FLEEING THE MELTDOWN STATE OF ONCE GOLDEN CALIFORNIA - NOW A THIRD-WORLD DUMPSTER STATE

ILLEGALS HAVE DOUBLED THE POPULATION OF  CALIFORNIA CAUSING THE NATION'S GREATEST HOMELESS, HOUSING AND JOBS CRISIS IN AMERICA. MORE TO COME! 

California’s largest export used to be advanced aerospace products. That was the economy of Southern California, that and the movies. They’re all gone now. Now, the state’s main export is population. JEFF POOR

Families Fleeing California Bay Area Causing Housing Frenzy in Austin, Texas

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PENNY STARR

28 Jun 20210

3:38

Californians are fleeing the state to live where they can find more affordable housing, better schools, and a more rural lifestyle. A large percentage of them are choosing Austin, Texas.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the phenomenon of more people opting for permanent telework in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and the trend of people choosing to live in GOP-led states that didn’t impose draconian lockdowns:

Experts say Austin’s boom, particularly during the pandemic, has been accelerated by Californians and Bay Area giants like Apple, Facebook, Google and Tesla that are all hiring in Austin. Last year, a record 22,114 jobs were added from companies relocating and expanding in the region, including at least 5,000 from Tesla in its new mega-factory rising just east of Austin, according to the Austin Chamber of Commerce. Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, podcast host Joe Rogan and Tesla CEO Elon Musk all made the California-to-Texas move during the pandemic. That’s a lot of newcomers looking for homes.

Last month, Josh and Jessi Rubbicco and their two kids joined the flood, moving out of the East Bay after seven years. They found a fast-growing neighborhood in southwest Austin called Belterra, where urban density gives way to lush green hills dotted with freshly built homes next to half-finished wooden frames.There are dance parties on weekends, bike and hiking trails and fishing ponds. Children can take a golf cart on wide, low-traffic roads to attend the local elementary school — parents optional, depending on age. In the Bay Area, it can take a year or two to secure child care. There’s no wait in Austin.

The weather is warm and similar to the East Bay, said Rubbicco, who works for a software company with a Bay Area office that’s allowing permanent remote work. Texas Hill Country’s offerings are reminiscent of Napa, thanks to an array of wineries and distilleries. In the nearby town of Driftwood, there’s the 54-year-old landmark Salt Lick Bar-B-Que, built on a family ranch, with its vast cooking pit overflowing with meats and drawing hungry crowds. A 25-minute drive to downtown means easy access to Austin’s raucous bars and restaurants, where live music was blasting and drinks were flowing last month, even as much of the country was still locked down.

“The pricing power of Austin, which is number one in the country, is driven by California, plain and simple,” Toll Brothers CEO Douglas Yearley said on an earnings call that took place last month. “The phenomenon is fascinating. We’ve never seen migration like this.”

The Chronicle reported the price of a typical house in the East Bay is about $1 million. And even if prices in Austin have surged 35 percent in May compared to last year, you can still get a larger, newer house with a yard and access to good schools for about half the price:

For the Rubbiccos, the daily grind of getting up early, getting kids to day care and commuting on BART to an office just to open a laptop and take phone calls has given way to a home life that allows a focus on children and family — and a bigger house and yard to enjoy it.

“I love the Bay Area, I was born and raised there. I have nothing bad to say about it,” Jessi Rubbicco said. “I think we were just looking for something different for our family. COVID put in perspective what we wanted.”

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Car Burglaries Rise 753% in San Francisco as City Reopens

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PENNY STARR

27 Jun 2021796

2:42

The reopening of San Francisco, California, means restaurants and hotels are back in business, but criminals have also stepped up their activities, burglarizing cars at a 753 percent higher rate in June over last month.

The fallout of the crime wave is reaching beyond the city as criminals find quieter streets to sort through stolen luggage for valuables, leaving behind stolen belongings.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on the development:

Last month, the Police Department’s Central Station saw a 753 percent increase in auto burglaries compared to the previous May. But that was the height of lockdown restrictions. They are up only 75 percent compared to 2019.

The number of break-ins also increased 94 percent between April and May of this year, tracking with the city’s gradual reopening from the pandemic.

