and so fucking stupid, never thought the Haitians were eating the dogs and the cats and the pets of the people in Springfield, Ohio, and never had to wear a diaper. Look… I have to cut this short because if I kept on going, my computer would run out of bandwidth.
Just understand this…The only reason you like this POS Nazi Pig is that he has allowed you to hate who he hates without guilt.
Andy, thank you for this clear reminder that our current economic path will result in ruins ruled by the tyrants that are the Democrat party. I am afraid that as clear as this reminder is and as clear as it is that the actions being taken by the great and beautiful Donald J Trump the greatest president ever are both appropriate and necessary, they will be met with fierce resistence by Democrats. The party of freeloaders vagabonds and gypsies, the Democrats are threatened by Trump and will react as a salted snail with any action taken by Trump. Remember that this is the party that cannot define a woman. So perverted is their world view that something so fundamental as a person's sex is now complicated, controversial and subtle. Democrats are a party of conformity and march in lockstep off the economic cliff, lemmings united in mutual destruction. I do not want to be taken down by this repugnant horde. For once we the followers of Trump must impose our will on the Democrats as they are so accustomed to doing to us, for our own good, Republicans, Democrats and vagabonds alike. Kick, scream, froth, curse, vandalize if you must, Trump is the new sheriff in town and he is here to help whether you like it or not.
You said it all in a nutshell, Andy. Dems are simply anti-anything that has to do with the Republicans. It does illustrate the lack of creativity of the Dems to make any sense of their thinking process. What's in today is out tomorrow, lol.
No, no no no… We are anti-anything that has to do with the lying, sick, twisted, sociopathic, spineless cowards of the MAGAT party. Republicans aren’t so bad if they don’t just fall head over heels over their, Lord, sent by God himself.
Suggestion… Go watch Donald do his double fisted masturbation freak dance after you watch the video of him giving his microphone a blowjob. Deal?
The static is coming from your pubic hair area....get your microphone out of your ass. As an aside....did you go watch the video of trump giving his microphone a blowjob?
Yah right....there is zero doubt what he was doing. Your problem is that you just can't believe donOLD is such a fucking moron that he would do such a classless thing on national TV where kids and who knows who else are watching. But you are mistaken because he IS just THAT detestable and disgusting.
Go ahead and Google it or put it into ChatGPT and you will see you are, perhaps, one of 6 people in the world who can't see that trump is giving his microphone a blowjob.
So tell me, genius, just what do YOU think he's doing? Good GAWD you MAGATS will do anything to protect his sorry, diapered, ass. It is truly PATHETIC. Have you always loved sociopaths?
This is what the Left does, they use fear, intimidation, bullying and violence in order to achieve their political goals. Yes, this same, virtual crowd who chanted Peace and Love during the 60’s are now advocating violence? Wait, aren’t these some of the same Burnouts which burned the Bank of America to the ground in IV back in 70’? So yes, they are very prone to violence and mayhem.
Well, these “Peaceniks” need to understand, this go round they could find themselves in the crowbar hotel should they become violent. Maybe a better use of their time would be to hit that glass pipe and call it a day, that’s right, take their butterfly net and go look for some unicorns!
Interesting how the “Molotov cocktail” is the weapon of choice for the violent and unhinged left. Vyacheslav Molotov of course, being the Russian revolutionary, Foreign Minister and henchman to Joseph Stalin and architect of his murderous rampage. The technique of instilling fear and mayhem is nothing new. The American left has seem to now perfected this.
From a pre-printed poster handed out at one rally, their spiritual leader is an original participant in the 1965 UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement, ginned up by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who is now living in France, after fleeing from a 1981 US trial. He is now 82, so you cannot even say "Okay Boomer" since he generationally precedes them.
LT, just saying. But random tariffs that come and go, targeted investigations, treats against media outlets and threatening Federal funding sounds a lot like "they use fear, intimidation, bullying and violence in order to achieve their political goals"
Flag football no, Trump is playing 3 dimensional chess. Working numerous deals on behalf of the American public, while the left continues to become more and more unhinged. BTW, what is it they actually support other than Men dressing as Women? Oh, that’s right, they now hate EV’s?
LT. I am sure the protesters are not anti EV. Just anti Elon and taking out on his business. This narrative that now the wacky eco warriors are against EVs is just some dumb word twisting.
I don't see why folks are protesting vs. just not buying one.
Trump is a mere modernist, he preserves the neo liberal status quo of a few decades ago. And he like other "rightists" idolize a time (the 50's) that was never actually Christian or moral, simply materially well off.
If you are going to praise your dear leader, why not at least spell things correctly, or was it a Freudian slip? You know, 3 dementia instead of dimensional.
Sorry Thomas John, but I think your equating actual violence against other citizens and the job Trump is doing is way off. He is not doing anything he said he wasn't going to do as far as fixing our economy and is doing it through legal channels. To even hint that there is a comparison is dead wrong.
Like everyone else I agree with some things he says, but not others, and all of our mileages may vary on how much we agree/disagree. Having said that, you make an excellent point. Trump--who emotionally is a spoiled child--goes out of his way to be obnoxious and offensive, which is much different from "simply telling it like it is", and that, in and of itself, will turn off potential support. The vision of Musk jumping around with his chainsaw would be comical, if it weren't so pathetic: a pumped-up 14-year in the throes of an adrenaline rush.
