Newsom having the gall to refer to himself as a product of a struggling family with humble origins is maybe his most hilarious lie, and that’s a long list.
Reading this article, one thought and many memories go through my mind, "I am so thankful that we were able to move out of Commiefornia in January 2021." Ever since, my husband has had to commute to his hub in either DFW or LAX from our home in Boise, which is stressful and exhausting, to say the least. He has made it work because he watched me break down and sob when we were faced with a teenager taking photos of our home in September 2020, posting her photos on either FB or IG as a means of intimidating us (we confronted her) all because we dared to have a sign on our home that endorsed Trump, and an American flag hanging from our front porch. American flags were being repeatedly torn down in our NorCal neighborhood by newly minted Marxists like herself. Her act of intimidation, plus literally & figuratively, my sob story, were the final straw. My husband asked, where would you like to move? I immediately said, Boise, Idaho, and we left four months later.
It is worth noting that we had watched the degradation of the once great state of CA for more than a decade. The enabling of lawlessness by state officials, DEI policies, the dumbing-down of the education system, the ever-increasing costs of living, combined with the ever-encroaching suffocation of Newsom's COVID-19 totalitarian actions, all of this made me sob that night. We weren't living there anymore, we were just making do, we were just surviving, and that truly, was no way to live.
Idaho has been a breath of fresh air for these three years. We've met amazing people and made life-long friends, friends who also moved here from all along the west coast. I am so thankful that we could pull chocks, and find ourselves here. To my husband and BFF, I am forever grateful for the opportunities and adventures we have created together.
Thank you, Yuri, for your article today. Calling attention to the well-planned demise of CA via the rise of the well-funded CCP in SF is extremely important in helping to continue to wake up Americans to what is happening in America.
I live in NorCal in the East Bay. I'm an immigrant. Been here 24 years to the month. When I arrived here the thing that made the most impact on me (I came from Europe originally, then went through middle and high school in Canada), was the independence and free spirit of the people. It was everywhere. Back then, California captured the essence of America to me. I was in awe of how dynamic everything was.
Sadly, I don't recognize that place I moved to, 24 years later. Still here, cause... family... that's about it.
I'm staying at a hotel off Van Ness in SF after coming back from a trip to Hawaii. It is unbelievable what has happened to that city in just the last few years. It's beyond description. It's one of those things you have to see to believe.
I'm so glad we got out of there.
As a native CA it's depressing to visit. What's nuts is people here can't figure out why the cities in CA have went to shit.
"...incompetent Socialist Star Wars cantina known as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors."
"The Constitution and citizenship are as good as a fentanyl addict’s toilet paper in San Francisco." Yuri is on a roll today! (Yuri, don't take that pun personally.)
"Our democracy" means Democrats take our free speech, blatantly rig and steal our elections with the help of non-citizens (and probably China), and replace us real Americans.
I don't want civil war, but the Democrats sure are asking for one.
Yuri's Lumpedin takedowns are so freaking hilarious – people really tee themselves up for it on LI. Having known quite a few 1st and 2nd generation Americans from China who grew up in the Bay Area (often with parents working at UC Berkeley) I've heard many stories of the CCP literally just calling them up and as if scripted by a South Park writer bluntly asking when they will fulfill their obligation to the CCP by collecting IP and other intel. One friend whose father is a professor at Berkeley says he (an immigrant from China) has been getting these unabashed calls from the CCP for years now. I have little doubt this woman is in cahoots with the CCP somehow, if not now, then she'll certainly be getting a call soon!
5 years. That's how long she's lived here. 5 freaking years. I didn't once read about her commitment to America. I will never understand how this is legal. Not ever.
She mentioned a Cantonese woman living there for 13 yrs and still needs paperwork translated for her as she has not learned any English. What happened to assimilation? They feel a need to print American ballots in Cantonese now?
