Posted on 07/17/2023 5:58:23 AM PDT by george76
And to add to the misery index, no more Anchor Steam…
Sure they could, like we voted for Trump. After witnessing the las election do you really believe people actually vote for these scumbags?
Sure and the people of Venezuela loved their government so much they voted it back in overwhelmingly.
Ii fear you can vote these people in but you can never vote them out.
I may have posted this before, but on my last trip to San Francisco, just before the lockdowns, I met a couple from Chicago who recently retired to San Francisco. When asked Why, they replied that they wanted to live out their last years in the most liberal city in the US. I do hope they’re enjoying it.
San Fran is the new Detroit. It has its day, as the tax base drops it can’t sustain its services. Crime becomes rampant, more people move out. Death spiral.
It takes decades to crawl back from. Detroit, while now being far from its bottom, is still plagued with blighted areas.
Nothing wrong with San Francisco that a good earthquake or fire couldn’t fix.
Exactly, it really is that simple.
gee, do I have some extra care stored someplace? Hmm, no I don’t
The lockdowns were effective - at killing small businesses and shrinking our economy.
When I was done he puffed out his chest and said “When I was 17, I volunteered for Hitler’s Army.”
The rest is in the Police Report??
Something along the lines of, ya busted his chops and said, “Best regards from General Patton”?
Proposition 187 was voted in by CA voters but the courts stopped it from taking place. It regarded benefits for illegal immigrants. I lived in California at the time. At that point it was quite obvious that our votes didn’t matter. This was back in the 80s I believe.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/anti-immigrant-prop-187-approved-in-california
He was a good neighbor and took good care of his American-born wife who had cancer. When she needed assisted living, they moved in together even though he was still healthy.
I stayed away from the obvious topics, concentration camps, etc.
I positively mentioned Reagan’s deregulation of the airline industry. He would have none of it, no matter how I proceeded.
He totally rejected any form of de-regulation. As far as he was concerned, there was regulation and occasionally more regulation, but that did not rule out the possible need for yet more regulation. Regulation goes one way only. I’ve talked to average Americans who think the same way. It’s kind of like fine-tuning your car where you occasionally add parts but must never take any away. This story repeats again with our laws, where laws are added, but hardly any are repealed.
Hitler’s party was the German National Socialist Party. Talking to the old Nazi, the socialism part came through loud and clear. Government can do no wrong. Any apparent wrong can be explained away. He had little trouble labelling people in the private sector as “crooks.”
By the way, I have a relative who was in a concentration camp. She never talked about it. She may have been too young to understand what was going on around her, especially if adults kept her sheltered. She was liberated by the US Army, came to Ellis Island, studied, and passed her naturalization tests.
She could keep a grudge about the past. Her father did not get the inheritance that he deserved. It all went to his brother, my grandfather. I got the impression that changed everything. Perhaps in some biblical sense, he lacked his father’s Blessing.
Blame it on the pandemic, not the terrible election results and keeping the shelves cleared through shoplifting.
I think there’s merit to be found there.
Yeah, if our precincts weren’t to filled with Ds.
How can the SF people not wake the heck up?
It makes you wonder about their mental health... well maybe
not. The guessing is over with. It’s obvious.
In 2-3 years, our federal debt will approach $40 Trillion. Annual interest on that debt will be $2 Trillion (+/-). We know that’s not sustainable, as that amount is twice the current defense budget.
It is an interesting study of what happened.
Democrats do not understand the concept of “cause and effect.”
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