“It must be hard to live with yourself when you want to save the environment and democracy and the best idea you can come up with is either outright attacking or protesting the most successful electric car manufacturer in the world.”
You can find profound lessons in so many mundane places. Last week I was picking up some litter somewhere in town when I found a discarded, empty garbage bag. Ideal opportunity to explain the word "ironic" to my 9 yr old grandson. Neither of us will forget the funny/sad truth bundled in that moment. So, the funny/sad truth of Andy's report and thoughts about the Tesla terrorists protesting one of the real heroes of the green culture hit a similar cord. Also, today, I see a report that the HANDS OFF event in SB was the largest such gathering since...wait for it, the George Floyd protest.
I wondered whether--after time-sifted facts now differently understood--many of those same GF protestors would repeat their marching support today for BLM or that seminal moment we now understand/believe was not an organic response but, rather, a managed & manufactured national outrage. Similarly, the very streets and parks and beach that protestors occupied to show disdain for dealing with the chickens of debt coming home to roost are themselves being managed by a technically bankrupt city, in desperate need of the same fiscal cleanup being protested on the national level. Like I taught my grandson, we can find funny/sad (ironic) truth all around us...
"Hands Off" told us who their supporters are on their own website: SEIU and the teachers unions to name the most obvious ones. SB Indivisible was formed after the 2016 elections and they also ran regular protest actions, until they fizzled into disinterest. Many of the same players in this crowd.
The Indivisible is still running strong through Soros donations in places like Seattle, as a friend living in WA state mentioned last night. As I recall, Soros was funded through USAID, taxpayer money. Is Soros trying to spend it all before he's told to return the money to the Feds?
Is it so much who replaces Soros, or perhaps the concern should be does anyone care? It doesn't take rocket science to follow the money trail back to the source of the funding source of the present or next bad guy. Are all the people in the Capitol Building complicit? Outside of Musk's gang, I have to wonder who else cares inside the Capitol.
So you are saying that Musk is evil for his $1mm giveaways? I just want to make sure I know who you feel is the evil person. Is Harlan Crow on that list as well?
MOTIVE. It’s our first question about a crime, isn’t it? What is the motive of this mob (or those inciting violence) toward a brilliant inventor, Elon Musk? This motivation is destructive and perplexing. Trump’s motivation is love of country and return to greatness he knew as a young man. Elon’s motivation to support MAGA was Trump’s sincerity when bullet of an assasin pierced his head. Trump did not cower with self-importance, he raised a fist for others to carry on with the quest of greatness. MAGA is motivation for every citizen to be the best we can be. That said, WHAT is the motivation to fight against the best we can be?
Means, motive, motivation: what better expression for all three besides protesting to protect their own taxpayer-funded government jobs, perks and pensions.
They should have taken the very generous buy-out offer when first presented to them. But they didn't, so now they are expressing their own buyer's remorse. They took the wrong fork in the road.
Someone on my Tesla group on FB pointed out the irony that these amazing self driving cars are also turning in the people who damage them ha ha, and that as they catch more and more of them they will have a felony record and be unable to vote for life which actually helps the Republicans. The movie "Dumb and Dumber" comes to mind.
You need to learn to do actual research and not click on silly click bait, that video has been widely debunked, you can learn this if you are capable. So as a favor I will educate you, though I am not sure you are capable of learning, let's find out. So I can tell by your post you literally know nothing about Tesla's and are just a lib troll, normally Ignore fruit cakes like you, but you make yourself look and sound so stupid, something in my wants to help you dig yourself out of the 'dumb ditch' you have yourself in. Let's take your statement "Self driving is an odd claim". Of course anybody with a normal level of knowledge and more than one brain cell ( a group that does not appear to include you ) knows your statement is laughable. Rather than give you a full education, you can do that yourself, I'll just give you the 5 year old level education as I suspect that is about the perfect level in this case. It turns out I am one of the small group of Tesla Beta testers who were accepted into the full self drive beta testing program. I have been beta testing it on two tesla's that I own for several years before the program gathered enough information to be more widely distributed to the public. Here is an example of driving a full self drive tesla and this single example will allow you to avoid asking questions that point out how dumb you are. I have driven thousands of miles in all kinds of circumstances on the FSD software. Most recently I drove a round trip of 150 miles to LA area and back, from my house here in SB, this included street driving in LA, and Santa Barbara, freeway driving, canyon driving through Topanga Canyon, and even included driving through a road being worked on where workman were present re directing traffic with traffic cones around an area they were working on. The car drove the entire trip without me ever touching the brakes or the steering wheel. This is common. Hence the rather apt name 'full self driving/supervised' that it now has. You are welcome! You will no longer be ignorant on this topic and can avoid making dumb posts.
Thanks for the nasty reply. I was asking what you thought but got a bunch of grief. And that 'drive' sounds really boring just sitting there. Glad you like your iPad. At least you had your hands free for something else.
Maybe next time you can save up and buy a car with lidar?
