Perhaps you’ve noticed the more educated a person the dumber they are. The more out of touch with reality and common sense. And most definitely out of touch with God. This is how they were raised and “educated” through our Democrat run schools and colleges.
Come on, anyone who believed a t shirt covering your face would save you from a deadly virus is not very smart. Trillions in research after thousands of years and they believe that sitting down in a restaurant is safe, but walking around the boogie man might get them if they don’t wear a tshirt over their face. Truly sad to see people still wearing masks, alone, outside.
In days old they would not allow slaves to be educated for fear of revolts.
These educated “elites” are modern day slaves.
They were educated in the ways of their masters to think like their masters and to not question the master.
Think Hunger Games City residents. Ridiculous costumes, not adding any value or substance to society doing as they’re told like dogs waiting for scraps of attention and affirmation. Until they step out of line and ask a question, then they are attacked by the rest of the cult members.
It’s hard for an enlightened Democrat to break away from the judgement of their peers.
But they are waking up and will secretly vote Trump.
I agree with your first two sentences. That being said I wonder how you view Trump's interviews this week and last night's rally with his comments. Also your last line, "enlightened Dems. . . secretly vote Trump," I think it might be the opposite.
Re: his comments last night, "Arnold Palmer had a manhood that impressed all the other golfers in the showers."
One more, Trump, candidate for President said this of Kamala, ". . . we are sick of you and you are one shit of a Vice President."
Dan, you are the living embodiment of why I'm a Trump supporter. It's ironic that the elites mentioned in this column are opposed to freedom of speech. I can't tell you how many times I have read your comments and wished I could press a button to block you, but the thing is, as much as I can't stand your superior, smarmy, cliched, unoriginal and tiresomely stupid and ill-informed hatred of Trump, I will always stand up for your right to make an ass of yourself.
I’m with you. I don’t think talking about genitalia helps Trump, but my husband laughed out loud and thought Trump was hilarious for saying such a thing. We like Trump because of his achievements and his willingness to stand up to those who want to destroy America.
Besides, I dare anyone to show me a presidential candidate who's not obsessed with dongs … and that goes for Kamala. I'm quite sure Hillary wandered around during 2016 in a drunken stupor shouting “Did Ho Chi Minh have one of these?”
Kamala considered "one shit of a Vice President," sounds accurate to me. Dan, I can tell you haven't worked in an environment where people swear all the time. One company I worked for the guy that founded the company couldn't say a sentence without the word F**k. You probably think he was evil, but he developed a product that's used in studying cancer near close to the atomic level of viewing what's happening and spawned many other startup companies. Made a lot of wealthy people and lots of jobs. And to hate him more, he sold the company for about $100M or so. Don't you hate people that swear like a drunken sailor and develop and manufactured the first producible tool to explore the world we couldn't see before <g>? I don't think GOD gives a flying F**k for people that swear ... and I'm sure GOD thinks that way in his mind.
Bill over at ITC/Channel Industries, back in the 1980s we worked on that Electron Force Microscope that made that important break-thu in the Bio-Technology World
by designing the gimble to take out all of the vibrations. It used transducers with ceramic piezo electric material to effectively dampen-out the vibrations for that microscope>>>https://tinyurl.com/mr3eb5nv
ITC/Channel does not exist anymore thank you California filed BK because they could no longer effectively run a company in high-cost CALI. Thank those in control
of CALI that ruined a very well run company. ITC/Channel designed and produced alot of the Sonar Systems for our US Navy.
Channel was one of only a few High Tech Cermanic Plants producing
precision Ceramics for alot of applications like Navy Sonar Systems and
I quote from the above article>>
"Goleta-based Channel Technologies Group has filed for bankruptcy, and has given the state notice that it will layoff all its employees in the next several months. The manufacturing company, which focuses on piezoelectric ceramics, filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Oct. 14 with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court... Founded locally in 1959 as Channel Industries, the company manufactures piezoelectric ceramics; transducers, which convert one form of energy to another; acoustic systems for sonar equipment; and infrared and visible light spectrum test and calibration equipment. Piezoelectricity refers to electricity resulting from pressure in some solid materials.According to the company, its products are mainly used in the commercial, energy and defense markets. Channel Technologies Group [ITC & Sonatech] campus at 879 Ward Drive is 150,000 square feet, and the company has research partnerships with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and a number of universities, including UC Santa Barbara."
I was hired by one of the founders of the Company who gave me real responsiblities as an engineer, what a shame, another great company gone in California, with over 10,000 designs not to mention all of the skilled employees.
