WHILE PELOSI, FEINSTEIN AND KAMALA HARRIS WERE GETTING RICH OFF OF ELECTED OFFICE, ROME WAS BURNING!
I Drove Around California For A Month. It Was A Disaster.
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All This Failure Is Deliberate
Societal chaos is what leftists have been scheming since the French Revolution.
I recently had a reader ask, “Why is Joe Biden still President?” While I’m sure there was some facetiousness in his query, it’s actually worth pondering. The simple answer is, he was elected (ahem) for a four-year term and still has about a year and a half left. So, he is President because our Constitution allows him to be, and he hasn’t died yet. But let’s examine the question a little deeper.
Everything Biden has done has been a disaster. The economy is teetering. The border is non-existent. The banking system and the dollar are crumbling. Our enemies are taking advantage of the weakness they perceive in the White House. Crime is out of control in most of our once-great cities. Traditional morality and decency are in the toilet. Our children are being butchered and groomed for the hedonistic pleasure of a cadre of sexual deviants. Women athletes are losing hard-earned rights because of the “transgender” movement, something that almost no one had heard of five years ago. Government spending is without restraint and, as a result, inflation has soared, and America’s middle class is being squeezed into near oblivion. The education system continues to produce semi-literates who will do—what?—in the future. No patriot wants to join the military anymore. The list of Joe Biden’s cataclysms is endless, but my space in this column isn’t, so I mention only a few of the most egregious catastrophes this man and his ideology have foisted upon the nation. Why is he still President indeed?
Biden is President, but he is far from in control. The Marxist, Leftist global movement, whatever groups are ultimately behind it, are using Biden and the Democratic Party as pawns in the supreme game of human domination. Biden does everything he is told to do. He is nothing but a puppet, a “useful idiot” as I explained recently—totally unable to think for himself. The Far Left, the Marxist Left, manipulates him and his ideological band. Biden doesn’t realize it, but some Democrats do.
But this is why Biden—health permitting—will win the Democratic nomination next year. Why would the Leftist oligarchy want anyone else, since he is doing exactly what they want him to? When he has expanded his usefulness, he will be tossed “into the dustbin of history.” They will have no further need for him, and probably won’t even give him a gold watch.
What is critical to understand is that all the failures of the Biden administration are choreographed. They are deliberate, exactly what Soros, the WEF, the Deep State, i.e., the Marxist Left covet. They WANT failure. We must understand that. Some of them are intelligent enough to know that Leftist policies never succeed because they contradict basic human nature, economic laws, history, science, God, and every other reality. This is the horror we are witnessing in America and around the world today—designed, intended collapse. Those who are engineering this are aware of it and, again, need the failure. As societies crumble and dissipate into total chaos, someone, echoing Hitler, will have to step forth and restore order again. The Left certainly doesn’t intend for Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis to do it. The Marxist Left will be able to assume all power, and the people will gladly give it to them in order to restore some measure of peace and stability to their lives. The masses will obey whatever orders are given to them under the threat of terror, and out of fear of a resurrection of the madness that brought about the totalitarian state in the first place. Most Americans sense something is dreadfully wrong, but don’t know enough history to understand it. That is a supreme tragedy.
This societal chaos and ultimate takeover are what Leftists have been scheming, actually, since the French Revolution. It is the world Utopia, with them in charge, of course. The movement was provided greater emphasis and philosophic buttressing by Marx, and while it failed in the Soviet Union, it’s working in China. And it is about to conquer the United States, especially if Biden (or any Democrat) is given four more years in the White House.
What I’m basically describing is George Orwell’s novel, 1984. Orwell portrayed the end result; what we are witnessing today is the movement that will terminate in a 1984-type society. Again, it is deliberate, planned, and, so far, working almost to perfection. They will win unless our will is stronger than theirs. With Ronna McDaniel and Mitch McConnell in control of the (supposed) opposition party, one is not hopeful. The enemy and its goals must be comprehended in order to be defeated, and the Republican establishment in Washington is utterly clueless.