The most recent data for the Central District, through June 6, shows that 2,048 cars were looted so far this year, compared with 858 through the same period of 2020 — an increase of nearly 139 percent. Park District, home to part of Golden Gate Park, saw about a 3% increase. Every other district is still below its 2020 year-to-date total.

Police have responded by increasing the number of officers, including foot patrols, around the city.

“We have the city reopening, we know people are coming back and we want them to have a good experience,” Officer Adam Lobsinger, a police spokesman, said in the Chronicle report.

The Chronicle interviewed Kinga Sojka, who lives in Florida and came to visit California’s wine county.

Sojka parked her rental car in a garage near Pier 39 and set out on foot to explore Lombard Street, Fisherman’s Wharf, and the waterfront. When she returned she found the rear window smashed and her suitcase and a friend’s backpack, which was carrying the keys to her home, missing.

“It was pretty shocking because I don’t think of high crime in San Francisco, especially in a touristy area,” Sojka said. “It’s also so shocking how they basically dump it out on street in front of million-dollar homes and just leave it there if there’s nothing worth keeping.”

“Police and the Hotel Council advise tourists to leave nothing of value in their cars, even out of sight or for a short period of time, instead storing their luggage at hotels, even before or after their stays,” the Chronicle reported.

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Crenshaw: Biden and Harris ‘Like’ the Border Crisis — ‘That’s Why They Don’t Want to Solve It’

TRENT BAKER

28 Jun 202147

2:21

During Monday’s broadcast of FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

Crenshaw said Biden and Harris “like” having the crisis, which is “why they don’t want to solve it.” He added it is “pretty obvious” Harris does not care about the issue and that her recent trip to the border was for a “quick photo op.”

“It’s pretty obvious Kamala Harris does not care about this issue. I think it’s rather obvious she only went to visit where there was a convenient airport, where she could do a quick photo op, say she did it because she was sick of getting made fun of by conservative media that she never went, but she’s not going to actually take any action,” Crenshaw argued. “Look, when it comes to these facilities, they are overcrowded, they are overwhelmed, and we could wring our hands trying to figure out what to do with that, but we don’t have new ones just to build right off the bat, so we have to look at the source of the problem. And the source of the problem is the Biden administration because they reversed policies that were in place that was limiting the flow. OK, they reversed the Remain in Mexico policy, they reversed asylum cooperation agreements with the Northern Triangle countries, and they refuse to tackle the biggest issue. And the biggest issue is that we can’t legally hold migrant families or minors past 21 days, so we can’t adjudicate these claims. This would be the simplest fix, and it has to be a legislative fix. It has to come from Congress, and all we have to do is increase that number of days, increase the number of immigration judges, adjudicate these claims, make the process go faster. You know what that avoids? It avoids this catch and release program, which means that there’s less incentives to just jump across the border.”

He continued, “This stuff is easy to fix, and I think that’s why it’s so infuriating that the Democrats don’t want to. And you have to question their motives here. Why don’t they want to? Well, they want more illegal immigration. OK, they like the crisis. That’s why they don’t want to solve it. There’s really no other way to explain this.”

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If and When VP Harris Does Visit the Border, Don’t Expect Her to Go Where Its Collapse Can Be Seen

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By Todd Bensman on June 15, 2021

The steeply mounting pressure for her to visit the southern border may finally prove too much for Vice President Kamala Harris. It’s looking like she’ll actually have to go now, even if dragged kicking, screaming, and fibbing to NBC’s Lester Holt.

"At some point, you know, we are going to the border," Harris blustered when Holt kept pressing her on the matter, then the lie that: "We've been to the border. So this whole, this whole, this whole thing about the border. We've been to the border.”

Which Holt felt obliged to correct: “You haven’t been to the border.”

But Republicans and security hawks salivating over visions that Harris will soon enough lead a national press corps delegation down to see the actual historic mass migration happen — the crisis the Biden administration wrought with words before taking office and with action ever since — should tamp down expectations.

