Thank you, Cole. I've been in Santa Barbara since 1961 and while I also dislike the way it and the state are now governed, I still love it. I've also seen it go through enough political changes to not despair. I'm also a fan of Thomas Sowell and “The Vision of the Anointed” sums up what you describe at the No Kings. And I'm quite certain the Dems will have their gerrymandering way with Prop 50 — only I think it's going to backfire on them. My heroine of the moment is Katie Porter because she is singlehandedly showing how psycho the Democratic Party has become. And in a way you or I would never be able to because she embodies it as a Democrat! Yay, Katie! Let your Borderline Personality Disorder flow! You go, girl. You will turn every gerrymandered district so red it'll light up the skies!
I agree. I think that Prop 50 will backfire on the libs in California and when they see that Newsom can take away their power and not care an iota about them but only about who he can use and manipulate to further his agenda.
I will sit back and wonder why they didn't listen,again.
Do you really not see the hypocrisy in your argument? POTUS has more power than ever, was voted out and refused to accept the results and fanned the flames of Jan 6.
He is now assassinating people without due process and filing retaliatory lawsuits his own appointees wont prosecute, but you are worried about a state Governor doing what TX GOV ALREADY DID!
Russia found America's weak spot... gullible, unskilled, uneducated, ignorant fools who get their news and "facts" from SM.
Texas was a result of a lawsuit from the Biden admin about Minority districts. Texas didn't follow the court order that was handed down during the Biden Admin. Trump admin reminded them off it and they did their due diligence and changed the maps according to that lawsuit.You can search it it's real.
Newsom and Dems never liked the Independent Commission or the law that appointed them. Records show he's been planning this power gramp since Jan '25 and not August. Newsome and Padilla are authors of this bill also.
You can throw out insults but you have no proof and just opinions based on your brainwashed mentality.
Do your research before calling out others for the same and food the Mainstream news without using critical thinking.
I meant with this prop and future endeavors of Newsom.You give him an inch and he'll take a foot. But yes it will be fought in court and cost taxpayers more $$$$ and Newscum will lose .
Katie Porter: Groton, Yale and Harvard Law magna cum laude. This is far more substance than cartoon harridan in that woman.
Democrat Mean Machine tries to score their first drive-by governor election victim, so they can allegedly pave the way for their real Chosen One: Alex Padilla, friend of the construction union mafia, sucking up government-funded construction contracts.
If only given a choice between two Democrats in the final election, Katie gets my vote too. The female, shake everything up "Trumpy candidate". The more the Democrat Mean Machine tries to take her down, the more I admire her grit to stare them down and keep going on.
However, the last poll I saw Katie Porter (D) and Steve Hilton (R) were polling the best, with all other Democrat wannabes well behind these two. Imagine that, an actual bi-partisan election in this state where issues about the future of this state matter most of all?
Barry Soetoro did make that point obvious. Good reminder. And include also legacies John Kerry, Al Gore and GW Bush in that unearned Ivy League sheepskin patina as well. Let alone JFK's "Best and the Brightest" that led us into the Vietnam quagmire.
Katie gets extra points because as an atypical hulk of a woman, so life has probably not been easy or cheap for her. More in the Golda Meier and Madeline Albright bulldog school of personal accomplishments.
My only hope for Katie is she sobers about what her own party is doing to her and becomes the proverbial liberal who gets mugged and becomes a conservative. But with Elizabeth Warren as one of her mentors, that may be an unlikely fox hole conversion.
Just sticking it to the Democrat Machine, may be the only small victory we can achieve if a full GOP sweep remains out of our grasp.
Prop 50 will draw the new lines among increasingly shifting party alliances. Which way will Independents go on this one salient issue? Nice to get a sampling of the state's electorate early in the game before 2026. Where are their weaknesses, where does it remain still impossible to break through?
Really like your take on this elce but kinda don’t get this - “ . . . Just sticking it to the Democrat Machine, . . .” Could the Commie-Dems be stupid enough to think this loser is going anywhere?
cartoon harridan - “ . .an exaggerated, shrill, unpleasant woman—basically a caricature of nastiness or superficiality.”
Graduated with honors from those schools ? Of course - when you’re that butt-fugly and couldn’t get laid with a pillowcase of $100 bills, what else is there to do but study?
Very well thought out article, nice of you to take the time to voice your opinion. I never thought of the No Taxation without representation when it comes to illegals working and paying taxes. I also agree that Trump was fairly elected and most of the country does not think the same as the majority of Californians do. Please keep writing,
No taxation without representation is when Gen Z wakes up and see what Boomer Democrats dumped on their laps.