We bemoan the deterioration and destruction of our country. But do you think Barack Obama and George Soros are sorrowful about the current trends in America? Of course not. It is exactly what they desire and designed. Things are going according to blueprint. Oh, there are a few obstacles (traditional, conservative Americans), but they are mostly old geezers who will die off in the next decade or two. Then who will stand in the gap to defend traditional America? I tremble for our children and grandchildren. With the millions of illegals now in, and soon to enter, the country, there is a ready-made mass of humanity to organize into a revolution. There aren’t enough “crops” for them all to “pick.” What are they going to do? They will soon discover that America, because of Leftist policies, isn’t what they were promised it would be. Most of them can’t speak the language well enough to perform skilled labor. They will live on the streets, or in shantytowns, Venezuelan-retreads; huddled together, miserable, waiting for a Lenin or Mao to lead them. They will be a revolution waiting to be organized, waiting to happen.
Ten years ago, we would never have believed this could happen in America. Too many still don’t believe it. By the time they do, it will be too late.
Nolte: Newsweek Columnist Blames Republicans for ‘Democrat-Run City’ Failure
A Newsweek columnist thinks Republicans are part of the problem in these failed Democrat-run cities where Republicans hold no political power.
This is like blaming the Captain of the Love Boat for the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. But blaming the GOP for these urban disasters is a good way to keep the voters in these urban disasters voting for the same Democrats who created these urban disasters.
Newsweek’s thinking goes like this:
These cities remain Democrat-led because their voters don’t have a choice. After all, they can’t choose an option that doesn’t exist.
Were there any Republicans in Chicago’s recent mayoral race? No. Los Angeles? No. Cleveland? No. In city after city, the story is the same. Most cities have “nonpartisan” primaries for political office. In those primaries, multiple candidates run, and the two candidates with the most votes advance, regardless of party. And it’s always two Democrats.
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Republicans intentionally abandoned urban voters years ago. And they still don’t attempt to compete in many of our nation’s large cities. Yet they have the audacity to bash those voters for not voting for a nonexistent option!
What?
Conveniently left out of this screed is the fact that Republicans only stopped trying to win elections in these cities after the trying proved to be a total waste of time, money, and reputation.
Believe me, if the GOP thought it had a shot in these dumpster fire cities, they would give it a shot. The problem is that they don’t have a chance in hell. Good heavens, incumbent Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was just replaced by someone to her political left, and she’s a soft-on-crime commie.
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot participates in a forum with other Chicago mayoral candidates hosted by the Chicago Women Take Action Alliance Jan. 14, 2023, at the Chicago Temple in Chicago. (AP Photo/Erin Hooley)
The only people at fault for the collapse of these cities are elected Democrats and the idiot voters who vote and vote and vote to elect these Democrats.
Good grief, earlier this year, Chicago had an opportunity to choose a moderate Democrat mayor with Paul Vallas, but the city instead chose the lunatic Brandon Johnson.
How is a Republican going to make any kind of difference in a city that crazy?
Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson celebrates with supporters after defeating Paul Vallas after the mayoral runoff election late Tuesday, April 4, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)
Do you have any idea what Newsweek is asking of someone? Not just that this Republican candidate waste a year of his life and a ton of money, but his reputation.
Running for office is exhausting work. You work seven days a week, 18 hours a day… And for what? So you can lose and be smeared as a racist by your opponent and the local media while you’re losing? And if you happen to be a non-white Republican, you will be smeared as an Uncle Tom.
The article ends this way… “If you are not willing to be part of the solution, you are part of the problem.”
People are seen looting stores at the Grove shopping center in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles on May 30, 2020 following a protest against the death of George Floyd. (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)
Oh, okay… It’s my fault that a city populated and governed solely by Democrats is a garbage fire because I refuse to waste a year of my life being smeared as a racist while losing a hopeless election at the hands of voters who obviously enjoy crime, lousy schools, violence, car-jackings, lower property values, and sidewalks covered in feces, needles, and lunatics.
Using this guy’s logic, Democrats deserve credit for how great life is in Rural America because Democrats don’t govern there.
The bottom line is this: Chicago, Baltimore, Houston, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Oakland, St. Louis, and a whole bunch of other American cities are lost. It’s a shame. It really is. But that failure is the fault of Democrats and the idiots who continue to vote for them.
It would be easier for Democrats in these failed cities to change their policies than to elect a Republican.
Odd how Newsweek doesn’t suggest Democrats might want to change their policies, which are proven failures.
There is nothing any Republican can do to help these godless cities. Moreover, these cities are not our problem. We don’t live there. Moreover, no one wants our advice. Whenever we offer advice, we are called racists.
