I'm not the first to say this, but obviously the Democrats haven't listened: they stand for nothing except their hatred of Trump. In California all they're campaigning on right now is hating Trump. That seems to be enough to keep Dem loyalty in a lot of idiots in my white Boomer generation, but they also talk a lot about leaving California, so it's not the most stable thing to count on. I actually don't know any young (under 50) Democrats now in this state. Not one. I know a lot of Independents (which is what I now am, having left the Democrat Party in 2016). In NYC, I know young Democrats but I suspect it's because they have to be in order to have any kind of career. They're not true Dem believers like the Boomer New Yorkers I know, who seem pathetically satisfied with the their party's one-note Trump hatred. That's the horrible brilliance of Mamdani's platform - he stands for something positive with his Marxism that will destroy NYC. I'm hoping he does down and never rises again, but I think he just may destroy the Democrat Party. And if he does, thank you, Mamdani.
And Burton Voorhees commented below that Mamdani is not a Marxist. Good catch. He's a Marcusian, which is a Marxist who's sponging off academia so they can brainwash students and never have to prove their theories in the real world. Substitute government for academia and you have Mamdani
Pol, Mamdani is the best thing to happen to the GOP and Independents ever. He's gonna sink the Dem ship fer sure! _When_, (not if), he wins in November, the GOP will make sure his policies represent all Democrats, then sayonara Commie-Dems!
Pray that this jerk Mamdani gets elected in November - it will destroy what’s left of the Democrat party for the next 10 years.
The NY voters like his cute little give-aways - free subway rides, $30 pay etc, but that’s not what he’s about at all - he’s a card carrying, fanatical supporter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Here’s their official platform, what they believe in and what they want to change in our beautiful America:
a) Defund the police by “cutting budgets annually towards zero.”
b) Disarm law enforcement officers
c) Close local jails
d) Free all people from involuntary confinement
e) Social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure
Ya Brown, I copy on all that. If true, sounds like seditious conspiracy and insurrection requiring possible military involvement. Trump may want to rethink Posse Comitatus.
"Immediately withdraw from NATO" What's wrong with that? NATO should be abolished.
And what's wrong with this?
"g) Dramatically slash US military spending
h) Close all US foreign military bases" Why do we have military presence in so many countries? If a foreign country had military installations along our borders, how would we like it? How would we respond?
L. Angel, US military bases are not present in foreign countries by force, but by mutual agreement. Who else do you want playing the role of global policeman because the Obama/biden global power vacuum proved we still live in a tough neighborhood.
Time to move from the world you want it to be (peace, love, puppy dogs and endless cash) into the world as it is. This is not called a failure, but a healthy sober dose of realism. Work with things that are, but keep your own personal flame burning for your own life and on your own dime.
The EU is becoming an authoritarian state, let them provide their own defense, especially since they seem hell bent on war with Russia.
The defense budget is a relic of a bygone era. Cheap drones & hypersonics are the future.
Most bases should be closed, we're broke and overextended.
Time to recognize reality, it's a multipolar world. The boomers screwed the pooch sending our industrial base to China. We're still dangerous but completely unprepared for an extended engagement with a near peer enemy. We need to focus within.
We have met the enemy and it is SEIU, the teacher unions and the construction trades unions.
(Bloated government, failed schools and a phony housing “crisis” now destroying local control over our own communities.)
Recognize their disguised voices. Bust open their stealth and smokescreen causes that only result in concentrating more power and more money in only their hands. Expose their death grip on our tax dollars. Including the billions of waste, fraud and abuse that goes on constantly under their one-party watch.
They will be running big time on California being the fourth largest economy in the world, misused to justify their own egregious mismanagement of this state itself. Be ready for them. What is your own rebuttal when they turn this claim into their 2026 election drumbeat?
SEIU………..controls the means of production…………having gamed full control of the state’s election process.
They back the candidates with their membership war chests and their members count the votes in all county election offices in California. They supervise California’s notorious long counts.
Where have been warned against that happening before………..
controlling the means of production? Plus in Santa Barbara county our own elected count clerk-elections supervisor, according to reports here, remains missing in action.
Is it possible that immigrant socialist antiwhite anti-American immigrant Zohran Mamdani won the NYC mayoral Democratic primary because he is more America First than anyone else in the field? He is the only one in the field who said he would not be making a trip to Israel to show subservience to the pro-Israel lobby. Why should a mayor of a major US city need to travel to a foreign country? To get drugged and have Epstein style blackmail video filmed of him?
The Democratic Party has changed dramatically from when my parents were proud supporters. Gone are stalwart names like Kennedy, Muskie, Humphrey, O’Neil and Cranston. Yes, today’s Dem warriors are much different, bolder and more outspoken on their “do or die”issues ie; climate change, transgenderism, racism, Gaza, and hatred of Trump, to name a but a few. The various “issues” are a continuum and always changing, but rest assured, there is ALWAYS a crisis which requires activism, demonstrations and violence!
The Dem “psyche” is becoming less of a political movement and more of a psychiatric diagnosis. Sure, why else would someone wear a mask when they’re driving a car alone!
One thing should be perfectly clear to voters, Democrats hope, pray and promote for the destruction of our country by advocating the end of the nuclear family, end to organized religion, while advocating for crushing debt , indoctrination of our children, open borders and transgender sickness. They promote radical politicians such as AOC and more recently, Zohran Mamdani to be the standard bearer, waving the freak flag in addressing the never ending injustices committed by the rest (normal people) of us!
