Los Angeles Union Liberal: Part-Time Mayor and Fidel Castro Lover Karen Bass is a "Dead Woman Walking"

Someone remarked the Latte Left is turning on Karen Bass in order to save the incompetent they have their 2028 hopes pinned on, Gavin Newsom. So the left is scapegoating a Strong Empowered Black Woman to boost the Privileged White Straight (?) Man.

But while that is probably true, a lot more people are just sick of the endless incompetence of the Democrat Party and its prioritization of culture war provocations over providing the actual government services they're supposed to provide.

Joel Kotkin in his Unheard substack: Even Hollywood is Turning on LA Mayor Karen Bass.

After her election as mayor of Los Angeles in 2022, Karen Bass was a heroine of California's Left. A former backer of Fidel Castro, she decisively defeated billionaire businessman Rick Caruso, who spent more than $100 million to try and defeat her. With a struggling economy, rising crime, and a high cost of living, Bass's election seemed to confirm LA's final transition from a place of political diversity to a single-party city dominated by a well-organised Left and funders from the public unions.
Now, though, Bass "is a dead woman walking", as a union organiser friend told me this week. The revelations of incompetence, poor planning, and awful communication, combined with the fact that the LA mayor was partying in Ghana when wildfires started in her city, have worked against her, and yesterday angry protestors gathered outside her home. Some charges made by Donald Trump and Elon Musk tying the disaster to DEI and climate policies are exaggerated. But Bass's lack of interest in public safety mirrors the new progressive script which prioritises "social justice" over actual justice, racial quotas over merit, and climate alarmism over common sense.
Naturally, Bass, Governor Gavin Newsom and their media supporters reject conservatives' accusations of incompetence. They say opponents are using the fires as a political "piñata", and blame the damage on climate change. Yet Steven Koonin, a respected physicist and advisor in the Obama administration, has argued that the real responsibility lies with a slew of bad policies which left the city unprepared for the scale of the disaster. Fires have been a regular feature of life here in Southern California for at least 20 million years. Given recent weather conditions, the city should have known what was coming.
Rather than help save our piece of the planet, proponents of the green movement have been consistent barriers to effective fire management. As far back as 2018, the Little Hoover Commission found that controlled burns and brush clearance were necessary to avoid catastrophic wildfires, yet not enough was done. Even as the state reacted to major fires in 2020, attempts at controlled fires have been hampered by environmental lawsuits that delay implementation, as well as fire management budget cuts. Bass also cut the fire budget.
California has been running huge deficits in recent years, but not enough of those funds have gone towards fire preparedness. Those in charge never made sure that fire engines were in place beforehand, that there was sufficient water pressure in hydrants, and that reservoirs were filled. To her credit, the LA council member who represents the Palisades, Traci Park, has consistently made these arguments.
Unsurprisingly, there has been a groundswell against Bass and the city's bureaucrats. Some Hollywood stars -- a group which has historically been the bulwark of the progressive movement -- have even joined in. Celebrities including Maria Shriver, Justine Bateman and Dennis Quaid have now called on Bass to resign, as have the 150,000 signatories of a petition launched last week. As the journalist Michael Shellenberger notes: "They didn't imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down."

I don't think you can count Justine Bateman and Dennis Quaid as the usual Democrat-partisan celebrities. But I guess Maria Shriver is a very minor "get."

Despite the obsessive pounding about climate change, less than one in three Californians approve of Newsom's handling of the fires. Demands from Republicans in Congress could force the city and state to reverse the policies that exacerbated the fires. Perhaps the worst thing that could happen would be to follow a Bidenesque approach of handing out billions without reforming anything or imposing performance benchmarks.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says that any aid to California will have strings attached, so we're not writing another trillion dollar check to these entitled communist morons next year.

In an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity on Tuesday, House Speaker Mike Johnson doubled down on saying lawmakers are talking about placing conditions on aid given to California after the Los Angeles area experienced massive wildfires that firefighters are still battling.
"Are you saying that California, if they continue to aid and abet lawbreaking and harbor illegal immigrants, money from DC gets cut off?" Hannity asked. Johnson replied, "Yeah. We're talking about conditions to this disaster aid. Look, there are natural disasters, but there are manmade disasters as well, and they've made terrible decisions. You know, they knew exactly what they were doing."
"That reservoir outside the Pacific Palisades, 117 million gallons, it was empty for a year. Why? They were trying to save a smelt fish or something. I mean, their policies are upside down, they made decisions that made that disaster exponentially worse, and this is what the American taxpayer is demanding of us everywhere else in the country." Since January 7, when the Palisades and Eaton fires began, over 40,000 acres have burned and over 15,000 structures have been destroyed. At least 28 people have died as a result, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention. On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an order requiring California to reapportion their water resources to benefit humans, not endangered fish.

Sean Hannity: "Are you saying that California, if they continue to aid and abet lawbreaking and harboring illegal immigrants, money from DC gets cut off?"

House Speaker Mike Johnson: "Yeah, we’re talking about conditions to this disaster aid." pic.twitter.com/W4RKxtVIB8
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) January 22, 2025

Update:

Trump: "It's to protect the Delta Smelt? It's a fish that's doing poorly...How are you protecting the Delta Smelt by not giving it water? It's a fish. It needs water. Nobody can answer that question." pic.twitter.com/UxUZfqtXPC
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 21, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 02:30 PM

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1 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says that any aid to California will have strings attached, so we're not writing another trillion dollar check to these entitled communist morons next year.

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We've come very far from Chris Christie embracing Obama in 2012 for a graft-filled aid package from Hurricane Sandy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

2 One would hope

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 02:31 PM (fwDg9)

3 Bass is a symptom.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (2UnvF)

4 ADIOS

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (iF6GW)

5 Federal receivership

Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (OqVpd)

6 Lin-duh! I hope you are okay! Nothing worse than a bruised hind end. Poor you!

Posted by: Piper at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

7 >>>So the left is scapegoating a Strong Empowered Black Woman to boost the Privileged White Straight (?) Man.

Meh. All leftists tools go under the bus eventually. It is the way.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 22, 2025 02:33 PM (i24o9)

8 There's no national political future for Newsome (unless he gets given one of the Senate seats, but that would be a long time off) He's very publicly run California into the ground. He's no longer worth worrying about.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2025 02:33 PM (wyMQY)

9 5 Federal receivership
Posted by: Zombie Breitbart at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (OqVpd)

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Personal liability from government officials for work to prevent future fires from hitting populated areas.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)

10 I have just the thing for Bass!

Posted by: Dan Akroyd at January 22, 2025 02:34 PM (+QlJh)

11 Nothing worse than a bruised hind end. Poor you!
Posted by: Piper at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

Is Lin duh in Cali

Posted by: MAC V SOG at January 22, 2025 02:34 PM (P4Pk9)

12 Bass is a symptom.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (2UnvF)

That's what we've been carping about.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 22, 2025 02:34 PM (i24o9)

13 So the left is scapegoating a Strong Empowered Black Woman to boost the Privileged White Straight (?) Man.

Gavin Newscum is definitely not gay.

https://youtu.be/drWhPBarXQw

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 22, 2025 02:34 PM (ExV1e)

14 Lin-duh! I hope you are okay! Nothing worse than a bruised hind end. Poor you!

Posted by: Piper at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (ZdaMQ)

The horde will need pictures for proper diagnosis, mind you.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 22, 2025 02:35 PM (i24o9)

15 I don't understand, she's made the place more like Cuba. They got exactly what they voted for.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 02:35 PM (b4o9z)

16 OH, well if Mike Johnson says so, then there is just no way that he could ever possibly renege on that

Posted by: ghbucky at January 22, 2025 02:35 PM (/xDbx)

17 How DARE that pyrsyn assume Bass's gender!?!?!??!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 22, 2025 02:35 PM (FAbrK)

18 8 There's no national political future for Newsome (unless he gets given one of the Senate seats, but that would be a long time off) He's very publicly run California into the ground. He's no longer worth worrying about.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2025 02:33 PM (wyMQY)

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He never was.

It's the California Democrat machine's dream that they can run the DNC. They're insanely wealthy, and they deserve it.

Their effort in 2020 was Kamala, and it collapsed hilariously. They're best effort was to force her into the VP slot and then force her into the POTUS slot 4 years later before watching her go down in flames.

The out-woke-a-thon that was the 2020 Democrat primary worked out so badly that Biden was able to coast in 2nd place until everyone else dropped out and coalesced around him instead of Bernie.

Newsom governing CA like a lunatic was never going to play well in SC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)

19 But I guess Maria Shriver is a very minor "get."

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She is a Kennedy !

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 02:35 PM (g47mK)

20 I was born in California, but like Superman and the Planet Krypton, pretty sure it's been destroyed and can never go back.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at January 22, 2025 02:36 PM (MsoDA)

21 "Dead Woman Walking"

This is an attack on women.

Posted by: League of Attacks on Women at January 22, 2025 02:36 PM (+oR7L)

22 The large mouth bass has a hook in it.

Posted by: dantesed at January 22, 2025 02:36 PM (Oy/m2)

23 Throw Bass out just for the Halibut!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 02:36 PM (2UnvF)

24 Have a pastie.

Posted by: Any Yooper at January 22, 2025 02:30 PM (ufFY

The body covering?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (ynpvh)

Ooops.
Pasty.

Although...

Posted by: Any Yooper at January 22, 2025 02:36 PM (ufFY8)

25 Bass was runner up to be Biden's VP!

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at January 22, 2025 02:36 PM (V6W16)

26 I'll never understand how "Climate Change" excuses a lack of being prepared for fires. If anything, it suggests abject stupidity because if one truly believes in "Climate Change causing fires" it seems one would think, "Gee, since A is going to cause B, best be extra prepared."

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 02:36 PM (tT6L1)

27 How about zero money to California Mike. They shart their bed and now should wallow in the mess. I. Don't. Give. A. F*ck. About. Anything. California.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 02:37 PM (/U5Yz)

28 Los Angeles Times @latimes 5h
This reservoir was built to save Pacific Palisades. It was empty when the flames came

Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati 1h
🔥🔥🔥 Hey @GavinNewsom & @KarenBassLA

Would you like to continue claiming that we had sufficient water to fight the Newsom Fires™️??

How on EARTH can you excuse leaving a reservoir SPECIALLY BUILT for fighting fires, RIGHT where fire started, EMPTY, when you KNEW the risks?!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 22, 2025 02:37 PM (5LoD7)

29 Talking about this subject is like trying to explain to a young child why they need to brush their teeth.

It's exhausting.

If you choose to live in a wildfire prone area, you need to be big boys and girls and appropriately plan and manage for the entirely predictable fires that will happen. If you can't handle that, you might be too retarded to self govern.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 02:37 PM (uCjyK)

30 "They didn't imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down."