When Gen Z finally realizes these Boomer Democrat defined-benefit government employee pensions must be paid in full. And not enough money was ever set aside to fund these looming pension obligation. The unions bargained future pension promises someone else will pay for, instead of cash in hand that did not exist when the union bargain was made.
So now this unfunded future pension liability must be paid out of "future" pockets. And Gen Z had no say in this future taxation without representation burden, so eagerly agreed upon by the government unions long before they even came of age to vote on it.
When Gen Z realizes how Democrats shot down all attempts at government employee pension reforms when it could have mattered. When AG Kamala Harris intentionally doomed two statewide government pension reform ballot initiatives, back when the state still had some semblance of bi-partisan governance.
Before the Democrat powers that be targeted every single elected office about 15 years ago to become a one-party super-majority state, which would let them nip in the bud any further talk about government employee pension reform ever again.
No Kings are purposefully manipulating districts to shut out 40% of CA population that are conservative voters.
Authoritarian? They openly admit they are shutting out almost half the state.
Yes they need to look in a mirror.
However, they are too ignorant and brainwashed to understand what they are doing. Much like a self entitled child with a silver spoon.
The CA Kings impose the highest taxes in the nation upon the people so they can support illegal aliens, $31 Billion each year or $2,000 per tax payer each year to support illegals.
Illegals are supposed to be cheap labor. They’re “cheap” bec the taxpayer is subsidizing them so corporates can increase their profit margin by passing along employment costs to you.
Meanwhile they use threats to keep them compliant. They don’t pay them a fair market wage and they do not pay them overtime.
The No Kings admit they need slave labor to pick their crops, clean their homes and do the remedial jobs that no American will do at the DUs punted wages offered. However, if Americans received the subsidies in addition to the poor pay and did not pay taxes more Americans would do the work.
Notice how only Americans and legal entrants to the US had to be vaccinated.
Yep, illegals were not required to be vaccinated.
No Kings do not believe in humanity, fair , blind justice.
Well said, I really appreciate your point of view. I am so confused where my pussy hat protesting friends and family were when Biden was mandating businesses closed, shots taken, masks worn and mouths silenced..... strange times
Those pink pussy hats did not form a "woman's march" to protest Trump #45. They were instead the female-dominated teacher union members, nurses unions members and SEIU service and clerical union members. This was a calculated government employee union astro-turf protest against Trump on day one.
The tell? They misquoted the alleged tawdry Trump quote, for their own personal union agenda. Destroy the man from Day One forward was their real goal. They could not have been more obvious.
… the ankle deep litter and defaced monuments the ‘me2’ cartel left in their trail through the US capitol district was sad beyond measure. FUTURE ‘protests and marches’ (in order to get a permit) must accept liability to reimburse taxpayers for the cleanup/repair.
One of their goals was also to obstruct Trump supporters, using their own crowds, barricades and fires, from viewing the #45 Inauguration ceremony - January 2017.
Thank you Cole, for your compelling argument. Last night, I watched our President meeting with Asian leaders and today meeting with the Chinese president. It was amazing watching his skills and diplomacy as a world leader and businessman.
I couldn’t help but think of the embarrassing mess he has back at home. So, Trump has apparently won over Asian leaders, the EU, the Middle East, even Hamas, but can’t even get a simple CR signed by minority leader, Chuck Schumer? What message is this sending to China, North Korea and Iran?
Quite obviously, the message being sent to the rest of the world is that half of our country has lost their collective minds. What a disgrace the Democratic Party has become. All while rebranding and embracing itself into a new Democratic-Socialist party.
Clearly, what the Democrats have evolved into and doubling down on, is an angry, hate America clan, that opposes success at all levels, and wallows in a depressive state of failure and despair. All while our Stock Market continues to soar to new levels, this despite the continued embarrassing derangement of the Left.
Seriously Pa? How about settling a Hundred Years’ War between Thailand and Cambodia for starters? Then meeting with XI, overseeing massive trade deals in the trillions, overtures to Kim and S. Korea, not to mention Trump hit it outa the park with the Japanese.
IDK, maybe change your news source if you missed all that? Still pissed about the impact of the “No Kings” parade on world events?
The “amazing mess back home” is a national security risk. Our embassy staffers are stranded without revenues. C-SPAN has been covering dangers reported to House Foreign Affairs and to State Demot.
Remember LT, the Commie-Dems couldn't be implementing their ridiculous agenda without overwhelming support from the average dope on the street. If I could get people to buy my act I'd propose Golden Retrievers to run our country.