Let’s all hope and pray that local voters finally wake up and vote out the party which has caused so much suffering and damage to our communities and reject the Dem disastrous policies along with their Rino enablers!
And the issue with speaking about Gaza is - what, exactly? Leftists may have cringe slogans and operate under secular humanist ideals, but at least they can oppose evil (even if it's superficial/ideologically convenient), including the prolonged suffering in Palestine thanks to Israel's refusal to end this fruitless war.
And why does it matter that the names of democrats have changed - why do you care about the democrat party of old? What do they offer? Why the nostalgia? And what then would you like the democrat party to become? A party indistinguishable from the republican one? A new flavor of MAGA to ensure that any "opposition" is in fact a reskin of your preferred ideals?
Gaza (not Palestine), suffers because they decided to invade Israel. You consider it fruitless, but getting rid of a belligerent, murderous next-door neighbor does not seem fruitless to Israel. I’m sure. Your myopic views will leave you and your fellow “Carlists“ perplexed, forever I’m afraid. And I couldn’t care less.
It's curious how you reframe my concerns by implying that Gaza isn't Palestinian or inhabited by Palestinians, and that you seem to imply a Palestinian = Hamas. "Getting rid of a belligerent, murderous next door neighbor-" I don't recall Palestinian families being murderers, it seems Israel is the one occupied with bombing civilians, Christian Churches...
It is ironic to accuse me of being myopic, when in your own world view politics is reduced to
"MAGA GOOD. DEMS BAD". I don't view politics in this way, I am simply aloof to the modern political spectrum and stand outside it, focusing on the issues important to me regardless of how they align (or don't) with contemporary ideologies. And I also distinctly recall you accusing me, a Catholic monarchist for being a liberal... only because I criticized conservatives. This is a textbook case if myopia in action, you couldn't even perceive someone outside the political binary you have could exist and criticize your side without somehow belonging to "the enemy".
Theotokos, ^ your best comment to date, start to finish.
I'd also add that this entire page (except for a handful of intelligent people in the comment sections) is reduced to "MAGA GOOD. DEMS BAD." Political binary hell and absolutely zero critical thought.
Guess what Briain? It's not only "Carlists" (I don't even know what that is) who oppose genocide, it's every decent human being on the planet, which clearly does not include you. Who are the "murderous next-door neighbors" killing children daily? You want to 'get rid' of Palestinians. Evil incarnate.
Are you stupid or just dumb? The people of Gaza attacked, killed, murdered, raped men, women, children, and babies on October 7. Maybe you’re just ignorant and don’t pay attention to the news.
I'm neither stupid nor dumb, but you are correct that I don't pay attention to the mainstream media, and it is because I'm neither stupid nor dumb. More importantly though, I'm not evil. You have no problem with almost 2 years of genocide via our tax dollars and weapons. People like you are the very reason that moderates and former democrats (as well as real conservatives) will never vote republican - because necons like you have hijacked the party. You are the reason the world looks at us with disdain rather than admiration as they once did.
I am admittedly ignorant on the definition of a Carlist and what the philosophy entails. But when it comes to Gaza, you might want to look in the mirror before you start calling names over that topic.
I realize it’s early Teko, but wake up! “Leftist…at least they oppose evil”? Really? Like burning alive infants? It’s hard to imagine your “orthodoxy” and hypocrisy in making believe the Democratic Party is not the evil cabal that it is.
BTW, when you mention the “Carlist gang,” you mean a gang of one, right? Please tell me there’s not a congregation.
You ignored the part where I wrote "but at least they can oppose evil (even if it's superficial/ideologically convenient)". You don't understand, or refuse to understand that I don't condone the left. I am well aware of their arbitrary morals. Yet you yourself as a *Catholic* repeatedly express no issue with the horrors happening in Gaza thanks to the IDF.
"Carlism Gang" - I could never explain it to a boomer, "[So and so] gang" is just this meme type phrase, "Insert sarcastic quip about my opponents - End off with [My alignment] gang".
Yes Teko, if you must call me out on my faith, I am a Catholic who believes in one holy and apostolic church, not some made up medieval fantasy. In case you didn’t know, “the horrors happening in Gaza,” is not because of the IDF but because of Hamas. Why are you so willing not to call out radical Islam which is antithetical to your Christian faith?
Bearing false witness is a sin in our faith. Yet you do it with abandon. The terrorism, atrocities, massacres and false flag attacks by Zionist terrorism did not begin in 2023 and long predates Hamas having political power. Add to that the evidence that the Netanyahu govt had advance warning of the Oct 7 attack, left the border vulnerable and many of the killings of Israelis were carried out by IDF as per the Hannibal Doctrine and you see how empty your claims are. May God forgive us Americans for funding, arming and giving political cover to the genocide in Gaza.
Wait, so it was really the IDF who is responsible for killing Israeli civilians? Not Hamas? You are truly delusional Aimee, your fictitious claims are an embarrassment for those who have suffered. Talk about bearing false witness.
Their faux virtue signaling is a smokescreen that cover ps up their real agenda: total control over every single tax dollar they can find. They are very simple people in fact.