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Because they are idiots.

The recent history of wildfires mixed with the political response to blame Trump and Red States was never going to result in anything but bigger wildfires.

Fucking dumbasses.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:37 PM (GBKbO)

31

That’s delicious bass!

Posted by: E Buzz at January 22, 2025 02:37 PM (Mix2f)

32 There should be a federal oversight person or group attached to any money to California.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 02:37 PM (Hkcdp)

33 these entitled communist morons

I saw Entitled Communist Morons open for Country Joe & the Fish at the Fillmore West in '69.

Posted by: zombie at January 22, 2025 02:38 PM (pMi6S)

34 Some charges made by Donald Trump and Elon Musk tying the disaster to DEI and climate policies are exaggerated.

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Sure, Jan ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 02:38 PM (HzLHf)

35
Los Angeles Union Liberal: Part-Time Mayor and Fidel Castro Lover Karen Bass is a "Dead Woman Walking"

Alternate Post Title Addendum:

and Runner-Up DEI VP Pick for biden

Posted by: Bill Maher's whiny pussy mouth at January 22, 2025 02:38 PM (RDFmy)

36 3 Bass is a symptom.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (2UnvF)

THIS. The LA Board of Supervisors signed off on everything that Bass did, without complaint and with unanimity. If you're not going to get rid of the 90% of the iceberg that is mostly responsible for this mess, getting rid of Bass and Newsom won't solve the problem.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 02:38 PM (DnTj0)

37 It's hard to be "party unity" cheerleader when you are digging through ashes looking for your Oscar,Emmy, or Golden Globe.

Posted by: Frank Kennedy at January 22, 2025 02:38 PM (+oR7L)

38 Without Water it's not a Reservoir. It's just a depression.

Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2025 02:38 PM (snN/i)

39 19 But I guess Maria Shriver is a very minor "get."

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She is a Kennedy !
Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 02:35 PM (g47mK)

The right kind of Kennedy {dem}

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 02:38 PM (VE6XX)

40 "Someone remarked the Latte Left is turning on Karen Bass in order to save the incompetent they have their 2028 hopes pinned on, Gavin Newsom."

I think they're both dead men walking with no future in politics. Gov Whitey Soul Glow is a bigger fish, though. The Party has more invested in him. So he gets the benefit of a scapegoat. But I think the odds of him being a real candidate in 2028 are about the same as him not knowing what bozack tastes like.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (iFTx/)

41 Any community that would elect that imbecile Bass over Caruso deserves - unfortunately for their Conservative neighbors - to be burned out of house, home, and clothing. I'm an ex-Californian (lived in socal 1983-2002) and considered it home until the late 90s. Loved it. I couldn't give 2 sh-ts about it now. Let it burn to a crisp. Start over.

Posted by: Ghost in U at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (qbmaU)

42
Yeah, karen bass was almost the vp in 2020.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (RDFmy)

43 1 Speaker of the House Mike Johnson says that any aid to California will have strings attached, so we're not writing another trillion dollar check to these entitled communist morons next year.

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We've come very far from Chris Christie embracing Obama in 2012 for a graft-filled aid package from Hurricane Sandy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:31 PM

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Trump is visiting NC on Friday for his first trip as president. California is after. Hoping for added significance in the sequence.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (wzAuc)

44 Wait...if they're trying to save a fish, why doesn't a Bass count? Or is it that some fish are more equal than other fish?

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (gqsiU)

45 I hope Trump takes Newsome aside when he gets there and explains:

One word about climate change and I'm getting back on the plane and you'll get not one red cent in aid.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (2UnvF)

46 She didn't get the memo yet? Affirmative action and DEI are no longer. Start packing.

Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (z+ik4)

47 We've come very far from Chris Christie embracing Obama in 2012 for a graft-filled aid package from Hurricane Sandy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

Have we? While Johnson's position is correct, it's still Uncle Sugar saying that a state must suck the fed-peen if they want cash. Sure, the details differ, but it's the same basic thing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (ExV1e)

48 T Wolf 🌁 @Twolfrecovery 23h
Brand new permanent supportive housing for the homeless almost finished on Skid Row in LA. How much did it cost per unit? Almost $1 million. Drugs are allowed inside because state law requires it. Reform SB1380. @BayAreaCouncil

Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati 4h
Disgusting.

The entire concept of “permanent supportive housing” (a free million dollar condo for life, utilities and furniture and food included) must end.

Homeless “tourists” flock to LA & never leave while tax paying citizens can’t afford rent & utilities.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 22, 2025 02:40 PM (5LoD7)

49 The gal Bass hired to manage that empty reservoir was formerly an executive vote at PG&E. And she is paid more than 2x what the person she replaced.

How many fires can be caused by the same people before someone takes note?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 02:40 PM (Hkcdp)

50 How on EARTH can you excuse leaving a reservoir SPECIALLY BUILT for fighting fires, RIGHT where fire started, EMPTY, when you KNEW the risks?!
Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 22, 2025 02:37 PM (5LoD7)

Because everyone involved is incompetent. Many of the voters are from countries where everything is incompetent and/or they have strongman dictators who make decisions. Other voters are brain dead retards who get paid a lot of money to "entertain" us.

And the politicians they elect treat politics like it's the entertainment industry. It's just a way to get rich and famous. These are not exactly the types of people you would expect to roll up their sleeves and get involved in the day to day managing of a city. And the people they hire are just like them. So ultimately, no one is steering the boat. It's just kind of on autopilot. And has been for years.

Not to be too mean to LA County here, they are an extreme version of what is going on pretty much everywhere.

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at January 22, 2025 02:40 PM (uCjyK)

51 ABC7 Eyewitness News @ABC7 Jan 21
Newsom issues statement on Trump's executive actions on climate, with accompanying photos of #LA fires: "If you don't believe in science, believe your own damn eyes."

Houman David Hemmati, MD, PhD @houmanhemmati 11h
Wildfires have been a part of Southern California for thousands of years or more. There’s documentation of that.

Any attempt to blame “climate change” for the Newsom Fires™️ naively ignores that fact.

Even if true, @GavinNewsom thinks he has the power to reverse it?

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 22, 2025 02:40 PM (5LoD7)

52 42
Yeah, karen bass was almost the vp in 2020.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (RDFmy)

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What??? I don't remember her at all. What a horrible choice. So, yeah, I can see how that would happen.

Posted by: Seems Legit at January 22, 2025 02:41 PM (PMtkd)

53 Bass is a symptom.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (2UnvF)

a bass has a better face than Bass

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 22, 2025 02:41 PM (NtVYv)

54
As the journalist Michael Shellenberger notes: "They didn't imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down."

Really?
Because that's EXACTLY what I would imagine happening.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 02:41 PM (RDFmy)

55 >>Brand new permanent supportive housing for the homeless almost finished on Skid Row in LA.

Nice staging area for ICE deportations.

Posted by: Roy at January 22, 2025 02:41 PM (z+ik4)

56 Is Lin duh in Cali

She lives in America.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 22, 2025 02:41 PM (ExV1e)

57 Is Kamala behind this?

Asking for Dr. Jill McBiden

Posted by: Just Lily at January 22, 2025 02:41 PM (a3Opk)

58 Bass will take the political hit to help Nero Newscum save his political career... if he can. The entire LA DPW should be sued and the upper echelon of all democrat politcos in cali.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at January 22, 2025 02:41 PM (17s+e)

59 getting rid of Bass and Newsom won't solve the problem.

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Leftism can't stay in power without scapegoats. If you're going to have a steady stream of f'kups, you're need a steady stream of people to blame it on and just hope the populace doesn't catch on. That's communism 101.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 02:41 PM (b4o9z)

60 >>Or is it some fish are more equal

“I know, right?”
— Barred Owls

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 02:41 PM (Hkcdp)

61 LA needs to get in line behind those neglected souls freezing in their FEMA tents in WNC.

Go ahead and pull a "Do you know who I am?"

Because yes we do, no one likes you and we don't care.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 22, 2025 02:42 PM (wBaIH)

62 47 We've come very far from Chris Christie embracing Obama in 2012 for a graft-filled aid package from Hurricane Sandy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

Have we? While Johnson's position is correct, it's still Uncle Sugar saying that a state must suck the fed-peen if they want cash. Sure, the details differ, but it's the same basic thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (ExV1e)

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Mostly, the politics of the 2012 package was that we had to pass it right now or people would die. It was rushed, and Christie, a hopeful for 2016, was shitting on the Republican base for opposing an aid package with no strings. There were no strings. It was a slush fund, one of dozens the feds have passed in a rush over the past few decades.

Now? We at least have rhetoric around keeping funds directed at the actual problem, along with a president who seems more likely than most to veto a graft filled aid package rushed through at the last second.

It's not fiscal responsibility. It's massive spending with strings.

That it's an improvement is an indictment of our system, for sure, but it's still a change.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)

63 "No no no, this row of slummy crackhouses won't do."

"So, demolish them?"

"Of course! And then we'll build luxurious, beautiful, top of the line crackhouses for all the crackheads in their place!"

"Are you high right now, boss?"

"Extremely."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 02:42 PM (+iIV1)

64 The gal Bass hired to manage that empty reservoir was formerly an executive vote at PG&E. And she is paid more than 2x what the person she replaced.

How many fires can be caused by the same people before someone takes note?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 02:40 PM (Hkcdp)
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Sheesh. I could manage an empty reservoir. And I would only ask for 1.5x what the previous person made.

Posted by: bluebell at January 22, 2025 02:42 PM (79pEw)

65 Gee, thanks for the NOOD, everyone.

Posted by: Bulg at January 22, 2025 02:42 PM (77rzZ)

66 >>As the journalist Michael Shellenberger notes: "They didn't imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down."

Who could have predicted that!?

I mean...besides the tens of thousands of people who predicted exactly that.

Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2025 02:43 PM (snN/i)

67 LA needs to get in line behind those neglected souls freezing in their FEMA tents in WNC.

Go ahead and pull a "Do you know who I am?"

Because yes we do, no one likes you and we don't care.
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 22, 2025 02:42 PM (wBaIH)

Da!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at January 22, 2025 02:43 PM (W/lyH)

68 But I guess Maria Shriver is a very minor "get."

Shriver? I hardly know her!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 22, 2025 02:43 PM (+QlJh)

69 I read that they are forbidding people from returning to their homes unitl they are inspected by the govt for hazmat and safety. I bet they don't get inspections done in 10 years.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 02:43 PM (b4o9z)

70 Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 22, 2025 02:40 PM (5LoD7)

Every time I hear or see the "believe in science" canard gives me the urge to berate the fool saying/writing it with the obvious contradiction there, followed up by a savage slapping.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 22, 2025 02:44 PM (9Ovst)

71 I'll believe that Karen Bass is a dead woman walking when she actually goes. Can't be that easy in CA to get rid of a DEI hire who's a Communist.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 22, 2025 02:44 PM (Tpui/)

72 Fed peen is best peen.

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 22, 2025 02:44 PM (paSBy)

73 Talking about this subject is like trying to explain to a young child why they need to brush their teeth.

If you don't brush your teeth then the tooth fairy will come while you're asleep and beat you to death. Goodnight, sweetie, pleasant dreams.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 22, 2025 02:44 PM (ExV1e)

74 >>Some charges made by Donald Trump and Elon Musk tying the disaster to DEI and climate policies are exaggerated.