Excellent take on this whole nonsensical protest! I like your ideas and totally agree. It’s embarrassing to see our fellow otherwise lovely folks acting as toddlers who are just upset since they lost the election. Oh my grow up!! And here Trump our amazing President is now in Asia doing all these great deal for US the American people and they just complain yes like little babies. 🙄
It is not nonsensical, when used primarily by the organizers to keep their contact and networking going for the big push Prop 50 and the 2026 elections This whole thing is a Gavin Newsom POTUS organizational campaign smoke-screen.
Yet again, Democrats hide their real agenda (networking for future partisan action), which is why it does not even matter what they say, who in fact prints their signs, or if they all dress up as inflatable dinosaurs.
Dour GOP "service slashers" vs the let's all have fun stuffed animals party? Which one has the most appeal for California voters?
King Gavin Newsom is the one in fact acting like a King. Why no real protest against him?
Newsom was the last governor to relinquish his "covid" emergency powers, that kept this state in ruinous limbo far longer than it ever should have been. Newsom's Prop 50 is the most egregious and ill-founded personal power grab I have ever witnessed one person getting away with in this state's history.
Newsom using official TRANSLUCENT Prop 50 ballot return envelopes. How does that protect the "secret ballot"? That is as thuggish as the unions demand for "card check" voting.
For any No Kings protest to be valid, it must target Gavin Newsom and no one else. But since it did not, the entire motivation of this No Kings astro-turf rabble is 100% discredited.
‘No Kings’ is laughable to me, because those of us who watch Trump’s movements, here at home & (importantly) abroad, realize that Trump is now King of The World!
Current betting on the boards, which hoax will be revealed & understood to the American populous (and lead to the destruction of the [D] Party con):
J6 Pipe Bomb
J6 Committee Hoax
Russia, Russia, Russia
C19
Vaccines
Fake Elections
heavy betting on Russia, Russia, Russia hoax & more exposure of the players involved…gonna be lit when we begin to see their secret comms…
PS…Ayn Rand and George Orwell were right about everything.
Trump's secret sauce - his swagger, his "I'm gonna kick butt" body language has always told the real story. The fact he has been right 99% of the time when he goes into action, is only a bonus. No wonder Democrats are having fits.
Trump is Master Communicator…good read, ‘Win Bigly’ by Scott Adams
According to Scott Adams, Trump’s talent stack made him very persuasive even when he wasn’t notably brilliant in any one field. Trump had the combination of (Publicity | Reputation | Strategy | Negotiating | Persuasion | Public speaking | Sense of humor | Quick on his feet | Thick skinned | High-energy | Size and appearance | Intelligence).
Sheer numbers of illegals indeed, which allows the creation of population-based "majority-minority" voting districts.
District residents do not even need to be able to vote legally, because that majority-minority population-based voting district still gets a full voting representative with only a very few actually legally registered voters.
Democrats have been scooping up these aberrational voting districts on the cheap for years, creating an artificial Democrat voting majority in this state.
SCOTUS will soon be ruling on these intentional "rotten borough" majority-minority voting districts designed to ensure a Democrat voting advantage. Stay tuned.
I believe Trump's ability to do so many positive things are what drives the Dems crazy. The Dems really envy Trump but don't want to admit it because he's a Republican. If Trump was a Democrat, he would be loved by all the Democrats. But Trump isn't a Democrat, so the Dems will try to take him apart. But Trump's good will overcome the evil.
I am dismayed by the strong reality that party affiliation supersedes logic in so many cases/so much of the time. It's not about working to solve issues, but just winning for the team regardless of the topic.
This all changed in 1962, when JFK allowed government employees to form unions. Nothing has been the same ever since, and over time these government employee unions learned how to game elections to become the dominate force in many states - California being an obvious case in point.
23 million government employees in this nation today, majority union members, created this vested interest voting distortion. Teachers unions and SEIU (etc) members have very different stakes in our elections today, than thee or me.
They have the numbers today, that also can include bringing in a few family members and friends to cause a permanent dislocation in our entire national outcome. This creates a formable starting base of voters that belong almost exclusively to the Democrat party. Do the math.
No Kings, in their own words admitted their protests were all about "slashing government services".
This No Kings primary goal was inserted in a spam sandwich litany between two slices of "immigration" falsehoods, in order to make their real cause more virtue-sounding and palatable for general public consumption. (No Kings: Stop deporting American citizens (false) -*** Stop slashing government services*** - Stop disappearing people (false).)