Chances are that the reluctant “root causes czar” will entirely avoid traveling to the southern sectors of Texas, where she and her press corps would readily see some of the tens of thousands of foreign families and children coming in each month, all day and night. In certain areas from Del Rio to Brownsville, Texas, for instance, waves of family units and unaccompanied children cross the Rio Grande constantly (all of it at the Biden administration’s explicit “leave-no-child-in-Mexico” invitation) and turn themselves in to anyone wearing a uniform. If Harris were authentic, she would go to, say, Roma, to watch amphibious raft landings happen in plain view all night, any day of the week as did the Center for Immigration Studies on a recent trip there.

But instead, the administration’s press handlers are no doubt already hard at work trying to figure out how to avoid the prospect that illegally crossing immigrants and Harris will end up in the same frame. Conceivably, Harris could go to south Texas after having the Mexican military clear out the other side until she’s gone, Harris being the vice president and able to get that sort of thing done. But an outdoor drive or walk anywhere in south Texas is an unnecessary political risk because, in addition to immigrants behind almost every bush, there are ranchers, residents, local police, and sheriffs lurking around whose lives have been completely turned upside down by the crisis.

The safe money is that Harris will entirely avoid south Texas, unless to pose with a cute child migrant or gratefully weeping mother inside a tightly controlled interior environment.

There are plenty of politically safer places on the long U.S.-Mexico border. Keep in mind that every sector of the 1,954-mile long southern border features unique geographies that shape illegal immigration patterns and demographics. The crisis unfolds out of sight in many places, manifested in historic surges of single adults who are not likely to be visible.

Because they are still being turned back to Mexico under a Trump-era pandemic containment measure, the single adults constantly coursing into the country tend to run, hide, and evade — often in the dead of night — throughout the rugged Big Bend region and also in Arizona. In this kind of illegal immigration, the immigrants and their smugglers work hard not to be seen and won’t be unless the vice president and the press gaggle set up with night vision goggles in remote arroyos and canyonlands.

One quiet kind of spot that will be ruled out are areas where Donald Trump’s border walls are standing. The areas are now very quiet other than the most furtive instances of drug trafficking, according to Border Patrol agents who work in those areas, the truest experts on that matter. Showing up with cameras in an area quieted by Trump’s border wall would showcase an effectiveness that is far too contrary to Biden party line. So forget that.

Harris will be able to check the box by, say, helicoptering over an empty stretch of Arizona desert or be seen walking or driving along the border where all the illegal immigrants are hiding or have been cleared out ahead of time.

For the party faithful, gullible and illegal immigration advocates, she could also get away with conducting a press briefing inside a Border Patrol facility that has been largely emptied of its families and children by their transfers to federal Health and Human Services facilities, and designated hotels and convention centers in big cities like Dallas, Phoenix, and Los Angeles (a move-the-migrant shell game the administration has disingenuously portrayed to the gullible and ill-informed as a major policy success). But showing up in a facility emptied in that way — or maybe even with a vetted “grateful” immigrant family — would provide Harris with a means to check the box with some artful spin.

However the visit pans out, Republicans and border hawks demanding it need to readjust their grand “gotcha” expectations for a Harris visit.

The White House will find plenty of ways to lead an equally reluctant national press corps to almost any other spot but those where they can most easily observe the nation’s border control systems collapsing.

Survey: 40% Say Life Will ‘Never’ Return to Pre-Pandemic Normalcy

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HANNAH BLEAU

28 Jun 202184

2:30

A sizeable portion of Americans do not believe their lives will completely return to pre-pandemic normalcy, a Gallup survey released Monday found.

The survey, taken June 14-20, among 4,843 American adults, asked respondents if they believe their lives will ever “get completely back to the ‘normal’ that existed before the coronavirus pandemic.”

A plurality of Americans, 46, percent, said they expect it to get back to normal, but 40 percent said it will “never” go back to normal. Fifteen percent said their lives are “already completely back to normal.”

Of the plurality who believes life will return to normal, 53 percent said it will not come until next year, although “47% anticipate normalcy in the next few weeks or months,” according to Gallup:

At the same time, a diminished majority of Americans, 53%, expect the level of disruption occurring to travel, school, work and public events in the U.S. will continue through the end of 2021 or longer than that, marking a nine-point drop since mid-March. Fewer, 47%, now say they expect the degree of disturbance in society to last a few more weeks or months.