The common bonds of national unity became frayed and undone beginning with George McGovern in 1972. The anti-American animus was born amidst the socialist New Left adherents thrust to the nation's attention in the streets of Chicago in 1968 outside the Democrat National Convention. With President Nixon on a roll heading into reelection, few mainstream Democrat stalwarts wanted to be their party's sacrificial lamb. Thus, the little known McGovern stepped forward. With "Watergate" forcing Nixon's resignation and weakening Republican chances to prevail in 1976, Democrats looked to fresh mainstream blood (with a Southern accent) in Jimmy Carter. Also diminishing the political surge left among Democrats was Ronald Reagan's popularity, and his carryover to 3.0 with the likes of Bush '41. But with the unexpected rise to power of the Clintonians, the left was in a position to transfer a lot of its ideological energy built up over 20 years in the universities to Washington, D.C. and the non-profit think tanks. With Bush '43 a mere speedbump on the road to power, leftists were standing in the wings ready to steer the ship of state as soon as Barack Obama finished twirling Michelle around at his last Inaugural Ball. All that has stood in the way of a complete communist transformation from a government limited by our U.S. Constitution - was/is Donald J. Trump!
1962, when JFK allowed government employees to unionize, our national politics forever changed. Never forget this when assessing the political climate today compared to our own generational memories. We now have a highly vested political class…….the 23 million government employees and their majority union memberships and union bosses.
Allow me, if you will, to make an edit to my own column. One of my paragraphs should read: "It was Trump's gains among black men (not non-white men) that altered the political landscape, as he notched a 21-point improvement from his 75-point defeat in 2020". Thanks!
Great to watch the collapse of the Democrat Party. I’d be willing to bet that their approval rating will be less than 15% by the time Summer is out. It’s all a con, but they have to act according to their handler, and each & everyone has a handler. But, the Republicans are in for a bad row as well.
Who controls [wields significant influence] re: the 'Clinton' [D] party?
It is no surprise that the issues of transportation and freedom of movement mirrors the issues of politics.
It is no surprise that the average "Joe" doesn't look to the workings of government and expects a box of chocolates for the price of a lolly-pop.
The Dem's in Calif. have done a great job in advertising See's Candy for the cost of robbing the producers (that is you and me the working middle class) and then back slapping the wealthy by saying "don't worry we'll leave you enough to continue your life style" and you then have to invest in Calif.
Well guess what. $.65 cent gasoline tax over stepped. Not taking care of streets to force you "OUT" of your personal car or work truck over stepped. Giving to NGO's that are nothing more than Political Action Committee's (did I mentioned the failed safe routes to schools program?), over stepped.
Suddenly the average "Joe" is looking back on 40-50 years of Socialist Planning that takes more then it delivers. Does anyone who thinks the shift reported here is a mistake. Forest Gump was right...Stupid is as Stupid does. Newsom moves into a $9 million house calls it a "farm(?)" for tax purposes. The Dem's like Wiener, Limon, Hart and the rest believe that the massive increase in taxes, the idiotic Dem. demands for welfare because "you" want for free will not be noticed?
Just in Santa Barbara there is a massive up-rising over destroyed street grids, impossible ease of transportation and of course the MULTI MILLION DOLLARS SPENT JUST IN THE PAST 5 YEARS.
$.65 cent gas tax? At the same time new technology continues to clean the air at no further tax cost?
It has taken a BASEBALL BAT to waken the electorate. It HURTS!!!
Individual pride and ingenuity is being ripped out of the heart of America, Calif., and Santa Barbara! In the name of equality.
Here is my last point we may have been born equal, but EVERY person has individual faults, IQ, and capacities. The Socialist / Communist fantasy ignores that. Hopefully Chuckie, Slick, and the rest will continue to use their idiotic BASEBALL BAT. "Joe Public" is seeing this and has had enough of the takers and spenders.
Then the producers and innovators will bring balance back to this City, State, and Nation.
Your statistics are giving me hope again. They will probably all be crushed during my lifetime but I do hope you are right and that my children and grandchildren will see a free California again. It used to be so lovely.
Finding common cause with the growing numbers of registered independents in this state is key. Fiscal prudence for a sound future is finally resonating with younger voters.
We can never let Democrats define who we are. May we all channel our inner Scott Jennings. Cool, calm and facts at his fingertips. The wide new GOP tent is our best message. Democrats over the past twenty years proved what not to do. these past 20 years have been a living civics lesson. Time to articulate not just what we don’t want, but WHY no one should like what the Democrat super-majority did to this state.
Make California Great Again. We win even if all we do in the first round is demolish the Democrat super-majority. The quick trip from term limits to the Democrat supermajority tyranny over the past twenty years was breath-taking in retrospect. The state is finally waking up from this two decade long drunken Democrat hangover.
Sure hope you're right JL. The problem is most Commie-Dems don't have sense enough to come in out of the rain let alone vote for the folks who will run the show correctly - Steve Hilton and the GOP.
Waste of time to get votes from the government employment dependency crowd. Expand the new conservative voting base to include and involve those now stuck paying for all those government paychecks, perks and pensions for the rest of their own lives.
That is where the real numbers of conservative voters exist. Not the ones who rollover and constantly claim the “state” is too powerful to resist. Resiste we must.
Democrats run psysop campaigns, going only for an emotional jugular hook and mock common sense and fiscal sanity. Make common sense great again, not their corrosive emotional hysteria. The lines have been drawn. Resist we must. They are paper tigers when called out.