"Slashing government services" in fact is their way of saying: stop downsizing Big Government; stop attacking Big Government Employee Unions; stop reigning in Big Government Debt; and keep your hands off my Big Government pensions and benefits. And most of all, stop DOGE.
This was the real No Kings message that drew out the local crowds, in this company town where Big Government remains its largest employer and pension provider. Self-preservation is reasonable motivation. Just be honest about it, and who is required to keep funding it for this unique crowd of local "protestors".
I like the comparison of slave counting, similar to the use of illegals or non-citizens to swing the House! Honestly I remember reading about it as a history major but had put it aside. Everyone should have that brought to their mindset.
This quote ", Thomas Sowell has pointed out, minimum-wage laws often harm low-skilled workers by pricing them out of the job market ...." is very true. What you have are people working "side-jobs" to make ends meet since the regular job cannot afford more full time workers, or what used to be overtime because again the owner cannot afford it.
Shrinking the size of government with a really bigoted Chuckie the Clown refusing to have a clean CR. This is a major point. A clean CR then allows open discussion of an issue, makes the point. We are now seeing very clearly what the Left has done to expand government and peoples reliance on government instead of a free market place.
With the current administration the open invitation for lunch without paying for it is now being shut down.
Yes the no kings really need to look in the mirror. Most of us do not want expanding government and more rules and regulations. But again that is what the mirror shows.
If the current administration were serious about deportations, they would enforce fines against employers for hiring the undocumented. Please cite one single case the current administration has filed against a large employer.
SJ: So far it has been mainly convicted criminals, rapists, thugs, wife beaters and human traffickers getting deported. Unlikely one will find a formal "employer/employee" relationship to take down in these early cases. Trump is however taking on their cartel "bosses" in their home countries, or even shooting them out of the water when they get too close to our shores with their illicit cargo..
The CDL (Commercial Drivers License) trucker scandal will probably take down a few "employers" as well, though they do hide behind the ready issuance of CDL's in a easy states like California, based on the flimsiest requirement for legal documentation issued by Biden.
False equivalency, Steve. Instead just count the days, and the other side gets another chance in 2028 to do better.
Good rule of thumb: US military and federal operations used, with many limitations, to protect our borders and invasion threats of both illegal products and illegal border crossings by persons. State and local law enforcement is intended to respond to domestic abuse and general thugs. With FBI available in limited additional situations and cross state borders criminal activity.
Worry about failure to respond to domestic thugs and wife beaters? Take this up with Governor Gavin Newsom and elected state representatives Gregg Hart and Monique Limon. Or the local law enforcement jurisdictions, under the jurisdiction of elected local representatives.
Cole, I was there too. I didn't want to go to hear speeches and to go walking in marches. I went because my mother was going. She's 94 and my sister pushed her in the wheelchair in the city in Texas they live in.
So I went and spent an hour in the park. I didn't hear or see anything that would cause a 3 or 5 year old ask the questions your kids did.
My mother's sign, on cardboard, "You know things are bad when grandma marches."
Thank you, Cole. I've been in Santa Barbara since 1961 and while I also dislike the way it and the state are now governed, I still love it. I've also seen it go through enough political changes to not despair. I'm also a fan of Thomas Sowell and “The Vision of the Anointed” sums up what you describe at the No Kings. And I'm quite certain the Dems will have their gerrymandering way with Prop 50 — only I think it's going to backfire on them. My heroine of the moment is Katie Porter because she is singlehandedly showing how psycho the Democratic Party has become. And in a way you or I would never be able to because she embodies it as a Democrat! Yay, Katie! Let your Borderline Personality Disorder flow! You go, girl. You will turn every gerrymandered district so red it'll light up the skies!
I agree. I think that Prop 50 will backfire on the libs in California and when they see that Newsom can take away their power and not care an iota about them but only about who he can use and manipulate to further his agenda.
I will sit back and wonder why they didn't listen,again.
It is supposed to be temporary. Want to bet the next move will be to make it permanent?
Once power is given to a politician,they will not give it back.
Newsom is a known liar and doesn't lead in good faith.
Happened with many Props and fees that are now permanent and we're only temporary.
Do you really not see the hypocrisy in your argument? POTUS has more power than ever, was voted out and refused to accept the results and fanned the flames of Jan 6.
He is now assassinating people without due process and filing retaliatory lawsuits his own appointees wont prosecute, but you are worried about a state Governor doing what TX GOV ALREADY DID!
Russia found America's weak spot... gullible, unskilled, uneducated, ignorant fools who get their news and "facts" from SM.