Meanwhile, a majority now advise healthy people to “lead their normal lives as much as possible and avoid interruptions to work and business” amid the pandemic, 65 percent to the 35 percent who believe they need to continue to “stay home as much as possible to avoid contracting or spreading the coronavirus.”

Despite the overwhelming desire for healthy people to continue with their lives without interruption, a majority still believe the pandemic in the U.S. is not yet over.

“Although President Joe Biden has acknowledged that his July 4 deadline for reaching 70% vaccination among U.S. adults will not be realized, once it is, Democrats and independents might join Republicans in thinking the pandemic is over, 71 percent to 29 percent,” Gallup concluded.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 179 million Americans have received at least one coronavirus jab, and over 153 million are considered “fully vaccinated,” representing 46.1 percent of the U.S. population.

Harvard Poll: Voters Greatly Underestimate Migration Inflow

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NEIL MUNRO

28 Jun 20214

5:14

The public greatly underestimates the scale of the migration crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, which the Biden administration’s policies prompted, according to a new Harvard Harris poll.

“The media coverage to some degree is engineered to achieve that result,” responded Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. “If you don’t stress numbers over and over again, it’s not going to sink in,” he said, adding, “[t]he [media is] not going to draw attention to the reality that people are dramatically underestimating the size of immigration because if they did, it would undermine support for their guy in the White House.”

In May, 180,000 migrants were caught crossing the border. Most were sent back to Mexico to rest before their next attempt while Biden’s deputies allowed 68,000 migrants into the United States.

An additional 50,000 migrants successfully sneaked through the border to reach jobs inside the United States, according to unpublished official estimates.

Overall, in May, roughly 230,000 migrants crossed the border, and 120,000 got through the border, including roughly 100,000 job seekers.

The June 15-17 Harvard Harris poll of 2,006 registered voters asked: “How many border crossings of illegal immigrants would you say are occurring every month in the United States right now?”

Twenty-one percent of the respondents estimated fewer than 10,000 people per month.

Thirty-one percent guessed between 10,000 and 50,000 migrants.

Nineteen percent guessed between 50,000 and 100,000 migrants.

The results show that 71 percent of respondents deeply underestimated the flow of migrants into Americans’ jobs, apartments, schools, and culture.

Just 22 percent provided answers that roughly match the inflow: 13 percent guessed between 100,000 and 150,000 migrants, 7 percent guessed 150,000 to 200,000 migrants, and 2 percent guessed 200,000 to 250,000 migrants.

If Biden’s people allow 750,000 migrants into the United States during 2021, that would add up to one migrant for every five Americans who turn 18 during the year.

So far, Republican leaders have dodged much of the immigration debate, likely because donors want more imported consumers, renters, and workers, Instead, GOP leaders have characterized Biden’s migration as a chaotic crisis, as cruel to migrants, and helpful to the drug cartels. This GOP message downplays the inflow numbers and sidelines the economic damage being done to Americans.

Numerous polls have shown that Americans underestimate the scale of migration and also prefer that companies hire Americans before migrants. For example, a June 21-25 report by Rasmussen Reports showed that 63 percent of 1,250 likely voters say that ‘it is better for the nation “for businesses to raise the pay and try harder to recruit non-working Americans even if it causes prices to rise,” than “for the government to bring in new foreign workers to help keep business costs and prices down.”

“If our leadership class, including the media, politicians, and others, actually stressed the magnitude of the influx of people from abroad, that would undermine support for immigration policy,” Krikorian said. “They want to make sure that the frog is boiled slowly,” he added.

Each year, four million young Americans enter the workforce. But they are forced by their government to compete against a growing population of illegal migrants, one million new legal immigrants, and the resident workforce of roughly two million temporary guest workers.

For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates. This opposition is multiracial,  cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan, rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.

The voter opposition to elite-backed economic migration coexists with support for legal immigrants and some sympathy for illegal migrants. But only a minority of Americans — mostly leftists — embrace the many skewed polls and articles pushing the 1950’s corporate “Nation of Immigrants” claim.