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By all means, don't elaborate.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 02:44 PM (wzAuc)

75 65 Gee, thanks for the NOOD, everyone.
Posted by: Bulg

You're welcome!

Posted by: Glad Hand Grin Fucker From Cali at January 22, 2025 02:44 PM (/U5Yz)

76 OT
But wish I didn't have to go to work, but will be alone and not like anyone else can go

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 02:45 PM (fwDg9)

77 A "Bass"hole

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 02:45 PM (RHGPo)

78 74 >>Some charges made by Donald Trump and Elon Musk tying the disaster to DEI and climate policies are exaggerated.

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By all means, don't elaborate.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 02:44 PM (wzAuc)

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"White men would have made the exact same decisions!"

"So, the BIPOC hiring led to the same outcomes of hiring white men? What about their lived experiences that would lead to better outcomes?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:45 PM (GBKbO)

79 >>Bass will take the political hit to help Nero Newscum save his political career

Newsome has no Political Future beyond (a House or) Senate Seat in California.

And even those are a long shot, now.

Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2025 02:45 PM (snN/i)

80 That kind of language seems threatening.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 02:45 PM (JdxE1)

81 "They didn't imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down."

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Something something learn from history something something doomed to repeat it.

100 million murdered by Collectivism in the 20th century was not a sufficient warning?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 02:45 PM (HzLHf)

82 69 I read that they are forbidding people from returning to their homes unitl they are inspected by the govt for hazmat and safety. I bet they don't get inspections done in 10 years.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

It moved.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (/U5Yz)

83 The LA City Clowncil meeting was slightly lit during public comment, blasting them for incompetence.

Stacy, Three Inch Shrimp, Audit LA, and Spindler were there.

Stacy (an Gaza loving commie) sang about the Clowncil's curtailment of call in public comment.

Shrimp complained that he wasn't black enough to be listened to.

Audit LA complained again about the ADA violations in front of the Cult of Scientology building, demanding that the planters be removed from the sidewalks.

Spindler and his goat puppet chastises the Clowncil for many things, and surprisingly added the N-word to his vocabulary today. I think Mr. Herman is rubbing off on him.

Next meeting is Friday 1p eastern on Smoke N Scan.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (ufFY8)

84 If you don't brush your teeth then the tooth fairy will come while you're asleep and beat you to death. Goodnight, sweetie, pleasant dreams.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 22, 2025 02:44 PM (ExV1e)
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That made me laugh. Thanks.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (tT6L1)

85 Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is delayed one week, according to a committee’s notice on Monday. A committee spokesperson told Breitbart News the delay is due to Democrats on the panel but did not pinpoint which Democrat it is.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...

President Donald Trump began to fire career employees at the Justice Department on Wednesday, a move that signals his promise of purging the administrative state has begun.
The Washington Post reported that there is a 120-day moratorium on some staff reassignments after newly confirmed leaders begin their appointments, under federal guidelines. Bondi has not yet been confirmed; therefore, the moratorium is not yet in effect in the DOJ.

Cue ...

See the whites of their eyes, then shoot
With all the romance of the Ton-Ton Macoute

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (RHGPo)

86 Have we? While Johnson's position is correct, it's still Uncle Sugar saying that a state must suck the fed-peen if they want cash. Sure, the details differ, but it's the same basic thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (ExV1e)
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Sometimes the best thing to do--even if it seems to be heartless--is to CUT OFF support.

Parents do this to their children all the time once they are adults.

It forces people to grow up and take responsibility.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (7fElN)

87
Yeah, I don't know for a fact, but I think the wacky CA EPA will declare the burned homes "hazardous" and force the homeowners to go balls-deep with the HAZMAT bullshit & expense with cleanup.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (RDFmy)

88
It's not that Democrats have become more criminal.

They just don't care if anybody believes the alibis anymore.

Posted by: Auspex at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (j4U/Z)

89 Gee, thanks for the NOOD, everyone.
Posted by: Bulg

The first one made was very subtle.

Easy to miss

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (hB7mE)

90 "They didn't imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down."

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Something something learn from history something something doomed to repeat it.

100 million murdered by Collectivism in the 20th century was not a sufficient warning?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 02:45 PM (HzLHf)

They need more pain.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (i24o9)

91 Every time I hear or see the "believe in science" canard gives me the urge to berate the fool saying/writing it with the obvious contradiction there, followed up by a savage slapping.

Posted by: Thrawn

It is simply an appeal to authority. Unfortunately for them, once that authority has sold its soul to politics, their credibility is gone.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (lTGtQ)

92 68 But I guess Maria Shriver is a very minor "get."

Shriver? I hardly know her!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 22, 2025 02:43 PM (+QlJh)

Something to do with the Kennedy's? Looks like someone tied the jawbone of an ass onto a broomhandle? Used to be married to Schwarzenegger before he had that affair with Danny DeVito? You'd know her if you saw her.

Posted by: Warai-otoko stays up on current events at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (+iIV1)

93 They'll just vote for another Democrat. What flavor haven't they sampled yet?

Posted by: Sock Monkey * scio te ipsum at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (feC/a)

94 *But I guess Maria Shriver is a very minor "get."*

Arnold thought so, thus his tryst with his Guatemala maid.

Posted by: Thrawn at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (9Ovst)

95 Trump is visiting NC on Friday for his first trip as president. California is after. Hoping for added significance in the sequence.
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (wzAuc)

I'm predicting a harsh winter for FEMA.

Posted by: mrp at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (rj6Yv)

96 With the obvious colossal failures of liberalism in CA with the wildfires -- what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (N39Ws)

97 79 Newsome has no Political Future beyond (a House or) Senate Seat in California.

And even those are a long shot, now.

Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2025 02:45 PM (snN/i)

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The Senate seats seem taken for the long haul, especially Schiff who probably wants to be caucus leader.

Newsom can't run for governor again.

Yeah, House seat or something outside of government. Probably the best case scenario is leading the DNC.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:47 PM (GBKbO)

98 >>>But I guess Maria Shriver is a very minor "get."

Minor enough that Ahnold decided that banging the ugliest maid in America was an upgrade.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 22, 2025 02:47 PM (CwhoI)

99 Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is delayed one week, according to a committee’s notice on Monday.
....
The Washington Post reported that there is a 120-day moratorium on some staff reassignments after newly confirmed leaders begin their appointments, under federal guidelines. Bondi has not yet been confirmed; therefore, the moratorium is not yet in effect in the DOJ.

LMAO

Posted by: FeatherBlade at January 22, 2025 02:47 PM (hB7mE)

100 96 With the obvious colossal failures of liberalism in CA with the wildfires -- what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (N39Ws)

I'm in CA... Not likely

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 02:47 PM (VE6XX)

101 The same people who call the global warming scam 'science' also tell you to believe the science that males can become females.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 22, 2025 02:47 PM (lTGtQ)

102
Time for Senator Cuck Thune to either force the Senate to remain in session 24/7 until done, a recess the Senate to allow the President to make appointments.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 02:47 PM (RDFmy)

103 100 million murdered by Collectivism in the 20th century was not a sufficient warning?

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 02:45 PM (HzLHf)

I highly doubt anyone who went to school in CA even knows about that. Too much time studing the different genders and reparations.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at January 22, 2025 02:47 PM (b4o9z)

104 They (Dems) are delaying Bondi's confirmation. Perhaps Trump can delay his trip to CA until she is out of committee....

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 02:47 PM (g47mK)

105 "Appeal to authority" is a logical fallacy.

"I dare you to reject my authority" is a strategic blunder.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 02:48 PM (+iIV1)

106 Water czar & DEI hire who makes 750,000 a year, Janisse Quinones should have already been fired.

Posted by: redridinghood at January 22, 2025 02:48 PM (NpAcC)

107 Every time I hear or see the "believe in science" canard gives me the urge to berate the fool saying/writing it with the obvious contradiction there, followed up by a savage slapping.
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Yep.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 22, 2025 02:48 PM (5LoD7)

108 The only thing they (Ds) are delaying is themselves.

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 02:48 PM (g47mK)

109 "you want to keep help from fire victims, you HATERS" . I'm pretty sure that's the Dems position

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 22, 2025 02:49 PM (6v8aM)

110 >>With the obvious colossal failures of liberalism in CA with the wildfires -- what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?

Unless the entire apparatus of the State Government and its guiding documents are lost in the next fire?

0%

Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2025 02:49 PM (snN/i)

111 Love her or hate her, Ayn Rand identified the particular species of stupid that currently infests California:

"You can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."

California is also the poster child of this Scripture:

"Be not deceived: God is not mocked. As ye sow, so shall ye reap. If you sow inequity you will sow a whirlwind.

Once again the Gods of the Copybook Headings proceed with their lessons for the "beautiful people" of California.

Will they listen? I highly doubt it.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 22, 2025 02:49 PM (cEwPm)

112 >>> 105 "Appeal to authority" is a logical fallacy.

"I dare you to reject my authority" is a strategic blunder.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 02:48 PM (+iIV1)

Nonsense!

Posted by: Anthony SCIENCE! Fauci at January 22, 2025 02:49 PM (NtUSo)

113 Something to do with the Kennedy's?

Sargent Shriver's daughter, I believe. I know he was famous for being married to a Kennedy. I guess that makes her a Kennedy, too.

Posted by: t-bird at January 22, 2025 02:49 PM (/tXXR)

114 We've come very far from Chris Christie embracing Obama in 2012 for a graft-filled aid package from Hurricane Sandy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)

You mean when christie took the romantic walk on the jersey beach with obama? That fucking walking harpoon scarred buoy was dead to me after that.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at January 22, 2025 02:49 PM (VwHCD)

115 You have to believe in science for it to work.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 02:49 PM (JdxE1)

116 Fuck all that.

No $ to filthy rich foreigners when Americans are suffering.

Posted by: North Carolina at January 22, 2025 02:49 PM (BI5O2)

117 What the hell is Trump doing to us in Israel?!?!

https://tinyurl.com/y946k8vj

https://tinyurl.com/2mt8pczk

This reminds me of Trump 1's team member vetting failures.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 22, 2025 02:50 PM (RRBie)

118 >>"Appeal to authority" is a logical fallacy.

Not True Scotsman would make that argument!