DEMOcRAT leftists are truly sick and mentally ill. One only has to stand back and observe the epidemic/pandemic of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
Leftist DEMOcRATS protesting on street corners, and in front of Tesla dealerships, sometimes peacefully, when just 6 months earlier during the reign of drooling pervert Joe and his incompetent babbling VP, Kamel, (you have to be a special kind of mentally ill to have voted for those two) the left was swooning over Elon and his magical and clean Tesla vehicles. Now they are comparing him and President Trump to Hitler, NAZIs, and the SS. Having just read Ann Frank, Beyond the Diary, and reading FaceBook posts on Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz, for anybody to make that comparison means you are truly deluded and have a sick mind. These very sick DEMOcRAT leftists equate Trump’s and Musk’s efforts to clean up massive Gooberment waste to NAZIs rounding up 6 million Jews, babies, infants, toddlers, young teens, mothers, fathers… and murdering them in gas chambers, sometimes on the same day that they arrived on the cattle car trains to the Death Camps. You are truly sick and demented people. For the life of me I can’t understand why all Universities, Pharmaceuticals, CDC, NIH… are not throwing trillions of dollars at this pandemic disease, ala “Covid”.
Why are you infatuated with the spend side of the equation and leaving the income side alone?
SS has taken in more money than it has ever sent out. Just read that line a few times and let it sink in. SS has EXCESS funds. So much that it accounts for about 3tn (IIRC) of the deficit that the US has.
Medicare is close to break even. Medicare could be break even if it were not for . . . wait for it . . . REPUBLICANS who have stopped at all times, the negotiation of drugs with the companies. Imagine if medicare could price shop how much it would SAVE. But, hey, isn't DOGE and the people in here screaming about WASTE. Why not push for all drugs in the Medicare system be negotiated.
The level of hypocrisy and blind allegiance is disheartening to see.
Your comment is riddled with errors. In 2010 Social Security turned red and the deficits have grown each successive year. SS is projected to be insolvent in 2033. Unless something is done to shore up the system, payments to recipients will be cut by 21% in 2033. Medicare is also on a path to insolvency. BTW, many drugs are no longer covered by Medicare anymore.
Just type this into a search engine, "social security total income since inception". You will see that SS has taken in more than it has expended. There may have been years that it took in less than it sent out that year, but you are neglecting to realize all the excess years sitting in the trust fund.
So my comment is NOT inaccurate. Yours is misleading.
The system has so many levers and has been adjusted before and will be adjusted in the future. Every 10 years someone will scream it is going insolvent. This has been going on since the 1960s. Here we are nearly 65 years later and the same argument is being made today that was made then, SS will go bankrupt in ~10 years. Get over it. It hasn't in the past and it will not in the future.
Sorry, your doom and gloom Chicken Little story only works on the gullible.
Good article. Excellent analysis. Totally wasted on the liberal left sheep who will follow the vast and frequent negative propaganda spewed forth by the Marxist Media and entitled bureaucrats. I have had die hard liberals actually deny the Clinton firings ever happened!! And proudly claim the trillions we are currently in debt is all the fault of the first President Trump administration.
500,000 Clinton government terminations, while also closing down many military bases and government funded military research. Which ironically left a lot of highly trained engineers suddenly out of work, whose concentrated talent went on to develop the Silicon Valley "high tech" miracle.
The Law of Unintended Consequences. How will this current list of terminated government employees band together and bring value to the private sector, like the last Clinton round of terminated government employees?
It’s all so beyond frustrating ! They are getting so loud again! The masses are just following what they’re told(all lies, non information ) to do all in the name of their new,blind definition of democracy. We need to find a way of getting the info behind the Republican’s moves into the democrat’s thick skulls, past the blinders!! I say billboards , high & huge ! Change it to a different basic explanation of good being done by this admin., as soon as it’s graffitied by the left! Constant info in giant font as they drive in now non electric cars down the freeways! Signage row of common sense that will change our county, everyone’s lives for a better future!
“In a quiet village nestled between two great hills lived Ivan and Boris. Ivan’s crops were tired, his chickens moody, and worst of all, his goat was stubborn and barren.
Boris had the golden touch with a beautiful farm and his goat gave the richest milk in the province.
Each morning, Ivan would watch Boris’s goat from his porch, sipping bitter coffee.
The local priest, Father Mikhail, noticed Ivan’s scowl growing darker by the day and finally asked, “Ivan, what do you want, my son? What blessing can I pray for on your behalf?”
Ivan didn’t hesitate. “I want Boris’s goat to die.”
Doesn’t that sound just like the Commie-Dems? Better to destroy someone you don’t agree with rather than making your own life better!
The only message I got was "Hands Off" our government paychecks, perks and pensions. Which means not one single protester was honest about their real message.
Bravo, Andy. The people who are trying to attack Tesla cars and destroy Tesla are probably getting paid. The people who aren't throwing the Molotov Cocktails but still think Musk and Trump are destroying Democracy and should be stopped by any means are both narcissistic and masochistic - which is a psychological Molotov Cocktail.
It's easy to be a narcissist in California because of the emphasis here on feeling good about yourself at all cost to any reality. And it's also easy for people here to be masochists because deep down these people know feel unworthy of what they have. I've never known a narcissist who wasn't full of self hatred that they projected onto other people.