The deep public opposition to labor migration is built on the widespread recognition that legal immigration, visa workers, and illegal migration undermine democratic self-government, fracture Americans’ society, move money away from Americans’ pocketbooks, and worsen living costs for American families.

Migration moves wealth from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to investors, from technology to stoop labor, from red states to blue states, and from the central states to the coastal states such as New York.

FNC’s Carlson: Kamala Harris Is Bringing California-Style Governance to the Country — ‘You Should Pay Attention to That’

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JEFF POOR

24 Dec 2020459

11:01

Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson warned the same leadership that has brought woes to California is coming to Washington, D.C. in the form of Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

According to Carlson, California officials were using race tensions as a way to distract from the shortcomings of that governance.

Transcript as follows:

CARLSON: We make a lot of fun of the State of California on this show, you may have noticed, but we’re not really joking. California matters and not just because it’s our biggest state. What happens there is at some point almost certain to happen where you live.

Find a national trend that didn’t begin in California. There may be some, but there aren’t many. So if you want to know the future, or if you want to prevent it, look west. California is a roadmap for the rest of us and very often warning.

With that in mind, here is the bottom line on California. It’s falling apart.

Over the course of just the last several decades, California has gone from one of the richest places in the world to the poorest state in our country. More than a third of California’s population now hovers around the poverty line.

Even before COVID, over four million Californians were collecting food stamps. More than 150,000 people in California are homeless. They are everywhere. They’re living on the streets, in parks, under overpasses, in tents on the sidewalk.

Here’s Los Angeles just last month.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): The homeless crisis in Los Angeles is getting worse local say with some encampments so big residents call them McMansion Tents. They’re driving away businesses, too; many of which are already struggling financially because of the pandemic.

This comes as the city sees a spike in violence with a 32% increase in shootings since last year. While police say financial stress from the pandemic is largely to blame, some criticize the leaders for once again being unable to control the issue.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CARLSON: California didn’t always look this way, even recently. This is a human tragedy. It wasn’t caused by God or nature. It was caused by the selfishness and the stupidity of bad leaders and their bad policies.

If these leaders were judged by their performance, what they do, no big city politician in the State of California would have a job tonight. They know that, so they are working hard to make certain they’re not judged by those standards — rational standards.

Instead, they inflame racial wounds to try to keep the population distracted and divided, to keep the attention away from them and their failures.

Here, for example, is the shamefully incompetent mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, just this summer.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MAYOR ERIC GARCETTI (D), LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: When I talked about killers, I said, our collective — our collective burden here in this society is that we let black men and women die. I pointed at myself, we collectively have a choice of whether we will be those who heal or whether we will continue being the killers.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CARLSON: Yes. Whenever they start talking about collective responsibility, you know what they are really saying is, take the gaze away from me. It’s not my fault.

Garcetti wasn’t more specific when he talked about, we, the killers. It turns out there are killers in his city. They’re not collective. They’re individuals. They’re criminals. And there are a lot of them.

Under Eric Garcetti, crime in Los Angeles has skyrocketed and many innocent people have died as the result of that. But he is not mourning that. He is not giving speeches in their memory or apologizing for the policies he supported that led to their deaths, and neither by the way, is the city’s new head prosecutor, a man called George Gascon.

Gascon was elected with the backing of George Soros. Soros was the single largest donor to his campaign. He wouldn’t be the District Attorney without George Soros. And so George Gascon has, from his very first day in office done the bidding of his backer, Soros.

He has now announced he will be using the pretext of COVID to release still more criminals into the City of Los Angeles. Watch.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

AL SHARPTON, MSNBC HOST: Do you have a plan of giving priority in terms of vaccinations in the LA County correctional facilities?

GEORGE GASCON, DISTRICT ATTORNEY, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: I don’t control the vaccination. But the point that we do have is we’re working to you know, expeditiously release as many people as we can, especially those who have been proven to be at high risk, vulnerable people and obviously people that are not a threat to society.

So we are going to try to remove as many people from that confinement. Justice is really about public health and keeping our community safe.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CARLSON: Oh, OK. So there’s the Soros puppet giving us a lecture on what justice means. Justice is not punishing the guilty, keeping the dangerous away from your children, it is not about enforcing laws. No, justice is making certain that criminals get critical government services before you do, before your parents do.