The country is self-sorting. Not by race, class, or income. The self-sort is between those who want to live in dangerous filth and those who don’t.
So…
Enjoy your left-wing utopia, losers!
If you need us, we’ll be living…here.
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Newsom Spent 2 Years and $2.5M of Taxpayer Money on Reparations Plan Before Balking
California governor appointed five of the task force's nine members, now won't implement task force's recommendations
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.) on Tuesday declined to endorse the recommendations of a state-appointed task force on paying reparations to African Americans that he himself put together, after the panel spent millions of taxpayer dollars to arrive at its answer.
The governor signed legislation to create the first-in-the-nation task force at the height of the Black Lives Matter fervor in 2020, stating that the establishment of a reparations panel pushed California in the "right direction to building a more inclusive and equitable future for all." And ahead of the launch of the task force in 2021, Newsom appointed five of its nine members.
Over the years, Newsom and the Democrat-dominated state house funded the task force to the tune of $2.5 million, enough to bankroll economic consultants, travel costs, and per diem payments for the panel's members as they drafted proposals on how to compensate black Californians for generations of discrimination.
Yet only after the task force voted Saturday to approve a set of recommendations on reparations—expected to cost the indebted state at least $800 million, more than 2.5 times California's annual budget—did Newsom pooh-pooh the idea of cash reparations.
"Dealing with that legacy [of slavery] is about much more than cash payments," the governor said in a statement that praised the task force's work but stopped short of endorsing any of it.
Newsom had signaled a growing frustration with the reparations task force, which struggled to reach conclusions on the question of how much black residents were owed. In 2022, with the panel seemingly nowhere close to agreeing on a final plan, Newsom vetoed a bill to extend its work by a year.
Newsom said he spent more than five months conducting interviews and giving "careful consideration" to the question of whom he would put on the task force, which he said would ensure "that everyone has a fair shot at achieving the California dream." The reparations task force just last week upped the potential payment to black residents to $1.2 million.
The governor's office did not respond to a request for comment.
Almost Nobody Feels Safe on San Francisco Area Public Transit, Government Survey Finds
Only 17 percent of Bay Area residents feel safe on local public transit, and overwhelming majorities say crime and homelessness are out of control in the system, according to an official survey released this week.
The Bay Area Council commissioned the poll to understand why Bay Area Rapid Transit ridership remains woefully below its pre-pandemic numbers. Per the survey, the problem is less a rise in remote work than widespread concerns about safety and cleanliness. Forty-five percent of local residents cited those issues as the main reason they don't use BART, and 78 percent said they would ride more often if the trains and buses were cleaner and safer.
"As the BART goes, to some degree the Bay Area goes," Bay Area Council president Jim Wunderman said Tuesday in announcing the poll's findings. "So this is a serious situation."
The survey could undercut a push by California Democrats for a $5 billion bailout of the state's public transit, which faces an even steeper fiscal cliff. Advocates of the bailout, led by state senator Scott Wiener (D.) from San Francisco, have argued that public transit is essential for reducing carbon emissions and promoting "equity."
But the poll found that Bay Area residents express relatively little interest in lower fares or expanded service for BART. Instead, their top priorities are cleanliness, ejecting violators, adding more police, and improving lighting. Residents overwhelmingly say agency officials fail to adequately address criminal activity and violence, drinking and drug use, and homelessness. Seventy-three percent are worried about being the victims of crime when they ride BART.
Asked whether BART should focus on cleanliness, safety, and reliability or on helping the hundreds of homeless people in the system access support services, Bay Area residents support the former by more than two to one, according to the poll. That finding comes after San Francisco in the last fiscal year earmarked nearly $668 million for homeless programs and another $75 million for drug treatment services, only to see the problems intensify.
Theft Is Rampant at Downtown San Francisco Target: ‘At Least 10 Times a Day’
Every ten minutes, a downtown San Francisco Target worker will reportedly see a theft.
While multiple products, such as deodorant, are under lock and key at the Metreon mall Target and security guards in bright vests wander the store, thieves are not deterred, as first reported by the San Francisco Standard.
A worker said that thieves are taking food, nail polish, liquor bottles, and even aluminum foil, which they allegedly use to smoke fentanyl. San Francisco saw a 40 percent jump in overdose deaths from January through March of this year, according to a press release from Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D-CA) office.
Photos show the lipstick supply completely depleted, which a Target employee said was stocked just the morning the photo was taken.