In addition to everything you list, one of the most disturbing recent examples of this is the fires in Altadena and Pacific Palisades. I spent the first fifteen years of my life in Altadena before my parents moved to Santa Barbara. The beautiful house and neighborhood I lived in has been destroyed, as though a bomb was dropped on it. And I want answers from the Green, go electric people of the Democratic Party - why they have destroyed forest management in the name of saving the planet. And I want to know why the people suffered from the fires are talking about saving Democracy from Trump. One Altadena woman told me how upset she is by Trump's tariff policy, how evil it is. She's upset by this over her beloved town being destroyed?
Narcissism and masochism. It's a lethal combination.
Exactly right (again) Polly, “the people who are trying to attack Tesla cars and destroy Tesla are probably getting paid.”
https://x.com/amuse/status/1908481990921244922?s=61
https://x.com/defiyantlyfree/status/1908606599087677524?s=61
https://x.com/tonyseruga/status/1908618320422855152?s=61
https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/1903082190931370335?s=61
https://x.com/nataliegwinters/status/1904327868232114658?s=61
How much money is being stolen from US taxpayers to fund the rent-a-mobs? How much from foreign entities? Looking forward to the first arrests of a few higher ranking street mob organizers… https://x.com/c_3c_3/status/1908523456628466132?s=61
I'm a passionate home cook and for decades have bought as many ingredients as possible from small farms and small businesses. I've learned that these places are often run by libtards. It's like the arts, another world I've been in for years. They don't think rationally about politics or really much of anything but they are often brilliant creators. They get all swept up in political nonsense. Until very recently I'd try to talk to them. I no longer try. It's pointless. Just now I got an email from a company I buy spices from and it was about how awful Trump is with his tariff policies and how awful Elon is, etc. etc., and here's what I sent them back. It's my form letter for dealing with such people now:
Dear (name of small business owner),
I love your products - thank you for enriching the dishes I make! I'm just a home cook, but for several decades I have bought as many of my cooking ingredients from small farmers and small business owners as possible. Among the ones I buy from: Rancho Gordo, Burlap & Barrel, Anson Mills, Maureen Abood, Porter Road, Heritage Pork, Get Hooked Seafood, The Date Lady, NY Shuk and local farms and businesses in my city, Santa Barbara. While I respect your right to express your political views, I don't share them. Please keep politics out of what you do. I don't cook with politics, I cook with love.
Perfect response Polly, love your Spirit & thanks for the good recommendations/list of local & other small farm businesses…I’ll check it out
PS…I spend a lot of time online attempting to turn the heads of those that are still lost in the mind warp…don’t give up, we are at the tipping point — The Great Awakening! The Best Is Yet To Come…
Brava, Polly.
So you are free to express your opinions and they are not? Hmm.
They're free to express their opinions and I'm free to tell them I'm interested in their products not their politics. I'm not boycotting or censoring them or throwing Molotov Cocktails at their businesses. You just like to pick fights, David,
Hmm. I am accused of picking fights . . . Are you incapable of seeing the irony of your post that I responded to? Never let the irony slap you in the face.
Are you incapable of seeing the difference between boycotting or throwing Molotov Cocktails at someone you disagree politically with and simply saying as I did that I love their products and don't want to listen to their politics?
Argh. Another misinformed person about a subject.
Who has destroyed forest management? Please . . . educate me in your misconceived opinions. Just like the land to the NORTH of us, it is FEDERAL LAND.
But in your world, natural disasters never occur.
But in your world, you are preaching NO regulations. You know, the ones that would require buildings be built a certain way.
Want to try again?
More fight picking, David. I've never preached no regulations about building buildings.
Grow up and read the dictionary. There is no picking a fight occurring here.
The facts are the facts. The land above Altadena that YOU are whining about not being managed is $%@% FEDERAL land. The state can NOT touch it, nor is it responsible for the land. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT is. You know, the same buffoon who screamed about raking forests has no clue that the land he was talking about is land that he controls.
The fact that you are tying things together that are not related should embarrass you. You seem so hell bent on blaming a group of people for something that you have neglected to realize that they have NOTHING TO DO with it at all. NOTHING.
And to make matters worse, you have no CLUE if the forest was managed or not. You just want to blame a group of people instead of looking at who controls it.
In regards to regulations, are you OK if they forced all the homeowners to level their houses to replace them with flame resistant materials? Are you OK with the government mandating metal roofs instead of wood? Or are you going to scream, "FREEDOM! This is 'merica."
Pfft.
The eight most terrifying words to a Democrat: I'm Trump and I'm here to shrink government.
Lol, so true, Jeff.
How dumb, Barton. Benedict Donald is only here to shrink your 401(k) and pollute our air with massive deregulation. If you had kids and grandkids, you might be more concerned with what they have to breathe under Republican regimes.
I admit that the maggot deregulation agenda is not as bad as their lawlessness and unconstitutional activity, especially surrounding their January 6 insurrection into our capital where the mini assholes who raided our symbol of democracy wanted to hang Mike Pence, murder Nancy Pelosi, injure or kill as many police officers as was necessary to gain entrance into the voting arena, steal an election that was won by Joe Biden, and lost by the loser Donald Jessica Trump, cause as much damage as possible, and smear their feces all over the walls of the halls of Congress.
Gosh… MAGATS must be so proud.
Once again, I suggest you stop taking your daily disinfectant injection and stop watching videos of Donald Trump giving microphones blowjobs… Are we clear?
