Excellent summation of our local lopsided reality. Why did we allow this to happen? A few points of contention:
1) “It’s a cynical joke to claim you speak for the majority.” They actually claim to speak for the entire “community” which is you and me. Moreover, our Sheriff, Police, Fire, and all but 3 elected leaders agree with them, not you or me.
2)”Real power doesn’t come from who yells the loudest…”. Locally, power and control does come to those who persistently yell the loudest, and show up! That’s the problem!! We’re MIA (except for landlords on rent control).
While the majority work, earn, contribute, focus on family, jobs, pay huge tax bills — our definition of “community” known as the silent majority — these nihilists or progressives or TDS inflicted or angry locals are focused, highly successful activists. They, not us, are in control of media messaging and our elected Board of Supervisors and every South County City Council: SB, Goleta, Carpinteria.
There’s a few ways to change the downward trend destroying South County Santa Barbara, but there appears to be no commitment to:
1) organize;
2) budget time each week to advocate;
3) contribute to a fund for paid South County watchdogs like Andy Caldwell who covers BOS for North County. We need many more like him in South County which is eroding before our eyes.
4) Identify and support prepared, stellar candidates like Bob Smith.
After 46 years here, I hate what has been allowed by my “community” to occur. Our SBUSD and Carp public schools have failed citizens. NPOs and NGOs control daily life with our elected officials funding radicals on payroll with our tax dollars!
Why do only Democrats win elections here?
On an individual level, I can’t walk in peace anywhere except empty parking lots late at night or early dawn, or drive 6 miles to LaCumbre Plaza. I can’t walk through a park without harassment by homeless or bikers on sidewalks when there’s a parallel bike path and nearby shelters.
SB City prioritizes excessively high pay and far too many on its payroll, ignoring the needs of taxpayers and citizens.
Police and park rangers tell me they’ve stand down orders. Working City staff tell me there are far too many supervisors driving around who do nothing when there’s much work to be done. I see it daily: they do nothing of value for their pay.
Downtown, with the most beautiful architecture anywhere, has become a ghetto with fools eating in the street in ugly parklets, bikes everywhere, plus rude, entitled abusers of “community”.
Food carts, open flames, vendors block street corners, making me feel like I’m in Tijuana not in beautiful Taxco, where I was long ago an exchange student.
The light bulb finally went off. No Kings really means.... No Hereditary Entitlements. (aka no generational estate transfers from baby boomers to their children)
SEIU really has long had their eyes on confiscating this massive wealth transfer from Baby Boomers to Gens XYZ for themselves, taking their "fair share", which will be the largest privately held wealth fund transfer of all. The massive government employee unions want a piece of that action.
First SEIU came for Trump. Then SEIU is coming for the Billionaires. Saturday's No Kings rally came for private property confiscation - rent control, no evictions and no deportations. All to feed one of the major No Kings sponsors SEIU, and its ilk. See how this has been working behind the scenes - the slowly changing messaging?
The real prize Democrats and the massive government employee unions have always had their eyes on, is the projected Baby Boomer wealth transfers to their own children and grandchildren. How do they get their hands on their "fair share" of that embedded wealth for themselves. How do they finally get to .......No Hereditary Entitlements?
By slowly changing the national dialogue. (1) Starting with Occupy Wall Street to hate bankers and corporations. (2) Marginalizing the fiscally conservative Tea Party into oblivion and (3) weaponizing IRS.
(4) After the 2016 shock Trump election, SEIU backed "Indivisible" went into high gear and (5) took back power in 2018 scaring seniors Trump was going to steal their Medicare and Social Security.
(6) They are doing this again in 2026 - hence all the "old people" seen at these No Kings rallies. And last Saturday, (7) the insertion of private property confiscation into their agenda. (8) The SEIU proposed "Wealth Tax"ballot proposition and threats to tax unrealized capital gains moves their chess pieces down the board one more move, until they finally get to "No Kings -No Hereditary Entitlements". Check mate.
While we laugh at their continued No Kings silliness, they in fact are deadly serious. And taking the very long view to finally reach the accumulating Baby Boomer generational wealth transfer prize. Incrementally, they keep getting closer to their ultimate prize.
One recalls Larry Elder filling the Courthouse lawn during the Gov Newsom Recall election and seeing the local Democrat party powers that be poo-pooing that "estimated' crowd size ,and complaining about people gettng bussed in from surrounding communities. (Outlying GOP club members eager to support Elder.)
This is a company town, remember - thousands who work for local cities, county, schools, colleges and university, each brining a spouse, friend or child as a manifestation of their own "paycheck, perks and pension protection plan". They will of course show up for these now tiresome OrangemanBad rallies.
The real voices are the ten times over numbers of persons, who refuse to attend one more astro-turf private wealth confiscation hate fest.