Last November, it was reported that Target had lost $400 million due to inventory loss, attributed mostly to organized retail crime.
“Retail crime is an urgent issue that is increasingly impacting the team and guests at Target and other retailers,” a Target spokesperson told the San Francisco Standard. “It’s an issue that affects all of us, limiting product availability, creating a less convenient shopping experience, and most importantly, putting our team and guests in harm’s way.”
But it is not just organized criminals stealing, a worker said they will regularly see people who appear homeless eating food in the stores.
“I understand; they need to eat,” the worker told San Francisco Standard.
At the beginning of May, Breitbart News reported that two Nordstrom stores will be leaving San Francisco by the end of the summer.
In an email to employees, the CEO cited that the changing “dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”
The San Francisco and Oakland areas were ranked the second most hard-hit in the country for theft in 2020 and 2021 after Los Angeles, according to a 2022 retail security survey by the National Retail Federation.
Watch: Products at Target Store SEALED Behind Glass in Crime-Ridden San Francisco
@srdreamtorch via Storyful
Nolte: New York Magazine Forced to Admit Democrat-Run San Francisco’s Doom Loop Is Real
A reporter for the far-left New York Magazine admits she set out to disprove all this “doom loop” talk about Democrat-run San Francisco.
Instead, she discovered Democrat-run San Francisco is in a doom loop:
A note to my fellow San Franciscians: I’m sorry. I know. There’s always some story in the east-coast press about how our city is dying. San Franciscians hate—HATE—these pieces. You’re a stooge and a traitor for writing one. When I set out reporting, I wanted to write a debunking-the-doom piece myself. Yet to live in San Francisco right now, to watch its streets, is to realize that no one will catch you if you fall. In the first three months of 2023, 200 San Franciscans OD’ed, up 41 percent from last year.
Democrats have a monopoly on power in Frisco, and the results have been catastrophic especially downtown. It could not have been more than 15 years ago when my wife and I spent a few days in Frisco. What a gorgeous city it was, a jewel on the West Coast. We walked for miles, all over, everywhere, and never once felt uncomfortable or threatened.
Well, look at it now:
Since [the spying of 2019], Salesforce [the city’s largest employer] has laid off 9,000 employees and ditched nearly a million feet of office space. Meta has laid off 21,000 employees and ditched 435,000 feet of office space in San Francisco. Now, late one morning this dark spring, next to the Salesforce Tower, the Salesforce Transit Center — designed by César Pelli’s firm and opened in August 2018 to serve as the city’s main bus hub —was empty, as in truly vacant[.]
What caused this?
Democrats.
We will start with San Francisco’s anti-science lockdowns. First, everyone discovered they could work from home and then discovered how much they enjoyed it. Next, employers discovered they could save a fortune on rent by having everyone work from home.
The result?
Downtown is a ghost town, and when normal people move out, vagrants, junkies, and criminals move in.
When normal people move out, restaurants, bars, and coffee shops lose their customer base.
Add to this Joe Biden’s recession.
Add to this the Democrat’s war on cops.
Add to this the decriminalization of pretty much every crime, including violent crime.
“The doom-loopy vision laid out for downtown SF was not pretty,” admits NY Mag. “Workers don’t return, offices remain empty, restaurants shutter, transit agencies go bankrupt, tax bases plummet, public services disappear.”
Get a load of this nugget: “[C]ell-phone activity in downtown SF is 32 percent of pre-pandemic levels. That number is 75 percent in New York.”
Well, durrrrrr… What did you think was going to happen?
How is that left-wing utopia working out for ya?
Jake Shields, a friend of the recently murdered CashApp founder Bob Lee, told NY Mag that this “was not just an office apocalypse. It was unmitigated, spiraling, homicidal doom.”
“You can do whatever you want. You can shit in the streets,” he said. “The logical next step is to start killing people.”
And nothing will improve because improvement requires policy changes and Democrats admitting their mistakes. Well, Democrats (as we see in almost every Democrat-run city) would prefer to see their cities implode rather than admit they are wrong.
And I am not just talking about elected Democrats; I am talking about the idiot voters who think they are owning the Trumptards as their cities turn into third-world garbage piles.
Let me tell you something… I do not care. If I could help San Francisco, I would, but I ca not. Everyone knows how to fix urban blight. It happened in the 80s and 90s. The blueprint is right there. But the fake media and Democrats have labeled that blueprint “racist.”