This is testament to the caliber of public school teachers.
Thanks moron....you are right...teachers do tend to tell the truth whereas MAGATs thrive on trumpian lies. Just hope you got your lazy ass out on April 5th with the rest of the country in protest over the traitor you voted in. Barton, get your butt over here and give me 5 minutes of the Orange Turd's freak show double fisted masterbation dance....now!
Another fact filled essay, thank you Andy.
Unfortunately, the hundreds of protesters in De La Guerra Plaza (and millions across the country), are either to dense to understand or blinded by their ideology and will never acknowledge the truth.
...and are continuously "programmed" in their propagandist media bubble.
Mike, you can engage them on NextDoor right now. Just like Polly setting the example - speak your piece, so others can consider something other than only their canned messages.
Oh gosh, Mike how right you are. We must be so blinded as we watch our 401(k)s go deeper and deeper into the red and as we watch American citizens being sent to mega MAGAT prisons in El Salvador on a (oops) Trumpian administrative error.
How do you support a disgusting, detestable, rapist, racist, serial lying, PUtin loving, Kim Jong Un loving, Victor Orban loving, ANY dictator loving, Ukraine hating, ANY ally hating, trans hating, gay hating, ANY minority hating, democracy hating, America hating, sociopathic dog and cat eating, disinfectant injecting, utter moron piece of shit traitor?
As old as Biden was getting, he never took a sharpie to a weather map to make a hurricane go in the direction he wanted. He never thought that putting UV lights up your butt and taking disinfectant injections along with some hydroxychloroquine could cure your Covid, he never looked directly at the sun like the Orange dipshit, he never thought windmills caused cancer, he never had to make the decision on whether to jump in and let a shark eat him or die by electrocution in his sinking boat, never boasted to passing a dementia test with “flying colors“, never touted the late great Hannibal Lecter, never even mentioned the stupid idea of making Canada bow down to us both in the arena of tariffs and with the idea of making them become our 51sr state, never tossed out the idea of buying Greenland, or taking over the Panama Canal, never thought that dropping a nuke in the middle of a hurricane would take care of the problem, never thought of nuking Mexico to get rid of the cartels, never thought to put kids in cages, never had an ego so fragile that he had to rename the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America (what freak would spend even a nickel on that lame ass idea?), never gave a microphone a blowjob, never embarrassingly performed the double fisted masturbation freak dance, never had one scandal in his administration, like, for example, stealing DOZENS AND DOZENS of classified and
top secret documents from the White House and storing them in his golden bathroom after showing them to strangers and not giving them up despite multiple requests, or trying to stay in power by inciting an insurrection into our Capitol to hang Mike Pence, murder Nancy Pelosi, injure or kill police officers, and shit all over the walls, never was impeached like the twice impeached piece of shit who was convicted of 34 felonies, never phoned any Secretary of State demanding 11,780 votes so he could win the election, never sent fake electors to Washington in a desperate effort to win the election, never lied thousands upon thousands upon thousands of times like Trump did to his shameless, spineless MAGAT supporters, never called an insurrectionist a very special person, never expressed his love for an insurrectionist, never thought an insurrectionist was a patriot, and later a hostage of all things, never got thrown out of 62 courtrooms for having zero evidence that the election was stolen, never selected a cabinet of billionaires that were so unqualified for the job and so fucking stupid, never thought the Haitians were eating the dogs and the cats and the pets of the people in Springfield, Ohio, and never had to wear a diaper. Look… I have to cut this short because if I kept on going, my computer would run out of bandwidth.
Just understand this…The only reason you like this POS Nazi Pig is that he has allowed you to hate who he hates without guilt.
Andy, thank you for this clear reminder that our current economic path will result in ruins ruled by the tyrants that are the Democrat party. I am afraid that as clear as this reminder is and as clear as it is that the actions being taken by the great and beautiful Donald J Trump the greatest president ever are both appropriate and necessary, they will be met with fierce resistence by Democrats. The party of freeloaders vagabonds and gypsies, the Democrats are threatened by Trump and will react as a salted snail with any action taken by Trump. Remember that this is the party that cannot define a woman. So perverted is their world view that something so fundamental as a person's sex is now complicated, controversial and subtle. Democrats are a party of conformity and march in lockstep off the economic cliff, lemmings united in mutual destruction. I do not want to be taken down by this repugnant horde. For once we the followers of Trump must impose our will on the Democrats as they are so accustomed to doing to us, for our own good, Republicans, Democrats and vagabonds alike. Kick, scream, froth, curse, vandalize if you must, Trump is the new sheriff in town and he is here to help whether you like it or not.
"...will react as a salted snail..." Perfect.
You said it all in a nutshell, Andy. Dems are simply anti-anything that has to do with the Republicans. It does illustrate the lack of creativity of the Dems to make any sense of their thinking process. What's in today is out tomorrow, lol.
No, no no no… We are anti-anything that has to do with the lying, sick, twisted, sociopathic, spineless cowards of the MAGAT party. Republicans aren’t so bad if they don’t just fall head over heels over their, Lord, sent by God himself.
Suggestion… Go watch Donald do his double fisted masturbation freak dance after you watch the video of him giving his microphone a blowjob. Deal?
There's a lot of static, "Can't read you Harvey, over and out."