I think that you guy arguing over comments made is funny. The reality is that Kamela had about 4 appearances and repeated the same spiel, while Trumpf flies around for months and has several meetings a day and speaks volumes of serious and funny off-the-cuff while meeting with stakeholders like police and health care workers, and an occasional out of context remark is blown around the MSM.
Rasmussen’s poll rings true to me, though I’m not sure I’d refer to people who make $150,000 a year these days as “the ruling elite.” But whatever.
The poll (and Andy’s description of it) reminds me of a recent high school class reunion I attended. There was *such* a division between the “smart” kids from the class and the people who went on to live more modest lives. The ones who attended prestigious colleges and went on to be upscale professionals were unanimous in 1) being quite pleased with themselves and complacent about the state of the country, and 2) being loud and out there about their disapproval of Trump. (One of them even talked about how he’d worked with Merrick Garland in D.C. and Garland had told him, “Don’t worry, we’ll get Trump.”) Meanwhile, the middle/working-class crowd that hadn’t done so well materially and socially were much more rumpled-looking, and a fair number of them turned out to be Trump supporters. They were also much more hesitant about sounding off about politics. Intimidated? Just more innately modest and humane, and sensibly reluctant to inject politics into a pleasant nonpolitical event?
Conclusion, in any case: most people who’ve done well over the last 50 years are pleased with how things have gone, aren’t very likely to see the problems with how the country has evolved, and are (alas) sort of prone to blaming the losers for being losers. As far as I could tell I was the only one of the upscale crowd to be a Trump supporter.
Circa 1961. The nerdy guys who ran the movie projectors got into early high tech. They got the last laugh over the smart kids who unfortunately got into drugs and many were dead by the 50th reunion. The home coming queen was collecting addresses to shill for some pyramid sales gimmick. The years had not been kind to her.
Lots of lives had turned out very differently from those HS glory days. Even our handsome class President we all drooled over was now fat and pasty selling insurance or something. The other class President was rumored to be the lam, after alleged notorious adventures.
Some of us came out just fine, grounded in the traditional values of the time, but who were forced deal with the radical social changes of the 1960’s, for better or for worse. But glad in the big picture we had sound bedrock values instilled from an early age. We got to both explore, savor and/or reject what the next half century dropped into our lives.
Like Joseph Campbell seekers, we left our homes, but came back home again to see it with new eyes.
A childhood neighbor of mine is one of those. Good for him for getting to the Main Line in Philly but he is sooooo boring and fatuous. But he was always like that. Smug little a-hole. I have this picture in my mind of the elites getting together to determine how to control the losers - and the flatulence is so extreme they gas themselves to death.
Victor Davis Hanson has a good column about how the election is turning into a battle between those who love to lecture the rest of us about how we ought to be and act, and those who are getting sick and tired of being lectured.
Heck, $150K is chump change these days. That amount allows you only to fill your tank, buy groceries and live under a roof. Any additional expenditures require a credit card which the next Dem President will promise to pay it off (like student loans). After all, the needy have first dibs on our incomes of which the scummy Dems can skim off. See how that works?
Trump talks about “the enemy within.” Indeed, the liberal left and their dishonest, lying allies in the media are the enemy of the American people. Their activities associated with Trump’s election is nothing shy of what a foreign power would engage with in order to throw our election. That’s right, bogus law fare, impeachments, misinformation, fake news, threats of violence, the left will stop at NOTHING in order to keep Trump from the Whitehouse, to include assassination! The biggest fear for everyone should be if Trump is victorious, the amount of left wing mayhem and violence that will surely ensue. Trump has indicated his willingness to use of the National Guard if violence ensues after his election, to which I say…go for it!
As for Space X’s ability to launch satellites which are necessary for OUR national security, once again we see the neo-Marxist, non-elected California Coastal Commission trying to inject their climate dogma and lunacy. Good for Musk in bringing suit against these Democrat plants! Think of it, does DoD need to ask permission from the CCC in order to respond to a nuclear attack by N. Korea?
The CCC while trying to control our national security, at the same time giving control of OUR state and federal waters to a race of people to the tune of nearly 5 thousand square miles! Talk about the enemy from within. Come to find out, some of the members of the “tribe” aren’t even Chumash!
As for lefty elites taking our guns away and abridging our second amendment rights, I would refer them to my home state of Texas original flag…”Come and Take It!”
The massive unelected deep state (D) now has granular power over our daily lives. That is why polls continue to find growing numbers of Americans say this country has lost her way.