Posted by: garrett at January 22, 2025 02:50 PM (snN/i)

119 She’ll be replaced with a white male Republican right?

No of course she won’t. She’ll be replaced by another far Left DEI hire.

And honestly I don’t really give a fuck. Literally let it burn.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 22, 2025 02:50 PM (/St6i)

120 96 With the obvious colossal failures of liberalism in CA with the wildfires -- what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

Kevin McCarthy red or Darrell Issa red?

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 02:50 PM (/U5Yz)

121 We gotta quit throwing Fed money at NGOs

raise your own funds, MFers

Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 02:50 PM (AOsQT)

122

The Politicians are replaceable. The ideology and party must be defended and protected at any cost. The Dems have hordes of Basses and Newsrooms ready and able to take their place so long as they maintain their base an.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 02:50 PM (x0n13)

123 "So, the BIPOC hiring led to the same outcomes of hiring white men? What about their lived experiences that would lead to better outcomes?"

I really hate that term "lived experience". As opposed to what..."unlived experience"? FFS.

Maybe it's just me but I can't stand these superfluous modifiers added on. To me they just obfuscate things and I try really hard to eschew obfuscation. FFS again.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 22, 2025 02:51 PM (gqsiU)

124 California has a large number of nonprofit organizations and they employ a huge number of people. Maybe that leads to more Democratic voters, idk.

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 22, 2025 02:51 PM (NFX2v)

125 I'm kind of surprised that everyone seems to be keeping a distance from the Mayor's selection for Deputy Mayor (Brian Williams) who had his house raided by the FBI one month before the fires. Apparently, Mr. Deputy Mayor called in a bomb threat or something.

You'd think he'd be the one everyone tried to use as a patsy. He's already compromised and a sitting duck.

Posted by: Orson at January 22, 2025 02:51 PM (dIske)

126 Newsoms, not Newsrooms, but still how appropriate @122

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 02:51 PM (x0n13)

127 119 She’ll be replaced with a white male Republican right?

No of course she won’t. She’ll be replaced by another far Left DEI hire.

And honestly I don’t really give a fuck. Literally let it burn.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at January 22, 2025 02:50 PM (/St6i)

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Republicans in CA will put up a gay, Hispanic woman who promises all Democrat things but better managed. Democrats will put up a rich, white man.

The Democrat will win because it'll be racist, sexist, and homophobic to vote for the gay, Hispanic woman.

You know, like Larry Elder vs. Gavin Newsom during that recall election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

128 OT
But wish I didn't have to go to work, but will be alone and not like anyone else can go

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 02:45 PM (fwDg9)

----------------

. Subcontract the job out to an H-1B Visa holder for half your paid wage.
. ???
. PROFIT!!!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 02:51 PM (HzLHf)

129 I'd like to know if there's plans to re-zone any of the affected areas and to what? And... how is the city/state going to wade through the prop-13 mess this has created.

Lastly... how's FEMA doing out there? The folks in NC would like to know.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 22, 2025 02:52 PM (Q4IgG)

130 Zombie experience.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 02:52 PM (JdxE1)

131 126 Newsoms, not Newsrooms, but still how appropriate @122
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 02:51 PM (x0n13)

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*pst...you can correct your comments! You have the power!*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

132 I really hate that term "lived experience". As opposed to what..."unlived experience"? FFS.

Maybe it's just me but I can't stand these superfluous modifiers added on. To me they just obfuscate things and I try really hard to eschew obfuscation. FFS again.

Posted by: Chairborne!.

You hit it in one, going all the way back to Lenin.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at January 22, 2025 02:52 PM (lTGtQ)

133 Sorry I care more about the US than Israel but I don't think Trump is harming Israel in any way.

Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 02:52 PM (KQk9m)

134 >With the obvious colossal failures of liberalism in CA with the wildfires -- what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?
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doubtful

Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 02:53 PM (AOsQT)

135 The Dems have hordes of Basses and Newsrooms ready and able to take their place so long as they maintain their base an.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 02:50 PM (x0n13)

The depth chart is deep of those waiting to fail upwards - trademark of the Democrats

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 22, 2025 02:53 PM (/6GbT)

136 Since we're doing Maria Shriver jokes, I'll just leave this here:

https://youtu.be/OCuqDrhJIqA?si=bAOMF2c2KSzKU8KF

This is actually really tasty.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 22, 2025 02:53 PM (ILmhA)

137
Here's a list of all the people fired for incompetence in California after the ~~wild~~ arson fires:

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 02:53 PM (RDFmy)

138 While Johnson's position is correct, it's still Uncle Sugar saying that a state must suck the fed-peen if they want cash. Sure, the details differ, but it's the same basic thing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 22, 2025 02:39 PM (ExV1e)
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Sometimes the best thing to do--even if it seems to be heartless--is to CUT OFF support.

Parents do this to their children all the time once they are adults.

It forces people to grow up and take responsibility.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM

--

It's even easier than cutting off your children, because you actually give a shit about your children.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 02:53 PM (wzAuc)

139 PDT: People of North Carolina. Even as I speak, airlifts of badly needed aid are landing. Marine helicopters from MCAS New River have been assigned to this aid package. Those in remote areas will not have to brave bad roads to apply for aid, we are going to them. NOW.

PDT: People of California that elected Karen Bass and Gavin Newsome. Get your shit together. Here's a box of Hershey bars. Good luck in future endeavors.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at January 22, 2025 02:54 PM (gm9Sb)

140 117 What the hell is Trump doing to us in Israel?!?!

https://tinyurl.com/y946k8vj

https://tinyurl.com/2mt8pczk

This reminds me of Trump 1's team member vetting failures.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 22, 2025 02:50 PM (RRBie)

Witkoff is almost as big a real estate developer in NY and the world as Trump.

I worked briefly for Witkoff about 10 years ago and I sense he is God-forbid being promised the chance to turn the Gaza coast into Cannes/Beirut on the Med 2.

That is horrendous if my instinct is correct.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 02:54 PM (x0n13)

141 And honestly I don’t really give a fuck. Literally let it burn.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Mass self-immolation.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * scio te ipsum at January 22, 2025 02:55 PM (feC/a)

142 Trump has ordered that a string of nuclear devices be detonated deep along the length of the San Andreas fault, thereby shifting southern California northward to become a suburb of Vancouver.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at January 22, 2025 02:55 PM (DsA2n)

143 38 Without Water it's not a Reservoir. It's just a depression.
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Its an inverted ziggurat. A place of worship for dead people.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 02:55 PM (Wg6v7)

144 Trump also needs to make repeal of the Cali law barring voter ID a condition of any aid.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 02:55 PM (2UnvF)

145 141 And honestly I don’t really give a fuck. Literally let it burn.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Mass self-immolation.
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The real tragedy was no one was served Flav O Aid in advance.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (Wg6v7)

146 An empty reservior is just a hole in the ground.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (JdxE1)

147 I'd like to know if there's plans to re-zone any of the affected areas and to what? And... how is the city/state going to wade through the prop-13 mess this has created.

Lastly... how's FEMA doing out there? The folks in NC would like to know.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 22, 2025 02:52 PM (Q4IgG)
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From what I understand, as long as the original owners rebuild to similar to what they had, they get to keep their exemption. But, there is a time limit on that exemption.

I expect CA to drag its feet on permitting to the point the exemption expires and burned out owners will not be able to afford the taxes on their home, necessitating sale of the home.

Bingo, luxury high rise condos built where once really nice single family homes once existed.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (tT6L1)

148 131 *pst...you can correct your comments! You have the power!*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:52 PM (GBKbO)

I know, but Newsoms/Newsrooms is a natural!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (x0n13)

149 Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing is delayed one week, according to a committee’s notice on Monday. A committee spokesperson told Breitbart News the delay is due to Democrats on the panel but did not pinpoint which Democrat it is.

Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...

President Donald Trump began to fire career employees at the Justice Department on Wednesday, a move that signals his promise of purging the administrative state has begun.
The Washington Post reported that there is a 120-day moratorium on some staff reassignments after newly confirmed leaders begin their appointments, under federal guidelines. Bondi has not yet been confirmed; therefore, the moratorium is not yet in effect in the DOJ.

... Trump is taking a buzzsaw to DOJ while the Senate contemplates it's navel

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (RHGPo)

150 You know, like Larry Elder vs. Gavin Newsom during that recall election.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)

-------------------

OUT: "The Sage From South Central."
IN: "The Black Face Of White Supremacy."

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (HzLHf)

151 In a disaster movie Newsom would be the slimy governor getting paid by real estate developers to let fires burn and force people off their land. Then while in a helicopter a gust of wind would send Newsom's chopper crashing into the fire.
All that's happened this far, except the chopper crash

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (6v8aM)

152 I didn't see if JJ covered this:
"Trump has apparently disbanded the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention. The website is down.

[link to Brady United]

Rejoice.

Buy guns and ammo. Arm yourself, learn gun safety, and spend time at the range, you and your young sons. Hurrah for Guns and Bibles! Defend the nation from the Dems and from the Demons.

AND THERE IS MORE..."

http://scifiwright.com/2025/01
/not-tired-of-winning-yet-
clxxxviii/

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (NtUSo)

153 Bass! How low can you go?

Posted by: Chuck D. at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (2ocoG)

154 Trump also needs to make repeal of the Cali law barring voter ID a condition of any aid.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 02:55 PM (2UnvF)

That, if anything, might be the answer to turning California Red. In answer to a previous question.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (gqsiU)

155 >>"Appeal to authority" is a logical fallacy.

Not True Scotsman would make that argument!
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You too, buddy!

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 22, 2025 02:56 PM (5LoD7)

156 144 Trump also needs to make repeal of the Cali law barring voter ID a condition of any aid.
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Yep. All elections need quality control and an auditable trail accessible to the voters.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 02:57 PM (Wg6v7)

157 So, shorter Ace: The scales are falling from the voters' eyes about Bass?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at January 22, 2025 02:57 PM (LxER7)

158 The richest people in the whole entire world can damn well take care of themselves, especially since they proudly hate America. No aid to CA. Let them go begging their Chinese butt buddies for handouts.

Posted by: They're the enemy for chrissakes at January 22, 2025 02:57 PM (BI5O2)

159 Without Water it's not a Reservoir. It's just a depression.

We've got a pill for that! -- Pfizer

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 22, 2025 02:57 PM (ExV1e)

160 Obama/Biden et al did as they damned well pleased… it is time for Trump to return the favor. Tit-For-Tat IS a strategy..

Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 02:57 PM (PCK5/)

161 That is horrendous if my instinct is correct.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 02:54 PM (x0n13)
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Qatar bailed him out of a massive real estate investment fiasco years ago.