You have a bad case of TDS.
Texas was a result of a lawsuit from the Biden admin about Minority districts. Texas didn't follow the court order that was handed down during the Biden Admin. Trump admin reminded them off it and they did their due diligence and changed the maps according to that lawsuit.You can search it it's real.
Newsom and Dems never liked the Independent Commission or the law that appointed them. Records show he's been planning this power gramp since Jan '25 and not August. Newsome and Padilla are authors of this bill also.
You can throw out insults but you have no proof and just opinions based on your brainwashed mentality.
Do your research before calling out others for the same and food the Mainstream news without using critical thinking.
What is SM anyway? I don't watch news. I read and gather information from many different sources.
Perfectly put, GM.
Whaddya talking about GM? Newsom taking away the power of the libs? That’s his constituency!
The only way Prop 50 might be flushed is thru the courts _after it passes_, and it will.
I meant with this prop and future endeavors of Newsom.You give him an inch and he'll take a foot. But yes it will be fought in court and cost taxpayers more $$$$ and Newscum will lose .
I love this Katie Porter broad - can't you see her and Mamdani as the Commie-Dem 1-2 punch - a match made in heaven!
I hear the Dem party is imploding and these characters are helping with that.
Katie Porter: Groton, Yale and Harvard Law magna cum laude. This is far more substance than cartoon harridan in that woman.
Democrat Mean Machine tries to score their first drive-by governor election victim, so they can allegedly pave the way for their real Chosen One: Alex Padilla, friend of the construction union mafia, sucking up government-funded construction contracts.
If only given a choice between two Democrats in the final election, Katie gets my vote too. The female, shake everything up "Trumpy candidate". The more the Democrat Mean Machine tries to take her down, the more I admire her grit to stare them down and keep going on.
However, the last poll I saw Katie Porter (D) and Steve Hilton (R) were polling the best, with all other Democrat wannabes well behind these two. Imagine that, an actual bi-partisan election in this state where issues about the future of this state matter most of all?
Um, with all due respect to Katie … she's batshit proof that elite degrees mean nothing.
Barry Soetoro did make that point obvious. Good reminder. And include also legacies John Kerry, Al Gore and GW Bush in that unearned Ivy League sheepskin patina as well. Let alone JFK's "Best and the Brightest" that led us into the Vietnam quagmire.
Katie gets extra points because as an atypical hulk of a woman, so life has probably not been easy or cheap for her. More in the Golda Meier and Madeline Albright bulldog school of personal accomplishments.
My only hope for Katie is she sobers about what her own party is doing to her and becomes the proverbial liberal who gets mugged and becomes a conservative. But with Elizabeth Warren as one of her mentors, that may be an unlikely fox hole conversion.
Just sticking it to the Democrat Machine, may be the only small victory we can achieve if a full GOP sweep remains out of our grasp.
Prop 50 will draw the new lines among increasingly shifting party alliances. Which way will Independents go on this one salient issue? Nice to get a sampling of the state's electorate early in the game before 2026. Where are their weaknesses, where does it remain still impossible to break through?
Really like your take on this elce but kinda don’t get this - “ . . . Just sticking it to the Democrat Machine, . . .” Could the Commie-Dems be stupid enough to think this loser is going anywhere?
cartoon harridan - “ . .an exaggerated, shrill, unpleasant woman—basically a caricature of nastiness or superficiality.”
Graduated with honors from those schools ? Of course - when you’re that butt-fugly and couldn’t get laid with a pillowcase of $100 bills, what else is there to do but study?
Very well thought out article, nice of you to take the time to voice your opinion. I never thought of the No Taxation without representation when it comes to illegals working and paying taxes. I also agree that Trump was fairly elected and most of the country does not think the same as the majority of Californians do. Please keep writing,
No taxation without representation is when Gen Z wakes up and see what Boomer Democrats dumped on their laps.
When Gen Z finally realizes these Boomer Democrat defined-benefit government employee pensions must be paid in full. And not enough money was ever set aside to fund these looming pension obligation. The unions bargained future pension promises someone else will pay for, instead of cash in hand that did not exist when the union bargain was made.
So now this unfunded future pension liability must be paid out of "future" pockets. And Gen Z had no say in this future taxation without representation burden, so eagerly agreed upon by the government unions long before they even came of age to vote on it.
When Gen Z realizes how Democrats shot down all attempts at government employee pension reforms when it could have mattered. When AG Kamala Harris intentionally doomed two statewide government pension reform ballot initiatives, back when the state still had some semblance of bi-partisan governance.