Trump represents meme-smashing honesty which is why his appeal continues to grow among those who feel we need to ……..unburden ourselves …….from what we have become. Not unlike the radical social changes of the 1960s, except the political alignments this time have radically changed.
The common thread is the UC SYSTEM. Going back to the late 1980's they used the new internet to coordinate activity. The colleges had the a) technology development, and b) the social left who controlled the schools.
The issue of the "tour/???" is interesting. How many know the CEC was given a contract to monitor air quality in north county. The CEC is unable to exist without government handouts. Oh and did you know air quality monitoring is done by computer and the CEC does not need to be there?
The question becomes one of how much of this was organized by the 1,2, & 3 district supervisors?
It is stinking from this county now that you have the ultraradical Gregg Hart in state office.
I did wonder who was paying the CEC rent on their spacious new digs on State Street, and why they were running Spanish language only classes in social justice activism. Now it makes sense.
All part of the inflationary BidenHarris public debt driven green boondoggle? We are paying for this, and our grandchildren will continue to pay for it. Directly and indirectly. Was this from the Inflation Reduction funds. Or the Build Back Better funds?
Why are we the people still voting for these Democrat scams? Drown them out at the ballot box. No one can afford to sit out one more Democrat-dominated voting cycle.
Democrats are the party of slavery. They voted against every Civil Rights Bill. They voted against the Save Act. They voted to keep borders open and to provide amnesty for the criminals who broke our immigration laws. Why? Because, 1. They need slaves, uneducated workers who are grateful to the Dem party, 2. They need ballots, 3. They need chaos.
“ Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler says we need 'many illegal immigrants' in the country to pick vegetables”
“He’s going to deport 20 million people. The people who pick your crops. The people who process your meat. The people who, you know, care for your grandmother. The people who serve all sorts of critical functions in this country.” CNN commentator Catherine Rampell
Ever ask why Democratic run schools refuse to educate children, specifically minorities?
Right here in SB for well over a decade the Dem run Schools have not increased the 60% failure rate. What else you call it when 60% of kids cannot read, write or do math at grade level. BTW SB schools are 60% Hispanic.
Then you listen to Dem officials stating we need illegals, uneducated, to work. What about unemployed Americans?
If we have documented critical labor needs, we respond with legal work permits. Not open borders, automatic birth right citizenship and chain migration. That is sheer folly and must stop ASAP.
Hey there Mr Livingston I presume I was one of those Kids in the Midwest who had
his own lawnmower and made a buisness cutting yards for the summer at $6 a yard
that was 1/3 acre took me about one hour in the heat of the summer at 95 F. That is great money back in the 1970s. I cut 6 to 7 yards a day. I was the richest Kid in my High School making $40 a day. And my other friends worked at McDonalds or other stores for almost nothing. Kids back then did what it took now-adays kids just sit their ass on cell phones YACKIN to thier friends all day long about some BRAIN-DEAD WOKE-STUFF learned in the CALI Schools of Education. I got my Education behind a Tractor on a farm or behind a lawnmower singin 60s-70s Rock-In-Roll.
Dream On Folks our rights are gone>>> "Dream On" by Aerosmith
I mowed lawns so that I could buy Hot Wheels and save for a bike. Also my parents did not know what health insurance is, and always paid doctors and the grocery store in cash.
People in other states, who dread Californians moving there and bringing these politics with them, mutter the old adage "As goes California, so goes the Nation."
I'm curious how you select a certain subset of people (post doc, $150k, urban) and then claim they are ruling elite because of campaign contributions. If I polled the highest political donors I'm sure I would find very different opinions. It seems a garbage poll. I couldn't find the actual poll data including questions asked, but I think it's misleading. Which is a shame. You have a couple of valid points in your article, but you dilute it with garbage. Seriously, who wants to ban private air conditioners? Maybe people want refrigerants to be less harmful.
You couldn't find the original poll data or questions? So what is your basis for saying it is misleading? You have no basis. Weren't refrigerants supposed to be causing the hole on the ozone layer? Like most scare tactics of the green movement it did not stand the test of time. The ozone layer is fine.
Perhaps you've noticed that refrigerants (and aerosol dispersants) have been reformulated because of the issues they were causing with the ozone layer. The ozone layer is fine because it recovered after people identified the problem did then did something about it!