What would you expect from the same people who voted for Govenor Hochul, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, AOC, D.A. Bragg, Attorney General James, and served on the jury of Trump's trial? Mayor Adams turned when the Biden team declined his request for help with migrants.
The last president we elected was in 1960, and he was a Democrat.
We’ve had no real elections since. None. Not a one.
In 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2020 the elections were stolen from Democratic voters, with the last two being stolen by DNC fraud itself.
Democrats have thus been oppressed and manipulated into something that doesn’t represent the truths of their constituents, and millions have given up as a result.
This is not the same for the other party. Be glad you’re not as oppressed, but do not relish in any authentic victories when none have been achieved.
In 2024 there were approximately 245 million eligible voters, yet approximately 92 million didn’t vote… the numbers varied a little at the final result, but 36% of voters didn’t even vote!
Does this administration have the mandate of We The People, ABSOLUTELY NOT! That’s been stolen generations ago.
What’s needed is for the party in charge at the moment to understand that they do not have the interests of the people of this country represented and the numbers and actual history back this up.
Imagine if an actual candidate had been allowed to run in 2016 & 2020 and then jog your memory back even farther.
Are you saying that the current administration does not represent the interests of the people because of people who did not vote? I suppose that is about the lamest thing I have read in a while. Voting is an act of representing your interest. If you chose not to vote you chose to keep your interests unknown. By your logic the only party qualified to represent the will of the people would be the clairvoyant party.
Talk about a lame comment. Why should McGrune "keep [his/her] interests unknown"? You actually think Trump, Biden, Kamala, GW, Obama etc are uncontrolled and put America and its people first? What's wrong with voting your conscience and only for someone you believe in?
Your entire argument is laughable, but you’re opening line is ridiculously ignorant. President Kennedy’s election wasn’t tainted? Are you retarded ? The Democrats cheated in Chicago, thank you mayor Daly and therefore stole Illinois and the president presidency. Back then Americans,(Republicans anyway) cared more about country and refused to soil the integrity of American elections, so Nixon bowed out. It’s really too bad that history hasn’t been taught in our school systems for so many years.
I think the last President we elected was Reagan — prior to Trump. They never thought they were going to lose control of the Presidency (not just D's) and thought they had control since making past mistakes (JFK, REAGAN).
Q is, Who are the puppet masters? Who pulls the strings? What provides power ($$$?). What if US elections can be rigged? How are JFK, Reagan, and TRUMP different from the rest? Why did JFK surround himself w/ family much like POTUS TRUMP?
Why are there no voting ID laws in place? What do you need an ID for? List. Compare. Laugh. What is the argument for not allowing voter ID laws to be enacted? Why are immigrants important? (Muslim Brotherhood)(Votes)(Attacks). Why are illegals important? (MS13)(Votes)(187)…the swamp run deep, wide & far (foreign & domestic)…
David Crane offered this succinct assessment when voting for more California Democrats. Which party will continue to hang this albatross around their own necks?
Vote for more Democrats and vote to keep selfishly stealing from the future? Or finally kill the public debt monster and vote for proven fiscal conservatives?
Congratulations to the spineless Republican Party !
At least they were able to save the jobs of all republican representatives and the livelihood of the wealthy and poor billionaires. Their cowardly actions will have repercussions in the next voting cycle. They continue to support the bully leading the nation at present, but at least their livelihoods are intact.
As these cowards enjoy the fruits of their labor, I hope they think of the people who are paying for it, the elderly, the children, the working class and people in need of a helping hand.
I'm not the first to say this, but obviously the Democrats haven't listened: they stand for nothing except their hatred of Trump. In California all they're campaigning on right now is hating Trump. That seems to be enough to keep Dem loyalty in a lot of idiots in my white Boomer generation, but they also talk a lot about leaving California, so it's not the most stable thing to count on. I actually don't know any young (under 50) Democrats now in this state. Not one. I know a lot of Independents (which is what I now am, having left the Democrat Party in 2016). In NYC, I know young Democrats but I suspect it's because they have to be in order to have any kind of career. They're not true Dem believers like the Boomer New Yorkers I know, who seem pathetically satisfied with the their party's one-note Trump hatred. That's the horrible brilliance of Mamdani's platform - he stands for something positive with his Marxism that will destroy NYC. I'm hoping he does down and never rises again, but I think he just may destroy the Democrat Party. And if he does, thank you, Mamdani.
And Burton Voorhees commented below that Mamdani is not a Marxist. Good catch. He's a Marcusian, which is a Marxist who's sponging off academia so they can brainwash students and never have to prove their theories in the real world. Substitute government for academia and you have Mamdani
Pol, Mamdani is the best thing to happen to the GOP and Independents ever. He's gonna sink the Dem ship fer sure! _When_, (not if), he wins in November, the GOP will make sure his policies represent all Democrats, then sayonara Commie-Dems!
Pray that this jerk Mamdani gets elected in November - it will destroy what’s left of the Democrat party for the next 10 years.
The NY voters like his cute little give-aways - free subway rides, $30 pay etc, but that’s not what he’s about at all - he’s a card carrying, fanatical supporter of the Democratic Socialists of America.