The static is coming from your pubic hair area....get your microphone out of your ass. As an aside....did you go watch the video of trump giving his microphone a blowjob?
I have to say your interpretation of the poorly functioning microphone visual is different than mine.
Yah right....there is zero doubt what he was doing. Your problem is that you just can't believe donOLD is such a fucking moron that he would do such a classless thing on national TV where kids and who knows who else are watching. But you are mistaken because he IS just THAT detestable and disgusting.
Go ahead and Google it or put it into ChatGPT and you will see you are, perhaps, one of 6 people in the world who can't see that trump is giving his microphone a blowjob.
So tell me, genius, just what do YOU think he's doing? Good GAWD you MAGATS will do anything to protect his sorry, diapered, ass. It is truly PATHETIC. Have you always loved sociopaths?
You believe what you see with your Dem eyes, and I'll believe what I see with my Rep eyes. You are programmed and I am not.
This is what the Left does, they use fear, intimidation, bullying and violence in order to achieve their political goals. Yes, this same, virtual crowd who chanted Peace and Love during the 60’s are now advocating violence? Wait, aren’t these some of the same Burnouts which burned the Bank of America to the ground in IV back in 70’? So yes, they are very prone to violence and mayhem.
Well, these “Peaceniks” need to understand, this go round they could find themselves in the crowbar hotel should they become violent. Maybe a better use of their time would be to hit that glass pipe and call it a day, that’s right, take their butterfly net and go look for some unicorns!
Interesting how the “Molotov cocktail” is the weapon of choice for the violent and unhinged left. Vyacheslav Molotov of course, being the Russian revolutionary, Foreign Minister and henchman to Joseph Stalin and architect of his murderous rampage. The technique of instilling fear and mayhem is nothing new. The American left has seem to now perfected this.
From a pre-printed poster handed out at one rally, their spiritual leader is an original participant in the 1965 UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement, ginned up by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) who is now living in France, after fleeing from a 1981 US trial. He is now 82, so you cannot even say "Okay Boomer" since he generationally precedes them.
LT, just saying. But random tariffs that come and go, targeted investigations, treats against media outlets and threatening Federal funding sounds a lot like "they use fear, intimidation, bullying and violence in order to achieve their political goals"
I think both sides use similar tactics.
You’re kidding right TJ? Burning down Tesla dealerships, using violence to justify a political means has a moral equivalency? No, sorry.
yeah agree with you LT, that is a silly comment barely worthy of a reply,
Thanks for breaking it down for me Teko.
I agree that burning down anything is never acceptable. But do you think the current administration is only using charm to achieve its goals?
Again, I'm not saying Trump is the only one to use strong arm tactics. But please don't tell me he's playing flag football.
Flag football no, Trump is playing 3 dimensional chess. Working numerous deals on behalf of the American public, while the left continues to become more and more unhinged. BTW, what is it they actually support other than Men dressing as Women? Oh, that’s right, they now hate EV’s?
LT. I am sure the protesters are not anti EV. Just anti Elon and taking out on his business. This narrative that now the wacky eco warriors are against EVs is just some dumb word twisting.
I don't see why folks are protesting vs. just not buying one.
Why TJ? Because they’re mentally ill individuals, pushing Marxist, unhinged psychopathy on the rest of us.
Trump is a mere modernist, he preserves the neo liberal status quo of a few decades ago. And he like other "rightists" idolize a time (the 50's) that was never actually Christian or moral, simply materially well off.
If you are going to praise your dear leader, why not at least spell things correctly, or was it a Freudian slip? You know, 3 dementia instead of dimensional.
Sorry Thomas John, but I think your equating actual violence against other citizens and the job Trump is doing is way off. He is not doing anything he said he wasn't going to do as far as fixing our economy and is doing it through legal channels. To even hint that there is a comparison is dead wrong.
Like everyone else I agree with some things he says, but not others, and all of our mileages may vary on how much we agree/disagree. Having said that, you make an excellent point. Trump--who emotionally is a spoiled child--goes out of his way to be obnoxious and offensive, which is much different from "simply telling it like it is", and that, in and of itself, will turn off potential support. The vision of Musk jumping around with his chainsaw would be comical, if it weren't so pathetic: a pumped-up 14-year in the throes of an adrenaline rush.
Great Andy line:
“It must be hard to live with yourself when you want to save the environment and democracy and the best idea you can come up with is either outright attacking or protesting the most successful electric car manufacturer in the world.”
Equally stupid SB is protesting against unveiling fraud, waste and corruption!
You can find profound lessons in so many mundane places. Last week I was picking up some litter somewhere in town when I found a discarded, empty garbage bag. Ideal opportunity to explain the word "ironic" to my 9 yr old grandson. Neither of us will forget the funny/sad truth bundled in that moment. So, the funny/sad truth of Andy's report and thoughts about the Tesla terrorists protesting one of the real heroes of the green culture hit a similar cord. Also, today, I see a report that the HANDS OFF event in SB was the largest such gathering since...wait for it, the George Floyd protest.
I wondered whether--after time-sifted facts now differently understood--many of those same GF protestors would repeat their marching support today for BLM or that seminal moment we now understand/believe was not an organic response but, rather, a managed & manufactured national outrage. Similarly, the very streets and parks and beach that protestors occupied to show disdain for dealing with the chickens of debt coming home to roost are themselves being managed by a technically bankrupt city, in desperate need of the same fiscal cleanup being protested on the national level. Like I taught my grandson, we can find funny/sad (ironic) truth all around us...