When a friend first told me about the triangle, I was skeptical. A two-minute searched showed how dumb I was. It wasn't a triangle, it was a square. I thought I was astute about CA corruption but it is like a close look at my garden. It is mostly weeds and I wonder if I should just throw in the towel.
James Lindsay, in his great discourse series, discusses mystification. It happens when you know something seems wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on it. It is like a children's picture game where you have to spot what is wrong in the otherwise normal-seeming image. That is what the appointment of the noncitizen is. At first, it seems like a nice thing to do, it addresses the struggles of immigrants, and isn't that what a nice society does? But you know something is wrong. That is when one needs to stop and go listen to James Lindsay explain it all.
I've known a handful of Asian-American activist sorts (typically from the Bay Area) who were earnestly the truest of believers in affirmative action because of "solidarity" with the rest of the "people of color" even as it screws over various ethnicities. I guess there's a certain ego boost for some in being willing to endure mandated segregation for the supposed greater good and they tended to be pursuing activist fields anyway, but overall one has to suspect it's mostly very well-funded astroturf.
I have a very simple solution. America is the de facto ruler of the world. Therefore, extend the right to vote in US elections to the entire world. In fact, make it mandatory!
Newsom having the gall to refer to himself as a product of a struggling family with humble origins is maybe his most hilarious lie, and that’s a long list.
Those with the most privilege have to virtue signal the hardest.
Ah c'mon Obsolete, it's gotta be tough growing up as Damien!
I’m sure it was. Damien’s parents were still wealthy and politically connected, though.
I could swear he's looking more and more like the antichrist every day.
Reading this article, one thought and many memories go through my mind, "I am so thankful that we were able to move out of Commiefornia in January 2021." Ever since, my husband has had to commute to his hub in either DFW or LAX from our home in Boise, which is stressful and exhausting, to say the least. He has made it work because he watched me break down and sob when we were faced with a teenager taking photos of our home in September 2020, posting her photos on either FB or IG as a means of intimidating us (we confronted her) all because we dared to have a sign on our home that endorsed Trump, and an American flag hanging from our front porch. American flags were being repeatedly torn down in our NorCal neighborhood by newly minted Marxists like herself. Her act of intimidation, plus literally & figuratively, my sob story, were the final straw. My husband asked, where would you like to move? I immediately said, Boise, Idaho, and we left four months later.
It is worth noting that we had watched the degradation of the once great state of CA for more than a decade. The enabling of lawlessness by state officials, DEI policies, the dumbing-down of the education system, the ever-increasing costs of living, combined with the ever-encroaching suffocation of Newsom's COVID-19 totalitarian actions, all of this made me sob that night. We weren't living there anymore, we were just making do, we were just surviving, and that truly, was no way to live.
Idaho has been a breath of fresh air for these three years. We've met amazing people and made life-long friends, friends who also moved here from all along the west coast. I am so thankful that we could pull chocks, and find ourselves here. To my husband and BFF, I am forever grateful for the opportunities and adventures we have created together.
Thank you, Yuri, for your article today. Calling attention to the well-planned demise of CA via the rise of the well-funded CCP in SF is extremely important in helping to continue to wake up Americans to what is happening in America.
I live in NorCal in the East Bay. I'm an immigrant. Been here 24 years to the month. When I arrived here the thing that made the most impact on me (I came from Europe originally, then went through middle and high school in Canada), was the independence and free spirit of the people. It was everywhere. Back then, California captured the essence of America to me. I was in awe of how dynamic everything was.
Sadly, I don't recognize that place I moved to, 24 years later. Still here, cause... family... that's about it.
I'm staying at a hotel off Van Ness in SF after coming back from a trip to Hawaii. It is unbelievable what has happened to that city in just the last few years. It's beyond description. It's one of those things you have to see to believe.
I'm so glad we got out of there.
As a native CA it's depressing to visit. What's nuts is people here can't figure out why the cities in CA have went to shit.