Here’s their official platform, what they believe in and what they want to change in our beautiful America:
a) Defund the police by “cutting budgets annually towards zero.”
b) Disarm law enforcement officers
c) Close local jails
d) Free all people from involuntary confinement
e) Social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure
f) Abolish the Senate
g) Dramatically slash US military spending
h) Close all US foreign military bases
i) Immediately withdraw from NATO
j) End all deportations
k) Demilitarize the border
l) Abolish ICE and end all immigrant detention
m) Allow non citizens to vote
Don’t believe me? Check out their Official Political Platform- it will make you wanna puke! https://www.dsausa.org/dsa-political-platform-from-2021-convention
The plus side is the GOP will be able to show the world that these polices are what the Commie-Dems are really all about!
Ya Brown, I copy on all that. If true, sounds like seditious conspiracy and insurrection requiring possible military involvement. Trump may want to rethink Posse Comitatus.
"Immediately withdraw from NATO" What's wrong with that? NATO should be abolished.
And what's wrong with this?
"g) Dramatically slash US military spending
h) Close all US foreign military bases" Why do we have military presence in so many countries? If a foreign country had military installations along our borders, how would we like it? How would we respond?
L. Angel, US military bases are not present in foreign countries by force, but by mutual agreement. Who else do you want playing the role of global policeman because the Obama/biden global power vacuum proved we still live in a tough neighborhood.
Time to move from the world you want it to be (peace, love, puppy dogs and endless cash) into the world as it is. This is not called a failure, but a healthy sober dose of realism. Work with things that are, but keep your own personal flame burning for your own life and on your own dime.
We are the only superpower in the world now.
We do what we want!
The whole world would be on fire if it wasn’t for us.
Happy birthday America!
😎😎😎😎😎
I actually thought you were being sarcastic, until I read the last line. Wow. "We do what we want!" Bully much?
Why do you live in a country that you hate?
People from all over the world are Dying to get here!
And you know that I am right when I say that when we are strong the world is a safer place.
Not perfect but a little safer.
Where the hell did I say I "hate" my country?
It sure seems like it because I never hear you say anything good about the USA
100%
The EU is becoming an authoritarian state, let them provide their own defense, especially since they seem hell bent on war with Russia.
The defense budget is a relic of a bygone era. Cheap drones & hypersonics are the future.
Most bases should be closed, we're broke and overextended.
Time to recognize reality, it's a multipolar world. The boomers screwed the pooch sending our industrial base to China. We're still dangerous but completely unprepared for an extended engagement with a near peer enemy. We need to focus within.
We have met the enemy and it is SEIU, the teacher unions and the construction trades unions.
(Bloated government, failed schools and a phony housing “crisis” now destroying local control over our own communities.)
Recognize their disguised voices. Bust open their stealth and smokescreen causes that only result in concentrating more power and more money in only their hands. Expose their death grip on our tax dollars. Including the billions of waste, fraud and abuse that goes on constantly under their one-party watch.
They will be running big time on California being the fourth largest economy in the world, misused to justify their own egregious mismanagement of this state itself. Be ready for them. What is your own rebuttal when they turn this claim into their 2026 election drumbeat?
Totally agree JL, the SEIU is no more than a criminal gang which enjoys collective bargaining!
And is left alone, free to do what they want with no government oversight
I only wish I was in on the SEIU scam. Absolute license to steal.
SEIU………..controls the means of production…………having gamed full control of the state’s election process.
They back the candidates with their membership war chests and their members count the votes in all county election offices in California. They supervise California’s notorious long counts.
Where have been warned against that happening before………..
controlling the means of production? Plus in Santa Barbara county our own elected count clerk-elections supervisor, according to reports here, remains missing in action.
Is it possible that immigrant socialist antiwhite anti-American immigrant Zohran Mamdani won the NYC mayoral Democratic primary because he is more America First than anyone else in the field? He is the only one in the field who said he would not be making a trip to Israel to show subservience to the pro-Israel lobby. Why should a mayor of a major US city need to travel to a foreign country? To get drugged and have Epstein style blackmail video filmed of him?
😂
Wow.
News Flash: BBB passes…hip,hip, hooray! The LARGEST tax cut in history for working men and women. Funding for our military and border security.
Yes, it passed despite lengthy, stupid, obnoxious, vile and rancid lies as told by Minority Leader, race baiter and moron, Hakeem Jeffries!
Welcome to the Golden Age…The Best Is Yet To Come!
The Democratic Party has changed dramatically from when my parents were proud supporters. Gone are stalwart names like Kennedy, Muskie, Humphrey, O’Neil and Cranston. Yes, today’s Dem warriors are much different, bolder and more outspoken on their “do or die”issues ie; climate change, transgenderism, racism, Gaza, and hatred of Trump, to name a but a few. The various “issues” are a continuum and always changing, but rest assured, there is ALWAYS a crisis which requires activism, demonstrations and violence!
The Dem “psyche” is becoming less of a political movement and more of a psychiatric diagnosis. Sure, why else would someone wear a mask when they’re driving a car alone!
One thing should be perfectly clear to voters, Democrats hope, pray and promote for the destruction of our country by advocating the end of the nuclear family, end to organized religion, while advocating for crushing debt , indoctrination of our children, open borders and transgender sickness. They promote radical politicians such as AOC and more recently, Zohran Mamdani to be the standard bearer, waving the freak flag in addressing the never ending injustices committed by the rest (normal people) of us!
Let’s all hope and pray that local voters finally wake up and vote out the party which has caused so much suffering and damage to our communities and reject the Dem disastrous policies along with their Rino enablers!