So why is Justin still complaining about it? A broken record gets stuck and repeats the same thing over and over again ad nauseum. Sometimes the environmentalists sound like broken records. I know that chlorofluorocarbons can catalyze a reaction with O3 and this makes an alarming story since CFC's are not consumed in the reaction. Oh my it will go on forever until the ozone layer is depleted and we all die due to UV exposure. Although this is surely true in the lab, it neglects other pathways for the breakdown of CFC's in the environment. Like most environmental scare tactics, it is a partial truth which aims to convince the midwits that there is something to be afraid of. Something that only the government can deal with through increased regulation, expansion of departments and personnel and of course burgeoning budgets.
These smarmy elites - weirdo dreamers who spent their education ‘studying’ esoteric topics for no other reason than to show people how smart they are.
The most useless of all are the ‘creatives’. I hire or collaborate with people all the time, and if a prospect even hints at ‘actor, artist, writer, musician . . ‘ I dump their resume in the nearest trash can immediately. Undependable, squirrely, always looking around for a new gig, unreliable, usually unstable & unfulfilled. Give me a solid mid-westerner every time.
About the only m.o. I agree with is . . . “ the elites were okay with rigging “the system”. That’s what it takes to win in politics so the GOP needs to get in the game.
As the "Elites" fight to retain control it should be quite alarming to every single American that the Biden Administration took some very extreme steps recently by quietly approving a Department of Defense Directive (DoDD 5240.01 on September 27, 2024) allowing our military to use lethal force on American citizens in certain situations. Do they know something we don't?
As the internal polling and overall favorability for their marionette candidate plunges it appears awfully suspect that the current Administration is taking the highly unusual steps to "protect Democracy" by enacting such a severe directive yet at the same time labeling the opposition candidate a "threat to Democracy", a "Fascist" or even "Hitler". The move is more reminiscent of Third World Marxist Dictatorships and doesn't give me great comfort. American elections have been contentious over the years but we should never be at a place such as this. Can we trust the current occupants in the WH and the Ruling Elites to relinquish power if they lose? We can only hope and pray that our nation will come out the other side a stronger and more unified nation. Then again, we've haven't seen such a Marxist push in this country since the 1910's-1930's and their comrades believe the "ends justify the means".
That's the old price; I know high-school grads who are making over 100k at the County. BTW some were recently still retiring at 50 and we are already paying for them to go work somewhere else.
People in this country only have to make $150,000 a year to qualify as elites? I thought it would be more like $150 million a year. $150,000 doesn't get you much elite status in 2024. How could you send your kids to top boarding schools, pay your annual club dues, rent that house on St. Bart's for a week, drive any kind of new status car, pay your mortgage on that estate in Montecito, bop off to Davos in your own jet, or maintain your yacht? $150,000 a year barely covers decent toilet paper these days - let alone getting a servant to wipe your elite ass.
Transparent California lists by name and job title those whom tax payers have moved into this elite income level, by the thousands. Your own tax dollars at work, growing this new wealthy class of Americans.
You mean Florida is fascist? where they locked down for only a month and allowed locked-down New Yorkers and Californicans to party on the beach while we were being locked up for surfing and thrown out of grocery stores? and now fascists have Grand juries investigating Pfizzzzer??
Perhaps you’ve noticed the more educated a person the dumber they are. The more out of touch with reality and common sense. And most definitely out of touch with God. This is how they were raised and “educated” through our Democrat run schools and colleges.
Come on, anyone who believed a t shirt covering your face would save you from a deadly virus is not very smart. Trillions in research after thousands of years and they believe that sitting down in a restaurant is safe, but walking around the boogie man might get them if they don’t wear a tshirt over their face. Truly sad to see people still wearing masks, alone, outside.
In days old they would not allow slaves to be educated for fear of revolts.
These educated “elites” are modern day slaves.
They were educated in the ways of their masters to think like their masters and to not question the master.
Think Hunger Games City residents. Ridiculous costumes, not adding any value or substance to society doing as they’re told like dogs waiting for scraps of attention and affirmation. Until they step out of line and ask a question, then they are attacked by the rest of the cult members.
It’s hard for an enlightened Democrat to break away from the judgement of their peers.
But they are waking up and will secretly vote Trump.
I agree with your first two sentences. That being said I wonder how you view Trump's interviews this week and last night's rally with his comments. Also your last line, "enlightened Dems. . . secretly vote Trump," I think it might be the opposite.
Re: his comments last night, "Arnold Palmer had a manhood that impressed all the other golfers in the showers."
One more, Trump, candidate for President said this of Kamala, ". . . we are sick of you and you are one shit of a Vice President."
You Trump voters must be so proud. . . .
We are proud. Trump goes one for one with the stupid things Harris cranks out. Go Team MAGA 2024.
