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Post by jdredd on Jul 12, 2017 11:02:31 GMT -5
The cover of this month's Atlantic magazine says: "Texas is America's Future". True or not, it is a scary thought. But it's you oblivious Millennials that will have to live with it. Meanwhile, I'll be living out my last years in my California paradise.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2017 16:11:35 GMT -5
The cover of this month's Atlantic magazine says: "Texas is America's Future". True or not, it is a scary thought. But it's you oblivious Millennials that will have to live with it. Meanwhile, I'll be living out my last years in my California paradise. Paradise? Nope! its a hell hole! Answer The Question! Wheres your Proof? Evidence?
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Post by jdredd on Aug 27, 2017 12:11:45 GMT -5
I'm wondering how much the weather of Texas has to do with the large numbers of cars with Texas plates here in San Diego this summer. As I said before, I'm guessing it's ex-Californians returning from an unpleasant stay in Texas, which weather could be a factor. I've never been to Texas in the summer, in fact I've only flown over it (in a DC-6B, by the way), but I hear it's hell. According to right-wing mythology, Texas is a booming heaven, but California is a decaying hellhole. Might be for some people, but I do hope returning Californians aren't infected with hideous Texas political dogma, such as pogroms against the undocumented that local police MUST cooperate with. I hope California tells Trump where to shove his money he's threatening to withhold from us if we don't abandon being a de facto "sanctuary" state.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 7, 2017 20:45:44 GMT -5
www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-brown-california-sanctuary-state-bill-20171005-story.html"Under threat of possible retaliation by the Trump administration, Gov. Jerry Brown signed landmark “sanctuary state” legislation Thursday, vastly limiting who state and local law enforcement agencies can hold, question and transfer at the request of federal immigration authorities. Senate Bill 54, which takes effect in January, has been blasted as “unconscionable” by U.S. Atty. Gen. Jeff Sessions, becoming the focus of a national debate over how far states and cities can go to prevent their officers from enforcing federal immigration laws. Supporters have hailed it as part of a broader effort by majority Democrats in the California Legislature to shield more than 2.3 million immigrants living illegally in the state.Brown took the unusual step of writing a signing message in support of SB 54. He called the legislation a balanced measure that would allow police and sheriff’s agencies to continue targeting dangerous criminals, while protecting hardworking families without legal residency in the country. “In enshrining these new protections, it is important to note what the bill does not do,” Brown wrote. “This bill does not prevent or prohibit Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Department of Homeland Security from doing their own work in any way.” Ha-ha! I really don't care about immigration. Let 'em in or not, I don't care. But I do like that California is poking a stick into Trump and his Deplorable base's eye with this.
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Post by jdredd on May 13, 2020 15:45:39 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/05/13/us/coronavirus-texas-armed-militias-reopening.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage"SHEPHERD, Texas — When Jamie Williams decided to reopen her East Texas tattoo studio last week in defiance of the state’s coronavirus restrictions, she asked Philip Archibald for help. He showed up with his dog Zeus, his friends and his AR-15 semiautomatic rifle. Mr. Archibald established an armed perimeter in the parking lot outside Crash-N-Burn Tattoo, secured by five men with military-style rifles, tactical shotguns, camouflage vests and walkie-talkies. One of them already had a large tattoo of his own. “We the People,” it said. “I think it should be a business’s right if they want to close or open,” said Mr. Archibald, a 29-year-old online fitness trainer from the Dallas area who lately has made it his personal mission to help Texas business owners challenge government orders to keep their doors shut during the coronavirus pandemic. “What is coming to arrest a person who is opening their business according to their constitutional rights? That’s confrontation.” If you don't think this is grotesque, I guess it just shows how it's all about people's tastes in political culture. Personally it makes no difference to me what happens in Texas since I haven't had any intention of ever being there.
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Post by jdredd on Jun 29, 2020 20:42:51 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/06/28/opinion/texas-coronavirus.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"HOUSTON — For one brief, delusional moment in early April, I felt a smidgen of support for my governor, Greg Abbott. Sure, part of me thought his plan to reopen the state after just a few weeks of lockdown was cuckoo. Medical experts warned of a surge in coronavirus cases if Texas did just that. But Texas is a big state, I told myself, and why should people out in Mentone or Daisetta have to close up shop when the hot spots were many miles down the highway? And yes, I knew the governor’s fevered, ferocious fealty to President Trump made his push suspect. But really, what kind of person would put politics over the safety of his constituents?" You could be in Texas and have this loser as your governor, a toady of Trump. Good luck.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 6, 2020 22:24:54 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Dec 8, 2020 19:03:44 GMT -5
www.theverge.com/2020/12/8/22163805/elon-musk-texas-moved-california-tesla-spacexThe Tesla CEO let that news slip during an interview for The Wall Street Journal’s annual CEO Council summit. He cited the construction of a new Tesla factory outside Austin, as well as Space X’s planned launch site near the South Texas village of Boca Chica, as a factor in his move. CNBC reported last week that Musk was considering relocating to Texas. He also criticized California’s economic environment as another reason. “If a team is winning for too long, they tend to get complacent,” Musk said. “California has been winning for a long time, and I think they’re taking it for granted.” Musk argued that Silicon Valley, home to some of the largest and most influential companies in the world, was declining in relevance.It seems that leaving California has been on Musk’s mind for a while now. On May 1st, he tweeted, “I will own no home.” Later, it was reported that he sold all four of his homes in California for a combined $62.5 million. It’s not just about being closer to his companies’ various projects in Texas. Musk also stands to save a lot of money on income taxes by moving to the Lone Star State. The billionaire CEO is slated to earn more than $50 billion in stock options, and he would have to pay income taxes on the profits when he exercises them if he remained in California. Texas, however, has no personal income tax." Freak of nature Elon Musk becomes one more tax dodger. He is also dating what could be his fourth wife.