So what should I do, waste one moment’s sleep over something I can do nothing about?
Nope.
We “MAGATards” already live in the utopia leftists claim to want, and as far as I am concerned, the Democrats in these Democrat-run dumps have chosen to live like this, which is their right. It is your city. Feel free to destroy it—no skin off my nose.
Newsflash: you are in a doom loop because you voted for a doom loop.
And that is not my problem.
If you need me, I will be grilling steaks, mowing lawn, and porch-sitting over here.
Dummies.
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Major Retailer to Close Flagship San Francisco Store After Less than a Year
Another major retailer is leaving downtown San Francisco — this time Coco Republic, an Australian furniture store that is leaving the iconic Union Square less than a year after opening a flagship location there.
The ongoing retail exodus from San Francisco follows years of worsening crime, drugs, and homelessness, plus a wave of “mass looting” events that have caused many other retail stores and chains to leave the city.
Other reasons include a decline in foot traffic in downtown San Francisco as a result of pandemic restrictions that caused many workers to shift to work-from-home, and many residents to relocate outside of the city.
The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday:
Coco Republic, an Australian furniture retailer that invested heavily in a San Francisco showroom off Union Square, abruptly announced Wednesday that it would be closing the store, less than a year after it opened on Stockton Street, across the street from Macy’s.
The reason given was safety of its shoppers, along with a significant drop in foot traffic that has not returned since the COVID-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, according to a statement released to The Chronicle.
“We invested extraordinary time and capital in our initial U.S. flagship store in Union Square,” said Anthony Spon-Smith, Coco Republic’s creative director and founder, who is based in Sydney. “Less than six months from opening, we could not be more disappointed to be shuttering this flagship location in our sister city, but ultimately, the safety and well-being of our customers and employees is our highest priority.”
Last week, Nordstrom closed two of its stores in downtown San Francisco, amid denials from liberal pundits like Franklin Leonard who doubted that rising crime could possibly be the reason for retailers to leave the area.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
ALL DEMS ARE FOR OPEN BORDERS TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED. MEXIFORNIA IS WHAT HAPPENED. THE
DEATH OF MIDDLE AMERICA IS THE RESULT. THEIR
VISION IS 49 MORE MEXIFORNIAS. HOW CLOSE ARE WE
NOW???
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The Bay Area is sinking into the abyss
Last month, Whole Foods shut down a year-old flagship store it had opened in downtown San Francisco. Two weeks later, word broke that Nordstrom, the Seattle-based, high-end retailer that had a major presence in downtown San Francisco was shutting down both its Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack stores. Today, news broke that T-Mobile is pulling out, too. It’s a retail exodus that is obviously bad for San Francisco. Significantly, it turns out that other Bay Area downtowns are imploding, as well.
The Whole Foods store shut down because the crime plaguing it was unsustainable, in terms of profits and worker safety. The same held true for the Nordstrom pullout:
“We’ve spent more than 35 years serving customers in downtown San Francisco, building relationships with them and investing in the local community,” Nordstrom told impacted employees.
“But as many of you know, the dynamics of the downtown San Francisco market have changed dramatically over the past several years, impacting customer foot traffic to our stores and our ability to operate successfully.”
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW), owner of the Westfield Mall where one of the Nordstrom stores is closing, slammed the current conditions in the city and said retailers are leaving in droves because of unsafe conditions that have dragged on, despite the company pleading with city officials to take action.
The latest major retailer to join the downtown San Francisco exodus is T-Mobile, which had a 17,000-square-foot store in Union Square, the heart of downtown San Francisco’s hotel and real estate district. T-Mobile hasn’t said why it decided to close the store, other than a “reshaped…retail strategy,” but it’s easy to guess that crime played a part.
After all, to stay afloat in San Francisco, a Target store had to put everything behind glass:
San Francisco is drowning in crime and filth, thanks to a city determined to give free rein to criminals, the drug addicted, and the homeless (and yes, those are often overlapping classes). None of this was helped by the fact that San Francisco embraced the lockdowns, so workers were sent home, where many discovered the joys of what I call the bunny-slipper commute: No more fighting traffic, riding filthy and dangerous public transportation, or spending your days locked in a vertical sardine can.