Try a different attack line., DOS. Your current attack in fact is very, very old: Orangemanbad and you are a bad person for supporting him. Yawn.
Dan, you are the living embodiment of why I'm a Trump supporter. It's ironic that the elites mentioned in this column are opposed to freedom of speech. I can't tell you how many times I have read your comments and wished I could press a button to block you, but the thing is, as much as I can't stand your superior, smarmy, cliched, unoriginal and tiresomely stupid and ill-informed hatred of Trump, I will always stand up for your right to make an ass of yourself.
I’m with you. I don’t think talking about genitalia helps Trump, but my husband laughed out loud and thought Trump was hilarious for saying such a thing. We like Trump because of his achievements and his willingness to stand up to those who want to destroy America.
I'm with this guy about Trump. https://tinyurl.com/3p5e7c8u
Besides, I dare anyone to show me a presidential candidate who's not obsessed with dongs … and that goes for Kamala. I'm quite sure Hillary wandered around during 2016 in a drunken stupor shouting “Did Ho Chi Minh have one of these?”
Kamala considered "one shit of a Vice President," sounds accurate to me. Dan, I can tell you haven't worked in an environment where people swear all the time. One company I worked for the guy that founded the company couldn't say a sentence without the word F**k. You probably think he was evil, but he developed a product that's used in studying cancer near close to the atomic level of viewing what's happening and spawned many other startup companies. Made a lot of wealthy people and lots of jobs. And to hate him more, he sold the company for about $100M or so. Don't you hate people that swear like a drunken sailor and develop and manufactured the first producible tool to explore the world we couldn't see before <g>? I don't think GOD gives a flying F**k for people that swear ... and I'm sure GOD thinks that way in his mind.
Bill over at ITC/Channel Industries, back in the 1980s we worked on that Electron Force Microscope that made that important break-thu in the Bio-Technology World
by designing the gimble to take out all of the vibrations. It used transducers with ceramic piezo electric material to effectively dampen-out the vibrations for that microscope>>>https://tinyurl.com/mr3eb5nv
ITC/Channel does not exist anymore thank you California filed BK because they could no longer effectively run a company in high-cost CALI. Thank those in control
of CALI that ruined a very well run company. ITC/Channel designed and produced alot of the Sonar Systems for our US Navy.
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
Here is Channel Ind. BK Annoucement by Noozhawk>>
https://tinyurl.com/yv8s37ve
Channel was one of only a few High Tech Cermanic Plants producing
precision Ceramics for alot of applications like Navy Sonar Systems and
I quote from the above article>>
"Goleta-based Channel Technologies Group has filed for bankruptcy, and has given the state notice that it will layoff all its employees in the next several months. The manufacturing company, which focuses on piezoelectric ceramics, filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Oct. 14 with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court... Founded locally in 1959 as Channel Industries, the company manufactures piezoelectric ceramics; transducers, which convert one form of energy to another; acoustic systems for sonar equipment; and infrared and visible light spectrum test and calibration equipment. Piezoelectricity refers to electricity resulting from pressure in some solid materials.According to the company, its products are mainly used in the commercial, energy and defense markets. Channel Technologies Group [ITC & Sonatech] campus at 879 Ward Drive is 150,000 square feet, and the company has research partnerships with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and a number of universities, including UC Santa Barbara."
I was hired by one of the founders of the Company who gave me real responsiblities as an engineer, what a shame, another great company gone in California, with over 10,000 designs not to mention all of the skilled employees.
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
I think that you guy arguing over comments made is funny. The reality is that Kamela had about 4 appearances and repeated the same spiel, while Trumpf flies around for months and has several meetings a day and speaks volumes of serious and funny off-the-cuff while meeting with stakeholders like police and health care workers, and an occasional out of context remark is blown around the MSM.
Rasmussen’s poll rings true to me, though I’m not sure I’d refer to people who make $150,000 a year these days as “the ruling elite.” But whatever.
The poll (and Andy’s description of it) reminds me of a recent high school class reunion I attended. There was *such* a division between the “smart” kids from the class and the people who went on to live more modest lives. The ones who attended prestigious colleges and went on to be upscale professionals were unanimous in 1) being quite pleased with themselves and complacent about the state of the country, and 2) being loud and out there about their disapproval of Trump. (One of them even talked about how he’d worked with Merrick Garland in D.C. and Garland had told him, “Don’t worry, we’ll get Trump.”) Meanwhile, the middle/working-class crowd that hadn’t done so well materially and socially were much more rumpled-looking, and a fair number of them turned out to be Trump supporters. They were also much more hesitant about sounding off about politics. Intimidated? Just more innately modest and humane, and sensibly reluctant to inject politics into a pleasant nonpolitical event?