"Hands Off" told us who their supporters are on their own website: SEIU and the teachers unions to name the most obvious ones. SB Indivisible was formed after the 2016 elections and they also ran regular protest actions, until they fizzled into disinterest. Many of the same players in this crowd.
The Indivisible is still running strong through Soros donations in places like Seattle, as a friend living in WA state mentioned last night. As I recall, Soros was funded through USAID, taxpayer money. Is Soros trying to spend it all before he's told to return the money to the Feds?
What will you do when Soros, the 90+ year old man dies? Please, tell me who the next evil person will be so I can be ready.
George’s son Alexandre Soros has been running the show. Given that he under 40, he not going anywhere anytime soon.
You are scared of a person who in 2015, their endowment had 840k in assets. Hmm. But you are ok with Musk spending nearly 300mm on the election.
Is it so much who replaces Soros, or perhaps the concern should be does anyone care? It doesn't take rocket science to follow the money trail back to the source of the funding source of the present or next bad guy. Are all the people in the Capitol Building complicit? Outside of Musk's gang, I have to wonder who else cares inside the Capitol.
So you are saying that Musk is evil for his $1mm giveaways? I just want to make sure I know who you feel is the evil person. Is Harlan Crow on that list as well?
Thanks for answering my question with another question ... you just can't do it, can you?
His son, who is already working it....
MOTIVE. It’s our first question about a crime, isn’t it? What is the motive of this mob (or those inciting violence) toward a brilliant inventor, Elon Musk? This motivation is destructive and perplexing. Trump’s motivation is love of country and return to greatness he knew as a young man. Elon’s motivation to support MAGA was Trump’s sincerity when bullet of an assasin pierced his head. Trump did not cower with self-importance, he raised a fist for others to carry on with the quest of greatness. MAGA is motivation for every citizen to be the best we can be. That said, WHAT is the motivation to fight against the best we can be?
Means, motive, motivation: what better expression for all three besides protesting to protect their own taxpayer-funded government jobs, perks and pensions.
They should have taken the very generous buy-out offer when first presented to them. But they didn't, so now they are expressing their own buyer's remorse. They took the wrong fork in the road.
"A brilliant inventor, Elon" okay, why is this relevant? Why do we care fot technocrats?
"Trump's motivation is move of country and a return to greatness he knew as a young man"
Why should people love America? What was great about this country in Trump's youth that can appeal to faith, morality, and traditionalism?
We never finished our chats about Catholism and Christianity. Would love to continue that at some point.
Why does the Catholic Church say they can forgive sins when the Bible says only God can forgiveness?
You sound bitter? How old are you? Twenty’s?
You do not know a world, a country where children walked to school, to the park to play without a neighbor calling the police on the parents.
A country where politics were civil, and the voters were not militarized to go out and loot and fire bomb businesses.
A country where children not political pawns being militarized against their parents and grandparents.
We citizens now need to provide documentation, birth certificates to travel within our own country. Real IDs
We are now subjected to illegal searches at our airports.
This country has changed tremendously over the last few decades.
Someone on my Tesla group on FB pointed out the irony that these amazing self driving cars are also turning in the people who damage them ha ha, and that as they catch more and more of them they will have a felony record and be unable to vote for life which actually helps the Republicans. The movie "Dumb and Dumber" comes to mind.
"my telsa group on facebook"
Self driving is an odd claim. What does your FB group say about this guy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQJL3htsDyQ
You need to learn to do actual research and not click on silly click bait, that video has been widely debunked, you can learn this if you are capable. So as a favor I will educate you, though I am not sure you are capable of learning, let's find out. So I can tell by your post you literally know nothing about Tesla's and are just a lib troll, normally Ignore fruit cakes like you, but you make yourself look and sound so stupid, something in my wants to help you dig yourself out of the 'dumb ditch' you have yourself in. Let's take your statement "Self driving is an odd claim". Of course anybody with a normal level of knowledge and more than one brain cell ( a group that does not appear to include you ) knows your statement is laughable. Rather than give you a full education, you can do that yourself, I'll just give you the 5 year old level education as I suspect that is about the perfect level in this case. It turns out I am one of the small group of Tesla Beta testers who were accepted into the full self drive beta testing program. I have been beta testing it on two tesla's that I own for several years before the program gathered enough information to be more widely distributed to the public. Here is an example of driving a full self drive tesla and this single example will allow you to avoid asking questions that point out how dumb you are. I have driven thousands of miles in all kinds of circumstances on the FSD software. Most recently I drove a round trip of 150 miles to LA area and back, from my house here in SB, this included street driving in LA, and Santa Barbara, freeway driving, canyon driving through Topanga Canyon, and even included driving through a road being worked on where workman were present re directing traffic with traffic cones around an area they were working on. The car drove the entire trip without me ever touching the brakes or the steering wheel. This is common. Hence the rather apt name 'full self driving/supervised' that it now has. You are welcome! You will no longer be ignorant on this topic and can avoid making dumb posts.