To Steevy: if you care about the US, then you should want to have anything to do with Islam, certainly not the flavor served by Hamas and by their top backer, Qatar. Get educated.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 22, 2025 02:57 PM (RRBie)

162 Get fucked.

Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 02:59 PM (KQk9m)

163 159 Without Water it's not a Reservoir. It's just a depression.

We've got a pill for that! -- Pfizer
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 22, 2025 02:57 PM (ExV1e)

Hollis Mulwray wringing his hands, like Joe Biden before shower time with Ashley.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 02:59 PM (x0n13)

164 Newsome has no Political Future beyond (a House or) Senate Seat in California.

And even those are a long shot, now.

Posted by: garrett

True. But those are beneath Gavin. Hence, the money will always pursue the Presidency.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 22, 2025 02:59 PM (JkCto)

165 FEMA has fabulous new digs in Durham, NC. Their Brave New World palace is about a 3.5 hour drive to where the flood victims are.

Hopefully when Trump visits, he padlocks the joint and makes FEMA work out of tents.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at January 22, 2025 02:59 PM (wBaIH)

166 By saving the smelt they killed the Bass.

Posted by: Josephistan at January 22, 2025 02:59 PM (ixyiv)

167 The problem with California is Californians. We will vote for any cretinous liberal, no matter how incompetent or malevolent, as long as they have a "D" by their name.

Hand us a perfectly good state and a neutral government on a silver platter, and within a couple years we'll turn it into a hellscape of our own accord, enturely due to our idiotic voting choices.

You can't fix this, without replacing the population.mWhatever money you pour into California will be wasted, flowing out to sea along with all the snowmelt.

Posted by: zombie at January 22, 2025 02:59 PM (pMi6S)

168 what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

I'm in CA... Not likely
Posted by: It's me donna

Never

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 22, 2025 03:00 PM (JkCto)

169 167 You can't fix this, without replacing the population.mWhatever money you pour into California will be wasted, flowing out to sea along with all the snowmelt.
Posted by: zombie at January 22, 2025 02:59 PM (pMi6S)

=======

"Ah, but I can create generational wealth 'trying' to do it."
-The GOPe consultant class

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:00 PM (GBKbO)

170 166 By saving the smelt they killed the Bass.
Posted by: Josephistan at January 22, 2025 02:59 PM (ixyiv)

The Hut Sut Song...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 03:00 PM (x0n13)

171 Get fucked.
Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 02:59 PM (KQk9m)
-

What I thought.

Get blown up, you, your family and friends.

F*cked? Not so bad.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 22, 2025 03:00 PM (RRBie)

172 With the obvious colossal failures of liberalism in CA with the wildfires -- what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at January 22, 2025 02:46 PM (N39Ws)

I'm in CA... Not likely
Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 02:47 PM (VE6XX)
***

Concur.
It might flip a seat or two but several things apply:
Too many illegals voting
Sacramento is a dem lock
A lot of the displaced will never return

Posted by: Diogenes at January 22, 2025 03:00 PM (W/lyH)

173 You have to believe in science for it to work.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 02:49 PM (JdxE1)

The power is in the clapping.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2025 03:01 PM (Aqu9a)

174 Newsom governing CA like a lunatic was never going to play well in SC.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:35 PM (GBKbO)

Even in the 90s Pete Wilson, a non-insane GOP governor made no traction in the primaries . The rest of the country is far from wanting CA politicians in charge.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:01 PM (n7h9X)

175 At least CA taught the rest of us troglodytes how to do High Speed Rail right.

(and by "right" I mean spreading Billions around to the rich grifters while pushing the glorious promises back another five years)

Posted by: illiniwek at January 22, 2025 03:01 PM (Cus5s)

176 what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?
===============

Breath status:
[ ] Being Held
[X] Not Being Held

Posted by: Cheerful Reprobate at January 22, 2025 03:01 PM (99t1i)

177 You arrogant Bass, you've killed us!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 03:01 PM (2UnvF)

178 168 what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

I'm in CA... Not likely
Posted by: It's me donna

Never
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 22, 2025 03:00 PM (JkCto)

========

1. Change Census rules so that the Bureau is actively disallowed from counting illegals.
2. 2030 Census leads to CA losing 8 House seats.
3. Governor Trump promising to Make California Great again in 2034.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)

179 166 By saving the smelt they killed the Bass.
--------
She has one smelly delta.

Posted by: andycanuck (5LoD7) at January 22, 2025 03:01 PM (5LoD7)

180 Canada should start advertising their assisted suicide
path to Nirvana services in California. There has to be some serious profit there.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:01 PM (/U5Yz)

181 With the obvious colossal failures of liberalism in CA with the wildfires -- what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

If I wanted to make a high risk wager, I would put money on the NY Giants winning the SB next year. Better odds.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * scio te ipsum at January 22, 2025 03:02 PM (feC/a)

182 Bingo, luxury high rise condos built where once really nice single family homes once existed.
Posted by: blake
--------
From my understanding, the soil in the Palisades is not good enough in the el primo view places for hi rise construction. Area is also prone to mudslides which occur after the fires remove the vegetation holding the slopes together.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:02 PM (ctrM5)

183 The Democrats have a new strategy: fear-mongering about Project 2025. Wake me up when they have something original.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:02 PM (2ocoG)

184 168 what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

I'm in CA... Not likely
Posted by: It's me donna

Never
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 22, 2025 03:00 PM (JkCto)

The state that once had Reagan as governor, and was the world's 6th largest economy is now Zimbabwe on the Pacific.

You must take over the schools lock stock and barrel and figure out how to deprogram the parents.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 03:03 PM (x0n13)

185 183 The Democrats have a new strategy: fear-mongering about Project 2025. Wake me up when they have something original.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:02 PM (2ocoG)

=======

This was 95% of the Democrat message last June.

And then Biden dropped out of the race.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

186 You know, like Larry Elder vs. Gavin Newsom during that recall election.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Elder was called the Blackface of White Supremacy.

Let that sink in.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 22, 2025 03:03 PM (JkCto)

187 what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?

CA's elections are so fucked we have no idea what the voters there actually want. Over a month of counting? No, sorry, DeSantis did an entire state twice in one night just to show off.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:04 PM (2ocoG)

188 Karen Bass. Another incompetent black broad who should be serving food not attitude. Never vote for the incompetent black borad

Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine at January 22, 2025 03:04 PM (R/m4+)

189

The call must go out for Eliot Maimway to create a giant Bass-o-Matic '76!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 03:04 PM (x0n13)

190 If Trump visits CA I would suggest he have an SS guy within reach if he meets publicly with Newsome. Idiot gov will make a scene with finger pointing and waging. "Look at me, I'm fierce and I'm in the face of Literally Hitler".

Posted by: javems at January 22, 2025 03:04 PM (8I4hW)

191 "They didn't imagine their vote would result in their homes burning down."

=======

Because they are idiots.

The recent history of wildfires mixed with the political response to blame Trump and Red States was never going to result in anything but bigger wildfires.

Fucking dumbasses.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 02:37 PM (GBKbO)

There is also an unmentioned fact that the new leftist thug faction in the party - Antifa and Green -- have a thing for arson. Add to that drug addicts and homess camping in a tinderbox causing accidents.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (n7h9X)

192 What are the Horde’s thoughts on somehow relegating California and Hawaii to territorial status???

Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (PCK5/)

193 What are the Horde’s thoughts on somehow relegating California and Hawaii to territorial status???
Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (PCK5/)

Extremely positive !!

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (g47mK)

194 Get fucked.
Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 02:59 PM (KQk9m)

Mony Mony?

Posted by: Billy Idol at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (Aqu9a)

195

California actually passed the anti gay marriage act but their crooked court struck it down.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (x0n13)

196 "entitled communist moron"

I could see that as a new nic for a moron from Kalifornia....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 22, 2025 03:07 PM (QGaXH)

197 @189 mmm that's good Bass

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 22, 2025 03:07 PM (6v8aM)

198 What are the Horde’s thoughts on somehow relegating California and Hawaii to territorial status???

Hawaiian independence is an official plank of the DNC platform. I say give it to 'em.

Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:07 PM (2ocoG)

199 what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?

CA's elections are so fucked we have no idea what the voters there actually want. Over a month of counting? No, sorry, DeSantis did an entire state twice in one night just to show off.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:04 PM (2ocoG)

The CA GOP is a corpse, they redistricted so they are a permanent minority. Jungle primary means that often there isn't even a Republican in a statewide race to offer a dissenting view. And the new counting rule does let the Dems steal back a few races that do flip.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:07 PM (n7h9X)

200 Trump is taking a buzzsaw to DOJ while the Senate contemplates it's navel
Posted by: SMOD

I hope that miserable poser Acting Secret Service head is shown the door forthwith, Ronald Rowe. I know that these all can't happen in one day but this guy needs to go.

Posted by: Cheri at January 22, 2025 03:08 PM (oiNtH)

201 180 Canada should start advertising their assisted suicide
path to Nirvana services in California. There has to be some serious profit there.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:01 PM (/U5Yz)
________________________
California, Oregon and Washington already have Euthanasia. I'd like to see a federal program encouraging the residents to take advantage of it.

Posted by: Orson at January 22, 2025 03:08 PM (dIske)

202 California actually passed the anti gay marriage act but their crooked court struck it down.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (x0n13)

Also an antiimmigration package.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:08 PM (n7h9X)

203 "... the Latte Left is turning on Karen Bass ..."

They call her the Big Mouth!!

Posted by: MARTHA RAYE at January 22, 2025 03:08 PM (wtvvX)

204 Stop putting women in charge.

Posted by: Wisdom of the Ages at January 22, 2025 03:08 PM (DobEs)

205 > what is the Horde's thoughts on the possibility of turning CA red?
--------
I'd venture a guess that there are enough people who've had enough of the Democrats bullshit to make a dent.

But there are also enough Democrats currently in office to make sure that never happens.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 22, 2025 03:09 PM (Q4IgG)

206 192 What are the Horde’s thoughts on somehow relegating California and Hawaii to territorial status???
Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (PCK5/)

California, by itself, is the fifth-largest economy in the world. Left to their own devices, their government would make an alliance with China faster than you can say General Tso's Chicken.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 03:09 PM (DnTj0)

207 190 If Trump visits CA I would suggest he have an SS guy within reach if he meets publicly with Newsome. Idiot gov will make a scene with finger pointing and waging. "Look at me, I'm fierce and I'm in the face of Literally Hitler".
--------------------
My guess is not given his first meeting with Trump following a CA fire during Trump's first term @ 2017. He was very polite and was under tow with Brown doing the talking. I did notice that google will not respond to Trump - Newsome CA Fire 2017. I wonder why?

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 03:09 PM (Wg6v7)

208 205 I'd venture a guess that there are enough people who've had enough of the Democrats bullshit to make a dent.