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Post by jdredd on Dec 11, 2020 20:46:05 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2020/12/11/us/politics/supreme-court-election-texas.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage"WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit by Texas that had asked the court to throw out the election results in four battleground states that President Trump lost in November, ending any prospect that a brazen attempt to use the courts to reverse his defeat at the polls would succeed. The court, in a brief unsigned order, said Texas lacked standing to pursue the case, saying it “has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections.” The order, coupled with another one on Tuesday turning away a similar request from Pennsylvania Republicans, signaled that a conservative court with three justices appointed by Mr. Trump refused to be drawn into the extraordinary effort by the president and many prominent members of his party to deny his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., his victory." Ha-ha! Texas got it's Tex-ass kicked!!!
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Post by jdredd on Feb 11, 2021 12:59:28 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/opinion/california-san-francisco-schools.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"California has the highest poverty rate in the nation, when you factor in housing costs, and vies for the top spot in income inequality, too. There are bright spots in recent years — electric grid modernization, a deeply progressive plan to tax the wealthy to fund poor school districts, a prison population at a 30-year low — but there’s a reason 130,000 more people leave than enter each year. California is dominated by Democrats, but many of the people Democrats claim to care about most can’t afford to live there." "There is a danger — not just in California, but everywhere — that politics becomes an aesthetic rather than a program. It’s a danger on the right, where Donald Trump modeled a presidency that cared more about retweets than bills. But it’s also a danger on the left, where the symbols of progressivism are often preferred to the sacrifices and risks those ideals demand. California, as the biggest state in the nation, and one where Democrats hold total control of the government, carries a special burden. If progressivism cannot work here, why should the country believe it can work anywhere else?" Of course there is a lot wrong about what California is doing. But progressivism is a product of the failure of non-progressivism. Are not enough affordable housing being built in California? There is only one true thing creating that problem: The right's beloved market. So much more money is to be made in luxury homes. As for renaming schools, we still have Kearny Mesa here in San Diego, named after famed Mexican and indian killer General Kearny. Nice. And Kit Carson Park in Escondido named after another indian killer. The culture must be changed.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 16, 2021 1:26:13 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/newsmax-tv/california-migration-texas-red-state/2021/02/15/id/1010120/"The narrative voters and businesses fleeing liberal strangleholds like California and New York to move to Texas to bring votes for Democrats is just not borne out in polling, according to Texas state Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, on Newsmax TV. "It's not only our experience, but we've actually polled in the Cruz-Beto O'Rourke race and found that 57% of the Californians exiled, émigrés who have moved into Texas, actually voted for Cruz," Bettencourt told Monday's "Spicer & Co." of Sen. Ted Cruz's last Senate race against the gun-control liberal O'Rourke. "Now, why is that? They're escaping a terribly high-tax, high-regulation environment and they're coming to Texas, so they're bringing an economic conservative viewpoint." Californians fleeing to Texas must be why California house prices are dropping so dramatically.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 17, 2021 17:27:40 GMT -5
I'd laugh about Texas freezing in the dark but it isn't funny.
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Post by jdredd on Apr 27, 2021 1:55:04 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/04/26/us/us-census-california.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage"For generations, California has been America’s boomtown writ large, with a population that nearly doubled to some 40 million in the last four decades alone. California remains the nation’s most populous state, an immense, rning window into a majority-minority national future. But new data from the Census Bureau released on Monday confirms what demographers have suspected for years. The boom is gone. Dampened by declining birthrates and federal policies that drastically slowed immigration, California’s population increase of 6.1 percent over the past decade was the smallest in at least a century and less than the 7.4 percent national average, according to the census." California's growth is slowing? What's the bad news?
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Post by jdredd on May 4, 2021 17:40:26 GMT -5
www.newsmax.com/yurivanetik/california-exodus-conservativestates/2021/05/03/id/1019915/"It seems rational to think that people that leave California are unhappy with the Golden State. However, it appears that many are not — or at least not in a way one would think. Recent data on expatriated Californians suggests that they leave mostly because California is just too expensive; many of them do not harbor the expected ideological grievances. On the contrary, California "immigrants" become emissaries of the welfare state when they settle in their new homes.Empirical data suggests that transplanted Californians demand progressive policies wherever they go. The impact of the Golden State's proliferation of entitlement values is exacerbated by the fact that many Californians are moving to conservative states with a lower cost of living like Texas, Colorado, Utah, Tennessee, Montana and Idaho." "While expatriated Californians may be seeking lower taxes, more affordable housing and better job opportunities, they fail to see that in seeking the benefits of conservative-leaning states through handouts, they are killing off their hosts by bringing with them the same progressive social policies that turned California into a dysfunctional economic reality show. Bottom line: Red states like Colorado and Texas are at risk because expatriated Californians fail to accept a value system that made those states successful. As long as California's exodus of welfare state values continues, the uniqueness of American individualism and market economics will be at an increasing risk of being marginalized."
How heart warming is this? California's enlightened mindset is being exported all over the nation. I think that is what turned Arizona blue in 2020.
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Post by jdredd on May 20, 2021 13:34:56 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/us/texas-abortion-law.html?action=click&module=Well&pgtype=Homepage§ion=US%20News"SAN ANTONIO — Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas signed into law on Wednesday one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion measures, banning the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy and thrusting the state into the advancing national debate over reproductive rights. The legislation, also known as the “heartbeat law,” amounts to an outright ban on abortion, as many women are not aware they are pregnant at the six-week mark. It also would allow any private citizen to sue doctors or abortion clinic employees who would perform or help arrange for the procedure."
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