Before the Democrat powers that be targeted every single elected office about 15 years ago to become a one-party super-majority state, which would let them nip in the bud any further talk about government employee pension reform ever again.
Union's caring about who's gonna pay for future benefits? Ha! Rember their motto - "Devil take the hindmost."
Makes term limits look like one more extension of the Democrat original plot.
---Not me, boss, I didn't vote for. It was some other dude term, who is no longer around who did this to you.
---Not me boss, wasn't my fault. It was some other dude's term, but we now must raise taxes to pay it off.
The classic SOD defense, well known in criminal law: Some Other Dude ....did it.
No Kings are purposefully manipulating districts to shut out 40% of CA population that are conservative voters.
Authoritarian? They openly admit they are shutting out almost half the state.
Yes they need to look in a mirror.
However, they are too ignorant and brainwashed to understand what they are doing. Much like a self entitled child with a silver spoon.
The CA Kings impose the highest taxes in the nation upon the people so they can support illegal aliens, $31 Billion each year or $2,000 per tax payer each year to support illegals.
Illegals are supposed to be cheap labor. They’re “cheap” bec the taxpayer is subsidizing them so corporates can increase their profit margin by passing along employment costs to you.
Meanwhile they use threats to keep them compliant. They don’t pay them a fair market wage and they do not pay them overtime.
The No Kings admit they need slave labor to pick their crops, clean their homes and do the remedial jobs that no American will do at the DUs punted wages offered. However, if Americans received the subsidies in addition to the poor pay and did not pay taxes more Americans would do the work.
Notice how only Americans and legal entrants to the US had to be vaccinated.
Yep, illegals were not required to be vaccinated.
No Kings do not believe in humanity, fair , blind justice.
Yet they continue to oppress these folks so they can't get out of the system.
They only care about illegals as indentured servants. That's the first things the libs shouted"who will clean my house' and cut my grass."
It's not about their well being as always it's about them.
As stated the companies also treat illegals terribly. I think they should be punished also for their part on this.
I know that's the goal to keep them reliant on the party so they will do everything to keep them in power.
Ag locally is paying $20 a hour to pick crops. Not exactly "slave labor".
Unskilled illegal agriculture workers true hourly wage is about $35/hour.
Factor in the $31 Billion in tax payer subsidies.
Plus the $13,000/ year they do not pay in taxes.
Not cheap labor.
Well said, I really appreciate your point of view. I am so confused where my pussy hat protesting friends and family were when Biden was mandating businesses closed, shots taken, masks worn and mouths silenced..... strange times
ACLU was crickets.
Those pink pussy hats did not form a "woman's march" to protest Trump #45. They were instead the female-dominated teacher union members, nurses unions members and SEIU service and clerical union members. This was a calculated government employee union astro-turf protest against Trump on day one.
The tell? They misquoted the alleged tawdry Trump quote, for their own personal union agenda. Destroy the man from Day One forward was their real goal. They could not have been more obvious.
… the ankle deep litter and defaced monuments the ‘me2’ cartel left in their trail through the US capitol district was sad beyond measure. FUTURE ‘protests and marches’ (in order to get a permit) must accept liability to reimburse taxpayers for the cleanup/repair.
One of their goals was also to obstruct Trump supporters, using their own crowds, barricades and fires, from viewing the #45 Inauguration ceremony - January 2017.
Thank you Cole, for your compelling argument. Last night, I watched our President meeting with Asian leaders and today meeting with the Chinese president. It was amazing watching his skills and diplomacy as a world leader and businessman.
I couldn’t help but think of the embarrassing mess he has back at home. So, Trump has apparently won over Asian leaders, the EU, the Middle East, even Hamas, but can’t even get a simple CR signed by minority leader, Chuck Schumer? What message is this sending to China, North Korea and Iran?
Quite obviously, the message being sent to the rest of the world is that half of our country has lost their collective minds. What a disgrace the Democratic Party has become. All while rebranding and embracing itself into a new Democratic-Socialist party.
Clearly, what the Democrats have evolved into and doubling down on, is an angry, hate America clan, that opposes success at all levels, and wallows in a depressive state of failure and despair. All while our Stock Market continues to soar to new levels, this despite the continued embarrassing derangement of the Left.
What part those meetings showed off skills and diplomacy? I may have missed it—I’ve only seen a few clips and read some transcripts.
Seriously Pa? How about settling a Hundred Years’ War between Thailand and Cambodia for starters? Then meeting with XI, overseeing massive trade deals in the trillions, overtures to Kim and S. Korea, not to mention Trump hit it outa the park with the Japanese.