Conclusion, in any case: most people who’ve done well over the last 50 years are pleased with how things have gone, aren’t very likely to see the problems with how the country has evolved, and are (alas) sort of prone to blaming the losers for being losers. As far as I could tell I was the only one of the upscale crowd to be a Trump supporter.
Circa 1961. The nerdy guys who ran the movie projectors got into early high tech. They got the last laugh over the smart kids who unfortunately got into drugs and many were dead by the 50th reunion. The home coming queen was collecting addresses to shill for some pyramid sales gimmick. The years had not been kind to her.
Lots of lives had turned out very differently from those HS glory days. Even our handsome class President we all drooled over was now fat and pasty selling insurance or something. The other class President was rumored to be the lam, after alleged notorious adventures.
Some of us came out just fine, grounded in the traditional values of the time, but who were forced deal with the radical social changes of the 1960’s, for better or for worse. But glad in the big picture we had sound bedrock values instilled from an early age. We got to both explore, savor and/or reject what the next half century dropped into our lives.
Like Joseph Campbell seekers, we left our homes, but came back home again to see it with new eyes.
A childhood neighbor of mine is one of those. Good for him for getting to the Main Line in Philly but he is sooooo boring and fatuous. But he was always like that. Smug little a-hole. I have this picture in my mind of the elites getting together to determine how to control the losers - and the flatulence is so extreme they gas themselves to death.
Victor Davis Hanson has a good column about how the election is turning into a battle between those who love to lecture the rest of us about how we ought to be and act, and those who are getting sick and tired of being lectured.
https://nypost.com/2024/10/19/opinion/in-this-election-its-the-lecturers-vs-the-lectured-to/
Heck, $150K is chump change these days. That amount allows you only to fill your tank, buy groceries and live under a roof. Any additional expenditures require a credit card which the next Dem President will promise to pay it off (like student loans). After all, the needy have first dibs on our incomes of which the scummy Dems can skim off. See how that works?
Tell someone living in AZ or South Dakota that 150K is chump change. Our perspectives are sometimes so narrow as "Calies".
When tracking down a friend living in a $50K trailer he owns in PA near Pittsburg, makes you think about the real needs to survive.
This wouldn’t happen to be the recent reunion for San Marcos class of 74 would it?
Hahaha!
No, it was back East. I’m a fairly recent arrival in California. PHS, class of ‘72!
Trump talks about “the enemy within.” Indeed, the liberal left and their dishonest, lying allies in the media are the enemy of the American people. Their activities associated with Trump’s election is nothing shy of what a foreign power would engage with in order to throw our election. That’s right, bogus law fare, impeachments, misinformation, fake news, threats of violence, the left will stop at NOTHING in order to keep Trump from the Whitehouse, to include assassination! The biggest fear for everyone should be if Trump is victorious, the amount of left wing mayhem and violence that will surely ensue. Trump has indicated his willingness to use of the National Guard if violence ensues after his election, to which I say…go for it!
As for Space X’s ability to launch satellites which are necessary for OUR national security, once again we see the neo-Marxist, non-elected California Coastal Commission trying to inject their climate dogma and lunacy. Good for Musk in bringing suit against these Democrat plants! Think of it, does DoD need to ask permission from the CCC in order to respond to a nuclear attack by N. Korea?
The CCC while trying to control our national security, at the same time giving control of OUR state and federal waters to a race of people to the tune of nearly 5 thousand square miles! Talk about the enemy from within. Come to find out, some of the members of the “tribe” aren’t even Chumash!
As for lefty elites taking our guns away and abridging our second amendment rights, I would refer them to my home state of Texas original flag…”Come and Take It!”
The massive unelected deep state (D) now has granular power over our daily lives. That is why polls continue to find growing numbers of Americans say this country has lost her way.
Trump represents meme-smashing honesty which is why his appeal continues to grow among those who feel we need to ……..unburden ourselves …….from what we have become. Not unlike the radical social changes of the 1960s, except the political alignments this time have radically changed.
Democrat is party of slavery
Want to start in 1857? Case Scott v Sandford. Dem judges declared slaves as property, it people. The two Rep judges disagreed.
Why do Blacks support the party that has enslaved and keeps them in chains?
Dept of Education. They are provided disinformation from K-12 and into college.
https://youtu.be/qB4MDzLgG3U?si=EWPHfBkIgokoPMti
My middle school history teacher stated that the Ds and Rs switched philosophies since then, but heshe did not specify which year they switched.