Thanks for the nasty reply. I was asking what you thought but got a bunch of grief. And that 'drive' sounds really boring just sitting there. Glad you like your iPad. At least you had your hands free for something else.
Maybe next time you can save up and buy a car with lidar?
byh bye 'bro...
DEMOcRAT leftists are truly sick and mentally ill. One only has to stand back and observe the epidemic/pandemic of TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome).
Leftist DEMOcRATS protesting on street corners, and in front of Tesla dealerships, sometimes peacefully, when just 6 months earlier during the reign of drooling pervert Joe and his incompetent babbling VP, Kamel, (you have to be a special kind of mentally ill to have voted for those two) the left was swooning over Elon and his magical and clean Tesla vehicles. Now they are comparing him and President Trump to Hitler, NAZIs, and the SS. Having just read Ann Frank, Beyond the Diary, and reading FaceBook posts on Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz, for anybody to make that comparison means you are truly deluded and have a sick mind. These very sick DEMOcRAT leftists equate Trump’s and Musk’s efforts to clean up massive Gooberment waste to NAZIs rounding up 6 million Jews, babies, infants, toddlers, young teens, mothers, fathers… and murdering them in gas chambers, sometimes on the same day that they arrived on the cattle car trains to the Death Camps. You are truly sick and demented people. For the life of me I can’t understand why all Universities, Pharmaceuticals, CDC, NIH… are not throwing trillions of dollars at this pandemic disease, ala “Covid”.
You are ignoring the elephant in the room. Until we reform entitlement spending,
nothing Trump is doing is going to reduce our deficits. Why? Because 2/3 of govt spending is entitlements.
Why are you infatuated with the spend side of the equation and leaving the income side alone?
SS has taken in more money than it has ever sent out. Just read that line a few times and let it sink in. SS has EXCESS funds. So much that it accounts for about 3tn (IIRC) of the deficit that the US has.
Medicare is close to break even. Medicare could be break even if it were not for . . . wait for it . . . REPUBLICANS who have stopped at all times, the negotiation of drugs with the companies. Imagine if medicare could price shop how much it would SAVE. But, hey, isn't DOGE and the people in here screaming about WASTE. Why not push for all drugs in the Medicare system be negotiated.
The level of hypocrisy and blind allegiance is disheartening to see.
Your comment is riddled with errors. In 2010 Social Security turned red and the deficits have grown each successive year. SS is projected to be insolvent in 2033. Unless something is done to shore up the system, payments to recipients will be cut by 21% in 2033. Medicare is also on a path to insolvency. BTW, many drugs are no longer covered by Medicare anymore.
Nope.
Just type this into a search engine, "social security total income since inception". You will see that SS has taken in more than it has expended. There may have been years that it took in less than it sent out that year, but you are neglecting to realize all the excess years sitting in the trust fund.
So my comment is NOT inaccurate. Yours is misleading.
The system has so many levers and has been adjusted before and will be adjusted in the future. Every 10 years someone will scream it is going insolvent. This has been going on since the 1960s. Here we are nearly 65 years later and the same argument is being made today that was made then, SS will go bankrupt in ~10 years. Get over it. It hasn't in the past and it will not in the future.
Sorry, your doom and gloom Chicken Little story only works on the gullible.
Abolish Medicare and social security. I am happy to give these peanuts up.
Good article. Excellent analysis. Totally wasted on the liberal left sheep who will follow the vast and frequent negative propaganda spewed forth by the Marxist Media and entitled bureaucrats. I have had die hard liberals actually deny the Clinton firings ever happened!! And proudly claim the trillions we are currently in debt is all the fault of the first President Trump administration.
500,000 Clinton government terminations, while also closing down many military bases and government funded military research. Which ironically left a lot of highly trained engineers suddenly out of work, whose concentrated talent went on to develop the Silicon Valley "high tech" miracle.
The Law of Unintended Consequences. How will this current list of terminated government employees band together and bring value to the private sector, like the last Clinton round of terminated government employees?
It’s all so beyond frustrating ! They are getting so loud again! The masses are just following what they’re told(all lies, non information ) to do all in the name of their new,blind definition of democracy. We need to find a way of getting the info behind the Republican’s moves into the democrat’s thick skulls, past the blinders!! I say billboards , high & huge ! Change it to a different basic explanation of good being done by this admin., as soon as it’s graffitied by the left! Constant info in giant font as they drive in now non electric cars down the freeways! Signage row of common sense that will change our county, everyone’s lives for a better future!
The Democrats remind me of Ivan and Boris:
“In a quiet village nestled between two great hills lived Ivan and Boris. Ivan’s crops were tired, his chickens moody, and worst of all, his goat was stubborn and barren.
Boris had the golden touch with a beautiful farm and his goat gave the richest milk in the province.
Each morning, Ivan would watch Boris’s goat from his porch, sipping bitter coffee.
The local priest, Father Mikhail, noticed Ivan’s scowl growing darker by the day and finally asked, “Ivan, what do you want, my son? What blessing can I pray for on your behalf?”
Ivan didn’t hesitate. “I want Boris’s goat to die.”
Doesn’t that sound just like the Commie-Dems? Better to destroy someone you don’t agree with rather than making your own life better!
The only message I got was "Hands Off" our government paychecks, perks and pensions. Which means not one single protester was honest about their real message.