San Francisco’s office vacancy rate is almost 35% and expected to climb—and that’s the official rate, reflecting unleased property. It does not reflect property that is still under lease but without any workers inside. Last month, a downtown high rise in a formerly premium location sold for 75% off the original asking price. I doubt that building low-income housing in those vacant properties will help much.
Image: San Francisco at peak vacancy in 2021. YouTube screen grab.
A fascinating report from the Bay Area News Group says that it’s not just San Francisco that’s in deep trouble. In fact, all regional downtowns are suffering:
Police data may show otherwise — violent crime has actually fallen in San Francisco in recent years, though property crimes have spiked. And unlike most of the rest of the Bay Area, the city’s homeless population dipped slightly in 2022, according to the latest count. Still, there’s no doubt that San Francisco’s downtown is in crisis.
It’s not the only one. All three of the Bay Area’s largest cities are staring down huge setbacks to their efforts to revitalize urban cores hollowed out by a once-in-a-generation pandemic.
Last month, the Oakland A’s announced the team was decamping for Las Vegas, throwing into flux the city’s plans to redevelop Howard Terminal at the Port of Oakland. The team is leaving behind a $12 billion proposal for a gleaming waterfront stadium with new housing and retail at the site. In San Jose, Google recently announced it was reassessing the timeline for its sprawling Downtown West project, which city officials hope will add homes, shopping and office space for thousands of workers.
Incidentally, my guess is that crime and homelessness are down in San Francisco because, to mangle Willie Sutton’s alleged statement about robbing banks, criminals and the homeless go where the money is. Without workers in downtown San Francisco, why bother?
On the one hand, this decline couldn’t happen to more deserving cities, all of which self-immolated on a pyre of Black Lives Matter de-policing and decarceration and Fauci-esque lockdowns. On the other hand, as a San Francisco native, and someone who knew the other downtowns, too, I feel sad.
It’s like attending the funeral of a once glamorous friend who, because of an addiction to drink, drugs, and bad men, ended up dying on the street with a needle in her arm. It’s not just her death that’s sad; the loss of her potential is sad, too. Petula Clark’s “Downtown” hit song, which I, as a child, thought was about San Francisco, seems like an elegy, not a promise.
THE NEXT MEXICAN INVASION IS AT HAND:
"Mexican president candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador called for mass immigration to the United States, declaring it a "human right". We will defend all the (Mexican) invaders in the American," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life, job, welfare, and free medical in the United States."
OPEN BORDERS = GIVE YOUR JOB TO AN ILLEGAL WHO WILL WORK CHEAPER IS PART OF THE DEMOCRATS' DESTRUCTION OF AMERICA AND THE RISE OF GLOBALISM
Our young people have been and are being radicalized and propagandized daily. Supporting all this are the Democrats of today, and their DSA allies. They are a united front committed to transforming and gutting America from the inside out. Destroy the middle class, render impotent parental rights, isolate the church as a spewer of hate and intolerance, render ineffective the rule of law, demean the history and the Constitution of these United States. In concert with global elites, the media elite, and the toxic leftist bilge that is constantly oozing from their seats of power, they are doing just that.
From the L Word to Cultural Marxism
During the 1988 presidential campaign, then vice-president George H.W. Bush labelled his counterpart Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts in pejorative fashion with the ‘L’ word, or ‘liberal.’ To be deemed a liberal during that era to many meant you would be perceived as being outside the mainstream, and one who was indecisive or deemed weak in foreign affairs, especially with the Soviet Union, and not a strong supporter of the military. You were most likely to support strict gun control, be seen as soft on crime, and support abortion, as Dukakis did. So negative was the connotation that most politicians of the era ran away from the moniker, with many describing themselves instead as centrists, as Bill Clinton did in 1992.
In the same fashion, throughout the 20th century in the United States, to be labelled a ‘Socialist’ would have been political suicide and would virtually automatically preclude such a candidate from winning any national office. That was the case until 2007, when Bernie Sanders won the Senate seat in Vermont as an avowed ‘Socialist.’ Sanders was not taken all that seriously by the majority in the early years of his service. However, in the democratic primaries of both the 2016 and 2020, it became plain to see that the label ‘Socialist’ was no longer considered derogatory to many Americans given the strength of his grassroots support. His voter base in both primaries revealed that much of his support were young people, aged 18-30, becoming strong contributors to his success.