Well said. The first thing we must do with anything the left gives a name to is correct the name. The No Kings Rally is really 'The Election Loser Rally, The "Minnesota Man" is really " An Illegal Alien Criminal", The Progressive Party is really the "Regressive Party" and so on..
Let’s not become victims of the progressive Democrat Bandwagon. Let’s ensure youth learn critical thinking, analytical skills.
The bandwagon effect in sociology is the phenomenon where individuals adopt behaviors, beliefs, or trends because "everyone else is doing it," aligning with majority opinion rather than individual judgment. It is driven by social pressure, the desire for conformity, and a need for efficiency in decision-making.
SBUSD has successfully implemented the “bandwagon” by prohibiting critical thinking (devil’s advocacy discussions). There have been the best of the best teachers demoted, transferred for teaching critical thinking, questioning, effective ways to challenge assertions with facts.
This was a comment on Jerry Roberts 10,000 people story:
“I spent an hour milling around at Alameda Park unable to hear more than an occasional word from the speakers. Most people were talking to friends about their personal lives. One person said this was boring. Another said, I came here to march. Having been to the second march, I came to the third because I didn't want it to be smaller than the second. At the end of both marches, I was left feeling little different than when I arrived. I heard no message. I did not feel I was part of a movement with a call to action. Like the Democratic Party the march was good hearted people milling about with multiple goals, but no single direction in which to move. Thank goodness that the street had curb or we would have all wandered off.”
So activists have no clue why they are activated, they just showed up to be activated. And there was no message from the Democratic Party. News flash, there isn’t any message. It’s a repeating tantrum about the President. There’s no better policies, no better ideas, no real leadership.
In fact all of the bad ideas and poor leadership from the supermajority Democrat party are the reasons for all of the problems here in CA and Santa Barbara. Any President in office that hasn’t even passed their first full budget yet, has very little impact here.
If this place feels totalitarian it’s because it’s one of the places in the U.S. with the least amount of Democracy. Any dumb idea is passed into law weekly without dissent by people the supermajority put into place until their term limits, when they reshuffle the shell game.
Billions of taxpayer fraud has now been proven here and people are in the streets dressed in unicorn costumes to scream about the President.
Well said.
Excellent summation of our local lopsided reality. Why did we allow this to happen? A few points of contention:
1) “It’s a cynical joke to claim you speak for the majority.” They actually claim to speak for the entire “community” which is you and me. Moreover, our Sheriff, Police, Fire, and all but 3 elected leaders agree with them, not you or me.
2)”Real power doesn’t come from who yells the loudest…”. Locally, power and control does come to those who persistently yell the loudest, and show up! That’s the problem!! We’re MIA (except for landlords on rent control).
While the majority work, earn, contribute, focus on family, jobs, pay huge tax bills — our definition of “community” known as the silent majority — these nihilists or progressives or TDS inflicted or angry locals are focused, highly successful activists. They, not us, are in control of media messaging and our elected Board of Supervisors and every South County City Council: SB, Goleta, Carpinteria.
There’s a few ways to change the downward trend destroying South County Santa Barbara, but there appears to be no commitment to:
1) organize;
2) budget time each week to advocate;
3) contribute to a fund for paid South County watchdogs like Andy Caldwell who covers BOS for North County. We need many more like him in South County which is eroding before our eyes.
4) Identify and support prepared, stellar candidates like Bob Smith.
After 46 years here, I hate what has been allowed by my “community” to occur. Our SBUSD and Carp public schools have failed citizens. NPOs and NGOs control daily life with our elected officials funding radicals on payroll with our tax dollars!
Why do only Democrats win elections here?
On an individual level, I can’t walk in peace anywhere except empty parking lots late at night or early dawn, or drive 6 miles to LaCumbre Plaza. I can’t walk through a park without harassment by homeless or bikers on sidewalks when there’s a parallel bike path and nearby shelters.
SB City prioritizes excessively high pay and far too many on its payroll, ignoring the needs of taxpayers and citizens.
Police and park rangers tell me they’ve stand down orders. Working City staff tell me there are far too many supervisors driving around who do nothing when there’s much work to be done. I see it daily: they do nothing of value for their pay.
Downtown, with the most beautiful architecture anywhere, has become a ghetto with fools eating in the street in ugly parklets, bikes everywhere, plus rude, entitled abusers of “community”.
Food carts, open flames, vendors block street corners, making me feel like I’m in Tijuana not in beautiful Taxco, where I was long ago an exchange student.
The light bulb finally went off. No Kings really means.... No Hereditary Entitlements. (aka no generational estate transfers from baby boomers to their children)
SEIU really has long had their eyes on confiscating this massive wealth transfer from Baby Boomers to Gens XYZ for themselves, taking their "fair share", which will be the largest privately held wealth fund transfer of all. The massive government employee unions want a piece of that action.