But there are also enough Democrats currently in office to make sure that never happens.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 22, 2025 03:09 PM (Q4IgG)

========

Investigating voter fraud and prosecuting election officials by the DOJ should be interesting.

Let's go, Bondi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:09 PM (GBKbO)

209 201 180 Canada should start advertising their assisted suicide
path to Nirvana services in California. There has to be some serious profit there.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:01 PM (/U5Yz)
________________________
California, Oregon and Washington already have Euthanasia. I'd like to see a federal program encouraging the residents to take advantage of it.
Posted by: Orson

There ya go.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:10 PM (/U5Yz)

210 183 The Democrats have a new strategy: fear-mongering about Project 2025. Wake me up when they have something original.
Posted by: Ian S. at January 22, 2025 03:02 PM (2ocoG)

=======

This was 95% of the Democrat message last June.

And then Biden dropped out of the race.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)

Pretty dumb of them to have that set up, then "color revoltution" out their own candidate and not have a replacement.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:10 PM (n7h9X)

211 California already seems allied with a number of malign foreign powers and entities.. and DC simply shrugs.

Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:10 PM (PCK5/)

212 So no one liked my Red October reference? Fine. FINE.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 03:11 PM (2UnvF)

213
"So, the BIPOC hiring led to the same outcomes of hiring white men? What about their lived experiences that would lead to better outcomes?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman

============

I want my house to burn down on account of policies made by someone who looks like me.

Posted by: DEI Defendah at January 22, 2025 03:11 PM (T3es0)

214 I wonder if Bass received campaign funds from cartels...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:11 PM (GBKbO)

215 The Bidens are hanging again at a property of billionaire Joe Kiani, located in the foothills of the San Rafael Mountains, surrounded by horse paddocks and gnarled live oaks.

It's almost impossible to be worse than Harris, but he & the doctor teacher make her & touchy look good.

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 22, 2025 03:11 PM (NFX2v)

216 California, Oregon and Washington already have Euthanasia. I'd like to see a federal program encouraging the residents to take advantage of it.
Posted by: Orson

There ya go.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:10 PM (/U5Yz)

Leftists never take responsibility by offing themselves.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:11 PM (n7h9X)

217 189

The call must go out for Eliot Maimway to create a giant Bass-o-Matic '76!!!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 03:04 PM (x0n13)

Don't forget his Bag-o'-Glass and Teddy Chainsaw Bear for the kiddies!

Posted by: MARTHA RAYE at January 22, 2025 03:12 PM (wtvvX)

218 195

California actually passed the anti gay marriage act but their crooked court struck it down.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (x0n13)

My admittedly faulty memory is it got struck down when the US Supremes made gay marriage the law of the land

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 22, 2025 03:13 PM (QGaXH)

219 California already seems allied with a number of malign foreign powers and entities.. and DC simply shrugs.
Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:10 PM (PCK5/)

I remember when Japan was the big bad that was taking us over. LOL. CA is better at swallowing invading armies than China.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:13 PM (n7h9X)

220 >Sorry I care more about the US than Israel but I don't think Trump is harming Israel in any way.
Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 02:52 PM (KQk9m)

Same. If you don't like it, find a new wealthy patron. I'm sick of foreign interference all around.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 22, 2025 03:14 PM (/yftV)

221 Catfish-water possum

Posted by: Actually Cicero Kaboom Kid at January 22, 2025 03:14 PM (hirWM)

222 198 What are the Horde’s thoughts on somehow relegating California and Hawaii to territorial status???

Hawaiian independence is an official plank of the DNC platform. I say give it to 'em.
Posted by: Ian S.

We keep Pearl Harbor, like a GTMO of the Pacific.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:14 PM (/U5Yz)

223 offen socken

Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 22, 2025 03:14 PM (wtvvX)

224 Mayor Bass is lucky. R-A-M-S is easier to spell than E-l-G-S-E-S

Posted by: CHERELLE PARKER at January 22, 2025 03:15 PM (QxEBj)

225 193 What are the Horde’s thoughts on somehow relegating California and Hawaii to territorial status???
Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (PCK5/)

Extremely positive !!
Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 03:05 PM (g47mK)

Hawaii Yes

California No

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 22, 2025 03:15 PM (QGaXH)

226 California, by itself, is the fifth-largest economy in the world. Left to their own devices, their government would make an alliance with China faster than you can say General Tso's Chicken.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at January 22, 2025 03:09 PM (DnTj0)

Territories have no foreign policy.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:15 PM (n7h9X)

227 If you don't like it, find a new wealthy patron. I'm sick of foreign interference all around.
Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 22, 2025 03:14 PM (/yftV)
-

No problem. I hope you get what you ask for. It's that simple.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at January 22, 2025 03:15 PM (RRBie)

228 123 "So, the BIPOC hiring led to the same outcomes of hiring white men? What about their lived experiences that would lead to better outcomes?"

I really hate that term "lived experience". As opposed to what..."unlived experience"? FFS.

Maybe it's just me but I can't stand these superfluous modifiers added on. To me they just obfuscate things and I try really hard to eschew obfuscation. FFS again.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at January 22, 2025 02:51 PM

--

^^^
Superfluous and/or negating, i.e. "_____________ justice"

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 03:15 PM (wzAuc)

229 I remember when Japan was the big bad that was taking us over. LOL. CA is better at swallowing invading armies than China.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:13 PM (n7h9X)

Defeating invading aliens, too.

Posted by: Battle Los Angeles at January 22, 2025 03:16 PM (Aqu9a)

230 My admittedly faulty memory is it got struck down when the US Supremes made gay marriage the law of the land
--------------
Nope. It was the CA courts that covered it with a pillow until the legs stopped kicking. Then they blamed the Mormons for it although it was the Hispanics that put it over the top. Everything is fake and gay.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 03:16 PM (Wg6v7)

231 Trump's nominees for AG and SecDef are on 7 day holds, thanks to the Democrats, who apparently still control the Senate

Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:16 PM (AOsQT)

232
EM PARSNIP FOADDY-SEBUN!1!!1

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at January 22, 2025 03:17 PM (EFZgU)

233 There's no national political future for Newsome (unless he gets given one of the Senate seats, but that would be a long time off) He's very publicly run California into the ground. He's no longer worth worrying about.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2025 02:33 PM (wyMQY)

Unless he's forced down our throats via another national election cheat. But I'm hoping a clusterfuck like that won't happen again.

Otherwise, yup, he can kiss his prez hopes goodbye.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 22, 2025 03:17 PM (g8Ew8)

234 231 Trump's nominees for AG and SecDef are on 7 day holds, thanks to the Democrats, who apparently still control the Senate
Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:16 PM (AOsQT)

Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was

Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:17 PM (PCK5/)

235 7 day holds so they can invest...make shit up

Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 03:17 PM (KQk9m)

236 I might not go, sure I have a fever

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:17 PM (fwDg9)

237 231 Trump's nominees for AG and SecDef are on 7 day holds, thanks to the Democrats, who apparently still control the Senate
Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:16 PM (AOsQT)

It seems Thune is a weak sister like his predecessor.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:17 PM (/U5Yz)

238 Trump's nominees for AG and SecDef are on 7 day holds, thanks to the Democrats, who apparently still control the Senate

==

7 day hold is a procedural delay, democrats are on a deep fishing expedition, hoping to find a few more ex-cousin's wives sisters to file affidavits

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 03:17 PM (g47mK)

239 So no one liked my Red October reference? Fine. FINE.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 03:11 PM

*raises hand*

I did.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 22, 2025 03:18 PM (ILmhA)

240 Trump's nominees for AG and SecDef are on 7 day holds, thanks to the Democrats, who apparently still control the Senate
Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:16 PM (AOsQT)

*stares vacantly, lips akimbo*

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at January 22, 2025 03:18 PM (Aqu9a)

241 Seeing a school shooting in Tennessee, 2 dead

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:18 PM (fwDg9)

242 233 Unless he's forced down our throats via another national election cheat. But I'm hoping a clusterfuck like that won't happen again.

Otherwise, yup, he can kiss his prez hopes goodbye.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 22, 2025 03:17 PM (g8Ew

======

2022 was the height of the current effort at election cheating.

The current RNC led by Michael Whatley understands its mission is to elect Republicans instead of buying flowers, and it's continuing the work it started in 2023, which successfully led to a positive result in 2024, for 2026.

Until another sea-change, the Democrat cheat machine is only going to get smaller in the ensuing years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:19 PM (GBKbO)

243 Sean Connery taught me that Lithuanians have Scottish accents in The Hunt for Red October...

Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 03:19 PM (KQk9m)

244 "Dead Woman Walking"? That's the kind of violent rhetoric i expect from a bunch of Nazi-loving fascists.

Posted by: Joy Reid at January 22, 2025 03:19 PM (0xo8i)

245 Fine, Brazilian ass has entered the chat.

Posted by: Actually Cicero Kaboom Kid channels Ahnold at January 22, 2025 03:19 PM (hirWM)

246 We are going to get the slow roll in appointments

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:19 PM (fwDg9)

247 241 Seeing a school shooting in Tennessee, 2 dead
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:18 PM (fwDg9)

Won’t get much traction, I’d bet… Nazi salutes not run their course yet..

Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:19 PM (PCK5/)

248
I might not go, sure I have a fever
Posted by: Skip

More cowbell?

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:20 PM (RDFmy)

249 Sean Connery taught me that Lithuanians have Scottish accents in The Hunt for Red October...
Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 03:19 PM (KQk9m)

Both have a good amount of bogs.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:20 PM (n7h9X)

250 When does new Senators get seated anyway?

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:20 PM (fwDg9)

251
I've got a fever!

https://is.gd/ZWHbXE

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (RDFmy)

252 250 When does new Senators get seated anyway?
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:20 PM (fwDg9)

They already are

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (VE6XX)

253 250 When does new Senators get seated anyway?
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:20 PM (fwDg9)

=======

Weeks ago.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (GBKbO)

254 Smelt Haters!

Posted by: TATER at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (QxEBj)

255 So no one liked my Red October reference? Fine. FINE.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 03:11 PM

*raises hand*

I did.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 22, 2025 03:18 PM (ILmhA)

Me too. Best Red October reference today!

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (Aqu9a)

256 Change that, 1 dead 1 injured

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (fwDg9)

257
Communism leads to catastrophe. Example 2,638,926,874: Karen Bass.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (dxSpM)

258
The problem with California is Californians.

Posted by: zombie

===========

Another problem: Too much of California is very nice. I split my time these days among three idyllic cities where the locals can afford their luxury ideologies. The cops are bored, the population is white, the natural scenery is sublime. There's no need to change. They're solid blue. Disastrous Democrat policies only barely trickle down to them. They do bitch mightily about how "unfair" it is that they can't afford to buy or rent, but they have no concept that their vote has anything to do with it.