Today, some sixteen years after Sanders’ election to the Senate, we have five members of Congress and over 150 state legislature officeholders nationally who describe their political delineation as that of ‘Democrat-Socialist,’ which is not a classic political party -- yet. Most contemporary democrats of any stripe do not appear to reflect the democrats of previous generations. Not too many democrats of today are espousing “Ask not what your country can do for you,” and likely advocate the opposite. But adding the term ‘Socialist’ to Democrat is not simply a play on words. It is arranged that way to soften the impact of the term ‘Socialist.’ The reality is, they are Socialists, plain and simple. From the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) website, under the page ‘What is Democratic-Socialism?’ The first line reads: ‘Capitalism is a system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit.’ What tripe does that sound like? Further on it states: ‘We want to collectively own the key economic drivers that dominate our lives, such as energy production and transportation.’ One can only wonder what that really means.
Back to the Sanders surprise showing in 2016, and to a lesser extent in 2020. How did that happen? As mentioned, the lion’s share of his voters were young, 18-30. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan ran for reelection against Sen. Walter Mondale. According to 
the Roper Center at Cornell, this same age group that voted so strongly for Sanders in democratic primaries thirty-plus years later voted 61% for Reagan in the 18-24 bracket, and 57% in the 25-30 bracket. Those numbers reflect all voters in that age group, Democrat, Republican, and independents. These Baby Boomers voted decisively for the conservative, and were a part of a landslide, as Reagan garnered a full 59% of the electorate that year. It begs the question, what changed? Many Boomers had gone to universities and colleges and earned degrees. Many had seen and were aware of the protests and demonstrations of the 60s and 70s that were front page news as they grew up. Even though radicals were the drivers of the protest scene in that era, they were a minority when it came to the overall population.
So why the vast difference in political leanings 1984 to 2016? I think we can credit Marxist thinkers Antonio Gramsci and Rudi Dutschke, with their quest to undermine Western culture with the “Long March Through the Institutions” and replace them with Marxist ideals as playing a significant role. The difference was that instead of promoting failed Soviet-style economic Marxism, this new rendition would be Cultural Marxism, that is, a thrust to radically change culture by focusing on the allegedly oppressed classes, while at the same time undermining America’s institutions. By the late 1980s, this plan was in full swing in academia. New York Times writer Felicity Berringer pointed to this in an article “The Mainstreaming of Marxism in U.S. Colleges” written October 25, 1989. She wrote, “As Karl Marx’s ideological heirs in Communist nations struggle to transform his political legacy, his intellectual heirs on American campuses have virtually completed their own transformation from brash, beleaguered outsiders to assimilated academic insiders. It could be considered a success story for the students of class struggle, who were once regarded as subversives.”
John Ellis, professor at the University of Santa Cruz during this same period wrote in his 2020 book The Breakdown of Higher Education, “Radical politics was a rising force on the campuses, and we were trying to draw attention to the dangers in what was happening while there was still some chance of arresting it. But it’s now clear that we failed to stop the slide, because the political radicals on campus never had any interest in what we had to say. Their purposes were not ours. We were interested in the quality of higher education, but what they cared about was getting control of the campuses so they could use them to promote their political ideology, one so unpopular with the general public that it could not have been advanced in any other way.”
The bitter truth is that the ‘Long March’ worked! It took time, but now we face this massive challenge of how to root it out of our federal, state, and local governments, along with our military, universities, media, school boards, etc. Our young people have been and are being radicalized and propagandized daily. Supporting all this are the Democrats of today, and their DSA allies. They are a united front committed to transforming and gutting America from the inside out. Destroy the middle class, render impotent parental rights, isolate the church as a spewer of hate and intolerance, render ineffective the rule of law, demean the history and the Constitution of these United States. In concert with global elites, the media elite, and the toxic leftist bilge that is constantly oozing from their seats of power, they are doing just that.
Abraham Lincoln spoke of this potential of self-inflicted catastrophe when he said: “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer. If it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide.”
Which will it be? Life or death? What’s next for America?
(Quotations for this article derived from the work of Mike Gonzalez and Katharine Gorka of the Heritage Foundation.)
Rich Chiero is a writer and a historian deeply concerned with conditions in the United States and the West in general. He can be reached at: rachiero@gmail.com
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WHO RUNS THE NATION? THE GLOBALIST DEMOCRAT PARTY AND THEIR BANKSTERS AND BILLIONAIRES FOR OPEN BORDERS…. or George Soros, their paymaster?