IDK, maybe change your news source if you missed all that? Still pissed about the impact of the “No Kings” parade on world events?
The “amazing mess back home” is a national security risk. Our embassy staffers are stranded without revenues. C-SPAN has been covering dangers reported to House Foreign Affairs and to State Demot.
Remember LT, the Commie-Dems couldn't be implementing their ridiculous agenda without overwhelming support from the average dope on the street. If I could get people to buy my act I'd propose Golden Retrievers to run our country.
Excellent take on this whole nonsensical protest! I like your ideas and totally agree. It’s embarrassing to see our fellow otherwise lovely folks acting as toddlers who are just upset since they lost the election. Oh my grow up!! And here Trump our amazing President is now in Asia doing all these great deal for US the American people and they just complain yes like little babies. 🙄
It is not nonsensical, when used primarily by the organizers to keep their contact and networking going for the big push Prop 50 and the 2026 elections This whole thing is a Gavin Newsom POTUS organizational campaign smoke-screen.
Yet again, Democrats hide their real agenda (networking for future partisan action), which is why it does not even matter what they say, who in fact prints their signs, or if they all dress up as inflatable dinosaurs.
Dour GOP "service slashers" vs the let's all have fun stuffed animals party? Which one has the most appeal for California voters?
King Gavin Newsom is the one in fact acting like a King. Why no real protest against him?
Newsom was the last governor to relinquish his "covid" emergency powers, that kept this state in ruinous limbo far longer than it ever should have been. Newsom's Prop 50 is the most egregious and ill-founded personal power grab I have ever witnessed one person getting away with in this state's history.
Newsom using official TRANSLUCENT Prop 50 ballot return envelopes. How does that protect the "secret ballot"? That is as thuggish as the unions demand for "card check" voting.
For any No Kings protest to be valid, it must target Gavin Newsom and no one else. But since it did not, the entire motivation of this No Kings astro-turf rabble is 100% discredited.
Excellent question.
‘No Kings’ is laughable to me, because those of us who watch Trump’s movements, here at home & (importantly) abroad, realize that Trump is now King of The World!
Current betting on the boards, which hoax will be revealed & understood to the American populous (and lead to the destruction of the [D] Party con):
J6 Pipe Bomb
J6 Committee Hoax
Russia, Russia, Russia
C19
Vaccines
Fake Elections
heavy betting on Russia, Russia, Russia hoax & more exposure of the players involved…gonna be lit when we begin to see their secret comms…
PS…Ayn Rand and George Orwell were right about everything.
Trump's secret sauce - his swagger, his "I'm gonna kick butt" body language has always told the real story. The fact he has been right 99% of the time when he goes into action, is only a bonus. No wonder Democrats are having fits.
I love Trumpy's motto - "Enough with the nice."
Trump is Master Communicator…good read, ‘Win Bigly’ by Scott Adams
According to Scott Adams, Trump’s talent stack made him very persuasive even when he wasn’t notably brilliant in any one field. Trump had the combination of (Publicity | Reputation | Strategy | Negotiating | Persuasion | Public speaking | Sense of humor | Quick on his feet | Thick skinned | High-energy | Size and appearance | Intelligence).
Finally! Finally someone is telling the truth about the issue of illegal immigration. It’s always been about numbers…Census numbers, that is.
Sheer numbers of illegals indeed, which allows the creation of population-based "majority-minority" voting districts.
District residents do not even need to be able to vote legally, because that majority-minority population-based voting district still gets a full voting representative with only a very few actually legally registered voters.
Democrats have been scooping up these aberrational voting districts on the cheap for years, creating an artificial Democrat voting majority in this state.
SCOTUS will soon be ruling on these intentional "rotten borough" majority-minority voting districts designed to ensure a Democrat voting advantage. Stay tuned.
I believe Trump's ability to do so many positive things are what drives the Dems crazy. The Dems really envy Trump but don't want to admit it because he's a Republican. If Trump was a Democrat, he would be loved by all the Democrats. But Trump isn't a Democrat, so the Dems will try to take him apart. But Trump's good will overcome the evil.
I am dismayed by the strong reality that party affiliation supersedes logic in so many cases/so much of the time. It's not about working to solve issues, but just winning for the team regardless of the topic.
This all changed in 1962, when JFK allowed government employees to form unions. Nothing has been the same ever since, and over time these government employee unions learned how to game elections to become the dominate force in many states - California being an obvious case in point.