Hello maybe its because of this?:
https://thefederalist.com/2024/02/29/if-memes-are-illegal-all-speech-will-become-illegal/
As a fellow CA ex-pat, I am glad you are only visiting there as well.
Thank you so much for this article link. It's a keeper and one that will be forwarded, too. :)
Bravo Renee👏👏👏👏
"...incompetent Socialist Star Wars cantina known as the San Francisco Board of Supervisors."
"The Constitution and citizenship are as good as a fentanyl addict’s toilet paper in San Francisco." Yuri is on a roll today! (Yuri, don't take that pun personally.)
Well, we get what they paid for.
Cacahuatitos is my new favorite word for the sort of thing you're reporting on here.
Cacahuate = Aztec for peanut
Cacahuatito = Mexican Spanish for "little peanut"
Cacahuatitos = Mexican Spanish for "little peanuts"
Of course the first two syllables, taken together, make a word, it so happens, of Latin origin which all English speakers know and oft use.
I could just say, "nuts!" But that sounds kinda flat.
No way Newsome represent American voters. His toxic trash is ILLEGITIMATE.
This is both funny and infuriating.
"Our democracy" means Democrats take our free speech, blatantly rig and steal our elections with the help of non-citizens (and probably China), and replace us real Americans.
I don't want civil war, but the Democrats sure are asking for one.
There is no political solution. A vote for either side is a vote for a zionist shill.
"Our descent into Babel continues." Indeed it does.
Yuri's Lumpedin takedowns are so freaking hilarious – people really tee themselves up for it on LI. Having known quite a few 1st and 2nd generation Americans from China who grew up in the Bay Area (often with parents working at UC Berkeley) I've heard many stories of the CCP literally just calling them up and as if scripted by a South Park writer bluntly asking when they will fulfill their obligation to the CCP by collecting IP and other intel. One friend whose father is a professor at Berkeley says he (an immigrant from China) has been getting these unabashed calls from the CCP for years now. I have little doubt this woman is in cahoots with the CCP somehow, if not now, then she'll certainly be getting a call soon!
5 years. That's how long she's lived here. 5 freaking years. I didn't once read about her commitment to America. I will never understand how this is legal. Not ever.
She mentioned a Cantonese woman living there for 13 yrs and still needs paperwork translated for her as she has not learned any English. What happened to assimilation? They feel a need to print American ballots in Cantonese now?
When a friend first told me about the triangle, I was skeptical. A two-minute searched showed how dumb I was. It wasn't a triangle, it was a square. I thought I was astute about CA corruption but it is like a close look at my garden. It is mostly weeds and I wonder if I should just throw in the towel.
James Lindsay, in his great discourse series, discusses mystification. It happens when you know something seems wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on it. It is like a children's picture game where you have to spot what is wrong in the otherwise normal-seeming image. That is what the appointment of the noncitizen is. At first, it seems like a nice thing to do, it addresses the struggles of immigrants, and isn't that what a nice society does? But you know something is wrong. That is when one needs to stop and go listen to James Lindsay explain it all.
Campaign Slogan:
“Newsom 2024: Let’s Just Get It Over With”
chinafornia
I've known a handful of Asian-American activist sorts (typically from the Bay Area) who were earnestly the truest of believers in affirmative action because of "solidarity" with the rest of the "people of color" even as it screws over various ethnicities. I guess there's a certain ego boost for some in being willing to endure mandated segregation for the supposed greater good and they tended to be pursuing activist fields anyway, but overall one has to suspect it's mostly very well-funded astroturf.
While Stalin did make the statement about counting the votes, he plagiarized Boss Tweed.
“As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?”
-- Boss Tweed
There is a great Thomas Nast cartoon with a version of this but if there is a way to do images in Substack, I can't figure it out.
I have a very simple solution. America is the de facto ruler of the world. Therefore, extend the right to vote in US elections to the entire world. In fact, make it mandatory!