“Toe the line” not “tow the line”!
Perhaps Andy was refering to towing the line used to keelhaul the eletes and political science professors?
Eletes, yeah
Now, resume your yoga class.
350-lb prepper detected.
Trite.
Tow the line of usefool eediots.
The common thread is the UC SYSTEM. Going back to the late 1980's they used the new internet to coordinate activity. The colleges had the a) technology development, and b) the social left who controlled the schools.
The issue of the "tour/???" is interesting. How many know the CEC was given a contract to monitor air quality in north county. The CEC is unable to exist without government handouts. Oh and did you know air quality monitoring is done by computer and the CEC does not need to be there?
The question becomes one of how much of this was organized by the 1,2, & 3 district supervisors?
It is stinking from this county now that you have the ultraradical Gregg Hart in state office.
I did wonder who was paying the CEC rent on their spacious new digs on State Street, and why they were running Spanish language only classes in social justice activism. Now it makes sense.
All part of the inflationary BidenHarris public debt driven green boondoggle? We are paying for this, and our grandchildren will continue to pay for it. Directly and indirectly. Was this from the Inflation Reduction funds. Or the Build Back Better funds?
Why are we the people still voting for these Democrat scams? Drown them out at the ballot box. No one can afford to sit out one more Democrat-dominated voting cycle.
So the CEC is paid with tax money for a job that requires... nothing. Sounds like government money laundering.
Democrats are the party of slavery. They voted against every Civil Rights Bill. They voted against the Save Act. They voted to keep borders open and to provide amnesty for the criminals who broke our immigration laws. Why? Because, 1. They need slaves, uneducated workers who are grateful to the Dem party, 2. They need ballots, 3. They need chaos.
“ Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler says we need 'many illegal immigrants' in the country to pick vegetables”
“He’s going to deport 20 million people. The people who pick your crops. The people who process your meat. The people who, you know, care for your grandmother. The people who serve all sorts of critical functions in this country.” CNN commentator Catherine Rampell
Ever ask why Democratic run schools refuse to educate children, specifically minorities?
Right here in SB for well over a decade the Dem run Schools have not increased the 60% failure rate. What else you call it when 60% of kids cannot read, write or do math at grade level. BTW SB schools are 60% Hispanic.
Then you listen to Dem officials stating we need illegals, uneducated, to work. What about unemployed Americans?
https://x.com/jlgolson/status/1846949517746208769?s=61
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dem-rep-jerry-nadler-says-we-need-many-illegal-immigrants-in-country-to-pick-vegetables
If we have documented critical labor needs, we respond with legal work permits. Not open borders, automatic birth right citizenship and chain migration. That is sheer folly and must stop ASAP.
Without open borders, how did America ever manage to mow its lawns and pick its vegetables? It’s a mystery.
Americans had kids to push the lawn mowers. Now they have dogs, who are not suited for the same task.
Hey there Mr Livingston I presume I was one of those Kids in the Midwest who had
his own lawnmower and made a buisness cutting yards for the summer at $6 a yard
that was 1/3 acre took me about one hour in the heat of the summer at 95 F. That is great money back in the 1970s. I cut 6 to 7 yards a day. I was the richest Kid in my High School making $40 a day. And my other friends worked at McDonalds or other stores for almost nothing. Kids back then did what it took now-adays kids just sit their ass on cell phones YACKIN to thier friends all day long about some BRAIN-DEAD WOKE-STUFF learned in the CALI Schools of Education. I got my Education behind a Tractor on a farm or behind a lawnmower singin 60s-70s Rock-In-Roll.
Dream On Folks our rights are gone>>> "Dream On" by Aerosmith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJDtukGW79Y
Howard Walther, member of a Military Family
I mowed lawns so that I could buy Hot Wheels and save for a bike. Also my parents did not know what health insurance is, and always paid doctors and the grocery store in cash.
People in other states, who dread Californians moving there and bringing these politics with them, mutter the old adage "As goes California, so goes the Nation."
California is growing more conservative and has shown you do run out of OPM eventually.
I'm curious how you select a certain subset of people (post doc, $150k, urban) and then claim they are ruling elite because of campaign contributions. If I polled the highest political donors I'm sure I would find very different opinions. It seems a garbage poll. I couldn't find the actual poll data including questions asked, but I think it's misleading. Which is a shame. You have a couple of valid points in your article, but you dilute it with garbage. Seriously, who wants to ban private air conditioners? Maybe people want refrigerants to be less harmful.