23 million government employees in this nation today, majority union members, created this vested interest voting distortion. Teachers unions and SEIU (etc) members have very different stakes in our elections today, than thee or me.
They have the numbers today, that also can include bringing in a few family members and friends to cause a permanent dislocation in our entire national outcome. This creates a formable starting base of voters that belong almost exclusively to the Democrat party. Do the math.
No Kings, in their own words admitted their protests were all about "slashing government services".
This No Kings primary goal was inserted in a spam sandwich litany between two slices of "immigration" falsehoods, in order to make their real cause more virtue-sounding and palatable for general public consumption. (No Kings: Stop deporting American citizens (false) -*** Stop slashing government services*** - Stop disappearing people (false).)
"Slashing government services" in fact is their way of saying: stop downsizing Big Government; stop attacking Big Government Employee Unions; stop reigning in Big Government Debt; and keep your hands off my Big Government pensions and benefits. And most of all, stop DOGE.
This was the real No Kings message that drew out the local crowds, in this company town where Big Government remains its largest employer and pension provider. Self-preservation is reasonable motivation. Just be honest about it, and who is required to keep funding it for this unique crowd of local "protestors".
I like the comparison of slave counting, similar to the use of illegals or non-citizens to swing the House! Honestly I remember reading about it as a history major but had put it aside. Everyone should have that brought to their mindset.
This quote ", Thomas Sowell has pointed out, minimum-wage laws often harm low-skilled workers by pricing them out of the job market ...." is very true. What you have are people working "side-jobs" to make ends meet since the regular job cannot afford more full time workers, or what used to be overtime because again the owner cannot afford it.
Shrinking the size of government with a really bigoted Chuckie the Clown refusing to have a clean CR. This is a major point. A clean CR then allows open discussion of an issue, makes the point. We are now seeing very clearly what the Left has done to expand government and peoples reliance on government instead of a free market place.
With the current administration the open invitation for lunch without paying for it is now being shut down.
Yes the no kings really need to look in the mirror. Most of us do not want expanding government and more rules and regulations. But again that is what the mirror shows.
Good article.
Beautifully written and explained!! Thank you!
If the current administration were serious about deportations, they would enforce fines against employers for hiring the undocumented. Please cite one single case the current administration has filed against a large employer.
Glass House Farms
Careful, you would be surprised who has employed illegal aliens in our community.
I'm not puting anyone. But it is public knowledge about Glass House
Funny you say that, just today I bought some "Super Silver Haze,' grown by Glass Houses. This blend is wonderful as it promotes creativity.
Wow. You know kids were working there and we're unaccompanied.
And Newsom a big donor to that pot farm.
And Farrar gave money to all the Dema in Cali for their relection,including Salud who was there for a photo op at the raid and sizes an Agent.
SJ: So far it has been mainly convicted criminals, rapists, thugs, wife beaters and human traffickers getting deported. Unlikely one will find a formal "employer/employee" relationship to take down in these early cases. Trump is however taking on their cartel "bosses" in their home countries, or even shooting them out of the water when they get too close to our shores with their illicit cargo..
The CDL (Commercial Drivers License) trucker scandal will probably take down a few "employers" as well, though they do hide behind the ready issuance of CDL's in a easy states like California, based on the flimsiest requirement for legal documentation issued by Biden.
Any chance that citizen thugs and wife beaters might also get deported?
SJ: Two ways to consider your question:
1. Are you saying "citizen" wife beaters and thugs are getting deported?
2. Or, are we lagging behind incarcerating our very own thugs and wife beaters, while over-concentrating on illegals who are wife beaters and thugs?
The latter. But perhaps just use the Navy to blow them up.
False equivalency, Steve. Instead just count the days, and the other side gets another chance in 2028 to do better.
Good rule of thumb: US military and federal operations used, with many limitations, to protect our borders and invasion threats of both illegal products and illegal border crossings by persons. State and local law enforcement is intended to respond to domestic abuse and general thugs. With FBI available in limited additional situations and cross state borders criminal activity.
Worry about failure to respond to domestic thugs and wife beaters? Take this up with Governor Gavin Newsom and elected state representatives Gregg Hart and Monique Limon. Or the local law enforcement jurisdictions, under the jurisdiction of elected local representatives.
Cole, I was there too. I didn't want to go to hear speeches and to go walking in marches. I went because my mother was going. She's 94 and my sister pushed her in the wheelchair in the city in Texas they live in.
So I went and spent an hour in the park. I didn't hear or see anything that would cause a 3 or 5 year old ask the questions your kids did.
My mother's sign, on cardboard, "You know things are bad when grandma marches."