And the issue with speaking about Gaza is - what, exactly? Leftists may have cringe slogans and operate under secular humanist ideals, but at least they can oppose evil (even if it's superficial/ideologically convenient), including the prolonged suffering in Palestine thanks to Israel's refusal to end this fruitless war.
And why does it matter that the names of democrats have changed - why do you care about the democrat party of old? What do they offer? Why the nostalgia? And what then would you like the democrat party to become? A party indistinguishable from the republican one? A new flavor of MAGA to ensure that any "opposition" is in fact a reskin of your preferred ideals?
*Carlism gang is perplexed.*
Gaza (not Palestine), suffers because they decided to invade Israel. You consider it fruitless, but getting rid of a belligerent, murderous next-door neighbor does not seem fruitless to Israel. I’m sure. Your myopic views will leave you and your fellow “Carlists“ perplexed, forever I’m afraid. And I couldn’t care less.
It's curious how you reframe my concerns by implying that Gaza isn't Palestinian or inhabited by Palestinians, and that you seem to imply a Palestinian = Hamas. "Getting rid of a belligerent, murderous next door neighbor-" I don't recall Palestinian families being murderers, it seems Israel is the one occupied with bombing civilians, Christian Churches...
It is ironic to accuse me of being myopic, when in your own world view politics is reduced to
"MAGA GOOD. DEMS BAD". I don't view politics in this way, I am simply aloof to the modern political spectrum and stand outside it, focusing on the issues important to me regardless of how they align (or don't) with contemporary ideologies. And I also distinctly recall you accusing me, a Catholic monarchist for being a liberal... only because I criticized conservatives. This is a textbook case if myopia in action, you couldn't even perceive someone outside the political binary you have could exist and criticize your side without somehow belonging to "the enemy".
Theotokos, ^ your best comment to date, start to finish.
I'd also add that this entire page (except for a handful of intelligent people in the comment sections) is reduced to "MAGA GOOD. DEMS BAD." Political binary hell and absolutely zero critical thought.
MAGA GOOD. DEMS BAD - count me in!
Thank you for proving my point.
Guess what Briain? It's not only "Carlists" (I don't even know what that is) who oppose genocide, it's every decent human being on the planet, which clearly does not include you. Who are the "murderous next-door neighbors" killing children daily? You want to 'get rid' of Palestinians. Evil incarnate.
Are you stupid or just dumb? The people of Gaza attacked, killed, murdered, raped men, women, children, and babies on October 7. Maybe you’re just ignorant and don’t pay attention to the news.
I'm neither stupid nor dumb, but you are correct that I don't pay attention to the mainstream media, and it is because I'm neither stupid nor dumb. More importantly though, I'm not evil. You have no problem with almost 2 years of genocide via our tax dollars and weapons. People like you are the very reason that moderates and former democrats (as well as real conservatives) will never vote republican - because necons like you have hijacked the party. You are the reason the world looks at us with disdain rather than admiration as they once did.
I am admittedly ignorant on the definition of a Carlist and what the philosophy entails. But when it comes to Gaza, you might want to look in the mirror before you start calling names over that topic.
Well, let’s just say that we agree that you’re ignorant. 😂😂😂
How curious Brian - you respond to 'L'. yet not me? Why is this?
I realize it’s early Teko, but wake up! “Leftist…at least they oppose evil”? Really? Like burning alive infants? It’s hard to imagine your “orthodoxy” and hypocrisy in making believe the Democratic Party is not the evil cabal that it is.
BTW, when you mention the “Carlist gang,” you mean a gang of one, right? Please tell me there’s not a congregation.
You ignored the part where I wrote "but at least they can oppose evil (even if it's superficial/ideologically convenient)". You don't understand, or refuse to understand that I don't condone the left. I am well aware of their arbitrary morals. Yet you yourself as a *Catholic* repeatedly express no issue with the horrors happening in Gaza thanks to the IDF.
"Carlism Gang" - I could never explain it to a boomer, "[So and so] gang" is just this meme type phrase, "Insert sarcastic quip about my opponents - End off with [My alignment] gang".
Yes Teko, if you must call me out on my faith, I am a Catholic who believes in one holy and apostolic church, not some made up medieval fantasy. In case you didn’t know, “the horrors happening in Gaza,” is not because of the IDF but because of Hamas. Why are you so willing not to call out radical Islam which is antithetical to your Christian faith?
Bearing false witness is a sin in our faith. Yet you do it with abandon. The terrorism, atrocities, massacres and false flag attacks by Zionist terrorism did not begin in 2023 and long predates Hamas having political power. Add to that the evidence that the Netanyahu govt had advance warning of the Oct 7 attack, left the border vulnerable and many of the killings of Israelis were carried out by IDF as per the Hannibal Doctrine and you see how empty your claims are. May God forgive us Americans for funding, arming and giving political cover to the genocide in Gaza.
Wait, so it was really the IDF who is responsible for killing Israeli civilians? Not Hamas? You are truly delusional Aimee, your fictitious claims are an embarrassment for those who have suffered. Talk about bearing false witness.
You're are not Catholic. Your religion is zionism, at least be honest about it.
The Commie-Dems don't believe in half of what they boost - they're just "Reveling in their Righteousness"
Their faux virtue signaling is a smokescreen that cover ps up their real agenda: total control over every single tax dollar they can find. They are very simple people in fact.