“Obama would declare himself president for life with Soros really running the show, as he did for the entire Obama presidency.”
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2022/01/democrat-party-billionaires-for-open.html
How California Destroyed its Middle Class (A Cautionary Tale) | Victor Davis Hanson
IMAGES OF AMERICA UNDER LA RAZA
MEX OCCUPATION:
Your neighborhood will be next to fall to LA RAZA!
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2013/10/america-la-raza-mexicos-wide-open.html
Actor Scott Baio Leaving California After 45 Years: ‘It’s Not a Safe Place Anymore’
Scott Baio has had enough of California. The actor is so sick of its left-wing politics, and the crime, the homelessness, the lawlessness, and the grim future it holds, after 45 years he is taking his family with him and leaving.
The 62-year-old and long time resident of Los Angeles announced his intentions Wednesday on social media.
He tweeted: “After 45 years, I’m making my way to finally ‘exit stage right’ from California.”
His declaration included a quote from a report on KTLA5 that read, “The most recent survey conducted by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found approximately 69,000 people experiencing homelessness in L.A. County and 41,000 in the city in 2022.”
He further tweeted that homelessness “brings down property value. Also no consequences for crime that is rampant, making things higher in price and it’s just not a safe place anymore. [ImFree].”
Homelessness and crime rates have motivated other celebrities to leave the Golden State over the past few years.
Stars like Katy Perry, Matthew McConaughey, and podcaster Joe Rogan previously said L.A. was no longer the place they wanted to bring up a family.
This is not the first time Baio, son of Italian migrants who was born and raised in New York City, has called attention to the state of the nation in general and California in particular.
He was seen at the #WalkAway ‘Rescue America’ rally in 2020 calling for change.
Scott Baio is seen attending the #WalkAway ‘Rescue America’ rally in Beverly Garden Park on August 08, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (fupp/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)
On that occasion he joined hundreds of Americans who marched from West Hollywood to Beverly Hills to show their love for the country, as Breitbart News reported.
The Walk Away Campaign organized the event to “show the radical left that they do not own America’s streets and that our country is filled with kind, loving, big-hearted Americans of every race, religion, background, and creed,” its website read.
Baio was happy to take to social media to show his support and his political backing for Donald Trump.
The Happy Days star also addressed the crowd and said he loved America and wanted to save it because “I love that we’re a God-fearing nation. I love that we’re a law-abiding nation. I love our traditional values.”
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I Drove Around California For A Month. It Was A Disaster.
California Faces a $32 Billion Deficit, ‘This Was Not an Easy Budget’
California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) announced a revised budget plan to address the state’s $32 billion deficit.
Since January, the state’s deficit has grown by $10 billion, as reported by the AP. While the state’s budget is balanced this year, in the coming years the state is committed to spending more money than it will receive from taxpayers.
In the current tax system, the state receives 50 % of its taxpayer dollars from 1% of the population. When the economy and stock market are doing well, the state will receive more in taxes, but when the economy is on the brink of a recession, the wealthy will pay less in taxes.
The press release states:
While the May Revision does not forecast a recession, it recognizes increased risks to the budget since January that could significantly change the state’s fiscal trajectory in the near term. Taking this into account, the plan reflects $37.2 billion in total budgetary reserves, including $22.3 billion in the Budget Stabilization Account.
“This was not an easy budget, but I hope you see we will try to do our best to hold the line and take care of the most vulnerable and most needy, but still maintain prudence,” Newsom said.
Fox News reports that Gov. Newsom’s latest proposal calls for a spending reduction of $1 billion, and the rest of the deficit he is covering by taking money from the state’s safety net reserve and borrowing.
While Gov. Newsom said he was able to protect key issues that matter most to Californians, Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher said Newsom’s revised budget proposal cuts critical programs while continuing to fund money to failed projects like High Speed Rail.
“Only Gavin Newsom could turn a $100 billion surplus into a $31 billion deficit in less than a year,” Gallagher said in a press release. “His approach to closing this budget gap is more of the same. His cuts to drought programs are dangerous, his “fiscal gimmicks” are shortsighted, and his words about good government and efficiency are yet another empty promise. Californians deserve better.
Newsom’s revised budget comes just a week after Breitbart reported that a California’s task force on reparations would cost the $800 billion — more than twice the cost of the state’s budget.