First SEIU came for Trump. Then SEIU is coming for the Billionaires. Saturday's No Kings rally came for private property confiscation - rent control, no evictions and no deportations. All to feed one of the major No Kings sponsors SEIU, and its ilk. See how this has been working behind the scenes - the slowly changing messaging?
The real prize Democrats and the massive government employee unions have always had their eyes on, is the projected Baby Boomer wealth transfers to their own children and grandchildren. How do they get their hands on their "fair share" of that embedded wealth for themselves. How do they finally get to .......No Hereditary Entitlements?
By slowly changing the national dialogue. (1) Starting with Occupy Wall Street to hate bankers and corporations. (2) Marginalizing the fiscally conservative Tea Party into oblivion and (3) weaponizing IRS.
(4) After the 2016 shock Trump election, SEIU backed "Indivisible" went into high gear and (5) took back power in 2018 scaring seniors Trump was going to steal their Medicare and Social Security.
(6) They are doing this again in 2026 - hence all the "old people" seen at these No Kings rallies. And last Saturday, (7) the insertion of private property confiscation into their agenda. (8) The SEIU proposed "Wealth Tax"ballot proposition and threats to tax unrealized capital gains moves their chess pieces down the board one more move, until they finally get to "No Kings -No Hereditary Entitlements". Check mate.
While we laugh at their continued No Kings silliness, they in fact are deadly serious. And taking the very long view to finally reach the accumulating Baby Boomer generational wealth transfer prize. Incrementally, they keep getting closer to their ultimate prize.
While we laugh at their silly dinosaur costumes.
, a simple photographic analysis of the march down State Street shows fewer than 3,000 people.... there it is... AI crushes another claim.
It is like the ghost bike riders that mysteriously appear but when it comes to daily use are not there.
What happened to the complaints about the e-bikes and dangerous riding by kids? They killed the claim of health and numbers on the roads.
Good comment.
One recalls Larry Elder filling the Courthouse lawn during the Gov Newsom Recall election and seeing the local Democrat party powers that be poo-pooing that "estimated' crowd size ,and complaining about people gettng bussed in from surrounding communities. (Outlying GOP club members eager to support Elder.)
This is a company town, remember - thousands who work for local cities, county, schools, colleges and university, each brining a spouse, friend or child as a manifestation of their own "paycheck, perks and pension protection plan". They will of course show up for these now tiresome OrangemanBad rallies.
The real voices are the ten times over numbers of persons, who refuse to attend one more astro-turf private wealth confiscation hate fest.
A very white turnout dominated by unattractive middle aged women. Perhaps Churchill was right?
Excellent!
Well said. The first thing we must do with anything the left gives a name to is correct the name. The No Kings Rally is really 'The Election Loser Rally, The "Minnesota Man" is really " An Illegal Alien Criminal", The Progressive Party is really the "Regressive Party" and so on..
The tax unrealized capital gains party. The OPM Party.
Let’s not become victims of the progressive Democrat Bandwagon. Let’s ensure youth learn critical thinking, analytical skills.
The bandwagon effect in sociology is the phenomenon where individuals adopt behaviors, beliefs, or trends because "everyone else is doing it," aligning with majority opinion rather than individual judgment. It is driven by social pressure, the desire for conformity, and a need for efficiency in decision-making.
SBUSD has successfully implemented the “bandwagon” by prohibiting critical thinking (devil’s advocacy discussions). There have been the best of the best teachers demoted, transferred for teaching critical thinking, questioning, effective ways to challenge assertions with facts.
This was a comment on Jerry Roberts 10,000 people story:
“I spent an hour milling around at Alameda Park unable to hear more than an occasional word from the speakers. Most people were talking to friends about their personal lives. One person said this was boring. Another said, I came here to march. Having been to the second march, I came to the third because I didn't want it to be smaller than the second. At the end of both marches, I was left feeling little different than when I arrived. I heard no message. I did not feel I was part of a movement with a call to action. Like the Democratic Party the march was good hearted people milling about with multiple goals, but no single direction in which to move. Thank goodness that the street had curb or we would have all wandered off.”
So activists have no clue why they are activated, they just showed up to be activated. And there was no message from the Democratic Party. News flash, there isn’t any message. It’s a repeating tantrum about the President. There’s no better policies, no better ideas, no real leadership.
In fact all of the bad ideas and poor leadership from the supermajority Democrat party are the reasons for all of the problems here in CA and Santa Barbara. Any President in office that hasn’t even passed their first full budget yet, has very little impact here.
If this place feels totalitarian it’s because it’s one of the places in the U.S. with the least amount of Democracy. Any dumb idea is passed into law weekly without dissent by people the supermajority put into place until their term limits, when they reshuffle the shell game.
Billions of taxpayer fraud has now been proven here and people are in the streets dressed in unicorn costumes to scream about the President.
Make any of it make sense.