The common bonds of national unity became frayed and undone beginning with George McGovern in 1972. The anti-American animus was born amidst the socialist New Left adherents thrust to the nation's attention in the streets of Chicago in 1968 outside the Democrat National Convention. With President Nixon on a roll heading into reelection, few mainstream Democrat stalwarts wanted to be their party's sacrificial lamb. Thus, the little known McGovern stepped forward. With "Watergate" forcing Nixon's resignation and weakening Republican chances to prevail in 1976, Democrats looked to fresh mainstream blood (with a Southern accent) in Jimmy Carter. Also diminishing the political surge left among Democrats was Ronald Reagan's popularity, and his carryover to 3.0 with the likes of Bush '41. But with the unexpected rise to power of the Clintonians, the left was in a position to transfer a lot of its ideological energy built up over 20 years in the universities to Washington, D.C. and the non-profit think tanks. With Bush '43 a mere speedbump on the road to power, leftists were standing in the wings ready to steer the ship of state as soon as Barack Obama finished twirling Michelle around at his last Inaugural Ball. All that has stood in the way of a complete communist transformation from a government limited by our U.S. Constitution - was/is Donald J. Trump!
Amen!
1962. JFK allowed government employees to unionize. America has never been the same since.
1962, when JFK allowed government employees to unionize, our national politics forever changed. Never forget this when assessing the political climate today compared to our own generational memories. We now have a highly vested political class…….the 23 million government employees and their majority union memberships and union bosses.
Allow me, if you will, to make an edit to my own column. One of my paragraphs should read: "It was Trump's gains among black men (not non-white men) that altered the political landscape, as he notched a 21-point improvement from his 75-point defeat in 2020". Thanks!
Great to watch the collapse of the Democrat Party. I’d be willing to bet that their approval rating will be less than 15% by the time Summer is out. It’s all a con, but they have to act according to their handler, and each & everyone has a handler. But, the Republicans are in for a bad row as well.
Who controls [wields significant influence] re: the 'Clinton' [D] party?
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/22919
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/24651
Who controls [wields significant influence] re: the 'Hussein' [D] party?
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/30480
Different factions of foreign [primary] control?
History repeats itself (today).
RE: IRREGULAR WARFARE
RE: TACTICS DEPLOYED v AMERICA
Compare & Contrast
Then v Now
https://www.britannica.com/topic/SA-Nazi-organization
Then: methods of violent intimidation deployed by SA
Now: methods of violent intimidation deployed by Antifa?
Then: battles raged in the streets [book burning, flag burning, destruction, hate, anti-police, etc]
Now: battles raging in the streets controlled by [D] party sympathizers [anti-republic]?
Then: physical assaults of political opponents
Now: physical assaults of political opponents?
Then: voter intimidation in National and local elections
Now: voter intimidation in National and local elections [coming 11.3]?
Then: project anti-fascist platform: reality: conform/obey strong-arm tactics deployed to silence opposing views
Now: project anti-fascist platform: reality: conform/obey strong-arm tactics deployed to silence opposing views?
Then: radical anti-capitalistic platform (socialism)
Now: radical anti-capitalistic platform (socialism) push?
We are witnessing the systematic destruction of the Old Guard…be safe & Enjoy The Show!
It is no surprise that the issues of transportation and freedom of movement mirrors the issues of politics.
It is no surprise that the average "Joe" doesn't look to the workings of government and expects a box of chocolates for the price of a lolly-pop.
The Dem's in Calif. have done a great job in advertising See's Candy for the cost of robbing the producers (that is you and me the working middle class) and then back slapping the wealthy by saying "don't worry we'll leave you enough to continue your life style" and you then have to invest in Calif.
Well guess what. $.65 cent gasoline tax over stepped. Not taking care of streets to force you "OUT" of your personal car or work truck over stepped. Giving to NGO's that are nothing more than Political Action Committee's (did I mentioned the failed safe routes to schools program?), over stepped.
Suddenly the average "Joe" is looking back on 40-50 years of Socialist Planning that takes more then it delivers. Does anyone who thinks the shift reported here is a mistake. Forest Gump was right...Stupid is as Stupid does. Newsom moves into a $9 million house calls it a "farm(?)" for tax purposes. The Dem's like Wiener, Limon, Hart and the rest believe that the massive increase in taxes, the idiotic Dem. demands for welfare because "you" want for free will not be noticed?
Just in Santa Barbara there is a massive up-rising over destroyed street grids, impossible ease of transportation and of course the MULTI MILLION DOLLARS SPENT JUST IN THE PAST 5 YEARS.
$.65 cent gas tax? At the same time new technology continues to clean the air at no further tax cost?
It has taken a BASEBALL BAT to waken the electorate. It HURTS!!!
Individual pride and ingenuity is being ripped out of the heart of America, Calif., and Santa Barbara! In the name of equality.
Here is my last point we may have been born equal, but EVERY person has individual faults, IQ, and capacities. The Socialist / Communist fantasy ignores that. Hopefully Chuckie, Slick, and the rest will continue to use their idiotic BASEBALL BAT. "Joe Public" is seeing this and has had enough of the takers and spenders.
Then the producers and innovators will bring balance back to this City, State, and Nation.
Your statistics are giving me hope again. They will probably all be crushed during my lifetime but I do hope you are right and that my children and grandchildren will see a free California again. It used to be so lovely.
Finding common cause with the growing numbers of registered independents in this state is key. Fiscal prudence for a sound future is finally resonating with younger voters.