And that right there, that piece of tape and the attitude behind it distills the emerging politics of California, politics that you should be deeply afraid of, because when they come to your town, they’ll wreck your life.

And if we were to put it in one sentence, it’s this: those who contribute the least get the most. Got it? But don’t you dare complain about it, shut up and hate yourself in silence. That’s an order.

Meanwhile, California’s elected leaders divide the spoils. That’s their job: taking what other people built, giving it to themselves and to their supporters. And they divide the spoils, as is now official policy in the State of California in the most divisive, immoral possible way, along lines of color.

Here is Congresswoman Maxine Waters explaining what kind of person Governor Gavin Newsom should pick to replace Kamala Harris in the United States Senate.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REP. MAXINE WATERS (D-CA): He has a decision that he has to make, and I think that it will be a black woman. I think he understands that, you know, when Kamala Harris leaves, you know, the Senate, that’s only one black woman who was serving, and certainly it would be, you know, kind of, you know, unfair not to have at least another black woman replace her.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CARLSON: This really is the high point of stupidity in this country’s history. Who cares what color your senators are, who cares what gender they are, you want good government, you want wise competent people in charge of the country, but that’s not what you’re getting because those aren’t the criteria.

In the end, you should know the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom appointed a man called Alex Padilla to replace Kamala Harris in the Senate. And when he did, no one debated whether Padilla might be a good senator, whether he might improve the schools or lower the cost of housing or brings bring jobs back. Instead, they argued about his race. That was the only thing they cared about.

Here’s the mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, who by the way is an utter buffoon, most famous not for improving San Francisco, but for defying her own lockdown orders in order to dine at the French Laundry in Napa.

Here’s that person explain that Padilla is a bad choice, because he is the wrong color.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MAYOR LONDON BREED (D), SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: When you think about the history of this country, and the challenges that exist for African-Americans, especially African-American women in the Senate, definitely, this is a real, you know, blow to the African-American community, to African-American women, to women in general. It was definitely a surprise.

And it’s an unfortunate situation as we are trying to move this country forward and making sure that black lives truly matter.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CARLSON: OK, so you have been a terrible mayor, you have hurt the city, which again, you did not build, you didn’t make San Francisco an impressive place that people wanted to move to. You made it worse. So you’ve disqualified yourself from any comment on government ever for the rest of your life. That’s the first thing.

The second thing is, the rest of us who sit by and let people say things like this on television without thinking and saying, whoa, wait a second, color and gender are irrelevant to good government. Thinking that way is poison. We’re not putting up with this garbage anymore.

We’re implicated in the destruction of the country if we sit back and let decisions get made along those lines. It’s such a destructive sideshow.

Meanwhile, the physical reality, the State of California, which is an actual place with tens of millions of actual people, 40 million, our most beautiful state, our most economically important state falls apart. No one is paying any attention because they are debating the color of the new senator.

But the electrical grid is failing. The power flickers on and off like a third world country. The state’s forests are so mismanaged, they keep catching fire and burning uncontrollably.

Climate change isn’t doing that, bad management is doing that.

Women — we care about women, really? Because women can’t jog in public parks for fear of being attacked by the mentally ill homeless. Does anyone care about them? No.

And for the privilege of all of this, for living in a state that’s literally collapsing around them, the residents of California pay the highest and the most burdensome taxes in the country. So guess what people who can are doing? You know the answer, they are leaving.

California’s largest export used to be advanced aerospace products. That was the economy of Southern California, that and the movies. They’re all gone now. Now, the state’s main export is population.

More than 40% of Bay Area residents tell pollsters they want to leave. Really? And that’s one of the happiest places in the state. And it’s no wonder the average rent price in a one-bedroom apartment in San Francisco fell 20% in the last year. Why is that? Because no one wants to live there.

The most recent estimates show that California lost more than 135,000 people in the last year. Among those people, by the way, is Kamala Harris. She’s in Washington now, your capital, and she is bringing California-style governance to the rest of us. You should pay attention to that.

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