You couldn't find the original poll data or questions? So what is your basis for saying it is misleading? You have no basis. Weren't refrigerants supposed to be causing the hole on the ozone layer? Like most scare tactics of the green movement it did not stand the test of time. The ozone layer is fine.
Perhaps you've noticed that refrigerants (and aerosol dispersants) have been reformulated because of the issues they were causing with the ozone layer. The ozone layer is fine because it recovered after people identified the problem did then did something about it!
So why is Justin still complaining about it? A broken record gets stuck and repeats the same thing over and over again ad nauseum. Sometimes the environmentalists sound like broken records. I know that chlorofluorocarbons can catalyze a reaction with O3 and this makes an alarming story since CFC's are not consumed in the reaction. Oh my it will go on forever until the ozone layer is depleted and we all die due to UV exposure. Although this is surely true in the lab, it neglects other pathways for the breakdown of CFC's in the environment. Like most environmental scare tactics, it is a partial truth which aims to convince the midwits that there is something to be afraid of. Something that only the government can deal with through increased regulation, expansion of departments and personnel and of course burgeoning budgets.
Ozone Hole, just one more ….you are all gonna die ….fear porn from statist Democrats.
If anyone visits PRC factories like I did, they will see how naive we are to unilaterally save the planet.
These smarmy elites - weirdo dreamers who spent their education ‘studying’ esoteric topics for no other reason than to show people how smart they are.
The most useless of all are the ‘creatives’. I hire or collaborate with people all the time, and if a prospect even hints at ‘actor, artist, writer, musician . . ‘ I dump their resume in the nearest trash can immediately. Undependable, squirrely, always looking around for a new gig, unreliable, usually unstable & unfulfilled. Give me a solid mid-westerner every time.
About the only m.o. I agree with is . . . “ the elites were okay with rigging “the system”. That’s what it takes to win in politics so the GOP needs to get in the game.
And the "Elites" may have just weaponized.
As the "Elites" fight to retain control it should be quite alarming to every single American that the Biden Administration took some very extreme steps recently by quietly approving a Department of Defense Directive (DoDD 5240.01 on September 27, 2024) allowing our military to use lethal force on American citizens in certain situations. Do they know something we don't?
As the internal polling and overall favorability for their marionette candidate plunges it appears awfully suspect that the current Administration is taking the highly unusual steps to "protect Democracy" by enacting such a severe directive yet at the same time labeling the opposition candidate a "threat to Democracy", a "Fascist" or even "Hitler". The move is more reminiscent of Third World Marxist Dictatorships and doesn't give me great comfort. American elections have been contentious over the years but we should never be at a place such as this. Can we trust the current occupants in the WH and the Ruling Elites to relinquish power if they lose? We can only hope and pray that our nation will come out the other side a stronger and more unified nation. Then again, we've haven't seen such a Marxist push in this country since the 1910's-1930's and their comrades believe the "ends justify the means".
This is old news BTW.
It has long been a rule of thumb the average county employee costs tax payers $150,00 each. This is old news.
That's the old price; I know high-school grads who are making over 100k at the County. BTW some were recently still retiring at 50 and we are already paying for them to go work somewhere else.
People in this country only have to make $150,000 a year to qualify as elites? I thought it would be more like $150 million a year. $150,000 doesn't get you much elite status in 2024. How could you send your kids to top boarding schools, pay your annual club dues, rent that house on St. Bart's for a week, drive any kind of new status car, pay your mortgage on that estate in Montecito, bop off to Davos in your own jet, or maintain your yacht? $150,000 a year barely covers decent toilet paper these days - let alone getting a servant to wipe your elite ass.
25% of US Households make more than $150,000
Transparent California lists by name and job title those whom tax payers have moved into this elite income level, by the thousands. Your own tax dollars at work, growing this new wealthy class of Americans.
Thank you for the voting guide, but I think that Che Guevara is more appropriate than Karl Mark for the dumbeducated IV crowd.
Weaponization has been brewing in SB for a long time, see:
https://sbcag.com/mapofshameSBCity-4/summerland-retaining-wall/index.html
I'd say Gavin is an amature compared to DeSantis. Socialist leaning versus Fascism leaning. I'll take the former.
You mean Florida is fascist? where they locked down for only a month and allowed locked-down New Yorkers and Californicans to party on the beach while we were being locked up for surfing and thrown out of grocery stores? and now fascists have Grand juries investigating Pfizzzzer??
All so perfectly said And, Truth