We can never let Democrats define who we are. May we all channel our inner Scott Jennings. Cool, calm and facts at his fingertips. The wide new GOP tent is our best message. Democrats over the past twenty years proved what not to do. these past 20 years have been a living civics lesson. Time to articulate not just what we don’t want, but WHY no one should like what the Democrat super-majority did to this state.
Make California Great Again. We win even if all we do in the first round is demolish the Democrat super-majority. The quick trip from term limits to the Democrat supermajority tyranny over the past twenty years was breath-taking in retrospect. The state is finally waking up from this two decade long drunken Democrat hangover.
Sure hope you're right JL. The problem is most Commie-Dems don't have sense enough to come in out of the rain let alone vote for the folks who will run the show correctly - Steve Hilton and the GOP.
Waste of time to get votes from the government employment dependency crowd. Expand the new conservative voting base to include and involve those now stuck paying for all those government paychecks, perks and pensions for the rest of their own lives.
That is where the real numbers of conservative voters exist. Not the ones who rollover and constantly claim the “state” is too powerful to resist. Resiste we must.
Democrats run psysop campaigns, going only for an emotional jugular hook and mock common sense and fiscal sanity. Make common sense great again, not their corrosive emotional hysteria. The lines have been drawn. Resist we must. They are paper tigers when called out.
Love this!
What would you expect from the same people who voted for Govenor Hochul, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, AOC, D.A. Bragg, Attorney General James, and served on the jury of Trump's trial? Mayor Adams turned when the Biden team declined his request for help with migrants.
The last president we elected was in 1960, and he was a Democrat.
We’ve had no real elections since. None. Not a one.
In 2000, 2004, 2016 and 2020 the elections were stolen from Democratic voters, with the last two being stolen by DNC fraud itself.
Democrats have thus been oppressed and manipulated into something that doesn’t represent the truths of their constituents, and millions have given up as a result.
This is not the same for the other party. Be glad you’re not as oppressed, but do not relish in any authentic victories when none have been achieved.
In 2024 there were approximately 245 million eligible voters, yet approximately 92 million didn’t vote… the numbers varied a little at the final result, but 36% of voters didn’t even vote!
Does this administration have the mandate of We The People, ABSOLUTELY NOT! That’s been stolen generations ago.
What’s needed is for the party in charge at the moment to understand that they do not have the interests of the people of this country represented and the numbers and actual history back this up.
Imagine if an actual candidate had been allowed to run in 2016 & 2020 and then jog your memory back even farther.
I wonder who ran the coup in 1963?
Agree that we lost our country by then (at the latest). A strong case can be made for 1947-8, and an even stronger case for 1913.
Are you saying that the current administration does not represent the interests of the people because of people who did not vote? I suppose that is about the lamest thing I have read in a while. Voting is an act of representing your interest. If you chose not to vote you chose to keep your interests unknown. By your logic the only party qualified to represent the will of the people would be the clairvoyant party.
Talk about a lame comment. Why should McGrune "keep [his/her] interests unknown"? You actually think Trump, Biden, Kamala, GW, Obama etc are uncontrolled and put America and its people first? What's wrong with voting your conscience and only for someone you believe in?
I have no idea what point you are trying to make.
Trolling.....right?
Your entire argument is laughable, but you’re opening line is ridiculously ignorant. President Kennedy’s election wasn’t tainted? Are you retarded ? The Democrats cheated in Chicago, thank you mayor Daly and therefore stole Illinois and the president presidency. Back then Americans,(Republicans anyway) cared more about country and refused to soil the integrity of American elections, so Nixon bowed out. It’s really too bad that history hasn’t been taught in our school systems for so many years.
His presidency was stolen from him (and the nation and the world in fact) Nov. 22, 1963.
Yes, he was murdered in the coup of November 22, 1963.
And his vice president was forced on him by the same powers that murdered him.
And he was only "elected" as a result of just enough cheating by the Chicago machine.
Our Republic was subverted a long time ago.
At least more of us are noticing more of the deceptions.
I think the last President we elected was Reagan — prior to Trump. They never thought they were going to lose control of the Presidency (not just D's) and thought they had control since making past mistakes (JFK, REAGAN).
Q is, Who are the puppet masters? Who pulls the strings? What provides power ($$$?). What if US elections can be rigged? How are JFK, Reagan, and TRUMP different from the rest? Why did JFK surround himself w/ family much like POTUS TRUMP?
Why are there no voting ID laws in place? What do you need an ID for? List. Compare. Laugh. What is the argument for not allowing voter ID laws to be enacted? Why are immigrants important? (Muslim Brotherhood)(Votes)(Attacks). Why are illegals important? (MS13)(Votes)(187)…the swamp run deep, wide & far (foreign & domestic)…
“Selfish budgets that steal from the future.”
David Crane offered this succinct assessment when voting for more California Democrats. Which party will continue to hang this albatross around their own necks?
Vote for more Democrats and vote to keep selfishly stealing from the future? Or finally kill the public debt monster and vote for proven fiscal conservatives?
Congratulations to the spineless Republican Party !
At least they were able to save the jobs of all republican representatives and the livelihood of the wealthy and poor billionaires. Their cowardly actions will have repercussions in the next voting cycle. They continue to support the bully leading the nation at present, but at least their livelihoods are intact.
As these cowards enjoy the fruits of their labor, I hope they think of the people who are paying for it, the elderly, the children, the working class and people in need of a helping hand.
Good job invertebrates!