Posted by: DEI Defendah at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (T3es0)

259
When does new Senators get seated anyway?
Posted by: Skip

Jan 3rd.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (RDFmy)

260 When does new Senators get seated anyway?
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:20 PM (fwDg9)

Already sworn in.

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (g47mK)

261 230 My admittedly faulty memory is it got struck down when the US Supremes made gay marriage the law of the land
--------------
Nope. It was the CA courts that covered it with a pillow until the legs stopped kicking. Then they blamed the Mormons for it although it was the Hispanics that put it over the top. Everything is fake and gay.
Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 03:16 PM (Wg6v7)

I guess I didn't pay close enough attention at the time. I remember voting for disallowing gay marriage (and for Prop 198 - the anti-immigration one).

198 seemed to be the death of the GOP here in Cal. May have been a bridge too far.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 22, 2025 03:22 PM (QGaXH)

262 250. By Skip

Representatives and senators were sworn in on Friday, January 3rd

Posted by: L - It's a good day at January 22, 2025 03:22 PM (NFX2v)

263 Did Republicans delay, use procedure shenanigans on Biden picks?

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 22, 2025 03:22 PM (/6GbT)

264
I did.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at January 22, 2025 03:18 PM (ILmhA)

You're a great American!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 03:23 PM (2UnvF)

265
Ashley Moody was finally sworn in yesterday to replace lil Marco.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:23 PM (RDFmy)

266 When does new Senators get seated anyway?
Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:20 PM (fwDg9)

Already sworn in.
Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 03:21 PM (g47mK)

Now they can be sworn at. Proceed.

Posted by: Count de Monet at January 22, 2025 03:23 PM (Aqu9a)

267 263 Did Republicans delay, use procedure shenanigans on Biden picks?
Posted by: A dude in MI at January 22, 2025 03:22 PM (/6GbT)

What??? No!!!

Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:23 PM (PCK5/)

268 Paging John Thune. Nut up, "leader"

Posted by: Ben Had at January 22, 2025 03:24 PM (oT+t6)

269 263 Did Republicans delay, use procedure shenanigans on Biden picks?
Posted by: A dude in MI

If bending over and spreading their cheeks are considered shenanigans then yes.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:24 PM (/U5Yz)

270 sock off

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at January 22, 2025 03:24 PM (T3es0)

271 263 ofc not that wouldn't be collegial!
Mitch McConnel

Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 03:24 PM (KQk9m)

272
Husted was also sworn in yesterday.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:24 PM (RDFmy)

273 I may or may start watching FOX again if they rid us of Hannity. I have had my own boycott since 2016 or so. But I sort of hate everyone, so there's that.

I prefer Karen to be called Largemouth Bass to further tick off everyone.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:24 PM (gi+MR)

274 I might not go, sure I have a fever
Posted by: Skip

More cowbell?
Posted by: Soothsayer

tiny.cc/zod6001

Posted by: Sock Monkey * scio te ipsum at January 22, 2025 03:24 PM (feC/a)

275 Trump and Witkoff are both dealmakers from the Real Estate world; that's probably why Trump likes him.

but I believe that there are a great number of parts of this deal that are not being made public. And I think the most important part of that is the impending war with Iran.

Israel has never been willing to do what is required to actually remove Hamas from Gaza; and since endless war is not a good goal, and killing everyone there isn't either, Hamas will have to be talked to and dealt with in some kind of way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2025 03:25 PM (wyMQY)

276 Striped Bass?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 03:25 PM (JdxE1)

277 I wonder if I could get a job with the Trump Administration? There's a couple things I'd like to look into.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (0xo8i)

278 If the feds get involved they need to enpanel a “challenger disaster” type of investigatory commission.

Posted by: 13times at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (l8d8m)

279 212 So no one liked my Red October reference? Fine. FINE.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 03:11 PM

--

I liked that it was a different one.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (wzAuc)

280 Stronk, brave, grifter.

Posted by: Eromero at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (G8gaN)

281 Turtle Power is over?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (JdxE1)

282 ofc not that wouldn't be collegial!
Mitch McConnel

What does ofc stand for?

Posted by: Al Gore at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (xCA6C)

283 246 We are going to get the slow roll in appointments
Posted by: Skip
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Leadership for GOP in Senate may be waiting until they have a full contingent to vote. Rubio's seat was just filled and Vance's seat was vacant as of Jan 20th. Dunno if DeWine has put in Husted yet.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (ctrM5)

284 Bass is not being sidelined to protect Newsom, his political career is OVER. She's being sidelined because the fire and the water & power chiefs, most prominently among a fair few, are DEI hires and the Left is circling the wagons around THEM. Bass is far more expendable, being a hypocritical, promise-breaking DC creature much of her career.

Posted by: geewhiz at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (65K9+)

285 Breaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (ZmEVT)

286 273 I may or may start watching FOX again if they rid us of Hannity. I have had my own boycott since 2016 or so. But I sort of hate everyone, so there's that.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

I got you beat. I stopped watching them in ~2010 when they started licking Barry's balls. Haven't watched or listened to Fox since. They are dead to me.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (/U5Yz)

287 reaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (ZmEVT)

👍

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (g47mK)

288 Vance's seat was vacant as of Jan 20th. Dunno if DeWine has put in Husted yet.
Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (ctrM5)

He was sworn in

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (VE6XX)

289 Bipartisan!

Posted by: runner at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (g47mK)

290 285 Breaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (ZmEVT)

That’s what I’m talking about. Now do more…

Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (PCK5/)

291 Then how do the Marxists make the rules in the Senate?

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:28 PM (fwDg9)

292 Lets go Pete!

Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 03:28 PM (KQk9m)

293 He was the only one that was in any danger as far as I can tell

Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 03:28 PM (KQk9m)

294 I'm starting to like this Fetterman guy.. And his lump too...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:28 PM (VE6XX)

295 The Amphibious Assault of Greenland is on.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 03:28 PM (JdxE1)

296 285 Breaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.
Posted by: no one of any consequence

Starting to respect The Lump.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:28 PM (/U5Yz)

297 reaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.

It's what we've come to expect from them. Who cares, as long as we have the votes.

Posted by: Al Gore at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (xCA6C)

298
Second look at Lex Luthor's plan to blow up the San Andreas Fault?

Posted by: Auspex at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (j4U/Z)

299 285 Breaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.
Posted by: no one of any consequence
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That was a big one and the ignoring the last minute Dem Me Too bullshit hit on him was commendable by the GOP.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

300 Don’t bother watching Fox.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (Hkcdp)

301 285 Breaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (ZmEVT)

=======

1. I said the nomination wouldn't go back to committee. I was told I was simple and naive to not understand that the Kavanaugh gambit (which didn't work on Kavanaugh) was being used against Hegseth.

2. Fetterman is working to keep his seat and nothing more. It will work gangbusters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (GBKbO)

302 300 Don’t bother watching Fox.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (Hkcdp)

This is Wisdom..

Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (PCK5/)

303 The Amphibious Assault of Greenland is on.
3 Marines in a rubber boat.

Posted by: steevy at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (KQk9m)

304 You get more info here, faster, than on any news site.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (0xo8i)

305 288 Vance's seat was vacant as of Jan 20th. Dunno if DeWine has put in Husted yet.
Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (ctrM5)

He was sworn in
Posted by: It's me donna
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Good to know but anything that DeWine has been involved in is sus.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

306 Wow, the Senate GOP actually found their testicles and approved Hegseth?!

Gotta say that after the last 20 years, I'm not used to all this winning.

Posted by: ballistic at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (u0CVZ)

307 Think that Schiff put a 10 day hold on Pam Bondi’s nomination?

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (Hkcdp)

308 Another below-the-surface factor is the rivalry between northern and southern California. Northern Calif holds themselves superior to So Cal in all things. Better schools, more water, more history, etc.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (QGaXH)

309 I got you beat. I stopped watching them in ~2010 when they started licking Barry's balls. Haven't watched or listened to Fox since. They are dead to me.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (/U5Yz)

I had quit watching daily after 2010. But the debate of 2016 sealed the deal. After 9/11 they were on daily. Then I began protesting and my husband had to watch it in his study so I would not whine and bitch.

I have now forgiven Meghan Kelly. But I am watching for her to turn and make me po'd again.

Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (gi+MR)

310 304 You get more info here, faster, than on any news site.
----------------
Clearly you are not watching Oak Island.

Posted by: Pudinhead at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (Wg6v7)

311 295 The Amphibious Assault of Greenland is on.
Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 03:28 PM (JdxE1)

Emperor Kermit I Amphibiologus

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (+iIV1)

312 Hegseth confirmed by a bipartisan majority.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (JdxE1)

313 You get more info here, faster, than on any news site.
Posted by: Dr Spank at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM (0xo8i)

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Yes

Posted by: Scarymary at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (MZsCp)

314 306 Wow, the Senate GOP actually found their testicles and approved Hegseth?!

Gotta say that after the last 20 years, I'm not used to all this winning.
Posted by: ballistic at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (u0CVZ)

========

I doubt there's going to be one nominee that fails.

Musk promising to heavily invest in a primary opponent for any Republican who gets in the way was probably more incentive than Trump's win.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 22, 2025 03:31 PM (GBKbO)

315 Clearly you are not watching Oak Island.

Posted by: Pudinhead

They find the treasure yet? I quit watching a while back.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 22, 2025 03:31 PM (0xo8i)

316 TJM that's what I have been saying

Posted by: Skip at January 22, 2025 03:31 PM (fwDg9)

317 Vance's seat was vacant as of Jan 20th. Dunno if DeWine has put in Husted yet.
Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:26 PM (ctrM5)

He was sworn in
Posted by: It's me donna at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (VE6XX)

Rubio got a 99-0 vote, so there is only one unseated spot.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (n7h9X)

318 300 Don’t bother watching Fox.
Posted by: Lizzy
========
Haven't watched their ordinary news coverage since 2006 or so and haven't watched their election coverage since Rove's hilarious meltdown on screen in 2012. Lots of blather, few actual nuggets of news scattered amongst the bullshit.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (ctrM5)

319 TMZ running story now about how more rappers are jumping on the Trump train

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (RHGPo)

320 290 285 Breaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (ZmEVT)

That’s what I’m talking about. Now do more…
Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (PCK5/)

I thought we had 53 R's in the Senate. If Fetterman voter for Hegseth - wouldn't that make it 54 - 46?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (QGaXH)

321 Another thing - I've been talking to a number of GOP candidates in the LA region who ran in 2024. They reported that during their walks - in neighborhoods of varying incomes - were near universally positive. It is very clear CA may have gone RED in multiple recent elections, from the 'failed' recall to multiple elections in last year's primary and general elections. Multiple reports of tampering at vote tallying locations - and a concerted effort afoot to bring these incidences to the attention of 47's legal team.

Posted by: geewhiz at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (65K9+)

322 Nood

Posted by: lizabth at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (Jfw7U)

323
oh what the fuck...

Youtube just recommended a tranny youtuber to me. A woman who does some really nasty stuff. "Buck Angel." She has a beard. Looks like a gay biker. And she has a pussy.

Do Not look it up.

But, "Buck Angel" is very, very anti-woke, and she don't like what the woke fake "bishop" did yesterday.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (RDFmy)

324 I go to 4 sites daily… in order, HQ,BB,Daily Wire
, Instapundit… they are timely and offer differences. My time suck is the HQ though,bigly…

Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (PCK5/)

325 320 290 285 Breaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (ZmEVT)

That’s what I’m talking about. Now do more…
Posted by: tubal at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (PCK5/)

I thought we had 53 R's in the Senate. If Fetterman voter for Hegseth - wouldn't that make it 54 - 46?
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (QGaXH)

Or is it 53 - 46 with one open seat?

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (QGaXH)

326 Bishop Mariann Budde tells "The View": Attacking Trump during prayer service was about "unity"

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (RHGPo)

327 the level of graft is too high…trust me

Posted by: cherries are the best at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (Ts066)

328
oh, and "Buck Angel," agrees with Normal People that there's only 2 genders.

Posted by: Soothsayer at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (RDFmy)

329 Rubio got a 99-0 vote, so there is only one unseated spot.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (n7h9X)

Isn't there some goofball procedural thing where at least one person always has to abstain or vote present so that they can do some other goofball procedural thing, because if 100% of them voted then there's no one left who didn't vote to do the second goofball procedural thing?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (+iIV1)

330 Bass is a symptom.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 22, 2025 02:32 PM (2UnvF)

That's what we've been carping about.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at January 22, 2025 02:34 PM (i24o9)

This all smells fishy.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 22, 2025 03:34 PM (aD39U)

331 297 reaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.

It's what we've come to expect from them. Who cares, as long as we have the votes.
Posted by: Al Gore at January 22, 2025 03:29 PM |

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I was naive to hope that the unanimous vote for Marco signaled revival regarding for the legislature's proper role.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 22, 2025 03:34 PM (wzAuc)

332 >> 309 I have now forgiven Meghan Kelly. But I am watching for her to turn and make me po'd again.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat

My bet is she will turn on Trump. More drama, more clicks. You can only report winning for so long before it becomes boring.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (/U5Yz)

333 if the urban city voters had any common sense at all they would get rid of every current urban city mayor in the country and at least try a conservative / Republican candidate.

Look what happened when they bucked the trend and elected Rudy mayor. It's the best NYC has ever been. Even with the sometime sane Ed Koch.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (D6PGr)

334 Breaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (ZmEVT)

Okay, Pete. I'm watching you.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (g8Ew8)

335
I could see Bass being out. Communists are always willing to sacrifice individuals to advance the cause. Also, taking out a leader lets other communists move up.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (biznJ)

336 Attacking Trump during prayer service was about "unity"
Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (RHGPo)

Ain't unity what they call all the bullshit they do?

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (HjfEo)

337 That would be Joe Biden, the guy who has been warning about the serious threat that oligarchs pose to Our Democracy (tm) hanging out at a billionaire’s estate???

Shocker!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (Hkcdp)

338 I have now forgiven Meghan Kelly. But I am watching for her to turn and make me po'd again.
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat
======
She owns her own brand now. It would hit her in the pocketbook, not the Murdoch family.

Incentives matter in behavior. Corporate MSM news, you do what they want or you get fired. From what supposedly happened at Fox, Meghan was specifically instructed to take down Trump with others during the 2016 primary season to make room for the Murdoch's favorite pols. My guess is they wanted a Jeb/Rubio ticket in 2016.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (ctrM5)

339
Numpty mayor sat on a wall
Numpty mayor had a great fall
All the woke grifters and all the woke men
Couldn't put Numpty in office again.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (CE2fs)

340 I saw it on X, but I cannot confirm it elsewhere.

Perhaps I have been deceived.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (ZmEVT)

341 Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (ZmEVT)

Moderate!

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (HjfEo)

342 Another below-the-surface factor is the rivalry between northern and southern California. Northern Calif holds themselves superior to So Cal in all things. Better schools, more water, more history, etc.
Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at January 22, 2025 03:30 PM (QGaXH)

More piles of shit on their city streets...

But yes, I imagine there's a bit of annoyance at the dominance of NCal recently, Harris and Newsom. Pelosi getting old might make it harder to anoint all these to the good spots.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (n7h9X)

343 Any older biologists know what the normal rate of extinction is? It is of a piece with the "stop climate chnage" idiots that think they can declare that the climate of the 1980s is what the climate is supposed to be from now on. Various fish and insect species probably have always gone extinct but people think they can and should stop any species from dying out now. Such hubris.

Posted by: PaleRider at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (34pOu)

344 >>Bass is a symptom

Of a large-mouthed Democrat menace to big cities?

Don’t bait me…

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 03:37 PM (Hkcdp)

345 Isn't there some goofball procedural thing where at least one person always has to abstain or vote present so that they can do some other goofball procedural thing, because if 100% of them voted then there's no one left who didn't vote to do the second goofball procedural thing?
Posted by: Warai-otoko
======
Motions to reconsider are one in the Senate. The Senate majority leader often casts a procedural vote for some bullshit in order to be able to move to reconsider the vote later.

Posted by: whig at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (ctrM5)

346 Breaking News: Pete Hegseth confirmed by the Senate 53-47. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote for him.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at January 22, 2025 03:27 PM (ZmEVT)

Okay, Pete. I'm watching you.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (g8Ew

Wonder if there are some scalps lined up.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (n7h9X)

347 We can all see that Bass is fin-ished!

Posted by: Lizzy at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (Hkcdp)

348
8 There's no national political future for Newsome (unless he gets given one of the Senate seats, but that would be a long time off) He's very publicly run California into the ground. He's no longer worth worrying about.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 22, 2025 02:33 PM (wyMQY)

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Except he's still in charge of CA for a while.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (biznJ)

349 Schumer is a treacherous old snake, and will do every thing he can to sandbag Trump and his agenda

I've long had a theory that NO ONE in Congress GsAF about doing right for the country; they just wanna beat the Other Side

it's like a dick-swinging contest as old as the Republic

Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (AOsQT)

350 Fetterman's lump might be like Sampson's hair. Cut it off he turns into AOC

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (HjfEo)

351 Don Black that is the most ridiculous thing I've seen today. Give me any evidence that the GOPe "just wants to beat the Other Side".

Posted by: PaleRider at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (34pOu)

352 I never cancelled Meghan Kelly in the first place. She hasn't changed her political views. She just had a personal spat with Trump that got her canceled with others. That never bothered me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (D6PGr)

353 Bass shouldn't have opened her mouth.

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (HjfEo)

354 LA is full of Bassholes

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 03:42 PM (RHGPo)

355 Look what happened when they bucked the trend and elected Rudy mayor. It's the best NYC has ever been. Even with the sometime sane Ed Koch. Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 03:35 PM (D6PGr)

Not only that, but Guliani also took a city that was on the ropes and transformed it. That gave New York 16 years of prosperity, till De Blasio ruined it.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (nLFEI)

356 The only good Democrat is the one who had a stroke

Posted by: SMOD at January 22, 2025 03:43 PM (RHGPo)

357 Any older biologists know what the normal rate of extinction is? It is of a piece with the "stop climate chnage" idiots that think they can declare that the climate of the 1980s is what the climate is supposed to be from now on. Various fish and insect species probably have always gone extinct but people think they can and should stop any species from dying out now. Such hubris.
Posted by: PaleRider at January 22, 2025 03:36 PM (34pOu)

Its in the three million year range for big animals, and some sea biomes and less competitive niches can be 10ish on the average. Even if its still a trilobite with small morphology changes most of the time.

The other thing to consider is that most ecology projections are crap, and political crap at that. History is full of things done by the best thinkers that blow up in their face. So the idea that the smelt would just drop dead at any change is probably wrong, short of drying up the entire watercourse.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (n7h9X)

358 Meagain wasn't doing something personal, she was the attack dog that was going to take down Trump on behalf of her corporate GOPe masters at the time. And she seemed enthusiastic about it.

She then courted the Megaleft and NBC and then predictably no one wanted her so she's back to throw popcorn to the original simps.

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (HjfEo)

359 Are we sure there has been a vote on Hegseth? I'm looking at the Senate website and a see a motion to proceed 53-45 but not confirmation. Could be a lag in the update though.

Posted by: NALNAMSAM at January 22, 2025 03:44 PM (WFo+H)

360 She still looks damn good though. And her interview with Kirsten Powers remains a classic.

I remember that not only did my wife call me to tell me she saw it live but it actually got headlined here shortly thereafter. Imagine - a routine daytime FNC interview was such a bone breaker, it went immediately "viral", practically before there was such a thing.

Posted by: ... at January 22, 2025 03:45 PM (HjfEo)

361 I never cancelled Meghan Kelly in the first place. She hasn't changed her political views. She just had a personal spat with Trump that got her canceled with others. That never bothered me.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 22, 2025 03:40 PM (D6PGr)

She just learned that the MSM hated her Foxness more than liked her talent and was willing to eat a big payout to bury her for a while.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:46 PM (n7h9X)

362 I've long had a theory that NO ONE in Congress GsAF about doing right for the country; they just wanna beat the Other Side

it's like a dick-swinging contest as old as the Republic
Posted by: Don Black: unless I'm wrong at January 22, 2025 03:38 PM (AOsQT)

There is no evidence the GOPe wants to beat the other side.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:47 PM (n7h9X)

363 Left California in 1994. Born and raised there. Not long after Rodney King and the Earthquake. I miss California, but it's the California of my youth. Now...it's mostly a mess, especially LA and SF.

Everything seems to be just decaying away, all the incredible things they built to allow 30 million people to live there are slowly fading away. Even cool stuff like Venice Beach, and Hollywood. It all seems like a memory.

Posted by: El Mariachi at January 22, 2025 03:49 PM (nLFEI)

364 Rubio got a 99-0 vote, so there is only one unseated spot.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:32 PM (n7h9X)

Isn't there some goofball procedural thing where at least one person always has to abstain or vote present so that they can do some other goofball procedural thing, because if 100% of them voted then there's no one left who didn't vote to do the second goofball procedural thing?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at January 22, 2025 03:33 PM (+iIV1)

There is, but then it would have been 99-1. And you'd have to be pretty optimistic about turning that around.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 22, 2025 03:50 PM (n7h9X)

365
The problem with Bass is that she's eely stupid.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 22, 2025 04:09 PM (iJfKG)

366 Lost Angleworms has enough problems with the Fire and a Loud Mouth Bass they don't need this Ding-Bat

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at January 22, 2025 05:26 PM (wGqjj)

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